The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-21
OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST.

w Aoh4NoIoNS D' S.S ~ ous Aof vSs
Congress was in session but little
over an -Four to-day. They give az
an excuse for such short sessions,
that the committees are at work.
But unless this body Is unlike all
previou. ones there is a vast quaAti-
ty Of wind, gas and buncemb to be
blown off this session, then why not
stay in session longer each day and
let thrse fellows who are loaded
with speeches for the galleries and
for effect on their. constituents at
home to help their reelection be-
gin to deliver themselves nsw
instead of taking precious time to-
ward the latter part Of the session:
Holeman's resolution PledgiAg
the body to economy etc., etc., will
pass now. but he probably could not
pass it 80 days from now. We sup
pose that 1t is In view OF this that
he passes it now to try to stiffen the
back bone OF the fellow whom the
lobbyist will probably capture.
Congressman Alexander /. pre-.
pairing a bill that will be a death
blow to gambling in futures If it
should become law. He Is mod
ding it after the lottery bill, which
will make it illegal to send through
the mails any quotations from the
gamblers in Wall Street; a newspa-
per can not be sent through the
mails that publishes their quotations
q etc. Our people ge, orally have
no idea how much money is taken
from North Carolina in fact from
the whole South and West every
year through the "bucket shops'' in
nearly all our larger towns which
are little gambling dens, branches
of the big gambling hell in Wall
Street. Not only does this specula-
tion have a deletirious effect upon
the market price of farm products,
but large number of the failures
We are seeing every day are the
result Of money lost on cotton or
grains futures. Our people are
playing with gamblers at their own
game, and are just as foolish to
invest in these futures as man is
to play with common circus gam
bier at his three card monte or other
similar games. Then another trou-
BILE, nearly all Of our Southern and
Western people who deal in futures
try to bull the market, that is they
bet that prices will 20 up, then OF
course the speculator's interest is to
bear the market and make prices
decline. The "bull" not only loses his
money but the farmers get lower
prices,-a double loss. Those who
will gamble ought to try to shear"
the market so that if they did loose,
the farmer would gain. We hope that
Congressman Alexander's bill will
pass and be effectual in wiping out
the whole infamy.
We have had the pleasure of
meeting here Prof. Hamlin Garland ,
who will soon have q national repu
tation as the author Of reform
literature. Heis the auther of that
excellent book "Main-Travelled
Roads," another book of his "Jason
Edwards" will soon be from the
press. He is young man about so
years of age, an orig ginal and aggres-
sive thinker, and though young is
| already scholar in the broad sense
| of the term. He was a farm boy
raised out in the great west. He
has risen rapidly and il now on the
staff of that great reform Magazine
The Arena, published in Boston
He has come from the ground up
and understands the true meaning
| and indwardness Of this gigantic re-
formmovement. Prof. Garland is now
writing the story ga Spoil in Office''
the opening chapters Of which ap-
pear in the January number of The
| Arena. The hero of this strong
story is farm boy who grows up
and is sent to Congress by the peo-
pie Of his district. Prof. Garland is
here studying the details for that
portion of his story. The story COM
mences with the Grange movement
and leads up through the progress
of the Alliance movement to the
present.
But few people have any idea Of
the immense amount of work done
by President Polk. He Is up every
morning at 6 O'Clock and at his Office
all day and day after day rushed
with work, except the necessities
Of the order calls him into the field
He is built for hard work and has a
wonderful capacity for dispatchiag
business, else it would take two or
three clerks to do what he does
himself.