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V. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST" 2 1905. ESTABLISHED 1844 U^^progre ss j^Hpdress of Col. S. H. ggiw South Carolina! Wsfj^M White Stone, July 14?To an aui lence composed of every member of tl South Carolina Press Association : tne hotel and all the other guests i White Stone, Col. S. H. Hard wick, < Washington, D. C., delivered the fo flv lowing masterful address ou, "Tb W Story of the South," here tonight: W Mr. Hardwick said: Mr. Presiden j> ladies, and members State Piess Assc ? ciation of South Carolina. Receive, I beg you, my compliment and my tbanks. "I think the South requires the ai of her sons now more than at any pel iod of her history. As you ask m, purpose, I will state that 1 have u thought of abandoning her uulesti com pelled to do so." These are the words of the nobles and grandest chieftain of the Soutl and of the world. It was at the close of a chilly an tuinn day in a little college town nest i img among the bills of dear old Vir ginia. The family in a modest hom< J I 1 .1 , naa wauea ueyouu iue usuat uwui its bead to return. AC last there ap Eared a majestic figure approachiug e walked a very god among in -i He had his military cape throwi around his shoulders. His mien wa stately and his dignity impressive and yet bis calm face showed that th duties of that day as President of th college bad been unusually arduous. In a Utile while the family gathere< around the board, in their respectiv places, and the husbaud and fathe took his place at the head of the table There they stood with reverentl; bowed heads. The great chieftain al so stood with bowed bead and uplifte< I hand to ask the accustomed bletsiuj upon the simple meal. Alas, th agony of it. No sound was beard, u< i speech forthcoming. The family look ed up in direst alarm. The grea cbieft*" looked around upon each o them, "3 rested a long, last, linger ing loving look upon the face of tb wife. His band was lowered; be saul back into bis chair; his loved one crowded around with bluncbed laces quivering hearts. Aud the soul o Kobert E. Lee had surrendered to (jiod The Almighty Father bad need c bim inHis Heavenly Kingdom. Au< Lee walked with God. 4,J think the South requires the aii of her sons now more than at any pet iod in hef history. As you may as! my -advice I will state that I have u intention of abandoning her unlets compelled to do so." Splendid a& is the record ofLe 1 throughout every day of his life. Kiea as bad been bis military achievmeut beginniDg&t West Point, iucludiu the Mexican war, ttie Indian war, ain illumined with tlie greatest glory a General of tbe armies of tbe South embracing all tbe details of bin sei vie iucludiDg bis visit to South Carolin to see personally tbat her coast det'eu ce were in proper condition, ou througl all his glorious career, through victor or temporary deteat, there is no peri* i of his great, good life which approactntbe sublimity of bis quiet life and ex ample after he bad ordered bis ai m it to finally disband and return to thei homo. It was in that time that hi great heart, oveiflowing with love fc tbe South and for the whole country bewitn knightliest courage gave hiu btfil uu jcsi ui iCJsuir, uui ai uijuc guv immediate response to the need of th Bouth for ber sons. Think of the solemnity and >. lory c that great recessional of the armies i the Bouth. These men having thu looked for the last time upon Lee, an having received his farewell addres and benediction, then was be^uu th recessional, the musical note ot whiei was not dirge-like nor a requiem c despair. But hark! Listen to tha music and hear that it is the same iu spriting, brave tone which was hear in the processional of four year befor ?Lhe thrilling note of "Dixie." An J these men still sang with grim com age, ''I wiil live and die in Dixie, lliis tune has sit ce found Us wa around the world and is the most pot ular in the world today.,, ! We bave;but oue flag now, than ; finH whinh. on HCeoULit of all it rnnri sents, floats more grandly aud beau 'i ifully in the the air than the flag ( any other nation, and it semis t know of itself its own superiority. ? with the tune of "Dixie." I think n real American patriot can ever hes the music note of "Dixie"witbout b ing thrilled with greater patriotic It was under the flag that we rtve ence that Washington, a son of tl South, marched to the front, and ;; was to the step of "Dixie" that Lee It the armies of the Souih Lee could have left bis mother coui v try and been honored and worshippt by the world abroad as one of hi greatest princes. He could have In tinecures of all kinds for merely tl use of hip great name elsewhere. B he knew the netd of the South, th r \ tt' r? tnnu milttt f'OPO fnr htif Kit ^ up her wounds, build up her was t?ud war-worn places, aud to he a 'i cepted his part of the hard task ai ; btgau to work for the South, with tl % meager income of a college Pie&ider to build anew that college, and to I foiever an example to teach the youi of ibe South by his counsel &nu pt tonal association and give tolace ai encouragement to the whole riesola Boutb; a>e alt-o the strickeu Kort and indeed to our whole gieat eou try, and loall the worid beside, ar ?o all men who were and are yet follow his txamjle and give hetd his words. Hear again the voice of the gre chieftain as he says, "I have foug against the people of the North I tug son; i and Her Pos lities. Hard wick Before th Press Association. j,,caui"e I believed they were seeking i " wrest from tiie South her dearei t rights, but I have uever cherished t< t ward theui bitter or vinidctive feelinj r aud have never seen the day I did u< . | prav for them." "I Was ever so grand and pure a pa riot born to auy other country? Leai .. ing us also this heritage of nonseetior I alism. Surely the South has trie* hard also to uive heed to that. ? Lee saw the need that the South bai " > - -1 r A I oi ner sous in mat uuy ui uaiKuea > land discouragement, and many a soi I would have been robbed of his rest " hi ten ess had not Lee uttered thesi ^ words. " "I think the South requires the ai< l" of her sons now iuore thau at any per . iod." So the immortal Lee said am | did, aDd so the sons of the South sai< and did, because of Lee. His words an his example were iu the impetu ~ which gave irresistible force to th< progress of the South's developemeul ~ which we witness todav. r Wbnttbe South hint bone. Glance backward for a moment am " see what the extremity of that nee< ' was. Think ot the South in the day when the great Lee spoke these words with practically no railroad system jl all destroyed, and wreckage all tha was left. Come quickly along the interveninj j years, and letvus give thanks aud re joice ever auew that we had so grea and so wise a leader as Lee. Think o the magnificent A-orkof the sons of thi ' South who began immediately then t< bring order out of chaos. Conside what splendid rewards the South hai ( !?*?*> frv Iwvm or.iio L'A for o lirl i ikh givcu IU uci OUIIO o\J i?i, auu IUUIV in u * the horizon of the future of the Soutl e aud see that it has absolutely uo limi ^ tatiou set by the Almighty bariing iti * further progress and developement | and I, for one, do not believe He in tends any such barrier to be thus se by prejudicial aud harmful uatioua ? legislation, or otherwise. So that th< South, while blessiui; all those whc s are now withiu her border^ is read; ' to, with all cordiality, welcome al ! others who will thus come with us t< } assist iu her developemeut. . See the glorious Southland blossom ing today as a rose and abounding ii , rich developement of mines and man ufacture, aud her fields yielding super abundant crops. "The Man with th< Hoe," as typified by Edwiu Markham ? has been practically eliminated/ion 8 tha Souih, and has been succeded b^ the man with the modern cultivator The whirl of thousand of spindles o ll the South is fast overcoming the hun 8 of such tuachinary iu other sections U The lights of the miners' lamps iu th d South aie as multitudinous as fireflies s on a summer's evening. Theexten '? 8ion 01 ranroaas, uy construction o e uew lines and developement of olde a oue9, is oue of the greatest activitie '* of the whole country today. Marl ll that the railway transportation of th >' South today is not surpassed by tha " of any other section, and, indeed, i * equaled by few. Think where th ; South would be today without he s railways. And yet we know tha r while the South is now coming iut 's her own, the story is but begun. ir While it was and is the first duty o '< the sons of the South to respond to th '* requirements of the South, these rt e quirements, as was plainly pointed ou e oy our immortal leader, were aud an aiso to make the South a place o >! worthy and attractive residence for al right miuded and patriotic peopl 18 from all other parts of this countr; d and from the whole world. So tha 18 we should always bear that part c e Lee's admonition also in mind?t h prepare and to invite and to make wel l come all good people from wberesoeve 11 they may come, to join with ns.n ' meeting Lall the requirements of th d South, aud sharing with us her woti p c.,1 ....w ~ i ytri i iii auu uuuu?ic3? ujc.-piu^o. 11 The South indeed bath need of he r* sons. While all of her sons have ii ?' tbe main been true to her, to my mim y tbe particularly important factor J- which have thus far made for th marvelous material, developement c k the South are the meu of the press c tbe South, including chiefly tbe pres t- o< Soutb Carolina?you men who hav 'f labored so faithfully and patriotically (0 tben the farmers, who have toiled s *> long under such hard conditions, bu 10 whicb, thank God, bave recently bt ir gun to be greatly ameliorated, ain t- which ceriainly will continue to in u- prove; then the railroads. r- Think of the wonderful improv* ie ments the railroads bave made, an it consider that the chief officers < :d marly every railroad in the Sout bave been all along and are yet tb o- sons of tbe South. And think ho* ?d the railroads have led tbe way in tb er iu tbe progress and development of tk id South. >e How, then, commerce, mining, mai ut ufatturiug, and all other diveisille activities have wrought such miri ?d cle9. le Tuia is not to say that the press < e- farming, or commerce, or maiiufactn id ing, or miuing, or railroading, or an ue other agency for good has been allov it, eu to be sectional, because it is a fa< lie that iu these great fields additions lh the forces have come from every se *r- uon of this great country, and fro] Jd every section of this great countr te and from abroad; but it is said to gl h. ry in the fact that all along thei great factors have been in a great pa 'd manutd by the sons of the South; ai it is furtliur to say, with perhaps eve greater glory, that all such who ha1 come within the borders to ca*t the fortunes with us, have likewise b ht come eons of the South and have ful recognized that the South hath ne? ) I 15-*DA' e sTo buy 1 a31 )t 1 t1 J [1 - Millinery, ; Ladies i d i 1 Wheeler & S i 'Kid Gloves, : Boys' CI e ) r Ic. w ) J , [) of all her sons, those born to her and f those adopted by her, in her mother's ] - heart when once they thus are all tru- I a ly her sons. j "I Ihink the South reqqires tbe aid f - of her eons now more than any period j e of her history." This great truth i* as . true today as it was when Lee uttered j j these words. 5 The South has long hern politically { dependent, and in spile of all such ad- 1 f verse conditions she has developed 1 :j most magnificently. She has already < 1 secured the permanent attention of ail ( e parts or our own great country, anu i rapidly are these K?od people coming - to be sons of the South. They well f know that, in addition to all material r advantage for all kindB of develop* s ment, there resides in tbe South that i spirit of the true and correct ioterpree tatiou of the constituton of the United t Slates, which, free from anarchy or s plutocracy and all such evils, the e South shall be looked to for the preeerr vation aud the maintenance of the t supremacy of that constitution. 0 Aud now, too, we are beginning to have the better class of foreign immif gratiou seek the South, becaus-e they e are also learning of our splendid coun try, with its great resources and limitt less possibilities. f A Drtiifcr, ' But unhappily the South is not yet left unhindered in her march of \ progress. The South is now conr fronted with a most insidious evil, 1 the more dangerous in that it ap" pears in quite a plausible guise. " She is now desired to understand that what she, along with the whole country, really needs is for the fltial ratemaking power to be jonferred upou a uureau or me national gov- ' errnent. Tbe proposed new Inter- , state Commeice Commission is to b2 1 composed of seven instead of five J men. , g These seven commissioners are to 1 , do what many thousand men are 1 now engaged in doing, tbe only dif' ference being that these are railroad ' ^ aen who are constantly going about ' the country and with years of intel- 1 ' ligeut experience, ascertaining the , needs of tbe people, the resources of ' the country, thus to obtain infor- ] ^ mation upon which proper rate ad- 1 justments should be made. Tbe ! many thousands appointed are raila road men, while the seven men are 1 j to be appoiutees of the President of t the United Slate*. Yet all these j many thousand men, ^in ^the final i analysis, are not considered to know 1 what the people really desire, nor the whole conditions of market, or other substantial conditions upon which proper rates are made. I say these many thousand men are not 3_" supposed to know as well, nor be as reliable, forsooth, they are appointed by railroad companies and Kpend their lives in tbat work; while, on the other band, these seven com' missioners are appointed by the President of the United States for " varying lengths of terras, and can. not have as good meansof coming iu contact with the people to enable them " fully or fairly to obtain all the information upon which to fix araU ? a rate fair to the shipper and the railroad. j When a railroad company nowa, days wants to appoint a m?n to one ' of the higher positions in charge of ' its revenues, which are, of court-e, to .? rates, tbat company deliberates a long while and finds much diffi.e" culty in getting a properly trained A expert for the place, on account of ' its tremendous importance and re ONLY rs mo Goods at low Cost. \ Shoes, Dr< Shirts, M< Wilson Jewing Machi: Embroi othing, Ri . ivei <ponsibility. But under the proposed bill the President of the Uni- ! ed States is expect to feleot and ippoiht seven men who can do this superhuman work of final rate-makng for the whole country. At present it is the business of "ailmads of the South to see that" the South shall compete for all traffic to ind from all domestic and foreign narkpts possible, and this is done in he fairest consideration of all con!erned, but of course the railroads . f C!/mif W nauor Iaco tltrVif nf t Ko ?1 IUC oumcu *JVfV4 f'tuw "I ? u*r 'act that their interests and responsibilities are in the South. Other railroadB of oilier sections lave similar ideas; hence cometition s keen and active between the re ipective railroads throughout the jountry. If the Southern railway, :or example, finds that it cannot alace the products of South Carolina n certain new markets by reason ot existing differences in rates--, it promptly endeavors, if practicable, :o adjust its rates so that the ^ompeition may ensue. This could no longer be done under the Escb rownsend bill. In such-a case as I have cited, if :he commission had fixed a certain rate to nothing higher, nothing lowir may be charged, and as no change in the rate could, under the Jaw, be made without the consent of the commission, then that competion would be shut off, and that point, that must be the exact rate; South Carolina, and to the whole South, must bear her loss of trade- extension in that direction. In time the seven commissioners rar ill Vtoiro fi Vor? oil ru f<iu /)AnKtldac upon a strict mileage basis, and competition between railroads would ceasf-e. There is nothing: in the present law stricter than the prohibition of pooling, yet here we tind the Eschlownstnd bill actually fixing the limitations of competition as the jommission may deem best, because by saying the rate may not be changed, not .even lowered, these seven commissioners do in effect pool the traffic to that particular point, aa they thus tend to confine that traffic to certain lines and to exclude certain other lines, thus saying what revenues In that respect shall go to certain roads, and what sections or localities shall be permitted to offer iheir productions in certain markets. Illustrative of the effect of such a law, I happened to meet the other day a friend of mine who is a partner in the ownership of one of ihe largest series of iron furnaces in the South. Germany, as you know, has governmental control of railroad rates. This friend informed me that Vtta norliiur liaH Knnn Atmp i it (~2 ui muf'v uio f(*i IU^I uau uccu wrci JU vjitimai'J to make special investigation of the working of the rate-making power ae cised by that government, and that he returned thoroughly disgusted with governmental control of rates, and he thought that the present American plan was by all means the safest and best for this country to follow; that necessarily frequent changes in the quotations of shipments of iron ore and commodities of similar kinds requiie some prompt change in the rates, which the present law of the United States afiords, whereas it was the opinion and observation of his partner that a change ol such a rate in Germany was wellnigh impossible; that over there, where applications for rates on account of towns just opening up certain industries and becomiug established as competitors with certain other localities, the applications be : MHbhSbh r RE ? -15 and Be3ss Goods. / 3n's Overalls, tie for $20. dery, I 1 _ Tli . Duons, jiiic. idall. ing ruade to tbe government of Ger maDy for certain adjustment of rates the delay attending these applica tions wan so great that generation* might die before the decision of th? government bad been obtained. Ic tbe meantime the town itself bac languished and probaly passed, out o: existence, or certainly the need of thai rate bad gone by. 'imp, men, is to ce me aisnroei create*! for our country, but actinj injuriously, as I see it, upon th? South more than upon any othej section of the country, because th< South, more than any other section is now developing more rapidlj and needs more eoeouraj?ement froir railrrads than ever before. All o this retardation lo be the outcom< of the present legislation wbicl was before the last congress, auc which will doubtless be bmorg th< first bills presented for attention o the next congress. You are all doubtless familial with the present interstate com meice law and regulations, but ] fear very few of you really undei stand what is proposed as the out come of the agitation which has re centlji been created and cultivated throughout the land, which agitatior finds "its expression in the" Esch Townsend bi)J, commonly referred t< as the TowDEend bill. This proposec legislation is what we consider mos barmfultto the whole country, am especially so to the South. In th< Bubtlety of this bill is much tha would hamper the development ofth< South. I'rrHldtnt Spfncrr'n Vie?n. Upon the important subject of th< EbCh-Towupend bill, our honorabU President, Mr. Samuel Spencer, begai a recent address with these quotations "There is no liberty if the power oi judging be not separated fromthelegis lativeand executive power."? Montes quieu. "Agriculture, manufactures, coor nafTUottnn t U ~ 11A of our national prosperity, are tht most thriving when left most tree tc individual tnurprise."?Thomas Jefferson. "It must not be forgotten that oui railways are the arteries through which the commercial lifeblood of this natior flows. Nothing could be more foolish than the enactment of legislation which would unnecessarily interfere with the development and operation of those commercial agencies."?Presi rlent Roosevelt's message to congress December 3,1901. Mr. Spencer then continued in pari as follows : "If a tribunal which will answer tlx description can be organized, or ii methods can be found?and I believ< they can be without the necessity of at additional and special tribunal for the purpose?by which the great railwaj questions of the day can be settled ii accordance with law and equity, am in accordance with those tundaruenta principals of government which an guaranieed by the Constitution, J tpeak with authority wben I bay thai substantially every railway manage: in tbe cruntry will subscribe to tliat view and aid in tbe accomplish men l of ihe desired result. "Tbe difficulties of adjustment, there fore, lie not, as has beeusooften claim ed, in any obstructive or defiant attitude of the railway manager. Tbej rest fundamentally in the anomalous condition in which the carriers are placed under the law; in those eugges tions of remedy which, failing utterly to reach the evils sought to be cured 7 y.v: / V, -..-..Ji : v/ would punish unwisely and unneces- t sarily the innocent along with the V guilty; and in those suggestions which it look to the separation or one particu- n lar class of property from all others, to be dealt with indiviously by special it tribunal and by special methods. fe "The effect of such regulation un- rs doubtedly would be the curtailment of re future railway construction and im- pi provements, not only by reason of the tt impairment of railway credit, but also ui from the unwillingness of investors to d; J own or to enlarge properties the reve- w nues of which would be practically uu- ui der governmental or political control a] and the expenses still be subject to the ti uncertainties of industrial conditions, ol "Under the provisions of the present w act, much good has beeu accomplish- JS ed, Despite occasional but persistent gi statements to the contrary, the evil of w rebates, secret contracts, and unjust Y discrimminations has almost entirely nc disapeared. A "The Townsend bill provides that a n: rate once fixed by the commission n should continue in force indefinitely ol unless changed by the commission or by the oourt. Under such a law at all st rates would in time become commis- T sion's rate*, and the functions of rail- w way managers in adjusting rates to meet commercial conditions and in ex- w tending the sphere of usefulness of the a transportation systems of the country ai would, step by step, come to an end. ei Slow hut steady paralysitt would creep tl Into the industrial arteries through w which the blood of commerce flows' ai and the transportation system would gradually become numb and rigid, rv The present activities of railway man- w agers would be eliminated as an ageucj ai in tbe intelligent development of the a! resources of the country. Rates would ^ SOOD i>e maciuutJ-Luaue ouiy, auu cuui- a mercial and industrial centers, now w acknowledging no bound for the ultl- fc mate dlstribuiion of tbeir products, pi would find themselves operating in narrower and imrrower zonts, finally qcircumscribed to overnmental edicts as to where their w ares should go." a| I next qnote from the analysis of the Esch-Towuseijd bill by the Hon. Wal* t( ker D. Bines, of Louisville, Ky., at> w follows: k "In point of fact, the only thing more radical than this bill which could |e be eDacted would be to provide for 5, government ownership of the rail- a roads. u "This bill will cleaily enable the t, commission to j ut into effect its theo- g ries about what should be the relative g advantage of competing localities ol which will introduce a sectional, and a possibly political, phase into the administration of the interstate com- w merce act that was absolutely removed p from all the theories of regulation which congress seriously considered u when the interstate commerce act wa* Li passed. Much of the support for the e( preterit measure comes from parties in- n terestud in particular localities who u hope to prolitjby the commission beim tI able to give eneut 10 lis intones a? 10 ' the compaiative commercial advant- C( i ages of competiiig communities, ai- w though every one must, on reflection. U( ! appreciate that every time the com' mission helps one community by such 1 an exercise of its power it coriespond' ingly hurts auothtr, and also puts a y f check upon the most wholesome com- C 1 petition which has ever existed in thih country ; that is, the competition be d r tween rival localities or rival sources it of production for the markets of the b' country. > tc "To borrow a phrase from one of our ei most accomplished statesmen, the agi- s< tation for the ammendment of the intersiate commerce act is simply a 'for- oi ' tuitous concoune of unrelated piejudi- si 1 ces'; and the bill now propoted does e1 1 not remove the various cautes of thope 8' | prejuices, but launches the country on 81 ' aD abaoJuieiy unirieu anu uiicenaju ? system of commercial regulation with' out time lo consider what is really 'r needed and what the bill really meant n r and yet upon a system which isfrauhgi al * with the gravest menace to the rail- 11 ' roads and the commerce of the coun- r< r try." Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., statistician r< " and economist, of Washinton, D. G\, 01 * haviDg submitted an analysis of the re1 ply of the present Intersrate Commerce cJ " Commission to the senate resolution in e' J January last, makes clearly con vine- 81 ' ing statistics and conclusions relative 91 1 c<> the injurious *fftct of the Etch' Townsend bill, and he concludes his h argument as follows : g 1 "The foregoing statements c'earJy ?l ? prove the efficiency and sufficiency of jl the present act to ngulatec-ommeiceat ?( amended. They al n i t fleet great credit upon the admiuiairaliou of the present > statutory regulation of the railroads, h } At the sume tim? they utterly repel 1* i the revolutionary idea of istablifhing 0 : bureaucratic government in this coun- P r ?... f/ir the l-ooiilnlinn of intprxlutpnnm- CI I |,1 J tKJi. luv i vj, -- r i meree. The very asfcumption that E! more drastic statutory legislation thau ^ that uow iu force is needed is upon its face preposterous." is Would Help .\'?w Knglautl. 8j > Relative to the political dangers of it . the Esch-Townsend bill, Hon. H. T. tl Newcomb, statistician and tconomist, of Washington D. C., quotes from a re- o1 i cent speech of an eminent, New Eng- ti i land statesman as follows : vv i "This movement is a movement for aj i the equalization of rates. It is a case & ; of rebates to individuals and of the difi ferentials between points. No railroad b< . wants to give a rebate to anybody. I " believe that it would put more money * ' into the treasuries of the railroads if ir t there were not such things presentsys- u| tem can ever put there. We have ^t > dealt somewhat wi<h the question of "J f rebates and individuals. They are tl ? comparatively easy to deal with, but ta j when you come to the differentials be- ai ? tween points you touch communities, h t and that is a very serious matter ; and b< i today New York and Boston are suf- b I fering from the railroad differentials, w I and are made to sutler for the benefit ^ ? of points father Souht," di rnl uonton/?o nf fKo QC 1 lit? UUUtiUUiu^ vi mc IU1C" i going was received with great applause r by the Middlsex Club of Boston and w t, its guests. The abolition of port dif- t<3 I ferentials would be very satisfactory to al Boston, but carry tbe news to Phila- ^ , delpbia. Baltimore, Norfolk, Newport r< ' News, Wilmington, Charleston, Sa- C( . vannah, Brunswick, Pensacola, New tl T Orleans, and Galveston, and It would ti , be received quite differently. n } Mr. Newcomo himself says, further : "The Interstate Commerce Commis- st r si on is composed of the political ap- ^ ( pointees of the President, and from v he beginning New England and New M fork together have had two-fifths of ,? memoership, while the South has ever had more than one-fifth. "It will be a sorry day for American- . $ idustry when the question of portdif- ^ trential or of the relations among $ lilway rates, anywhere becomes in . ^ ;alily a political question. Do the eople of the United States wiah to see -:3 le great parties which perform such ' J seful functions iu their government $ ivide upon the question whether :V?| heat shall be made into flour for the ,jjj se of Eastern consumers at Minnepolis or at Niagara; whether live cat- .-yK e or dressed beef shall be shipped east f Kansas City, Omaha, and Chicago ;% hether New Orleaus, Galveston, or few York shall draw tribute from the ? reatest quautity of export gr&iD, or [hether the salt produced in New ; ^3 ork or Michigan or Kansas shall be ' lost profitably marketed in Iowa?" .ud 1 may add, or whether the cotton , 1 fills of 6outh Carolina shall be p?r- t -i fitted to compete with the cotton milla ^ I New England ? Permit me here to give you the sub;ance of some views expressed by our hird Vice President, Mr. J. M. Culp, ho says: d * It is clear that if there baa been, v? hen many of the rates were beiDg ? lade for the stimulation of traffic to -,v$? id from the South, some central pow- ; authorized to name and fix rates, ley would have beeu certainly made ith some relation to the distances, nd tfiis. ceutral authority would un- '-"3 oubtedly have considered that it was ?t its busiuess to make rates which ' ould take traffic from one section to id in the development of trafflo in aother section no matter if such adjust lent was necessary for the develop- , lent ot the new industries. They ould have held that the rates must be iM >r the same distances from various '/M Dints of consumption. "The South, by reason of her raw laterial, such an iron,coal, cotton, tim- 13 er, etc., is in need of every aid to en- uif 3le tier 10 convert ioe.-e raw prouucu? )to fiuished material aDii ship them ) the markets of consumption. This ' ill not be accomplished with consis- -|| >nt rapidity, if ever at all, except by , -41 le aid of the railroads in the South, sft free in the future, as they have ! eeu in the past to make such adjustlents as they may find necessary for ie fostering and benefit of the indus- 3 lea and producing centers of the outh. It is easy to imagine how dif- t.sjj cult it would have been twenty-five r thirty years ago to have had a com- '-'.K lission or other central power to make lese rates, Assuming that complaint 1 as maae 10 mem or lae raies maae or repast d on iron to the East and West a r manufactured cotton goods, or far- ; iture, authorizing a reduction in letse rates to the basis that was adoptJ as against the efforts of the Northern iilroads and the Northern manufact- :. res. But such a commission or cenal power would have prevented a reuction from Southern points unless jrresponding or relative reductions ere made from other established Dints of production." Appral to the rresn. And now I am come to appeal to ou, our brethern of the press of Sooth arolina, and through jou to the press f the South, not to allow anything to istract us from our work of advanc./? Uaat i n tcroofo /tf fho C/vntk XJaaw J ? I Lit. UCOl 1UU1V.OW v/l tuu UVUkUl Xlvwi oth sides, or all sides, of this momen>us question ot committing to a patrnal government the right to circum- 'rj$ jribe your developement; the right to ly what markets you may reach, and f saying to the South, Thus far .*'3 salt thou go but no farther," Not tfeu your best friends, the railroads, jail be allowed to help you beyond ach dictum of this proposed most radical measure. The South must be loyal to her own iterestsand take care of her own eeds. She must protect her own gricultural, commercial, and indus ial necessities, including her rail)ads. This rate-making power by a bueau of the government would affect ar whole land but 1 consider, as a usiness proposition it must affect the outh at this time more than anv oth r section, because the South possesses ich limited undeveloped resources of jch varied and such needful kinds iat no other section can much longer ave the advantage it the South is iven a fair showing and a reasonable pportunity. Now, at this critical mcture, if left free, she will soon jual aye, even surpass, all other seems in her triumphant developement. Then Jet us do nothing to hamper or inder that progress of the South. So ;t us not be disturbed by the envying f the sections, but let us emulate the rogress of other sectious of our great >untry. Let our watchword ever be aat the South hath need of her sons, rot iD narrowness nor in selfishness, ut in a spirit of the broadest patriotm, let us remember that here is our ome and this is our immediate reDonsibitity, indeed our glorious heriage. Our responsibility is to advance ie progress ol the South ana not perlit such national legislation, or any thpr legislation, to cast nk hank- ton ;veuty, forty years, aud all the hard ork of these years to be done over ?ain, with increasing burden and dilinishing encouragement. Think of the tremendous arra^r oflaDring people who are dependent upon lilroads, directly and collaterally, for livelihood, numbering in this couny from ten to fifteen millions people, 1 their earnings with the tradesman, orekeepers, witn the professional ien, the pres?, etc., and think what iey contribute to religious aud chari>ble work, what good citizens they e, and shall their ueeds have no earing nor intluenee? Shall they be jset with calamitous co nditions, by aving their forces reduced aud .the ages of the remaining ones cut down? [as the Esch-Townsend bill a right to isregard all these conditions and coniqueuces? Railroads must keep their expenses itbin their income; so they must cur lil or may bap finally cease their opertions. But it is iu no selfish way lat 1 appeal to you and all our bretbjn (jf ibe South, but I repent I am nne to ask you to do nothing to eniral the South to any otber section in lis present progress of her developlent, but let her be forever unshackled ee to obtain the best: terms for herilf; free to deal with her own railroads > be able to go to her own railroads; (Continued on bth page.)