Enterpr:
VOL. II.
RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1905.
NO. 20
BILKINS IN PHILADELPHIA.
things Became Too Exciting in Balti
more for the Jlajor Congratulates
the President and Tells How He
fladd Peace-Facts About the City
of Brotherly Love Sketch of Ben
Franklin and His Newspaper Career.
Philadelfy, Aug. 30.
Correspondence of the Enterprise.
I hed ter leave Baltimore an' cum
up here. Az soon az they found that
M stranger wuz in- town they Cdm
ineuefcd seildin' fer me ter" go eround
among the airishtockrosy an' Idok at
the hairlooms an' other ole junk; That
scion made me tired an' I esdaped on
a nite train. Two or three ole rwides
wanted me ter elope with them, awl
so; That made me strike a faster
trot. Ever .sinse a widdofwer frum
North Carolina cum ter Baltimore
an' advertized fer a wife, they think
everybody frum North Carolina air
dyin' ter git married. I hev hed thet
dizecze once an' I don't want a re-v-
lapse.
I hev jist writ a letter ter Preser
dilit Roosevelt at Oyster Bay con-gratuiatin';.Mm:ferVmUkiilvpeee6:b-:
twixt Rushy an' Japan an' telliri' him
ter send me a baskit ov oysters ter
New York. I hain't seed a oyster
sinse I cum up here.
I knowed in my mind that Preser
dint Roosevelt would make them fel
lers kiss an' make tip. I predicated
, hit in my last letter. .When they iz
a bear etfolind RoOSevelt Iz a; strong
team; The Rushyan tear iz a whtfp
her an' hiz hide iz purty tuff. The
Freserdeht tole the Japs that they
only hed the Rushyan bear crippled
an' that hit mite be a long chase ait'
cost hundreds of millyuns. That
made the Japs sorter scratch their
heds. Then he tuk the Rushyans off
ter one side an' tole them that he
hed bin huntin' bears awl hiz life, an'
while he hed knowed sum ov 'em ter
git mity old, they generally got shot
sooner or later". That made the
Rushyans sorter oneasy. Theil he
tillygraphed the Emperor ov Japan
that the Rushyans wuz whipped ail'
wuz skared so bad that the Zarr wuz
trimblin' an' couldn't git hiz hand
in hiz pocket ter pay the indemnity.
"Be generous," sed the Preserdent."
"Maybe you kin make him pay if you
stick ter hit long eiiuff, but you will
be bigger in" the eyes ov the wurld if
you will give the Rushyans your
hand an' help them up an' say ter
them that you will say no more er
bout indemnity an' they kin go an'
sin no more."
An' the Japs thought hit would be
a gude joke an' did jist like he tole
them. But the Rushyans will take
- off their' hats ter Japan before they
will start another row.
I wuz erbout ter fergit my subject
while I wuz talkin' erbout peece.
Philadelfy, the biggest town in
Pennsylvany, iz lokated on the Skool
kill River, an' iz the biggest town
I've seed since I left home.
The town wuz first settled by the
Quakers. Most of the Quaker oats
sold in this country air razed in
. Philadelfy by the Quakers. The bal
ance ov the peeple who air not
Quakers air ingaged in sowin' wild
oats. I am shocked every time I
think ov Philadelfy.
PHlndelfy hez long claimed ter be
the birth-place ov liberty, an' they
hey a Hall ov Independonse an' an
ole 'cracked bell called Liberty Bell.
But everybody knows that the first
decklarashun ov independence wuz at
Chdrlotte. Hit wuZ Called the
"Mecklenburg Deekiarashun." ; Phil
adelfy didn't thliik ov hit until -they
red erbout whut hed bin done dowri
at Gliaflo'tte dn' then they hed ter
wate till the Spirit moved. The
Revolushunary War wuz half over be
fore eny move wuz made in Philadel
fy, an' then mity few ov them went
ter the war. Philadelfy wuz a slow
town in them days. They tell me
that hit kin make a mile in 2:04 now.
Philadelfy hez a gude many fack
tofies. But the main prodticks iz
graft xin' reform administrashuns.
Hit iz mlty lldfd tef tell one frum
the other, they say.
Phijadelfy wuz the home ov Ben
Franklin whb diskivefed lightnin' an'
started the first newspaper. Ben car
ried the, paper to all his subscribers,
there being rio postoffis in them days.
Insted ov publishin' the news before
hit happened az they do nowadays.
Ben allers wated till everybody hed
f ergot erbout hit an' then printed
hit in hiz paper. In that way he
Saved the peeple frum heart-burnings.
He never printed a death till
awl civ the relatives ov the deceased
died, and that plan wuz very popular.
Ben started whut iz sailed a news
paper scoop by. publishm d special
edition givin' full perticklers ov the
flood. Nobody in Philadelfy hed
herd ov hit, an' he sold eight new
papers that year.
As ever, ZEKE BILKINS.
rtust keep Off Blackburn In "De Ate."
Tuesday morning at the breakfast
table at the Wilkesboro Hotel the
representative of the Union Repub
lican made the statement that he re
garded Congressman Blackburn as a
"rascal." The undue attack on the
Congressman in his absence was duly
resented and it was only through
apologies that his mug escaped de
molishment. The first man to resent
the attack! was George Woodie, a
Democrat of Alleghany County.
Those who had subscribed for the
paper cancelled their subscriptions
and others who had long been sub
scribers had their subscriptions dis
continued on account of the attack
on Congressman Blackburn. The
Republican will doubtless learn that
its representatives had better leave
off their abuse of our Congressman
when they come into the Eighth Dis
trict. Such statements may go in
the Fifth District where they had
rather fight Republicans than Demo
crats, but it won't go in "de ate."
North Wilkesboro Journal,
They Should Not.
The bachelor editor of the Raleigh
Enterprise has lots of bright no
tions about things. He says : "A
couple, each . seventy-five years old,
have just married in Wayne County.
Parents should not permit such mar
riages." Marshville Our Home.
After the Federal Government has
stamped out yellow fever in Louisi
ana the Gbvernor of that State and
the Governor of Mississippi might
meet and settle their feud by dis
cussing State rights as applied to
quarantine. They would thus thor
ouffhly vindicate their courage,
Dallas News.
PEACE DECLARED.
End Came Tuesday Japan Gave Up
Idea of Direct Indemnity at Last
Moment Some Dissatisfaction,
But it is Better for Both Countries
and for the World.
Portsmouth, N,. If., Aug. 29.
Peace between Japan and Russia is
now a certainty. Every matter of
principle has been determined and
all that remains is the arrangement
of details. Suddenly, almost unex
pectedly, the envoys of the Czar and
envoys of the Mikado, who have been
engaged for three weeks in an at
tempt to reach an agreement upon
the differences that stood in the way
of a discontinuance of hostilities.
came into accord this morning and
announced to the world that the
Portsmouth conference was to have
a successful outcome. Here is the
announcement J
"In the session of the morning of
August 20th the conference arrived
at a complete accord on all ques
tions. It was decided to proceed to
the elaboration of the treaty. The
conference adjourned until 3 o'clock
in the afternoon."
It was the Japanese who made pos
sible the happy understanding reach
ed to-day. Opinion in Portsmouth
differs as to the propriety or the wis
dom of their action, but the fact re
mains that had if it not been for the
conciliatory spirit manifested by the
representatives' of the Tokio govern
ment the war would have gone on and
thousands of lives would have been
sacrificed.
By the terms of the agreement
reached to-day Russia will not pay a
cent of indemnity to her victorious
enemy. She will lose half of the isl
and of Saghalicn, now held by the
Japanese forces, but will receive
back the other half without compen
sating Japan. The actual cost to
which Japan was put in caring for
C5,00) Russian soldiers and sailors
captured in action will be paid by
Russia in accordance with the terms
of The Hague convention. This,
however, will not be tribute moruy
and its payment casts no stigma on
Russian honor. In other words,
Russia will pay nothing except prop
er expenses, and will give to Japan
part of the Czar's territory acquired
by conquest by the Japanese in the
war now brought to an end. An
armistice is to be arranged immedi
ately. There will be no more fight
ing. :.
Both sides have displayed a deter
mination to split upon certain ques
tions rather than give in indemnity,
the Island of Sakhalien and the in
terned warships being the rocks u p
oil which the shin of peace was likely
to be wrecked. Both countries were
evidently willing to sacrifice more
lives and waste more money rather"
than give an inch.
At the last moment President
Roosevelt stepped into the pit. He
got into communication with both
governments and weighed the argu
ments of each. His judgment was
valued bv the Czar, but not with the
same friendliness and confidence dis
played by the Japanese. But we fin
ally secured the settlement on more
advantageous terms than to continue
he wrt. Japan desired the Island of
Snkrhplien because it had been taken
from her by force rnany years ago
She wanted indemnity. She gets
but little in the settlement, but still
she comes out with practically every
thing she went to war forwhile Rus
sia loses all she went to war for.
Indemnity, Sak ah alien and interned
warships were not an issue when the
war started, but are mere incidentals
growing out of the war.
No doubt the shrewd Japanese ad
visors were aware of all this, but
they thought they were entitled to
the spoils of war and were not will
ing to give them up. And that was
where President Roosevelt drove in
the wedge of wisdom. He told the
Japanese that they had gotten all
they were after and that it would be
well to leave off the extras that'",
peace without indemnity was better
than continued war with indemnity,
even if victorious in the future. Th?
Japanese, in their usual business
like manner, when their minds are
made up, not only gave up every
point of contention, but even more
than the Russians hoped for, and
this will make for continued peace.
To the Japanese it was a case of
"a bird in hand is worth two in the
bush."
An armistice will now be declared
and all fighting will he discontinued.
The peace terms will be put in shape
as early as possible and will be sign
ed by both sides.
As near as can be estimated, leav
ing out many details, the settlement
will be on about the following basis :
(1) Russia recognizes Japanese
preponderance 'in Korea, with the
rieht to preserve order and to give
military and financial advice to the
Emperor but to maintain the open
door policy and to observe the terri
torial integrity of Korea.
(2) Mutual evacuation of Man
churia. (3) Japan is to restore Chinese
sovereignty in Manchuria, including
civil administration.
(4) Mutual obligations to respect
in the future the territorial integ
rity and "administrative entity" of
China and Manchuria, with equal
opportunity. The open door for the
industry and commerce of all. na
tions. (5) Russia to retain the northern
rart of Sakhalien Island and Japan
the southern part.
(G) Russia surrenders to Japan
its lease of the Liatung Peninsula,
including Port Arthur. Dalny and
Blonde and Elliott Islands.
(7) The surrender to China of the
railway from Harbin to Port Arthur
and Niuchwang. with the surrender
of all privileges obtained under the
concession of 1808.
(8) Limitincr the concession of
1896, under which the cut-off road
through northern Manchuria was
built to connect the Trans-Siberian
and ITssuri line, but providing for
the ownership and operation of the
road by the Chinese Eastern, and
providing further for hf substitu
tion in te future of Chinese im
perial police for Russian railway
guards.
f Rmsn to nav about $30.000.
000 for feeding Russian prisoners of
war and for othor char0,05!, which
debts can he limiidated without loss
of nnfionql bir or eoK-rsnot.
(10 Seio fisher rVhs to citi
zens r .Tnrvor) in motors of tho Rus
sian litor! from Vladivostock to the
Bering Sea.