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: - V-*^ ' 'Pf " m mm ' ' ' ? . ' ' > ' * ^ if :- - . - ....... - . - ' I -S , ; y*........... . , >( i , i 'I , ? ?-???-??? ? -... ? ? - ' -?? ?L 'in -nr. ^ ^UED SEMt- vf^EKLY. ^^ ^ ^ ^ l. m. grist's sons, Pubii.h.r., % 4am*te IJfirajrajrer: $or ihc promotion of the political, Social, Jgrirttltapl and tfommerjial interests of the geopty. TERMsf^?cop^fwTiNc?mNCE established"{80S ~ ~~~ ~~ YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBERltO, 1919. NO- 81~ | THE WORLD AND COTTON Join L McLaarln To York Count) Farmers. STATE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM THE KEY ? Peace of the World the First Consideration, and After that Machinery , Under Which Cotton May be Sold v Uirectiy to tne opinnors ? bumpv? Cotton Producers Should Stand Together. Addressing a meeting of the farmers and business men in the courtMouse in Yorkvillc Wednesday morning under the auspices of the York County Cotton Association, Former Warehouse Commissioner John U McL<aurln of Bcnnettsvill^, urged his farmeir hearers to Join the county association, declaring that the "trust" principle was a good one and that the only salvation of the farmers so far as getting full* value for their cotton was in the organization of an association sufficiently strong to safeguard their interests as against the interests of other organizations. The meeting in Yorkvllle Wednesday was attended j by more than one hundred of the leading farmers and business men of the county who listened with great in*aro?t fn the address of the speaker. Dr. J. B. Johnson of Rock Hill, chairman of the York County Cotton Asso^ ciation presided and introduced the speaker. In appealing to his audience V to join the association Mr. McLaurin x told them that if they were not interested enough in the objects of the association to join the local .association I then it was not worth while to do any ? thing for. them. He spoke in part as follows: There is no product that will be more affected by world conditions growing out of the war than, cotton, therefore I wish to call attention to some of them before referring to local matters. The United States has come 'out of the war,, not only the richest nation on earth, but the richest which has ever existed. The other nations of the world owe this gov eminent 15 billions of dollars for which we hold their bonds.^ The European governments in addition to this, owe vast sums to American cap> ltalists like the loans made by American -banks to Enjffend and France be' fore our entry Into the war. Paris. London ahd other European cities have hold their bonds or short term notes vkt heavy discounts to Investors all j over the United States, In addition to this we have taken up and now own the three billion of dollars of American securities held by Europe prior to the War. I imagine that all of these items are sufficient (if paid) to cancel the national debt of tbe United States. The bonded indebtedness of the United States is held by the people of the United States. There ' is no other nation in the world in this situation, and I do not think you can find a parallel for it In all history. Great Britain comes out of the war with the flower of her young men disabled or dead, and with a bonded debt which is nearly 50 per cent, of her estimated national wealth. France has lost a generation of her young men and is burdened with a national debt which Is nearly 60 per cent, of the value of all the property In France. Italy, Germany and the other countries of Europe are in a still worse condition. The war hardly touched the young manhood of the United States and our national wealth has enormously increased. If you ask mo why the angel of death passed us by, I would say, that it was because God ^ intended to preserve our strength that we might use the wealth and manhood of America in rebuilding civilization and redeeming mankind. The horror and wastage of war has taken the heart out of Europe. v There is today hardly a stable govr, ernment in Europe; there is a relapse to actual barbarism in Russia. 1^ England the life of the government is threatened by the Irish uue*tion and a huge railroad strike, which unless it is checked will bring on a revolution. You can see how it started in Russia, Austria, Poland and Hungary. The x world is struggling to get on its feet from a monumental disaster. Europe is too weak and exhausted to do so I without help. The eyes of the whole world are turned on America. If we ^ fail to meet the issue, then just as I sure as fate, mankind will swing back SH once again into the dark ages. You m need not think that the Atlantic ocean f will protect us as it did during the war. The tide will engulf us with the others. After long: suffering: and the loss of all that we hold dear, another generation will finally come out of this pit of despair to again slowly and painfully take the upward path set for us by the God who made us free agents, able to choose the path of life t or death. Peaco Treaty. I have watched with horror and disgust the tactics of certain senators while the world is in agony: unmindful of anything save partisan political interest. The delay of the ratification of the peace treaty under such circumstances is a crime against the whole human race and an affront to the Creator of this universe. No leader of any ration in all history has ever showed a fuller, firmer or clearer consciousness of "Political Idealism" than Wood row Wilson in his fourteen points. I go further ? and say that no man has ever showr greater practical wisdom in not refusing at Paris to take what he coult get, because he could not get all 'h< f wanted. He found ttiat Europear statesmen were ynablc to see except ai close range. They could not suddenly view a Christian brotherhood r of nations with the smoke of the battlefields and the stench of the dead still poisoning the .atmosphere. Woodrow Wilson stood alone voicing for all nations the spiritual aspirations ol common humanity. He was coldly received in court circles abroad, as he is by the masters in high finance in this country, who really do not want democracy safe in any country where they rule or make their money. Those senators who arc now opposing the treaty say by their acts that they arc ready to continue international anarchy, war and destruction, provided they can secure political advantage at home. These men who insolently call themselves leaders, try to deceive the public with vast moral pretensions, when as a matter of faqt they are after electing one 6f their number president of the United States, regardless of larger consequences- - ' Reform or Ruin. I am not an alarmist, nor a ringer of alarm bells. I am getting to the age when a man becomes a philosopher. It is my honest opinion that civilization itself is on trial. Unless present tendenoies are speedily checked, distress and violence will work a havoc in this world in comparison with which the evils of the war (great as they were) will be puerile. We can hear of the extermination of an entire race of people in Turkey and the wholesale extermination of property owning knd educated classes in Russia, with the abolition of private property and the nationalizing of woman. It is no ordinary problem which confronts us. It has nothing to do with accommodating to a gradually changing social and .industrial status. It dees nbt contemplate mere modification of old industrial forms to- changeji conditions. It has no concern with amendments to existing condltibn8. This European movement is launching stern questions at the system itself, which .constitutes the present order of society. It is denying its right to continued existence. It is in this country. You have only to read the demand of organized labor as td the railroads. The demand made recently in the steel strikes. These strikes will fail1 .because the people of the United States are^nqt in sympathy with the movement, but it still leaves the question unanswered. All of the actions of men first live in the thoughts of their mind or emotions of their hearts. These are the immntorini forees which create revolu tion- -There it stands, grim, menacing, and terrible, and so It will stand until justice be done or a crash comes which will go echoing down the ages. The alternative is before this country cf industrial reform or ruin. If we refuse the one, the other shall surely compel us. The same fundamental cause that brought about the war is still in operation; every government in thii world is specially designed and administered to bring comfort and luxury to a class instead of to mankind as a whole. The world has tried the governing power of evil, it is up to the United States now to try goodness as a governing force. During the war and since the consolidation of manufacturing and financial interest has bcqn taking place at a rate and on a scale never known before-'The Sherman anti-trust law is a. dead letter for the trusts now contro; all of the necessities of life; they own all of the copper, coal and other mineral lands together with the means of transportation. There was a frrpnt nuterv during Roosevelt's admin .'8tration agarnst the trusts. He prosecuted "certain malefactors of great ?vealth" as he called them. Those were pigmies compared with the giants that now have vast cold storage plants, buy up all the tomatoes, washing powders, baking powders, fruits, eggs, butter and sugar- Armour and Swift with their associations have this country by the throat. There was never as much food in the United States as today. It is under the control of those interests who make it artificially scarce and constantly raise the price. I hoard a merchant say a few months ago that he could not get any rice except through Armour. Loot at our cotton seed. 'This same combination controls the | reed market and the fertilizer market. They name the price which you must I pay for fertilizer. There is no compe! titive seed market. They fix just one i price and you have got to take it or let , the seed rot. The sinno combination through their ownership of stock and ! interlocking directorates control every necessity of life. Just new they are in !a great fight with organized labor and when that is settled, you watch what I tell you. they are going to take charge of the cotton market just as they have the seed market. They are now trying to buy all of the cotton warehouses in the south. They have been trying i to buy our warehouses in Bonnet tsville. If they can do this, and they will do it, if wc sit idle with folded hands, 'they can force the price of cotton dowr whenever they please. All that the> have to do is to call the loans made on cotton at the same time all over the 1 belt. No power on earth could hold ur .the price of cotton with a concerted . movement of that kind. It is their purI ; pose lo destroy a competitive market , j for cotton. They will meet in secret I parcel out the territory, fix the prict of cotton and every luiyer will make j you the same price. This means that i we people who gi*ow cotton will com pete with each other In selling it while 1 there will be no competition among 5 those who arc buyers. This means that i un individual must go up single handt ed against this vast aggregation of political influence, brains and money. I What chance has he got? None. We are bound to find some means to act 1, as a unit and the cotton association is the only opportunity in sight. All ready these great trusts stajid at every cross roads where produce must pass and levy toll on' the fruits of labor at i their own evil pleasure. I want to see , the cotton association develop suffi: clent political power to take charge of r tho state warehouse system in South i Carolina and make it meet the needs i of the people. Here Senator KcLaurin took up the qucstibn* of foreign exchange and showed how impossible it was to sell cotton abroad unless we took foreign goods in exchange. He showed how easy it was to sell cotton in Germany at mere than 501 cents per pound and take potach In payment and this should all be done through the state warehouse system. Ho discussed the price of Cotton and said that it depended on the farmers acting as a unit and co-operating all along the line. He paid a high tribute to Mr. Wanna maker for the energy ana intelligence with which he was conducting , the. campaign for the association. WILSON'S FOREIGN PRESENTS Secretary Tumulty Makes Itemized Statement. Acting upon the "express direction of the president and Mrs. Wilson," Secretary Tumulty has mp.de public a ctatement containing an itemized list ,of presents received by them while in Europe. ? Mr. Tumulty's statement follows: "While on his Western trip the president's attention was called to the resolution of Representatiye Rodenborg of illinois and the statements of Senators Penrose and Shermaln in regard to gifts received by the president and Mrs. Wilson while they were in .Europe. "Senator Sherman indicated the balds of'thc various stories touching this matter when he said cloak room gossip laid the value of these gifts at J500.000.' Senator Penrose said he ?' ad been informed the presidential arty brought back to this country presents from crowned heads and foreign governments amounting ..to several million dollars.' "Here aro the facts: "Outside of a considerable number of small gifts such as books, walking sticks, an old silver dish found in the ruins of Louvain, war souvenirs made by soldiers out of war material, and numerous i&cdals struck off In his honor, the following are the only important gifts rceoived by the president in Europe: * "In England; "Photograph of the king and queen of England. "A, book relating to Windsor castle. "The freedom of the city of London, presented in a gold casket by the lord mayor at Guild hall. "In Italy: "A water colored picture, on bronze easel, presented by the queen of Italy. "A bronze figure, presented at the capitol In Rome. (A gift from the people.) "A figure of 'Italia Victoria,' sent to 'he train at Genoa, cither by a school or by the citizen? of Genoa. "A set of bookb from the citizens at Genoa. ? "A mosaic presented by the pope. "In France: "A bronze figure, presented by a body of students. "The president also received numerous honorary degrees l'rom nearly ali of the countries of Europe, and many resolutions of respect and gratitude. "Knowing that there is a constitutional inhibition against the president receiving gifts from foreign rulers or states, the president, after consulting the secretary of state, was preparing a list of the presents he intended to ask the permission of congress to retain just before he started on his western trip. _?r_. .v. in iLUUlllUU LU II1C l?vv>>vu vj the president the following1 tokens were presented to Mrs. Wilson while she was in Europe: "In France: "A pin of Parisian enamel with tinydiamond chips, presented in Holdeville in the city cf Paris. "Linen hand embroidered lunch set * (small cloth and dozen napkins) in a case, presented through Madame Poinicaire and Madame Pichon by the working women of France. ! "In Belgium: ~ "A small medal by Cardinal Mcrcier. "A Belgian lace table cover, present! ed by the queen. "A complete tile of the 'Libre BelRique' (the paper published during the 'German occupation), presented by the ; king, in leather folio. : "In Italy: | "A reproduction of the 'Wolf and 11 Romulus and Remus,' in gold, present , CCl uy lilt" IWUIlll- U1IUU(,M OU.'i cription. ' "A piece of lace in leather case, presented l?y Signor Orlando in bei half of "his colleagues." > "A small reproduction in silver of a I pitches found in the ruins of Pompeii. "In making this statement, I am I acting upon the express direction of . the president and Mrs. Wilson." ? The governor has appointed W. H. t Dukes, coroner of Orangeburg county. I VIEWS AND. INTERVIEWS ' ' t . ( Brief Local Paragraphs of More i Less Interest. t / PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTED Stories Concerning Folks and Thing Somo of Which You Know an / Some You Don't Know?Condense for Quick Reading. Shortage in Shines. "This compulsory school attend ance law is going to cause a shortag in shine boys," repnarked Holly Bar ron of the O. K. Barbershlp, York ville, a day or two ago. "Goodnes knows it is hard enough to get 'er now, but with the* law requiring al colored boys under 14 years of age t go to school 1 am afraid our patron may have td go shineless for a whil anyway." Some of the shoe shin boys in Yorkville make as much a $8.50 a week. No Reason Why Not. Big, awkward, red-faced chaptappei the newspaper man on the back th other morning, "Say," he said, " want you to print my name and sa: something about me in The Enquire like you say about other people som times." He looked quite silly am foolish-like as though he were aakini for something and. didn't know wha he wanted. He is a nice fellow. Hi stands fairly well in his section o York county according to all report He pays the grocer and the preache and the doctor. He doesn't quarre with his mother-in-law and. he say he loves his wife. "What ^can I sa; about you," asked tho newspape: man. "I don't know," * he said ii a stammering tone. And hp dl^ft&t Neither did the typewriter profefiHH But anyway?this is it. Rector An Expert Woodsman. "That fellow Etfcgctor who was hen working with- u4 thflt week is somi trailer," remarkeii^a county pro hibition officer &-' whs talking i over with Viewntxid Interviews h front of Sherer & Qoinn's store th< other evening. He referred to C. J Rector, United States revenue officer who is a brother of the late Hendrb Rector, former sheriff of Urepuvllh county. "We were up , in King': Mountain township' lost week looking out for Uoc^jj|^^Kl the officer quoted "ne^to?wa^with me' when we rar upon a peach Of a plant of about 10( gallons capacity. But that's a litth ahead of my story. We buw a fellow come out of the bushes about a, mil* and a half away from where we flnallj located the distillery. 'That fellow hai been to that still as sure as shooting, said Rector, 'let's trail him.' We look cci au arouna ana nnauy we umvuvcici bruised bushes -made i>y his coming through them. 1 couldn't see a thing and wanted to give up the back-tracl but Rector wouldn't hear of it We 01 rather he, back-tracked,* that fellov fully a mile and a half by observing broken twigs and crushed leaves ant all that sort of thing and sure enougl the back-trail led right up to the distillery. When we got there Rcctoi asked me, 'What kind of a gun hav< you?' 1 told him a .38 calibre And h< pulled out his own which was biggei than mine. 'Take this one too,' In said, 'and go over tnere on that hill I am going to cut up this still. If yoi see a bush move anywhere arount here you shoot ?nd shoot quick, anc shoot with my gun and yours too.' told him there was no use in that becauso York county moonshiners wen not in the habit of shooting at officers, always being too anxious to gc away. 'That may be true, my friend, he said, 'but you sec I don't know 'en and I have been shot at quite a number of times during my hunts foi stills over this state. It isn't pleasanl and I take no chances. If you set anything move while I am cutting ui this still why you shoot.' Nothing moved," concluded the York count] officer, v. Some Folks See it That Wa.y Several fellows standing in front o the postofficc in Clover Tuesday morn ing were discussing the fine prospect! for a good 'possum crop this fall am the scarcity of reliable 'possum dogs "I can't explain it, fellows," said one "but you hunt 'possums because yoi like to hunt 'possums and it don' make any difference whether you maki a good catch or not, you'll go agaii the first chance you get. There'! something connected with a man In hi; sporting makeup that is )>ound t< come out, and?well, to make a lon( 1 * 4- o ta 'nrtoctin i story Miiun, iic o ftwua. hunting. That's all. Out in the brae ing night air, all alone with his dog; and with nature all quiet like, he's got time to do some thinkip' and some times he does lots o' thinkin'." Then and Now. Discussion in front of the 1'eofcle* Hank and Trust Company the othe morning rap to the high cost of liv ing and there was a little cussini along wit|> the discussion. "Of cours it costs like everything to live now bu it does not cost near as much as i did during the War Between th States," was the argument of a Con federate veteran who was among tht party. He took from his pocket a 113 of some prices that were in offec then. Here is tlie list as he read it t his little audience: Corn, $5.Si> pe bushel; meal, $3.60 per bushel; hacor $1.00 per pound: pork. 60 eents pe liound; lard, $1.00 per pound; wheal 15.50 per bushel; flour. $27.00 per bar \ rel; sweet potatoes, $4.00 per bushel: Irish potatoes, $2.50 1 per bushel; onions, $6.00 per bushel; salt, $4.4< ^ per pound; sugar, $1.75 per pound; molasses, $8.50 per gallon; rice 4( cents per pound; coffee, $3.50 pei pound, and tea $10.00 per pound. IS Noted Lynching Case Recalled. As strange and weird as Is this race conflict Incident out In Arkansas ' there Is nothing new or unusual In it ^ Similar incidents have occurred quite d frequently before in the history of the country, some during slavery times and some since. Some have been on o , many times larger scale and some c on a smaller scale. It has not been a great while, 6nly a little more than thirty years, that something verj 8 similah occurred in York county. II n was in the winter of 1886-87,, to be lj more accurate. A little white boy, Q Lee Good, was murdered in hl$ father's g pasture down in Bullock's Cresk fnnrnaKIn kanion b?i?ian/4 ^ ku"uouiji. a iiv waists aiiu ut uuicu body bore evidence cf the fiendish g brutality of the CTime; but It took an extensive investigation to bring out the truth as to by whom the murder was perpetrated and the motive. It all came out. The boy Iiac seen Bailey e Dowdle, Prlndy Thomson, Mose Lipscomb and Dan Roberts stealing cotton y from the field, and to keep him from 1 telling on them they killed him. Little e by little It was disclosed that the 3 negroes had a, considerable organiza? tlon under the leadership of one Giles 1 Good, a negro of much influence c among hfij fellows, and the principal { object of the organization was, as one " of the members put It, "When sorfie r of us get into trouble for the rest to 1 swear us out." It came out also, from 8 the testimony of those/ implicated, y that different prominent white men ot r the neighborhood had been marked for 1 assassination. Of course the people f. <of the Bullock's Creek neighborhood sverc tremendously stirred,' as were the people of other sections of the county. They waited patiently until e there had been developed all the in3 formation that could be developed, and - then one night they came to Yorkvllle, t\a hundred or more strong for the purl pose of lynching those who had been S implicated. The negroes had been . spirited off to Columbia* in the mean, time; but when they were brought c back to Yorkvllle the following spring, 5 the mob attacked the jail, took the flvei i men out about half a mile, and hung ; them oh a big oak tree. That vfas the . ertd of the swear-em-out . organ I zni tion in the Bullock's Creek section. ) Just how many negroes really belonged j to the organization was never known, r although it was certain that there were i others. Bally Dowdi Mose Llpsr comb, Brindy Thomson and Dan j Roberts, all boys from 18 to 20 years of age, were lynched for their dlcect . connection with the lynching of the 1 little Good boy. Giles Good, aged ; about fifty, was lynched because oY ; leadership. It was not considered t worth while to disturb any of the ; others. r , m T THE NEW PENSION RULES 1 Further Discussion of Seeming Hard Conditions of Proof. r Editor Yorkville Enquirer, ? Mrs. W. L. Whitcsidcs's letter of 2 yesterday voiced my sentiments 30 r completely, that I would like to say 1 so through your columns. I had thought for sometime tlmt some one 1 ought to speak out in the old soldiers' 1 behalf, and now that Mrs. Whltsp' sides, has started the bull tc rolling, I I hope ft will be kept so until the wretched business is brought to a 5 speedy finish. We believe it would be of Interest t to the public to know who constitutes ' nrnoinn Iwwwrl Oivl flan whfl_t thplr 1 Idea is to create no much anxiety, trouble, atu". expense to thede aged " veterans. We presume they have all 1- in time had their pension papers > made out and properly alined, and 1 why trouble them again about the ' matter. We wonder what worthy f cause the board has in view, should they be successful In depriving these veterans of their dues. There are a f few who do not need this money as a . livelihood, but there are many who do * need it. and it's all they have which 1 they can call their own. and it Is in . behalf of those I make thia pica. There , may he a few who are unworthy, but x would it not be more honor to us to t pr.y these few this small allowance s than deprive the _ many who are ! worthy. We wonder what the young 3 veterans of the late war think of 3 these* proceedings. We wonder if they 3 have imagination enough at their ccm mand to conceive of the future genex ration treating them In this manner. _ 1 fttel sure there are many who will 3 j agree with us in this matter and I 3 | hope they will speak out in behalf of . | those whom we wish to honor and I respect before it is too late. Mrs. M. P. Faris, Clover, R. F. D. No. 4, Oct. 8. 1919. s ? ? James F. Keenan, 42, died in a Charleston infirmary Wednesday of ine juries received when he fell into the t hold of the U. S. S. Ashevilie at the t navy yard. ^ e 1 ? It is proposed to organize a p national guard company in Anderson t with Col. P. K. McCully, formerly comt manding officer of the USth Infantry n as captain. r ' i. ?The Liberty Life Insurance Comr pany of fJreenville. has been organized [, with a capital stock of fino.ftfto. i t. ; MY BROTHER'S KEEPER ?- * ' Vice President Discusses Han's Re-1 ' sponslblllty To Han. _ jf , SOME CAUSE OF GENERAL UNREST ! , i 1 I Throughout the Ages the Social Order , Has Been Agitated Over the Que*- j tion of the Duty of the Strong to 1 Those Who are Weak. I vice iTesiacni amrsnuu in new turn Times. "The ancient battle cry of Templars J was "God and my right." If this could have come down through the [ ages as the battle cry of mankind many evils might have beon prevented, for he who contemplates God with His compromises and concessions between contondlng forces in nature would have been Inevitably impressed with tho great trujh that "my right" is - not a fixed, definite and unbending ' privilege to be, *to think and to do what I please. "My rl^it" is rather my dhty to so adjust my aims and my efforts as to produce- harmony In civil society. Humanity, striving for higher and better things, particularly as exemplified anon<r Englhsh-sppaking peoples, soon clipped the Templars' motto into Just "my right." The king who fnnllnhlv thmurht h<^ ruled by rbrht divine and that ho could do no wrong Interpreted "my- right" to mean "my will" and regarded all other forces of life and society as subservient thereto. Such a definition of "my right" inevitably produced friction, such frtctipn that at Runnymcde the barons wrested the great* charter of English liberty from their overlord. Ahd yet they learned but little. The battle cry was still "my right," and they assumed that all the other wishes of mankind were held In bondage to their own; and thus tho laws were largely e made for themselves, Incidentally for n others. With the printing press, knowledge r came, and the so-called great middle n class of the world, iporo especially the ii business man, took charge of the con- j duct of human affairs through legls- r latlve bodies. And still wisdom linger- t ed and still tho cry was "my right" c Another, and the greatest of evils in t all the history of humankind, has tak- o en place; the man'who thinks he works L.L.. * ? , VJ C exclusively wiui nis nanas, uui wno, t if he stopped to consider would realize ii that his hands are phi? doing what t his brain lays out for him to do, has d marched upon' the scene of govern- n ment. . ' . r Does wisclom still linger and fs the t old cry of "my right" again to be?ex- o empliflod or attempted to be exempli- f fled by these men taking into their ti h?ands the machinery of government a and fixing by , man-made laws the / political, social and economic condl- h lions of the world? Is it to be a repetition of the old experience of n humankind,?"my right," regardless of tl tho other fellow? e Here and there in the long process i of the ages there has been a gleam of c light from individuals and from groups a of men, and in 1776 a theoretical sun s arose, called the Declaration of Inde- e pendente, to shed its light upon tho p wold. Is it to prove to be a pale, e anaemic sun, or is it to be a glowing, ii refulgent, warming and earth-revivify- t ing source of light and heat and t: power? \ The long, long fight from John at p Runnymede to Iiaig and Pershing In P Flanders and in France seems to have o been fought under the battle cry 'my v right," and "my right" seems alweys r to have been to seize the instruments of power and to wield them regardless f of my duty and regardless of the a rights of others. f< If in my own little political or so- t eiul life I had ever sought or defended r legislative enactment for myself or for / any particular group of my fellow- x countrymen, then I ought to be cs- e topped from making this inquiry. Has t not the hour struck upon the dial of p time when the great mission of Eng- c lish-speaking peoples and, more particularly, the great mission of the c American, is to teach and to live upon x the principle of the mutual duties of i men toward each other and of organized society toward all its members? No defense can be made of the past, seamed, scarred, mutilated and blackened by special legislation as it has been. What is to be said of the laws of government which, defining crime, declare that of two men committing crimes one shall by the law be deemed guilty and the other by the selfsame law be held innocent? What sort of a democratic brain is it that hunts a moonshiner to his lair, art-ests, convicts and incarcerates him in a Federal prison, and elects to the United States senate the man who buys his product? Special legislation must necessarily come so long as the old cry of "my right" remains the battle cry of the Republic and so long as men arc recognized as good citizens, at the same time separating themselves and their interests from the common weal. J know what hot blood can do. I know how self-dfefense can rapidly degenerate into willful murder. I can thoroughly appreciate how the long, long years of injustice have warped their judgment and made vindictive many of our citizenry. I can even sympathize with those who, having been the victims of special^ legislation, declare that now Is the time to pay v ' . .^$6 back the grievances they nave surfered in legislative coin of like mint- U, age. ' But there are tnany in this Republic?I think a majority?-who have *' never voted for any special privilege fcj to any man or set of men; who, from the first moment of' their conscious political and social life, have been convinced that the' never-ending con- ' / test of class against class, of prejudice M against prejudice, of right against right is the most inimical thing In the ii#- .# .1.4. ' : ': I lie Ui til KJ OtttlC. ,V<rNH Have we learned anything out of a the great war through which we have j? lust passed? Have we only thrown iff a military autocracy to take up and countenance an autocracy of either wealth or poverty? Is there enough calm and deliberate judgment and / courage in the Republic to take from J* ^dependence Hall the Declaration ind write it npon the Jife and condtict it the Republic? Have not twenty Centuries of . Christian civilisation yet taught, not j is a mere catchword but as* the movhg force of life, that ho rpan has a ight without having a duty supermposed upon that right? Are wc so blind, so childish, so, mpotent as to dream that, if either \'.; ndlvidually or by association we conMnce ourselves that we have certain ights 2nd that governments are or- <, lalned among men, we can get hold ?f the government, to assure us of '1 hose rights, regardless of their efect upon our fellow-men? If so, intcad of peace on earth to men of rood-will; out of this war there will imply proceed chaos and disorder, nurder and lplne In society. I am an optimist. I have a blind yet ure belief that legislative enactments , rill be overturned and overturned unit only the right shall rule in the /orld, and I have a blind belief tha: he mysterious workings of conscience' ? /ill affect the private and individual Ife of the cltisen until a like result rill be obtained in his social and conomic relations' with his telle*Who is there that dars deny that ight and duty are the twin hand-', naidens who minister \ to every thinkng man? Who is there that can dispute that the Republic will not lonflr^?Zj craain the Republic which the Fathers hought they founded if contending lasses are to continually clamor for '/M heir, rights and to be Utterly oblivious i their duties? Are ,nfet men 'n he Interests of. tbd eowzaan good and n tho preservation of an indlrlduaUsic Republic, more and more the inlividual citlsen miist consent to lodify and lessen what ho calls his ight when by ,so doing he can conrfhute to the welfare and happiness y i his ffellow-men? And is not he a oollsh man who ceeks to alter this nmutable law of God by legislative I nactment of the social conduct? ,'?j md sooner or later will he not find imself an outcast? Human nature is very human. Many ion trill gladly do by advice, admonlion and re prof f things Wkjoh, if enactJ l-? - I.? 11. ..III klll^l. ?.< ! .J. U IHIO WW, lllCJf ????? UUVBIIJ lOWIfi : ? 'he never-endjnf quarrels between apltal and labor are getting nofwhere, , ; nd the reason Is as plain as c pikctaflf?each thinks of itself as a class; ach raises Its battle cry "my right"; ach stands and fights at the other;* ts ach knocks at the door of congress* -* .V? mportunlng, advising) suggesting and hrcatcnlng; each tgkes advantage of he weakness and Urailty of legislators. > When is there to bo a.real, mutual artnershlp between these contending orces, a partnership not of m^ney and f hands, not- of dividends and of rages, but a partnership of confidence, 'A cspect, esteem and mutual help? { When will the employer open his . actory, not exclusively for profits but J Jso because he loves to see what his' cllow-man can'do and because he feels hat It is his duty to give hjs fellownen a chance in this great Republic? ind when will the employe do hts rork because he loves to see his flntohd product and because ho has faith hat out of their joint relationship >eacc, prosperity and good ofdcr will :ome to the state? It is a sad commentary upon our ivilizatlon,. and upon the freedom vbich wo have nnd which wo enjoy, f the sons of God. garbed in human lesh, have become so obsessed with heir Individual rights that they are lot willing to stop and consider their luty to their fellow-men and, havirfg een It, lack the courage to discharge * . fc.". " * ; Many who have been unjustly opiressed by legislation in-the past are roing to be very slow to consent to a hange of the system. But the old $ nethods of legislation must stop, or he Republic must die. The war. ostensibly if not really, wiped out for is the political, hyphenated Amebian; the war will have been in vaiiv if t shall not also have Wiped out. for us . he hvDhenated. economic American. *& ind has not taught us that, from htm vho has most to him who has least.* is the days so by. individual rlrht will rrow less and individual duty will rrow larger. How many millions of times has it >een declared upon the stump that . his was a government of equal and '*< sxact justice for all men and special wj jrivileges for nonkl It is not needful for you to go back ind point out to me the black record ' >f legislation which discloses this ^oo / >ften to have been the perfe?Yid ora - "i; ( Continued on Page Two. ) 74 . * ,* -'v.'- ; ?.