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FACE FOUR. THE GASTOMA GAZETTE. r. ("f : FRIDAY, FEBRUARY J t, 1010. - if f 1 I The Gastonia Gazette Issued every Tuesday and Friday fey The Oatette Publishing Company. B. D. ATKINS, Editor. J. W. ATKINS, Business Manager. z No. 30 Mala Avenue. PHONE NO. 80. GASTONIA Oouty Seat of Gaston County Af ter January 1, 1011. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One year 91.60 Six months 76 roar months 60 One month 16 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1910. E C O M A The Only Guaranteed Remedy (or Eczema and Ifccli At last the State of North Caro lina Is properly prepared for the ex ecution of criminals condemned to death In Che manner prescribed by taw. The penitentiary authorities tare been informed that the com plete electrical equipment for the death-chair was shipped from the factory in Indiana on January 26tn uid an expert is on the way to In stall the apparatus. Prepared Only by Frost Torrence & Co. Price 75c Call, Phone or Write Us. : : Phone 16 An event of Interest in newspaper circles In the State is the change in ownership of The Greensboro Pa triot, Mr. W. I. Underwood succeed ing Mr. V. M. Barber in that rela tion. "Bill" Underwood, as he is familiarly known to a large number of the pencil pushers in the State, is newspaper man of experience and ability. He wields an easy pen and is si hustler, not only for news but for business as well. He will keep The Patriot up to its former high tandard and If there is any room for Improvement he will do the improv ing;. His paper is one of the oldest In the South and has a splendid pa tronage. Here's wishing the new owner all the success he hopes to at tain. : Gazette-News, indicates a bad state of affairs. All of which Is equally applicable to any county In which the same conditions exist. The present high prices of various kinds of food products would so conduct their farming as to pro duce not only all that is needed at home, but a surplus to ship to the markets where a high price is offer ed for anything in the line of farm products. This should be a warn ing to all farmers of this entire sec tion, we think, that the best way to make money this year 19 to make preparations for a large acreage in grain and such things, Instead of turning all their land to cotton, thus placing themselves under the neces sity of paying high prices for neces sary articles of food. ro will give him their support that town can soon dispose of the blind tiger business effectively and thoroughly. REAPING THE HARVEST. I The Gazette heartily endorses the plan of the Gastonia Woman's Bet terment Association to have an an nual floral fair beginning this fall. Besides accompishlng the Immediate end of adding to the fund which the organization is raising for a most worthy purpose, it will stimulate a lore for flowers among our people generally that cannot but result beneficially. A love for flowers, shrubs and trees, no less than a love for music and art and all else that Is beautiful and good and true can not but add to the refinement of any people. Certainly, lets have an an nual floral fair and let Just as many Gastonian8 as possibly can partici pate in it. The Asievllle Gazette-Xew3 of Tuesday carried a thought-provoking editorial under the caption "What is the matter with Buncombe county?" The particular phase of Buncombe's commercial affairs upon which the query is based Is the fact stated that four or five times as much freight is shipped into the county as is shipped out of it, and that the greater part of this incom ing freight is in the form of food stuffs. The fact thnt a rountv which i professes to be an agricultural coun ty should require great quantities of articles of food to be shipped into its borders every year, thinks the Editor Bivens of The Wade9boro Ansonian is a man of courage and does not hesitate to attack evil when he sees it. He is a citizen of which Wadesboro has cause to be proud if they had more like him they'd have a cleaner and a better town. Last week Editor Bivens published an item in his paper directing atten tion to one Honeycutt who, he stat ed, was running a blind tiger In his rooms In the heart of town and put ting the case so plainly that It would naturally have been expected that the officers of the law would have called on him for evidence and ar rested their man. Instead Honey cutt went unmolested and threaten ed the editor, In the meantime dis playing an open knife. When he did this the second time the newspaper man knocked him down and was giving the fellow a good drubbing when pulled off him. A private clt-1 izen not an officer, mark you swore out a warrant and Honeycutt s rooms were searched with the result that twenty-three pints of whiskey and a lot of empty jugs were found. The brand, by the way, was the same as that found on the person of Henry Thomas, a young white man whose dead body was found on the streets of Wadesboro a few nights previous. Editor Bivens has fought the blind-tiger business In Wades boro and Anson county ever since he started The Ansonian two or three years ago and he will keep it up he lias the moral courage to do it and if the good people of Wadesbo- The South Now Reidnnlng to Get Results From Many Years of Hard Work in Developing Its Wonder ful Resources. Manufacturers Record. The South is beginning to feel the cumulative effects of the work which its people have been doing for the last 30 years. It could not reasona bly have been expected in the past that the magnificent work which the leaders in Southern development have been carrying forward would produce an immediate full harvest. For more than a generation the South has been passing through the plowing and the seeding time. The seeds have been scattered broadcast over the United States as well as over much of Europe. Now this sec tion Is beginning to see the ripening of the harvest. The Southward trend of men and money, the awakened Interest throughout the United States in the resources and possibilities of the South, are not the outcome of any work of the past few years. They are consequences of the cumulative work of the last 30 years. When about 1880 the South, Tis ing from the wreck and ruin of the war and the reconstruction period, worse In its effects than war itself. began the revival of the Industrial interests so rudely shattered by that Uses of the South. Line upon line, precept upon precept, had been mak Inc their impression upon the world The success of Southern cotton mills had conrinced investors, North as well as South, of the exceptional d vantages of the South for' cotton manufacturing. The fact that the Iron Interests of the Central South had weathered the tremendous changes which had taken place In the Iron and steel Interests of the world by reason of the discovery of the Mesaba ores In the early part of the 90's. and .the extreme panicky conditions In iron and steel after 1893, had given to the metallurgical world a higher appreciation than It had ever had of the remarkable ad' vantages of the South for iron and steel production. One by one the great leaders in metallurgical devel opment had slowly but surely turn ed their thought to the South. The men who had made fortunes In coal In Pennsylvania gradually crossed the Imaginary dividing line which had separated them from West Vir ginia. When they found that coal Investments in West Virginia prov ed as profitable as had coal invest ments in Pennsylvania, they extend ed their investigations and Invest ments In coal lands, moving on down the line Into Virginia, into Ken- ucky and Tennessee and Alabama. The heavy increase in value which has taken place in coal properties in West Virginia, where In some places coal lands are selling at 300 to 400 an acre, while five or ten years ago $50 an acre would have been consid ered extravagant, is not the result of any new and sudden awakening to the wealth of West Virginia. It is only the natural trend of economic developing, the fruiting of the bud and blossom of the last 10 years. The movement Into Alabama of the United States Steel Corporation, backing that section with its almost limitless millions, was not the out come of any sudden discovery of the iron ore and coal of the State nor of any sudden outburst of activity in making known the resources of the South to the people of other sec tions. It was merely the culmina tion of the work which had been go ing on quietly, but none the less ef fectively, for many years. The wonderful development of Galveston Bay, where capitalists who have made the science of transpor tation on the Lakes one of the won j ders of modern times are developing , the most comprehensive warehousing '. systems in America, is not the result ; of recent agitation to attract capital to the South, but is only the fulfill ment of the plans laid more than two-score years ago by the man who is now carrying out this vast under taking. Twenty years or more ago he purchased property on Galveston Bay for the express purpose of cre ating great shipping facilities com mensurate with the terminal facil ities on the Lakes whenever, in his judgment, the time seemed ripe for A Check is the; Best eiptl is a common remark among business men. o Pay . your, bills with checks and thereby avoid the confusion and misunderstanding that often result where you 'pay cash. Try this plan and you will be pleased with its : operation. The same accurate attention is given to each individual account at 1 The First National Bank Gastonia, N. C. Gaston County's Oldest and Largest Bank. Capital - - $100,000. L L. JENKINS, Prest Surplus and Profits 40,000. S. N. BOYCE, Cashier. Pon't Forget To Look Through Our Line of Fabrics 'FOR s Spring and Summer Suits The Finest Ever! And Don't For get That Easter Comes Early Now's the Time! Here's the Place! R. T. Padgett Cleaning, Pressing, Mending, Altering, Etc. PHONE 222 struggle, it arouBed the sentimental i the work. The fact that Galveston interest of the country, and to a cer- itself is now doing a foreign trade tain extent sentiment played a exceeding Dy mpre tnan szd.uoo.uOO large part in Southern progress dur- a year the combined foreign trade of ing the next 10 years. That sentl- j racinc porta is merely tne culmi mental Bide of Southern develop- j nation of that inevitable trend of ment, however, passed away when foreign iraae wnicn inose wno naa the strain came in 1891 and 1892, j the foresight to see and the patience The Citizens National Bank Gast onia, N. C. The bank that is not so large or old as to be forgetful of its customers' wants and needs, and is as strong as any of them. Is the designated depository of the great state of North Carolina. It makes loans at the legal rate of interest, when satisfactory balances are maintained, and every accommodation and courtesy ex tended customers in keeping with sound banking. We invite you to open an account JL P. Rankin, Pres. A. G. Myers, Cashier. Capital and Surplus, $75,000 with the Baring failure, and the great depression In cotton which be gan about mat time, mis section then had to face a long period of agricultural poverty and industrial stagnation, the latter coming with great severity after the panic of 1893. So serious was the general depression throughout the South In , that period that the total increase In j the assessed value of all property in i Southern development this section from 1890 to 1900 was only about $780,000,000, whereas in the preceding decade, from 1880 to 1890, the Increase had been near ly $1,500,000,000. Thus, notwith standing the steady increase in pop ulation, the progress of the South in the 10 years ending with 1900, as measured by the increased value of property, was but littl more than one-half as great as between 1880 and 1890. With the coming of high er prices of cotton in 1900-1903 a gricultural conditions improved. Gradually the farmers found thein, selves in better financial shape than for yeaVs able to pay off in the ag gregate hundreds of millions of mortgages and crop-lien Indebted ness. Then they felt the stimulation which comes with freedom from debt and an increasing bank ac count. Farm lands which had been depreciating in value gradually be gan to show a steady Increase. In the past nine years the assessed val ue of property In the South has ris en to $9, 560, 000, 000, an amount three times as great as the assessed value of 1880, more than twice as great as the assessed value of 1890 and 80 per cent, greater than the as sessed value of 1900. In the mean time the great financial forces of the world, which had not been seriously affected by the sentimental side of Southern development between 1880 and 1890, came more and more to a recognition of the unequaled advan- to wait for have always known must Inevitably come to Galveston and to other Southern ports. Let us not for a moment Imagine that anything that the South of It self Is now doing, or that other peo ple are doing or have done in the last few years even, should be re garded as responsible for the many changes which are taking place in The latter day Is merely reaping the harvest planted in the former. The momen tum now seen everywhere In the movement of population and money southward, and the attention which the South is commanding throughout all parts of the United States and in i many parts of Europe, are merely the cumulative effects of 30 years of work. The pioneers In the iron develop ment of Alabama, the men who struggled In years past to raise cap ital for the building of cotton mills In the South, the men who ceaseless ly preached the doctrine of divers! fication of agriculture In order that the whole thought of the South might not be centered upon cotton. the men who led in the building of railroads and In the opening of coal mines, the men who for more than a quarter of a century have struggled whether selfishly or unselfishly, whether for their own personal gains or for the advancement of this fa vored land, it matters not are the men who have dose the pioneering work. They plowed the hard ground, they sowed the seed, at times amid discouragement and doubt, but the harvest Is in sight, and the rising generation, beginning to reap the riches of this harvest, should recog nize that the work, of the pioneers, to the Gunby Jordans, to the Hick mans, to the Gradys, to the Howells, to the De Bardelebens, to the Sloss es and the thousands of others who in mine and In furnace, in factory For The Remainder Of This Week Our specials will be Damask Tqwels and Table Dam ask, made at the Spencer Mountain Mills in this county. 20X41 Damask Towels, 15 cent value at 10c. 64-inch Table Damask, 50c value at 39c a yd. See our window display and dont fail to take advant age of this opportunity. The Thomson Merc. Co. Gastonia, N. C and through the press, did a work which has never been surpassed for courage, for devotion, for tireless energy In this or any other land to these men .is due the harvest which we are now beginning to gather. Great, indeed, is that bar vest to 'be. It will fill the storehous es of the South to bursting; wealth greater than has ever been seen in the South greater than has ever been seen in any part of this land is coming, and coming with great rapidity. No stronger evidence that the South has "arrived" could be had than the fact that where silence about this section reigned during all the period of its own struggle, and even where misrepresentation pre vailed, there are now the most stren uous efforts to appear as heralds of Southern advancement, and whatev er advantages may accrue to the South from such heraldry will now be added to what the South has ac complished. But the fight had been won long before the new heralds of advancement came into the field. The . 200,000 Western people who, like a mighty army, are now annual ly settling in Texas and Florida are but the advance guar! of an army of many times as many who will" soon be spreading all over the South and rejoicing that they have found the Promised Land, the land of which it might almost be said the sacred writer had In mind when some thousands of years ago he wrote: "A good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegran ates; a land of oil, olive and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." Ex-Governors and Ex-Jnstlces. Raleigh News and Observer. The death this week of former Chief Justice James E. Shepherd brings to mind that four ex-members of the Supreme Court have died recently: Judges Furches, McRae, Bynum and Shepherd. There is now no ex-Chief Justice, but there sur vive six ex-Jastices: Avery. Bar- well,' Douglas, Montgomery. Cook and Connor. There are three ex Governors: Jarvls,. Aycock and. Glenn. . "s Subscribe for The Gazette.
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