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Scraps and |arts. ? Shanghai, China, June 25: Prospects of a bountiful harvest, which will begin within the next few days, has tended to relieve the situation in the famine stricken districts, where thousands have succumbed to starvation within the last few months. It is estimated that over 100,000 persons have died in the last month and that over 10.000,000 have suffered severely from lack of sufficient food. Numerous cases of cannibalism have been reported recently. The Chinese government _ Una ptupie lumnuuiru iiiuiiv; supplies to the amount of nearly >8,000,000 and several millions were donated by Americans and Englishmen, but this tremendous total was wholly inadequate to prevent widespread suffering. With a good crop of rice the situation will be relieved in a week or two. Those who have visited the famine district recently report scenes of unprecedented horror. Whole families were found dead in their huts and hundreds of corpses, some torn to pieces by ravenous human beasts, were scattered by the roadside. ? Lesslie's Weekly: Western farmers estimate that one man saved them fully >10,000,000 in wheat this season by stopping the ravages of the "green ; bug" that promised early In the spring to devastate the wheat belt. It did do t vast damage In Oklahoma and Texas. { It had entered southern Kansas, when f S. J. Hunter, professor of entomology y In the Kansas State university, began r experiments with parasites to destroy j It. He found a bee which multiplies faster than the bug and destroys the latter, over large areas. The larvae of t this parasite he sent out to Infested fields. Over 12,000 boxes were sent; express companies carried them free; millers and farmers paid the bills after the university allowance was exhausted; forty-seven counties were covered at the rate of 10.000 parasites for every eighty acres; a total of over 300,000,000 parasites being distributed in Kansas alone. The distribution began April 17; by the last week of May the bug had practically disappeared, and the wheat crop was free from this danger. Prof. Hunter has received hundreds of letters thanking him for his work. This is one of the ways the western schools are helping the farmers toward improved agriculture, and Prof. Hunter has taken a high place in consequence of his success and promptness in dealing with the new pest. ? Beaufort special of June 25, to the News and Courier: Out at sea, three or four miles beyond the northern headland of Port Royal harbor, the City of Lawrence was wrecked on the edge of the channel in a terrific storm several years ago. The only portion of the wreck showing are the two large boilers that are out of water at low tide. But beneath the waves much of j the hull holds together and makes an n ideal feeding ground for many varieties j of fish. Parties go out frequently and i bring back phenomenal catches of a sheephead, trout, pompano, blueflsh, \ black fish and others not so well e known. Last week Dr. M. G. Elliott a in two hours with a rod and reel, t caught twenty sheephead, some weigh- v lng four and five pounds, and twenty- s one other fish of the varieltse named, j There were eight in the party and the j total catch was 160 fish. The wreck c can be approached only at low water ?] and In fair weather, for breakers t pound over the spot, except for two t hours at ebb tide. The water is so t shallow that only small boats can ap- f proach. This supplies an element of j danger that adds to the fascination of r the spot. Shark fishing off the town j has engaged the interest of some of c the sportsmen during the last few g days. Ten have been caught by two s fishermen on lines that are anchored to t buoys. The lines are visited at inter- f vals and the catches towed to shore, f These ten measured from seven to ten t feet. Sometimes the caught fish are t devoured by their cannibal cousins be- c fore they can be taken from the water. c ? Lincoln Beachy, an aeronaut, had ^ thousands of New York people excited j last Tuesday by his manoeuvres in an f airship. He sailed over the bay from t Staten Island and encircled the sky- * scrapers and finally wound-up his per- r formanee with an accident which v nearly cost him his life. Beachy left s the island at 11.25 and after attaining | an altitude of 1,000 feet he drove his i machine across the bay to the city, t With the craft in perfect control, t Beachy sailed across to the Brooklyn shore, and then, dropping several hundred feet, began slowly to circle above the highest buildings in the Brooklyn Hill section. After a few minutes of manoeuvring Beachy headed the ship across the river straight for Battery Park. He was then about 500 feet high, and circled several times before allowing the ship to descend. When he came down on a grass plot in the park a crowd pressed around the ship, and so hemmed in the aeronaut that for some time he was unable to get out of the car. The throng broke one of the ship's propeller blades, but after the police had driven back the crowd Beachy repaired the damage and sailed away over Manhattan, just hbove the skyscrapers. while thousands watched him from windows and roofs. Finally he sent his airship out over the East river toward Long Island Sound, flying low above the water. In some manner he collided with a spindle which marks a ledge at the Sunken Meadows. The airship bag was punctured and gas poured out upon the aeronaut. Beachy scrambled from the frame of the airship and slipped down the buoy until his feet were in the water, and was almost overcome by the escaping gas when lie was rescued by t Jacob Kahrs of the New York fire de- ' partment, who put out from Port Mor- j rls in a row boat. The airship frame \ was not damaged. i ? The trial of Judge Win. CI. Irving for the murder of Theodore Estes, re- ] cently was commenced at itousion, > Va.. last Tuesday and in many respects rivals the famous Thaw case after which the defense seems to have been patterned. To the surprise of everybody, there was but little difficulty in getting a jury, and the prosecution got in all Its testimony the first day of the calling of the case. The prosecution contented itself mainly with showing how Loving hunted Estes up, and shot him down, and claimed a case of murder. Loving took the stand and told a story to the effect that one Harry Sneed had come to him with a story to the effect that Estes had taken his daughter on a buggy ride, given her whisky and taken advantage of her. Loving claimed that the recital made him insane and he could think of nothing that would have prevented him from killing Estes. Miss Loving took the stand and told a story to the effect that Estes had given her whisky and and she had almost immediately afterward become unconscious. Her story was very much after the style of that of Evelyn Thaw and was admitted on the ground that she had previously recited it to her father. The prosecution introduced testimony to show that the two people had not been out of the sight of another young man and wo- ' nan, who were driving along the same oad, until they entered a respectable louse. Then the young woman had the mention of the lady in charge, while t doctor was sent for. It was testified hat Miss Loving had previously tak n whisky with Estes and others and t was contended that On this occasion she merely took too much; that she ,vas drunk and that was all. It was :estified that the whisky left in the Kittle after Miss Loving and Estes tad helped themselves was given to a nan on the road and this man testified hat he drank the whisky without bad flfect. The defense has set up drunk ? ? ? u.ooniti' The ;nness u-iiu it-iiipuia.i inmiMv, - ? jrosecution is anxious that the Jury go >ver the whole road along which the 5uggy tide was taken. Site ^Jorki'iUr inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.t FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1907. Those are very interesting letters hat Senator Latimer is wilting from ibroad. In reading them one Is nntressed with the idea that the writer tnows his business; that although he night be a most excellent "carpenter," te is certainly no blacksmith. That is a broad and proper view hat Mr. P. H. Gadsden takes of the in:onsistencies of the South Carolina lator luws. These inconsistences are of iuch long standing that most people ail to take any cognizance of them and ook on them as a matter of course, rhe fact is that we still have, or try ;o have one set of laws for the governnent of one class and other set for he government of another class. The esult is that one class Is very poorly governed and the other class is not foverned at all. The fundamental >rlnciple of our constitution Is equality jefore the law for all men and the vioation of this principle nullifies the vhole system of Democratic governnent in both theory and practice. We ire quite sure that there are hundreds f patriotic South Carolinians with denty of ability to straighten out the iltuation; but until some kind of a itart is made the presumption will coninue In favor of the fear that there ire few who are brave enough to unlertake the task. But until this state stablishes more complete equality beore the law, law will continue to feel he lack of much of the majesty by rhlch it ought to be attended. The murder of young Estes by udge Loving in Virginia recently. Is , lot a pleasant subject for discussion. Juch of the testimony has been pubished; but every individual of reason.ble Intelligence knows that it is a ery difficult matter Indeed to draw ven a half way satisfactory conclusion s to the real facts. There is one hing, however, in this connection that re think is deserving of especial con- 1 ideration. It will be remembered that Svelyn Thaw was permitted to tell a lorribly blood curdling story, not as ivldence in justification of Harry rhaw; but on the claim that she had old Thaw the same story previous to he murder and it was admitted in the estimony In order that the jury migni ind palliation on account of the effect t may have had on her husband's nind. It was held that the prosecution n the Thaw case could not even Iniulre into the truth or falsity of this itory, as that was a matter of no conlequence, the only question being was he story told to Thaw in the first dace, and in the second place, what effect was it likely to have on his menal condition. It is quite clear that here was no way of proving whether >r not the story was really told, as claimed. There is good ground for rrave doubt, of course; but that is not >roof. However, that is not the main >oint. It seems that the law errs in uling out the question of truth. If Mrs. Thaw's story was true, she had a ight to tell it. If it was untrue, then vhatever allowances might be made on iccount of Thaw, she should be punshed as the instigator of the crime. The same reasoning seems to apply to he Virginia case. It appears to have >een patterned after the Thaw case. Maybe the story told by Miss Loving s true. There is other testimony that leems to discredit it. It is quite possi>le that while there is more or less ruth in the story, there is also a great leal that is more or less doubtful. Somebody is responsible for the murler of Estes. If Miss Loving's story is rue, and her father is not guilty, then he responsibility rests with her in a 'ery large measure. We are not pre>ared to say either that she would not >e altogether unjustified. Hut if it can >e shown to be a fact that the worst >art of the story has been nianufacured for the occasion, and this does lot seem to be altogether out of the luestlon. then it would be very well lot only to convict the father; but to severely punish the daughter on the harge of perjury. This so-called higher law business may be a fairly good hing under really justifiable circumstances; but when the public allows an dividual to hoodwink it by making >f the "higher law" a false cloak to ther motives, it does both itself and he so-called "higher law" a very grave njustice. MERE-MENTION. A whole block of the Fine Beach section of Norfolk, next to the Jamesown exposition, was swept by fire last Wednesday. The loss is in the neigh>orhood of $2fn),000 Several men vere killed by a premature explosion n a cut 011 the Tidewater railway near 3rookneal, Va? last Wednesday. The lead include Foreman Sullivan and Sdward Clark Four persons were tilled and five were injured by the colapse of a scaffold at San Francisco ast Wednesday The Georgia iegslature convened in regular annual session last Wednesday The first Kile of new cotton was sold in front >f the New York Cotton Exchange last Monday at 40 cents a pound The S'ashville. Tenn., school board has decided that hereafter only negroes who vere born, bred and educated in the south, will be appointed as teachers in he Nashville colored schools C>. Sect Oliver, a young man of Pittsburg. Pa., was killed in an automobile ace at Yale last Wednesday. Several >ther young men were injured; but lone of them very seriously John IModfelton, a carpenter , fell from t scaffold thirty-one feet to the ground it Newbern. N. C.. last Wednesday and ivas seriously hurt Wellesl.y college, Wellesley Mass., graduated 24 7 oung women at its recent closing vith the degree of bachelor of arts.... Irvin Lewis of West Chester, Pa., has confessed to burying his five-year-ohl step daughter in a sack, claiming that she was dead. Physicians testify that he child was buried alive and Lewis s held for murder A gold coin cnown as the "Ephraini Brasher douiloon," originally valued at $l(i. was sold at auction in Philadelphia re cently for $6,200. There are only six ] of the coins In existence Mail advices from China are to the effect that the uprising in the southern part of the empire is very serious, most of the i revolutionists are armed with French magazine rilles The United States cruiser Milwaukee, has been sent to Salvador, because of probable war be- ^ tween Nicaragua and Salvador Ten wealthy men. most of them mil'ionaires, have been arrested at Denver, Col., on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of coal and j timber lands The donations to ,f- " 'luelni* lltr. lafif ?nlinl 1 illti Ullivciau,! IIUMII), i..r ? astic year amounted to $3.000,000 General Manager Stuart of the Erie railroad, claims that his road has paid j representatives of the International Machinists' association $10,000 a year to keep the peace and prevent strikes, and that when payments were stopped i strikes begun Four persons were drowned and a score injured by the breaking of a gang plank while loading a steamer at Tacoma, Wash., Tuesday. Hon Seth Low of New York has i been elected president of the General Education Board, vice Robt. C. Ogden, who resigned on account of 111 health. ....A girls' dormitory, costing $50,000, j is to be erected at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee institute in memory of Alexander Moss White of Brooklyn, N. Y Richard Croker's horse, j Orby, winner of the English Derby, won the Irish Derby at Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday The first bill introduced in the present session ,of the i Georgia legislature, was for total prohibition throughout the state... .Business has been paralyzed in San Francisco and the west, by striking tele- -5 graph operators Harry K. Thaw is reported as being desperately 111 in the Tombs prison, N. Y The engineer was killed and a brakeman seriously hurt by the derailment of a Big Four passenger train at Lafayette, Ind., Wednesday One man was killed d and three were Injured, by the over- r turning of an automobile at New Ha- t ven. Conn., Wednesday Over 100 c persons were killed and 600 were h wounded by soldiers Tuesday, while attempting to put down an uprising e against the government in several h cities of Portugal Dan Hanna, who t was divorced from his wife. Daisy p Gordon Hanna at Cleveland. Ohio, last j Friday, was married again on Monday. g CLOVER CULLING3. b d Trouble With a Big Transformer? a Cashier Page at the Isle of Palm*? t] Personal Mention. b Correspondence of the YorkriUe Enauirer. w Clover, June 28.?The local physl- 8 cians report that the general health of this section is unusually good at this tl time, there being little sickness of any h kind. w The transformers originally installed a at the cottop mill were found not to be n of sufficient capacity to properly han- c die the powerful current necessary to ii drive all the machinery when the new h mill was added oh to what was already fi being operated about two months ago, tl and it was necessary to install more c powerful ones. This work wag com- b pleted a few days ago. On the after- n noon of the day they were started, e Superintendent Williams discovered b that there was something radically h wrong with one of them as it was si badly heated and the ground for more than 50 feet around was charged with ( electricity, causing telephones to ring, etc. The fifteen barrels of oil necessary to fill the transformer were drawn w off and a steel wrench, accidentally dropped Into one of them by the work- ? man, who installed It, was discovered <1 and taken out. The wrench was in " such a position as to cause a short cir- S cult, hence the trouble. Since the C wrench was removed, everything has P been going smoothly. a Mr. Jas. A. Page, cashier of the v Bank of Clover, has been attending s' the annual meeting of the State Bankers' association at the Isle of Palms this week. During hiB absence his '-i- hv Mr Tan C Hnr. f< juu wao uciu uu 1111 +jj w%??. w, din. l< Mr. Mason Stevenson, one of Clover's most highly esteemed young men. and who has been engaged for some time in installing electrical appliances in the dwellings and business houses a here, has accepted a position with the n Gastonia oil mill as bookkeeper and ? will enter on the duties of his new position on Monday next. The local lodge of the Junior Order ^ will spare no effort to make a success e of the Fourth of July celebration next ti Thursday. The Sharon band has been J engaged for the occasion. The Clover baseball cranks?and e they embrace most of the population " ?are entirely satisfied with the out- tl come of the game at Yorkvllle yester- ti day afternoon. o LESSLIE NOTES. d o Conditions of the Crops?Mr. and Mrs. t] T. F. Lesslie Off For Asheville. fi Corresi>ondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Lbssub, June 27.?Prospects are not * very favorable for a full cotton crop this year. Cotton is growing slowly, and Is about three weeks behind same date last year. Corn Is looking well, where it has been worked out; rains p have interfered with the cultivation of ti both cotton and corn. The oat crop, si both fall and spring is fairly good in d this section. Very little wheat was ti sown, the yield will be light. tl Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Lesslie left for a Asheville, N. C., on Wednesday to stay t< several months or possibly longer, on h account of the ill neaun or xurs. ucsa- i He. q Mrs. W. J. Lesslie and daughter, a Miss Julia, of Rock Hill, visited Mr. o D. R Lesslie and Mrs. C. J. Lesslie n last week. v Misses Nina Gettys and Mary Lesslie s] will leave fur Kenilworth Inn, near a Asheville, N. C., on Friday, where they v go as delegates from the Neely's t< Creek Y. P. C. A. society to the mis- ti sionary conference, which will be in 11 session at that place next week. tl Mrs. H. J. Millen of Rodman spent tt a few days with Mr. T. F. Lesslie's ii family this week. a Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hoke, who have g been teaching the Greenbriar graded si school, near Rockton, S. C., are at the \\ home of Mrs. Hoke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Milholen. Miss Ella Mil-holen, who has been attending school at the same place is at home. . Miss Lois Millen of Rodman, is a 1 visitor at Mr. T. F. Lesslie's this week. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. It ? Mr. W. S. Smith of Carlisle, lost his life a few days ago by being j, thrown from a buggy by a runaway n horse. Mr. Smith was dashed against a tree with the result that his skull V was crushed anil three ribs were brok- y en. The accident occurred on Monday and the injured man died on Tuesday. G His remains were taken to Florida for t< interment. ? Columbia special of June 27, to ^ the charlotte Observer: The Olympia 1 mill management had to call for police " protection today on account of a party of about forty loom fixers and weavers ^ striking and trying to prevent other s operatives from going to work when ? the mill opened. One woman striker went into the mill and forcibly pulled out half a dozen women. The mayor jjj was culled upon and the place is now " guarded by police. In anticipation of further trouble tomorrow, which strik- lJ: era have threatened, the police will re- ^ main on duty. The strikers have been ?: discharged by tlie management. The * trouble started a few days ago over . the refusal of the superintendent to 11 let a loom fixer off to attend a baseball . game. Refusal to allow him to go back j; to work brought on a strike of other , loom fixers and these influenced weav- Jj, ers to go out. All is quiet tonight. J, ? Abbeville special of June 2!i, to the > News and Courier: L. W. Perrin died tl suddenly of apoplexy here this afternoon while watching the ball game be- p tween Abbeville and Greenwood. He si was sitting in a buggy with W. S. a Cothran. watching the game, in which h two of his sons were playing, and fell S over suddenly on Mr. Cothran's shoul- fi der dead. He was the oldest member it of the Abbeville bar and has been tl master of Abbeville county several t< years. He was the oldest elder in the n Presbyterian church and a Confederate veteran. Mr. Perrin was in his sixty- S fifth year and has always enjoyed It good health. He is survived by his H wife and six children. R. M. Perrin of tl New Orleans; Mrs. A. W. Smith of tl Spartanburg; T. C. Perrin of Atlanta: n Mrs. T. O. White. L. W. Perrin and b Win. Perrin of this place. Mr. Perrin b was widely connected throughout the T state and his untimely end has cast it gl< loin over the entire city. 'a LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ). E. Boney?Says that you may never have a Are loss or you might have one tomorrow. Protect yourself with Farmers' Mutual Insurance. rork Furniture Co.?Invites you to call and see Its stock of home furnishings on July 4th, when It will keep open house. New sewing machines received. 1. W. White?Tells you that some ' people are fools for the want of 1 sense, and some are fools only In the ' opinion of others. L?ocai stock want- 1 ed. . L. Williams & Co.?Cut prices on ladles' low shoes from $3.50 to $2,50. $3.00 shoes to $2.00, and $2.00 shoes to $1.50 a pair, rorkville Hardware Co.?Has clay furnaces, which burn charcoal and are ideal heaters for preserving, boiling and ironing. Sell at 75 to $1.50 each. . W. Johnson?Sells "Dustdown" for 25c package. It cleans the carpet without taking it up. See him for fruit jars and jelly tumblers. . Q. Wray?Extends an Invitation to everybody to make his store headquarters on July Fourth. Will make it comfortable for you. . Q. Wray and Others, Com.?Issue an invitation to everybody to visit Yorkville on July Fourth. Plenty of amusements for a day of pleasure, 'homson Co.?Insists that ladies who want the best patterns should have no other than Ladles' Home Journal patterns?10c and 15c each, fork Drug Store?Extends an Invitation to Its customers and friends to make the York Drug Store their "home" on July 4th. There is some very good cotton own the Carolina and North-Western ailroad; but as a rule crops are prcty sorry. Much of the land Is quite loddy, having the appearance of havng been worked too wet. Both of the houses recently destroyd by lightning fires, the Carder dwell " T~v T"% T 11^'., nn/$ iho rig" Oil ivir. U, r. Ijcaanc o ^iavc aim uiv enant house on Mr. S. W. Inman's ' lace, were insured In the Farmers' 1 lutual insurance company. < The Enquirer hat been very much j ratified to receive expressions of the ' ppreciation of different subscribers j ecause of the publication of the adress delivered by Mr. A. B. Williams J t the State Press association. York ' ounty is still full of men who went hrough the eventful period described y Mr. Williams and most of them J ,ere deeply Interested In the well-told tory. < A gentleman who formerly lived in f he Beershebu neighborhood, but who ( as been away a great many years, | as called back there recently and s mong the most striking changes he ^ oted was the large acreage of fine e orn as compared with the situation i the long ago. "Why," he satd, "I x ave seen more corn on two or three s arms than there used to be within r hree or four miles of Beersheba j hurch." It is a fact that the Beershe- | a neighborhood has developed in s rnny respects In the last forty years, , specially since the war. It used to g e regarded as a very poor country. g row it is one of the most prosperous j ections of York county. j t CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. * Mr. Walter J. Beamguard of Clover, j rites that the name of his grand- t ither, Samuel W. Beamguard was r mitted from the list of Confederate ^ ead buried In York county as pub- . shed in The Enquirer of May 10. amuel W. Beamguard was buried in c onmotom' Thft H?imp POTrPS- . ondent also writes that J. C. Watson ^ nd Samuel Watson, both Confederate eterans, are omitted from the Beeriieba list. v Mr. W. A. Bolin calls attention to ' tie fact that J. L. Bolin and W. J. Lyle are omitted from the list of Con;derate dead buried in Adnah ceme- T ?ry. WITHIN THE TOWN. J ? A game of ba^ball between Clover nd Yorkville was called In the 8th ining yesterday afternoon on account f rain, the score standing 12 to 9 in t ivor of Clover, a ? The municipal election held last t Wednesday on the question of exmptlng newly established manufac- t aring enterprises having a pay roll of 1 50 a week, from municipal taxation v jr a peiiod of five years, resulted in . xemption by a vote of 24 to 14. There .'as very little interest in the proposilon, and only about one-third of the * ital registered vote was cast. ? Fire broke out in the picker room r f the Tavora Cotton mill last Tues- t ay afternoon. It is supposed to have t riginated from a match. The auto- s rntic sprinklers worked nicely, and j tiey were quickly assisted with a hose t rom a hydrant. The fire depaitment s nswered promptly; but the fire was ? Iready pretty well under control, ex- j ept that it swept over a pile of loose ( otton once or twice afterward. The e >ss was in the neighborhood of $500. , ? The special election for the purose of voting on the levy of a 3 mill ix on all the property in Yorkvllle chool district is called for next Friay, July 5. The Yorkville school disrict by authority of the recent act of tie general assembly, now embraces 11 the territory within a radius of ivo and a half miles of the court ouse. The election is to be held from 2 o'clock m. to 5 o'clock p. m. All ualified voters within the district have right to vote upon the presentation f state registration certificates and tax sceipts. If the election results in faor of the special tax, the territory pecified will be included In the levy nd the total amount raised will be cry considerably greater than herejfore. If the election fails, the school ustees will have available almost as luch money , as heretofore because of le availability of the constitutional ix on the territory recently brought lto the district. Children living two nd a half miles from the Yorkville raded school building, and nearer [>ine other school, may be transferred ith their per capita if they so desire. ABOUT PEOPLE. Rev. J. S. Grier of Sharon, has gone ) Asheville for ten days. Mrs. Thos F. McDow and children, re at Piedmont Springs. * ? ri * nn,1 All's. V? . r. niUTlsuu auu biuiuicu, ]. >ft Yorkville last Tuesday evening v nr Columbia. ^ Col. W. W. Lewis and Capt. J. R. a ilndsay of Yorkville, are at the James- c ?wn exposition. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caldwell of t I'ildwood, Fla.. are In Yorkville on a isit to Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Caldwell. ^ Masters James D. and Lewis M. t Irist of Yorkville, left last Tuesday af- v irnoon for the Jamestown exposition. Miss Emily Riley of Yazoo City, liss., is visiting relatives and friends i this vicinity, and is the guest of Ir. and Mrs. J. B. Pegram. ( Mrs. J. L. Rainey and Mrs. J. H. p aye and two children, of Sharon. p pent Tuesday in Yorkville, the guests f Mrs. S. A. Carroll. Miss Eunice McConnell arrived in f 'orkville on Thursday from Philadelhia. Pa., for a visit to her parents, n ir. and Mrs. W. H. McConnell. Mr. J. C. Allen says he was not an pplicant for the principalship of the latesburg school to which he was " lected some time ago. He has had lie offer of several nice school posiions: but he has about decided that e will not teach any more. Messrs. Lucius and George and Miss iartha Gage of Chester, and Mr. and Irs. J. L. Gaston of Montgomery, Ala., topped at the Shandon hotel last 'uesday night, on their way to Judge 1 age's summer home at Rlowlng Rock, ^ r. C. They were making the trip J lirougli the country. , c Rev. W. H. Stevenson, who has been a reaching in Fairfield county, was t tricken with appendicitis on Monday, v nd was operated on in the Chester t ospital Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Dr. r tevenson of Clover, the young man's t ither was present. The understand- e lg is that Rev. Mr. Stevenson went c brought tlie operation in a satlsfac- a ?ry manner and he is getting along t icely. J Abbeville Press and Banner: Dr. J. s . Moffatt. president of Erskine col- a ge, was in town one day last week, v le inspires one with the belief that I le Associate Reformed church and f ie colleges at Due West are taking on ew life. He expects an increased num- ^ er of students at the colleges, and we u elleve he will not be disappointed. n he synod did the right thing in elect- 1 lg hint president of Erskine, but the o uthorilies have not yet fully done the s ig-ht thing for him and the professors n Erskine. They were given a little aise In salary, when the pay should lave been doubled. The president and nrofessurs deserve more pay, and the nrlde, If not the vanity, of the church, should see to IU that Ersklne's professors and president receive from $2,000 o $2,500. WITH THE BANKERS. The seventh annual convention of :he South Carolina Bankers' association, met at the Hotel Seashore on the [sle of Palms, Charleston last Wednesday, and the members have been mjoying themselves greatly with both tnusiness and pleasure. The association was welcomed by Mayor Rhett, president of the People's National bank In an appropriate adiress, and was responded to In a hapnv manner bv Col. Lerov Borings of Lancaster, after which Mr. W. J. Rodley, president of the National Union sank of Rock Hill, delivered his annual address. President Roddey's address was ible, thoughtful, business like, and pejyliarly appropriate not only for this particular occasion; but well worth the need of prudent business men elsewhere. An outline will be of interest. In the first place the speaker would not assume to tell his hearers anything :hat they did not know; but merely to emind them of things that they had ilready been taught by the history of nanklng in the past and by their own jxperlence. He called attention to the 'act that there are no new laws of finance; but all the old laws still hold food and that individual who attempts :o ignore or violate any of those old aws Is almost certain to meet the nenalties made and provided. He called attention to the tremenlous progress that the south had made n various lines of industries during he past few years and was gratified to note a remarkable increase In banking :apltal; but while he did not desire to je understood as a croaker, he wanted he members of the association to -ealize the fact that such good times :annot last always, no matter how itrongly many may believe to the conrary, and to be prepared for less favorable conditions, if they should :onne. He impressed the fact that the :ontinued welfare of the country is in he hands of the bankers to a larger ;xtent than to any other class of busness people, and seemed to be of >plnion that if the bankers would sit steady In the boat, confine their assist ince as nearly as possiDie 10 saie, :onservatlve, legitimate business enterprise, and discourage all manner of vild speculation, good times would :ontinue longer than otherwise. While >ffertng this advice, he emphasized the 'act that although credits were being :onsiderably expanded, and the specuation spirit was showing itself pretty itrongly In some quarters, he was not dewing the present situation with ilarm. Mr. Roddey found a gratifying featire of the present situation in the ipendlng tendency of the bank and nanufacturlng people to rely on independent auditors for periodical examnations of their books, etc., and he luggested In this connection that it vould be well for the bankers to go a ttep further and require financial itatements from applicants for loans. 4e thinks the bank has a right to enow the financial condition of every jorrowing customer, and thinks, that luch knowledge is likely to be of ben'flt to the customer as to the bank, le strongly urged upon the bankers he necessity of building up and naintaining good, healthy surpluses. Fhe surplus, he said, Is the only hing the bank does not owe. Mr. Roddey's address was well revived and was generally conceded to >e peculiarly appropriate and valua >ie. On Wednesday afternoon, the bankers enjoyed a fish fry on the beach and resterday they were treated to a iruise around the harbor. <OT MOOT COURT PROCEEDINGS. Messrs. Wm. B. McCaw and Thos. i\ McDow, of the board of trustees of he Yorkville Graded School district, ibject to some of the statements In ast Tuesday's Enquirer, referring to he proceedings under which the new ict of the general assembly extending he limits of the Yorkville school dlsrict, was held to be constitutional, and lave handed In the following papers, vhich we take pleasure In reproducng: Yorkville, S. C., June 26th, 1907. dr. W. D. Grist, Editor of The Yorkville, Enquirer, Yorkville, S. C. Dear Sir:?We have read, your comnents in The Enquirer of this date, ipon the proceedings recently Instluted by the board of trustees of the chool district of Yorkville for the purlose of. testing the constitutionality of he act of the general assembly of this tate, approved February 15th, 1907, nlarging the limits of said school dlsrict to two and one-half miles from he intersection of Congress and Llbrty streets, wherein you use the folowing language, to wit: "The constlutionallty of this new act was.upheld ?y the supreme court In the recent iroeeedlngs instituted by Messrs. W. i. McCaw and C. E. Spencer, but as natter of fact this was a kind of moot ourt proceeding in that the vital quesions were really not argued on their nerit," and now apprise you that the ibove statement is entirely Incorrect, Ln the first place no proceeding was nstituted by Messrs. C. E. Spencer and Vm. B. McCaw, but on the contrary', he time having arrived, when the loard of trustees are required to take he proper steps to submit to the qualfled electors residing within the school listrict the question of voting a special hree mills tax to support said schools or the ensuing year and the said oard having been advised by Messrs. \ F. McDow and Wm. B. McCaw, as iwyers, that the constitutionality of he act had best be settled before atempting to impose the tax in the enxrged district, the board of trustees at nfo ro'inoototl Mr P U. flnAnppr whft ras a very large taxpayer In the enarged district to test the constitutionally of the act. Mr. Spencer filed his ictition in the supreme court, assailing he constitutionality of the act on evry possible ground, verifying the peition and supporting the same in arrument with all of his ability. The return of the board of trustees, i-as carefully prepared by Messrs. T. \ McDow and Wm. B. McCaw, and ras sworn to by each and every memler of the board, and was earnestly .rgued by Mr. McCaw in the supreme ourt. The court by unanimous order held he act to be constitutional. Copies of the petition and return are lerewith enclosed, with the request hat you correct in the next issue of our paper the matter complained of. Respectfully, Wm. B. McCaw, Thos. F. McDow. N. B.?I find that neither Mr. Mc7aw nor myself have a copy of the letitlon, the original having been filed n the supreme court. T. F. M. leturn of the Board of Trustees to the Petition of Relator. Nie State of South Carolina, In the Supreme Court, April Term, 1907. rhe State ex-relatlone, C. E. Spencer. Petitioner, against Wm. B. McCaw, Thomas F. McDow, Withers Adickes, W. Brown WyMe, Wm. I). Glenn, and John E. Carroll, the Board of Trustees of the School District of Yorkville, in York County. Respondents. The Return of Wm. B. McCaw, 'homas F. McDow. Withers Adickes, V. Brown Wyiie, Wm. D. Glenn and fohn E. Carroll, the board of trustees if the School district of Yorkville, bove named to the Petition of Relaor, answering the same, for cause rhy this court by its order of injuncion should not perpetually enjoin and estrain the aforesaid board of trusees from ordering and holding an lection for the levy and assessment if a three mill local tax upon all taxble property within the school disrict of Yorkville, as enlarged by the U-t of the general assembly of this tate, entitled "An Act to enlarge the rea of the School District of Yorkille to two and one-half miles", apiroved February 15th, 1907, respectully shows to this honorable court: First. That the Scnool district of Torkville as created and organized inder an Act of the general assembly f this state, approved December 22d, 888. mentioned in the first paragraph f the Petition of Relator, was and till Is, a Graded School district, and the law under which same was organ- 1 lzed has not in any manner been af- ] fected or repealed by any Article of the Constitution of 1895, which in Sec. 5 of Art. XI, thereof, especially excepts j the laws under which the several Graded school districts of this state were organized, from repeal. Second. They admit all of the allegations contained in paragraphs First, i Second, Third, and Fifth of the Petl- ' tlon of Relator to be true. Third. They deny that the Act of . the general assembly of this state, entitled "An Act to enlarge the area of the School district of Yorkvllle to two and one-half miles",' approved the 15th day of February, 1907, assailed in paragraph Fourth of the Petition of Relator Is unconstitutional for any of the grounds, therein alleged, although in this connection, they admit a a o font that n n pnnpiirr#?nt rpsnlu- ' tlon by a two-thirds vote of each I house of the general assembly was of- , fered and passed authorizing the in- , troduction and passage of the bill that ' became the Act assailed in said Fourth ' paragraph of the Petition. Fourth. Further answering the petition, respondents aver and charge that under the provisions of the original act of Incorporation, and all amendments thereto anterior to the Constitution of 1895, of the School district of Yorkville, the respondents, as the board of trustees thereof, are required to order and hold an election between the 1st day of June and the 20th day of July of each year for the levy of a local tax In support of the system of free graded schools within said School district, and that unless such election shall be ordered and held within the' time limit prescribed, the financial support of the system of free schools will be cut off, and the schools must necessarily collapse, at the very least, for the term of one year, leaving the entire community without educational advantages. For this all potent reason, the respondents humbly pray the court for an immediate decision. Wherefore respondents pray that the prayer of the Petition, be refused, ana ine reuuon aismisseu. Thomas F. McDow, Win. B. McCaw, Attorneys for Respondents. June 8th, 1907. The State of South Carolina, County of York. Personally appeared Wm. B. McCaw, Thomas F. McDow, Withers Adlckes, W. Brown Wylie, Wm. D. Glenn and John E. Carroll and make oath, each for himself, that the persons designated herein constitute the board of trustees of the School District of Yorkvllle, and that the allegations of the foregoing return to the petition herein, are true of their own knowledge, except as to the legal question and allegations as to the constitutionality of the Act assailed, and as to this they each believe the Return to be true. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of June, A. D., 1907. While we have no desire to question the correctness of any statement In the foregoing, it now seems Incumbent upon us to go a little further Into the. subject. A few days ago the editor of The Enquirer borrowed from Senator Brice a copy of the acts of 1907 for the purpose of reproducing the act in question, and at the same time took occasion to ask the senator how this act came to be passed. Senator Brice said that the matter came up to him from the board i trustees of the Yorkvllle Graded school and, as he had done on previous occasions with other acts he had tried to get It through. Quite a number of lawyers In the sen ate had assured him that the proposed act was unconstitutional; that it would not pass the supreme court and he thought so himself; but at the same time he fe't that it was his business to get it through and he did so. In the same conversation he stated also that Mr. Spencer had told him that he had entered into the proceedings without having had time to give the matter a great deal of thought. Mr. Spencer is generally understood to be a friend of education, who would never object to any kind of a school tax for personal reasons, and under these circumstances it seemed to be a fair assumption that the proceedings were at least friendly. In using the expression oomplained of, there was no intention to impute any lack of good faith on the part of anybody. But, whatever the wisdom or unwisdom of increasing the area of the school district and whatever the Justice or injustice of bringing in additional taxpayers without their first being consulted, Senator Brice agreed with the editor of The Enquirer that these voters thus brought in should be apprised of their rights in the whole matter and that is what The Enquirer is seeking to do, As to whether they vote for or against the levy of the special tax is a matter for them to decide and of no special concern to The Enquirer. Also as to whether the taxpayers brought in still have a day in court, or whether they 8 have lost that right, they will have to find out for themselves. There Is cer- ( talnly no question about the fact that r as the situation now stands, this act 1 IJAtimirAr If mOV hA IS UOUSllluuuiiui. nuntici ti ?- fIn the abstract, the supreme court has t I made it so in the concrete, and until 1 s the supreme court reverses itself there can be no practical change. I ?Ed. Enquirer. a . f LOCAL LACONICS. eQ We Will Send The Enquirer t | From this date until January 1st, ? 1908, for $1.00 The First Buggies. P While in a reminiscent mood the ^ other day, Mr. Zimrl Carroll of Clover, F remarked that he remembered a time t when horses were as generally and u badly frightened at buggies as they 0 now are at automobiles. In the early d forties only three or four members of t Bethany congregation had buggies, P and the vehicles were looked upon s with much curiosity. Rev. R. C. Grier, li then pastor of Bethany was one of li the first owners of a carriage, and for t a long time It was an object of as li much wonder as the automobile is n now, probably more. |i Stock With Black Bass. * Mr. Harry Wylle wants the people |< living along the big pond of the Ca- s tawba Power company to stock the p streams running through their lands q with black bass. He says he stocked c Allison creek a few years ago and al- o though black bass are to be caught at s the mouth of the. creek, there are very a few to be found In the pond or else- b where. He thinks that if the people a will stock the streams running into the o pond it will be only a few years until bass are plentiful in all of them. It p Is no trouble to .get plenty of young v fish for stocking purposes. Written a application to Congressman Finley is {? all that is necessary. r> Common Pleas Jury Cases. Heretofore, for quite a long while, ? there has been no common pleas jury c business at the summer terms of the a court for York county. The sessions d business has generally been light and b upon its conclusion, the court has been it in the habit of adjourning. The law a did not provide for the consideration tl of common pleas jury cases. A bill p was gotten through the recent session ci of the general assembly providing that n common pleas cases may be taken tl up after the sessions business o] has been disposed of. and as the ses- ti sions business promises to be light at the approaching term, it is quite prob- tl able that some civil cases may be en- h tered into. It is worthy of note, how- II ever, that some witnesses have been d subpeonaed to give their attendance on a Monday, the 15th of July, and unless ci court holds over on account of some case commenced during the first week, u the probabillay is that it will have ad- it journed sine die before the 15th. fi FOR A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY P. H. Gadsden's Excellent Address On Immigration. POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT UNLIMITED Make the Country Habitable For Desirable White Immigrants, Enact Labor Laws Suitable For White Men, and Home-Seekers Will Flock to Our 8tate In Great Numbers. In a recent issue, The Enqutrer contained a brief synopsis of the address that Mr. P. Hi. Gadsden of Charleston, Jellvered before the members of the South Carolina State Press association n their annual convention on the Isle >f Palms. In compliance with a reluest embodied in a formal resolution idopted by the association, Mr. Gadslen has since written out his address n full, and The Enquirer takes pleasire in presenting: It herewith: 3entlemen of the State Press Association: I regret very much that I was unaiie to be present at your opening session and take this opportunity of welcoming you to the Isle of Palms. I also wish to express my apprecia:lon of your invitation to address the aress of the state on the subject of immigration. While the history of the Immigration movement in this state Is fairly welltnown to you all, a brief review of It it this time will serve a useful puri>ose. The question of Immigration vas first brought to the attention of he public of this state by Mr. D. C. fteyward, then a candidate for governor; subsequently, in January, 1904, Jovernor Heyward, in his annual mes sage to the general assembly aeveiopea lis ideas as to immigration. By reference to that message it will be seen :hat the recommendation of the governor to organize an immigration bureau in this 'state was based almost entirely upon the idea that such a bureau when established, was to devote tself to the introduction Into the state >f home-seekers and settlers. Followng the recommendation of the governor, the general assembly passed an let which was approved on February 1, 1904, establishing a department of mmigration and providing for the appointment of a commissioner. Section :\velve of this act provided "That with 'egard to agricultural Interests under this act, it shall be the duty of the ;ommlssioner to secure those immigrants who desire to purchase homes, pecome citizens of this state and build jp agricultural interests." The original purpose therefore, of the establishment of a bureau of Imnigratlon in this state, and the primary one, was to encourage homeseekers and settlers and with that end n view, the bureau commenced Its pperations and succeeded in Introducng in different parts of the state quite i number of Scotch and other immlrrants who became citizens of the state and owners of land. This proves was necessarily a slow one; just it this time the supply of labor In the :otton mills of the state became so icarce that the cotton mill association >f the state appointed a committee to supplement such supply by lmmlgra;ion from abroad and approached the . ommissloner of immigration with an pfTer to supply the necessary funds to prepay the passage of cotton mill operatives that were needed in the state. Realizing that the introduction of lome-seekers and settlers, while a na;ural and proper line, was necessarily l slow one and appreciating that by ;he assistance of the cotton mills a arge number of immigrants could be ntroduced Into the state at one time, he commissioner accepted the offer of he cotton mills and went abroad for his purpose. You are familiar with the two trips >f the Witteklnd. Following the arrival >f the Witteklnd on her last trip, the pusiness interest of the state, through he South Carolina branch of the Southern Industrial and Immigration issoclatlon, determined that it was the part of wisdom to send three commlsiloners to Europe for the purpose of naking a study of the conditions un lerlying the immigration question ana >laclng the rnovernent if possible, upon tound business principles and on a jermanent basis. The commissioners vere ex-Governor D. C. Hey ward, Commissioner E. J. Watson and mylelf. Unfortunately for the interests if the state, and the particular Inter;st of the immigration question, Gov>rnor Heyward was prevented from rolng and Commissioner Watson and I vent to Germany on the 12th of April. Upon my return, I filed a report with he mayor of Charleston, setting out he results of my investigation and riving my conclusions on the general lubject. These conclusions, were in >rief, that it was neither advisable nor >racticable at this time to encourage he immigration of laborers, First, be:ause our wage scale was not attracIve to them as compared with the vage scale obtaining in other parts of he United States, and secondly and >qually important, we were not pre>ared at this time, to handle white European labor; and further reported hat in my Judgment, our efforts should >e directed to the introduction of home eekers and settlers, and with this end n view, wo should organize colonlzalon companies to provide for them md take care of them. From letters that I have received ilnce the publication of my report, I lave been led to believe that what I nust consider as a cursory reading of he report, has Induced a number of >eop!e in the state to believe that the novem^nt as a whole, has been a fallire and that there is no longer any tse to continue the agitation of the ubject. It is for this particular reason that am very giad of the opportunity of .ddresslng . you today. I came back rom Europe more impressed than ver, with the importance to South Carolina and the south, of immigraion. It was inevitable, in any great conomlc question as tills tnai mere hould be disappointments and even lartlal failure, but It has been the experience of the world that it is only rom such disappointments and fallires that the sound and sane princliles underlying a movement such as his are discovered and followed up to iltimate success. There has been no change in the riginal purpose of the bureau or in the Iscussion of the subject of immigraion. It was originally projected to irovide home-seekers and settlers. It ras temporarily diverted in the hope of peedily supplying help to our textile nterests. In my Judgment, every dolir which has been spent up to this ime on the introduction of Immigrants nto this state, has been a good Investment. In no other way could the subect have been brought to public atention and in-no other way could a object of this magnitude which promts so much for the future of the outh. have been recognized by the lublic as one of its great economic uestions. I think that Mr. Watson as ommissioner, deserves great credit at ur hands in having kept the subject o prominently before the public. The rguments In favor of immigration are otli political and economic. Political, s offering the only permanent solution f the negro question in the south. Ever since the war, we have resorted o one expedient after another In the a in hope of solving, what we have 11 been brought to consider, as the rput neero Question. Each one has roved temporary and unsuccessful; he only permanent solution Is to make his a white man's country; not necesarily to drive the negro out of the ountry, for one, I think this would be mistake. I think that he is a most esirable labor and his services should e encouraged. But in order to relove the influence which he exercises s being practically the sole labor in he south, we must increase our white opulation. This is impossible to acamplish satisfactorily by natural lethods and therefore It is imperative lat we resort to the artificial increase f our white population by immigraon. The economic arguments speak for I lemselves. The south, since the war, i as been rapidly increasing In wealth. I has built up a great cotton mill in- | ustry and other industrial enterprises nd the result is that at this time the i joftal has outgrown labor. 1 The two factors which go to make i p the prosperity of a country are cap- ! al and labor. One must be as plentill as the other. Today we are faced ; with the situation in the south that there is in certain industries, a stagnation for want of labor. At a time when the cotton mills of this state have never been more prosperous, there are less cotton mills under construction than at any time in the last ten years. This, to a certain extent, is true in every department of our industrial life. Our farms have been largely drawn upon for white labor by the cotton mills and other industries at the expense of the agricultural Interests of *" the state. One of the results of this ha^ been, as is shown by the United States census, that the number of ne gro farmers and land holders In this state has Increased to a very considerable percentage. If the present situation Is allowed to continue and the white men are drawn from the farms by inducements of greater rewards In Industrial centers, the results must inevitably be that our farm lands will be owned by negro farmers. The Introduction of home-seekers and settlers from other parts of the United States and abroad offers the only solution of this problem. The history of immigration movements throughout the world has shown that the only successful way to handle such a question Is by colonization, and It Is to this point that I particularly wish to direct your attention. I think from now on, the efforts of our bureau should be directed to the advertisement throughout the north and west and through the various countries of Europe, of the advantages which South Carolina offers for the small farmer and the home-seeker, both of climate and of soil and that the business interests of our state should organize local colonization companies In every county. It is the province of the public man and the statesman to arouse public interest on great economic questions and it is equally the privilege and the duty of the business man, to carry them out to a successful issue by placing them upon a sound business basis. All of us realize that it Is Impracticable to enlist the active and sustained interest of people in any great public question unless It can be placed upon a safe business plan which holds out the promise of a substantial personal reward. It is this very fact which has made the colonization plan so successful wherever tried throughout the United States. It not only solves the public question of the introduction of immigrants Into the state, but at the same time It returns to the parties organizing such a colonization company rewards which equal, if they do not surpass, those which can be obtained in other business enterprises. What we need in this state is population. With population, we would have more railroads per square mile, more cotton manufactories and more Industrial enterprises of every nature. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of good, healthy, fertile land which for years have not been planted. My suggestion is, that the business Interests of each county organize a colonization company on a small basis of, say from ten to twenty thousand dollars capital and obtain options on these lands at the lowest possible figure. In order to succeed, the option price on such lands should not exceed ten dollars per acre. I believe that a majority of these lands can be obtained at from five to six dollars per acre. They can be sold to a desirable class of immigrants at from fifteen to twnntv Hnllnr? n*?r ar?r*? nnivldpd thftv are sold on easy and Ions' terms. The colonization company should make a special effort to look after the Interests particularly of the first settlers and see that. they are favorably located, and are given every possible opportunity to make money. After this Is accomplished It will form a nucleus for a large movement In thiU particular locality. Already such a movement has been started in Aiken and Chester counties. It Is purposed by some of us In * Charleston county, shortly to organize a colonization company with a view of acquiring options on practically all of the low lands In Charleston county. The object of the company will be through the agency of the oounty drainage commission, to thoroughly drain such lands and make them healthy. It Is then purposed to build houses on such lands and invite immigration. We feel satisfied that such a company so organized and operated on the plans which I have outlined, will make very handsome returns to the stockholders and at the same time It will reclaim the malarial lands in Charleston and will giv? the city of Charleston one of the rlohest backcountries which any state of the United States enjoys. As an illustration of the possibilities from such lands, I would call your attention to the growth within recent years of the truoklng Interests In Charleston oounty and vicinity. "Within twenty years this interest, from a very small beginning has grown to proportions where the average for five years gives a crop worth over two million dollars and the net profit to the farmers of over nine hundred thousand per annum. The low lands to which I have just referred, are when drained, equally adapted for the trucking Interests as the lands in St. Andrews or Youngs' Island, and there Is no reason why such a plan prosecuted on sound business lines, should not prove entirely successful both from a public standpoint and from the standpoint of the Individual stockholder. There is already a movement on foot embracing eleven counties of this state to reclaim their low swamp lands by drainage and this will ultimately be done. But the practical question has always arisen; what is to be done with ?nr?h Innrin when thev are drained? Colonization gives the answer to such a question. It offers to my mind a solution so rich in pecuniary rewards as to justify in a very short time the organization of a company for the purposes of draining such lands and selling them to desirable Immigrants. This subject of immigration is so large and so complex that It is only possible in the space properly allotted to an address of this kind, to touch upon two or three phases of It. There is one aspect of the question, however, which it seems to me, deserves serious consideration at the hands of us all, and that is the necessity on our part of Dreparing the conditions throughout the state to make them attractive and satisfactory to the new citizens whom we are inviting. While at this time we purpose to devote our attention primarily to the Introduction of the home-seeker and the farmer, still It is inevitable, that as the movement grows, we will broaden out our lines and use our best efforts to supplement the supply of labor in the state. Before we can expect to bring into this state any considerable number of white labor, it is absolutely necessary in my opinion, that our labor laws should be made to conform to a yhite man's country. Ever since the establishment of this colony, we have been dependent upon negro labor with the result that all of our legislation so far as farm labor contracts are concerned, have reference to an Inferior class of workmen, and we have enacted legislature which seemed to be required by 1 the peculiar class of labor which we had at hand. If we are In earnest with this question of Immigration, if we have firmly made up our minds that we propose to adopt a course which In succeeding generations will make this a white man's country, if we are thoroughly convinced of the propriety of introducing white laborers in our midst, the sooner we begin to set our own house in order, the better. The conditions necessary for the control of negro labor would not be submitted to for a moment by white labor, and the first step which we should take, in my Judgment, is to reform out contract labor laws and make them conform to states and countries where white labor is invited and prosDerous. I was glad to see that this question had been brought up in the United States court and that his honor, Judge Brawley had decided that the act of South Carolina on this subject was unconstitutional. What I would like to see however, is not that the act should be nullified by the courts, but that at the coming session of the legislature, the general assembly of South Carolina should repeal such act thereby authoritatively declaring the public policy of this state on this subject. You can accept it without reservation that labor laws framed for an inferior colored labor cannot, and will 4 not be acceptable to the liberty-loving and liberty-seeking white man. In conclusion, 1 would urge upon you, gentlemen of the state press,