The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 03, 1914, Page 2, Image 2
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COTTON SLAVERY
DAY HAS PASSED
South Will Not Longer be in
Bondage to Oligarchy.
SAYS R. H. EDMONDS.
This i* Hay of madness, Not of -Sorrow,
Writes Kditor of Manufacturers'
Record.
Charlotte Observer.
The consideration of the farmers
who will assemble here today for
the purpose of discussing plans for
improving the status of the cotton
industry is directed to the statement
front Mr. Kichurd II. Kdmonds,
the well-known editor of The Man-|
ufacturers' Record, who spent Wei'-1
nesday night in (lie city en route to i
Birmingham, Ala., to attend the
meeting of the American Iron and
Steel Institute. Mr. Kdmonds was i
keenly concerned in learning just
what attitude the farmers them-!
selves took with reference to the '
present situation, whether they !
wore going ahead with determlna- ;
tlon to better their own condition 1
Dy co-operating with those seeking
to aid them or whether they were
sitting bark and waiting until the
government or some, other factor of
agency would rorno along and lift
from their shoulders the burden of
the present distressing situation. In
discussing the situation he did not
appear to be unduly distressed but
Instead manifested a most optimistic
attitude with reference to the future.
Said he:
"From one end of the South to the
other there should go up a song of
gladness.
"Away with the pessimist; away
with every expression of helplessness.
"Away with the spirit that placards
the country with appeals to
'help the South.'
"Is the South a beggar? Are its'
people so weak-kneed that they can-1
not meet a few months of adversity j
without standing hat in hand beg-1
ging alms of the nation?
"Have we been breeding a race of
men with cotton strings as back-!
hones?
"How else can we explain the sud
den hysteria which swept over our
country and the fear that took pos-!
session of us? The South produces
annually over $:t,ono,0on,oon of ng-i
riculture and more than $3,500,000,000
of manufactures and mineral
optuut, or upwards of $500,-1
000,000 a year, and yet because we '
had si temporary halting in cotton ! <
and because we might possibly get a
few hundred million less for cotton I
than last year, we forget thiit the <
xvholo cotton crop, even when it
was worth $1,000,000,000 a year j
was less than one-sixth of our total l
products of farm, factory and mine.
Wo forget that even if we had lost i
an entire cotton crop the loss would 1
have been less than 4 per cent of i
our total wealth. We forget that <
the South's drink bill is annually 1
equal to at least one-half of a *1,-1
dim),(MM),ooo cotton crop; wo forgot'
that If for one year the South ro- I
trained from all alcoholic drink it 1
would save far more than the total <
decline in the value of this year's 1
cotton crop, as compared with last
year; we forget that our own in- I
terests were suffering far more than J
our cotton that the loss in iho value 1
of the railroad and industrial properties
of the South as measured by 1
the value of securities was greater
than the possible loss on <o'toi>; we
'orget that lumber operators and
naval stores operators had all faced
a depression as severe as that in
cotton.
COTTON BOLLS FOR DRAINS.
"But because we have made cotton
our fetich, because we have worshipped
cotton, have thought it:
terms of cotton, have banked our
banking and our trade, and almost
our religion on cotton, we found
that too many of us at the critical
moment had only cotton strings for
backbones, cotton bolls for brains 1
and cotton emotion for religion.
"We boast of the religions life of
the South and of our faith in Almighty
Clod, but the very moment
that adversity comes we lose faith in
Clod as in ourselves. We lose self- j
control and self-reliance; we see only
the blackness of the passing cloud
and forget to turn the cloud Inside
Ant f\ t ho u(l vo?< 1 I r* I r* or '" ?
\' 14 t ?.?/ 04 V- HIC Oil * V-I I II I I I ^ , I'll I. IUI t
1b. indeed, a ullver, yea, a golden,
lining, to it.
"Wo know that wo have the moat
richly endowed country on earth.
We know that for vnrlety and extent
of agricultural and mineral capabilities
no other land on earth matches
this heaven-favored region. we
know thnt other landa not one hnlf
so well endowed hnve grown enormously
rich and that If wo are not
wealthy beyond the dreams of
avarice It Is because we hr.ve not
fully utilized our opportunities.
"Wo have grown cotton and spoil
it all for corn and Hour and othe
foodstuffa and for the vory mute
with which to make the cotton.
ENSLAVE OURSELVES WITH
COTTON.
"Wo have enchained and enslave
ourselves with cotton Instead of pre
ducing our own foodstuffs and rait
lug our own live stock. With th
flnost advantages In America fo
raising foodstuffs, wo buy our butte
from Wisconsin, our flour from
waukee and our beef from Chlcag
and Kansas City. Our $1,000,000
000 cotton crop money is largel
spent for these and similar thing
before the first balo has reached th
market.
"And now that this lesson of th
curse of cotton when it becomes
slave driver, with the producers a
the slaves, has come to the Sout!
with such force, let us all rejolc
that the profit in the lesson will b
worth far more than the cost. Hon
trilling will the loss of a few bun
dred millions seem, when contrast
ed with the certainty that it will re
suit in an annual saving to the Sontl
for all time to como of far more thai
that through forcing us to raise ou
own foodstuffs, to diversify oui
crops to economize where nvo hat
been growing extravagant anc
wasteful, and to break the chaii
with which cotton as king had en
slaved us.
"The Southern farmer now has t
chance to bo a freeman, the Sout I
has the chance to think in ethei
terms than cotton, the chance tc
worship another god than cotton and
so out of the present depression will
come a blessing of unspeakable
value to the whole South. Let ut
cease to look upon the present situa
tion as an evil; let us rather see in
it that Providence, which determined
to save the South despite itself,
has permitted ub to see the evil ol
our fetich worship of cotton.
rrVT^PAVT A C3 A AT A
uu i iuii no nn AU lUl'llA 1'.
"As a subject hold in control and
made to do our bidding cotton is one
of heaven's richest blessings to any
country: as an autocrat more dominating
than any other ruler on earth,
it is destructive of our highest prosperity,
it deadens our initiative, it
kills our self-reliance, it improvishes
our soil, it holds our progress, material.
educational, religious. in
check. Let us therefore sing a sonc
of gladness that the spell has been
broken, that cotton can no longer
rule and ruin us, that everywhere
there shall soon be seen that diversified
agriculture which spells p**o
gress in capital letters progress in
broader thinking, in broader plan
ning and in broader utilization of
our marvelous advantages.
"And with this thought in mind,
let us contrast, our snow-white fields
of cotton with the blood-red soil of
Europe, our rivers as they go laughing
to the sen, creating the power
to light our cities and run our factories,
with the blood -reddened
rivers of Kurope. choked with the
bodies of tens of thousands who
tlaily go down into the valley of
rleath. Let us think of our manifold
Idessings and view them against
the background of Kurope's horrors,
where 20,000,000 men are grappling
In death or preparing for the struggle,
while 300,000,000 people look
in in awful agony at the world's
most stupendous tragedy.
"The pitying angels of heaven
look down upon more agony, mental
iind phyical, than they have ever
seen since the world began, whil-1
the devil faughs with hellish glee
such as the internal regions never
knew before. And here we, in a
land of peace, a land where abundant
erops have rewarded the work
of the year, where we are free from
all tiie horrors that burden Europe
with earth's sorrows, are acting am
talking as though our petty trouble:
were worthy of serious considera
tlon. Surely the Almighty mlgh
say to us, and especially to the far
mors of the South, 'Unto whom mucl
lias been Riven, of him shall nine!
he required.* To the South mac!
lias been given.
"How should we answer a ques
tion from the Almighty as to ho\
wo are meeting a situation so trifl
ingly inconsequent as compared wit
the awful woe under which Europ
is taggers?
"Let us quit bemoaning our troti
hies, let us heed the Divine coir
mand: 'He strong, quit you ilk
mr?n ' "
Advertised lictlprtt for Week Kiidiri
Odolirr HI, 1014.
Mrs. Family Beaker, Miss Netelk
Burrell, Miss Ider Mornes, Miss MIi
! nlo Barber Ellen, Miss Curll Croel
I ett, Mrs. Heme O. (look. It. H. Dei
bar. Miss Enlar Howard, Sim Hooi
Mrs. W. H. Grant, Mrs. Mary Ori
I brun, Mrs. M. R. Hudson, Mr
' Manila Maekey .Mrs. Family McCo
dell. Miss Ader I,ukes, Miss Arth<
M. Kelley, Miss Annie Sulins, lie
A. E. Smith, C}iihh Itoblnson. Dlnti
ItiiHH. Mrs l^nnlsn MrO/iiu f"l"> "
. F ?
Pate, Miss Adily Thompson, Dubl
I Rlghat, J. R. Wlllson.
When railing for above latter
please say "Advertised."
JArt. V. HUNTER, Postmaster.
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THE LANCASTER NEWS,
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it; POSTAL SAVINGS.
r
s ' The European War Proving a Ilig
lioon to the System.
The war In Europe la proving n I
I
big boon to postal savings In this:
11 country. From the very day hostlll-1
t
ties opened across the sens postal
p savings receipts began to Increase I
r oy leaps ana nounas ana withdraw- |
r uls fell ofT, a result quite contrary
I to the predictions of many well-informed
persons who, In their tmag?
' ination, saw lines of feverish do- j
'v I post tors ut post olHce pay windows
" I anxious to again return their sav^
: ings to the boot-leg and body-belt |
'depositories whence they came be-'
fore intrusted to Uncle Sam. Hut
0 J
] the forecasters failed to reckon 011
I the absolute confidence of the
s I
^ , American citizen, regardless of the
j llcg that first met his eyes, in the
I ability of the government to carry
out its obligations, not only among
the nations of the earth, but with
1 the humblest citizen of our land.
Two important results have followed;
thousands of people, larg?-!
1 ly of foreign birth, accustomed to !
I send their savings abroad, are now
patrons of our postal savings svs1
tern; and enormous sums of actual
cash have been released for commercial
uses among our own people
at a time when the need for overy
available dollar is pressing.
The growth of postal savings in j
the United States has been steady
and healthy and the system lias ,
filled an important gap between the |
tin-can depository and the factory
paymaster. On July 1, when affairs
were running smoothly here
and abroad and the transmission of
money across the Atlatlc was safe
and expeditious, there was approximately
$43,000,000 of postal savings
standing to the credit of about
; 3 38,000 depositiors. Since then
over $10,000,000 of deposits have
been added and the number of depositors
has Increased enormously.
This unprecedented gain Is the more
striking when it is considered that
I the net gain in the last throe
I months is larger than the gain for
' the entire fiscal year 1014. Scores S(,
of offices have done more postal sav- ^
ings business since the war has been
' I going on than was done by (licin
during the previous existence of the w
; vice. The Increases are confined pr
to 110 special localities, hut have
been felt in every nook and corner
of flu- country. New York City (\
alone made a gain in September of
more than a million, while Brooklyn
showed a relatively biir increase ai
Chicago reported :i larger gain In tli
the past three months than for the b?
previous twelve months. More than sh
7,000 new accounts were opened ice
during the period, bringing the.ro
number of depositors in that city up an
to over 21,000. ht
The unexpected increase in postal sli
savings business has not only added pa
greatly to the general administrative , be
dntles of the system, hut has brought th
up many new and interesting prob-;1f
lems which have called for the care-1 Ki
fuf personal consideration of Post- an
master General Burleson and (?ovI
eruor Dockery, third assistant post- j ch
! master general. But their task has dr
i been lightened somew hat by the dr
promptness erf depository hanks in j de
i furnishing additional security fa
meet, the abnormal deposits. A num- ch
; her of the very largest, hanks in Welsh
country which have heretofore de- ( f.<
| cllned to qualify as depositories for wi
postal savings funds, are now among jGi
the eager applicants for them. in
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WAItKIIOCSK C'BMMIHSIONF.lt.
fc
John I,. Mi (aia in Klcctctl to I'oni- h(]
irion by Cienernl Assembly. nl
Coulumhln. October 30 Form or
I'nlted States Senator John I ..own- |1(
1 des McLaurfn, now serving as Sena- ,v
< tor from Marlhoro. wrs tonight elec- . ()|
- ded warehouse commissioner. It was V(
t an entirely impeded turn. Tlie whole ' (
thing started In the joint assembly, 0(
i when Bepresentative Claude Sapp ?.
i i nominated Senator MrLaurln for the n
i ' position and said the nomination was < a
' made entirely without the knowledge
i- of Mr. McLaurin, but he wished to
v see the warehouse law a success and ,|
I- felt no one better fitted for the hon- R
h or in In view of his fight for the hill jM
e and his ability. ; p
Senator McDaurin hr.d previously ^
i- seconded the nomination of Mr. lfl
i- JampH A. Drake of Marlboro, and 1
e i when his name was sprung he stated : I
that ho was commltteed to support ' (
_ of Mr. Drake and expected to vote
K and work for him. In a moment aj
conference was held and Mr, Drake i
^{volunteered to withdraw and Mr. J
{- ! McQueen withdrew the name of 1
i- Mr. Drake. The voto resulted: I
'* Total vote east 108; necessary to t
s elect 55; John L. MeLaurln 55; H. 1
r- 1. McDavId 24; Phillip A Hodges 1
28. t
^ The result brought applause and ]
congratulations for Senator Mc- <
>y, Laurln, the real "daddy" of the i
warehouse measure. The position I
carries a Balary of $3,000 and ex-!
[ penses. Mr. McDaurln was In no 11
, NOVKMBKK 3, 1014.
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SMOK
CTART the I
the breakfas
the whole room
Thr food tastes bctt
for the whole family
The Perfection is ai
extra heat is nccdei
kerosene ? easy to
use. It is smokeles
II At hardware and furnit
II STAND
I I Washington, D. C.
I | Norfolk. Vs.
I I Richmond, Vs.
. _ .
use ;i candidate for the posit ion. i
r. Cert I Wyehe suggested t he name j i
(Jovernor Blouse, lint withdrew it ; t
hen Senator McLaurin's name was | ?
eaented. |;
A Peace Prayer.
A.ilier UauHchenlmsrh, in "Prnycrv
of the Social Awakening.'')
"(> Lord, since the first blood of;'
bel cried to Thee from the ground ,?
at drank it, this enrth of Thine has ;
ten defllod with the blootl of man ^
ed by his tirother's hand, and thoi
tit virion sob with the ceaseless horr
of war. Ever the pride of kings 1
id tin* covetousuess of the strong <
lvo driven peaceful nations to t
lughter. Ever the songs of the
ist and the pomp of armies have | ^
en used to inflame tlie passions of |
e people. Our spiriit cries out to j 1
tee to revolt against it, and we '
iow that our righteous anger Is t
iswered by Thy holy w rath. j r
"Break Thou the spell of the en- i {
antments that make the nations j
unk with the lust of battle and ^
aw them on as willing tools of 11
nth Grant us a quiet and stead- j *
si mind when our own nation (
it mors for vengeance or aggros- 1
an. Strengthen our sense of Jus*e
and our regard for the equal 1
[>rth of other peoples and races *
rant to tin- rulers of nations faith j '
the possibility of peace through j *
sttce and grant to the common > '
ople a new and stern eu'huRlusni ! '
r the cause of peace. Bless our
Idlers and sailors for their swift 1
icdienee wad their willingnvrs to '
10 call of duty, but inspire them !
>ne the less with the h&trut? of
ar. and may they "evor for love
' private glory or advancement pro>ke
its coming. May our young
len still rejoice to die for their
?untry with the valor of their
ilhers. but teach our age nobler
lethods of matching our strength
nd more effective ways of giving
ur ttfe for tho flag.
"(> thou strong Father of all naions.
draw all Thy great family toother
with an Increasing sense of
ur common blood and destiny, that
eace may come on earth at last, and
*hy hud may Hlied Its light rejoicing
n a holy brotherhood of people*." j
Irave Men?Ancient nnd Modern.
My John Temple Graves, In The
Atlanta Georgian.)
Kvery age has Its heroic soldiers.
The phalanx of Alexander, the
Ipartaus at Thermopylae, the Tenth
region of Caesar, the Old Guard of
!..? ?ji ?
.u^umuu uiai iimil uui never sur enders,"
the Light Brigade at Balaclava,
the Scots Grays and the
llghlanders at Waterloo, the Alamo, j
ivh'ch surpassed Thermopylae, and
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg?
ach In turn have thrilled their times
>nd taken their places among the 1
mmortals of history. I
The taunt has been flung Into the
ace of this commercial age that
?
CHASE THE CHILL
THE BREAKFA^TR
RF#CT1C
.ELEfrStellk HEAT
Perfection Heater going five m
st hour; by the time the family
> is warm and cozy.
er ? everybody feels better. It's a bully i
1 ever-ready comfort. It is light ? you c
d ? sewing-room or cellar, bedroom or ]
handle and inexpensive ? and costs nothi
s and odorless.
uiv biuu, cvcivttiicic. lakii. IUI inc i lUUHir l
ARD OIL COM
(NEW JERSEY) <
BALTIMORE <
lineriallsm lias turned our soldier
tilo tradesmen and our heroes Into 1
diopkoepers, and thai the splendid p,r
tin
-ourage of the battlefield belongs to vp]
llieieiil history. j pa
The European war -monstrous in "u
sir
II Its sanguinary scope has yet , .
*odeetnod in martial heroism the >
iest traditions of the race. Day by
lav we read the record of Individual a,"
sin
ind collective daring and of unsur- cr
Kissed endurance. Never in all wars WH
Mfl
if all the world liavo there been
wa
iraver soldiers following with moro ^h,
intlinehing courage the several ry.
lags under which they fight.
The Prussian Guards, flowers of (
jernian soldiery, llingtug themselves ed
n dauntless abandon upon serried
wc
r.nks of steel, cut to pieces, deeima- jj(
,cd, and yet forming their shattered
auks and riding on to glory If not !><?
:o victory. That spemdid infantry '
scr
tt French marching with a sons . j
>vcr trenches nine miles long ond
vlti
iver five feet deep Lit l>loody slain to ^
Ight and endure a deadlier strain
yot
than fell upon Napoleon's guard.
The Scotts Grays with the Highanders
at their stirrups, riding into (j
very English-German hattle as gal-'j(.t
antly to mortal combat as tlielr an- ' ..r(J
restors rode at Waterloo. Those hero j
llelglans, fighting the siege guns and
the mighty machine of Germany
with a courage and endurance which
from Liege to Ftrussels, has been one
long record of flawless courage and
Jevotlon.
Ileatli Springs Graded and High
School Ifonor Itool for Oefolter.
Tenth grade?Earle Criminger,
ituth Williams. Esther Williams,
llrinnie Small, I>ola Mnckey, Itoscoe
llilllard, Sallie Hendrlx. Maggie
Vauglin. Pearle Crenshaw and Cloy-I
Horton.
Ninth grade?Cary Criminger,
Eva Leonard VanLandingham, Eegenla
Mohley, Pierce Hiackmon,
OuRose Robertson, Itelle Hendrlx,
Irene Robertson and Clyde tMoblev.
Eighth grade- Eileen Horton,
Eva Hammond, Clyde Floyd, Ira
Floyd and Arthur Sims.
Seventh grade?Viola Canton,
I?aliy Hallo, Dewey Hallo, Salllo
Hammond and Pearle Mobley.
Sixth grade- Julia Hrirtgcs, William
Culp, Ruby Hammond. Minnie
Hendrlx and Margie Hortor.
Fifth grade?Dorothy Clarke and
Hates Horton.
Fourth irrade?Kva Mn> Canton,
Walter Cnuthen, Martha Dyrhes,
Annie Hollo Hunter. Taylor Mobley,
Myrtle Mobley, Annie (jrace Mobley,
Elizabeth Small, Ruby Williams,
Herman Wllllama and Dottle
Vaugh.
Third grade?Kula May Hunter,
Kddle Lou Hammond, M iry Moore
and Keba Vaughn.
Second grade?Lily Crenshaw.'
Louise Mobley, Jessie l^ee Sims,
Hampton Dyches. Leland Cr%in*hn>v,
Lawrence Twltty and Willie Hruce
Williams.
First grade?Juanita Mowers,
Moralyne Moaeiey, Waddnll lluntf>r, I
Hugh Johnson, Chalmn Rims and |
Aubrey Cauthon.
JAR. B. BU8HAROT.
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EJ?S
i nutes \^forc
j gets dmvft
morning send-off
arry it wherever
parlor. It hums
tig when not in
'rade-Mark.
PANY
Charlotte, N. C.
Charleston, W. Vs.
Chasleston, S. C. |
Ridicule Men Afraid of War.
[vondon.?"Wanted ? Petticoats for
opr. ablebodlod young raon not In
> ni my"?is a sample of persona) adrtlsotnents
In the columns of London
pers since it bus become evident
if recruiting the army up to tho
itKtli desired by General Kitchener
to be slow work.
\notln r reads: "Doctor's wife, midi
aged, will undertake the work of
y tramway conductor. coachman< ^
>p assistant, or other married workwitli
children, pro,-lded that worker
II undertake to enlist and tight for
i country In our hour of need. All
gen earned will be turned over to
i wife and family. Apply Mrs. Low
1 Priory terrace, Kewgreen, S. W."
Wounded Nine Times.
Dstend. Among the French woundin
recent lighting was a dragoon
th six bullet and three bayonet
mnds In the upper purt of his body.
i was expected to recover.
n't Delay Treating Your Cough.
\ slight cougli often becomes
ions, lungs get congested, bronal
tubes fill with mucous. Your
iilltiy Is reduced. You need Dr.
IPs Pine-Tar Honey. It soothes
tr Irritated air passages, loosens
cons and mnkes your systoui reI.
colds. Give the baby and ch!lm
Dr. Hell's Pine-Tar Honey.
guaranteed to help them Only
J at your druggist.
WOODWARD
ws ~
We sptt theyjcst Lamps
and nqvQ Jm elegant
line t> Jjj^dtric Fixtures
^HRaand. Also
Plumbing /Goods. All
work giuh*jmUte(l and
the Underwriters always
approve if.
Standard Plumbing
& ELEdntKJ CO.
Located in basement of
Telephone bmlding.
Residence Pnone 64.
Office Phone 399.
"Unless Wc Make
Good, No/Charge."
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