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M ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST I, 1880. 126 North Mela Street ANDERSON, S. C. W. W. SMOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr D. WATSON BEUL?,.City Editor PHELPS SASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. EL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Entered aa second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914. at the post office at An derson, South Carolina, under the Act Of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION BATES SzmUWeeMy One Toar .fi.no Sit Months .7C ?ally One Year .$5.00 Six Months . 2.50 Throe Months ..?. 1 -2r? TELEPHONES Editorial and nosiness Office.321 Job Printing .693-L The Intelligencer ls dellvored by carrier^ in the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify US. Opposite your mono on the label of your paper lg printed date to which our paper is paid. Al1 chocks and drafts should ho drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. , THOUGHT FOB THE DAT. -o Peace on the whirring marts, Peace where the scholar thinks, the' . hunter roams, Peace, God of Peace 1 peace, peace to j all our homes, And peace In all Our hearts. -Henry Tlmrod A little ambition Ia a very bad thing] to have. - The big noises are very seldom tho big doora You may be- a citizen alright, but' you may be the undesirable kind. -o ? Ob yee? luck will win, and luck ls composed of more grit and hustle than any-'other resvdt known.' ? -v-O - ir Anderson is my town, Anderson Col legers my college,; and The Anderson theatre Is my theatre. ' , It seems that most of the war prog nosticators have* taken to the tall tim bersT^^^.g N?,.thoro ls not.much In a name. Tho man who is named George Washing ton ybne* may be a Har by profession. Tfco football teams ot South Carolina * see?? to be gettlng.lt is tbs neck these .fit.. 'Tko trouble with most'reformers lo thin moot of them know, more about J other people'a business than they do j their own. . c. .?ri--- ?- ? ; v.. '. . . -or-. . i According to our notion, lt isn't the small farmer who has been hit so hard by ''hard times!'' it is the small mer chant who will suffer the moat . Ces, ?jut couldn't you like to see the I expression on the face of the drun ken sot when ono of the Isdy cops of Columbia lays'hand on him next week? . .-0 Somo people seem to think that it Is alright to steil a couplo of thousand dblUus provided they can get away with lc The prices on the Columbia restau- j rani's bill of fare1 Will assume an on account-of-the-war appearance next week. . $ ? -o Tho legislature had! a big wrangle tho other day and it, was all because ohs legislator said that he could send hiir ambeer farther than anyone pise. ( Most of the men. who are always I watting for sdmethlng'io' "turn up j haven't any other excuse for their lati nosa, --o- ? "^Tewlsh to give notice to the sleepy ] Ht,tfo villagers of . Greenvil le, Spartan - burg, Columbia abd Charleston that it ilPnow up to thom to follow the tat? ampio set by "My Town" In tho lino 'Abd to make a fitting ? thlhtv moro 'fitting lt is named "The Ahdcreon." V -'- - . o Joe Patton, Bob GonzalCB. Harold; Booker, and Elhor Crame aro plan ning^ meeting a la room 315 sone-1 U^a*iV!?~ next month in the Sei Wyn hotel in Charlotte, well, you fellows ^?^d&l^'^?'i'sp; '|MlnSh;wlth your little old okra and^ ^u^termjlk. An extra .largo. crowd will travel to Columbia! next week to see the'three wot??n policemen, appointed by May or:' OriffloTa?fspecial officers"?it??|?J? :??Wp|^T *a'ft? .The Columbia mayor yiesftalnlyhas en eye for business, and bil? drawiag,?*n&*an be . 'depended ?pbn to bring peoplo to th> foV.who - would othMnprlsa s|ay.?way because of SPIN . THK COTTON, Some of the comment that Is made out Bide the cotton Muten on the "huy a-bate" movement lu the South la de cidedly interesting. The New York Times prints an editorial In thia con fection which it ia worth while to read. While Southerners are forced by the logic of circumatances to diuugree with The Tlmea' view, it ia neverthe leaa easy to aee that the editor of that paper ia endeavoring to tuke u broad and logical view of the situation-a view which to him, no doubt, secma nearer to the correct one thun those of the Interested Southern editora, lt is given for wbat it may be worth, ita caption being, "Spin the Cotton." "Nobody has ariBen anywhere to argue In public that the cotton plant ers ahull not be assisted in au emer gency which la ul moat aa much the country's as lt ls their'a. The only question is how thc assistance ?hall be rendered in a manner which ahull not do more harm than good, and with suitable economy of resource at a timo when lhere ia a grout need of economy. There are two fundamen tal faults of all propoaala yet made. One Is that It is proposed to take the cotton out of commerce on an arti ficial baals. Tho effort should be made to put the cotton Into consumption, in order that ita w eight shall not op pros thu market, and In order that one of tho blessings of nature shall be en joyed as widely aa poaaible. The sec ond fault in the prodigality with which 'lt is proposed to use the resources of other people. The Treasury's funds are thought to be bottomless. Even the bankers' $150,000,000 fund proposes to allocate depositors' cash us though it waa free for that use, and as t.rough less money might not bo made to go further by other methods. . To get the cotton out of sight it must be put Into cloth. The way to help tl??' planter 1B to help the spin ner. Spinners' takings stay taken. They never trouble the market fur ther, and the planter, seeing the sta ple disappear, ls encouraged to plant again. A natural or economic check 'to the production of too much cotton Is desirable, but the proposal to leg islate against tho planting of cotton is an absurdity not flt to mention. A hint as to how the desired result can be produced without the locking up of $160,000 is afforded by the method used In England regarding the dead lock in the seerit'y market. The total engagement ia not guaranteed, but one-quarter ot it It a syndicate of those-eo road y to help -the -planters: would guarantee one-quarter of tho legitimate borrowings ?upon the un picked crop the credit, market would be unlocked, lt might be that not even the. quarter guarantee would be re quired when all the credits were liqui dated. Th? method wi guarantee in ??ht be applied to spinners* purchases in a manner to encourage their buying and spinning. The Exchange being closed, they are unable to "hedge" their purchase of fibre, and can make no calculations about their possible losaos. A score of millions .1 guar antee against the fall of cotton to a price below a guaranteed minimum would enable the wheels to be starte? and assure the employment of an army bsfcrel which the planters dwindle to .insignificance. ''Meanwhile It should be remember ed that, reinforcements to the volun teers in behalf of the planters are coming up. The world cannot get along Indefinitely without cotton. Not only, is it a necessary of life, it is the base" ot many sorts of industry which can not be allowed to remain stagnant for reasons of wider application than tho relief ot the planters. There is aa much reason, for the British. Govern ment or bankers to finance the mills as. there ia for-our 'government or bankers to finance our plantera When tho Lancashire looma are Idle there will> be another cry of disasters drowning even that from our South. .There will bo similar conditions in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Be fore our government commits Itself alone to the absurdities and extrava gances suggested this side the water, there might be consideration, of a joint movement for the utrannrdiza tlon of cloth as well as of staple. Tho .Increase v>f demand and consumption ls better remedy than tho reduction of supply. It la not true that there Is too much cotton. There ia only too much! for tho maintenance of the price. Under normal conditions no attention shbuld be paid to the price.' Ht is because conditions are not normal th? ! it ' is necessary to steady the price in the Interest of all - interests, not in the interests ot the planters particularly. But In the effort old landmarke . of principle should ho kept in,sight so! far as possible. The , greater ! the exigency the greater "should be the economy ot resources. Excess of ef fort lind Vx tr ava gan ce of moana char acterize e.!! proposals thu? far. % The sure proof ot it ts that the uhversai readiness ' that some pian shall be adopted has not led to agreement upon ^ny lptaii. "Wne^ tha; right plan , is found there will be no difficulty about agreeing upon it and finding tho mean? tor iU execution." * : WOMEN AS POLICE OFFICERS. Thu news that the mayor of Colum bia has appointed three women police men-pardon us, policewomen- will come UH a sheck to those who have held that only men shall perform the police duties of the State. But The In telligencer hardly sees wherein there lies argument against women being policemen-there we go again-police women, If they want to act In that capacity. And they will make good, too. Wc have Been great big, burly, bloodthirsty men become as lambs when they cross the threshold of their homes and see the light ot authority in the eye of theil "better half." Sure, women < a.i manage men individually, co'lectively or any other way. She can conciser him drunk or sober. But the great tk outdo is going to come when ; these women police-women attempt to [control women offenders. Now, there will bo a I attie for you that will make those In the neighborhood sit up and take notice. Will these pollco-women be attired in the regulation blue uni- j form, or will they wear only a helmet? Seriously, though, The Intelligencer does not believe there . Is anything wrong with women acting as police men, If they* caro to do so. They asso ciate with men in the home, in the school, in the store, in the mills and everywhere une sees man working a woman 1B by lils Bide. She was intend ed hy the Creator as man's helpmeet, and to be this truly she must do things men do. There will be men who will censure the appointment of women to perform the tasks that, men have been performing. Women will also censure them, but the critics must admit that women as a rule perform tl - Ir work ] with more fidelity and efficiency than men do, no matter what the task is, Let them vote, if they wish, and the men will see that* conditions will be improved. REPORTING THE. WAR. I A writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger declares that "no other war was ever so carefnly reported as the present one, and never did the outside world know with such approximate truth the essential facts as they oc cur." The public has been to some ex tent inclined to criticise the service of the news-purveyor agoncles of the world in connection with the European war, especially at its beginning. Even to the. present stage of the conflict J the meagreness of the dispatches and tho uncertain s tatemen tB that are made by the correspondents are by no means satisfying to tho American public The charge that the news Is colored In favor of one or the other sides ot the conflict, however, has not been repeated since the first stages of thO war. We are inclined to agree with thc ob server whose opinion is quoted above. No other war of great proportions has occurred since the means of news gathering and news dissemination have been brought to their present per fection. It ls true that the Boer war and the Russo-Japanese conflict wero of great importance, and both occur red only five years ago; but neither of them was In a country pr territory where the reporta could be given to the world promptly, and they were not so given In the time of the great wars of the last century-tho Civil war of the sixties and the Franco-Prussian War of the seventies- the telegraph lng of nows was | infinitely smaller than at present, and the great news gathering association, the Associated Press, had not been projected. The news was meagre and long delayed. Today, however, wthin a very few hours after the decisive operations ot the war in Europe, reasonably ac curate detailed reports are being read by Americans in every hamlet of tho United States. It ls true that much of ho proceeding ls shrouded |n secrecy, by the censorship' and the desire ot the military commanders to prevent their opponents from learning of their positions add movements. But so far as the people even of tho countries en gaged are able to learn of the war's progress, we In America are Informed, and in addition some ot the larger newspapers have their own war cor espondents in pie war sehe, who man o to get through som? most inter esting reports. v . The American has come'to depend upon his newspaper to Inform . him aa to current history, and it has hot failed him tn this great crisis. If ho finds "the news to' some extent un reliable and indefinite, and is inclined to bo critical along then* lines. !t is largely 'because ho has been educated ty the newspapers' to expect accura cy and rellablity, and he does not stop to think of tho difficulties of securing tho exact tacts from carefully con cealed war operations. Add 'Inciden tally it maytbe ?std that, contrary to the ! general.vie w. the handling of the war uewa is a very heavy expense to the newspapers' of toe United States. While more papers ' ara sold, the ad ditional income *rota ' this ?bore? ls far short bf tho adc >d expense lb cabio tous and war corespondents* salar tes. KOT ?A PO OK MAN'8 MEASURE Among the numbera of gentlemen ' present in Columbia and urging Uio General Assembly to submit a bond bill to the people' which would make South Carolina a purchaser of cotton at ten cents a pound when coton is worth in the market six or seven cents a pound, The State would like to know it the railroad brakemen, con ductors, firemen and engineers ?re represented. Are representatives of 125,000 cot ton mill operatives and their families urging the-passage of a bill menacing ! the State with a permanent debt of I $20,000,000? Are spokesmen'for 35,000 white ten ant formers who, if cotton be bought at ten cents a pound, will turn over practically ell they have to landlords and merchants, .who in any case will be tenant farmers next year as they are now, insisting that the bond bill be passed? Of thd white population of 725,000 in South Carolina, at least 400,000 have little or nothing to gain from the bond HCUeiU?. Who are their representatives in the General Assembly? Who ls speak ing for them? Who for them is ap proaching members and senators and begging that the bill be passed? The Hampton administration reduc ed the public debt of the State, by the elimination of fraudulently issued j bonds, to a sum between six and seven I millions of dollars. In thirty-six or seven years the debt has been reduced about one million* and that has been [done, for the most part, by the sale I of public landa. If the public debt al\ajl .bo in I creased by ten or twenty millions the increase will be with us to stay. In the main it will be a BURDEN ON LABOR. The grandsons and the great grand sons of the railroad brakemen, the salesman, the mill operative',' the street car conductor and. the tenant will feel lt In the RENTS THEY WILL BE ASKED TO PAY. These laboring men will themselves feel it If members of the General Assera I bly must pass what Senator Walker denounces as a menace "vicious in principle" while casting Ms'vote for lt, let them do so .with their eyes open. Let them not fancy that they are com ing to the rescue of "the poor man." In the last analyelR, tho load ot pub lic debt is In great measure carried on the shoulders'-ot labor. .Labor does not pay a great deal in direct taxes. Indirectly, in rents, . in the cost ot those n?ce?skrl?s furnished by public utility conj'paniea and In the adjustment of thc-J wage scale, labor gets the big end of the log. For the most part' this newspaper de ri ve 8 it main support from prop erty holders. From a temporary dis tribution of largess fey increase el tlie public debt to property hoiders, The State would have- '.?ts share. From, a seiflsh point-of view, The State has aa much at stake- a3 any property holder and ls suffering not less than ! others from' the easting hard and harrassing conditions, That shall not deter The State from putting the'case plainly; from saying that the bond is sue, even if it would help the property holders (which we.flo noWpr, amo ment believe), is in essence If *n?? ic design a measure destructive of the in terest of the great'mass of the people and calculated to strengthen the fet ters of their poverty.--The State. POLLY Ay?fA CLUB "Polly Anns," "The Glad Book," ii the title of a popular little story now being widely read. It Ia the.Story ot ? little girl, the daughter ot ? poor min ister, who lived in s Western . stat? lng great poverty.' Her father, and mother died, she waa sent East to live with a wealthy malden auntr'Durlnf her father's lifetime HJfy splayed' a game called "being glad/' and at she explained it to her malden aunt the way the game was played was t< find something in everything that hap pened to be glad .about. There wai never a catastrophe so great but thh little girl could find some phase abon whtqh to be glad. ';Sho preached thh new philosophy .t?.. everyone .wRl whom abe carno In. contact, and soox they were pinyin g tho game. too. It ii said that Polly Anna clubs are boin? formed In many places, and memben are deriving much good' from the pl ai bf being, "glad" over reveryllrdng tha' happens. Tho Intelligencer believes that tin organisation of "Polly Anna" oluba li the South Juat now would bo a gooc thing. Seriously, : this 'would' heit simboth out many rough places. Fo wSi?J?Cw K . farmepr, hi\s debts io pa; and alic cent cotton;to-.pty them with and a short crop, at that, be can bi glad that fie has health and strengt! and hopo In his hean fdr petter time? Then he can be glad fer the wife ahi little ones Qed has given: him to ; hies his homo. Ho cait.be glad th&t his ad veralty has shown Mw hw tree friendi and ho can know how much ho cai roly upon them in times of distress Now. had you thout?t' bf ihls ih Jun j^w?y? Isn't it,,w>TUi while io cul trvata optimism. lu thoughtaaa deed And lt can be cultivated. Ohe can b glad all the Hw*,** s4r^:?k&m l(u A Store For All Men and All Boys fy<??fkx We have never reached the point in our ca #T?I V - reer where we regard one man as better than another, or where we feel qualified to tell you how much money you should spend. But we < have reached the point where we give far bet ter values for the money than any other cloth ing store you'll find. T?ris store was founded on the rock of honor, and true honor in merchandising li?s in mak ing your dollar do its entire duty. It is wisdom and economy on your part to con centrate your purchases here. One can emile or frown, these are voluntary acts on the part of every one. ' "The man worth while is the man ? who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong." OPPOSITION AT SEA. "The Republicans ought to stop crit icising the Democratic administration or stop voting for its measures." Thus spoke Representative Cline, ot Indiana; a few days ago, and creat ed a situation among the Republicans that IB interesting and unusual. It ls a fact that while certain of the Repub lican leaders have been severely crit icising the Democratic administration and the measures which it has put through Congress In the past eighteen months, yet numbers of the Republi cans'in both houses of Congress have, when the test came, voted for those measures. In at least one Instance the strange situation was presented of op position to a measure on the part of Republican leaders merely because, apparently, they considered it their duty to o po se a Democratic proposal, when the measure 'finally pastea the House by a unanimous vote. This ls all. the more significant when lt is noted that the measure in question was one bf the Democratic party's anti-trust bills-an essentially party measure. Every Republican in the House voted for the Trade Commission bill, although some of them had spok en against its provisions on the-floor. The Clayton anti-trust bill,'perhaps the most important of the Democratic measures of the present Congress, aside from the tariff and currency bills, received the votes of 41 .Repub licans in the House, while only 64 Republicans Voted against it. The Ray burn bill, which . enlarged the Juris diction ot the Interstate Commerce Commission so as to extend It over the issuance of railway securities,,. was Supported . in the House, by 80 Repub licans and 14. Bull Moose representa? Uvea One of tho Republicans sup porting tho measure waa Mr. Mann, the leader. Only 12 votes were cast against lt? though its passage, along with-that ot nearly every other party .measure, was long delayed. On tho questions of authorizing the President's. Mexican policy and his use' of emergency notes in that connec tion, there was very decided Republi can support of the administration in both houses. Even on the currency question,' which was delayed from May of last year until ? couple of dayB be fore Christmas by those who did not want It to* pass yet dared not. vote against lt, finally received 35 Repub lican votes in th? lionne ?nu ^ ?vorn the opposition In the Senate. . There was slightly more cohesive-' ness ' among the Republicans on ' the tariff, but even on this question th ere wsa support for ' the Underwood TH.11 Crom the opposition that was notice able. Seven votes ia tho House and two in the Sonnte wore cast tor'this measure by those not of the adminis tration party. - j?; 'ji, Such facts as theso Indicate that the Democrats are really representative of the sentiment pf the country, and thats the opposition has little left to stand oQ -that li is almost at sea, "RIFT W TH? CWroSV? A dispatch from Columbia publish ed in today's paper states, "It .'seems aa if the acreage reduction measure' will berthe only ono to be passed." leaving out of .conree, the appropria tion bUl of $100,000 to nay TO?rmt?r* for their services m "saving tho coun try." Of course, tho acreage reduction blU will not' amount to much, and will not be; enforced, ad {he action of the Moisture -will not ba productivo of much good, aa we see lt. Tinfortah atoly the legislature, when It found it could not do any real thing to aid the farmers, did not adjourn, but kept ! holding on will- a view to letting the I "dear peepul" know Just how desper ately they were in earnest. The result ia that they have been holding out a forlorn hope that something would ul timately be done, and the people have been patiently walting to be saved. The legislature will soon adjourn and I the farmers will then have to go it alone or seek aid elsewhere. The "rift in the clouds" appears now I in the statement that the financiers of the money centers are going to get | together and "finance" th? South's cot ton crop. This f i what -.eeded' just ] now, and then re ry spin- ! die In the com... . time get-1 ting the products . t consump tion. Holding cotton the market will not solve the problem ultimate ly! This will only defer the evil day. What will realty help is to get 'more I consumers and more avenues to UBB j cotton goods. Fortunately this is be ing done now as never before, and the I finding of new avenues of use for j the staple has-only just begun. Mil lions of bales of cotton can be con-1 sumed right here in the United Stat es in excess ot what hae been UBod if fcypry "pound "were used by manufac turera to bale their product, and by the farmers themselves to bag their [cotton, to say nothing of the excess in I consumption, ot cotton goods for cloth ing and other domestic uses-. Let the! [United States be, loyal to home pro ducta, and require every article to bear the label "Made in the U. S. ?." i? '. .' " -' oooooooooooooooooooo O OU?! DAILY POEM . ?> , . l ' ' O O O O O O O O OOOOOOOOOOOfj _ v ' -: The Moneyless Man. Is:, there no secret'place on-the face! >Y/,r of the earth Where charity dwelleth, where virtue 1 has birth, Where bosoms in mercy and kindness ! ? will heave When tho poor pud tho wretched shall ask apd. re?oive? Is there no place at. all where a knock from the poor . Will bring a kind angel to open the | door? Oh! search the wide world wherever | you can, There is no open door for a moneyless | man. ?r ...*. . < ?" . . . . ? Ooy look In your hall where the chandelier's light Drives oft with its splendor the dark ness of night. "Where ^ttte^_rich_^hanjto^ iirelv*3V *a Better come in ted j? . Oars are the kinda that > g? homes. ? Home' comfort? the greatest luxury of winter ] We have them in varioa Suil?vm? naird', Anderson, S. C., V BeSton, shadowy fold. Sweeps gracefully down with its trim mings of gold; And mirrors of silver take op and renew, In long-lighted vistas, the wllderlng view Qc there at the banquet, and find if you can, A welcoming smile for a moneyless man. Go, look in yon church of the cloud is, reaching spire. Which gives to the sun his same look .of red dre; Where the arches and -columns are 1 goregous within, And the walls seem as pure as a soul without sin;' Walk down the long aisles, See the rich and the great. In the' pomp and the pride of their worldly estate; Walk down in .your patches, and find, ' if you can? Who opens a pew for a moneyless man. i Go, look In the banks, where mammon . has told' His hundreds and thousands of sliver and gold, v/here, safe from the hands of the starving and poor. Lie piles upon piles of the glittering.' . ore; Walk up to their counters-ah! there '. "you may stay .." n- >! -1 ff Till ydur limbs shall grow1 old - end ' your hair shall grow gray, And ~ouT! find at the bank not one of the clan Wi i money to lend to a moneyless man. I.. . . .. . '. '. .. ; ; - ? . v.: ?Go, look to your Judge, in bis dark, j flowing gown, [With the scales wherein law welghetb "equity: ?own; Where he, frowns on the weak and , smiles on the Btrong, And punishes right whilst he justifies . ! wrong ' . Where juries their Ups to the Bible ! ' have laid , TO .render a verdict they've already ;? have made; Go there In the courtroom, and find, i .] if you can Any JaW for, the, cause of a moneyless '. 1 man. , ' -'. Then go to your hovel-no raven has . ted. ,, s,? " ' ; The 'wife that has suffered too, long . for h?r' bread ;. Kueel down by her pallet and kiss the 'death-frost. From the lips of the angel your pov erty lost; - Then tura in your agony upward to . God And bless, -while it smites yon, the the chastening rod; And you'll find at the end of your life's little span, .. . There's a welcome above for-Mkinon^ aylen 'man. .-, . ? : '..- .' r "..&; ".v;.:- . ? ? OK mix s styles rxti? sizes. ,S. Cv;.' GreenvS?e, S. C.