The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

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refer to the bill to protect the life of
the President. l do not know what be
| came of the bill, but the defunct Con-
sress was none too wise or liberty-loving
| to kill such monster of iniquity and
despotism. 1t is foolish beyond parallel
and unwise beyond experience. / copy as
| follows from a ringing editorial in the
| Norfolk Virginia Pilot:
I'VE have not seen the text of The bill
out it is not ncce ssary to go beyond the
provision that any one who teaches that
an officer of the government Of any civ
ilized nation should be unlawfully killed
becomes liable to a fine of s. 900 and i'm
prsorment for 20 years.
Thus the bill not only creates an Of
fetal class in this country but it under
takes to throw the protecting arm Of
! American law around every tyrant in
the civilized world 1t puts, look you,
higher value upon the life Of the Sultan
! of Turkey than it does upon the life Of
the American citizen and extends to the
Sultan protection denied to the citizen
If you should read of cruel outrages
perpetrated by the Sultan or a Russian
Tsar then you must pay fine OF $4,000
and be also imprisoned for twenty years
| if you should dare to say that the Sultan
| deserved to be shot. 1t is indeed mar
veIlous that such a bill could be intro
duced into a thing called an American
| Congress The fools flourish here and
the enemies of free speech and American
liberty are in the Congress. The Virgin
IAN Pilot asks:
when did it become a cardinal prin-
cirle of this democracy to undertake to
maintain the tyrants of foreign countries
upon their thrones and to set their pre-
cious hides above the liberties of Ameri-
can citizens? Apparently when the Re-
publican party threw over American ira
ditions and set out to put an uncrowned
monarch in the seat of Washington and
Jefferson"
Tt is astonishing what traitors and
asses are found among men who are
voted for and elected to seats in the
United States Congress. The people are
| far too careless in the men they send
to the Lagislat lures and the Congress A
reform here is imperative. The tendency
in this country is to great extravaganza
in public expenditures. The Republicans
have carried the expenditures with such
a high hand and outstrctched arm, as
to appal thoughtful people. Think of
enc Congress daring to expend in two
years well nigh two billion of dollars as
have seen stated within few days /
recently said it was one billion and a
| quarter. If nearly two billions then that
| is some twenty three times more than
| President Buchanan expended in year
| or quite eleven times more than he re-
CURED for two years. The population has
| increased 21a times only. So you see
how disproportionate are the expendi-
lures in comparison with the actual in
crease in population. The government is
being undermined by such wildcat eX-
penditures. Taxation is no blessing to
any people, but a positive curse. North
Carolinians of the sober type do not
relish reckless expense and high taxes
and bond issues 1t is dangerous road
for North Carolinians to travel. The
huge repudiated debt shakes its locks
at bond issuing and cries out-Beware!
variety" is the "spice of life" and of
a newspaper as we'll Newspaper readers
do not like to be fed upon one dish
whether it be politics, religion, business,
social life. gossip and scandal, literature
or the fine humor and wisdom of Mr..
Dooley. So l seek in my weekly con-
tributions to give variety if nothing
higher can be claimed. Now for much
in little
If the population of North Carolina
since the census was taken in June, 1900,
has increased in the same ratio that it
increased in the decade between 1890 and
1900, the State will have next June not
far from !, $50 900 inhabitants. BY June,
1906, it will reach over 100000, and pro-
badly 2,02O, 900 inhabitants.
However excellent and desirable popu-
lar education may be, it should not b.
secured by creating a public debt
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| Those who magnify education so much,
as did Horace Mann, of Massachusetts,
and make it a great moral and political
upliftcr of the masses, might learn
something from the experience of some
of the New England States. 1t has been
published by people of that section
| within a few years, that religion was
declining in more than one State. 1t has
been stated that villages had disappear
ed, that church attendance had very
greatly fallen off and that the morality
had lessened. But a recent report by
| REV. ii. H. 1tutcn1nS 10 the FedeTaLlOn OF
Churches in session at New Haven,
Conn, quite recently, is sumner. As
telegraphed from that city to the Balti-
more Sun, he stated that 'he has found
polygamy practiced in Connecticut, and
an appalling state of illiteracy, immor-
ality, political corruption and a growing
proportion of imbecility in rural sections
He is an agent for the Connecticut Bible
Society. In many towns the churches
are deserted, he says, and Goodness is
| only tradition
81 have three sons" said Hr
Hutchins, and if / were compelled to
make choice of sending them to live
| among these illiterate people of the
northwestern part of the State or down
in the slums of New York city l would
| choose the Sums
In public schools a male teachers sal
airy is sometimes only s. a week, he
stated. He found II men teaching
| schools whose income was 1888 month
Murder, arson and uncomfortable crimes
are committed by such people, he says.
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