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i 5 =?- ======--? BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. Kl. He didn't have the Lucky Key ! THE fellow who broke our plate glass show window with a brick last Wednes day night didn't have the lucky key, else you people who now hold keys wouldn't have a chance to try them on September % 1899. The box is somewhat disfigured, but the money is all 0. H., and if you want to win Cfc of more Dollars BETTER DO YOUR TRADING WITH US. We give a key with each dollar's worth you trade, and then we give you more for your dollars than any credit Store can possibly give. Remember WE SELL IT FOR LESS." B. 0. Evans k Co, THE? SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. GEN. BUTLER'S VIEWS. >Tot Room for Two Races-Favors Deportation. (Jironwood Index. Mr. Wyatt Aiken, ol' Abbeville, last night sent the Index thc following let ter received by him from Gen. M. C. Butler. Gen. Butler deals with a mat ter that is of great interest just at this time, and his letter is intensely inter esting both on account of the boldness of the position he takes and the caus ? tic manner in which he refers to Sena j tor Tillman "and others" for their ut terances on the same subject. Hi? let ter is us follows: EDGEFIELD, S. C., Aug. 23. Dear Wyatt: Thc newspaper accounts of the state of affairs in Greenwood county which I take to be in the main correct, portray a condition of affairs truly deplorable. I am no apologist for lawlessness at the hands of any class of people, and offer no excuse for it in Greenwood or any other county, but in order to check it we must find the causes that produce lawlessness and apply an effective remedy, Pub lic meetings and denunciation will not cure the disease. 'You may plaster over a sore on the human body and conceal it for a time, but if the disease is in the blood it will break out some where else. A good doctor will strike at the root of the disease, and eradi cate it there, while he applies palia tives on the surface. So it is with the race question in this country. Poor white men, who have to "earn their bread by the sweat of their faces," cannot compete with cheap negro labor. To attempt to do so ini Slies their degradation and ultimate e8truction or expatriation. One race or the other must go to the wall, and without any other feelings toward the negro race than that of absolute kind ness and good will, I shall be found on the side of my own race when that issue is presented, as it is now, in my opinion. Two races cannot live to gether in peace on terms of equal civil and political rights, and the sooner we realize that the better it will be for both races. The gradual and perma nent separation of the races is the only solution of the terrible problem. The bitterness between them is growing more intense every day and will con tinue to increase m intensity as time goes on, unless some practical remedy is applied. Otherwise the day of pain ful retribution is inevitable, and a train of calamities are in store for us too distressing to contemplate. The fate of the negro is pathetic, pitiable, as things now are. The fate of the labor ing white is worse so, as he has to com pete with negro labor. It is very easy for Tillman and others to denounce the lawlessness of the Eoor white man, "the one gallus, wool at crowd; tho poor farmer boy." Let Mr. Tillman and those who join him as the guardians of the negro and present denunciators of the poor white man, put themselves in his place, and walk between tho plow handles, shove t plane or wield the hammer from sum to sundown, in competition with neg labor, employed at from tinco to ti dollars a month, a peck of meal ai three pounds of bacon a week. Son of these patriots now jumping on tl "one-gallus, wool-hat crowd" are ai have been for years living on fat sal ries, enjoying flic cream ot' the land, 1 tlie grace of thc; "one-gallns, wool-h crowd." Having reached the top, tin now ckick down the ladder on wliii they rose to wealth and power. Sin sudden conversion to the ways of la and order make one tired. I repeat, I have no excuse to ofter f< "white capping" or any other form < outlawry, but sometimes justification if not excuse, may bc dug up from th depths of pc? rerty and the hard lines 1 which cheap negro labor have plunge many worthy, poor white men. An whenever you arraign thc accused an denounced before a white jury toi tried for their violent and iawles effort to break down and drive out tli competition with cheap negro labo you will strike a chord of sympath running through the hearts of ever member of the panel, for thc accuse are of their own race. So we will coi tinue to go through with the farce an expense of trying to convict white me for making raids on negroes. Revers the situation and put negroes in th iury box to try negroes and you won! have the same result. God Almight has implanted in the heart of each rac an ineradicable hatred against th other, and you can no more expel it b, trials and denunciations and lecture than you can change the nature o color of each by a cyclone. The government of the United State ought to appropriate a hundred mil lions of dollars and duplicate as of tei as may be necessary, to assist the ne groes m settling a colony to themselves or, what would be almost as effective assist them in moving to the north o northwest. The government did thii for the Indians because they could no live in peace with their waite neigh bors. Why not adopt the same policy for the colored race? The stupid, un tenable law on our statute books mak ing it a penal offence for an eniigranl agent to induce negroes to leave the State ought to be repealed, and th( State ought to pay a bonus of so mad a head for every negro who can be in duced to go. Cheap labor is the curse of any country. It may enrich a few, but the great body of the citizenship cannot emerge from a state of semi peonage of starvation wages. The landowners would be better off if the cheap labor would get out and make way for an intelligent, thrifty class of white laborers wno would in telligently diversify agriculture, im prove the lands and make plenty and prosperity where starvation and degra dation now hold sway. A temporary inconvenience might result if the negro should go away, but the white men of the south would meet the emergency and solve it with cour age and intelligence. The terrors which beset the females of their fami lies would give place to a feeling of se curity and composure; society would adjust itself on lines of safety and en lightened progress. As it. is, young men are leaving the farms, seeking em ployment where they avoid competi tion with cheap labor. Whenever they lind themselves able, heads of families are moving to towns and villages for better security to their families, leav ing thc fields to a vicious, ruinous ten ant system, which' kills the land and demoralizes thc country. It behooves young men to look the situation squarely in the face. Those of us who have passed thc meridian of life cannot in the nature of things live to see the end, but as for myself I shall point out the way as it appears to me, and contribute as best I can to the so lution of the race question on lines of humanity and.justice. In the discus sion there is no room for passion or in temperate language. The wild haran gues of men who openly advise the murder of the Tolberts and keeping the negro in a state of quasi slavery, and yet who always manage to get into a safe place when the ball opens, de serve the contempt and execration of all right-minded men. That is not thc way to bring peace and order in the country and give the law an opportu nity to ?assert itself. You will naturally ask why not cure the evils of cheap negro In bor by ad vancing their wages and lift them up from their present plane of degrada tion. The ready answer is lound in the fact that their methods of work, their habits of life, their lack of intel ligence and adaptation and thrift in modem production does not justify it. This has been tried within my knowl edge, with disappointment and loss as the result. The same argument was used on the Pacific coast during the agitation of the Chinese labor question with the same resuit. You may look at the subject in every one of its possible phases, and come back to the starting point, that the negro, endowed as ne is with every civil and political right that the law confers upon you and myself, cannot and will not live in peace with the white man, so long as he is in immedi ate contact with him. It never has and never can be done, until the Crea tor of us all change the natures of us all. Lynchings, white capping, mob law, every form of lawlessness, con stantly menaces society, obstructs pro gress, and keeps up a state of anxiety while such contact exists. . Very truly, AI. C. BUTLER. - It is said that L. W. Youmans, of Barnwell county, will compete with Senator Tillman in candidating for senatorial honors. It is claimed for him that he is quite popular with the "wool-hat contingent," whatever that is. > $100 Reward, $100. 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Catalogues in the best style If you have printing to do, it will be to your interest to write to the Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. STATE NEWS. - Charleston is to have a big mod ern hotel. - Several sections of thc State were visited by a storm last week and much damage was done. - A rumor i* afloat that a northern syndicate has bought the Columbia canal for ?1.000,000. - State Alliance Lecturer J. ll. Blake would like to succeed Mr. Lat imer in Congress. - Lewis D. Bowie, '.rho once was Clerk of the Court a: Abbeville, died at his home near Due West, last week. - Miss Mary Dorsey, living near Walhalla, celebrated her OSth birth day on the 20th inst., having been born August 20th, 1S01. She enjoys good health. - Abbeville will build a roller mill. Eight thousand dollars is necessary for the plant. $4,000 have already been subscribed. Another cotton fac tory is talked of. - At Oak Grove, Hampton county, people have found a work that beats cotton. It is gathering "dog tongue, deer tongue or pine barren musk," which bri?gs from li to 2 cents a pound. - Gov. McSwceney has issued a requisition upon the Governor of Georgia for Ike Simpson, colored, who has been arrested in that State and is wanted in Pickens county to answer a charge of the murder of his brother. - About two weeks ago a mad dog made its appearance in the upper part of Richland county, about ten miles | from the city. He bit several dogs and four or five hogs, all of which have since gone mad. The hogs and several dogs which showed signs of hydrophobia have since been killed. - Frank Ben necke, of Walhalla, fell from a cliff of rocks forty feet high on Black Rock mountain. His front teeth were broken and otherwise bruised up. His boy comrades came to town for a conveyance to bring him in, but he recuperated and was met j pacing into town a wiser boy. - During the storm on Thursday a negro woman on the plantation of T. A. Clarke in Back swamp was kill ed by lightning. ? She was sittingftn a rocking chair imher house with a baby in her arms. ? The bolt struck the house, and threw her from the chair in which she was sitting, killing her instantly. The child in her arms was not hurt in the slightest, and was picked up by neighbors playing on the floor.-Florence Times. - Ladson, sixteen-year-old son ot: Mr. and Mrs. 0. P. Smawley, living tjear Landrum, was killed by a shifting freight train. He was walking down the side track evidently intending to catch the passenger train as it was backing on the side track. The wheels passed over his legs almost severing them from his body. - Last week an attempted assault was made near Barnwell. A negro e n gaged in laying rails for the Atlantic Coast Line pursued a young white gir 1 to her door. Thc negro was arrested, given thirty-four lashes and told to skip, which he did. Some hot heads were in favor of lynching, but as he did not accomplish his purpose t he wiser counsel prevailed. - At the solicitation of friends and relatives, supported by numerously signed petitions, the sentence of A. B. Fowler, South Carolina's "-armless for ger," has been commuted by Governor McSweeney from the penitentiary to the Greenville county chaingang. He is serving three years' sentence, hav ing been sent to the penitentiary from Greenville in February, 1898. - Last Saturday there were several fatalities from lightning on the George town Railroad. A log train was load ing when a thunder and hail storm came u$. Lightning struck near the train and it is.supposed to have run on the telegraph wires jumping off to the train. Two negroes who were holding on to the chains were instantly killed, while r half dozen others were knocked down. - A strange incident occurred at the "Wesley Grove church, about seven miles from Walterboro, Sunday after noon. The colored congregation being engaged in its regular Sunday worship, one of the brethren, John Gadsden, was called upon to "lead in \ rayer." In rssponse to the request he began to pray, but before his supplication was concluted lightning struck him and he was lifted off the floor in an unconscious condition and carried home by his friends. - Last Saturday night while Con stable Samuel Tobias, of Clarendon county, was trailing William Dickson, a notorious horse thief and burglar, he suddenly met him in the road with another escaped convict. J?efore he could use his gun, the constable was fatally clubbed, his skull being crush ed. The criminals had just robbed the Manning depot of a quantity of 1 goids. They took the constable's I weapons and are still at large. WILHITE'S Philo-Teknon or Bab Cures the Child and saves the Parents Care and Anxiety. Almost EVERYBODY in this section who has or have had children under their care has heard of or used WILHITE'S BABY POWDERS ! 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