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* THE STJMTKR WATCHMAN, Est CONSOLIDATED AUG, 2, RESUMED AT NEWBERRY Crowd of Twelve Hun dred Hear Office Seekers?Blease Criticises Manning * and Cooper Admin istrations ????? Xewberry, Aug, 14.?With ap proximately 1,200 persons in at tendance, candidates, for state of fices today invaded'the populous Piedmont section and were given the closest attention throughout. I The race for governor and super intendent of education seemed to ? attract the keenest interest, cho partially at least to the presence among the candidates of one native son, Cole L. Blease, for governor, and another, J.' J. Hope, for su 4 perintendent of . education, wno might be termed a native son in asmuch as he is a former reside*u of this county. * AU candidates for the various; offices were given mere or less ap plause but several for state su perintendent of education, includ-! ing the two women candidates, I : Mrs. E. B. Wallace and Mrs. Pes- i sie Rogers Drake; probably shared with former Governor Blease the; greatest amount of applause. Geo. j W. Wightman, candidate for com-! ^ missioner of agriculture, was also! a decided favorite with the aud- ] ienee, judging by the amount of j applause during his address. Tfte meeting- began in the opera ' house, but was ajourned to' the j * court house lawn because of the constantly increasing crowds. J. ?? "Wheeler; of Xewberry, presid- ] ed. Baskers of flowers were pre- j * sented to Mr. .Blease and to J. ?. Swearingen, superintendent of ed-! i ucation. , j As* Thos. G. McLeod, candidate j for governor concluded his ad- j i dress, he was handed a bunch of i cotton stalks which were tied to- j gether with heavy black crepe, j "Take this." he was told by the j young man presenting the odd j bouquet, and quickly came the re ply from Mr. McLeod^as^he re - tunied the cotton stail^;^aie only similarity between myself and the, boll weevil is that we take every-i thin# in sight as you will see on August 29. Take this to" put about the white lightning that you have in you," he said on returning the stalks. The young man was said to be a resident of some other county, and leading officials of Xewberry county appeared to deplore the Incident which, however, did not attract any great amount of at tention. When the candidates ad journed to the court house lawn a ?ne-horse wagon was -put into use and it was from this that the candidates spoke. The young man was standing at the head of the wagon when Mr. McLeod was speaking and promptly handed him the bunch of cotton stalks which almost as promptly' fwere return ed. , John T. Duncan, the first candi date for governor, said he was in favor of * developing thev water power of the state. He declared that thousands of dollars had been made last year by outside inter eats through the development of i South Carolina water power. "Touj may say that Duncan is a runner, but you can't say that he is a quit- ! ter," he concluded, amid applause.? George K. Laney told of his rec- i ord of twenty years in the legis-; lature, where he has endeavored to ] serve the people at all times as I he saw best- . He said Sie has I fought for good schools, with the j aim .of placing^an education with- ! in the reach of every white boy j and girl in the state. Referring to the cry of "economy," he asked if j air; person present opposed the ap- \ prcpriations that had been made j for good schools and also for Con- j federate veterans. Thomas G. McLeod said he was I a farmer and has every dollar in- j vested in farming. He said he favors a luxury tax. which he de- j clares to be nothing but fair when j a large part of the state is in de:s- i perate financial straits. Referring | to the back-wash of the recent , world war, he said that no gam- j biers, "bootleggers" and the like j would ever stop the tide of crime ] resulting after the war, and that nothing but the best class of citi- | zenship could end it. Cole L. Blease said that in 1910 j Xewberry furnished its first gov- \ ernor for the state of South Caro- j lina. He declared that he did ev erything as he saw to the best in terests of the state and that Xew berry county will again furnish ! one of its sons to aid the state. He declared that taxes have been rais-. ed from slightly more than $1,000,- ? 000, when he became governor, to about $6,000,000, saying that the state was now bankrupt. He de clared that the administrations r.f Manning and Cooper were the most extravagant since those of Cham berlain and Moses. Taxes were only reduced because or election year, it was said, and will be higher again next ycra. As to the charge that crime was greater in his ad ministration than at any other time he said that only last week seven men were killed in South Carolina, adding that of all these prisoners ablished April. 1850. 1881,_ BROTHERHOODS i CONTINUE MEDIATION - Striking Shopmen Place Their Case in Hands of the Big Four Brotherhoods "Washington, Aug. 14 (By the As sociated Press).?Heads of rail road labor* organizations not on strike got their attempts to me diate the strikes of shopmen and ? other crafts in transportation ser I vice back before President Hard ing today, and after a two and j one-half hour White House con I ference declared they intended to j reapproach railroad executives. J L. E. Sheppard. president of the Order of Railway Conductors and spokesman for the entire group, declared on leaving the White House the striking unions would leave "their case in the hands" of himself and his associates, while as to the sporadic walkouts of brotherhood members in various parts of the country, he said, "the President doesn't intend^ to make iany issue-J?gainsi men who leave unsafe engines." Mr. Sheppard, like other union officials, refrained from specifical ly indicating,what basis was being considered for further compromise attempts. The meeting with the president was arranged by Secre tary of Labor Davis after all the union chiefs, including those on strike, had been in one of their general executive sessions to con sider policy. "It has been . much the same story. We have' been discussing the whole situation from top to i bottom, ?nd now we are going to ! look for somebody to give us help in our mediation attempts," Mr. Sheppard declared. "That means some railroad executives not so tenacious of; their points as those we have seen. We shall talk over the matter of who might help with all the uniop. officials tomorrow. "We have found the president determined to give the workers J the same consideration as the em ployers. We do not Understand that he is going to" make further advances to the executives. "The situation ?s to local walk outs of other crafts is clear. It's all newspaper talk that the people have been 'marooned" in the des erts. Our men have taken every train into the terminals, and the passengers have been left at places "where railroad men live. "All our discussion relates to the fundamental rights of men who are on strike. The railroad labor board takes the position they are not entitled to consideration. Lots of lawyers hold with, us that their rights are only suspended. We've made a basketful of propositions. I can't tell' you all of them." Reverting to the policy of his own union, Mr. Sheppard said that "officers of our order .are on their way to get men back at any points where walkouts are not justified." "Our orders are that men are to stay at work, unless ther lives are endangered," he added, "and to make an honest effort to maintain transportation service, with equip ment that is safe." An announcement of a similar nature was made by W. G. Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, during the day in Cleveland. Representatives of the railroad I managements apparently were not I involved in the continued union j mediation* efforts and Fairfax Har j rison, president of the Southern railroad, issued a statement from the road's general headquarters that his company would now at tempt to break the strike by em j ploying new men. Acting apart j from all other railroads, the South ern, he said, had hitherto tried to "so operate our property that our men could honorably return to work," but had been unable to ef fect a compromise. "We must now turn to employ ing others, for the road must run,*' ' Mr. Harrison concluded. "If it (means war to run the Southern [ Railway, then let us have it now?. I not later." ? ? o .-. 1 A chorus girl would make a for ! tune if she were a centipede. Winter styles follow Grecian lines: but with a coal strike Eski mo lines would be the best. paroled of pardoned by him only two had "come back." J. J. Cantey said if there was a better platform than his offered ! by any candidate in the race he was yet to see it. The day has pressed when a bunch of politicians in Columbia can write a ticket and dictate it to the voters of the state. Tie urged the voters not to stam pede at this time but to keep a clear vision. William Coleman. former resi dent of this county, told of spending eighteen years in Whitmire. H-? paid he had brought into the coun ty of New berry more definite; tangible property than any other person. He believed in coopera tive marketing among other things, declaring that the residents of the state must put their heads together educationally, financially and in dustrially to bring about the wel fare of the state. ?'Be Just and Fear SOUTHERN I TAKES UP THE ! STRIKE FIGHT -_ ' j Rejection by Strikers of Offer .of Railway j to Take Them Back Without Condition Results in Decision to Employ New Men Washington, Aug. 14. ? The ? Southern railway, which to date j has made no efforts to combat the j shopmen's strike, announced today j through its president. Fairfax^ Har i rison, that it would employ any j help available to keep trains in operation. Mr. Harrison in a formal state ! ment said that the Southern had made every effort to settle with its j men even "to the extent of offering i the terms that they had previously j agreed to accept" and without re ' suit, and that "if it means war to j run the Southern railway then let I us have it now?not later." ! Officials of the company, supplc j mented Mr. Harrison's statement j only to the extent of pointing out j that conferences between the rail I road management and the strikers iwere held last week without result !ahd that the only course left open j to the company was to employ such j workers as could be obtained. The action of the Southern was ( generally regarded as significant in j that it had heretofore made no ef j fort to fill the places of the shop ; men who went on strike and in that ? it not being a member of the As sociation of Railway Executives had j not participated in the two ineet j ings held by that organization in New York to consider strike set tlement proposals put forward bv President Harding. VThe statement issued by Mr. Har rison said: } "Every effort has been made so jto operate our property that our men could honorably return to ] work. Every effort has been made j to settle with our men, we have i gone to the extent of offering the j terms' that they had previously I agreed to accept. We have thus ! held ? out every reasonable in 1 ducement for them to- return, i We must now turn to employing j others, for the road must be run: i we must give those we employ pro j tection, for it may be that those ! we have up to this time protect i ed by keeping their jobs open may j now turn against us even to an at j tempt to prevent others from I working. ! "Call is now being made upon iever}' employee, upon every patron j of this company and upon every j citizen along its lines to rally to i the support of the road that has ! served you and protected your own j interest in the maintenance of j transportation. With your help we i can run the road and we pledge I all the resources of the company jto that end. If it means war to run the Southern railway then let us have it now?not later." j Spartanburg, Aug. 14. ? The jSpartanburg branch of the federat ed shop crafts unions of the South ern railway, through its executive J committee, today issued a state ment giving the Reasons for their j refusal to accede to the terms of j settlement offered by that railway jin Washington on July 8. They [stated, "we were bound by every j rule of ethics not to do so. "When an honorable man enters j into an agreement, verbally or oth j erwise. he carries out at any cost j every obligation binding him there ! to. The members of the shop : crafts of the Southern railway are ! honorable men and as their agree j ment is nationwide in import, we ! could not accept the terms of a J separate settlement, regardless of ? our personal feelings towards the management of the Southern rail | way, without stultifying ourselves, i which we will never do." j Knoxville. Tenn., Aug. 14.?Steps j will be taken immediately to re j open the Coster shops of the South ; ern railway here. O. B. Keister, J general superintendent of the lines ? east, announced to'night on receipt j of a communication from President i Fairfax Harrison. m m -m-_ j Germany Pleads Bankruptcy [Note Sent to Allied Govern I Rients Alleging Inability to i Pav Pre-War Debts Berlin. Aug. 15 (By the Asso ciated Press)).?The German gov ernment Today addressed a note to the British, French, Italian and Belgian governments declaring that ] in consequence of the demand for j foreign currency to pay for urgent ; ly needed nc-eessaries of life, and in j consequence of the fall in the va'l ! ue of the mark, it could not meet I the clearing house installment of 1 2.000.000 pounds due today in i payment of pre-war debts, to al ! lied nationals. Petersburg, Va., Aug. 17.?Halt ing an enclosed truck last night at ; Xottoway river a federal prohibition j agent looking -for liquor, captured j eighteen Chinamen, apparently be I ing smuggled from Florida to New York. Not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't Sumter, S. C.?$*t iMSH?RlW" DEVELOPED i BACKBONE? _ ? ? ! White House Advisers Declare That H e j Has Virtually De cided to Order Op eration of Trains Under Government Protection Washington. Aug. 15.?President Harding, having abandoned all ef | forts at mediation in the rail I strike, was declared today by 'his i advisers to have virtually decided to I inform the railroad executives that I in the operation of trains they wiH j be given the^-full protection and-aid ! of the government. President 'Harding, it .was stated, has de termined that the only course the i government now could pursue was I the path followed in coal strike? (the extension of an invitation to ; the employers to operate their ! prope rty and the federal govern I ment, with the cooperation of the j states would stand .behind them in ; their efforts so far as they were directed to serving the public. ! Consideration is being given by ! the president, it was asserted, to j going before congress within a* few ; days with a comprehensive sfate : ment of the whole rail situation, including the rebuffs that- have met the government's attempts at i effecting^ settlement. ? ? ? ? ! poincare is i opposed tq m moratorium London, Aug. 14 (By the Asso ciated Press).?The 13th allied conference on German reparations broke down today, "agreeing to'dis agree," as the spokesmen for'both [ France and Great Britain tfut^it, there having been a complete lack ; of unanimity on the important points discussed. . From its commencement the conference seemed predestined' to j failure, according to the views ex pressed by close observers of the j situation.and these observers to I night are of the opinion that the ' failure indicates utter incompatibil : ity between the policie of Great ? Britain and France to Germany. I To what extent the recent note ' of Earl Balfour contributed to to i day's results is partly evidenced by : the line of the 11th hour attempts J by Signor Schanzer, the leading j Italian delegate, at mediation with Premier Lloyd George at Chequers j Court Sunday, when the Italian foreign minister proposed that dis i cussion of a moratorium for Ger j many should be adjourned until the j various countries had carried out I their debt funding negotiations with the United States. Mr. Lloyd George submitted this proposition to the conference to day but, although it was supported : by the . other delegates, it was op | posed by Premier Poincare and j thereupon Mr. Lloyd George declar | ed he was unable to agree to an j adjournment of the conference j without a moratorium. The situation now appears that J the conference has separated with i out any ideai of a new conference. The British government insists up on a moratorium as an imperative precedent to any further negotia tions. On the ohter hand, M. ! Poincare resolutely refuses a mora J torium, unless it is accompanied j by what he calls "guarantees.'' j The English critics of the sritua I tion as between England and i France saw no other outcome from the first. They held that M. Poin care feared his parliament and ap prehended a fall like that of form er^ Premier Briand if he yielded to British persuasion. The previous j allied conferences concerning Ger Imany generally have ended with j some show of a surface agree j ment between the policies of Great j Britain and France. This was al j most the first occasion on whicn j the delegates "agreed to differ." I The situation is considered all j the more serious, viewing the con tinuous fall in the mark and the [fact that nothing whatever has j been decided upon beyond a tern-, j porary suspension of the repa ? rations payment due by Germans {tomorrow. The whole question j again is thrown into the hands of ; the reparations commission and to i night neither from the French nor I British delegations could anything i be gleaned concerning the next ] step to be taken. Both sides are I awaiting further discussions in j their respective cabinets. ; Paris. Aug. 14 (By the Associac ; ed Press).? Premier Poincare has called a meeting of the Frenen i cabinet for Wednseday to consider [the international situation, it was announced today. The premier will ( renew his instructions to M. Loins I Dubois-, president of the repara ' tions commission, to oppose the proposed moratorium for Germany, it also was learned. New V<?rk. Aua. 17.?Samaieo Correio took off from the waters of Jamaica bay at 7.20 this morn ing for Charleston, the first stop in a 8,500 mile flight from New York to Rio de Janeiro. at be thy Country's, Thy God's and irday, August 19, 1922 THE STATE i HIGHWAY 1 I Monthly Meeting Held Tuesda y?Large Number of Delega tions Appear. Road Location in Saluda Decided i , ? I Columbia, Aug. 16.?Numerous ' delegations appeared before the j state highway commission at its I monthly session here yesterday, in ; nearly every instance aid being 'sought for road work or a change ; in some plan being desired. The ; commission was in session from early morning until 5 o'clock in I the afternoon. i The commission allotted $15,00.0 i federal aid to Chester county for j the road from Richburg to the riy ' er. A delegation appeared to ask {for this aid as well as $10,000 to {complete the road to Lockhart. A I delegation from Chester and Lan I caster appeared before the com j mission to ask the commission for' i federal aid on a bridge across the j jCatawba river. This bridge is es timated "to cost between $150,000 land $170,000, but no federal aid ? funds are available now. Among ] those appearing in interest of this request were Senator David Ham j ilton of Chester, J. Lyles Glenn, ! Jr., John T. Stevens, T. Y. Williams i j and H. H. Kester. J. S. Stark, chairman of the Ab j beville commission, and H. B. Humbert, county engineer, asked aid for a road to run from Ware Shoals via Hodges and Donalds to the Anderson county line near Honea Path. This road is to be ; built partly to give work to hail ? storm, sufferers. The commission pointed out that it was unable to allot federal aid to the project, but thaj it would furnish all equip ment necessary free of charge in an effort to assist. Mr. Stark and Mr. Humbert also called to tho attention of the commission the j need of bridges in Abbeville coun ty on theCalhoun highway estimat-! > ed to eost around 30,000. v j . vBatesburg? Leesville and Lexing : ton county in general were well | i represented in an effort to reach a j decision on the location of the Co-| j lumbia-Augusta road through Sa-J iluda county. Two delegations were j j heard at different times, one favor- j I ing the location on the northern ! ! side of the railroad track and the \ ! other favoring the old roadbed I ] south of the railroad track. After j 'alk'sides had been heard the com- j j mission approved the old roadbed ! route south of the railroad track land allotted $2.000 additional fed j eral aid to Saluda county if so i much be necessary to assist in i building an underpass at Hibernia, j this being part of the plan for the old route. The delegation favoring i the old route was composed of 22 ? citizens, led by Dr. E- C. Rigdell. iC. E. Jones and Senator D. M. j Crosson. This delegation presented a petition signed by 100 citizens, a letter from Senator Wightman and other papers favoring their ; selection. They presented a stron:r : case. All the Saluda officials will : support the old roadbed route, it \ was declared. The other delegation jcame to ascertain what was holding ! up the work on the route north of jthe railroad track as surveyed i sometime ago. ' Heading this dele I gation were Dr. W. P. Timmer ! man. Isaac Edwards, Col. E. L. lAsbill and Frank Hendrix. j Representatives J. W. Moon and I John G. Geer of Greenville headed ! a delegation from that county to ?straighten out certain matters rela | tive to a $75.000 bond issue pass ? ed by the county to be used on three roads, the Dunham's bridge ? road, the Brevard or Jones Gap ' road and the Kay's bridge road. ! This delegation reported that an 'act had been passed this year pro viding for the expenditure of the ! $75.000 on the three roads and the ! men could not understand why the $75.000 federal aid appropriated J J recently by the highway commls jsion had been allotted to the 'Jones Gap road alone. After the j commission had heard from the ; Greenville men a resolution was passed authorizing Engineer Moore ] field to confer with the county of Lficials and to see that the money j was spent in a manner agreeable i to the county authorities. V J. H. McLaurin. chairman of the I Dillon county highway commission. ; and R. S. Rogers, unopposed can j didate for the state senate from jthat county, asked for $20.000 fed eral aid out of the 1023 appropria ! tion for the road from Dillon to the : North Carolina line near Lumber ! ton and to complete the gravel j highway from Dillon to the Marl boro county line. They also re I quested the commission to place i the road from Dillon to two miles ; beyond Lakeview in the state sys tem as well as the federal aid sys tem. This latter request was re ferred to Engineer Moorefield and j Frank Manning. Jr.. commission-' er. to investigate and act upon. J. E. Adgerton of the Chester field county commission appeared to ask that his county be placed on the same basis a.* Lancaster in the plan to erect a bridge at Cook's mill over the Catawba. Mr. Adger ton said Chesterfield wanted fed eral aid for a road leading up to t Truth's." CONSUMPTION EXCEEDSCOHON PRODUCTION World's Mills Used 1,717,000 More Bales of Cotton Than Was Produced in 1921 Washington, * August 16?The world's production of commercial cotton, exclusive of linters, grown in 1921, was approximately 15, 197,000 bales of 478 pounds lint, while the consumption exclusive of linters in the United States was approximately 16,914,000 the census bureau announced. The consump tion during July was 304,936 bales, compared with 336,387 in June and 244,843 in July of last year. American consumption of cotton for the year was 5,911,914 bales, exclusive of linters of which there were over a million bales more than consumed in the cotton year of 1921. Farmer May Get Special Discount Federal Reserve Board Con sidering Proposal for Low Discount Rate on Agricul tural Paper .Washington. Aug. 15.?Estab lishment of a special rediscount rate of 3 1-2 per cent on agricul tural paper is under consideration by the federal reserve board, offi cials said today. The proposal has been laid before the federal re serve banks, it was explained, and action by the board Is being with held pending their replies, al though, officials indicated, the sug gestion was not meeting with favor generally. As suggested, officials explained, the special farm rate would enable banks which made loans for agri cultural purposes?upon the se curity of farm products?to re discount at 3 1-2 per cent, which is one-half per cent below the low est reserve rate now in effect, if the rate charged by the banks to the j original - b^^owerr,<&cfc "not- exceed .6 per cent.. A special farm products rate, officials recalled, was ' in ef fect in 1915, but was discontinued. Paris, August 17.?Premier Poin caire has ordered the French Debt Commission, headed by Jean V. Parmentier, to return to Paris from Washington Immediately, it was learned today, to report the results of the conversation with American officials regarding the liquidation of the French debt in the United States. _ * ? ?! the bridge if Lancaster received! such aid. The commission inform- j ed Mr. Adgerton that as soon as | the two counties were prepared to j match federal aid it would be ap- 1 propriated when funds were avail able; Senator L. A.' Hutson of Orange- j burg and Senator A. M- Kennedy of I Barnwell came before the commis-! sion in an effort to arrange fori federal aid to match the two coun-j ties in building a bridge over the South Edisto river' on the road leading from Springfield to Wil liston and on to Augusta. The bridge would cost around 26,000. i it was estimated. ^Co funds are; available and no action was taken, j Dr. A. R. Johnston of St. George! was present, being interested in the matter. P. E. Dukes of Branchville j also appeared in interest of speed- ] ing up the county in getting started on the road from Branchville to ! Dorange. The county has prorn- j ised to build this road without state aid. this being done to get a trans- j fer of federal aid to the bridge [ over the Edisto at the city limits I of Orangeburg. The commission ] was unable to do anything for Mr. D?kes as the county has assured it i that the road will be built by next I year. The commission allotted $10,000: federal aid to Marlboro county for the construction of a gravel road j from Bennettsvilfe to the Dillon 1 county line. It also appropriated $2,000 aid to Horry county for a j road from Socastee to MurreiFs j Inlet, this to be paid as soon as! available out of the special fund ; for aid to county roads and! bridges from the 20 per cent, of the motor vehicle license fund. A resolution was passed asking j the state health officer to investi- j gate working conditions in the San- ! tee river swamp with a view to j protecting men working on the j Santee bridge from malaria. Charles Hi Moorefield, the state I highway engineer, was asked to, call upon all maintenance forces | to cooperate with county officials, j the American Legion and any and : all other organizations in planting, trees to beautify any memorial or other road in the state. The commission agreed to allow j Spartanburg county $8.000 out of j the 1922 motor vehicle license ac- j fiuals for county road purposes. A request from Clarendon coun- j ty that the road from Manning to Florence by way of Turbeville and Olanta be added to the state sys-' tern was referred to Engineer, Moorefield for investigation. i All members of the commission ' were present at the meeting. I THE TRUE SOU INIQUITOUS i WOOL TARIFF i TAX ON POOR i - j Republican Contribu tion to Wool Grow ers and Manufac | turers $310,000,000 a Year i ? ? i i Washington, Aug. 14.?For.sev i eral years the average American family has been fighting and seek ing to evade the encroachments of the high cost of living, has been I economizing and pursuing the elu j sive bargain sale, mending, clean ; ing. patching and hoping for bet ter days, when a dollar might be j expected to buy a dollar's worth of j food or clothing. Some material ? decreases have aroused a hope I which the pending tariff bill is des tinued to utterly destroy. The cost of living, which has been some : what reduced, is about to take a I turn upward. In the things we eat ! this will hardly be noticed, for the j producer of things which grow out ! of the ground will get no more for j his products by reason of the tariff, j but in all of the manufactured ar ticles the increases will be consid erable. For every group and class I of manufacturers there will be a I tax on one class?the consumers. J These unfortunates, in their capac j ity as consumers, will receive no j benefits themselves but will have ? to contribute to the increased in | come of every man benefited by : this special class legislation. The new high tariff rates, always de structive in their past history, will again impoverish the * buyers and : thus take the market away from ! the sellers, who will consequently I be unable to buy from manufac ?turers their wares for which there j has come a diminished market,, land when these things befall,'less. J labor is required in the factories, i hence general unemployment, hard j times and all of _ the miseries at j tendant thereon. - j One of the worst iniquities of the j Smoot bill is the wool tariff, laid ? upon the backs or more than one \ hundred millions of users of wool (for the. benefit of less than half a J million growers of wool. Under. I the present (Underwood) tariff law j there is no import tax on raw I wool. We use 220,000.000 pounds I of this product per year, and tariff j or no tariff, in the past we have ? not, on average, produced in this j country more than about half of ; the amount we user Hence, the j new tariff rate of 33 cents per j pound on the scoured wool means ; that this will be added to each I pound of the 120,000,000 pounds j imported and will go into the j treasury, but it will also be added to the home product and go into I the pockets of the American wooV j growers, some of the wealthiest ef j whoih are occupying seats in the j senate and have just succeeded in j killing Senator Caraway's resolu j tion to investigate their pocket i book interest in the legislation i they are fastening on the people. ; It would %not be so serious a bur I den if the increase in the cost of ! articles made of wool should end I with the tax of. 33 cents per pound, but the truth is that it only I begins there. After the wool is scoured it becomes subject to a sliding scale of increased tariffs, each intended to fatten the manu facturer who puts it through the next process, so that the carder, yarn manufacturer, cloth weaver and clothing maker will get their slice out of the diminshed dollar of the public. The tariff protection of . the clothing manufacturer alone is fifty cents, so that by the time the suit of clothes gets to the deal i er it is calculated by - Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, who is in ?harge of the wool schedule for the Democrats, that about five dollars will be added to the cost of a suit. Of course the dealer bases his selling price on the cost to him, which involves another raise; de pending on what percentage he adds for overhead and profit. On .a heavy overcoat the increase will be considerably greater. On a woman's suit or coat it will be al most as great. The wool tariff which will add j about forty millions to the pockets! of the wool growers will take from the pockets of the wool users, in tax and profits to manufacturers in addition to the tax that goes into the treasury, about $310.000.000 per year. This is enough to stagger the man who is lying awake nights trying to figure out a way to make ends meet. It is well to re member that this new tax is laid under the excuse of increasing the prosperity of a class of men al-. ready prosperous, the big wool growers of a few western states. Incidentally and through the c ourage of Senator Caraway in ex posing the personal interests of half a dozen western Republican senators, it develops that the po litical control of these states, the senate seats which they hold and hence control'of the senate itself, are all involved in this new iniquity, a 33-eents duty on wool. How the consuming public will, view this new tariff bill, every schedule of which contains as great scandals as that involved in the wool tax, will hardly have time VOL. LHI. NO. 2 ? ' ? IFARMERS SIGN fjNTRACTS Enthusiastic Mass Meeting Held at Wilson in Interest of Cooperative Mar keting Association Wilson, Aug. 15.?Hundreds, of farmers who had followed the pol icy of wait and see In the hope of unusually high prices on the open ing sales of the warehouse. floors in Wilson were doomed., to disr appointment today. In spite of a tendency to raise the prices on the' lowest grades there was evident disappointment that the: better grades did not bring higher prices, in very few instances reaching 50 cents. More marketing contracts were signed in the town of j Wilson today than in the history of the Tobacco Grow ers' Cooperative Association. Fol lowing the insistent demand of the growers, a mass meeting of farm ers was called in the court house* , and the court room was filled .to overflowing with every seat, aisle and window sin occupied by tobac? co growers who listened' intently and broke into shouts of applause at the messages of R. M. Work*; and Mr. Blanks, the Kentuckians, who were' hastily summoned.- from Iother points to make their last ap peal today to the farmers of East? era Carolina, gathered at Wilson, Never in the entire campaign of the big cooperative have tobacco~ growers ^hown such enthusiasm forN cooperative marketing as that expressed in the cheers of.. growers, which echoed from the court.-house windows in the streets of Wilson. The loyal members of the Association crowded so fast into the* court >: room that many noa^ signers* Were unable to gain en trance,- and when' a show of hands were called'for, 90 per cent of . those preaeni were seen to ,be members of the marketing associ ation! More than half of those who failed to raise the^r. hands ?s' numbers joined, the association on this last day;?of the campaign. *k<M?M<&^. JCentucky mem ber oTJKe BSrJey" pool, said "in 1920 we chntifcued to give our to bacco awa>* & the tune of 10 cents a pouni-Sfrii^.it'cost us 26* cents to make It: baf today, we havered dried our green tobaccos, kept a good per cent of our best tobacco and sold , ? targe lot of the com mon gr^en tobaccos which wonld have gone" for 3 and 4 cents at auc tion, for ,2$ cents and millions -of pounds more for 18 cents. That Is cooperative marketing." John Blanks, another Kentucky grower and member of the Burley pool said, "the tobacco companies are our frWlids. and customers. The. reason theyYhave taken our tobac co for tow prices is that we have dumped it ,&own and begged them to pay us what they could instead of merchandising it like business* men as the' cooperative associa tions have 'how begun to *do/? A glowing report of the opera tion of th^ .border markets was brought tp^the mass r meeting Jot tobacco growers in Wilson by J/iL Barnes, tbbacco farmer, of Kenly, N. C, who witnessed the coopera tive waerhouse at Lumberton- itt action last Monday. *T hate .had sixteen or seventeen years ei^er^-. ence in marketing tobacco in Wil son as my friends in this meeting ( know.*'-laid Mr. Ken ley, and he de clared cooperative marketing is the cleanest, nicest system of handling tobacco "I have ever seen, and the grading the. fairest." The first day's operation of the auction markets has unquestion ably started a strong movement of the unsigned farmers of Eastern Carolina' towards cooperative mar keting. ~ . Surrendered to Sheriff Augusta, Ga., August 17.?Corrie Caldwell, the 5'outh who shot and killed John Davis, a merchant, in an altercation yesterday in the Da vis' Place." &dros3 the river from here, surrendered to the sheriff of Aiken. county, S. C, late last night, according to Information this morn ing. - ' \ . .as to make itself evident at the No vember election, as the rates will hardly be in operation before that time and consequently the burdens will not be realized, but following the passage of high tariff bills in the past the public reaction has been swift and effective for the time. But always, after a few years, the beneficiaries of the high tariff, trusting to the short mem ories of the people, again come back demanding more. In the days of Benjamin'Harrison the Republi can congress passed the McKinley bill and was promptly driven from po wer. 1892 Cleveland was elected oh a .pledge to reduce the tariff: the interests managed to de feat the will of the people in that respect and Cleveland was repudiat ed. Then followed the DIngley bill and the Republicans were barely saved from- defeat by the coming of the * Spaiwsh war. Then the Payne-Aldrich hill drove them out again. ' Will the Smoot bill prove a case of history repeating itself?.?.