The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-23
THE NEW CANCER DOCTOR.

Pritchard started out in politics as a
revenue doodle, and went about cutting
up stills and shooting at the moonshiners
on Hanging Dog creek.
He now comes forth as a cancer doc
tor, as is detailed in the account of his
opening speech in Kinston yesterday. He
likens the trusts to a cancer on the body
and says it must not be cut out but left
to grow. That theory has the merit of
originality in therapeutics and in econom-
les. 1t has usually been considered ne
cessary by reputable doctors to remove
cancers as soon as discovered, lest they
destroy the body. Possibly DR.. Pritch-
ards diploma in medicine is so new that
he may be taken for a quack in the
treatment of this subject. His medical
doctrine is that the cancer should be al
lowed to grow in the face of the fact
that such growth is known to be fatal
to human life 1t is equally certain that
if his economic doctrine with reference
to trusts is followed it will prove fatal
to the body polite as deadly as the can
Ger is to the human body. If this ad-
mission be true, then, whether they
should be removed by surgery or medi-
cine, the remedy ought to be immediate
ly applied.
Senator Pritchard says that only
twelve per cent. of the people are inter-
ested in trusts. The point we make
against the trusts is that few people are
interested in the profits from the opera
tions of the trusts. While only hand
full of people derive benefit from the
trusts they control seventy per cent of
the manufactured output of the country,
and levy tribute upon the needs of the
many to swell the opulence of the rich
to enrich the few who control the trusts.
One of the ponderous propositions ad-
vanced by Senator Pritchard was to the
effect that the way for a community to
get rich was to tax itself, but strangely
enough he seems to think that this ap-
plies to national but not to State taxa
ton. He especially approves of it when
it is distributed as pensions to desert
ers from the Confederate army but COM
plains of borrowing $780, 900 to make good
the pensions to Confederate soldiers.
Among other things, Senator Pritchard
took fling at the increase of the Cover
nor's salary He did not state that the
salary of Governor Aycock was increas-
ed on the recommendation of his Repub
lican predecessor and was SO manifestly
proper that the committee on platform
at the Republican Convention in Green's
boro struck out the plank written by
Senator Pritchard condemning it, and Zeb
Vance Walser was SO regretful that it
has been published as a plank in the
Republican platform that he has come
out in a public letter, stating that it has
no place in that document. 1t may be
remarked in passing that If Senator
Pritchard is worth $4,000 a year as can
Ger doctor, Governor AycocK is worth
81 900 in the great work he is doing.
Senator Pritchard complains of the in
crease in the number of judges and So
Iicitors by the Democratic Legislature
although this increase was necessary ito
facilitate the disposition of litigation
and these four new offices are filled by
gentlemen of undoubted character and
capacity. He did not apologize to the
people of North Carolina for the one
thousand new offices created by the Fus-
ionists and largely filled by negroes