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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-07
LIEUTENANT IVEY FOREMAN.

TO the Editor: Either lapsus
pennae occurred on my part or
your typo misread my manuscript.
Lieutenant Ivey Foreman was in the
Confederate States Navy. He was in
command Of the steamer In the James
River squadron. His disease was ty-
phoid fever. He remained at his post I'M
til delirious, was taken to a hospital in
Richmond and died the day after he was
twenty-one years old. The Confederacy
had no more faithful officer.
Truly yours,
KEMP p. BATTLE.
Chapel Hill, N. c., April 6.
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THE FIRST CRATE.
WilmingtOn Star.l

The first crate of Strawberries from
North Carolina for this season was ship
ped yesterday-ten days earlier than the
usual time for the beginning of ship
ments. The shipper was Mr.. G. w.
Westbrook, and the berries were grown
ON the Switzerland plantation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-07

Chapel Hill, N. c., April 6.
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l carry full line Of DR.. Earl q. Sloan's
great REMEDIES.
Sioai Liniment cures Rheumatism.
VIM. SIMPSON, Druggist.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-07

Washington, April 6.-The weather
bureau its weekly review of weather
oman condition,
The advocate., 1897-08-18
Railroad Robbers,

Editor AdvOcate-T showed, through
the columns of the Advocate last week,
how the Kansas railroads had been
amassing tremendous wealth through
the rise in their stocks during the last
four months; but since writing that
article august . the shares Of the
three roads named have made addi-
tiOnal advances of from $1.50 to SO
per share, adding another million or
two to the unearned increment Of these
corporations. Why all this prosper
ity among the railroads of Kansas?
Is it because they are on the verge of
ruin, as their general managers told
our Railroad Commissioners? Not
much. The Kansas railroads are pros
porous because they absolutely hold
up the producers Of the State and rob
them. IF the securities of these rail-
roads continue to rise in value during
the next eight months as they have
during the four months just passed,
the total advance established in the
market value of all the capital stock
of Kansas roads will be more than
sufficient to duplicate every mile of
railroad in the State. Railroading in
Kansas is not the carrying of goods
and wares for consideration; it is
confiscation pure and simple, when
compared with the carrying trade else
where.
Mr.. Editor, with your permission,
make the following comparison of
rates on the Santa Fe road with rates
on the Illinois Central railroad to Gulf
ports, and also Santa Fe terminal rates
in Kansas with terminal rates Of the
same railroad in the State Of Illinois:
Rate by the Santa Fe railroad TO
Galveston From Mcpherson, 824
miles-On wheat, per 100 pounds, 80
cents; ON corn, 27 cents. From Wich-
ita, 724 miles-On wheat, per 400
The advocate., 1897-08-18
One Office at q Time.

Editor AdVocate:--In a recent issue
OF the Advocate reference is made to
an article in P. P Elders paper in
which he takes the position that no
member of the Legislature should be
appointed to any other official position
unless he first resigns his legislative
office. The writer is of the opinion
that Mr.. Elder is correct, but that he
should go little further and say that
no member should be allowed to accept
another Office during the term for
which he is elected, resignation or no
resignation. When the writer votes
for legislative candidates he selects
some candidate who he believes has
the ability to properly represent the
interests of his constituents and whose
entire attention in official and public
matters will be given to the duties of
that office.
1t has been truthfully said that a
man cannot drink whisky and do busi-
ness at the same time. 1t can be as
truthfully said that no man can prop
erly perform the duties of two Offices
at the same time. AS Mr.. Elder says,
the appointment of Jumper is a good
one, and possibly no better one could
have been made; but nevertheless he
could give the State better service in
either the position of Senator or mem
Der Of the Board of Charities if he were
charged with the performance of the
duties of but one of the offices. We
now have a law which disqualifies a
District Judge from holding any other
Office during the term for which he
was elected, and l believe we should
have similar law relative to members
of the Legislature. Members of the
Legislature who are aspirants for ap-
pointive Offices are not in the best
position to give good service to their
constituents. They are very likely to
pay more attention to the wants of the
appointing power than to their cOnstit-
uents.. Let us have a law which will
disqualify them from holding any other
place than that to which they have
been elected. RANK AND FILE.
The advocate., 1897-08-18

pounds, 81 cents; on corn, per 100
pounds, 26 cents.
Please contrast with this the rate Of
freight charged by the Illinois Central
railroad on all kinds of grain from
central Illinois to New Orleans: From
La Sale, ILL.,, S24 miles, per 100 pounds,
II cents; from Eflingham, III. ,724 miles,
per 100 miles, 10 cents.
The difference in terminal freight
charges on these two railroads in .Illi-
nois and Kansas are almost as great
For instance, the rate on wheat from
Manchester, Kas., to Kansas City, 225
miles (vla Santa Fe), per 100 pounds,
IA cents. Mason City, ILL.,, to Chicago
227 miles (via Illinois CentraD, per 100
pounds, 6 cents.
But to be perfectly fair, let us COM
pare the treatment Kansas farmers re-
ceive with the treatment accorded Illi-
nois producers by the Santa Fe rail-
road.
Rate Of freight on corn, Pekin, Ill.,
to Chicago, 16O miles, per 100 pounds,
5 cents. Florence to Kansas City,
about same distance, II cents.
How much longer are the people go
ing to submit to this robbery? Is It
not apparent That railroad rates in
Kansas should be cut in two? VIII
the recreant members of the Legisla-
ture "tote fair" when convened in spe-
cial session, or will they continue to
serve their masters as they did last
winter? AS long as the railroads have
it in their power to size up crop and
arbitrarily put on the tariff up to the
confscation point, the producers Of
Kansas are but one degree above slav-
cry. f. w. FRASIUS.
Topeka, Kas, Aug. 13, 1897.
The advocate., 1897-08-18
Correspondence.
The Peoples Party will Live.

Editor AdvOcate:-The Nashville ad-
dress tothe Peoples party has the clear,
true and defiant, though charitable
and temperate, ring of true patriotism;
and well does it voice and denounce
the sentiments of those persons who
think the Peoples party has fulfilled
it's mission and should cease to be! The
Peoples party is the party Of 1900. 1t
is not the catchwOrd of party name
that will render it stable, but the fact
of its being founded upon immortal
principles that will give it strength to
stand alone.
The Peoples party, so long as it ad-
heres to the principles to which it is
now committed, cannot die. 1t Is the
ark which shall, with the searchlight
Of growing intelligence, carry the ma
tion through the deluge of morbid
selfshness and insatiate rapacity.
Committed to principle, the quintes-
sence of justice, it has back of it
the power Of OmnipOtence; and who
will say that in 1900 the Peoples party
will not be the most potent political
power on earth?
But few, if any, will say that w. J..
Bryan is not good man. He is a
brOad-gauged man-brOader than the
party platform upon which he stands
He is anti-mOnOpolist-his heart is
with the people. But if he has not the
penetration to see that the Democratic
platform is too narrow, or if he is lack
ing in backbone to boldly step out upon
the broad hurricane deck of Populism,
no one will question his right or abil-
ity to do great good in 19OO-but not
as the leader Principle is the watch
word. Any good, able man may be
standard-bearer; but herO-wOrship is
fast going out of date. There is plenty
of good timber, tried and true from
long and faithful service.
CHARLES H. PRICE.
Jaqua, Kas.
The advocate., 1897-08-18

DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry Is a medicine for the whole body.
It searches out the weak spots and
builds them up. 1t is a strengthener,
a purifier and a cure. It puts the d.
gestive system into an active, healthy
condition, purifies and enriches the
blood, and forces out all poisonous mat
ter Taken in time 1t will cure SO per
cent. Of all cases of consumption. It
Is a purely vegetable compound that
works in perfect harmony with nature.
1t tones up the whole body and pro-
duces strong, hard, healthy flesh. 1t
has cured hundreds of cases of con-
sumption, bronchitis, asthma, chronic
nasal catarrh and kindred maladies,
which had withstood the effect Of every
other medicine. A large number Of
testimonial letters and photographs of
those cured have been printed in DR..
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
viser-1, ,00S pages. We will send the
book free, If you will send your adj
dress, also this notice, and twenty-one
1-cent stamps to pay cost Of mailing
only, to Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The advocate., 1897-08-18

and compelled to start over again. 1t
may have been practical to indorse
Mr.. Bryan, to put the 16 to / idea
ahead; but to drop every other issue,
all of which, or any one Of which is
more important in giving permanent
relief to the idle, discouraged, unem-
plOyed people, is political insanity.
Cheaper money, with the present mo-
nopolized condition of land, with the
present falsely capitalized railroad
companies, mining companies, etc,
our present unjust taxation system,
and with such a banking system
wherein private money yields corpora
tons an interest and sometimes cheats
the depositor by failure, will do very
little toward giving relief with all these
evils intact as they are.
Cheaper money would have a good
effect by commensurating salaries and
reducing debts already made; and with
these two possible good effects the uni
versal panacea CD Of free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver" would soon en-
hance the value Of land and stocks, and
the unemployed would still have to
tramp and beg, steal, starve or die.
Until this government makes it pos
sible for every willing man to have
employment every day in the year If
he wants it; until it establishes a gov
ernmental depository for money, MAX
ing every deposit absolutely safe; until
it indOrses a graded system Of taxation,
making it easy for an industrious, fru-
gal, careful man to get home, and
making 1t impossible for q scheming,
greedy, selfish man to get any more
than is necessary for the full enjoy
ment of all the amenities Of life; until
public utilities can no longer be used
as tools to pay interest on private in
vestments; until the government be-
comes the only recipient Of interest for
the use Of money; and until "unearned
increment" is made a public fund, we
will founder around, forcing men into
Vagrancy, women into shame and
children into sin; causing infanticides,
homicides and suicides; making in
mates for penitentiaries, asylums and
reform schools, and have dog days,
sure, in every sense.
Some of the sacred (?) rights" Of
investments must give way to the
sacred rights Of children who will soon
be men and women asking for some
thing to dc. Paternalism for the rich
bondholder and infernalism for the
poor laborer must cease.
The prosperity machine will raise
the cry of overproductiOn:
TOO many men to do the work;
Too many women to weep;
More daylight than the people need;
Too many Pops to sleep"
Whiting, Kas T. f. SPROUL.
The advocate., 1897-08-18
More Political Suggestions.

Editor AdvOcate:- e:-Knuckle down,
everybody. There is no use to be MAX
ing a party fudge with the "allied sill
yer forces" Mr.. Clemens has as much
right to draw dead-line in this polit-
ical marble game as he had to write
THE Dead Line;" and he whose taw
falls behind ought 70 be counted out
The advocate., 1897-08-18

few years ago he made a speech that
electrified every true American? And
who has such a record as the champion
Of freedom as Governor Altgeld Of Illi-
nois, and what Populist address ever
surpassed his Brooklyn Grafton last
Fourth Of July? After all, is 1t not
men-party leaders-that is important,
rather than party names?
1t is true there are some unworthy
mOcrats-McEnery of Louisiana.
voted for the tariff infamy; but so did
Howard, Populist, Of Alabama, and
Butler, national chairman, did not vote
against It.
Had we the preferential ballot, or
any form of proportional representa-
ton, there would be no occasion for
fusion to prevent the plutocratic mi
n0rity plurality from electing ma
jority of Congress, legislators, and
State and national administrations;
but until we get some method OF pre-
venting rule by minority pluralities, is
1t wise to fight our OppressOrs by voting
them power to oppress?
Does Mr. Clemens realize the import
ance of the Nashville convention Of
POpulists who rode there on passes
furnished by Republican committees,
and that in the next national Populist
convention he is likely to be dictated
to by Stinkberger, Corning, Willis, ct
al, or to have to compromise with such
ultra conservatives as Howard, of Ala
bama, and Kyle, OF Dakota?
That POpulists alone, even IL united,
can elect the next President, no one
claims, and how much longer have we
to wait for relief before it is everlast-
ingly too late?
| know and honor Mr.. Clemens love
Of liberty and justice, and wish we had
people, or even q party OF any
strength and unity, to voice them in
full. Unfortunately we have not, and
the struggle between despotism and
freedom has reached too acute a stage
for the friends Of freedom to divide
their forces over petty bubbles on
names and details in minor matters.
Let us fight our foes, rather than our
friends, for the inexorable logic Of
events must make even the most con-
serVative Democrats as we'll as Popu-
lists and free silver men as radical as
the issues demand they should be. The
40th Iowa infantry went to the front
in 1864 as the "copperhead" regiment,
every man a Democrat and with cop
perhead snake on the coat collar; but
six months later, after losing 40 per
cent. in battle, cast 80 per cent. of its
vote for Lincoln.
"Then waste no blows ON lesser foes
In strife unworthy freemen;
LO nature lifts the veil and shows
The features OF the demonl"
Let us all have a whack at the demon
Of plutOcracy.
w. Fl. r. WAKEFIELD.
The advocate., 1897-08-18
Some Political Suggestions for High Tenn
peratures.
peratures,

peTatures,
Editor AdVOcate:--It is seldom that
have occasion to differ from my friend
G.. G. Clemens, whose purity Of pur-
pose Is never questioned, even by his
political foes. In his Political Sugges-
tiOns for the Dog Days." in your col
umns, he assumes premises upon which
to found conclusions, which premises
are not apparent to my vision. He
seems to think the Populist party is
pledged to, or are more likely to carry
out his views than the new Democ-
racy. But where is the evidence Of
this? Does not the Chicago platform
take rather more radical ground on
the usurpations of power by Federal
courts than does the St. Louis plat
form? Does not comparison Of the
two platforms show at least as deep
devotion to the fundamental prin-
ciples of equal freedom at Chicago as
at st. Louis? l quite agree with Mr..
Clemens that the one issue Of free coin
age Of silver does not stir my blood to
gallOp, and that preservation Of the
liberties Of the people should be the
dominant issue so far as it is possible
to make it so with a people who seem
to have largely lost their love Of lib
erty.
The one thing which I have most
found occasion to criticise in the Popu-
list party is it's seeming indifference
to the natural rights Of man "tO life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
and it's indispOsitiOn to indOrse any
new measures or to repeal any stat
utes to this end. And the one thing
which | have ever found to commend
in the Democratic party is its tenacious
adherence to it's early traditions Of
personal and political liberty and strict
limitations Of governmental powers.
POpulism so far has been dominated
by men trained in the Republican
school of strong central government
and that the right Of local self-govern-
ment can properly be denied by Con-
gress or Legislature. | had hoped 1t
would be otherwise to the extent that
our POpulist State government would
not perpetuate that essentially Repub-
lican and un-American institution, the
Metropolitan Police Boards, but was
disappointed.
In reference to the Federal judiciary,
l am unable to see wherein Mr.. Glenn
ems finds much ground for believing
that one party would be more likely to
meet his views than the other. What
Populist has ever said such ringing
words on this question as did George
Frederick Williams in his late address
at commencement of Louisiana State
University at Baton Rouge, or than has
Mr.. Bryan himself? Who ever voiced
Mr.. Clemens well-known sentiments
as vigorously as did Mr.. White, pres
ent fusion candidate for Governor OF
Iowa, when Q member Of Congress a
The advocate., 1897-08-18

There are a large number Of Republic
cans in this State who could be won
over to the cause of reform If the
proper effort were made. These men
ought to be reading the Advocate,
The new North-west., 1897-02-05

In time of more and more Importance to
satisfactory to the administration at
Madsid. and thus, from years of weak
ness, strength grew, SO that insurrection
came to mean revolution, and there
dawned upon the sight Of the striving
patriot the splendid vision of a blood
bought but free republic. ~-."
But people know more Of the struggles
Of Cuba than they do of Cuba itself. Ev-
cry civilized inhab1tant OF tho globe has
followed with feelings of Indignation
and pity the story of Cuba's suffering.
All the instructions, tTe 'Separatist
wars" and the other vain but valiant
efforts Of the Cubans to throw off the
Spanish yoke have appealed to his chiv-
airy and wrung his heart with grief and
rage; but, as rule, he is as ignorant Of
the scene of these struggles as if they
had occurred in the viewless air. And
yet, i'll the comparatively small compass
of its watery boundaries, there are con-
centrated greater variety of natural re-
sources than are to be found in any 9TH
or island, state, province or country be-
meath the sun.
This may sound extravagant, but the
statement is verified by all reliable sta
tistics and unpreiudiced witnesses And
when those who cavil come to reckon up
Its advantages-its millions Of acres Of
soil, richer than any i'll the United
States, that will grow anything from IA
The new North-west., 1897-02-05

were the most important And just here,
as an instance Of the slumbrous apathy
that has resulted from years Of hopeless
subJugation and practical serfdom, the
opening up Of the iron mines in the prov
ince of Santiago de Cuba, at the eastern
end OF the island, may profitably be cit
ed. These valuable mines, though dis
covered nearly century ago, never felt
the blow Of pick until 1883, when a
party of New York capitalists determin.
ed to make an effort to purchase and de-
velop them. Negotiations with the Span
lsh government were at once commenced.
and in 1885, after two years of persua-
sion, concessions were obtained and work
was commenced. M.ock companies were
organized III New York and Philadel-
phia, and bonds were foated. These COM
panies were the Juragua, the Spanish
American, the signe and others. From
these mines the annual expectation grew
to be more than 500, 900 tons Of iron ore
and 10000 tons of manganese, amount
ing to $4,000, 900 in value at the low
est estimate.
Mining Is Easy.
Mining was nominal, as the ore conld
be readily broken up by surface blast
ing. In order to carry ore to the United
States large feet of steamers was nee
essary. On the return trip from the
United States these steamers at first
went empty or with ballast only, hut it
finally dawned upon the owners of the
The new North-west., 1897-02-05


TO cripple the enterprise and mar the
destiny of the new government that was
forming on this new soil.
Cuba's Great Grievance.
The grievance of Cuba, which has
lasted all these years, dates from this
early period. 1t was, in its nature and
operation, the parallel of the one which
brought about the bloody but glorious
birth of our own independence-that is
TO say, taxation without representation.
But there was vast difference in the
situation Of the Cubans. While our Rev
olutionist fathers were vastly inferior
to the enemy in point of numbers, their
proportion to the whole number of fight
ing Englishmen who could be landed on
our shores was not Of such smallness as
to preclude all hope, whereas the mere
handful of Cubans were so overwhelm-
ingly oyermatched by the armed force
that Spain could muster as to be prac-
tically in her power after the first dem
onstration.
And SO there have been insurrection
after insnrrection and defeat after de-
feat, and the consequent horrible butch
cries of retribution, until Cuba, the
beautiful, the rich, the wonderful, has
been little more than bloody abattoir
wherein the lives and hopes of weak
but maryelously courageous people have
been periodically sacrificed.
But the irmortal longing for liberty
could not be crushed out of the breast of
the sons of these patriots, and they. in
turn, have made the same struggle. But
the results of these heroic efforts became
The new North-west., 1897-02-05

Careful ilte"ton giyrn to coil etjons and remit
LiincF> promptly made
The new North-west., 1897-02-05
Copyright, 1906, by the Author.

lSoPyIlsHt, 1coo, ny bno AuunOrI
Cuba! It is name that now is fa-
miliar to every household in all the civ
hlized earth. The suffering of its people,
the dying groans of it's tortured patriots,
have formed the minor key of sorrow in
the worlds grand song of progress. And
yet, in spite Of the fact that it has long
held the interest and syEpathy Of fair
minded people, no land is so little known
and SO greatly underestimated. The
traveller who glimpses for the first time
her marvellous shores is overcome with
aztaa'aEiment at tie al Of i'm
n4GAae possibility tIHa a., nll.ering
before him, for even il ", l4r richest
vastmenLs shredded, lc. t'aaiy h!eo;ling
unGe: tho violent h@nJs5 + g. 'snral
p"i II Er7aa 1enlau a. "ta i G
Ic os the An} N.t+#. lt.l
20 Gan ta,se away. .""....
Il evnrybs y knows, the development
Of Cuba had been f1olu lie. i t oc-
cupaHcS retarded and ut tl1 piacti-
ca!ly stopped by the rule of pain Soon
after the foot Of Columbus touched her
virgin soil the dark cloud O. oppression
began to hover over her, and it was only
by the sheer force of her innate worth,
coupled with the necessities of her in
habitants, that her glorious products be-
came, even to limited extent, avail
able.
When in 1911 Columbus sent his son
Diego, with a number of colonists, to
Cuba, the big island was speedily set
tied, and measurements of it's propor-
tions were made by party of official
agramensores (surveyors), and these
measurements We're OF such accuracy
that they remain as standards TODAY.
The length of the island was found to
he in round numbers 600 miles; it's
width at its narrowyst point, 81 miles,
and at its widest point, II miles. This
gives to tho long, shark shaped island an
area of Approximately $4,000 square
miles, Or nearly the size of the state Of
Pennsylvania.
In view of the necessity of the extern
sive exploration which was incident to
this comprehensive survey, it seems
passing strange that no more of Cuba s
richness was discovered and utilized for
the development Of the strength and
value of the new colony. This derelic-
tion, however, was probably not the
fault of the really vigorous and pro-
gressive adherents of the son of the
great discoverer. Indeed, from a careful
study of history, though exact dates are
not to be obtained, it would seem that
it was soon after its colonization that
the greed of the mother country began