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2 THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. Thursday, March 30, 1905. THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. An Independent Newspaper Pub lished Every Thursday : BY '. ' ' ' J. L. RAMSEY, Editor and Prop., Raleigh, N. C. Office of publication, Law Build ing, 331 Fayetteville Street. Subscription Price : One Year, in advance, $1.00. A blue X mark on your paper shows that your subscription has ex pired, and is an invitation to renew. Remit by registered letter, money order or check. If renewal is not received within a week, paper will stop. ; Entered as fecund-class matter May 12 1904, at tbe postoffloe at Rale'gh. n. C, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. TRADE3iyiHg!lcOUNcjL Charlotte is falling behind. John D. Rockefeller and Andy Carnegie both passed through Raleigh rc- cently. ' . . It is said that Richmond capital ists are behind a move to put all the ice plants in the South in a trust. They may find it a big job to freeze us out in the summer. The esteemed Durham Herald can not understand "what Raleigh wants with both water works and a dispen sary." When bath tubs are intro duced in Durham the Herald will catch on. We do not pretend to know much about farming, but we do know that no farmer can afford to raise cotton or tobacco at any price and buy hay at $20 per ton. There is not a farm in North Carolina, large or small, that will not produce clover, millet, crab grass, peavine, or some kind of hay, provided an effort is made to grow it. The Thomasville Times reports "the third attempt" to burn a barn in that vicinity and says the "two former attempts were both success ful," while the third attempt "was unsuccessful." No doubt the Times means well. But we are anxious to know what an incendiary means by setting fire to a barn that has been burned "twice since allretty." A NEW EMANCIPATION. Mr. C. M. Bernard, the well-known lawyer of this city, was one of the speakers at the recent Tar Heel Club banquet in Greensboro. His speech ar.nears elsewhere in this paper. The subject was a good one, and it would be a difficult matter to crowd more sense and truth into a five minutes sneech on any question. And the words were weir chosen. Af ter the emancipation of the black man came, the emancipation of the white man,?;and it is e till going on. It is all right 'to be the descendant o worthy sires, yel; that alone does not count today in North Carolina. The working man in any capacity, pro vided he uses his brain along with his hands, is the man who is helping to steer the ship of state out of the muddy, stagnant lake into the deep, clear stream of progress in North Carolina. BEWARE OF RUMORS. For some time rumors to the ef fect that the cotton growers are hot standing up to agreements ba,ve been floating around. It is said here that farmers in Texas and elsewhere are selling cotton by the hundreds of th usands of bales. In every in stance the scene of the selling has been placed far from where the ru mor is set afloat. In the past few days we have met a number of farmers who are holding cotton and who are reducing acreage. They are uneasy the rumors have had the desired effect to dissatisfy and discourage them. They feel that they are under no obligation to continue any concert of action, have partly lost faith in the scheme. So far as we know or can learn, the rumors are without foundation. The reports of "receipts" of cotton at various markets are doctored. The sale of cotton has not stopped entire ly anywhere. But we do not believe that the sales have been one-tenth as large as they would have been un der normal conditions. During Jan uary and February the sales were ex tremely small. During the present month there has been a slight in crease in number of bales sold, a number of farmers selling a small percentage of the crop on hand. Yet this was done openly, and, in most cases by men who are loyal, but who needed a little money. We think they should have stored the cotton and gotten the regular advance of about 5 cents per pound. But some of them could not see it that way. Some people imagine that 25 cents per bale per month is "eat ing up" their cotton. Cotton has ad vanced enough in three months to pay storage more than a year. Victory is in sight and we trust that the "don't sell" and "reduce acreage" plans will be carried out. It means much in the future as well as during this year. SOttE QUICK WORK. President Roosevelt carried every Northern and Western State last fall and made large gains in most of the Southern States. The gains would have been larger but for the contin uous tirade asrainst the President on the race question. After the election it was given out that the President would pursue a policy calculated to win over the op position in the South. It is appa rent that he has done so. He said many nice things about the Southern people and promised that he would be President of the whole country. However, fine words and promises were rather slow in bringing about anything like rapid assimulation, though they were surely doing the work. The climax came when the President appointed a prominent Alabama Democrat Judge, and inti mated that there was more to come. Instantly the tone of the press was reversed and many would-be office holders began to smile. At last the remedy had been found that would cure all sectional and partisan ills. "Great man," they said. "I was against him, but it was merely be cause he didn't belong to my party," etc., etc. Those who didn't care to come out and openly praise the Pres ident have been discreetly quiet. If Mr. Roosevelt could only have made such an announcement before the election what a difference it would have made in the vote in the South? My! but they would have voted fQr him. Hope of office hath charms that will soothe the most savage political breast. LONG RANOE FORECASTING. If there is anything that Chicago professors can't think of, we can't think what it is. The latest is a lecture by Prof. Samuel Williston, Professor of Pa leontology, whatever that is, at the University of Chicago. He says that in three million years the earth will be "dominated by birds instead of men." "It will only be a natural course of events that will ultimately drive man from the dominant sphere on earth," said Prof. Williston. "First came the fishes. They were dominant for a while, and had to give way to the amphibians. Then came the reptiles, and soon they yielded to the mam mals. Now the mammals are weak ening, and the newest class, the birds, is growing to prominence, and in time, I sincerely believe, will be the dominant inhabitants of the earth." As he puts it off about three mil lion years none of us will be able to throw it up to him if his prediction doesn't pan out, which shows that he is a smooth artist. Still, there is something in it. We have quite a number of "birds" now in human form all sorts of birds. The late legislature was full of "birds." The Audubon Society ought to get in communication with Dr. Willis ton and strengthen its cause very much. nuslngs of an Old Maid. BY AN OLD BATCHELOR. The women who marries a dude need not be surprised if it becomes necessary to take a few boarders. Some man has said that women are weak. They give evidence of more strength than men every day in the year. One half of my sex is wearing out their ,lives trying to produce freckles and the other half trying to get rid of them. All old maids detest single blessed ness, yet most of them consider themselves lucky. Every truthful man is bound to admit that pretty feathers make a pretty bird. But they will make fun of our efforts to look pretty. Questions of Location. Here is a new Mark Twain story, or, rather, an old one, recently come to light: Some years ago the famous humor ist asked a neighbor if he might read a set of his books. The neighbor replied ungraciously that he was welcome to read them in his library, but he had a rule never to let a book leave the house. Some weeks later the same neighbor sent over to ask for the loan of his lawn mower. , "I shall be very glad to loan you my lawn mower," said Mark Twain, "but since I made it a rule never to let it leave my lawn, you will be obliged to use it here." The Tobacco Trust has no need to worry. Until the Beef Trust is made to toe the mark it may rest perfectly easy.- Concord Patriot. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Spring is here. Editor Clark, of the Statesville Landmark, reports the first song of the whippoorwill in that section Monday. Winston Republi can. . 1 . , : Russia has decided to continue the war to the bitter end. There's no denying the fact that the end promi ses to be bitter enough. Rochester Herald. , Mr. Roosevelt finds consolation in the fact that the advice and consent of the Senate are not needed for him to go and hunt bears. Pittsburg Dis patch. It may have been an extreme move on the part of the Southern, still if it settles it for good and alwavs we are willing to overlook it. Durham Herald. Premiem Balfour's discovery that prolonged debates impede public bus iness indicates a close study of the United States Senate. Pittsburg Dispatch. Coal is to be reduced fifty cents a ton the first of April. The Ice Trust will take care to keep the household er from pocketing the difference Durham Sun. G rover Cleveland says that "Cor telyou is all right." Grover cannot have read some of the passionate speeches made by Alton B, Parker last fall. Chicago News. ' , The legislature created and ap pointed about 1,000 new officers. The pets must have jobs if it is only a tune and they have to whistle it themselves Hickory Mercury. : Tennessee's election of a successor to Senator Bate sets an example in speed, at least, that might be imitated in Colorado and Missouri. Pitts burg Dispatch. If the trusts and the land grabbers ever get a virtuous streak the Gov ernment conscience fund will be big enough to fill the deficit hole in the Treasury. Baltimore Sun. . y Perhaps that American girl who is "touring Europe with a pet pig sit ting beside her in her motor car" merely wants to show that she is not ashamed of the origin of her father's wealth. Milwaukee Sentinel. The way Russia keeps the Baltic fleet hanging around in the Indian Ocean, neither sending it to the front nor calling it home, reminds one of a poker player fumbling his last dol lar and trying to decide whether to risk it or put it back in his pocket. Topeka Herald. '' -Four members of the California State Senate were lately expelled, charged with having received bribes. "Bribes" is an inconvenient word. They should have been "entertain ed." Then they might have kept their seats. Puck. There are rumors that Japan is willing to make peace on terms which include from $500,000,000 to $750, 000,000 indemnity. Possibly the Mikado will consent to cut down the figures a little, but; from present ap pearances it does not appear likely that he will offer bargain-counter rates. Troy Times. . Mr. Admiral Rojestvensky, the commander of . the Russian fleet, is having a better time than anybody. He has nothing to do except to sail the ocean blue and keep his govern ment guessing where he is at. All reports that he is hunting for the Japanese navy are contradicted. Charlotte Observer, .
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