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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
WHITTIER, O! WHITTIER.

Father Creecy in Elizabeth City Econo
mist
Some twenty years ago, in the early
eighties, we met on a railroad a distin-
guished citizen of North Carolina, whom
we had known from boyhood. He had
won distinction and his words were words
of wisdom. He took a seat by us and at
ter a few words of courtesy he asked us
with some emphasis, what is your Op'n-
ion of this negro problem, and what will
be its result in the Southern States" We
told him we had opinions, but they were
painful to contemplate, and that we never
expressed or discussed them. He persist
ed in his suggestion and we as persistently
refused. At last he suggested our form
ing a Masonic Lodge with a vow of Sc
crecy. We yielded. He asked us again.
Dreadful as it is, we said, our opinion is
social equality, with an expurgation of the
color line and ultimate amalgamation. 1t
IS a dread conclusion, and the steps to
that conclusion are all sequent, but not
regular 1t may not be accomplished in
centuries, but 1t is the decree of fate
Social equality can never exist while men
differ in gifts, but color will evidently be
a factor no more. The steps on this line
will be slow and sometimes interrupted.
but always sequent. See. The first step
is already past. First it was education.
Then it was Mr.. and Mrs. Sambo Then
it was Tuskegee. Then came Roosevelts
family dinner with Booker Washington,
the guest of honor, at the right of his wife,
and next was the climax at Hamlet with
Booker and his black cohorts at the first
table at the hotel and the white guests
IN back closet or waiting for the second
table after Booker What must we do?
Our distinguished friend, referred to above,
who agreed with us as to the ultimate
result of the negro problem, and with
whom we formed secret Masonic Lodge.
has since lectured on many platforms,
but he never expressed our opinion We
now release him from his secret VOW, and
we will enlist for the war pro bono pub
lico, in the fight against fate.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
TWO WOMEN.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
President Roosevelt has, through his
Postmaster General, removed from the
Greenwood, Del, post office Miss Huldah
B. Todd, on the specious plea that she is
obnoxious" to the mouthpiece of Gas
Addicks, Senator Alice. Miss Todd had
served five years as postmistress at
Greenwood and had given the fullest sat
isfaction to the patrons of the office. She
was in no sense obnoxious to them she
was first appointed to a four-year term
by President Mckinley, and after serving
that was reappointed by President Roose-
welt. She had served one year under her
reappointment when her official head was
chopped off to meet the political demands
of Addicks and his crowd.
Minnie Cox rendered her resignation as
pOstmistress at Indianola, Miss, but her
resignation has not been accepted. For
about a year now she has been carried
upon the salary roll of the government,
on the Presidents orders, though she has
rendered not one cents worth of service.
She was personally obnoxious in her Of
fetal capacity to the vast majority of
the patrons of the office, who had the
temerity to say so in resolution adopted in
mass meeting. She recognized the fact
that her presence in the postoffice was
obnoxious to the vast majority of the
patrons of the office, and rendered her
resignation.
What explanation can be given of this
widely different treatment accorded by
President Roosevelt to these two women?
Can it be possible that negro-mania has
been carried to the point where the black
sister is protected and coddled and fed
upon government pap simply because she
is black, while the white lady is thrown
out of office solely because somebody who
is the favorite of some politician wants
the job?
These questions are pertinent, not i'm
pertinent. The country would like to
know the exact attitude of this admins
tration toward women, and it has right
to know.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
WHO MAY REGIS TER AND VOTE,

In view of the lack of information as
to who may register or vote IN the dis
pensary election in Raleigh, we publish
below a succinct statement prepared by
w. A. Dunn, Esq, of Scotland Neck, with
reference to the prohibition election to be
held. there next Tuesday, and published
in recent issue of the Scotland Neck
Commonwealth:
ga voter must have resided in the State
two years in the county SIX months, and
in the town four months, and must have
paid his poll tax for the previous year on
or before the first day of May of the year
in which he offers to vote. Section ID,
Chapter SO, Acts of 1901.
when a person is challenged the reg
istrar and judges of election shall hear
and determine the cause of challenge un-
der the rules and regulations prescribed
in elections for members OF the General
Assembly. Section 8, Chapter $780, Acts
1901.
when a person is challenged, he shall
exhibit to the registrar his poll tax re-
ceipt for the previous year. If he cannot
produce it, he can vote upon taking and
signing the following oath: II do solemnly
swear that on or before the first day OF
May of this year, I paid my poll tax for
the previous year, as required by Article
6, Section 4, of the Constitution of North
Carolina, Section 10, Chapter SO, Acts
1901.
mo person who has become OF age
since the first day of June of the previous
ofn
on the first day of June of the previous
year is required to produce any poll tax
receipt or take said oath.
amy person who shall illegally vote in
any election, shall be guilty of an infa-
nous crime, and imprisoned not less than
six nor more than twelve months, or fined
not less than one hundred nor more than
five hundred dollars, at the discretion OF
the court. Section IS, Chapter SO, Acts
1901.
ANY person who shall corruptly take
the oath prescribed for voters shall be
guilty of perjury, and be fined not less
than five hundred nor more than one
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at
hard labor in the penitentiary not less
than two nor more than five years. Sec
ton 40, Chapter 80, Acts 1901.
II have heard it suggested that some
persons are registered who did not list
their poll taxes for the year 1902 and have
not paid the same, claim. that they are
exempt from the operation of the laws
above quoted, and that they can vote be-
cause they have never listed their poll
taxes. This is puerile folly and stupidity,
and every man who was required to list
Ill 4br of
and who has not done so and who has not
paid his poll tax by the first day of May
of the present year cannot legally vote,
and should he do so. he is liable under
the law above referred to-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

basis are the great markets for cotton
goods of the correct weaves. The import
ance of China as a cotton goods market,
great as it is today, is growing rapidly.
Every year sees China a heavier pur-
chaser, and each year sees the United
States in possession of a larger per cent.
OF this business.
No other foreign cotton goods market
is to be compared with China, and the re-
cent advance in the price of silver adds
about one-fifth to the purchasing power
OF the Chinamans country. If he could
have purchased 1000 yards of cotton goods
before, he now can and will buy 1000
yards; and if, as some believe, the price
OF silver goes still higher, SO will the mar
kets OF the Orient become of more i'm
portance to the American manufacturer
The Southern mills which make the
coarse grade of cotton goods, will feel the
effect of the advance in the price of silver
very soon. They have not been backward
in reaching out for foreign trade from
which, to very great extent, indeed,
they must hve-and the season before
them should be the best they have ever
known.
and New England the high-class cotton
GOODS is a suggestion often heard in the
trade.
Any time, however, that the Southern
mill owners find that there is not mar
ket for their heavy drills and sheetings.
they are bound to turn their attention to
the manufacture of goods of higher grade.
even if they have to pass by the cotton
grown at their doors and import Egyptian
cotton. With a big business in China. In
dia and the Red Sea countries-all silver
countries-there will be less hurtful COM
petition between the mills of the North
and those of the South, and general pros
perity all around.
The pessimists who have been saving
that high-priced cotton must be followed
by period of dullness in cotton manu-
featuring circles have overlooked the fact
that, if his silver is high, the Oriental will
not object to paying little more for his
goods, while goods of the higher class will
always stand an advance In price when
necessity requires it.
The cotton mills of the United States
which have been closed are starting their
spindles just as rapidly as they can get
cotton for them, and they are not going
to close down as long as they can get hold
of a bale of cotton. There is no cotton
goods in first hands, and with the almost
certain prospect of larger Oriental trade
than ever before, they have business
enough before them to insure the con-
sumption of all the American cotton
raised, no matter how large the crop may
be.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

University of Chicago, Charles R. Hen.
derson. is advocating to mis- student classes
the tolerance of Sunday baseball games
and other athletic sports-after the re-
ligious exercises of the day. 1T seems
to be safer for instructors there to talk
in favor of a wide-open Sunday than to
denounce the trusts" says the Spring
field Republican That institution seems
determined to earn.the reputation of be-
ing "a freak university
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
HIGH SILVER, HIGH COTTON.

New York Commercial
Within the last few weeks the price of
silver has gone up rapidly. This advance
has caused renewed activity in the min
ing industry, and number of mining
companies have already decided to in
crease their dividends. This advance in
the price of the second of the precious
metals has a far-reaching effect, however,
outside OF the industry devoted to the
production of the metal itself.
If silver holds its present price, as there
is every reason for believing that it will,
the cotton goods manufacturer is going to
be greatly benefited, and the benefit will
extend back to the cotton producer The
old axiom of high silver, high cotton,
is true in the main, although to make it
entirely correct it must be modified and
circumscribed by great many ifs and
butts.
The countries which are still on silver
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
1.-THE shadows murmur
While the deeps are dumb"

The newspaper correspondent, who
spends a few weeks in the South, is sure
to go back home and write a final sou-
ton. Within few weeks he is surprised
that everybody hasn't accepted his plans.
Years after, when he knows more about
it. the correspondent in his old age reads
his remedy and wonders how he could
ever have supposed he was green enough
to propose it.
One of the most accomplished of the
newspaper correspondents who has visited
the South in recent years is Mr.. Raymond
Patterson, the Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune. He seemed in
his first letters to have a bias against
Southern sentiment, but later he seems
to have tried not to be guided by it. He
visited Louisiana and other Southern
States and studied conditions with the
desire to learn the true status, and has
written a series of very readable letters.
In his concluding letter he. sums up his
remedy for existing conditions as follows:
"Deprive the negro of his commanding
position as the sole labor supply of the
South
Introduce white labor to relieve the
congestion, develop Southern industries
and cvilize the negro by association.
ITO encourage white immigration to the
South. dignity the condition of labor by
elevating the condition of the negro
Put little black schoolhouse within
sound of every plantation bell.
Educate the negro at the expense Of
the whole nation.
stop public negro education with the
grammar school and let all higher educa-
ton be at private expense.
"Plant industrial schools of the Tuskegee
and Hampton type in every black county
of the South.
Keep the negro out of politics in the
South until the average of the race is at
least equal to that of the European i'm
migrant of today.
do this by any means satisfactory to
the rough-and- ready Anglo-Saxon mind
and patch up the Constitution afterward.
Lynch no negro for anything except
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

crimes against women, and then be sure
you have the right negro.
Hang a few white men for murder now
and then, just as an example for their
poor, black neighbors
Sew up every pistol pocket south of
Mason and Dixons line.
Chain up all anarchistic negro editors
north of that line and put in comfortable
asylums Southern statesmen who oppose
the education of the negro.
Treat the negro as a man, and not as
a baby, punish him when he does wrong,
reward him for right living, but, above all,
teach him morality and justice by the eX-
ample of the white man.
stop whining about the immortality
of the negro until there are to be seen no
more mulatto children.
Remember always that the negro did
not come to America of his own accord;
that he has but recently escaped from the
degradation of slavery, and that his vices
and his follies, harassing though they be,
certainly can be removed by wise educa-
tional methods adapted to his condition
and persisted in for years and for genera
tions.
"Do these things today and tomorrow
the race question will disappear
Mr.. Patterson demands that seventeen
things be done before the negro question
will disappear, and some of these things
are good things, some are bad some alb
surd, and others are impracticable
! One of them is: Educate the ne
gro at the expense Of the whole ma
ton" We believe we will undertake to
bring about all sthe other good things
mentioned by Mr.. Patterson when he Sc
cures one of his remedies, to-wit: educate
the negro at the expense of the whole
nation" When Mr.. Patterson gets that
through, and Congress appropriates the
many millions needed, the South can car
ry through those remedies that depend
! upon its initiative
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
NEGRO WHIPPED NEGRO AND WAS
ACQUITTED.
Chatham Record.

An unusual case was tried last week in
the Superior Court of Cumberland coun-
ty. The superintendent of the silk fac
tory in Fayetteville is an intelligent ana
educated colored man from the North, and
all the employees are colored people.
Recently one of these colored laborers
deserved punishment, as the superintend-
ent thought, and so he had him tied and
gave him a good old fashioned strapping.
For this the superintendent was indicted
and was tried last week and acquitted,
and everybody in Fayetteville approved
the verdict
We venture the prediction that this
colored superintendent will hereafter have
less trouble with his colored employees
than any other employer of negroes!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

If the dispensary campaign in North
Carolina had no other good effect, 1t
would still deserve great credit for trans
forming all the saloon advocates in the
who, in the prohibition campaigns of the
past, were bowling for more liquor, bet
ter liquor, and bigger barrels now tell
the thought of the States disgracing it.
self by going into the liquor business,
and how gladly they would vote for pro-
present itself.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
A MORNING TONIC.
(Lord Chesterfield.)


But this truth from long experience l
assert, that he who has the most friends
and the fewest enemies, is the strongest;
will rise the highest with the least envy;
and will fall, if he does fall, the gentlest,
and the most pitied. There is no one
creature so poor, SO low, or so obscure,
who may not, by the strange and unac-
countable changes and vicissitudes of HUI
man affairs, some way or other, and some
time or other become useful friend or
a troublesome enemy to the greatest and
the richest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

The Wilmington Messenger, referring to
the News and Observers article about
the apple that Eve ate, asks How about
the Hebrew tradition that it was a citron
that Eve ate?" Go to, now-who would
expect the Messenger to repudiate the
Bible account and accept shadowy tradi-
ton? The only safe rule is to believe lit
orally what the Bible says. Anything
else is delusive.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
Spirit of the Press.
NO COMPLAINT OF STATE AND
COUNTY TAXES.
Chatham Record.

Chatham Record.
For instance, the tax rate in Raleigh
for city, State and county purposes is
$240 OH the hundred dollars worth of
property, and 1920 on every poll. If the
people of the country generally had to
pay so high tax what a ''rumpus"
would be raised!
The truth is the State and county tax
es in North Carolina are about the lowest
paid In any State, and our people have
not just cause to complain OF them Nor
have they any just cause to complain of
the purposes for which these taxes are
expended
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

The crop of snake stories this year has
been more than ordinarily plentiful Writ
ing of the fire that destroyed Round
Knob Hotel. the Asheville Citizen says:
1.-The fire also caused the death of a huge
rattlesnake. The men who were at the
fire undertook to save an ice house which
is near the hotel but when they went
inside they found rattlesnake which
had been attracted from its hole by the
fire. The snake had thirteen rattlers.''
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

eff he sticks to Addicks, let him stop
his sermons" says the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger writing of Mr.. Roosevelt. No
President has permitted such gross viola
tions of the civil service rules as Mr.
Roosevelt who paraded himself as the
high priest of civil service reform. He
breaches well but does not practice what
he breaches.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

Everybody would like to know the Sc
cret of living long. Here is how Prot
Goodwin Smith says he accomplished it;
Having set out with a very weak con
stitution, l believe l owe my attainment
of old age to my not having been over
worked at school as a child. At the
two schools at which l was, one of which
was Elton, work was very light. 1 can
not help fearing the children now, es-
pecially if their constitutions are not
strong, are overworked at school"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

Two of the oldest men in the Senate
are Hoar, of Massachusetts,, and Morgan,
of Alabama Senator Hoar says the ne
gro is here to stay" Senator Morgan
says "the negro should go away" The
opinion of these Senators on this question
is worth no more than that of any other
man, great or small. Nobody's opinion is
worth mucn
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

October 18th and 18th are to be red let
ter days in the history of North Carolina
The Greensboro people are making ev
tensive preparations for the great Re-
union of NONRESIDENT North Carolinians
All North Carolina should join Greensboro
in this patriotic undertaking.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

In delivering the charge at the ordina-
ton of Baptist preacher, Rev. j. B.
Boone advised the young preacher to avoid
spotted vests and streaked breeches." OF
all things in the world, the people have
less liberation for preacher who affects
te ape the smart set in dress. They wish
him to dress neatly
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

Greensboro, October 18th, 18th. 18th
and 18TH
winston Salem, October 9Th to 9Th.
Burlington, October 9Th to 9th.
Raleigh, October goth to oath.
Charlotte, October 27th to Both
Cumberland County Fair, October 2Sth
to goth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

Archbishop Ireland is great Republi-
can all the time. In his labor day speech
he said that trusts are necessary for
the development of the resources of this
country Facts and history do not bear
out his assertion. They retard develop
ment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

The people of Waterloo, Iowa, have or
dered all the negroes to leave that town
-1tlie good and the bad alike. And
yet the people of that State will sing
the long metre doxology through their
noses and thank God that they treat
the negroes better than do the wicked
Southerner. Such thing could not have
occurred in any Southern town.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

Expert Carroll D. Wright is quoted as
saying that he is able to prove by stats
tics that the negro race is dying out.
Then what shall we do, say 1000 years
hence without race problem?" asks the
Atlanta Constitution.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

The Portland Oregonian denounces the
Agricultural Department for overestimat-
ing the wheat crop. The result of the
overestimate caused the farmers to lose
hundreds of thousands of dollars In the
South the same complaint is heard as to
the government cotton report.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
WHIsKEY CAUSED IT.
Gastonia Gazette.)

;. In the story of that Kinston trag- :
!. edy the other day. that awful muir
X der of young wife by her, husband, :
X there are three antecedent facts that
X stand out in painful prominence.
X "a there was father who scld Ii
:: quor, (2) there was a husband who :
\ drank it, and 90 there. was a daugh-
X ter WHO ran away to get married !
X
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13
KEY TO NEGRO PROBLEM.

Isn't it remarkable how cock-sure man
is that he has the solution of the negro
problem after he has studied it few
weeks? 1t is another case of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-13

BE not the first by whom the new ar,
tried.
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"