davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
A PRETTY BUSINESS.

To the Editor: The South is pour
ing her money by the millions and
tens of millions, yea, hundreds of mil
lions into insurance companies to be
used for the perpetuation of measures
which are oppressive and antagonistic
to her interests Are we of North
Carolina beside ourselves, that we give
four millions of our income annually
to life insurance companies in or
der that they may give us in return
ONLY one million? No lottery ever had
so many blanks as life insurance
do not know what the statistics are,
but | venture the assertion, that for
every one that gains by life insur-
ance, hundred loses, and | chal-
lenge any one who has the statistics
at his fingers ends to show the con-
trary.
My friends, L appeal to you, to be-
ware of bestOwing your patrimony
upon foreign corporations. They were
never formed for your interest.
If you will give your money to 9TH
erS to take care of and use for their
own benefit give it to those who will
keep it when you can sometimes see
it. or the effect of it, but never delude
yourselves with the hope that more
than one-fourth you give insurance
companies, whether home or foreign,
will ever. come back to you or yours
J. II. FLEMING.
Raleigh, Sept. 90, 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
WORKS WONDERS.
A Wonderful Compound. Cures Piles,
Eczema, Skin Itching, Skin Erup-
tions. Cuts and Bruises.

Doan's Ointment is the best skin
treatment, and the cheapest, because
SO little is required to cure. 1t cures
piles after years of torture. 1t cures
obstinate cases Of eczema. 1t cures all
skin itching. 1t cures skin eruptions.
It heals cuts, bruises scratches and
abrasions without leaving a scar. 1t
cures permanently. Raleigh testimony
proves it.
w. d. Brown. of so South Salisbury
street. saws: For the last fifteen
years l have suffered from itching
hcmorrhoids or piles, and can only de-
scribe the suffering l endured as tor
ture, and none but those who have
suffered as ] have know what torment
this affection is. Doan's Ointment,
which / procured at the Bobbitt-
Wynne Drug Company, gave me al
most instant relief. l would not take
$25 for the good the box did me, and
if there were only one box in the
world it would be worth a thousand
dollars to me. You can use my name
and welcome, as one who is only too
pleased to state his opinion of this
preparation"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no other.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
Spirit of the Press.
Let NJ. sulIy's Scheme Alone

Let Mr.. Sully's Scheme Alone.
Monroe Journal.
In this issue is published an article
by Mr. Daniel J. Suny, which that
gentleman is sending out as an ad-
vertsement to the daily press ana 10
individuals. through the mail Mr.
Sully 20 doubt means We'll but ms
plans have nothing to commend them
to the Southern people. The cotton
producers are now in the midst OF
struggle to down what Mr.. Sully
stands for-the undue influence or
speculation on the price of their pro-
duct. That Mr.. Sully will undertake
a bull campaign does not effect the
principle If it is wrong for the bears
TO drive the price of cotton below
what it is worth, it must certainly be
wrong for the bulls to push it be-
yond what is legitimate. If the far
mers will turn their backs upon all
kinds of speculation and stand firmly
by the Southern Cotton Association,
they can get what their cotton Is
worth. They can not only get what it
is worth, but they can get somewhat
established and certain price, which
will be better for everybody who
touches cotton from the seed to the
cloth on the counter. They can't get
this by following bull spectators.
There is money enough in Union
county, and no doubt the same IS true
of any other prosperous county In the
South, to hold every bale of cotton In
the county and pay the debts too. In
this county there are five banks all
ably and honestly managed. II, the
people who have surplus money Would
deposit it with them for the next Sixty
or ninety days, instead OF letting IL lie
idle, these institutions would nave
plenty to make advancements, enough
to relieve all who are bound to sell, and
thus enable al to get the advantage
of the advanced price that Mr. Sully
predicts. All who have money 10 pay
their debts should pay them ana put
their surplus in the banks. 1hoSe
who have debts should secure the
money to pay. them as soon as possi-
bic. 1t is unfair to expect the mer-
chants 70 carry all the-load as they
did last year There should be no
stagnation of business as there was
then. The merchants nave Sloou
loyalty and even enthusiastically py
the farmers i'm this movement and
they should not be allowed 10 suiLer
for It. If their accounts were to be
pushed off this wear as they were last,
1t might we'll be calculated to dampen
their enthusiasm. Many dollar was
paid in interest by merchants last year
mat they would not have hao TO pay
mad the cotton been marketed DIS
usual This was done cheertully SO
1ar as We know. but it would De TOO
much to ask as a regular thlng. Inc
! south wants to keep knit closely TO-
gether N this movement, ana every
one should seek to bear his part Let
business go on as usual, as far as may
pc even though it is necessary 10 hold
for the minimum price,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

tempt to "boss" any man or official;
he simply strives, to the best of his
ability, to perform the duties of his
office, and to act, in all things from
principles of right, justice, law and
humanity. He is perfectly content to
take the responsibility for his action
in regard to caring for the unfortunate
people, whose misfortunes should APP
peal to all right-thinking and right
feeling men. In appearing before the
Board Of Commissioners with the city
attorney, he desired to call the atten-
ton of the authorities to a matter
of great moment and to ask that they
perform their plain duty. The conse-
quence of failure to do what was re-
quested they must assume for them
selves.
If the county attorney made any
remarks to the undersigned about the
board mot running after any Police
Justice" the undersigned did not hear
it. Nor did the undersigned hear any
such remarks over telephone, as the
county attorney is reported to have
said he made. The undersigned was
never anything but polite to the coun-
ty attorney, and had no reason for
being otherwise. In conclusion, l beg
to say that the only regret which |
feel now, is that L did not apply to
the courts for mandamuS to COM
pei the performance of their duty by
the authorities to whom are entrusted
the affairs of the county of Wake.
Very respectfully,
THOMAS BADGER.
1.-THE article to which this is a re-
ply was an interview with Mr.. Her
bert e. Norris, county attorney. The
headlines merely conveyed the sub
stance of statements by Mr.. Norris
Editor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
SHOULD PRESERVE THE PARITY

The duty of tax assessors in every
State is to require the railroads to pre-
serve the parity in the value of their
property-that is, to give 1t III Tor
taxation rpon the same valuation that
is put upon it when it's freight and pas
senger charges are fixed. 1t ought not
to be allowed to say it is worth $40.-
600 a mile when it is asking to be per-
mitted to charge such rates as will pay
dividend upon that investment and
then to say it is worth only 100000 a
mile when it is put on the tax books.
In his campaign for Governor of
Georgia, Hon. Hoke Smith is giving
the people of Georgia much food for
reflection Here is AN extract from
his speech at Warrenton:
"In this connection it is also inter-
esting to compare the value placed by
railroads upon their properties when
they pay taxes to the State with their
estimates of value when they seek to
keep up the rates at which they tax
you.
81 give you their returns for taxa
ton and their estimates of value
sworn to in the bills filed by the diff
ferent railroads in the United States
court twelve months ago, when they
sought to enjoin the railroad commits
sion from making a small reduction
in freight rates:
Return for Taxes.
Ia, ~ t,,n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The National Life Underwriters AS
ISOLATION, is in session at Hartford,
Conn, and it has gathered a large at
tendance of many of, the brightest men
in America. Hartford is the insurance
Mecca and is the proper place for
such gathering. The people of
North Carolina have nothing "agin"
Hartford, but they are resolved in
both life and fire insurance to keep
more of their money at home instead
of enriching Hartford and other great
cities
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
Value Sworn to ir United States Court
as Basis for TRANSFORMATION Charges.


Atlantic Coast Line. -. $17 500, $4,000
Central of Georgia -. 1866, $4,000
Seaboard Air Line. -. 23,647,546.O0
Southern Railway .... 1880. 100000
These facts have wholesome les
son for North Carolina as we'll as for
Georgia, for all these roads operate
in both States, the Central of Georgia
being but another name for the
Southern Railway During Governor
Aycock's administration the assess
ment of railroads for taxation was
doubled, but it was absurdly low in
1900. 1t is at least fifty per cent too
low now if we have regard to the
statements made in New York and in
the courts when they resisted reduc-
ton Of railroad rates. The people
should compel the railroads to pre-
serve the parity-give in their prop
erty for taxation at the figure they
say it is worth when they oppose re-
duction of freight or passenger rates.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
WILL CARE FOR VISITORS.

The people of Raleigh are cooper
ating with the Fair authorities toward
providing for the entertainment of the
graf crowd that will attend the State
Fair October 16th-21st. The news
from all sections is that everybody is
coming and Raleigh is planning to
breaking crowd. A Bureau of 1nfor-
nation in charge of capable men will
look toward providing quarters for
all Corners.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
THE PERKINS CODE OF FTNAN-
CIAL MORALS.

Mr.. George w. Perkins, partner OF
J, Pierpont Morgan, and Vice-Presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
Company has set himself up as new
authority upon financial policies and
ethics in New York. The investigation
shows that he gets $4,000 year from
the New York Life though he renders
no service except i'm the way of buy
ing securities and political manipula-
ton. He is a sort of DR.. Jekyll and
New York Life he represents the poll
cy-holders in buying and selling secu-
rites. AS member of the Morgan syn
dictate he deals with himself as vice
president of the New York Life. II
is against all law and old-fashioned
ethics for a trustee to deal with him.
self. That does not trouble Mr.. Per-
kins. He does not deal with himself
PERSONAL---VERY., no-but with himself
as a partner of Morgan!
Mr.. Perkins gravely tells us that all
the political economists before Perkins
are out of date, and that Competition
is the life of trade" is a back number.
Here is the Aaw as he lays 1T down:
This is an age not of competition but
of co-operation." He evidently had
in his mind, not the policy-holders or
the great public, but cooperation be-
tween trusts giant banks owned by
trust magnates, over-grown life 1nsur-
ance companies and politicians who
control legislation-a cooperation, as
it often appears, of the wolves in or
der to make it easy for them to devour
the savings of widows and orphans.
IT these financial wolves were to COM
pete for the lambs, it might not be so
well for them as the Perkins plan OF
cooperation. dividing out the lambs
to be feeced upon some" basis mutu-
ally, agreeable to the wolves.
Mr.. Perkins not only buys securities
from himself, but he is the 1ndlViduai
who gave the check for $4S,720 to the
National Republican Executive Com
mittee to help elect Roosevelt ana
100000 to Alexander Hamilton,
LAWYER lobbyist at Albany why? That
money belonged to the policy-hoiders
of the Equitable and the only sort OIL
co-operation they wished was for the
officers to work together to earn good
dividends instead of abstractlng thel1
money to be used as corruption fund
in the State and Nation. Co-operatlon
often results in good by cheapening
cost and earning larger dividends. MI
Perkins cooperation" evidently De
gins and ends with using trust FUNDS
tn enable fiduciary officials to use
monev TO control elections. shape leg
;slation. and dictate to Wall Street
That sort of "co-operatlon no uouo'
navs the officials, but it robs the poll-
and if the Attorney-Geh-
eral of New York is fit to hold MS po-
sition he will compel Perkins and ms
nails TO make restitution of TINS money
as Depew and Alexander and HYDE
have done of money obtained lmprop-
erlv. from the Equitable.
Mr. Perkins's law is the sort that
DESTROYS that faith in f1duclary OIL
cials essential to the preservation Oh
confidence, and puts an end 10 tha'
h;,b sense of honor that forblds a
trustee to profit at the expense OF MS
ward or to cestui que trust.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
WILL NOT BE POPULAR.

The unmarried editor OF the Rlch-
mond News-Leader devotes a column
tn discussing the Misunderstanding So
ciety. organized by young LADIES' IN
Nottoway county. Virginia. Heavy
fines are imposed if any member is
kissed. but fines are paid gladly. Inc
official color of the society is creamy
mink. the flower touch-me-not. ana
tho motto: kiss not that we be not
kissed The yell is:
"Rey! Boom! All! Sis!
Eureka! Boom! All. Kiss!
Kiss me! Kiss me. Kiss me!
The club song is the following lit
tIe verse set to the sweetest music:
"There was a young lady from Siam.
Who said to her lover named Fridili'
To kiss me, of course,
you'll have to use force;
But the Lord knows you're stronger
than 7 am
This society will never get foot
hold in North Carolina, for the girls
of this State will not pay fines for do
ing that which is not prohibited by
the law. for as Bancroft said, they
arc the freest of the free and brook
no restraint"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

suit be brought to compel Perkins to
refund that $4S,720 he extracted from
the Golfers of the New York Life to
help elect Roosevelt. 1t would be i'm
portant to note whether the courts
would uphold Perkins statement that
he gave the money because a Demo-
cratic victory would have jeopardized
the money of policy holders. But the
New York authorities will not press
for restitution. The influences behind
Perkins are too powerful.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The town that puts the story of it's
progress on the textbooks is the town
tar. The Monroe Journal says the in
crease in tax valuation during the
past year has been $244,922-a fine
showing!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The fake that Komura is trying to
commit slow suicide i'm order to escape
the wrath of the Japs at home. comes
from Boston. 1t is on a par with the
:.hark-eating escapade at Beaufort this
summer The BIS are busy in manu-
featuring fakes this year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

\ Let me write the insurance of a
people and l care not who makes its
laws," has long been the motto of
Hartford, Connecticut. Result: Hart
ford is the richest city of it's size i'll
America. North Carolina people can
keep on pouring their surplus into
rich Northern cities or keep a portion
of it here to build up home. Which
will thew do?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
DON'T FORGET THE DATE.

The State Fair at Raleigh embraces
the week of October 16th-21st inclu-
sive. On Thursday, October 10Th
president Roosevelt will deliver an
address at the Fair Grounds. This
will be the greatest Fair in the history
of the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The best money North Carolina peo-
pie have invested in any institutions is
the money they have put in orphan
asylums The Masons, through the
late j. H. Mills (the foremost figure
Of his day., started the first at Oxford.
1t continues to do a great work, grow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

North Carolina will have no repeti-
ton of the brutality that disgraced
Asheville. The people of Asheville had
no idea that it would result as it did
tjOp
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
MORNING TONIC.
eHenrv Drnmmond.l

You can unlock mans whole life
if you watch what words he uses most
We have each small set OF WORDS
which, though We are scarcely aware
of it, we always work with, and when
really express all that we mean by
life or have found out of it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The doctors haven't yet proved to
the satisfaction of the world that they
can end yellow fever if they can sup
press the mosquito. One day of frost
ne ril
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

Some people complain that the
trusts control and yet patronize pa
pers owned and printed by trusts, es-
tablished to enable the trusts to escape
the righteous wrath of the people.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

"In old times highwaymen held up
the people in the public roads, but
now the Railroad Companies take the
highway itself and call it private prop
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

1t was high time somebody was re-
forming the government printing
office. 1t spent over seven million dol
lars last year. 1t pays $4.32 per
dozen bottles for certain writing fluid.
For the identical fluid the postoffice
Department pays $1.94. Who gets the
difference? 1t shows incompetency or
corruption. Which?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

Salisbury is getting in the lime light
these days. The young merchant from
Salisbury who was arrested in New
York for trying to flirt with shop
girl, will return home a wiser man.
Salisburians are pretty fly but not up
to New York ways yet.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21
PROSPERITY AHEAD AND WHY.

Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr.. Keene,
both millionaires, are agreed that
there is no cloud on the horizon of
prosperity. Mr.. Keene bases his
faith on the fact that 1.-THE American
farmer was never more prosperous
than he is today, and so long as the
American farmer is prospecting, there
is no ailment which the country can
not throw off or aSSimllate Our
farms constitute the back bone
of the country and there is steady
and distinctly noticeable increase in
the agricultural returns from year to
year. I'm the quantity produced as weA
as in the market price obtainable.
Wheat, corn, hay and nearly all agri-
cultural products are bringing more
per bushel or bale from season to
season. while gold is being produced
in such abundant quantities that the
purchasing power of a dollar Is
gradually, but perceptibly, growing
less and less, against gradual in
crease in property value. Wall street
is being benefited with the rest of the
country"
Mr.. Rockefeller says: 1.-The coun-
try is too prosperous at present to
warrant any fear that sudden or
disastrous revulsion of business is
likely to occur. l can scarcely see a
cloud on the financial horizon. and
certainly nothing that would warrant
a fear of approaching trouble
Mr. Keene gives the reason why
there is no fear of financial trouble
the farmers are getting good prices
for their crops and gold is being pro-
duced i'm such abundant quantities that
the purchasing power of dollar is
gradually growing less and less.
Here is testimony Of the wisdom of
the Chicago platform, which declared
that prosperity would not be general
as long as the purchasing power OF the
dollar was constantly approaching.
There was no change In the tide of
adversely until the volume of prim-
a1y money greatly increased. Farm
products remained low until there was
an influx of gold In all probability
We will have no other great panic un-
til there is a decrease in the gold
supply which would make a dollar
purchase too much of the farmer S
product and too much of the laborer's
muscle and skill.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

On last Saturday the scarlet woman
gave the police information about hell
holes i'm East Raleigh. If they care
to do their duty. they will feed all
the she-devils out of the same spoon.
Why do they wait? Are they asleep
Or blind? Or deaf?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

There is no good reason why North
Carolina folks should not take d large
part of their insurance in North Caro-.
lira C0mpanie.; "ntcSs they wish thf
New York crowd to use part OF their
mone: to elect Republi I'm presidents
and corrupt New York Legislatures.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

Rev. Nj. P. Davis has resigned the
pastorate of the Baptist church at
Tarboro to take charge of the West
Chowan field. one of the strongest
fields in the Baptist church. He has
done a great work in Tarboro.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

An honest insurance agent tried to
co,ar..it So eide after reading the scaL-
tl&Is developed i'm New York. 1t would
seem that the policy-holders have
mere cause for dependency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

Addicks says the Democrats will
now carry Delaware. 1t has always
been Democratic except when cofr1rup-
ton money bought it. "a i9tt2
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The courage of the internal revenue
thieves has returned since they have
been assured a Republican organ is to
be established in Greensboro.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

Just so that unfortunate crazy wo-
man is cared for, the people will have
little interest in the controversy as to
which officials ought to have acted
G~st
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

II can conceive of nothing more
dangerous to the welfare of any com
munity than the slanderous tongue OF
a man or a woman To SANDER the
character of a virtuouS woman is one
of the meanest crimes in the catalogue
of crimes. Judge Jones in his charge
to the grand jury at Pitt court.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The Raleigh political correspondent
of the Richmond News-Leader evident
" thinks this is the year 1895.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The New York Tribune. too. re-
Dukes the Perkins defense of the con-
tribution of policy-holders' money to
defeat Bryan and Parker. 1t says
the course of Perkins makes him
'usurper and a danger to the Repub-
lic." and believing the supporters OF
Bryan blind to their country's well
fare it was their right to cast their
influence as they chose. When the
administrator of their trust funds
gave money to help defeat their
chosen policy he virtually took their
votes from their hands. Without
permission he undertook to perform
their political duties for them. He
decided that they ought to contribute
to the sound '~sn4oney cause, so ne
would do i Cor them. Thus their
trustee used their money to offset
their votes"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

1t is very risky to get very rich, for
it seems to bring scandals and d-
vorces along with it. Better marry a
girl at home. from whose fathers
house you can see the smoke coming
out of the chimney, and live on hog
and hOminy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-21

The Equitable scandals and steals
grow bigger. Those three Southern
men named as directors in order to
hold up the reputation of the mall
odorous transactions would do we'll to
throw up the job and lend their in
fuence toward building up our good
Southern companies.