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TUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER Founded August 1, 18C0. 12? North Main Ntret A!*RE?>WN, 8. C. WILLIAM BANKS. Editori W. W. SMOAK_Duslnusu Munuger Entered According to Act of Con gress oh Second Class Mail Matter at tho PoetClflco at Anderson, S. C. Member uf Associated Press and Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic | Service. faeml- Weekly edition?J1.50 perl Year. Daily edition?$5.00 per annum; 12.50 for Six Montile;' S1.25 for Three] Mouths. IN ADVANCE. A larger circulation than any other new;.. ,.? r in this Congressional Dis trict. . . E : Editorial.327 Bus':;''?* OH'ice.'321 Job Prliiiir'?;.693-L Ixx al St ?vu.327 Soc'letj Newfl.321 The li.t< lii^encer Is delivered by carriers in flie i-Hy. If you fall to get yopr paper regularly please notify' as. Opposite your mime on label of your paper 1.? prntcd dato to which your paper la pu id. All checks and drafts should be druwn to Tho Ander son Intelligencer. The Weather. Washington, July 28.?South Curo lina, Local thunderebowers Wednes- j day Thursday; light to moderate variable winds. BAILY THOUGHT. If we can speak no wondrouB word Nor slug a thrilling Bong, If we must ever fall to do The things for which men long, One chunco, at least is left for us .'I it ? Which, may our lack redeom; We may by living word and song, Give thotie who can?a theme. 7 ? / ryArthur Wallace Peach. Keeptyg, bad company?the fly. i. Iiiw.iV? 1 O ' Tell it to the marines?ordere to j flght. ? ; irti > 0 , We Insist upon having the Col. Dave Humphries rjart of Donalds. C?toie1 ' bp.. Mr. McAdoo. Coin of the | realm ut 2 per cent, looks good. Oh,- you, seasonable showers. Worth | thousands upon thousands of dollars. Georgia' legislature has passed a bill | to croate*thlb office of lieutenant gov ernor. Gosh. 1 0 ' o State of.New York baa appropri?t ed $60,000 with which to flght the| grasshoppejfe, 1??_o? ' Having greatness thrust upan him ?when a man accidentally blunders into a movie film. o- ? - Some mon talk of "throwing" their I influence, when that commodity is. too | light to even waft. Senator Smith doe h n't seem to havol tried very hard to please Bloase with | his federal appointments. '-.-o Tho antl-BlVasc people are worried. Several candidates for governor and] not a scrub'in tho lot.. ? >'???o?- ? Suff? In London starve themselves I to get out of jail and then raise tho| . dicken a/tbYget'back in. HaseDiilLtioto?Since putting on tho] Administration uniform, Billy Bryan] is. sloping down on tho bason. j The fie t?o - divorces should presenti that town with a lasting memorial l e ay. a eOliiiQ of the goddess of liberty. _~_,, ?O Boy. c ?tllilg in North Anderson stayed too late. Old gent bandea him younger brother's drum. "Beat it," he said.- ? *??> >-o? Steam piano playing tango airs on a river excursion, boat broke up | work In a factory where 200 girls were employed. " p Interstate commerce commission baa threatened for months to hnnd down a decision "next week" on the , rato case. And yet nothing doing. .: j <3?o?? i Any man would be a jay bird to shoot himself at this time, of the year with a china berry seed, end yet that is -what "they say" Dr. Mclntoeh did. 1 1 1 . S. M. Sloan, formorly^ .og.PeadJeton, made a survey ft>t the ball territory of York county and reports a damage of half a million dollars. We hope C?mmi s sloo er, Wat son will send him to Anderson county. r.V By the way .this Itichoy caso tins no riebt to | j[a^gbvor. It -was an Issue two years ago. ' W. R. RJchey of Laurons^atjUic Abbeville, Vfoi -tip and made a warm denial of a rumor that be had been promised a pardon for his brother If *f WPJ?K&? ?1 ! - tlcW^"1 BUY I NCI VOTES. Tho man who would sell his vote la unworthy to huve tho right to vote. The candidati1 who would buy or bar ter for votes is unworthy of trust or confidence. And how may votes be bought? In Charleston in the special congressional election last year, -?o we have been In formed, men stood up openly on the streets und paid money for votes and complained bitterly because the price was so much higher than it itad been. Hut there are oilier ways of buying votes. When a colored woman comes around with hluckhcrries, she will take old clothes in exchange. The lien merchant takes cotton frem the wagon in settlement of hi.' account for supplies. No money was pussed and yet eaeh is u lnwful sale. And the man who hartera or ex chnngcH his vote for something prom ised or expected is us bad as tho man who takes money, although not us low us the one who takes money from both sides. The candidate for council who of fers police Jobs is buying votes. The candidate for the legislature who of fers to win over opponents by promis ing them magisterial commissions, or something else to which they are not entitled, Is buying them over. The candidate for governor who promises favors and gratuities from his office 1b buying votcB, unless the things prom ised are deserved and tho promise It self Is not made in a burtcring spirit. The candidate for congress by promis ing federal patronage where none law fully Is due is buying votes. If votes aro purchasable, how low best men got to office? How can the host men get to office- How can the poor man get to office? These nre times when we need to look for integ rity. In the last half dozen years mea have become to look for some personal benefit In elections, and the fitness, in tegrity and manliness of candidate* Ib overlooked by many. Th?se mattere are put very pointed ly in the following sentence., ?rom a recent communication. \WI11 I work for a man who prom ises me certain things for my support and the strength of these promises will .1 auk my people to vote for him? "Not unless I tell my people about tho bargain. I would be foolish If I did tell them and a moral coward If I did not tell them. Being In neither of these classes I could only be a hypo crite and ? hypocrite is a poor Imita tion of a> friend. "I am, not for eale myself and my friend who-sells himself ceases to bp my friend nnd the last, state le wors? than the first." - V HAROLD 0. BOOKER In some way there escaped our at tention the ' official announcement that Harold C. Booker had retired from the editorial chair or the Qreen rillo Piedmont to take the management of the Spartanbut.t Journal. We had known for eome time that this would happen, but in some way the an nouncement which we had been look ing for escaped us. Tills accordingly b Mated acknowl edgement of the* worth of a fellow laborer In the grind ai.d grilling and racking of the newspaper shop will, we hopo, not be'.out of place. It was the pleasure of, the riter to know Booker when he was a lad of about 13. at Donalde. ^Mt vas the day of the campaign speaking when, the -peo ple of Laureile,. A.iderson. Green wood and Andersor. counties were gathered with the feople of Abbeville for a meeting in advance of tl?e rego lar campaign. 'Au long those who that day made their maiden speeches in politics and aftcraxrds have become men of prominence were . C. Hoy - ward and Wyatt AiUen. Wo remem ber that Booker, ttnugh Opt a child, was deeply interested In political' matters and-made some prognostica tions that were so wise as to bo al most Incredible?and they cdtno om right. Later we knew Booker in Colum-. bla and found him to be temperamen tally a newspaper man. He has wora> od on tlho Charlotte Observer, the Anderson Intelligencer nnd other pa pers, and now he has retired from the Picflmont, whose columns ne nas made moat delightful with ma homely buttermilk philosophy. Charles Hear on representing tho owners of tho Journal, wished to have tnat pape;, made TBooker's Own Paper.r* ana we beltevo that tho people of Spartan burg trill enjoy and win he oonefittod by the:Booker brand or journalism? high-toned, manly and uncompromis ing Without nt the same time being offeniively, assertive and meddlesome.' We wish our friend all sorte of suc cess in his now work ana from the issues of-the paper we nave -, seen, Binde ho took hold/ we are inclined to .believe that 8partanburg is to nave' a dnndy afternoon newspaper. 'The United States government has recommended the English sparrow for table diet Not one, but several might oV"- ? BUILD IT MILITIA. When our national guard embrogllo was attracting oh much attention as a mimic war in an opera boulTc, it was intimated that this poor state was dis criminated against by the "Yankee" secretary of war we lui ve observed with surprise that more ?uniment has not been made, but the secretary of war, Llnley M. Garrison, has mustered out three regiments of militia in his own state, and for the same reason that Adjt. Gen. Wm, W. Moore recom mended lust year that some companies in this state be disbanded. There has never been in our mind any ?tuestion of the manliness, honesty of purpose and determination of Gen. Moore. At times it appeared that he was too much of a stickler for idl ing the exacting requirements. But think buck upon conditions which ex isted before Gen. Moore went into of fice. A former assistant adjutant general had beim tried by court mar tiul for carelessness and laxness, and with HUch an Insistance before him. Gen. Moore has been scrupulously ex act and careful though under what we know to havo been very trying cir cumstances. But the point we started out to make Is that South Carolina has not been discriminated agnlnst. The entire na tional guard of Arkansas was muster ed out. Three regiments in New Jer sey, we are informed were disbanded, and we see by a northern paper that Just oodles and oodlce of militia gen erals and colonels and officers of min or grade have been mustered out. The Dick law has cut off the frills and Is trying to make a business-like organ ization of the national guard. The government buys the equipment and demands an accounting. When a com pany does not muster for inspection and does 'not account for property, it should by rights, be punished in some way. No favorites. The military authorities are deter mined that the organized militia shall he placed on a.footing as to organiza tion and numerical strength that shall muko it of value in time of war, so that It would be available for transfer to the United States Volunteer army. In some of the states there has been a ridiculously high percentage of o Ul cers of high rank in command of dum my organizations that lack the consti tuent units and flagrantly deficient in complement. The Dick law required that militia organizations should be brought to proper formation by Jan uary 21, 1910, but this limit has been extended from time to time, and the militia division of the war department was not severe but lenient. BEWARE, THE LAW One of the busy newsgatberers of this paper brought in a story, publish ed in Tuesday's paper, to the effect that there was |30,000 of "Blease mo ney" here to be bet on the election. Thero was a lot of speculation caused by this statement, although nearly ev evrybody considered It a jone. It' is a fact, however, that mere was considerable betting two years ago. The so-called "Jones headquar ters" at Greenville Is said to nave put out a lot of money, and the Blease people of Anderson accepted It. However, our attention has been called to the fact that there is a se vere statuto law against this partic ular thing and a well known lawyer yesterday dug It up and cltea It. Tho law Is as follows: Section 3B8, Code of 1912. Crim inel Laws of South Carolina: "Whoever shall make any bet . or wager of money, or wager of any other thing of value, or shall have any share or part in any bot or wager or money, or wager or any other thing t>i value, upon any election in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a mlsaemoan or, and upon conviction in any court, of sessions In this State, shall be fined In a sura not ex ceeding five hundred dollars,nnd be Imprisoned not. exceeding one month ; one half of the nne to ?u to the Informer, and the other.. half to the ubo of the State." ; Now that appears to bo a risky {doce of business. A man could turn nformer and get back enough to keep himself out of the hole. And with.the Vigilance which the sheriff's office has shown In, the last two years in run ning down Sunday crap games, and other violations of law, it would bo inviting trouble to piace any election bets this year for the sheriff I la the Und of man who ?ntorcea th? taw. Furthermore, we are. opposed to betting, especially on ball gamos and elections. TIBESOME RUMORS Two things in the Rickey case have 'made us tired, one la that Dr. Mcln tosh was not shot, or that he shot himself with a china berry seed. The other Is that some man "higher up" had him shot. Such stories aa these would not be circulated and would not be believed if it were not for the tact that the Shall The Milk Kxehange. If politicai wur is to be Wngci against the cotton mills of South Car ollna, no mon; favorable time that the present could have been choser for nttaclt. Never in the history o! the industry were the mill companlct so ill-prepared to resist assault Moreover, it is an illustration of con sumraute strategy that the attack h directed ugalust the weaker mill. Loi us consider, for a moment, ttu Parker Cotton Mills Company. Il comprises about one-eighth or one ninth of the mills und spindles 01 the state though there are in th< United States various other mill rivaling it in size. If one-thirtieth or one-fortieth ol the spindles in the United States car dictate the price of goods and tin price of labor, then the Parke! "merger" is a trust or monopoly. When the "merger" was formed some three years ago. Uh three class es of Hharee wore sold in open mar ket at $100. $72 and $22. They can now he bought for $9G $40 and $10. respectively. The $2,000,000 of "guaranteed stock" is largely held In the north. The preferred stock, which has failed to pay the last six of Ite quar terly dividends, is largely owned Ir this state and by the oillcers of thf nulls. The market value of this preferred stock, there being outstanding about 04.000 shares,'has shrunk nearly two million dollars; In a word, the own ers of preferred stock, hundreds ol them South Carolinians, includine the president and all the principal officers of the company, are about two million dollars poorer than they were threo years ago. The Stato asks no one to take Its word for these facts; let the doubt ing consult any dealer in mill stocks as to their truth. Even if Wo include the common stock that cell for $10 a share, the Parker mills have no watered stock, They are capitalized about . $26 a share, and. if they were wiped out they could not be replaced for lees, Tho actual money that has been placed in them, the constituent mills, from first to last, is far more than their present capital. Money lost by many of the constituent mills before the days of the "merger" has been forgotten. ?W/ Some other'mills'are in worse con dition than 'the Parker company. W< have in mind, several concerns now that may .fall.' into bankruptcy . any day. Severaittothers bad to be reor ganized last year?and. a reorganiza tion nearly lilwny means the loss ol tho money,m?4h by the origin?l own ers,. ProbaSg, hot one-third of the South Car?up?^cotton mills are regu larly paylngTdiyidends and- thcreonfl dence in tho'industry is so impaired that the shares of the strong mills sell fifty per cent below their real volite.' ?"$?> ' If the people believe that tho cot ton mills would better be directed en tirely by strangers, now is the time to press tho'?varfaro on them, farce them to theVanctton block and^at them he - bought- for u song by north ern men.;- .-..?- v;. j THEGRS?T Ith en " V.'ai One hundred years ago today the first locomotive, In the. world to suc cessfully haul a load of freight upon rails made Its maiden trip. Invented by George Stephenson, the "Father ol Locomotives,"it made its first run at ' Rings worth colliery In England. It had so many rods and cranks strap ped to its boiler that It had the ap pearance of a huge grasshopper. It weighed ubout six tons. A pair of "walking beams," resembling those of a modem side-wheel steamer, turned the four wheels. There being no cab, the engineer had to stand while the engine was in operation. It pulled eight loaded cars, which aggregated a weight of thirty.t. .s, a track that had a grade of one foot in an eighth of a mile. The test was a "grand" success, the engine running about six miles an hour. Tho first locomotive to draw a train of cars in the United States made Its experimental trip in the Lackawana coal district fifteen years later. This locomotivo was also the product of stephenson. It was called the Stouibrldge Ldon, after the placo of its manufacture in England. Its American engineer, Horatio Allen, ran the engine over., a track of hemlock rails for a preliminary test. Then he invited any gentleman in the gather ing of spectators to accompany him. HI8 invitation was not only refused, but he was urged to give up his fool hardy ambltioni Laughing at bis ad visers he pulled the U?rottle wide op en and "dashed:' away at ten miles an hour. campaign issues have , become cloud, ed and the people a little befuddled. Recent fusses, and talks of "assas sins" have had a lot to ao with it. Let'e settle down. now. After reading; the Newberry News and Herald, the'.associate editor of which Is the governor's secretary, no one could doubt for a moment that Dir: Mclntosh was shot down and shot down by a dastardly coward. It may be but a coincidence that' It happened just at that time, but we believe that the deed of the thug was not in spired by any man "higher up." It may be that somo man with a mania for notoriety, like Harry Thaw, thought he would appeal to the gov ernor by Hacking a man whom he thought was an enemy ;o the govern ro, bnt tho only ground for this sup position Is tho statement of tho thug as he Jumped tho fence. Wo believe that the man alono is responsible for the act 5 Be Destroyed? Some of our mills are in dlrec I competition with Japan. The Japan - ese are as efficient weavers as the: are fighters. mill owner can empio: three or four weavers or more it f Japan for the price of one in Soutl i Carolina?and the Japanese and tin . South Carolina mills are coiupetlnf In the Chinese market. i We have been studying the :extll< situation in South Carolina for nearl] ? twenty years and we have had oppor 1 tunity to study it. Until the panic o 1907, our opinion was that mill In vest ments were ratlutr better that > most others. It was not until three a years ago, when entire recovery fron the panic seemed as far away as ever that we begun to consider the ques tlon of the industry's existence. That existence has become precari ' OUE. There is no occasion for instant 1 alarm. We shall have cotton millt for ten or twenty years longer at anj rate. If ever they disappear, the die appearance will be gradual. Tin , salvation of at least eight or nine practically bankrupt mills. Time wll I come when, one by one, a mill will b< abandoned, unless there shall be t change for the better. Do we want a textile industry ir South Carolina? Do the 45,600 mili workers want to keep their employ ment or do they prcTer that the mllh 1 be deserted? Mark, there Is no im mediate danger of anything except demoralization of the industry, the - hurrying forward of bankruptcies ' and reorganisations of crippled mllh : and the taking away of . the last I chance of hundreds of present share : Millions on millions have been ,? losl ' in the industry in the last Ilvo .or sin years. If the losses continuo, comet ' the day when the last man, native oi outsider, has backed with a dollar an industry that popular leaders abuse, denounce and execrate, Do we want the textilo Industry tc survive in South Carolina? It doesn't matter about the owners?If the devil . gets them, who cares? Do we want . mill work for the mill workers? 11 . we do, then we had better he concern ed about a crippled and sick Indus , try. If the mills are worth saving, they require a nurse and a doctor, not a man with a bludgeon. They re quire the good will of every substan tial citizen. Of course there should be regula tion, of course there ar? many and ! serious abuses to be corrected by leg islation, but it Is the simple truth that tho paramount consideration is now and will be for some years , whether the industry itself shall Uve or die. The people can kill it and those who don't like the industry have chosen their time and place for at tack with admirable strategy and skill. The second in -Importance of the South Carolina cotton industries is having harder going now than the first, cotton raising, had when farm ers were Belling'their product for six cents a pound. At the hands of officials South Caro lina blind tigers and gambling hells are receiving -more considerate- treat ment than cotton mills are given. LOCOMOTIVE ^ D NOW Today over 65,000 locomotives arc lu motion over the 250,000 miles ol trackage in the Unitod States. They consume about 150,000,000 tons of coal and carry over a billion passengers and. 1.800,000,000 tons of freight an nually. After adopting the English born child of civilization, the United States took the lead in its development and application until today it stands as the world's greatest manufacturer of 'locomotives. Besides ' making enough to meet the domestic demand the American manufacturers are ship ping locomotivos abroad at the rate; of a dozen a week. They are thundering through the mountains of South Amer. Ica and over the plains and valleys .ot Africa, they are disturbing the calm of the Orient, and are dashing from one end of Europe to the other; they h?ve invaded the' land of the locomotive's birth, England, and are b: use upon Its principal railways. I .co the steam ship, the locomotive lb growing larger and more powerful every year. The largest reported to be In <uso today Is a huge compound engine 'Which measures 120 feet.over all and weighs 850,000 pounds. It la an oil'burner and carries 4,000 gallons of oil' and 12,000 gallons of water., it cost S43, 800 to build. These giants' hav? reach ed a point where one locomotive la so long that it is hinged in . the middle with a flexible Joint so that.lt .ca?.turn ? curve without upsetting. . Thij's the locomotive has become the niqdern "Atlas that carries the burden of the world's trade and population aerose the continents." ' - [I OOOOOOOOOO o o o o o o m * o VIS-A-VIS o o. o 6 O O O O O O ? o o o o o o Austria. Army?Peace strength, 390,000. To tal war Btirength, 3,000,000. . Navy?Battleships, 4; older battle ships and cruisers, 25; officers and men, 17,581. , Population?51,340,000. Area?261,000 square miles. Emperor?Frans Joseph, reigning since 1848, oldest sovereign in Europe, 85 years old. , - -.?'?. Austria composed thrce-?fth? and Hungary twe-fifths . of .the .'empire. ' Servit?. . ? Army?Peace strength, 32,000; war strength, 240.000. Navy?None. Populat?on^^??.OOO. Area?23.861 squaro miles. Montenegro, population, 500,000. ; King?Peter, reigning since 1903; 70 years old. * "Thinking makes the difference be tween the man and animal." Think of our daily ad vertisement. Don't miss one. These daily hints will save .you many dollars and acjd.to your comfort, your stymie and your suc cess. Today, a|h{etic under wear, the foundation for summer comfbr;t. $1 buys a compiete suit. Other grades, ^'5Oc to $1.50. Special wash ties1 in white and colors. 33c values at 20c, 3 for 50c. Order by Parcel Post. We prepay all charg?e. aTht Stara _&Lh_ajCaax!aica COLUMBIA BATTERIES Cost No "More I ... . . ?Last Longer We keep a FRESH STOCK ; hand at all times. :: :: Sullivan Hardware C?. Anderson, S. C. Belton, S, cl M SOUTHERN BAItWAT PBOBJ3D (Continued i*om Pagte One.) ?-J-!-?-i " ' minutes ot a conference \ of Southern Railroads held in 1909 ? to consider U _? I J. ..,?????? Ii IUI.? ~.ttm^.r.a . . owners ot "? . ? the I that iti ?years been only nominal stock. ? . ? :|2 "it does not appear hoy* much they Iowa/' "WeR, th|s report shoWa that they don't own one one-thousandth per cent ot the Southern etock In their own name, however, .I know , they do own a large-amount oft bonds." The witnesa declined Jto atate^ rauch of the bonds he bad heaW various directora held, haying that waa their private aftelt. As to the Ownership* ^ In a resp?ns? to a uuestlon wbetn* er 75 per cent Of the \ stock of the Southern waa not Jield, abroad .Pres ident Harrison aald that; Vaa ptobabtr true, as S3 per cent weal own?d^by the Bmrope?h exchange houfcea. Ve^ry lit tle of the stock, he ?hl. was held i? the South. xThen he any' spedai inducemen succeeded in getting ' to buy some, of the r Mr. Harrison waa. rectora did not. make A? 0 railroad can mft? ratte self in thin day." hej replied.. "But there ia no ili^ of rotes, do deny that topntatfon.One road may dlacusa with aitother what the rate? should be, buriato road is free to >Tork out detalle.'' Jr- _ .. ^ Mr Douglas produced the alleged coal rate adjustments." The witness ; could, not remember that he had/ at- t tended, the meeting hut declared tho Southern officials whose business it ;' was to adjust rates, would tell about ?? It? : '. ?. i|Not iMhe/ had as defective mbm ory as yours," said Mr. Douglas. . / ' Jt'was not my business to know.Vi about It," the witness retorted. .'# "Bo yon do not know .what takes l\ place at these conf?rence?, that Hake ? place right under your, . nos? ? and?\t which" y?n e?m?tlt?es^att?n^^ seltr! ? .i.:,-.-, ^::.?.-*.^,,-~-- <>- <M.Hrtr^' "I do not have sufficient knowledge . r to *tnake' any definite statement. ' Mr' ; ; Green, our rato man, can toll you', all about these things. I deny tho lmpu-., : tatiou that there ia fraud at thtescf v. meetini untl?Vi ?, he regretted had recently aatbern, banks ad's bonds. Iked ? the di id unmake.the v.'.T ? "were th?? ?r''15.V INSURANCEI RATES Increase of Fouir Shilliugs Per Cent on Specie Seat.on German Iduereirj" ' (By As social od Press.) London. July 28.?Ips?ranco opera tions at Lloyds yesterday against tho risks of war Included business cover ing specie shipments by Germ?n Huera from the United StateB at five shillings per cent. ? The normal rate is ? one drilling. .. S .