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PLEA FOR WAR PRISONERS.
Ford's Paper Urges Amnesty for
Men Still in Jail.
Over and over again, in hope
that the shame of it might burn,
the insistent statement is made
that the United .States lags behind
tike whole world in giving
amnesty to political prisoners,
says the Dearborn independent.
The enemy agents who blew up
our factories and docks have
been released. Military spies of'
the enemy, taken in tKe very act
of espionage, have been released.
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ouspeci aliens 01 every uegrce
have been released. But Americans,
whose chief fault was that
they held a certain ecouomic theory,
are still in jail. Of all the
nutious joined in the war oil either
side, only Russia and the
United States continue to use
prisons for the punishment of
differences of political opinion.
Since the facts have forced a
public hearing it is 110 longer
possible to quiet the conscience
with the notion that our political
prisoners are "reds" and ar%>,
therefore, just us well in jail as
out. The tacts are that the majority
of these men are Americans,
supposedly possessing the
guaranties of American citizenship,
and that in very many cases
their arrest had nothing to do
with the war at all, not even
with the passions incident to war,
but were victims of a plan, proceeding
under cover of the war
excitement, to terrorize certain
lubor movements.
Men were arrested, thrown into
jail, railroaded to prison under
long senteuces, because they hail
ideuK about industry with which
others did not ugree. Men were
arrested because they had ideas ;
about wages which were inconvenient
for the moment, and the
easiest way to suppress the idea
. v ii> have the men- hauled off
jail. In no case was disloyalty 1
pibVed; in many cases it was not
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crcu uuaigcu. ouiiic ui UlC 1111*11
bad not even expressed their dis- <
taste for war, a distaste shared
by millions of its whom no government
would dare touch.
But, aside from that, as political,
prisoners, they are entitled to
the enlightened treatment which
all the enlightened nations have
meted out to their political prisoners,
namely, releuse and liberty.
Mot of these men are actually
entitled to governmental
apology and reparation?but to
suggest it would be millenial.
The friends of these men and
the believers of liberty everym
here are making one lust effort
to get Atnertean decency into action.
Their fear it that a few of
the htore favored men may be re'
leased as a sop to public opinion
and the rest forgotten. The very
possibility of such an occurrence,
ihe very possibility of such a fear
under any system orf Justice, is
significant in the extreme. If
Justice has become subject to
mass movements of opinion, it is
because of the extreme possibilities
for injustice in the hands of
everybody, lrom town marshals
upward, during the wur. What
the friends of the prisoners wunt
is their liberty, but what we as
citizens shouiu also desire is an
exposure of the methods by
which these meu lost their liberty.
We know of the great lawlessness
which today characterizes ,
official departments of the gov
eminent. There is robbery of the
United States mails; there is
thievery among private papers;
there is actual kiduaping of people
by the ageuts of the government'?even
now, in these postarmistice
days! But even so, the
official" lawlessness of war days
was greater in extent. Worst of
all *as the deliberate and diabolical
nse of the war passion and
the wartime poorer to satisfy private
grudges. There is .no doubt
now under cover of the war ,
it was .deliberately planned to
uae the confusion to strike down
d^ir3sd >ttemPtS ?KiT1(luft*r*al in* 1
now that the program which .beWholesale
arrests of Amer
FINS COW POISONED?
Odd Case May Result in Action 11
Against Town of Fori Mill.
A fine milk cow belonging to
T. R. Garrison, for which he is c
said to have refused an offer of >
$100 recently, died Tuesday morn- 1
ing, it is claimed, as a result of
eutnur irrass to which ''weed ?
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killer" had been applied by or- c
der of the town authorities of j
Fort Mill. Kecentiy a considers- 8
ble quantity of the " weed killer" j
has been used in Fort Mill to destroy
grass and weeds growing
alongside the pavements on sev- !
eral streets. Mr. Garrison's cow
consumed some of the grass
which had thus beeu killed near j
his home on Hall street and died *
within a few hours after eating
the grass.
A veterinarian who was called *
from Kock Hill to treat the cow 1
is said to have expressed the
opinion that the "weed killer"
would destroy animals, which ?
seems also to be the opinion of 8
the manufacturers, who issue a 8
warning, printed 011 tjie barrels ]
containing the "killer," that on* 8
111aIs must not be allowed to eat *
grass treated with it within 36 J
hours after it has been applied. *
Varying opinions were express- 8
ed by citizens when the sugges- <
tion was advanced that Mr. Oarl-'iKmi
wnultfi liu uliin /? iinllttnt 1
from the town the value of the g
cow. Some said the town was }
within its rights in using u poi- >
son mixture to destroy weeds c
and grass on the streets, while j
others held that such was not the
case, contending that the law pro- c
hibited individuals from scatter- ^
iug poison in public places and
that the municipality was amen- f
side to the same law. Whether it
is Air. Ciurrison's purpose to try
to recover damages from the *
town for the* loss of his cow, "
The Times could not learn yester- .
day, however, as he was out of ?
town, but the statement was l'
made by a citizen with whom he ^
discussed the matter that such ?
was his intention.. 5
Speaking for the town, Mayor ?
Lytle said he had given explicit *
instructions to the negro employed
to put out the "weed '
killer" to warn residents of the
streets 011 which it was used not 1
to allow their cows or livestock t
to eat the grass to which the mix- J!
ture had been applied.
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Miss Laura Mendenhall Dead. 1
Miss Laura Mendenhall, an aged
and well loved woman, who had
lived iii Fort Mill ior a number j
of years, died in*a Hock Hill hospital
Monday morning, following .
an operation which it was hoped
would prolong her life. Tlie remains
were taken to Bethesda 1
Presbyterian- church, where the
funeral services were conducted r
by the ltev. K. 11. Viser of Fort *
Alill, assisted by the Rev. R. O. ,
Wilson, Jr., of Mct'onnellsville.
interment followed in the Be- a
thesda churchyard. Miss Men- 0
denhall is survived in her Fort f
Mill home by a brother, W. M. 1
Meudenhall, and a sister, Mrs. a
Laura Kendrick. She was a member
of the Fort Mill Presbyterian x
church.
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Bugologists Blake Mistake? i
Hon. O. W. Potts and hhr neigh- c
bor, Dick Wolfe, of the Pleasant 1
Valley neighborhood seem to have r
caught the entomologists (bug in- ?
spectors) of Cleinson college nap- lf
ping. Some days ago Mr. Wolfe ^
found in a plum which he had 0
gathered from his orchard a num- a
bei of insects which he thought a
resembled the boll weevil. -He *
showed the insects to Mr. Potts a
imd they agreed to send them to t
Uemson for identification. Mr.
Potts mailed part of the insects a
to the college with a cotton d
square and Mr. Wolfe the others E
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in which all had been found. In |j
a few days reports came from the ii
Clemtoon entomologists that the d
insects forwarded with the cotton v
square were genuine boll weevils, b
while the others were pronounced v
'plum gougera." v
of darkness have had their in- b
tiings among ns Americans, and u
the best we can now do is to do e
justice and release the political ?
HI5W8 OF YORK OCfOITtY.
tems of General iBtenat Found
in the YorkVilU Enquirer.
Qov. Wilson 0. Hafvey Has reappointed
Dan T. Woods ofYorfcfille
as chief game warden for
fork county.
Six persons convicted in the
;ourt of general sessions for York
:ouuty last week were taken to
he county chaingang to serve
lentences. The chaingang now
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nciuaes 41 persons.
The home of Mr, Ide Reece in
he Santiago section of King's
fountain township was destroy?d
by fire about noon last Wedlettday.
The fire is believed to
luve been caused by a defective
lue. A- part of the futtiitUre was
laved. Insurance in the sum of
5750 was carried on the house
md furniture.
Moonshiners' hopes of a 44run"
arly this week were blighted
Sunday morning when State Conit
able Johnson* Magistrate Love
ind Constable Hedricks of King's
Mountain township destroyed a
itill which they found about one
md one-lialf miles north of King's
Mountain battleground. The still
vas one of the sheet iron kind
md linltrwlv yviih 11 round u'lion tho
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)flficera came upon the scene.
While attempting to screw a
oose tap on a tank of chlorine
*as last Thursday, Ira P. Hutchson,
a member of the Rock Hill
vater and light plant force, was
vercome by the .gas and narrow y
escaped suffocation. Fellow
(inployees came to his rescue and
xygen was later administered to
dm. He js getting along nicely
ind it is expected that he will be
ully recovered in a few days.
H. C. Brearley of Columbia, as- istant
secretary of the State
oard of charities and correcions,
inspected the York county
ail, county home and chaingang
ast Saturday. Mr. Brearley was
i noted as savincr that the nres
lit chaingang camp located near
Hack's mill, about two and onelalf
miles west of Yorkville, was
u Jhe . best condition he had
:nown it to be in for several
ears.
Examination of the two upown
club rolls Monday showed
hat u total of 500 men and woaen
had enrolled to vote in the
)emocratlc primary in August.
Lges of several women appear on
he rolls as-4421 plus," and acsording
to the ruling of J. A.
>farion, county chairman, these
tames will likely be stricken off.
nformation is that the enrollaent
at he Cannon mill precinct
? now about 100.
Convicts engaged in building
he West road from Yorkville to
he Cherokee county line have
cached a point about even with
lie home of R. B. Hartness, abont
ive miles west of Yorkville.
Construction work on the bridge
\t Black's mill, about two and
>ne-half miles from Yorkville, has
eached the point where the force
s about ready to pour the necesary
concrete. It is expected that
he bridge will be completed
rithin a short time.
Motions for new trials forClar*nee
Whisonant and Oliver Crisp,
'oung white men of Rock Hill,
onvicted Tuesday of conspiracy
O rob Alexander I.nnc Jr. w?r?
cfused. Perry Bate man, third
nember of the trio, did not join
n the petition. Bateman and
'risp were sentenced to three
nonths each on the chaingang or
i fine of $150. Whisonant was
entenced to three months or a
ine of $100. Fines of Bateman
lid Crisp had not been paid up
o Monday morning.
A new bridge is to be built
cross Crowder's creek at^ Kidtie's
mill, Supervisor Hugh Gb
trown stated Monday. The prosnt
bridge is tottering and is
ikely to collapse at any time, beng
dangerous for traffie in its
resent condition. A span from
rhat was known as Roddey's
ridge, across Catawba river,
rhich was wash fed away several l
ears ago, has "been taken out of <
he river and will serve- as a
ridge $1 Riddle's mill. The span .
f about 162 feet long, is in good <
audition and the material will
eng weH^wr^e^ bridge to lar (
AIDED BY trtfCLE 8AM
America Do? Much to Improve
Condition of fflipinoe.
When the United States took
over thte Philippine iBlands from
Spain ip 1899, the Spanish had
only a few schools in the parishes?and
those were exclusively
for training boys for the priesthood.
Now there are scores of
inddera school buildings scattered
throughout the islands in all
the provinces; many of them are
ia the most remote section?, says
a writer in Youth's Companion.
Many hundred American school
teachers came over at first, but
during the last few years they
have largely been replaced by
Filipinos. In the year 1920 almost
70t),000 children enjoyed the
advantages that the schools offered.
Daring Spanish times a white
man did not dare set foot on almost
half the archipelago, for
wild tribes overran it. The Americans
gradually brought the districts,
most of which were in the
highlands or in little-frequented
places, under control and established
law and order throughout
them, so that now it is safe to
travel in any part of the islands.
Many of the tribes that spent
much of their time in fighting
have now turned to more peaceful
pursuits and have extended
their agricultural activities. Their
children arc lrninir In unhnnl mwl I
growing up with advantages that
their parents never dreamed of.
One of the most important factors
in hastening progress in thu
Philippines has been the roads.
'1 he Americans estublshed u great
program of road building and
carried it forward for many
years, until now the finest system
of roads in the Orient connects
most of the important
points, in Luzon it is possible to
go froi^i the palm fringed coastal
plains up into the pine clad
mountains of the central part by
one of the most pieturesue routes
imaginable; within a few hours
after you leave the tropical climate
you are in the temperate,
invigorating atmosphere of Baguio.
Under the rule of Spain the
ordinary Filipino spent his life in
laboring as a peon on one of the
big haciendas (farms); or, if he
was independent, he cultivated
his acre or two of land and raised
ehough food to feed his family,
lie had 110 incentive to do more,
for the local officials and the
priests saw that all his surplus
was confiscated in one way or
another. He was confined in his
little village and had virtually no
chance to see or to know auythincr
else. Th pPH wnt*U _ u fotir I
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poor roads and small wretched
steamers or sailing boats, but the
ordinary Filipino had no money
with which to travel, for he could
not reeeive proper pay for his labor
or his produce. His squalid
village probably contained nothing
but nipa shacks like his own
and perhaps a few shops and a
cathedral. The only atausements
he had were an occasional fiesta
and numerous cockfights.
The life of almost every inhabitant
of the islands has changed
since the Americans took control
of them. The villages that at
first were isolated communities
perhaps near fever breeding
swamps are now on the main
highways, and some of them arc
prosperous seaports. Truck lines
and stage lines came with the
building of the roads; the development
of the- archipelago has
not had to await the coming of
railways.
Each "tao," as the ordinary
Filipino is called, if he does not
already-have his own little plot
ot ground, can obtain the grant
of a' few acres in the fertile region
of one of the less developed
islands. Or, if he cares to work
far w??m W *:-J
? .. >Bva, uv usually xinu
employment and receipt good
pity. Now a splendid highway of
pounded coral, stretching out into
the distance like a white ribbon
and shaded with a green canopy
of palms, runs through his
village and perhaps-by his house.
Auto stages are running up and
dowft the read every few minutes.
He dm step oat- with his htm9h
of hemp or his bag of copra,
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WARNS AGAINST BILL.
Lafollette Says Republican Tariff ]
Will Ruin Party.
If the tariff bill which the Republicans
are about to fasten on <
the country does not wreck the t
Republican party, the opinion of 1
Senator Lafollette, himself a Republican,
will henceforth be at a j
discount. Speaking against the j
measure in the senate a few days <
ago, Senator Lafollette warned t
his Republican colleagues that t
ine um was mueiensiuie aiul thai
the country would hold that party
responsible for the discrimination
the great mass of the people
will be subjected to under its
provisions. The speech of Senator
Lafollette, along with that of
Senator Borah (Republican) of
Idaho, has supplied the Democratic
opposition to the measure
with valuable campaign material
which it will be able to use to
advantage in the congressional
elections next fall. Senator Lafollette
said in part:
"It would seem, sir, that the
men responsible for this Republican
administration, in the light
of this history, would, with the
return of the Renubliean nnrlv
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to power, frame a tariff bill with |
at least some show of decent re- 4
gard for meeting the undoubted
will and desire of the vast ma- ,
jortity of the people. But it '
seems that the same interests \
which' foisted the Dinglev tariff ,
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and the even worse Payne-jVldrieh
tariff upon a long suffering
public are strong enough to
write into the statutes of this '
country the far worse tariff provisions
contained in the pending '
bill. ;
"1 do not understand, sir, how
men charged with the duty of upholding
and preserving the prin- (
ciples of the Republican party, J
even if they felt no responsibility
to the people who elected them, *
can deliberately force through 1
legislation which they must know 1
means the defeat, if not the utter '
ruin, of thut party. " If the elec- 1
lions of 1910 and 1914 and 1910 1
mean nothing to them, then let 1
them look to the Republican primaries
held in ludiana, in Iowa,
in North Dakotu ami other States 1
within the last few months. Pow- '
erf ill, indeed, must be the in flu- '
enceu which can bludgeon through '
this legislation when the political
leaders responsible for it know '
that it means the defeat of their
party and the end of the political 1
lives of most of the leaders re- <
sponsible tor the bill,"
Street Paving Uncertain.
"Just when we will be able to
begin putting down hard surface
paving .in Fort Mill, 1 do not
know," yesterday said L. A. Harris,
chairman ol' the Fort Mill
street commission. "We have had
the bond issue money in hand for
seme time," he continued, "but
have been waiting 011 the township
road commission to award
their contract for hard surface
roads so that we coufd let ours
jointly with them. This arrangemen
would insure a considerable
saving for us and make our limited
amount of money go just
that much farther. We have determined
to put down bitulithic
and not concrete paving."
New Head for County Fair.
An enthusiastic meeting of the
board of directors of tjie York
County Fair association was held
Friday morning, at which various
phases of the aproaching fair
were discussed, says the Rock 1
Hill Record.
~~J. F. Williams, who served the
association in the capacity of
president the past year and who
war reelected at the last board
meeting, tendered his resignation,
whereupon Dr. W. G. Stevens,
vice president, was promoted to
the presidency, and R. S. Poag ^
cnosen vice president in ins stead.
the next passenger truck and be
whizzed away to a large neighboring
town. There he may enter F
a Chinese store?for the Chinese c
control almost the whole retail a
trade of the ' islands?and bar- v
gain with the merchant to buy a
hit produce; their in turn he*may v
purchase some of the many for. h
eign articles that he seees on the 11
shelves. |?
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THE LAST BRIGADE.
Richmond Paper Comments on
Confederate Reunion.
The following editorial appear:d
in the Richmond News-Leader
luring the recent reunion of Confederate
veterans in that city:
Stooping shoulders were struight
his morning; dun eyes tor an
urigiil again. l'lie
'long roll" was sounding througu
he silence of GO years; it was
iiue to "fall in." They answered
;o the old names as they took
heir places?Jackson's Stonewall
jrigaue and Hood's immortal
1'exans, Pickett's men and Stutrt's
cavalry, the gunners of
>oague and Ureather, of C'utshaw
md of Mcintosh. Every corps
)1 the Army of Northern Virginia
Aas represented; every army
)? the South ? Johnton's and
iiragg's, Dick Taylor's and Kirjy
Smith's?was mustered; For est's
cavalry was ready to spring
e saddle at the first note of the
jugle call. Such a column it was,
'inhered from every command 111
lie South, as might have marched
11 grand victorious review if inlepcndence
had been won in
18G4 and a season of rejoicing
lad been decreed in the capital
if a triumphat nation.
It was the whole Confederate
umy to which the city paid hornige?the
whole army of which
.eo hail been given supreme com- .
mi nil too late. Vet it was in
lumbers only a brigade. And it
aiis the last brigade. The eoniciousness
of that fact, striking
he multitude while the cheer wus
itill on its litis, made ltianv a man
.urn his face away, unci many a
ivoman weep openly.
The lust brigade of the mighty
livision at whose tread a contilent
shook?do the youth of this
and realize that that brigade couains
the survivors of the greatest
lrmy that ever fought ? Have fullers
been faithful to their sires
nut have they taught that lesson
lo the little children of today,
lit grandchildren of the Confederacy?
Have the vouug men read
Henderson's ".Jackson," NVyeth's
'Forrest" and Capt. Lee's "Recollections
and Letters" of his father?
Do the people who hung
out those Confederate flags this
[norning know with what rich
marts' blood those banners were
iyed 1
The other, the inevitable, queslion
shapes itself, combat it as
one may. When the rear file of
he last brigade has passed, as it
must, despite the prayers of the
South that it be spared a little
onger?will the fourth genera- ?
'ion still venerate the Southern
- aiise? Will the inspiration we
men of today have received from
jontaet with those "gentlemen
mafraid" be transmitted onward
ientury by century or will it
lowly disappear? "As some organized
011 Monument avenue
his morning, perhaps they looked
up and saw Leo in bronze, lie
Aas reviewing more of his solliers
than ever again will pass
oefore him 011 earth. In the calm
najesty of his attitude toward
l __ If..
iicm mere was reassurance, ne
vus as proud of them as they of
lim. He knew, as none did, what
lis soldiers were and what they
lad achieved. As early as 18(id
it wrote John B. Hood, 4 4 There
vc re never such men in an army
icfore."
4 4 There were never such men
n an army before." Kepeat the
vords. Memorize them. They
ire the answer to all the vague
I read of tomorrow that somehow
issails the heart today. As there
icver were such men in any other
irmy, they must live on. Neither
he men nor the army ever can
>e forgotten unless there rises in
America a race whose neglect
lould be honor?a race so ignore
that it scorns self sacrifice
rul loses love.
Leaves for Europe.
Dr. B. B. Johnson left Rock
Till yesterday for New York /
ity, whence he sails Sunday for
trip to Europe, the expehe of
rhich is being borne'by students
nd former students of Winthop .
rho some weeks ago presented
:m with a purse for the iiniuose.
>r. Johnson expecU to & iwly
everal weeks. _ .
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