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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24

Wilson. N. c., June 23.-At the opening
Of the afternoon session of court, Monday,
Judge Shaw asked Juror Lilies II he was
able to go on with the trial, to which
question he gave an affirmative answer.
Wiley Frank Dixon, being sworn. sald:
Il was down at the depot on the night
of the homicide. / went to Aliens Dar
and l saw Rich, Allen and man ] dldn
know As l opened the door between the
pool room and the bar room. heard MT
Rich say:
1t looks damn strange that | can
keep pistol / either lose them or some
negro steals them. heard no one reply.
l went out of the bar then and went
home"
On cross-examination by States coun-
sci. witness said this conversation took
place about or 10 o'clock On the night
OF the killing.
On cross-examination by Mr.. S. A.
Woodland, witness said he had known Rich
Tor several months. He stated further
tnat Allen, Rich and the man whom he
qua not know, were behind the counter
taking openly. witness said he first
told the above story the day after the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
STENOGRAPHIC REPORT
OF BARNES CONFESSION
Full Details of Most Intensely interesting Session
of the Court in the Jones Murder
Trial.
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killing. Witness did not know to what
the conversation referred.
G.. P. Bryant, being sworn, said: q
am a policeman.
Q.-"Did you see defendant Rich after
he was arrested?"
Ayes On the following Sunday in
JAIL"
Q-"What statement did he maker"
Al heard him say that he spoke tc
Snakenberg on Corbett's corner about
four or fine minutes before this hap
pened up stairs. / did not hear him
say anything Ase.'
j. b. Lemons, being sworn, said: Il
was at Will Ruffin's store until o'clock
the day before the killing, when / went
to Mayo's hardware store I then went
down the Overman alley on my way to
Herrings drug store. When / got to
Goldsboro street I heard Whitley say:
THAT damn scoundrel can't stay in this
town where we are and we will have him
out of town before morning if we have
to kill him. / saw man come out of
Mr.. Eason's shop and | met him on the
Continued on Fifth Page.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
LUTHER WARD ON STAND.
he Makes Statement in Explanation
of His Previous Conflicting Testi-
mony---Numbers Of Wit
nesses are Heard Dur
ing the Day.
ing the Day.
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Especial to News and Observer.)
Wilson, N. c., June 2s.-On account OF
the sensational proceedings in the Jones
murder trial which took place on yester
day. interest in the case had increased to
fever heat and long before the hour oi
opening came every available space in the
court rouse was packed with those eager
to hear further developments
The preliminaries of the opening being
gotten over His Honor asked if Luther
Barnes was in court He said that Barnes
on the stand and that the court wished
to learn from him if the report was true
LUTHER BARNES STATEMENT.
Mr. Barnes was not in court and Judge
Shaw instructed Sheriff Sharp to send out
at once for him. During this discussion
of the Barnes incident the jury had been
taken from the room After delay of a
few minutes Mr. Barnes came into court
and was put on the stand by
Judge Shaw. Mr. Barnes announced that
he wanted to make statement. The
jury was then brought into the room and
witness said: Il went in Jail the day af-
ter Morgan was arrested and he had on
a hat that was badly soiled suggested
that he get new one as he was coming
out for hearing went to c. E. Blount
& Co. and bought a hat from E. T. Peo-
Piles / told Mr.. Peoples what kind of hat
/ wanted and who I wanted it for and
asked him to cut IL. Morgan in the hat.
He went. to the machine and / suppose
cut the name in the hat. He wrapped the
hat up and I took it out the back door
to my bar. About the time I thought
Deputy Mayo would be feeding the pris-
oners / took it TO the Jail was asked
on Saturday If Morgan asked me to buy
the hat I answered no. was asked if
he told NE to bur it from Blount's / an
swered no. / was asked if Morgan told
me to have his name cut in the hat |
answered no, Morgan did not tell me where
TO buy the hat or who to buy it from or
what to have in is. / bought it by the in
structions given about another hat. These
instructions were given the morning after
Morgan was arrested. When this conyer-
sation took place Morgan told me he ex-
pected his other hat was lost. that he had
either given it or loaned it to John Allen.
He told me he bought the hat from
Blount &. Co., from E. T. Peoples. sales
man: that his name was cut in the hat
Mr.. Daniels told me that he wanted me to
come TO his office and make a statement
/ was told that Peoples had made state
ment about my buying hat. asked him
TO send out for Peoples and let me hear
4f.< ~&oko
statement. and 1 thought it was about
correct. l do not remember about Mr.
SpruilI asking me if Morgan asked me to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
EMMA HALEY IN JAIL
Paying the Interest on Bonds Issued by Wilkes
County.
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Especial to News and Observer.l
Winston Salem, N. c., June 23.-Emma
Hailey, the white girl charged with kill
ing her infant babe two weeks ago. was
give preliminary hearing this afternoon
She was ordered to Jail without bail to
await the July term of court. The grl
had admitted that she was the mother
of t he child and that she put it under her
sisters house, where it was found. but
who killed the infant has not been proven.
Sheriff Johnson and ex-Sheriff Call of
Wilkes county, went to Greensboro to-
night to pay Hon, Kerr Craig, receiver.
about fifty thousand dollars, the amount
due on bonds issued by Wilkes county for
the building Of the railroad from this
city to North Wilkesboro. Messrs. John.
son and Call were appointed by the State
courts commissioners to hold the funds
until the long litigation over the bonds
was terminated. The case having been
transferred to the United States courts
and carried in favor of the bondholders
Mr.. Craig was named receiver of the
funds. A distribution of the money to
the bondholders and the cost incident to
the litigation will be referred and passed
upon by Hon. Clement Manly standing
master in chancery. The hearing before
Mr.. Manly will occur within few weeks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
The sCHUErTE MILLS s1E1KF.
Surveying With View Of Jxnnding Suffolk
and Carolina to Washington.
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Washington, N. c., June ga news
service special from Bellhaven today says:
The employees of the VIM. Schuette mills
at this place still refuse to go to work
and that II any one attempts to take
their places there will be trouble. About
one hundred and fifty men are out. They
demand a weekly payroll system. The
company heretofore have been paying off
once a month. There was conference
of the employers last night and the out
come of the conference was to submit q
pronosition to the strikers to the effect
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
CALL ON The TROOPS
Rioting Resumed in Rich
mond. No Ono Yet Seri-
OusIy Hurt.
(By the Associated Press )

Richmond, Va, June 23.-The Governor
this afternoon ordered the seventieth
Regiment and the Richmond Blues batal.
hon and the Richmond Howitzers an ar
tlllery company, on duty to aid in main.
tanning order as against the street car
strikers and their sympathlzerg.
The Seventieth Regiment is to report
otmorrow morning. Five of its companies
are IN Richmond the other seven will
come from Danville, Farmville, Charlottes-
Vile, Staunton, Lynchburg, Alexandria
and Roanoke.
Theer has been much rioting during
the day as a result OF the strike, and the
situation is ugly Nobody has yet been
seriously hurt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
Suicide of a Negro Felon.
nv the Associated Press. ]

Georgetown, S. c., June 23-John
Brownfeld. colored, who killed Deputy
Sheriff Scurry in 1900, and who was u
have been hanged next Friday. killed him
self in Jail this morning by taking poison
Brownfeld had fought his case through
every court up to the United States su-
preme court, and was finally sentenced
last Tuesday to die on the 26th.
His arrest in September, 1900. for tbs
murder. precipitated a riot of negroes
and the militia were called out.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
She Defisd Him and Died.
lBy the Associated Press. J

Wilmington. Del. June 2s.-All is quiet
in this community today following the
horrible lynching Of George White, Helen
Bishops confessed slayer at an early
hour this morning Of the mob of nearly
five thousand that overpowered the au-
thorities, stormed the Ne wCastle county
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
Concord Wins a Close Game.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, ~ c., June 2S-The ball
game between Concord and Greensboro
was exceedingly close and interesting,
Concord winning the second time by
score of four to three.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
DURHAM BOY TAKE sTHE PRIZE.
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4 Especial to News and Observer.) ]
\ New York, June 23-Richard i
!. Webb, B. A, of Trinity College, N. !
4 c., 1900. who lives in Durham. was i
X awarded today the John A. Porter !
4 University prize for his essay on the j
4 subject Sidney Lanier," by the fac !
\ ulty of Yale University. He is a stu !
\ dent IN the graduate school and re- +
4 ceived the degree of Master of Arts. i
! His special subject of study being \
K was English. 4
y 4.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
Tar Heel Postmasters.
(By the Associated Press !

0NJ tIIV zA99OS1tIIIu IVos'I
Washington. June 23.-The President
has appointed the following postmasters:
North Carolina-Mount Airy, John T..
Albright: Gastonia. Claudius D. Hol-
land
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Leads all North Carolina Daies i'm News nd Circulation

nat and one straw hat. Mr.. Whitley came
up and told him that he had been sent
there to tell him to leave town"
The independent., 1903-05-14
WHAT TO READ FIRST

written for Henry George Edition
of The independently
Naturally single takers, when asked
this question, give various answers.
The same man will not always recon-
mend the same books to all comers.
For the majority of thoughtful read
ers my recommendation would be-
/. Social Problems.
2. Protection or Free Trade.
If Social Problems will not stir
any mind to the need of changing the
conditions that be, and to the impulse
to help on the change, then nothing
will. 1t is intensely interesting, and
it is simple and clear throughout. 1t
is book of the heart as well as CT
the head. 1t comes straight from an
earnest heart intensely sympathetic
and from a sincere mind profoundly
convinced of a great truth.
Of all Henry Georges books, the
one which marches on with closest
reasoning and most inevitable argu-
ment has always seemed to me to be
Protection or Free Trade Thought
follows thought with straightforward
sequence, and with presentation SO
clear that no open mind can resist
the chain of conclusions. The reader
is brought near the close to an argu-
ment and plea for the single tax
which for plain, homely, earnest rea'
soning has never been surpassed
.,>. J. Fl. DILLARD.
New Orleans, La.
The independent., 1903-05-14
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The independent., 1903-05-14
A QUESTION OF MORALS

written for Henry George Edition
of The independently
Though Independent political ac-
tion has often been urged upon single
takers upon grounds of expediency the
idea has never gained favor, the ma
jority considering it more polite to
remain in the existing political or
ganization and follow the line of
least resistance" But the question
arises, is it morally right for us to do
this? Can we conscientiously support
and vote for the measures that they
advocate? This question must be set
tied before we can consider that of
seeming expediency, for nothing can
be truly expedient if in conflict with
good morals. Assuming this as true,
let US see whether we can rightfully
countenance and vote for existing par .
ties.
The organizations agree in uphold
ing the private ownership of land. in
the taxing of the products of labor,
in the advocating of tariff differing
merely as to the purpose of the tax
they disagree as to the method of reg
ulating trusts, as to the kind of mon
ey we are to use and upon the policy
of expansion. These policies advo-
Gated by them are all violence of
natural law and justice. We know
that private ownership of land is the
source of industrial slavery, and that
taxation of the products of labor is
morally equivalent to robbery, and
hot ix, foy
political parties are doing what must
bring poverty and distress to millions
of people. We also know that trusts"
and Expansion" are but logical re-
suits of private ownership of land and
of the spirit it engenders, and that it
is senseless to try to fight these, the
symptoms, while approving of our
present land laws as all the existing
parties do. Now knowing all these
policies to be absolutely wrong, and
that they are utterly opposed to our
principles, and realizing that back Of
every economic question lies a moral
question, we cannot rightfully and
conscientiously vote for parties seek
ing to enact them into law.
When we know that our neighbor is
striving to do something that will
cause great injury to another, If we
aid him so to do we are ourselves
guilty of the wrong. And when we
knowing that political organizations
are seeking 10 pass measures that will
deprive their fellow-men of their nat
ural heritage and debase them from
free men into practical serfdom, still
countenance and vote for their sue
cess, we are morally guilty of wrong
doing; conceding that some of the
principles of one party may be shade
less Objectionable than those of the
other, yet even then it's principles are
still utterly bad. And if SO, why
should we vote for them? No one
forces us to do so; we are free to or
ganize a party based on the single
tax, and to vote for what is right.
Clearly this last is our only course;
so long as there is a correct line of
conduct open to man, he cannot
properly choose an immoral course
because it gives better promise of sue
cess nor because it is easier to fol-.
low. Our present position involves
The independent., 1903-05-14
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ings of the country would be indie
fensible. Furthermore, everything bit
land is gradually wearing out; the
life of machinery is only a few years,
and If everyone is given an equal
chance in the raw material from which
machinery and manufactures come,
wealth will soon be justly distributed.
1t is sufficient to divert the river at
its source; the water already in the
old channel will soon disappear.
Is it not better to take one step at
a time? There are far more argu-
ments for the naturalization of the
land than of the machinery upon it.
Why not kill land monopoly first?
When that is done, we can see if it Is
necessary to go farther, And It is the
farmer, of all others, who should take
the side of the single tax, for his
farm has little or no ground rent val
ue, while the only sufferers from the
new system would be the holders uf
unearned increment in cities and
towns-and even they would share in
the general increased prosperity Of the
community.
- ERNEST H. CROSBY.
The independent., 1903-05-14
NOW AS TO TAXATION

(Written for Henry George Edition
of The independently
In raising taxes or revenue the gov
ernment, thai is all of us, must keep
the moral law.
Laws making for life are moral.
laws making for death are immoral;
but this may be too general state
ment. Let's apply two accepted moral
laws.
First-We must observe this, "Thou
shalt not steal" In laying tax on
personal property, on what any man
has earned, for which he has given a
definite part of his life, we rob him.
If 1t is 81 or 500 SO raised, he has
lost it. 1t has been taken from him.
Tax land values, which no man by
his own effort created, and we do not
rob him.
ton" This is the prayer given for
society. Now personal tax does
tempt men. We hand paper to a
man and say, Fill it up and swear
to its truth; if you are willing to per-
jure yourself you can pay less than
if you tell the truth" Tax on land
alone and land values does not re-
quire Of a man his own valuation.
Now, SO long as government raises
revenue by violating these two fun
damental moral laws, it is all the
while making its people immoral to a
greater or less extent
T Of f,c df, ipcftna a,,I Yo4 al, fcJIo,.r
truth as a government. The single
tax is ethical and moral. 1t will
make for character. The present
method rewards perjury and deceit.
It (single taxi does not steal from
any man any part of his own; it
taxes only the land given by the Gre
ator to all. 1t does not tempt men to
lie. Why are taxes universally re-
garded as an evil, as thing to get
rid off and out of if possible? Men do
not so regard office rent, nor house rent
nor water rent, nor any other debts.
Because it is rot "for value received"
But apply the single tax and men will
gladly pay the tax or rent for use of
the land which they will recognize
belongs equally to all.
y. II. NESBlTa
1901 Phelps Place N. w.
Washington, d. G.
&SSS
white parasols and elephants mad
with pride are the fruits of a grant
of land" runs the old East Indian
proverb. White parasols are there
an emblem Of high rank, and mad
elephants of an irresponsible, danger
GUS power fo- evil. High rank and
dangerous power belong to those with
monopolized land values, especially Of
such valuable land as Baer's anthra-
cite roads and mines, Rockefeller's oil
fields, Vanderbilt's long, narrow strips
called rights of way" Pierpont
Morgan's bank stands on land of
which one acre will sell for more than
all the land Of the ten richest coul-
ties Of Nebraska.--W. III. t. Wakefield.
The independent., 1903-05-14
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TIL IUEV DhUO. OMAHA.

the surrender of our convictions on
every election day. 1t means that we
must talk one way and vote another
That our whole political life must be
a series of inconsistencies. That we
must stand sponsor for all the va
garies that politicians adopt. That
we must, like Peter deny his Master
abandon the right in each campaign
to vote against what we know is
morally wrong. This, in all kindness,
savors of moral coWardice, and this
will never win our battle. Besides, it
is better to deserve success than to
obtain it, better to be right than sue
cessful.
The writer understands the objec-
tions that will be urged. The misrep-
reservations to which such party
will be subjected, the difficulty of get
ting even good single takers to break
away from the party affiliations, and
the probable opposition of most of
our leaders. All this is true and it is
to be regretted, but it should not deter
us from doing what is right. Gu"
cause is too grand to be gained by
any save correct methods.
1t will be said that we are not
strong enough to organize, but this
is not true as to the states of New
York, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kan
sas, Colorado, Texas, California.
Washington, Delaware, Michigan and
perhaps of Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts. In each of these states
there are thousands of single takers,
and if any considerable number of
these people will organize the greater
part of the balance will be forced into
the party by the abuse heaped upon
it, and from these states the move
ment will gradually spread to others.
Believing this question vital to our
cause the writer suggests that those
in each state who feel that indepen-
dent action is our moral duty take
steps to form nucleus around which
single takers can gather. The writer
would be glad to hear from ali vino
favor political organization, and may
be of assistance in putting them into
communication with others of this
opinion. He also suggests that the
matter be debated and discussed in
the various single tax clubs of our
country. e. T. WEEKS.
New Iberia, La.
The independent., 1903-05-14
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Political economy as a science owes
it's origin to Henry George. Others
had written upon the subject, but not
in the truly scientific method. Mr..
George was the first to base his pre-
misses upon both natural and moral
law-rather, proving these laws real
ly one-and drawing his, conclusions
with iron-clad logic from inexorable
facts. He gives, not his own opinion,
but natures unquestioned laws, self
evident truths. This is true science.
Contrast it with the senseless jum-
BILE of unrelated facts and non-se-
quitor theories of the economics"
writer's, who utterly ignore both ma
ture and morals.-W. H. T. Wake
field, -z.. ,
The independent., 1903-05-14

"The real source of weakness in a
reform movement is generally the
class of cultivated men who, either
through moral cowardice or fatuous
seeking after the reputation of amia-
lllity, refuse to stand out for what
they know to be just. t.-Chicago Single
Tax Club. s,t.-