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POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. l'ad*T thi* be* J will be urmled Ina lime te Ume noteworthy aiwruuu anibamia of carrrat inirreri. They will ba labca tram public a4dmm. k°»k».mtcaataea. aowaoaircre. la lad themer wa amp bad theta, bom*, time* there tckctlmt will accord wit* sar view* aad the view* aI oar lead, ora. atmadimer lit* owpoeit* will bo true Bat bp raaaaa al the eabfcct mmter. tte dple. the amhocehlo. or the view* twrttrd. rack will bare aa elemout of timely later** la make U a ooaepitoaue attaraao*. The Church Caenol Aft art) ta Condone er Campromtea. Char Ion* Vrtabrtcriu SliaiUrd. Rev. A. C. Dixon deserves to be commended for his recent brave refusal to marry a couple when one of the parties had been legally but unlawfully divorced. Legalised adultery has always been a hard thing to rebuke, from the days of John the Baptist until now. But no church or minister of Christ can afford to con done the sin by auy shadow of compromise with Its abettors. The Motive to Work. Wnahnwton In most iutances, self-: .-spcct is the compulsion to work. Al most any person could avoid labor by adopting the life of a vagrant, and many who arc good examples of industry could live at cose if their self-respect would permit them to be dependent on relatives or friends. Whether anybody really lovea work lor its own sake is doubtful. Many who have a reputation for industry wonld con fess that they love ease and hate toil; that they bate it so intensely that they caunot rest until their day’s dnty is out of the way. Hence they rise early, attack vigorously, and get through as soon as pos sible. -- ■ 1 v» ■■ II 1. ■ _■ «■ Nsaimtl ts Character ait Service. Kateieti New* anil Obwnm. The time has not come in North Carolina when men aud wo men do not put character an I service as of the highest value. A recent proof of this clinging to right ideals in a day of money wor ship is found in the fact that the people of Lanrinburg arc pre pared to build a monument to a school teacher who left behind him nothing but the memory of a pure life and the pouring of all that was best in him into the lives of the children be taught. The erection of a monument to Mr. Quakenbnsb will show an appreci ation of character by that people that has no parallel in North Car olina. The Flrst-Nama Habit. Ctwrlotto PrdbTtrriu aondtrri The first-name habit is a bud one for grown men and women to fall into. Tbe Bnrdick-Pennell scandal and tragedy bad tbe testimony punctuated with the familiar use of the first names of tbe men and women involved as they were bandied about in the delectable conversation of those worthies. Later still a woman with name, position, family, wealth, beanty and two divorces to her credit, took her own life after having written a letter to her legal adviser, beginning. "Dear Charlie." With the Qua ken the use of the first name it forms! address. In rural communities, where vice is unknown, the boys and girls who have grown up to gether continue to call each other by their names. Elsewhere let the first-name habit be dropped. As the Brooklyn Eagle puts it: "One cannot be formal and filthy. One most be familiar to be fool." Hr. Chamberlain a Grant Baaineea Man. WuhlaiKn hut "Joe Chamberlain is the cleverest politician in Great Britain to-day, if not in Europe,” aaid Mr. Robert Hand, a prominent cit izen of Manchester, England, at the Riggs House. "Mr. Cham berlain’s great success in politics is doe largely to his extraordi nary capacity as a business man. He ia one of tbe cleverest busi ness men of this age, and he brings to bear on questions of the highest natural importance the traiued mind and clear perception of the man of affairs. He showed this side of his character ad mirably on his recent trip to South Africa, and even hit enemies admit that the resnlts of that visit brought additional laniela to tbe colonial secretary. Altogether he is one of the moat forceful men who occupy high pubBc station, and he has served his country with a skill and fidelity that should bring him yet higher honors." The Doctor Who Made Health Caalaftwn. J. P. M. la a Joaraar to Natan. The Doctor was one of those phvsicians who radiate health instead of prescribing it. He said once that he got his diploma from Nature, and had been forty years matriculating. But he bad the document of his bnman Alma Mater framed and bung up in bis study, all the same, and I could afford to take bis hyperboles with good humor, as when he said that six out of ten sick men would acquire health if they could only be restored to primitive ignoronce; they know too much to be normal. Absurd as all this was, it nevertheless had a reviving effect that was inscrutable, like a smell of terebinth. The Doctor exuded balm of Ollead in his talk. It was always aa exaggerated and lusty kind of assertion that struck you like the afflatus of the pins woods when the west wind Mows. It was as if he bad more health himself than he knew what to do with, and so shed it in his conversation._ Legislation Far Lagielefeea. Slrlkaail Knw.l.nin. Cannot something be done to enforce decorum in legislative bodies? We have abolished dueling everywhere. That need to he something of a check because it involved the idee of settlement of personal differences in private, and furthermore, beeaem under that system, in this cooutry at least, a personal dlflcuhy was likely to have serious consequences. Many a mao who really rejoices hi a rough and tambla fight would hesitate end take a fresh grip on his tamper at the-prospect of having to look into the mouth of a large pirtnl la a determined hand ten steps away. It looks aa if the next step in civilisation will ha to a bo Hah 1st fighting and desk banging at least on the loot of inch assemblies Asstria. Prance and area England and Australia have fallen Into Hue ia the matter of rowdy legislative assemblages. Last summer all Orest Brittain was shocked by one member of the House of Commons cslHng an other a damned liar in the house. As tor our congress and senate and our State legislatures, fist fights are becoming common inci dents. la Illinois the other day they had a grand battle royal la which practically the whole house netted in one delicious freasy of combat, worse than a loot ball game. Laws making ineligible, to re-election end to all future office holding, persons who pat themselves ia contempt of a legislative assembly probably would remove the evil eleetaally. Ml. CAtNEOlE AND TUB NEOHOBS. Altar tka Naira la TralaaA aai Eiacalai Wkal Tfcaa?-Bavaria Itaa tka Ultimata Solotlon al tka laca Praklan. Mr. Carnegie has given $600. 000 for tbe prosecution of Booker Washington’s educational work among the negroes at Tuskeegec, Ala. One purpose of this is to educate negroes especially to the handcrafts—to make them high-class mechanics. The theory of this is good on the surface, and Mr. Carnegie, for bia benevolent purposes and beneficence, is entitled to the grateful appreciation of the Am erican people of all sections and classes and of both races. Nor do we wish to detract from Booker Washington. We can not shore the opinion that he is a very great man. He is a good, bright, well-educated negro, who has been well-advertised, but others of his race are as good and as strong as he is. In intellectual force we do not think be compares with Blyden, the black professor of West Africa, probably the ablest ue Sv who ever lived, nor with Uiott. at one time attorney general of South Carolina, who was as able as be was corrupt and as black as tbe ace of spades. . That, however is s side ques tion. Wbat we are looking at is the practical result of this Booker Washington education of tbe negro. After we get him educated in this line, what are we going to do with him? Suppose we undertake to make him a printer? He would not find work anywhere south of the Mason and Dixon line, and if he went West or anywhere Bast, except in New England, be would strike trouble. As a brick mason and a tobacco work er he is recognised, but few of the mechanical trades accept him He would be barred from most of tbe labor onions in the South; or, if by force of numbers and ability, he made hit wsy in to them, he would be making a step toward social equality, which would not be welcome nor safe in tbe South. as a union labor man, ac cepted aa sa associate and a fellow-worker, the negro would be a danger. Southern people do not want to see their white working class put on an equality with the colored working-class or compelled to associate with it. Rigidly as social caste lines may be drawn among the whites themselves, there is a blood kin ship which no white people ignore or forget. The sonl of the highest-class white man revolts at the sight or the thought of the very lowest or humblest*of his-color and kind in intimate association and com panionship with another color and race. As we have said be fore on this subject,*we do not contend that this is good sense or even good morals. That is a question for further end more elaborate discussion. We deal with the facts, and it is a fact that the instinct of race allegi ance and race repulsion in the South b a mastering instinct; probably ooe of the strongest and most active the people led. And facta must be considered and respected. When we under take to Ignore them or to over throw them we encounter disaster sorely. If the negro holds himself oris held aloof from bis white-fellow worker of the skilled mechanical trad« or arts, inevitably he must be the white man's rival and competitor, and finally his ea emy. The negro in the Sooth can live comfortably on just about half what it coats the white man to live at all. The ordinary negro mechanic will have his wile and daughter in service. They cost him noth ing; they add to his income. Frequently, as all of us know by practical experience, the entire negro family is fad from the table and kitchen of the white family in which ooe member is employed. Aside from that, However, the negro can live cheaper and does live cheeper thaa the whit* man. Pat on tho farm hi the cotton country, he will Hve and fatten on cotton • pound, at which white farmer barely exists. Rdnesting the negro for resi dence andCgh-rilnss work hers means making him a anion l£^*^t£r.is5aisi or a non-anion labor* and the competitor and ultimately the ■iJaifti iJivs! duetiou by 'scientific sod im proved methods tor educated negro farmers of five and atx cent cotton and the rain of the •mall wU* termer. In moat parts of the cotton mill section of the Sonth the white mill labor is unorganised and makes no organized move ment, because it Ta known that the negro is waiting at the gates of the cotton factories ready to poor into them in droves and take the places of white men and women at any wages the owners may choose to pay. So far as we know, no cotton mill owner has suggested replacing bis white help with fnegroes, but this is because of the race instinct in the first place, of deference to public sentiment in the second, and of the comfor tfblc. Profit* Greedy earned iu i the third. Bnt the cuttoo mill work has before him constantly the spectre of coming negro rivalry. Making the negro an educated and capable laborer and bring ing him more sharply into coil tact and competition with white labor of all kinds must increase race rivalries, jealousies jrod an tagonism. It will drive the white mechanic class out of the South; or, it will incite the white mechanical class to drive *he Hf8™ ®Bt ot the South; or, it will pat the mechanical claw of the races on an equality. The day that the white mechanic and tenant farmer class la driven ont of the South the backbone of the South will bebrSk™^£ prosperity will be destroyed, and her hopes will go dowu in dark “«“■ B those classes of whites could be driven by necessity to SXJ3ZJSS!*’ ,be We believe those are the facts, and they may as well be faced now because they must be faced and understood sooner or later. Our confidence in the good sense of the American people and in their ability to deal with any situation, however complicated or difficult, is inevitable. We believe that when the education of the negro as a mechanic and a professional man and a busi ness man has progressed so far that the rivalry between himself and the white man is acute the American people will awake to the situation. They will under stand that no two races of eqnal powers and equipment can exist separately on the same territory, and diet if ont of these races is inferior to the other, it moat be driven out when the struggle for supremacy between the races comes. Rejecting the idea of amalgamation as a horror too hideous lor calm consideration; rejecting the alternative of ex termination 'of either of the races by the other as only in a degree leas horrible, the sense of the people of both races trill tarn to a deliberate, peaceful, krodly, separation. The negro educated, equipped and trained may be sent to territory and government of him own. There la room enough is the world. The government of these United States has money and facilities to do anything. We can buy vast stretches of territory in tropica] or sub-tropical countries in Mexico or South or Central America, or on the continent of Africa; and we have room in Cubs, Hawaii, in tbe Samostr Islands and in the Philippines. There is no sense iu ‘Baying it cannot be done. It can be done, and when the time comes it will be dose, are believe and moat devoutly hope. Thm Ledle* ta Vaar Hal! Bom? Wtaatoa loarad. Don't dan to tell any one that yoe know It. and lor goodness Mke don't say who told yon. The ladies an going to wear half boae this summer. Ask the dry goods men. Already firms have ordered them tod t demand hat canted the orders to go forth to the east where they have already found favor with tha swagger set. The stock half frEe built an oa the seme plan as the men's sock, only s bit lengthier. They ere held by—well itTa got to be •aid—suspender*. They ere coming in colors, some in loud colon like the giddy things the Willie boys have been weering lor the past year or so. Of course then win be the opCn work stock, or half hose, tor even a new fed win never drive out the opee work. Now, that's about all, unless yon want to knew kow the in* lonnation got out. That yoe win never know unless yon ask ■ggghod^wlgjao^h^n^te. jpissast* force _____ Aulmfaaut Mamhar af Um Pro *•■•*•* fthiiii that Thar Should ta 5a. Detroit "rn fun Every learned profession has **» •ebpol of ethics, aad rightly to. Ministers. doctor*, profes •ora, and others with related oc cupation* mutt comply with the requirements of a specified staa ard or be discredited by thaii fellows. But it is inevitable that the intelligaaee of the age should ait in judgment aa to the merits and equities of these standards. It ia conceded that the doctors give neater prominence to this question tbsn do those in any other professional calling and its no reflection upon the laymen that they are soaintitnes sur prised into wondering whether physicians have not remained hardened and arbitrary in an age that tends to liberality in thought and action. We are iu no position to say with authority that It is right for a doctor to nse printer's ink in telling the peo ple what he caa do for them j but it is intrieating aad encouraging to have the question raisetf by so able and distinguished a member of his profession as is Dr. Donald Maclean. It is needless to say that there is nothing mercenary ia his pro testation. His name and fame are established aad his commu nication appearing la the col umns of this newspaper yester day Is chiefly eloquent of charity and breadth of view. He makes no radical departure from the conservatism which he has prac ticed. Lot he does intimate that truthful advertising on the pen of a doctor of medicine is not an unpardonable sin. He could scarcely do so without condemn iug the men and women of his calling to extermination. Every one of them advertise by gilded signs and door plates. They all announce themselves by scores in the city telephone directories. If they be specialists in eye, ear, throat, heart, stomach, liver, kidoey,m»r other local troubles, they see that the fact Is known to the public. The difficulty of thoaa outside of the profession ia to compre hend why the wider and better field of advertising should be forbidden. If a person be rich from any clasriy defined za..iadv it cannot be wrong that he sli iuld learn of those best qualified to treat it. If a doctor baa special training and ability for the relief or curt of such diseases, it is a serious query in morals wheth er he be justified iq hiding bit light under a bushel while ha might helping tor saviug the afflicted It w true that quacks and diarist.ms advertise, bat one of tUv .01. at and moat efisc tlve mentis j| driving them from the field would seem to be meet ing them with their own weap ons and letting the test determine who should survive. Under the existing system there is not a fair field. There are pushing and irre pressible physicians just as there are like characters in all the walks of life. If one of this class of doctor* performs a diffi cult operation or carat for an "interesting" ease, the world is acquainted with the fact. He is the member of his profession most likely to be on the spot when an accident of pnblia inter est oecnra, and bis name ftgarea in the reports. He i* an effective advertiser while many a more modest preetlotter with egnal or Kiter ability plods along, an ast observer of the ethical code. We have no thought of rendering g verdict in the ease, but the phases of it mentioned obtrude themselves sod Invite roniinf nt loti, The Teaaeseee senate has bwws orid a Pair at 9t. Loots meat year. A WISE WORD TO WISE WOMEN -ssaassssBssii 41 FIRST, ton pretty? gg SECOND. !■ It becoming B We tare ell the lateat style* and moat beautifalcolor* It yonr. forthe asking. eenre Jo*? : JAS. F. YEAGER, LA0IB8* FURNISHINGS. Stock of Standard Pattern* elver* on bead. HORSES MOVING Wc now her* oa hand only about 23 bead of Horace aad Mulct. The lat ear load for this aeaaoe ham ahead/ - . anTlred. ; : : : : t 1 ; • Twelve car load* it oar record few tki« aeasou! The choice atnek wv now have oa haad ia ninif^ feat; come at once and make yoar selection. NEW BUGGIES, With the arrival of opting: we hove rocfvod a lot of ako aaw Baggie* Jaat oat of tbo factory. We are going to aell T tfaeai. Oct oae aad eefarthat Barter tide yoo am plea aing for. :::: s . CRAIG & WILSON Now is the Time, A A A A A Gastonia Savim^sBankjlhp Piece, =""S=2 ^«Wh««hf. e -V*. , V - } * .’ 4 ; •* ’T'- , N ’.'«£ .- . ■ • ; . , ■ <• ■ •* • - -. -'-f j2 ’»•.• ■ v‘**-. "v*7" Do roo mvc aay pat of year earetag*? H not, wfcat la going to ho tho rcoaHT Wewoat to aaolor yoa la angahtwg thehaMt of ayata H those of oar caotsosora gesMag thoo^ haag little Hone Bsnluu AAA Start to-day the fcoMt of aarlag aoaip. 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Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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May 1, 1903, edition 1
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