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ENGLAND'S STAND ON COTTON TRADE .JOINTS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION? PRESIDENT CONSIDERS ALL PARTIES INVOLVED. (By Jas. Norwood.) We hear a great deal of clamor of " for interference on the part of " Ost government with the policy of ' Great Britain of preventing cotton Irran reaching Germany and her al 'ilfcVv. JCjSpeCIimy IS una nauivi *?6~ -orous when cargoes of cotton consigned to such neutral nations as .Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland are stopped and carried into 'British ports. To those who ij^ise this clamor, it appears that our gov eronient is not protecting our seciion of the country as it could and T5hould, showing great partially to Great Britain and her allies while holding Germany to a strict accountability for her misdeeds. Those who raise this clamor are laboring under certain mistaken ideas which this writer wishes to point out. That we should take this view of 'the situation in this section is natural, as cotton is the product upon which we depend for our livelihood sin/1 we naturallv resent anything: which seems to operate against its "bringing the highest price possible. Nevertheless our people do not place 7 their money interest above their : .sense of justice, and it is only neces. sary for them to see the correctness : in the attitude of our government -toward both Great Britain and Gerrxnany. So far as the writer has . seen, practically nothing has been bought out in our Southern press ^making this situation clear. V -Friend to South. ~nowlet us look at the proposition ' "that President Wilson and his cabinet ^are negligent of our interests in the ."South. That would be very poor politics, for their strongest support . 5s in the South. Now they can scarcely be accused of not knowing .their strength in the South, or the -extent to which they depend on that - ^strength for their continuance in of. fice. Besides there are very large interests in the North and East > "whose trade is damaged when cotton is low. The administration could ?ot afford to wantonly drive away their support by neglecting the intervests of the South. Furthermore,' the present administration has been -conspicious since it came into power for being especially favorable to o&r -section. Besides being Southern tfy - birth, early training and sentiment, a the president has been very liberal in 5ius appointments of Southern men to ? important posts. Three of his cabinet, one of the federal reserve board, the comptroller of the currency, are Southern men. Five of the 12 federal reserve banks are located in the South. This is a larger number than are located in any other section. ' The first branch bank under the new law is also; to be located in New Or leans. Last fall when a panic was threatened, and it became necessary : in order to avert it, for the banks to iissue emergency currency, the banks , sin ihe South generally did not have - raougn government, State and municipal bonds to secure all of the curjf xency they would have been entitled In order to overcome this dif1' SaSSy, the secretary of the treasury " agreed to accept loans secured by "s warWraree receipts for cotton and other agricultural products instead < of Jjoods. In addition to all this, ^secretary of the treasury deposited mm y millions of dollars of government money in the banks all over ~lhe South and West to help move the 'crops. iNumerous other evidences could ^>e cited to show that any idea of the administration being indifferent to our interests is ridiculous, but Jthis will suffice for the present. Ono Answer. Then why this apparent indifference to England's policy while holding Germany strictly to account? To .any one who dose not care to go deeply into the matter, this question may be answered, superficially to be sure, but none the less truly, thatEngland is at worst only interfering with American property, while Germany ha? interfered, to the extent of destruction, with American lives and threatens to reneat flip nflVneo as often as similar conditions arise. We can afford to go a little slowly in adjusting offenses which can be adjusted in dollars, but when our lives -and the lives of our fellow citizens are threatened, the greatest promptness is demanded in coming to an- understandlng. Now to go more deeply into our -'relations with England and Germany let us consider carefully two questions in regard to the policy of each (or that part of which we object;. First, how and to what extent are we damaged? Second, are they acting v?vithin their rights in she conduct of their respective politics? First as y to England. Is their policy damag- f, ing us? Very probably not at all. , a; On the contrary it is very likely caus- tl ing us to get a better price than we li could get if she were to let cotton n pass freely between all countries p neutral or belligerent. "What " rr says the objector. "I have heard jt< that cotton was bringing 15 to 18 , G cents in Germany." "Do tell me I is that it would not benefit us, by the J c< difference between these prices and that at which England is setting to - a; be able to reach the German market is< freely?" I do certainly tell you a just that. Those abnormal prices 'c; in Germany, of which you have heard ' t< so much, are created by England's ja success in keeping cotton out of Ger- 1 ci many. Remove that restriction, let si cotton pour into Germany as freely F as it can reach England, and the ti price would be in Germany the same o as it is in our own ports plus the |" cost of handling and transporattion, " or approximately the same as it is ri in England. On the other hand, |r< Pnorlnnfl ic rmvincr 1 0 fnr t.np i-f cotton she is capturing which is more g than it costs to buy it here and land si it in England. v, As to Rights. " Now for the second question: Is iv> England acting within her rights in ti capturing our property on the high c; seas whether we are damaged there- o oy or not? On the surface it might ti appear not. But there are condi- ti tions under which the laws of South V Carolina as well as international law y ecognize the right of one party to \v seize the property of another without w previous bargain and appropriate it o ;o hi3 own use. For example, sup- ii pose I am driving a valuable horse tl on a country road and meet you. You k ire in great danger of your life, fi Nothing but great speed ' will save 0 you. With my horse you can prob- E ibly escape, but so far as you can y see, not otherwise. Having explain- g id the situation to nie, I prove stub- a jorn and will not be persuaded or ai lired to take you up and run' my tl lorse at the risk of ruining him. b Time being of great importance, and p /ou being more powerful than I, you r< ilimb into my buggy, forcibly take it my reins and drive my horse at top i 1 speed for hours until he falls dead, b Meantime you have escaped with /our life. I may feel greatly out- a aged at your treatment, but I can d mot successfully prosecute you for o issault or larceny, but if you agree f< to pay for my horse and any other h money damage you have caused me, 0 I can go no further. The law will regard .a?'human life'as more" valu!aeb than a horse, no matter whose life or whose horse it is. Of course the analogy between this hypotheti- " cal case and our supposed grievance r< against England is not perfect. It * is only offered to show that we can w lot stop with saying that England ,ai :an not or must not interfere with i ^ other countries, regardless of the cir- ^ ;umstances. The circumstances a: have much to do with every case. IP1 Now international law goes a step 'w further. It says any country at war " has a right to stop any vessel at sea ?] vhether the vessel belongs to a neu- ^ ;ral country or not, and after search- ^ ng, if the vessel has goods for the ise of the enemy in his military or ei iaval operation, such goods called w :ontraband of war, the capturing al 'essel may take the captured vessel into port and the cargo may be con- *3 iscated. Now it is true in the early ai stages of the war England declared ^ i. i i en. - ei ;ULLUU iiuii-uuiitruuaiiu. one was seeking, as she is still seeking, to bl ivoid as far as possible causing neu- P! tral countries any inconvenience by sj ;he great war in which she is involv- S1 ?d. But it soon developed .that large luantities of cotton were reaching " jermany through neutral countries a' vnd used by her for making various Ir cinds of high explosives. England ^ thereupon would no doubt have had SJ l perfect right to declare cotton con- bi :raband and treat it as above, but 01 itill remembering her friendship for -his country, she waived her right to m ;hat extent, but still most naturally in insisted on preventing cotton from a -eaching her enemy. It is of no con- d sequence whether it reaches that P' ?nemy directly or through a neutral 'n iountry. 31 Another Slake , Again, suppose we grant that Eng- ?c land's policy of interfering with PJ :otton shipments is injuring us tem- M oorarily (whi ?h as shown above it is a aot) it should not be forgotten that sfc England is fighting a war in the out- ui :ome of which we are most vitally fi interested.' Why are there so many si former Germans in this country of ai ours? They are generally good citi- 01 zens and we are glad to have them, m They are loyal to our flag, indus- oi trious, honest and capable. But why pi did they leave their former land to M adopt ours? A moment's thought will cc furnish the answer. In Germany' le every able-bodied young man has to w serve a term in the army or navy, ec This means an immense standing A army with all of its attendant enor- bl mous expenses to be met by some C form of taxation of the citizens. Is di it any wonder that so many of her cl oung men come to this country be- ^ jre they reach the military service | ge they reach the military service le terrible burden of taxation for fe? Now with such military and ^ aval policy as that and the declared rinciple (or lack of principle) that light makes right Germany' is a srribly dangerous neighbor. A pro- f ierman magazine (the name and ;sue will be given upon request) reently closed an editorial with these T oi*ds, "Might makes right in the last nalysis." We occasionally hear )me one say something like this, "I m in sympathy with Germany beause it is not fair for her to have g ) fight so many enemies at once," d s though it were merely a dog or p 3ck fight in which every one should b Land back and let Germany and q ranee fight it out. But that is not ti le case. It is a conflict between two o pposite sides. On the one hand, tl Might makes right;" on the other, h Every "nation just as every man has ights which all others are bound to aspect, regardless of might." Now a by years of preparation and stag- f ering taxation Germany and Austria a icceed in triumphing over Europe h ith their monstrous doctrine of 11 Might makes right" what is to pre- h aw -fvaw furrintr fViAir fltf.Pn CUV UlCiU XX VII* VWA WMW^? ? *... u on in time to Canada, South Ameri- v a and our own country? One thing e nly, viz.: The same enormous mili- I. iry and naval organization main- a lined at all times by ourselves. b That is a few cents per pound for a ^ ear or two on our cotton compared ith the staggering burden of taxes p re should have to bear for the rest 5 f our lives to hold ourselves in read- a less to fight off ^sudden dash at our a iroat, such as France had to meet tl 1st summer? We can have no such n ear of England. We have had 3,-j a 00 miles of border adjoining her i g dominion to the north of us for 100 | ears without a fortification or a ! S( un from one end to the other, and 1 li Ithough we have had numerous dis- ! h greements, we have, always settled 1 *f iem peaceably by diplomacy or ar- j e itration. This can always be de- ^ ended upon becauue both nations -j scognize the binding force of treat- g is and have proved themselves will- tl 1 g to settle all disagreements on. a o asis of justice. T.of 11c rr?ortcrni70 t.n<* fftcfcl as thev 8 re and not commit the colossal bluner of putting obstacles in the way fj f our friends while they are doing 0 >r us the greatest service t. nation h as done for anothur in the history tl f the world. ?The State. tl S CROWING CELERY AGAIN a From Piedmont North Carolina: 'E "I have read your article on grow- t( ig celery. My celery plants: have al- 0 2ady been transplanted and are fine, j ^ grow the ,Winter Queen. I have al- t] ays made a trench and manured it i a nd as plants grow work the soil to ' g lem until hilled up. A friend of a line had good celery last year, apd J fter getting the plants well started o: lit drain tiles around them, and it $ ' Q( as very pretty after he took it out. t this plan practicable? What kind ^ f fertilizer is best? Would you ad- 0 ise the Baltimore bed method for $ le Winter Queen?" n The difficulty with celery set so a: arly is that it has to be earthed in ? arm weather, and in this climate is ^ pt to rot. It will not keep either a >r winter use. Late August is pi en- ^ r early enough to set celery p^nts b nywhere in North Carolina east of a le high mountain section. It is a a immon practice in the North to * lanch fall celery either by putting II aper around it and held by rubber tx tappers, or to set boards on each P de of the rows. In Northern Ohio, a t Cleveland, I noticed that they set I1 ten ltiii ccicijr cany ui uuiic in iuwa ^ Dout 18 inches apart, and then fill f( i manure thickly between the rows, hey have the overhead irrigation vi rstem and do not; cultivate at all, ^ it as the celery gets tall set planks 81 a each side of the rows to blanch * . Then there are blanchers sold, b ade of heavy manila paper sewed k ito a tube. To use these they have tl brass tube that opens and can be b asped around the plant and the pa- ai jr tube is slipped over this and when 0 i place the brass clasp is removed 13 id used on the next plant. " The Baltimore bed method is best t] >r winter celery of any variety. I jt refer for this method the " Boston - It Market, a dwarf celery which makes d great many niculy balanced side foots. Early fall celery is a very * icertain crop in the Sc uth. A ? iend near Norfolk who haf; soil well 8| lited to celery seat to Kalamazoo id got a man to grow celery for him tl 1 a large scale. This man was failiar with the Kalamazoo methods d< : growing celery, and slarted his w ants under glass tind set II) acres in ^ ay. The result was that the sun j ?oked most of them and the man a ft disgusted, saying that celery (] ould not grow there. Had he start- o< 1 the plants later and set them in d ugust he could have mada, on the L ack swamp land planted, fine late ? ilery, but he simply tried to intro- ^ jce methods suited to the Northern imate, and failed. _ ^ ( SUNDAY SCHOOL. .esson V.?Third Quarter, For Aug. 1,1915. HE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. ext of the Lwison, I Kings x, 1>13. Memory Vermis, 8, 9?Golden Text, Prov. viii, 11?Commentary Prepared by Rev. O. M. Stearns. We saw in a previous lesson tbnt olomon's wisdom excelled all the wisom of the east and of Egypt and that eople came :Crom all the earth to lear his wisdom (1 Kings iv.29.3U.34: II Ihron. ix, 23i. His writings are uienloued in I Kings iv, 32. 33. The Song f Solomon was probably writteu in tie joy of bis :3rst love to the Lord In is younger days when he tirst became ing. Proverbs reads like his more luture experience, while Ecclesiastes i the wad retrospect of his great folly nd sin after lie had turned away rum the Lord, for his wives turned way his heart after other gods, and is heart was not perfect with the l-ord is God (1 Kings xi. 4. Gi. Although e was beloved of bis God and among jany nations there was no king like im. nevertheless even him did strange romeu cunse to sin (Neh. xiii. 2t>t. Aftr the dedication of the temple the .ord appeared to him the second time nd assured him that Hhf eyes and His eart would be nerDetually uuon that ouse because His name was there [ Kings iJU 1-14). What n precious asu ranee for all the redeemed to apropriate. for whut was true of a uilding is surely true of thuse who re temples of th; Hoty Spirit He nd his people were warned, however, lat If they forsook the Lord He would lake them a proverb aud a byword mong all people (L Kings is, 6. 7). So >'e are warned that If the salt loses Its nvor It is good! for nothing: but to be rampled under foot of man. The leson of today, with the parallel record i 11 Ghron. Ix, shows how it might ave been If Solomon had continued iiithftzi and how It will be when a reater than Salomon shall sit on DaId's thirone and the glory of the Lord pon Israel (itialt draw all natlohs. 'hey shall come from Sbeba. bringing o'd and Incense. And shall shew forth ae prat?i(i of the Lord, and the wealth f the nations shall be brought to Isnel when the Mighty One of Jacob ball be their Lord and Saviour (lsa. c, i-3. a n. id). The queen or Sheba heard or tbe ime of Solomon concerning the name f the Lord; therefore some one must ave told, Wis i:now of a greater ban Solomon and of a greater glory aan be ever bad. which our Lord and aviour Wants to share with all. who re willing to receive Him and follow, tlm, but so few think it worth while > tell these good news that two-thirds f the people on the earth never heard et When the queen beard she came > see for herself if tbe report was me. ?!he came with a great retinue nd wii:b camels, bearing gplcerf and old aitd precious stones. Such an bundauce of spices never came' to erusalem before, and sbe gave to Solmon 120 talents of gold, which, at 25,000 a talent would be about $3,00.000. See verses 2 and 10. According to verse 14. Solomon was i the habit of receiving (MM talents f gold yearly. That would be over 16.000.000 In gold alone. So we do ot wonder that silver whs as stones nd nothing accounted of (verses 21, 7). Tbe queen had many bard queslons to ask Solomon, but be told ber IL There was nothing hid from him lat be Could not tell ber. And when be beard his' wisdom and saw bis uildlngs aud bis borne and his servnts there was no more spirit In her, nd sbe bad to acknowledge that rbife before she came sbe did not beeve all that she heard, now sbe bad > confess-that his wlsdoaa and pcofrerity exceeded all that she bad beard nd the half bad not been told her rerses 4-7). It reminds us of lsa. civ, 4; 1 Cor. 11, 9, where we read that ie thing! wbicb God batb prepared jr His redeemed exceed all. . Tbe Spirit bas indeed told us somewhat but we are slow to receive it nd we are not like tbe apostles, wbo ita, "we cannot out speag me mings rhlcb we have seen and heard (Acta r, 20). If the queen of Sbeba carried ack to Arabia with her a saving nowledge of the Lord God of Israel len her visit was to some purpose, ut If it was only to see and admire nd wonder and give and receive gifts rerses M-10. 13) then1 It was a mere assing affair and great only to hutan slglit. From verse 10 w- might include that ahe bad learned to know le true God and can only hope that was even so. From isa. zxxix we >arn that thee visitors from Babylon id not learn from Hezekiah of the *ue God, the God of Israel, but only iw Hezekl&b's greatness and bis prelous things. Christiana might be a it perplexed sometimes if the Lord aould Inquire after visitors bad gone. What have tbey seen and heard in line house?" (lsa. xxxix, 4.) Solomon's gift to the queen of all ber esire, whatsoever she asked, besides 'hat be save ber of his royal bounty 'erse 13). makes us think of Rom. vili. 2. "With Him freely all things," and f David's one great desire?that be tight belhold the beauty of the Lord ?8. xxvil. 4). The more we become ccupied with the glory of His kingom and with the city of which the ord God Almighty and the Lamb are oth temple and glory (Rev. xxi, 22, }) the better we shall see things here i their true light. COOK IN THIS SI YOU can mj as livable as ?if you hav FECTION Oil i wood-box, no ash to bother with. 1 chen, and half th The NEW PE quick and handy 1 lights instantly, a volume of heat, just by raising or 1< It is easy to open and easy to re-A women say it's j with kerosene oil Ask your dealer NEW PERFE stoves with one, four burners. I' NEW PERFEC especially made stoves. Ideal f baking. Use Aladdin or Diamond to obtain the be Stoves, Heiter STANDARD G I Wa*hin* too, D. C. (New J< (Norfolk, Va. (BALTIC Richmond, V*. ONE THOUSAND LIVES ARE LOST WHEN STEAMER SINKS (Continued from page 1.) of these were swept away by the current. Hundreds Die in Reach of Shore Boats put out, tugs rushed to the scene with shrieking whistles and many men jumped into the river - to aid the drowning. With thousands of spectators ready to aid and the wharf within grasp hundreds went to death despite every effort at rescue. One mother grasped her two children in her arms as she slipped from I 11. A. A I tne steamer inxo ine water. kjhc child was torn from her, but she and the other were saved. Fathers were , drowned after aiding their wives and children to safety. One man was seen to cling to a spike in the side of the wharf while two women and three men stepped over his body to safety. He fell exhausted into the river as the last one of the five reached the pier. Jnstances of heroism.were' almost as numerous as the number of persons on the scene. Boats as soon as full took rescued passengers to the wharf or to the steamer Theodore Roosevedt, which was tied up opposite the Eastland. Water Clear in an Hour. In an hour the water was cleared of excursionists. Those who had not been taken to land had sunk or were swirling uuwn cue xx vex lunaiua uic drainage canal locks at Lockport, 111., many miles away. The locks were raised to stop the current, and arrangements were made to take bodies from the river along its course through the soutwest part of Chicago. : Soon after the accident, Captain Pterson, of the Eastland, attempted to interfere with the work of men burning the steel hull of the boat to i rescue bodies. He and his first and i second mates were arrested. At i 12:30 p. m., First Deputy Superm-]' ' COMFORT JMMER ike your kitchen your living room e a NEW PER(^lr?olrctr?vf Mr* v/v/vyiwwv/ ? v? * 1 v * -pan, no coal-hod " V clean, cool kite drudgery gone. i RFECTION is ike a gas stove. It nd gives you a big easily regulated/ Dweriiig the wick. 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Violence on the part of the mob, directed against the ship's officers, was narrowly averted by calling xrot reserve policemen. The story of the rescue of hundreds of the passengers was filled with accounts of heroic deeds that accompany every similar disaster.* The rule, "women aid children fhntt*, was observed rigidly without a single exception,, according to tile tales H told by survivors. . EH Heart-melting scenes were en- ' H acted in a dozen different morgues in the neighborhood of the dodca. Hj Thousands -flocked tor these places, and when some disheveled man' or Wa woman found a friend or relative, BR there* was hysterical laughter, weeping and railing such as has not been nj witnessed in Chicago since the Iro- MB quois Theatre fire. On a alah in nna mnrmit the k/idifii of three tiny babiese lay unidenti/led. Hundreds of women viewed these bodies and more than a score fainted B9 at the grewsome sight. . IB DESTRUCTION OF U-51 DENIED BY GERMANY^H Berlin, July 23.? The GermanAdmiralty issued an official statement to-day denying that the sub- marine U-51 had been sunk off Var- H na, in the Black Sea, by a Russian warship. ^ _ jS.iiA..* ]S