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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-15

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No % carries pullman parlor cal
Norfolk to Rocky Mount and connects
with A. c. l.. Train % for all points
south.
No. lO3 connects at Hobgood for all
eastern Carolina points. also at Rocky
Mount with A. c. L. train q for all
points south.
No, 73 carries pullman parlor car
Rocky Mount TO Nof;aIk and connects
for all points north.
For al information schedules call on
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Cent Passenger Agent.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-15

and pitiiuily opposed to the asnostic-
In the language Of Huxley, NO man
who has studied history or even attend
cd +, lie occurrences OF every day lie
can doubt the enormous practical value
Of trust and faith"
IF one has no trust he goes into the
good fight" as forlorn hope. He can
look ONLY to himself, can worship only
himself. and from the future comes no
hecokning hand The Christian can
proudiv assert that the world would be
better if the spirit Of the Nazarene per
vaded its councils, and no man dare OF
fer contradiction. The agnOstic must
needs admit that ii all mankind thought
"a he did. and il that wide range of IN
centlves which are only partly opera
tive in society were eliminated, 1t
would be little short Of a moral catas-
trophe.
There is a subtle something in religion
which braces the soul to meet emergen-
cies. and a subtle something in unbe-
lief which robs us of strength when
most we need it, The man with no
faith is not the peer OF the man who
feels the pressure of an almighty and
supporting Arm when he is nigh to
falling under the sorrows which come
to every one of US.
This, then, is all we say tor the pres
ent-that if we look at life from a
purely practical standpoint the Christ
ian can do more than the agnOstic tC
| broaden our shoulders for inevitable
| burdens and more to enable us to re
sist temptation, and more to make Il!
cheerful and happy to the end Of ou1
days.
And if the ideas which ennoble u
AMI make us strong to do battle fO
right and Justice, if those ideas arr
not true, what kind Of world is th
in which we live
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-15

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SUNDAY M '' Plymouth
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ton = m Sr taleee 6ifa 10
Wilson and I.otesi Branch leave Fayette-
le.F arrive Rowland 1 Rettlnlng
arrive Fayetteville = !. ~ except sunday 90
Iano .lrt sunday nVo
M arrive -nlfed returning if field 500 arrive
Colds |orot, Il n
Train on Nashville Branch Rocky Nashville
Spring Returning leaves Spring Hope 500 n
Rocky Molnt9
Train 10
daily Sunday 62Op and lilo
80 connecting at ar
Nos.4 4G, and IS.
will Rocky Mt Wilson,
I(ic!dslW oindN Magnolia.
Train Weldon for all North daily
Idav.w Norfok and all }oints north la Norfolk.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
STATE PRESS OPINION.

Growers clover is rather short feed for
the millions, but ex-Republican MacVeagh
finds 1t up to his yes.-Ver Journal.
The Wilson bill is a force bill. 1t forces
idleness upon American workingmen and
forces our industries to the walL.-Worth-
ington Times.
Nobody but a Democratic statesman
would expect the ruinous competition of
foreign countries to boom the businesS Of
this country.-Huntington Herald.
The principal purpose for which the Cleve-
land administration seems to have been
created was to provide places for assignees
and Observation-Disclosures Courier.
II business men are not so certain OF the
future as they have been in the past they
can square their accounts with the Demo-
cratic pa~rty.-Seymour Republican.
There are more Cleveland badges being
worn now than at any time during the re-
cent campaign. Nearly every man wears a
patch on the elbow Of his coat or on the
seat OF his pants.-Winchester Journal.
Net result of the last presidential election
to date: A few thousand Democratic poll
ticians have been turned into fat offices
and the mechanics and laborers of the land
have been turned out of their shops and
mills. Is this the change the people voted
for?-Brookville American.
The business interests of the country are
all right so far as ordinary conditions are
conCerneO, out common prudence requires
them to keep close to the shore until they
ascertain just how much they are going
to be hurt by the Democratic tariff policy.
-Shelbyville Republican.
1t Is about time for Dan Voorhees, to
come forward with another financial scheme
for the relief Of the country. Dan is full
of resources. but it has been nearly two
weeks since he has electrified the Nation by
an exhibition OF his wonderful financial
ability.-Frankfort News.
This is a truly Democratic situation:
While Congress Is preparing to build an
addition to the national debt the resources
Of the charitably minded are strained to
the utmost to help the working people and
their ungry wives and children through
the winter.-Rushville Republican.
We believe in honest money. We believe
that every dollar should be issued under
the control Of the federal government, and
favor the coinage of all the gold we can
get and all the silver we can use. No wild
cat banks. no red dog currency goes with
the Republican ~party.-Sullivan Union.
Whatever the cause of the present panic
may have been, there can be no cessation
until capital Is treasured and comes out of
ats hiding place. And yet we have the
blatherskite Master Workman Sovereign in
Weighing against capitaliSts-the very people
from whom labor gets its subsistence.-No-
bleSville Ledger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05

The present House OF Representatives,
which is about to grapple with a tariff
and income tax bill, might take a lesson
in promptness OF action from the House
which passed the first income tax bill ever
enacted in this country. That was the
Thirty-seventh Congress, convened in sex
traordinary session. July 4, 1861. by proc
lamation Of Abraham Lincoln dated April
IL, 1861, three days after the firing on Fort
Sumter. On July 16. twelve days after
Congress met, Thaddens Stevens, Of Penn
sylvania, chairman OF the committee on
ways and means, reported from that COM
mittee "a bill to provide increased revenue
from imports, to pay interest on the pub
lie debt, and for other purposes" On the
following day he submitted a resolution
providing that all debate on said bill in
committee of the whole should cease in one
hour after it's consideration was COM
menced, when the committee should then
proceed to vote on such amendments as
were pending or might be offered, and then
report lit I'LL u ltlc IlOuSC ~ SuCu
amendments as had been agreed to. This
resolution was adopted. The mex day the
House proceeded to the consideration of
the bill. Mr.. Vallandigham, of Ohio, Of
fered as a substitute for the bill reported
by Mr.. Stevens a bill re-enacting the tariff
of 1857. Two days were consumed In dis
cussing the substitute, and on the 18th Of
July the committee of the whole rose and
reported 1t TO the House with certain
amendments. Mr.. Stevens then offered as
a substitute for the bill as reported the
original bill reported by him. This was
adopted, together with the amendments
agreed on in committee of the whole, and
the bill was passed. From the time the bill
was reported from the ways and means
committee till it's final passage by the
House was forty-eight hours. Thaddeus
Stevens was a leader who led, and that
Congress meant business. The Journal is
not arguing in favor of an income tax.
That Of 1861 was levied as a war measure,
while the one now proposed is a measure
made necessary by Democratic incompe-
tency. But If the Democrats really in
tend TO pass the measure they might take
lessons in how to do it from the Thirty
Savepth CopQreSS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05

fully as any other Of its territorial pos
sessions" Under these instructions nego-
were opened. but pending their conclusion
the r~eigning King died and the negotiations
came TO an end.
In his special message to Congress an
nouncing the failure Of "my plans" Mr..
Cleveland stated that the annexation treaty
negotiated by the last administration CON
templated a departure from unbroken Amer
lean tradition in providing for the addition
to our territory Of islands of the sea more
than 1000 miles removed from our nearest
coast" Evidently he had not read up in
the history of former Democratic admins
t~rations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05

quartz rock thrown out OF the excavation,
the assayer reports. carries $151 in silver
are that the ledge is eight feet wide.
Houses worth from $1,000 to $4,000 stand
over the ledge. and the owners are wonder,
Ing IL IL will pay TO pull them down and
try to dig up gold.
Edward Dunbar, the author Of that beau
tiful hymn, There's a Light in the Win
dow for Thee. Brother" died a few days
ago in the Jail at ~Coffeyville, Kan, where
he had applied for lodging as a tramp.
his career was cut short by a term in the
Minnesota State Prison for bigamy.
A Missouri man whose wife was killed
by a train while walking along a railroad
track with him near st. Joseph has brought
a claim for ten dollars damages against
the company, pathetically pleading, She
was a GOOD wife and her cooking could not
be equaled in the State of Missouri. She
was worth all of that TO me, and ! think
you ought to pay"
Professor LombIoso, the eminent italian
scientist who holds such very strong ad-
verse opinions as to the ability OF women
lately been pursuing his Investigations in
another direction, and he claims that wom-
en- Of the criminal and immoral type have
larger hands and feet and smaller heads
than the verage woman.
The bedroom in the old colonial house In
Philadelphia in which Joseph Jefferson was
born is now a storehouse for plaster casts
and the parlor of the house a salesroom
for such articles Of plebeian art. But the
house still retains a great deal of interest
for old residents of the Quaker City 1t IS
nearly sixty-ive years since Jefferson first
saw the light Of day there.
According to the London Star the yellow
contents of the mysterious pomade bottles
that Mr.. Gladstone carries into the House
Of Common to fortify himself for an i'm
portant speech are a compound Of sherry
and eggs, with certain other indictments
calculated to strengthen the vocal organs.
Mr.. Balfour, the same authority observes,
finds port, beautifully diluted with water,
the best aid to oratory.
Thomas Payne King, a rich old miser,
dropped dead on the street at Wichita,
Kan, the other day. In his youth King
was an officer in the British army, and
was one Of the six hundred at Balaklava-
When the war broke out in this country
he threw up his British commission and
Joined the Union army. Though a man of
superior education and attainmentS, and
though possessed of property in Chicago,
Kansas City, Wichita and other places in
and American governments, he never spent
a cent. He lived in Squalor, dressed in
rags and ate refuse from hotel and res
taurant kitchens His place Of habitation
mine just what he possessed, but he is
said to have been worth fully $4,000.
He deity skins the grave remarks
Upon the Wilson bill;
He doesn't stop to read about
Thu fortunes of Queen Lii;
He glanceS at the stories Of
The troubles in Brazil,
Then settles down to business with
TIL Corbett-Mitchel mill.
-washinpton Star
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
HI PENSION RUSE.

It has been proclaimed that the amend
ment to the urgent deficiency bill relative
to pensions established the doctrine that a
pension is a vested right, the same as a
title in property. Such is not the case,
and the Martin amendment above referred
to does not make it anything of the kind.
Here is the provision:
Any pension heretofore or hereafter
granted . . 8 shall be deemed and held by
all officers of the United States to be a
vested right in the grantee to that extent
that payment thereof shall not be withheld
or suspended until, after due notice to the
grantee of not less than thirty days, The
Commissioner of Pensions after hearing
all the evidence shall decide TO annul, va
cate, modify or set aside the decision upon
which such pension was granted.
That is. it is a vested right until ques-
toned by the COMMISSIONS OF Pensions
him that the recipient is entitled to it. That
is a vested right" indeed, with a string
to IL. When a man has a vested right On
a piece of real estate or in a horse. he is
not called upon to establish his right to
the property, but the person claiming it
or denying the right of the occupant TO
il must furnish the evidence to prove that
his title is not a good one. Ii the reverse
were the case. every holde Of desirable
property might become the victim Of every
pettifogging blackmailer who would threat
en- TO make a claim TO compel the real
owner to prove his title If he did not pay
the blackmailer not 10 do so. IL the PEN
sion is a vested right it should be incum-
bent upon the government, as complain
ant, TO establish the fact that the holders
title is not good, and it should be re-
quired TO make proof from evidence other
than that contained in the papers upon
which the pension was awarded. The bu-
reau should notify the pensioner that 1t pro-
poses to offer evidence to disprove his right
10 a pension. and that when the case is
made he will be presented with a copy of
the evidence and will AVE thirty or sixty
days to rebut. In such case. a pension
would be a vested right. Mr.. Martin, who
has secured the adoption Of the above
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

At Sarah Bernhardt's revival at the Re-
naissance Theater. in Paris, recently. of
the Dame aux Camellias,'' the most inter-
ested person in the audience the first night
was Alexander Dumas, who applauded the
actress with great vigor and enthusiasm
Andrew j.. Davis. a recently deceased
Montana man of great wealth. was not
noted for his liberality as a rule; but to a
friend who was in financial straits he once
sent a check for 300, 900, with the message:
Pay me IL you can; IL you cannot, never
mention it"
The residents Of Tacoma fear that their
city will be torn up and undermined
through the discovery Of a valuable gold
and silver quartz lode running under its
most thickly populated portion. The ledge
was uncovered a week or SO since. about
seven feet be'o.y the surface, by a man
who W. : cellar. Some OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Notwithstanding all of the fuss. Brazil
has not yet put up an able-bodied crisis.
Washington Post.
The millennium will never dawn until the
practical Joker has been exterminated.
Boston Transcript.
The old year got to be very tough. Let
us hope the new will be gentle and kind.
Atlanta Constitution.
Johnny. is your father a firm MANI"
Yes, nom, wen he knows he's wrong"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
That fellow Jawley is a broker, isn't
he?' Yes" Has he got any money? 2"
"Yes-he's got mine."-Life
The mortal who tries to win love without
respect has generally to get along without
either.-New York Recorder.
If you would nave your sweetheart re-
member you forever. send her a present
that costs only a nickel.-Galveston News.
Next week our Democratic Congress will
resume its occupation of running the indus
trial prosperity of the Nation.-Philadelphia
Press.
A pretty girl can guess nine times in ten
just what a boy is thinking about when
she catches him looking at her.-Galveston
News.
1.-THE day Of Pentecost has, not come"
it seems, after all. for which all good peo-
pie will be truly thankful.-New York
Morning Advertiser.
Mr.. Lease probably realizes by this time
that he was not half the man he thought he
was when he negotiated the marriage Ii
ense.-Pittsbur Dispatch.
The chances are that there'll be just as
many blanks in the Honduras national lot
terry as there were in its predecessor Of
Louisiana.-Boston Herald.
When / reflect upon the number of dis
agreeable people who / know have gone
to a better world, / am moved to lead a
different life.-Mark Twain.
We learn that Cupid is so oppressed by
the hard times that he is seriously contem-
plating the wisdom of going into the hands
of a receiver.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
THE UPRISING AGAINST THE WILL
% BILL.

The demonstration made by the farmers
and wool growers at their meetings In
this city. Tuesday and Wednesday. against
the Wilson bill, serves to indicate the drift
of opinion among producers. All along the
lin of the productive industries employe as
well as employer is ranged against the
Wilson bill. There are those who do not
desire to be quoted against it, but when
asked their private opinion they say they
consider it a great blunder. Outside of a
few theorists and a limited number OF
professional men a petition in it's favor
could not get any signers. On the other
hand. never did so many petitions go to
Congress as during the past four weeks
against the Wilson bill. Practical people,
who are not the victims of theories, see
that the Wilson bill, reducing duties one
half and putting them On the ad valorem
system will cut wages. They can see that
the transfer of a considerable volume of
our manufacturing TO Europe will make
less employment here, and that coming
into competition with lower-priced labor in
Europe will affect their wages. They see
this as clearly as did Mr.. Bynum when he
declared that 1t was the design Of the
Wilson bill to bring the wages of the
United States and Europe to the same
level, by raising those of Europe and low
ering those of the United States. No
amount of sophistry can deceive them on
this point They have practical sense and
have acquired a few Of the lessons of ex-
p~erience. They know that two manufac-
turers, separated by a street or an ocean,
the carriage across which costs but a
The Indiana farmer knows that when the
Canadian is let into his markets In the
northern cities, the one who car sell cheap
est will control them. The wool grower
knows that he cannot compete with the
cheap labor of Australia and South Ameri-
ca. The wooden manufacturer in the West
knows that he is beaten when he is COM
PEELED to purchase his wool in New York.
and the people in the mill who run the
machinery know it. And they know it so
thoroughly that the prigs who make proc
lamations from mugwump papers and 9TH
er theorists who do not earn bread in
shops and factories cannot move them.
And all along the line of the productive in
dustries they know it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
THAT INCOME TAX.

There will be a contest between a spying,
detective federal bureau and a people who
will resort to every device to escape a
tax which they deem to be unjust, and it
Is impossible to say which side will come
out ahead.-Chicago Tribune Rep.)
Supplementing a lame bin with a tax
which, whatever it's merits, is suspected
by one element Of the party of being also
lame, may be regarded as of doubtful
wisdom. Two lame ducks may retard
progress more than o~ne.-Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal Oem.)
The World supports this policy because
1t is fair. because it is a tax which those
who have to pay 1t can afford to pay, be-
cause it will compel the rich to pay their
due share towards sustaining the govern
ment which protects their accumulations.
New York World Oem.)
The income tax proposition is in the ma
ture of class legislation because 1t is dis
eliminating. The man who makes 5000 a
year is to be taxed $40 because he is wiser
more Industrious and more thrifty than his
neighbor, who can make only $4,000 a year,
or less.-Cincinnati Enquirer Oem.)
Certainly he takes but a poor view Of
American citizenship who holds that a tax
Of 2 per cent on incomes of $4,000 and up
ward, especially when accompanied by a
notable reduction of indirect taxation,
would lead to wholesale frauds and wide
spread lying.-Chicago Times Dem.)
A tax on incomes may go through under
the squirting of Grover. The country may
then look for further reform from the
same source in the shape of a tax on bach
elors and widowers. Everything Is reform
for revenue that comes out of the White
House these days.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette CRep.)
The man who has been Industrious and
thrifty is to be punished for the benefit of
the impecuniouS loafer. So it is that a.
large class Of men in that party are or
ganizing for an assault on the thrift of the
people to supplement the deficit created
by their inability to frame an adequate
revenue law.-Cincinnati Tribune Rep)
To the tariff reformer it should be readi-
ly apparent that the saddling of the Will
son bill with an income tax is a very prom
Using method of destroying the former.
It's good or bad qualities are made sec
ondary to this inSolent governmental ex-
ploitation OF private earnings and the re-
wards of economy and thrift.-Chicago
Record Qnd.)
In some form a system Of direct taxa
ton upon wealth must become part of the
policy of the Democratic party. In theory,
an income tax is the best form. If ex-
perience ~justiies the expectation of theory,
the income tax will be as permanently as
a tariff for revenue Incorporated into the
platform and practice of the party.-St.
Louis Republic (Dem.)
There is reason to believe that those
members who have forced this action upon
the majority nave deliberately defeated
other, simpler, more certain and less ex-
pensive methods of raising the necessary
revenue simply because they were deter
mined TO lay a general tax on incomes.
with an exemption large enough TO leave
their respective districts practically I'M
taxed.-Chicago Herald Dem.)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-05
AN HISTORICAL PRECEDENT.

The attitude Of the present administrators
relative TO the acquisition OF the Hawaiian
Islands is very different from that taken
by a former Democratic administration on
the same subject. In 1854, during the adj
ministration of Franklin Pierce, when it
appeared probable that IN opportunity
would offer for the United States to acquire
the islands. the Hon. William L. Marcy.
then Secretary OF State. wrote to our min
lister at Honolulu as follows:
The contained in your last
dispatch. No. 10. dated the 7th of February,
renders * highly probable that the ruling
powers of that government Will have pre-
scented TO you. as our diplomatic agent. an
offer of the sovereignty OF their country 10
the United States. The President has
deemed IL proper that you should be fur
nished with instructions for the guidance or
your conduct in such an emergency. With
this dis1atch you will be furnished with a
full power 10 treat with the present author
tiles OF the Hawaiian government for the
transfer of the Sandwich Islands 10 the
United States.
The Secretary OF State discussed the ques-
ton at some length and expressed the hope
that the movement then in progress con-
templated something more than a mere
protectorate. II understand" he continued.
that the measure proposed by the people
and that In which the present rulers are
disposed TO concur is annexation. as dis
tinguished from protection. and that it is
their intention that thesc islands shall be-
come a part of our territories and be
under the control of this government as