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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-30
THE DISREPUTABLE LAWYER.

1t is to be regretted that there can be
found in the ranks of our profession, as
in all others. some who disgrace it by
practices in violation of every rule of
ethics, good taste and morality. | am
glad to believe that the instances are few.
Amongst this class one of the most OBJ
DCxious specimens is the lawyer, who,
forgetting that one of the duties devOlv-
ing upon him is to promote kind feeling
amongst the people in the community in
which he resides, spares no effort to
encourage discord and strife that litiga-
tion may follow to his gain. He cOnsid-
ers the practice of law as a mercantile
calling and he sells his pickles through
drummers fitted by nature and education
for the business. He roams the streets
with a wild and hungry spirit hunting up
cases regardless of their morality and
merit, and always insists upon litigation.
Such practices generally degrade pro-
fesSional mans entire nature. He is
brutal and coarse in the trial Of a cause,
tyrannical towards the weak cringng,
fawning slave to those in, power He is
bold enough to express open contempt
for virtue Such lawyer with two or
three disreputable consta bles guided by a
kindred spirit is more to be dreaded in
a city or a town than an Asiatic pesti-
lence. This Association in every possible
way should place its seal of condemnation
upon such practices and those employing
them. The lawyer who lives in such an
atmosphere has neither pride in his pro-
fession nor any fraternal feeling for its
members. He must know that he is
wrOnging them together with the public
and this feeling produces antagonism.
AS he advances in years, if he continues
such course of professional life, he be-
comes embittered. He SCOTS at the noble
and great He sneers at deeds of human
ity and delights in the misfortunes of his
fellowmen He meets with his inevitable
reward. He is stunned by all and is an
object of universal disgust. When he has
passed the meridian of his life and his
steps are turned towards the setting sun,
no reflection from the eastern sky will
light up his dcsolate pathway, but in
utter darkness and alone he shall tread
the journey Of wasted life to an in
glorious end.
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NOT A PARTY-R STATE.

At the recent session of the State
Teachers Assembly at WrightsvilIe, Prof
J. Allen Holt, of Oak Ridge, president of
the Assembly, in the course of his cx-
tion of intellectual liberty and political
freedom which certain CLIQUE of man
mon worshippers say North Caroinians
have not enioved He said:
Much has been written and spoken
recently about emapcipating the white
man in North Carolina politically and
there is something in it, but at the bot
tom, no man ever saw North Carolina
when it's people were afraid to say and
act ssthey thoughEt. Were they afraid
on the Goth of May. 1775? Didn't they
take their time before going into The
compact called the Union" and did any
body dictate when they refused to go
out in 1851? We're they afraid to impeach
Holden? Were they afraid of Grants
bayonets in 1862, and Federal threats in
1876? Were they not acting as free men
in 1894 when in their impatience on ac-
count of real and fancied wrongs they
overturned the existing order of things :?
Could the demons of hell have prevented
the revolution in 1898? Did our people
care for the threat of United States
troops or United States courts? The polit-
ical revolutions in 1894 and 1896 and those
OF 1893 and 1900 show most conclusively
that we have not been waiting for any
body or any act of public policy to un-
shackle North Carolina manhood
The Greensboro Telegram, which seems
proud to advertise that North CAROLYN
ians are a race of slaves, took issue with
Prof Holt and said that North Carolina
had been in political serfdom, or words
to that effect. To that criticism. Prof
Holt replied as follows:
In general, my address at the Teach
er's Assembly was upon the Importance of
intellectual supremacy, in contra-di
tinctiOn to commercial and military SUI
premacy in national life. What | said
about the love of liberty and Independence
of cur people had no reference TO political
conditions or the merits of the different
views held as to racial matters. Your
editorial gives the whole matter poiti-
cal turn which it is not my intention to
discuss. AS 1 read the political history
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Of North CarolinianS / find that no polti-
cal party or party boss has ever been so
dominant in North Carolina as not to find
it necessary to watch the enemy No cleo
ton law has ever been so partisan as to
be able to hold the party making it in
power when the people undertook to
change it. Bayonets and courts and cleo
ton laws have awaited nothing. Party
bosses have lost their grip here in the
South as nowhere else. North Carolina
Virginia, Maryland South Carolina, Ken
lucky and other negro States have sue
cessfully disputed the sway of the party
boss, while Croker and Platt are still
dominant in New York, Quay is still tri-
umphant in Pennsylvania and Hanna still
rides supreme in Ohio.
Plat, Quay and Hanna would be i'm
possible in North Carolina with or with
out our constitutional amendment
Il cannot believe or conccde. that the
masses of North Carolina have not voted
true TO their convictions. To my mind
it is the least party-ridden State l
know. 1t is true some very good men in
the State have continued to vote with
their party while not accepting entirely
some of it's new doctrines. This often
happens here and elsewhere. A notable
recent case is that of Senator Hoar, Of
Massachusetts, and many staunch Repub-
leans of that State, who repudiated the
recent tendencies of their party and yet
supported Mr. Mckinley. If a man 10 to
retain his standing ard influence any
where ne can not always be on the jump
from one PARTY to another. We have
never lacked freedom of speech or men
who spoke out freely but the trouble has
baen with some such TINT they have
failed to secure a following. The Popu-
lists CT Kansas generally went back to
the Republican party from which they
had come just as the Populists OF North
Carolina. generally. went back 10 the
Democratic party from which they mad
come and yet there was no racial question
there 10 drive them back. The great
masses of the people of North Carolina
have been Democrats because they be-
lieved it TO be TO their interest to be Dem
ocrats. That there were hard things said
of the Populists when they went off was
because people can not stand quietly by
and see their homes fired The Populists
went claiming all the time to be "jusi
as good Democrats as ever" and they did
all the more damage to Democracy Those
Continued on Tenth Psge.l
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The press of the State has almost with
out exception spoken in terms Of high
praise of teh speech made by Governor
Aycock before the Manufacturers Clut
at Charlotte last Saturday night. Below
we give two extracts that show the spiir-
it that has characterized the comments,
the first from the pen of Hon. L. b.
Kingsbury, LIZ D., editor of the Will
mington Messenger, and the second from
the pen of Hon. John r. Webster, editor
of Websters Weekly:
A GOOD AND TIMELY SPEECH.
Wilmington Messenger.)
Governor AycOck gives more satiSfac-
ton by his speeches than by his Off
cial acts-pardons and appointments.
He is quite apt to make a good speech
well tempered wisely wrought, prac-
teal and true to his party and State.
His address a day or two ago at Char
lotte. before the Manufacturers Club was
ntelligently placed, and met the de-
mands satisfactorily and clearly. His
address may be read with benefit by
inchoate, ambitious political ledgings,
DIS Wen DIS ny Olu ltllOWS, buChCu,
with their vision strained towards a good
office in declining years. We think the
Governors speech timely, interesting, ard
we'll calculated to do good at a time
when restless spirits are roaming and
a threatened disintegration of the grand
old party of principles, prestige and pa
trotism, that has passed through the
fires OF trial, defeat and humiliation
many times, and yet without the smell
of despair and fear and deSertion upon
it's garments. So may it ever stand a
fortress of defense with its beacon lights
filling the National heavens.
The Governor is quite quotable in his
latest deliverance. Speaking to sus-
pected protectioniSts he said:
"You will pardon me for reminding
you in the beginning that your task is
difficult one and can only be wrought
out by much charity. You have served
the world we'll in the past. How well
you shall serve it in the future will de-
pend largely upon your attitude to-
wards public questions. You may grow
rich without power and have great
honor without influence. Those people
who have influenced the world most
have been those who gave least consid-
Grafton for their own selfish purposes
and most regard for the good of others.
If they have advocated liberality of
opinion they have also been foremost
in yielding regard to the opinion of
others"
AS German friend said to us once
as he listened to what was said
That is goot.' 1t is very apostle
and should impress. He has respect
for Southern opinion, and knows that
the South is capable OF thinking for it.
self. Indeed the highest statesman
ship, the nOblest examples of un5elfish
patriotism, the strongest men in Gov
ernmental affairs have been of the
South. Said Charles Sumner OF Mass
achusetts, in the Senate in 1873, For
sixty years this country has been gov
erned by the men Of the South, and
candor and truth compel me to say,
they have done it viii clean hands -
Yea, verify! Said Governor Aycock,
and it was peculiarly pointed: I'VE
must not think that the great world
outside of us is entitled 10 dominate
cur views and that the opinion OF our
own people past and present is entitled
to no weight"
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THE MODEL LAWYER.

He is simple in his attire and his per-
ksonaI appearance betokens cleanliness.
! In manner courteous and polite, yet with
dignity which forbds coarse familiarity.
He is gifted with those delightful charms
which accompany the refnements of po-
lite life and which are sometimes mis-
understood and never appreciated by the
coarse and vulgar. His gentleness in
character commands confidence. He loves
the companionship of friends. He de-
lights in the society of books. pure
and irreproachable private life places
him above the shafts of petty gossip. He
Is free from any faint of malice, envy or
aalsehood. He is brave and chivalrous,
always respectful to. but never obsequious
10 the judge. He cultvates a fraternal
feeling for all the members of the bar.
but allews no insolence from DULLES who
occasionally disgrace the profession. His
clients confide to him their troubles with
confidence that he will not reveal them.
lie has regard for the sensibility of
dversary. He is fearless when COM
atting. fer his client, the whole weight of
N apparently irresistible clamor. He is
DOL, though tried by all the means which
Gould overcome the firmest patience. He
S cautious when prudence counses re-
crve. He is aggressive when the mo-
Int for action has arrived The love of
yer has not dazzled him. The love
gain does not tempt him. fIe is
rned in the law; well versed not only
its technicalities, but in its broad and
sep principles He manifests and feels
strong interest in all that affects the
welfare of a community. In advancing
his clients interest he spares no labor,
but is governed by supreme sense of
duty. He has an absolute scorn for every
artiice or trick by which an undue advan-
fase might be gained. He fights his bat
ties in the oocn field. He is friend to
all humanity. When he dies his name
VIII be a sweet memory and the odor
OF thyme and rosemary will long lingcr
about his tomb.
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county, we dare say. His postoffice is
| Leavitt. N. c.. and if our readers want
i to see a beautiful and a most hopeful
sight let them leave the train at Aber-
deem. go over the Blue road for three
and half miles. and they will see more
than they bargained for. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sayer are very excellent people, and we
| wish they might induce thousand more
| like themselves to come to North Caro-
| lima and show us what the sand-hills
| were made for
Writing upon the subject, What Sand
! Hills Are Made For" the last issue OF
the Anglo Saxon, published at Rocking
| ham, said:
There is wide strip of land on the
eastern side of Richmond county, the
western side of Scotland and on UP
| through Moore and Cumberland which
| is known far and wide as the sand
| hills. Until a few years ago the chief
product of all this land, and until today
of the part of it lying in Richmond and
Scotland counties was lawsuits. Occa-
sionally a struggling pine, by stress OF
energy and perseverance, would raise its
ton of the lumbermen, and thereby in
vte another lawsuit. But this land
was born to nobler purpose. 1t is no
longer to be sneered at as fit only to
hold the earth together. 1t has long
been known that it was we'll adapted to
fruit culture-particularly adapted to
peaches and grapes-but it has only been
demonstrated within the past few years
that the cultivation of fruit on it on a
large scale for market could be made
profitable. With proper fertilization and
cultivation it is we'll adapted to certain
kinds of vegetables.
what has been done with Moore coun-
ty sand hills in this line can be more
easily done with Richmond county sand
hills, because they have bazed the way,
gained knowledge from experience and
opened up markets and fame for their
products
I'VE are again reminded of this sub
ject by a glimpse of the home of fruit
farmer, who lives almost in gun-shot of
Richmond county, which we copy in an
other column. lit is the experience
of Mr.. Sayer quoted above Editor. ].
just think of a man doing pros
porous business on forty-fve acres
of Sand-hill lands, which can almost be
bought for the price of a carpenters kit
or tools. And what an attractive bust
ness it is. OF course it takes money to
cultivate and fertilize and stock it, and
intellect to cultivate and market the
product, but we can not believe that these
valuable fruit lands will long be per-
mitted to lay in waste and turned out to
wire grass.
This whole section of country is we'll
adapted to fruit culture and it is moth
ing less than a marvel that people gen.
orally do not give more attention to the
production of fruit around their own
houses for home use and to supply local
markets. 1t could be made a source Of
much pleasure and profit. Mr. Louis WE'LL
has on his lot here in town as fine a
vineyard of grapes as ever grew in France
or Germany. He expects to make fifty
bushels this summer land he says they
make very superior quality of vinegar.)
BY buying trees, vines, etc. in wholesale
quantities, an orchard of an acre or so
can be put out at a comparatively small
cost, and it would be the best paying
acre CT the farm
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WHAT SAND HILLS ARE GOOD FOR

When the Raleigh. and Augusta rail
road was first built to Hamlet, and for
years after, the impression was general
that the sand-hills through which the
lower end was built were useful only for
the pine timber and for holding the world
together. The timber brought fortunes
of the land was sold for a song. About
that time Southern Pines was started as
a health resort. 1t had long been known
that consumption was unknown in the
sand hill country around the Southern
Pines section. In cooperation with the
State Board of Agriculture and the late
General Manager of the Seaboard Air
Line, Mr.. John T. Patrick. State Immi-
grafton Agent, began in tentative way
at first to advertise Southern North Caro-
lima as the ideal resort for Northern peo-
pie desiring winter home where they
could live reasonably. He gave away lots
in Southern Pines to New England news
papers in exchange for space advertising
Southern Pines. The Seaboard Air Line
entered heartily into the plan. To-day
more than a million dollars is invested in
modern hotel property within a radius OF
ten miles of Southern Pines, and thous-
ands of health seekers come there every
winter and regain their health and re-
turn strengthened to their Northern
homes. That is one of the things for
which the sand hills are made for, after
the wealth that came from selling the
North Carolina pine
use, in some respects, to which the sand
hills have been put. They grow the finest
peaches and grapes to be found anywhere
Land that was said by North Carolina
folks twenty years ago to be "too poor
to sprout cow peas is now covered with
vineyards as prolific as those that cover
the hills of sunny France. Mr.. j. Van
Lindlcy, head of the Fruit Growers As
sociation of North Carolina, has acres of
the sand hill land planted In peaches,
that are so luscious and large that they
bring extra good prices in the Northern
markets And this use of the sand hills
is in it's infancy.
Mr. Archibald Johnson editor of Char
ity and Children, gives this object lesson
of what he has seen with his own eyes:
'On the bald sand hills that have sim
ply held the world together since crea
ton until four or five years ago, we saw
recently the most beautiful fruit farm our
eyes ever rested upon. There are some
forty-five acres in the farm and the
main products are peaches, grapes and
berries. 1t belongs to Mr.. j ID. Sayer,
formerly of New York, but now an enthu-
siaStic Tar-Heel. From the first he has
been wonderfully successful, and this
year promises to be the most profitable in
the history of the farm. He will make
more money oil this forty five acres of
wire grass, sand-hill land than will be
made on any dozen cotton farms in Moore
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Excessive economy makes man an IN
desiraMe acquaintance.
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served but where any discrimination
can Justly be made the preference is Civ
en- the visitor from distance. They
obey the Bible injunction, BE We not
unmndful to entertain strangers" After
seeing the additional preparations that
have been made / can safely say to the
traveller come right along, you will find
warm welcome and have a good time.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-12-03
ron can,t nrIbe the AImIahty.

JutOD tNtu NIlch W Nhht boh lnlO
partnership-"If thou prosper me, thou
shalt be my God" But there is one
thing that you can't do. You can't
brlbe the Almighty.-Rev Or, Lorimer.
fremont Temple, Boston
Chrisps Reward.
Christ differs from other teachers be-
cause he offers the greatest reward.
Agnosticism can give nothing because
II knows nothing, Inhdelity is "a leap
in the dark."-Rev. Charles Stelzle,
Markham Memorial Mission, ST. Louis.
Are You Certain of sRIvatiOnf
Idle speculation about the number
saved or not saved Is a vain thing and
always useless, The one question for
every man TO consider about Is this:
"Am saved2 If not, how can bef'-
Rev. Dr Qldllian, Trinity Church, At
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VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT.
what n woman'a society Has Ac-
compliahed In New York Town.

what n woman'a society Has Ac-
compIiahed In a New York Town.
In n town In central New York the
Ladies' Village Improvement society
has purchased opera chairs for the VIII
lage theater and n street sprinkler.
Five OF the women have been desig-
mated the "firemen's relief" and they
make coffee and provide refreshments
for the firemen at fires. The society
has exey,lsed It's influence against the
prevalent habit Of the male population
Of expectorating tobacco juice on the
sidewalks and has had a gratifying
measure of success. 1t also brought
about the enactment of village or
dlnance which provides for the arrest
Of tramps II found within the limits of
the village and notices to this effect
are posted along the highways near the
town and ON the trees In town.
The society fosters town pride and
public spirit, and through It's untirlng
efforts the village stands out as II
model to be followed. Since It's or
ganizatlon the society has completely
changed the aspect Of the town, and
where neglect and carelessness were
formerly the rule neatness and tidlness
now prevail. Fences and sidewalks are
kept in repair, lawns laid out the
streets cleared OF rubbish, and flowers
and shrubbery have taken the place OF
weeds. The women's influence has ex-
tended to the neighboring farmers,
who, patterning after what they have
seen in the village, shave their lawns
and make their cottages and fences
neatcr. The society, 1t should be add
I'd, rcllglously abstains from politics.
Trust, reliance, dependence, Sre
things to be exercised by the creature,
not by the creator. There's no trouble
with God; it's all with us. II we VIII
trust, he will bestow; If we viii lean,
he will support; If we will hope he will
tulhll; IL we will have faith, he VIII
bring It to pass.-Rev. G. j. Wright
Chanlaln United States Navy.
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SPEEDY
STEAMERS
WANTED
To Carry Our Wares
to Australia
The New Federation viii
Deal Largely With Us.
Another Opportunity for the
Pacific Coast.

New YoRK, Dec. 3.-Mr. Rolert Sband,
general manager OF the Western Aus
tralia Steamship Company who has just
arrived here from Liverpool has been i'm
tsrviewed upon trade conditions. He
said in part: "Great changes in the
trade relations between Great Britain
and Australia will probably occur in
very short time as result Of the new
Australian tariff. This tariff will net
injure our trade with foreign countries,
but Great Britain trade with us, it is the
general impression, will be seriously
handicapped.
Formerly the Australian Colonies, with
the exception OF the free trade colony
OF New South Wales, imposed protective
duties againet one another. Under the
federal constitution they are all swept
away and n all internsltrade in Aus
tralia is free. This has, of course, caused a
diminution of revenue in all protected
colonies and now we propose to raise
that amount OF rvenue by increasing
tho duties on almost all imported ar
ticles. This increase will be levied not
only on goods coming from other coun-
tries but from ell portions Of the Brit
ish Empire outside Australia. The
taxed articles include spirits, beer,
wine, tobacco paper, agricultural
implements and furniture. This is
rather stropg evidence against the fall
lacy hat trade follows the flag. At
present cur largest trade is done with
the United States, France and Ger
many"
Mr.. Shand said he was here 80 look
over the shipping field and get an idea
as TO the prospects it holds out for a new
line. II it is started the route will be
from San Francisco TO Western Austral-
ian ports. The branch office will also
be in San Francisco We are confident
that the shipping field here offers ex ell
lent Inducements. Trade between Amer
Ca and Australia has grown enormously
during the past four years, and not lit
tie difficulty Ia experienced in getting
suitable and fast freight steamers to
handle it,"