INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS.
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OL.VIH.
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY,' JUNE 5, 1902.
NO. 8.
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PEACE AT LAST.
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Surrender of Boers Announced
to the World
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
Utterances of the President at Ar
lington on Hemorial Day.
National Memorial Day was observed
j
TVidav with aooroorlate ceremonies
enemy: tinder the strain of these prov
ocations I deeply deplore to say that
some among them have so far forgot
ten themselves as to counsel and com
mit, in retaliation,, acts o cruelty. he
fact that for every guilty act commit
ted by one of our troops a hundred acts
of far greater htrocity have been com-
COTTON1 MEN MEET. I sou
Formation of the Combine Well Under
Way.
GGLE HAS BEEN PROTRACTED
Uasion of GeheraK Rejoicing In
Wand The
tlficatlon.
King Expresses His
don. ay ijaDie. An umciai
rram from Lord Kitchener dated
Iria, Saturday, May '31, 11 : 15 a.
(ays : "A document containing
of surrender was signed here
evening at nan-past I in ociock,
in the Boer representatives, as
as by Lord Milner (the Briusn
commissioner in South Africa)
yself."-;. -
a news or neace in aouia iunua
throughout the country. Chief interest mitted by the hostile natives upon our
centered in the utterances of President
Roosevelt who delivered the oration
at Arlington. Mr. Roosevelt said in
in part: ' . $:,-
Mr. Commander. Comrades, and you
men and women of the United States
who owe your being here to what was
done by the men of the great civil war:
I greet you and thank you for the hon
or done me in asking me to De present
this day. .
, Tt la a.-eood custom for our country
to have certain solemn holidays in
inn nt rmr create St men
and of the greatest crises in our his
tory. There should be but few such
holidays. To increase tneir numuer -to
cheapen them. Washington and Lin
coln the man who did most to found
the Union; and the mn wno am mot
troops, or upon the peaceable and law-
abiding natives who are ffiendly to us,
can not be held to excuse- any wrong
doer on our side. Determined and un
swerving effort must be made, and in
being-made, to find out every instance
of barbarity on the part of our troops,
to punish those guilty of it, - and to
take, if possible, even stronger meas
ures than have already been taken to
minimize or prevent the occurrence of
all such Instances in theifuture.
THE UNDERWOOD PLAN EXPLAINED
riany- Southern Spinners Agree to
; Accept the Underwood Plan Some
n of its Provisions.
Greensboro, N. C, Special. There
Was a very important meeting here
From time to time there occur in our Thursday afternoon of representatives has been prodigal in her gifts to this
Evidences of Southern Progress
New York Financier. .
Five years ago the idea that the
South could manufacture cotton inv
competetion with the world was dis
puted in conservative Northern circles,
and a decade ago the South itself was
skeptical on the subject Now it is con
ceded that the seat of the future cotton
manufacturing industry is in the South,
and so far from a purely agricultural
outlook, the South seems . destined to
be one of the. busiest workshops of th
nation. The change Is taking place
more raDldlv than imagined. Nature
pa in -the f oreeoing dispatch to preserve it stand head and shoul
ders above .all our otner puouc m?",.
and have by common consent won tne
right to this pre-eminence. Among the
holidays which commemorate the
turning points in American uvnwj,
Thanksgiving has a significance pecu
liarly its own. On July 4 we celebrate,
the birth; of the nation on this day,
the 30th of May, we call to mind the
d path nf those who died that the na
tion might live, who wagered all that
'11U1UO UVUt - " ' - m
Lord. Kitchener was not ex-
"d in London Sunday. Soon after
eceipt of the dispatch, however,
news spreaa io uw wuuo
Is and was received wiuu mutu
usiasm. The church bells were
to acclaim the good news. A
U gathered at the Mansion House
the lord mayor oi inaon, on
ph H. Dimsdale, announced from
balcony that terms of! surrender
been signed in South Africa.
brd Kitchener's definite; announce
rs tojipa was received at tne
country, to th deep andyastlng shame
of our people, lynchings . carried on
under circumstances of inhuman cruel
ty and barbarity a cruelty - infinitely
worse than any that has ever been
committed by our troops in the Philip
pines; worse to the victims, and far
more brutalizing to 'those guilty of it.
The men who i fail to condemn these
lynchings, and yet clamor about what
has been done I In the Philippines, are
indeed guilty of neglecting the teajn in
their own eye , while taunting their
brother about the mote ,iri his. Under
stand me. These lynchings afford us no
excuse for failure to stop cruelty in the
Philippines. Every effort is being made,
and will be made,, to mininiiz3 the
chances of cruelty occurring.
But keep in mind that these crueltie
of the yarn spinners of North and
lower South Carolina. The object of
the meeting was to further confer
with Mr. F. L. Underwood, of New
York, and Mr. Leonard Paulson, of
that city, in regard to a merger of the
section, and the wonderful iron ana i
mineral deposits are being exploited as
never before. Pennsylvania has grown
enormously wealthy because of her
cOaly and' limestone, even though she
has; had to bring her iron ore from
yarn spinning industries of the South. Michigan and Minnesota. Massachu
Orie hundred and seventy-five thou-1 setts has waxed rich by reason of her
sand yarn spindles were represented textile factories, the raw product of
In the meeting, being over half of the which comes from the South. But ths
entire industry in that line in the
State.;.. -." " ;
Mr. Underwood was present and ex
plained his plan, which was the same
as that proposed at the recent meet
ing in Charlotte, to-wit: That 60 per
cent, of all the stock he merged into .
Southern States have" at hand the Iron
and coal, cotton and all useful material
which the hand of man can convert
Into value. This being the case, it Is
only a question of time until the trans
tiortation lines achieve a distinction
how Dossessed by the two
life
neace
Office "at 1 o'clock in the after-
. . i
death in battle, who poured out tneir
blood like water Iri order that the
miP-htv national structure raised by the
and was communicatea o jviu rar-seemg pauwuBm W-;,I J ha
all the members -or t tne Franklin, Marsnan, namuiuu auu.
other great leaaers oi iae "vu uu,
great f ramers of the v constitution,
should not crumble - into meaningless
ruins i
You. whom I address today and your
comrades who wore the blue beside you
in the perilous- years during which
strong, sad, patient Lincoln Dore . tae
miRhine load of national leadership,.
rches and by some congregations performed tht one feat the failure to
received with applause, in au perform :.r:;itH'
struction to every iuiu5
the name America a symbol of hope
among the nations of mankind.. ou
did the greatest and most "necessary
task which has ever fallen to the lot of
any men on this Western Hemisphere.
Nearly three centuries haye .passed
Since the waters oi our cwww "
nr( ann
net before it was given to tne
ic The Sunday evening cairn oi
London streets was broken by en-
Mastic , sing ing, snouting auu
iblowing. The clubs, hotels, pudiic
3es and the streets were: not tne
TiinPc . where the beonle were
fvolv rTpmnnstratincf their'iOV
J-t the Philippines have been wholly ex- one control, leaving 0 per cent, in great trunk - lines which
CeptlOnai ana nave ueei Buaineiesaijr
exaggerated. jWe deeply! and bitterly
rogret htat any, -such cruelty " should
have been committed, no matter how
rarely, no matter, under .what provoca
tion, by American troops! But they af-
or three
cover the;
thA hands nf the seDarate corpora- i northern States.
tions as at present, the object being The cities of the South are showing
to prevent the present irregular ana substantial gains. The. foreign traa
minonslv exnensive system in vogue
viv roa nn nf lank nf community of
mm m m , U,U W - W - .
effort: in reaching domestic and
for-
Ice'news was announced
The
in the
iraa
churches of London ) prayers oi
nksgiving were offered land special
mns were sung.
eace has been declared alter
arly. two years and eight montns
a war which tried the British Jm-
to its uttermost and; wiped the
fmm the list or nations, xne
f nrd far less iustification for a general P en markets. I There was not a vote
condemnation of our army than these given in opposition, to the plan, at
lynchings afford for the condemnation the executives meeting which was
of the communities in which they have held after Mr. Underwood had re
taken 'place. In each case it is well to tired, the decision being unanimously
condemn the deed, and It i3 well also to in favor of accepting his ; proposi-
refraih from including both guilty and tion.
innocent in the same sw teyxus
demnation. j " ' .
In every community there are people
who commit acts of well-nigh incon
ceivable horror; and baseness. If wo fix
our eyes only upon" those individuals
and upon their1 acts, and If we forget
the far more numerous citizens or up
right and honest life and blind our
thpir irmmtles? deeds of wis-
A resolution was also aaopteu im
the purpose of hurrying matters up
and a special committee of five,
Messrs. R. S. Reinhardt, of Lincoln
ton; W. C. Heath, of Monroe; W. L.
Holt, of Fayetteville ; D. F. Morrow,
of Rutherf ordton, and J.. S. Adams,
ffmtthfield: was appointed to ,1m1-
mediately visit alllthe yarn spinners
nnf rpnrftsentefl in me iucewue
and
9
ers
r has come
'to an end with Lord furrowed; by the
keels , of the
children were
men Is easy
.ttrnounTem
ria. that he.' Lord Milner and the herit this fair land; CK er a century a
ler delegates have sighed "terms
surrender." This announcement nau
en definitely forecasted in the Qis
tches, hut its. receipt Sunday after-
on took the nation by surprise,
erybody had confidently beiievea
lof umioo nfr commons wuuw
III LlllO it ... . .il
. . . - i l1 .T.nnrV f nllnWPfl tll9
a nan oi coiuuwj &.y :
settlement; and now forever a century
and a quarter we lave bea nation.
During our four generations i ot national-
life we have had to do many
tasks, and some of them of Jar-reach.
tmt imnortance: DUi iub umjr
0 tneir counuc uws - mot representeu w iuc uivv-0. -
dom and justice ana pmiamuruiijr, i, explain the pian oi mer6ei-"
enough. to condemn tne cum- their acceptance oi tne prupuaiuuxx.
is ( auu
which we could not thus condemn :i ww parceiied out the territory-vw
fixed our eyes purely upon its police themseives, each one taking thatf sec
record and refused to look at what it Uon nearest in reachThey will make
had accomplished for decency and jus- report to a subsequent meetingat
tice and charity. Yet thii is exactty the earliest date. Mr Underwood goes
jj wiiPTi n as been taken by Aito find will have a similar
too many menj with refsroncojocur meeting with that held j "
army in the Philippines; ana . men 0f lower soutn vjaruniia. .,
r oatrintr th Union.
crisis in which to nave guuc
fnS which to have
gone wrong
would have meant not
:uo".rZ fCCa tho one vou did, the task
kr the first news Monday. - inewi There were other
. - ' T0J 1 I yT C'J U I II K I 1113 11
the anticipation witn yvmvu.
htain awaited the promiseu.
ent in the House of Commons irora
r. Balfour, the governnient eawf
c em foT. bulled bv the follow-
g message from King Edward to his
iople, which was issued; aiieuiiv.
ght: "The King has received the
elcome news of the cessawtm
pstilities in South Airica .wiu
bite satisfaction and His
hists that peace may speedily be 101-,
wed by the restoration uj.
Brity in his new dominions, and that
ielings engendered by war will give
trt of His Majesty' South African
is
oft ituii a both absurd and crueliy un
oirnra! Irntinuer: and wnat
the object for which they conquer? To
establish a military 2-
The laws we aire now Rawing-to
enact for the government onus
Georgia representatives of the yarn
Industry. .
Peace Agreement Fixed.
nf Npw Orleans, for instance is now
9.43 per cent, larger than 1887; that of
Savannah , 97.5 per cent, larger. Mo
bile's commerce is 466 per cent, in ex
cess of the 1887 figures, while Newport
News shows an expansion of 377 per
cent, in the same time. The list might .
be swelled indefinitely, but the several
Illustrations v will sjiffice to prove the
great revival in .business which the
South is enjoying, he entries ' and.
clearances of Gulf vessels last .year
were about four and one-quarter mil
lions tons, each way, as against a lit
tle less than five millions of tons for
the lake district and three anji V one
third million tons for the Pacific dis
trict. With a commerce like this, to say
nothing of local and other trade,: the .
transportation interests of the South .:
have no reason to fear comparison with
those of any other section of this ceun
try The development of banking has
been in keeping with; Industrial prog-,
ress, but within the next few years the 1
number of large financial institutions
will probably be' increased materially-
i New Banks in the South. -
Baltimore Sun.
A large use, it appears, is being
made of the banking act of March 14.
1900, eipecially In the South and West.
The aggregate of new National banks
V I 1 I I H WW I I J M V 1 mm' - mm-mm - I A M mW V W TT1U - I W W. 1 I 1 U
merely disaster but anniniiau v- ----- increase the power ana -;vttu Tnver an hour. It ia
n,v ot nv other point atoueiucui, -1.1 hP. einense 01 muimna V. " v,
lw,.u w. a. w Tid vou Qomam uiu.w.. - - l1or generally accep tea
1 lie uiuitu; " -
t 1 - j .a4 4 OCQ' trrn fori
x r a Ma The British cahi- I nl . 11,1. amoii
1 ji 1 1 1 1 lull, uj 1 n mnor n4n. . iir LWiruiiiua. 010
' - -- w n-n wi 1 uuui m -
net, wnicn was
Thursday night, was In . session Friday
V V VA
however, that the
though brief, sufficed to put
siMil a - avA been made: but had you
1UU1U v " A... f .4 I TnM TI1111 La A Y .m- . ....nn
tolled- in the evn more difficult than In the past ne --ches 0nhe agreement
have heen irreparauxc, , . chance of oppression AUU ,1, terminate the war. u
trievable. Upon y. "; inower is used to secure peace, in oru . . ; cftrrotnrv Joseph Chamber-
an ta xutuic V --r-- . . that it may itseii uc uvv"". , . enfflcientiy recovereu
continent, anfl much of the future of Viot.Thewgr nhe StTatttad wtot telreadjr
!SS-cS rS r.pSUMuw
SS S divoUon for what ;they irrt,,7irronSibie military British high commissioner ier
Ajects, in promoting ,W 7 right, fought against you. f'eeonquer to bring Just and re- toria-: for-Johwmeas r-
"HorSng 'Edwards in- Ron sponseS government to., con- ..ePffiSto
e secured prior, to his coronationin- e0od by your valor and pa-
uenced the present we. --"X triotism the statesmanship of mcoin
robablv not be known until the .moun x 0f Grant, have set
ate memoirs o the presentregiu . standard for bur efforts In tne
re given to the; public, i future both the way yc
war was over you turned again to tne
Iityts. rtiinn has Dp.r.ented an mv
ttion to speak at the opening of
How nrisi m.,r Timn 19. AbOUt i-uv
To' Care For Confederate Hound.
woQh in Pton.l v SneciaL The : House
tions The question of the retention ot
arms has been settled In a manner fav-
banks" of less than ?5V,ouu capuai,
while 323 have $50,000 capital or over.
The small banks have an aggregate
capital of 116,959,000; the larger $36,
685,000. The - distributior of the small
hanks show that they supply a long
felt want in the South.- Of the 646 new
small banks, 160, , with $4,315,000 of ca
pital, are in the Southern States, not
including the 10 in Maryland, two in
Delaware, and 5 in Missouri. The West
has 175, the Pacific States 18,the Mid
dle States 197, the Eastern States 92,,
and New England only 4. Of the larg
er banks 12 are In New England, 91 in
the Eastern States, and 16 in the Paci
fic States. '
It will be noticed that the Southern
is prominent in both lists, having evi
dently an increased commercial activi
ty in keeping with its large industrial
Mm I . . m A. ' t. Mmm
..au t hA "Rners wnose conienxiou development in tne recent, years. au
111 O.U1C tV fc' 1 - . . ... -m-FT- A.
asmcuu . , : . jl. r,t-kL Uwf Wniuits of outlying lanns Southis to oe ciassea wun xne wesi-
"St.ZSZS. fn ich'when the Thursaay passcu a ld,e exP5sel to. danger. fromat-
mPTit anrt care oi , uomeuci aw j.uuuuu, . u. nf natives or wuu
SpeclalresWen na?e
Pfl an invi- L.nt VAnr examnle will stand as tne.
" - .; a ri11-
iUlU UUi
pen prominent In the Democratic
ave been invited. Among those eiye r
d are David' B. Hill; f ClUlam. J.
sryan, Senator Bacon, oi . w41"
lay or Patrick A Collins, of Boston;
ohn D. Milbum j of , Buffalo .i Richard
Hney, Dr. Felix Adler, Bourke VocK"
an, William C. Whitney, I ex-Mayors
vnn Wvck. Hew
itt, Cooper, Edson and Elyr and Lewis
Death of Prominent MM nan. ;
Macon, Ga., Special.-r-James : Hough
armerly manager of. the Manchester
otton Mills, and Tecently, appointed
anager ! of the Barnesville Manufac-
Pnng Company, died suddenly' Sun-
fay of acute indigestion. He fwas widely
Pn as an expert and was a man of
(veaith. He left a wife and ithree chil
dren. 1
rtaat , nf lessons to u
ftl1r rhlldrens'- children.
UiCU ouu w. .
In Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago. Mr.
Loud, of California, called attention to
the" fact that there were burled at Con-
Union soldiers
4,309
eJ uu: r. r ::;; rmv of the federate Mound! many
afot led hv men who served aild .4.309 Confederates and expressed
the irreat war, is carryr .. 0 1ninn that the bill Would be, the I iiHarv Confederate veterans
first! step in the direction of nattonai and pr0minent clpns ese"Lniere less for loanable funds?
beasts was held to be well , grounded.
Welcome to Lee.
t t -ri-m Ti am Sneclai: Oen. Fitzhugh
Lee was given a noisy welcome oahis
arrival here. A procession couswims
K not o?lr the. honorof tho
Ssry-Th.,
f2SMa uncomplainingly
championed the American cause in the
PWUppine Islands, , are your younger
hf others your sons. They have showv
themlelves not unworthy of you,;and
Sir are entitled to thesupportrf ail
men who are proud of what you did.
m? ... Jt.,mrpr fcomrades of yours
hnv fought under terrible difficulties
na'l - Reived terrible prorocaUon
fTm a Very cruel and.Tery. treacherous
ern 'and Missouri States as respects in
creased banking facilities; The figures
suggest an argument in favor of branch
banks, if it be assumed that the .latter
will average a emaller capital - thaa
150,000. i If reducing the required capi
talization to this sum increases - tho
number of banks by 160, what would
be: the demand for smaller banks, suit
able for small towns, ' with $25,000" or
for tho graves of the Confederate citrhaU here
care ior;ine gravBi:. w w-r -t- 'o then moved to Capi-
dead. But he made no objecUon. "rrk wherV Gen. Lee reviewed it.
i T oa silvers a memorial aa-
dress at the decorauon oi ymuu
32i
, Fir at Rockaway Beach.
Wow York. Special. May Kasten,
. , . j -r. ' T.vrlin McKrOW, J
. -m n n 11 , ivi i A.r - - m
years uiu, - - .- . ... . fi
the same age, lost tneir uv -
iPh Rwent away many Duuaings ui
p,vwflv Beach.-Thomas a McKrowi
and his five-year-old son, .FranK mar
TTanson. 28 and Morris-Kasten, To,
ininred and taken to a hospital In
Tjnne Island ; City. Several hours latex
young McKrow died and the father was
reported to be dying. )
diers graves.-
siiot His Wife and Himselt
Jasper; Fla.; Special.-JohnHigh.
who keepsa Doaru
luff Camoahy s woras, iu ""7
Ki with his wife, f hot er in
Vi. witn a nistol and vJien
.The merit of the desired brancn
bank is that" it can adapt its loans
readily to the varying local demands
for money, at the same; time, being
stronger and safer than - the averaga t
smanDanK. "ate names ana trust com
panies are numerous in the..Sputh and
seem to meet the wishes of the people
to a greater extent than in the west,
where the small National bank is most
in i favor. The new banks do not seen
to! value the privilege of issuing cur
rency, not using it to the extent that
the law allows. They wouia issue noiea
freely if it were very profitable to do
so as some politicians affirm but
won informed : nersons have long
Trnr Jn his left side.
ureu xuui L r-ri..ai QCft nf the
S'Sl tooW ttat the Profit Is almost Un
condition.
1 nary.