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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
TEN CENTS COTTON
1t Will Never Again Go
Below That Figure.
Unless Other Countries Produce it or
The God of Heaven Chooses to Afflict
the American People With a Ca
Iamity Equal to CIeyeIand's
Gold Panic of 1893.

To the Editor: The price of cotton
has already passed 10 cents. 1t will
never again go below that figure until
some country other than America
shall succeed in producing sufficient
quantities of it to materially effect the
worlds supply. Unless also, the God
of Heaven choose to afflict the Ameri-
can people with a calamity equal to
CIevcland'S gold panic of 1893. If
we compare the present price of cot
ton with work stock and labor we
will find cotton at 10 cents is lower in
proportion than work stock and labor.
When cotton was cents good work
mule could be bought for $50-or two
bales of cotton--5 cents per pound is
$25 per bale: > bales $50-one mule.
Good work mules now command $50
each, 10 cents per pound for cotton is
$50 per bale, three bales $150-onc
mule. When We consider labor the
disproportion is still greater. Ii flct
il is impossible to produce cotton or
tobacco at a profit with hired labor.
1t costs about enc cent per pound
more TO make tobacco than it does to
make cotton.
First Tobacco requires the prelim-
mary labor of a plant bed cotton does
not. The cultivation is about equal
the worming and suckering of tobac-
CO is extra. The picking of cotton is
n tedious and costly labor but when
the cotton is ginned and balcd, the
farmers labor is over. The bale of
cotton is a cash asset to be sold or
held for higher prices at his own
pleasure. Not so with tobacco. The
building of barn, the cutting, housing
and curing the tobacco with risk of
burning the barn fully offsets the
picking of cotton. After tobacco is
cured il is an endless care and trouble
high i'm order and mouldy. then it is
To strip, sort and sell at auction for
cash.
The crop of 1904 was smaller than
usual The average price in Winston
was $7.94, i'm Danville S.55, equal to
ga or 7.55 for cotton. If the pow
crs that be- who control the price of
tobacco and make millions yearly by
it's manipulation do not put up the
price what will necessarily happen?
Some farmers win go back to cotton.
Some will raise muleS-it is cheaper
to raise n mule than to buy him with
cents tobacco. 1t is cheaper to
raise cattle and hogs than to buy meat
with cents tobacco.
Farmers are proverbially slow to
move out of old ruts. When they do
move, however, the movement like
those of the glacial epoch, leave a
marked trail behind them.
J. M. GALLOWAY.
Madison, N. c., Sept. Z. 1890
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

States sat right there and listened to
me-a measly coach driver and owner
of a few head of cattle--tell him how
all his old friends in the West were
doing. / told him how jenkins had
lost his boy. about the Gallup girls
taking the. ranch after their father
died, what French was doing on the
irrigation ditch at Cody, what the rail
- rs thought Of US and what eve
thought of them. and how my old
mare, that he rode once sixty miles,
pitched over the hill at Limestone
Rocks and broke her blamed neck.
You're prospecting, Bus? asked
ha.
Got u bank account and 10000
acres of land to feed my cattle or.
and amt done nothing to displease
God says l.
That's right says he. row.
when you go back to New York city
you'll take a note to a friend Of mine
and you'll be taken care of there. And
wherever ! am. Bus, always come and
say How" The doors open. "
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
PROGRESS on THE FARM.
Union County Farmers Hold a Proud
Position.
Monroe Journa!.)

our readers should not overlook the
significance of the article that we
published last week from the pen of
Prof. w. f.. Massey, who is perhaps
the best authority on agriculture in
all the South. The high praise that
lie gave this county in saying that 1t
was the most progressive farming
community in the State is deserved,
we believe, and it is highly appre-
eCiatcd. This does not necessarily
mean that our land is the richest or
that we are at present making the
biggest crops. 1t does mean, however
more than this. 1t means that the
people here are giving more real study
To the business and are more eager to
learn and to adopt those methods and
improvements that tend to elevate
the calling, make the business more
profitable and to make country life
easier and happier for the present
generation and more attractive to the
coming one The truth of this state
ment means much, and our people
should take it to heart and press on.
a few years ago there was a great
hurrah about progress in the towns,
while nothing was said about the de-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
NO CARE LINE IN HIS FACE.
SHUTDOWN Bus Says NOtliinG Worries
President.

(From the Chicago inter-Ocean.l
"Sundown Bus. the original stage
driver Of Spcarfish Canon, S. D., and
friend of President Roosevelt Tor
years. reached Chicago on Thursday
after q two day visit with the Priest
Dent at Oyster Bay. He left for
Dea dwood last night. His name when
ne left Lancaster Ohio. as a boy was
Samuel i. Busbey.
Talk about men not worrying over
their work. said Shutdown today.
the President takes the antelope. i
was with him when it seemed as IL
Russia and Japan were going To get
right at il again and chew up Il thouS-
and more men and gmboats. Worry
him? I guess not. a tinhOrn gamh-
Ter rislling a five cent piece on q turn
of the wheel worries more than
Teddy did over that situation.
HE don't talk politics with his
friends. He said TO me:
BUS" hows the young cattle on
he range this year?'
Never better, water plenty and
grass rich at the roots
Hows the Thompson boys doing
with that irrigation ditch?'
Finding water every time they
put n scoop in
Bully: They're good Americans.
fINer ste cId 3ltS- IteS llOlttS dL ME-
lora?'
"";3out Christmas time ] had the
pleasure of looking under her sun
bonnet. She's smart for her age
Fine Woman-she could make
great biscuits.
'"rhen he sidles around and tells me
we'll take a ride and a swim. And
we did He gave me Il gray horse
that could jump a 500-foot butte, and
we started for a hot twenty miles.
I've rode the range with him, but he's
:: better rider now than ever before.
7 was looking for lines of trouble and
care on MS face, but there wasn't one.
az brought him messages from
about dozen of the boys that used
70 know him. and they were all anxi-
Gus that he shouldn't overwork, but
his face looks like a sunrise on clear
sky. After we had the ride we got
into the water and he struck out like
a fish His muscles are all good. and
he's stronger than a young bull
after we had supper he says to
ne:
"'As recollect, you generally
smoke n pipe, Bus.
"I prefer il when I'm alone says
"'We'l go down under the trees
says he, land you can take pull a.
| it there and tell me how the GrisWolds
are doing with their ranch.
Right down under the trees we
/ went. and | cut my plug and filled the
! bowl, and the President of the Unlteo
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
The South Versus New England.

Twenty years ago the mill centers OF
New England looked with disdain and
suspicion upon the then feeble effort OF
few enferprising Southern men WING were
embarking in the field OF cottoY!tkanu-
featuring in the South. Even ~ own
people regarded it as hazardou hsness
undertaking and one OF yer (oubtful
outcome. To-day not only Fall Ever and
New England, but all the the8orld rec
ognize the South as the mas&$Sf the cot
ton manufacturing situatiqE' Southern
enterprise, Southern ability bid Southern
capital, unwilling to rest vi & their lau-
rels, are now engaging S&cessfully in
large diversified manufactures.
A notable example wN& constitutes
another inroad upon M England
supremacy is the larg Manufacturing
shoe establishment Off paddock
Company, Lynchbure, W
This company, from aa&hall beginning,
has built up the largM manufacturing
and wholesale distribuG shoe business
in the South, and in fs44bne which ranks
in the forefront of thsaXrge shoe manu-
featuring plants OF thHIuntry. 1t is con-
fdently believed thaM cir success in the
manufacture OF shoesE8but the beginning
of larger and better NHhge in this line for
the,South. Why shfSSd it not be? With
Southern plants oS$e most up to-date
equipment with heap, conservative
and homogeneous Mbor, with favorable
climatic condtionss of comfort
able and cheap Ii Wg, the future OF the
South as manufacturing section is with
out rival in aW part OF this great
country. M
The Craddock. Mrry Company travel
thirty.eight sales&an, all OF whom are
gentlemen, no onM OF bStiness ability,
but of high commA cial isegrity, reflect
ing in this respectable pTicy of the COM
pany, whAh is &owf throughout the
length and $sadtMoNth South for lis
honorable, CDR aT Progressive business
methods "'Yf'''' Record
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

TO poverty I'll stoutly cling
With unremitting care,
Tor oh, it is a horrid thing
To be a billionaire.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
ROCKEFELLER WEARS A WIG.
/ 1SberS at Church. Fail to itcrogniIc
Hin,-ASl< Him to Come Again.

(By Telegraph to The Tribune
Cleveland, Sept. 8.--John ID. Rookie
teller appeared at the services of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist church this
morning wearing n wig of steel gray.
which SO changed his appearance that
he ushers took him for a newcomer
md extended an invitation TO attend
services regularly before they recog-
liZed him. Friends said after the ser
vices that they knew no reason why
Mr. Rockefeller began wearing Il wiz.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

Scratch, scratch; unable to attend TO
business during the day or sleep dur
ng the night Itching piles, horrible
plague Doans Ointment cures. Never
,ails. At any drug store, SO cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
\ Youthful Resolve.

/ would not be a bl!ionaire.'
Said little Robert Reed.
TO tempt be let nobody dare"
| wouldn't. No, indeed.
They'd watch mo when at early morn
| walked amid the dew.
They'd criticise with cruel scorn
My clothing, old and new.
If ! should hoard my wealth they d
blame
My avarice each day,
And they would chide me, just the
same
For giving it away.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

Don't delay a minute. Cholera in
tantum dysentery, diarrhoea come
suddenly. Only safe plan is to have
Dr.. Fowler's Extra.t of Wild Straw
Dcry always on hand.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

A little life may be sacrificed to a
sudden attack of Group if you don't
have DIR. Thomas Electric Oil on hand
FOR the emergency.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10
LADIES.

When in need. send for free
trial of our neVerfalllng
remedy. Relief quick and
safe. Paris Chemical Co..
Milwaukee. Wis
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-10

Bad blood and indigestion are deadly
enemies to good health. Burdock
Blood Bitters destroys them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24

plains in one breath against the Taft
order and in another breath declares
that "the country would rather pay
little more for something that was
made at home" Ii the Ohio Con-
gresham believed his own words he
would not worry about the Panama
order. If the people really preferred
to pay more for something made
at home they would do so whether
there was a protective tariff or not.
No Dingleyite would then be con-
cerned as to where the Government
bought its Panama materials, unless
he happened to loose a contract to a
foreign competitor. 1t is the fact
that the people do not prefer to pay
extortionate prices for things made
at home which worries the extreme
protectionists. They seein the ac-
ton Of President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary Taft new encouragement for
the revisionists, and they are right.
The Panama order is the hardest
blow dealt to Dingleism since Plesi-
dent McKinley's Buffalo speech. :
New York World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
Corporation Traitors.

Under the above headline the
New York World attacks the pub
lie service corporations in language
far more radical and inAamatory
than anything ever uttered by Mr..
Bryan. 1t concludes a double
loaded editorial nearly a column
long in these words:
IF the men who control those
corporations are determined to drive
the country to socialism, with a
prelude, perhaps, of riot and anar-
chy, they are proceeding in the
most expeditions manner. The
American people are patient and
leng=suffering, but if the issue must
be met as to whether the public
service corporations are to own the
government or the government the
corporations, there can be no doubt
as to the result. The public will
not remain forever the passive vic
tim of its incorporated anarchists
and traitors"
The World seems to be striking
in the right direction just now, but
very many will recall how it barkec
with these anarchists and traitors
when under the leadership of MARI
Hanna they were contributing theil
millions to prevent the election O.
w. j. Bryan.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
The Chicago Strike.

Naturally our sympathies are
with the men who toll with their
hands, but labor organizations be-
fore they vote to strike should be
quite certain that they have reason
and justice on their side. Strikes
are public calamites, and unless Or
ganized labor can justify its course
at the bar of public opinion organ
lied labor will soon be a thing of
the past. AS we understand condi-
tons in Chicago the teamsters'
strike is an exceedingly question
able affair on the part Of the team
sters. They have absolutely no
cause for complaint on their part.
They are the best paid class of
laborers in the city, and want it
understood that their employers
have always treated them we'll. But
eighteen tailors in a department
store had quarrel with their en-
ployers, and the teamsters are in
dulging in a sympathetic strike fo1
the supposed benefit Of the tailors
Union labor must not go too far OF
it will forfeit all claims upon the
public for sympathy and assistance
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
The Tariff Barons Try to Hold Up
Uncle Sam.

Roosevelt and Taft are both in
favor of purchasing what is needed
in the construction of the Panama
canal where it can be purchased for
the least money. To the average
citizen that will appear right and
proper, but their track is by no
means clear. The high tariff barons,
who for many years have obliged the
people of this country to pay tribute,
do not intend to let Uncle Sam es-
cape. Roosevelt knows how western
road agents held up the stage coach
es in early times, and he will recog-
nize one Of that class at first sight.
He knows that many of our tariff
schedules are mess of clotted av-
arice and injustice. Years ago they
ceased to produce revenue, because
of their prohibitive features, and their
bene6ciaries have no just claims up
on this government or its people
and Roosevelt is too much of dem.
ocrat to allow them to dictate to him
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
RACE war Is runEArENED
Negroes and Whites Mix Up in Shooting
Two Fatal Encounters.

Negroes and Whites Mix Up in Shooting
Two Fatal Encounters.
A third riot broke out in the same
neighborhood when negro named
James Gray was killed by white bar
keeper named Harry Bernstein. Gray
and Bernstein and a friend of the lat
ter were arguing the strike question,
Gray being working tcamster, and all
got angry. Then Gray drew knife
and attacked his two antagonists,
whether with provocation the story
does not say. Bernstein drew u pistol
and killed Gray and says he did it in
self-defense. Later Patrolman Tins
ley, colorcd, came up and Bernstein,
Tinsley says, shot twice at him. Tins.
ley then drew his gun and shot Bern
stein fatally.
Tinsley got Bernstein's body into a
saloon and mob of negroes not know
Ing that bernstein was shot, beseiged
the saloon, crying forvcngcancc for the
killing Of Gray. Tinsley barricaded
the saloOnand the mob riddled the Win
dows with bricks and stones. A patrol
wagon finally arrived and the mob was
driven back. To calm the mob the po-
lice then gave out that Bernstein had
been killed, and showed his body, COW
cred with Il sheet to the mob. The
mob then dispersed.
Another exhibition of the feeling
existing between the whites and the
blacks was given when Charles Poske
was shot III the shoulder by colored
man Mt whom he had been shooting
during n disturbance at Twenty-third
street and Stewart avenue. Poslic is
Waterman in coal yard, and it is as
serted by him that several negroes
started Quarreled with him and tried
10 kiii him a-------=-----
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24

groes OH their way home from work
MS drivers for the Peabody Coal com
pany. One of the leaders of this mob
was Bernard Engstrand, a union ma
chinist. He was shot and fatally
wounded by one of the negroes.
Others injured in the riot were John
Williams, negro, non-union- teamster
from Kansas City; George Williams,
negro, non-union teamster; Peter No.
Ian, policeman.
This riot occurred Mt Twenty-sixth
street and Princeton avenue. George
and John Williams, non-union team.
sters at the Peabody yards, were on
their way home when they were at
tackled. The crowd surrounded them,
knocking the negroes down, and kick.
ing them about the body. George VIII.
Jams then drew knife and threat.
ened to kill any person who came near
him. His brother John drew revolv-
er and was holding back crowd of
pursuers.
Again the crowd closed in on the
negroes and the fight became general
when Officer Nolan appeared. With
drawn club he ordered the crowd to
disperse, but was knocked down. AT
the same time four shots We're fired
and Engstrand fell TO the ground. In
the meantime riot call had been sent
In and patrol wagon loaded with Of
ficers was sent to the scene. The Will
Jams brothers We're taken to the sta
tion house and held as prisoners. 1t
is not known that any of the rioters
were arrested.
Another riot occurred short time
later ut Thirty-frst and I.aSallc streets.
William Green and Charles Allison, ne
groes, were knocked down, kicked and
beaten. A riot call brought the po-
lice and the crowd was dispersed after
tho negroes had been terribly beaten.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
Train Dispatcher Killed and Several
buildings Damagcd-Wires
Arc Down.

Fort Worth, Tex. May pa heavy
windstorm, blowing at the rate Of sev.
onty miles an hour, struck this city
from the southwest at G:30 p. M. Part
of the west wall of the Texas and
Pacific passenger station was blown
in and John Young, train dispatcher,
was killed. The African Methodist
Episcopal church was demolished and
many business buildings lost their
roofs. including the First National
bank building.
The town of Mineral Springs is re-
ported partly blown away and two
churches at Oakcliff, suburb of Dal.
lac, are said to have been destroyed.
All telephone and telegraph wires west
Of this city are down.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
HIRAM cnoNn, VETERAN OF 1919.

Cypress Hill cemetery with impressive
military honors. Nearly three score
other soldiers who fought in the war
of almost century ago had lain for
many years in the ccmetcr. where
this Oldest conrade was placed Since
it was brought from Boonvillc the
body of the veteran soldier lay in state
In the city hall. where it was viewed
by many thousands. One hundred and
fifty policemen We're required to keep
the crowd moving and to keep clea1
the plaza in front of the building.
From the city hall to the cemetery
the body was escorted by detail OF
mounted police, Fourteenth regiment
and troop from the Second brigade
N. e.. N. y, delegations from U. S
Grant post, G. A. r., and from tho
veteran corps of the war of 1872 and
carriages containing relatives of the
dead soldier and committee from
the board Of aldermen representing the
civ
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
GAS GRAB PASSES
AT PHILADELPHIA
Final Vote Taken with Police Re.
serves Holding Citizens Back
with Kevoivers.

Philadelphia, May 2O.-With 2.OU
angry citizens carrying a hundred
hangman's ropes erowding the gal
leries and corridors of the city hall
the city council leased the Philadelphia
gas works to the United Gas Improve
ment company for term of seventy
five years. The final vote was taker
with police reserves holding the citi
Zens back with drawn revolvers to pre-
vent them from invading the council
chamber.
Every alderman who voted for tht
lease had TO be protected from mob:
by the police after the council nd
jourhed. Threats of lynching the nj
dermen are heard. Some even declare
that only two good leaders are needed
to induce the people to take in theil
own hands the punishment of thu
councilmen who voted for what IL
openly declared the "blackcst crime
ever perpetratcd In Philadelphia"
The COMMITTEE of nine" has calico
for great assemblage of citizens I,
black the final attempt to "colnplet,
the conspiracy" after the mayors veto
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
INDEPENDENCE DAY In CUBA
Cannon Boom. in It. Celebration L.bor.
ale After tho Plat Rcsolution-
Want II Keyined.

Havana. May 90. : Independence
day WAS usllercd in this morning With
the booming of cannon. the glare OF
rockets and the sounding of many
steam whistles.
The national convention of Liberals
has finished It's discussion and adopt.
cd platform. the principal features
Of which are revision OF the Plat
amendment whenever opportunity OF.
fers; discontiruance of the department
Of Justice: judicial functionnros TO be
responsible only to judicial tribunals;
immediate payment of the balance due
revolutionary veterans; road and har-
Dor improvements: adoption Of a ma
tional coinage founded on the gold
standard: arbitration of differences be-
tween employers and workingmen.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24

st. Louis, May 1S.-Thc report of
the committee recommending perma-
nent organization was adopted Sec
ton by section by the joint conven.
tion OF northern and southern Baptlsts
and the result is united church. The
name of the organization is designated
Us the General Convention of Bnptists
Of North America" The geographical!
scope Of the organization is to be North
America and its islands.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-24
TelegrapI,ic Reports ofImportant
Events Occurring During
Past Few Days.
MAIN HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK
Items of Special Interest Caught from
the Wires and Prepared for
Our Headers.

Sioux City, Ia, May 19.-President
Theodore Roosevelt and the house OF
representatives We're heartily COM
mended for their efforts to curb the
trusts and corporations by the sixth
annual session of Iowa Congregation
al churches and ministers in session
here, but the United States senate was
Intentionally omitted from the resolu-
ton. There was no dissenting voice
when the vote was taken. John d.
Rockefeller and his gift of SlOO,OOO
will not be discussed Mt this session OF
the ministers. Many expressed them
selves as Disguised with the question
and With the discussion.