Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-18

fore,to some extent at least. prevent
this fact is the first essential to any
effective measures to restrict it's
spread.
The Hon. Champ Clark says he is
writing a novel in which there will
be no women, young or old. This
may be to keep Edward Atkinson
from feeling bad or it may be a con
cession to the feelings of Mr..
Roberts, of Utah.
Colorado's gold output last year
was valued at $31 900, 900, being
but So. 600, 900 less than the entire
gold production of the United States
seven years ago At this rate of
growth the Centennial State should
soon cease to elect Populists to
Congress.
Military campaigns evidently have
this in common with political cam
pagins, that they are strongly stlmu-
lative of the imaginative faculty.
Thus the term campaign liar may,
as a rule. be robbed of it's usually
accepted meaning and very proper
ly be made to cover a much wider
field of activity.
Senator Hoar, who perceives a
violation of the Constitution in the
annexation of the Philippines, also
sees where the Governor of Penn
sylvania has the right to name a
United States Senator. the Consti-
tuition to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Hoar is a peculiar sort OF an
old somebody.
The House committee on naval
affairs has been so ~favorably i'm
pressed with the policy of applying
strict business principles to the
conduct of naval affairs that it will
report favorably the bill authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Navy to
change the material of the new dry
docks at League and Mare islands
from timber to stone, the addition
al cost not to exceed $500, 600.
With regard to the detention of
cargoes of flour in Delegoa Bay, the
British Government had to answer
not only the objections of the Uni
ted States but .also the objections
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that Great Britain could not afford
to have foodstufs considered con-
traband of war, being SO largely de-
pendent on foreign supplies and
liable to have them interrupted in
the event of a foreign war.
A special from Montgomery says
that the indications are that the cot
ton acreage in Alabama this year
will be unusually large, the planters
being greatly encouraged by the
good prices of this season. Up tc
January 23rd last year only $500 hao
been paid the State Agriculture
Commissioner for cotton fertilizer
tags, whereas $4,000 has already
been sold this year. This is taken al
a certain Indication of a great cot
ton acreage. The Agricultural De
partment has information that the
other Southern States are having
similar experiences.
When it is considered that ther,
are bills now pending in Congress
which, if enacted, would increes'
our pensions to over $500, OOO, 600
year. the country will understand
the magnitude of the movement tina
j, is made, almost wholly by pension
sharks, to open the doors for tn,
granting of pensions to those VIII
have nev merited them. The pen
sion sharks have. cost this countr,
hundreds of millions Of dollars b,
: forcing the enactment Of laws whic]
the true soldiers did not want, an,
which Congress did not approx
when they were enacted. It wa
done under pressure, organized b.
, the pension sharks and the mer
cenary soldiers who were rarely, j
ever,in a battle.