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' ' * Abbeville Press and Banner ~ ?..5o ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916. established a year. 1844 i , * * GERMAN-AMERICANS AGAIN CHEER WILSON I EXECUTIVE'S WORDS STIR HIS HEARERS?MAY BRING DEFENSE FIGHT SOUTH. St. Louis, Feb. 3.?President Will' son to-day brought his preparedness I tour to a close here by stirring a I great audience cf 16,000 GermanI Americans to a near-frenzy of patriotic enthusiasm. ''Will you come when I call?" he Cries of "Yes! Yes!" and "You bet we will!" came from all sides of the! ' rvwiicoiim where the President deliv-1 ered his principal address of the day, | ' and the crowd fairly rocked the big hall with its applause. ' The President drove home in em? phatic words that the army he wants will be a citizen one and not a professional one. This brought about another storm of cheers. This morning before he delivered his last address of the trip here he was as happy as a boy. He had gone out into the country to wake it up to the need of preparedness and had found that the country was wide awake. Rough on Pacifists. The President handled the pacifists in the roughest fashion he has yet used, and the St. Louis crowd cheered his every sarcastic statement. "These men look straight into the face of facts," said the President, "and see nothing but atmospheric air. "You should listen with indulgence to them, but absolutely ignore their words. They have a right to talk, but no right to influence us. "Nothing chills folly like exposure to the air." "I came into the Middle West to find something, and I found it," declared the President as he faced the immense Coliseum audience. "I was told," he continued, "that the feeling in the Middle West was not the same as on the coasts. I knew that the men who said so did not know what they were talking about. I know the spirit of America, and I know what Americans will do when their rights are threatened." "America is at peace with all the world, and desires to remain at peace with all the world," he said, as he took up his Coliseum speech. "It is a real peace, not a shallow peace. It is not a peace based on selfish interests. America is friendly with all the world. Understands Country's Ties. " A """"'"o ie Hmwn from all the nar nmvi ?v? via m ?. .. .. _ tions of the world. It would tear our heartstrings to be at war with any of the great nations. "But if we had to defend and maintain our rights by going to war, America would do it. "I have no indictment of any form of government. But I do not know where any people ever went to war with a people. And in Ameirca no man is master. "So far as America is concerned, no man need go about preaching peace. We are disciples of peace alf ready. "I, in my individual capacity, am a disciple of domestic peace and happiness," stated the President, but he was stopped with loud laughter. He smiled as he saw the crowd take the statement in connection with his marriage. "The danger is from without, not within," he declared, with emphasis, and the big German American crowd stamped approval. "Submarine commanders, for the most part, have instructions that conform with international law. But one rcckless commander of a submarine, by placing his own interpretations on what his government wants and by a rash act, set the whole world on fire." For Actual Neutrality. The President, in solemn tones, stirred the crowd to wild enthusiasm *rri+h the statement: "We respect other nations, and absolutely respect their rights, so long as they respect our rights. We have tried to think of the point of view of the other side," he continued. "I want the record to show that we stand for actual neutrality and not pretended neutrality. "You know how one nation has been largely cut off from communication with the outside world owing to the war. And this has had a lot to do with sentiment in this country. But, despite that, I believe that this nation has been absolutely neutral. "The peace of America depends on what other nations do. And that is why I have come to encourage you to ]ii cpai c. "Now, here is the choice, and I don't see how a prudent man could doubt which alternative to take. Either we shall sit still and wait for a necessity for immediate national preparations to come and then call on raw recruits who for months will be useless, and even then of little use because of inexperience, or we shall adopt the ancient American principle of making the men of America ready to take care of their government." "You Bet We'll Come!" The Preident aroused the wildest enthusiasm when he declared he wanted a citizen army and not a professional one. "Will you come, and in the right spirit?" he asked, pausing. "Yes! Yes!" came cries from the NO PARTY LINES IN DEFENSE PROGRAM SPEAKER CLARK AND REPUBLICAN LEADER MANN WORK TOGETHER FOR MEASURE. ( < Washington, Feb. 7.?Speaker i Clark and Republican leader Mann, ^ fought side by side in the house today for adequate additional defense. * With party lines obliterated, most of . the members followed their leaders and two navy measures passed with- 1 out a dissenting vote. One to provide for adding three hundred midshipmen to the entering class at Annapolis next July, passed 173 to 0, and the other, to equip navy yards for the construction of battleships numbers forty-three and forty-four, passed without roll call. Mann tried to put the anti-preparedness advocates on record by calling for a division on the naval academy bill but there were no negative responses. The unusual sight of the speaker and minority leader battling together for administration measures while mm'oritv leader Kitchin sat silently !in the back of the hoise attracted wide interest, and rumors presisted that Clark would take active charge of the fight to increase the army and navy sincc Kitchin has . oined the opposition to these measures. i Debate went far afield from the measures under consideration, and ! Clark, who said he expected soon to 'discuss the general subjDct of preparedness, suggested an immediate improvement in the navy by designing new battleships, doubling the membership at West Point and Annapolis, creating additional regiments for army and short term enlistments to produce a reserve. crowd. ! "You bet we'll come!" boomed a deep voice from the crowd, and great applause followed. The reception accorc.ed the President as he left the hall equaled in " ' O ?T Vl A UQO llOfl noise UI1U eauiuaiasui a. ly ?ie iictt> m.u on the trip. The return trip to t'..ie train was through a perfect mass of humanity, and thousands remained jammed about the station until the President's train pulled out. A brief stop was made at East St. Louis, where the President spoke from the train. I The President and Mrs. Wilson were taken to the Hotel Jefferson upon their arrival here. They rested for a short time and then attended a 1 i breakfast given by the Business I Men's League. ! 1 There was not enough room in the main dining room to seat all the guests. Five hundred and seven were seated there and sixty more were seated in a lobby. | Must Mobilize Forces. The President spoke briefly to the 1 assembled diners at the conclusion of the breakfast. He was given a rousing greeting. i "I recall when I was here before," i the President said, "I was called here i 1 to tell you something of running a 1 city government. I hope you have , forgotten that speech. It is well to ' 'shed your speeches as you go along." ; ' (Laughter greeted this remark.) I "It is necessary to mobilize our de- ' fense forces for emergency. It is 'also necessary that we mobilize our 'economic forces for use after this war is over. "America will be infinitely efficient in the world of business if she is 1 right in the world of business. "America now is going to be called jout into an international position | 'such as she has never been before," ithe President said. I "For some reason America has been ^hy about going out and matching its wits with the rest of the world in business. I am perfectly willing to match American business wit with any in the world. "We must keep our resources untouched by the flame of war in order that we may help put the world on a firm footing at the end of the war. Sees Peace Ahead. "I don't believe the world will ever ;see another great war. I think at I the.end of this war the world will be advanced farther toward permanent peace than at any time in history. "We must see that America remains untouched, as America is too j valuable to allow herself to become touched. "When we have prepared then we can look into the facts and see that our rights are maintained. "I have changed my mind about many things. One of them, for instance, is the need of a tariff board, I now think we need one." TI7MJ 1 +V,ie TVlO w nu appiausc ^icctcu uuo. AUV business men noisily voiced their approval. "I have my misgivings about a tariff board," the President said with a smile, "because I have to appoint the members of it. It is hard to find ! big men, and when you do find them, jthey have not much in them." The President took several goodnatured slaps at officeholders. "You know when men get appointed to national positions they grow very important. "There is one thing I want you | gentlemen to realize," said the Presii dent later. "That is that there is j not anything to make the Middle | West different from any part of the country. You are the same. Our interests in all parts of the country 'are the same." WHERE THE J A Statement of Money Legislature and Othe Below we give to the tax-payers c ihe amount of money collected in this )f how it was spent, and how much wa jp appropriated include not only the a rional income from fines, licenses, road column states the amount which the Si ^iend; the second column shows the ai items speak for themselves. A Roads and Bridges Chain Gang Poor House Magistrate and Constables Public Offices . Sheriff . . Jail Lunacy ? Coroner, etc. Public Officers Printing and Stationery Inc'dentals Interest Court Expenses Total Amount spent over income which b comes a past due debt against t County RUG WATERS FAIL TO DISMAY MORE HOPEFUL SPIRIT IN AIR- * KANSAS FLOOD CITIES?RELIEF WORK GOES ON. Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 7.?At Arkansas City and Lake Village, in \ southeastern Arkansas, both of which s are submerged in the great lake i formed by flood waters pouring a through broken Arkansas river levees a and menaced by the Mississippi river s flood, the situation was reported t more hopeful tonight. At Arkansas City levee engineers declared that the \ Mississippi river embankment will j withstand a stage of 57.5 feet. The Drediction is for 57 feet. Tonight c the gauge registered 55.9 feet. At Lake Village the flood waters 11 rose a foot today, but it is believed ! a they will go but little higher. A re-1 lief committee working out of Lake t Village is bringing in marooned fam- c ilies from the rural districts. At Dumas, Gould and Varner and other J places on the western edge of the s lake formed by the inland bood wa- j ters, the water fell considerably dur- 5 ing the day. A special train from Dermitt today < rescued all the inhabitants from the i village of Halley, which is flooded. 1 Sheriff Frank Milwee at Clarendon, submerged by the breaking of the l White river levee Saturday night, to- ? day repeated his call for assistance. I He said food and fuel are running t low. About 250 persons left the ? city in boats today and 100 are on the government boat Quapaw, which t was sent from Devalls Bluff. More ( than 800 persons remain in Claren- t don and arrangements are being j made to send food, fuel and clothing t from Little Rock and nearby towns. The plant of the Clarendon Lum- ^ ber company caught fire and burned j today. ^ The relief train sent out from Lit- \ tie Rock, which was at Varner tonight, will return to Pine Bluff to- c morrow, where a steamer will go chartered and the party will go down l to the mouth of the river with sup- j plies for the flood sufferers. j Forty negroes who have been hud- ] died in a school house near Varner ( for two days without food were rescued. ? A report from Lake Village to- \ night reported several hundred ref- j ugees huddled on a narrow strip of t levee in urgent need of food and shelter. Some are said to be ill as a result of exposure. A telegram was sent to Washington today appealing for federal aid. f More than 2,000 refugees are ma-i1 rooned near Pendleton with only { meagre food supplies, according to a I telegram sent by J. C. Cross, a plan- 1 tation owner. 3 1 ON "ROUGH AND TOUGH." I Floyd County, Kentucky, has been in state of excitement for the past week over a feud between two families, the Millers and the OsborneMeadows in which one Miller was j i killed and three severely wounded. \ < The trouble is said to have arisen j < over a small piece of property which 1 was situated on Rough and Tough ; ] Creek. 11 '! The fewer creditors a man has the : easier it is for him to look the whole ': world in the face. ! i MONEY GOES s Appropriated by the r Income of Couniy if Abbeville county a statement of 5 county last year and a statement is spent. The amounts stated to ctual appropriations, but the additax, and other sources. The First upervisor of the county had to mount he has spent. The different ppropriations. Expenditures 6,190.71 $ 6,935.10 __ 12,612.26 15,398.91 1 R70 ns 4.219.91 ... 2,552.99 2,552.99 ... 1,233.98 1,273.79 1,932.71 1,994.96 1,070.47 1,473.89 709.91 986.71 266.50 314.00 ... 4,794.52 4,794.52 840.94 1,078.70 739.10 852.86 2,250.00 2,250.00 3,332.80 3,339.80 _ _$42,195.94 $47,397.14 ehe $ 5,201.20 MAMV CAICQ MAnr Iilnlll OttLLO ITIHUL ON LAST MONDAY INE WEATHER?GOOD CROWD ?MILFORD'S STOCK SOLD TO DR. SIMPSON. f Monday was salesday. The weather vas fine and the last day or two of unshine had improved the roads. V large crowd of people assembled it the court house for one purpose ind another; some to attend gales, ome to pay taxes and some to make ax returns. A considerable amount of property vas sold and most of it brought good >rices. R. E. Hill, Esq., Master, sold most >f the real estate. The Baldwin tract of land was >ought by J. W. Williamson of Donildsj forr$8315.00. Jine waiKer vs. nenuersun iuls 111 he town of McCormick, were pur:hased by V. M. Walker for $560.00. The A. B. Cheatham lot on upper tfain Street, in the City of Abbeville, old at suit of Mrs. S. Q. Walker, was mrchased by J. E. Cheatham for 5605.00. The old Bruce lot on lower Main Street, sold at the suit of Mrs. Hutches vs. R. E. Bruce, was purchased ly Mr. Cheatham also for $1605.00. The North Carter lands which are ocated in the Promised Land, were ill purchased by the Anderson Real Sstate and Investment Company; he 71 acre tract brought $500.00 tnd the 11 acre tract brought $100. _ The old W. R. McAdams place in he Level Land Section, consisting >f 182 acres, sold at the suit of Marha Scotland vs. Haddon, was bid n for $500.00, by D. m. hill, axorney. At the suit of Amanda Wharton :s. Walker, et al, 51 acres of land n the Klugh Section of the County, vas purchased by Emory M. McCord "or $1045.00 Several sales of land were made by irder of the Bankrupt Court. Robt. S. Owens, as trustee for Vbbeville Lumber Company, sold two ots in the city of Abbeville to the rarmers Bank, the one on Stand ?ipe Street, for $300.00, and the ither on Brown Street for $115.00. The J. Walter Clamp lands were ;old also by C. C. Clinkscales, trus,ee, the 92Vfe acres being bid in by r. Moore Mars for $5035.00, and he 7 3-4 acre tract at $550.00 THE MILFORD STOCK. Considerable interest was manifested in the sale of the stock of foods of C. A. Milford & Company, vhich was sold by Robert S. Owens ind J. D. Owens, as trustees. The property was offered in lots and then is a whole. The property brought nore when offered as a whole than n lots and the same was sold to the lighest bidder at the sale, Dr. W. D. Jimncnn whnsp hid Was $7200.00. DEATH OF DR. LOMAX. Dr. M. V. Lomax died at his home n Charlotte, N. C., on Monday from i second attack of pneumonia. The ioctcr is well remembered in Abbeville. For many years he was a photographer, but gave up this busiiess and went into the business of iittinp: eyeglasses, at which he became in expert. He leaves his wife, who has many friends here, seven sons and a baby [laughter. PLAN TO REFUND I THEM DEBT SINKING FUND BOARD WILL i OPEN BIDS FOR $5,000,000 WORTH OF BONDS. Bids for refunding part of the State debt, amounting to $5,000,000, ? under the terms of the refunding ? act of 1912, have been called for by f the sinking fund commission. The t commission yesterday decided to in- j sert an advertisement for bids which t will be opened February 16. The new bonds will be issued in place of the brown consols and will bear 4 per cent, less than the State is now paying. It is estimated that the State will save about $20,000 to * $25,000 a vear bv the transaction. c The bonds are to be sold for not less * than par. 1 Under the refunding act passed in , 1912, no provision is made for exempting from taxation that part of a banks investment in the new bonds. , The brown consols are exempt from taxation. j When Gov. Manning was in New , York he was informed by bankers ? that it would be impossible to refund ) the South Carolina bonds at 4 per \ cent. Tennessee and several other \ States, it was pointed out, had to pay | more than 4 per cent, for refunding ^ their bonds. Gov. Manning has had the matter under consideration for \ some time and has been in corres- ] pondence with prospective investors. ; Several days ago an investment 1 concern in the North made an offer i for the new bonds. The firm offer- \ ed to pay par and allowed 4 per 1 cent, interest. The firm stipulated ? +V10+ nffoi* mnof Ko l^onf nrivnt.P I Gov. Manning called the members * of the sinking fund commission to- 1 gether. He told the commission that 5 he would not agree to make any pri- ( vate award but would consent to a 1 sale of the bonds after bids had been 1 called for by proper advertisements. A majority of the members agreed to this and at the meeting yesterday < the commission decided to issue the call for bids. A committee composed of Gov. Manning, S. T. Carter, State treasur- I er, and Carlton W. Sawyer, comptroller general, was appointed to prepare the advertisement and have it inserted in the proper papers. Members of the commission estimate that South Carolina banks hold about $1,500,000 of the brown consol bonds. These investments are exempted from taxation. The new bonds will be placed on the tax books and the State will realize about $25,000 a year. Following the passage of the bond refunding act in 1912, a test case was brought in the supreme court. The act was held to be constitutional. The brown consol bonds were issued in 1892 for 40 years with the option of the State to call them in after 20 years. In 1912 the State had the right to call in the bonds, with the result that the refunding act was \ passed. About seven-eighths of the j State's debt is in the brown consol bonds. The new bonds to be issued will run for 40 years and will become op- ] tional at the end of 20 years. The i bonds will be sinking fund bonds and i will be issued in denominations of i $500 and $1,000 or multiples thereof j The following is a section of the 1 minutes of the meeting of the sink- < ing fund commission at which it was decided to call for bids on the new 1 bonds: i "After a thorough discussion of the matter Mr. Carter made the following motion: "I move that the chairman ap- j point a committee of three, of j which the chairman shall be one to ] advertise for and receive bids for the i sale of the bonds under the act of < 1912, up to noon February 16, 1916, i tho hirlc sr? reppivprf to be nresented to the commission for consideration. "On this motion the vote was as follows: 'From the motion of Mr. Carter: Gov. Manning, Mr. Carter, Mr. Liles < and Mr. Sawyer. ] "Against the motion: Mr. Peeples. 'Mr. Peeples gave as his reason for 1 voting as he did on this question the 1 following: " 'I vote 'no' for the reason that j this is a very vital question to the j tax-payers of the State, and for the i further reason of the present uncer- , tainty of the bond market; and fur- ( ther, that the time provided for in j this resolution is too short, not allowing sufficient time, in my opinion, , for competitive bids.' . Mr. Sawyer gave the following rea- ] son for his vote: * "I vote 'yea' for the reason that I J conceive it to be the best interest of the taxpayers of South Carolina.' ; 'Gov. Manning gave as his reason '' for his position on this matter the 1 following statement: ] "I am unalterably opposed to any ^ private sale of these bonds. I believe that the present is a favorable time to offer the bonds for sale and that if we can refund the State debt un- < der the act of 1912 it will mean the saving annually of about $25,000 or 1 more to the taxpayers; and to float < the 4 per cent, non-tax exemption i bonds at par or above would be a ] good business proposition to South i MANIA DISPUTE , ABOUT SETTLED AJSITANIA DISPUTE IS ABOUT SETTLED, SAYS SENATOR STONE. Washington, Feb. 7.?Chairman Jtone, of the Senate foreign relaions committee, said today after conerences with administration officials hat it was his impression that the jusitania case was "practically setled." He did not go into details. * ->s No New Demands. Washington, Feb. 7.?Secretary jansing today flatly denied that new lemands had been made in the Lusi;ania case at a time when the Gernan government considered the negotiations practically were at an end. 3e was speaking of Berlin dispatches juoting the references by Dr. Zimnerman, German under secretary of foreign affairs, to "new demands." "This government," said Secretary Lansing, "has not increased the denands made in the Lusitania case as set forth in the notes of May 13th, rune 9 and July 21. I doubt if Dr. ( Zimmerman ever made the statement ;hat new demands had been injected, because he must know that it is ut;erly false." Secretary Lansing would not go in:o details or discuss Dr. Zimmernann's statement further. When Dr Zimmermann's statement was pubi r?V? n/J iw +l*io ItAnrntrai* Vila 1011CU 111 tuio vvuiibi JT) aw rTVTVi J mo reference to, new demands was taken :o apply to a possible construction on :he word "illegal" in the ' proposed settlement. The only ground American officials could find for construing ;hat as embodying a new demand was ;he possibility that it might be considered applicable not alone to the iestruction of neutrals on the Lusi;ania but also as to the method by vhich she was sunk. \a jERMANY to refuse to admit SINKING OF LUSITANIA ILLEGAL. Berlin, February 4.?Information -eaching the Associated Press indi:ates that under no circumstances will Germany admit that the sinking )f the Lusitania was an illegal act. New instructions sent to Ambassolor Bernstorff, according to this information, contains simply one jhrase for the formulation of the jroposed note of regret. It sugges;ed a sentence of only eight words md does not contain the word "illegal". It represents the extreme imit of the German concessions in, ;he Lusitania case. The view here is that one of the nost serious crises of the war has irisen out of the Lusitania case. It s impossible to see the outcome. The result of the negotiations appear to linge around the word "illegal." The Associated Press is informed positively and authoritatively that Germany cannot and will not designate is illegal the sinking of the liner by i submarine. Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under secretary of foreign affairs, in an interview said explicitly that Germany will do everything in its power, "but th?re are limits beyond which even friendship snaps," and said he thought the matter settled until new demands were made, saying: "You must not push your demands ;oo fair; you must not attempt to huniliate Germany." Refuted to Comment. Washington, D. C., February 4.? Secretary Lansing refused to comnent on the Lusitania case. The German embassy had no confirmation of ihe Berlin dispatches. President Wilson returned at 1 o'clock and refused io comment on the press dispatches. NOTED DOCTORS COMING. Some of the foremost physicians ind specialists in the country will nake addresses at the meeting of the South Carloina Medical Association, i 1 1.1 /-II 1 A < O 1 A ;o De neia in ^naneston Apru 10, ?J7 ind 20. The address in medicine will be deivered by Dr. L. F. Barker, of Johns flopkins University. The address n surgery will be delivered by Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn, vhile the address in pediatrics will be ielivered by Dr. Maynard Ladd, of Harvard University. President G. A. Neuffer, of Abbeville, had charge of securing the speakers, and it is believed that the nen secured will make the coming session the greatest ever held by the Association. Many of the State societies make a special feature of providing for the attendance of the wives and daughters of the members at the annual meetings. It is believed that this feature will be given a trial by the Association at its meeting: here in April.?News and Courier. Carolina. "The question ought to be decided before the adjournment of the general assembly so that if a sale is nade provision can be made for the payment of interset at the lower rate."?The State.