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THK SUMTER WATCHMAN, established April, is50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON. Established jone, 1366. Consolidated Ang. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1894. New Series-Vol. XIII. No. 29. Cht i&ttrinicm at? j?au?]jroit. Published Eisty Wodaesday, KT. C3r. Osteen9 SUMTER, S. C. TKBMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. ADVERTISEMENT: One Square first insertion............$1 00 Every subsequent insertion-. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests wHl be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. lilli BMf lil SUMTER, S. C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business Also bas A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. P. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. RHAJOC, President. Cashier*. TBE SIM0S0S NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTErC, S. C. Paid np Capital.?75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to the law governing Natiopal Banks, io excess of their stock ? . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January. April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, L. S. CABSOB, President. Aug 7._Cashier._ RICE HULLS, CORN MILLS, SAW MILLS. RICE PLANTERS abd RICE MILLERS can boy a single machine, that will clean, hull and polish rice ready for market for $850. Corn millers can buy. best FRENCH BURR MILL, in iron frame, fully guaranteed-ca? pacity ten bushels meal per bour for $115. Saw millers can buy best variable friction FEED MILL from $190 up to tbe largest size, also Gang Rip Saws, Edgers' Swing Saws, Planing Machines and all other Wood Working Machinery. Also Talbott's Engines and Boilers. Special discounts made to cash purchasers Can meet any competition, quality considered V. C. BADHAM, Apr 19-o ' COLUMBIA, S. C. INSURANCE. 1 INSURE TOUR LIFE -WITH THE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, THE LARGEST MONIED INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD. Take your Accident Policy in the EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY OF ENGLAND. Insure against Fire in THE CONTINENTAL OF NEW YORK. THE MERCHANTS, OF NEWARK, N. J. THE INSURANCE CO., OF NORTH AMERICA. THE QUEEN OF AMERICA. THE PHONIX ASSURANCE OF ENGLAND. THE NORWICH UNION OF ENGLAND. THE MECHANICS AND TRADERS ofN. O. AU First Class and represented by ALTAMONT MOSES. A. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED 1866. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL & LONDON ? GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. RHAME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to business in any part of tbe State Practice in U. S. Courts. Sept. 21-x. Tillman's Vain Dream. Where, oh Where, are the Dispensary Profits f COLUMBIA, February 9 -Before the dispensary law went toto effect there were all kinds of promises of how much money the system would bring into the conara of the State/ Shortly befor<; the ?aw went into operation So vern or Tillman, as ebairmao of the board of control, made a public state? ment in wbieh be said that "from the best information that he could obtain the annual sale of whiskey alone is about one and a half to two million gallons; that tbe regulation of the trade would cot the consumption down to a million gallons and that the minimum net profit would be $1 per gallon, and that the State cannot help making $500,000 the first year after paying $150,000 for the distribution of the liquor and $50,000 for the enforce? ment of the law. Ic is stated upon the very highest authority, by those who know, that not a cent has been paid by the dispensary into the general expense account of the State. Governor Tillman expected that the profits would be at least half a mil? lion, and so did a good many of his followers, whereas, as a matter of fact, all of the profit, so far as dollars and cents are concerned to the State, is vi? sionary. There may be considerable stock in the hands of the dispensers, bat no profit has yet been realized to? ward the reduction of taxes. The dispensary system weot into operation on the 1st of July last and it is consequently now fully seven months sioce the dispensary, bas had a chance to make revenue,-but not a cent as yet has been turned over to the State Treas? urer towards the payment of the gene? ral expenses of the Government as was expected and promised by the ardent advocates of the new law. Up to this time there bas been nothing but talk in the matter of the dispensary making any profit for tbe State. It would seem that in seven months some little money ought to go- to the State Treasurer to help him out. Although that depart? ment is getting along very well, it would appear, and is meeting all of its obligations, it bas 'been shown that it would have had a very thin reed to lean on jf it had depended upon revenue from the dispensary. With not a sou up to this time it is not very probable that the half million dollar mark will bc reached by the close of tbe year. What is the cause ? Blind tigers, the failure of the system or what?-Cor. News and Courier The Printers'sBill. Its Inward Object Exposed-An Ap? peal to the People to Rectify these Wrongs. To the Citizens of Fairfield : I promised to say a few more words abeut the printing bill before we pass to the consideration of other outrages which are being daily perpetrated upon common decency and our liberties, in a spirit of effrontery, unknown in South Carolina until the advent of Tillmanism. Let us suppose that the County Com? missioners of Fairfied had advertised as they did-for bids for the rebuilding of our bridges recently swept away by the freshet, and that when the bids are opened the commis? sioners should select the highest bid, assiguiog as the reason that the lowest bid was only handed in about twenty minutes *before the time of action which I am told is the reason assigned by our Senator for his vote, or that the reason for believiog that the lowest bidder was trying to crush out the other fellow by doing the work too cheaply this, I bear, isa reason given by a mem? ber for his vote. What would you think? what wouid you say of such a transac? tion? Is it honest and square? I hardly think you will say so. But the cases are not parallel, for the Legislature went much farther in the matter of printing. They not only ignored the lowest bidder, but disposed of the matter for two years, so no more bidding-no more com? petition-would be allowed, and elected a public printer after the fashion of the radicals-they are follwiog so closly-just as though the Couoty Commissioners had elected a public bridge builder at the highest price of all bidders,. Yes, brother taxpayers, not less than ten thousand dollars or our hard earn? ings have been diverted from its legiti? mate purposes of defraying the expenses of government, and bas gone "where the wood-bine twioetb," fraudulently, disreputable, dishonestly abstracted by the very men you had sent to look after your interests, pledged to retrenchment and reform, and smort ing from every stump io the State the slogan, "equal rights to all, special privileges to none." Ten thousand dollars annually, aod it may be more, or twenty thousand dollars in the two years of its official lite, squan? dered, aud on whom? not on Calvo, for hts representative the printing com? mittee stated that the Register was heavily mortgaged-said to be a about $50,000-bat to the holder of the mortgage, ooe Liodenmeyer, a North? ern millionaire, wheo it could be kept at borne, and worthy *young Carolioiaos who compose the Bryan Printing Com? pany aod other similar establishments get the benefits of the reasonable profit they bad a right to expect. Raoting about millionaires, and the ruinous effect of their accumulated capital io ooe breath, aod io the next moment stealing the people's substance to add to their acccumulations. Oh, the hypocracy of Tillmanism ! They claim to be the friends of the poor mao, and yet we find them going out of their way to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. But it was neccessary to keep the organ grinding ; some had tu be boomed for Congress, others for Uoired S?ates Senator, Governor, &c, &c, and take for granted that ac least ooe of the Fairfield delegation will run for Presi dent of the United States, from the flippant manoer in which he speaks of that "pliant tool of Wall street, Cleve? land." These political aspirants should pay for their own fiddling, oobody has any objection to this-but what right had they to thrust their bands in our pockets, like thieves wheo our heads were averted and rob us of our substance in these pecularly hard times? Oh, but Tillman said it was necessary for reform, and if he had said he wanted chicken broth instead, they would just as readily have robbed every hen roost in Columbia for his benefit. The one act is as honor? able aod as hooe-t as the other, and you can't deny it How long, oh. howlong, my country? men, do you intend to lie upon your backs and allow this miserable, trashy, God-forsaken accumulation of "drift wood" to lord it over your liberties and squander your hard earned substance ? Are you not convinced that Tillmanism and reform are as far removed from each other as are the poles ? Do you not see that there is nothing of in except pap and position for cranks and fools who never would have been seen or heard of, if brains aod worth were the requisites, as of old? How long, oh, how long, will you allow false pride of opinion to influence you, to warp your views and control your acts ? Many, very many have with surprise and regret witnessed the unexpected turn things have taken and are now ready to re? enlist under the grand old banner of peace, good will and true democracy, but do not desire to incur the odium of starting first, so great has been the tyranny exerted over them. Let m: ask you in the name of all that is patriotic to allow no such paltry con? siderations to control you longer. It is oot enough that communites are arrayed against each other in deadly hostility ? that your churches are in twain and the sacred ties of family union and personal friendship which bas existed for years torn asunder? in God's name let me ask to what farther, more diabolical end, is it intended that this condition of things shall contribute? Poverty and higher taxation are already gnawing at the vitals of the people. Gloom, despondency and dis? trust are in the hearts of all of us, and yet with an arrogauce pitiful and con? temptible and not the dictatiou of ooe mao, we threaten the property of those who might lend us monev to work an other crop with. But what matters this to our masters ? "Salaries are as high" and the "purchasing power of money as great'' as when the "ring" ruled. Even the huogry lean Cassius himself, has grown plethoric iu purse and puffy jawed, fed at the public crib instead of on the plantation at Ropers, and all the pub funes are preparing to "rotate" into higher offices and bigger salaries, but the poor farmer, God help him, still holds the bag and pays the fiddler with cotton at 6? cents per lb. Fel? low citizens, I say to you in conclusion, as I said to you in '76, and as earnestly as I said it then, the time has come, is now at hand, to get up, gird up your liotis, put oo the armor of real demo cracy. and go forth to battle for religion, morality, prosperity, civilization, aye, for common honesty itself. WHl you do it ? It is for you only to signify your willingness and all will be accomplished in the twinkling of an eye. For one I have not despaired of the Commonwealth, nor lost faith in the masses, and shall, probably, if the spirit moves me, and I ?od I am not loving you, give some reasons for the "faith that is in roe" at a future day. T. W. WOODWARD. There are so many excellent reasons why the Refawmers should bold a State contention in March aod so many no less strong reasons why they should hold one in July that we confess our inability to decide between them. But why should there be any conflict? Let them hold both !-State. The Columbia Register has indenti fied itself with the Reform Movement and is financially embarrassed, and if the Register serves the "Movement" then the Movement must pay the Regi? ster for its services. It would seem that the individual mern- | hers of the movement will not voiun- I tartly ceme to the assistance of this moribund organ, so tho legislature de termiDcd to come to its rescue by tax? ation.-Ilorry Herald. A Successful Man. Mr. Phil Armour, the great Chicago capitalist, has some ideas aud methods which are io accord with those of the late George W. Childs. The Chicago millionaire is the great? est trader io the world. He employs 12,000 persons, pays $7,000,000 yearly in wages, owns 4,000 cars and 800 horses. He is not only a philanthropist but an optimist, and, speaking of the op? portunities for our young men io the future, he says : Wealth, capital, can do nothing with? out brains to direct it. It will be as true in the future as it is in the present that brains make capital-capital does not make brains. The world does not stand still. Changes come quicker now than they eyer did, and they will come quicker and quicker. New ideas, new inventions, new methods of manu? facture, of transportation, new ways to do almost everything, will be found as the world grows older, aud the men who anticipate them, and who are ready for them, will find advantages as great as any their fathers or grand fathers have had. Mr. Armour believes in living in to? day, and not in yesterday. He frankly admits that he does not bold the same opinions that he held twenty years ago, and says that he is willing to change his views to suit the times. Talking about his habits and methods he says : A man must master his undertakiog, and not let it master him. He must have the power to decide quickly, even to decide instantly, on which side he is going to make his mistakes. As for application, no great thing is done without that. In my own case I have carried into business the working habits I learned as a boy on a New York farm. All my life I have been up with the sun. The habit is as easy at sixty-one as it was at sixteen % perhaps easier, because I am hardened to it. I have my breakfast, by half-past 5 or 6 o'clock; I walk down town to my office and am thera by 7 o'clock, and I know what is going on in the world without having to wait for others to_ come and tell me. At noon I have a simple lun? cheon of bread and milk, and after that, usually, a short nap, which freshens me again for the afteroooo's work. I am io bed again at 9 o'clock every night. This is the talk of a typical American business man. The men who have achieved the greatest success in our cities started io life as poor country boys. They made money because they had brains,integrity and industry. There will always be opportunities in this country for such men, and it is pessi? mistic and foolish to say that conditions have changed to such an extent as to bar out the youngsters who possess these qualities. Boys with the gifts and tal? ents of a Childs or an Armour will make their way in the future as they have in the past -Atlanta Constitu? tion. The Wilson Tariff Bill. The Views of a Mugwump Newspaper on the Free Admission of Raw Ma? terial. The tariff bill reproted by thc Com? mittee on Ways and Means is in one sense a moderate measure ; in another sense a radical measure Compared with the tariffs under which we lived and prospered for many years before the civil war, it leaves us still with a very high degree of protection. Com? pared with the tariffs of countries like France and Germany, in which there has been of late years so distinct a re? vival of protection, it is also a strongly protectionist measure. Compared with the completely nou-protective tariff of England, its duties are immoderately high. But compared with the McKin? ley tariff act, it is in one respect, at least, a radical measure. It drops the policy of indiscriminate protection. It rests on the principle that, after all, there are some things which the coun? try is capable of producing, but which it will nevetheles8 permit to be freely imported. So far as the great mass of manufactured commodities is concern? ed, the changes in duty are not in? cisive ; but the free admission of some important raw materials marks radical change in policy. Far and away the most important of these changes is that by which raw wool is to be admitted free of duty. For thirty years we have been impos? ing heavy duties on any and every quality of wool, and we have been promised by domestic wool-growers, or at bast by their spokesmen in politice, that they would be able to supply all the wool of every quality that the coun? try wanted. They have never done so ; io fact, conditions of soil and climate make it impossible that they should do sc. They furnish us with an abundant and sufficiently cheap supply of wools of medium quality, But they are not able to produce fine wools in any quan? tity, and they do not find it worth while to produce very coarse wool at all. Under these circumstances the bill wisely puts wool on the free list, and gives thc American people the benefit of the fine quality of Australian wool and of the extreme cheapness of the coarse woo) of Russia aud East India. I Tbe free admission of wool is the most important political change io the bill. For many years the duty on wool bas been made to do service in States like Ohio and Michigan as bringing to tbe'farmer bis share of the benefits of protection It required the courage of President Cleveland to face the situa? tion boldly, and to declare for free wool eveokthough Ohio was a doubtful State. This he did in his message, now passed into history, of December, 1887, when he took that uoflinchin gat titude n the tariff question which has brought his party to the position in which it now is. If there is any one part of their programme to which the Democrats are committed it is the free admission of wool ; and this part of the bill may be expected to reach the stage of enactment if any of it does. Once made the chaogc unquestionably will be found a beneficial one, The great mass of wool-growers will find them? selves injured to no appreciable de? gree: the manufacturers will have their material cheaper ; and the con? sumers will have better and cheaper clothes. Next in political importance to the free admission of wool is the free ad? mission of iron ore and the reduction of duty on pig iron. If anthing is raw material, iron ore certainly is, and if a beginning is to be made anywhere in the direction of cheapening materials, this is the most appropriate point that could be found The duty on pig iron is reduced to 22J per cent. ; the exist? ing duty is equivalent to between 60 and 70 per cent. The reduction is thus considerable. It must be remembered, however, that the pig iron duty has for maoy years been virtually prohib? tory, except for small lots of special qualities of iron ; and except along the Eastern sea-coast it is doubtful if any consideraby greater use of imported iron will ensue. Along the Eastern sea-board the change, if carried to the point of enactment, will make iron somewhat cheaper, and will aid all iron-using establishments-aod this means all manufactures of every sort. So far as the manufactures are con? cerned, most of the changes are from duties that were prohibitory to duties that will be somewhat less prohibitory. Such is the case with most silk goods, cotton goods, glassware and china ware. On woollens there is a more important change. They are admitted at the simple duty of 40 percent., which is to be reduced one per cent, each year for five years, until finally the duty on them reaches the definitive rate of b*5 per cent. This change is the counterpart of the free admission of wool, which entailed a complete re? moval of the present high and compli? cated duties on woollen goods, and the substitution of a simple aod compara? tively moderate ad valorem duty. In almost auy other country duties of 35 and 40 per cent., coupled with free raw material, woald be thought to give more than adequate protection. We are confident that they will be found to give all the protection that the woolen industry of the United States now needs, and they will cheapen goods to the mass of the consumers without seriously endangering the prosperity of the manufacturers. On the whole, the bill is carefully and conscientiously drafted. It- faces the situation boldly, applies the knife sharply to some excrescences of a pro? tective growth, and redeems in a sub? stantial way the promises under which the Democratic party came into power. Yet it makes no such radical or far reaching changes as will disturb the great mass of the manufacturing in- ? dustries. The country can easily ac- j commodate itself to such changes, and within a few months after its enact? ment, few will advocate a return to the existing order of things.-Harper's Weekly - mm * t - Farra Mortgages in the Unit? ed States. The United States census for 1890 embraces a report on the amount of mortgage indebtedness upen the farms in every State in the Union. A careful study of this report furnishes some very interesting lessons. In the first place, We find that the mortgaged farms constitute but one-fourth of the total number of farms in the United States, the other three-fourths beiog owned free of iocumbrance. The average mortgage represents one-third of the value of the farm upon which it is given ; but the total amount of farm mortgages represents but one-fourth the total value of all our farms. Out of every hundred farms, seventy-two are fully paid for aod Highest of all in Leavening Pow ABSOLU! unincumbered, aod twenty-eight are mortgaged. Four-fifths of the amount of debt on farms aod homes was incurred to buy and improve the property. Probably oo other iodustry io America carries anythiog like so small a proportion of indebtedness, aod it shows a gratifying condition of our agricultural interests. Ic shows that there is oo danger of our magnificent domain beiog "gobbled up" by the much dreaded capitalists aod our farmers reduced to a condition of serfdom, as our politiciaos so glibly proclaim from the political stump wheo they are wanting an office.. The average amount of interest carried by these mortgages is 7 per cent. Io South Carolina, 8 per cent, only of the farms are mortgaged. One-third of this 8 per ceot. of farms was mortgaged for purchase money of the farms, leaving only about 5 per cent, mort? gaged for other purposes. So we see that ninety-two farms' out of every hundred io South Carolina are free of incombraoce. The census bureau states that the investigations have been carried out. with the greatest fidelity and care, and that the statements can be relied upon as correct. It demonstrates two things very clearly. First, that the facts about farm mortgages have been grossly exaggerated . and distorted; and second, that the farming interest is the most prosperous, because freest from debt, of any other, and that there is no other pursuit so safe and so profitable io the long run as that of farming wheo properly done.-Yorkville En? quirer. Hard, Cold Pacts. Bas anybody noticed how invaria? bly Governor Tillman has tricked, deceived any spurned everybody who has tried to wio bas favor by conces? sion or compromise ? Here are the good people who thought they would perhaps, wio a little refawm good will aod secure for the cities some drippings from dispensary profits by signing petitioos for dispensaries. They must enjoy the developments of the law, especially when the Governor says : "Make your police dispen? sary police, let them be spies aod de? tectives paid by you to eoforce my law or I will con?scate your share of the dispensary profits/' Now let us observe results. We will see that where communities are submissive pretexts will be made and their small shares of the dispensary profits will be seized anyhow. In Greenville, for tosraoce, the profits for the first year pro-nise to be $3.500. An election is coming on. That $3, 500 can be seized an.i used to pay tour Tillman heelers and three-quarters of a Tillman heeler at the rate of ?2 a day for year. Will such an opportun? ity be neglected ? Not much. There is a regular bonanza ahead-a perma? nent campaign fund with an army of workers supported by the people. The refawm cause is going into the next campaign in fine shape. It has an organ supported by the people. It will have about 1,000 active office holders-one to every fifty "refawm" voters-beiog paid by the people. With this equipment it ought to be invincible. Certainly no. other party or faction, including the radicals, ever collected from the people as much money as is now being exacted under refawm law and administration or af? flicted the people with as many office holders as we new have in the name of "refawm." This is not "abuse," it is not "ven? om." That is what refawm organs call it, but it is really cold, hard fact, -Greenville News. Before Tennessee had seceded, Peter Turney, its present governor, had organized a brigade and gone to the front. O?ce, while in winter quarters with a Georgia brigade, a religious revival broke out among the soldiers. After a few days Turney asked how things were progressing, and was in? formed that twelve Georgians bad been converted. "And how many Tenoes seeaos ?" inquired the governor. "Not a one," was the reply, "What, twelve Georgias and not a Tennes seean ? Never shall it be said, if I am able to prevent it, that Georgia has ex? celled Tennessee, l>etail eight eeen men immediately for baptism." 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