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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-23

1t is reported in Shanghai that the
Emperor Of China is dead
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-23
SUDDEN DEATH.

Rolesville, N. c., September 22.-(Spe-
cial Mrs. A. J. Wright died here last
night while preparing for church. She
leaves husband and several children to
mourn her loss.
i. Rev. ]. III. Lamberth, of Lexington, is
here aiding in a meeting.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-23
Black Beasts Attempt to Outrage the
Young Daughter Of Respect
able Farmer.
HER FATHER SWEARS TO 1T
Attacked on the Public Highway in Brunswick
County While Returning From Sunday
SchooI-Her Screams Saved
Her From Fate Worse
Than Death.
Wilmington Starr

GORE IS AN HONEST AND REsPECTABLE FAR4lER
Q BRUNSWICK-POOR IN THIS WORlDS Y
GOODS, ESTEEMED HIS NEIGHBORS HE HAS A
THERE Is A CIT AND Sun
HIS FAMILY. BUT A TOWNSHIP WHERE THE
NEGROES WHITES MORE THAN THREE TO
ONE. THIS COUPLED WITH THE FACT. NO DOUBT, THAT
BRUNSWICK COUNTY UNDER REPUBLlCAN-FuSlON RULE =
TEMPT YOUNG GIRL ON THE PUBLIC ROAD, =
. AS NARRATED FOLLOWING AFFIDAVIT:
: STATE .
. o BRUNSWICK. .
APPEARED BEFORE Me. GEO H. BI1LlAAM1 y
, A JUSTICE OF THE FOR TOWN CREEK TOWNSHIP. .
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, JOSEPH GORE WHO Being DUL1
> SWORN. STATES: AGO MY DAUGHTER AGED .
3 Il YEARS WAS RETURNING SUNDAY SCHOOL AC .
COMPANED LITTLE BROTHER, AGED y YEARS, =
D ABOUT O'CLOCK THE AFTERNOON. WHEN ABOUT "A
QUARTER A FROM HOME TWO NEGRO BOYS AGED
ABOUT Is YEARS. AFTER MY DAUGHTER WITH =
THEIR THEIR HEADS TO CONCEAL =
THEIR IDENTITY ATTEMPTED TO TAKE HOLD OF HER
DOUBTLESS WOULD HAVE PLACED THElR UNION .
SCREAMS WOULD DOUBTLESS ACCOMPLISHED THEIR =
} PURPOSE THIS IN TOWN CREEK TOWNSHIP, IN =
BROAD THE VILLAINS HAVE NOT YET BEEN
DETECTED. ,o,n,,rr ,,o,,,,
SIGNED AND BEFORE Me THIS 10TH DAY OF :
4 SEITF A u H. BEIIAMY j. r.. .
WHITE MEN OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY CAN YOU STAND =
Hat? is THERE ONE BORDERS OF YOUR =
COUNTY WHO VOTE AGAINST EVERY CANDID
DATE WHO NEGROES AND WHO is DEPEND
THEM FOR EIECTIONE HAS IT COME TO THIS =
THAT YOUR DAUGHTERS CANNOT ATTEND CHURCH OR SUN
DAY SCHOOL HAVING BODYGUARD TO PROTECT =
LUsTFUL BLACK BRUTEs WHO ROAM =
COUNTY? - -
J sERT YOI1R MANHOOD. Go HELP .
STAMP yESTIGE OF REPUBLICANPOPULIST .
, NEGRO FUSION
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
"The First American"

1t was not desire to coin a sound
ing phrase that moved Lowell to name
Abraham Lincoln 1.-The first American. ="
It was not his habit to sound unmer-
tied praise or to make flattering esti-
! mate, and his estimate of Lincoln was
the fruit of his analytic and critical
judgment. No other man before him,
who reached great prominence, was so
directly the product of the soil No
other one developed the qualities that
make up character under an environ
ment so native. Old world influences
in education. in social surroundings,
shaped the development Of others with
equal or greater powers; but all that
Lincoln was and became was as ma
tive as the trees and flowers amid
which he grew. 1t is this that makes
him "the first American"
He who sees design in the move
ments of humanity can perceive more
than a coincidence in the fact that the
same day of the same month and year
gave to this world two children destiu-
ed to great work along the same line.
Darwin, born in England, and Lincoln,
in the log hut in Kentucky, became
the great emancipators. of their genera
ton. The work the one was born to
do was to free men from the shackles
of ecclesiasticism; the other to strike
from the limbs of a race the gives of
slavery. The one worked to overthrow
dogma and superstition, that men
might know and appreciate the abso-
lutte reign of law; the other lived and
worked to bring equality to men I'M
der that law that knows no color line
nor product of adventurous circum-
stance. When the generations shall
have passed away which still feel the
influence of the homelier qualities of
Lincoln. that will be his title deed 20
enduring fame.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13

ufacture-that is, the equivalent number
of those without work for the entire
census year 1889-to have been BAG, AT.
The average number of employees in
these industries was 4,712,622. Had the
productive capacity of the esta blish-
ments been worked to it's maximum,
it would have given continuous en-
ployment to 6,137,396 persons, leaving
an excess of the possible over the aver
age of 1,424,774. Had this excess been
so engaged, the average value Of the
products Of such labor in the census
year would have been So, 900, $685. in
stead of $3.50, 49,, 2s3. There were H.
69o,152 families in the United States in
1890. Give to- their workers labor that
would have increased their capacity to
consume 81 a week, and the full produc-
tive capacity of theIcountry would have
been balanced by its capacity to con-
sumo. 1t is along these lines that effort
for amelioration of conditions must run,
the relief from burdens that diminish
ccnsumptive power, resulting in in
creased occupation and higher STAN
dard of living.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13

paigns of the doubtful" or pivotal
states; the representation Of minori-
ties, preventing the present anomaly
of making them actually vote for ths.
candidates opposed By them; the neces-
sity It would Impose of securing as
full vote in a safe. as in a doubt
full" state; the prevention 6f such con-
troversies as arose in 1867. He urges
the adoption, with his plan, of the plu-
rality rule, thus obviat1ng the risks in
evitable in elections by the house Of
representatives. 1t is not only because
OF the disturbance and agitation such
an event causes, but because no ex.
ecutlve officer should be chosen by the
legislature. THAT the president should
not appoint the members of the house
OF representatives Is not more appar-
ent than that the members of the
house should not elect the president. 4"
lie foresees in the future the i'm
mlnent possibility of failures to Sc
cure the majority of electoral votes
now required, and resulting turmoil.
In fact several presidents have been
minority presidents" Lincoln received
but 80 per cent of the popular vote,
and there is no good reason why a
plurality should not elect The scheme
favored by Mr.. Carlisle is Identical
with that which The GIo has advo-
Gated for several years past.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
The Fame of DrinkIe.

Republicanism, as Mr.. Hanna in
formed the president, may still be in
existence in Ohio, but the new senator
need not think he has but to raise
his thumb ard look under it to find the
party. When Mr. Hanna sent his
famous telegram. he reckoned without
his host. He knew that KurtZ was
cowed; McKisson and his cohorts were
in retreat, and Foraker was trying to.
get his knife back into his boot with
out being detected. But there was Clay
Drinkle, the Hon. Clay Drinkle, of Ian
caster, cld-fashioned, red and sticky
Clay Drinkle. He was unconquered
and unconquerable.
After the battle the leaders assemble
to listen to pleas for harmony. The
peace treaty falls from the lips of the
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions in limpid sweetness. On Bush
nell, Hanna and Mckinley the syrup
drips, but no flies are attracted to the
Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker. Then
arises the Hon. Clay Drinkle in his
wrath. Like the Hon. Hornblende
Quinkley of former days, he rushes to
the rescue. throws down the gage of.
battle and does the other things ap-
propriate to the occasion. BY his valor
he saves the day, and 10 the name of
Joseph Benson leads all the rest.
So when the story of Ohio's greatness
is told; when the names of Sherman
and Mckinley and Comptroller Dawes
there, above and below and all around
them, poster letters in all. the colors
of the solar spectrum will spell the
magic name of Drinkle, the Hon Clay
of Lancaster
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
against the success of government
loan and fight for the cause of our enc

against the success Of government
loan and fight for the cause of our enc
miles,
We sheer at the weakness of bank
rupt Spain. That weakness is desper-
ately real, but it would come home to
us in case another war loan had to be
added to the debts that the people of
the United States are willing to pay
and mean to pay. but whose discharge
is interfered with and even made I'M
certain by the action of demagogues
in congress and out of it. This country,
in spite Of it's new ships, and notwith-
standing its millions of men and its
Wondrous wealth. is in no position to
invite a war or to contemplate such a
contingency without the most harass-
ing anxiety. 1t is not Hawaii or Cuba
or battleships or "a strong foreign pol
icy' or the valiant words Of bloviating
politicians that would fit us for the
field. but ready money or the sure abil-
ity to raise it in practically unlimited
quantities on demand.
If We want to fortify ourselves so
that we may hold our own and main
tain the dignity and position of the
United States among the nations, the
first object of care must be the nations
finances and the nations credit. Every
man who hesitates at this, who coun-
sells representation, who opposes the
payment of debts by the retirement of
national fiat money, is helping to dis
arm his country in the presence of a
hostile foe. War and debt linked to-
gether spell disaster If we really ap-
prehend any attack from without. or
the necessity of asserting ourselves at
the possible cost of foreign war, we
need a full money chest more than we
do seaboard Notifications or a SQUAD
ron of ships. 1t is not merely financial
intelligence. but true patriotism that
calls for currency reform.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
One Reform Killed.

After all the outcry in Republican
papers and among Republican politi-
cal leaders about the necessity of pen
sion reform, it appears that nothing
whatever is to be done at the present
session. Even the terrible necessities
now labaring. with swollen expendi-
lures AMI a deficit either stationary
or increasing. cannot induce Republi-
can congressman to vote to cut off
the most indefensible item of pension
appropriations. The house committee
has acted adversely upon the bills In
troduced to prohibit the payment of
pensions to soldiers widows in the
case of marriages taking place after
the passage of the act
The abuse at which this was aimed.
is notorious. An examination of
the pension rolls of the past
shows that this provision has
been utilized to saddle upon the tax
payers of the country the maintenance
of large number of designing persons
who have no valid claim upon it what
ever. No pension is more properly
paid or more willingly given than that
which is received by the woman who
bore her share. not infrequently the
heaviest portion, Of the burdens and
sacrifices of the war 1t was by the
women who gave their husbands to
their country. as well as by regiments
and battalions of soldiery. that the Re-
bellion was fought to successful
close. These women are entitled to the
remembrance and support Of a CRATE
full nation.
But the young women who choose
today to marry war veterans have no
claim whatever upon the pension fund.
If they were not mere children at the
time of the war, they at least had no
share in the personal sacrifices or
achievements of the men with whom
they now enter into matrimonial al
lance. They are not entitled to one cent
from the federal treasury. The facts. as
exhibited in the records of the pension
Office, show that this pensioning of SOL
diers' widows indiscriminately has Gre
ated a regular traffic by which women
contract marriages in order that thew
may secure a life support from their
husbands pensions
To permit or encourage this practice
is neither patriotism nor morality. The
whole system. from whichever side it
may be viewed. is inexcusably vicious
not even imagine what argument could
be framed in its defense. How any
congressman. be he full of regard for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
R0THSCHILD AGENT REPORTS.
he Iaihs of Alaska Gold and De-
hounces the AII-CanadIan
Railroad Scheme.

CHICAGO, Feb. PA special to tba
chronicle from Hamilton, Ont. saws.
Shirley Onderdonk, formerly of Chi
cago, who has spent several months I'm
Alaska, is in Hamilton on a business
trip: Mr.. Onderdonk was a member of
Rothschllds prospecting party and has
gathered considera BILE information
about the gold fields. He spent Con- con-
SIDERABLE time on Douglas island
where the famous Treadwell mine. own
eo by the Rothschilds and D. o. Mills.
is situated. Mr.. Onderdonk saws thev
nave $2l 600 900 of gold in sight.
he made trip from Douglas island
to Dyea and over the ChiIkoot pass
and says it is a terrible country es'
pecially in winter When he was in
camp the thermometer was AZ degrees
below zero
Speaking of the Mackenzie-NIa
deal, Mr.. Onderdonk said it was not
good route and that there would be a
strong protest from the KIondike coun-
try when the people heard of the deal
and the valuable concessions made to
the contractors. He said the road
would run from Telegraph creek to
resin lake all right, but the difficulty
was that the Stkeen river was blocked
with ice until June and Telegraph
creek was not easily reached. He also
SAD that after crossing Teslin lake the
resin river was not navigable the
greater portion of the year, except for
boats drawing very little water.
My opinion" he said, lis that the
best route at present is via Dyea and
over the Chilkoot pass. During the
summer many people like the Dalton
trail from Pyramid Harbor." Mr. ON
derdonk returns to Vancouver tomor-
row.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13

the war veteran or be he the veriest
demagogue,. could defend the continu-
ance Of a pension practice that is with
out merit in theory and has proved
an abomination in fact. must be left to
the imagination. We are Informed by
the news dispatches that committee
majority takes this position, and that
this most just and elementary Of all
possible pension reforms has been sti-
fled at its inception. It is evident that
the people Of this country must be still
further burdened with taxation; that
they must suffer yet more from def
icits, and that universal popular
Indignation must be aroused be-
fore congress will consent to lop
away a single branch of the vast
growth Of abuses by which our pension
laws have been surrounded. until JUS
tice, equity and patriotism itself are
choked to death.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
1t Is All Clear Now.

The New England cotton operative is
paid by the ''cut." This is a piece of
goods, usually about forty-fve yards
long. The price is Is cents a "cut" for
prints and little less, under the re-
cent reduction, than 25 cents for ging-
hams. A smart weaver will tend eight
print or six bingham looms, and will
average six "cuts'',xa week on each
loom. For weaving 2,tsO yards of prints
he is paid $685. and for weaving 1920
yards of ginghams he is paid 50. His
labor costs his employer S.5 mills yard
for print and 5.5 mills yard for ging-
hams. These facts make some things
plain that We're before Incompetent
sible One can understand now why
II IS that, each time a congress assem-
bles that has "a bit of tariff tinkering
to do, delegations of cotton mill own
ers go down to Washington, not in
tourists sleepers, to beg congress to
fix things up so that they may be able
to pay their dear working people COM
pensation that will enable them to keep
up that dignity of station that BELTS
an American artisan.
We can now realize how this munifi-
cent compensation enables the operative
to live in those neatly painted modern
cottages, with chromos hanging on the
wall, and be greeted on his return
home at eventide by a gaily dressed
little daughter who trips from her pi-
ano, visible through the open window,
down the paved walk, the ribbons float
ing back in streanlers from her dress
as she runs, while in the open door
stands the trinity dressed housewife
waiting to. give him smiling welcome.
For authority for the first statement
consult any Cd volume of Tariff Hear
lngs. For the latter, consult the col
ored pictures sent out by the Home
Market club, of Boston, during the
campaign of 1892, to illustrate the hap
Ply conditions Of the American artisans
NE under etc:"r.. i O9Is g.. -,.~
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13

ton at the hands of the committee at
its sitting today, but the sense of the
committee was not taken on it's mer-
it's.
The pOstOffice department will take
no action on the proposals submitted
In answer to a recent advertisement.
inviting bids for the establishment Of
two mail routes between Juneau, Alas
ka. and the mouth of the Yukon. one
going as far as the intersection of the
Tanana and the Yukon rivers, and the
other from this point to the Yukon's
mouth. The former contemplated a
course through Canadian territory and
included the establishment Of several
supply stations.
The decision was reached as the re-
suit of some representations made ia
the department by the Canadian gov
eminent that it has already arrang-
ed for line of stations for mail pur-
poses over its own territory from
Dawson, by way of Lake Teslin. in
Guiding a line of railroad from Lake
Teslin to the Stickeen river. thence
along the river to the coast near the
United States postofice at Fort
Wrangel
This railroad will be completed in
September, at which time the Cana
dams say they will be prepared to
start mail service. Under the postal
treaty between the two countries each
is required to carry the mails of the
other free when in passage over a por-
ton of it's territory between different
parts of the country of origin
In the present case the mail would
be transported from lower Alaska to
Dawson and thence on the other bOun-
dairy line without charge to the Unit
ed States government.
Until some time in June the mail
Will be carried from Juneau to Circle
City by a contract already in exist
ence. Negotiations are in progress be-
tween the postal departments of the
two governments for an exchange be-
tween Dawson City and Circle City.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
Mr.. MaSon's Folly,

From the easy, airy way in which
Mr. Mason proposes to drape the re-
sponsibiiity for a Cuban war about his
massive chest development, it is evil
dent that the Illinois senator has neg
Iected to look over the spring fashion
plates. War responsibilities are out OF
style, and anyway it is doubtful if such
an ornament would prove becoming to
the bellicose senator from the city of
Chicago
Mr.. Mason seems to think the respon-
slpIllty for war is something that
can be slipped on and off like an old
shoe; that it may be a sort of jeweled
order to dangle from a broad ribbon
on state occasions, or perhaps a dom
mo costume covered with spangle stars
aud embroidered with large yellow sum
flowers. If that is the case. some of
his friends ought to point out, gently
but firmly, his error to the commander
in-chief of the conversational war that
is being waged against Spain.
There are men who have assumed
personal responsibility for war. and
some of them have their names printed
in large type in primary histories. But
the remarks that follow are not al
ways complimentary. Mr. Mason has
no need to seek everlasting fame and
glory by such uncertain means. When
Washington, Lincoln, and even I.uet
CERT, are forgotten, school boys will
still lisp the name of William Mason,
of Chicago.
If Mr.. Mason is wise he will have his
last spring overcoat pressed and clean
ed, and try to worry along with that
1t is dangerous to depend on garments
that may not fit
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
Washington Bureau st. Paul Globe,
Coreoran BUILDING.
Special to The st. Paul Globe.

Special to The st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The senate
committee on public lands is having
a long siege with matters pertaining
10 Alaskan affairs. Several Minnesota
interests are involved in the general
Dill to provide terms and conditions
for rights Of way, terminal facilities
and rights Of navigation. Col w. S.
King, an old-time promoter, and who
was once lively member of congress
from Minnesota, has just returned
from Canada, where he has been con-
1errng with government officials and
sounding them on the proposition of
making some International regulations
respecting transportation companies.
AS matters stand before the public
lands committee, no less than thirteen
daferent concerns are asking for rights
of way. Several of them have sur
Veyed routes, and the Minnesota COM
pany, of which George A. Bracket is
at the head, has a large force of men
on the ground at work. 1t was said
this afternoon that unless some steps
were taken to regulate matters serious
trouble could not be avoided between
rival companies. 1t has therefore been
suggested that the United States gov
eminent, providing Canada accepts
terms and agrees on conditions, build
road into the Klondike country, and,
after having completed it to point
where it will be ready for equipment,
sell or lease to the person, firm or cor
poration that will give the most for
it.
1t is said such a policy would be for
the best interests of all concerned. If
a general bill, such as is now under
consideration, is passed, granting in
discriminate rights, it will result in a
great rush toward the Klondike and
commencement of half dozen routes.
It is not known that this scheme Of
the government building a road will
prevail, but it is strongly supported by
practical men.
A story current here today that
James J. Hill will build a road into
Alaska is not verified.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13
RICH STRIKE IN THE KLONDIKE
Men F1ocl1ing From Dawson City to
Locate Claims Along Hender-
son Creek

PORTLAND. Or. Feb. FL T,
Schroeder, of San Francisco. who left
Dawson City Dec. 20, has arrived on the
steamer Oregon. He reports that just
before he left, rich strikes had been
made on Henderson creek, about sew
enty miles southeast from Dawson, and
that additional rich finds had been
made on Bonanza and Hunker creeks
He also reports that very rich quartz
Lodges have been located on Stewart
river. and that a party of twenty, head
ed by an experienced mining engineer,
had just left Dawson for that location
He said that the strike, on Henderson
creek, was so rich as to cause quite a
stampede to that locality.