The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-10-02
The New Cancer DOcter.
News and Observer

News and Observer.
Pritchard started out in politics as
revenue doodle, and went about
cutting up stills and shooting at the
moonshiners on Hanging Dog creek.
He now comes forth as cancer
doctor, as is detailed in the account
of his opening speech in kinston yes
tsrday. 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 economics. 1t
has usuallybeen considered necessary
by reputable doctors to remove can
GERS as soon as discovered, lest they
destroy the body. Possibly DR..
Pritchard's diploma in medicine is so
new that he may be taken for quack
in the treatment of this subject. His
medical doctrine is that the cancer
should be allowed 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 cancer is to the hui
man body. II this admission be true,
then, whether they should be removed
by surgery or medicine, the remedy
ought to be Immediately applied.
Senator Pritchard says that only
| twelve per cent. of the people are in
terested in trusts. The point we
make against the trusts is that few
people are interested in the profits
from the operations of the trusts
While only handful Of people derive
benefits from them trusts contro
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-tt
enrich the few who control the trusts
One of the ponderous proposition
advanced by Senator Pritchard was
to the effect that the way for a com
munity to to get rich was TO ia,
itself, but strangely enough he seems
to think that this applies to nationa
but not to State taxation. He es
peciallv approves Of it when it is dis
tributed as pensions to deserter!
from the Confederate army, but com
plains of borrowing 5000, 1000 to max
J good the pensions to Confederat
soldiers.
Among other things, Senate
Pritchard took fling at the increas
of the Governors salary. He did no
state that the salary OF Governo
Avcock was increased on the recon-
menda;ion of his Republican pre-
decessor and was SO manfestly prope
that the committee on platform {
the Republican Convention in Greens
boro struck out the plank written b
Senator Pritchard condemning il
and Zeb Vance Walser was SO regre'
full that it has been published as
plank in the Republican platform ths
he has come out in a public letter
stating that il has no place in ths
2 document. 1t may be remarked
passing that if Senator Pritchard
worth $1,000 year as cancer docto
Governor Aycock is worth $4,000
the great work be is doing.
: Senator Pritchard complains OF u
increase in the humber ofJudges an
solicitors by the Democratic Lcgi
lature, although this increase WI
necessary TO facilitate the dispositif
of litigation, and these four ne
> officers are filled by gentlemen
undoubted character and capacit
He did not apologize to the people
North Carolina for the one thousar
new officers created by the Fu.ionis
aud largely filled by negroes.