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fhe Press and Banner! ! ABBEVILLE, S.C. H^Pnbllshed every Wednesday at S2 a yvai iu auvauuc. . Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1899. The Southern Railway. Wo noted last week that the Southern Railway contemplated putting in a side track which would run in rear ol a majority of the biggest stores in Greenwood. We learn that the survey has been made, and that the work of grading will begin at or near the oil mill in that city. Owing to the location of the Seaboard Air Line depot, this side track will give the Southern a great advantage In the Irelgbtj&uslness, and secures to tbat road almost a monopoly of the business. This de- | velopment was brought about because of some action on the part of the Seaboard which gave displeasure to some of Its best customers. It seems to be a j?lty for a good road to be so managed as to create quarrels j between Hse'if and Its best customers, and It I Is a matter of regret that It unnecessarily j makes enemies of those who would be Its best I friends. The road seems to be unfortunate. ( The service Is generally very good, but Its art i In raUlug fusses with Its customers Is mar- I vellous, and. It occurs to us, must be injurious to its business Interests. i - ! Summer School. The Summer School for white teachers ' closed a profitable term yesterday. Professor Edmunds and Miss Withers left yesterday , evening to conduct a similar school in Wlnnsboro for a term of four weeks, after I having made many friends in Abbeville. I 1LIO Aliugvillo UUUUV.T a>ugiu6 uuu.VM...will oonveDe with tbe Buffalo Baptist cburcb 1 near Troy, on Saturday and Sunday Aug. 26tb i and 27th. 81ngers from all sections are Invited to attend. T. Earle Elgin, Secretary. Propositions to be received to remove the < old building of St. James A. M. E. Church, and rebuild same about three miles from < town. Address Tbeo. Perclval, j Press and Banner Office. { j Mr. J. C. Ferguson sold tbe first bale of new cotton labt Saturday at 0.55 per pound. ' Fair quality. He also sold the first ton of pea J vine hay for 814. ( Donalds elected for annexation to Ander- t son by a vote of 29 to 5. MR. R. RED TOLBERT. c t At Pesre with All Mankind, He , Hope* that Strife May Ceane, and \ that Law and Order May Prevail. To the Press and Banner: t f rMnMtfnllo nalr annnn In vnnr nannr tr> m. t gy to Mr. Carpenter's signed article in tbe reen wood Index of last week. I returned to my home in Abbeville county on or about tbe I7tb of Marcb, under Governor Ellerbe's proclamation, and by advice of Attorney General Bellenger. On my arrival at Abbeville, tbe officers of tbe Sheriff, Mayor, Ac., showed every disposition to protect me lo person and property. Tbe Governor, Attorney General and tbe people exacted no pledge from me. Bat Id view of excitement prevailing at tbe time, I felt it Incumbent upon me to let it be generally known tbat I returned to look after my private affairs; tbat I bad no Intention to take any aotlva steps In politics, or do anything to keep up strife. I have adhered to this course faithfully. I have been attending to my own private affairs strictly. I have advised tbe colored people to abstain from taking any Interest In politics, attend to their work diligently and cultivate good feeling with all tbe people. My neighbors, tbe people of Abbeville and Greenwood, have treated me with uniform kindness and respect. I have not done, nor will I do anything to lessen that respect. Mr. Carpenter claims tbat I was permitted to return to Greenwood through tbe effect of an interview 1 bad with blm In Greenville about tbe 25th of April, and tbat I now deny having had such interview, and repudiated mi lue pieu^us luureiu Luttue, uuu mereiure f be withdraws all further protection and tells tbe boys to go for me. f I have not denied having such Interview, t but Mr. Carpenter either misunderstood or t misquoted me In several particulars. Mr. Carpenter seemed to want to create tbe the Impression that I had repudiated tbe ? principle* 9t the Republican parly and bad / gone back on my party friends and own kith , and kin. ' The impression I wished Mr. Carpenter to i make on tbe people of Greenwood was that 1 , regretted tbe shocking occurrences aror.nd Pboenlx last fall, and bad I forneen it would have done all la my power to avoid It. That < I was opposed to negro domination! and , would do all 1 could to preserve the peace ; and good order in tbe community in which I 1 live. I believe in tbe rule of intelligence. I I said nothing detrimental to James W. Tol- , bert. J As to his main charge "that I held a Negro ' meeting at Greenwood." He has been mlsln- t formed, or has drawn on bis imagination for . facta. I have not attended any negro meet- . ing at Greenwood or any where else since my ' volnen T nraoi? ma ha hoc ratr\m(inn t/v ho * lObuiu. * pi&nuujg uo uno (CldUUVC kU vuc ( time I called at tbe colored church In Greenwood. I had uo meeting, except with Wra. Fisher, who I found at the church. My busl- ] ne*s with Fisher was about private buRlness ( only. I can prove this by good white men in , Greenwood. : Now. I lake this occasion to say to tbe peo- < pie of Greenwood and Abbeville tbat I have t not done, nor will I do anything to dis- , tnrb tbe peace and good relations existing between tbe races, ana If these relations are dls- ' turbed it will have to be laid to some body ( else's charge. I am for law and order, peace , and prosperity, now and forever. ' Respecfully, R. Ked Tolbert, Jr. ? PEA VINE HAY. A Henattfal Exhibit of a Profitable * Crop at tbe Store of Mr. W. D. ! BarkMlale. If yoa want to see as nice and as sweet a bay as ever gladdened tbe heart of a lien mole, call at tbe Btore of Mr. W. D. Barksdale, where quantities of tbe best pea viae hay is on exhibition, and ready for sale. The crop Is packed In bales and tied with wires, so that those who neglect to provide for their animals may get the best of feed at liberal prices. This bay Is oflered at $15 per ton. The larmer who grew It, Mr. John C. Ferguson, sold It to Mr. Barksdale at 814, but we do not see how he could afford to sell It at that price. The seed, wblcb he sowed In April oost blm SI.25 or possibly S1.50 per acre. The yield per acre was only a ton. Added to tbe cost of seed was tbe trouble of sowing It, and when tbe crop was ripe It bad to be mowed. Then It was put Into bales and hauled to town. Considering everything. Mr. Ferguson did not make clear, over and above all expense and trouble more than from 89 to 810 per acre. Tbe low price of land Is tbe only thing that saves bay farmers from rnln. It Is true that Mr. Ferguson may make a fall cutting of hay, but upon this latter crop, the profit would not be over some 86 or8S. When it eonipfl to rednclnc the nrofltn C on an acre of ground In this country to 817 or t $18 an acre, starvation faces th*. people?and tbe moles, too. It Is better to make cotton. A bale of cotton Is wortb, say, ?25. It Is true that tbere Is generally some expense for guano under cotton, bat tben tbe hoeing and tbe plowing can be dbDe In tbe Spilng when mfn and mules bave nothing else to do. From a comparison of the labor and pront of producing a ton of bay or a bale of cotton, so man need hesitate about what to do. ANNUAL MEETING. Upper LonfC Cane Cemetery Association. The annual picnic oi me ijong uane cemetery Association will come off In tbe grove I near tbe church. Thursday, August24tb. The , price of dinner for adults will be 20 cents and ' for children 15 cents. This will Include bash, < cake and coffee. Ice cream and lemonade will be charged at tbe usual rates. The pub ] lie are cordially invited to attend this annual feast and so help along a good cause. Mrs. G. C. Dusenberry, i Miss Mittle Cochran, President. , Secretary. I K nice line of toilet soap just arrived, at 1 Harrison <k Game's drug store. Paper, paper, paper ! We have more paper than we know^what to do with. Call and get & uua cucop- *-* ?* i iouu uc vjhuio. Box paper at cost! Harrison <fc Game are elling fancy paper at cost. Call and see our Hue of stationery before baying. We have the latest shapes and colors ; selling them very low down. Harrison, 4 Came. i oi impious' KEEP THEM ALL. The current of a nation's history is marked by curious and uncertain rates of progress. At times it rolls along smoothly and without interruption for a generation. Again, without apparent warning, the stream of history breaks into a tempestuous flood. Old ways are obliterated, old landmarks are ruthlessly torn from their ancient moorings and swept away never to be seen again of men. When the tide recedes, the citizen gropes in vain for 1 the cherished objects which he and his ancestors had venerated in the ' past. In such manner has the swift pro- 1 gress of history during the past twelve J months swept away absolutely and | beyond recovery many time-honored i ideals of political life and action once held by the people of the United ' State*. Overwhelmed and bewildered i by the splendid progress of the Span- j inh war. the citizen suddenly finds 1 himself face to face with new aspects | 3f political life and action that this < contest has pressed immediately to < the front. j In the solution of new aud weighty I questions of the hour, the citizen can i no longer trust to the traditions of the < past. He must take new bearings in i yiew of the new political landscape in I which be finds himself. f In making the decision as to our i Colonial Policy he must consider not the traditions of the past, but the his- 1 tory of the future. 1 In what condition does the Nation i ind the individual find itself to decide jpon these momentous questions? 1 Oar Physical Supremacy. j The American citizen finds himself 1 today a member of a nation which has 1 Jeveloped naturally, symmetrically md enormously as race inheritance ' ind a superb physical enviromment * ias dictated from the first. In mere ( material progress the advance of the * Sfation has far exceeded the wildest J Ireams that might have been based ipon the most extravagant standards )f the past. In a single century of t lational existence the Nation has ^ sovered practically the same ground . bat other peoples have painfully tra- j versed in the progress of a thousand . /ears. [ Without undue pride, the American jeople should today clearly realize v hat the United States is far and away he most powerful nation the history j >f the world has seen. t In population, in intelligence, in he accumulated wealth, which make? j or success in peace or war, this nation ar outranks in effective power any linote nation of the ancient or modern i vorld. The mere existence of 70,000,- !. 100 intelligent people, living harmon- | ously under one accepted governnent; seated securely is the single j argestarea of fertile land upon the j. flobe; of a blood either inherited or ^ issimilated, embodying the best s rlrtues of a race that has made history c or a thousand years ; safe from all ittack; abundantly prolific; pacific t >y disposition, yet of abounding selfespect?these other characteristics of f his people present a spectacle of na- ^ ional unity and power that should . nake every American citizen proud of . lis race and land. * It should fill him with a just sense n >f the responsibility resting upon him i is a member of the race that has hereofore, and must hereafter, shape the v listory of the world. Nor alone in intellectual and material t itrength does this nation outrank any fl Civilization of past or present times. [ts moral strength is of a stamp and i rigor that renders doubly effective the r esources of land and intellect. This combination of physical resour- . jes, vast population and moral vigor, t jnited in a new race whose veins are illed with clean, frenh blood?unlike :he Latin peoples now tottering to the frave?present a phenomenon which ;he worn peoples and tyrannical joverments of the European continent f ;vill do well to consider iu their law- f ess and arbitrary division of the East- t *rn world. t With a full knowledge of our preponderance ; with a desire to mould t >ur policy according to wbat has been jonsidered right and moral among the t he best Civilizations of the past; 8 ibove all, with a firm faith in the Ger- r nan-Anglo-Saxon Uiviiization as ( epresenting the best conception of 3overment and Morals that history ireseuts?with these things in view ihould the American citizen approach he duty of the hour. i>ur Historic View* of American Destiny. A people that has hitherto attended .trictly "to its own affairs, and studously remained withiu the limits of ts own continents, the United States s today called upon to arrange the lestinieB of three different peoples in hree different quarters of the globe. Happy, for an entire century, in the miversal belief that the nation would lever extend its boundaries beyond its )wn continent, the United States findn tself to-day the embarrassed owner of colonies of whose acquisition its people lad never dreamed. { Foreign nations, judging our Civilisation by its own, can never be convinced that we had not cleverly planned the acquisition of these islands >eyond the "sea. Happily, our own ~ jrepon derance and the knowledge of >ur own integrity may render U8 :otally indifferent to what these for>ign nations think or do not think. Iu solving the problem of our . jolonial domains, we are accountable ( o ourselves alone. t Hawaii. ' Proceeding in due order, it may be laid that our first foundling was clear- t y a case of Manifest Destiny, long r Kmor^H in hor pffrtrta Thft Hawaiian civilization of today is a product of American hand and brain :hat has been at work in this outlying sland for fifty years. The trade of Hawaii is largely American. Her industries, material resources and iccumulated wealth are almost wholly ibe result of American enterprise. But for American civilization Hawaii would be to-day a howling cannibalistic isle, or a European nonproductive colony, under the iron heel jf military law. Hawaii is the key which, in the bands of any other nation, may at any time unlock the door to our Pacific coast. By every law of trade; by every demand of national safety ; by every behest of Civilization and good government, this island should have been ours not five, but fifty years ago. That this splendid possession has now Hmnnort inlr, rmr Inn?not in its Crude -.vj/j/v- ? ?tr immaturity?but as a fully perfected | fruit, is not aloue a tribute to the t mauifest destiny of our race. It 1 happily removes the Hawaiian ques- i tion from the realm of controversy. It is a fact accomplished aDd so 1 accomplished that the most bitter : foreign critics cannot gainsay oui rights. Cuba And Porto Rico. JSy the same considerations thai have finally made Hawaii a part o: Luc u 11 lieu oiaico, vuun xunu xviui should likewise have "beeu ours half t centure ago. That the inevitable destiny of our race has likewise casl these foundlings into our lap, almost without a struggle, is another prool that mediaeval bigotry and misrule shall not dominate the Western world The future of these isles should b< burdened with no great problems Porto Rico is now a component por tion of the United States. It is an island comparatively small, accessible and well supplied with military roads, There should be nothing serious tc encounter beyond the inevitable friction that must follow the displacement r>f a semi-barbarous rule by civilized forms of government. Keep out the politicians and the carpet-baggers give the island an economic industrial government and it will speedily merge into the body of the great republic. The future of Cuba must differ somewhat from that of Porto Rico. In a moment of what now seems ill-gotten generosity, the nation pledged the world Cuba should be given sen government of her own. The history )f the pa-t six months indicates too ilearly that this isle is not yet ripe for absolute self-control and that her Future cannot be safely placed at once in the keeping of her own inexperijnced people. She must be slowly schooled to self-control, and must :hen be given a fair opportunity to ihow her capacity for self-rule under American supervision. We may give Cuba the opportunity govern herself but can we make :be men fit to govern out of Spanish jtock ? The ultimate future of this isle Ie foreordained. She will be given her jhance to redeem herself. She will jrobably fail, as has almost every )ther Spanish-American people of the (VC31C1U ucuiiopuujvi Cuba will then be merged into the [Jnited States, and her people will gradually melt into the Anglo-Saxon ;ivilization, as did their kindred peo)le in the Floridas, Texas and Louisiana. The ^hlllpplneH. The final parting of the roads comes lpon the question of the Philipines. rhe other islands were component jortions of North America, but emporarily detached. The Philip)ines bring us into another hemis)here; throw us into contact with questions and races, of whose existence ve hardly knew a year ago. Reducing the Philippine question to ts lowest terms, its solution becomes lll/IC jSIMAU* Prior to the war these islands beonged to Spain. Where did she get them? She discovered tbem some four lundred years ago, and has since misgoverned them by the sole right of uperior power. We destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manilla, not to secure these island*, >ut to protect our own Pacific coast. The surrender of Manilla carried the urrender of the islands, and the close if the war found tbem in our hands. Not Desire, but Destiny, has thrust his burden on us. The Philippines are now our own, Irst, by the universal law of war vhich permits the victor to absorb he spoils of the vanquished in such easonable amount as shall compensate lim for injury done and outlay made. Fbis is the lower law, accepted by the righer Civilized Nations of the continent, and which none of them lave denied assent. The Philipines are also ours, by hat higher law, which justifies an idvanced Civilization1 in crushing a lespotic and vicious government and >eslowiDg upon a suffering people the igbt to live a free and decent life. They are ours by that inexorable aw of nature that replaces the rack, be tax collector and the hangman vitb the schoolbouse, the township neeting and the Law. Is Expansion Unconstitutional ? Next in order comes the claim put orth by many cloistered and learned oik that the acquisition of new terriory is unconstitutional and against he traditions of the United States. Is this so, and if so, what is the >asis for the claim? In the whole body of the Constituion there is no reference to the icquisition of new territory. There is lothing that can be construed to iover tnis contingency. The argument that we cannot, thereore, annex new territory, has been argely based upon this lack of specific sonsent to such expansion. This Ejection is sophistical and totally sontrary to common sense. The mere itate of Sovereignty itself implies nany acts and obligation not specified n the Constitution. Tbev are the latural attributes of National Supremicy and are so manifestly bound up in he very fabric of the Constitution bat they need no direct mandate in )iacK ana wnue. The Constitution does not speciflcaly provide that we defend ourselves if ittacfeed. Nor does the Constitution, n terms, deny the right of Secession o a state which no longer desires to etain its place in the national union, fet we have waged both defensive ind offensive warfare when common ense demanded. We foueht the greatest war in history to retain states vhicb desired to secede yet no man tan point to the constitutional nandate in black and white which mthorized the coercion of the Southirn States. TT.i Ji.1 lei ijeimtst ui tiiene m;in ui nuvcr>ignty was more topical than is the etention of conquered territory thrust ipon us against our will and in such a nanner that it cannot be abandoned without a distinct moral wrong igainst Progress and Civilization. Neither is there any precedent igainst expansion in our written or ecorded law. If so, where is it, who wrote it and here is it now concealed ? rradltonn Favor a Wl*a ExpaaNiou. Still less do our alleged traditions A..AU .-tAA mei any uitiiici w biiuii widc auu lecessary expansions as are vitally lecessary to our national safety aud well being. On the contrary, the listory of the United States is but the itory of fuccessive expansions, by which the necessities of increasing population has led us to absorb inferor races and to open new lands to [ndustryand Civilization. Our own English ancestry first drove out the fndian, and then the Dutch, and then the French. The very ancestors of these particular patriots who now raise the cry of Imperialism, were the first to drive the untutored savage out if New England, with a melancholy, but no less persistent zeal. From the beginning of our national government we have lost no opportunity to extend our national domain, rhomas Jefferson, who had much to 2a\7 oKnnt noonn anH vnrinlin mixed theories of human rights, wasted scant time when the most favorable chance in history offered the territory ol ' Louisiana to the United States, uj Thomas Jefferson abandoned theory co on the spot, and for once consorted with common sense. In spite of P frenzied opposition he bought Louiciana without the consent of Congress tta ' and upon his own responsibility. To- pi 1 dav. the civlization of 30,000,000, now ti< I resident in the Mississippi valley, I th : justify and approve the wisdom of this th P act. W Without this enlightened purchase or ' we should still be a second class na- tb ' tion, hemmed in by the Mississippi br ' river and the Atlantic coast. Mexico [ or France or Spain would have occu* ec pied all that vast parallelogram th , between New Orleans, Lake Superior, of ' Oregon and California. cc ' In 1821 we absorbed the Floridas E; because they had become a common bt ' nuisance. Tbey were misgoverned by tb I Spain in the same shocking manner k as she has misgoverned the West ui ; Indies and the Philippines. The w [ Floridas were a menace to the pros- re onH Konninoaa nf fho Aiui)i7pH CO , pcnijr auo ? , ' people who were endeavoring to live peacefully and decently by their side, bt Andrew Jackson wanted no rhetorice so 1 on the occasion. He seized the pi Floridas, and while we afterwards made tb 1 paymeut for the same, this was done Si not as a matter of right, but as a sop to m the outraged dignity of Spain. ly | In 1848 we absorbed the best portion SI , of Mexico because our B]ave*holding PI rulers demauded more room to raise co 1 slaves and cotton and other things, uf ' This seizure of Mexican territory was ?e a crudely brutal act. However base de ' the means, the final result has been bs [ wholly desirable. It has opened up to tn Civilization a region which would hi otherwise nave remained as Dare ana profitless as most of Mexido is today, de 1 In 1850 we absorbed Oregon, partly because we had discovered It, but particulary because we needed it in cb | our onward progress to the West, tu Nay, we were even at the point of war di ; with England because we did not at hs the same time secure British Colum- ne 1 bia, then a portion of the Oregon C< territory. be 1 In 1865 we took the Gadsden Purchase to protect our own frontier, m In 1867 we took Alaska because it ?d was cheap and a bargin and its in purchase forever excluded the Russian vvl empire from the American continent. So far from our acquisitions weaken- gu ing the Republic, they have really lo< made it what it is to-day. Nearly half ye of our population is to-day resident in in the acquired portion of the United of States. More than half of our natural #tl resources and future wealth will in be found in such portions as we have annexed since we became a common- pr wealth. As a matter of fact, history Ri shows our sainted faithers even more mi crudely acquisitive than ourselves, for they lived in a day when the strong to] invariably preyed upon the weak and na nations seized whatever was unprotect- id ed and near at band. sel Commercial, Strategic and Moral Considerations. on * Thfl Philipine question then resolves gt itself into a discussion upon the (1) Commercial, (2) Strategic and (3) Moral aspects of the case. rei Will the accession of these islands in increase the general prosperity of the a I United States? th Will they be of strategic value in the ' protection of our interests at home co and in the eastern world ? 80< Lastly, can we abandon them with safety to ourselves and with justice to Tc the inhabitants of the islands? th A year ago the American people iai would have considered mad anyone 3 who bad suggested the possibility of sii AAAnimnr* ^AVuifAVtt 4 n A olofln mofofa I Hi aUjUlliU^ ICiii w/ij iu aoimviv nnwiff* So fast has history moved, however, gr< that to-day hardly a citizen can oe th found who feels assured that we en should abandon the Philippines. Commercially speakiDg, there can Et be no question that the Philippines Mi wmilH ho nf vAof imnnrfiinnA fr? the 8a United States. Including 1,400 sep- ' arate isles, lying almost wholly in mi tropic waters; stretching 800 miles dif from north to south; occupying more Ai territory than all New England, these ' islands are a vast empire in them of selves. They constitute a store of Bi tropical and mineral wealth, such as an now remains unexploited in no por- sit tion of the world. These islands produce spontaneously and almost with- po out cultivation, nearly every single lit object of necessity and luxury which coi we do not produce ourselves. They a1 produce coffee, sugar, rice, hemp gutta frt percha, cotton, indigo and nearly every product of the tropical and eaj semitropical zones. Notwithstanding mi an occupancy of 400 years Spain has coi explored only a small portion of the ou i a- ?JJ fni group, i nese lsiauutt are nam iu uuu- ? tain iron, gold, and copper. It is also P*> said that some of the outlying islands contain large deposits of coal. Such deposits, if existing, are of the very highest value. Aside from New South Wales and some half-worked lodes in China and Tonquin, there is little or no coal in the Far East. Such depos* its alone would be justification enough, ./! from a commerical point of view, to [lj retain these islands. ' Notwithstanding the semibarbarous ? government of the Philippine islands, which has hitherto crushed industry 9* with all manner of taxes and extortions, the total value of the Philippine exports was nearly $30,000,000 In 1897. 'V As showing its latent possibilities, it may be said that the exports of the p" one small islands of Java, near at r'? hand, amounted in 1897, under the P? wise rule of Holland, to 225,000,000 f! guilders, or $90,000,000. ?.' Yet Java is no richer in natural resources, and is only one-half as large. " Tbe Eastern <lne?tlon. pic tio Turning to tbe political and strategic it? factors connected with the Phil- g ippines, we are confronted with the pi8 fact that the possessor of the Philippine islands to-day holds tbe key to gr( the Eastern Question. Up Reared in almost complete ignor- ? ance of the portentous problems now pressing for solution In the Far East, d|g the people of the United States are not Fii - _t 1 A only piuu^etl 1L1LU WIS * CACU anu jQg perplexing question, but its final de] solution is thrust unexpectedly and op unceremoniously into our bands. ajj The Eastern Question in the Far East as well as in the West, is simply the question as to which of the Euro- J pean powers shall absorb the dying of nationalities of the Orient. The past Ai three hundred years in A6ia i9 the rnc history of the division of the national 1 domain of the Malay, Hindoo and rig Mongolian races. gh The Malavs and Hindoos have al- hit ready been absorbed, The Mongolian he alone remain. int Hitherto the superior energies and ah colonizing powers of England have eat enabled her to acquire the lion's share, sel During this period France has always un demanded compensation for Eng- pu land's gains, while Russia has quietly, but assiduously, chipped of fragments is all along her vast frontiers, until an to-day she threatens the very existence m< of the Mongolian empire. Spain, in th her shame and weakness, has played 1 no part in this cannibalistic feast for 1 on "VT n m 1 r* n 1 I tt HULLitJ lWW uuuuicu )caio. Awiuiuanj i ; possessing tbe richest colony in tbe|Ei i Eaat, she has only remained Its owner i tic f because the other nations could decide J ;V T;;7: x)D no amicable division of he lonial domain. The Aalatle Equilibrium Upset. Thus has the so-CAlIed equilibrium ii e East been maintained by dl omatic "Accessions" and Compenss jns" and "Realms of Influence" til e fateful day when Dewey destroye e Spanish fleet in Manilla baj 'ben tbe diplomats or Europe wok 1 May 4, they confronted the fac tat their eastern mosaic had beei oken into a thousand fragments. Not alone did they find tbe cherisb I equilibrium shattered, upon wbicl iey had expended patient generation diplomacy. They were furthe mfrouted with a new power in th ast, whose approach had not eve; sen remotely anticipated. The key t ie situtation had not only been take) om their grasp, but it had bee iconsclously taken by a natio hose latent strength of resistane ndered useless any return to th nditions before existing. Germany, bitterly disappointed ii ;r share of the eastern spoils, had fo me time looked upon the Philip nes for "Compensation." Durin e preliminary controversies betweei )ain aDd the United States, Gei any had ostentatiously and offensive sided with her European neighboi le did this with her eye upon th lilippines. Her fleet was even tbei llected in eastern seas ready to bacl > Spanish claims if her safety am If-interest might bo dicate. As pru nee dictated other wise, German; is abstained thus far from anytbin' ore than a display of ill will and evl imor. As for .Russia, she had ardentl; aired to be left alone. She had ec tlfed China in a treaty by which sh as gradually absorbing all Mac iuria. Russia only desired undis rbed repose during the process c gestion. By a clever diplomacy sh< id gradually alienated the contienta itions from England and all th )ntinent played cat's paw at th heBt of St. Pelereburgh. Japan still chewed the cud of bitte elancholy, because Eussia had sei2 all the fruits of the Japanese victor; 1892. Yet Japan was powerles Ithout allies to prevent the gradua sorption of China by her Russiai lest. In the meantime, Englan< aking vainly for support, was no t prepared to beard her Russian riva the East. France, in her fond hop protection against Germany, wa 11 a tool of Russia and a mere pawi the game of Russia diplomacy. it was an lois point mac n>ngiiBi est! ge reached its nadir, and thai aseian progress seemed destined t ake all China a Russian province. The battle of Manilla changed bis ry in a night. An Anglo-Saxoi ition, with strong but undevelopei eas as to the duties of its race, ba Ized the key. The projected absorp >n and partition of the Chines ipire became and impossibility a ce. rni?||ic oir?;uji?u vi ?uc i uui|f|??uci While it is difficult for our people t< ilize that the seizure of these island volve such vast interests in the East >rief glance at the map will shot e point at once. The archipelago of the Philippine nfronts the coast of Asia for nearly 9 miles. [t commands the coast of China tnquin, Cochin China and Annam e Malay penisula and the Polynes i isles. Manilla is only 700 miles, or thirty c hours from the English port c ongkong. This is the pert of tb eat city of Canton, and the outlet o e richest portion of the Chines ipire. A.11 the vast commerce of the Fa ist with Europe passess betweei anillaand the port of our Anglo xon.kindred at Hongkong. The Philippines are but a thousani lies from Japan, and this is n< stance in the vast waste of th< siatic seas. The largest portion of the com mere America with India, Singapore irmab, passes through these seas d is commanded by our new acqui ion. [n fact, Manilla is the one mid lnt in the east where all the grea tes of ocean trafflo are held in sur mmand. The geometrical center o fast cirole, it is almost equi-distan >m Peking, Tokio and Singapore, [t is the only available point in th 3t where France, Russia or Ger my could have obtained desirabl* aling and commercial stations with t a struggle. It will be seen, there * i- nunt. e, mat our puaiuuu iu iuo jriimp aes is fraught with possibilities tha ) have hardly commenced to grasp The Despoiling of Cbina. Yet another question of the greates )ment interjects itself. This touch upon the future of the Chinesi ipire. Absorbed in our own affairs we hav< therto remained oblivious to the fac at we have neglected the greatesi d most profitable markets of th< Cina Krr rvna errant frncrmonti the Eaat have been torn off bj eign powers and shut to our legit! ite commerce. Without a protesi have seen our commercial treaties >lated, and have been ousted from r legitimate traffic in the East nteuted with our own and Euro in markets, we have apparently prlooked the fact that the market! 300,000,000 people are all but finally Bed to the enterprise and energy oi r people. ffow that Chance or Destiny has iced us In command of the situan, what do we propose to do aboul Shall we abandon this vantage iced unconsciously in our grasp, 01 ill we make intelligent use of th* ;at Godsend which has been thrusl on us? Shall we, by the abandonment ol i Philippines permit the gradual imemberment of China among iropean powers, and the consequenl s of our Chinese trade ; or shall we mand that this rich field be lefl en to the legitimate trade of all ke? We Mast Hold This Hey. Regardless of the perplexing detail* this problem, can the patriotic nerican citizen hesitate for one iment in bis decision? The Philippines are ours by the ;ht of war, to which civilized Europe res consent. They are ours by the iher law that has tbus given ? Ipless and wickedly governed people o our hands. Our flag now waves ove the Philippines. In the inter ; of humanity and of enlightenec f-interest, there should it remair til someone prove strong enough tf 11 it down. While the retention of these islandf filled with vexed problems, these 9 nothing as compared with th< tmentous evils that would follow e abandonmedt of the islands. What of the alternative? If we do not take them, who will ? We could not abandon them t< igland or sell them to any other na >n without universal war. If the United States does not retail 'VrTf?.;;y rfT!? :l . ' * r the Philippines they must go back \ the insurgents. Were we now 1 leave them, their condition would t even more lamentable than under tt Q corrupting rule of Spaiu. New England senators may con pare tbe mercenary Aguinaldo I II Washington and Bolivar. They ma d continue to offer moral suppo ' against our arms and fleets. Tbe pe< ? pie of the United States however wi not believe, that the man who hi Q counseled wholesale slaughter of a foreigners on the island is a patri< >- nor a statesman, nor qualified to era h an independent government, s Neither will they surrender into tl r bands of Malay bowmen the lives < e thousands of innocent Spanish peop D nor the millious of property whoi ? security is dependent upon civilizt i and enlightened government. D If we are afraid to take the Hespone D bility, will History ever justify us i ? destroying the only system of Goveri ? ment these islands possessed and the abandoning them to the anarchy thi Q must follow native attempts 1 J" govern ? Wether it he called Annexatioi g Autonomy or a Protectorate, the fi Q ture of all these islands must t ' ADgio-oaxon?doc Jjaun nor main ** nor Japanese. While the natives of these islant 6 will be given Liberty it must be Lil Q erty on Anglo-Saxon lines. It wi * never be the License under which tt d Spanish-American Republics ha\ i" mocked Republican Government f( y three-quarters of a century past. Hold all tbe Islands. Do not all the arguments in favor < y holding Manilla as a coaling statio i- apply equally well to the island of Li e zon and tbe balance of the group ? i- Furthermore, will there not be muc h less friction with foreign powers if w ?f at once take over the whole group as b legitimate spoil of war? Nor is thei J any danger that tbe alleged "powers e will actively Interfere if ne boldly an e courageously stand by our rights. A of them have too many troubles < r tbeir own to actively antagonize tfc 'r rising giant of the west, right on tt y threshold of his recent victory. * There may be diplomatic threat 1 --J U..A s? ; il auu mUILLlUIB, UUb 1IU UBUUU 13 i q shape to actively resist the Unite i States. Even if they do, the fleets * t Japan and England are both at ot il command, and with this combinatio e we control the world. 8 Q Tbe BaHlan Peril. . Nor from a larger historical viev ^ oliniiM mir nannlo nvArlnnk t.hfi fft( ^ that any action regarding the Phili] pines will affect for good or evil tt whole future history of Democrat " Government and the Anglo-Saxo d race. One hundred years ago Napoleo shrewdly remarked that the ne: century would see the world Cossac t or Republican. Since that day the colossal develo] ment of the Russian empire hi > threatened to engulf the entire Eas 0 ern world in its onward progres s The Latin race, now in decay, hi ; I ceased to play any material part in tt ? history or the world. The next cei J tury must develop the supremacy < 9 the Germanic or Slavonic race. , ? There is no room for compromise. The Civilization of America an , Europe and the Germanic race, or tt . Civilization of Asia and the Slav mui i- finally survive. While we please ourselves wit . nursery traditions regarding the at f oient friendship of Russia for tb e United States, it were little less tba f idiocy to believe that there can be an e common unity between the extrea Despotism and the extreme Democrac r of tne age. a Russia represents ignorance, bigotr h and slavery of mankind. She hi placed her foot upon every germ thi 3 makes towards progress and indivic o ual freedom. She is diametrical! ? oppossed to every cherished theor that the Germanic peoples hold r e garding Politics, Religion or the Lav X. 11.. I^vamKI; !j OD6 IB but? UJLiC ^ 1 cai| lUVAviuwr i, portentous enemy of modern progref - and the Germanic race. Having absorbed China, with 300 - 000,000 people at her command, whf t will then become of Europe ? e It will be Asiatic and not Germanii f And after Europe, what of Americ t and the future of Free Government i the world? 0 (continued.) 0 ==================a=!s=== - Delinquent Tax Sale. t State of Sooth Carolina, I County of Abbeville, J * "DY JVIRTUE of an Execution to me d MJ reeled. I will sell at publlo outcry at al beville on Saleday In SEPTEMBER tbe ro t lowing described property, to wit: Thattrai . or parcel of land la Indian UiU Townshl a containing Seven (7) Acres, ? more or lew, bounded East, by Mrs. Cotbran t South, by David Holder; Nortb, James Cotl t ran; West, by Mrs. McCormick. Levied o , as tbe property of James MoGee, at the of tbe State for Taxes, 26th May, 18#9. i Terms-Cash. F. W. R. NANCE, r Aug. 16,1899, tf Sheriff A. C., S. C. ; Cokesbnry Conference School Cokesbury, S, 0. ' A FITTING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MKI and young Women. Prepares for Coileg ' or Business. Board and Tuition in Colleg f Preparatory for the year, $84 00. For furthe Information write the Rector, DR. W. S. STOKES, ' Aug. 15,1S99, If For Sale! "D1DS will be received until AUGUST ?9H 1 D for Hale of the OLD CHURCH RUILE ING of St. James A. M. E. church. The oli f buPdhiK to he removed hv the person who* | hid 1h accepted on or before September Ini The trustees reserve the right to reject an; > or all bids. Address I REV. W. D. HUMBERT. , THEO. PERCIVAL, Pastor. [ Secretary. Aug. 7, 1699, tf School Examination. J pXAMINATrON FOR TEACHERS WIL1 ? be held In the Court House od FRIDAY > the lHlii of August, 1899, beginning at Din ' o'clock. AppllcantH for tencbers' certificate will appear before the Board a? Indicated. ) J. S. GTRERT, ? Chairman of County Board of Education. ' Aug. 16, 1899, It L ? ?! Extra Fine Lot I t OF SADDLE AND HARNESS ! HORSES AND MULE! } WILL BE RECEIVED AT OUR STABLE r THIS WEEK. A. fl. Hill & Sons ) Johnsons Chill and Fever tonic is guarat teed to cure or money refunded by Speed 1 drug store. f ' ? , C' > . *v ^ V s'JW ..... ? ? RESOLUTIONS. JF,. >e le Formed and Signed by the Teachers Attending the Hammer School of , j5 3~ Abbeville, Booth Carolina. Whereas, It Is fit and proper that we. as a ; '-i J body, sclve suitable expression of our appreclrt. aflnn e\f tViA manv nntji of Ir1nr1nr??fl ohown ? " -* ? --- ? . . ' . i? ' 4U? w r not, iu at wd cjuuiac uiuni ud?i ujjr iuo 11 efforts of the State Superintendent of Eaacaf Hon to promote tbe educational Interests of 31 this State, and tbe ways and means be Is . ' 3t using. Second, tbat we appreciate tbe Interest tbe .. County Superintendent bas taken In the school. 3i That wc And great pleasure In being able to [e show our gratitude to Prof. S. U. Edmunds and Miss Sarab Withers for the thoroagb ' 'V work, deep interest, and many kindnesses id they have shown ds daring this school term. " We heartily endorse tbe coarse of stady and method of teaching they use. Fourth, tbat we have derived a great deal :> $ n ot benefit, as well as pleasure, under their q? Instruction. Fifth, tbat we extend oar thanks to tbe in Botird of Trustees for tbe use of the school it building and other kindnesses shown. -0 Sixth, that we wish to expniss our gratitude to the good people of this town, who have opened their homes to tbe teachers. 1, Be it, also, further resolved, tbat a copy of j. these resolutions be sent to the county paper* for publication, and to the teachers who have conducted this summer school. ,V Jennie Cowan, J Jeanie W. White, Emma C. White, 18 NelleNlcklen, ). Eliza A. Thomson, 11 Florence Henry, 11 Caaale Fleming, ie Lola Penney, re Essie Douglaas, Fanny Brown, 7 Nina Wham, Annie Boblnson. n THE SUMMER SCHOOL. 1 h Some Notes of the Pretty Teachers re Who are Being Tan*ht How to 8 Teach. re Miss Rosa Maxwell was educated la the " graded, and blgb schools of Savannah, Ga. j Has a position In the Abbeville Graded i, School. " Miss Fannie Brown was educated In Abbejf vllle CouDty schools, she 1b preparing her- ."i ie self to teacb by attending faithfully the sessions of the Summer Sohool. 16 Miss Jeanle White was educated In the > schools ot Abbeville. Finished the graded to school course. Attended Miss Baldwin's _ School In Stannton, Va. Has taught one n term at Gutbrlnsvllle, York County, 8. C. id Mies Annie May Robinson was educated In the Abbeville County schools. Was assistant teacher at Central Sohool last year. Miss Ir Robinson is young: and amfbitlous, and we hope to see her enter college, feeling that she will reflect honor upon ber native county by ' her many high and amiable qualities of mind and heart. Miss Lula MoWhorton was educated in Abbeville County schools. Has taught two P. years. St Miss Essie Douglass finished the course of , , the Abbeville Graded School in class '98. Alt' tended Converse College two years. ie Miss Annie Lou Wbam was educated in ic Greenville County schools. Attended the n Greenville College for Women two years. u Has taught two years. ,)rsi Mrs. Ella C. Cromer was educated In the >q schools of Abbeville. Was graduated from .i. the Williamston Female College in class of " '76. While there had also a year's training In 'K the Kindergarten under Miss Wagner, the flsrt teacher of Froebel's system In South Car ollna. ^ Mr. Marshall Moore was educated in the IB In ri.AAnn.yvnH Q P UTni ouuwio v? utvounwuf Mi \j, tr an ^iauuam>\* NT^J t. from Woffbrd College In class of '95. Attend? ed Chicago University one year. Has taught In the Wofford Fitting School one year, and 18 at Lowndesvllle, S. C.. one year as principal. ie He will teach the ensuing year in the Anderj. son Graded School. E. C. C. Unclaimed Letter*. d Letters remaining In the post office for week ending August 1,1899. ie A?Mrs. Annie Aware. 3t B?Will Boyd, G. T. Baagbman. ? C?Christiana Chiles, Miss Hattle Chiles, u Eliza Calhoun, Mies Emma Chiles. u E?Miss Mary Ellison, Barges Ervlns. %- P A IflAA T?la/lhAH 13 G?Miss Gillie Gftty. 3jJ _ H?Mrs. Emma Harris, Mrs. Martha Harris, D Mies Lucy Hill, J. Hamilton. y K-T. W. King. ie L?Miss Lomax. P? Hampt Perdson. ; ..w j 8?Mies Corrie Lee Smith, T. J. Saulsbury. V?Will Vance. v W?Miss Lizzie Wardlaw, Yancy Wall, Tom Wakefield, Mrs. Barale Watts, Mrs. Martha . -a ^ Williams. Robt. 8. Link, P. M. ' low Rates West | ? ? TEXAS, Mfc.-X.iuu, UAJ-iir uxujia, i. ST. LO(J18, CHICAGO, or any ^ point, with FREE MAP8, wrlta to i FRED. 0, BUSH, 1 District Passenger Agent, . Louisville & Nashville R. R., No. 1 BROWN BLDG., ATLANTA, GA. 1- WM. H. PARKER. WM, P. GREENE I PARKER & GREENE, | P AUo^neys and Counsellors at Law. J i; Offloe on LAW RANGE. > ABBEVILLE - SOUTH CAROLINA. J May 4, 1898. tf ? Now |? the time to get a bargain in slippers at Haddon's. Bromo-qnln lne will care a cold In one day. Sold by P. B. Speed. ? Harrison & Gfttne.d soda fountain Is the ' place to get a cool drink. "There ?,re others, but. none cool " oo~o~>po?ooooooo?oo<>oo 21 Webster's v | ' | International | | Dictionary | Y Successor of the " Unabridged." 9 I So wrttea Hon. D. J. Brewer, T A Y Jiutlce U.S. Supreme Court. V 9 -ifl Standard 6 | of the U. 8. Gov't Printing O 1 ' Office, the U. S. Supreme A |. court, all the Stale 8u- X i L ! premeCourtt.andofnear- Y ? J Iy all the Schoolbooka. 0 i. ZfiwX Warmly 2 y Ijd&jfA i Commended z / M of Schools, College rn*i- a ?' M dents,andotherEaucators ? M almost without number. V Jl invaluable a In the household. and to X the teacher, scholar, pro- A ^ fesslonal man, and self- I educator. Y A Specimen pages sent on application to 2 i, oQ.&C. Merrlam Co., Publishers, ? 9 Springfield, Mass. * 9 h <? CAUTION. Do not be deceived In O 9 buying small so-callcd O I 0 "Webster's Dictionaries." All authentic 9 O abridgments of Webster's International Diction- O q ary in the various sizes bear our trade-mark on <S A the front cover as shown in the cuts. A 9 /ZS\ /H?\ S&\ 2 IV / wnsrm \ f wnsrro \ ( vwfm | I vufim 1 Y p I AEABonc I Imotsoea. J lumnptal (ntwnxx&J Q 5 \netww/ yactww/ \?tw*/ \on?*r/ X , DENTAL NOTICE. i S. F. Killingsworth, 8 No. 4 Seal Blook, Abbeville, 8. C. A new lot of black crepons for skirts, just received at Haddon's. The nicest box of paper going at Harrison &. Game's for 10 cents. All we ask you to do Is to call and examine j. our line of paper and we are sure to please 'g you. It costs nothing to look It over. HarrlBon & Game. i '4 ^ ' rY ;,v? -< ... s&Sj&k