The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-02-01
Hut Yet 1t Seems Tha There Is Some
Particular Hook or Crook in All
This General Business.

We nearQ a people parry man, hOt
long since, PROFOUND this ~conundrum
"Do you actually suppose that it is pos
sible to get our state government con
Quoted on rational principles 2 The
query was addressed to a n~eighhoring
sap-head Of wide experience in legisla-
tive affairs one who periodically hobbs
up as the advocate of the tissue" Of the
hour-prohibitiOn being the last fad in
the role Of our mentally well balanced,
political fakes. 1t is a good thing for
the country at large, and for some Of us
individually, that those regulating agen-
cies now and then slip into both state
and national shortcomings otherwise
no amour Of eXpOstulating with the
powers that pretend to keep US in order,
would reduce the aches and heart throbs
under which we grOan. Being some
thing Of a philanthropist, an emanatiOn
from better world, we suppese-as well
as a hustler in the van mo pun intended
of passing events, and with pardOnable
pride in the well developed energies Of
our statesmen, we visited Raleigh some
DAYS back witnessed the Inauguration
ceremonies took an active interest in
opening up Of the legislative session, and
nave been a%ssiduously lobbying, since
then, with the solons in the interest Of
good government, and other matters Of q
private nature elah is the word that
fits that part of the programme. We re
joice in the fact that in our youth we
were disciplined in the school of political
economy, and in other kindred sciences
as taught and practiced in those days
but our contact with the ruling political
spirits of to-day painfully reminds US
that the knowledge acquired in the log
shanty college is absolute, and is now
relegated to a back seat in national cou".
ellis. We can, and do console o~urself,
however, with the reflection that green
backs have lost none of their ancient Sc
ductiveness, and since making this dis
bying for-an act to incorporate the
Durham Pollywog Hatchery" corner
of Main street and Five points-has
past its second reading. Now some of
the old fogies Of Durham rave kicked
against our enterprise, but as long as we
can be assured of the moral support Of
the town commissioners, the kickers
may kick.
There was introduced, at the beginning
of the present legislature, by the Honor
able Boliver 9. IIcadscroll, peoples
party of Blantant county, a bill to repeal
McKinley's tariff law. \ telegram from
New York, one hour afterwards, brought |
the thrilling intelligence that Wal street, |
Immediately upon receipt of the fact, col
lapsed under the overwhelming pressure;
Vanderbilt and Carnegie made hurried
assignments the Bank of England sus-
pended payments and had been looted by !
its Infatuated depOsitOrs,
Those over Jealous patriots should curb
their aspirations and whatever you do,
don't monkey with the stability of our
monetary svstem-our individual credit
Is hardly normal, and with shaky ten |
denotes, rugged ruin would be the result.
Hon. Sobieski Cultivator,~ (allianceman)
of Yam county, introduced a bill TO regu-
late the sale of gatherings in the southern
states. This stroke was aimed at Phil
Armour, the millionaire pork packer of
Chicago, and the resultant slam has
knocked the dividends out of the hog
''AN - mum oblNC ONNuIdNlOL-ut,
too, has backed up against the sharp edge
of personal ruin, Boys, you had better
not waste all your talents on foreigners
go slow, please.
Hon. Luther O'Hell, (prohibltionist) of
Calamity county, created intense excite.
ment in both the house and among the
deniZens of the gallery when he, like the
cheerful gsllinipper, introduced his little
bill. This bill proposes TO tax each and
every individual, on both sides of the
~Swannanoa river, and within ten miles of
said stream, $25 per head. The reason
for this is thus set forth in the preamble
The moonshiners, who carry on their
nefarious business along the small tribu.