The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, February 01, 1905, Image 2
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TMB LEDGER.
THUSLOW S. CARTER,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
\TKUNK?I)AY A.N J? 8ATI'HDAY
WEDNESDAY, IT.ItlUAUY 1 li?05
bubhoription AO PEP YEAlt
Col. Springs on the Ten Hour
Labor BJI.
L incHstor cor. The News and i
Courier: Just before Col. Loroy
Springs, president of the Lin
caster Cotton Mills, loft here Saturday
evening for New Orleans,
to attend the big cotton Convention,
to which he is a delegate,
your correspondent asked him
for his views on the ten-hour
labor bill pending beforo the
Legislature.
The Colonel promptly replied :
"Why, the passage of that bill
would certainly result in disaster
to the mills of the State. I am
sure tho measure is being agitated
by Northern people through
tome of tho labor agitators
arouua Augusta and Aiken,
where all this labor agitation
arises.
"Those people arc working in
the iuterast of tho Now E-gland
mills, as tho hopo of tho New
England mills competing with
South Carolina mills depends
upon their getting all tho labor
agitation in our midst that they
can promote .
"Yes, tho enactment of such
a bill into law would, beyond
doubt, greatly-cripple tho textile
industry of South Carolina,
which is now in its infancy .?
While it is true that we have
made rapid strides toward the
building of textile industries in
the State, if wo can but keep
down labor agitation, this work
has only commenced. Nothing
should be thrown in the way of
getting all the capital wo can in
the State.
"You know what the mills
have done for tho town of Lancaster
and vicinity?well, mills
will do the same thing for every
little town in South Carolina
that may build them in the future.
if the mills are not crionled
r ? r I
by adverse legislation.
"Before we commenco labor
agitation of this nature we
should wait until we get somewhat
on a parity with Massachusetts
and other New England
States, which have prospered so
materially since the war on account
of having a monopoly of
the textile industry.
"The cotton mills have all had
m Q rrl f 1 m c\ frvr U /> rmni ? ? ? U A
m <?ui ?* viuio iui luu Cl^llbUOll
months, owing to the unsettled
condition of tne cottou market
and cotton goods trade generally,
and they can ill afford to have
further agitation at ^present.
"What the mills need more
than anything olse?especially
since the passage of the child
labor law?is a system of compulsory
education, to force the
children into the schools that the
taxpayers aro being made to support,
in order to give to tho State
an intelligent citizenship."
"1 have given much thought to
this question and 1 am very sure
that tho only justification for free
schools is compulsory education,
andl am also doubly sure that.that
is the only hope of our country."
?B E Wilson, educator and then
president of Converse college.
Tho thing is for each indivi lunl
farmer who gives his allegiance to
this tremendous effort in behalf of
his temporal salvation, to do his
full duty, and not trouble himself
about tho unfair people who
would seek sol fish advantage. It
it the people who go into tho organization
and who live most honestly
up to their obligations who
are going to get tho most pro lit.
? lorkville Enquirer.
Fivo Hundred Hussitto* Captur?d
by Japanese*
Tokiu, Jan 420, 8 p \u.?Telegraphic
advices received here to*
day from the .Japanese Muncburinn
headquarters says:
"Our detachment occupied
Liutiako yesterday (Saturday) ami
was twice counter attacked by a
superior force of the enemy last
nwht. We entire!) repulsed the
enemy.
"Our other detachment at dawn
today (Sunday) attacked the enemy
in tho neighborhood of Feitsauhotszu,
about tw > miles north
of Hoikoutai, and occupied the
position. The enemy florcelv
counter uttuckcd our force which
assailed Heitoutai last night, but
was repulsed entirely. Today
our force occupied the neighborhood
of Heikoutai.
"The enemy in the direction of
Liutuko and Heikoutai has en^
tire.Iy retreated to the right bonk
of tho Hun river. Our forco is
now pursuing hem.
lk\Vo captured UOO officers and
men.
" The casualties on both sides
lire under investigation."
Russian Defeat.
St. Petersburg, .Ian. 20, 12.30
a. in ?Instead of confirmation
of Saturday night's report that
\ien. Kuropatkin broke through
the Japanese left, there came
Lieut. Gen. SakharofTs official
admission that the Russians had
been compelled to retire from
S'tndcspas on account of their
inability to carry a redoubt.
?Spartanburg special in the
News and Courier: The cotton
condition is moat anomalous. It
bus surprised experts as well us
farmers. Hundreds of bales are
unsold in the country, but no one
seems to be pressed for money.
Even the farmers who have sold
no cot ton are getting on all right.
\ cotton mill president reports
that he bought cotton for February
or March delivery at 8?
cents. That trade was made when
the d' op in pi ice began. lie
thought it was cheap enough.
The factor who wac to furnish the
cotton has written to bim, begging
off, for he cannot buy a bale*
even at that prico. The cotton
factors hero are not booking orders
for immediate or future delivery,
just because they have no
cotton in sight It is one of the
most interesting business problems
that has come up for solution in
the south. Bankers, cotton factors,
mill presidents and farmers
are all working for the same object.
They wish to eliminate the
gambling elemeut from the prob
lera, so that the price will bo uniform,
or as nearly so as possible.
It is a remarkuble busioess condition
when a mill president insists
on the delivery of cotton at
S? cents when the local price is on
ly G.75, and the seller is unable to
deliver tho cotton, when the margin
is about $8 to $ 10 a bale in
his favor. It begins to look as if
tho stand which the farmers
have taken will revolutionize
the methods of the cotton exchange.
The farmers of this
county seem in earnest about
holding what is on hand. Occasionally
one carries his cotton
to a mill and has the option of
naming tho day for payment, the
price being tho markot price of
that day. This correspondent saw
six or eight bales on the way to a
mill this morning on that condition.
That is safe for the farmer,
but it tends to keep tho price1
down.
BAY "TURRAV'S"
When you've got a bad oouflti hist
say "MCHUA Y'B" If a druggist
Sives you anything hut Murmy'a Hon
ound, Mullein and Tar yoo*re net
getting the bant and nusost ootiffh rpTO'
edy. &lnhe Ikiin gtve you Marrav's
Acts yulcktvr and yt,u get a Mo size
bottle for J46e.
livery druggist has it
Convention of Colored Ftrm|
p rs.
Tlio fkfrtiprsJ of Lancaster coun^
ty are earuestlv' reqliestod to
meet in annual session Feb. 9lb,
1905, <H sctiool building.
Much business of importance
to come before us. Let the farmers,
colored and white, get close
together.
To what extent can the colored
farmer assist in bettering hie
condition ?
What can wo do to more fully
convince the negro that it ie better
to stay in the South, and
stop floating about ? Farmers
U6ed good labor and will pay for
it.
Does not the colorod man have 1
a better opportunity to raaVe
raonev and got houors here than 1
in the North ? (
Do the negroes discourage
crime and vagrancy among the
people ?
To what extent is the negro
trying to educate himself ?
To what extent, can the colored
fatraer help reduce the cotton
acreage for the good of the country
?
I9 ti e storage of cotton bales
advisable ? Will the poor man
be bonefitod by it ?
Will the colored man be furnished
money to advantage ?
This meoting of colored farmore
will convene at 10 o'clock.?
There will be a morning and
night session.
A barbecue dini er will bo served
farmers on that day.
Comeono, come all.
Every farmer in the county
ought to bo present.
M. D. LEE, President.
Representative Foster spoke last
Friday against Josh Ashley's bill
to abolish the 6tate bureauof immigration
and agriculture. Of hil
speech the News andCourier's
lutnbiu Correspondent says:
Mr. Foster, of Lancaster, canto
here instructed to favor any law
favorable to immigration. He
thought immigration was a necessity
in this State. The negro
is not going to stay in this country
and remain in the field. The
educated negro leaves hore.?
This bureau protects the State
agaiust ''scum" immigration.?
The cotton mills have depleted
the farm help and more farm
help has to be brought here.?
This country had many recent
substantial immigrants. He
wanted to say that bis people
wanted this bureau maintained,
and those who opposed the do
partment were left at home.
This is the question: Will
those who protest against compulsory
education, on the plea that it
it undemocratic ond paternalistic,
advocate the suspension of taxes
for free schools? Inveighing
against compulsion for education
they cannot defend compulsory
taxation for free school education.
?The State.
Hopburn-Dolliver Bill
Raleigh, N. C. .Jan. 28?The
general assembly ofNorth Carolina
today Adopted a joint resolution
asking the representatives of the
State in congress to vote for the
t>assa<?e of the Henhnrn-llnlli*#p
hill prohibiting interstate shipping
of whiskey into prohibition territory.
A CHILD BURNKD TO DEATH.
Bennettsville, Jan. 2&?Thf
two-year-old child of George Cros
land, a wealthy farmer and large
real estate owner, was burned to
death last eight.
Mrs. Crosland was in tho kitshen
and Mr Crosland left the room
f/ir Q ffl w mniunnte ir\ imr/ifil I ?
?WI M ?vf? ujv/uivum iv III vcnil^ltio
a noise in the ham. The child
pulled a lamp from the lahle saturating
its head and clothing with
oil. When the parenls reached
the child it was enveloped in
flames and sti'l holding tho lamp.
After tbreo hours of intense suffer
ing it died at D.o'clock. I
AT TEN
BAR(
THE HEAT
Successors to HE
TILE CO., which
settle with the es
ceased.
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We are here i
our share of the t
ings will induce 1
ing renovated tin
& Mercantile Co.
our place more c<
have devidcd our
ies first, on the cc
ment second; dry
the fourth room.
We would call
we have many gr<
For The
as we want to in
chasing our Sprii
In moving our Shoes, a
decided to place them on a ha
these shoes are not oid goods
as DREW-SELBY.GODMAN and
CLOTHING
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you to take adraai
Yoii can have airj
ment for ac(ual <
delay but come ai
We ivould like
have in the wa> <
prevents our doi i
tion and you will
IN 3HAP1
and can make yoi
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has been liqui
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state
Ebv business an
racle if low pri<
the public; to s(
? stores of the
, gives us more
[uivenient for
stock into depi
irner; gent's tu
goods third,
your attention
eat inducemem
Next Thirl
ake a clean s^
tig Goods.
i great many of the boxes
irgain counter, and U th
; but right new and some
I other mates.
WE HAVE IN
ill move tho
(age ol this gre
' puil of doilies
jost for the Sjio
ad let law dre?-H
to tell you mor
>1 bargains bill
ng mi. Jl\\ we
readily see we
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ii prices tlint wi
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ASTER1S.
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COMPANY.
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dated in order to
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(I intend getting
yes and fair deul:iek
to us. lluviloath
Shanking
i room and makes
business. We
urtment, grocerirnishidg
departand
millinery in
to the fact that
ts to oifer
[y Days
tveep before pur;
were broken, and we have
em go at first cost. Fow
ftf n'rt piinli
Ul iciw ifv^r tv v mi v on via
ABUNDANCE.
ods, it is up to
at reduction sale
in our establish'
1 cash, so do -'t
yeu up.
e about what we
being so r ushed
ask is an inspecare
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