The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-10-21
THE EDITORS DESK.
CONTENTS on TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING TIE PEOPLE.

COMMENTS on TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE,.
The Chronicles Opinions, Paragraphs
caIIy Expressed, on Passing Public
Questions.
The ranklinton Weekly does its com
claiming readers good service in showing
aa, the times are not hard except to those
,yho are in debt Last Fall the CHRONICLE
demonstrated the fact that there never was
d time when the purchasing power Of a
dollar was as great as it is now. For one
dollar Il man can buy more than twice as
much calico or meat as he could fifteen
wears ago, while labor is paid nearly as
much now as then. Before making face
a ward long over the hard times this fact
ought to be considered.
The state Fair at Raleigh, Oct. 2Gth,
27th, 2Sth, and 29th. Come!
Let the CHRONICLE record an instauct. of
uusclfish devotion to home and home peo-
pIr, The Franklinton Weekly contain,
letter from b. f. Bullock, Jr., who was
nomnat, by the Republicans for Judge
against the pure and learned Judge Con
nor, in which he announces that he doesn't
want te be Judge but that his heart yearns
to serve the good people OF Franklin as
Register of Deeds. He loves his home
a. p.oplc 50 much that he doesn't want to
leave them to travel the circuit and-the
grapes hang very high and are sour any
how.
Mr.. Matthew II Peters, editor If the
Iroquois Times, has been nominated by the
Democrats of the Ninth Illinois District
for Congress lie is q man-evcry inch -
ana doesn't dread to meet the Tariff ques-
tiou squareIy. As the best concentrated
maxim on the question we have seen we
quote the following:
Give rs i low tariff and unrestricted
commerce. that our agricultural interests
NAV be built up. and let the manufacturer
take the incident
The i.cident" ought to 90 to the man
ufacturcr, rather than the farmers, who
have become poor under It,
Mr.. Henry George, labor candidate for
Mayor of New York, says: What We
propose to do is to begin a movement for
the abolition of poverty" This is a com
mendable desire and, speaking personally,
we hope he will not only abolish it but
will Danish it from the country. Mr..
George is doubtless influenced by the high
est and purest motives, but If he will al
low suggestion the CHRONICLE would
say: The surest and best way to abolish
poverty is to make the idlers, whether
rich or poor. 90 to work. Legislation can
aud individual endeavor, but it cannot
take Its place
The Chatham Record says: ''Mr. John
Nichols ought not to receive the vote
Of any Democrat who has n particle
of sclf-respect In his speech at Pitts
boro last week he uttered as vile slande1
against every Democrat as We have ever
heard. In order that Democrats may
knox what is thought Of them by this
Congressional asprant, We publish the
identical words uttered by him. Heal
what he said
"A Democrat is the same wherever yor
find HIM whether he be the lrishman o.
y H.,
the ballot-boA stuffer of the south
These slanderous words ought to bt
made known to every Democrat IN TIN:
district And yet this slanderer has tht
impudence to ask Democrats to vote fol
him -
The powerful order known as the
knights of Labor has now quite ;
large membership in North Carolina ant
naturally desires an organ-a medium o
communication. Messrs Edward a
Ndams. Wtn H. Ferrell and John c. Cor
,nan. worthy members of the order, seel
TO supply the need and have begun th'
publication of The Workman" which vii
DE published every Saturday in Raleigh
TWO dollars per annum. 1t says that th'
intimacy between the races is growing les
every wear and that the talk about socla
equality is <'mere sound, signifying moth
ing.and is inaugurated by willy politicians.
1t endorses Henry George for Mayor o
New York We welcome the Workman
and wish it abundant success
It pays TO write books-or for some mel
to write. Mrs. u. S. Grant received OF
Monday from the publishers of Gen
rr.ant's memoirs a check for $3.50, ,O0O
making her share of the profits from tn
sale of the work up to the present tim
foot up the handsome sum Of $3.50, ,O0C
Mr.. Webster says that Mrs. Grant Will re
aIize fully $500, 900 on the memoirs
very handsome ornamental edition OF 90
or at most 1 900 sets is being prepared
1t will cost at least S10O a set. This ed
tion will be appropriately illustrated, an
each set will contain two new photograph
of the General. and will be made furthe
valuable by the insertion of a page or pal
Of \ mage of the Generals original MAJ
uscript.
The Knights of Labor have left tn
question of social equality just Whei
they found it. At their assembly, now
session at Richmond, the following pr
amble and resolution was adopted
Whereas, reports have been circulate
and impressions have been created by II
press of the country regarding the pos
ton of the order of Knights OF Labor upo
the question of social equality; and, Wher
as. W., believe the welfare Of the order
the south requires that this General a
semblv take such action as Will dlsp
these wrong impressions; therefore,
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