The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-10


and the Reformation in England under
Edward W. the Rev. ]. P. Whitney, OF
"tbe Helvetic Reformation" A. A. Tllley,
of 1.-The Reformation in France; Primer
pal Fairbairn, of Calvin; Prof. W. h.
Collins, of 1.-THE Scandinavian North ana
"The Catholic South; Prof. James
Gardner, of Henry VIII; James Bass
Mullnger, of Philip and Mary
Prof. w E Dodds one volume, Life
| of Nathaniel Macon is attracting atten-
ton, | am gratified to notice. and is be-
| ing extensively reviewed by capable
North Carolina contributors to the press
| shall ID. W write of it soon. but
briefly 1t is book of merit and interest.
1t is announced that he will be one OF the
contributors on American History III the
new Encyclopedia Americana 1t Is
assigned him to treat of the causes OF the
war with Great Britain, and the anneXa-
| ton of Texas and results. He VIII be
| apt to do thorough work and to present
| the facts. He is an independent thinker.
| have two valuable North Carolina
works at hand, but 1 have not been able
| to read a line as yet. 1t must be some
weeks before l can consider them IN or
der of reception. They are North Caro-
| lima; A Study in English Colonial Govern
ment," by Prof. Charles Lee RaDer. Phi
H.. of the University of North Carolina,
and General Joseph Graham, and The
Revolutionary Papers, by Major William
| A. Graham, Of Lincoln County, n. {.
| These are works that appeal particularly
| 20 North Carolinians. It is a good sign
| that there is so much productiveness now
concerning our early history. Let the
good work go on. As l am not profess
sional reviewer, l must take my own
time for reading and comment.
| have paid some attention IN the last
few years under the great and boasted
American prosperity in this country, to
the advance also in the cost of living
While wages may be something higher
than they were seven years ago, dhe price
of living for the toilers has been proba-
bly, more highly advanced. IN other
words. it costs the bread-winners now
more to live than it did some years ago.
The advance in food. etc. is greater than
the advance received in their daily earn
ings Dunn's Review, the New York
commercial weekly of high repute, gives
figures as to increase in living which
have been utInzed by the New York Her
aid. They appeared quite recently in the
News and Observer, but are we'll worth
repeating. The table is both informing and
startling:
PER CAPITA COST OF LIVING.
July l, 1897 Observation-Disclosures. s'z.4o
March l, 1900 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 9o'oo
March /, 1901 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 94'eo
March l, 1902 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l0l'o9
March /, 1908 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l0l.oo
october 1, 1903 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1888
March l, 1904 observation-disclosures. lO5oI
Mark. these figures do not include ad-
vance in house rents and other things
that appeal 10 housekeepers and work
ers The increase in seven years Is 40
per cent Mind how you blow over pros
perlty."
While stupid enemies and blunderers are
rebukng the South for race prejudice ana
want of proper pride of race, IKE
President Eliot. of Harvard University
affirmed OF the Southern whites the
tine work of breaking down race barriers
in New England, and particularly IN
Massachusetts,, proceedeth. The News and
Observer lately gave the enlightening sta
tistics. and revealed the kind of progress
that gratifes and bulges the cheeks of the
people in that vain. dominating, and pro
gncial State The official statistics taken
rom the thirty fourth annual report of
he Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
show as follows. which we take from the
News and Observer:
I'm thirty-seven cities in Massachusetts
in 1900 forty three negro men married
white wives and nine negro women mar,
RED white men. In 1901 fOrty-one negro
men married white women In 1902 thir-
ry-six negro men married white women
and six white men married negro women
Such figures must prove sngularly gTa-
.ifying to ''the great pride of race" OF
President Eliot and his fellows in admira-
ton and love of the negroes. The Doctor
has a sympathetic and responsive friend
in the Republican Representative IN the
United States Congress from Massachu-
.etts known as Gillett. They are evident
W birds of a feather" That particular
Republican and exponent Of Massachusetts
opinion and alliance is strong for SOCIAL
equality He loves Sambo and Dlnah.
and Graves doubtless social intercourse
and intcr-marrying. l wish that Eliot and
Gilett could somehow have negro sons-in-
law and negro daughters n-law. | take
1 few choice excerpts from the News and
Observers report from Washington, On
peciaD. OF the 2Sth March. They are
delightful and invigorating reading, and
| mark with emphasis TIE duNdlIGC III Ieto9,
| morals and pride of race in Yankee
loodledom. The extracts are from Glllets
talk in the U. S. House:
For this reason l suspect there Is a
stronger natural repugnance toward the
negro in the North than there is IN the
South At the same time we do not re-
ognize THE preposterous talk of social
quality or inequality which comes from
| he South"
he argued that there are no social
grades in this country He had supposed
here was lust one social condition. No
| accident OF birth or of race or of color
,as any right in this country to give So
| ial superiority. This talk that we hear
o much Of about man being socially SUI
| ,erior to another simply because of his col
n strikes me as preposterous. l am
| urprised tlat any one in this country
| hould assert such a claim
| He was handled by Representative
Claude Kitchn. of North Carolina. and
| representative Williams of Mississippi.
The latter put SPIDER in the luscious
/ If no Hind inf