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COWBOYS TOURING COUNTRY. e b Making a 30,000 Mile Trip and will ^ Visit Every Capital in the Union. t t Four typical cowboys, who are t making a 20,000 mile trip on horse- a back through every state in the Union e touching each capital, spent Sunday a night here. They left Monday morn- f, ing for Columbia. The Overland e Westerners started from Olympia, e . 0 Washington, May 1, 1912, and so far have reached fifteen state capitals. e They expect to complete their jour- a nev by June 1, 1915. at San Francis- t) the Pan American ^ tu, UU* *4*o ? ^ exposition. The party was composed ^ of 0. C. Beck G. W. Beck, J. B. Ram- p son and R. G, Rayne. They hope to e write a booke of their travels, taking ^ pictures as they go, and realize con- p siderable money from the sale of mov- ^ ing picture reels.?Lexington Dis- i patch. t] SUCCUMBS TO PISTOL WOUN DS. ^ e W. C. Mears, of Tarl>oro, S. Ct, Dies in Savannah Hospital. ^ n Savannah, July 6.?W. C. Mears, 2 of Tarboro. S. C., died in a local hos- P pital this morning as the result of a Ci pistol duel with William Barnhill, of ^ Tillman, S. C., at Tillman, Saturday e evening. The cause of the shooting ? is not known. Mears is survived by tl his wife and two sons. His body was ^ sent to Tarboro to-night. Barnhill is T in the Tillman jail under arrest. SPEECH OF HON'. s JOHN L. McLAURIN. ir 'i.' (Continued from page 3.) right and wrong is so finely develop- 3* ed that no other law is needed. If e: you believe the Bible you are bound r< in heiievp that some day the code h w ? - promulgated in one sentence by the greatest law giver of all times "Love ye one another" will be the one law in the land. p] So far every effort has been in the f? extension of suffrage in the direction of the poor, the ignorant, and often 0] the criminal classes; this has play- ja ed its part in securing personal liberty. This accepted, the next great ^ step in suffrage will be in the direc- ^ tion of intelligence, purity, and vir- ni tue. That is what this great woman w suffrage movement means in Eng- p] land. Bad men and impure men could fT not be elected to office with the bal- g( lot in woman's hand. We give a bal- a] lot to the most idle vicious negro and r( the newly landed emigrant, and yet deny the privilege to the highest gC and finest creation of God, a good jr woman. The time will come when C] the ballot will be purified and the C] criminal and vicious denied; our vot- tl ing places, where freemen express gi their will, made as clean and sacred as a temple God, where the gentlest, s( purest, and best may go without fear jr of contamination to exercise the high- S1 est function of citizenship. It is a 0i shame and a disgrace to Anglo Sax- ^ on manhood that we are forced to b say. "No, the polling place is unsafe r< and unfit and politics so corrupt that c< it will degrade womanhood to take d part." My friends, any business or p pleasure that i6 unfit to share with & your wife or your mother will cor- ei rupt your manhood and taint your w purity. Problems Yet to Meet. tl We have to meet in the near future rr other great problems. A Democratic b administration is now at work trying rj to undo and straighten out the tan- C1 gle which comes to us as the financial b results of the war. The greed and selfishness in human nature has n found ample field for its exercise, n and with the control of the volume o of money through the national bank- v, ing system has been developed great p 'trusts; not content with destroying o competition but also limiting produc- h tion to the point of greatest possible n profiL Instead of encouraging for- u eign trade to meet increased produc- tl tion, they raised the tariff duties so i] high that it has stifled trade. I a believe firmly in a home market for t' home products, but when they raise a the price of home articles so high as d to enable a domestic manufacturer p to go abroad and on the profit he makes here undersell a competitor e in that competitor's home market, it s is all wrong from the point of morals c and business. New markets cannot 1 be developed by such cut-throat I methods, and we invite the enmity of v all other nations, who will surely n find some way to retaliate. 1 The great need of America, espec- a ially the South, is new markets, and r these I do not believe will ever come c except through reciprocal trade re- c lations. This will mean the creation p of new lines of employment, new v industries, and channels of trade. r The Labor Question. t There can be no doubt that the h immediate effect of this new tariff f bill will be to precipitate a great 1 struggle between labor and capital, c There is bound to be a radical change s in the status of labor. It might as f well come now as later. All of the r old theories of government treated labor as a commodity, without refer- > ence to the individual laborer. This t will be changed, because the labor- 5 r has value and power lying in his allot, and for the first time in the istory of the country it is apparent hat the organized labor vote holds he balance of power. The agriculural element is going to stand firm gainst monopoly, and in the last lection these two were a unit. It is n axiom of politise that with two orces nearly evenly divided, a smallr force holding the balance of powr can dictate terms. Samuel Gompers and John Miteh11 are very able men but will probbly go to their graves unrewarded, ecause it will take at least a half ?ntury to understand what they have one to add to the dignity and imortance of labor. They completely xploded the theory that you can reat labor as inseparable from the r\f lohnror TTniipr dUlicixiij> ui iuMVA v* he doctrine of equal justice to all hty contend that it is the duty of he government to protect labor in :s employment, as capital is protectd in its employment. The interest of the laborer and is employer, they contend are recipocal. Both are interested to bring bout one result, the profitable emloyment of labor to the good of both apital and labor. At any rate, for he first time, chiefly through the fforts of these great leaders of men, ibor has a direct representative in the lat the time is near at hand when ?gal arbitration will determine all uestions arising between capital and ibor, on a basis that is fair to both. This is the practical beginning of a ystem of government which will take man a moral as well as intel>ctual unit; securing freedom and istice by giving to each individual tactly what his brains, energies, and esources entitle him to; making im ashamed to ask for more or give (SS. The Farmer. What I have said about labor aplies with even greater force to the irmer. A nation ever draws its uest wisdom from the deep wells F a contented agriculture. Like the Lborer, the farmer is delving into le root of things, asking himself le question; "What is the advantge of a government guaranteeing te the possession of my property, hen combinations of capital can derive me of the just profits arising om the use of that property?" The Dvernment permits a trust to exist, ad in the fall curtail all credit by jfusing extensions in order to force ly cotton on the market to draw )ld from Europe. Is this not confertg upon one class the power, by incasing or decreasing the volume of edit and gold, to fix the price of le product of my labor without reard to the law of supply and deland? This question is pressing for )lution in every agricultural state l this Union. The first bill on the lbject was from the wheat growers F Minnesota, then our cotton wareouse bill in South Carolina, and a ill more comprehensive ajid faraaching in Wisconsin, creating a ?mmission to handle all farm proucts. When such men as Clarence oe, of the Progressive Farmer, is evoting his masterly mind and enrgies of a vigorous manhood to this ork something is bound to happen. Next to God, the farmer stands le only .Creator. He takes the elelents and makes something %here efore was nothing. Others grow ich and live in luxury by merely hanging the form of what is created y these hard handed sons of toil. Our cotton crop constitutes a ational asset that has been used to lake the United States the mistress f the financial world, and yet we ho grow it remain comparatively oor. Food prducts are distributed ver the entire world, but the South as a practical monopoly in clothing laterial. Once we make intelligent se of this power, we will become he richest and most cultured people i the world. It is lying right there waiting us. I for one do not believe hat we can ever secure the unity of ction demanded by so large an unertaking except by invoking the owers and functions of government. A llinrtA/x T O T? _ 1 lie (Ji augc, AlUrtlUJC ailli r ai uir's Union are movements telling the tory of wasted effort in individual o-operation. Is there not necessity? 'ake 1911 as an example: in October sold cotton as low as 6V2 cents, rhich I was forced to do in order to neet the expense of making the crop, "he balance of my crop I put into . warehouse and the next June sold t at 12V2 cents. Xow, a pound of otton in June would make as much loth as a pound in October. The irice of cloth was the same, so there ^as $30.00 per bale that somebody tiade out of my cotton between Ocober and June. There must have ieen 800.000 bales of cotton sacriiced in that way in South Carolina. Tiink of it, twenty million dollars lear loss for the farmers of this tate. They bore it all. the fertilizer, actory, doctor, lawyer, preacher, and | nerchant were paid in full. Take a table of prices for ten years, 'ou will find the average difference letween October and May runs about ; 15.00 per bale. The losses on any one of these crops would establish a warehouse system for South Carolina which would render us independent. The warahouse receipts would be a collateral eagerly sought in Europe when the price of our cotton is fixed. All of the money of this country for practical purposes is drained each year into reserve banks of New York. The advance funds for making the crops, and all of the obligations are made to come due in the fall. New York must have our cotton to draw European gold to maintain her supremacy. If the farmers on a large scale undertake to hold, the New York banks calls the local bank, it calls the merchant, and he calls the farmer, who can only pay by sacrificing his cotton. This means a twelve months supply thrown on the market in three months, with the price steadily falling. It enables domestic mills to stock up with a supply of cheap cotton and the cotton merchants take the surplus at lowest prices, and in late years with an almost total absence of competitive buying between the domestic and foreign merchants. Th lower they can force the price in the fall the more room there is for an advance in that held on storage by these great cotton merchants. When you consider that the funds used in large part for this is money sent by the country banks to New York, as a reserve fund, its full enormity is comprehended. Twothirds of the reserve funds of the entire country are deposited in New York; it is used as "call money" and loaned to cotton and stock speculators to gamble with. They can create a stringency at any time they please by calling these banks. What everybody should want is stable prices. It is not a question of supply and demand for cotton, but of supply and demand of money, and this is absolutely in the hands of a few men in New York City controlling the Clearing House Association. Cotton is the corner stone of the great structure which they have built up. because it is the one crop that draws gold from Europe. I would like to know why, if Ve produce the crop, and own the lands and Europe is to be drained of her gold reserves, that there is not sufficient financial wisdom in Congress from the South to utilize a God-given monopoly for the benefit of our own section? Why should all of the bank reserves of the country be concentrated in NewYork? Under Wilson's new currency scheme there will be regional reserve banks, ana the money from the South Carolina crop will be kept at home. At present in the United States the right to issue money is basedVupon United States bonds. I understand that this relic of barbarism and heritage of the war, by means of which they have made us pay a heavier war debt than France paid Germany, is to be changed, and that the right to, issue money will be based upon the assets of the banks, as it is in Canada, cotton warehouse certmcates, unaer State management. We could finance our cotton with these certificates and pay all of our domestic debts. Then demand from the consumers of cotton a.price that would forever put the man with land beyond the reach of the usurer and money shark, both great and small. Land itself is unwieldy and not a good bankable asset, but put the product of that land , into a paper that passes from hand to hand as readily as money itself, and you give the land a value hard to estimate. This is nothing more than what other nations are doing. It is to'*nationalize a great monopoly, as Germany has done the potash industry, and Sweden its iron and steel industries. It is based upon the fundamental principles of justice, and is in accord with the trend of events and the spirit of the times. Minne sota has applied it to wheat, ana tne governor of Wisconsin is backing a similar bill for all farm products. The South produces two-thirds of the clothing material of the world; they must have our cotton or go half clothed. Furthermore, the cotton of the South is absolutely necessary to this nation in maintaining its supremacy in finance. Take it away and the balance of trade is against us. Thirty years ago our railroads and manufacturing industries were practically owned abroad. Since then these securities have been bought and are owned largely by the "Napoleons of Finance" in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. How have they done it? When silver was demonetized and the balance of trade payable in gold, an annual average of five hundred million dollars was bought in by the cotton crop of the j South: through our national bank iiisr system this vast sum was controlled in Xew York. They advanced us paper money, promises to pay, and demanded gold from Europe for cotton. In other words, we made cotton on a paper basis and for thirty years have sold it on a gold basis. 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