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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
"THE AGE OF CLAMOR."

In every decade of the worlds his
tory the men having soft berths or
enjoying special privilege decry agita-
ton. OF course. They have obtained
for themselves the lions share of
the fruits of the toll of thousands
and they oppose any innovation that
will deprive them of their perquisites.
The agitation always comes from the
many Disseminated against. In this
age the trusts in America have OBJ
tanned through the tariff, graft and
judicial favoritism what belongs to all
the people just as in the days of
Tiberius the landlords owned the
earth and the fulncss thereof.
One phase of the agitation for bet
ter laws and juster division of the
rewards of labor is seen in Tom Law
sons exposure of 1.-The System" Sem
sationaI it undoubtedly is, but is not
the truth Of the gigantic robbery prac-
tised by 1.-The System necessarily so
startling as to be sensational?
Mr.. James H. Eckels, the little man
who seems to hold brief for en-
trenched wrong and special privilege,
commenting upon the articles of Law
son and demands for trust regula-
ton, declares that this is S'the age OF
clamor" and gives it as his opinion
that the age of clamor is not a good
one to live in. He is right-for those
who enjoy special privilege and grab
for themselves the fruits of the labor
of others. The Chicago Tribune gives
an effectual answer to Mr.. Eckels, in
these words:
Every age that is worth anything
is an age of clamor. The peaceful
folding of the hands together is a
beautiful symbolism. but it cannot be
approved when it means submission
to wrong. Hands were not made to be
folded together. They were made to
use-to minister to the wants of the
body-for purposes of offense and de-
fense-to strike out with, if need be,
and to hit hard and often. The voice
was made to use, too. 1t was not in
tended that the voice should be
hushed when the individual suffers.
The meek may inherit the earth when
there is a corner anywhere that Mr..
Eckels and his friends do not covert,
but the meek will not hold their in
heritance long in these stirring days if
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
SHOULD BE SETTLED AT ONCE.

Tt is stated that several able law
yers have given it as their opinion
that the concerns, some times called
bucket shops and sometimes called
exchanges against which the Wood
ard bill was directed cannot be closed
up under that law. They hold that
the Eller amendment, excepting man
ufacturers and wholesale merchants
who may get for themselves quotations
in their line of business, makes it
class legislation, and that therefore
the statute is void.
These attorneys stand high in their
profession. They may be right, but
we cannot accept their view. However,
in view of this advice and the doubts
raised as to the efficacy of the act, it
is to be hoped that the question will
be speedily taken to the courts so
that the statute may be construed. The
men in charge of these places and
the general public are interested to
know the effect of the new law. 1t is
to be hoped that ease agreed" may
be submitted to the Supreme court
and the statute construed without de-
lay.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
A MAN is AN INFANT AT FORTY.

DR.. Osler has stirred up hornets
nest, though he says he was not Sc
rious in his reference to Anthony
Trollope's idea that it would be good
thing to chloroform all men who sur
vive their sixtieth birthday. Here is
Dr.. Osler's real opinion, as he states
it after the above disavowal:
take the sum OF human achieve
ment in action, in science, in art, in
literature, subtract the work of the
men above forty, and while we should
miss great treasures-eVen priceless
treasures-we would be practically
where we are today
Now let us contrast that opinion
with that of Hon. William Pinckney
White, ex-senator from Maryland, now
at the age of eighty, the head of the
bar of Baltimore. Mr.. White, so far
from thinking men do their best work
under forty, believes they do little of
value until they reach that age. He
says:
Until forty man is an infant DR..
Osler does not know what he is say
ing So far as I am concerned, l am
his prime until he is eighty"
Longfellow, it would seem, agrees
with Senator White, for in one of his
poems he sings:
cato learned Greek at eighty; Sopho-
cles
Wrote his grand 'oedipus,' and Simon
ides
Bore off the prize of verse from his
compeers
When each had numbered more than
fourscore years.
And Theophrastus, at fourscore and
ten,
Had but begun his Characters OF
Men 4
Chaucer at Woodstock with his night
ingales
At sixty wrote his Canterbury Tales.
Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the
last.
Completed Faust when eighty years
had past,
Something remains for us to do or
dare.
Even the Oldest tree some fruit may
bear,
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another
dress"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
PLENTY ROOM FOR SUCH BOYS.

The following advertisement APP
peared recently in the. Dansville Adj
vertiser, inserted by A. o. Bunnell:
II want an old fashioned boy, not
afraid of work, to learn the printer
trade and to be a leader"
Was that advertisement answered
by IAN old fashioned boy, not afraid
of work?" We should like to know,
because the closing sentence ''to be a
leader ought to have stimulated the
ambition of any boy who read the
advertisement If Horace Greeley or
William w. Holden had seen such a
chance as that they would have Gag
erly embraced it, and it is to be hoped
that some boy at Dansville, made of
the stuff that distinguished Greedy
and Holden, read and answered that
advertisement, and that he will be to
New York journalism another Greeley.
There is always room in any call
ing for IAN old fashioned boy not
afraid of work" who does not work
with his eye on the clock and a
cigarette in his mouth. There are
many. boys complaining they cannot
get a place whose failure is due to
to the fact that they are afraid of
work" They wish to sit down in the
shade and do work that does not soil
their hands and they expect compen-
sation to enable them to dress in the
height of fashion. But there are still
"old fashioned boys" not afraid to
work among us who are training to
be the leaders of the future. The
leaders are not produced in hot
houses. They come from the ranks
of humble "old fashioned boys not
afraid of work.
That was a severe Osler joke that
a member of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture perpetrated on his associates
when he introduced bill providing
for the establishment of chloroform-
ing stations for all useless members
of theSState administration. The bill
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
ELECTRICITY AND WATER
POWER.

We are only in the dawn of what
of water power and electricity. North
Cardinals primacy in the manufac-
ture of goods is due to the early use
of water power by the long-headed
men who harnessed the streams to
the looms and spindles. The street
cars are run in Winston-Salem by
water power brought from the Yad-
kin. Charlotte is to get it's power
from the Catawba and Salisbury from
the Narrows, Raleigh and Fayetteville
from the Cape Fear and other
streams.
The construction of dams across
navigable streams, advocated by Mr..
Hepburn, chairman of the Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, thus talked about the conser-
walton of water power along naviga-
BILE rivers and the policy that should
be pursued: sENaE9SE
''There are a great many people
who think that the power in our
So than their use for purposes OF
navigation. A great deal of money,
in my opinion, will be saved if we
adopt this plan of utilizing the rivers
for power, and require the construc-
ton of locks if it be desired at any
time to improve navigation. For
instance: There is now a project be-
ing discussed for canalizing the Ohio
river at a cost of probably more than
500, 100000. If we can give to in
dividual corporations the power that
can be generated through he construc-
ton of these dams, at such places and
in such a way as will harmonic with
a general plan, / have not particle
of doubt that that river can be SO
improved without the expenditure of a
dollar upon the part of the United
States.
1--WE started upon this scheme at
this session, when we authorized
dam across the Mississippi between
Keokuk and Hamilton, Ill. If we had
adopted it thirty years ago 10000
900 would have been saved to the
treasury. The government will secure
an infinitely better Improvement and
the people to whom the duty or
making the dam has been entrusted
get a. franchise of great value to them
and to the people. There will be de-
veloped there, at low water, $4,000
horse power, and at high water twice
as much, from which can be distri-
buted a hundred miles up or down
the river power sufficient to furnish
electric lights for region ninety
miles in diameter. / think we ought
to continue this plan"
The day will come when not only
the river power will be used to furn-
ish electric lights for large sections,
but when the wasted power of the
waves of the ocean will be utilized
to run the loom and spindles in the
cotton factories of North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
WILL FARMERS HOLD CoTToN2


The small rise in the price of cotton
has brought out some cotton and there
are those who believe that when it
reaches eight cents the farmer will
rapidly rush it to market, thus de-
stroying the hope of victory in the
great fight in which they have won
first blood. The Farmers Association
urges farmers to hold their cotton for
ten cents and reduce the acreage TWEEN
ty-five per cent. If they do this they
will win their fight. If they rush cot
ton on the market, the Spectator will
win. In an article in the Monroe Jour
nal urging farmers to hold their cot
ton for ten cents, Mr.. F. j. W. Brown
says:
'Mr. Price knows that the Southern
Cotton Association, with the cooper
alton of the farmer can accomplish
it's purposes, and in consequence he
is spending hundreds ana thousahds
of dollars in sending out pear lltefa-
ture, and in advertisements, to STAN
pede the farmer into selling his cot
ton and thereby thwart the purposes
of the association.
MIR. Price don't care whether the
South plants much or little, just 50
they turn loose their holdings now.
He is Interestingly short on cotton
so much so that he has written to
thousands of cotton buyers in the
South for prices on dog-tail cotton.
He wants cheap cotton to I'LL ms con-
tracts, and cotton he must have or
go to the wall. Are you going to let
him have it at his price, or hold for
the price set by the Southern Cotton
Hold your cotton! The feeling of
great many Union county farmers
could be expressed in the following
words of the Mississippi poet:
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: l held for
ten
'But when cotton goes back to 10
cents. to use the language of Mr..
Hayne-
you'll wish to heben,
You had not followed the bears and
sold at seben."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
A RIGHT OF THE FORCE.

According to the Tarboro South
that town because on the occasion of
an attraction at the play house. the
police force left their respective beats
and went to the show" if not in
platoon formation at least with unan-
unity of impulse. The police commit
tee at last accounts had the matter
under investigation and the penalty
suggested was that. if guilty, the
police would suffer a resolution re-
questing them to remain on their reg
ular beats in the future.
Thus does the spirit of unrest per-
meate the oldest institutions and
threaten time honored privileges. The
world over, it has BEEN ever the glory
of the police to enjoy. along with
cloth of gold braid and silver stars
the ponp of petty rights free gratis.
1t is not to be doubted but that the
inducement to get on the force is
heightened and increased ten-fold by
the prospect of the harmless per-
quisites of office. What if the force
did go to the show? Was not every
body else there at the same time. and
did not the sight of the police in a
body tend to add to the evening an
eclat which it would otherwise have
hopelessly lacked?
10 shut off the police from free tick
cts to the show. would be as great q
piece of inhumanity to man as it
would be to nail down the lids of the
peanut roasteTs.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
WASTING AWAY

It's the small but constant
loss of flesh that indicates
physical waste - the gradual
slipping away of healthy flesh,
pound by pound, which no
ordinary food seems to re-
store. SCOTS Emulsion will
restore it. This Emulsion is
the greatest flesh builder OBJ
tainable. SCOTS Emulsion
first stops the wasting-th
one gain. Then when it sup
plies new flesh and takes one
back to normal strength and
weight, that's another gain
and a big one.
Wen send you sample, free
SCOTT s BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street. New York.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
STATE REFORAIATORY.

There is no reason why the State
cannot now establish upon practical
basis a reformatory that viii meet the
present needs. There is plenty of
law to authorize the directors of the
States Prison to provide accommo-
dations, separate from adults, for
youthful criminals. And the State
Prison has the money necessary to do
it.
North Carolina has no need for re-
formatory that is patterned after the
Northern institutions that are costly
lighthouses. a farm, with plenty OF
work to support themselves, and four
months schooling, is all that is
needed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
MORNING TONIC.
lRuskin.l

The first duty of a child is to obey
it's father and mother, as the first duty
of a citizen is to obey the laws of his
State. On the other hand, the father
and mother have also a fixed duty to
the child-not to provoke it to wrath.
/ have never heard this text explained
to fathers and mothers from the pull
pit, which is curious. For 1T appears
to me that God will expect the parents
to understand their duty to their chill
dren better even than the children can
be expected to know their duty to
their parents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
TO DEEPEN THE BEAUFORT HAIR
ROR.

Congress has MADE an appropria-
ton to survey Beaufort harbor with
the view of making an appropriation
to give it depth of thirty feet. Will
mington harbor has a depth of twenty
two feet, and Savannah a depth of
about the same The present depth
at Beaufort is only fifteen feet but a
depth of thitry feet would accommo-
date the largest vessels. The success
of this plan would bless the whole
state, particularly Beaufort and the
adjacent section.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The Philadelphia Record says that
so careful are the Standard Oil mag
mates not to let the public know of
their affairs that the other day when
one of the founders of the Standard
Oil died and left an estate worth a
great deal more than $100,000,0 900, one
daughter was practically disinherited,
but it is reported that she will get
one-fifth of the estate, not so much
because the family fear litigation as
because the trust fears exposure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

they are not prepared when the occa-
sion arises to warn off trespassers and
enforce their warnings by appropriate
means. Every confiict-mental, moral
OF physical-is a clamor. What would
the sworld be without conflict? The
whole world would be humming with
clamor every minute. The battles of
the soul, of the moral nature, and
even the rude impact of great masses
of men upon each other on the field
family typify the demands of human
beings for something better than they
have
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The thing that infuriates the enc
mics of man who unjustly assail
him is for him to maintain silence in
seven languages, conscious Of his recti-
tude and that the public will put a
correct estimate upon his motives and
his acts-a silence like that madden
ing calm of oak or iron" which no as
sault can move.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The Asheyille Citizen says there
was q scramble in Buncombe Superior
court to file divorce suits on Saturday
because the people saw that the Legis-
lature would repeal the loose abandon
ment divorce laws. The door is shut
now and when the present cases get
off the dockets there will be great inn
provement.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The Savannah Morning News sug-
gests that President Roosevelt employ
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell to make an Off
cial investigation of the Standard Oil
trust. 1t would be better than all
the so-called expert investigation he
is having made If Miss Tarbell would
write up all the other trusts she would
be doing a great thing for the coun-
try
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

provided that all members of the
Legislature, all judges, magistrates
and other office-holders over sixty
years of age, who declined to resign
when others sought their places,
should be removed from the field Of
activity by asphyxiation. The Speak
er referred the bill to the Committee
on State House for the Aged and In
firm amid laughter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The Chicago clique that is trying to
put up the price of bread are no bet
ter than the armed robbers of the
dark ages who levied tribute upon de-
fenceless. people. The motto of both
may be said to be:
Let him take who has the power
And let him keep who can
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The tobacco trust lost no sleep over
the published announcement that
Congress would fully investigate its
affairs. They had provided against
that. The only thing that trust is
afraid of is that Miss Ida M. Tarbell
may take a notion to investigate it.
The trusts are more afraid of her than
of the whole trust-busting administra-
ton
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
DIR. JAY TO STUDY LAW.

DR.. jay, The murderer of his three
small children at Barnardsville, III
Buncombe county. and who is serving
a thirty years sentence for murder
in the second degree, has expressed ii
desire to begin the study of law. the
intimation of his friends being that
the desire is an evidence of his in
sanity. Occasionally a successful
green-grocer makes a try at license.
lusting fer the forum. and no matter
what the opinion of his friends may
be, they are respectfully silent on the
subject of his mentality. For a man
who has the time which DR.. Jay has
at his disposal. hedged about as he is
with circumstances which will prevent
his practice in any event, the pursuit
of the law will probably afford him
some amusement-and certainly do
the State less harm than is occasioned
by other Younger and more ambitious
students The study of law may be
rash as a rule, but the time has not
vet come when it is proof of dis
ordered mird. Witness the size of
the classes before the Supreme Court.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

Tom Watson's magazine begins its
existence with slap at Mr.. Bryan
The brilliant. and erratic Georgian has
a case of the Ego that makes him hate
Bryan because Bryan is consistent
while Watson fights for a good cause
only when there is no chance to win
~
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

There will be plenty of candidates
in Raleigh before the legalized prim
airy is called. Let each one announce
his platform. Let's have done with
electing men on personal cleverness
and choose officials with reference to
what they will do for the public!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

1t seems that spring was only
waiting for the adjournment of the
Legislature to come out in all her
glory. 1t didn't wish to dess more
royalty than some of the younger
legislators.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

That railroad is going to be built
from Winston to Wadesboro, sure
enough. The men behind it have a
habit of succeeding at what they UNI
dertake. 1t will develop magnificent
country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

It isn't difficult to pose as a fin
ancier if you have sufficient money.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
TORNENlII.%sSi rll

D Columbus, Ohio, May ~, 1909.
SIX years ago had severe attack of
Inhammatory Rheumatism. was laid up
In bed for six months, and the doctors
had did me no good They changed med
lcines every week and nothing they pre-
scribed seemed to help me. Finally be-
gan the use of S. S. S. My knee and elbow
joints were swollen terribly, aud at one
time my joints were SO swollen and pain
full that l could rot close them when
opened. I was so bad that l could not
move knee or foot. I was getting discour-
aged, you may be sure, when began S. S.
S., but as I saw it was helping me l contin-
ued it, and to-day am sound we'll man
and have never had a return Of the disease.
S. S. S. purified my blood and cured me
of this severe case of Rheumatism after
everything else had failed. / have rec
commended it to others with good re-
suits. R. II. CHAPLAIN.
I35SAIt. Vernon Ave
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The Democratic candidate for
mayor of Chicago has been NOM
mated on a platform that de-
clares for municipal ownership
of all public utilities, street railways
and telephone lines, as we'll as light
and water plants. The man who can
bring about these results in Raleigh
is the man who ought to be chosen
as mayor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

The poisonous acids that produce the in.
6ammation and pain are absorbed into the
blood and Rheumatism can never be con.
quered till these are neutraiized and fl
tered out of the blood and system. S. S. S.
goes directly into the circulation and at
tacks the disease itself 1t purifes and re-
stores the blood to a healthy, vigorous
condition. 1t contains no potash, a1kali or
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09

Wen send you sample, free
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street. New York.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-03-08
Shoals, W. Va.
SNow.

The meeting at Newcomb has
closed with sixteen or seventeen
conversions. We have prayer
meeting Wednesday and Sunday
nights now.
Miss Lizzie Bailey is attending
school at Mays. She has changed
her mind about finishing the bust
ness course.
Calvin Workman has returned
from Tenn.
Andrew Kileore, a resident of
California, has returned to this
place on visit.
Miss Eugcnia Forbess IL visiting
friends at Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mrs. Carroll was saying that her
son Delbert was telling her that he
was out in quite a "Hale" storm
the other night, hut the Hale was
nearer the daughter than it was the
son.
The wedding bells will soon ring
once more. You must all listen to
see which way the sound comes.
Delbert Carroll, who has been
visiting his grandpa, Mr.. Payne,
near Neal, ha- returned home. He
reports spending pleasant week.
Mrs. Prudy Mccoy, Misses Liz
zie Bailey aud Leila Forbess spent
two days and nights in Huntington
last week.
Carl Bailey, Of Central City, Wis.
tied his old home place on Lynn
Sunday.
'How dear TO his heart are the
scenes Of his childhood,
When fond recollections presents
them TO view"
We saw Miss Clara Brumfield
wading through the muddy streets
of our town. Clara, where was
Delbert's helping hand2 She had
been visiting her grandpa and at.
tended party one night at Haynie
Branch.
There is to be a baptizlug and
a foot washing at Haynie Branch