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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
WILL, FLORIDA LEAD THE WAY?

Two bills have been introduced in
he Florida Legislature to carry out
the suggestions of the Governor of
that State to establish a sure enough
Insurance Department that will in
sure the lives of the citizens. If the
hest business men of that State will
give the Governor and the Legislature
their assistance and cooperation in
his great matter the State of Florida
will have the honor of being pioneer
n adding a new and almost necessary
department. of State administration.
Under a we'll organized and properly
organized department, the State could
ssue policies of $1,000 on the lives of
would put insurance in the reach of
every laborer, and provide for young
children and widows who are now
often a charge upon the taxpayers.
If Florida will lead the way in this
new departure, it will not only bless
is poor people and save it's tax-pay-
res, but will keep millions of dollars
invested at home that now travel to
New York and Hartford and stay
here. The giant concerns take our
money and pile it up in pyramids,
and if Southern enterprises wish to
borrow any of it they have almost to
crawl on their knees to get beyond
the ante-rooms while the high
priced directory often use the money
to help their outside interests.
State insurance is as sure to come
Is any good thing that now is pos
sible through greater knowledge. 1t
may be deferred, but it is inevitable
because insurance is a necessity and
proper governmental function. 1t
will not destroy great insurance COM
2anies, for the State would be justified
only in insuring for protection, leav-
ing the great mass of tontine, endow-
ment and like policies to be written
by private companies. 1t would have
4 good effect, too. upon the prices
charged for that sort of insurance by
proving how cheaply it can be writ
zen when lavish and unnecessary ex-
penSeS are eliminated.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
TRUCKERS MUST BE PAID.

The Armour Company acknowledges
it's liability to truckers by adjusting
claims. 1t is said that the Atlantic
Coast Line contracted with the Az
mour Company for 100 refrigerator
cars and that they only furnished ;0G
That would clearly make the Armour
Company liable for the damage caused
by the failure to deliver 1900 refriger-
ator cars.
The truckers for long time sought
to secure more than one refrigerator
car system so as to have competition
but the Atlantic Coast Line gave the
Armour Company the exclusive privi-
.lege, deeming that it could NOT so vel
handle refrigerator cars for several
companies. The Armour Company
having obtained the monopoly of haul
ing berries, is therefore liable for the
loss. Certainly the berry growers, who
had their berries ready for, shipment
in accordance with the custom of the
past must be paid as if their berries
had been promptly carried to market
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
WANTED: MORE CHIEF EXECU-
TIVES LIKE FOLK.

There is a stringent law against the
selling of liquor in Missouri on Sun
lay 1t has been openly and notori-
ously violated in st. Louis. The new
Governor of Missouri, under the
law names the police commissioners in
St. Louis and is therefore responsible
for the enforcement of laws IN that
city. He has given notice that the
law against selling liquor in ST. Louis
must be enforced or repealed. The
;aloon keepers were not disposed to.
stop their violation of the law.
Speaking of the matter, Governor
Folk said:
"They say this law is a blue law.
ANY law seems blue to the individual
Who has a selfish motive in breaking
t. If they continue to violate it they
will find this law will assume livelier
hue 1t is the law of the great State
of Missouri; that is enough. Further
more, it is a law in the interest of
good government, to prevent the enor-
nous amount of crime that comes out
If the Sunday saloon. They say the
law is a dead law Let them ignore
t. and they will receive a shock that
will teach them it is very much alive.
[f it has been more honored In the
breach than in the observance great
is the pity, but that was true of the
bribery statute. That, too, was de-
nounced as blue law and as
dead law but experience shows it to
be neither.
That's the way a courageous and
honest public official talks and acts.
Governor Folk is no extremist. He is
,ot a fanatic. He is not a man with
but one idea. He believes that it is
The duty of an executive officer to
enforce the laws he finds on the
statute books, and he knows they can
be pretty generally enforced if the
men elected to enforce them have the
nerve to do their duty. He truly calls
he saloon-keepers who insist upon
keeping their places open on Sunday
n violation of law "outlaw liquor
lealers.' That is what they are, out
avs That's what men are In North
Carolina who run moonshine stills and
lefraud the government in license
stills. If Yerkes had little of the
Folk spirit, these outlaws would be
made to become law-abiding. II all
public officials would address them
selves to enforcing the law instead
Of finding excuses for not doing their
luty. these laws would be much bet
ter enforced than they are:
Wanted: More public officials of
the Folk type.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
GoEBEL's MURDERER.

Whenever a Republican politician
commits crime he rushes into the
Federal court if he can squeeze in.
And it usually-but not aIways-pro-
tects him. Caleb Powers, the Ken
lucky brigand twice convicted OF
murder, is posing as prosecuted pa
triot and trying to escape the hanging
he so richly deserves by an appeal TO
the Federal courts. The murder OF
Goebel was the blacklist crime of this
age except the murder of Mckinley.
The last has been avenged. The first
has never been avenged. Powers and
the other assassins have managed SO
far to escape the moose. How much
longer can justice be Haunted?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
COME AT ONCE"
Mr.. Jeffry's Answered Dis
tant Call.
Left Sick Bed to Respond to Plead
ing Voice and Gained a
Great Reward.

Fortune knocks once at every man S
door. Some respond to the call, 9th
ers do not. One man who has had
the good luck to hear the knock of
fortune and recognize it, writes to d
North Carolina gentleman as follows:
About six years ago l was taken
sick. The doctors who attended me
said 1 had nervous prostration; 1 was
so nervous 1 could not lie on the bed,
and to sleep was impossible, unless l
was under the influence of drug. The
disease was bad enough, but | soon
found that the drugs would Kill me
before the disease. The physician
who was attending me at that time
and who had taken the Kelley treat
ment, advised me to go to your in
stitution and be treated. My son
wrote to you, explained how / was
afflicted and asked your advice. You
replied by saying come at once; We
think we can cure you. After much
persuasion by my friends l decided to
go. When l arrived at the institute
found lawyers, doctors, judges, Ia
dies, etc, taking the treatment. Every
department of the institution is run
very systematically board is all that
could be asked for; baths are excel
lent, some one TO Walt OIl Tie pdllCllAS
night and day. l stayed at the insti-
tute eight weeks When l went there
was very feeble and did not think
there was any chance for me to live,
but / was entirely cured and now am
well and weigh 1875 pounds. Had bet
ter health since taking the treatment
than / ever had before. All of nv
family and | think the Greensboro
Kelley Institute one of the greatest
institutions. J. believe 1 owe my life
to it. l saw people come there OBJ
jects of pity; they went home well and
happy, and to make their families
happy There are those suffering from
ss, drunkenness and the
drug habit, who. if they knew the vir-
tue in the Kelley treatment as | do,
would soon be we'll. 1t is our Chris
tan dutv to try to influence our neigh
bors who are suffering from these dis
eases to take the Kelley treatment. IL
they are not able to bear the expense
we should go to the relief of their
wives and little ones and help them to
bear it. -
r. M. JEFFREYS.
Chase City Va. Dec. TO- 1904.
Send names of friends who might
be benefited to Kelley Institute,
Greensboro, n. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
In Menorialn.

At a Joint meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Church of the Good
Shepherd and St Mary's Guild, Il
committee was appointed to formu-
late resolutions of respect and regret
on the death of Mrs, Lucy Battle
Cobb, a lifelong member of this
church
IT is no ordinary occasion that we
meet to commemorate, it is no ordl-
nary person for whom VIC wish to
express our love and esteem, our al
most veneration, so far above the or
binary church members was her de-
votion, her sclf-renunciation, her en-
tire conservation Of her life to duty,
to loving service. From her child
hood since she became mother as
we'll as sister and daughter in her
bereaved home, how lovely and pa
tient in that home life, how constant
and earnest in every duty, how falth-
full, and strong; and in her church
work how cheerful, how untiring,
how wise and judicious in each; and
in her love for the church how happy
how eager to offer her willing SER
vice wherever ard whenever needed,
none too poor. none too loWly 70 re-
ceive her Christian sympathy and
help. In the Sunday school. and IL
the choir where her voice was so run
of praise and joyful worship 1t was
an inspiration, an example TO all. IN
every church organization, IN every
work of charity especially for the. Or
phanage she was among the lore
most.
To these facts there is "a cloud OF
witnesses" among us who knew and
loved her
We meet to offer our testimony to
her. worth, her value to the church'
to the community, 20 her friends
above all to her family to whom ncr
loss is irreparable; therefore,
Resolve, that we put on record this
expression of our love, our respect
and admiration for our friend Whlie
we feel assured of her entrance upon
that life of love and praise, begun on
earth and continuing through all
eternity, and
Resolve that a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to her family with our
warmest sympathy, and to the Mes
senger of Hope, and the town papers
for publication
THE COMMITTEE.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
MEMORIAL DAY-RALEIGH'S
HEROES.
(Communicated.)

One day man of renown. who had
suffered greatly at times during the
war and was as brave and daring as
Paul Jones, complained bitterly to me
that the people of Raleigh were not
helping him by buying what he had to
sell-artificial stone pavements. that
they could do very well without.
l called him to the window, and
pointing to a man walking on the
other side of the street, said: See
that man." and then pointing to an
other, and another. and others, said:
''See that man, and that one. and that
one" why, yes; what of it?''
well, each one of those men were
as brave as you We're. underwent as
much as you did, suffered as much,
were Just as true to their country,
and are just as poor as you are. If
they don't help you it is because they
are in the same boat that you are,
and need help themselves" He said
that put the matter in different
light.
And as a matter of fact. the Raleigh
boys during the war were dIlOIlS luoSc
splendid soldiers who won immortal
fame for Jackson and Lee.
While many have passed on to Wal
halla there are among US even yet
heroes who are entitled to have their
glorious deeds recorded in song and
story Every community should
treasure the fame Of its sons.
1t, therefore, is peculiarly crafty
ing that the subject of the address on
Memorial Day is Manly's Battery.
raised here in Raleigh. composed of
men who hurled shot and shell from
the lannon's mouth at yorktown. at
Seven Pines, in all the great battles
in Virginia, at Sharpsburg, at Gettys-
burg, at Coal Harbor. in the trenches
about Petersburg. and finally at Apo
mattox. When they heard that Lee had
surrendered they burnt up their gum
carriages, buried their guns. and
struck out into the wilderness hoping
to join Joe Johnston and fight once
more for the independence of their
country.
This memorial address will certainly
anneal to our pride. Col. Saunders
was an officer of that battery and he
will tell us of his comrades. Let Rail
eigh do honor to her sons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
Some Insurance Questions.

To the Editor: Is it true that New
Englanders store their money in saw
ings banks and have millions to their
credit bearing interest, while the
stores his in foreign life in
surance companies and has nothing
to his credit and never will have UNI
less he keeps on storing until he dies
and then the very best he can
hope for is two-thirds of what he has
stored with three per cent. interest
on two-thirds. provided the compa-
nv keeps on in the business?
Is it true that more life insurance
become irsolvent than saw
ings banks, according to the number
doing business?
]. H. FLEMING.
Raleigh, May s, 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
CITY MUST OWN WATER.

Mayor Johnson was elected Mayor
of Raleigh on platform favorable TO
city ownership of water. The over
whelming sentiment Of this city is ia
vorable to city ownership. The peo-
pie will not submit to pay present
prices to give value to stock that rep
rcsents nothing under the sun. II
the Wake Water Company will SILL
at the true value of the property, It
might be we'll for Raleigh to buy that
property. If it wants pay for warered
stock, the city can build a new sys-
tenn better than it can afford to pay
for watered stock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
If the Refrigerator Companies Can't
Do Better, Let us Have Home
Company to Save the
Truckers.
Wilmington Star.

The Raleigh News and Observer
says: us there no remedy for those
growers of Strawberries who cannot
get refrigerator cars for their CROP
If there is no remedy, there ought to
be one Refrigerator companies
ought to be forced to supply the de-
mand or give way for a company that
will prevent disaster to truckers. We
rather suspect that the demand for
refrigerator cars is greater than the
supply. What is the matter with or
ganizing one of your private car
companies here in North Carolina
to get our products to market?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

terests of the County" That inscrip-
ton is on its banner still. In the
quarter of a century of this newspa-
per's life the Things have taken place
which make the county's history vocal
with progress. First. The founders
of the paper and its early editors, the
Chalf brothers, Mr.. J. E. Page and MI.
Jno. T. Bigham, fought the good fight
of temperance and prohibition.
Achieving the temperance victory for
protecting the homes of the county
they laid the moral foundations for
the material and educational develop
ment that was to follow. Following
the establishment, of prohibition came
the great advancement in schools, and
lastly has come a decisive step toward
good roads. The Gazette and the men
who have made it desire no credit not
theirs but they have been helpers and
may feel just pride in the advance
ment the old county of CASTOR has
made. Certainly the entire county
should feel gratified to win the desir-
able designation of standing for the
three essentials of good government
Temperance. Good Schools and Good
Roads," And yet we are only just get
ting ready to do things.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
Charges Againat blackburn.

Statesville Mascot.
The North Wilkesboro Hustler says:
1--WE are informed by reliable parties
that (illiciD distillers have intlmated
to them that the Congressman from
this district, one Spencer Blackburn,
has given encouragement to this bus
mess and would protect them from
any molestation by revenue officers.
This charge, if true, is a very serious
one. when made against a man who
is to represent great laW-abiding
people in Congress. When it comes
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
Will Never Break Up the Traffic by
Allowing Offenders to Pay Out.
.ehsters Weekly.

WebSterS weekly.
The liquor business is a great evil
at the best and the Illicit traffic is
an unmitigated curse. We regret to
see one of our countymen in the tolls
of the law, but Judge Boyd's deter
mination to mete out justice to all Of
tenders impartially is to be commend
ed Moonshining and fraud will never
be broken up by allowing offenders to
pay out of their trouble 1t is an en-
enlargement to fraud. Imprisonment
is the thing that is feared. 1t is said
that the friends of the influential
blockader whom Judge Boyd sent TO
the penitentiary from Rowan county
would cheerfully have paid a fine of
$4,000 for him, but their pleadings
for a compromise on money basis
were denied.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
Berry Growers Should Recover Every
Dollar.
StatCSyiIle Landmarks

1t is to be hoped that whatever
transportation company is responsible
for the loss to the strawberry growers
in Eastern Carolina can be made to
paw in full. The failure to furnish
adequate transportation seems to be
inexcusable. The situation is not u
new one. The railroads have been
hauling these berries has grown and
Each year the business has grown and
the transportation companies knew It.
1t was their business to be prepared;
they have not been taken unaWares
The berry growers should recover
every dollar of the loss sustained.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
a Leader in the Three Essentials,
Gastonia Gazette.

IdSLOnId IdHbJLG.
The success of the road bond cleo
ton gives the Raleigh News and OBJ
server occasion to weave out of facts
a very pretty compliment to CASTOR
county. We have copied what our
Raleigh contemporary says. For itself
and it's people, The Gazette delights
to record its appreciation of the News
and Observers eloquent word picture
of CASTOR county's progress Twenty
five years ago the very first issue OF
The Gazette bore the legend. Devoted
to the Protection of Home and the In
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

Railroad Commissioner Conner, of
Alabama, is demanding that the rail-
roads give that State as low rates as
they give to Mississippi and Georgia.
In making this contention he has
brought down upon his head the wrath
of the Organs" who declare that he
is an anarchist" and an "agitator"
Here's wishing more strength to Com
er's arm and for more Corners as Rail-
road Commissioners.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
''J7he Octopus i'm North Carolina
Progressive Farmer

''The Octopus in North Carolina
Progressive Farmer.
If Frank Norris were alive today,
he could write another story of '"The
Octopus with North Carolina instead
of California as the scene. All the
long months of labor and planning,
all the favorable seasons with which
Providence blessed them-all this the
berry, growers of Chadbourn and 9TH
er towns on the A. c. L. Railway
have seen come to naught through
the failure of the Armour Fruit Ex-
press Company to provide the prom
ised refrigerator cars. One thousand
seven hundred cars were promised
and only 500 have arrived. Conse-
quently, probably a half million dol
lars has been lost to the truckers; and
$500, 600 worth of berries were dump
ed into the river in the town of Chad
bourn last week
The berry growers continue pick
ing and delivering the crates to the
station agent, and the Armour Com
pany will be sued for the losses If
such corporation cannot be held to
full accountability for what would
otherwise mean the ruin of an i'm
portant industry, then our American
freedom counts for very little. We
hope that our North Carolina Cor
pOration Commission will bestir itself
in the effort to get justice for our
truckers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

Is there any good reason why Raj
eigh should be cut UP into wards with
eight different political divisions? The
wards were created in their present
shape when all the negroes could vote
to give better government The Tea-
son for their creation having passed.
why not abolish all wards, elect five
aldermen from the city at large, pay
them each $500, and let the people
elect all the officials?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
"Mosest Fun Out OF the Leastest. .

Durham sun.
As an aftermath of the election, al
though he did not get but one vote
Major s. f. New is getting fame Out
of his candidacy. The Raleigh News
and Observer is evidently fascinated
with his platform. and is giving him
a great deal of notoriety. The Major
has gotten the ''mostest fun out Of
the leastest" result of any man that
ran
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

possess themselves of the property of
others by usury and commit other mi
auities not less reprehensible." Those
who make haste to be rich endanger
the very foundations of society and it
is we'll that the Protestant and Catho-
lie leaders are calling for a return to
the better ways of honesty and fair
dealing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
The Handwriting on the Wall.

Mt. Airy News.
1t is becoming more evident each
day that corruption is rampant in the
State. 1t is an open secret that no
man can conduct a distillery under
the present laws and make money. Yet
there are hundreds of men in the
business. Each Federal Court is
crowded with eases where men have
been overtaken in their violation of
the law and allowed to pay out.
Judge Boyd says he will put a stop
to all this and has sent several to
prison. We publish below an article
sent to the News and Observer that
gives the situation in this State. And
it is gratifying to know that there
are men in the Republican party who
want the laws Obeyed even by their
own people.-[The News prints in full
the important letter from Washing
ton that has created a stir among the
revenue and other Blackburnites in
North Carolina. There is more to fol-
lOW.-Ed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

If the truckers are careful that
their claims ere in proper shape, they
will lose nothing by the negligence of
the refrigerator companies. The Ar
dollars and can be made to pay every
dollar that the truckers have lost by
reason of their failure to provide
prompt and adequate transportation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

to be a fact that men aspire to the
high position of representative in
Congress of the United States the
greatest law making body in the world
entering into conspiracy with law
breakers against the moral laws of his
state tho people who elected him will
see that they surely have misplaced
their confidence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
Has The Appearance of a Bride.

Has The Appearance of Bride.
Presbyterian Standard
The Rockefeller gift, just at this
time, has the appearance of bride
TO powerful and influential mould
er of public opinion, the Congrega-
uonal Church. The Congregationalist
an organ of that communion, defends
the acceptance of the gift. There is
something significant even in that.
Defense of the gift may be followed
by defense of the giyer. And we re-
peat what we said at first, that the
protest against such acceptance is the
most heartening thing that has come
to our knowledge recently in the
midst of a commercial and material
age. A large and influential part of
the Congregational Church has put
on record its scorn of Standard Oil
methods and it's purpose that the
Church shall be untrammeled in its
action. Certainly the Church that
declines a gift is freer of obligation
to the donor than the Church that
accepts. The Church may use money
But money must not use the Church.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10

A gentleman stated to us today that
there viii be ten times as much to-
bacco planted this year in the neigh
borhood, of Goldsboro as was planted
last year.-Goldsboro Argus.