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The news & observer., 1897-02-05
THE LEASE INVALID.

There are man1 reasons why the North
Carolina Railroad lease is invalid. We
win mention to-day only the ground that
1t is beyond the power of a railroad com
pany to lease it's line for ninety y-nine years
unless there is a special act of the Leg
islature. In Penn Co. VS.. st. Louis Rail
road Co. the United States Supreme
Court (11S II. s., 313l hold that lease
for ninety nine years is tantamount to
a sale and That such lease is invalid and
void. unless the railroad company is au-
thorized to sell 40 the same effect are
decisions 1870 II. s., 81; t31 u. s., $50,
and 101 L. s., So, citing II How, 30, and
there are others. The court uses this
language: "The principle is, that where a
corporation, like :railroad company, has
granted 10 it by Charter a franchise in
tended in large measure to be exercised
for the public good3 The due performance
Of these functions Icing the consideration
of the public grant, any contract which
disables the corporation from perform
ing those functions which undertakes,
without the consent Of the State, the
transfer to others the rights and powers
conferred by the charter, and to relieve
the grantees Of the. burden which it inn
poses. is a violation. of the contract with
the State, and is void, rs against public
policy"
Gould anything Ike palmer than this?
And in another case the same high court
held a railroad lease for 96 years void.
though it had been .acquieseed in by all
parties for three years.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
TURN ON THE LIGHTS.

Tho right of the Legislature to nix
4ho charges of railroads, telegraph, tele-
phone and express companies mas peeh
affirmed by an unbroken line of decisions
of tho limited States Supreme Court, IN
over forty decisions to that effect Ihe
only limitation upon this power is, that
the rates must not be too low TO afferd
moderate interest on the actual value OF
these properties, but that in fixing the
rates the Legislature need not make any
allowance for exorbitant salaries, or too
axnans;ve management or illegal ex-
penditures (as for lobbying and the like).
1t is therefore proper to enquire INTO the
salaries of the higher officials. No man
is so ignorant as not to know that the
Legislature has the power to Tx the
rates, and to ascertain the amount OF
salaries as a help in fixing just rates
The resolution of Mr.. Hauser asking for
information as to all railroad, telegraph
and telephone salaries above S2,50O Il
wear was opposed by the railroad lobby,
but passed the House. In the Senate,
the resolution has been still more bitter
" fought The railroad nabobs do not
want the people to know the high salaries
the people are taxed high rates to pay.
The suggestion that this is an attempt
10 cut down all salaries to level is not
correct There are men who are worth
much more than $4,000 per annum, and
there is no disposition to pay any man
less than he earns, but there is belief
that low passenger and freight rates are
denied the people in order to give too
many princely salaries. If this IS not
true, the inquiry viii be Of positive ad-
vantage to the railways.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
IT is NONE OF HIS FIGHT.

Maj. Guthrie Speaks for Himself Over
Ills own Signature-Content for the
Rival Popuist Factions Who Recent
Kicked Him to Kick Each Other
Awhile
To the Charlotte Observer.
/ note that your usually accurate Raj.
egh correspondent quotes me ms saving
to him In Raleigh yesterday, referring to
the political situation In the Legislatures
as follows: 'All day / have been eovip,,
to majority and minority Populists .fbis
is fire of your own kindline and I win
pour no water on it," | am tbns FAR
correctly reported YouN correspondent
quotes Col. Skinner as saying to him a~
follows: Guthrie said to-day that had
he been a member of the Legislature. he
would have voted against pritchard. but
that he did not see how Aver and Otho
Wilson could oppose Pritchard." Thus
far | am also correctly reported. But
Mr.. Skinner is reported in the same CON
nection as saying to your reporter:
Guthrie is with us" Now this was not
authorized by me, and does not reflect
my true sentiment Your correspondent
further writes: "Republicans give ont
operate with the boiling Populists"
certainly gave nobody any authority tn
say such thing as this for me; nor au
| conscious Of any declaration or act
on my part to justify such an inference
My true position as to the factonal fight
now going on among the Populist mem
bcrs Of the General Assembly at Raleigh
is this: TT is NONE OF MY FIGHT
1t is a struggle in which. if there was
ever any political principle involved
that principle is oyershadowed and los'
sight Of in the fight for spoils and per
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and the ordinary
Peoples party voter (of whom / am one,
a private in the ranks, is not in it at all
/ have said, and / will stick to it, that
the minority voters who were pledged to
Senator Pritchard before the election
and who voted for Mr.. Pritchard, are
much more consistent in their course than
some of the majority who gave me a sort
of milk and cider support in the late cam
paign, and now pose as such ardent
Populists and anti-Pritchard men. OF
course this observation is not intended
to apply in any way whatever to those
true and tried Populists who have from
the beginning affiliated in good faith
with the majority Populist caucus, espe-
cially those who stood up like men in
my support in advancing and voting for
populist principles in the late campaign.
Time makes all things even. / am con-
tent to wait and let the rival factions
kick each other awhile to see how it
feels, especially as a goodly number OF
both factions so recently kicked me.
Lay on McDuff."I am still a Populst,
If | KNOW WHAT A POPULIST IS.
VIM. A. GUTHRIE.
Durham, n c., Feb. 3, 1897.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
THROW OPEN THE RAILROADS
TO THE PEOPLE.

Every railroad Of any length IN North
Carolina was built, in part at least, by
taxation, bonds being issued by the
State. or counties and towns. This was
upon the idea that they would be for
the use of the public The railroads, by
q system of shrewd manipulation, have
now nearly passed into the hands of
nonresident ownership. These owners
have been active in procuring the adop-
ton Of the gold standard by which the
nrice of farm produce and labor has been
reduced one-half, thus practically
doubling railroad and telegraph charges.
At present rates no one but the rich, or
dead-heads, ride on railroads or. use the
telegraph except upon sheer necessity.
Reduce their rates in proportion to the
fall in prices of produce and labor, and
the railroads and telegraphs would
again be open TO public use. The non
resident millionaire owners feel no scar
city of money themselves and feel no
need of reducing rates, and their local
oYerseers being in receipt of big salaries,
find them bigger under the gold stand
ard. Our Legislature can reduce rates
and throw the railroads and telegraphs
open to the public and the corporations
will actually make more money by lower
rates
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
THE REPUBLICANS ARE TO GET
THE TURKEY.

In the division of the ''spoils' between
the Republicans and the Populists, the
division is understood to be as follows,
as at present announced:
Republicans-Pe rail
way commission, insane asylum at
Raleigh, judge Of Eastern criminal
circuit and Atlantic and North Caro-
lima railroad. Populists-Agricultur-
al department, bureau Of labor statis-
tics, insane asylum at Goldsboro,
State librarian, shell fish commission
er and keeper of the capitol.
This is a division in which the Repub-
lican gets ''the turkey every time" The
Populists not only get very small slice
of the pie, but they get what they will
find difficult to obtain possession of with
out much litigation. 1t viii be observed
that the Republicans are to get the peni-
tentiary and the A. g. N. G. r. X. There
are more positions in these two places
than in all the other State patronage
combined. On the A. & N. G. X. r.,
the salaries and wages aggregate over
thirty thousand dollars, and except the
engineers and few other officers all
the other places could be filled by party
workers. We have not the figures by
us as to the penitentiary, but we know
that aside from the superintendent.
warden, assistant warden, managers of
rho farms there are many smaller places
which are eagerly sought after-mora
than in all the asylums combined, ex-
cept the place for specialists, and there
are not noted specialists in either the
Populist or Republican parties to fill
these positions. Besides, it will require
litigation to secure control of either of
the asylums, whereas the penitentiary
and the A. & N. @. r. II. can be easily
had.
It's none of our business, We only
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
TALKING SOUND SENSE.

The Sampson Democrat gives express
sion to views entertained by eight
tenths of the white voters in NORTH
Carolina when it says:
''Ihe Republican party has made
cats paw of the Populist party in
this State. lit has used it to dethrone
Democracy and neuTalize the silver
sentiment of silver State. 1t is
about time for the real silver people,
IN whatever party they are found, to
come together and wrest the State
from the dominion Of the party Of
dear dollars and deprecated prop
erty values, the foster mother Of
trusts and dangerous corporations.
And a thing of more vital Importance
than these demands it-good home
government-which can not be ex-
pected of the Republican party as it
is constituted in this State''
A whole column could not state th'
need better or more forcibly outline th.
future policy that ought to be adopted
by those who want to "wrest the Stat'
from the dominion of the party of deal
sslIars and deprecated property"
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. John II. Webb, of IIillsboro, died
on Monday night aged II years.
DR.. J. NJ. Hays is again at home in per-
feet health, and has resumed his prac-
tice.--Greensboro Record.
1t is announced that Mr. Joseph Z.
Pippin becomes editor of the Tarboro
Southerner. He will be warmly welcom-
ed to the craft.
The Tarboro Southerner has been poll
ing the young men OF that town to as
certain their views on the proposition to
tax bachelors. The proportion is FIVE to
four against the law
The Chatham Record notes the sudden
death of Mrs. Kate D. Hill, aged 20
years. She was a daughter of Judge
John ID. Toomer. She was lying down ON
her sofa when she was found uncon-
scious.
Col J. S. Carr has offered the "Occo-
neechee Medal" to the most proficient
student in the agricultural department
of the A. and M. COlleg for the colored
race, and Mr.. J. f. Foote, Jr., has offered
q corresponding medal for the mechanical
department. Bishop Hood will probably
offer a similar medal to the most prof
cient student of the engineering depart
ment.-Raleigh Gazette.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
DEPUBLICAN RUL
BRINGS US.
burlington News.)

One day last week a negro by the
name Of George Boswell went TO the
home OF DR.. Faucette and had some dis
pute with the cook. She ordered him to
leave and he refused to do so. She then
called the Doctor who came out and
told the negro to leave his premises. The
negro refused again and began cursing
the Doctor The Doctor then struck the
negro with his fist, whereupon the negro
drew his knife and began slashing at
the Doctor. He cut HIS coat literally to
pieces, but only inflicted a slight flesh
wound. The negro was brought before
tine Mayor and bound over to court, and
failing to give bond was sent to jail
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

For more than a year this paper, with
others, has been urging this Legislature
to make provision for the constitutional
requirement of a four months school. 1t
ought not to adjourn until it does this,
independent of the money it can get,
when the present lease is set aside The
new offer gives $4,000 additional that
can go to the school fund, but that may
not be available for this year.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

call attention to the fact that while the
Republicans are certain to get all the
Federal patronage, they also demand
most of the turkey in the State admins
tration.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
'7hen she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money il it
fails to cure. 25c.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
FIGURES DO NO LIE.


The people who had previously not
given Thought to the lease question, have
been gratifed as well as surprised by the
figures that show the great blunder made
i'm leasing the North Carolina railroad.
AS they see how the property OF the
State was transferred for an inadequate
consideration, it is no wonder that they
elamor more and more for an annulment
OF the lease.
Let us give few figures showing how
much better is the proposition offered by
the Seaboard Airline railroad than that
by the Southern Railway. The s. A. L..
proposes to pay rental of 100000 to
THE State. Deduct from that the interest
TO Ike paid on S2,70O000 of six per cent
bonds-S1G2. .00O-and the annual excess
of dividend over the interest is $13S,000
In fifteen years this saving would aggre-
gate $2,070,000. Add to this the aver
age interest, ~ years, Mt Az per cent,
S60S. .G25, and we have 50, ,76S 625. This
would pay off the six per cent bonds and
leave a net balance of S6S,62J.
For nhnty nine years, the term Of the
lease, there would be a gain to the State
Of S13.GG2, 600. TO this add the average
interest, 49la pears at AZ per cent, $3U-
49,. .055, giving as a total saving under
the SeabOard's proposition for the ninety
mime years of $4,000, ,05J.
Now let us examine how 1T would be
under the Southern lease. The annual
dividend to the State will he S210,000.
Deduct from that the interest on 81, 100
600 Of six per cent bonds and it leaves
an annual excess over interest Of $4S,-
600. The saving for fifteen years would
be $4,000. The average interest, ~
years at AZ per cent. S243000, making
$963, 900, as the total savings for fifteen
years. If applied to pay outstanding
six per cent bonds, it would lack ST.
737 900 of doing so.
For ninety mine years the savings
would be $4,752, 900. To this add the
average interest 491a years at Az per
cent, $t0,5S5, $50 and we have the total
saving by the Southern lease of $15,-
337 ,0S0
Now let us contrast the two offers as
TO sinking fund at the end of fifteen years
s. A. L. offer $2,76S, ,625
Southern 963 900
DIFF. in favor S. 4. l.. S1,S05, ,625
In other words at the end of fifteen
years the sinking fund under the s. A. l..
offer Will pay off the outstanding six per
cent bonds, amounting to $2,700000, and
leave SOS, ,625 an the fund. The annual
dividend of 100000 thereaft viii pay
a large part of the expenses of State gov
ermment, while under the Southern
lease, the sinking fund at the end of fif-
teen years will only pay $685. 900 of the
six per cent bonds, and leave still out
standing 1,737 900
4 comparison of the sinking fund un-
der the ninety mine years shows even
more clearly the advantage of the the
increased bid:
S. A. l.. offer 44094, ,055
Southern il, ,337 ,0S0
Diff in favor S. A. /. $2S, ,756, ,975
Com amy one who is a better friend of
the taxpayers Of the Southern Railway
fail to demand that the road be leased to
the party that win pay twenty eight mil
lion dollars more for it than the Southern
agrees to pay? Or to favor opening the
l. L.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
S44,094,055
1885 l,USO
$2s,756,975
Dif in favor S. A. l..

Dli III lWNVI y ~. y. 10, EJV1vfV
Com amy one who is a better friend of
the taxpayers Of the Southern Railway
fail to demand that the road be leased to
the party that win pay twenty eight mil
lion dollars more for it than the Southern
agrees to pay? Or to favor opening the
door to still better bids?
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

The death of w w. McDiarmid editor
of the Lumberton Robesonian, is a great
personal bereavement to this writer as
we'll as deep loss to- the State. Only a
few weeks ago we sent him a word Of
sympathy when he sustained a heavy
loss by the burning of his Office, little
dreaming that so soon we would be called
upon to note his death. He was jovial,
warm-hearted, true man; an enterpris
ing and successful editor; a correct and
his county; a wise and active Democrat:
and a sincere Christian.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
THE POPULAR VERDICT is TO
ANNUI.

All the talk in Raleigh now is OF
the North Carolina Railroad lease.
The position taken by the News and
Observer is endorsed by the people
all over the ate,-Iaurinburg Ex
change.
This was true before Il bona fide pro
position to pay $4,000 a year more
than the Southern offers was made. Be
fore that, some men were doubtful
whether the lease ought to be annulet
without a better offer Now all who have
more interest in the State than in thC
Southern Railway favor annuEing thi,
lease, and the advertising for bids.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.

The News and Observers telephones;
So, p.on,s .. 80
G.llsol'ai 80 &c 1877
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

Entered at the postotfce at Raleigh
n. c.. as second-class m. tier.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
Constipation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. 1t
retains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indi-
The news & observer., 1897-02-05
Diff. in favor S. 4. l..

s. A. l.. offer
/. Southern
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

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ING COMPANY.
Office: News and Observer Building,
Fayetteville Street.
The news & observer., 1897-02-05

! Now let us contrast the two offers as
10 sinking fund at the end of fifteen years:
s. A. L. offer 50, ,76S, ,625
| Southern 963, 900
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
SMALL HOLDERS ACTIVE
PLANT SUGAR CANE Ar MAULuA
GUICH.
Kona Forging Ahead in Road I'm
provement and Coffee Cultivation
Mr.. Townsend's Trip.

The Inspector General of Schools,
who has just returned from three
months tour of the Island of Hawaii,
has much to say that is interesting
concerning the improvements, both
public and private which have been
going on.
ION the windward side of the Is
land" says Mr.. Townsend, roads are
completed from Hilo and Honohina.
One can also drive comfortably from
Laupahoehoe into Kohala. There is a
great development of sugar cane cul-
tivation between Maulua gulch and
the the old Honohina plantation. Some
hundreds of acres of cane are already
planted by small holders. The cane
will be ground at the Hakalau mill
When the homesteads at Maulua ore
thrown open there will be great deal
more cane planted. All the lower
homesteads will be planted IN sugar
and the upper in coffee.
81 noticed remarkable development
in the agricultural and coffee regions
in the ITamakua district.
"In Kona the most notable thing
was the road improvement. good
driving road now extends from Nc
Cures ranch to Napoopoo aud road
work is progressing which will con-
meet these roads in the region of
Hookena. drive from Huihui to Ho-
nomalino will then be possible. The
surveyors marks are visible clear to
Kahuku.
Great areas of land are being
planted in coffee. The crop is good.
Kona has had a very rainy season,
which is unprecedented. The trees
are growing well and there will be a
great deal of new wood for next
wears crop.
"While passing through Kau dis
trict / saw some of the heaviest lad
ened coffee trees it has ever been my
pleasure to gaze upon. These trees
were growing in a protected spot on
c. Meinecke's place at Waiahino.
There were some 600 trees in all. Back
of Kilea. on John Searles' place, 7
found very choice coffee plantation.
"Kau has had terrible draught,
but is thoroughly broken now. The
grazing company suffered most. The
sugar plantations suffered little.
81 saw very little of the coffee
fields in Olaa, but the people whom I
lllcb were All tOlllltltllt illdl Oldd w Us
the proper place. Some large drying
houses are going up in anticipation OF
the crop now on the trees. The esti-
mates of the crop seem too good to
believe.
"In Puma I found the road work
going on there. There is now good
driving road for a distance of nine
teen miles into the district. This Is
an excellent road. Work to connect
this with the old Rycroft road is pro-
crossing rapidly and it will not be
long before there will be road thirty
miles in length.
Coffee out in Puma district is look
ing fine. The crop. it is said. will be
good, in the region of Kamaili and IA
hoa. The coffee is older at Pahoa,
much of it being on the Catholic mis-
sion lands. Goudie Brothers have
some excellent trees. c. L. Wight. Lita
Wilder, Harry Rycroft and others have
excellent coffee in Kamaili."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
Finest
Brushes

Nothing is more disgusting
to experience than using a
tooth brush that sheds it's
bristles and causes the opera
tor to gag and spit. We have
brushes that we guarantee
will not shed their bristles.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
ELECTION NOTICE.

The following named persons have
been elected as officers of the Hamoa
Plantation Company, for the ensuing
year, viz:
Hon. w. f. Allen, President.
Hon. II. 2. Baldwin, Vice President.
George II. Robertson, Esq, Treas
urer.
+. F. Bishop, Secretary.
r. w. Hebron, Auditor.
Hon. G. n. Wilcox, Hon. w. O.
Smith, Directors.
Honolulu, December 9, 1897.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
THIS TELLS WHERE HEALTH NAY
BE FOUND

And that is far more important than
making money. If your blood is inn
pure Hoods Sarsaparilla is the medi-
cine for you. 1t cures scrofula, salt
rheum, dyspepsia and all other dis
eases originating in or promoted by
impure blood and low state of the
system.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
Made.

We give our customers the
benefit of our purchasing all
goods in large quantities
whereby we can purchase
goods at much lower figure
than other dealers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13
TONIGHT'S CONCERT,

The Government band will render
the following program at Emma
square this evening":
PART 1.
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PART III.
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Mr.. Charles Kreuter.
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Spanish-La Graziosa ........ Nehl
Polka-On Patrol ............ Tetras
Hawaii Ponoi.
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-13

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headache.