The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-03-03
iSpecia! Washington Letter.l


Democrats now control the Hub in al
departments. That is only a straw
showing which way the wind blows
The Democrats in congress, in both
house and senate, are working together
for good and more harmoniOusly than
at any time since 1892. At both ends
of the capitol caucus action has been
made binding-in the house by ma
jority, in the senate by a two-thirds
majority-and that will give strength
to the party. 1t means that we are
once more to have somewhat of disci-
pline in our ranks, thing sadly needed
for, 10, these many years. All in all,
Democrats are in a frame of mind to
enjoy a really merry Christmas.
Too Bad.
After all the blaviating done by Re
publican spellbinders as to the pros
perity creating qualities of the blessed
Dingley tariff bill it turns out that 1t
is a deficiency producer instead of
revenue producer. The truth is gradu-
ally coming out. 1t can't be concealed
any longer, and the truth is that there
are breakers ahead for the government.
One of two things must happen-ex-
penses must be curtaiied or federal
taxes increased. Republicans cannot
curtail expenses. Therefore they will
give the thumbscrews another turn and
increase taxes That's not what Hon.
Leslie NJ. Shaw says in words. but
that's what he says in substance. In
his latest report he says that the sur
plus for this fiscal year ending June
80. 1904, will be only $14,000,000, dis
tressingly small when compared with
the vast volume Of our receipts and
expenditures. For IL" fiscal year end
ing June 80 1905, he estimates that in
stead of a surplus-even a small one
there will be deficit Of S23 O02, Lis.
Now, let the readers hereof recollect
that the foregoing figures we're made
and the foregoing conclusions arrived
at not by wild eyed Populist or an
anarchistic Democrat, but by Il great
and good Republican, secretary of the
treasury from Iowa, stronghold of
Kepublicansm. Therefore Republicans
cannot with straight face deny them;
hence it is clear as the sun that the
much Wanted Dingley tariff bill is a
deficiency producer. 1t has for six
years increased by % to so per cent
the cost Of living to the average Amer
lean citizen, but Willie doing so is fail
ing to produce enough revenue to pay
the expenses of the government. Not
withstanding these facts. Republican
orators in the coming campaign will
brag as loudly as ever about how the
blessed Dingley tariff bill filled the ma.
tional Golfers to overlooking with the
coin Of the realm.
Of course even with the dwindling
revenues produced by the Dingley bill
both ends could be made to meet by
cutting down eXpenses-a performance
impossible of achievement by Repub-
leans. The only way to retrench ex-
penditGres is to turn the Republicans
out and to put the Democrats in.
Consistency.
We are informed on high authority
that consistency is rare jewel" the
truth of which dictum is illustrated
every day. Not long since, the Union
League club of New York spent the
evening formulating resolutions and
debating and passing them expressing
their profound horror at the way the
colored man and brother is maltreated
and Disseminated against away down
south in Dixie No doubt the Union
Leaguers are superior mortals and
mean well, but then we also have it on
high authority that that place not fit
to be mentioned to ears polite "is paved
with good intentions" The Union
Leaguers should heed the monition
about removing the beam from their
own eye before attempting surgical
operation on their neighbOrs' optics
Human nature is just about the same
the wide world over. Under certain
be doing the identical things which
they now condemn in others.
1t so happened. to the shame, con-
fusion and, let US hope, the enlighten-
ment of the Solar Walk and Milky Way
statesmen who compose the aforesaid
Union League. that in the same issue of
tie New York Herald which contained
an account OF the resoluting and SPELL
binding done by the Union Leaguers
against race discrimination in the south
there also appeared the following ac-
count Of trouble in New England bv
reason OF the same race prejudice
against which the Union Leaguers were
resoluting and splitting the weikin:
Because the school committee in the
Ram district In Sheffield village, in Mas
sachusetts, has engaged Miss Cora Fow-
Ter, negro. to teach that school, lust open-
ed. and has ordered "al children of
school age, below the fifth grade, residing
on the Plain and in New Guinea, to at
tend the Plain school," a race war has
broken out there.
White people refuse to send their chill
drer to the new school, the membership
of which is composed entirely of negro
children. George Cook. wealthy citizen
CT Winsted. Conn, residing in the Plain
district. says: Il cannot object to my
children attending school with children
or African descent but I do object to
their being instructed by negro. If the
committee will secure a white teacher for
the school will send my children there"
Perhaps the aesthetic Union Leaguers
may learn somewhat by a careful Pc
rusal of that pregnant dispatch, which
comes not from Mississippi. Louisiana
or South Carolina. but from the land
Of the wooden nutmegs and steady
habits-froE New England. the home
Of the soul. II the Union Leaguers
adhere to their resolutions. they would
do we'll to send an engrossed copy
to Mr.. George Cook. Winsted. Conn
They might enlighten his benighted in.
tellect and reconcile him to environ.
ments which in his ignorance he be.
fieves are rendering his condition in.
tolerable. AID interim the wise aud
philanthropic Union Leaguers ought ia
read "Put Yourself In His Place." by
one Charles Reade
The Washington Post, independent,