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VOL. XXIV. QA8TONIA, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL IT. 1003.
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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Admiration and ■••pact Itr the
Habrawe.
AUeete CoaMliaUoa
A good lady, a neighbor and
friend, bought one of my Irooks
and expressed her pleasure at its
perusal, but found one fault that
did not harmonise with her feel
ings, for she is a Jewess. In
two places she found a sportive
anecdote that reflected upon
some of her people, but they
were too good to be suppressed,
and would have been told on the
. Gentiles as well. My respect
for the Jews has been too often
expressed in my letters to be
questioned. It is not mere re*
spcct( but it is wonder and ad
miration. I rejoice with them
that the ages of persecution have
passed, and that they cau now
worship God according to their
conscience and faith of their
fathers ancestors appeared at the
very dawn of creation. They
have been broken np and scat
tered time and again, but have
preseryed their sacred literature
and customs and religions, and
have outlived every nation that
oppressed them. They have
had no king nor ruler nor politi
cal head, and have been scat
tered among all climes and peo
ples, but have never lost their
nationality nor mixed their blood
with any other people. They
nave tor centuries straggled
against the Bgyptions, Syrians
and Romans and survived them
all. They were in later cen
turies proscribed by the Catho
lics o,f Spain, the Protestants of
Norway, while their persecutors
sang the songs of the Psalmists
and taught the wisdom of their
prophets. We rejoice that their
deliverance from persecution
came along with that of our own
when we proclaimed religious
liberty and civil equality to all
who made America their home.
1 have long admired that people,
who have excelled in domestic
virtue, in obedience to law,
whose children honor and obey
their parents. Rarely among
them are found criminals or
drunkards or suicides, or di
vorced men or women. Their
names seldom appear on the
dockets of the courts. And yjtt
they are patriots when patriots
ore wanted. Kosciusko had no
braver troops than the Polish
Jews who followed his banner,
and if I had to name the most
faithful soldier I ever saw in our
civil war I would name Jonas, of
onr town of Rome, a Jew who
never shirked s duty or avoided
a battle or loitered on a march.
We have not forgotten how he
came to time after a long day's
march from the Chieshominy to
Rapid an and when the col
onel said, "Mr. Jonas, where
is your company?" the tired sol
dier came to a salute and said,
"I ioh der komp’ny.” That Jo
nas was an uncle to Israel Jonas,
who all Atlanta knows, and who
is now prominent in New York
commercial circles.
With great reverence do I re
call our own'Judah P. Benjamin,
out secretary of war, and on
whom Mr. Davis leaned for
counsel more than upon any
member of his cabinet. He was
a very great man, or he could
not have gone to Bngland and
worked his way, unaided, to the
very top of the English bar, and
within eight years be appointed
queen’s counsel over the most
learned members of the pro
fession. I have not forotton the
perfect loveliness of the Jewish
Rebecca in Scott’s story of
Ivanboe. Yon may find broken
vows and separations and elope
DWBts in fact and in fiction, but
not among the Jews. They are in
every town and city and are more
of aa example than a menace to
our people and our institution.
Their names are found respond
ing to every charity, and I
noticed that the university fund
was materially aided by their
liberality, and I could not help
wondering how much oar Christ
ian people would have given to
aid some great Jewish school or
charity.
I would like to write more
about these Hebrews, for, a# St.
Paul said to the Romans, "with
them was committed the oracles
of God." But I am not well to
day, and mast defer to a more
propitious season.
In my last letter I auric a
mistake that must be corrected.
I said that there were bnt ten
months until Julias Caesar and
Augustus Caesar put in two
more and named them July and
August, 8omehow 1 have bed
that Impression all my mature
life. end. Strang* to say, I was
corrected a few dayt ago by my
good friend Gaasett, a mulatto
merchant of oar town, who u
well educated sad a student of
aadont history. He wrote me a
respectfal letter aad said that
Haau, a Roman emperor, who
reigned two huudred and fifty
year* before the Caesars, put in
January and February lor the
two months, aud the OVasars
onl/ changed the names of
Quintiles aud Sextiles (the fifth
and sixth) to July aud August.
So I make the correction with
pleasure and give the credit to
friend Gassett.
BOB PEAI BOBS UPA0A1N
Her* he Is Again. Talking High
Taxes nag Sgnattsr Sever*
aigaty.
To the LicJHur t>f Our Out lit:
The importance of the subject
is offered as an apology for this
article. I had truly intended to
write no more upon the allly un
called for subject, but patience
ceased to be a virtue and I can
not desist. I tee so much green
gas emanating from Gastonia—
such as "now is tbe time and
Gastonia the place to build the
new court house," as much as
to say that a new court house is
au indispensable necessity. The
unvarnished truth is, tbe call
for an election was made to
create a necessity for the levy
ing a special tax for the pro
motion of one section at the ex
pense of the whole county; and
this is protection in the first
degree.
Suppose the majority of votes
castrate for removal, this au
thorises the county commission
ers to issue $30,000 in bonds to
run thirty years at 4% which
will amount to $86,000. Did the
advocates of removal ever tell
you honest tax-payers that you
would pay $86,000 worth of
bonds? Removalisla say that
tax is tbe theme of the anti-re
move lists. Well suppose it is;
it has been tbe agent of destruc
tion to all nations when abused,
an agent for good when eco
nomically used for necessaries,
bnt never for luxuries.
Be cautious my friend, and
never vote to create a necessity
for tax, it will come soon enough
without your invitation. '
It is a little strange, I know of
but one native born Gaston coun
ty man that declares for removal
balance all from other counties.
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas termed
such squatters and their enfran
chisement squatter sovereignty
sad opposed their right to rule
regular settlers. We hsd re
cently with us some removal
missionaries whose business did
not take well and reports are
rife, if true, will make trouble.
The matter will be investigated
and exposed. 1 was told that a
mao going westward hsd to pass
Gastonia, and yelled his face to
escape identity. This he said
occurred Saturday night the 11th
iast.
We are resting easy just now.
We know the court hotjse will
not move. We have the ele
Shant by the tail and will have
im by the bead before we turn
him loose. A bond issue should
be the dernier ressort.
At least one thousand men in
Gaston ought to know the tragedy
of the state bond iasne, gobbled
up by Swepson and Littlefield.
Very little good has ever come
to us from bond issue. It is
said that there* is a town in Gas
ton paying interest on $100,000
of bonds, possibly Gastonia.
la an elector’s ticket nego
tiable paper? The farmers have
a long majority in Gaston and
they know, or ought to know,
that they feed all, clothe all and
pay all and should see that their
money is used properly.
May the recording angel never
write and unwise set against the
intelligent voters of Gaston, but
may the God that rales all things
well so direct ns that we may
again be a united people ana
stand as a grand monument of
honor to be observed by ©or
children and children's children.
Bob Psax.
Cherryyille. N. C., April, 14th
1903.
Doiai Something ler k am oval.
Balds* KmaaOtemr.
If the court house in Gaston
county is not moved to Gastonia,
it will not be the Malt of Tax
Qaibttk. It Is pntdnr up a
great fight for removal.
The 8 year-old son of L* under
Woosley, of Davidson county,
who swallowed u persimmon
seed which lodged in his lung
and was in danger of causing
death, is now all right. The boy
was taken to Winston for an op
eration and while awaiting the
operation be coughed up the
persimmon aeed and spat ft ont.
Bx-SenstorMcGsurin. of Son lb
Carolina, in an Interview printed
in Baltimore, says the Mohawk
Valley 8teel Company, of which
ha la vice president, naa let coo
tracts for the building of so im
menaa iron and steel plant at
B™®****. On., to cost $10,
000,000.
ANOTHER PARMER SPEAKS.
And Hl« Voice le Per Removal—
He 01 vm UnaoewereUe Bee*
■eae for Hie reitk-Peroeoal
Interest Decided Preaeot Site.
TN| Oil xaitur of lb« OiaMUt
The 22nd of this mouth will
soon be here. It is then that a
question of vital importance to
tne people of Gaston county will
be settled. Will it be settled
sensibly or foolishly? Are we
the citixens of Gaston conuty
going to settle this matter in a
way that will show the good
sense of the people of the coun
ty, or arc we going to settle it
in a way that will cast a reflec
tion on our intelligence aud bring
upon ourselves tne disdain ana
sneers of the good people of ad
joining counties? If the citixens
of Gaston county go to the elec
tion on the 22nd and cast their
votes against removal of the
coart bouse, or if they do not
Ro, they' will show by their ac
tiou either that they don’t care
anything about the best inter
ests of tne county or that they
have let one or two of the clti
xens of Dallas draw a veil over
their eyes and scare them to
death over a few additional ceuts
of tax.
NEW COURTHOUSE A NECESSITY.
A new court house in Gaston
couuty is a necessity. The old
court house with a seating ca
pacity of a little over oacnnn
dred may have served its pur
pose very well twenty-five or
thirty years ago, but Gaston
county has increased so much in
population and made so much
progress in various ways that it
no longer serves its purpose. It
is out of date and one among the
sorriest court homes in the
State. We must have a new
oue. Now arc the people of
this couuty going to let two or
three meu who are working
more for their own personal in
terest than for the interests of
the majority of the people say
where this new court house will
be built? If they listen |to those
men, they will be taxed to build
a new court house in the dead
town of Dallas, where there are
no fire accommodations or con
veniences for bolding court.. It
seems that everybody ought to
admit, even though citizens of
Dallas, that Gastonia is the right
place lor the court bouse.
DALLAS WILL MOT SB HURT.
The removal of the court house
is not going to hurt Dallas. It is
not doing Dallas any material
?'ood. It is true that it draws a
ew people there during court
week for the people of the town to
gase at, but that doesn't amount
much. In a small town like
Dallas property is not very high
anyway and the removal of the
court house would not affect the
value of property very much. As
proof of this statement we would
refer anyone to other towns in the
county as small or smaller than
Dallas in which property is as
high and higher tnau it is there.
This means simply that it does
not take a court house to raise
the value of property and keep
it raised. So don't pay any at
tention to that clamor of our op
ponents.
GAHTOKIA TUB RIGHT PLACE.
The court house will not raise
the value of property in Gasto
nia. The people of Gastonia are
not wanting the coart hoase
through any motive of personal
Interest at all. They want it
because Gastonia is the right
place for it and because their
intelligence and good judgment
tell them that the county-aeat
ought not only to be in the geo
graph ical center, but also in the
Seal ness center of the county,
and not stock off to one side In
a little town where nobody goes
only when be is obliged to do so.
Iif attending court in Dallas
many are put to great inconven
ience for lack of railroad facili
ties. At Gastonia it would be
anite different. Everybody in
toe county or almost everybody
could go by rail and avoid livery
stable expenses. Then Gasto
nia i> the business center of the
county. That is a fact that vo
ters of the county ought to take
into consideration before cast
lug their votes. There are many
cases whan farmers have gone
to Gastonia where they do all of
their trading and then have to
Kfpar miles out of their way to
to *** • deed record
ed. If the coart boose were at
Gastonia, it would atop such
trips as that. But the farmer in
Dallas neighborhood may say, if
It is moved from Dallas, where 1
do my trad lag, why I'll hava to
go to Gastonia to get my deeds
recorded and other legal papers
fixed up. That h true, but by so
doing he win be In a town where
bn can attend to any kind of buai
mss ha may have, whereas In
the cast of the other man Dallas
offers to him no such advantages.
Tliis being the caae the conven
ience of having the court house
■t Gastonia must be tskeu into
consideration.
WHY THE PRESENT STTE WAS
CHOSEN.
There is one fact 1 wish to
bring out in regard to the geo
graphical center of the county.
In tbe year 1846. when Gaston
county was formed from Lincoln a
committee consisting of Messrs.
Jimmy White and Issaac Hol
land were appointed to decide
on a location for county-seat.
They both agreed that toe old
gum tree in the eastern suburbs
of Gastouia was the geographi
cal center of the county. But
Mr. White, who had a flouring
mil! on Long Creek, persuaded
Mr. Holland to locate the coun
ty seat at Dallas, close to his
mill in order that he might sell
tbe people of Dallas flour and
bran. Personal interest, then,
pot tbe county seat where it is.
Now are we going to let the per
sonal Interests of a few individu
als keep it there in spite of the
best interest and progress of the
county? No we can't afford to
do ao.
PATRIOTISM IS FOR REMOVAL.
Every patriotic citiien of Gas
ton county oight to be ashamed
of our present court bouse. We
claim to be a progressive people
and we also claim that our coun
ty is progressing rapidly, but to
have such a court house as we
have and located iu such a one
horse town as Dallas doesn't
speak very much in favor of this
progress. A county is judged
and its people are estimated in
the eyes of the world by its pub
lic buildings. Such being the
cate, what kind of estimate do
you suppose is put on Gaston?
We are behind all our sister
counties iu public buildings/
How long sre we goiug to let
this continue to be the esse?
Have we no pride? Yes. But
there sre a few people in the
county who oppose every move
ment lor advancement that arises
and those very fellows have suc
ceeded in laying this matter of
court house removal before the
people in such a bad light na to
defeat it, and they are trying to
do it again. Their great scare
is $7 poll tax. It surprises me
wonderfully that citizens of Gas
ton county who claim to be in
telligent briog such an absurd
plea before the people. There
are absolutely no grounds for any
such pies.
Fellow - citizens of Gaston
county, I appeal to yon to come
out on the 22nd of this month
and vote for removal. I’m sure
you will never regret it.
Akothhs Pauses.
Gastonia, R. F. D. No. 1.
THEY SPRAI OUT lor GASTONIA.
Neighboring Csuntiea Interested
lo Kemaval tad Osod Bonds.
To tna editor of the Osattta:
In thi^e months I have told
and delivered $1200 worth of
Bibles in Lancaster and Union
counties.
The good people iu the upper
pert of York county say, give
Gastonia the court house then
we will get good roads to town.
Go it, boys, the people down
here are enjoying the fun over
the court house question.
Disinterested men of adjoining
counties say Gastonia is the
place.
The best way sometimes to
get out of debt is to go in debt.
The question is, what is a man’s
indebtedness worth to him. Just
so with old Gaston. Good coart
house, good roods. Some farm
ers would save $50 a year by five
miles of good roods leading to
Gastonia.
M. M. R.
Lancaster, 8. C., April 14th.
Osr Wafer Works All light.
To «h. Bailor pt me Oaaattai
Mr. B. L. Wilson, in the Gas
tonia News of April the 14th,
reflects on the efficiency of Gas
tonia’a fire department and
water works, embodying in that
reflection a reference to J. B.
Pago and Company, who bad
sustained soma tosses by fire.
Representing that company.
I am able to say that no possible
complaint coutd be lodged
Sdott either the promptness or
dency of the city’s water
works and fire departmeot as
exhibited on that occasion. Our
warehouse, about 400,000 feet of
lumber on tbe yard, and one
half of the dry kiln were nil
saved, whereas all woo Id have
been lost but tor oar water
service. Nor is this ell. If the
fire bad gone on unchecked
through the above named
material it would have reached
other and still more valuable
property.
J. K. Paox, Manager.
Gastonia, April 14, 1403.
VOTE m REMOVAL.
It Hm« i Now Court Hoooo at
• No# Comfy Soot, aad a Stop
Forward.
A vote for removal of county
oeat meant, placing it at the
centre of manufacture and popu
lation, to bcaefit the grratoat
number of tbe county's people
at tbe shortest distance, it mesas
if tbe county is moved to Gasto
nia, the question of removal is
settled to stay settled. Vote
for "Removal*—let that woed
oink deep down into your being.
A vote for removal means
placing the court house and jail
under proper fire protection aad
police regulation*. It ineam
water, light, sewerage, con
veniences sod all these things.
Vote for removal; and settle the
question. No one has yet given
aey reasons why Gastonia should
not be tbe county scat.
A new court house is a public
necessity, the county aeat is not
a fixture at Dallas. Sixty yean
ago, the court bouse was placed
to the centre of tbe county, aad
Gastonia waa not to existence.
Thirty years ago Gastonia came
upou the mop, and what is the
resalt? Tbe chief town of the
county in population, in manu
facture and wealth. Reason
says: "Place the county seat
to-day at the centre of popula
tion. manufacture, trade, traffic
aad commerce." We appeal to
every honest voter, who cher
ishes a feeling for his fellow
men, and tbe welfare of Gaatoo
county to vote for removal.
There is an old as) iog: "Small
boats should keep near the
shore,” aad as we are a "small
boat" we will paddle near the
bank, lest we be swamped. 1
have no apology to otter for
writing this, and sincerely hope
that peace prosperity and prog
ress may ever dwell in old Gas
ton; and that this, burning, all
absorbing question may be set
tled forever at the polls ou April
22; aud that Gastonia and Gas
ton county, shall rise to a higher
destiny.
In conclasiou, we esnnot, op
pose a ^ood movement for Gas
tonia—it would be inconsistent
with our wishes. As we hsve
remarked in The Gaikto! be
fore this, we are willing lo do any
thing for tbe good of Gastonia and
Guidon county sod tobnihi them
op. Voters, look to yonr financial
interest and let as settle this ques
tion iu favor of removal. Rea
sons for removal ere numermi.
CammaacMMot Speak era at lc
videos College.
Davidson College is peculiarly
fortunate in her list of apeaken
for the approaching cotnmeace
ment, May 24th-27th.
The Baccalaureate sermon is
preached by Revt John Span
hawk Jones, D. D.. of Philadel
phia. one of tbe most brilliant
pulpit orators of tbe whole coun
try. On the evening of tbe
same day the annual sermon be
fore tbe Young People's Chris
tian Association is delivered by
Rev. R. P. Campbell, D. D., of
Asheville, N. C.
On the evening of Mt nday,
May 25th, the apeaken Iwfore
tbe literary societies are Hon.
W. P. Stevenson, Cheraw, S C.,'
and A. L. Gaston, Esq.. Ches
ter. S. C.
The commencement oral* is
President Ira Remsen, of Johns
Hopkins Un* /errity, who speaks
at 11 ». m. Tuesday, May 20th.
Dr. R 'tifii is not only u pro
found i and a great ad
ministr . -,ct also famous as a
public * .'s-'r. He has maae
very few >• addresses in the
South, anu ,.*e friends of David
son are to be congratulated on
this opportunity of bearing him.
Wednesday. May 27th, is Com
mencement day, the exercises
consisting of orations by repre
sentatives of tbe Senior Class,
the delivery of diplomas, etc. .
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^CAPITAL - S I 2,000.
SAVINGS.
Our savings pvAsnur is
now ojicn ami ready to receive
deposits. Wit pat 1ST—H
at the rate ol« nta cm. ru
Arjrvw aad compete the inter
est quart eriy. We w» laad
depositor* Host SAV1KOS
Baku, when desired, rasa op
cost. We recommend thatr
nac and aak yon tomvK ran
a tajAt- Accounts may be
opened with one dollar, aad
any amount, at aay tea dar
iar basfaMM hours, will he
received Afterwards. All de
posit* are tommcr to wtra
bsawau.
We solicit esptcia II y.ac
counts of pmmms woak tag
p o a salas in», on sraoaa,
sad peopfc of small amaat who
•re deatroas oiostAonm
bosh.
Cell and coaler with us wheasvar you have ear
haslaeee la the real estate Has. Let as rat rear
houses ant f sheet year teats far yea. We caste
It satisfactorily aatf save yea the tfaae for year
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