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THURSDA/. AUGUST 8. 1899.
Wants to Read Reform
Papers.
We reoeived a letter this week from a
very intelligent la.ly of Oconee county
requesting us to send her a copy of this
week’s paper, saying she had not seen a
reform paper this year and wanted to
subscribe for The Economist. She al
go asked us to send a sample copy to her
brother in Green county who wants to
read a reform paper. We mail sample
copies to both this week aud hope they
will both send us some subscribers.
The person who fails to read a reform
paper is ignorant of what is really going
on in the political world, as the old party
press keep back the things the people
ought to know. The inau who is really
opposed to bettering the condition of
humauity ought to take a reform paper
for his own enlightenment and to keep
posted as to what is going on. And the
reformer who doos net taka a reform
paper can never liepe to see reform suc
ceed beoaus3 ha is helping to keep it
b .ok by not supporting reform papers
the greatest agencies we have to accom
plish its suooess. It is a good sigu, how
ever, to see people becoming aroused
on this line and wanting to read
rforin papers.
If you roally believe your principles are
right aud jast it is your duty to get
every mau aud wouitn you oan to take
a reform paper. New think about this
a few minutes aud see if you can’t do
something on this line. Wo do not
make this assertion from any selfish
motive. It benefits you aud the cause
you espouse more thau it it does us.
Christianity has suffered more from
unjust legislation—legislation benefit
ting the c'asses and impoverishing the
masses, than frcm all other agencies.
It is an uphill busiuess preaching sal
vation to a mail when the laws are al
lowing him to be robbed of his labor
and ho sees poverty aud slavery staring
him iu the facs. This is a serious ques
tion for the religion world to consid
er, but one that demauds considera
tion.
If there is any thing iu this world
outside of the religiou of Jesus Christ
that we want to see succeed, it is the
principles advocated by the Populist
party. We as firmly believe as we do
there is a God, that if these principles
could be euaoted into law there would
be millions of people iu this oouutry
made happy and prosperous who now
see very little in the future to brighten
their pathway. No one but an ignor
amus or natural born fool would make
the charge, from the above assertion,
that we expect or advocate 40 aores and
a mule being given every man woman
and child by the government. Politi
cians in the old parties have fouud men
who were wedded to party and who
were simpletons enough to swallow such
rot preached to them. We believe that
if our principles were enacted into law
there would be a chance for individual
effort and that opportunities would then
be offered to every man who wanted to
de something in the world. Under the
present laws, enacted by the two old
parties, there are no opportunities offer
ed for individual effort and the man
without money or moneyed influences
is powerless to ocoomplish much, and
at is a scuthi with th) large majority to
half live.
“NO COMPROMISE
WITH BRYANISM.”
“No compromise with Bryanism,
which stands for political vagabondage
and Ishmaelitism.”
This is the pronuciamento of the
Cleveland wing of the Democratic par
ty according to the statement made by
James H. Eckels, who was Comptroller
of the Currency during Cleveland’s sec
ond term.
Mr. Eckels, who is at the Holland
House, said to a World reporter last
night:
“The condition of the Democratic
party is such that every one who has
ever had any interest in its well being
must wish for a complete change in its
leadership and policy. Ido not believe
any considerable number of Democrats
who left the party in 1896 will accept a
Democracy n n w that they repudiated
then.
“The difficulty then was in both men
and principles. That difficulty still ex
ists, only made more pronounced by the
tilings which have been said aud done
by Mr. Bryan and his followers.
THE CHICAGO MEETING.
“The entire lack of unity upon even
the issues the Bryauized Democracy
stands for was never better illustrated
than at the rocent gathering at Chicago.
That meeting developed no purpose or
plau save the purpose aud plan to still
more and more eliminate character and
business ability from Democracy.
“Nothing is to be gained by Demo
crats who remained with the party, de
spite their disbelief in its leaders and
platform, keeping quiet. They were
regular, and as such are legitimate coun
sellors for party action, aud have a right
to be heard.
“I no'ice frequent suggestions of con
ferences being held by these regular
anti-silver Democrats to try to find some
way of compromising existing differ
ences in the party. My judgment is that
they could accomplish more by steady
and systematic work within the party,
apart from any compromise, with the
purpose of getting the rank and file
properly informed as to the weakness of
those who now lead them.
“The excuse the Southern leaders
have given for their course is that it was
necessary in order to keep their States
from the Populists. They have suc
ceeded in doing so by making the
whole party Populists.
SAYS NEW MANAGEMENT IS NEEDED.
"The trust issue cannot be substituted
for the silver with any effect under the
same party management, for no one be
lieves iu the management or is willing
to trust it with power. It can gain
nothing from anti-expansion talk be
cause, for the'sake of preventing unde
sirable foreign territory and peoples
being attached to this country, the
voters will not to run the risk of turn
ing over the care of important domestic
affairs to the party.
"It is possible that after Mr. Bryan’s
utter defeat aud rout ;iu l&OO, protests
from the rank and file, which cannot
now find voice, will be heeded.
"With a united party, unr'er a strong,
honest, conservative leadership, advo
cating true Democratic principles, the
Democratic ’party should win iu the
coming election. As it now stands,
with its avowed purpose of contesting
for the things advocated in 1890 and the
same Presidential candidate, it is al
ready beaten.”
The above from the New York world
is interesting reading and clearly shows
the condition of the Democratic party
and that there is no ohance of recousilia
tiou unless Southern aud Western de
mocracy unqualifiedly yield aud sub
mit to the diotates of the East. Pop
ulists have olaimed all along that there
was no hope for the people through the
democratic party as it wonld always be
dominated by the East.
It is a mystery, hard to unravel, why
men of intelligence and men
who are opposed to class
legislation and to being rnied by Wall
street, will oontinne to follow such a
party. If such men would only think a
little for themselves and act with some
indepen ieuoe, they would soon see that
their own personal interest and that of
the masses demanded a change and
they would forsake party aud ding to
their principles. There is no hope for
better times through the Democratic
party.
The people are begining to think
again and when a man thinks intelli
gently he is forced to be a populist. He
just can’t help it —it comes as a natur
al oonsequence,
Watson on Populism.
In one of his recent speeches Hon.
Thomas E. Watson paid the following
eloquent tribute to the old Greenbackers
and their populist successors:
“At last some of the people realize
what was going ou. The Greenbacker
arose and appealed to the nation. His
voice arrested attention. His challenge
to debate could not be met. His was
the triple armor of the champion whose
quarrel is just. Therefore he was de
nied a hearing, Politicians reviled him,
slandered him, lied about him in the
canvass, cheated him at the polls. The
paid newspapers covered him with abuse
and ridicule. The very people he
was fightidg for were made to hate
him.
“Yet truth being mighty, he continu
ued to wax 3trong. Force could not
crush him, aud they resorted to fraud
and deceit. The two great political par
ties whose class legislation had cursed
the land, pretended to be sorry, promis
in the platforms to be better Greenback
ers than the Greenbackers themselves,
and some of the Greenback leaders were
taken up to the top of a small potato
hill aud shown a mangy little office
aud the contemptible was greatly tempt
ed.
“Purer motives, nobler aims, never
thrilled a people than those which
moved the men aud woman who organ
ized the Poople’s Party. Ridiculed,
abused, slandered, yet they fought on,
and we was growing as the storm grows.
We could not be met in debate. Our
case was too plain, our roots too positive.
Newspapers had to close their columns
to us. The editor gave his readers slan
ders— not arguments. The politicians
gave the people falshoods—not reason.
They could howl us down, they could
count us out, but they could not meet
us in fair debate, and they had sense
enough to know it.
“We found the tree of human liberty
planted here when we came iuto the
world; let us see to it that we leave it
standing. We found the sacred torch
of freedom burning; let us keep it lit
and pass ou. Let the sower die it must
be so; but let him scatter good then
leave the harvest te time and to
God.
“As firmly as if my feet were ou the
rocks I believe in the final triumph of
right—believe that justice will yet rule
the world, believe that the white banner
of universal peace shall supplant the
blood red flags of war. Parties may
ocme and go, force and fraud may yet
rule the day, but yet aud ever yet. I
believe that right shall yet sit ou the
throne of the world, and rule the hearts
of all men.
“The clouds gather, I know, and the
storm and darkness come upon the laud.
The weaklings perish; the birds of the
day may fall and flutter and die. But
the eagle, he of the ages, strong of wing
and dauntless of heart, rises against the
storm, and bears his way through aud
beyond it, aud gives fierce cry of joy
as he baths his wings in the sunlight
above the cloud. ■ *
“ O spirit of populism, be though the
eagle— to rise against the darkness and
3torm,and live in the sunlight beyond
where the tempest is past aud gone.—
Ex.
A Strong Bill of Indict
ment.
Moruiug Post.
Things certainly must be in a mess
over in Kentucky as the outcome of the
recent Democratic convention of that
State, if the following from a "regular
parly paper” is at all indicative. The
Mercury, published atCarlise, that State
says:
"The Mercury, as has been its custom
for thirty odd years, places the Demo
cratic tioket at the head of its columns
and shall give it the best support it can
under the circumstauoes. Iu urging
the Democrats of Nioholas to ‘rally
round the flag, boys,’ we know we are
oommiting a sin against all decency
aud honor, yet our loyalty to the De
mocratic party impels ns to submit to
the edicts of the convention * even when
we know that fraud, lying aud treach
ery were used lavishly to accomplish
the end reached at Louisville last
week.
"Faithfnl Democrats cannot stop to
question that methods of managers is
not reserved to the common folks. It
is enough for the ordinary plug of the
country to know that the thing has been
done, and it is his duty to submit, and
join with our new State Organ—the
Courier Journal-in shouting ‘Hail to the
King!’
"Let every Democrat who belives in
fraud and every other form of vice in
politics join with ns in giving the ticket
a hearty support.”
Could a stronger bill of indiotment be
drawn against a party?
A Faltering But Fatal
“First Step.”
Mr. McKinley announces officially
through Secretary Hay that he has in
structed the Americau Minister at
Peking—
“To use his good offices in all proper
ways in behalf of the American-China
Development company and to prevent
spoliation or injury to its interests ”
That is to say, Mr. McKinley informs
the American people that, a syndicate
of his compaign contributors and sup
porters having got from corrupt Chinese
officials an as yet undeveloped conces
siou transferring soveieignty over part
of the Chinese Empire from China to
these monopolistic syndicators, he as
President of the United States purposes
to interfere and to prevent China from
refusing to carry out the unjust aud
immoral contract.
The qualifying phrase ‘in all proper
ways” is not of the slightest value.
There can be no “proper ways” in
which the United States may interfere
to prevent a foreign state from exercis
ing a fundamental right of sovereignty.
And what could be a more fundamental
right of sovereignty than the right of a
state to prevent the extinction of its sov
ereignty over a part of its own territory
and people?
Mr. McKinley is hesitatingly but
none the less certainly taking the fatal
“first step.’’ He is preparing to hand
over a part of the Chinese Empire not
to American control bat the control of
a monopoly. He is clearing the way
for the use of American soldiers and
American revenues, the blood and
money of the plain American people, in
enforcing monopolistic oppressions.
He has started upon a course that must
in the end force the United States into
a war not for American trade in China
but for the maintenance of the tolls and
exactions of a monopoly.
The World has thus far been the only
organ of public opinion to call attention
to the inevitable, the unescapable con
sequences of Mr. McKiuley’s faltering
but fatal “first step.”
Is this precedent to be established
without general protest?
Since its foundation this Government
of, for and by the Amerioan people has
steadfastly refused to recognize or in
any way whatsoever to promote or pro
tect foreigu "concessions.” The rea
sons are obvious. A democratic republic
cauuot admiuister the internal affairs
of a foreigu nation and cannot set up
protectorates over subject peoples with
out undermining and corrupting its own
foundations.
Mr. McKiuley is reversing this sound
policy. He is usurping imperial func
tions. Aud that too in behalf of mono
poly and in defense of a corrupt con
tract.—New York World.
Was Abraham Lincoln an
Enloe?
We have read with much pleasure the
little book of Mr. James H. Cathey, of
Bryson City, N. C., upon the real pa
rentage of the "wonderful man” known
in American history as Abraham Lin
coln, one of the most extraordinary
characters in all history, a singularly
great man with a most strange event
ful and tragic history. Mr. Cathey es
says to establish that President Lincoln
was of illegitimate birth, and he proves
his case. If Abraham Lincoln were
living, and on trial for his life, and the
evidence against him was one-fourth as
cumulative, circumstantial, positive
and fnll as that educed to prove that
Abraham Enloe was his real father he
would have to die. Mr. Cathey estab
lishes that Lincoln was born in North
Carolina, that he was the son of Abra
ham Enloe, and that his mother was
Nancy Hanks, an orphan girl living for
many years in Enloe’s family. The
witnesses introduced are numerous,
highly reputable and well informed. If
a man reads without a theory to sus
tain or a purpose to reject he will be
convinced that Lincoln’s name should
be Enloe, and because of his actnal
father. We do not go into a statement
of the main evidence as that would re
quire much space. We merely wish to
bear witness to the uncommon interest
of the book, and, as we believe the con
clnsiveness of the contention as to the
‘‘genesis” of the great man who bore
the name of Lincoln. He did not have
a diop of blood of a Lincoln in his
veins, Physically, mentally and intel
lectually he was an Enloe. The real
father was as superior to the fellow
Thomas Lincoln, who is the supposed
father up north, as a strong man is su
perior to a weak one. Abraham Enloe
was over six feet high, massive, intel
lectual, wise, kindly, manly. He was
not a native of North Carolina, but was
born in South Carolina,
nectedwith the influential f J"* 00 *
that name in our sister g t at 51
mother, Nancy Hanks, was"r,rl‘ Hi<
North Caro ioa girl, but that is
itively known. She may hav k
born in Kentucky and c *m a
youth to North Carolina, if “ et
Lincoln’s parents were not of thil
by nativity, bat he was. S
The North worships the g rea t
and will always believe that he Wa ***’
son of a very commonplace, i nfer . 6
character by the name of Lincoln
will reject all evidence aud like Em ‘
of tld will cling to its ignorance 2
idolatry. If you would learn all a >
who Abraham Lincoln, bomEuloe 21
read Mr. Cathey’s most convincing
conclusive book. Mr. Lincoln evid e •
ly knew who his father was. 2
North spurned the strong book of p/
Dr. Weston’s on Marshal Ney lj T /'
and dying in North Caroline,
never answered the circumstantial aa(i
positive evidence to establish it [,
took it out in repudiating and scoffing
That is the easiest way to avoid w
swering the unanswerable. But
spite of all jeers and scoffs Marshal Key
died in North Carolina and Abraham
Lincoln was born in North Carolina and
was the son of Abraham Enloe. The
reader cannot possibly imagine how
satisfactorily Mr. Cathey’s argument is
until he reads it with care.
The book as a whole is well written.
The introduction is excellent, and the
chapter on Abraham Lincoln is master,
ly. The portrait of that great man is
drawn with a steady hand, with much
vigor, and with real insight. The book
has many portraits of the Enloes and
two of Lincoln. The price is HO cent",
Write to the author, James H. Cathe,
Bryson City, for a copy.— Willmington
Messenger.
“Heart Trouble.”
In their way of living and way of dy
ing Ingersoll and Roswell P. Flora
were typical of a very large class. Both
led sedentary lives. Both had a great
deal of superfluous flesh. Both had
large appetites and apparently superb
digestions. Both died of "heart troub
le.”
Almost invariably in mm of this sort
"heart trouble” means simply stomacl
trouble, the result of indifference to or
unbelief in the simple laws as to eating
and drinking.
The fallacy that “nature knows whit
she wants, and by giving a man a huge
appetite signifies that he must eat huge
ly,” numbers its victims by the tens of
thousands. Living up to this fallacy
produces what appears to be and in
some cases may be heart trouble. Then
the man with the big appetite attribut
es all his sufferings from indulgencyin
food and drink not to his "robust appe
tite” but to his "weak heart.” He takes
care of his heart, but continues to over
load his stomache. And if anyone, even
his physician, tries to warn him against
indulgence of his "hearty, healthy ap
petete,” he laughs or gets angry.
It takes little food to provide all the
nourishment the body needs. All but
that little is superfluity, and man musi
constantly guard against the tendency
to increase this superfluity. Whenaga
approaches the amount of nourishment
necessary tends to decrease. Hence
these untimely deaths of men in
their physical and mental prime.
Always leave the tabls hungry. And
when you do not feel well do not eat a*
all—Ex.
Ten wise Maxims.
1. Never put off till tomorrow w 3il
you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what y -
can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money b* or ‘
you have it. .
4. Never buy what you don t
because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hung?
thirst, or cold.
6. We seldon repent of having
100 Uttle ’ we* 1
7. Nothing is troublesome thtf *
willingly. hlTe
8. How much pain the Tl
cost us that have never happen .
9. Take things always by the?®
handle.
10. When angry, count ten
you speak, if very angry. *
dred.
fa *o#*
A girl is alright until she ? e
anish and a woman is alright nn
gets girlish.
One of the worst blows to ?r- G #li
is inflicted by telling a friend * 3
sick all night, that he looks we