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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
COL. JENKINS ON BOOKS.
The Member of the House From Gran
vile Writes Letter of "Explana-
ton and Correction"

To the Editor: The letter published
over my signature in the News and OBJ
server of May Goth requires explanation
and correction.
/ had been sick for some time-in bed
for more than three weeks. | had received
letters from agents of certain book
houses, asking me to write a letter in
favor of a complete change of school
books, but / had destroyed them. On
May 25th an agent of b. F. Johnson &
Co, as he said, came to my home. while
| was still sick and feeble and l yielded
to his opportunities to sign the letter
which was published. 1t was written by
him and read to me, and | really did not
observe all that it contained when
signed it. Among other things l was
not aware that it contained charge that
the University Publishing Company was,
My position was in favor of State adoption
for / know the fact that during the late
session of the Legislature the University
Publishing Company declared before the
Joint Committee on Education, through
it's attorneys, that it was strongly in ia
vor of State adoption and uniform sys-
TEN of school books throughout the State
My position was in favr State adoption
and uniformity, but l was opposed to the
appointment of any sub commission, as
feared it might produce log rolling and
dissatisfaction. From the beginning
thought the State Board of Education
ought to have full control of the whole
matter, as it was the authority created
by the Constitution for the purpose.
If any one understood from my letter
that l considered the books published by
the University Publishing Company as
unsatisfactory, l wish to correct the i'm
preston I do not wish to take part in
the controversy, but as an effort may
be made to use my letter to the injury Of
that company desire 70 say that | regard
Maury's biographies and Holmes read
ers as standing at the head of the list,
and l have never heard any unfavorable
criticism of either. ! have heard San
ford's arithmetic criticised by some.
But / do not intend to discuss school
books. l only say the above as a matter
of justice have no personal interest in
the controversy, except as a citizen of
the State 1t is not a question of favor
ing any publishing house, but question
of the selection of the best books for
our, children at the least expense. l do
not favor any wholesale changes except
when necessary on account of lower
prices or admittedly better books. l do
hoI Ihlhh any puDilohlhS SoAiAPe'hy mas any
claim on the people or on the State Board
of Education.
The duty of the board in my judgment
| is to select the books from the stand
| point of merit and cost, and to incline
! neither one way or the other to favor
| any publishing house. The single inquiry
| should be as to the respective merits and
| prices of the books submitted
/ have written this letter in Justice
| to myself and it will be my last utter
!. ance on the subject.
w. II. p. JENKINS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
A BEN TILLMAN DEMOCRAT. !"

The New York Tribune. the leading
Republican organ of the United States,
has a cartoon which it calls South Caro-
lima at the Parting of the Ways Nc
Laurin represents Progress" and Till
man represents anti Progress" in this
picture. We make no comment, except to
say that it is now in order for the Char
lotte Observer to disprove the charge
made against Tillman and it's chief owner.
Some months ago, it will be remembered
when the question of Mr.. Tompkin's poll
tics was raised-(the time Mckinley gave
him a SO, 900 sinecure1--the Observer
said Mr. Tompkins is a Ben Tillman
Democrat 1t is sad to see the Tribune
sIandering the idol of the Observer
owner.
We had heard of Jeffersonian. Jack
sonian. Tilden, Cleveland, and Bryan
Democrats, but when the Observer an
nounced that Mr.. d. A. Tompkins lis a
Ben Tillnlan Democrat it was new one
on us.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
WHITE MAN TURNED YELLOW.

Great CONSERVATION was felt by the
friends of NJ. A. Hogarty, of Lexington,
KY, when they saw he was turning yell
low His skin slowly changed color, also
his eyes, and he suffered terribly His
malady was Yelloy Jaundice. He was
treated by the best doctors, but without
benefit. Then he was advised to try Elec-
trio Bitters, the wonderful Stomach and
Liver remedy, and he writes: after
taking two bottles / was wholly cured. .
A trial proves its matchless merit for all
Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles. On
ly Csc. Sold by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
A BRAVE AND HONEST OFFICIAL.

The boldest and most admirable public
official in America today is Thomas L.
Johnson. mayor of Cleveland Ohio, and
that's why the corporation press is trying
to make the people believe he is an
unsafe man. He is now in a contest with
the auditors of his county over the as
sessment of railroad property. They as
sessed the property at only 10 per cent
of it's actual value. and though Mr..
Johnson proved that such assessment was
ridiculous and criminal favoritism to cor
porate property, the board voted down the
mayors proposition to call the road offl-
Gals in to explain. The assessment was
raised only one per cent though it was
not denied that railroad property was as
sessed at only 16 per cent of it's actual
value, while all other property was as
sessed at so per cent. Here is an extract
from the report of the meeting:
'eHow about the sleeping cars and other
kinds of cars in operation on your road
under lease?" inquired the mayor.
I'VE are not returning other peoples
property for taxation answered Mr.. Tai
colt.
But the law says that these auditors
have a right to tax you for all cars run
ming on your road under lease, within the
State Of Ohio"
"Mr. Johnson" spoke up one of the au-
ditors, I'VE presume that cars running on
this road not belonging to it are returned
by the companies owning them. That be-
ing so. it would be taxing the same prop
erty twice to make the Erie return these
cars"
THAT is where presumption misleads
you, my friend. When you come to tax
the other fellow. he will say Why, the
Erie company has those cars, and they
are Included in its return"
''The Pullman company made return
to the State board for all its property run
ming on Ohio roads under lease, last
year, of 50, $780,, interposed one of the
railroad company officials.
"only $780," exclaimed the mayor.
Great Scott There are hundreds of
Pullman cars running on Ohio roads at
this minute, and you couldn't reproduce
one of them under $4,000, and there are
mighty few of them you could buy at that
figure"
Mr.. Johnson will appeal from the local
board which is evidently dominated by
the railroads, to the State board. If that
does not avail he will appeal to the courts.
If they deny justice, he will appeal to
the people to put men in office who are
not either controlled by tax-dodging cor
porations or who look through corpora
ton spectacles. But Mayor Johnson is
not waiting for that. He has secured
writ of mandamus from the courts, di-
rected to the assessing auditors who are
resisting the mayor, and commanding
them to summon the officials of the rail
roads concerned to testify respecting the
true value of the properties.
o, for a Thomas L. Johnson in public
office in North Cardinal
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT FOL-
LOW THE FLAG.
New York Times.

New York Times.
The court has sustained the Govern
ment's contention that the Constitution
does not follow the fag-that is, not all
parts of the Constitution. The lay mind,
and, as we may Judge from Justice
Whites bewilderment, the legal mind
also, will find it hard to recognize the
consistency of Justice Browns reasoning
in the Downes case, upholding the law
fulness of duties under the Foraker act,
with the opinion in the De Lima case,
denying the duties collected prior to that
enactment were lawful.
The popular effect of these opinions of
the court and in some measure their
legal weight will be diminished by the
number and ability of the dissenting
opinions A court divided five to four
does not speak with quite the same au-
thority as court that is unanimous.
And Justice Whites majority opinion is
historically and we think, legally, much
sounder than that of Justice Brown, in
whose conclusion he concurs. Neverthe
less, the decisions are binding so long
as they shall be upheld by subsequent
opinions of the same tribunal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30

minority. THE source of national power
in this country is the constitution of
the United States, and the government
as to our internal affairs possesses no
interest sovereign power not derived
from that instrumental and inconsistent
with its letter and spirit" That was the
view of Marshall, the greatest eXpounder
of the constitution, and it must be the
view of all those who believe that the
Constitution was intended by it's franz
ers to be supreme and govern President
and Congress wherever the flag floats
and the sovereignty of the United States
extends.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
MT. AIRY
WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS.

This popular resort will be open the
first of June. For want of room we
We're compelled last season to turn
away several Of our guests and patrons.
We are now building an annex to the
hotel one hundred and fifty feet long.
which adds much to the appearance OF
the place and greatly increases the ca
pacity. This building will be complet-
ed and nicely furnished by the last
week in June. other improvements
have been made. Prices same as last
season, $25 to $50 per month and $500
to $500 per week
Write for one Of our folders which
gives analysis Of water and other infor-
nation. J. X. REYNOLDS,
Mt. Airy. n. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
AMERICA STILL A REPUBLIC.

New York Journal.
The court has summarily suppressed
the Presidents aspirations to act as
dictator. Congress is the law making
power, it tells him, not he. His collec-
ton of duties by his own authority be-
tween the time when the treaty of peace
was ratified and the time when Congress
framed tariff for Porto Rico was abso-
lutely illegal, and every cent so collected
must be returned.
The policy of the administration mar
rowly escaped total shipwreck. Four of
the nine justices voted to annul the tariff
law on the ground that Porto Rico had
been incorporated into the United States.
A change of a single vote would have
left not a shred of the Presidents pro-
gramme Four of the five justices who
formed the majority that the Consti
tuition followed the flag, and only single
one out of the nine members of the court
held that Porto Rico could be govern
ed outside of the Constitution.
When the decision is clearly under
stood it ought to have an excellent effect,
both in Porto Rico and in the Philip
pines The persistence of the Philip
pine insurrection has been largely due
to the reluctance of the Filipinos to sub,
nit to arbitrary government outside OF
the Constitution. President Mckinley, it
may be remembered, picked out certain
clauses of the Constitution and sent them
over to the Philippines Commission to
| be observed. not as part of the funda-
mental law of the land, but as his in
structions. Henceforth the people of the
islands will feel that their rights are not
! dependent upon the good will of any man.
but are under the protection of the Su-
preme court of the United States, acting
as the guardian of the Constitution
| The vision of empire has passed. Hence
| forth we may differ about politics, but
| they will be constitutional policies, shap-
| ed in accordance with the principles of
| Republican government.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
Good Morning!

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their sailors and ribbons and ready trim
med hats to their advantage. We guar
antee to compete with any catalogue
house in the country We have now
wholesale business extending over North
Carolina and South Carolina. We also
sell goods in Georgia, and we have ship
ped about one hundred dozen trimmed
hats to Baltimore this season. We are
anxious to close up our summer business
and will sell you goods at the lowest
prices
Trimmed hats from $3.50 to $24OO per
dozen. If interested, write to us and we
will send you samples. We guarantee
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tory, may be returned at our expense.
We are yours for business,
GEO. o. GAYLORD,
POS and 210 N. Front street
Wilmington, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
NOT A DOUBLE TAX.
Springfield Republican.

1pI IISI GIU INGpUUIIOdII
The Texas Supreme court has reach
ed the strange conclusion that to tax
the tangible property of a railroad and
to tax the franchise also is case of
double taxation and forbidden by the
State constitution. 1t has been said
that corporation rights receive scant re-
spect in Texas. This can no longer be
asserted. Railroads are taxed in Mass
achusetts on their tangible property,
and also on their franchise, and no one
hereabouts has ever had the hardihood
to call it double taxation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
Spirit of the Press.
DOUGLAS OR RoCKEFELLER.

DOUGbAS Ok ROChEf hLL1L4IN'
Springfield Republican.
The old University of Chicago claim
ed Stephen A. Douglas as it's founder
The University as it has been built up
on the gifts of John d. Rockefeller, and
probably would like to name him as the
founder. The members of the senior
class have caused to be prepared a
bronze tablet of Douglas to be given to
the university as the class present
and trouble has now arisen over the in
scription to he placed thereon. If Doug
las is made the founder it is feared that
Rockefellers rights might be invaded
or rather that he might regard them as
invaded; and this is a matter of con-
siderable practical Importance to the
university. And so the trustees have
appointed a committee to confer with
students to settle the question.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
STATE NEWS.

Prof j. E. Debnam will move his mill
tary school from LAGRANGE to Newbern.
Lightning struck the house of Mr.. w.
r. Odell, of Concord, setting lire to it, but
little damage was done
The following delegates to the general
convention which meets in San Francisco
October next were elected at the recent
session of the Episcopal Convention Of the
Diocese of Eastern. North Carolina IN ses-
sion at Edenton: Rev. N. Haring, Rev.
DR.. Drane, Rev. Or. Carmichael, Rev. Mr..
George, w. G. Lamb, w. B. Shepherd,
William Calder, B. r. Huske.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
CONGRESS UNTRAMMELED.
New York World.

New York World.
The decisions leave open several minor
questions in regard to the new territories,
But they settle all the main points and
leave the President and the Congress
practically untrammeled by the Consti-
tuition and as free as is the British En-
pire to pursue a policy of expansion and
to govern colonies upon whatever lines
circumstances may seem to make exped-
lent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
CALHOUN DOCTRINE ENDED.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
In upholding that law, and in affirming
the power of Congress to legislate for
Porto Rico regardless of the limitations
of the Constitution that are applicable
to the States of the Union, the court put
an end forever to the old Calhoun doc
trine recently invoked by the opponents
of national expansion. In the most
pregnant decision rendered by the Su
preme court since the period of the Civil
War that tribunal has now refused to
grant an injunction against American
progress during the Twentieth century
along the lines indicated by the events of
1897 and pursued up to this time by the
American Congress and the American
Executive.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
THE CONSTITUTION HELD NOT SU
PREME BEYOND THE STATES.
New York Herald.

New York Herald
In the most important of the insular
cases decided yesterday and the most
momentous opinion rendered since the
foundation of the Government of United
States Supreme Court by a bare major
ity of one holds that the Constitution is
supreme only in the States, and that
million square miles, or one fourth of
the national domain, and ten million peo-
Dle are subject to no law but the will of
Congress.
1t can hardly be said that either the
court or the country is to be congratu-
lated on a decision which four Of its
members say 'overthrows the basis of
our constitutional law and asserts that
the States. and not the people, created
the government" AS Chief Justice Fuller
declares in the dissenting opinion of the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Southern Tobacco Journal.

When Mr.. Buck Duke was asked by
the Industrial Commission if he thought
that consumption of cigarettes was in
furious, he replied: 81 do not. | think
cigarettes are less injurious than cigars;
in fact, the cigarette is the purest form
in which tobacco can be used" What
more assurance of its safety does a
doubling public desire?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
THEY'VE ALREADY "cLUMB. "
Greensboro Record.

Greensboro Record.
Special from Washington have put
ex-senator Butler down as a gold bug,
quoting him as saying he was. Won't it
be a sight to see the Charlotte Obser
yer and the Caucasian climbing into
the same bed? The former has already
turned back the covers, remarking that
this man CButler) may settle down
and become a good citizen yet"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30

Mr.. Capers, the new District Attorney
in South Carolina, who stumped West
Virginia for Mckinley, is out in long
Interview, declares in favor of McLaurin.
As McLaurin got him his job, Capers is
doing right But no Democrat of position
or devotion to Democracy is for McLaurin.
He will get all the Mckinley office hold
ers and McKinleyites but few others.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30

Montague carried both Lynchburg and
Danville, and the vote for Governor in
Virginia now stands: Montague, 224;
Swanson, 1859; Echols, 46; Marshall, 81.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
GREENSBORO STREET CAR LINE
Greensboro Record.

z. V. Taylor has been working for
some months on a street car line FOR
Greensboro and it appears that he has
landed it. In any event, he has done
better than any one else-he has had
his company put up a forfeit of $1,000
and if the road is not built the city is
in that much
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-30
Machine Business.
Summer Law School
University of Virginia.

32d Summer July to Sept I, 1901, Especial
helpful TO beginners; to candidates for admission
to the bar; and to practitioners who have lacked
systematic instruction. For catalogue address
RALEIGH c. MINOR, Secy, Charlottesville, Va.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-05-17
MAYDOLE'S HAMMER,
(Benson's Plaster is Pains Master.)

When Maydole was told that he made ga
pretty good hammer" he said, ''No, I don't
make pretty good hammer, make the
best hammer that ever ao0s made"
Every carpenter who saw Maydole ham
mer wanted one. It was of the best ma
terial, perfectly balanced, and the head
never flew off. Hammers were divided into
two classes--1st, Maydole's; I'd, all the rest.
Plasters are separated by the same line
of cleavage; LIST, Benson's Porous Plaster;
I'd, all the rest When, for rheumatic pain,
cold, a cough, kidney trouble Or any
other disease or ailment that may be treated
externally, you ask for plaster, any hon.
est, reputable druggist will give you Ben
sons. He kn0aos it is incomparably the
best, and he assumes that you know it too.
AS the name of Maydole stood for hammers
the name of Benson stands for plasters-
the ''real thing" All the medicinal poten-
cies that are valuable in plaster are in
Benson's. Capsicum, Strengthening and
Belladonna plasters are out Of date.
An army of physicians and druggists, and
millions of the people, have written of
Benson's Plasters as aremedyt to betrusted.
Benson's Plasters have ffty-fve highest
awards. Accept no substitute.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of Csc. each.
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-05-17
The French Cavalry at Sedan.

Both banks Of the Givonne were ii.
German hands; SO was Balan, a small
village nearer to Sedan than Bazeilles,
and soon after 1 o'clock no fewer than
426 German guns were hailing shells
into the French army, which stood in
close formations within a space meas
uring less than two miles in breadth or
depth. Out of this terrible cauldron Of
defeated troops about this time rode
the French cavalry in a heroic endeav-
or to turn the fortunes Of the day and
retrieve the honor of France.
General Marguerite, called by some
''the star of his ARM" was struck in
the face by a bullet while riding out to
reconnoiter the ground before he charg-
ed. He now handed over the cavalry
command to De Gallifet, who for the
second time on that tremendous day
led the flower Of French cavalry
against the enemy and for the space of
half an hour charged the German
ranks again and again on the hillsides
north Of Sedan.
But the courage Of the gallant horse
men was all in vain. The arme blanche
was unequally matched against the
breechlOading rifle held in steady
hands, and no effort of the French
cavalry could withstand the slowly
Tightening grasp of that fiery circle
Chambers Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-05-17
An Interesting Link.

One curious incident in the siege of
Badajos may be related. The day
after the assault two Spanish ladies,
the younger beautiful girl of IA, ap-
pealed for help to two officers of the
rifles, who were passing through one
of the streets of the town. Their dresses
were torn, their ears, from which rings
had been roughly snatched, were bleed
ing, and to escape outrage or death
they cast themselves on the protection
of the first British officers they met.
One of the officers was Captain Harry
Smith of the rifles. Two years later
he married the girl he had saved in a
scene SO wild. Captain Harry Smith
in after years served at the Cape as
Sir Harry, and this Spanish girl, as
Lady Smith. gave her name to the his
toric town which Sir George White de-
Tended with such stubborn valor.-
"Wellington's Men,"