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Established 1S44. The Press and Bannei Abbeville, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter a: post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.01 Six months 1.0C Three months .5C WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920. ONE-EIGHTY-NINE. The peope are forgetful. Did noi Cotton Ed tell us that cotton sole just after the Civil War for one eighty-nine., and that the cotton far mer had been robbed ever since, anc would be until the staple went bad to that figure and did he not run foi the Senate in order to get where h( might be of assistance to us farmers' Well, then, hasn't he put cotton up t( forty-three, well on its way to one eighty-nine? Do the people expeel Ed to do the whole job In a day' Fighting Wall Street and the cottor manufacturers, (or malefactors) tc say nothing of the cotton buyers ir Abbeville, is no war to be won in t summer campaign. Ed must havt time to finish the job. Therefore when so many candidates are beinj "prominently mentioned" for Ed'; place, may we not ask whether it i; the result of a concerted movemeni to keep cotton from going to Ed'i figures? Nobody else has ever gotter the price up as high as it is now, ant it is dangerous to swap horses ir raid-stream, or anywhere else, un less you have money to threw away Unless somebody has higher figure; than Ed, and can show how these figures are to be reacTied, we are in clineu to think that the people wh( raise the cotton will follow a provc( leader. Nothing here said, however, is t( deter the young men of the graduat ing class from telling us how 10 save the country, nor should the republi cans and democrats in the national conventions fail to "view \sitl alarm" anything that scares them. KEEPING THE PRICE UP. Just now we are bein.tr advised, af we were about this time last year, to lay in the winter's supply of coal. The advice is good if there was a chance to follow it. But in the language of one of our merchant princes, there ''are" no coal. One of the coal dealers of the city has been making a.-, effort to buy coal to enable the pie to follow the good advice gn'on, and up to this date only two cars of /?Ao1 Vv /-??-?? ? J ?... ? wai na?c uccn UUU^Ul, clIlU Mlt"2s2 i V cars cannot be delivered sr.t'l November. Other coal dealers advise us that they are having a like experience. In view of the fact that coal is not to be had, we are unable to ascertain just what end is to be served by advising people to buy coal, unless perhaps the demand from the people, and their persistent efforts to get coal when it cannot be had, shall serve the purpose of keeping the price up around the present figures, which is a little more than seven dollars per ton at the mines, representing a l'etail price in Abbeville of about twelve dollars and fifty cents per ton. At this season of the year, before the war, the coal operators were always in the market. Coal was offered not so many years ago in the spring months at ?ne dollar and fifty cents per ton at the mines. It was sold in Abbeville for less than five dollars per ton. Now the price at the mines is more than four times the former price. It seems to us, in view of these figures, that it would be a eood time to advise people to buy wood, if it is to be had, and better still to cut and haul it, where land-owners may do so, and to lessen the demand for coal in every way. Unless this is done, coal will sell in Abbeville for, fifteen dollars per ton before March.1 i THE WAR WAS A DREAM. At the Cramp yard, Philadelphi* the United States is building the bi^ crest warship on record. It is a mo; ster battle cruiser, a thousand fet long and of sixty thousand tons di; placement. Twelve sixteen-inch pur will constitute its main batteries an it will exceed the speed of the Lus tania by ten miles an hour. The tot; fost. of the monster will be fift; million dollars. Mr. Charles J ! Schwab plans to build a flotilla c i such vessels. I The arguments for the expensh construction of more numerous an larger battleships which Mr. Sehwa puts forward have a famliiar ring 1 them?a tone which we frequent! heard long before the war. "Th t building of enough of these ships j says Mr. Schwab, "will be a simp way of maintaining peace with 1} world. Not that the fighting men di j sire peace, but because of tlie fa< that when we have such a formidabl i array of power it is not likely th; J any country will take it upon itse } j to encroach upon our rights. The; |.new ships will be no more powerfi ! and speedy than they should be f( t'the protection of this great Unite (' States of America." So the war was a dream after a-' 1 I } it never happened. Tiie huge navh . of Germany and England and Franc t prevented it. Each country was afria , of the others on account of their t>i battleships and submarines or els P we would have seen some nasi 5 fighting in 1914 and later. It's up , Charles M, to explain to us tl t crushed and shattered industrial sy . terns of our neighbors across t? 5 pond and explain to us why Europ j is the unhappy continent at th , time. THE FOLLY OF THE BONUS. 5 , 5 According to an estimate by M - Stimson, former secretary of war, a ? annual expenditure by the federi I government of half a billion odlla: w!i! be required to care ror the so diers and sailors discharged from th military service, after the war, pally or wholly disabled from wounc o;- disease. That sum is equivalent t * liie interest at 4 per cent, on bom ' totaling more than twelve billion do i lars. Opinion i> unanimous ;n the Uni cd States that the men wno left th service with health impaired deserv the fare of their country. We suppose that Mr. Stimson's e: timate is too high, but It may b ' halved and still $250,000,000, or th 1 interest on more than six billions o t'ollars, would be required to mee the needs of the sick and cripple ex-service men. With Victory notes, more tha three billions of dollars, maturing i ' less than three years, with a defici 1 of billions besides to be raced, th Congress is struggling with the pre posal to pay a sum around two bil i lions to the ex-soldiers, nearly all o chern young, who are able-bodied. ( The Republican majority in Con gress is looking to the getting o I votes. The census will disclose that th number of adult males of voting ag in the United States is more than 20 000,000. i Woman suffrage would rdd 20, 000,000?most of them are alread; . added?in the suffrage states. The total vote of ex-serv:ce mei I will ..o ;;ot more than 4,000,000, o 10 per cent, of the whole. ' Confronted with a burtfen of taxa ' tion hitherto unprecedented, an ad dition of $2,000,000,000 to the pub lie dgbt to be distributed amoni j strong men will set up lasting re ' sentment not only against the Con I ^ress but against the recipients of th money. This will be the sequel of th ( voting of a bonus, whether it be jus tified or not. The State has no selfish objectioi to the payment of this proposed bo ' nus by the country. While it is no ' authorized to speak for t'.ie ex-ser I vice men, it enters its protest be ICIUZ)C 11/ 12 V.UJIVI11LCU tlidu XVI lUCOl j men to allow themselevs to be placet | in the position of seeking it will tw the supremist folly. j F'or them to enter into a quasi set | tlement on a money basis Tor theii I splendid service to their country ir its time of need would be to thro^ away the richest rewards that men ir their life can enjoy, for a song, a ! pittance. ' o 1 The position of the South Carolina i a . and Arkansas divisions of the Amerii 0 r. can Legion is not merely patriotic? it is a position of common sense. As a political force, the ex-service it a i men could never be comparable with i the veterans' of the Grand Army of ' the Republic. They were in the years i ^ following the Confederate war per- ^ 5" haps 40 per cent, of t"ie vosers of the al Northern states. The veterans of the v world war will be not more tnan 10 c 1. per cent, of the voters of tne repub- 11 lie?or not more than 15 per cent. \ even if no more of the states enfran- t _ chise women.?The State. c t 1(1 OPTIMISTS ARE NEEDED f ^ '"I L ;u Let no one grow pe.simistic about y ly the future or about our country be- t cause of the turmoil of the hour. > ? ic i ? Strikes are in evidence every- j. 1 where but these strikes do not !c mean that the country is going to ,e the dogs or that business is going to S B" be halted. They are the natural " :t outcome of thq spirit of uncertainty' | le and turmoil and nerve tension'" I it through which the world has been ]f passing for the last six years. But .e they should not be taken as a sign of national decay or of any break-1 down of business. , For the last five years or more id i the seeds of discontent have been i ! sown throughout the land. Germany ; did its utmost to turn America into ' i ;s hell in order that we might not be a ' :e power for good against its evil de- ; a sisrns. Pro-Germanism in all its Ig vilest forms did its utmost to give i aid to the devil in his work, and the 1 devil was probably never so active in human history as he has been U 0 for the last five years, in coopera-J . tion with the ablest agent he has s" ever had, namely, Germany. 'P Bolshevism with all its aceur - [i >e ed doctrines, has ^een preached to j is almost every workman in the land.'l Million of aliens, foreign to Am-^ ericanism in thought as in birth, (1 have fallen an easy prey to radical J | labor teachings, and American 1 business men, preachers and teach- i r- ers have fallen short of their duty J n in working to counteract these | <d evil teachings. I fs We should not be surprised, f 1- therefore, that out of all these conditions there has come a spirit'ii i- of unrest and of strikes. Men have's Is been made to believe by the Gov- 1 fi nvnnifnt i r ! T ;ind hv llianv DUbli- 1 Is cations, secular and religious, and f 1- by .-onic ministers, that all the f business interests of the country; I t- were engaged in a great profiteerie ing campaign seeking to rob each J j e other and everybody else. The ef-j feet of this campaign of evil has - been widespread, but it has not dee stroyed the genuine Americanism e <>f the genuine worn ing people of! >f the country. Many of them have :t been misled, and at this we need d not be surprised. Yhey have seen iiie mounting cost of living, and . g n have been made to beileve that it: | n was due to the work of highway i g t robbers, known as profiteers, in- j 3 e stead of being mostly due to a j? i- growing scarcity of foodstuffsand ? [- of other things which enter into ? f life and to the world inflation ? which alone would have created a i - large part of the high prices now j | f prevailing. Thre years ago the editor of the { e Manufacturers Record begged jj e President Wilson to use his official || i- authority to impress upon the coun- jj try the danger of a great food g shortage, and the consequent high' 1 y price?, saying to Mr. Wilson that if 1 he did not do so there would cer- if ii lainlv come socialistic and anar-|g r chistic unrest, by people being g .rrlvled and m:ule to believe a lie. ?j - But President Wilson, while reco.tr- j|| I- nizing the facts we gave him as tojS == i- the food supply, preferred thatljj e? they should not be made public, be-'8 -lieveing that they would cause a Jj i- food panic. e The socialistic and anarchistic i S m e unrest of the hour is the ' natural = , = outcome of the suppression of the g truth in the past. But the unrest 3 n does not spell disaster. Sooner or g - later men will learn the facts for B t themselves and then and there will jj - be a return to sanity and to safety H - for the country. e With all our boundless resources ' = I m i with a country more richly endow- g ? ed than any other land in the,l| i world; with a population of more ? -'than 100,000,000, unvexed by dif-ja r'fering languages and the arbitrary g iJ dividing lines or Europe; with a jg r large degree of homegeneity J1 i among our people; with a more ac- g i tive, virile population than any W f? ther land in the world; with the J biding faith in a large proportion j f nnv ii?nnl<j in rh<> ilirppfinf i ower of Almighty God, we have a j ure foundation for safety, sanity: nd national progress. The man who is n pessimist as to imerica has little conception of the i uture of the country. i This is a day for the optimi :: or the man who sees the sunrise oming ere the day breaks; for the nan who amid the darkness of the' light hears the birds singing; fori he man who knows that behind the | loud there is a silver lining; for! he man who with faith in God, aith in his country, faith in his! ellow-men, buckles down to the J lardest kind of work , determined . hat by his example he will do his j itmost to carry his part of the' >urden. This is the kind of man that ( hould be in evidence today in ' Urtlmnrr TRis bank the the Ab then* to bis be seen by 1 Any ot can make % & L, .... . - 1 GOOD SUE | Good Si I i'i i 11 li ly 1 ,. Ilffi,".*'! Im Park every office, in every factory, every home. The optimist is the man for hour, and his optimist can be br on a foundation as sure as that the everlasting truth. Down, then, with the pepsin Down with the man who thinks country is going to the dogs! Up with the optimist! Let . in;.- in a spi:-it of optimism, soon the mighty chorus will s from one end of the land to other, and the wail of the pi mist, the howl of radical de gogues will soon be drowned i mighty hallelujah chorus.?Ms facturers Record. vvwvvvv^wvvv V MINSTREL SHOW V OPERA HOUSE, JUNE 2nc V. Be entertained at the OperE ^ House Wednesday Night V June 2nd. A Minstrel Show. the Boys has furnished the mor ibeville County Pig ( y pigs. The pigs have going to Mr. Rowell, her boy members who arrangements througl THE PROGRES ABBEVILLE ll'i ill ' M :r l'1 . p 1 i/i ' i nH rs AT MODE aits at $30 $31 _ 6 T :er oz r in| CROSSES OF HONOR this; It' applicants for Confederate ised ! Crosses 'of Honor will meet me at the of: Coui*t House, Wednesday, June 3rd, , I will present them with their crossiistl es. The following have made appli the'cation: C. M. Cochran, C. B. Sims, I H. J. Croite and J. M. Polinson. us I Mrs. Frank Wilson, and President. well t)ie A lot of good looking Doys are In ihe Minstrel Show Wednesday night, -. ne 2nd. See them. main a :. ^ ^ V V ^ mU" | N > ! v ?SEE? V ; V MAY ALLISON V V V V IN V V V "FAIR AND WARMER" V 1 V V OPERA HOUSE, FRIDAY. V i v v vwvvvvvvvsvvvs , V ^ Have a good time at the Minstrel V \ Show Wednesday Night, June 2nd. 11111 lllilllllllllB ley to the boys of jj Zlub to enable arrived and may County Agent. want to buy pigs ti Mr. Rowell. SIVE BANK, 1 *, S. C. mmmmmmmmmg .RATE PRICES | 5 and $40 1 GOOD SUITS AT $30.00, $35.00 and ?? I $40.00 | are hard to find these H days, but we are * showing all wool suits p at these prices made ?f by such people as M Schloss Bros. & Co. j? | ana ine Styleplus makers. They're guaranteed jj to give you good ser- j| vice; they have the ?| : style and tailoring in jj them. u "rill nav unn fn spp g | 11 YT 1?? J ~ -JT M3 these GOOD SUITS. | I i I