Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Swyoert & Smith, LEESViLLE, SOUTH MB3UU j u SALLOW COMPLEXION I impurities in the blood, and the fault lies with the 3 liver. It is torpid. SIMMONS RED SSl LIVER REGULATOR J (THE POWDER FORM) J Is the greatest of all liver medicines. Its powerful purifying and I strengthening influence is at once apparent in an improved appetite, j good digestion and a feeling of strength and energy in the body. I When the system has been put in order the yellow cast in the skin j gradually disappears and the complexion becomes clear and healthy. j CCL3 CY DCALCRO. PRICE. LARCC PACKAGE. El.OO. I A?k for the genuine with the Bed Z on the label. If yon cannot get it, remit to ns. we will send ? ~ * - ? ? 1 " - - - .J unr.l.r it i II !t by mail, postpaid. tj:m:Ro::s x>tver neguiator is put upaiauiui^uiuwnu ?i vuw.v. - , ... ~_ E| Price 91.00 per bottle. Look for the Led Z label. ' , U J. H. ZE'LIN & CO., PROPS., ST. LOUIS, MO. JJ JUSI RECEIVED if you want. ? A CARLOAD OF Your Watches and I T onnDQQoo cl0Cks put inifirst" 1 ulllllluub'o class order at] reasonable prices bring A A ? ? ? Jj +V? nm +A r -; -' sp ! WL-* i v?ZA. %# V '1 *#> TV *4 s^ / THE !/ b bi.bm ill.' WHY NOT ELECT [ WOOOROW WILSON! ! J Chicago Post, Influential Republican Paper, Asks Its Readers a Leading Question. FRAUDS OF PRESENT REGIME . Says the Tariff Has Been Too High for a Generation, and Must Ive Lowered. The Chicago Post, an influential independent Republican newspaper, propounds this question to Republicans: "Why not Wilson? ' 'This question is addressed particularly to Republicans. "Gorernor Wilson suits the Democrats down to the ground, suits all Democrats who are worthy to be called Democrats. But in an emergency like this, why should not Wilson suit | a large part of the Republicans as well? "Why not Wilson? "Governor Wilson is a thoroughred American gentleman, not only in the accident of birth, but in his every ideal, impulse and principle. That should be the first requirement of every presidential candidate. "Governor Wilson is a. tried and trustworthy executive. His brilliant record as governor of New Jersey < proves that. < "Governor Wilson is an eminently sane and sensible man. He is an eminently honorable man. He has dignh fled every place which he has held. 1 He has performed a splendid public j service by lifting the present . cam- 1 paign out of the riot of mudslinging j with which Roosevelt began it. . "In every personal characteristic, * Governor Wilson is equipped to be < any man's president, without regard ] to whether that man is a Democrat or 1 a Republican. What, then, of his po- 1 litical qualifications? "Governor Wilson is, and always has 1 been, a sensible Democrat, but he is ] not and never has been a silly, violent partisan. J "Governor Wilson stands for honesty and efficiency in federal administra- j tion. So do all save those who profit < by graft and inefficiency. "Governor Wilson stands for the ( curbing of trusts and monopolies. So L 1 _ j. _ 3 ,1 ' do all, except monopolists anu meir uefender, Theodore Roosevelt. "Governor Wilson stands for a prompt and steady downward revision of the tariff. So do nine-tenths of the people of the United States. "Governor Wilson believes in a more radical tariff revision than do a large number of the rank and file of Republicans. But Governor Wilson is the only candidate who if elected will permit the revision of the tariff at all. "The tariff has been to high for a , generation. Is it not better to take a chance at getting It too low?according 1 to Republican standards?than to let ] the known frauds of the present re- < gime continue for another four years i to rob the public? I J "Why not Wilson? He will give an honest, a dignified, a capable adminis- < tration. He will respect the constitu- i tion. He will see that the tariff is revised downward. He will curb trusts. , He will serve the people. "Why not Wilson?" r1 FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING j John D. Archbold, for the Standard Oil company, gave $100,000 to Roose- ' velt's campaign fund in 1904 but refused to prosecute the harvester trust more, which was demanded. * * J. P. Morgan of the steel trust and j other interests gave the Roosevelt fund in the same year $100,000, and did give \ up $50,000 more. j * Mr. Roosevelt furiously prosecuted ; the Standard Oil company, but he re- 1 fused to prosecute the harvester trust and the steel trust and gave the steel i trust permission to absorb its only serious rival. 1 * * * Georee W. Perkins of the steel and i < harvester trusts gave $48,000 of the ; New York Life Insurance company's money to Roosevelt's campaign fund, ; and refunded it when the fact became pubiii. j ? \ PiSfe^^ipfc Hr* x stftt* tin - ,i- ^*5*;* s*v *\ * -/.,^5. ? ? V r; _-. ^ ?fc: y.ar..^ ^ '//C/ ^S|sJSs^ Atr- ft'--A * V v Via eJ /'irvA r_. IT;*' B~rT" iGi^T ANQEiS VETERAN "Comrade" Editor's Effort to Distort Democratic Position on Pensions Rebuked. CIRCULAR TO G. A. R. POSTS Sought "Mean" and "Harsh" Expressions by Wilson Supporters, but Finds Facts the Reverse. Ignoring the fact that the Democrat- , ic house passed the most liberal pension bill in the history of the United States and that it was the Republican senate that reduced the appropriation the editor of the National Tribune of Washington has appealed to grand army posts all over the country to supply campaign material for use against the Democratic party. Colonel (Sergeant) John McElroy.the editor, has not met always with the oo-operation he desired. This is evidenced by the fact that indignant grand army men have forwarded his circular letters to Democratic national In \7am Vnrb- ktI+Vi tVlofr WCU D JUL A1VIV A UA A n?M* WMVA* protests against the playing of such politics within the old soldiers' organization. Quest for "Mean" Things. Editor McElroy's appeal was sent out, mimecgraphed, on the letterhead of the National Tribune, with his own name at the top. The letter read: Sept. 13, 1912. Comrade?We axe anxious to get the expression of editorials on pensions from the papers supporting Wilson In your neighborhood. Will you kindly look over the files of your local papers and send us unything particularly harsh and mean vhich they have published. We want to ;how4conclusively the attitude of the men svho are supporting Wilson and who will control his administration if elected. Please send these at your earliest convenience, as the time is short. Fraternaly, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. One of the replies sent to the Tribune was: Headquarters Cushing Post, No. 14, G. A. R. Astoria, Ore., Sept. 28, 1912. National Tribune, Washington, D. C.: Gentlemen ? Your communication addressed to me as adjutant of Cushing Post. No. 14, of the 17th inst. I found today on my return from the national encampment at Los Angeles, Cal. Thus the delay in answering. You wish me to look over the files of cur local papers and send you "anything particularly harsh and mean" which they nave published regarding pensions. As vou have specified that these "harsh" ind "mean" comments must be from paicrs suDDorting Wilson I must inform rou that the papers supporting: Wilson throughout the state, so far as I have oeen able to learn, are friendly toward the interests of the civil war veterans ind indorse the action of the Democratic louse of the United States congress In Its passage of the pension bill in the special itid last session of congress and have no fault to find with Senator Kern for his jloquent appeal In the senate In behalf of the civil war veterans. If you are really looking for "mean" ind "harsh" editorials along this line, if rour object in this search is for the interests of the old soldiers, you will And mough "mean" and "harsh" things in the papers that are supporting Mr. Taft \nd if you wish to prospect away out aere in Oregon (politically) for other than ?ure gold please excuse the adjutant of Pushing Post, No. 14. department of Oregon, G. A. R.. In assisting. B. F. ALLEN. WHY TAFT OR R00SEVELT7 i Priceb of Food Products Have Soared j Under Them, Yet They Promise Re- | ductions. j According to the bulletin of the fed- j eral bureau of labor the average price of a dozen or more of the principal articles of food has increased GO per cent j In ihe last ten years. The price of flour has increased 39 j per cent., lard 55 per cent., steak 59 per cent., hams 61 per cent., cornmeal S3 per cent., rib roast 63 per cent., round steak 84 per cent., pork chops B6 per cent., bacon 96 per cent., and 1 Irish potatoes 11 per cent. During these ten years of rising prices Roosevelt and Taft were at the dead of the government. Both of them want to be at the head of the govern- i ment again. j Does any sane man believe that if j these men in ten years did nothing to j ?.j rici. r?f uhirh I rctai'u aw*. i'*~ oppressing the people they would do j anything in four years? Rather, judging by the past, we should be paying approximately 25 per cent, more than we do now, or 75 per cent, more than we did ten years ago. i tjifsirr an sipisii i TA?%!rr uciXwiy^i I i _ j Franklin Pierce Shows That Labor is Not Benefited by Unjust Tax. j MANUFACTURER KEEPS PROFIT \ ? ; Prcof of Democratic Platform's Soundness Cited In Reports of Wage Investigations. R yj PDA M U" I IM DIFCrr for women $6.30 and for children, $3.21. As to the profits, seventeen leading cotton mills, with total capitalization of $25,110,000 and total surplus of $21,863,601, paid in nine years dividends averaging 22 per cent. The cotton manufacturers turned out in 1905 $442,451,218 worth of goods and paid in wages therefore $04,337,695, or 21 per cent of the value of the finished product Extortion of Wool Tariff. Outside of the duties on two or three commodities of comparatively little importance, the duties on woolen cloth are the highest of any in the tariff schedules. According to Senator Reed Smoot, owner of a woolen mill at Prevost, Utah, and chairman of the finance committee in charge of tariff legislation in the senate, wearing apparel valued at 30 cents a pound now pays 206 2-3 per cent duty. This and other correspondingly high duties on the manufactures of wool are made to enable the manufacturer to pay his labor an increased wage pocKeis. When will the laboring men of the country east off this delusion that the tariff is for their benefit and wit-h their votes strike down this monstrous injustice! -J For a hundred years of cur history ; the manufacturers, believing .hat tiiey ! received a benefit from the protective ! tar:f?3, have ingeniously devised piausI ibie pretexts for imposing increased I prices upon the necessaries of life. At ! first they said that industry in cur I country was in its infancy and needed I protection. When those industries had j become strong and needed no aid the j manufacturers invented the theory | that the foreigner paid the duty. This I theory was exploded, and they declar! ed that cheap clothing meant cheap men and was not a blessing. Driven from every one of these indefensible positions, their final and only argument left today is that the tariff is imposed upon foreign imports to enable the manufacturer to increase his profits and pay higher wages. The Democratic platform declares that: "In the most highly protected industries, such as cotton and wool, steel and iron, the wages of the laborers are the lowest paid in any of our industries." Proof of this statement is found in reports of many recent official investigations of wages in the United States. Wages In Cotton Industry. Under the existing Payne-Aldrich tariff law actual imports of cotton cloth paid in 1910 average duties of 66.4 per cent In 1905, when work and wage conditions in the cotton industry were exceptionally good, the wages of 202,211 cotton mill operatives in the United States?men, women and children?averaged only |6.47 a week. The average "Wage for men was but S7.71 a week, | STEEL TRUST BACH ? Charge Challenged, Gov. WiisclH Returns With Prompt and KB Convincing Answer. IB COUNTRY WAITED FOR CLASH* j Wondered If It Was to ~-educe a ParnlJel cf Parker Episode?.'."ore Proof !f !t Is Wanted. 1 When the country read on the morn- 1 ing of Oct. 8 the charge oi Wood row | I Wilson before his audience in Colo- | | rado that the steel trust is back of the Roosevelt program of trust regulation ! and in the same papers Colonel RooseI velt's demand for proof of the asserj ticn it sat up and took notice. Would , j this produce a parallel of the famous j episode of the 1D04 campaign, when j | the colonel called Judge Parker a liar ' j for asserting (what has been so recently proved) that the corporations were contributing to the Roosevelt campaign? There was eager waiting for Governor Wilson's answer. It came promptly the next day in his speech at Kansas City. Concisely, convincingly and dispassionately Governor Wilson met the Roosevelt challenge, and should the controversy be pressed further the Democratic candidate will give the Bull Moose all he wants, for the corroboration whereof he spoke is abundant. Wilson's Charge. At Pueblo, the center of the western steel industry. Governor Wilson said: "Evidence of what I am about to say comes to me by way of corroboration every day in forms that I cannet question. It is a very interesting circumstance that the United States Steel corporation is behind the third party program with regard to the regulation of the trusts.. "Now, I do not say that to prejudice you. I am perfectly ready to admit that the officers of that corporation may think that the third party is the best thing for the United States. That is not my point. My point is that these gentlemen have grown up in the atmosphere of the things they themselves have created and that the laws of the United States so far have attempted to destroy the things that they have created and that they now want a eovernment which will nernet uate the things they have created. "You therefore have to choose now a government such as the United States Steel corporation thinks the United States ought to have or a government such as we used to have before these gentlemen succeeded in setting up private monopoly." Roosevelt's Challenge. The same night at Albany, N. Y., Colonel Roosevelt upon reading reports of Governor Wilson's speech said: "As far as I know the statement has not the slightest foundation in fact Mr. Wilson has no business to make such a statement unless he has the proof, and if he has any proof I demand that he make it public immediately. If he has not let him retract his statement as the only manly and honorable thing to do." Wilson's "Retort Courteous." The next night Governor Wilson made this reply before the great audience that greeted him in Kansas City: "I understand from the newspaper reports that Mr. Roosevelt was distressed by my suggestion the other day that the United States Steel corporation was back of his plan for control ling the trusts. He interpreted my remark to mean that they were supporting him with their money. I was not thinking about money. "I do not know whether they are supporting him with their money or not. It does not make any difference. i What I meant was that they are supporting him with their thought, and their thought is not our thought. I meant, and I say again, that the kind of control which he proposes Is the kind of control that the United Statea .Steel corporation wants. . "I am perfectly willing to admit that they think It is the best for the country. My point is that this Is a method conceived from the point of view of the j very men who are to be controlled and that that is just the wrong point of view from which to conceive it. "If Mr. Roosevelt is willing to have Mr. Perkins suggest how the corpora- ( tions ought to be regulated why will | he not be willing to take suggestions " from the same quarters as to the details of the regulation? Mark you. ladies and gentlemen, I am not discussing individuals. I know Mr. George Perkins. 1 have no quarrel with anything except his judgment. He does not look at these things in the way i men who do not wish to accustom j their minds to monopoly look at them." There should be an Immediate revision of the tariff downward. It should begin with the schedules most obviously used to kill competition and raise prices in the United Stages, and should be extended to every item which af e fni- mAnnnnlv on/l lUrUo uypui tuiiit; ivi *iivuv^vij anu special advantage until special favors shall have been absolutely withdrawn and our laws of taxation transformed from a system of governmental patronage into a system of juet and rea- ^ sonable charges which shall fall where they will create the lea9t burden. 4 over mose or ioreign counines. tfui the duty on woolen goods is nearly five times the entire labor cost, while the American manufacturers in 1905 paid in wages only 18 per cent, of the total value of their production. At Lawrence in this most highly protected industry the laborers were obliged to strike even for a living wage. Thousands of adult males were receiving only from $6 to $9 a week and many only $5 to $6 a week. As a result of the strike the American Woolen company gave its employees Blight increases in wages. The wool tariff bill vetoed by President Taft reduced the duties on raw ool from 42.20 to 29 per cent and on manufactures of wool from 87.65 to 48.36 per cent. Mr. Taft said he vetoed it because the proposed rates did not comply with the findings of the tarifT board. Senator La Follette contradicted the president, saying that the proposed rates varied from 1 per cent, lower to 11.6 higher than the tariff board's findings justified. Low Wages In Steel. Manufacturers of iron and steel in 1905 paid in wages only 15 per cent, of the total valve of their production, while the duty then would average about 45 to 47 per cent., and on all metals it now averages 34.51 ner cent. American wages arc really the cheapest wages in the world when you take into account the amount of production per man. An illustration of this appears in the Stanley report, investigating the steel trust, as follows: "The labor cost of producing pig iron in Pennsylvania fell from $1,25 a ton in 1002 tc S2 cents a ton in 1909, yet the realized value of the pig iron output was $15.01 in 1902, whereas it was $17.44 in 1909. In other words, wageworkers in 1902 got $1.25 for producing only $15.CI worth of pig iron and in 1909 only S2 cents for producing $17.44 worth. While thus treating labor the industrial combinations Ilia." have grown up under the protection oi the tariff have fixed the prices of commodities at the highest point the home market would stand. For twelve years they have been unjustly transferring through the protection tariff billions of dollars from the earnings of labor iDto their own