The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-03

sum of $3.50, 000, 900 expended by the South
| for educational purposes of which $121,.
000, 900 was for the colored race, it seems
co us that the South had educational
deals, and problems to solve which time
could alone enable her to work cut"
CASTOR county is one of North Caro-
| lina's prosperous counties. 1t has no ais-
tillery, and people work and are sober
and successful. L clipped the following
lately from the News and Observer
Twenty years ago CASTOR had bar
rooms, distilleries, $4,000 people, $4,000, 900
on the tax books. Now she has prohib-
| ton, thirty cotton mills, and 10000 peo-
| pie and SS,000.000 On the tax books
Instead of sundry prolific distlleries''
that run to damn and debauch aud make
beggars, it has thirty cotton factories
| leading every other county in Ill this
dear Southland. That is a grand exhibit
and worthy of all emulation.
Miss Ethel w. Mumford, is of a South
ern family but was born in New York
She was educated in Europe has lived
| in Japan and the South Sea Islands, and
travelled much. She has written a play
and has published two novels; "Dupes"
and "Whitenmarsh." She writes, rides,
| SWlInS anu TOWS. Sue is WudC the boys
would call buster
In half century the Protestant mis-
sionaries have increased in India IRON
30 to LOTT. The communicates have grown
| from 1906 to 313,513. How many arc
| truly converted and live right is another
question.
While sending missionaries, which is all
right, and according to the requirements
| OF the Saviour, there Is curse attending
the going out of whites into certain lands
as the fact is that so many of them are
immoral and vicious. A writer in the Sun
| day School Times says that instead of
the Gospel the whites have given as our
greatest gift to Africa the curse of the
| liquor traffic. In 1884 the imports from
Europe were nearly 100000 gallons, and
from America about 100000. The area
lii which liquor may be freely imported
We have happily greatly crcumscrihed
and in this area increasing duties have
been imposed, but the curse is still there"
1T is my sincere belief" said Sir Rich
ard Burton, chat if the slave trade were
revived, with all it's horrors, and Africa
could get rid of the white man with the
gun powder and rum which he has intro
duced, Africa would be the gamer by the
exchange
After nearly thirty years since peace
was declared in this country the pension
ers upon the bounty of the people number
more than one million. That shows how
vest was the Northern army and how
great the grab. The South for all the
time has been heavily taxed to pay tde
fellows who warred upon it and pillaged
it
If there is one unmitigated wrong and
v:llainy above all others that is pract:ced
against the American people, IL is the
curse and wrong Of rotection-I0bbery
OF the few for the benefit Of the many
pIundering $4,000, 900 for the benefit of
1900, 600. There is neither a semblance of
right or justice in such legallized plumb
ering and oppression. OF eighty works
by political economists in the great vast
British national library, the British
Museum there are but two that favor
or defend protection. The illustrious
Southern statesman; John c.. Calhoun
arraigning the protective scheme of rob-
berry, exclaimed
Protection, indeed Call it tribute,
levy, eXaction,S monopoly, plumber; or, il
these be too harsh, call it charity as
sistance, aid-anything rather than pro-
lection, with which it has not 4 feature
in common"
/ see it stated that there is a current
deficit in North Carolina receipts and
expenditures of $453, II. Go slow is
better, safer course than the rush OF
voting away money. 1t is no wonder that
states become involved in debts under
such a financial policy. One thing IS
certain under this rush of increase III
voting away money either taxes
must be increased heavily or there must
be rigid economy. The safe and sensible
legislator will hardly desire to run into
debt year after year. Pay day comes.
Then it is to issue. 1he game once
started has no end. Theorists and en-
thusiasts can easily justify the game
with platitudinous rhetoric, while the
tax mill grinds and increases in its vel
city. 1t is a good thing to be benignant
and sympathetic if you can indulge it
with safety to the State, and without
expressing the poorer classes who are
greatly strained to meet their taxes.
l record here two items that will be
sure to interest many North Carolinians.
1t is generally known that the very dis
tinguished and able Southern statesman
Hon. William ]. Bryan, is visiting Eu-
rope. He spent some weeks in England.
and was treated with much kindness and
consideration. He made a speech or two.
and literally captured his audiences with
his magnetic, fervid Impressive oratory.
The London Times has been fer three
quarters of a century or more the lead
ing daily in Great Britain. 1t used to oe
referred to as "The Thunderer." 1t is
of Tory politics, and like a great paper
should be, it is able, scholarly, informed
and enterprising. Recently it praised
Lord Rosebery's fine address at the I'M
yelling of memorial to that great writer,
Lord Macaulay. 1t took occasion to re-
fer in proper terms of approval and
laudation to Mr. Bryan, and said his
style of oratory is stamped with the
mark of a fine literary TASTE" and said
further that he commanded "a wide