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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
GO SLOW, PLEASE.
Tarboro Southerner.

Tarboro Southerner.
There is a disposition manifested in
the Legislature to enact law by which
the taxes paid by the two races for edu-
| cation are to be separated and applied
| to the education of the race paying it.
To be Just and fair how can such taxes
be ascertained? Every man who ad-
vances taxes does not pay them. Merely
| because white men pay the license to
sell liquor must that tax go exclusive
" to educate white children, when it is
undeniable that the negro pays at least
half?
Those who would pass such law
should not forget that the educational
fund IS not expended on per capita
| basis. The reports from the several coun-
ties in the State will, with few if any
exceptions, show that less per child is
paid to colored schools than to white. 1t
is true that this discrimination is ~ the
main, the result of the differences in the
cost of living of the teachers of the two
races. But the fact remains that more
money is now spent on the white -,--
than on the black while the terms of the
schools for the season given are T.. the
same
To deprive the colored race of all MONEY!
for education except that which is paid
by the race directly, would be for this
county and probably all others, to cut
the school term down to one month.
while the Constitution makes a minimum
of four months mandatory.
Again, such determinations might have
a tendency to cause the negro to seek
other places where educational advant-
ages are better There is scarcity of
labor now. A departure in considerable
| numbers would bring serious state OF
affairs.
AS the educational funds are now ad-
ministered it would be the part of wis
dom to let we'll enough alone, at least
| for the present.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
A CREDIT TO THE STATE.

North Carolina has just ground to- feel
proud of its educational and charitable
institutions. They stand among the first
in America. The youngest of them all is
the North Carolina School for the Deaf
and Dumb at Morganton 1t is appre-
ciated abroad as we'll as at home. The
Companion, published at Faribault
Mimi, by the State school for the Deaf,
and edited by Mr.. j. l.. Smith, secreta-
nv of the American Convention of In
structors for the Deaf, pays this deserv-
ed compliment to North Cardinals school
and it's efficient head:
ut stands in the front rank in the
matter of progress, methods, and results.
It is one of the best opponents of the
American Combined System of educating
the deaf, having separate manual and oral
departments under one general manage
ment. The chief credit for the high rank
which the School holds in the profession
is due to Superintendent Goodwin, who
is recognized as one of the ablest edu-
Gators of the deaf in America. The "Old
North State" may we'll be congratulated
on having such progressive institution
under such capable management"
The Standard, published by the Deaf
School at Danville, KY, has long arti-
Gle, giving a comprehensive, critical, and
apprecative sketch OF the work done by
the North Carolina school. From that
ort;olo uvo ruotn.
"The cost per capita last year is given
at s179 which Is certainly low when the
character of the work done is taken into
consideration The school has come TO
the front rapidly in the last few years
in its educational work and now ranks
with the best. 1t takes good management
to obtain such results on a per capita
smaller than the majority OF similar
schools in this country
"There are other features OF interest
about the school but we have said enough
to show that it is admirably offcered
and equipped, and it is a credit to the
neople of North Carolina and to the pro-
fession in this country
This school has published book
.First Lessons in Speech" by Mr.. Hurd,
chief instructor at Morganton, that has
given the school reputation abroad. 1t
was written by a teacher, the illustra-
lions were made by a teacher. Miss Nc
Daniel, the type was set and press work
done bv nupils. 1t has been adopted as
a text book by the leading schools for
the deaf in America.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
THREATS ARE OUT OF PLACE.

The Democratic party must be pre-.
served as the agency of all good in gov.
eminent in North Carolina
This fact should be kept in mind by the
men whose zeal or interest causes them
to espouse or oppose advanced and eff
fective temperance legislation. The
members of this General Assembly
ought to pay no heed to petitioners OF
advocates who come with threats, oper
or yelled. The Democratic party can
not be driven or Influenced by men who
it does not do what they wish.
Those who threaten the Democratic
party with defeat If 1t enacts effective
temperance legislation are entitled to no
more consideration than those who
threaten it with defeat if it fails to enact
the particular measures they favor. None
are entitled to consideration except when
they appeal to the party to give JUS
tice, to mete out equity, to do right.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
DIsPENSARY BETTER TBAw
SALOONS.

about this time of the year luok -u.
for" as the Almanac makers put &C. The
saloon keepers and their hackers Q grow
righteously indignant at the surgestio4
that the State should go into the hu as SIS
of selling liquor, as if every time license
is granted the State was not as resp0us
BILE as if it's own office
the sellin. They talk very wire
tuosly against the State going into bus
mess that temperance men condemn, and
it sounds very pious, but it is our argu-
ment more plausible than sound.
The people of Wilson. who are deter
mined to close up the bar-rooms, are
making an earnest fight to establish a
dispensary. The evidence from Louis
burg, Waynesville, and nine-tenths OF
the towns in South Carolina by residents
of those towns in that the dispensary in
towns is the best Ysolution of the diff
cult liquor problem.
Elder p. D. Gold, editor Of Zions
Landmark. one of the ablest and wisest
men in North Carolina, packs world OF
good sense upon this subject in brief
compass in communication in this
weeks Wilson Times. We give place tc
it in full as follows:
BETTER USE.
r. l.; . d,,;+toa avon nv drunIxards that
drunkenness is an evil. 1t is admitted
that the bar-room business does not les
sen drunkenness, but increases it. The
bar-room men make money out of it by
selling it to their customers, and this
money does not help to feed and clothe
or educate the children Of the drunken
customers.
If dispensary does not lessen drunk
enness-even il it increases 1.-THE mon
ey received thereby is put to better
use than bar-room men put it to. The
dispensary money supports public
schools for the education of children, the
Improvement of roads, or some such gen.
eral benefit
However it is not admitted that dis
pensaries increase drunkenness. They
tend to decrease it. There is much car
be said to prefer a dispensary to bar
room.
Why are liquor men spending so much
money in this campaign? There is big
profit to them at the expense of public
peace and good morals.
The liquor men are making Wilson their
battle ground, for they say this is one
of their best places to sell liquor-which
think is true. 'E''
Question:: If the liquor men are will
ing to submit the matter of a dispensary
instead of bar-rooms. to vote OF the
people, why are they paying out so much
money to lawyers to lobby the Legsla-
ture in order to prevent this vote?
p. D. GOLD.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
THE SUBSIDY---NOTHING MORE
NOR--LESS

The Greensboro Telegram says that
both Hon. w. w. Kitchin and Hon.
Claude Kitchin voted against the sub.
sidy to the Southern Railway, improperly
called an appropriation for a fast mai
from Washington to New Orleans. We
have seen no AYE and mo- vote and do
not know how the other North Carolina
members of Congress stood, but venture
to hope that all the Democratic members
voted against it. When it came up in the
House a motion was made to recommit
the bill to the committee to take out the
two subsidies 1t carries-one to the
Southern Railway and one to a Kansas
railroad. The vote to recommit was lost
by vote of 121 to 100.
Mr. Villas. when he was Postmaster
General, opposed the granting of this
subsidy, but somehow or some other how
two or three railroads have possessed
enough influence to convince ma jority in
Congress that it ought to be voted to
them. 1t is wholly indefensible upon
any theory except upon the theory that
subsidies ought to be granted by this
country as they are by foreign govern.
ments. According to the Democratic doc
trine there is no defense for such subsi-
lies under our form of government.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
A MORNING TONIC.
(Carl S. Vrooman, in The Outlook

(Carl S. Vrooman, In The Outlook.)
was reared with a puritanic, Tolstoy-
an inclination to regard art as of the
devil, as something effeminate and ener-
waiting. In the course of my political in
vestigations, however, l come across the
fact that while American industries were
competing successfully with the English
and the German, they were making al
most no Roadway at all in competition
with the French. This is because in all
French industry the artistic element is
such vital part. We cannot make the
rare and beautiful creations they pro-
duce. Until We do, we can never COM
pete with them in the markets of the
world. When I thus learned that art is
power. 1 began to respect it, 1 need
hardly add that this respect, especially
for applied art, is growing. Art should
find its home, not only in public museums
and galleries and in the drawing rooms
of the rich, but in the factory, on the
farm, and in the kitchen. Only as art
permeates and beauties all human pro-
ducts and all human life is it performing
it's true and splendid function.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
ROOSEVELT'S NATURAL GAIT is
RUNNING AWAY.
Columbia State.

Several Washington correspondents
and Southern newspapers have expressed
surprise and indignation because two or
three or more n less respectable and
more or less prominent negro men and
women were discovered at a White House
reception last week. This discovery may
Justify Indignation, but not surprise. The
present occupant of the Presidential man
sion has before this exhibited so un-
mistakably his devotion to social equality
that there is no cause for establishment
when a negro is guest at his entertain
ments This is one settled policy of
President Roosevelt, it would seem. He
may waver on some things, he may
change others. but when it comes to
meeting the negro as a political and a
social equal he takes his stand with a
f1rmness that does not manifest itself
when he approaches any other issue.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
SHOULD NOT REGARD THEM.
Dunn Guide.

secret meeting of over twenty Kentucky
distillers, held in Louisville Saturday
night it was determined to begin an or
ganized campaign against the anti liquor
legislation now being considered by the
various legislatures of the country and
especially by the general assemblies of
number of Southern States. A large
fund has already been raised to defray
the expenses of the movement Every
effort is being brought to bear to de-
feat the movement in North Carolina
but if our lawmakers would act wise
they would regard them not.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
LAW PARTNERS SHOULD NOT APP.
PEAR
reemont Visitor.

TeemOnt NlSltOr.
How law partner of member of the
STATE Senate can go to Raleigh and lob
by against temperance legislation or
against any other sort of legislation is a
mystery which the minds of ordinary
common. every day sort of people cannot
solve It's getting about time such bust
ness were exposed. A law partner is a
law partner and shares in all the fees
paid the firm, as common mortals under
stand it. Therefore any Senator or Rep
resentative whose law partner is hired to
appear before the legislature is properly
bribed in favor of the side advocated by
such partner.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

portance have been set for consideration
on that day-one in the House, one IN
the Senate, and one before the Senate
Committee on Propositions and Griev-
ances.
/. In the Senate the Fuller bill has
been made special order. 1t will come
before the Senate upon a favorable re-
port by the slender majority of one. 1t
has passed the House by ~ to SO, after
it had failed of a favorable report by
the committee. Of the 3S voting against
the bill in the House, about twenty were
cast by Republicans. In fact, the Re-
publicans lined up solidly against the
bill with solitary exception. On the
Senate committee the only Republican
member voted as the Southern desired.
Upon matters affecting railroads there is
sometimes division among Democrats,
never among Republicans. Sub Boss
Henry Miller cracks his whip and they
all vote as the Southern Railway di-
reefs. The Southern Railway lobby has
been perniciously active in the effort
to defeat the Fuller bill. Why? Both
because they wish no regulation by the
State and because they wish to test the
temper of the Legislature as to its atti
tude on the quas-public corporations.
There has not been a single argumenc
made against the Fuller bill that was not
| made against the establishment Of the
Corporation Commission. The powers
conferred are not nearly so great as in
that act. If the Fuller bill ought not to
become law, the Corporation Commits
sior law is wrong. Both stand exactly
upon the same principle. The bill will
pass, but it will take a whole month to
put it on the statute books, so active and
so persistently has the Southern Rail.
way crowd muddied the waters.
2. On Thursday the Watts bill, with
favorable report, will come up before
the House. On the same day the Senate
Committee will meet to consider all the
temperance bills and to make a report
on one. There is a belief that the Com
mittee will frame a bill containing the
best features of all the bills. 1t would
be we'll if the House Committee and the
Senate Committee could get together,
agree upon such a measure, and put be-
~
the State. The Watts bill and the Lon
don bill. as they relate to the rural
problem, are alike. The Watts bill docs
not touch any other phase of the evil,
In spite of the difference in method, we
still hope that there will be an agree
ment by the committees on a bill that
progressive, effective legislation. In the
meantime, the petitions continue to come
in for the London bill. 1t is sgniti-
cant that most all the petitions advocate
that bill, or something that is along the
lines of that measure. 1t will probably
not be possible to pass the London bill
as it now stands, but most of it's features
should be Incorporated in the bill that
is finally enacted. AS to the Watts bill.
its main features will undoubtedly be
incorporated 1t is to be hoped that the
present week will see the temperance
legislation in such shape as to Justify
the just expectations of the conserva-
tive temperance forces in the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

We publish elsewhere an article from
the recent meeting of the directors of
the Bank of Wayne and the high stand
ing of that banking house. There is no
financial institution in all the South
that is more wisely and conservatively
ntanaged or that justly enjoys to
fuller extent the confidence Of all the
people in the community in which it is
located
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

Lobbying is becoming dsreputable in
North Carolina. The spectacle of men
of ability. for money, seeking to influence
legislation by private lobbying, is dis
graceful and scandalous. The legislators
ought to give these lobbyists the cold
shoulder.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
In glaring big type yesterday the South

In glaring big type yesterday the South
ern Railway Post had thi:
headline over the Senate pro.
ceedings: "Justice Fights for Bill
Against Railroads" Nothing was further
from the truth Senator Justice mas IN
troduced a bill to require all railroads
to give warning of impending danger to
pedestrians on the track by blowing the
whistle Or ringing the bill, or both. That
is not bill against railroads, but q
bill in the interest of human llte But II
a Senator intimates in speech that a
railroad isn't holy, the organ blows
whistle and rings bill trying to scare
him away from urging legislation that its
owners and bosses oppose.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

hindrances. He seems to have attained
perfection in utterance. We heard him
read a chapter from letter of Paul. 1t
took on new meaning as he gave empha-
sis to certain words.
Ministers who know it all" wonder
why certain preachers whose sermons are
trash draw, and they who are stu
dents" empty a church. An audience
doesn't like being filled with doctrine as
a tom thumb" sausage gets it's seasoned
NEATLY a steady, orderly, systematic
stuffing The late DR.. Bond, of Balti-
more, said that John Newland Maffitt
had such an engaging utterance that he
could repeat the multiplication table,
gaining in interest as he advanced, till at
twelve times twelve the audience
would shout. What do Summerfield's
sermons amount to, as they appear in
print? Senator and slave heard them
with fixed gaze and quickening pulse.
Cough, a book-Dinder without educa-
ton, a reclaimed sot, addressed at a ia
| nous School Of the Prophets" in the
| North the divinity students and their in
| structors whose harvested learning in
| oVerplus needing larger barns to house
It, He could add nothing to their "heaps
on heaps" yet he, in reciting stale things
as they appear on the page of print, put
charm upon these grave and wise men
| till they applauded as loud and often as
| the Janitors. One of that audience, lad
studying for the ministry" had caution
| from professor of patristc literature
not to aspire to such influential and Win
ming delivery as risking too much by
| making sermons attractive to the
world" adding other wooden nonsense.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
1T SHOULD PASS.
Charlotte News

One of the most important bills that
has come before the present Legisla-
ture is the depot bill which is set for
hearing February 18th. The ,indica-
tions are that the bill will pass and it
should pass. 1t is the only hope the cities
in North Carolina have of securing a
manifest need
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

Judge Parker has also been invited to
deliver an address before the Arkansas
Legislature. If he is as wise in his pub
lie addresses as in his judicial decisions
and his past record, he will prove a win
ner in the next National Convention.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
PREPARING LATE IN LIFE
A sheboro Courier


Rev. j. L. Bennett, of Union county.
has entered Wake Forest College, though
he has grand children nearly large enough
to enter with him. He has been in the
active ministry for nearly thirty years,
says the Gastonia News. This is unusual.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

as his habits of life have been formed,
yet if he has formed the habit of study
and application he may be greatly bene-
fitted. We know of one of the most use
full ministers in the Methodist church
who went to college after he was thirty
and was married. and took with him his
wife and two children. His education was
so limited that if he had not attended
school his services as a minister would
have been a failure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
A WHOLE LEMON IN A NUT
SHELL.
esboro Chronicle.

While the Legislature is finding so
many worthy objects for which to make
appropriations, it had better be devils
Ing some way to get the money to meet
the appropriations
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
THE BEST MONUMENT TO GONZALES
Evening Post

THE BEST MONUMENT TO GONZALES
Evening Post.
N. G. Gonzales, the assassinated Co
lumbia editor, having waged relentless
warfare in his paper against lawlessness,
his admirers in South Carolina now wish
to erect a monument to him as a cham
pion of law and order, to express there
by their "silent but lasting protest
against the lawlessness in our State" 1t
is a kindly movement, but it would avail
little or nothing as a protest Just now
a properly adorned gallows would be the
fittest monument in South Carolina tc
the cause of law and order. Any other
mcnul.urt to that cause, or to Mr.. Con
zaIes as it's champion, might well await
the laws disposition of the case OF his
cowardly assassin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
THEN YOU SAID SOMETHING
Winston Journal.

Give freight rates in the South equal
consideration with the North and West
and you will see capital invested here.
and business increase, thereby beneftting
the railroad companies as much as the
public.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
Spirit of the Press.
BETTER GET READY

BETTER GET READY.
Durham Herald.
The Southern railroad had as we'll place
an order for material for the depot while
it is cheap.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

1T WILL NOT ACT UNTIL THE Law
COMPELS 1T o DO so.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

If the Southern intends to give us a
depot why has it not done so before this
and avoided all this trouble.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08
AN IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE
DAY.

Next Thursday is an important legis-
lative day. Three matters of great i'm
portance have been set for consideration
on that day-one in the House, one IN
the Senate, and one before the Senate
Committee on Propositions and Griev-
ances.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25
TALKS With FARMERS
Continued from First Page.

experimental with is the yellow locust,
known as black locust in some sections.
We nave trees of this species which in
seven years from the seed were plenty
large enough to make good fence posts.
Everybody knows the value of the locust
for posts, for there is no wood which
lasts longer in the ground. The trees can
be trimmed when large enough for vine
yard stakes or other purposes, and a little
later another thinning can be made for
the manufacture of insulating pins for tel
egraph and telephone poles, for which this
timber is almost exclusively used, and
the mills engaged in this manufacture are
fast using up the natural growth of the
locust in the mountains of the Appalach-
ian system. The locust sprouts readily
from the stump and the plantation will
rapidly renew itself If properly thinned.
The value of the cotton crop of 1902
was $34 SOC. 900 greater than the value of
the wheat crop OF the country. A years
expectation of cotton was 81, oI1. 475 more
than the total Of breadstuffs exported and
500 100, AL more than the meat and dairy
products. Adding the exports Of cotton
goods and c~ottonsced oil, it is shown by
the census figures that more than one
fourth of the exports of the u. S. come
from the cotton crop.