LEADING IN THE m mm. YEAR SIX MONTHS The Reflector. . THE PAPER GREENVILLE LARGEST CIRCULATION. EXCELLENT MEDIUM. D. J. WHICHARD, Editor and Proprietor. TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. TERMS Per Year, in Advance. VOL VII. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY APRIL 1888 NO. The Eastern Reflector, GREENVILLE, D. J. WHICHARD, Editor equal distribution of wealth, are sufficiently great to cause much misery. There is no subject L. K. . . . . . . . One a harsh word rashly said, j Am like a sharp cruel dart. THE LEADING PAPER IX THE It pierced n fond loving heart, II turned i. friend into a foe, I And everywhere brought pain and woe. DUMB W Subscription Trice. per year. A kind word followed it one day, ; Flew swiftly on its blessed way; It healed wound, it soothed the pain, i . And of old were friends again; creates them where, made the and anger cease, ding to the moral law, they would everywhere brought joy and one class for a protective is because it is the surest and most direct way of reducing th price of his own which causes greater anxiety tor his neighbor's benefit humane statesmen. Yet when A plain man, unaccustomed to the such things come about logic of protection would naturally the of superior thrift, in- that the manufacturer ability, no one can just- put down the price of his complain. is the fulfillment own goods, if he wishes to do of a great moral law. But what so without an enabling act ; but it j shall we any of that character of J would teem not. If he could only j legislation which hastens and in- lower his prices under the force of ; i reuses these inequalities . yet the harsh word left a trace KAlie, or,, , though Hi heart its regain will not hesitate to . It bore a -car that long ; men and measures that are not consistent j Friends could forgive but not forget. with the true principles of the party. Or lose the sense of keen regret. If you want a a How swift and words section of the State send for the TOR. SAMPLE FREE go, with utmost care STATE GOVERNMENT. How would Hr Each thought before it sough, the air, And only speak the words that move Like white-winged messengers of M. Scales, of Guilford ML man. of New Hanover. Secretary of Satin- of Wake. W. of Wake. waist was near enough ; in truth of our people, however one, temperate and thrifty, are yet so weighted down with restrictions and taxation in favor of another class that they are left behind in the struggle Law represents reduce. They at least had the plea of public necessity to justify their exactions, whilst we are tax- our people thirty-three per cent, beyond the needs in order to benefit private The we now col- over and above the public needs is double than the entire of the government tor years just the war. competition, it would appear at j This takes no account whatever of blush that the competition of j the to be three a foreigner would answer the times greater than the pose quite as well as that of an which goes into the public cotters American, lint not. which is paid in in- competition alone to pockets of protected life and finish the little of all-grasping, demands of scholastic advantages that he was the selfish Monopolists and High able to apportion to him. Thus it Tariff advocates. was, with the old man's judgment and the young man's close to business, that the younger would develop a fitness or cation tor business, after which he would receive a portion of the prof- its accrued, with which he would start in life for himself. -This course has been steadily pursued until the last one of five sons has left the paternal roof, the sixth having died. Of these is Mr. Jas. Democratic wisdom and fairness in opposition to Republican and to Plutocrats and Monopolists are dearly in the two plans. The Courier-Journal says of the Demo- bill . will bear inspection and dis- It grows stronger every day. It reduces the internal tax- es ; it reduces the taxes on dutiable articles in I lie the h manufacturer, with the aid of a high tariff, to so lower his prices as to prove a bless- to his neighbor. Such being the supreme power of the and therefore the ob- Wit-h us that power is lodged in protective its ad- resent If the test of a people's freedom be indeed then- from unjust and unnecessary taxation, I fear we should tall very low. Aside, then, from any question is no P. Roberts, of Gates. Superintendent of Public Instruction the people, and law is resent with much scorn j of policy or economy, there of the will indicated by idea of there being any moral kind of in my mind majority. There can be nothing wrong in thus striving to benefit called taxation is more cruel and despotic than neighbors. But the wrong bring the collective will of the i is apparent to the commonest He said good night love, at the door, of supreme powers of the and the absurdity of trembling fingers , . , . Lt , . I thought he might do something more to the point of taxing or the defense only serves to But bashful lovers are so teasing confiscating the property of the size it. It is a bald and naked I minority, or, which is the same system of using the taxing power wrong in morals as law. That which is unjust, unequal and unnecessary must inevitably be wrong. Z. B. Vance. His coat sleeve touched the bound it belt Tyson Neighborhood. I waited, but the foolish youth Ne'er tried to put his arm around it. I softly sighed, I hung my head; U lie vowed it never should be said That I was disinclined to grant it Sidney M. Finger of Catawba. Attorney F. David- son, of SUPREME COURT. Chief N. II. Smith, of Wake. Associate S. Ashe. of S. Merrimon, of Wake. I , , . , JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT. ; He heeded not my gentle sighs. First E. Shepherd, of tender, supplicating ; Beaufort. he Did he not have eyes Second Philips, of he of it is j Responding when he pressed my hand. Third Connor, of , an ,. -i The hint he did not understand wife alter Clark, of My who can measure A. Gilmer. of Examples, be. A. Gilmer. T. of Gal ford Sampson. Seventh C. of Cumberland. Eighth J. Montgomery, of Cabarrus. Ninth F. Graves, of Yadkin. Tenth C. Avery, of Eleventh M. Shipp, of Mecklenburg. Twelfth it. Merrimon, of IN Sena B. Vance, of Matt. W. Ransom, of of District Louis C. Latham, of Pitt Second M. Simmons, of Craven. Third W. of Render Fourth Nichols, of Wake W. Reid, of Rock- in Sixth Bennett, of S. Henderson, Rowan. Eighth II. H. Cowles, cf Ninth D. Johnston, Buncombe. COUNTY Sept Court A. Move. M. King. Register of H. Wilson. B. cherry. S. Congleton. P. Redding. Dawson. Chair- man. J. A. K. Tucker. W. A. James, Jr. T. R. Keel. Public School Latham. of F. W. Brown. giving the one a legal the government for the unjust vantage of the other which en- purpose of enabling one enrich it- he same result to be at the expense of another. It led. Yet such is the effect and I can no more be justified in morals Mr n flying trip of a protective tariff. than in economy ; for it is happily through the of Pitt Its avowed object is to enable the j true that good morals and good county, we had occasion to stop a I home manufacturer to make j economy agree well together, j part of a day in the Tyson neigh- and as it rejects the idea of j Woe to our world if it were not j which is said to be In foreign trade and shuts it out It is the true glory of free-j the of said belt. It would together, the only persons that institutions are has- seem invidious to speak the whom be can make it are his own j ed upon great moral principles, re i hospitality, or or, The element of all the essential rights j indeed any other good quality of moral wrong in such legislation is of man In no other manner have anyone of most excellent and praiseworthy people, for all are of another in his place. A lover more discerning, bolder. Would have one fa-t Before I a minute older. But why complain In life it seems We can't have everything we wish for; We seldom realize our dreams. Or catch the kind of we for. He merely kissed my finger tips, I How a parting this is; To leave untouched two rosy lips That never knew a lover's kisses keep him for a mouth or so, And then to jilt him find a reason; He'll never make a summer beau In mulls are out of season. Courier. the same and appear to be on the road to peace, happiness The radical and unmistakable. No rights been so commonly by what ingenious, far- i violated as in the matter of tax- and roundabout Law and advancing they attempt to show the have long since stopped the prosperity, from large taxed man that in the long run he seizure of men's property by the good tillage, neat is benefit the wrong remains, j hand. The mailed of lings, busy plows, rattling carts We may not do that good the middle ages have all flawed ; and halloing sons Africa a may come, even it it were certain . away, and so have the grosser would almost imagine himself in of coming. Whilst the taxed man i forms of monopoly and class i or may not get back his j But the spirit which i in the long run, we know of a I mated fierce desire to I certainty that the manufacturer; get riches by reaping where money every time in the -ere have remains, and short run Wherever remain until human nature have operated to give one j is changed. It is this which stilL section or class of our people an I troubles our Israel. It is old foes advantage over another, the man j under new faces. It was the , who is either wise or humane tom of the wives of the old would say at once that if the robbers to serve DO a covered , interfered at all it should . dish with a pair of spurs inside Tariff is Hot he to help the weak and tide them for breakfast whenever the larder Needs of the Nation. the midst of the famous rough District, of South Carolina, which it so much rose or in one of the most prosperous cotton growing localities of the far South in ante days. If we had the tune and space a description of every farm from those of Mr. E. S. Parker and Anderson are beau- for many miles beyond would interesting, but we can inly speak now of those we noticed But Unjust and Immoral j over the shoals of their situation, j was empty of beef. Upon this; particularly on the highway as we as Well. II. Having shown that a not to raise for the government but to increase the price of articles to There is no function of hint the husbands with their clans-1 strode along through this neigh- than this. What is a protective men an aimed foray I proper. Messrs. R. A. tariff, then bin tax levied on A the pastures t the Willoughby, Jas. C. Cobb, Jas. to support B- f it be so it i to drive off cat tie. bad Sheppard, U. A Tyson, Ty- is morally wrong. In the abstract, virtue in their lawlessness, how j son. II. A. Kittrell, V. i II. Cobb, who is conducting a live; 436.55 ; it adds to the free list mercantile business and farm at tides now paying Billiards X Roads, another. Mr. j and thus a total reduction Lawrence A. Cobb, ft prominent of It is they have been stupid beyond be- lief. They have tried all sorts of plans, but the one disintegrate the South. They will never sue as long as abuse and make war upon the Southern whites, in carrying a Southern State for one of their candidate. So long as the are solid for the old, vicious, venal party that despoils and plagues and persecutes and afflicts, so long will the white men of the South stand together. They would be worse than blind if they were under any plea to do otherwise. The Star recognizes the great importance of tax reduction men. Mr. Robt. J remains with the old gentleman as junior partner of that large and reliable concern, and merchant at Bell's Ferry, with two j but it wiN do for a d in in Georgia and one at Nor- ,, -all live, energetic young War there is a question than Opened to every j white North ; it is the i , , ; ; , . , Wilmington Star. question of supremacy in North It is of Mr Robt I Cobb now now that we are So far a. our white that w ts ad t have in 1888, same, of it is better that he was always a very ready we had in 1868. a and willing helper on the war is over and pence ha. bean Federal than to and perhaps on that account he en- joyed less than some the laud for years, lour State Government. Give us honest and the State officials and in Whatever else betide us we must I in, i i ill . . ready willingness in the store, with at the his development of business their voice is the old gentleman for war- may have long since thrown the whole re- in caring and con- ducting the entire business upon him, that in reality the head of the firm. His quickness of per- fine judgment, with close devotion to business and extraordinary energy with great honesty, have wrought for him a success that accords to h'm a eminence among country mer- chants. While he is extremely modest, he is very accessible and highly congenial, having the happy blending business and social qualities that render him quite a favorite in his own large hood sphere. It is said by those well qualified to decide that business though large is perfectly healthful its basis entirely sol- id. This firm has no creditors and Wen a gray coat during the war but neither of the three mighty men of valor, who are crying and letting loose the dogs war, ever saw a battle-field or smelt gunpowder during agree as one man to save dear old North Carolina. But we can do more than thin. We can carry North Carolina, if we are all so minded, for Cleve- land and Reform. We copy one more nice extract Such and the Chicago Tribune, which . . . . u hub m 1.1.- -L- ought to be in a pond and put in the stocks after the old English custom. The Republican press in the North is taking tip the cry of the is even a milder Radical sheet than the Inter-Ocean no black man was per- between Pennsylvania Mexico to give a vote that count- braggarts and windbags and types ed the Democratic and ink are North. The conducted on and made to rouse the campaign must be outrage the mill date. is to this gigantic fraud, be- gun in fraud and wound up in for- bloody shirt plan and that the country owes the the have of Cleveland, fraudulent go upon. They are l and who was alarmed the great himself fairly elected, and made in the Northwest as over a House which the trade. They see that the pros- of the majority that elect- ed him was gained by fraud. i ; . . This of things simply makes the war, with all its fices, a hideous Democrats of North Carolina, yon see to what kind of a feast. you are invited by the bloody Re- publicans. no man will to deny it. j ever ; they told no lies about the is unconstitutional, The sophist lie and motives or the results of and c to the in ideas resorted to in the attempt conduct. They confessed of a free government, I ill next show that it is net a tax levied on, that they lived by these lives A. or, if it is, that he receives it j on their neighbors ; they did not all buck again, are an wort hi of j declare that it was tor the good serious consideration in con- of the cattle breeders, and try to It is a tux or it could that they got it all back in increase the cost of the They wanted on which it is imposed ; it is beef, and they went and took it, it with reference to its and morality We believe that our rep the best form of govern- m the be the made man What an example for Joyner and whose names hundreds of others who are sitting failed to learn, live here. But TOWN. Perkins. Clara- C Forbes. B. Cherry Alex. Ward, T. A. and J. P. 2nd Ward, Ty- son and S. Smith ; Ward, A. K. Moore and J. J. Cherry. mutt between man and man being the essence of lib- paid by the consumer, for there is because, they knew no other way equality, order, and every-; no one else to pay it ; it does sup- to get it. New England would thing that is excellent the manufacturer, for he have shown them a more excel- clamors for it and says he cannot, lent way. She could have shown The old watchwords of the, live without it. Otherwise we I them bow to get their neighbor's French revolutionists. would have the strange Dy law, and taught them to and Third Rev. First Sundays, morning and night. Hughes, P. Rector. Sunday, morn lug and night. Meeting every j Struggle, threw Wednesday night. Rev. R. B. John, I in 1776. and Pastor. Fraternity and though somewhat of their beauty by an association with the violence and blood of that unhappy period, yet contain the sum and of Democratic liberty. Centuries ago our ancestors made against all forms legal exclusive and class distinction the fight was kept up by each succeed- generation. When our in the continuation of that oil British of a manufacturer begging for a duty on goods which nobody was to pay. which did not enhance the price of anything he made to sell, and which would die if ho didn't get, and that man still at large outside of the lunatic asylum Such are the arguments, analyzed. The chief equitable ingredient of a contract is mutuality ; there must be a giving as well as a Now how is a farmer to be show how their transfer from the pastures of their owners to the larders of their captors was no rob- but a most admirable process of political economy, and a bless- in disguise That it ed the quantity of beef, raised the price, of beef, and reduced the price of beef all at the same time, these gentlemen are prominent and well known in all our neighboring towns, have large, beautiful and well cultivated farms, running from five to twenty plows each. We learn that every farmer here ignore the epithet of plan- has some acres, more or less that will make a bale of cotton to the acre. Judging from the rapid strides in the way of. breaking, composting, fee, all will be ready for early planting. This neighbor- hood, we had heard before, was composed entirely of and it really occurs to us to be strictly true. One thing is sure all work. Wealth, intelligence and industry are the predominant elements of this vicinity. There are two beautiful churches here and the third, we learn, going up. Have been informed that good schools have been kept up most continuously for the last with folded arms complaining of hard times and no one them It, is energy and honesty that have made Robert J. Cobb. it boys, same formula will make men again J. B. March vested cents in a bottle Oil. of Salvation while both robber and robbed grew rich together No man goes out on the highway to plunder though just now there is u recompensed under a protective j neighbor now armed with pistole ; smaller number of children than tariff Where are. the he goes into a legislative lobby has been at any time in the above benefits in between him and arms himself with a statute, j named period. Meeting every t hey thought they had the iron and woolen manufacturer j In the name of patriotism and the lit. I thrown also all the ideas and He goes to the iron master to buy i working man he is authorized by the American Union by our Con- every Sunday, morn- and night. Wednesday nigh Pastor- I institutions of aristocratic Europe I his farm implement ; the price is this statute to collect taxes Horn which tended to create fixed by the the foreign neighbors, with which he can Greenville A. F. A distinctions among articles plus the tariff duty; beef to his stomach's content. M., meets every 1st Thursday men. Theoretically they did other words, he buys in a i There is no show of violence, no day night after the 1st and rd Sunday at in bringing about the market. To pay his outcry, nor hot unseemly lowing a f H before the law but they I chases fee sells bis wheat or bis overdriven ; all is done every 2nd and 4th Monday nights t Ma- did not provide for, because they cotton in a free trade a j decently and in order. He has sonic Hall, F. IV. Brown, P. i could not foresee, the encroach- price fixed in London in violated law and fears no I. 0.0. F merit on popular rights of the with ail wheat and cot- j On the contrary he Covenant meets every Tuesday night. James W. O. D. I. it which has in modern , ton of the world. He sells in the Lodge, No. lien. K. of n converted the very market and buys in the third equality into j dearest market, reversing the Pitt A. L. of H. meets j means of class advantage.; economical condition which his night, c. A. White, C. The possession of wealth Is it beneficial to i Reform Club their powers and him Is It honest or just to force lib every at . . . . . . . club room every night, at o'clock. Mass meeting in the Court House fourth Sunday of each month, at o'clock P. V. E. C. Glenn, Woman's Christian Temperance Union meet in the Reform Club Room Friday of each week. Mrs. V. H. Which- ard, Band of meets in Reform Club j There Room every night. Miss Eva . . . enough at Lest, he strong man would soon overcome the weak ; the man of brains would Money vent the dullard ; the diligent, the start and an equal is a denial of the fact by at- and degraded in the service chance, no case should it lend lone man help against another. POST OFFICE. Office hours A. M. to P. If. Order hours a. M. to P. M. No or- will be issued from to temperate, from to p. u. Bethel mail arrives dally Sun- at A. M., and departs at p u. Tarboro mail arrives daily Sun- at M. and departs at p. M. mail arrives dally at M. and depart; at P. u. Mall leaves for Ridge Spring and inter- mediate offices, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Returns at if. mall arrives Fridays at S M. Departs Saturdays at a m. H. A. makes its attainment the ambition him to sell for the lowest price of all. In the struggle for it the j and to buy at the highest No law should do no more than give man will say so ; and the only ail men a lair Start and an equal is a f tempting to show that when the foreigner is kept out domestic competition becomes so great that prices become lower than they be without any duty at all; and, therefore, so far from being a tax upon one class for the support of another, it is in fact a benefit to man ho is supposed to be taxed Stripped of its verbiage this simply means that the manufacturer is a greatly maligned man ; that be has no idea of taxing the consumer by a high duty on everything he does for the purpose reducing prices to the that hie anxiety es at the benefactor and beet friend of the plundered man in- stead of a wrongdoer. And yet the process of rob- ; meaner than that the because more cowardly ; than that of any other, be- right and justice and all the noble elements of law are the industrious will soon forge ahead of their rivals. As soon as one advantage is ed the capacity to secure the next one is doubled ; for the world the increase of power is in arithmetical ratio to the in crease of capital. Hence, without n line of legislation, according to the course of the of our society caused by the of selfish greed. In all ages and among all peoples taxes have been a hardship, and the lay- of them regarded with the most jealousy. They are the fa- and peculiar implement time honored dishonored means whereby an unscrupulous ruler confiscates property of the citizen under tense of public necessity. And yet no Bourbon, Tudor or Plants prince ever a tax to support unjust wars or pamper royal vanity more outrageously of private rights than the Congress of free America now mi poses on our people and refuses to Esquires Norman, Joyner and Anderson so well known for their probity and judicial knowledge, are all residents of this neighbor- hood, but we are told that most of their State cases come from with out their district. The colored population is remarkably well be- sober and industrious. host, a gentleman gent and reliable, who knows whereof he speaks, informed me of one the most prosperous in the county as being in his midst, which he seemed to talk with He said it was an ornament and blessing to the neighborhood As a matter of local interest we give a synopsis of what he said, without interviewing the parties concerned, hoping at the same time this most worthy example may not be without emulation in those days of distrust and financial op- The firm alluded to is J. C. Cobb k Son, eight miles from Greenville, the read. The senior of this firm is a man noted for his industry, frugal- and caution, and above all, for his uncompromising integrity. About sixteen years ago he erected a little store on his farm in which he placed a small investment of the hard earnings of himself and boys, interesting therewith bis sons, one at a time, each in bis turn as he would become old enough to entertain practical ideas of bas- debtors arc quite hopeful, s rt a economic notwithstanding the three past made the issue years have been very hard with States in North- merchants well farmers, there honest and has never bee-i a period when this tax Cleveland. So they firm has been so strong as now. j beat up he dogs of war and Their investments real estate once North- for the past two years have been b their and appeals to . , I The old war issues are I not have a rem- The whole secret of this l are when they know the value of Dr. success has been fair, blatant speakers Bull's Cough Syrup. dealing and indomitable energy. remorse- She stood at the gate in the late Spring What a record in this voting self- s twilight, and when she said good bye, she Senator from Kansas by charging neuralgia kiss her rosy cheek; but sorts of upon the s Southern whites who are diligent to attending to their own business, arc working hard at home and are not hatching discord or meditating stratagem and Hear this wild shriek from the Chicago Tribune, one of the big papers of the country old gang in the South, booted and spurred spurs rides the Democratic par- and assumes to have the vine right to rule the country and D. L. JAMES report of the Ways and; to do all the murder and forgery Means Committee upon the bill for j necessary to go successfully reducing tariff gives through the formality of to all sincere reformers have examined it. It is And we have in Democratic document; the North meaner if possible than Wool is to be put on the free list.; the white niggers of day of j is the only way American ; slavery and the fugitive slave law, goods can be sent into deride all honest and earnest foreign markets to compete men who speaK for seriousness of goods. This is the only, the war amendments and the way the American people can have, rights of men as those who wave cheap clothing and cheap the bloody shirt and are giving The contrast made in report , their consideration only to things between the Democratic plan and that arc no more. The Democratic Report. P G. JAMES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, GREENVILLE, N. C. Practice in all the court. Collections a Specialty. DENTIST, t Mile, X TAMES M. ATTORNEY-AT-L A W, GREENVILLE, N. C. Wool Growers and Man- Association plan is most marked. The Louisville Courier- Journal thus presents contrast elaborated in the blankets, for instance, weighing five pounds at cents. more, Indeed Why, take the States of South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi and One-half the of those States is black, and they will not be allowed to cast one effective vote for the next A LEX I. BLOW, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, GREENVILLE, N. C. AUG. M. MOORS. CM. BERNARD BERNARD, The cost is j present duty candidate of the The Democrats propose to can party. They are bound in a reduce this duty to cents. The wool growers and wool ask that the tax be advanced to a finer blanket costing despotism of assassination to be Democrats. The white people of those States vote them- selves and for the blacks, This is the way the North is to The exist tax is 2-10 j be aroused to do injustice to the The Ways Means Committee I South. The whites of the North say reduce it to wool must unite because the whites of I growers and. manufacturers- ask the South unite. But listen at that it be increased to Under existing tariff a blanket costs under the Ways and Means schedule it would cost only ; if the Wool Association has its way it will cost dress goods, cost- cents a yard wide. Ten yards are required for a woman's dress. This is original coat ; present duty, ; reform bill reduces the duty to cents ; the Wool Association would increase it o Now mark. profit of the retailers has to be added to all these calculations. This will in- crease the coat full per cent., end in many instances it will be Mr. Watterson, editor the Louisville Courier Journal. In the April number the Forum he moment the North ceases to be South will cease to be solid But as long as there is a party of the North that urges an interference in the local affairs at the South which would be ed by no Northern community as applied to itself there will found at the South the first and highest of all motives for united resistance, that of inextinguishable The South is kept solid by the great law of self-preservation. If the North had ceased its A Tl W, GREENVILLE, N. C. Practice in the State and Federal Courts J. E. MOORE. J. H. TUCKER MOORE, TUCKER A MURPHY, A W, N. C. HARRY t. T A N. C. T V. Attorney and at Law S. C. per cent, or more. These are and persecutions twenty illustrative figures. They show ago, the would have the wisdom and of re- ed in the Democratic trill, and the been long ago dissolved. The Northern Republican leaders are of malicious and means but Attorney and at Law GREENVILLE, N. C. Will practice In the Court o Pitt, Greene, Edgecombe and Beaufort tics, and the Supreme Court. Faithful attention given to all entrusted to him. DR. H. W. O. Surgeon Dentist. Tender his professional the public. extracted by the ma of Nitrous J. B. YELLOWLEY, A Y-A W, N. O.