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*• • ' GASTON A PUBLISHED TWT^'E A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. • ’ 8,NGLE copY 5 ctJiTS. Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests of the County. yOL XXIX GASTONlA» N* C., FRIDAY, SEPT. 4,1908. _! —-— ■— . . .. ^—— -:-; 1—— _ ''professional cards GARLAND. JONES 4 TIMBER LAKE. Attorneys and Counselors Over Torrence-Moms Company. \ Gastonia, N. C. S. B. SPARROW ATTORNEY-AT-LAW DALLAS, N. C. Office upstairs over Bank of Dallas JOHN G. CARPENTER \ ATIORNEY-AT-lAw DALLAS, N. C., Office over Bank of Dallas. Mrs. John Hall TEACHER OF PIANO AND ORGAN.XfUPil of Dr. Haas. Director of Musjf, Holland In stitute, Va. Leschtfiiky method of technique taugluJf Ten years ex perience. Dally Ifltons to begln tMtn. During vacation 1b a good ' tune to begin. /' ~i-%2——----- — '--*188 KAThCeEN CRAWFORD GRADUATE NURSE Of Magdalene Hospital, Chester, S. C., has located In Gastonia for the practice of her profession. She can be found at Dr. McG. Anders' resi dence or calls for her may be lbft at Torrence’s Drug Store. * Bargains in Picture moulding and Frames I 2000Teet best quality picture moulding must be sold quick to make room for large fa'.l shipment. Now is your chance for a handsome frame at smartl cost. J. 1. Green Photographer Office Phone 147 1 Residence 309 _XytHPET8 AND RUGS CLEANED IRrt) MADE AS GOOD AS NEW. 1 ’•» ’ . ■ \ * ' * V.. x take out all Grease Spots, etc. i Charges Reasonable. GEORGE W. GLENN. ,-1— NOTICE. By order of thfc. County Board of Elections for Oaston county a new f* •rrffiKg precinct Is created In Gas tonia Township the boundaries of i*blch are as follows: Beginning at a point where the C. & N.-W. Rail way-crosses Catawba Creek; running theace with the C, &. N.-W. Railway !, EUUIU IU IKMWOUb' 41‘UbV VV^WI-I thence with the road leading from . Pleasant Ridge edst to the old Caleb . Hu listener residence; thence^ rtyn the old Caleb Hu js^etle^japfffence a £ direct Uoq^eai^o the South Point iMtbwintnp' line; thence with South ^Polnt township line north to Cataw ba creek; thence with Catawba creek . to tho_l>egInning. The- name of (his new prgclnct is IgRoblnson’s precinct and the polling place Is located In Dickson Bros, store near John C. Robinsons’. By order of the County Board of Elections for Gaston county the vot ing precinct heretofore known as . "Cansler’s Precinct” Is divided by Tunning a straight line from the ‘ point on Dutchmans Creek known as 1 the "Old Pish Trap”, to the point where the Armstrong branch enters the Catawba river, Just above the . bend In the river, and two voting precincts created In the territory pre viously included In CaDSlera precinct. The territory previously in Can aler’s precinct and north of the dividing line running from 1 Dutchmans creek to Catawba rlv .er Is created a voting precinct to be known as “Lucia Precinct” and the polling place for said perclnct is located in the Lucia Bchool house at Lucia. The territory previously In Can slerg precinct and 8outh of the di viding line running from Dutchmans creek to Catawba river is created a voting precinct to be known as "Mountain Island Precinct” and the polling place for aald precinct Is lo ! at Mountain Island In the store ''the Mountain Island Mills. Ry order of the County Board of .tons for Gaston county the boun line of the McAdenvllle precinct inded to include all territory a radius of three-fpurths of a the tower of the weave Ig in McAdenvllle instead 1 mile as heretofore, order of-the County Board Gaston county in ', August 29th, 1908. 1BINSON, Chairman. )YCE, Secretary. S J2 c 4 w. _ MR. BRYAN DEALS WITH TAFT AND TRUSTS Io his Second Great Speech olth^JSwwifcnJhe Democratic Nom inee for President Scores the special Interests and their Can didate, Taft-The Latter’s Speech ol Acceptance Weaker on the Trust Question Even Than the Republican Platform The Democratic Position on Some Vital Questions. es Mr. Bryan's great tariff speech al Des Moines,the first in the series tha he is to make on the princlpa questions of the campaign, attracted the attention of the country, but hif second speech, delivered at Indian' apoHu on Monday of last week, or trusts and Mr. Taft's attitude tow ards them, was more striking it pos Bible than his tariff speech. These speeches are showing the countrj that the followers of Mr. Bryan have not, in their enthusiasm, over-esti mated bis strength as a student and debater. The campaign will show unmistakably that Taft is no match for Bryan in oratory, depth of re search or grasp of political condi tions and principles. Below are some extracts from his magnificent speech on trusts; "In my notification speech I called attention to three demands made by our party. It asks, first, that the government shall be taken out of the hands of special interests, and re stored to the people as a whole; it asks, second, for honesty in elections and publicity in regard to campaign funds, that the people may freely choose representatives in sympathy with them and pledged to guard thier interests: it asks, third, for such a modification of our governmental methods as will make the Senate an elective body, and place the control of the House of Representatives in the hands of a majority of its mem bers. A few days ago, in discussing the tariff question, I dwelt upon the fourth demand made by our party, namely, that taxation be Just, that the revenue laws be made for the ■ptfrpose of raising revenue, and not for the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many, and that the -tariff law be supplemented by an in come tax which will more nearly e qualize the government’s burdens. To-day I present another demand made in our party platform—the de mand that the grip of the trustB be broken, that competition be restored and that the door of opportunity be opened to the business men and the toilers of the land. «. • • Industrial independence is neces sary to political Independence. The free exercise of the rights of citi zenship is impossible when a few men control the industries in which mil lions are employed. Ood forbid that we should compel the wage-earners of the nation to address their peti tions to trust magnates, and ask for their daily bread. Already we have seen how prone the monopolist is to make employment depend upon the willingness of the employe to pfosti tutehis ballot to the service of his corporate master. This question should be settled now; we cannot afford to bequeath it as a legacy of wee to a succeeding generation. The conscience of the people Is already awakened, and the conscience is the most potent force of which man has knowledge, where law makes one righteous, conscience controls an hundred; where one is kept from wrong doing by fear of prison doors, a thousand are restrain ed by those invisible walls which con science rears about us—barriers which are stronger than walls of granite. It is upon the conscience that human institutions rest, and without a stirring of the conscience no great reform is possible. To a national conscience already aroused we appeal, with the pledge that a Democratic victory will mean the ringing out of industrial despotism and the ringing in of a new era in which business will be built upon its merits, and in which men will suc ceed, not In proportion to the coer cion they may be able to practice; but In proportion to their industry, theii ability and their fidelity. ♦ • « Nowhere does the Republican par ty show its indifference to real re . f'rm more than in its treatment o! ‘he trust question. Here is the Re publican platform: “The Republican party passed th< Fherman anti-trust law over Demo cratic opposition and enforced it af ter Democratic dereliction. It hat been a wholesome instrument foi good in the hands of a wise and fear less administration. But experieno has shown that its effectiveness cai be strengthened and its real object; better obtained by such amendment; as will give to the Federal govern ment greater supervision and con trol over, and secure greater public ity in, the management of that clas; of corporations engaged in inter • State commerce, having power and opportunities to affect monopolies.” The Sherman anti-trust law was passed eighteen years ago; It has a criminal clause which provides a pen itentiary punishment for those who conspire together in restraint of trade. Ever since the enactment of the law, with the exception of four years, the Republican party has con trolled the executive department of the government, and, during two years of the four, it controlled the House of Representatives. Instead of Democratic dereliction, the Demo cratic party has been urging, year af ter year, the strict enforcement of that law, and the Republican party has been explaining year after year why it was impossible to enforce it. Instead of being a “wholesome instru ment for good," it has been almost useless, so far as the protection of the public is concerned, for the trusts have grown in number, in strength, and in arrogance, at the very time «V,a DAtMihli/tnn nirnfir o Rnnot ! ing of its enforcement of the law. The Bteel trust was formed Immedi ately after the election of 1900, and a prominent Republican said, in a speech soon after, that it might have prevented a Republican victory if it had been formed before the election. * * • Most of the trusts have never been disturbed, and those that have been prosecuted have not had their bus iness seriously interrupted. The President has done something toward the enforcement of the law. but not nearly enough, and the Republican leaders have thwarted him at every point. Finally the President became so exasperated that he sent to. Con gress a message which shocked Re publican leaders'by the fierceness of its denunciation of the predatory in terests. The very convention that spoke in its platform of the adminis tration as "a wise apa fearless one,” was composed largely of the Senators who boldly opposed every effort to free the people from the clutches of the favor-seeking corporations. • « • The Republican platform says that experience has shown that the effect iveness of the anti-trust law could be strengthened by amendments which will give the Federal government greater “publicity as to_the- manage ment of those inter-State commerce corporations which have the power and opportunity to affect monopolies. That is all. No pointing out of rem edies; no outlining of a plan for more effective legislation—simply a gen eral statement that promises nothing in particular. And Mr, Taft’s speech of acceptance is even weaker than the platform. He gives no evidence of having studied the question or of comprehending the iniquities of a monopoly. You look in vain in his notification speech for any sign of indignation at what the trusts have Deen aoing or ior eyiaence oi zeai in their prosecution. He has, for sev eral years, been the intimate official companion of the President, but he has caught none of the lire which the President manifested in his message of last January. If, in the presence of an aroused people, and In the heat of a cam paign, the Republican party contents itself with a colorless platform on this subject, what can we expect in the way of activity when the exigen cies of the campaign are passed? If when Mr. Tqft is appealing to the Roosevelt Republicans, his discussion of the subject is so lifeless and his manner so apologetic and apathetic, what reason have we to expect either vigor in the enforcement of the law or earnestness in the search for ad ditional remedies? Now, let me contrast the Demo cratic platform with the Republican platform. Nowhere is the difference in the temper of the parties more no ticeable; nowhere is the difference in th6 method of dealing with ques tions more manifest. Our platform says: "A private monopoly is indefen sible and intolerable. We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the criminal law against guilty trust magnates and officials, and demand the enactment of such additional leg islation as may be necessary to make It impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United States. Among the additional remedies, we specify three: First, a law preventing a du plication of directors among compet i ing corporations; second, a license i system which will, without abridging . the right of each State to create cor . poratlons, or its right to regulate as . it will foreign corporations doing i -;-: (Continued on page 4.) REPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE. Subject «f A Strong Address by Mr. Jtrynji at Minnesota State Fair— Governor Johnson a Loyal Sup porter of the Nondnee. Mr. W. J. Bryan was the guest of honor at the Minnesota State Fair at SL Bgul Monday and delivered a strong and telling-address on “Re publican ExtravaKanee.,'ift auti^ln troduced in a happy speech by Gov ernor John A. .Johnson, who is one of his most loyal supporters. Mr. Bryan received a great demonstra tion. In his preliminary remarks he took occasion to applaud the Gover nor and urged his hearers to assist In re-electing their chief executive. Mr. Bryan said in part: "The Democratic platform makes Republican extravagance one of the issues of the present campaign. The Republican platform is silent on the subject, and, naturally so; to have promised economy would have been a mockery and to have defended the appropriations made by the last Con gress would have been impossible. The Fifty-first Congress was com monly called the billion-dollar Con gress. The appropriations made by that Congress covered two years, a mounting, iur luo moi » billion dollars, or five hundred mil lion dollars a year. The extrava gance of that Congress contributed to the overwhelming victory won by the Democrats in the campaign of 1892. The last Congress however, has made a new record in extravagance. In spite of a deficit of more than Bixty millions in the last fiscal year, the appropriations made during the last session, amount to more than a bil lion dollars, or twice as much as the appropriations for a single session of the Fifty-first Congress. The In crease over the year before was nine ty million dollars, showing a growth in expenditures far in excess of the growth of the population. “While this tendency to extrava gance manifests itself in nearly all departments, it is especially, noticea ble in the army department and the navy department. The army is more than twice as large as in 1890 and the appropriations for the army more than ti-ree times as great as they were eleven years ago. The expenses of the navy are also about three limes what they were a decade afeo. The increase In the appropria tions for the army and navy alone are $120,000,000 a year in excess of what they were in 1897. The im perialistic policy, for which the Re publican party is responsible, is the only excuse for this enormous and increasing drain upon the tax-payers. INCREASE IN OFFICES. "Our platform also calls attention to the fact that 99,000 new offices have been created at an'expense of $70,000,000 a year, as against an in crease of 10,000 new offices with salaries amounting to $6,000,000 in the Cleveland and McKinley admin istrations. “While every element of our pop ulation suffers to a greater or less ex tent because of the unnecessary ex penditures of the government, the farmers have special reason for com plaint, because they pay more than their share of taxes collected and re ceive less than their share of the ben CUIB nuivu uu n iiuiu »uu - tureA)f the corporation. Nearly all of our Federal revenues, excepting postal receipts, are collected from in ternal revenue taxes and import du ties and these are taxes upon con sumption. Taxes upon consumption always over-burden the rich. If the Federal taxes could be separated from the price of the article in which they are concealed, and each per son’s per capita tax be shown it would be found that the Federal tax now collected would be in effect a graduated income tax, the largest per cent, being collected from the small incomes and the least per cent, upon the large Incomes. And to ag gravate the case still more, the ap propriations 'which unfairly oppress the farmers are spent in cities, so that the farmer enjoys few direct .benefits from the appropriations and scarcely any direct benefits. REASONS FOR REPUBLICAN EX TRAVAGANCE. “Why is it that the Republican par ty is so much more extravagant than the Democratic party in the expen diture of public money? There are two reasons: First, because Re publican leaders are more intimately associated with the tax-eaters than with the tax payers. They hear the hungry clamor of the men who spend money more than they lo the protests of the masses whp contribute reve nues. "But there is a second reason: The Republican leaders have taught the doctrine that taxation is an unal loyed good. They have tried to cul tivate a public opinion to support the idea that tariff taxes on the theory that even when not needed for reve nue are a direct advantage to the protected interests and an indirect advantage to the whole country. It is not strange that people who con sider taxation a blessing would be in ORPHANS CONCERT. Kinging (lass of Oxford Asylum to Give Entertainment Monday Night —The Program. Monday night in the opera house the singing class of the Oxford Or phans Asylum will give a concert. They are on their annual tour and, as usual, they expect a good house here. The program is as follows: 1. After the Rain, Chorus—Class - 2., The Foolish Little Maiden, Recitation—Jewel Browu. 3. De Sandmand, Lullaby— Class. 4. Jack's Big -Sister. Recitation —Roland Peacock. 5. Kentucky Babe. Song—Larger Girls. 6. The Bear Story, Recitation— Maggie Johnson. 7. Sweet Star of Night, Song— Larger Girls. 8. Wakin' the Young ’Uns, Reci tation—Charlie Barringer. 9. Little Mothers, Song—Jewel Brown, Viva Bordeaux, Wylanta Hight, and Maggie Johnson. 10. Memories of Childhood, Rec itation—Kathleen Black, i PART II. 1. Blow, Balmy Breeze, Chorus —Class. 2. Sister and I, Recitation—Jos ephine Peacock. 3. Sacramento, Song—Boys. 4. The Mule, Recitation—Charlie Barringer. 5. Carry Me Back to Old Vlrgin ny, Chorus—Class. 6. I Ain’t A-Goin’ to Cry No More, Recitation—Roland peacock. 7. Music on the Rappahannock, Musical Recitation—Larger Girls. 8. When You’re Broke, Song— BoyB. 9. The Baldheaded Man, Recita tion—-Berthel Mitchejl. 10. Nellie Was a Lady, Song— Larger Girls. • 11. Making Mud Pies, Recitation Maggie Johnson. 12. In Funland, Chorus—Class. Names of children in the class: Kathleen Black, Viva Bordeaux, Jew el Brown, Wylanta Hight, Flora Hutchins, Maggie Johnson, Berthel Mitchell, EsBle Morton, Josephine Peacock, Elizabeth Rogers, Charlie Barringer, Edgar Betts, Tom Dixon, James Hall, Roland Peacock, Carlton Wilson. FREE DANDRUFF CURE. Money Back From J. H. Kennedy & Company If Parisian Sage Does Not Cure in Two Weeks. - Can you ask for anything fairer than that? That’s what one would call the square deal in earnest. But we, the Giroux Mfg. Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., American makers of Parisian Sage, aren’t afraid to make this of fer, because we know that Parisian Sage will make good every time. And we’ll go still further. We’ll guarantee Parisian Sage to stop fall ing hair or itching of the scalp, or money back. It removes all odors from excre tions of the scalp which are most no ticeable in summer time, and keeps the scalp cool, clean and white. It will make ladles' hair beautiful fluffy and luxuriant. It is the most Invigorating hair dressing known to mankind. "After using one bottle of Paris ian Sage, I now have a better growth of hair, and I found your hair re storer pleasant to use. After the first application the dandruff disap peared, and my hair stopped falling out. I now recommend Parisian Sage to all my lady friends."—Lot tie Real, 111 Mt. Hope Ave., Roches ter. N. Y. Parisian Sage costs 50 cents a large bottle at J. H. Kennedy & Co’s, or direct by express all charges pre paid, from Giroux Mfg. Co.. Buffalo,. M V 4-8 . Miraculous Escape. While standing on the track at the depot in Lenoir Tuesday Mrs. Pomeroy Ferguson was struck by the tender of a backing freight en gine and carried under the wheels to the pilot. When the engine was stopped she extricated herself. While she is in a serious condition there are no bones broken and she will very probably recover. Her escape from death was truly marvelous. A new mine in Utah yields 200 ounces of sliver, $80 worth of gold and a quantity of ifad to each ton. Subscribe for THE GAZETTE. dined to make the blessing as large as possible. “The Democratic party is in a po sition to bring reform in the matter of expenditures. It believes that a tax is defensible only when necessary and that it should be reduced to the lowest limits consistent with good government. Our party is pledged to reduction in appropriations and to economy in every department of gov ernment and our position ought to appeal with special force to those of our population who are engaged in agriculture.” i R. 500 New Subscribers on our books between now and the first of the year; hence this offer. There yet remains the most strenuous part of the Presidential Campaign and every citizen should keep in touch with it as it proceeds. The Gazette will keep you informed. Money must ac company every order. Send us Your Subscription To-day. The cheesy taste In butter Is dne to lack of thoroughness of trashing and removing the buttermilk. A veterinarian^Xound a tooth grow ing In the ear of a colt, the property of Cloud Pyle, of Mortonvllle, Pa. More than 2!T;0fiD employes of the Pennsylvania RailrostrtSve been In structed in first aid to the injured at the company’s expense.
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