The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-02-02
OUR OPINIONS.
POLITICS, RELIGION, EDUCA.
TION, EVENTS, MEN,.
What we Think of These, and How we
Hold Safe Diversity of Opinion
About Everything.


What we Think of These, and How we
Hold Safe Diversity of Opinion
About Everything.
THE DUDE: The Yadkinville dude was
IN town few days ago. We thought he
| looked rather pukey.-NockscaUe 1tnses.
COLLARDs: The cold weather has killed
to the ground the collards in the garde ns
| in this section, and greens will be gree rs
this spring. Goldsboro Bulletin (Dem)
THE LIEN LAW: 1t is earnestly to be
hoped that our next Legislature will re-
peal or greatly alter the lien law 1t is
| working rreparable injury to our people
It is destroying both the farmer, laborer
/ and merchant Warrenton Gazette Dem }
PROHIBITION General Vance has had
his little say on the prohibition question
!, in Congress. 1t is q little humiiating that
our Representatives carry their fanaticism
and narrow views and prejudices into
! Congress, but it becomes insutferable
when they attempt to force these upon
the country, and upon a large majority Of
the American people. Salisbury Erami-
ner.
The VAGRANT LAW: The vagrant
law in North Carolina is dead letter. In
this land OF liberty every man who
| chooses, may marry some woman and
then spend his time loafing, drinking.
gambling and getting his own bread, with
out any provision for his wife and chill
dren) without applying himself to any
useful occupation. as the disre garded law
vainly requires. Caroliniun.
The SABBATH The Statesvlle Anaer-
icdn (Rep.) says Of Judge Graves's refu-
sal to hear the verdict of jury on Sum
| day morning: In this we think the Judge
allowed his prejudices, or rather his hyper
| Soh fn
shadow his better judgment in giving to
the day an authority and Importance not
| contemplated in its observance. The
conservative people of North Carolina will
hardly agree with the american.
| POLITICS We suggest, then, the name
of Judge John A. Gilmer, Of Gulfor9, for
the nomination for Governor. If there is
a man in the State who is sans puer ct sans
reproche it is Judge Gilmer.-Lincolnton
| Press.
Hon. A. NJ. Scales seems to be the au-
| ticipated Governor of North Carolina.
| He is an excellent man. We have known
| him from our bOyhOod, and can bear testi-
| mOny to his virtues that have shone un-
dimmed in all the walks of life. He would
adorn any place within the gift Of the
people.-Pntstoro Home.
! SOUTHERN WOMEN: While on the cars
! the other day we met an intelligent North
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| the South, and he said in substance that
while the gentlemen would receive North
| erners with open and outstretched hand Of
| cOrdiality, and shower upon them those
! comforting beams of hospitality which
| stream 80 delightfully."- from Southern
! skies, he had almost invariably found that
| the ladies, though polite and elegant in
bearing, were cold and distant, and
seemed to nurse well-hugged aversion to
| all Northern gentlemen.-W Wilson Mirror.
THE DAVIDSON COLLEGE AFFAIR In
the Obser0er of the 23d inst. Dr. Hepburn
| lays bare the scurvy and mendacous effort
| of the irrepressble crank; but we think it
in bad taste from him.-Sdlsbury Eransi-
! ner.
| We certainly wish the noble institution
| of Davidson College no harm, and candidly
more damaging than the disgraceful con-
! duct OF the unruly students. Waco Chr07a-
icle.
| But for a college president, away off
in Florida at the time, to attempt to dis
credit, much less impugn, the motives of
| half score of ministers, strikes us as alb
surd. Sectariansm is the curse Of Church
| and State in the South, and a more fOrci-
| bic demonstration OF its baneful influences
we hope never to see again in n Orth Caro-
! lina.- Winston Republican.
EDUCATION The Statesvlle american
Repo keeps up q vigorous and continuous
| plea for National aid in education.
"A glaring defect in the school room
work OF our teachers is their slavish con-
| formity to their t, xt books.-PiHsboro
Home.
We refer to this matter simply for the
purpose Of illustrating the folly of cram
ming children at school. A thorough ed
| ucation can best be secured gradually, and
in a systematic manner. The child must
| be gradually prepared, and nothing is
more injurious to children than the gal
| Looping system" in some of our schools -
| Goldsboro Messenger.
TARIFF: Two or three months ago we
heard nothing but tariff reform from the
| long winded claquers of the Bourbon
| bosses. But the cry has been changed,
and we are now told that the reform will
| be of a very mild sort, if indeed there is
any at all. This is just what expected
and predicted Salisbury Examiner (Iep.)
! The South is now beginning to ex-
perience, in the increased number of her
manufacturing establishments, the bene-
fits of protection, and she will then real
ize it in full force. Charlotte Obseruer.
The South is still dependent on
! the North for ten thousandarticles that
enter into our present mode of life
and so far as indications go, is likely
to continue so for several decades, not
withstandng it be admitted that
manufacturing ''boom' is abroad in the
South. A protective tariff robs the con-
sumer and enriches the manufacturer,
| whether he be Northern or Southern
man n.-SaHsbury Wdtchman.
High Republican Principles.
Special Correspondence of The Chronicle.