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b. mmm a. a . . ot - boh oat . mmm t ssi a ssm rmmtmw a m mw muni mm. $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XIII. COUDMBUh, N. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1908 NO. 40., " gag: tniw.rtnucnv)C wall itiiwos. Subscription Price, iOOSEVELT IN SCORCHING WORDS HACKS THE LAW-DEFYING RICH isidsni in a Special llill cl Standard Oil to lirder, Fraud and Ballot-Box Stuffing. (' ! jmrnp in wnruo ht moo with non niiDuo PUTS AMDLlivj 11 OlUbllO 111 Isssrls Tint Ihissrapuloiis Sen oi Wealth Have Banded Ton-jliier lo khz Ills Wminislration and Bring About a BUOox Washington, D. C r-Never before, perhaps, in the history of the country has a President of the United States defended Ins policy in such impassioned language or made such a bitter attack on his enemies and predatory wealth in general as President Roosevelt does In a special message which he sent to both houses oi Congress. His message was ostensibly for the purpose of recommend ing legislation for the protection of the interests of the working man, but he makes it tle in$xument by which he. flays the Standard Oil Corporation and the big railroad and financial in terests ol the country who are opposing him because of his poli cies; places the fclame for the recent financial distress on a few men of great wealth, and plainly intimates that there is a con spiracy against him by the reactionaries of the country. He does not recede one jot from his determination to curb trust abuses and renews his recommendations for the enactment of legislation that will give the Federal Government supervision of the financial and physical operation of railroads and control. I of law-defying wealth. Tne President refer with very strong feeling to the attacks that he gays are being made on him through newspapers and public speakers con trolled by the Standard Oil Trust and other combinations and says the key note of these attacks upon his efforts to seeure honesty In business and politics is that tbey are unnatural and unwarranted, and business panic i3 the penalty. Like Plea of Gambler. Thf mr.rnlitv of each a plea, be say?, is precisely a great as if mad. on behalf of th3 men caught In a gambling establishment raided by the relic? aud msans that no effort should be made to prsvent a repetition of the Insurance, banking and railroad scan dals in New York, the Chicago and Alton deal, the successful effort by the Standard Ojl peoole to crush out every r ompetitor" and to establish a monopoly which treats the public with a contempt it deserves so long as it permits men of such principles to avow and act on them with im punity. Tho "business" which Is burt by the movement for honesty, the Pres ident says, is the kind which in the long run it pays the country to have hurt; the kind which has tended to make the name "high finance" a term of scandal to which all honest American men of business should join In putting an end. Tha opponents of the measures he champions, Mr. Roosevelt says, single out cow one and "now another for special attack, as if the movement he is engaged iu was purely economic. This is not so, he says, for it is funda mentally ?.n ethical movement and one which must be persevered in until the spirit which lies behind it sinks I deep into the heart and conscience of 11 wnoi3 people, liis purpose, ua : . is to eecwre national honesty 1 1 si and politics and equality tunity for all, and he will not ' s a from it by attacks on him. vs Will Be Enforced, iws, the President insists, future be administered as they at present, justice being with au even hand to great and i ill, ric'i and-poor, weak and ; ad he adds that there Bfcov no delay in supplementing no on the statute books . hs recommends. to the financial situation, ' t says there is a natural - to feel gloomy and fright l outlook, but he declares no justification for such -a aero is no nauuu u w , s or eucc?e3 as ours, ana rtainly succeed. r. ir.tnnnsiblo. He Says. sldent then disclaims any ty fcr the business dis- trees, a moi Admit due, h ana iii r gre ti or Vi I a' ? rf hAHavA ffir t thai any actions of the istration brought it on. It was e says, to the speculative folly tgrant dishonesty of a few men at wealth, who seek to shield thtnmlyej from the effect of their own wrongdoing by ascribing its re sults to the actions of those who have tried to pu!: a sioy to the wrongdoing. "2ut," cays ths President, "if it wej irue that to cnt out rottenness : je . - . I irom tee tody p otitis meant a mo mentary cheek to an unhealthy seem ing prosperity, I should not for a mo ment hesitate to put the knife to the corruption." He advoeates the immediate re-enactment ol the employers liability law, limiting its scope to interstate employment tpconform to the ruling of the Supreme Court; urges legisla tion providing for compensation by ine Government and employers gen erally to all employes for injuries, calls attention to the need of some Message Compares Crimes uLRju ni in tiny Jiianiij tbat tbey cannot afford to trust to anything but the spirit of Justice aad fair play. Mr. Roosevelt assails stock gam bling and the "cornering" of the mar ket. He says there Is no moral dif ference between gambling at cards, in lotteries, at the race tracks and gambling in the stock market. It Is just as pernicious and In degree the evil worked is far greater. President's New Platform. Roosevelt's platform, as he states it in this second message, fs as fol lows: "We seek to control law-defying wealth; in the first place to pre vent its doing dire evil to the Repub lic, and in the next place to avoid the vindictive and dreadful radicalism which, if left uncontrolled, it is cer tain in the end to arouse. "Sweeping attacks upon all prop erty, vipon all men of means, without regard to whether they do well or in. would sound the death knell of the Republic; and such attacks become inevitable if decent citizens permit those rich men whose lives are cor rupt and evil to dominer.in swollen pride, unchecked and unhindered, over the destinies of this country. "We act in no vindictive spirit and we are no respecter of persons. If a labor union does wrong we oppose it as firmly as we oppose a corpora tion which does wrong; and we stand equally stoutly for the rights of the man of wealth and for the rights of the wage worker. "We seek to protect the property of every man who act honestly, of every corporation that represents wealth honestly accumulated and honestly used. We seek to stop wrongdoing , and we desire to punish the wrongdoers only as far as it Is necessary to achieve this end." The Administration's aim. the President asserts, is to control law defying wealth, and ha asserts tbat corporations and men of great wealth have banded together to bring about a reaction from this policy, hiring writers to attempt to overthrow and discredit all who honestly administer the law. Flays Standard Oil. The Standard Oil Company and the Santa Fe Railroad he spssifically de nounces. With regard to the former he says: "The methods by which the Stand ard Oil people and those engaged in the other combinations of which I have spoken above have achieved great fortunes can only be justified by the advocacy cf a system of moral icy which would also justify every fQrm cf criminality on the-part of a nikn QVdi-v tn-.m r . -' j.r J M J 13UC3, corruption ana uauu, nom murder to bribery and ballot-box stuffing in politics." in advocating laws better -to secure control over great business concerns, especially great common carriers, Mr. RooseveU says .the Interstate Cora mere o Commission should be empow ered to pass upon any rate or practice on its own initiative, e?en to prohibit an advance in rate pending examina tion. He says the Federal GorerBment should exercise supervision over the financial operations of interstate rail roads, jnd must also assume a car ta.! a measure ot control over their 1 physical operations. He favors trafite associations. After ousting from Tincole, srttk 4 malice toward none, with charity for all: with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let as strive on to finish the work we are in," the President says: "In the work we of this generation are in, there is. thanks be to the Almighty, no danger of bloodshed and no use for the 1 sword," as "we strive to bring; the day when greed and trickery WARNER MILLER ASSIGNS Once a Political Leader and Fore most m Wood Pulp Industry, Former United States Senator, Kdge -of Ttfental Collapse, Re tires to Place of Rest. on "New York City. Broken in spirit and in body and on the verge, it is said, of mental collapse as a result of unfortunate mining speculations, for mer United States Senator Warner Miller, once a power in the wood pulp paper industry and prominent in poli ties made at the age of seventy a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Ernest L. Couant, a lawyer, of No. 34 Nassau street. Though living at Herkimer, N. Y., Mr. Miller's business headquarters was In this city, at No. 100 Broadway. Mr. MfTler's present whereabouts is not known, it is said, except to members of his family and a few per sonal friends. "'I cannot say where he is now,w said Mr. Conant. "Some days ago his family came to me, explained the financial difficulties he was in and asked me to take charge of his inter ests.,. After going over the situation I concluded to do so. I saw Mr. Mil ler here in this city, and he made an assignment of all his interests to me. He was unrepresented by counsel. I have never been his counsel. "He looked feeble and much wor ried and distressed. His folks said they were going to take him away somewhere to a quiet place where he could forget for a while all his busi ness cares. I do not think he is in a sanitarium. His folks believe that after a rest he wWl be able to take up his varied business affairs. I cannot as yet give any estimate of Mr. Miller's assets or liabilities, as no schedules have been prepared. I should say they were not likely to exceed $1,000,000 in any event. He was interested in a number of mining enterprises, but so far as I know, had no speculative Interests in Wall Street. He was probably caught, like ether men, in the recent financial stringency, and could not get enough money to go oh: with." Ex-Senator Miller's failure is un derstood to have been precipitated by the troubles that overtook the Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining Company on January IS. GIRLS BACK IN TENDERLOIN. Pittsburg Politicians Accused of Se cretly Promoting Vice. Pittsburg. Of the 10 0 young girls arrested in the Tenderloin district those who would not agree to reform, more than seventy-five, were released because the county workhouse is overcrowded. They returned to the. resorts. Mrs. Enoch Raub, noted for her Jewish reform work, said: "We know positively thatnien in high positions are silently abetting the things that they are publicly trying to eliminate. One man, blgh in political life, who holds a responsible political position, is living in auxury on the money he collects from these women. We have at last decided that the social. evil can never be eliminated in Pittsbyrg. " JAPAJSr"KESTRICTS EMIGRATION. To Conserve the Rights of Those Who Have Already Migrated. Tokio, Japan. Foreign Minister Viscount Hayashl announced in the Lower House that Japan has agreed to Te3trlct emigration to Canada, within" reasonable limits, but without surrendering any of her treaty rights nor her prestige. He added that the negotiations with America were con- "tinuing, and that a satisfactory set tlement was within sight. It was the duty of the Government to conserve the interests of Japanese subjects resident in other countries by pre venting -a further exoqVus, which might be prejudicial to thosa already residing abroad, and the restrictions therefore would be extremely rigid. "MILK W AR IN WISCONSIN. Situation ?car to Milwaukee Similar to Kentucky's Tobacco Region. Milwaukee, Wis. "If you sell an other can of milk to Milwaukee we will blow up your place the first good chance. Beware; we mean business." This "threat-is being posted all over the Waukesha milk producing dis trict in the war to make Milwaukee dealers pay an -advance df ten cents per eight gallon can. The situation is almost parallel to the Kentucky anti-trust tobacco war fare. Shippers are afrafd of their lives. A -number of them have writ ten to dealers in Milwaukee, express ing .fear cl poison and injury U they ship mill:. COX X)y 'TEN KlfiLS MOTHER. Lllrte UniTy Ksclaiai?. 4Tm Dcf.d- tvosil ii-k!'r Guir IJisoiifli-geo. Wt&t'burg, Pa. "Throw up our hands, mamma, I'm Deadwood Dick!" commanded ten-year-old Harry Mal ioy at the home his father in La trohe. Michael Malloy is a police man, and the feoy'Tiad his father's re volTer leveled at ner head. Before she could snize the weapon It "was discharged and the bullet en tered her stomach and she died with out regaining -consciousness. Tbe lad went into convulsions when told that his mother was dead, and nvnii If ha repnvors Ho will ho mon- Ginger Growing in Texas. Lock Don, the official Chinese In terpreter of the United States govern ment here, may have the distinction Of introducing into Texas a new plant which may open up a very profitable crop to -the people of Southwest Texas. About a year ago, while in Sap Francisco, Lock Don secured some Jamaica ginger plants and brought them to San Antonio and planted them in his yard. The plants gi'ew and flourished, and examination by experts in plant knowledge brings out the act that this section is ad mirably adapted for raising the plant. These facts were disclosed at a meeting of the Business Men's Club by Edward W. Knox, president of the State Horticultural Society, and Dr. David Griffith, assistant agriculturist of "Washington, D. C. The success in raising the ginger here will be communicated to Wash ington, in order that the Consul in China may secure cuttings from the roots to plant on the various govern ment demonstration farms In South west Texas. San Antonio dispatch to The Galveston News. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has been able to cure in alt its at ages, and that is Catarrh . HaU Oetarr h Cure is the nnlv positive cure now frnown to the medical fraternity. Catarrh beiag a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is take inter nally, acting directly upon the. btood and mu cosa surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing tbe foundation of the disease, sad giving t hp patient strength by building up the con stitution d assisting nature n dome its work. Th nMnrietom hare so much faith Sits curative powers that tbey offer One undred Dollars for any case that it fails to sure. Send for Hat of testimonials. Address F. J. Chkxzy & Co., Toledo, O. RoM tr Drnmpsta, 79c. Take Halt's Family Pills for constipation. In three years the gold circulation of the Bank of Japan has increased $5,000,000, the silver circulation $4, 000,000, while the note circulation has only increased by $8,600,000. The very -isest advice: take Garfield Tea whenever a laxative is indicated! Pleasant to the taste, simple, pure, mild, potent and health-giving. Made 'of Herbs not drugs. A man will remember the kiss he failed to get long after the others are forgotten. So. 6- '08. Piles Cured in O to 14 Days. Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleodin&m- Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money ref unded. 50c. A Little Hasty. Numerous complaints had come bo fore a certain public official in re gard to the Quality of food served to ihe inmates of one of the public in ititutions, and he determined to in vestigate for himself in order to see If the matter really required atten tion. Making his way to the particular aullding in question just about dinner itm ho walked straight ovef to where the kitchen was located. At the very door he encountered two muscular looking men carrying a huge, steaming boiler. "Put that kettle down," he ordered brusquely, and the men at once obey ed. "Get me a spoon," he next com manded. The man that brought the spoon was about to say something, but was ordered to keep silent. "Take off the lid," was the next command; "I'm going to taste It." The two men were utterly cawed by the official's brusqueaess and wen deringly watched him gulp down a good mouthful. "Do you mean to say that you call this soup?" the oflicial demanded. "Why, it tastes to me more like dirty water." "So it is, sir," replied one of the men, respectfully. "We were just scrubbing the floors, The cheapest things in the moun tains of North Carolina are sunshine and moonshine. PANTRY CLEANED A AVay Some People Hare. A doctor said: "Before marriage my wife observed in summer and country homes, com ing in touch with families of varied means, culture, tastes and discrimi nating tendencies, that the families using Postum seemed to average bet ter than those using coffee. "When 'we -were married two years ago, Pcstum was among our first order of groceries. We also put in some coffee and tea for guests, but after both had stood around the pan try about a year untouched, they were thrown away, and Postum used only. "Up to the age of 28 I had been accustomed to drink coffee as a rou tine habit and suffered constantly from indigestion and all its relative disorders. Since using Postum all the old complaints have completely left me and I sometimes wonder if I ever had them." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Real "The Road to Wellvllle." in pkgs. "There's a ra- EXTRA SESSION OVER. The State Legislature Adjourned, Sine Lie, Saturday. The compromise of Governor Glenn is now a law, the. House amendments to the Senate passenger rats bill hav ing been concurred in by the Senate without debats Saturday morning. The Legislature in extraordinary ses sion enacted several important laws beside the rate bill and the prohibi tion bill, and in addition to these a large number of local bills were passed for the benefit of many coun ties and towns. The House and Senate adjourned at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon by the Legislature clocks. There was good feeling and mutual congratula tion among the members, and all go home weli satisfied with what ha3 been accomplished. During the session 205 fculs and 10 resolutions were passed. The Governor transmitted to the Legislature a farewell message. The Famous Passenger Bate Bill. The bill as finally passed by both houses, provides for a 2 1-2 cent rate for passenger fare in this State and relies upon the railroad companies to fulfill their promises in letter to Gov. Glenn offering a 2 1-2 cent interstate rate of mUe&ge bookc of ,(K)0 miles to firms, heads of families and four other members at 2 cents; of 1,000 mile books at 2 centsa mile to indivi duals and of intrastate mileage books fo 500 miles at 2 32 cents, good foe the heads of families and dependent members not to exceed four. This bill is in harmony with -the rates of fered by Gov. Glenn to the railroads which fought the 2 1-4 cent rate, ex cept that reference is made to an ad justment of the rate in January, 1908, by the corporation commission if the rate is found confiscatory or exces sive, a provision which the railroads have agreed to forego. TH6 general State election on the prohibition ' question, as provided in the prohibition bill, will occur on May 26th. " PORTUGAL JULER SLAIN Carlos I and the Crown Prince Shot to eath While Seated in the Boya! Carriage at Lisbon by a Band of Men Who Fired a Volley From Carbines. . Lisbon, By Cable. King Carlos, of Portugal, and the Crown Prince, Luiz Philippe, were assassinated Saturday and the city is in a state of uproar. The King's second Son, the Infanta Manuel, was slightly wounded, but -Queen Amelie, who strove to save the Crown Prince's life by throwing her self upon him, was unhurt. A band of men, waiting at the cor ner, suddenly sprang v toward the open carriage, in which the family were driving to the palace and level ing carbines which they had conceal ed upon them, fired. The King and the Crown Prince, upon whom the at tack was directed, were each shot three times and they lived only long enough to be carried to the marine arsenal, nearby, where they expired. The royal family were returning 6K 4 PEMT-IS ALL IT WILL GOST YOB I IT Bl to write for our big FKEE BICYCLE catalogue Uall showing the most complete line of high-grada mm m BICYfLES TIKES and SUNDRIES at F RICES I BELOW any other manufacturer or dealer in the world. mm vm Kn OTk arm mtmb Tr" bimA nf ip-rms logues illustrating and bicycles, oia patterns ana PKICEs and wonderful new oners maae possiDie oy selling irom iacioiy direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHIP ON APPROVAL without a cent deposit', Pay the Freight and allow 10 Days Free Trial and make other liberal terms which no other house in the world will do. Yotf will learn everything and get much valu able information by simply writing us a postal. We need a Rides' Ag&nt in every town and can offer an opportunity, to make money to suitable young men who apply at once. I WIS JO pyHOTySE 0O ticiJU per pair ro introduce f0 Will SQU NAILS. UCKS You a Sam&SG Pain fop Only OR GLASS WONT LET CUT THE AIR (CASH WITH ORDER $4.55) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. "Result of is vears experience m tire making. No danger from THORNS. TUS. PlNS.'NAIL.S, TAtliS or ULA Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Two Hundred Thousand pairs now in actual use. Over Swentv-five Thousand pairs sold last year, e DESCRIPTIONS Made in all sizes. It is with a special quality of rubber, which never -iLirTtr thair to escane. We have .... . 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If you order a pair of reTvUl'fialrrnUc, run L l fiuer than env lire ycu have ever used or seeu at any price, itaww that you will be so St when you want a bicycle vou will give us tout order. We want you to senfl itts-lW order at hence Je wheeta taddi pu, narts and repairs, an COASTER" BR AMELSm everything in the bicycle line are sold by us at half the usual pchargedbylerem Wriorour bDET caUgn DO NOT WA8T, Fj&T&v trim yirMAmm wSderful Offers we are making. It onlyts a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. from Villa Vicose, where they Iu been .sojourning and were on the way from the railroad station to tl palace. The cold-blooded murder has sent thrill of horror throughout the try. At thelirst blush it would seem though the assassination was wTork of anarchists. Nevertheless, the stirring events, of the past few weeks has prepared the people fog some startling culmination. The dis covery of plot after plot, as well as the discovery of many secret stories of weapons and ammunition, had de monstrated the existence of a deter mination on the part of a large body of the Portugese to overthrow the present condition and proclaim a republic-; Premier Franco, the dictator of the Kingdom, hastened to the palace, pro tected by a squadron of cavalrymen, and there he conferred with tho Queen and high officials of State ob what immediate action should be tak en. 'It is Understood that Queen Ame lie wil1)e regent during the minor ity -48ir Prince anuel, who is now inv his 19th year. The only striking sequence to tke tragedy Was the complete and bewii- ! dering silence in which Lisbon is eft- wrapped. PROFESSIONAL CAB DRIVER. Frau von Papp is the first woman fo qualify as a motor cab driver i& Berlin. She passed a severe poHcw .est and will wear the regulation brae aniform and white peaked cap worm by the men motor cab drivers in Ber lin. Frau von Papp is the daugbier tf a Hungarian nobleman and widow of a large land owner. thing more than a year ago she with financial reverses that swept iway her large property. With children to care for and educate began to cast about for a means to earn a living, and turned her knowl edge and fondness for motoring to ccount.-fNew York Sun: Necessity Country Home. A The farther you are removed from town to railroad station, the more the telephone will save in time and horse flesh. No man has a right to compel one of the family to lie in agony for hours while hel anves to town lor the doctor. I el- ephone and save half the suffering:. Our Free Book tells how to or-j ganize, build and operate tele-I phone lines and systems. Instruments sold on thirty days trial to responsible parties. 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