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: THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT « : PIEDMONT BANK OF GREENSBORO N. C 0,000.00. Surplus, $7,000.00. GREENSBORO, y. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER^ 189; K. G. VAUGHN, Cathier, . TKOIIDON, Vice-Pre: DIRECTORS : in the temples of justice where I will have a fair chance with law and equity on my side. KIOHI TO PREVENT REMOVAL OF CASKS. In my last article I showed by reference to cited cases in the Re-ports of the Supreme Court of the Lnited States that FOREIGN CORPORATIONS had no right to operate a railroad In North Carolina; that it was only a privilege, extended to them through the courtesy of the State, and that the legislature of the1 otttemsta,«ee8."eet9inlhedi8Creti' So that we conclude that t State of North Carolina may ex-clude any foreign corporation from the State or IMI'OSE A TAX prorata on its shares of stock, or on its gross receipts or pledge a specific tax on its cars or tax it in any other way it may choose. It is r'gnt, it is just that these taxes should be imposed on the property these wealthy corporations NO. .30 we it to issue mort-gages and raise a hundred and twenty million dollars— I Sincerely thank The Cauca«i,,n allowing me to speak to the CENTER, A ' "• I . 1)1 I ■ 11. .11 ' -. Ill \TEII. «OBT.mSt™*""*■"«* *<* AK,..,.-y Southern Ki|>rr*. Company, ii. n. i.uiiH, American To- I. N. Wylhe* ■ ■ • i. i■>, l.car Tobacco, Barer for AT l.aeeoi uiii|i.tiy. •BED PKAl ! , K. I- u 1,(1,,,., Pwwast Are—iliiiiu Fentalc OeBsn, '•• "■ " 'A-. 11 M'I.,I u Law. BUte had the power to withdraw !They neither "toil nor spin." About that privilege whenever it pleased a" the hig officials do is to locate to do so, or it might attach any I !n the county and kill all the quails conditions it pleased to the exer- " cise of that privilege. That the legislature had the power to pass a law that no foreign corporation, either railroad, insur- ONAL CARDS. HAYS, M. D.f BORO, N. C.. irtitioner i:.«-linl . *T. I . M. ■ Di 8 J RICHARDSON, ton. 0 BO, N. U. L.\ J. E. WYCHE, I > I NTIM 1 . ■ v I W.H. Wakefield, Ureens- <■!! Friday, ■ ,.. r. TO \OMC :inil Throal. IENCK & SCHENCK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, . ;,. III.) in. A. M. B< ftl B8. -\ \ SCALES. i >ys atj La"wr . i, N. c. to all busi-ding, 1 :.n Square. I Lime! Cement! ' Lime! Cement! ■ ' prl kinds i>f Building ios. Woodroffe. v! Lime! Cement! •'> k! Lime! Cement! XA II11.1. I SERIES, iona, v i . ' <. reens-lilie ..I the K. ,v grounds n gular STEDIN • HI'OR FLOWERS ■ i ■ - i CAS FIND ■ \ ii sually kepi '■ 'Mi Ilouses rs and r Spring frees, Vines i1 rei n House toappl leauts. N I'l.KV. Trop'r, I'flllll :.■:. N . I . THE FINAL, DWELLING. For Hie PATRIOT.; "II the hank of yonder river I* a dwelling placefor me: '""'at dwelling is a Giver, And 1 wish with Him to be. I 'h, how beauteous is that mansion, » HO Its sbimng spires so bright, "here I see the great expansion Of eternal realms of light. There in that eelcatial dwelling Is a place reserved for all; There the hcav'nly chords areswelllng Bweel with music's gentle call. All my life-long I've been waiting. I-or a message from on high, 1 bat might free my soul from hating, I" this land of tear and sigh. 'ilndly shall I greet my Master, « ben my work for aye is done; l.ei me only ha-te the faster. And my pilgrimage be run. D. E. HAMMER, Wbitsett, X. ('. A FIGHT FOR RIGHT. Judge Schenck Writes Another Let-ter Regarding the Southern Rail-way's Legal Status in this State. In a recent issue of the Caucasian there appeared a communication fr.ini Judge Shenck, of this city, in which the writer questioned the legality of the ninety-nine-year lease of the W. X. ('. Railroad, which goes into effect December 31, 1896. He also called attention to the fact that the Southern Railway is not vested with the ordinary privileges of corporations, being chartered in another state. In the Caucasian of last week we find the following, which U a more elaborate exposition of his \i< ws: The law is stronger than the corpo-rations, and the people make I lie law. "Hie pen is inigliiier Ihan thesword." MR. EDITOR:—My communica-tion to your paper last week sign-ed "Lex" seems to have stirred up the Southern Railroad Company and its friends who. supposing it needed l»lp, have offered assist-by way of personal abuse of me instead of replying to my ar-guimnts or correcting my state-mints of the law in regard to FOR-I H.N i RPORATIOXI if indeed I made any mistake. When these newspapers attempt to do either they will, in my opinion, have a Herculean task to p. i form. 1 ba\e been a Student of corporation law for fourteen yeure and um vain enough to think that I know some thing about it. The Southern Rail-way, or ihe Richmond A Danville ance or other kind, should exercise any of its functions or do any bus-iness in the State, as operating railroads, without first taking out a license and that the Secretary of State should revoke that license at any time upon information lodged with him that such foreign corpo-ration had removed or was endeav-oring to remove any of its caeeB from the State to the Federal courts. Boyle vs. Insurance Company, 91 U. S. Reports, page 535, settles this question. See also Rector vg Philadelphia, 21 Howard, page 300. Therefore that it was the duty of the next legislature of North Carolina to follow the example of Ohio, Indiana and other Northern and Western States and pass an act which would compel the South ern Railway Company or any other foreign railroad corporation to put itself on an equality with our own corporations, chartered by the State, and try their cases in the State courts. It has been the habit of the Richmond A Danville Rail-road company, whenever sued for over $2,000, to remove the case at once to the Lnited States Courts, which it had the right to do as a foreign corporation, and our courts were thus treated with contempt, and where the L'nited States statute for removals was not broad en to remove the ough case on account of diverse citizenship, the next move was for the vice-president to file an affidavit swearing that hie com-pany could not get justice in the State courts, on account of "local prejudice"—thus asserting under oath that the State judges and juries were unfit to try railroad cases. It is astonishing that the legislature has not made the repe-tition of these insults toourjudi ciary impossible, and rebuked by appropriate legislation such un-justifiable and offensive conduct. I predict that the next legisla-ture of North Carolina will wipe out this diBgrace, if the bills to prevent it are not purloined. RIGHT TO TAX FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. I wish now to advance a step further, and to show that the leg islalure of North Carolina has the right to discriminate against foreign corporations by levying upon each one doing business in the State, either a specific tax or one to be prorated on its business and there-by compel these gigantic, wealthy corporaiions which are protected by the State at the expense of its own citizens, to shoulder their share of the burden of taxation, »hi.h they have avoided by being eh.ir'ered in another State. In 1853 the legislature of IIIi-n «.i. passed an act requiring for-in reach and draw salaries of from 110,000 $50,000, while their poor employees have scarcely enough paid them to keep soul and body together. Look at the palatial pri-vate cars of these officials! It took in a newspaper a half a column to describe the magnificence and lux-urious apartments of Vice-presi-dent Andrews' car, in which he lives in such gorgeous splendor, as he rolls along through the State. Livened servants await the tap of his electric bell and while his table is loaded with the most costly viands, the finest of liquors fill the side-board. Yet this costly man-sion, costing perhaps $20,000, pays no tax, while the farmer pays tax on his wagon, his dogcart and his cabin, nothing escapes. Let a specific tax of $500 be placed on every one of these cars. It would have been honest and Chris tain and just if the money put in these cars had been paid to the poor creditors of the R. A- D. R. R. Co., instead of being turned over to its successor. It would be more consistent, too, with a Republican form of government if these nabobs would not display their wealth be-fore the eyes of the suffering poor around the depots. _ It would be more consistent with Christianity if they would not spend quite so much on their own bodies and give a little to the naked and hungry people of the State during the frosts of the winter. Let them not indulge in the idea that God is not listening to the long suffering cries of the poor, and the cry of the "laborer for his wages." "Shall He who made the eye not see?' "Shall He who made the ear not hear?' "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" WHAT OTIIKR STATES HAVE DONE. The State of South Carolina, in the exercise of its constitutional rights, as heretofore set forth, has by a constitutional amendment ab-solutely forbidden any foreign rail- | road corporation to do business in j that State and required every rail | road man doing business in its! borders to take out a charter from that State. Our State might wisely follow that precedent so as to "place all railroad corporations, foreign and domestic, on a legal equality, and not subject our home companies t - they cannot aestroy or intimidate, and thereby force every citizen to patronize them and pay them tribute as slaves because there is no other line to transport their freight. The State eorgia has a statute forbidding ny one railroad con under that statue that the deal made by the R. A D R. R. Co., for the control of the Georgia Central was declared void in the Federal Courts. to 20,000 people through The Cni casian, when I could scarcely have reacbed5,000throughothereources. I will try to be careful in stat-ing my propositions of law and in sustaining them by reference to indubitable authority, so that in TRYING TO HOBBLE IP THE C F. 4 1. v. The legislature ought to take early action in this matter before it is too late. The Southern Rail-way b«s purchased every one of the roads formerly owned by the R- A I). R. R. Co., and is now stretching out its octopus hands to gather in the Cape Fear A Yadkin Valley Railroad—about the only distinctly North Carolina railroad remaining out of their grasp—and, as usual, in their greed they are' trying at the same time to destroy all the branches feeding this road. Its plan is to force a sale of the main line and purchase it, and em-barrass the short feeder branches by discriminations and delays in transportation until the owners will be compelled to sell out to them for whatever price this wick-ed monopoly may offer to its vic-tim. It seems that the Governor of the State ought, if necessary, call the Legislature together that it may enact a law to prevent the consummation of this crime, or the Baltimore syndicate ought to post-pone a sale until the next legisla-ture meets in order that it may take action. It seems that the judges of the Federal Courts would grant this delay in order to rescue the ciiizens of North ('arolina, who have invested |heir whole capital in these branelies and protect them from the rapacity of ibis merciless corporation. . competing li„°e,anyd Tt was' £?li' H£ T"*' 'T "U°,M as I may be printed in a pamphlet form for the information of the people and for ready reference in debate. The field is a wide one and it will take a while to exhaust the sub Ject. I may go down personally under my physical infirmities, or by other misfortunes, but the prin ciples I am enunciating are as dealhless as the law. and when 1 lay down the discussion, younger, stronger, and if possible more en-thusiastic defenders of the people against licensed greed and corpor-ate avai ice, will take it up. I have been amused at some of the means suggee ed by the officers of the Southern to force me to silence It won't do. I am not for sale, nor can I be intimidated. It is a light to the finish as long as 1 can gel a medium through which I can speak. A few fearless Democratic papers i have signified to me their inten-tiona to copy my former article as j informaiion. 1 will he thankful if! they will copy them all. The Alliance can, if it so deter- I mines, enforce Its demands for rail-[ road leform and it ought in every county to call upon every candi- I date before the people to "declare I how he stands on the question, so j that assurance shall be made dou-1 bly sure. With free silver, free speech and freedom from the power of foreign corporations written on its banner, the Alliance will win against all comers. I). SCHENCK. Nov. 2'J, 1805. Credit to Hood's It Cured All My Afflictions. 'eV Dimes Save Dollars — wins si KM H.R— 1:. !ge Church, V :. "For ten y in I i,av(, goffered terrfM* SxZST' •:',"'.iIi'y'f'1"" •-' "■'»""»' • an -,;,,," ,a<1 J""1 ::,l:!'v trouble. . I"5[•"* ' ; ■' ■ II : disease b^^'il:,,;1:.. r^.i Hood's After the first bo'.'.l- I felt so much better that I decided to i Sarsa-parllla ures BLISSIBOS (If THE RAILROAD COM-M! r-ION. As an encouragement to the peo pie to go forward in this reform egislation in regard io railroads, let them contemplate the vast bene-fit and advantages which have ac-crued to them through the Railroad Bee Culture at the Experiment Sta-tion. The Experiment Station has re J,™"1'1 ?' coring certly completed arrangements for ""*"""Cfa SSSJ and have taken over sii bottles. Today my health la ts tter i ban ii has i, en for more than a decade, [havei neart or spleen dlffl nlty.and am in duly • ■ J ... .: Commission which was peculiarly the work of the farmers of North Carolina. The railroads had been able to throttle this useful piece of legislation from year to year, until the Farmers' Alliance obtained con-trol of the legislature and forced the Commission upon them. 1 had the opportunity to know and do know that the accidents to life and limb on the railroads have burthen's which these foreign" in j l"'en mluce(1 fully one half if not carrying on __:•?» work in Bee Cul-ture, both to disseminate Isforma | tion as to the best methods to toi-j low in beekeeping, as well as to conduct tests to determine what! plans should be adopted in North ; Carolina to make this particular industry as profitable as possible. ' In many sections of the Slate be-culture now yields handsome Hood's Pills- ■'■'■ ii p, Baiaaparmaandarogei DnuoaisTB, ' °«ier Opposite Tostofflce. MOTICB. I WART rtery m»n anil womaa In lh« ruiad Kaluta io have .me ,.f ,,,. l„,ok. o„ HUM all* Uo.v Jffi, a,,d on* win be nul jam free. Railroad Company, for they are really the same in substance, offer- ' I me the position of General i "e"' corporations "desirous of Couneel for North Carolina In 1881,1 tranMot'Ds> husiness in the State and I refused it twice; but owing' '." ta'<e out a license from the aud-to the fair promises made and re- i }*•">' the State, and before obtain-iteratcd to me by Col. Andrews i in8 itt0 furnish him a statement, un-at last reluctantly consented to be der f'e oath of the president, show-retained in employment and served ' j11? its name, locality, the amount of MBER! r call on or - in all -:. Kloor- Uuild-i Springs, H. C. Farm ior Sale. .hi room II ltd. 'Ihe r--a b;e„a„t, grateful Ul till r.tx eniently. ippl* ftl 1 II I for fourteen years, when their State counsel, as a general rule, were discharged in two to five years. It required me to go day and night, until my health failed and twice the surgeon's knife was the only alternative to save my life. As soon as I became disabled, instead of remunerating me for my hard services or exercising any feeling of humanity or charity towards me in my helpless condition, this soul-less coporation at the instance of its vice-president, coolly turned me out to perish, as it thought, but was careful enough to say that no charges were made against me. It thought I was about dead and treated me as it would a dead horse or a dead dog—threw me aside by abolishing the office I held. But blessed be God, my health has al-most been restored and the people are coming in to employ me pro-fessionally every day. This dis-pleases this wealthy and heartless and envious corporation and it is now trying, through its agents, to destroy my private practice by charging that I am taking cases against the Southern Railway for nothing. There is not a shadow of truth in it. It then said that I was a disappointed candidate for Director of the N. C. R. R. Co. This too is wholly untrue. This corporation seeks to divert public attention from its gross oppression of the people of the State by mak-ing a personal issue with me. This is a confession of its weakness and an exhibition of its deep-seated malignity towards me. I appeal to the people to give me fair play while I expose the wrongs of this corporation to public view. I am determinined to say all that I in-tended to say, though I should be assassinated for doing it, and I in-tend to take all the cases I can get against this Railroad and shall be to any one who employs me. I know its weak points and all its modes of defence, and am not afraid to cross swords with it its capital stock, the assets of the company, and to furnish agree-ment under seal authorizing its agents to accept service of process." In 1803 it amended the act by providing "that all foreign insur-ance companies doing business in Chicago should pay to the city treasurer the sum of two dollars on the one hundred upon all premiums received. That in default of this payment it should be unlawful for the foreign company to do business in the city." The insurance companies refused to pay this tax and took the case to the Supreme court of the United States. That court, without hesi tation, declared the act constitu tional upon the authority of Paul r.i. Virginia, S Wallace Reports, page 168. See also case of Ducat v». Chica-go, 10 Wallace (V. s.) Report*, page ', 10. The court said. "The power of the State to dit-criminate between her own domettic corporations and those of other States is dearly established." Again the State of Massachusetts imposed "a tax of two per cent, upon all premiums received by an insurance company incorporated under the laws of any one of the United States other than Massa-chusetts." This statute was also contested by the Liverpool Insurance Com pany, chartered in England, but the statue was again sustained. See Liverpool Ins. Co. vs. Malta-vaders refuse to carry. In order that our legislators may carry out these just and reasonable reforms I will endeavor, in some future communication, to draft and publish acts to be introduced in the next legislature by them in order to effect this purpose, of crnrse subject to amendment or improve-ment luch as their wisdom may suggest. I know that it often hap-pens that an honest and faithful legislator wishes to accomplish some beneficial legislation, but has no one to draft an act for him. It is very necessary that the bills be drawn carefully and in such shape as to be sustained by the decisions of the courts, and that the legisla-tare be warned of the effect of) more—one-half is on the safe side. This result was obtained through the Commission, which compelled the railroads to keep their tracks in repair and to take up the dan-gerous, refuse, old iron, which the Richmond A Danville Railroad company had placed on the Wes-tern North Carolina Railroad. The Richmond A Danville Railroad company had made this the dump-ing ground for all the old wornoul rails in their system. It is now a fine, safe road. The old trestles— called "spider legged"—have been taken out and good bridges and viaducts substituted. This road had become the night mare of all travelers and the ridicule of all strangers, until the Railroad Com-tuins when carefully managed With proper use of the improved years this result I pany, for two reasoni ftltt4JE<*raiUtt COMPANY, OF HARTFORU, "OHM. -A_sse-bs 0^7-e:r» $43,000,000.- M<-I>l •i'i i: -!><-«-iiil agent, OREGNMRORO, IV. < •. methods of late amendments which the enemies of mie''1"n compelled the Richmond A the people may endeavor to place upon them. METHODS OK CORPORATIONS. The corporations always have a few men in each house to do their dirty work, and these members re-ceive their instructions in secret at railroad headquarters and after Danville Railroad company and the Southern to put it in good repair. Look too, at the nice, comfortable depots they have been forced to erect and the other conveniences and improvements. As you go to Raleigh, notice the elegant little depot at University Station, which succeeds the old, wornout, filthy might be laigely increased. It will be the purpose of the Station to endeavor *.o aid in the extension of the industry, and with the pos sible improvement of the culture ' where it has now found a foothold I For this purpose the cooperation' of two experienced bee keepers has been secured. Dr. J. W. Hunter and Mr. W. H. Hall, both of Forsylh county. It is expected that results interesting to bee-keepers will be reached during the coming season.! In the meantime items of timely j interest will be distributed upon the various phases of the subject. As the Station desires to enter into correspondence with every bee-keeper now in North Carolina, each one is cordially requested to send bis name and address to Dr. II. It Battle, Director, Raleigh, N. ('.' Any items as to the stocks, hives, j etc., on hand, and the success or; failure heretofore met with, will be gladly received. Doubtless the correspondence will be mutually helpful. 1 hose who patronize Ibis old n liable Company obtain their Insurance for L*!'.'.' .'- '!" leM "l"""v ">an do the policy-holders of any other old llnecom-ecause the .Ktna charges ■: Lower Hale of Pre-mium. 2d Because the .Ktna holders. -i i.Altaic xrjiiwi, pays ■ Large Annual I'iiideiid to its pollcy- /•• ////. « ITIZEXS OF GBKEXSJIonO HOLD POll- ' i / - / \ / III-. COMPA V )'. IW~r'"r any Information you may do-ire concerning ils rate*, plan- etc . call on the undesigned at McDuftle's Forniture Store. JJ- I- McDUFFIE, Speoial Agont. Toys! Toys! Toys! FOR EVERYBODY. An Interesting Publication. All kind of Tin, Iron and Wooden Toys, Drums, Dolls, Bagatelle Boards, Hobby Horses, Swinging shoo Flya, stick Horses. Shell Boxes, Bellows Toys, Pianos, Stoves, Risque Figures, Climbing Monkeys, - dei and the Fly, Trumpets, Balls, Rubbei Dolls, I liime Bells, Fire ( rackers—in fact any and everything in the Toy line can be found at night Corporations are rich box-ear, which the Richmond A enough to employ the best lawyers 1 Danville Railroad company forced and they exact of them the best of la(iie9 am, gen,iemen l0 _„ int0 work. These gentlemen do gentlemen to go into for 'his shelter, which it was hardly lit for work professionally and are not re- 8wine ,0 inhabit. The University sponeible for the propriety of these road, t00i wag a9 ba(, aB (||e w£ acts Lawyers have even to defend lern with it9 old wornout iron but the thieves and murderers ; but this noB it llas ,,een put in or(Ier Look does not make the lawyers thieves | at ,ne improvements at Statesville and murderers. It the is hard lot of. amI Winsion. Watch, too, how a lawyer to apologize for many' pronlpt| lhe6e railroads obey the crimes in the courts which be j ittW wliieh loaths in his private life, and rail- i to (ieri,|t. road attorneys are called upon to | annual relurn „', ,heir condilion defend the misconduct of railroad ; anii afatl8 for vearg a9 re,.uire(i Dv companies which conduct they de- , law> until „le Railroad Commission spise as other men do. The lawyer j -emoketl them out " is not responsible. It is the salaried they were accustomed They had not made an "The Missing Records of the Confederate Cabinet" is the title of a volume soon to be issued by Mr. Felix G. de Fontaine, of New York,, formely editor of the Nineteenth | Century Magazine, Charleston. It| will comprise the decisions of the! Confederate Attorney General. I There was no supreme court. These opinions have never been published before, having been all the while in the posession of Mr.de Fontaine. I North Carolina had two favorite' sons who at different times filled the office, Hone. Thomas Bragg and George Davis. The references in the book to the letter's rulings and opinions are on more than sixty-eight pages. There is a great deal I about North Carolina allairsin the volume of 500 pages, and it should be of interest to all lawyers 1 J. ICie's MB Sin, Next Door to Vanstory's Clothing House. Greensboro Roller Mills. NORTH k WATSON, PROPRIETORS. PURITY: A HIGH GRADE PATENT. STAR: A FINE FAM1LY|PL0UB. There.' Those of us who remember what a piercing yell Mr. Linney emitted Now the citizen has a speedy and ollicials whose greed for grain sears , cheap court where ne can get jug. their consciences and destroys ' tice a,ld where hi8 complaints can-their power to discriminate between not be tran6ferred to the Federal right and wrong, and finally they COurts. have no consciences, no humanity/ xht act creating the Railroad during the campaign about Con-no patriotism. [Commission is an honor to the ' gressman Bower's private secretary It is self, and self ilone, which . Karmers' Alliance of which they "i" be astonished to know that the controls their actions. It is these ' fellows "who are heaping up wralli against the day of wrath" when their damnation will come suddenly upon them. Some of them boast of CHARM OF GREE.SBURO: THE POOR HAN'S FRIEND. These brands . , market on their merits and have throughout the land as well as to given universal i >n and are pronounced excellent by the leading historical students. The book to be sold by subscription. familes of Greensboro anil surrounding country. We guarantee uni-formity in each - i le. Ask -.our merchants for NORTH A WATSON'S FLOUR. Remember we handle all s of the freshest and BKST FKKD beside the best MEAL ever made in Greensboro. USTOIR/TH: &C "W^-TSOJSI", Mill al Walker Avenue and C. F. A Y. V. R. R. t may be proudy boast, and they ] "patriot'' has actually gone and should continue to keep their or | appointed one for himself! And ganization compact and vigorous, | the Populists who elected Mr. I.in-so as to make their further de-1 ney will have the privilege of con | g_^_{=JJ3; DOORS -A..N"H) BLUTDS unvcBEE, their capacity to profane God's name, and they utter curses loud mands for railroad reform effec- jgratulating Mr. K. Spencer Black-tive. It is the only power which ever fought the foreign corpora and deep against those who dare|tion9 successfully. The railroads chusetts, in Wallace, 666 (1870). Question their conduct; but "God I win curee tho Alliance; but, all TUnnn »——— ^-_^. J r will ni\* li..'.l * I, ,.... :i»i " C. . V. s. These cases are approved in Doyle vs. font. Ins. Co., !>$ Reports, page 5S8 (1886.) They are based upon the leading cases of Bank M h'arle, IS Peters '■ submit to the wrath of a thi not hold them guiltless" for the Bame, they are in terror of it. The judgment will The next legislature should, ear-come suddenly upon them some ly in its session, raise a joint'com-day, and they will be compelled to mj,tee on railroad reform and let burn, a thick and thin Republican.' on getting the appointment.—Gas tonia Gazette. No trouble to I - know where to buy the cheapest material. We manufacture all kinds of DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, MANTELS, DOOR and WINDOW FRAMES, GLASS, il'RNED WORK. SI ROLL SAWING. MAN: WORK, MOULDING of all kinds, FLOORING, CEILING, SIDING, CASING and allkindsof FINISHED LUMBER. We carry in stock ROUGH LUMBER, SHINGLES, PLAS-Iteps. 684. Where it is said : "Foreign corporations have no absolute right of recognition in other States. The State may ex- God. Fastener! BuckUen's Arnica Slave. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fevei Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hand-, .','.V-^','»-(. - Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Krup- ' BRING LA I UK.-, and all kinds of 111 ILDING material. rignteotis jt formulate a code, incorporating tiona, and positively cures Tiles, or no o \- W" 1 the advanced legislation of other pay required. It is guaranteed to give JCC OUT i\CW W HiUOW sil'PEESSiNO COMPETITION". states that have "naaaed under th« . perfect satisfaction, or money refund-! . . ».„:„ . „A , ,. , „ ,.'■*<• A.F , PfeeeU .under L the ed. Trice 25 cents per box. For sale Requiring no weights and .., per cent, cheaper tfi-n weights, and can Again, a most useful reform is rod" and, then, broken their shac- Dy c. E. Holton. jeded in North Carolina to pre-1 kles. An investigation will aston-i ' — ——■ elude them entirely. It may re- vent this insatiable foreign corpo-1 ish our people how far they are be- j "I Suffered a great deal with head-strict its business to particular lo- ration from ownine and controlling I bind in such useful legislation. ; ache and beK*n t»kinB Hood's Sarsa-caht. es or exact security for the every railroad in the State. Thel In my next I will publish tome P^wd^^.b^.WonbledwIth performance of its contracts. The'charter of the Southern Railway I of these needed reforms. ' Uzzle! N. " Miss I.in-y .1. Dai], be used where weights will not work. Guilford Lumber Company, Greensboro. N. C. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla.
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [December 11, 1895] |
Date | 1895-12-11 |
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: THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT «
: PIEDMONT BANK
OF GREENSBORO N. C
0,000.00. Surplus, $7,000.00.
GREENSBORO, y. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER^ 189;
K. G. VAUGHN, Cathier,
. TKOIIDON, Vice-Pre:
DIRECTORS :
in the temples of justice where I
will have a fair chance with law
and equity on my side.
KIOHI TO PREVENT REMOVAL OF CASKS.
In my last article I showed by
reference to cited cases in the Re-ports
of the Supreme Court of the
Lnited States that
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
had no right to operate a railroad
In North Carolina; that it was
only a privilege, extended to them
through the courtesy of the State,
and that the legislature of the1
otttemsta,«ee8."eet9inlhedi8Creti'
So that we conclude that t
State of North Carolina may ex-clude
any foreign corporation from
the State or
IMI'OSE A TAX
prorata on its shares of stock, or
on its gross receipts or pledge a
specific tax on its cars or tax it in
any other way it may choose. It is
r'gnt, it is just that these taxes
should be imposed on the property
these wealthy corporations
NO. .30
we it to issue mort-gages
and raise a hundred and
twenty million dollars—
I Sincerely thank The Cauca«i,,n
allowing me to speak to the CENTER,
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AK,..,.-y Southern Ki|>rr*. Company,
ii. n. i.uiiH,
American To-
I. N. Wylhe*
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l.car Tobacco, Barer for AT
l.aeeoi uiii|i.tiy.
•BED PKAl ! , K.
I- u 1,(1,,,., Pwwast Are—iliiiiu Fentalc OeBsn,
'•• "■ " 'A-. 11 M'I.,I u Law.
BUte had the power to withdraw !They neither "toil nor spin." About
that privilege whenever it pleased a" the hig officials do is to locate
to do so, or it might attach any I !n the county and kill all the quails
conditions it pleased to the exer- "
cise of that privilege.
That the legislature had the
power to pass a law that no foreign
corporation, either railroad, insur-
ONAL CARDS.
HAYS, M. D.f
BORO, N. C..
irtitioner
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ton.
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L.\ J. E. WYCHE,
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W.H. Wakefield,
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\OMC :inil Throal.
IENCK & SCHENCK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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A. M. B< ftl B8.
-\ \ SCALES.
i >ys atj La"wr
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to all busi-ding,
1 :.n Square.
I Lime! Cement!
' Lime! Cement!
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kinds i>f Building
ios. Woodroffe.
v! Lime! Cement!
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I SERIES,
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grounds
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STEDIN
• HI'OR FLOWERS
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sually kepi
'■ 'Mi Ilouses
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frees, Vines
i1 rei n House
toappl leauts.
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THE FINAL, DWELLING.
For Hie PATRIOT.;
"II the hank of yonder river
I* a dwelling placefor me:
'""'at dwelling is a Giver,
And 1 wish with Him to be.
I 'h, how beauteous is that mansion,
» HO Its sbimng spires so bright,
"here I see the great expansion
Of eternal realms of light.
There in that eelcatial dwelling
Is a place reserved for all;
There the hcav'nly chords areswelllng
Bweel with music's gentle call.
All my life-long I've been waiting.
I-or a message from on high,
1 bat might free my soul from hating,
I" this land of tear and sigh.
'ilndly shall I greet my Master,
« ben my work for aye is done;
l.ei me only ha-te the faster.
And my pilgrimage be run.
D. E. HAMMER, Wbitsett, X. ('.
A FIGHT FOR RIGHT.
Judge Schenck Writes Another Let-ter
Regarding the Southern Rail-way's
Legal Status in this State.
In a recent issue of the Caucasian
there appeared a communication
fr.ini Judge Shenck, of this city, in
which the writer questioned the
legality of the ninety-nine-year
lease of the W. X. ('. Railroad,
which goes into effect December 31,
1896. He also called attention to
the fact that the Southern Railway
is not vested with the ordinary
privileges of corporations, being
chartered in another state. In the
Caucasian of last week we find the
following, which U a more elaborate
exposition of his \i< ws:
The law is stronger than the corpo-rations,
and the people make I lie law.
"Hie pen is inigliiier Ihan thesword."
MR. EDITOR:—My communica-tion
to your paper last week sign-ed
"Lex" seems to have stirred up
the Southern Railroad Company
and its friends who. supposing it
needed l»lp, have offered assist-by
way of personal abuse of
me instead of replying to my ar-guimnts
or correcting my state-mints
of the law in regard to FOR-I
H.N i RPORATIOXI if indeed I
made any mistake. When these
newspapers attempt to do either
they will, in my opinion, have a
Herculean task to p. i form. 1 ba\e
been a Student of corporation law
for fourteen yeure and um vain
enough to think that I know some
thing about it. The Southern Rail-way,
or ihe Richmond A Danville
ance or other kind, should exercise
any of its functions or do any bus-iness
in the State, as operating
railroads, without first taking out
a license and that the Secretary of
State should revoke that license at
any time upon information lodged
with him that such foreign corpo-ration
had removed or was endeav-oring
to remove any of its caeeB
from the State to the Federal courts.
Boyle vs. Insurance Company, 91
U. S. Reports, page 535, settles this
question. See also Rector vg
Philadelphia, 21 Howard, page 300.
Therefore that it was the duty
of the next legislature of North
Carolina to follow the example of
Ohio, Indiana and other Northern
and Western States and pass an
act which would compel the South
ern Railway Company or any other
foreign railroad corporation to put
itself on an equality with our own
corporations, chartered by the
State, and try their cases in the
State courts. It has been the habit
of the Richmond A Danville Rail-road
company, whenever sued for
over $2,000, to remove the case at
once to the Lnited States Courts,
which it had the right to do as a
foreign corporation, and our courts
were thus treated with contempt,
and where the L'nited States statute
for removals was not broad en
to remove the
ough
case on account of
diverse citizenship, the next move
was for the vice-president to file
an affidavit swearing that hie com-pany
could not get justice in the
State courts, on account of "local
prejudice"—thus asserting under
oath that the State judges and
juries were unfit to try railroad
cases. It is astonishing that the
legislature has not made the repe-tition
of these insults toourjudi
ciary impossible, and rebuked by
appropriate legislation such un-justifiable
and offensive conduct.
I predict that the next legisla-ture
of North Carolina will wipe
out this diBgrace, if the bills to
prevent it are not purloined.
RIGHT TO TAX FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.
I wish now to advance a step
further, and to show that the leg
islalure of North Carolina has the
right to discriminate against foreign
corporations by levying upon each
one doing business in the State,
either a specific tax or one to be
prorated on its business and there-by
compel these gigantic, wealthy
corporaiions which are protected
by the State at the expense of its
own citizens, to shoulder their
share of the burden of taxation,
»hi.h they have avoided by being
eh.ir'ered in another State.
In 1853 the legislature of IIIi-n
«.i. passed an act requiring for-in
reach and draw salaries of from
110,000 $50,000, while their poor
employees have scarcely enough
paid them to keep soul and body
together. Look at the palatial pri-vate
cars of these officials! It took
in a newspaper a half a column to
describe the magnificence and lux-urious
apartments of Vice-presi-dent
Andrews' car, in which he
lives in such gorgeous splendor, as
he rolls along through the State.
Livened servants await the tap of
his electric bell and while his table
is loaded with the most costly
viands, the finest of liquors fill the
side-board. Yet this costly man-sion,
costing perhaps $20,000, pays
no tax, while the farmer pays
tax on his wagon, his dogcart
and his cabin, nothing escapes.
Let a specific tax of $500 be placed
on every one of these cars. It
would have been honest and Chris
tain and just if the money put in
these cars had been paid to the
poor creditors of the R. A- D. R. R.
Co., instead of being turned over to
its successor. It would be more
consistent, too, with a Republican
form of government if these nabobs
would not display their wealth be-fore
the eyes of the suffering poor
around the depots.
_ It would be more consistent with
Christianity if they would not spend
quite so much on their own bodies
and give a little to the naked and
hungry people of the State during
the frosts of the winter. Let them
not indulge in the idea that God is
not listening to the long suffering
cries of the poor, and the cry of the
"laborer for his wages." "Shall He
who made the eye not see?' "Shall
He who made the ear not hear?'
"Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right?"
WHAT OTIIKR STATES HAVE DONE.
The State of South Carolina, in
the exercise of its constitutional
rights, as heretofore set forth, has
by a constitutional amendment ab-solutely
forbidden any foreign rail- |
road corporation to do business in j
that State and required every rail |
road man doing business in its!
borders to take out a charter from
that State.
Our State might wisely follow
that precedent so as to "place all
railroad corporations, foreign and
domestic, on a legal equality, and
not subject our home companies t
- they cannot
aestroy or intimidate, and thereby
force every citizen to patronize
them and pay them tribute as slaves
because there is no other line to
transport their freight. The State
eorgia has a statute forbidding
ny one railroad
con
under that statue that the deal
made by the R. A D R. R. Co., for
the control of the Georgia Central
was declared void in the Federal
Courts.
to 20,000 people through The Cni
casian, when I could scarcely have
reacbed5,000throughothereources.
I will try to be careful in stat-ing
my propositions of law and
in sustaining them by reference to
indubitable authority, so that in
TRYING TO HOBBLE IP THE C F. 4 1. v.
The legislature ought to take
early action in this matter before
it is too late. The Southern Rail-way
b«s purchased every one of
the roads formerly owned by the
R- A I). R. R. Co., and is now
stretching out its octopus hands to
gather in the Cape Fear A Yadkin
Valley Railroad—about the only
distinctly North Carolina railroad
remaining out of their grasp—and,
as usual, in their greed they are'
trying at the same time to destroy
all the branches feeding this road.
Its plan is to force a sale of the
main line and purchase it, and em-barrass
the short feeder branches
by discriminations and delays in
transportation until the owners
will be compelled to sell out to
them for whatever price this wick-ed
monopoly may offer to its vic-tim.
It seems that the Governor of
the State ought, if necessary, call
the Legislature together that it
may enact a law to prevent the
consummation of this crime, or the
Baltimore syndicate ought to post-pone
a sale until the next legisla-ture
meets in order that it may
take action. It seems that the
judges of the Federal Courts would
grant this delay in order to rescue
the ciiizens of North ('arolina, who
have invested |heir whole capital
in these branelies and protect them
from the rapacity of ibis merciless
corporation.
. competing li„°e,anyd Tt was' £?li' H£ T"*' 'T "U°,M
as I may be printed in a pamphlet form
for the information of the people
and for ready reference in debate.
The field is a wide one and it will
take a while to exhaust the sub
Ject. I may go down personally
under my physical infirmities, or
by other misfortunes, but the prin
ciples I am enunciating are as
dealhless as the law. and when 1
lay down the discussion, younger,
stronger, and if possible more en-thusiastic
defenders of the people
against licensed greed and corpor-ate
avai ice, will take it up. I have
been amused at some of the means
suggee ed by the officers of the
Southern to force me to silence
It won't do. I am not for sale, nor
can I be intimidated. It is a light
to the finish as long as 1 can gel a
medium through which I can speak.
A few fearless Democratic papers i
have signified to me their inten-tiona
to copy my former article as j
informaiion. 1 will he thankful if!
they will copy them all.
The Alliance can, if it so deter- I
mines, enforce Its demands for rail-[
road leform and it ought in every
county to call upon every candi- I
date before the people to "declare I
how he stands on the question, so j
that assurance shall be made dou-1
bly sure.
With free silver, free speech and
freedom from the power of foreign
corporations written on its banner,
the Alliance will win against all
comers. I). SCHENCK.
Nov. 2'J, 1805.
Credit to Hood's
It Cured All My Afflictions.
'eV
Dimes
Save
Dollars
— wins si KM H.R—
1:. !ge Church, V :.
"For ten y in I i,av(, goffered terrfM*
SxZST' •:',"'.iIi'y'f'1"" •-' "■'»""»' •
an -,;,,," ,a<1 J""1 ::,l:!'v trouble.
. I"5[•"* ' ; ■' ■ II : disease
b^^'il:,,;1:.. r^.i
Hood's
After the first bo'.'.l-
I felt so much better
that I decided to i
Sarsa-parllla
ures
BLISSIBOS (If THE RAILROAD COM-M!
r-ION.
As an encouragement to the peo
pie to go forward in this reform
egislation in regard io railroads,
let them contemplate the vast bene-fit
and advantages which have ac-crued
to them through the Railroad
Bee Culture at the Experiment Sta-tion.
The Experiment Station has re J,™"1'1 ?' coring
certly completed arrangements for ""*"""Cfa
SSSJ and have taken over sii bottles.
Today my health la ts tter i ban ii has i, en
for more than a decade, [havei
neart or spleen dlffl nlty.and am in duly
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Commission which was peculiarly
the work of the farmers of North
Carolina. The railroads had been
able to throttle this useful piece of
legislation from year to year, until
the Farmers' Alliance obtained con-trol
of the legislature and forced
the Commission upon them.
1 had the opportunity to know
and do know that the accidents to
life and limb on the railroads have
burthen's which these foreign" in j l"'en mluce(1 fully one half if not
carrying on __:•?» work in Bee Cul-ture,
both to disseminate Isforma |
tion as to the best methods to toi-j
low in beekeeping, as well as to
conduct tests to determine what!
plans should be adopted in North ;
Carolina to make this particular
industry as profitable as possible. '
In many sections of the Slate be-culture
now yields handsome
Hood's Pills- ■'■'■ ii p,
Baiaaparmaandarogei
DnuoaisTB,
' °«ier Opposite Tostofflce.
MOTICB.
I WART rtery m»n anil womaa In lh« ruiad
Kaluta io have .me ,.f ,,,. l„,ok. o„ HUM all*
Uo.v Jffi, a,,d on* win be nul jam free.
Railroad Company, for they are
really the same in substance, offer-
' I me the position of General i "e"' corporations "desirous of
Couneel for North Carolina In 1881,1 tranMot'Ds> husiness in the State
and I refused it twice; but owing' '." ta' |