The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-09-17
ESTABLISHED 1881.
THE GOLD LEAF FOR SALE.

HE GULU LEAf FUN DALI.
We offer this paper, outfit and
good wiIl-everything and appurte-
nances thereto belonging-fOr sale.
Reasons therefor abundant and sat
isfactOry-tO Ourself.
We have enough-not of this
worlds goods, but of experience
after 2G years OF continuous service.
We are simply tired OF the ceaseless
grind and work and worry-that dis
tracts if it does not kill. Life is too
short and the game is not worth the
candle-tO US.
We want to quito save ourself
from being driven to drink mad
desperation or forced into an un-
timely grave or the lunatic asylum
either of which would be prefer
able to contending with unreliable
and incompetent help and perverse
d-n fools.
A bargain may be had by some
body who wants to engage in the
newspaper business in a good town.
Hos. John W. Kern, Democratic
nominee for Vice President, will visit
North Carolina and speak at Win
stOn-Salem October It'll, during Pied
mont Fair week.
THE Statesville Landmark now
comes to US in eight-page form. We
like the change because there is more
Of it-a bigger paper. And there
cannot be too much of Il good thing
like the Statesvile Landmark.
The schools throughout the State
opened with good enrollments. The
attendance at the A. & NJ. College is
somewhat smaller than last session,
but with this exception all the other
institutions opened with an average
TIE Republicans of New York have
nominated Gov Hughes to succeed
himself, and the Democrats have
chosen Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler to
oppose him. Chanler is the present
lieutenant governor being the only
Democrat elected on the State ticket
at the last election.
The bigger the offense the less
the effort to bring the offender
into court, and the smaller the pun
ishment, after he is brought there If
murder is committed or the life of
a person is attempted the guilty
party is not near SO apt to be appre-
hended and punished in proportion
to his offending as the sinner who
gets drunk or the poor devil who
rObs hen rOOst.
The Negro Baptist Association of
Iowa and Nebraska condemn the &C
ton OF Highland Park college, of
Des Moines, Iowa, in drawing the
color line and excluding negroes from
the institution, declaring it is the
greatest setback the race has had in
Iowa. And yet the negroes say they do
not want social equality Then why
do they insist upon thrusting them
selves among white people in hotels,
schools, and public conveyances-
where such thing is permitted-if it
Is not social equality that they
want? And why do they object to
the Jim crow car if they do not want
social equality?
RINGLING S circus wanted to in
clude Charlotte III its North Carolina
dates-Only two or three in the State,
we belleve-but the excessively high
license tax was about to keep them
out. Finally the city aldermen got
together and reduced the city license.
The high State and county license
imposed upon circuses, to say moth
ing about municipal license, moves
the Charlotte Observer to say this:
1t is wrong and cruelty to the
people to fix the license tax on cir
cuses so high as to exclude them from
community. They afford the best
amusement that is available, when
available at all, to the mass of the
people, who have too few means oil
enjoyment. OF this one they should
not be Arbitrarily deprived.
There is Il remedy. Let the voters
refuse to support any man for the
LEGISLATURE who does not favor re.
dncing the license tax on circuses and
giving the country people a chance.
The city man has the theatre and
other kinds OF amusement and diver.
slOn-nOt so with the country man
The circus is the country peoples
theatre-and as the Observer saws it
Is wrong and cruelty to put the Ii
cense on circuses so high as to eX
clutie them from Il community.
POISONED WHISKEY.
DIR. Wiley. the wizard at tho hoo