The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-18

Carolina Will be discontinued: Post
office at Gold. Burke county, on No
vember 30th, mail going to Morgan
ton at Murray. Alleghaney county, on
December 31st.. mail going TO Laurel
Springs. poStoffice at Beams Mills
Cleveland county. mail going to Shell
by after November goth.
1t was said today that Mr.. Thomas
Pence formerly Washington CORES
pondent for the Morning Raleigh
Post, is now acting as correspondent
for the Industrial News, of Green's
boro, and the Daily Schimiter, Menu
phis, Tenn
Hon. f. Spencer Blackburn of the
Eighth District of North Carolina, is
expected here todav.
During the last session of Congress
there was demand TO increase the
revenues of the government by in
CT easing the tax on beer Many mem
bers while loath To vote in favor of
such legislation. were ready TO admit
that when the war taxes were re-
moved mistake was made in not re-
t. ming the tax on the beverage. They
pointed TO the fact that neither the
brewer nor the consumer suffered APP
parently in either quality or quantity
through the operations of the war tax.
1t was tacitly admitted that the intlu-
ence Of the brewers lobby prevented
any action by Congress in the direc-
ton of Increasing the tax. The fact
that the revenues of the government
have been exceeded by the eXpendi-
lures will give a reasonable excuse for
the agitation of the subject.
lone official whose position is such
as to require study of the inter-na-
tional revenue laws and who did not
believe the tax on beer would be in
creased up to the time of the last cleo
ton, put the case in this way:
THE elections in Ohio will put
back bone into members of Congress. 1t
will give them courage TO oppose the
brewing and saloon interests. 1t be-
comes apparent that successful polite
fans will no longer have TO be subser-
Went 10 the saloon interests and in
fuence. but, on the contrary, can
openly oppose it. 1t has long been
realized by the more far seeing
of them that as soon as public sentl-
ment in the country became Suffl-
entity aroused to insure interest on
the part of the church going and sun
day-schooI element there would be an
influence much more powerful than
any the practical politicians of the sa-
loon clement could bring to bear.
1T needed only the awakening of
sufficient interest on the part of that
element TO turn out at the polls The
results in Ohio have shown that this
has been accomplished in State
where they have politics all the year
round. and three times Il day and
where it IS developed as science as
in no other part of the country.
They talh ehout i'll treatment of
negl oes in the South on election dag
said ex-senator McLaarin, of South
Carolina. who called on the PreSi
dent. but there never was anything
in the South ever = - r1ost bitter
days of partisan ana rstce hatred, to
compare with what | saw in New
York election day. | took an automo-
bile and went down Sth avenue. then
across To the East Side. If | had
been a voter in New York | would
have cast my suffrage in the morning
against Hearst. If / had been al
lowed vote at o'clock in the af
ternoon, after Witnessing intim dation,
known expedient to prevent men vot-
ing for Hearst. ! should have cast nv
ballot for Hearst. | was never more
Disguised in all my life, never felt
greater sympathy for a man than for
Hearst, afte" seeing these Times Ne"
York papers do not want to talk about
the negro not getting what is coming
to him in the South. Tn" trnatme"
he gets there. even in the heat of
politics, is Il paradise compared to
what | saw some &c the Hearst voters
get in New York"