The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-06-01
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.

Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
Two WEEKS ago the Greensboro North
State published several pictures of ''shin
ing lights in the Radical party of North
| Carolina After the long eulogies, there
was a line in large type which read
ASORRY LOT.
The CHRONICLE is glad, for once, to be
able to agree with its enterprising Repub-
lican contemporary.
In PUBLISHING the names of the leaders
in the Republican Convention last week
we made mistake in writing Mr.. Robert
Hancock, of Craven, as a colored man,
and take this first opportunity to correct
the error. The editor of the CHRONICLE
| knows Mr.. Hancock to be a white man,
and regrets the mistake. The truth is
that the negroes and white men were sand
| wiched in so closely that it was difficult to
tell one from the other. Mr.. Hancock
must charge the mistake to the mixed
| company he was in.
A BOY, SIXTEEN years old, and girl
| thirteen years old, from Redsville, were
| married in Greensboro last week. Such
violations of law, involving suffering and
often destitution, ought to prevented.
Ministers, Justices of the Peace and Regis
tiers of Deeds, ought to be prosecuted un-
der the statutes. The law requires that,
| if either is under eighteen, written consent
be given before the Register Of Deeds shall
issue license. A penalty Of $500 is the
legal punishment when the Register issues
| a license Illegally, as in the above case.
1t is the duty of the grand jury of Gull
ford to find a true bill against the Register
of Deeds for this violation. He ought to
be made an example of throughout the
State.
HARPER's MAGAZINE for June is an ex-
ample of what magazine for early sum
mer ought to be. 1t contains a judicious
mixture Of the best things in literature,
| and is thus suited to all the moods of a
June day. Fiction is provided for lazy
hours by ". D. Howells, Henry James,
and William Black, and there is much
cles for serious reading lacking, aud the
artistic features of the number are most
delightful Reinhart, Abbey, Charles Ora
ham, E. P. Sanguinetti, Alfred Parsons,
W II. Hyde, and F. Barnard, all contrib
| ute specimens of their best work. The
frontispiece is an excellent portrait of the
| late Mrs Craik, and belongs to the article
on London as Literary Centre" which
| abounds IN good lkenesSeS of English
| novelsts
RAISE YOUR own hogs and horses has
been the oft repeated advice Of the CHRoN
ICLE to its farmers readers. Mr. 7. X.
| Bruner, Secretary of the Board Of Agri-
| culture, furnishes this statement showing
| the amount of money lost to our state last
| year by buying bacon, horses and mules
instead of raising them at home. The
amount of bacon bought outside of the
State by North Carolinians last year, at
ten cents a pound was $S2, 237, $40. This
bacon could have been raised in North
Carolina for s. cents per pound, amount
ing to $53, 354, 4O1. The saving would
have been $2s, 1888, 139.
| As to horses and mules: we bought 5, ,959
at 1925 each, making a total of $744, ,S75.
| They can be raised in North Carolina for
| $50 each, making total saving of 1897,
! 333 in cash.
These figures are worth cutting out,
pasting in the hat, and thinking over.
THE CHRONICLES report Of the Radical
| Convention last week seems to have moved
| the waters. 1t had the effect of madden
ing Radicals and pleasing Democrats. We
printed number Of extra copies and they
were eagerly sought after, and our edition
was early exhausted. The editor returns
thanks for the many complimentary ex-
presslons the friends Of the CHRONICLE
have used in speaking of our report. One
gentleman met US on the street and said
''Send me the CHRONICLE. Your account
of the Radical Convention is worth a whole
years subscription" a leading publicist
of Western North Carolina writes:
81 must congratulate you on your rendi-
ton of the Republican Convention. That
| Is Tie Oufy way W tItdt suCl d Iuotly GREW
and you did it up ''BROwN." l think it
amounts already to a black eye to the Re
publican party, and people in this section
have been eager to get a copy of your pa
per. In fact l must say that you edit the
most readable paper in North Carolina
and l hear nothing but praises about here
of it. | voted for you to have the public
printing in Legislature of 'S5 and am glad
that you now have it to help sustain its
publication"
TARIFF REFORM AND PULPIT.
There is nothing more significant than
the rapidly increasing tendency with which
economic questions are invading the pull
pit, the tariff discussion in particular
The moralists as well as the politicians are
giving evidence of the peoples awakening.
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, has an article
in recent Forum, wherein he hints that
our moral safety is involved in our de
cison of this question. Though he sees
no great nationa! peril in immigration, il
Mormonism, in anarchism and in intem
perance he does see lurking behind 1.-The
economic aspects of free trade and protec
tive tariff the great social danger brought
by industrial centres, where "the millions