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^ ^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.
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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.
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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.
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Foloy's Kidney- Cnro makes
kidneys and hladdor right. Don't'
delay taking. S. ld by Funderburk
Pharmacy.
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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 <
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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.
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