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Local Telephone No. 26.
SEPTEMBER 26,1900.
Last Monday Mark Hantia, boss
of the Republican.* party and defender
of imperialism and trusts,
gavo a banquet at the Union
League Club, Chicago, to a party
of gentlemen, whoso combined
weallli aggregated $125,000,000.
On the same day 125,000 Penn- j
sylvania conl miners laid down ,
their picks and shovels because
the coal trust refused them living !
wages.
At the Union League Club ban I
nnot oivon l?v Tfn?,,in din
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coat 515 each. The wines were;
contly beyond the dreams of Lucnllus.
The rapped miners fed tlieir wan
faced babeB that day on black
crusts nnd water.
Murk Hanna depicted to his
niillionairo guests the prosperity
that had been thrust upon them
by McKinley and himself, and demanded
a lordly contribution from
them wherewith to "porpetuate1
ill.) nmennf nrlmii?!e(i<nii/?n ^
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On the same day the hard coal 1
trust raised the price of its pro-!
duct one dollar a ton. The pro- j
?ccds of this robbery is expected
to buy the election of William
McKinley.
In the meantime 250,000 men,
women, and children are left to
stnrve by the coal barons, while
Haana brutally declares there are1
no trusts and that everybody has a |
full dinner pail.
Tho miners grievances have been
of long standing. For years the
average wages have been less than
80 cents a day. While trusts have,
forced miners to pay an increase
from 15 to 45 per cent for food and
clothing the wage scale has remained
the same. The miner was
compelled to pny $2.75 per keg for
powder, which cost the conl trust
$1.00 ft keg, The miner was compelled
to dig 3,560 pounds of coal
for n ton, nnd was also compelled
to purchase his supplies at a company
store at trust prices.
The situation in the mines is
perhaps best, described by James
Creclmflij, who is making a personal
ir vestigatioD of the canses .hat
led to the present strike. As Mr. I
Creelmnn says, the American pi.hlic
should understand the situation:
"For a number of days," says
Mr. Creelman, "I have boon wandering
from shanty to shanty in
the dreary anthracite coal settlements
gathering from the miners
and their wives the actual fact3 of
the situation.
MNo exaggeration is necessary to
this story of patient suffering, for
tho most moderate statement of
truth is enough to damn the industrial
system which lias darkened
tho homes and blighted tho lives
of something liko a million men, (
women, and children.
"One does not have to be n political
economist to understand the
nature of this struggle for life. |
The humblest man in the country
is canablo of nointimr out thn n>al
seat of responsibility.
"Tho miners of the nnthraeito ;
coal regions are striking because '
the trusts have so raised the cost
of living that the men can not support
life on their wages. This
great multitude of toilers deserves
the sympathy and support of every
good mail or woman in the 1'nited j
States.
' Nearly every Republican news-}
paper has given evidence of the
coldness with which the trusts and
their allies have met the desperate
protest and appeal of tho mine
workers. Tho cruelost element in
the whole scene is the light tone
of scorn adopted by the organs of
the coal trust.
"Three days ago we were in McAdoo
and toero we ate with t''ot
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miners iu their houses; end such
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pitiful sheltera for human beings
to live in!
'We were at the very heart of the
trust quostion?the dinner tuble of
the workingmnn. It would linve
been interesting had Mr. McKinley
and Mr. Hanua boon there
to talk about prosperity and the
full dinner pail.
"The grizzled father sat nt the
head of the table, his hands rough-1
ened by n life-time of labor. His
threo daughters?all compelled to J
work in the flower of their youth,!
sat around him. The mother,
with face seamed and puckered by
the struggle against starvation,
waited 011 the rest.
"For twenty-four years the miner
and his wife had lived in that little
shanty. Ton children had been
born there. Some were dead and
the living were all engaged in the
battle for bread. Not a dollar had
been saved.
"And this year? The trusts had
put up the price of everything.
Tho coal trust lias kept wanesj
down."
Tho Democrats, says the New
'York World, uro unquestionably j
helped greatly by these factors in j
tho presidential campaign:
j The support of Mr. Bryan by two !
-bf the ablest and most effective of
Mr. McKinley's advocates in lb'.lG,
ChH Schurz and Bourke Cochran,
and by ex-Secretary Olney aud
tnany other gold Democrats and
independents who stand with tliem I
against MeKinleyisni.
His support on tho anti-imperialist
issue by ex-Secretary BoutWell,
Col. Thomas W. Iligginson
and many other representatives of
4il " i -11- i . J - ? 11 I
vut? mieiioci 11 mi conscience m me I
Kepublican p?irty in its better;
days.
The fact, which Mr. Brynn nnd
r.ther Democratic speakers are j
bringing to public nolico, tlmt the
Undoubted pn sperity of the rmintry
lias been and is very unevenly
distributed. While railroads, bank- I
j ers, manufacturers and speculators
| have grown richer, tho increased
[cost of living has in many in:
stances tnoro than otTect every advance
in wages, while persons1
with a email fixed income have!
gained no ndvantngo whatever.
The undeniable fact that trusts
and other monopolies have greatly
| multiplied since the Republicans i
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I wimo mio power, and mat nothing
whatever has been ilono or honestly j
attempted to punish or prevent
i them.
Last?and perhaps yet to be the
moat important of all?the gront
j coal strike. It is not impossible j
th|at this will be, even more than
was the Homestead trouble bo '
| hurtful to Mr. Harrison in 3S'.>2,
' an object lesson on the effects of
' monoply that no flap doodle about j
| "full dinner pails" will bo able to i
| offset; and this despite llio fact so !
1 strongly procluimed by President
Mitchell that "politics will not,
can not, and mubt not enter into
the st-fee."
in actual ?ffoclivo work the cam'
paign is Bt ill young. Ah n veteran
' campaigner waid yesterday: "The
Democrats have only just begun
j to fight
A Political Fro>cnost (cation.
More provoking things have
happened. 88) a the Dillon Herald,
but we will bet dollars to doughnuts
that if Bryan is elected to the
presidency and Senator Tillman is
given a sent in his cabinet, Jim
Tillman will be our next governor
and McSwronoy ill sncced Tillman
to the senate. It has been
whis??CTe<l around that 15ryan will
make Tillman secretary of tho
navy. Well, it in reasonable to
suppose flint tho astute senator
will want to leave the dispensary
.1 li 1- ~ 1 i H
in goou nanus una in me Bfinie
time keep the name Tillman prominently
before the voters of the
State, in that cveut the Legis-1
laturo will bo given tho |)o\ver of
electing Tillman's successor; and
what could pleuae both Tillmans
more than tb have that honor fall
on MoSweepey'i shoulders? Of
course this ip mero political speculation;
but dhould such changes in
our State gctverumonl he brought
about by vintue of Bryan's election,
th*> hii?|dv ?H?te?iued (Y<lnr?-'
an
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bill State, which is tin ardent
Bryan supporter, would have our j
most profound sympathy in its J
severe aflliction.
Two Constitutional Amen Jaunt*.
The Stato.
In the iron oral election in No
vember there are two constitu- i
tionul amendments to he voted i
upon by tho people. Both are
most important ones. The first is
to insert a clause in the constitution
that will permit Columbia,
Clmrloston, Rock ITill and Georgetown
to isBuo additional bonds 1
with which to obtain sewerage, j
etc. Tho other relates to the ,
drainage and reclaiming of swamp
lands in the State. '<
Both these measures have received
the necessary two-thirds
vote in the General Assembly. If j
ihe peoplo approve them they
must then receive the same vote 1
in tho General Assembly before j
llicy cun become of eliect.
Tropica*. Cyclones.
Chicago Record.
While interest is rife and the !
community stands aghast at the j'
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tho gulf const by tin* rccont West 1
Indian hurricane, n short history
of these gicat storms, together
with their cause, mny not be amiss.
Hurricanes or tropical cyclones
may be said to be children of tho
sun in their incipient stages, growing
by degrees until they become
levinthiauH of the deep, vast whirlwinds,
dealing death and dentine-!1
il'on to everything i:i their paths.;'
The North Atlantic ocean, six !
to eight degrees north of the cqt.a- J
tor, toward its wanner westward
side in tho vicinity of the "Windward
islands, appears to bo tho;
favored locality for thoir formation.
the months of August, September,
and October being tln.se
of greatest frequency. This is the
region of equatorial calms or the
doldrums, a licit lying between the
trade winds of light variable winds ,
frequent calms and thunderstorms. .
The air of thisrog'ou being quiet \
becomes rapidly licatocl and i
charged with moisture, this pro- i
dueing an unstalablo condition of <
the atmosphere and a gradual eon- !
ventional overturning, and from ,
this development proceeds, the spi-1
ral rotations of its surface winds j
being caused by the deflective
force of the earth's rotation to the
right in this hemisphere, or contrary
to the motion of the hands
of u watch.
The hurricane having once
started, a variety of causes tend to
its rapid development, the principal
one being the latent heal released
during itn excessive rainfall.
The storm center itself, with its
radical inflowing winds, generally
moves at the rato of eight or ten
miles an hour northwestward to a
about latitude 'J.r? or 30, where they
generally recurve to the north and
east, being carried along in the
general trend of the upper currents.
The r< cent hurricane pursued a
track seldom traversed by this
class of storms, its deflection across j
the gulf being caused by an urea
of high barometer oveilying the
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eastern oihh'h wuicii prouaniy
navcul tin* south Atlantic seaboard :
from its ravages.
Fortunately these storms break
up or diminish greatly in intensity 1
on entering the contineut, t!ie sea,
the great storehouse of their en- :
ergy. being withdrawn.
While in all great hurricanes
the wind attains a v. locity of (30
to 100 miles an hour, yet the i
gfeat est loss of life is invariably j
caused by the high tides forced in- ;
land by the winds and waves and ,
carrying death and destruction to
all before them, and had not Galveston
been situated on a low lying
island, subject to the high
titles, while the loss by wind would
have boon considerable, the appalling
disaster duo to wind and wave
would not have resulted.
In the following list appear
some of the great tropical storms
of the century:
Indiauola, Tex., near Galveston,
totally destroyed in 1ST") ami 17G
lives lost.
Ilurrieano which devastated
Gaudaloupo September, 18(15, the ;
barometer fabiug to 27.05 inohes j
and over an inch and a half in 70 :
minutes.
Jamaica hurricane, August, 1881,,
cievftHinica innmicn, with a loss ot
1,200 lives.
Hurricane of August, 15-09, I
which devastated Porto Kico, with
great loss of life.
All of the above storms, though,
sink into insignificance compared ;
with what is known as the Puckergunge
cyclone in eastern Bengal in |
1S70, which Hooded the low lying
islands at the mouth of the Brahmaputra
river with a huge tidal
wave, in which over 100,000 natives
nro supposed to have pert
F'rttying (or YiJiuian.
News and Courier.
The Mid annual meeting of the
Edgefield Buptist Association was
held at Horn's Creek church in
Edgefield county Inst week. The
South Caroliua Baptist saya that
at this meeting u collection was
taken up for 1ho bom lit of tho
aged ministers of the Association,
and that "while the brethren were
marching to the front with their
money the central figure in that
I'odl V mm till n V umim .-.iir TT:-?i!i-rl
-? j *1 J N/ V*k t*' "? V^ i '
States Senator, Benjamin R. Tiilman."
The Baptist adds:
' He did nut ouly attend the Association
with his good wife, but actually
contributed of bin substance
to the support of aged ministers
and Connie Mnxwoil Orphanage.
We did see him spread his clean
shaven hps in the singing of the
melodious songs of Zion. The
Horn's Creek church is located
within a few miles of the home of
his 'childhood. Who knows but
that ho may ho meditating upon
Jiviuo things and that when he
grows old he will not depart from
tho wholesome truths and the good
counsel ho received in his voulhV
May Cod gruut that this highly
honored servant of tho people may
yet bo a highly moral force in the
elevation of tho common people.
Suppose wo turn all censure and
iniiauv. !i ini<> earnest unci
faithful praying lo Ibis ond."
The Abbeville Medium protests
that Senator Tillman's conduct
was commendable, in a way, but
that, he ought to 1 avo been singing
the IVulms of Duvid and not
tiie ' merely huinnn compositions"
that around in the praiso sorviccs
at U.ondo ("reek church. In the
circumstances, however, Senator
Tillman could not have sung
i'Halmn while the rest of the congregation
were sinking Hymns,
and he had to sing Hymns or not
sing at all, and those who havo
heard him on such occasions say
that ho has ft fine, rich bass voice
of groat volume and particularly
full in the lowest register. However,
?that may l?e, wo are sure
that good people of tho Stnte will
join the South Carolina Baptist in
its aspiration that "this highly
honored servant of the people may
yet be a mighty moral force in the
elevation of the common people."
We have a strong boliof in the
efficacy of prayer and have been
as-ured that the i\ rvent prayers of
the righteous avail much. But
while wo are "praying to this end"
it wouid be well to udd a petition
that the good Lord will not permit
Senator Tiliman to grow too old
before accomplishing bis reform,
before making "the good counsel
he received in Ids youth" oTeolivc
iu his present life. It would be
such a long time to wait for the
subject of prayi rful meditation to
ba made an angel?we want liiin
to be good hero and not hereafter.
Itumips
Now is the time to sow Turnips.
I have just received a fresh supply
? in nil varieties.
Have also received a new lot of
molasses?re hoi led Georgia Syrup,
Puerto Itico, Sugar House, and
Silver Drip Syrup.
Octagon Soap is the best. I
have it.
"NY hi to Fish, Fresh Cakes,
Crackers and Canned Goods of all
kinds.
Highest markot prices paid for
country produce.
A. 0. JONES,
New York's
T .CP r! Grohi-n
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Thorp is one kind of apparel
wherein Now York's pre-eminence
is established tho world over. That
is apparel for boys. Pronounced
as tho leadership of Paris for womoti's
wear and of London for
men's, it is universally admitted
that Now York has evolved a distinct
order of style for its youth
everywhere admired. Crescent
Clothes for Hoy's are the product
of the best known makers in New
York. They are the perfection of
lit, fashion, and fabiio. They arc
till* Mlllv llAVK1 I'lllflinu lllflil.v 4 1 . r. 4
will retain shnpo. Any woman
whose purso allows tho least looway
in tho gratification of pride in
dressing her boy will be delighted
with the style and positive economy
of Crescent Clothes. In nil
ages from I> up and for young men
to 35 chest measure. This beautiful
line of Boys' apparel will be
found only at?
ED. W. MELLON & CO.S,
CHARLOTTE, N, C.
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HATS, StiOES,
PANTS, DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, DRESS GOODS,
HARDWARE,
TINWARE,
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GROCERIES, ETC.,
AND THE
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Wo IT. IIOOVEP,
! LIQUOR DEALER,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
We look especially after the sfcfp!
ping trade and below quote very cloci
I figures. Will be glad to have your
nfdtM. Ti>rn, 1 rxh uilll. ? << ?
Corn, per gallon, In jug (boxed), ;
. $1.50, $1.75 and $2.
All first-class goods at $1.75 and $2
VERY OLD.
Ryes from $1.60 to $2, $2.50 and
$3 50 per gallon.
Gins from $1.60 to $2, and $2.50.
.Genuine Impottcd "Fish Gin" at $3
per gallon.
Apple Biandy, $2.25 per gallon.
Peach Brandy $2 50 per gallon.
No charge for jug and box on above,
and no charge at these prices for keg
when wanted in such quantities.
Let us have your orders and oblige.
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"Piedmont" "Wagons, Buggies,
elements.
3g1ng and tler.
are riqht.
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2 OLD RELIABLE STORE.*
Fresh Meat
AND
Fresh Ice.
Yes; Ira G. Smytlio & Son will keep
constantly on hand a supply of Meats
and loo. Comparatively speaking1, wo
luvve been unavoidably out of t ho business
for two mont hs, but wo hope to bo
il.bll' ill I 111. flll.ini liv .. f tr... t i....
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business ami fair dealing with our patrons,
to furnish them witli both Meat
nnd Ice in season, and merit a. liberal
share of the public patronage.
Orders for Sunday Ice received Saturday,
and Ico delivered from 7 to t? a. in.
Sundays. Call up No. 27 any time you
need lloof or Ico.
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Spratt Machine Oo.
Brick, Lumber, Laths, Lime, Shingles,
Building Supplies, and House
Pitiings of all kinds.
Contractors and builders. Estimates
on nil work furnished promptly.
The Center of Attraction
for thoso who are ospooially particular
about tho laundering of thoir Summer
garments is the laundry. Everyouo
knows except tho.se who haven't tried
our work, how clean; properly starched
and ironed every article proves itself to
bo after it hasbeou through our hands.
If you dou't know iuj, let's got acquainted.
For ease of mind and comfort of body,
ho sure t hat your laundry goes to tho
Model 8team Laundry, Charlotto. N. (J.
Ed. L. flchLtlaNAY, Agent,
Fort Mill, S. C.
We Feed the Hungry. J
When in town and you want n \
pood meal, remember we feed \
the pooplo. A pood inenl for
25 cents. Our llestaurant ia
on Depot street.
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