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President Southern Cotton Assn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
WHAT A 'MAN'' CAN DO.

Every State Legislature is more or
less haunted by a railroad and trust
lobby. Some of the lobbyists are
lawyers who are serving their great
clients without corruption. Some of
them are ready to "pay the price"
They are like harpies and deserve to
be driven away. Instead of being re-
garded, as they should be as public
enemies, their manipulations are often
the subject of ridicule, showing that
legislators do not appreciate the
gravity of the evil.
Governor Folk. of Missouri, has
made national reputation by fighting
grafters and professional lobbists. In
the current issue of Golfers Weekly,
Mr.. Speed Mosely, telling of how Mis-
souri, has been freed from the lobby
nuisance, then concludes:
without statute to aid him, with
no " constitutional authority" it is
said and with scarcely a word from
the silent man who sits in the execu-
tive chair at the Missouri capital, the
lobby is vanquished. The reason of it
all is in the man Folk. Not railroad
pass has been seen in Jefferson City
since Joe" Folk came to town--and
none is sought by the members and
clerks of the Legislature. Not a
whisper of bribery or corruption has
been heard. There is none. Joseph
w. Folk has made boodling a danger
Gus profession in Missouri. The poll
ticians fear him, and they fear him
because the people love f1im-because
public opinion is back of him in all
that he says and does. and in Danish
ing the corrupt lobby from Missouri
Governor Folk has indicated the
omnipotent power of a righteous pub
lie opinion
o, for more Governors ike Folk!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
ANOTHER BIG COTTON CROP
SPELLS RUIN.

The farmers who have held their
great mistake to sell it now if they are
going to reduce the cotton acreage.
The men who are trying to press down
the price of cotton say the acreage will
be reduced at least fifteen per cent.
Other estimates of reduction are that
the reduction will be twenty-five per
cent. Governor Vardeman, of Missis-
sippi, who has just returned from a
speaking trip in his State advocating a
reduction of the cotton acreage, is
quoted as saying:
81 have talked to more than 10000
farmers since last Thursday, and l am
convinced that they are greatly in
terested in the question of diversifying
their crops and reducing the cotton
acreage The cotton growers of Mis-
sissippi will reduce the acreage not
less than 30 per cent and possibly
more than % per cent The people
are interested in the matter more than
/ have ever known them to be inter-
ested in any subject"
The news from Georgia is that thus
far this season the. sale of fertilizer
tags indicates a tonnage of fertilizer
of 596.993 as against 5S9.S45
tons last year to the same date
This has been heralded as an
argument that Georgia will increase
its cotton crop. The Atlanta
Constitution does not share that opin-
ion. 1t says much of the fertilizer will
be used for other crops and that some
cotton farmers will use as much ferti-
lizer on the reduced acreage as on the
last years acreage, but it adds that
'the vast majority of farmers in the
cotton belt are paying more attention
to hog and hominy than to anything
else
In North Carolina the reduction will
be twenty-five per cent, but many far
mers will use much fertilizer on truck
and other crops so that the purchase
of fertilizer does not accurately guage
the cotton acreage. Concluding a very
sensible article the Constitution says:
"In The Constitutions opinion, the
guano is going into the corn fields and
into ground that is being prepared for
general agricultural diversification,
and not in a normal acreage of cotton.
AT the same time, all cotton far
mers who are capable of profiting by
the severe lessons of former overpro-
duction season, and who appreciate
the danger in last years tremendous
and still largely unmarketed cotton
crop, will be forewarned by the guano
sale report OF the Georgia and Alaba-
ma state departments of agricul-
ture and rigidly adhere to the wise
plan Of planting at least rs per cent
shorter than last year.
ANY other course spells ruin.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
INSURANCE BY THE STATE.
New Zealand Settled it and Rates
Were Reduced Fifty Two Per
Cent

To the Edito. You seem to be eX-
erciSed over insurance-fire and life.
The matter has been settled satisfac-
torily by the people of New Zealand
Sixty per cent of the life insurance
of the colony is done by the people
themselves. The colony lately COM
menced fire insurance and the rates
of the private corporations immediate
ly dropped 81 IL per cent. New Zea-
lard has about half the population of
North Carolina and has more wealth
per capita than any country on the
face of the globe and they are folks
just like us. If any of your readers
would like to know how New Zealand
is successfully solving the problems in
economies that confront us and them
let them send twenty-five cents to G.
II. Taylor 1920 Chestnut St. Phila-
delphia. and get Prof Parsons Poll
tics in New Zealand. They can learn
from it, | am going to order 100 and
any man or woman who will agree to
read it can send to me for a copy and
as lon~ as they last / will loan them
the book and paw postage and when
they have read it they can return it.
| know nothing of c. F. Taylor. the
publisher. / sent him quarter and
got the book and think it should be
in the hands of every lover Of his
kird and country.
J. P. TAYLOR.
Winston Salem. n. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
MORNING TONIC.
q. E. Averv.l

'"The violets again-little wet vio-
lets, and there is the clean, sweet
breath of spring. One would lift his
head and drink deep-taste this sweet
ness, this grateful freshness that is
about. There is q quicker leap of life,
and Nature seems to stir with kind
of tenderness. There is a deeper glow
on the faces of the children-easier
happiness on a tiny, nesting face.
Girlhood comes to outward whiteness
again-the cool. crisp sign of spring.
And in all is the subtle charm of vio-
lets-Iittle, human, tremulous, gentle
as loves whisper, pure as purity. Rest
full, quaint little flower, too simple,
appealing, flower to lay on q
baby that has died-to give q seemly
tribute to womanhood--to press
against the face us easement for tired
heart. 8 Such a dear, sweet little
flower, all alone in flower land-em-
blem of the worlds simplest and best,
and waiting to mock false face or
adorn the beauty that comes from the
soul"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
A Wonderful Edition.
HendersonvlIle Hustler.

HenderSonVilIe Hustler.
The Raleigh News and Observer re-
Gently issued its usual biennial legis-
lative edition and it measures UP to
the high standard of exceIlnece. always
attained by that ably edited and ever
progressive newspaper 1t gives a
summary of the most important acts
of the general assembly of 1905 and
contains sketches of ALL and pictures
of large proportion, of the member
ship. Much time and careful study
was, of necessity, required in the
preparation and compilation and the
management of the esteemed News
and Observer is to be heartily con-
graduated upon it's wonderful achieve
ment.
And while we are speaking of the
general mechanical appearance and
selection of matter, we wish to ex-
press our high appreciation of it's
able editor. Mr.. Josephus Daniels. In
our humble opinion there does not ex-
list today an editor who values his
calling more highly or sacredIy than
does the editor of the News and OBJ
server. He is honest, valiant and
true, lights for what he believes to be
Tor the best interests of his State
without fear or favor, reward, or the
hope of reward" And this is the Sc
cret of his success. He has policy,
and does not fear to define it, upon all
matters of public import. The last
legislature valued the suggestions of
no man more highly than the friendly
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
REDUCE THE TARIFF.

attention to the fact that cotton mills
in England are greatly increasing the
number of spindles and are doing an
enormous export trade, prints sugges-
tons from many Southern mill own
ers. Among the many opinions, we
make room for two that hit the bulls
eye:
Mr.. VIM. l. Holt, of the Lakeside
Mills. Burlington, says: There are
thousands of us not making expenses.
and haven't for the past two years,
and are only watching the English
prosperity, with apparently no exer-
tons on our part to secure a portion
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
THE NATURE on ALtoHoI.
1t May be a Useful Drug But Is Al
ways a Dangerous Poison.

To the Editor;-One of your read
ers has sent to the undersigned some
queries in regard to alcohol and r.
quested that the answers be published
for the benefit of others. / annex
the questions and answers:
question i: Is it true as some say
that alcohol does not exist naturally
or did not until man by his perverted
ingenuity or when instigated by the
devil produced it?
Answer: The biologist of the De-
partment of Agriculture does not
claim any personal mountaineering
with his santanic majesty and is
therefore unable to say how far the
latter is responsible for the discovery
of the beverages which "biteth like
a serpent"
1t is however not true that alcohol
does not exist in nature or that any
body invented 1t. Sugar and its twin
brother starch are found in nearly all
vegetable tissues. 1t is the nature Of
these substances to decay or ferment.
One Of the invariable products of such
fermentation is alcohol. Alcohol was
undoubtedly produced before mankind
appeared upon the earth.
Another constituent of plant tissues
is protein Now protein ferments al
so but the product is not alcohol
but ammonia. Ammonia in turn is
transformed first into nitrites and then
into nitrates. 1t would be a very silly
thing to say that nitri1cation is not n
natural process or that it is caused or
instigated by satanic influences.
The cause of fermentation wherever
or whenever it occurs is the activity
of microbes, yeasts and bacteria.
Question 2 What is the true effect.
of alcohol upon the human body?
Answer: Some recent and very ao-
curate Investigations into the disposi-
ton of alcohol in the body seem to
show that for man of average weight
a dose of pure alcohol not exceedins
2 IL ounces per day serves the pun
pose of a food The alcohol is oxi-
died i'm the body and its fuel value is
absorbed and utilized. Two and one
half ounces of pure alcohol are equiv-
alent to about five ounces of ordinary
whiSkey.
These same Investigations however
show very clearly that alcohol even i'm
small doses acts as specific poison
upon the liver. The liver is the chief
scavenger of the body and when it's
normal activity is interfered with
serious consequences are likely to-
follow. The teachings of science
therefore seem to be that While al
cohol may be a useful drug and even
food, it is always a dangerous poison
and should be taken only for special
demands and always under the direc-
ton Of a physician.
Very respectfully.
GERALD MCCARTHY
Biologist
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
Where the Younger People Can Pin
Their Faith.
Wilmington Dispatch.

The Inscription on the Appomattox
monument is still agitating the minds
Of the people of North Carolina. Every
day brings forth new suggestions,
which are entirely out of order, for if
the monument stays on Virginia soil
or upon any other soil the inscription
should stay on the monument What
is the use of sending a nameless child
out to accomplish an object he is
ashamed or afraid to tell about? That
the inscription is right the war scar
red veterans of the gray of the Old
North State know only too we'll and
the younger people Of the State know
also that it is correct for those veter-
ans say so. They can afford to place
their faith alone if necessary in what
General Julian S. Carr, commander of
the Confederate veterans of North
Carolina, said in Raleigh a day or so
ago
"It is all right, I am pleased with it.
am perfectly willing to leave the
matter to the judgment of men who
were at Appomattox, like Henry A.
London and Cyrus B. Watson, of the
memorial commission
That is where the younger men and
women of this State should pin their
faith and hand it down to their chill
dren.
What good will the monument do
without the Inscription? In the event
of no inscription what would be the
use of having a monument? The in
scription cannot be even modified, for
it would be dessecration knowingly to
place something on a shaft of that
kind that the veterans of North Caro-
lima did not feel to be the whole
truth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
ONE CAUSE OF DIVORCE.

One of the most fruitful causes OF
the craze for luxury and ease. The man
wishes to live like millionaire and
the woman like princess, with the re-
suit that they grow unhappy and mis-
cradle when money does not grow on
trees. AS an illustration of this craze
for gratifying an extravagant taste a
divorce was granted in New York last
week and the woman in the case was
granted alimonv of eight dollars a
week. She seemed to have no appre-
citation of the humiliation of the di-
vorce, but all her indignation was di-
rected at the Judge because he allow
ed her alimony of only eight dollars a
week. She thus rallied at him:
"Why, So a week isn't even pin
money! Why my alimony will not
pay for my violets! How am l ex-
pected to even begin to live on IS a
week? It's fortunate for me that !
have a father living. If | hadn't I'm
sure / don't know what | would do.
Can a woman maintain a decent apart
ment and eat decent meals and pay a
maids wages on IS a deck? Every
body knows that she can't"
The reporter says she entered the
court room wearing a huge boquet of
violets that scented the whole build
ing. Such garish misuse of the mod
est violet is almost as great a profa-
nation as such a woman makes of the
sacred duty of wife.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09

miles, that furnished the peerless Lee,
the invincible Jackson and the knight
| ly Stuart as leaders; tell us that she is
mot willing for North Carolina to rev.
erently dedicate at Appomattox a
modest stone bearing the record of our
soldiers in the Civil War! Virginia in
| danger of losing some credit! Vir-
ginia in whose bosom rests the ashes
of the thousands of North Carolina
boys who persisted in defense of her
homes and affairs no less than their
own, enviOus of the stone dedicated to
| their memory by their old mother
State. That was not the spirit of the
matchless Lee, who exclaimed upon a
memorable OCCASION when our troops
were making history which it is now
proposed that we shall keep quiet
about over there, God bless old North
Cardinal"
Virginia's cup of honor is full to
overlooking and she does not need to
be jealous of North Cardinals well es-
tablished claim of being first at
Bethel, farthest to the front at Gettys-
burg and Chickamauga and last at
Appomattox." The fame of Robert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson alone is a
treasure that should make her gener-
Gus and rebuke the overzealous spirit
of some of her veterans who would
deny to North Carolina the honorS
claimed for her private soldiers.
If the Lynchburg Camp and the
Appomattox Camp want to manifest
an inhospitable spirit, that is their af-
fair The Virginia spirit will find ex-
preston through other channels, and
there will be nothing small about it.
The suggestion that the inscription be
changed so as to conform to the mis-
taken notions of propriety held by
some of the Virginia veterans rather
than speak the truth to the genera
tons yet to come, will not be COM
piled with. We are surprised that
Col James T. Morehead and General
W. r. Cox should suggest such a
thing. General Cox has gone on
record in Moore's history and in the
Regimental Sketches as claiming that
his brigade made "the last charge of
the Army of Northern Virginia" I'm
less he is willing to withdraw that, we
can see no occasion for changing it on
the Appomattox monument, which is
to stand on ground donated to the Old
North State for the purpose and for
which this State holds the deed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09

of it. 1t seems that we must wake
UP to the fact that we must. like the
foreigners, have an outlet for our
product other than the home mark
ets."
In the course of their reply, James
N. Williamson & Son, Ossipee Cotton
Mills, Elon College, says:
"In our opinion, what the cotton
mills of this country need most, and
what We will have to have eventually,
lis vast increase in our foreign trade.
1t will take some time and lots of
money to make this increase, but our
national government will aid us in this
if We go at them in the right way. We
should have some of the foreign trade
upon cotton goods that the English
people are now enjoying and causing
that marked prosperity that you speak
of in the beginning of your letter."
There is more good sense in the
seen compressed into the same COM
pass. We commend the views of Mr.
Holt and Mr.. Williamson to the con-
sideration of those antiquated short
sighted folks who have no vision of
prosperity except in the "home mark
ct" The time has come when Amer
lean manufacturers must have access
to foreign markets or shut down a
portion of their mills.
Why does England enjoy this great
trade in foreign markets that is de-
MED to the United States? The FAN
swer is easy. England does not de-
mand cash for all it sells. 1t buys
other things from the countries to
which it sells cotton goods. This
country cannot trade because of the
at our door. we can make the goods,
out one door. We can make the goods,
but are we shut up to small markets
because of the antiquated tariff policy
that prevents our trading in foreign
markets on equal terms with Great
Britain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
General Carr stands Pat.


We are glad to know that Mr. Julian
S. Carr, commander of the Confeder-
ate veterans in this State, stands pat
on the Appomattox monument inscrip-
ton; and he is the last man who
would do anything to wound the feel
ings of a brother Confederate veteran.
3
Those are the sentiments of every
true North Carolinian. They wish not
to detract one iota from the we'll earn-
cd and highly deserved honor of the
soldiers of Virginia or of any other
State who fought under the Stars and
Bars. All they claim Is that they he
allowed to pay just tribute to the men,
DRY of their heroes who battled for
the came cause.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
which win Feel Deepest chagrin.

TO the Editor: After the unwilling
of the monument dedicated to the
memory of North Cardinals immortal
soldiers, who shed their blood on Vir-
ginia's soil shall have become a mat
ter of history. / wonder who will
have occasion to feel the deepest
chagrin-the Virginians who have
taken no part in the dedication be-
cause of the inscriptions on the shaft
erected to do honor to the brave and
noble dead, or the North Carolinians
SO called--who have endorsed the
action of the overly sensitive gentle
men of Virginia. I hope / may be
pardoned for saying that the afore-
said gentlemen from both States are
engaged i'm a business that will make
them appear very small In days to
come. ROBERT A. FOARD.
Charlotte, N. c., April Z, 1906.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
A WORD TO THE WISE
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The saving of five premiums sets
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big saving for the policy holders we
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