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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
INDECENT AND DISHONEST.

Representative Sheppard. of Texas
hibiting the payment of mileage to
Senators and members who ride or
free passes. 1t requires written state
ments TO be filed with the president
of the Senate and Speaker of the
House by members of Congress to the
effect that they have not used passes
before they shall receive mileage.
Mr. Sheppard's head is level. The
only hope for the passage by Congress
of a bill that will regulate rates and
stop the payment of subsidies to rail-
roads is for congressman to quit ac-
cepting courteSies of railroads. AS
long as they ride on free passes, they
will be blind to the need of the legis-
lation the business and agricultural
world now demands
II is indecent and dishonest for Il
public officer 10 ride on Il free pass
ana draw mileage from the public
treasury. If any public official is 50
far lost to a sense Of duty to obey the
laws which forbids his use of free
pass he at least ought to refrain from
running his hand down into the peo~
pies pocket for transportation that
has been given to him as a gratuity
or to influence his action.
nle'S rocket for TRANSPORTATION
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
SHOULD COLLECT INTEREST.

All public money in the hands of
public officials should draw interest.
The same is true of all trust funds.
If county has a sum of money III
the hands of the county treasurer ne
should be required to deposit it in
a savings bank and turn the inter-
est over to the county. If state mas
a surplus the State Treasurer should
be required to place it at interest and
apply the same to the general fuil l.
The state has had no funds until re-
Gently and few counties keep money
on hand But the law should pro
vide for the payment of interest. In
some States, where there is consid-
cradle sum in the hands Of the State
Treasurer, enough is realized from
the interest TO pay the entire expense
of the Treasury Department.
Trust funds in the hands of public
officials should by law be deposited
in savings banks Elsewhere Ne
print the statement of the funds in
the hands of Mr.. w. NJ. Russ, clerk
of the Superior court of Wake county.
1t shows that interest has been
added to the amount in every sum in
his hands for period as long as six
months because Mr.. Russ deposits I'll
such money in savings banks. The
amounts are not large, but they help.
Upon these sums that have remained
in the hands of Mr.. Russ since he
came into office, the interest has in
creased the amount twenty per cent.
When he has paid it to them they
have been surprised and gratitied.
What Mr.. Russ has done in Wake
ought to be required by law of every
clerk and every other officer holding
public money or trust funds If there
are no savings bank in the county,
other banks will pay four per cent
if they can get the money in no
other way or the official can send it
TO the nearest savings bank.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
A BOARD OF PARDoNs.
q Correspondent Should Be Relieved
of This Pardonino Duty.

To the Editor:
] want to ask a little space to say
word for our retirin Governor. 4
gentleman of high standing made the
remark this morning that if Governor
Aycock had been kept in bit longer
he would have pardoned all the con-
VictS in the penitentiary | feel
word right now will, as our new Gov
ernor has we'll said, of advice before
hand do more good than II column Or
criticism and cenSure afterwards. Gov
.ernor Aycock filled the office of Gov
ernor with credit To the State. TO the
nation, TO the Democratic party ana
to himself. ] asked this man. w NJ
do you think people sign petitions FOR
pardon Of criminals" He remarked
"Oh, we'll people are generally tender
hearted and can't say no when pell-
ton is presented" Then | said. :" on
want a Governor devoid OF heart
Coid-blooded enough to refuse peu-
ton signed by the convicting Jury, the
judge, the prosecuting attorney ana
the bar and majority of the lead
ing people in the community 1hey
must all become tender hearted after
they have convicted q criminal but
the Governor must ignCreathelF tendef
appeal" Aycock has been right anu
We're | him and the vilest wretch that
run unhung come TO me with peu-
ton signed by the jury and all the
court that convicted him and all the
preachers and the best men in the
community where he was convicted, !
would turn him loose on them again
without a word. 1t is a cOWardlY man
that conyictS a man and then signs
petition for his pardon and then con-
dennis the Governor for granting the
pardon There is no man living With
more tender and noble heart than
Ayeock, and SO it can be said of his
successor, Governor Glenn. Now let
the Legislature relieve the Governors
of North Carolina of this fearful ana
trying duty by passing a law TO create
pardoning board of three or six
members, who shall hear these cases,
for il is true any convicted people de-
serve pardon. and relieve the Cover
nors of this duty and fearful RESPONSE
bility that should not be placed on one
mans shoulders, any more than the
original trial should have been placed
en- one juryman or one Judge. \
mothers prayer any cry for the life
of her child backed by all the jury and
the court and the community in which
he was convicted is not fair to be laid
at the Governors heart to pass on.
/ make the appeal i'll behalf of the
good, noble tender-hearted man We
have just retired from office, and the
other one we have just elected, that
the office be relieved of this pardon
ing duty and the power be invested III
pardoning board. ] believe all fair
minded, thoughtful, Christian people
in North Carolina will favor this sug-
gestion if they think calmly and
solmnly ten minutes on the subject.
Respectfully,
S. A. JONES.
Waynesville n. c., Jan. II, 1905.
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GOVERNOR FOLK RINGS CLEAR

Missouri will return to the DemD-
cratic fold next year 1t would prob
ably have been saved this year hut for
the savage attack some party leaders
made on Folk before the nomination.
But Governor Folk is going to show
that his party deserves to be restored
to power by his wise and honest ad-
ministration. He started out we'll in
his inaugural address by denouncing
The practice of public officials accept
ing railroad passes. 1t is the fruitful
source of betrayal of duties 20 the pub
lie. In every instance one of three re
suits follows the acceptance of a rail-
road pass by public official.
l. 1t buys him TO help the railroad,
or
9. 1t silences him when he should
speak out when the road giving the
passes does wrong, or
5. 1t makes him bend backward in
his intense desire to stand erect.
Every man who has watched the
result of the free pass system with
public officials will confirm the above
diagnosis. And yet we hear sugges-
tons that the North Carolina law
against passes for public officials ought
to be repealed or the bars let down.
They are let down now because the
laws are not enforced. Every excep-
ton ought TO be repeatedly 1t is said
that there are solicitors and sheriffs
who accept free passes from railroads
as attorneys" or employees" IT SO,
OF all public officials solicitors and
sheriffs ought to be the last to tote
railroad passes. The solicitors ought
to prosecute railroad officials for ac-
cidents due to carelessness. How can
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\ ETI.JAL TRIBUTE.

The Washington Gazette-M Messenger
contains a loving nlial tribute To the
memory of his father and co-editor
from the pen of Mr.. John =. Arthur,
Jr For ten years the father and son
had edited the Gazette Messenger and
the dead man had written many col
umns, and never one prompted bY any
thing except love of country and love
OF his fellows He was a graduate OF
Trinity College and the University Of
MARYLAND. and was a warm hearted
and patriotic Carolinian.
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they do it if they are pass toters!
When they accept the position OF So
licitor they ought by law TO be made
to give up acting as attorney for rail-
roads. 1t is monstrous for sherli
whose duty is often to summon men
to serve on juries in railroad cases 10
cept pass. They should remember
that "a gift blindeth the eye and per-
verteth the judgment"
What this country needs is more OF
.icials like Joseph W. Folk. We are
nroud that he is a grandson OF North
Carolina. His father was q native Oh
Bertie county.
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Waynesville. N. c., Jan. u, 10
FUNERAL OF DIR. CARR.
This viii Be Held From the Home
Today.

Especial to News and Observer
Durham, y. c., Jan. 1.-THE fun
eral of DR.. A. G.. Carr, whose SAD
suicide yesterday morning shocked
the town and State will occur tomor-
row. The funeral service will be
from the home at $3.50 o'clock in the
afternoon, conduced by DIR. r. G. Bea-
man, pastor of the Trinity Methodist
Church. From the home the body
will be taken to Maplewood cemetery
and inferred.
At the funeral members of the
local Academy of Medicine will act
in the capacity of pall-bearers
The aged mother, Mrs. T.. +. Carr,
who will be ninety years of age if
she lives until next April, accom-
panied b. Mrs. Lizzie King, a sister
of the deceased, have reached here
from Chapel HILL DR.. John Carr,
who is connected with the Johns Hop
kins Hospital baltimore, son of OF
the deceased has also arrived The
other son, DIR. f. p Carr, who is IN
Louisiana, is expected tomorrow.
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Spirit of the Press

Charlotte News.

CnarlOtte News.
For high morality for courage, for
honesty, integrity and thrift IN puphc
as wel as in private life, fair treat
ment for all the recognition ana ful-
fllment of the States duty TO all its
people, high and low, for intellectual
social and moral progression all that
is good or can be made good, the re-
firing Governor of North Carolina has
stood these four years, and stood IN
way that all the State has seen him
and felt him.
And not alone has this standing
been felt within the borders of our
own state Throughout the whole
South and into the North the influence
of his personality has been felt. and
the principles he has taught both by
precept and example have wrought
their good work upon the lives or
men. He has been called, too, to
other States, often times, more than
has any other Governor of any other
Southern States In recent years, to
lend the aid of his presence and his
counsel to the efforts of other people.
North Carolinians have noted this and
taken just pride in it, and they have
felt that whenever and wherever,
among whatever people, their chief
Magistrate went there was no cause
that any man in North Carolina should
blush for his state, for il had a rep
resentative who stood like Saul of
Kish in any body OF men. We say
all this not boastfully Mr.. Aycock
is now. a private citizen.
But though a private citizen, he
still occupies and will continue to
occupy a position in the sentiments
and the lives of the people of North
Carolina all his own. Il position he has
himself won, not merely by being Gov
ernor, but by the might of his own
personality and of the principles for
which he stands as man. 1t was for
these that he was made Governor, and
it is for these that North Carolina it
self would stand.
But While Governor Aycock has
gone from us, Mr. Aycock is still here.
In the prime of his manhood and ac-
tivity, worn some, it is said, by the
brunt of the great fight he has fought,
yet perhaps strongest today in intel
lectual and moral force, as he is
strongest in the respect and affections
of the people, he steps down from the
Governors seat only to take his place
again in the ranks. He will not re-
main there long, we think, for North
Carolina will call upon him for higher
service. But should he never again
be aught than private citizen, for
what he has already done and been he
will live long in the hearts of his peo-
pie, and what he has taught will be
felt even after he is forgotten.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
A CONFEDERATION AvERTED.
Woodwork of Hotel Pamlico Blazing
Fired by Gas jet.

Especial to News and Observer
Washington n. c., Jan. 14.-The
Hotel Pamlico came near being the
scene of a confiagration last night,
A lighted gas jet turned too near the
wood work set fire to it, The wool
was blazing when discovered. 1t was
extinguished by bucket of water in
the hands of Mr.. Osman, of the Osman
Stock Company.
One of the innovations instituted
by the board of aldermen is the sta
tioning at the city hall of policeman.
This will enable a "cop" to be located
at any time in case of need.
The General Assembly will be petit
toned from here not to repeal the
present law regarding pound nets IN
and around Pamlico Sound The re-
peal of this law would work hard-
ship on the fish dealers and fishermen
here. The annual fish business hence
exceeds 100000.
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MEET THE QUESTION SOUARELY
AND FAIRLY.

AT the last session of the General
Assembly, in a bin intended TO apply
only to Cleveland and two or thre.
other counties, the wording of the act
made it apply to the whole State
The question was carried to the SUI
preme Court which declared that II
would be guided only by the plain
words of the act which gave an anti
Jug law to the whole State. There
jug law has been in operation in North
Carolina. 1t has worked so we'll that
many who doubted its wisdom are
convinced that it is a good measure
and will oppose permanent repeal of
the measure. During the campaign OF
1904. though the liquor organs and
others sought to raise a hue and cry
against the measure, they utterly
failed, and the matter was hardly
touched upon during the campaign.
The workings of the law justified the
wisdom of such an act to such an ex-
tent that no demand was made upon
the legislature TO secure its repeal.
There was no intention upon the
part OF the honorable gentleman who
to the whole State, and there is no
scintilla of evidence that any clerk was
guilty of any bad intent. The omis-
sion of the names of the four coun>
ties was simply an error of some clerk
which was not discovered until weeks
after the session expired. TIE meas
ure therefore in no sense is in that
class known as "sneak" bills and it is
a gratuitous and unworthy reflection
upon the author of the law and the
clerks to impute such dishonesty %
them.
One of the first bills introduced In
this Legislature was to repeal the anti
jug law, except as TO the four counties
named, and it has been made special
order for January goth. There are
three views:
l. Some favor repeating the law be-
cause they do not approve it. That
is their right, but they ought not 10
make a false issue and say they wish
TO repeal it because it was not put on
the statute books knowingly, This
class is opposed to the law. Very well.
Let them make their fight on the law
itself and not seek to bolster uD
their contention by sailing under de-
sire to wipe off what some have I'M
Justly called "a fraudulent act" Fraud
Involves crime. No crime was COM
mitted by anybody in connection With
the act.
. Some advocates of the law. dis
liking to derive benefit from a mistake
of the last legislature, favor repeating
the act of 1903 and enacting an anti
Jug law. either at the same time o"
later.
8. Some declare that the Supreme
Court having construed the law appiI-
cable TO the whole State. and the peo-
pie in most of the counties having
acouiesced in it, the mistake of a clerk
ought not in any sense to affect the law
as it now stands. and that the legisia-
ture should do nothing at all.
This legislature will not take any
step backward in temperance legisla-
ton. To permit the wiping off the
anti-jug law from the statute books
without putting as good a law in its
place would be taking a long step
backward and would be in opposition
to the wishes of a great majority OF
the voters of North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
DOES WEALTH BREED DISHON-
ESTY?

According to the 1905 tax books in
New York there are only seven peo-
pie in that great metropolis who have
property worth one million dollars.
Andrew Carnegie heads the PERSONAL
" list at $5,0O0,000. John d. Rookie
Teller is down for S2.500,000. Russell
sage is listed to pay taxes on $4,000
600. j. Pierpont Morgan gets off with
100000, and Henry H. Rogers, com
mander-in- chief of the Standard Oil
Company's market battles. is assessed
at only 100000. Four Havemeyers
and seven Vanderbiits figure on the
lists The seven Vanderbilts are as
sessed for a total of $6,650,000, and
the Havemeyers at S550,0OO.
Everybody knows that the above
assessments are ridiculous,y low and
everybody knows equally well that
there are many other millionaires in
New York. but their names are not
found on the tax books. Do they pay
the tax assessors 10 Ter them dodge
How do they manage it?
Is it any wonder that . spirit of
socialism grows when the toiling
masses, who never escape their taxes,
witness such examples of dishonesty?
1t suggests the inquiry: Does
wealth breeds dishonesty?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
DIVORCE LAWS SHOULD BE MADE
TO CONFORM TO THE LAWS
OF THE BIBLE.

The legislative committee, to which
has been referred the bills repeating
lax divorce laws, Will give a hearing
on Tuesday afternoon of this week.
Representatives of the various church
es, which have petitioned the General
Assembly to repeal the unchristian
laws that disgrace our statute books
will present arguments in support or
the petition and resolutions they Will
present to the committee. The right
eous Indignation of the people CT
North Carolina has been aroused. be-
cause of the crowding of the divorce
docketS due to the series OF divorce
inviting additions to the laws MADE
from time to time. They demand with
practical unanimity, voiced by the
,ress, the churches. the ministry. the
best sentiment of the State-the re-
peal of all laws on the subject enacted
since 1883. Below we publish, and
wish to commend to the consideration
of all legislators, a letter from prom
inent Presbyterian divine. who points
out that there is a provision in The
source of great wrong The let
ter is so wise that we print it be-
low:
The Code of 1883.
To the Editor:-It may be taken
for granted probably that the present
legislature will repeal the iniduitous
divorce legislation Of recent years.
Both Gov. Aycock and Gov. Glenn
have recommended it. The Christian
sentiment of the State demands it. as
expressed in the resolutions adopted
by the various religious bodies re-
Gently.
1t is proposed. as may be seen from
the address of the Governor and mes
sage of his predecessor, that the
grounds of divorce shall remain as
they were fixed by the Code of 1888.
Your correspondent. one of the COM
mittee appointed by the Presbyterian
SYNOD, wishes to call the attention Of
the public to one of the provisions of
that Code and to urge further modl-
fication.
The first section reads as follows:
IF either party shall separate from
the other and live in adultery.
The second section reads: IF the
wife commit adultery"
Why this distinction between adul-
terry committed by the wife and the
same offence committed by the huS-
band Evidently the purpose of the
statute is to shield the adulterous hus-
band. He may commit the sin tnou-
sand times and vet if he does not add
to his offence the sin of actual aban-
donment of her to whom he has
pledged his faith. the injured wife has
no redress. Indeed she cannot even
sue for divorce "a thoro ct mensa.
The very statement of the case
should suffice to convince anyone that
the distinction made in the statute IS
iniquitous and q source of great
wrong.
In reforming our divorce laws
should not this distinction be removed.
and both parties to the marriage cove
nant put on an equality?
The distinction is without warrant
in the teachings of the Word of God.
Every legislative body is bound 20
conform its enactments to the moral
law The law of Christ is plain and
explicit Let our divorce law be made
to conform to 1t.
JOHN NJ ROSE.
Laurinburg, N c.. Jan. Is. 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
WATCH YOUR
KIDNE> Us !
The Slightest arrangement of These
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is More Dangerous.

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Will Make Great Executive.
Wilmington Dispatch.


Capt. Robert Brodnax Glenn was
inaugurated Governor of North Caro-
lima in Raleigh today. This is the
occasion for congratulation all over
the State. Governor Glenn is a pub
lie idol He is known and loved from
the mountains to the Seaboard and
there is not a man in North Carolina
who is more universally esteemed. 1t
is not necessar for The Dispatch to
go into lengthy discourse on it's fond
ness for the new Governor. Our opin-
ion of him has long been known. That
he will make IA good executive, there
can be no doubt No man
ever took the reins of government in
this State when it was in more aus
picious circumstances. There is every
reason to expect a good administra-
ton under Governor Gem. His pow
er is too well known to be dwelt on
here. His past work for the Demo-
cratic party and his relationship to
the people of the entire State entities
him to the honor which was confer
red upon him today. The Dispatch
sends its best greetings and most
hearty congratulations to the new
Governor and to every officer of the
incoming administration.
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that appli.
ton will be made to the General
Assembly of 1905 for the passage OF
ar act granting a charter to and in
cooperating The North Carolina
Osteopathic Society, and to provide
for the regulation of the practice OF
Csteopathy and for the examination
of applicants for license to practice
the same.
This December 18th. 1904.
II. w. GLASCOCK,
Raleigh. G.
W. 3. MEACHAM,
Asheville, n. G.
II. T. RAY,
Charlotte. N. c.
A. II. ZEALY,
Goldsboro, n. G.
G. II. GRANGER.
WA ston- Salem, n. c.
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Insurance Firm Dissolyes.

Especial to News and Observer
Washington, n. c., Jan. 14.-Tha
insurance firm OF Huifines & Pennlng-
ton which began business here last
spring, has dissolved, Mr.. Huffines sue
ceeding To the business Mr.. Penning-
ton will return to Tarboro, his OLD
home, to the sincere regret of wide
circle of friends here.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15
Will DO the Very Best.

Charlotte News.
The ADDRESS as q whole is a plain.
commoI-scnsc dis dssion in very
general way of the condition and needs
Of the State, and a modest expression.
Of an intention to do the very best he
can for the people who have honCred
him. Few accommodations are made,
and those are more or esS general