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The Bourbon news., 1905-09-19
Residence For Rent I!

My residence, containing seven
rooms, two halls, good basement.
furnace, electric lights, gas and water
works, is for rent. 1t is situated on
Mt. Airy avenue, in the best of neigh
borhoods. Also have good stable,
garden, and every convenience of a
desirable home.
lift w. III. H. JOHNSON.
The Bourbon news., 1905-09-19

SEED WHEAT. Northern and Home
grown Seed Wheat for sale.
E. F. SPEARS & Sons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
RESURGANIUS!

Behold, | show you a mystery.
We shall all be changed"
The earth is regenerate. In that
lies the glory of things terrestrial. The
bursting OF billion husky seed the
new-awakened coursing of countless
veins of ardent sap, everywhere things
unfolding, wings of things breaking
from cold prisons, birds butterflies
all the myriad tiny lives that creep
stream, silver in the sunlight, living
steel of the shadows, young beasts,
agile limbed, in the forest-the Earth
is regenerate!
And all because, from away and
away beyond the infinite spaces of the
unguessed blue, there comes the word
to loose the ever present spring of new
life and new talk and new thought,
dormant with the secret of the
chrysalis, to fresh budding for better
fruit,
The day of resurrection. Earth tells
1T out abroad, it smells from the
countless odors of her mothers breast;
it sings in the voices of birds, whispers
from the leaves of trees, speaks with
lyric voice from the up-shooting flow
ers of the spring! Her cup is full,
pressed down, running over. She shall
have life fashioned out of rich blood.
supple limbs, music of the fields, ever
fuller, ever more abundantly, ever
more subtle in appeal. ever more riot
Gus of color and of joy! Strange and
yet familiar-new and yet old, The
indomitable. harmonious, unchanging
law of life as it was in the beginning,
yet futile without the power of the
sun to warm it into the alluring thou
sands of its changed expressions.
I'VE shall all be changed" Here.
Today! The Sun of Righteousness has
risen. The law of the universal broth
erhood is within. Beloved, pow are
we the Sons of God-and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be,
Easter day, the flower of the year,
Lily of Hope, rose full-blown of
promise! Leaping veins and valiant
soul and grateful heart Season of
joy and God-like confidence. Time of
Il world thankful to ecstasy for the
day-spring from on high. Ever recur-
rent, ever new-deathless in holy ira
dition-past-fulf future-aspiring,
conquering ever year by year till We
shall all be Gods
Easter!-lily-white fieid-green, life
rcd-set in frame of earthly bios
soms-Spring time of Eternity.
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lion dollars. A policy in that company,
or either of the other two successful
North Carolina life insurance COM
panies, is as good as in a company
that has an hundred million dollar
surplus for they carry sufficient sur
plus TO mature their policies-and that
is enough.
What North Carolina has done,
while the people have been laboring
under the foolish notion that a pyra-
mid surplus was to the interest of the
policy holder, is but an earnest of
what it will do now that the people
understand that every dollar of the
surplus above that needed to mature
the policies, is needlessly taken from
them in exorbitant rates. The North
Carolina companies have small capital
and have worked along very conserva-
tive and safe lines. They are now
firmly established and the business will
grow, new companies will be or
ganized, and not many years hence
The Raleigh Life Insurance Society
(not yet organized), will have a
branch office in Boston and Portland,
but long before then State and private
insurance companies will write most
of the policies of less than twenty-five
hundred dollars. North Carolina paid
out last year in premiums for life in
surance $3.256,3SS.6O. The insurance
companies paid back to policy holders
and their beneficiaries $3.50, 9S3.S9.
That means that North Carolina sent
out of the State (for most of the in
surance is held in companies charter
ed in other States), $2,402,404
more than it received back for life
insurance. This big excess in the true
cost of life insurance paid by North
Carolina alone shows how easy it is
to pile up mighty pyramidal SURPRISES
that tempt the officials to wasteful ex-
travagance. The moral is for each
State:
1. Agitate for such changes in the
law as will permit the State Insurance
Department to carry policies not eX-
ceeding $4,000 upon the lives of it's
citizens at cost
2. At once let the enterprising bust
ness men of every State and the
divisions of States organize strong
life insurance companies, modelled
upon the plans of the most successful
old line companies North Carolina in
a small way has demonstrated that
such companies are as safe as the
great companies
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"MIGHTY INTERESTING"

The particular attention of every
reader Is called to the Greensboro
correspondence in today's paper deal
ing with the conviction of men for
defrauding the government and the
criticisms thereupon. This paper has
no brief to defend Judge Boyd, Dis
trict Attorney Holton or Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Price. In the past it
has felt called upon to criticize them
and is opposed to them in politics,
but when they courageously prosecute
and punish the men who debauch the
people through violation of the reve-
nue. laws, it is the duty of every good
citizen to commend them and to urge
the good people of the State to APP
prove the new departure
Too long have violators Of the
revenue laws been permitted to escape
justice; too long have trials for the
illegal traffic in liquor been almost
farces; too long have men in Federal
and State courts been permitted to
pay uD amounts of which they had
defrauded the government and re-
turn to the business to make enough
money illegally to pay the fine. The
public conscience has been aroused
and State and Federal officials alike
have determined to enforce the laws.
money punishment is no punish
ment because the offender can make
enough in few nights to escape.
The only thing that. will break up il
legal making and selling, removing"
by legalized distillers and other
frauds is to put stripes upon the men
convicted. This should be done in
every case, and the fact that man
is well connected or rich ought to
have no effect in thwarting justice.
Indeed, offenders who have education
or standing deserve the severest pun
ishment, for they sin against light
and knowledge.
Mr. Yerkes should either investigate
the fraud, discharge the officials in
colluslon with distillers or moon
sinners, and make his department
respectable" in North Carolina. If
he Will not do thisfand prefers to at
tend blanket to which violators Of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
Governor Glenn.
Statesville Mascot.

StateSNlIle Mascot.
We notice with regret disposition
on the part of certain Democratic
newspapers to criticise certain unim-
portant acts of Governor Glenn. We
have watched his course since his in
duction into office, and in our opinion
the State never had more patriotic,
more conscientious or wiser chief exc
CutiVe.
To our mind, the distinguishing fea-
ture of his administration so far has
been the settlement of the Schafer
bonds He was of the opinion, wisely
so in our judgment, that these bonds
should be settled, if a satisfactory set
tlement could be had, before other
States became their owners, as in the
case of South Dakota, when they could
probably enforce the payment of the
full amount of the principal and in
terest. Our readers are familiar with
the efforts of the attorneys for the
holders of these bonds during the re-
cent session of the General Assembly
to bulldoze and scare Governor Glenn
into recommending that a higher price
be paid for the bonds than the Demo-
cratic State platform said was just
They are also familiar with the man
ner in which our Governor "called"
every single one of the bond holders
bluffs and forced them to settle on ex-
years been offered them by the State.
In handling this delicate question.
Governor Glenn showed the highest
patriotism, firmness and business
craftsmanship. What a contrast be-
tween Glenn, the Democrat. firm as
rock that not dollar of money more
than North Carolina held was Just
should be paid to these bond-holders,
and Russell, the Republican, who con-
spired with the agents and attorneys
of these same bondholders that his
State, whose interests he had sworn
to protect, should be robbed of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars!
We might cite many other acts Of
Governor Glenn but one more will
suffice. He has given it out that the
laws against vagrancy must be strictly
enforced. In many of our towns we'll
dressed gamblers, hangers-on of bars
and pool-rOomS, and drunken fathers
who live off the wages their wives and
little children earn, are being sent to
the chain gangs, run out of the State.
or made to pay heavy fines because
and do no work. Our Governor can
do no better work for the State than to
rid it of these vampires.
Before his election the people knew
and loved Robert B. Glenn for his
magnificent services to the Democratic
party. 1t is probably no disparage-
ment to the other great men of the
State TO say that he more nearly fills
the place of the immortal Vance in.
the popular heart than any of them.
The people forced his nomination and
election. They expect much of his adj
mnistration, and in our opinion they
will not be disappointed. His kind
heart may lead him into slight errors
of the head, but in all important mat
tiers he will measure up to the highest
of the high order of ability and pa
triotism which the Democracy of
North Carolina has ever demanded in
the men whom it has elevated to the
GoVernorShip.
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PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY CAN
WIN.

There is no hope in the Democratic
party unless it is the agency for equal
rights to all and special privilege to
none" 1t must stand against en-
trenched graft and bounties and the
use of streets for the enrichment of
the few. The fight in Chicago for
municipal ownership of water, lights,
street cars and all public utilities was
as necessary in the twentieth century
as Jefferson's fight against special
privileges in the eighteenth century,
and Jacksons fight against the mo-
nopolization of the banking of the
country by Nicholas Biddle and his as
sociates When "Old Hickory took
the money out of the National Bank
and put it in the United States Treas
ury, the Federalists declared that he
was a Socialist and would destroy the
country! The benefciarics of special
privilege then and now seek to be-
cloud the issue by declaring that gov
eminent control would undermine the
Constitution and ruin the Republic.
Since the victory for municipal
ownership in Chicago, there has been
a deluge of advice to the Democratic
party to beware Of the danger of
radicaIism. They tell us that if the
Democratic party stands for municipal
ownership in cities and the regulation
of railroad rates in State and nation,
it will be annihiIated. These are the
same folks who years ago kept driving
in our ears the fairy tale If the
party will be safe and sane and nomi-
nate a conservative New Yorker, 1t
will win" Their advice was needed;
the result IS known of all men.
The truth is that there is no hope
for the Democratic party except in do
ing right, in standing firmly against
giving to private parties what belongs
to the whole community. Municipal
ownership of public utilities is right
in principle and it is necessary to
secure cleaner city politics. AS long
as private companies own water, light
and street cars they are interested In
controlling the city government, and
nearly always they combine with the
grafters to prevent good city govern
ment.
Progressive Democracy Will WIN
many recruits. 1t may cause the loss
of those who wish some special privi-
lege. but for every such voter it loses
it will gain an hundred from the ranks
of men who wish nothing but fair
chance During the recent campaign
in Chicago, Joseph Medill Patterson,
grandson of Joseph Medill, the leading
Republican editor OF the West in his
day, said:
Il have always been Republican.
| am not Democrat-yet. But il the
Democratic party continues, as it has
begun in this city. to advocate public
ownership of public utilities, and the
Republican party continues as now to
stand for private ownership OF pubic
utilities. then / will be a Democrat.
And there are many Republicans like
me-"
And there are one million other Re-
publicans in this country just like Mr..
Patterson.
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The commencement Program.

Wake Forest April 22.-The pro-
gram for commencement is as fol-
lows:
Wednesday Night. May "a.
Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Geo.
w. Mcdaniel. ID, of Richmond.
Thursday. 11.30 a. m.
Address before literary societies by
Rev. b. d. Gray, ID, of Atlanta
Delivery of medals following imme-
diately.
Thursday Evening.
Alumni address by Hon. /. NJ. Meekins.
of Elizabeth CITY. followed by meet
ing of Alumni Association and ban
quet III gymnasium.
Friday 11.30 a. m.
Speeches by graduating class. followed
by baccalaureate address by Presi-
dent c. e. Taylor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
CAN LEARN FROM FRANCE.

America could learn much from
France. Most of the smaller cities
own their water and lights. but those
that extend franchises to private COM
panies get good pay for the franchises.
In Paris the city gets $4,OOO,00O
year from the gas franchise, besides
getting a low rate for the gas con-
sumcd. Writing of Public Franchises
in France. a correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says:
French cities grant no franchises
without adequate annual remunera-
ton to the city. Free gifts of munlc-
pal franchises to great or small cor
porations is a distinctly American
trait Each and every public cab, FOR
example, in the city of Paris, must
paw the municipality 20 cents a day
for 365 DAYS of the year for the use of
the public highways. Every tram car
on the street railways must pay $500
a wear and every large omnibus $500
a wear for the use of the public high
ways, and in addition. their companies
are required to share the surplus earn
ings with municipality. Street rail-
ways omnibus lines and cabs in rem
tails and license fees. pay the city of
Paris annually $1.200,000 for the use
of public highways -priVilegeS usual
ly given away in American municipaii-
ties.
What is true of Paris is equally
true Of provincial cities and towns. In
Lyons. for example, a city with popu-
lation of 100000 inhabitants. with two
classes of rates (four cents for first
class seats and two cents for second
class seats), the tram line corporation
pays the municipality $4,000 year
for the use Of it's streets and 1T is sub
iect to definite municipal regulations,
touching fares, routes and other de-
tails Of it's operation. Lille. city with
half the population of Lyons. has Is
tram lines radiatinG from the Place de
la Care and the Grand Place. Here,
as at Lyons, fares are fixed by the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at three cents
and second-clasS at two cents-and
the corporation is required to pay the
city for it's privileges in the streets.
Unless public ownership is to become
universal in the United States, it is
clearly a matter of civic duty to bring
to the foreground the money value OF
franchises in municipal concessions.
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Gen. Roberts at Appomattox.

Elizabeth City Economist.
The speech of General William P.
Roberts, of Gates county, at the un-
yelling of the North Carolina monu-
ment at AppomattoX is a gem of phil
osophic oratory that would do credit
to the great masters of that divine
art watch leads captive the emotion
and sympathies of men.
Hitherto General Roberts eloquence
has been the elouuence of action, and
we believe it was true that his sabre
was the last that flashed in the sun
light on that fated day at Appomat-
tox. "Orator fit says the classic cpl
gram, an orator is made. He is often
the creature of an inspiring occasion.
and this was an inspiration OF our
Gates county Cincinnatus, who came
from the cotton fields of that glorious
old county to honor the old Confeder
ate soldiers who followed the lead of
their young hero on the lost field of
his glory That old scene awakened
emotions that he knew not of. 1t
awakened thoughts and feelings that
one who never drew sword in battle
array cannot conceive-emotions such
as those.
THAT touches Isaah's followed lips
with fire." such thoughts as trans
forms o plain man into an orator and
there comes croWding to his lips.
thoughts that breathe and words that
burn" demanding utterance.
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DIVIDE THE SURPLUS.

The Illinois policy holder of the
Equitable who wishes a receiver APP
pointed to wind up the business of
the company is probably wrong in
wishing so drastic step. The trou-
bic with the company is not that it
has too little money or that it is in
solvent. On the contrary, it has a
policy holders. The remedy is, not
a receivership, but a decree of the
court for a division of the surplus
The Chicago complainants charge
that the officers and directors of the
Equitable have omitted ard failed for
the past 10 years and upward. and
still refuse. to distribute the surplus
profits and the surplus assets of the
Equitable and to declare a dividend
thereon.
The Equitable, in piling up a sur
plus that belongs to all the policy
holders, is doing exactly what most
of the other great companies are do
ing. But it would be the best thing
that could happen to the Equitable
if, as a result of its troubles, the sur
plus could be divided. leaving not a
dollar in the treasury except the sums
necessary to mature the policies. 1t
would be just also to the policy
holders. for the surplus belongs to
them, and if they could act in con-
cert they would get comfortable
dividend and put the business of the
company upon proper basis. A Sur
plus Pyramid affords a temptation
to mana gers that makes it a menace
to policy-holders instead of d protec-
ton.
Divide the surplus. best remedy
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North Carolina Pattern for Other
States.
Columbia State.

North Carolina continues to set
worthy example of diversification of
industries to her sister Southern
States. Her newest enterprise, which
is said, moreover, to be the first of
its kind in the South, is a match fac
tory. 1t is interesting to note that
the capital invested is $4,000. Now
$4,000 is not any great sum of mon
ey, speaking in the figures of the
business world. 1t is no greater sum
than might be raised by popular sub
scription in almost any prosperous
community of, say, 10000 inhabitants.
1t is a sum that ought easily to be
raised in a community three times that
size, of the size of Columbia for in
stance. North Carolina, it is true,
did not furnish the capital for its
match factory; it is backed by
Northern capital" But the fact re-
mains that it is not the necessity of
more money than we have, or are
able to get hold of, which should
deter the South in the erection of
these various minor industrial plants.
There is money enough for the es-
adjustment throughout this section
of industries of a class with the
match factory and the furniture and
the buggy factories which are grow
ing up in North Carolina. We have
the way; we need the will.
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the law are invited, there ought to
be some power to secure his removal.
If he wants any information he can
get it by reading the evidence in the
Federal courts and consulting with
prominent Republicans who will not
suppress these crimes and conspira-
cies in the interest of party.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
Primary at Ellington.

Ellington. n. c.. April 22-At the
primary last night, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for mavor and
town commissioners, DIR. J. E. Caviness
was re-nominated as mayor: and
Messrs A. f. Johnson. F. p. Johnson,
E. n. Kicks, A. p. Mcpherson and
Z. II. Parker were nominated for
commissioners.
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In . Nutshell.

NOrfOlk LandlbtrfK.' 1-- - =
TIE agents of the Equitable Life As
surance Society complain bitterly that
all this publicity is hurting their bust
ness. Their business will continue to
suffer until the Equitable Society gets
itself into a position where publicity
will not hurt it.
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That Assault Was an Outrage.
Greenville Reflector.

GreenVllIe ReHector.
The Raleigh News and Observer
has manfully taken up the cause of
Editor Deal, of the Wilkesboro Chron-
icle. who was brutally assaulted by
revenue officers, and is insisting that
it is the duty of the government to
investigate the charges brought
against the officers. That assault was
an outrage.
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If Public Officer Does Not Like Criti-
cism. He Can Quit.

Red Springs Citizen. 4n. h.,E.
A public officer is a public servant.
And the tax-paying public that sup
ports the public official has as much
right TO look over, enquire into and
criticise his actions. as has an en-
ployer to keep an oversight of his en-
pIoyes. If the officer does not like to
have his public acts thus reviewed. he
can quit This is his inherent privi-
lege.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
MORNING TONIC.
CIV. j. Dawson.)

l am much more concerned to save
one woman from shame, one drunkard
from his folly, one prodiga1 son from
his defilement of the far country, than
to discuss those speculations about
truth which, after all, interest but a
few, and are not even helpful to them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
No; J, Case For CIcmency.
Greensboro Record.

GrCeESDDIp TeCUTu.
Notice is given in the advertising
coIu ms Of The Record tEat appl;cl-
ticn viii be mado to Governor Glenn
TO pardon tie sold brick men. II
Governor Glenn pardons ;hsse men a
Ter he Iearns tile exact .,atus o. the
matter he will fool every body who
knows hint Trey are smart aiiG III =
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have no doubt succeeded in foolng
even those who are trying to help
them by their tricks. The Record has
sympathy for all unfortunates, but this
is case where there can be none
bestowed with any charity whatever.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

The Governor of Indiana has made
it rule to appoint no man to office
who gets intoxicated. 1t is good rule
There are some very kind-hcarted and
lovable men who get intoxicated, but
the best real favor to them is to keep
them in private life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23
Hard to Match.
Richmond News.

Richmond News-Leader.
North Cardinals latest industrial en-
terprise is match factory but 1T is
hard to match North Carolina in in
dustrial enterprise, anyhow.
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There must be some trouble with
the mails, The Rhamlatte Rooster
failed TO come to hand yesterday and
our readers will miss the letter Of
the Rhamkatte Mr.. Dooley, who is
almost as good as the original Mr..
Dunno.
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Should All he Put on the Roads.

Grccnville Reflector.
The Raleigh News and Observer
heads an article Migrants are leav-
ing town" They are leaving Green
Vile. too-being sent out to work the
roads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

whether there shall be a power in
America greater than the government
fronts the American people, declared
Governor Montague at Danville on Fri
day night. The railroad trust seems to
control the Senate.