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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
THE PRICE OF PAPER.

Thre are four newspapers published at
Denver-the Rocky Mountain News, the
Republican. the Times and the Post.
They have all made an announcement
that owing to the increased cost OF paper
and other newspaper productions they
had found it necessary to increase the
price of their papers to their subscribers.
Not a great while ago the Chicago daily
papers all anticipated the increased cost
by doubling subscription rates. The Mil
waukee Wisconsin says many neWspa-
pers in the West have pursued the same
course. More papers have increased their
advertising rates in order to make up
the increased cost of production. In
the cities it easier to raise advertising
rates than it is to increase the price OF
subscription, and these publishers have
transferred the trust exactions to the ad-
vertisers.
With legitimate papers like the news
papers, in smaller cities, it is not practi-
cable for the publisher to divide the in
.reased cost between the advertisers or
subscribers. The trust just "gouges' the
publisher and he has to bear it. The pa
per bill of the News and Observer, calcu-
lating that the same amount is used, ha
been increased $4,000 per year by the
trust. That is big tribute for one pa
per to pay to one trust. But that is
what is exacted of this paper, and We
see no hope of redress AS long as the
trusts can buy enough votes to elect
trust president and trust congress, the
robbery will go on, and judging by the
past year, the exactions will become
more and more.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
Auction Sale of Land.

By virtue of power conferred upon me
by a certain mortgage executed by Ben
McCullers and duly recorded in Registry
of Wake county in Book No. 124 at
Page 800, l will offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash at the court
house door in the city Of Raleigh, N. O.,
on Wednesday, February 2, 1900, at IL
o'clock M, a tract Of land situate in
Wake county in st. Mary's township,
about seven miles southeast from Raj
eigh and described as follows:
Beginning at stake on the north edge
of the road leading from Raleigh to Bat
ties Bridge the southwest corner, thence
north 215 degrees east 152 3-5 poles to
a stake in Caswell Powell's line, thence
with the same east "a poles to red oak
thence south / degree west 124 40 poles
to a stake in the old dover line, thence
east AZ poles to a stake on the branch,
thence up the various courses of said
branch about IS poles to road, thence
westwardly along the road 112 poles to
the beginning, containing one hundred
and eight acres Cos acres) save and ex-
cept from the above tract fifty acres on
the south side Of said tract heretofore
CONCEDED to James Holder.
B. Il. MONTAGUE, Mortgage.
Raleigh. N. G.. Jan. l. 1900
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FOR SALE,
The Finest Grain and Stock
Farm in Eastern Va.

FOR SALE g.. g.. g.. 3. 10. %. .66
Situated twenty miles west of Peters
burg and within four of the Norfolk and
Western r r. The tract contains two
thousand three hundred and fifty-seven
acres. about one-fifth of which is table
land and rich creek bottom, the uplands
are gently undulating; not a hill on the
place. Soil is clay loan and very pro-
ductive, the bottoms are as fine timothy
lands as any in the State and produce
heavy crops of grain. The farm IS
beautifully watered by springs and
streams. There are two residences
(about one and half miles apart one
contains eleven large rooms, severa
halls, closets, porches, &C., the otnel
six rooms. There are the usual farm
houses such as barns, tenant houses
granary, &c.
Some excellent fruit-Apples, Peaches.
Cherries, Grapes, &C. There IS not
a more delightful home or healthier one
in the State. / am too old 10 manage
it, and to make a speedy sale offer IL
at the low price of twelve dollars per
acre, less than l have ever offered II.
This tract would cut up into a dozen
fine farms, but l wish to sell 1t as
whole. Deer, Turkey, Quail &c., an
abundance.
The above is fairly good description
of "Mill Quarter" Farm by former own
pr two wears ago. He was offered over
$1,000 per acre cash and refused 1t. IL
is worth more now than then. But !
now offer it at 5000 per acre. At Ills
1T is VERY CHEAP PROPERTY.
II is estimated by men who have been
over it that there is TIMBER ON IL
ENOUGH TO PAY FOR IT at this
price, and then have plenty of wood and
Ill the land and buildings free, and they
would be worth as much more. Ii you
AVE some cash and want big bargain
write to or see
j. A. JONES
Raleigh. N. G..
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CHARLES M. STEIFF,
Coupon Notice,
Mechanics and investors
Union,

Stockholders who own FULL PAID
COUPON CERTIFICATES in the
MECHANICS AND INVESTORS
UNION, can have their semi-annual
coupons, paid on presentation at the
COMMERCIAL AND FARMERS
BANK, on and after Saturday the 23rd
day of December.
Owing to the large demand for loans
on residence property, the Directors Of
the Company have authorized the further
sale Of Full Paid 500 shares of Divi-
dend paying stock at eighty dollars per
share, cash. This gives the purchaser
an eight per cent. investment, Of which
$3.50 is paid in cash each year and
$1,000 profit at maturity. This stock Ia
amply secured by first mortgage on
residence property in Raleigh and other
prosperous Cities and Towns in North
Carolina. Dividends are paid promptly
in June and December. For further
particulars address
B. 8. JERMAN,
Treasurer.
GEORGE ALLEN,
Secretary Pullen Building, Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
WHY DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE
FOR THE AMENDMENT.

1. Because he is white man, and will
not be governed, directly or indirectly, LII
whole or in part, by any inferior race,
much less by former slave, the negro,
Nor will he submit to be governed by
sorry white mem backed by negroes.
2. Because the negro has not been I'M
proved by suffrage but made worse. Ii
has not increased his manhood nor ms
capacity for government, but has increas-
ed his idleness, yiciousness, insolence, and
criminal propensities.
g.. Because it is necessary to secure
peaceful relations between the two races.
Neearly a century ago Thomas Jefferson
said, Nothing is more certainly written
in the book of fate than that the negro
slave will some day be freed; and it has
equally certain. that the two races VIII
never live together peaceably ON terms OF
equality" Is not this prophecy album
dainty fulfilled?
4. Because the welfare and progress of
the State demand it. The mere negro is
drag ON OUT progress. The negro voter is
too big load. Our progress in every
line, agricultural, commercial, manufac-
turing, educational, and POLITICAL is him
dered and clogged by the constant dan
ger and the drag of negro suffrage.
5. Because every intelligent white man
in the United States now sees that unre-
stricted negro suffrage was a mistake
when it was forced upon the South by
Federal bayonets at the close of the war.
If it was a mistake then, it is mistake
now, and should be corrected.
6. Because every State has the right to
regulate its own suffrage qualifications.
The Chinaman cannot vote on the Pa
cific coast, the Indian cannot vote in the
West and the negro should not vote in
the South.
Z. Because the negro is unfit for self
government, much less for governing the
whites. If left to themselves the NE
groes would relapse into barbarism and
soon be eating one another, as their an
cestors did in Africa before the white
people began to rule them.
8. Because a million Southern white
men fought to prevent this iniquity, and
their descendants are not going to toler-
ate it any longer
8. Because the white race whether rich
or poor. literate or illiterate, has shown
itself worthy of the ballot by centuries
Of voting and by bloodshed spilled on a
thousand battlefields; while the negro
race has never earned it's freedom, much
less the right to vote.
10. Because Southern women need 1t
for their protection against the growing
insolence and lust of black trutes
II. Because we are tired of mobs, lynch
ings, riots, murders, rapes and feuds be-
tween the races caused by false hopes
held out to negroes through the ballot
r. Because it affords peaceable solu-
ton of the race question, which otherwise
will some day lead to war of extermina-
ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

Spencer Blackburn was arrested last
week on the charge Of throwing rocks
ut an obstreperous store-keeper." But it
was not Spencer Blackburn, of Ashe.
He never does anything worse than re-
peat the defamation: bid me Beat q
Charge" The repetition of that decla-
nation ought to be indictable, but it is
n0t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
SENSIBLE NEGROES WILL SUP
PORT THE AMENDMENT.

1. Because it takes the negro out Of
politics and thus removes constant
cause of race prejudice and irritation.
2. Because it destroys the leadership
Of bad white men, who have used the
negro for thirty years to their profit but
his loss.
8. Because it encourages the negro to
seek education.
f. Because it encourages him to &C,
quire property.
). Because it separates worthy and in
telligent negroes from the ignorant and
vicious. thus holding out reward and en-
enlargement for progress and improve
ment.
6. Because it will abolish the race line
in politics and make it possible for vo-
ters to be independent, if they do desire.
(. Because the Southern white man
and the negroes are natural friends, were
friends in slavery, desire to be friends
now, but cannot be friends with universal
negro suffrage.
6. Because negro suffrage is not good
for all negroes. 1t makes most of them
fools. Only the best are worthy to vote.
8. Because negro suffrage is stumbling
block in the way of the progress of the
race. 1t is a false light Turing them to
destruction. 1t tells them to travel the
road of politics, whereas they should
travel the road of industry, economy,
education and self-control.
10. Because it enables worthy negroes
to stand up before the world and be re-
cognized as men, instead of being mixed
I'D with the sorry, the vicious, the idle
and the criminal. 1t will take off the
stigma of niger ''nigger,' "nigger''
from worthy negroes.
II. If the negro has anything in him
it will give him a chance to show it.
II. 1t will cut loose the negro from the
North and identify the negro with the
South, where his interests now are and
where his only future hes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

The University of Virginia has nine
teen graduates in Congress, which is
more than any other university or col
lege furnishes. OF the eleven members
of the North Carolina delegation, only
two are graduates of the University
Senator Butler and Representative
Thomas
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
WHILE THERE is LIFE THERE
IS HOPE.

/ was afflicted with catarrh; could
leither taste nor smell and could hear
out little. Ely's Cream Balm cured it,
Marcus G. Shautz, Railway, n. j.
THE BALM reached me safely and
the effect is surprising. My son says the
first application gave decided relief.
Respectfully. Mrs. Franklin Freeman.
Dover, n ii.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezing. Sold by druggists at 30 cts.
or mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren
ST., New York.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
At the session of the Methodist Con.

At the session of the Methodist Con
ference at Washington in December it
fered net loss of 364 members This
week the Raleigh Christian Advocate
shows from the reports that the aces
Sons in 1899 were ,531 and 3,477 losses,
certificate and otherwise, a gain Of l.
054 instead of loss as heretofore pub
lished.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

A man named Bryant was shot in the
ear and mouth and thrown from a NOV
ng train because he shouted for Goebel,
just the day before Goebel was assissina-
ted Republican rule in the South is in
-eparable from anarchy and crime.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

The Wilkesboro Chronicle, referring to
he fact that Wilkes has a negro jailor
whose carelessness permitted prisoners
20 escape, says that Wilkes needs White
Supremacy as we'll as Eastern North
Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

Taylor was the attorney of the L. and
y. railroad when he was made Attorney
General. He served them so well in that
capacity that they determined to make
him Governor, and succeeded up to a
certain point. The things" who Were
harbored in the executive building, did
he rest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

There are many Democrats in these
latter days with affxes and sufixes. In
Pennsylvania, they call Sibley 1.-THE
acrobatic Democratic" In Washington
they call Bynum 1.-The S Democrat" And
there are others.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

VIM. E. Curtis writes to the Chicago
Record that whenever the Supreme
court and Congress have come into col
lision, the latter has always been COM
pelled to yield" This is commended to
Senator Pritchard who is the first Sena-
tor in the history of the country who
thought that the Senate could judicially
pass upon the constitutionality Of State
amendment to its constitution.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

The Standard Oil bank controls AZ
per cent of the total deposits, and 40
per cent of the loans made by the New
York banks. And Secretary Gage made
big deposits in it when requested to do Sc
because of the efforts of the bank Off
GERS in the campaign of 1S96-"what
was done in the canvass last year"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
The "3 Days. Cure.
(FOR MEM

FOR MEN)
Leads all remedies in this State. Drug
lists refund the money if it fails to cure.
Guarantee on the package. Price One
Dollar. Also by snail on receipt OF price.
THE '.rHRDE DAYS" CURE CO.
Washington, D. q.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
JEFFERSON SAID.

1t is not by the consolidation or con-
centration of powers, but by their dis
tribution, that good government is eff
fected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

Good people attend church, but the bet
ter class attend the races.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

When a woman loses all interest in
fashions it is time to announce her fun
eral
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02

There are Pianos and Pianos-good,
bad and indifferent-but wherever you 60,
among rich or poor, you'll always find
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-02
Amendment Good for All Parties.
Twelve Conclusive Reasons Why Democrats
Populists, Republicans and Negroes should
Support the Amendment.

why members
support the Consttu Amendment
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
WILLIAM n. COHEN.

ImpossibiIity of Floating Promising
Enterprises During Period fs02-0.
During the period from 1892 10 1896 y
said Judge William n. Cohen. Of No. -
William street, people came 20 me with the
most alluring schemes, enterprises which
would now be snapped up by capitalists
without hesitation; but after the project
was explained Il agreeing with the promot-
ers as to the great possibilities Of the ven
ture) l was compelled 10 say: No one is
willing to furnish the capital. / cannot OBJ
tain backing for you at present
During the past four years the exact op-
posite has been the rule. Capital has been
seeking investment in enormous volume.
Business has been doubled. trebled and
quadrupled in many lines. The reason for
this is that capital knows where II stands.
"'rhs has been my personal experience
with clients. / venture TO predict that In
case Of a change in administration at the
coming election reyersiOn to the hard
times of 1926 will result, and voters
should carefully weigh the matter before
casting their ballots"
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
ATLANTIC, cuLF AND PACIFIC co.

George w. Gait, of the Atlantic, Gulf
and Pacific Company, OF No. u Park Row,
said; "Our business during the past four
years has increased about 400 per cent
over the period 1926. 1t is all attribu-
table 10 the restored confidence among the
investors, for our line is new enterprises.
The uncertainty OF the coming election is
causing a number OF them TO hold off. We
have had more work than we could do dur
ing the last eighteen months and, of course,
desire the continuance In power OF those
who have brought about the good times.
A change would be dangerous now. Our
employees have been doubled in number, as
have the wages paid them. during the two
periods above mentioned"
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
HENRY cLEws.
The Great Financier Expresses Himself
I'm Vigorous Language as to
Conditions.

Almost the entire period from 1893 until
the close Of 1896 was simply one of a sue
cession Of panics in the financial wcrld.
If one were not actually prevailing il was
lowering in the air, ready to swoop down to
destroy business interests. vulture-like. The
result was no business man during that time
could rely upon his own judgment upon
which to predicate important operations. as
confidence was destroyed. 1t was abso-
lutely imperative every day for him to hear
from Washington to ascertain whether he
might venture upon business operations.
That period was a 'hellish" one for the
business men Of the country, since which
Evening journal., 1900-10-23

prosperity. Our force is running night and
day. We did not even shut down during
portion Of the summer. as usual, but kept
right on. Our employees are well satisfied
and seem TO think, with us, that the good
times and steady work are due to the ma
tional policy pursued since 1896. A con-
servative estimate Of the increase ia the
volume Of our business since 1896, as COM
pared with the four years from 1892 to
1896, is 800 per cent. Our employees have
increased proportionately. and wages have
gone up. The bare possibility that change
may be made at the coming election has
caused us to hold off in making contracts
for supplies. If the present government is
indorsed we predict continued prosperity; if
not, return to the stagnation of 1926.
Evening journal., 1900-10-23

Broad street. "And. further never in my
experience was there such a period Of de-
preston and virtual stagnation of business
as during 1926 Capital was withdrawn
from this country by European investors
during that period. Domestic capitalists
were afraid 20 engage upon new ventures.
But since 1896 capital has flowed in from
an directions In a steady stream, as Is evi-
denced by the large number Of new enter
prises floated believe all this attribu-
table TO the confidence in the present ad-
ministrniion 10 enact laws favorable 10 the
development Of business interests. and think
change now would reproduce the panicky
conditions Of lS92-6.'
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
AnE eRuBER.
WeIl-knOwn Lawyer Tells How the
Commission Dry Goods Mer-
chant Fared.

MY clientage is chiefly among the COM
mission dry goods merchants of the city"
said Mr.. A. Gruber Of No. 149 Broadway,
a well-known New York lawyer. During
the last four years their volume Of business
has been much greater than during the
period from 1892 TO 1896. and failures have
been less than during the past twenty-five
years. Many merchants lost money steadi-
ly from 1893 TO 1896. Since 1896 every
client ! have has had an increase in busi-
ness. change az the present time would
be nothing short of a calamity. Orders are
now being given conditioned on the election.
Many Democratic friends Of mine are
going 10 vote against free silver. Voters
cannot too carefully canvass the issues.
Prosperity will continue with the continu-
ance Of the present policy"
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
u. 4. NAN allen.

Van Allen. lawyer. at No. 3lS Broad
l;aYe his personal observation and eX-
|be in commercial lines during the
|ieht years as follows; There never
'ep such prosperity among my clients
Isl business is still increasing. al
s now held in check by presidential
ainty. Many Democrats are telling
ey will cast their ballots for a con-
SO of good times: that il Is not a
)n OF politics. but one Of business. to
% maintain The present policy.
ehout the South. in the manufac.
States especially. reports reach me
effect that many Democrats will
lEainst their national ticket In No
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
ANGER BAKING COMPANY.
FIFTY Per Cent. Increase I'm Busines
During the Past -Four Years.

fifty Per Cent. Increase In Bustnesa
During the Past Four Years.
I'VE have experienced a 80 per cent. in
crease in the volume of our business during
the last four years as compared with the
period from 1892 to 1896" said Mr. Anger
of the Anger Baking Co.. of No. 20 Bowery.
"Our business is one of the first to suffer
in case Of depression in financial and com
mercial circles, for the reason that our prin
cipal product is cakes of various kinds and
the working classes do not eat cakes when
they are not prosperous. The number Of
our employees has increased 50 per cent.
during the same period and our payroll is
much larger. We should expect large de-
crease in business if the national Admins
tration were changed at the coming cleo
ton. On the other hand, il the Admins
tration is indorsed we would anticipate a
continuance of good times. We have been
in business for twenty years"
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
MILLIAM Ne wAsnnuRN.
known Lawyer Discusses the
lusfrcns situation from Ills
Standpoint.

7
iusirens situation from His
Standpoint.
iam Ives Washburn, lawyer. az No.
adway:
comparing the state of business
ITS during the past few years
that existing from 1872 TO 1870,
htion leads TO the belief that IN
lines the improvement is more
one hundred per cent That
was one Of financial depression and
|ainty. The beginning of good times,
FED, was coincident with the incoming
3 Administration and the financial
|iniilatcd and pursued by the party in
{ has stimulated and tended TO bring
the prosperity reported from all sec
81 I is well carefully to consider the
Nu Of exchanging an Administration
tive of these results for one which.
|c.election promises Of its leaders, is
( uncertain and contradictory IN many
while opposing itself In some drec-
10 well established principles Of social
m0ncial economics and suggesting no
fal remedy for evils with which the
Of sound government are called upon
)nily to grapple.
.fcrtainty always is dangerous 10 com
ll Interests. and unsound principles al
.iNork havoc in the community. II
- suffers II affects all. and the man
Sail means quite as much. II not as
isr. rs the capitalist. Capital and
sin themselves. are not hostile. Ex-
Fe shows that they stand or suffer to-
d. Under existing conditions, there
Z is not wise to experiment with an
m reversal of the policy TO which we
sscly indebted for present benefits"
Evening journal., 1900-10-23
GEORGE L. NICHOLS.
Prominent Attorney Says Change
Would shock the Established
Government.

From the standpoint Of a lawyer" said
George l.. Nichols, well-known lawyer,
of No 81 Wall street. "a change in the
administration at the coming election would
be terrible shock TO established govern
ment. The threats Of the theorists who
are opposing the national policy which has
restored confidence and wrought such good
results during the last four years are
worthy Of careful consideration on the part
Of voters. | am a director in a number OF
corporations. all of which show largely in
creased earnings and increased number Of
employees and wages. II no change is made
at the coming election | believe these good
times will continue and increase. If the
present government is overthrown ! would
expect diminution in earnings and contrac-
tion Of corporate enterprises"