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' THE Citizens National Bank OF GASTONIA Capital.$30,000.00 OFFICERS! R. P. RANKIN, PraaMant. C. N. EVANS, Vlaa PreaMaat. A. Q. MYERS, Caablar. DIRECTORS! R. P. Rwll«i C. N. Rrua, E4t«r Lava, ' J. A. Olaaa, Dr. J. M.lkaa, !• R> Har««». RabartA. Lava, . We wish to express our grateful appreciation to our friends who have given us their • business since we opened. We extend a cordial Invita tion to the public to do busi ness with usy and promise lib eral treatment. , Will make loans at the legal rate of In terest* and pay Interest on time deposits. We want your business and. will extend every courtesy and accommodation consistent with sound banking. Call to see us or write us. . — ■ • '■ ^r- , ■ - ■ A. G. MYERS, Cashier OF THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF GASTONIA, N. C. *•. 7534. TUA5UKT DEPAKTMENT. Ofllc# .! C*«xj*tr»U«r of tk. C*rrtocy. __ ' . ■ . WAfHiworoii, D. c., Dbcbmbe* 30, 1904. ' • Wh*"-. by *ati»fsctorjr evidence presented to t^e under “*n*d\ b“ !***.“ mmA* 10 #ppear lb,t The Citizen* Nations] Bank of Gaston.., located in the town of Gastonia, in the county of Gaston sad State of North Carolina, ha* complied with all the provisions of the Statute* of the United States, required to be com plied with before an association shall be authorised to commence t^ie business of Banking} o £ Th°““ !• Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Cnnency, do hereby certify that the Citizen. National Bank oi Gastonia, located in the town of Qa*touia, in the county of Gartonsnd State ofNorth C.rolius, is suthorised to commence tim business of Banking .as provided in Section fifty-one handled end .ixty-nine of the Revised Statute, of the United States. tn testimony ^hereof witness my hand and Seal of ofice this f Thfrtlefh day of December, 190#. i r ■ T. P. kan;b, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of tlU Currency* • 1 f Will Springtime Iyer Cena? A correspondent of The Pont. / evidently oppressed with the weight of winter, writes to aek M If springtime will ever come again. The question ip « seasonable one. The answer must be in tbs affirmative, be cause spring hes succeeded win ter'Aver stuee the world began. At the same time, even though nature oarer slipped n cog be fore, we can well imagine, that the time ha oome when things might go awry. It seems a lifetime since ths sun was in ths punster solstice. There eras a season once, as we now meet dimly recall, when the air was warm and balmy, when the flowers bloomed, and when the perspiration deluged Pur sa peril sated brows. Wc re long ago, that luscious __ so It strawberries w« Ih.tl .UMrraithnelun'^m I •. .4 s' <• ' ■ # anas * is A* L , /• La a. isssn *d#,to- 11 *■ i» p**1®* the memory of tbe oioeat Inhabitant as be sbiver* b^«»bel«. For weeks and Moatha-TQT years—the son bay ^7” a particle, of £”tb* Tbeau baa beco as cold m tbe north pole. The' Btouod J, bM btanth tbe hammocks of seen mu la ted buAu V* wiBd *•**• * i1*? cloud* obscure tbe g>:/"d fWF reign* supreme, ior^a U’ * “■’ 80 bW* aor >>clp eifejirjrtsfg UFL-r •im€ *• wiu !y? ,\®r Wat on* breath of tbe zSthJi? ?om” .°81 <b« I""8****. It nuy be ao. At PWJ“V ■osreeer, we would wdwrbe stricken by tbe son then frozen stiff. i _ * . /ft* 3fpte_oa Friday accept* ad from the State of Illinola a' rtatue of Prance* B. Willard wbleb baa bees ulaced in Sut anrtonjj Waahington. It is V • .. *5 '. TO THE COTTON GROWERS OF GASTON COUNTY ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT ABERNETHY. Parana art Urged to Attend tka Mealing at Dalle* Next Tanadar —Tito Fight Alanat Waa-Cettra Varik f 15 a Bala Mara Tfcaa Whaa (ha Famars Bagaa to ■sM-Tfce Booth Is NFJMJM ■attor aO Tharahr-Famara Urged to Stand by Tbair OrgaaUatiea and Attend tha Dallas Meeting. MUUir W IM UMVUV1 Mt Holly. N. C.. Feb. 21-Will you please be so kind aa to pub lish the following article iu your valuable paper, provided you can do >o this week. Pellow Farmers of Gaston Coun ty: I feel it my doty to addreda you once more in this way, be fore our County meeting iu Dal las next Tuesday, the 2flth. I do so that I may be able to show you that we have as cotton grow ers of the South accomplished more in the last eight weeks than ever could have been reasonably expected. Hitherto It has been •aid that the farmers could not be got together and the Sharp ers of Wall Street were taking advantage of this and the bene fits of our having raised a large crop last yfcar. They were send ing out estimates and* photo graphs of cotton fields and great piles of cottoo, almost every where and iu every way they were. trying to deceive the far mer and make him believe that it would be almost an impossi bility to get rid of the cotton that tcey had on bad. Tbev tom uk tpat there was a crop of something like thirteen end a half million bales made last year and that the price would go down to something like five cents per pound, which would have been tbe ruination of tbe South. They bad not stopped to fignre ont that they were kicking ua too hard and too fast. They had not stopped to think our people would scorn their kicks if they came too heavy, they nad not stopped to think of the panic we have juit recovered from, and that by it we were forced to* be economical and wise, and by that we had tried in a very snb> stantial way to better onraclves by living at home instead of in somebody rise’s smoke house or corn-crib. Ab, but they found our Southern people almost a unit and ready to declare their independence of Wall Street and tbe gamblers (hat had been shifting the cards to their bene fit ana our ruin for so long a time. They had sat up there and said how much land we would plant this year, in cotton, and had- made the prick on our staple that we bad at home. They had gone on and sold it ahead for future delivery, and expected yon and me 'to bring it in at their calling and ju the price they made. But for doe tune we have band* ed ourselves together, aod are making them sing another song. The mill men sre running short, aod win soon have to force the speculators to deliver the goods, ft-is then that you will hear them sooall, prices will go up if we will only bold out and resent any offers they make. I have had the opportunity of meeting many min mdn of late, each of whom has advised me that we bad the key to the sita ation. aod that it was bat neott 1 sary for ns to bold on, as we had been, to win tba fivbt. In spite of their great estimate of oor crop, end predicting that «« price would • go down, yon have seen it go up almost every day since we began to organise. It yon will now take oat >our pencil aod figure with ore a little yon will see whet we have ac complished by uniting. We were told by them that cotton,waa bound to go down, and that it coutd not be expected that U would be far from the figure of 5 cents par ponaf. Now taking their estimate for It, and thsirs ■lone, von win see tbst on the four and a half million bales that they now concede to be in the bands of the farmers, if sold to day, there has been s gain in valoa over they said it would be, Of sixty-seven and a half million dollars. Giving them the bene fit! of all this, and taking it for granted that they were mistaken* tad that the price Would not go as low as they said, yet it can be reasonable relied on .that the price Would not have advanced any under customary circum stances. Notwithstanding Urn enormous crop, by your uniting you have advanced tba - value of yow cotton on baud to the tune of over thirty three million dot Isru above what !* wae when you 1-1 things in store for the farmers if they will only effect a perms* ncnt organization and there-by ftmd together. Yon ace the ef fect of other professions organ tzing. This ahonld be couclu •ive evidence to yon that it is your duty to do the same. We are n'H antagonistic to any one, nor do we want to hart toy man in an honorable profession. Our object is to protect ourselves, and to insure to the farmer a rea sonahle price foe Us products. We should not legislate nor com bine against any men or set of men nor their occupations. Jnat limply hold onto that which yon have and look out lor your protection and let the other fel low go. To illustrate this, let pie say that if perchance you have a merchant in your town. U yon live in one. and be is not I doing an honorable business, you ' 5**" ,n,ot fi*ht him nor try to drive him out. bot get your peo ple to resolve not to patronize bun nor his business a id be will soon go. We are not so roach fiohtino tl7.ll U.__ _ u la tors', as we are trying to protect ourselves. When by or ganization, and bolding off from the market oar produce, and cur tailing expenses,, and making tbe supply equal to the demand, wbenf this is done my fellow farmer*, you and 1 will be in position to name the price of onr product as othei professions do theirs. It is our doty toco me to gether as « unit, and confer one with another so we will under itaad each other better. By doing this we con link onr ideas to gether and make our country more prosperous. I know that nooe of us are perfect, hence it will be impossible for ns to get onr organisation perfect, at least it will be for awhile. Bat we mast not lay down our courage, but stand firm; by so doing we win be able to build up ourselves till we can become a power in the land by being able to pro-! tect ourselves. We should not be dependent but Independent. We sic the mud and sills of the uni verse and no institutions can exist without us while we can f*ut without many other insti tutions and occupations. Hence it is, that instead of us having to take a back seat we should be an the front. We give way too much, largely because we think our ability will not cope with that .of other professions. This b not the case. In our profes sion cun be found men of brains and with as broad ideas as men of any other occupntioos. It is true that our book learning may not be equal to that of others, but onr common sense is equal end that is the foundation for all things to come. We can and should come to the front. The opportunity ia before us. in our rounds we find some tbit have not the frith fa us that they should have. To them 1 wish to say be of good cheer, - our cause is yonr cause. Some say they will not loin because others have joined Hue ought not be permitted In It. Thu euy be true, and I concede that they are right. B«* >«* w /ou, my friend, come in add help us fight the J°w staying at home and talking at the cross roods and Conner stores will not keep them out. Come to the conven* Hoe end show your manhood. Yon ere needed there to help ®ot thsaen that ought not to be in. We* want you to come to our rescue now end aid ns all you can. Yqu can do ua as well “ yourselves good by coming. Come« my friend*, and ace bow hard your friends ere workings to help you out and keep oet thoec that don't belong fa. Again, I want to say attend the meetings. Don't ait at borne end cuss becauae things are not carried cut. to your uo-1 Hon. We don't know wlut yb4' want, and therefore we want yon there to tell ns. Yes, be there end be as big a man as anybody. Speak out openly and express yomr sentiments. But den't get OM* because everybody don’t MM things as you do. Try os till maybe by and by you can W1®**„Atm that you arc ri«bt. Yae, get hs line, the good effects ire plainly visible, •od show that we can sccom pUeh much. Your association fUthe meu in It have bean able to auke H, and may t • % X . be the reason that it is not what yon want it. is because you have not all been there. Some have not loined on ac count of the alliaooe having been a failure. To those I want to say, you know it was canned by the political aspirations of uome of the leading members. Again, my friends, it was a national institution. It covered the country and bad but one platform, which was "not suit able to all sections. Oar Gov ernment stands because we have laws regulating our uatioa, states and counties. Kach gov erned by conditions that anr round them, and a law that would suit ns ben would likely be undesirable in Maine or Mex ico. Our cotton Association rovers only 17 states and territo ries, which includes the area in which cotton is produced. Those sections cover about 820 conn ties. and what is beneficial to one cotton growing county is beneficial to another. Our or ganisations on non-political and therefore we can afford to work in accord with ooc another. Hence 1 oak that none nfum to join ua on account of the failure of the Alliance. Bat be at the meetings and express your views on those matters: you may lie the one that can wake the peo ple np to that which may help you and them. uor meeting Tuesday may be tbe hut of its kind ms « uM«ting of the farmers for Swbile. it Kent that our farm ers have organised so well in each township' that hereafter each of them is likely to send delegates to carry out your wish es at said county meetings. It is partly on this account that we want a great meeting Tuesday. I want yon to all be there wheth er you ate a member of tbe as sociation or not.] Cotne and see what we are trying to do for yon .end onr selves. Oak your work for one d*y* pay you. Show to the world that yon aa Das’ ju ; county cUixcns are ready to join ia with those that are trying to save tbe South. I am already assured that there will be a large attendance, bat I want it to be larger than 4s expected. Tbe good people of Dallas will greet yon with open hands sod be glad to set yon. If yon have good horses and baggies and good clothes to put on come; if not put on that which you have and come anyhow. Yon will not be judged by your clothes nor conveyances; there is aa good blood under brown jeans and slouch hats as there is un der broadcloth sod silk beavers. Hence get ready, tell your wives and daughters that you are go ing to take a day os and go to IHIlas and for them to take cate of the chickens and feed the calves and babies till you come back. Telljronr people that it has been circulated abroad that no man shall be deprived of his views at Dallas nest Tuesday on account of bis poverty, and that yon are going. Tell them that k has been sounded abroad that the farmers am combining in order to get good prices for cot* ton, that the "old women and the gels” helped make and that yon ate going to join ’em sad help fight that great battle. Xe.n lhf? jJMjf oM Theodore Price, of Wall Street. ;thn arefc epemy of the cotton industry of the South, told the people that cotton woukt sell for five cents per pound before Feb. 13th. and that tha farmer* jumped la and organised and now the bake yon hart aroand your home ere worth $15.00 each more then SMsa.'saK.as the fanner! have brought all Hiose things about by organisa tion and that you am benefited by it aa math as they, end that yon ere going to help them now and that yon are going to make by going to Dalles. Tell them that you can do as much as anybody else in this movement, and that you am going to do it. If you don’t nrant to pay the hotels for yoor dinner, and the *t.b)es for yoar horn* feud, tell yoar folks to kill a chicken and fry h toon Tues day morning as you can get a •ooa start, and take a little btpseor tank teed along so you can be independent instead of ocptadeatd wienio* yon an'well and hoping that 1 will have the gsw&tatesys KoaTjL. Aamuamtv, Chair. »“ Gm»oo County Cotton Qtowtn A—pdartoa. . *»rty*«fth State Pair will b* h*M in Raielgh thi« fall, Oe ^be^ri, havn^jaat been aa s . VA , - • a • X*»YW* mmiJ s; ': 7# the lidiior of Tfu Smm— Sit: Some weeks ago, i a discuss ing Soothers condition*. 700 ■2d that if the South abogld be deceived of negro toil its in dustry would be destroyed hi chief parts; that it dees net want to act rid of its negroes; that if s change from black be white labor ever takes place extensive ly. the probability is that there will be mors dissatisfaction at the South than there is now. On the contrary, the Snath Is very anxious to get rid of every negro within its territory. The sooner the better it will be foe the pnosoerity of the Sooth. There aekms to exist an idea at the North that all the Southern farms are worked by negroes. There was never a greater mis take- If you win refer fee the census reports pf 1100 yon will see your error. Not JO per cent of the farmers of the Sooth axe negroes. The backbone of the Southern farm fa the white man. As a tenant and a laborer Urn negro is a complete failure, and the Southern farmer, reanalnar that fact, h growing mote and more independent of the negro. ting as much labor as b* can from the negro, but with very poor results. Tbe improvement in tbe con dition of tbe Southern white farmer ia dne to himself. Pot some yean past ft waa the custom of Southern young men to quit the farm and seek em ployment in tbe cities sad towns, leaving the forming to the negroes. Tbe reverse ia now the case. The yooag white men are leaving the cities end town* for 'the forms, and the ntgroes are leaving the forms as fast they can. The negro prefers to make a precarious living la the cities and towns to doing hard work on tbe forms. The conse quence is that negro labor ia be coming very scarce: sad in solne sections of this country farmers have beau almost abandoned where negro labor wea depeaded on.. It is even a hard matter in the town to pro cure cooks snd house servants, working. The result has beta that Southern while people have beeoau mote self-reliant sad are learning to do their own If the farnring loterest* were loft «o the negro the Sooth woop not produce 400,000 tales of cotton. The large crops that sre now being made are aide by the land ownara sod their gHdrsa; sad from that fact the Stath was never ip a better con ditJon. By f their rash to tkf t°wns and cities sotae yean back the young uku over crowded the stons sad all Hats of boaiaess, sad aeeeasity has forced then tack to the tens. JL VZ rirKir SSf-M* °< *re. Vtil 5KJ o« wstta7tecre"Lp? *3ft2 SflWfms tts factor Ip every lias of induitty, sre aew wUliagro rep —"" I him b ^ . *. •/,'] IT vV1 Cfv » f ■ -.. M rinTlMl ftmr fm —. ■ ■• :.‘i .'V.jfo