The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-15
NO DOUBLING UP
IN THIS STATE
Tobacco Business Justi-
flies Two Districts
MAY AS WELL END 1T

Results In View OF Judge
Pritchard's Decision Viz
tuaIly Denying IA Look
at the Books.
By THOMAS j. PENCE
Washington. D. G. Oct 1.-THE
idea prevails in some quarters hat
the two internal revenue districts IN
North Carolina may be consolidated
as the result or the growing temper
ance wave, which promises 70 reduce
the revenue derived BY the federal
government from the whisk ey traffic
10 practically nothing. Commission
err or Internal Revenue Capers Is
authority for the statement that 70
such action Is contemplated.
Both the North Carolina districts
derive enough revenue from tobacco
taxation TO more than justify the con-
~inuancc of both offices. The same
thing applies TO the Virginia districts.
In Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
and Oklahoma the situation IS differ
ent. Collection districts in these
States are almost wholly dependent
upon the whiskey tax and the growth
of the temperance sentiment IS like
" 70 result ir the adjustment OF
the collection districts in all of those
States.
Pritchard's Decision Disappointing.
Judge Tritchard's action in DENYING
counsel for the State in the ate case
the right to inspect the books OF the
Southern for more than two year Is
a disappointment to those who a
followed the hearings before Standing
Master Montgomery in this city.
The investigation OF the books
mieht as well be brought to an end
for it Is in testimony by officials Of
the Southern that it viii require from
six months to eight years to secure the
other information desired which the
experts for the State declared was es@
sential to the preparation Of the case
Of the defendants. The States at
torneys believed that if the Southern
employed "a yellow dog" fund in the
operation of the road. which was
charged to operating expenses, the
fact should be known. Failure to
disclose such a fund could not have
nurt the Southern. Judge Pritchard's
action has made such an investigation
impossible.
Comment is made here on the diff
ference in the conduct of the Standard
Oil case and the North Carolina rate
case has permitted a full and free in
pointed q referee in the Standard Oil
case has permitted a ull and free in
v~estigatiou of that corporations
books, and matters of record of TWEEN
ty years ago are being put in the
record. Likewise the public utilities
commission in New York is going into
the records Of the traction companies
torneys for the State will make known
to the Supreme Court of the United
States the act that they were de-
MED a full investigation Of the books,
but that does not help their case at
the present time.
Republican State Chairman spencer
B. Adams and ]. j. Britt, of ASheville,
are here They argued the case of
2. F. Thrash. a distiller of Asheville.
who was assessed thirty thousand dol
lars for violation of internal revenue
regulations before Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Capers.
Republican Congressional Campaign.
Now. will they be able to do it,"
is the question which the wondering
politician Immediately puts to himself
upon learning he astounding news
that for a WnOle year before the bat
tie begins, the Republican Congress
sional Committee will set UP perma-
nent shop in luxurious style in Wash
ington, from which they propose to
burn up ammunition from now until
election day in a determined effort to
prevent the control of Congress from
falling into the hands of the Demo-
Gratis.
How are they going to do it," asks
Sidney Bieber, former collector for the
Congressional Committee, whose
scheme to get from each of the so, 900
department clerks a campaign contri-
button during the recent Congressional
elections, was nipped in time by the
Civil Service Commission.
How are they going to do it? Won
ders the corporation whose
tainted money. judging from the vir-
uOu protestations of the administra-
ton, shall never again soil the immac-
ulate lining of the Republican Cam
paign Committees strong box. 1t vas
truly a great day in the land when
the Republican conscience broke its
hibernation and proclaimed thai On
the new leaf which it has turned there
will be no campaign honor roll head
ed by trust magnates and tariff baronS
and tapered off by the paltry offerings
of an enthusiastic ommon people.
With the highway to the political
help-your-self fund thus barred by
g~randStand renunciatiOn and public
vigilance the wonder grows how the
Committee Will be able to keep up an
organized fight a whole year before
the general engagement begins. unless
some Lemuel Eli Quigg has establish
ed underground connection between
the Committee and the yellow dog
kennels of the great metropolis.
There is an intimation that Uncle
Sam is going to help finance the Re
publican Congressional campaign. in
directly. of course, for an unnamed
Republican leader discussing the mat
ter asserts that those who have bee
loyal to Uncle Joe and the powers that
a helping hand
While it is conceded that such help
here limited at would be Of material
benefit, it does not explain how the
Committee will be able to launch into
a long drawn out and expensive Con-
gressional campaign If the public pro-
LESSONS of the party. its chief and its
leaders for civic Righteousness and
purity in politics are to be lived up
to in all sincerity. And thus the Won
DER grows How are they going to do
it,"