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THE RALEIGH
ENTERPRISE.
Thursday, November 16, 1905.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
An Independent Newspaper Pub
lished Every Thursday
BY
J. L. RAMSEY, Editor and Prop.,
Raleigh, N. C.
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ing, 331 Fayetteville Street.
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the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
TR ADE9 El COUNCIL
And now China is talking about
becoming a republic or something of
that sort.
Hold your cotton. A ten million
bale crop and a thirteen million bale
demand tells the situation.
Mr. Zeke Bilkins requests us to
say that all Thanksgiving turkeys
intended for him may be sent to Ra
leigh, care of the Enterprise.
A North Carolina merchant owns
the name of Weinstein. A toper
with a name like that would not be
satisfied with less than a glass of
weiu and a stien of beer.
The total value of all the taxable
property in North Carolina is $442,
400,700. Our two million population
has almost as much property as
John I). Rockefeller claims.
The Raleigh physicians threaten
to blacklist those who do not pay.
Some of the people threaten to black
list the physicians who charge $2.00
per visit, and there you are.
It is a dull day when a new life
insurance company is not organized
in North Carolina. There is a dis
position to manufacture our own in
surance as well as our cotton and
tobacco.
We do not especially admire W. R.
Hearst, of New York. But we are
anxious to learn when, how and why
he became an anarchist ? In fact,
some of the best men in the world
have been called names, but that is
a poor argument.
The Horning Post has suspended
and the Evening Times will fill out
all unexpired subscriptions, and has
leased the Post typesetting machines.
The Morning Post was a fair, clean
newspaper, and many regret that its
expenses were too heavy to continue
publication.
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The Weekly Tar Heel has appear
, ed at Greensboro. It is a neat pa
per, well edited, and contains a great
deal of readable matter. The Tar
Heel will represent Congressman
Blackburn and those who belong to
his wing of the Republican party,
and will be opposed to party stagna
tion and bossism,
NEW QUESTION ARISES.
It is hinted that a new question
will be submitted to the courts one of
these days, i. e., "Is the hind-quarter
of a beef a deadly weapon?"
We have no idea as to what the de
cision will be. Very likely the courts
will hold that it is a deadly weapon
while yet attached to a kicking cow,
but that it becomes an article of food
when detached from the cow -an in
animate thing.
On the other hand, if the learned
jurist has just gone through a series
of jaw-breaking performances with
a tough piece of steak, he may decide
against the beef.
HOLD YOUR COTTON.
President Jordan, of the Cotton
Growers' Association, is now advis
ing farmers to hold cotton for 15
cents since the Government report
estimates the crop at a little over
ten million bales, it being shorter
than the most conservative estima
tors first reported.
On top of this the speculators are
hammering futures down. But cot
ton will not stay down. Spot cotton
will eventually settle the whole mat
ter. Cotton they must have at any
price, and it is going much higher.
Storage facilities are to be found.
The People's Storage and Mercantile
Company of this city can take care of
a great deal of cotton at a small
cost, and will advance money on it
at reasonable rates.
ELECTION INFELICITIES.
The Baltimore Sun has a thought
ful editorial entitled "Infelicities of
Modern Ballot Systems."
We have heard it called a good
many things, but "infelicities" is
good, better, best. In some localities
it is called "cheating," "stealing the
election," "stuffing the ballot boxes,"
"repeating," etc. "Infelicities" cov
ers the case admirably.
But the trend of the Sun editorial
is that no satisfactory method of
voting has yet been devised, unless it
is the voting machine, which is too
expensive.
We do not believe that the prob
lem is insurmountable. One word
covers the case "honesty." If the
elections were conducted honestly
there would be no serious trouble in
getting and recording the verdict of
the voting population.
In many States the election laws
are notoriously dishonest, and no
party is free from stain. There are
many crooks and turns in the election
law in Maryland, many in that of
North Carolina, and they were put
there deliberately and intentionally.
Just sd long as the newspapers of
the dominant parties in the States
mentioned do not denounce and ex
pose the "infelicities," they will ex
ist. The same applies to all States
whose election laws are intended to
be unfair, no matter which party had
the Legislature when the law was
adopted.
Some of these laws are innocent
in appearance, and good men' may
have voted for them. But they can
be twisted easily when the time ar
rives. Public sentiment should .dis
courage all such trickery. But re
form must come from the stronger
party, as political prejudice generally
drowns any appeals that may come
from the minority. When we have
newspapers and politicians honest
enough to denounce trickery in their
own party we will have fairly con
ducted elections. The plan of cast
ing and counting the ballots has but
little to do with it so long as trick
ery is condoned.
The Catholics may not be all they
ought to be as a denomination ; most
denominations are built that way.
But Rev. Mr. Massee does not seem
to consider that the Catholic Church
is about as large as all the balance
put together, and that it is doing as
much in its way as all the balance of
them, taking the world over.
When John R. McLean bought a
controlling interest in the Washing
ton Post he failed to get the manag
ing editor. It is presumed that Mc
Lean replaced him with some fa
vorite. Now the ex-managing edi
tor has got up a paper to compete
with the Post and will make things
hum.
A Prolific Family.
Mr. Rufus Barbee, who resides at
Buie's Creek, in Harnett County,
North Carolina, was married to Miss
Adna Hudson in 1865 and their
union has been blessed with fourteen
children ten boys and four girls.
The oldest of whom is thirty-five
and the youngest sixteen years of
age. The average weight of these
is 170 pounds. Mr. Barbee is only
sixty-three and his wife fifty-seven
years of age. Both are in excellent
health, and their children have near
ly all attended college, and are liv
ing in several different States. The
boys of this union are doing well,
some of. them are farmers, some
business men, some teachers, and so
on, while the girls have married well
and are a blessing not only to their
parents, but to the world as well.
A Story With a Moral.
She was stylish and handsome, and
she was on her way to spend a week
end with her dearest friend on the
south shore of Long Island. There
was no parlor car on the train, so
she was forced to ride in the day
coach. She kept her own window
closed to protect herself from the
dust, but the man in front of her
had his open, and the cinders bother
ed her.
"Will you be kind enough to close
your window?" she asked.
"No, I will not," he replied brus
quely;;'' She was not accustomed to being
refused, and for a m oment was
stunned. Then rallying her sweet
est tones she explained that the cin
ders were not only ur pleasant but
dangerous to her eyes.
"Then you can change your seat,"
said the brute, hardly giving her a
glance.
There was no other desirable seat,
so she told the guard what the situa
tion was, and he promptly closed the
man's window. The man growled
and made himself as unpleasant as
possible for the ensuing hour.
When the young lady reached her
destination she was warmly greeted
by her hostess, who introduced to her
the man who had been her fellow
passenger. He had been invited over
to help make the week-end agreeable
for the hostess' dearest friend. New
York Sun.
Every new day expect new mercies
from the Lord. This is the proper
attitude of the Christian. Even those
things which do not appear to be
mercies will be found to be tokens of
God's goodness, for "all things work
together for good to them that loye
God." Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL
All friends of free government
should unite to advise and assist the
people of Russia. Dallas News.
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There is no war in Russia, but the
conditions resemble Gen Sherman's
"description of war." Peoples Pa
per. Our Audubon societies have now
succeeded in getting every sort of
bird pretty well protected except the
stork. New York Mail.
The Czar is handing out pardons
as freely as a candidate gives away
election cigars. And his object is
the same to win popular favor.
Dallas News.
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The Czar of Russia has stepped
aside and left the corpulent Witte
"on the lid," but it looks as though
the strain is about to lift him. Win
ston Republican.
Col. Henry Watterson calls Presi
dent Roosevelt a messiah of broth
erhood;" T. R. can regard this as a
conquest of the last of the Mohicians.
Houston Chronicle.
The way barriers between parties
were torn down yesterday must have
been a cheerful prospect to the mind
of those who advocate independence
in politics. Winston Journal.
It may be definitely announced
that George B. McClellan has been
scratched from the race for Gover
nor of New York f or next year or
any year. New York Press.
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Minneapolis is in the throes of a
great religious revival. That town
never does things by halves. It is
either phenomenally wicked or pre
posterously good. Duluth News.
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Goldwin Smith, to encourage mat
rimony, believes that two votes
should be given to every married
man ; now what has the woman suf
fragist to say to that? Houston
Chronicle.
The first person who sends us a
stale Thanksgiving joke, instead of
a Thanksgiving turkey, shall be sen
tenced to thirty days at hard labor
on the county roads. Weldon News.
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Mr. Jerome may be all right, but
we cannot understand how it is that
he can afford to spend fifty thousand
to get an office that will not pay one
third of that amount. Durham Her
ald.; : - V
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It is important not to forget that
the grafter is a grafter, first, last
and always, and that he calls him
self a Democrat or a Republican
merely as a matter of convenience.
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Doesn't it seem an age, and yet
in truth it was but a little while ago
when Chaunoey, the peacemaker,
came out of the Equitable's execu
tive session and smilingly announced
that it was "all settled." Puck.
" :-
By the act of the people in this
election the city and the State, af -,
ter nearly forty years of submission
to a degrading and humiliating
despotism, have been redeemed to
freedom and brought once more un
der the supremacy of righteousness.
Philadelphia North American.
The South has wandered forty
years through a wilderness of sec
tionalism for this vision of the prom
ised land of perfect nationality. It
has longed for some Messiah of pa
triotism and brotherhood to rise in
the North and to reach o it t it the
hand of equality, having a heart in
it. To Theodore Roosevelt this hap
py lot has fallen,- Louisville Courier-Journal.