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... ,-s ? v p*r* ^ \ -/*' ? - ?S *' '* i. \ i' * ' *^i^fl?A>W B^OJJCTXSt J " w ~ . - X " Jl- Hi- -n-ummiw ** rwffmj IkH?. tip -I'liiriiat ?-HmmII iff ?w | ' ^ ^W^WKKKLY LAN O A S T E U 8. (J.. A L' K I L 8, 1905 * Now Stand Pat " j world what you will tllko. It i*l IJnnnnnJnXn i? *v?? cu#?4? I * ~ Says McLaorin. Urges Farmers Not to Neglect Golden Opportunity.?Men Who Plants is Master of the Situation and Can Win if He Will be Firm and Hold. Special to Greenville News. Sumter, April 4.?Former United States Senator John L McLnnrin delivered an address to the farmers here today in which ho urged them to 4'stand pat," holding their cotton for better prices, and caring for it in warehouses, until they are prepared to soil. Referriug to the wonderful development of the South Mr McLaurin said that the time had come for the people of this section to nominate and elect a President cf the United States, a man who would not he hampered hy standing on a "tinkered platform." Speaking of tho holding qnes? tion Mr McLaurin said: It is a pleasure to me to address a strictly uon political body of my follow citizens. Lt is u good thing for a man or people to look the truth squarely in the face, see things as they are, not as pictured hy vanity, ambit ion or a disordered imagination. When tfesus Christ came on this earth, he did i?rt pnm? a n 648age to efyy particular race or religious creed, but proclaiming the truth to Jew and Gentile. Yon eunnot get at a truth from a partisan standpoint; truth is strictly nun partisan; it is the property of no one political party or religious creed, it is there for them all. We live in a day of corohifa ition and organization. Every business in the United States is organized, except the cotton planter, and now in self-defense, we are being foreed to act in concert. Here Mr McLaurin wont over the ground covered in his speech in New Oi leans, and drew an anology between wheat and cottan. I do not believe there is any over-production, if there wore paoper methods of distribution. The balance of the world is a c mumer of out raw cotton and in therefore combined to get our product as cheap as possible Yon can only meet organization with organization. All other industries through combination fix the price of their products. This coat that 1 have on lay on the shelf of some merchant's store until I paid his price for it, be fixed the price without consulting me. The beef trust fixed the price of my meat, the coal trust of my fuel, the flour truet of my bread, the coffee trust of my coffee, and so on ?f everything that 1 use. I may starve, 1 may go naked, but I pay their price or go without. When 1 luing my product cotton into town to sell, 1 do not toil the boy er what 1 will take as all those other industries do roe. I humbly .ask "what Aril I von give me for my cotton?" The buyer says "wait until Liverpool comes in," then he says I will give you six cents or whatever some man in Liverpool says is the price. Gentlemen, do what all the others d>?; put your cotton in a warehouse; don't ask anybody what they will give, bat tell the V j in your own luinds. All you have ! to do is 1o "stand pat." Fellow citizens, let us "stand pat" with the New Orleans convention. "Stand pat." Let it Ito understood that from now henceforth and forever we, the producers of the material that clothes the world, intend to have a voice iu fixing the price of the products of our lnhor. - > F ULL OF UtAGIC ft.EANING j ^re these lines from J. H. Simmons, of Casey, la. Think what might have resulted from his terrible cough if he had uot taken the medicine about which he writes 4<I had a fearful cough, that disturbed my night's rest. 1 tried everything, but uothiug would relieve it, until 1 took L)r. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which completely cured me." Instantly relievos and permanently cureo all throat and lung diseases; prevents grip and pneumonia. At Crawford Bros., J. F. Mackey & Co., and Funderhurk Pharmacy, druggest; guaranteed; 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free 1 040 Irish Immigrants. Now York, April 4.?Among tho sturdiest and brightest of the 1,986 steerage passengers who arrived yesterday aboard the White Star liner Celtic were 1,040 Irish immigrants Many rosy clucked and sparkling eyed girls were in the lot and hundreds of IrisbAuiericuns thronged the street in front of tho Barge office to see the newcomers land and to greet them, it is suid at Ellis Island that the Celtic's sbipmeut marks tho beginning of an exodus from Ireland Ibis spring that will beat all records of recent years in Irish immigration. Pneumonia is Robbed of its Terrors by Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the rucking cough and and heuls and strengthens the lungs. If taken iu time it will prevent an attack of pneumonia. Refuse substitutes. Sold t>y FunderOurk Pharmacy. Had 21 Children in 27 Years. (From the New York Tribune) Denver, March 31.?Down in the Platte River bottom is a threeroom collage, where live the parents of twenty-one children, and today, with ton of these around and three grandchildren, they eel ehruted their twenty seventh wedding auni ersaiy. They are Mr. aod Mrs. Edwards M. McSpartton. The family comprises fourteen hoys and beven girls. The last baby is thirty-three days old. Negro Kills Four Oihers And is Himself Wounded. J I Batesville, Ark., April 4 ? j John Dow, a negro, went to Sulphur Rock today to see bis wife, who was at bor father's home, and because she refused to return with him he drew a pistol And shot her dead. Then he shot and killed his wifo'a mother and nnothei negress Hit father inlaw secured a shot gun and shot Dow, but nolfatally, the latter bo ingabloto return tho fire, killing I his father-in-law. Mothers can safely give Foley's Honey andTar to their children for coughs and colds, for it contains no opiates or other poisons. Sold [y Funderbui'A Pharniaoy. t , , , : iiappctiiiiga in we oitiie. As Chronicled by the Alert Correspondents of The Columbia Shito and the Cbai lesion Now8 and Courier. Specials to News wnd (cuiter Ware House in Bennett sville. Honnelttvillo, Apiil 3 ?Messr* Smith and Hyatt arrived on late trains and addressed the cotton growers this afternoon. The* made telling arguments for organizition, and predicted the success of the movement. After th< speeches a Company was organized and subscribed to build a $3,00( varo houso. Judge Purdy Fir.es a Juryman. Chester, S. C., April 4.?Judg< Purdy believes in conducting lh< Court in ?i business-like tnnnuet and impressed this fact very forci bly this morning by fining a jurci $5 for not being in his place wher his namo was called. He alsi warned the witnesses to tie road} and in the Con it room when theii cases came up or they too wouh meet with a similar fate. Eight (Men Under Sentence o] Death in This State. Columbia, April 3 ?There art eight men no.v in this Stato undet sentence of death. Until Adami wa9 granted a new trial therewere nine men sentenced to be hanged This is a remarkable record. It is a condition of tiftairs that bae its deep significance. More men are now under sentonco of death in this State than there are murderers in some States with larger population The list of men under death sentence is as follows: Ned Muck, at Manning. Sum Marks, at Darlington Bob Jenkins, white, at Darlington, convicted of killing a colored man. Koch ester, of Oconee, white. Anion Williams, of Kershaw, Fletcher Bird, of Greonvills. Talmer Cnswoll, of Greenville. Marion Parr, white, of Columbia. Of tho eight men under death sentonco in tho State today Purr, Rochester and bmnll, of Durling '' tv/u, ?ir vviuio. iiow many or thin number will escape the gallows it is hard t? say, but from present appearances there is a decided indication of at least half a dozen hangings in this State within the next month or two. There may be other hangings scheduled, but they are not lecalled at the moment, but eight ut one time is such an unusual record that it is woll worth commenting upon. Negro Assassinated. Orangeburg, April 4.--.Jeff Donaldson, a young negro brick mason, was shot und killed at his homo on the outskirts of this city on Saturday night It seems that Donaldson bad been working l..Qf .. vr ? ? ' I iiioi nocii at nunu iiixi no came homo Saturday afternoon with the expectation of upending Sunday at homo and returning to his work on Monday for this week. He was detained until after dark in going out to his home, and as he approa. hed his front d< o he was shot through the heart. ? ^ * * Foloy's Kidney- Cnro makes kidneys and hladdor right. Don't' delay taking. S. ld by Funderburk Pharmacy. . . . iA ? * * resident Smith Makes" 11 Statement ? H The Significance of the Tag Tax,'? Figures Disputed "1 lit Tags Used for Cotton Seed Meal. A \ Amount of Fortilizsr Put cl Under Cotton Hub Been T 1 Reduced Forty Per 111 Cent Ti l?t The State , Cth inbt. * 5 .81 I The following was given out ^ j yesterday for publication at the Columbia office of the Southern ^ Cotton association. It is from ^ j the State president, Mr E D t] nraun: <lln view of the widespread ^ publication und the impression ^ made on the public that the use c,f fertilizer has been increased rather ^ C( than decreased, and as it is the w object and office of this association I to koep the public informed us to I the situation in reference to the j j reduction of acreage and fertdi- j izers and all matters pertaining to the welfare of the farmer, we ti wish to state some facts: 1. As f N to the report of the increased use u of fertilizer. 1 am in receipt of tc 5 the following from H M Stack* . home, secretary of the fertilizer yi ' department, Clemson Agricultural J ' college, who has chaige oi the tag department. This letter is in re- ct 1 spouse to the inquiry made by me 1 of him in reference to the large salocf tags ftl Clemson College, S. C., March 23, 1905. ol Hon ED Smith, in Magnolia, S. C. nr Dear Sir: I see interviews Wl with you in the papers as to the Pfl amount of the tag tax along the ua lino of your phone conversation in 80 Columbia a few days ago, hut the fia line wa9 busy at the time and your 80 voice very indistinct, was not sure m I heard you correctly, and only press of work has hindered this 00 writing earlier. A n getting re frequeut inquiries from boards of Pc trade, chambers of commerce, etc, m of othor States as to the amount, / V but did not answer as 1 believed it for speculative purposes. How- 01 pv'Pr I ho nana mnn w. J W"V uvtf o IUOU gdl I Cpui IB from State treasurer anil incor- lu rect reports sometimes got in the newspapers. 1,1 The amount, however, is not less than stated and about the lft same as last year; we think at ra least f 10,000 of this comes from ca increased sales ot cotton teed meal, which for "stock food" pays the tax this season for the first time. Then the salesmen and ht manufacturers of fertilizers say as tbat anticipating orders, they sup- hi ply themselves with tags, knowing that if not needed ihoy can he A redeemed with new ones after 18 Nov 1st, and they admit aggregate th sales to' date considerably less hi than last year. So you correctly a' say these sales are not reliable indication of tha mil/Mint larlillMfii of really used any given season. In the efforts to rod nee cotton crop, 10 which moans so much for tho lr South, I should ho sorry to think tho faimers would not <(stand pat" on it or let nartow selfish 8U considerations of supposed present th gain wreck their own and best in- 8h terests of entire country for years sti to come. Yours very truly, of H M Stackhonso. ge As he states,at loast $ 10,000 or lui 40,000 tons comes from increased ru lo of cotton seed meal for feed il irposes. Up to June, 1904, all ir eal used for feed purposes was d' ;empt from the ptivilege tags, tl undreds of *008 were bought for p rtilizer purposes shipped as feed &j uff, thereby avoiding the tag c x. Llia estimate in uiy estinia- h on is a very conservative ono. v gam farmers this year have ex- o tanged seetl for meal in larger i nantities then ever known before a i the history of the State. One 9ason for this is because the price f f cotton has dropped so low and < ... I _ # " *' io price 01 gnano remaining the 1 lme ns it was lust year, that they J ave substituted thohI for the aiu- I loniated stuff Then again we < are made inquiries from the i hodniont and Pee Deo sections of ( he State, and from tho middlo ? Bctions, and the replies indicate ' hat the actual amouat of gunno i ought hy the farmers for this 1 ear's consumption does not ex- 1 3ed 60 per cent, of last year. I 1 ill cite one instance: At Dillon, ne of the most prosperous sec- 6 ons of the country, in the heart * f the cotton growing section in S in State, whore the use of guano * us greater than any other sec- 1 on la it year they received up to ' larch 23. 6,000 tons of guano; ' p to March 23 of this year 1,200 1 ins of guano?hy actuul count, ist one-fifth the amount used lust 1( ear. & "From every point comes the * y that guano has been curtailed * i least 40 per cent. As circutn- * antial evidence of this fact, 1 * n in a position to prove that 8 jano companies of this State are v Tering to ship fertilizers to the ^ terior points on consignment, ^ id in case the fertilizer is sold, ^ ell anil good, if not, they will 8i iy tho freight and lebag it If not P ed this year. If their sales wero large and exceeding last year's ^ les, it does not appear to any r( nsible man that they would al ake such an offer as this. c< "We are employing men to P' mpare 1904 and 1905 as to the ceipts of guano at the shipping Ht ?int8 in the S*ate. Wo have alio ^ en in the field who are taking ^ e name of every farmer in South l* irohna, and having him to state ? er his signature how much fer? ^1 izers ho has bought thin year n comparison with last year. The " st part of May we propose to 6 jue % statement showing uccurat- ^ y as far ai man's word can he ^ ken, and the receipts of the * ilroads at the shipping points v n be taken, just exactly the c atus of the guano question in 8 >uth Carolina. t 4l\Te do not know what motive v is piompted anyone to make the * sertion that more fertilizer is 1 ling used this year than last, nor " > we propose to question motives * 1 the we propose to deal wilh * plain facts; and we propose that 1 te farmers of this Stale shall he mefited by it. They are not . 1 liars c 44 We prefer to take the word q ' the farmers and business men t this country who,are interested I the general welfaro of the couny rather than that of the indiv dual who has ail axe to grind. 44 We do not want and aro quite -e that tho State at largo and e south in general will not be c artled or frightened from their & and by te prophecies of the gage n Olar. Wo presume that this ntleman loves money, being huan, and as he predicts, in the ? jo of cotton several years ago " nit ho benefited thereby, and is i a position financially to be in* cqiendent of any fluctuations of ie market, and as some pbophetic owcr bus descended upon him gain to forecast tbo future ot the otlon market, we presume that o will still further enhance the alue of bis exchequer. The gifts f tho gods are marvelous things ndeed. Would that wo were iroong tho fortunate. From Texas has come direct rom President Jordan, in a letter eceived by me today, news that Lexus Is reducing her acreage, iccording to the New Orleans dan; from Mississippi comes the heering nowsthat Mississippi has educed hers, under the influence >t such men as President Clark, John Sharp Williams, Gov. Vardaiian and Jehn Allen. F.om Lousiana similar nows, that tney are jot going to reduce but have air. ready reduced, in that they have dantsd two-thirds of their croD. 14 From Alabama Bob Poole, lecretary of agriculture; President 5oymoro, and their corps ot or;anizers, who are canvassing the ield. In fact every cotton State s making a similar report. Even icro in South Carolina with tho voeful wail from Bamburg ring g in our dearB, and with the coassal pile of 15,000,000 bales coming on the horizon, comes the mall voice of CI,000 farmers of his Slate thai they are reducing heir acreage and curtailing their ertillzers. The Southern Coton association prefers at this tage of the game to believe that dth an organization such as wo avo, and tbe active men in the eld, and the support of the few ankers and merchants who are i:d to bo the only ones signed the ledge, coupled with the 61,000 foresaid farmers, we psrfor to Blievo that the acreage willj be educed, the fertilizer aurlailed, id that the 15,000,000 bales of itton, in spite of the divine prohesy, will not materialize. <4It is claimed that the sale of ock, mules and horses, in this tate for farming purposes, has eeu unprecedented. I have vised nearly every county in this tate, and have made inquiry as to lis specific point, and the_stock ion of this State declare that the iw price of eotton and the genrnl stagnation in business has >een well nigh ruinous to their tusiness. Any man who doubts his, let him do as I have done? isit these places in person and uake inquiries. The sale of lock bag been curtailed more ban 25 pe?* cent. Summing the vhole n.atter no wast to reiterate be fact that the farmers are stand ng by their pledges and will tand, and that the Southern Cot on association will finaly solrethe iroblem of the sonth's prosperiy." Foley's Honey and Tar is best or croup and whooping cough, :ontains no opiates,and cures [uickly Careful mothers keep it in he house. Sold by Funderburk 'harroacy. Chastity is to a woman what eracity is to a man. Notice to the Public. 1 will hold all inquests in the ounty. Phone to my residence t Pleasant Hill for mo when ceded. J. Montgomery Caskey, ept. 20?tf Coroner L. C. ihu n EV?A LVft jftt mostltMllnfl mI?? lnth?w?rWi* m %