The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, April 13, 1911, Image 1

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PUBLISriED TRI-WEEKLY LAID OUT WORK The Democi<:tc Comers Arranges the Tariff Program Hey Waul FARMERS TO BE HELPED Canadian Reciprocity and Farmers' Free list, Comprising Articles Most Needed, Followed by Woolen and Cotton Schedules is Order in Which Legislation Will be Stalled. News from Washington Indicates that the Democrats are tending strictly to business in a business way, and will do what they can to help better the condition of the farmers as well as the consumers. They will try to ge" bagging and ties on the free list. Cleoiprccity with Canada and a farmer's free list, it was decided at the Democratic caucus held a? Washington on Tuesday night, will be the legislation taken up, in the order naned, by the present House. The wooleu and cotton schedules, ac cording to present Indications, will follow. In the caucus there was no oppos ition to Canadian reciprocity, and no change pa* amendment to the bill as presented by Chairman Underwood, of the House ways and means com mittee, \*ere offered by any of those present. On th< free list will he included those things which the farmer most needs, ramely, agricultural imple ments, d :essed meat and meat pro ducts, floor, rough lumber, shoes and saddles, wire fencing, baling wire, cotton bilging, cotton ties, bagging ties, burlap and salt. On miiny of these products the present Lariff is practically prohibi tive, and there are few importations of them on that account. It is im possible, for this reason, to estimate what the difference will all amount to by putting them on the free list. In the debate which followed Chairman Underwood's presentation of the general plan, a spirited dis cussion developed among the mem bers. Mr. Sherley, of Kentucky, de sired to have the Canadian recipro city bill and the free list combined. He was generously supported. The introduction of the bill, prob ably Thursday, as caucus measures, will not stand in the way of the im mediate introduction of three impor tant measures?popular election of Senators:, publicity of election contri butions' and Statehood for Amou*. These are not to be treated as cau cus measures, but will come in as party bills and will be taken up for action as soon as they can be re ported from their respective commit tees. Another caucus is to be held to debate che revision of the wool and cotton schedules, to be taken up in the House following the passage of the reciprocity and free list bills. The caucus voted a straight en dorsemant of the Underwood recipro city bill, 128 ayes, 29 noes and six voting present. The caucus added a provision to! the Underwood reciprocity bill, call ing on the President to continue ne gotiations with Canada with a view to establishing further reciprocal trade relations. Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York, fought this provision, but he was voted down. SHOT WHILE HELD. Georgia Banker Murdered in a Cow ardly Manner. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., tells of a most cowardly murder, fis-j caping unharmed though three loads! from a repeating shotgun had been sent at him. C. E. Lees a planter ofj Chalham county, Monday afternoon j sent three pistol bullets into the! breast, of L. H. Hilton, president of the S< reven County bank, member of; Sylvania city council and one of the! wealthiest and most prominent men j of this county. Hilton was dead in I five minutes. Hilton, armed with his| shotgun, approached Lee on the! street and began firing. Friends dis-i armeci and held him after he fired three times, and then Lee walked up and sent three bullets into his foe. Lee escaped, but telephoned the sher iff he w as ready to surrender. Caught Him at last. Followed from St. Louis for seven: years by a negro detective, William Bossie Francis, who is charged with murder and rape in that city, was] taken from the chaingang at Durham,: N. C . Tuesday and held for Missouri offices. Francis had served five1 years for highway robbery and was servi tg sentence again for larceny. Should lie Passed. Representative Webb of Xorth Car-j olina introduced a bill making un lawful the shipment of intoxicants of j any kind from one state or territory: into 3ny state or territory, provided : Blich shipment is contrary to the law' of the state or territory into which it ;1 is made. Serious Charge. E. L. Large, a rural mail carrier of I Society Hill, Darlington County, was I arrested on Saturday on the charge of brea:h of trust with fraudulent in tent?receiving money for money or-1 ders and failing to turn it i'J. PENSION MONEY THE FUNDS SENT OUT TO THE VARIOUS COUNTIES. Decrease for the Total List Shows 161 Dropped From Roll?Spartan burg is Heaviest. The penrlon fund amount to ap proximately $250,000, was sent out to the pensioners of the State yester day by the State board of pensions. It was announced that 75 requeBtf? for pensions had been refused by the board on account of property owned. There are 9,431 names on the pen sion rolls of the State for 1911 as against 9,592 for last year. The number of pensionars reported dead during the year was 742. Forty-two were dropped from Income. There were 623 new names added to the roll for the State. There was a total decrease in names of 161. The following are the amounts A receives $96; class R $72; class C, number 1, $48; class 6, number 2, $20.60; class C, number 3, $4S, and class C, number 4, $20.80. The followln are the amounts sent to each county: Abbeville.$ 4,350.80 Alken. 9,845.60 Anderson. 14,771.60 Bamberg.' 2,60?.80 Barnwell. 4,248.60 Beaufort. 962.40 Berkeley. 2.807.2O Calhoun. 748.40 unarleston. 5,849.0u Cherokee. 6,560.00 Chester. 4,370.80 Chesterfield... 6,495.80 Clarendon. 3,702.40 Colleton. 9,865.40 Darlington. 5,452.80 Dillon.. .:. 3,174.40 Dorchester. 2,951.80 Edgefield... ?,6S1.60 Fairfleld. 3,524.00 Florence. 5,035.10 Georgetown... 1,935.40 Greenville. 12,438.SO Greenwood. 3,949.2b Hampton. 4,908.0b Horry. 6,083.00 Kershaw. 4,145.40 Lancaster.. 6,280.00 Laurens. 8,039.40 Lee. 2.8S9.40 Lexington. 7,614.20 Marion., 3,78S.60 Marlboro. 3,579.80 Newberry.. . 4,560.80 Oconee.? .. .. 7,195.60 Orangeburg.. .'. 5,931.00 Pickens. 6,732.60 Richland. 10,318.60 Saluda. 4,144.60 Spartanburg.19,416.00 Sumter. 4,197.00 Union. 7,343.40 Williamsburg. .",037.60 York.,.. 7,872.00 Total.?249.398.S0 LEAVE FEERY TRAIL. Mexican Bandits Murder Residents of Small Town. Early advices from Guadalajara, Mexico, state that bandits from the territory of Tcpuc have raded Paios Verdes, a small town in the Mas cota district of Jalisco, killing the local judge, Jose Montes de Oca, and ten other residents. The bandits are said to have secured some money and extensive supplies of com and beans.! A detatchment of stete gendarmes.' have been sent in pursuit of the] bandits, who are reported to be in the Mascota district. Specials toj Guadalajara from Merida. the capi tal of Yucatan, tell of insurrecto ac-l tivity in the southern states of a I Conipeche and Yucatan. ?-".intations arc being raided, it isj de? .red. and a number of jen'quin plants have been burned. Tho ag gregate loss is said to be heavy, j Among the plantations to suffer lo.-s is that of Olegaro Molina, a former j member of the Diaz cabinet. The managers of the Santa Rosa planla-j tion in Yucatan and Kayal plants-] tlon in Compeche are said to have' beer, killed. Admit Negro W->men. Jacob G. Schurman, president of1 Cornel University, Monday brought to an end the controversy which has! been in progress for a few weeks ov- j er admitting negro women students, to Sage college dormitory. In a state-; ment issued to Mrs. F. S. Martin of' the women's advisory council, he says ! tha:; all negro women students are to be idmitted to the privileges of the woman's dormitories if they request admission. Booze Makers Shot. In a gun fight between the ''moon shiners" of Van Buren county, and a posse led by several revenue officers Henry Sullivan, a distiller, was killed, and two others were badly hurt, ac cording to information that reached Sparta, Tenn., Monday. Dead on Lonely Road. With a bulle! hol" through his head, Aquilina Diaz of the firm of Andres Diaz & Co.. cigar manufac turers, was found Monday 17 miles from Tampa. Fla., on a lonely road. His coat had been neatly folded and his head placed on it. Linen Mill. Application has been made to the secretary of State for a charter for a linen mill to be looa:"d at Green ville, the capital stork to be $200,000 It will be only linen mill in the south. 0RANGEB1 TORE UP TBE CROPS GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE IN BARNWELL BY THE HAIL. Section in and Around Zorn's Mill Swept by Destructive Storm?Im mense Stones. A special to The State from Barn well says the section in and around Zorn's mill, a few miles from liarm ! well, was visited by a most disastrous I hailstorm Saturday evening, which lasted about 20 minutes and did great damage to tender young crops and gardens. A light shower of hail stones also fell here during the thun derstorm of Saturday. The stories told of the storm and the havoc wrought are almost unbe lievable. The stones, many of which are said to have been as large as * good sizen marble, came down in a veritable cloudburst, and the ap proach of the storm could be neaiu at quite a distance. R. L. Usrery said that In ditches the drifts of stones were from 12 inches to two and thfee feet deep. Gardens were badly damaged, but luckily no crops were up In his im mediate neighborhood. C. B. Swann's garden and a fine patch of rye, waist high, were lit eraly torn to shreds, as were sev eral acres of beautifully growing cantaloupe and watermelon vines. Mr. Swann stated that he had just fertilized some 40 acres of land, us ing 1,000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, and that the rain washed prac tically all cf it away. He will have all of his wark to do over again, with the great loss of time and money incident he::eto. A local physician, returning from a visit to a patient in the country, was forced to get out of his buggy and hold the buggy seat over his horse's hee.d to protect it from the hailstones. Stones which had been on the ground since Saturday night were! from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter on Monday. They must have been fully one inch in diameter when they first fell. It. is impossible at this time to es timate the great damage done by the storm, as many farmers living in that section have not been heard from, but It will likely run into the thou sands of collars. SOON FOLLOWED HDL _?_ Wife Died Two How's After Her Hus band Passed Away. En route to her home in Union, S. C., to make arrangements for tnt. burial of her husband, at whose bed side in a Spartanburg hospital tthe had remained until death came at 7 o'clock Monday evening, Mrs. M. Y. Dunlpp died very suddenly as the train was nearlng her destination. Her death came within two hours al ter that of her husband. The hus band was carried to Spartanburg for an operation, which was performed Monday afternon, death ensuing a short while afterward. The wife, three sons and daughter were at the bedside when the end came. The sons remained in Spartanburg to ac company the body fn Union, while the grief-stricken wife and daughter went home to prepare for the funeral. They left Spartanburg at 8 o'clock. All the children are grown. SHOWING UP THE STEAL. Every Box of Lemons Tells of the Tariff Robbery. Practically every box of lemons brought into the United States from | foreign ports now carries to its con-; sinners a message protesting against! the hi'gh rate in the Payne-Aldrlch j tariff on lemons. Beginning this; week, the New York fruit importers union stationed men with stensils on ? all the piers where shjnnonts of lem-i ons arrive, and they will paint on I each box a pithy protest against the) tariff rate. "If lemons were free this box would cost you $1.26 less." Others are: "The tariff is squeez ing me." "Revise the tariff and get me cheaper." "If the tariff squeezes me much | more I wont come here," and "the tariff is making us sour on the Unit-j ed States." Perish in Flames. At Bombay, B. I., two hundred men, women and children were: burned to death Monday night In n I fire which destroyed a thatched struc ture in which they had gatherd for a festival. Five hundred persons were in the building when the fire broke out. There was only one exit and an indescribable panic ensued. Sent to the Pen. Sev^n years at hard uibor in State's prison was the sentence meted out to 'each of four leaders of a black hand band in the common pleas court at Newark, N. J., Monday. A fifth pris oner, a wealthy Italian, was sen tenced to a three-year term. They were convicted of drugging and rob bing two men. Buys Land. The turstees of C'emson Colie-e have bought three tracts of land ad joining the college property, aggre gating 235 acres, paying for it $1S, 000. The college now has over 1,500 acres. JRG, S. C, THURSDAY, APR] THE PEOPLE WIN Radical Rale Passes in South Carolina Thirty- Four Years Ago. GOOD STEALING ENDS Last Monday Was the Anniversary of Hampton's Triumph and "Chamber lain's Downfall?United States Troops Removed From the State House on April 10, 1877. Monday was the anniversary of the emancipation of the State of South Carolina from the rule of negroes and carpet-baggers. Thirty-four years ago Monday D. H. Chamberlain, the radical governor, formally re linquished the control of the execu tive office to Wade Hampton. The United States troops were removed from the State house after five months' occupancy, and white rule was supreme. Reconstruction days, the premiere days of good steahiife, were at an end. The following from The State will be read with interest: Wade Hampton waB elected gov ernor of South Carolina on Novem ber 7, 1876. D. H. Chamberlain, thb radical candidate, refused to give up the office. A detachment of the United States soldiers were placed in the State house to protect him. Hampton and the other Democratic State officers installed themselves in the old Carolina hall, destroyed o> fire two years ago; and refused to recognize the Chamberlain regime. In March, 1877, Hampton and Chamberlain both went to Washing ton to lay their respective claims to the office of governor of South Caro lina before President Hayes and his cabinet. Hampton's claims were rec ognized. On April 2, 1877, President Hayes instructed the secretary of war to or der the troops, quartered in the State house under Gen. Rugers, to remove to their camp. "It ends the strug gle." said Chamberlain, "and makes Hampton practically governor." After the order was issued, Gov. Hampton wired to W. D. Simpson in Columbia: "Everything is satisfac torily and honorably settled. I ex pect our people to preserve absolute peace and quiet. My word is pledged for them. I rely on them." His reliance was not misplaced. The men who had put him in office in Novem ber did not make even a demonstra tion. Hampton left Washington on April 5, 1877. for Columbia. He was met in Charlotte by a delegation of some 60 citizens. On April 7, Hampton, "the liberator," reached his capital. A magnificent celebration was ar ranged to welcome him to Columbia. Two batteries of artillery fired salutes every minute after his train rolled into the old depot at the end of Blanding street. The street, "half way to High street," was massed with people and vehicles. A procession was formed at the depot, Gov. Hampton and the State officials leading in car riages and followed by numerous military companies, the old Columbia volunteer fire companies and other organizations. The procession went up Blanding stret and down Main to Carolina hall, where Gov. Hampton delivered an address. The next two days were vnevent ful, bat on April 10 Gov. Hampton wrote as follows to Chamberlain: "State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. "Columbia, S. C, April 10. 1877. "Sir: Having learned that you now propose to turn over to me (lie executive cliamber with the record and papers belonging to the executive office, now in your possession. I beg to inform yon that I will send a proper officer to receive the Fame al any hour you may indicate as most convenient to yourself. "1 am very respectfull "Your obedient servant, "Wade Hampton, "Governcx'."" To which Chamberlain replied: "State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. "Columbia. S. C. April 10, 1S77. "Sir: Reply to your note of this date, I have to say that my private secretary will meet such officer as you may dosignate at 12 meridian to morrow at the executive chamber, for the purpose indicated in your note. "Very respectfully, "D. H. Chamberlain, "Governor."' The order of President. Hayes, re moving the United States soldiers from the State house, went into ef fect on April 10, 1 S77. .14 years ago yesterday. Twenty men, under the command of Lieut. Haynes of Com pany 15. Second regiment, were on duty there guarding the radical gov ernor and State officials. The detach ment was ordered to remove to its camp at noon. "All was done so suddenly." writes the lamented Carlyle McKinley of the evacuation of the State bouse, "that the clock could bo beam oir.R ing after the doors wore dosed. The bell strikes slowly at best, ano it re quired littli- susj;restion to evolve the comparison of a funeral knell. Twelve strokes sounded, and 12 Ions, weary, wretched years of carpet-bag misrule were tolled off one by one, and con signed to the tomb of the past lor ever. never to know a resurrection." P.eforo surrendering the office he had held by force since November. 1S7G, Chamberlain made a bitter ad L 13, 1911. C.OOD MAN GONE CLEVELAND MOURNS DEATH OF TOM L. JOHNSON. He WfiiS One Millionaire Who De voted His Wealth and Talents to the Public. Cleveland. Ohio, mourns the death of her noblest citizen, one who was loved by all. He was a millionaire, but a devoted friend of the common people. Tom L. Johnson was a no ble man. His body laid in state at the city hall in Cleveland and was, visited by thousands of people who knew und loved him. Scores of telegrams expressing condolence and paying tribute to the worth of Mr. Johnson were sent from prominent men in all parts of country including Gov. Judson Har mon, Wm. J. Bryan, Senator Burton, Senator Atlee Pomerene, Mayor Wm. L. Gay nor of New York, Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo, and nearly every congressman from Ohio. Gov. Harmon said: "A more hon est man that Johnson never lived. Mr. Bryan: "No man in the past generation did more affective work for the people than Tom L. Johnson." Mayor Gaynor: "The country at large has lost one of its greatest? a great man who fought for gui/t. government." During his last Illness Mr. John-i son was requested to write his au tograph in the birthday book of Miss Louise Graham, a friend of the fam ily. Commenting on the paragraph selected, Mr. Johnson's secretary re-j marked on its appropriate sentiment.1 Mr. Johnson said he "hoped he would be so" and signed his name to the' following quotation: "His face was a thanksgiving for| his past life and a love letter to all mankind." I When Arthur Fuller, the chauf feur for Mr. Johnson, visited the pa tient Sunday afternoon, he reraark >ed that his employer was still smil ing. "Yes, Arthur, I'm dying, but I still have my smile, and I am going to die smilling" replied the former [ mayor. And he did. After the Tigers The governor has issued a pro clamation to all sheriffs ana their deputies, magistrates and their con stables, rural police, city and town officers of the State to enforce the whiskey laws. He says in his pro clamation that he will give assistance in the enforcement of all laws and asks all of the good citizens to as sist him. dres to the radical State officials in which he accused Hayes and his cab inet of deserting the very men who were responsible for his election to the presidency of the United btaieb. At 11 o'clock, on April 11, 1S77, Chamberlain left the State house, never to return. According to their agreement. Gov. Hampton sent his private secre tary, the late Maj. Wade Hampton 'Manning, to meet C. J. Babbitt, Chamberlain's private secretaiy. at I the executive office at noon on April 11, 1911, when the great seal of! I South Caiolina and the keys of the' office were turned over to Maj. Man ning. Hampton was thus formally installed in office. The Columbia Phoenix, published i by the late Julian P. Shelby, issued a ! one-page extra on April 10, 1S77, to t chronicle the evacuation of the State | house by the United States troops. The leading editorial in tne oxna. entitled "Out at Last,*' is given i:i full below: | Promptly, while the bell was! striking 12, the troops marched out the east door of the State house and! wended their way toward the bar racks in the eastern part of the city. J Gov. Hampton had stationed persons at the various entrances to the State house square to request people notl to pass in, consequently scarcely any one was to be seen inside, and but ! few were standing around outside to ; witness the departure. No hurrahing 1 or any demonstration of any kind j was made, and all passed off as quiet j ly as possible for a movement to be made. About five months ago the i troops took possession of the State . house at the dead hour of ni?ut iu. . the purpose of assisting in the per j petration of that outrageous fraud j which has fastened an illegal presi j dent upon the country and also to : uphold an illegal government in this ' State. They have done their work ; well, though Mr. Hayes, after finding himself seated in tlie presidential ; chair, sees he can not longer stem the tide of public opinion which is setting with such overwhelming force against the frauds and crimes whicu , have been perpetrated under protec tion of the military, and therefore or ders the troops removed from tlu I State house, thus knocking the onlt j prop from under the Chamberlain ; government on which it could rely, jand lets it tumble to the ground, j r;ov. Chamberlain, after a most de. termined struggle, thus found him self swinging in the air, with nothing to support his unjust cause, and made ja virtue of necessity by dictating, after issuing the false and malignant ; document which we publish in anoth : er column. Thus ends this memo rable contest, and now that right and ! just has prevailed, and flow Homp | ton is the acknowledged legal execu tive of the State, we trust quiet and prosperity will again be restored. URGES THEM TO WORK THE RURAL MAIL CARRIERS WILL IMPROVE SERVICE. Thos. E. Wicker, President of Asso ciation, Issues Call to Workers in South Carolina. Thos. E. Wicker, president of the Rural Free Delivery Carriers' Asso ciation of South Carolina, has issued an address to the carriers of this State, urging increased interest in the organization. Mr. Wicker, in his address, says: "Brother Rural Carriers of South Carolina: Below you will find a list of rural carriers whom I have ap pointed several organizers for their respective counties. See if your name is on the list, and If it is, then go to work with a vim for your county association; if it is not, then write yoar county organizer at once and tell him your services are at his com mand. "In several counties I have made no appointments because I didn t know who would be willing and m tersted enough to undertake the work. I should be glad to have the names of hustlers from those coun ties, so that the list of organizers could be made complete. The ap pointment of special organizers doesn't mean that State and county officers may become less active in their efforts to secure members. "The State convention at Newberry last July was the largest and best In the hfstory of the association. The question now is, Will it be excelled by the convention at Florence next July? What does Florence say about it? What does Burch say about it? What do we all say about it? Our presence in goodly numbers will make it a success; our absence will make it a failure. "Now let us all get busy in the in terest of our county conventions on the 3 0th of May. Remember the na tional dues, as fixed at Little Rock last year, are 75 cents and State dues 25 cents. Your county dues, if any, are what you choose to make them. "Let us all join the association for the good of the service and for our own good. If by getting together in conventions and exchanging ideas, we are benefited, then, of course, the service will be benefited to the same extent. The carrier who refuses or neglects to join the association, iso lates himself and pockets his salary at tlie end of the month. This is the sum total of his interest in the rural mail service. The carrier who joins the association manifests by that very act, a desire to learn, througa tue association as a medium, the wishes of the department officials in the con duct of the service. He is wide awake and more efficient than nis isolated brother, because he is in touch with the department and in sympathy with those who are trying to improve the service. "There may be some among Us wiiu think that the recent salary increase was not as large as it should have been. From our viewpoint perhaps it was not: but from the viewpoint of the government it was solely a question of economy. We must not forget that our branch of the service is young and. in some respects, im perfect, therefore, looking at it in this light, let us who are in the field co operate with our superiors at head quarters, to the end that the imper fections in the service may be elim inated and that we may become more efficient and deseryini. When these things have been accomplished there need he no doubt that our compensa tion will ho as generous as we could wish. Uncle Sam is not stingy, but. as every good business man should be, he is conservative. "In closing, let. me again urge upon you the importance of your presence at Florence, July 4 and -r> ?three days. Come, whether a mem ber of the association or not. "Fraternally yours, "Thos. E. Wicker, "State President." The special organizers are as fol ; lows: ? Abbeville County?J.Milton F. Mar tin, Donalds. Anderson County ? J. J. Tussell, ' Honea Path. Aiken County?George T. McCain, , Hawthorne. Barnwell County?E. E. Fickling. I Blackville. j Chester County?J. C. Moore, Chester. Chesterfield County?D. M. Mc Xair, Patrick. Clarendon County?Siles B. Com?, Pinewood. Colleton County?Thos. P. Black, Ruffln. Darlington County?I. M. Cray, Darlington. Florence County?J. M. Gray, Dar I lington. Williamsburg County?J. M. Gray, Darlington. Dorchester County?.T. A. Murray, Siunmerville. Rdgefield County?Sam D. Maye, Edge fit Id. (?'airfield County?Clark Langford, Blythewood. Greenville County?P. fluff, Piedmont. Greenwood County?L. B. Aull, Dyson. Kershaw County?.T. E. Kosh. Camden. Lancaster County?C. J. Sistire, Riverside. Laurons County?A. C. Owings. i Gray Court. : Anderson County?J. J. Tusseli, TWO CENTS PER COPY. THEY WANT MORE New Orleans Cotton Exchange Denenncfs Bagging Trust. ROBBING THE FARMERS j The Exchange Demands Relief for the South, and Would Check Ra pacity, Which "Would Increase tho Duty and Thus Plunder the Cotton Growers of Millions. That the cotton bagging and the trust, not satisfied with robbing the American cotton planter of one mil lion dollars annually throug? unjust tariff placed upon bagging and ties under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, are planing to increase their levy on the cotton crop to $2,000,000 an nually, is declared in resolutions ad opted Monday by the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. The resolutions appeal to Congress to place bagging and ties on the free list and urge the enactment of the necessary legislation at the present extra session of Congress. President W. B. Thompson, of the Cotton "ax change, in a letter which be address ed to each member of Congress, tells of the great importance to the South of this alleged tariff steal. He says in part: "The cotton crop of the South yields an average of about 12,000, 000 bales. Of this total approximate ly five-eights, or 7,500,000 bales, rep resenting an average money value of lover $500,000,000 are exported and exchanged for foreign gold. The ' mere statement of these facts attests the importance of the cotton produc ing Industry, emphasizes the obliga tion, which the country at large owes the producer of this crop and estab lishes his right to at least just treat ment at the hands of the general law making power. "Under the present tariff law, the duty on steel cotton ties amounts to 2.7 cents per bale, or $324,000 on a. crop of 12,000,000 bales. This tariff is prohibitive, as is snown by the fact that no steel ties are imported. 'Therefore the government has no I share in this impost which consti tutes simply and solely tribute levied upon the cotton farmer for the ben efit of the cotton tie trust. "The duty on jute bagging imposed by the present tariff law amounts to 5V* cents-per bale or $630,000, on a crop of 12,000,000 bales. This tar iff is to a 'arge extent prohibitive in asmuch as it yields only about $100, 000 in revenues to the government. The balance of about $435,000 con stitutes a tribute paid by the cotton farmer to the bagging trust. "But the bagging trust Is not sat isfied with its share of this impost, ft desires to raise the duty to a figure which will not only prevent the gov ernment from receiving any revenue therfrom, but will enable the trust to take from the farmer four times as much as it has been able to take j heretofore. "This trust has recently m^ae & I technical test case based upon a ques \ tion of chemical analysis, and has secured a ruling thereon from the board of general appraisers In New York, which will change the duty on 'imported bagging from ttte presen I rate, which amounts to about 5 1-4 cents per bale, to an ad valorem duty, which will amount to about 21 cents per bale. This means an increase from ?t;:-,0,ooo on the crop to prac tically $2,500,000, all of which the trust will collect from the farmer without any division with the govern ment. "Tlius under the Payne-A?*rich; law as heretofore Interpreted, the cottor producer lias borns the bur uen of a $i'"?0.000 yearly tax on han ging and ties and if the chemical in terpretation holds, he will hereafter be mulcted In the yearly sum of $2. SOO.000 for his baling materials, all of which goes into the treasuries of the bagging and tie trusts. "From this it will appear that not only the proposed outra.ce, but the present tax on bagging and ties is in adequate and wrong; and because the Western farmer has, and has had for more than 15 years, his binder twines on the free list, the tax upon the Southern farmer stands condemned on the additional discrimination." Twenty Were Drowned. It is belived 20 lives were lost when the little wooden steamer Iro (|uois, plying between Sydney. Van couver Island, and the islands of the f!ulf of Georgia, capsized soon after leaving Sydney .Monday. rlonea Path. Lee County?J. E. Campbell, Cam den. Lexington County?L. B. Addy, Lexington. Newberry County? McD. Metts, Whit mire. Orangeburg County?L. B. Lido, North. Pickens County?C. G. Masteis, Central. Bichland County?Jno. A. Jen nings. Columbia. Saluda County?.Tarr.es Herbert, Saluda. Spartanburg County?P.. Bryant, Spartan ourg. Sumter County?A. J. Ard, Sum ter. Union County?H. J. Thomas, Car lisle. York County?W. T. Sims, Sharon.