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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-10
Exterior Packing of Merchandise.

1t Is recommended that exterior packing
of imported merchandise shall be exempt
from duty. Certain articles have been taken
from the list heretofore assessed under a
specific rate and an ad valorem rate ap-
piled. while many other paragraphs Of the
tariff apply a minimum ad valorem rate so
that in case the specific rate should not
amount to from Is to 20 per cent sufficient
duty shall be addeded to make the rate
amount to that proportion Of the proposed
amount.
The rates on beverages remain specific,
but are increased from 35 to 80 cents per
liter. common wine 8 to 10 cents per liter,
the rates on malt liquors remaining un-
changed. Provision is made for samples i'm
ported by commercial travellers to the value
OF 1900 under bond free of duty The
provision for the free entry of personal eff
fects is made broader and more liberal. The
changes proposed for the paper schedules
affect the language somewhat. but not the
rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-10
BOWLING BATTLES,

| Only Two Leagues Had Out Teams
Last Night.
Following are the results Of matches roll
ed on the Palace alleys last night:
Real Estate Tao
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-10
MANY FIGHTS.
Four Scraps We're Pulled OF on Elec-
ton NIGHT,

Tuesday night In out-of-town rings. Four
bouts were decided. and each contest drew
large crowd. An exciting scrap took
place IN New Bedford. Mass. The principals
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
MORMONISM AT HOME.

The people Of North Carolina have fol-
lowed the Smoot investigation in the Sen
ate with deep interest because, in a small
way, they have been troubled with that
pestilence at home. For years, either call
ing themselves Mormon evangelists'' di-
rect from Utah, or calling themselves
'Lynchtes," preaching sanctification and
practising adultery the curse of Mormon
ism has bhghted small portion of East
ern North Carolina Here and in Utah
the profession of Mormonism and Lynch
ism is cloak TO vice and immortality, and
an attempt to evade the law by the hy-
pocmtical pretense of religious belief. Here
IS the latest from the Mormon propaganda
in North Carolina, as published in the
Morehead Coaster:
Or. w. Q. A. Graham, district Superin-
tendent of the NJ. E. Church for Eastern
Carolina, spent Sunday at Harkers Is.
land. He learned that some Mormons were
sowing tares over there among his wheat.
The Mormons were to have had a big
time there Sunday. but were foiled bv
the Doctor getting together his flock. DR..
Graham says the Mormon converts arc
those who formerly we're Lynchites."
There has been too much liberation with
this cattle. The thing they need is a
suit of stripes and term in the peniten-
tiary. People should shun them as thew
would the presence of leper and look
upon them with more horror than an en-
issary spreading cholera or yellow fever.
These dread diseases could only destroy
the body. Mormonism destroys alike the
body and the soul.
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junk the results Of the costly appropria
tions Of 1865" he says. Whatever we
expend for the equipment of this year will
certainly be Anticipated thirty-five years
hence. This is the verdict, not of civil
ians, but of accomplished officers of high
rank in the navy"
Hon. w. w. Kitehin, of the Naval
Committee, takes the right position with
reference to the enlargement Of the Navy
AN annual increase in equipment but no
wholesale and extravagant additions. We
do not need the greatest navy in the
world. We do need a strong navy of mod
ern ships, such as we have, with such adj
ditions and engagements as will give oul
navy the latest improvements to max,
cur ships equal to the best. 1t would b,
the height of absurdity to enter upol
building navy upon the eXtravagan
scheme of either Roosevelt or Hobson. i
for no other reason than the one pointet
out by DR.. Hale, to-wit: it would be q,
antiquated and useless in a few years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
A VAPlD ISLANDER.

Some public lecturers seem to prefer
sensational statements to truthful ones
Now it is Mrs. Hodgkinson at a meeting
of the Progressive Health Club Of Chi
cago, who declared that 1.-The heart of the
woman of wealth generally is more respon
sive to the whine of a dog than to the
appeal Of a girl who is homeless and pen
niless.
This is vapid SANDER upon rich wo-
men. While there are a few of whom the
statement of Mrs. Hodgkinson might be
true, her sweeping statement is absurd.
If she would learn the benefactions of
rich women, she would find that most of
them do a thousand good deeds that help
girls who are in need. There isn't much
difference between rich women and poor
women; nearly all women are kind-heart
ed and love to listen to the appeal of a
girl who is homeless and penniless." The
Chicago lecturer was speaking of the ex
rentiC.n
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Dr. Edward Everett Hale is wise in his
articie IN the Christian Register when he
points out, of the argument advanced in
Congress in behalf of the proposed mon
strous appropriation, nearly one hundred
millions, for the navy, that it is the best
preparation for peace-that some two or
three thousand years ago some old hog
whom Aesop met in the woods said to the
iather OF liable that he was rubbing his
tusks against the trunk of tree 50 that
ne might be prepared for war; but the
pclnt DR.. Hale makes in his article is
the undoubted fact that no weapon of Of
fence used in the United States Navy in
1868 was used in the Spanish War in 1923.
n generation Of men have reduced to Old
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

the Democratic rarity to declare
against free silver as it would be for az
business man to declare that he would
never borrow a dollar because he hap
pens not to need it at the moment. The
sensible business man is governed by cir
cumstances, and the Democratic party
should be so governed. The business man
holds himself free to borrow money if he
needs it, The Democratic party should
hold itself free to declare for more money
and to provide it, should the country
lneed more money.
| That is the sane and safe middle
glound. There is just as much difference
between occupying that ground and de-
claring for the gold standard as there
is between remaining silent asAto a man
and denouncing him. In remaining silent
as to the money issue, the Democratic
Iparty simply reserves its Judgment. In
declaring for the gold standard it would
Istrltfy itself as to the past, and pos
lsibly as to the future as well. BY re-
manning silent, it leaves its past to the
lquite sufficient vindication the logic of
facts has brought and its future to what
lever courso developments may urge upon
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
| THE DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE ON
THE MONEY QUESTION.
Norfolk Virginian Pilot

NCrtolk-Virginian Pilot.
Take the case as it stands-the Dem
ocratic party has been thoroughly and
triumphantly indicated as regards the
fundamental contention it made in
1896, to-wit: that the country must have
mere basic money and with more basic
money would become prcsperous-the
party has, in fact, been more conclu
siyely Hindicated than has any party
in the history of the country Phcnom-
enally large discoveries of gold were for
tUnately made and the volume Of money
increased by leaps and bounds-far more
rapidly than it would have increased
under free coinage of silver act-and
pari passu with that increase came pros
perity.
Therefore, having been vindicated by
circumstances as to the principle involved
in the campaign of 1896, the Democracy
need not worry about the past. The logic
Of facts has made it inyulnerable in that
quarter. The Republicans, OF course, con
tend that they made the prosperity the
country has been enjoying by their policy
of Sound money" etc. 1t IS not worth
While to worry about the shallow-pates
that sort of thing will convince. They
viii, believe the last thing they are told
to believe and no party leader need waste
lis time with them.
It follows that the Democracy need
concern itself only with the present and
the future. As for the present, the free
coinage Of silver is not necessity and
the Democratic party can never hope
to win upon the issue save when free
coinage is a necessity felt by the whole
The influx of gold has supplied
the sharp need of money that was para
lyz;ng industry in 1896. The question is
after all strictly business matter, and
there is no sound reason for the country
to provide for an increase of the cur
rency it does not need, any more than
there is for a business man to borrow
money he does not need.
The future, however, is an unknown
quantity and it would be as foolish for
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
GOD BLESS THAT ALA NANCE Jury

The reports from almost every Superior
Court in the State are enough to sicken
all good citizens who believe in the sancti-
ty of the home, and the marital relations,
and who regard the preservation of the
American home as the mud-sill of virtue
and happiness From almost every sec
ton comes the damning and monotonous
report 'seven divorces granted "or an
even dozen of divorces granted, or even
more. It is rare that we hear of any
application being denied, the lawyers be
ing able under some Of the late new South
Dakotaized statutes to find a place
through which to drive. In the increasing
news of divorces the following from yes
terday's Alamance Cleaner IS refreshlng
THE divorce mill was reversed in the
court here yesterday. Two cases came on
for trial and in each case Inc jury said
the applicant for divorce was not entitled
to the relief prayed for. These two cases
were the only ones on the docket at this
term. It is well enough to call halt in
The divorce business. Making 1t more diff
fcuh to secme divorces will beget more
sacred regard for the marriage relation"
Cod bless that jury! Let us have many
more like them. And lei Us have more
legislators who will stand against loose
divorce laws!
Superior Court Judges can nelp to-
make it more dsdcult to secure di-
vorcesY if they will lefuse to let divorce
trial bod incl as \purt is adjourning
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

AFTERMATH OF THE 3ASSETT IN
CIDENT.
Norfolk Landmark.

Norfolk Landmark.
The Raleigh News and Observer. whose
editor had the honor of being burned in
effgy by students of Trinity College be-
cause he called for the dismissal of Prof.
Bassett from the Faculty of that institu-
tuition after the astonishing utterances of
the Professor on the race question, directs
attention to the latest development of the
case as shown in the Congressional Re-
cord
Trinity College, it will be remembered,
refused to accept Prof Bassett's resigna-
ton. the Trustees contenting themselves
with mere dsavowal and censure of the
opinions he had expressed. In the course
of the speech in which he charged Mr..
Cleveland with having entertained a col
ored Register of Deeds for the District of
Columbia at luncheon in the White
House, Congressman Scott, of Kansas,
quoted the assertion of DR. Bassett that
Booker t. Washington is the greatest man,
save Robert E. Lee. born in the South
during the past 100 years. Here we let
the News and Observer take up the thread
''Hon Claude Ktchn took a hand
in the debate at that point, and thus
undertook to defend the trustees of
Trinity College:
4 would like to say to the gentle
man in justice to my colleague that
the faculty did rebuke this professor
for making the utterance, but did
say that he had right to it as en-
joying the liberty of free speech
ut seems that Mr.. Scott was ready
with an answer-the answer that the
Boston Transcript and other apologists
for the action of the trustees of Trim
ity College have made in the North,
for Mr. Scott quickly retoted;
"'Thcy rebuked him for making the
utterance, but they did not attempt to
say the utterance was not true. They
rebuked him because they were forced
to do so by the public sentiment round
about
Aha! This Scott Interpretation of the
action taken by the Trinity Trustees is
just what was to be expected. Il bears
out the opinion The Landmark expressed
from the first-that the retention of DR..
Bassett after his offensive utterance would
damage the college, because>it would in
cvitably identify the college to a certain
extent with the ideas he had advanced.
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and require them to come in regular or
der and give full time to the hearing.
They can also help by charging the jury
mon the growing evils of divorce and
impress upon iuries that divorces must
he denied except in the clearest cases.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

The Kinston Free Press truly says that
the receivership and the lease propositions
are separate propositions. The first
would be good thing, if properly safe
guarded. The second is taking under
forms of judicial ruling property from its
owners contrary to the constitutional and
inherent, rights. of every citizen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
MYSTERIOUS AND INCOMPREHENSl-
BILE.

Ex-Rev T. W. Babb's Carolinian con-
tains three columns of attack upon the
Democratic State administration, based
upon the unwarranted recevership of the
a. and N. c. r., and it copies copiously
from the Charlotte Observers and Winston
Republicans unfair and iaundiced article.
All the anti Democratic papers have
fallen into line, following the lead of
the negro organ at Smithfield, the whs-
key organ at Charlotte, and the railroad
organ at Raleigh-negro, whiskey, railroad
bosses-the three influences that are to
combine to fight true Democracy. 1t is
fitting that John r. Smiths chaplain of
the penitentiary, who was turned out of
the Baptist church and removed from his
job even by the Re-pop-li-can admins
tration for gross immortality, should be in
line with the fight to deprive the owners
of their property without notice or reason.
Let us see some of the ear-marks of
the transaction and the defense of it:
l Application for receivership is made
by x. S. Finch, who is employed by the
Liquid Air Company, of which ex-senator
Marion Butler is the general counsel.
2. The chief attorney for Capt. McBee
and his closest associate is Capt. W. H.
Day, a well known Republican who ran
the penitentiary as successor to John r.
Smith and Mewborne. A distinguished
lawyer, who represented McBee in his or
pear for kim when he entered upon the
ban or rule or ruin
8. The Judge who put the road into
the hands of a receiver. while in another
State without notice to its owners, is a
lifelong Republican.
4. The chief attorney who accompanies
Receiver McBee upon his tours over the
read is ex-Judge William Smith O'Brien
Robinson, the intimate friend of ex-Gov-
error Russell and his most confidential
adviser
.. The only approval the unwarrant
ed appointment of a receiver for this
solvent corporation has received is from
newspapers that are always hostile to
true Democracy.
s. The Morning Post of yesterday an
nounces that "Mr. w. w. Clark. of New
Bern, has been retained, it is stated. as
one of the counsel for the petitioner,
Finch, in asking that the a. and n. C.
r. R. receivershp be made permanent"
This is the same w. w. Clark who was
d Palmer and Buckner elector in 1896.
Now, we do not charge that any of
these eminent Republicans were con-
scicusly influenced in any action by
partisan bias, or any desire to make 70
htical capital Far be it from us. We
simply present these six rather remarkable
condolences because they seem to con-
stitute a strange and singular phenomena
AS incomprehensible to us as the COM
ponents of Liquid Air and as mysterious
as Wireless Telegraphy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

Though the House Committee has ia
vorably reported a bill to permit national
banks to lend monevy on real estate it is
not believed that it will pass There is OBJ
lection that real estate mortgages form
altogether too slow an asset for CONNER
cial banks to discount.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

The Smithfield Herald IS worthy to no
the exponent of Democracy in the Banner
county. OF Democracy. 1t is twenty-five
years old. Long may it live to lead in
good pclitics, education. temperance and
progress.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

The appointment of John Barrett as
minister to Panama is ideal He loves SEN
sation, revolution and scrap and is as
much jingoist as Roosevelt himself. The
man and the occasion have met. John will
not fail to get top-ofcolumn- next-to-read
ing matter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
A MORNING TONIC.
Alice Oarey.)

Alice Carey.)
How much we take, how little give!
Yet every life is meant
To help all lives; each man should live
For all mems betterment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

What has been the natural result of
such effrontery upon the part Of party
wreckers? The rank and file OF the De
mocracy knowing that return to Cleve-
keep the trusts in power, have determ-
ired at every hazard to save their party
from the proposed prostitution. If the
trusts and the Wall Stseet gamblers are
to control the national administration for
their own enrichment, true Democrats pre-
fer that Republicans shall be the corrupt
agents, and that the livery Of Democracy
shall not to be stolen in which to serve
the purposes of Mammon. They do not
desire to perpetuate party chickering's. They
are ready to strike hands with all men
who will cooperate to secure real Demo
cratic ideals. But they will not consent
to put forward as the leader the man who
betrayed the party in 1896. and used the
power given him by Democrats to defeat
his party. That ,would be party perfidy
and party dishonor.' The man to lead
must be man who has always been will
ing ito submit to the arbitrament of the
national convention Party loyalty could
not be invoked in behalf of any candidate
who had conspicuously exhibited. party dis
loyalty in crisis in the party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

If there ever was a time in the history.
of the Republic when there was need that
the Democratic National Convention
should meet in a frame OF mind to delber-
ate for the country's good, that time is
in the year 1904. The success of the
Democratic party this year IS necessary to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
ACCEPTS THE AMENDMENT.

Marshvile Home.
/ The Raleigh News and Observer ac-
cepts all that we said about the value OF
turnip greens and corn bread as compared
with strawberries and other dainty dish
es. 1t. however, calls attention to an
omissions when it says:
But our contemporary has failed to
add the third course necessary to
make corn bread and green's a dish
fit for the gods-fresh m.buttermilk.
Given these three with az rasher OF
jowl what epicurean could ask for
anything better?
We heartily accept this amendment and
stand corrected. 1t was clearly an over
sight that we did not mention the fresh
buttermilk. The appetite for fresh but
tcrmilk is inherited and does not have to
be cultivated BY the time child learn
to walk it knows how to crumb too Inuch
bread in it's cup of fresh buttermilk SO
that there will be a plausible excuse to
call for more buttermilk to moisten up
the bread, and especially is this the case
when buttermilk is scarce.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

IL Rhode Island, Mr.. Hearst had
strength, due largely to his attitude OH
labor questions and his aggressive fight
on trusts, for organized labor is very
powerful in that State. To that strength
was added the ant-reaction element not
pro-Hearst which joined with the Hearst
forces to prevent the control of the par
ty by the men who bolted in 1S96-the
men who wished to see Mr.. Cleveland
again put in charge of the Democratic
ship which he scuttled when last given
command. This element of the party, anti
Cleveland and for some straight" Dem
oorat. preferred to stand with the Hearst
forces than to stultify themselves by per-
hitting a victory Of the Cleveland elc-
ment. And it is to the deep-seatcd determ-
nation OF this rule or ruin Cleveland Gle
ment in the party. added TO his own
strength that Mr. Hearst owes his victory
in Rhode Island Six of the eight dele
gates, while not instructed, are for Hearst
IS first choice.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13

The spirit of returning to tho party,
after causing its defeat by betraying 1t IN
1896. by Cleveland and his allies. and de-
claring their intention to call the, fig
gers" or bolt again, has aroused the deep
est resentment OF true blue Democrats
everywhere. Mr.. Hearst has been quick
10 see this feeling and his managers have
quickly sought to realize upon .C by trying
to get the sentiment crystallized that all
who oppose the trust domination of the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-13
JUDGE LONGS GOOD EXAMPLE.

Stanly Enterprise
Judge B. F. Long was rather severe IN
sentencing two pillars OF the law ~
Madison county criminal court last week.
One justice of the peace was fined SOD
for 'tanlling VI" and another 500 ior
practicing law. There seems to be Ten
dency on the part of some -. Ps. VINO
have held office long enough to know a
little law and to be able to partially IN
terpret the Code to dispense with the
costs of lawyer t. the client. In such
cases the courts fees are always made
safe, and. usually. fellow who IS
brought before thesrourt had rather SUD
NIT to payment Of costs than being put
to the trouble of setting up deiehSe.
The pnacticing ~ p. )" needs to be close
ly looked after, and in both sentences re-
ferred to above, Judge Long has set an
example that other judges vail do well
to follow.