The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-13


the brotherhood of man. until one
common peril or suffering unltes
the hearts of all. The yellow fever
sufferers, dying in Jacksonville by
scores during the last week, have
excited the sympathy of this whole
nation. All the sea-cost towns are
ouarantined against them, but nurses
and money are going from every
quarter. In North Carolina the
generous citizens of Wilmington
have sent quite sum, while one
small town in Alabama sent 81, 900.
New York has responded literally
and contributions are being taken
up all over the country. The fever
is abating very slightly, averaging
about % new cases per day.
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North Carolina to the fore! A
few weeks ago a great trust was
formed for raising the price Of jute
bagging, compelling cotton planters
to pay several cents more on the
pound. At once there was a de
mand for good substitute. Cot
ton cloth was tried, so were pine
boards, but they were too inflamma-
BILE and wire gauze was too costly.
Just as the oppressed farmers were
about to despair, North Carolina
stepped to the front and presented a
bale of cotton inclosed in cloth made
from pine straw by the Acme Man
ufacturing Co., of Cronly, and If the
price of jute is kept up this pine
straw cloth will be used extensively.
1t has been tried in the compress at
Wilmington and declared as good as
jute, while the price is far lower.
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On Tuesday night OF last week
Mr.. M. l.. Mott, radical electer oil
the 7th congressional district, spoke
at Lexington. His speech was faint
ed with abuse, vulgarity and obscen-
ity. So filthy and vile was some Of
the language, which thoroughly
trustworthy gentlemen who were il
the audience tell us he used, that de
cency forbids its appearance IN print
THE SENTINEL is too clean a paper
to admit such in its columns. W.
are told that white Republican was
standing with his daughter in the
audience. He heard part of the
speech and then led her away. II
was no place for ladies. THE sen
r1AEL believes in pure language OF
the stump, as in the parlor, and we
know the white men Of this section
are with us. We believe few men
in Motifs district will vote for q
party whose representatives talk III
the language of the brothel and in
suit their self-respect by vulgarity
too coarse to be repeated.
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The third party organ appears at
Durham this week. Mr.. W. 6.
Burkhead, formerly of the Tobacco
Plant, is its editor. In letter-to a
friend in Winston, Mr.. Burkhead
says: CATER much prayer and
thought 1 believe it to be my duty
to join the third party" THE Sen
TINEL respects honesty. We believe
Mr.. Burkhead is honest and respect
him for it, but at the same time we
KNOW he is making ruinous mis-
take. His time and bis talents will
be devoted to cause which has a
-
fair appearance of right but which
is a hollow mockery. As it can
never succeed common sense seems
say: "LET IT ALONE % AS the
only result it can accomplish, is to
deliver our fair State to the radicals
who pillaged and looted her treas
ury and disgraced her name, patfi-
otism would say: "Sooner cut off
your right hand than cast one vote
for party whose only reasonable
hope is to heap reproach and shame
on the land of your nativity"
TO REsPECTABLE REPUBLICANS.
The SENTINEL knows there are