Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 26, 1893, Image 2
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20,1893.
? In the year l(iOO, says an exchange, the
world fcad in circulation $145,000,000 of gold
and $510,000,000 of silver and no paper; in
1890 there were $4,200,000,000 of gold, $5,005,000,000
of silver, and $3,855,000,000 of
paper money; a total of $13,000,000,000.
This includes the money of Europe, the
United States and the colonies of Great Brit
ain, France and Spain. No account is taken
of the worthless currency of the South American
States.
? A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch reports that
there is danger of a serious race conflict in
the vicinity of Neelyville, Mo. Some days
ago some negroes employed in mills and on
farms, were notified by the whites that they
must leave the country. They protested 1
against leaving their homes, and purchasing
guns and ammunition, notified the
whites that they intended to fight to the
death before surrendering a single one of
their rights. The affair is likely to result
in bloodshed before it is settled.
? The boundary dispute between France
and Siam h?s reached the point beyond
which a peaceful settlement is improbable. !
On last Friday the French sent the Siamese
an ultimatum. The reply of the Siamese
was not satisfactory, and from the tone of |
cablegrams published in the papers of yes- i
terday, there is every reason to believe that 1
hostilities have already commenced. England
is represented as looking upon the
French operations with extreme jealousy, (
and it is believed she will take a hand in the <
fray. Russia will assist France, and the pos- '
sibility of the long expected struggle in Eu
rope breaking out within a few days, does ''
not at this time seem improbable.
? Judge Gofl', of the United States dis- j
trict court, reappointed F. H. Huidekoper, ]
Reuben Foster, and added the name of Sam- i
uel Spencer, as receivers of the Richmond <
and Danville company and leased lines. '
The reappointment of the two first named j
is simply a confirmation of the action of j
Judge Bond under the original proceedings. (
The appointment of Spencer is a part of <
flie Drexel, Morgan & Co. reorganization plan, i
He represents the reorganizers. Walter (J. ]
Oakman will be retaiued as receiver of the 1
Richmond and West Point Terminal, and
Spencer will also be given a voice in the
control of the East Tennessee, Virginia and |
Georgia system. Although the proposed ]
reorganization scheme is certainly progress- <
ing slowly, there is little reason to believe I
that it is not progressing satisfactorily. 1
? There have been rumors of trouble at ]
Clemson college, on accouut of complaints
on the part of the boys against the sleeping ac- ,
commodations, table fare, work and military
features, etc. The Greenville News made I
inquiry of President Craighead as to the truth '
of the matter, and got a straightforward re- '
ply, setting forth that there was just a little .
truth in the report. When the college was .
first opened, its affairs, of a necessity, did not ;
run as smoothly as was desirable. Through 1
the negligence of Negro waiters, spoiled '
iLtat was served on the table, and on account
of an incompetent manager, the laundry .
did not work properly. President Craighead ]
suggested as one remedy for the waiter trou- j
ble, that the boys wait on each other them- 1
selves. Nearly three hundred boys volun- <
teered to take turns at the service, among *
them B. R. Tillman, Jr. The matter was
speedily settled. President Craighead goes (
. on to say that boys who are not willing to <
work are not wanted. Clemson is no place 1
for milksops or spoiled children. He goes 1
on to say that a few boys came there with '
instructions from their mothers <;to come
right home if they did not like it," and of
course the boys went and were a good rid- ,
dance. There were a few other boys who (
were too ignorant to enter even the lowest
classes, and these were also dissatisfied with j I
rm 11 | j
< everyming. mu cuucgu i? uu? m i
working order and will give any boy wl'o j:
wants it, the opportunity to get a thorough ' j
education. No boy, however, who is not <
willing to put up with such board as can be <
had for $7 a month is wauted ; and further,;
boys who are unable to raise at least fifty !1
dollars for medical fee, uniforms, washing, IJ
and the first month's board, are advised not (
to try to enter until they get that much ,
money. i
MERE MENTION. ji
A great fire occurred in London one day
last week and burned over an area of ">0o
yards squnre, including thirty buildings val-'
ued at about $1,000,000. Italian ,
towns, one of 10,000 inhabitants and the i
other of 4,000, were destroyed by a cyclone
one day last week. The number of killed j
and injured is not known. Nearly all ,
the banks of Denver, Colo., were forced to j.
close their doors last week on account of the
financial stringency, and great distress has resulted.
Although several of the banks have
managed to resume business, the feeling is
still panicky. About $100,000 worth of
growing tobacco was destroyed near Hart-1
ford, Conn., last Wednesday by a cy- j
clone. A Chicago drummer attempted
a grave outrage in Wise county, Ya., last
week and the family concerned got up a
crowd and had him Hogged nearly to
death. Colonel C. C. Jones, the historian
of Georgia, died last Wednesday of
llright's disease. Owing to the terrible j
financial stringency, all the Fall River. Mass.,!
cotton mills are confronted with the alternative
of shutting down or running at a loss. |
It is probable that some of the mills will
fail. The commissioners of agriculture
of the various Southern States, held a meeting
in Atlanta, Oa., last week and adopted a
resolution to the effect that all the States
would be memorialized to pass uniform laws
for the control of the sale of commercial fertilizers.
General John (i. Walker, who
was a distinguished officer in the Confederate
armies, and did good service at Sharpsburg,
Manassas and in all the fights around
Richmond, died at his home in Washington
last Thursday from the effects of sunstroke.
He was aged 70 years. The total number
of national bank failures since the first of
January runs over two hundred against less
than fifty last year.
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A Rich Man's Panic.?A special to the'
New York World from Raleigh, N. ('., says
that Senator Zebulon lk Vance has made public
an open letter which he has written to the ,
Farmers' Alliance. In his letter Vance says
that he is pleased at the action of the Alliance
in urging the senators and represent a-'
tive to stand by the present silver purchasing
law until some satisfactory substitute
can be adopted. He says that years ago lie
urged upon the farmers the importance of
such organization as would enable them to
make iheir vast, but disjointed, strength
felt promptly and efficiently in legislation,
and the preservation of silver in the currency
is a vital issue. He declares that the use
of silver and gold on equal terms as the
basis of our currency is a necessity, and
asserts his determination of yielding, nothing
to the monopolists who have created the
;.w7i,cfrir>iiclv niK-prtUcd. and which
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will hereafter he known as the rich man's
panic. Vance says, in conclusion, that the
hope of ingratiating himself with the president
to secure patronage has not affected
him, nor does he believe it will operate far.
in the effort to secure the repeal of the!
Khermun law. 1
CAIN'S Ml! firm E
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Senator Butler and Congress- v
man Strait Talk Finance. jsi
THEY BOTH WANT FKEK HHNAOE. jj"
Kucli lias a Hanking System Which He w
Thinks is the Panacea I'm* Existing y<
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There were between four ami live hundred |
Mi
people at the Cain's spring picnic last Satur-1 ,r
ilay, and although lor the most part they were .rj
called upon to listen to political speeches J ai
rather than participate in social enjoyments, |
they all seemed to pass the time quite
pleasantly. Music for the occasion was i 'I
furnished by the Allison Creek cornet hand. |
The exercises of the day were opened J)
with prayer by School Commissioner Ed-!
wards. Mr. J. C. Chambers, of Hickory p:
drove, acted as chairman of the meeting, and j m
tiie first speaker introduced was 'v
1)R. T. ?. STRAIT.
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I)r. Strait spoke about fifty minutes as J,
follows: * al
Ladies and fellow citizens of York county : cl
It is needless for me to say that it gives me >'
pleasure to appear before you today in this, ?'
one of the finest sections of our country,
where the tall oaks grow, and with not a h
single blackjack in sight. It is needless for ti
rae to say that I know you are going to give tl
careful attention to everything that is said jt(
here today. *
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WHAT OUR FORKFATHKRS DID. I.
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We are going to think together and act | ']
together for the great commonwealth ofh*
South Carolina, of which you arc the greatest; Q|
hope. When we go back 117 years and see
the condition of things at that time, and re-1 j.
member the roaring of cannon and the j ^
cracking of small arms, and see men almost |
barefooted, surrounded by enemies, with j ^
little to eat and but little to warm themselves |..
with, passing over the country and leaving !
blood upon their tracks, we have but a faint j ^
idea of the great struggle that our forefathers | J,
once waged in this country. And what was ! ^
this all for? Why did three millions of de- r*
voted people, with no resources but those of! *!|
nature, living in swamps, with nothing to i',
cat but sweet potatoes, battle so long and I
so desperately with so powerful a foe? It 1
was for that sacred word?that sacred prin- j (
ciple?independence. When we go back |
and consider the material this country was I
made of, we will find men and heroes driven [ C(
Vi/Mvino on/1 n?r?f>r>lltr>rl nil ilN'OIIIlt tl
IIUIII tugti uvuivo Uii%% |>viwv?.vv^ w..
af their religious and political views. We will' iu
find men who, fleeing from persecution, took j pi
refuge among wild animals in a dark wilder- ; ol
[jess, and there developed one of the grand-! ni
jst uations on the face of the globe. On the j Si
last place on earth where men expected to tl
see the tree of liberty flourish, the seeds of di
independence were sown. It is wonderful j tl
to think about it, and we find here today j hi
descendants of men who settled on Rocky ! sn
L""reek, men who plowed with double lines,' tl
ind men whose influence for good will con- j T
tinue to go out as long as time lasts. That j in
is the source from which true America ai
sprang. j el
A STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. j
Now the question is, what is best? We j 0
have been wandering up and down. We |.
have passed through one of the most terrible j1S
sivil wais in which civilization has ever en- i ^
;aged, and now we arc here struggling for \ 1
that same principle of independence for j
which our forefathers struggled when they ! J?
3ame to these shores. Although once we ..
direw off the yoke of England with force of, 11
irms, she is trying to put the heel of tyranny !
an our necks again. Shall we submit ?
Now, gentlemen, the great issue before uss
:oday is, how are we going to get the finan-1
jial relief our country needs? I don't pro- i u
pose to make a connected speech. I never :
make a speech; but when we go back'
twenty-seven years and inquire into the ori-:
gin of some of these wrongdoings, I hope j of
foil will catch everything I say in a discon-: w
nected way, and see if you can't make some- j w
thing out of it. I tl:
We were fighting twenty-seven years ago w
for what we knew to be right, and it was then j U]
that the oppression of a great nation began. I la
It was then that we were encircled with ai
i network by those Northern schemers?fi- | \\
fanciers they are called. They slipped into hi
3ur midst and sowed the tares that are now pi
giving us so much trouble. These money j tc
sharks have always been with us. They J In
:lid not go into the war of independence be- It
:ause they were afraid they would lose! si
some money by it, and they kept out of the ! gi
last war in order to stay at home and make w
money by taking advantage of their fellow- j si
men, while they were risking their lives on in
[he field of battle. J is
NOKTHKRX MONFY SHARKS. j n<
Those great money powers of the East i j?
ire responsible for the situation in which
lur great government has been placed.
When Mr. Lincoln needed help, he applied ,u
to them. They were divided and would not j
agree upon terms. Mr. Lincoln departed
from them and fell upon his own resources.
He went to work and issued greenbacks,
based upon nothing but the faith in the tl
government, sufficient for the needs of the tl
emergency. This money had no exceptions, at
It was good for everything and would buy g?
anything. When they found they could not Ik
control Mr. Lincoln, and that he was going b<
to conduct his financial affairs independent ai
of them, the money sharks went to work tc
and brought congress to make a law making st
these greenbacks good for everything except si
import duties and national debts. At that $
time the government was importing every- n
thing, and nothing but gold being good for 1)(
import duties, the greenback currency went g<
down to almost nothing. Now these trait- al
ors in the camp brought the government to tl
say that these greenbacks were not good tl
enough to go at par for duties ou imports, N
but they let them go to pay the soldiers who in
were risking their lives on the field of battle, w
that these sharks might hoard up wealth. r><
The soldiers, in the meantime, were getting tl
their pay at only about one-third the rate in d
gold. IK
HKUINMNi; OF TliK StjFFF/.F. < <
Now what happened ? The money sharks >"'
went to work and got the country filled
with these depreciated greenbacks, and the
next thing after the war was over, they (>(
raised a great howl over the tremendous
debt that the country could not pay, and w
these goldbugs proposed that the govern- V(
ment issue bonds payable in gold. This |.t
proposition came from the rulers of the Jinan- ,.(
cial world?a nationality that does not have '{l\
a nation. That is a fact. The financial j?
world today is ruled by a nationality that u
does not have a nation. 1 want you to jj
think, about it. (Then
these goldbugs go to work, and
what is the cry ? We'll have to issue bonds. ^
gentlemen, to pay this debt. Now they took >
the gold that had been locked up all the (>)
while it was needed, and buy the greenbacks ,|
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at aooiu -hi mils uu un- wuuui. i uvu mv,? (
demanded that the government issue bonds V(
to secure tins debt, which" was doing no
harm whatever, and with these greenbacks
they buy the bonds at par, thus exchanging
a debt upon which there was no interest, for
one hearing interest. hi
Til K NKXT STKC. u
Now what do they do? They go to work sj
and pass a law making the bonds payable ..
in coin. Mind the difference. What was
the next step? They got congress to pass j|
what was known as the "Cremation Act,"' by a
which the greenbacks used in the purchase j
of the bonds were destroyed, and the bonds. j0
which were purchased at oil cents on the |(,
dollar, were thus put on an equality with '
gold. In that transaction these fellows jj
made live millions of clear money and sad- (.j
died that much more debt upon the govern- ((|
tliov ;irc mil satisfied with i.
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what they have already done. At lirst the
bonds were payable in greenbacks". Ily .
making them payable in eoin, they cleared jj
millions; and now, not satisfied with that, (j
they want to get rid of silver as a money ](|
metal and make the bonds payable in gold.
They now have two horses pulling the |)(
wagon, and they want to break the legs of
one horse and put the whole load on the
other. There is searcely enough gold in ex- |j
istenee to pay that debt, yet they want to
make it payable in gold?they want to lix
it so one horse cannot pull the load, and n
when the debt has to be paid, they will be ^
in a condition to make their own terms again, j
just as they did before.
hKMoNKTIZATloN CltlMK. ' |\
In IS7d they demonetized silver. They ('
broke the legs of one horse. What was the In
result ? You were cultivating a crop of cot- st
ton, and on the basis of the last crop, were i ec
cpccting to got seventeen cents a pound
>r it. but you did not. With the legs of one
I* the horses hrokcti, you only got eight
nts for your cotton.
There must he a circulating medium,
fell, how are you going to get it? I will
low you how they managed it. They next
>t up what is known as the national hank-'
ig system. The government said to them,'
won't issue any more money, hut I'll just;
t you issue it. (Jive me your bonds, and I i
ill pay you .1 per cent, on them, and allow
on to issue !>() per cent, in bank notes,
he government issues hack to the. hondhold-1
s ninety dollars in notes for every hundred
ollars worth of bonds. It borrows the,
loney from the national banks, and then 1
ives it back to them to do business with
nd pays them interest 011 it to do it.
NATIONAL HANK ISO S VST KM.
Now, suppose I would lend you a hun-,
ren dollars and then ask you to give me
nek 00 per cent, of it in order that I might
intinue to do business with it, and all the j
me require you to pay me interest on the '
hole amount, less 1 per cent, that I would !
ay you for the money that you were giving
ic "> per cent. for. would you not think 11
as a terrible fool ? Yet this is just what
ic government is doing with the national j
anks. This is the position of our people to- j
ay. The government is giving the nation- i
1 banks (5 per cent, for money and not <
aarging but 1 percent., and the banks lend 1
on money that costs them nothing, and :
take you pay interest on it.
Now the national banks of the country j
ave full control of the currency, and con- j
oiled as they are by the money sharks of:
le East, it is an easy thing, at any time, I
> bring 011 a financial stringency. The
[inks have drained the (Jreat West of money |
nd brought things to a crisis. The result'
, bank failures everywhere. I am glad to
iv that, so far, South Carolina has not bad
single bank failure. One bank?tbe bank!
f Florence?suspended for a while, but re- j
lined business. It is worth something some-1
mes not to have too much credit. The
ouble with us nowisan insufficiency of cir-1
dating medium per capita. The great State !
f Pennsylvania is the richest State in the'
nion, but at the same time it has a mort-1
ige debt of $1.0.3 per capita?$1.03 for'
rery man woman, child and nigger in the J
late. And Kansas?poor, miserable Kan-1
is?has a mortgage indebtedness of $1.70 j
?r capita. The trouble, even with the rich
tates, is that the wealth is with a certain j
ass. The rich are very rich and t he poor
ery poor. Hut the point I want to get at is j
nning.
'I'llK FINANCIAL ISSFK.
Now they have called an extra session of'
ingress. Last summer, the great issue, I
ley said, was the tariff question ; but fori
lontlis Mr. Cleveland has been receiving !
lies of resolutions from little scabby boards j
* trade, composed of four or live business j
en, who want the Sherman law repealed. J
:> it seems that they have begun to realize
iat the financial question is the issue of the
ay, and it is not to repeal the tariff laws
mt they want an extra session of congress,'
it to repeal the Sherman law. Now they ;
ty they can reduce the tariff and make j
mt all right by levying an income tax.1
hey don't say anything about a graduated j
iconic tax, but think that if they had an '
1 income tax, we won't want anything!
se. You sec their Democratic congress last j
?ar did not do much better than the other !
le.
The greatest issue before the people today
finance. Here is that great big man the !
orld has gone crazy about, and why, I don't l
now. He says the the people must come
igether and that we must do something to
lievc the situation, and why ? When did
lev find out that the situation needed re-!
ef? The struggle has been going 011 forj
venty years now, and lie tells us that we j
list not clip the wings of the soaring eagle ,
> the little bats and owls can fly. This is
ic way General Gordon compared those j
ho are trying to relieve the situation, to j
1 those who have done nothing.
SI I Kit M A N's M A K ICS 111 FT.
They were not satisfied with the demands j
'the Grange, and they are not satisfied j
ith the demands of the Alliance. They 1
ere asked for free coinage of silver, but j
icy would not grant it. After a while,
hen they could stand it no longer, they got;
f> this makeshift known as the Sherman j
w, and calling for the purchase of four- j
ld-a-hall'-million ounces of silver a month, j
'hat did they want it for? Mr. Sherman 1
unself says it was just a makeshift?a com-1
omise witli the West?and now they want |
1 repeal even this. When did you ever!
jar of silver coming below gold until after!
>73, when it was demonetized ? Well, now,
ippose the whole world would demonetize
)ld, you would see that gold would only be
hat it is worth for rings and watches and
icli as that, and we would find that the!
trinsic value of gold would be whatever it j
worth. Suppose we repeal the Sherman
:t and have nothing in its place? The
xmfrv now <rnttiiiir four-and-a-half mil
w J !-> o ans
of new circulation every montR. Shut j
lis off, complete the demonetization of.silver,
id we double the purchasing capacity of
>ld, and the gold-bugs have just what they
e working for.
TilK TKl'K INWAUDXKSS.
The money sharks are now trying to get
ic world to adopt the gold standard. If
ley should do it, the capitalists of England
id America would have all the gold. To
,'t it, the government would have to issue
aids, of course, payable in gold. Those
mils would have to be put on the market,
id those who have the gold, would be able
? fix the price. Now you begin to
'e into it. These fellows are very
larp. Stop by step they go on. About
1,450,000,(1(10 worth of bonds arc to be
'deemed in l!)08. The law says these
Dials arc payable in coin. It does not say
jld. You see if they can knock out silver, |
most half of the currency available to pay
lesc bonds, will be out of the way, and
icy will be sure to get their money in gold,
ow, again, there is only about #")(>(>,000,-,
)0 of gold in the I'nited States, and when
e undertake to pay with it a debt of #1,>0.000,000,
don't you see what premium
le bondholders will be able to make out of
icir money ? Then, instead of #1,500,000,>0
of debt, we will have about #8,000,01)0,>(>.
It has been pointing that way for
cars.
So.MKTIIINC To THINK Altot'T.
I am in earnest, on 4hat line. 1 don't 1
line, gentlemen, to make a llowery speech,
id get you away up into the heavens,,
here you will forget the issues with which
on are confronted and cease looking for the
'inedy. That is not my object. I want
on to see the danger. I want you to think
unit it and act upon it. Every old soldier
i the army knows what a man will do'
lien be gets hungry. < 'an one say today
lat this is an independent country, when
>.O0(l,(Mi() of people are ruled by about
l,ooo goldbugs? When the polities of
ic country is dominated by money, and
1.000 ocoidc absolutely control the whole
nintry? Why arc our all'airs subject to
it' money king which has no conscience,
id which will crush our people into the
ny dust of the earth ?
MAI5K Till: IMtKDICTlON.
Kegardless of the constitution, regardless
ranything else, shall our children have a
crita.no. of eternal slavery and he hewers of
ood and drawers of water for certain dass!
of men ? It is slavery and nothing hut
averv to which we are all -coming. What
as it you heard last summer when I told
mi that before .another twelve months,
lis country would experience the greatest
naneial panic it has ever known? They
ihl you 1 was a fool and a crank. Now
iok about you and see that what I told you
as conic to pass. If you live twenty-live
cars, and things continue in the direction I
icy are now tending, you will see your!
lildren slaves! Mark my words. It took,
ne hundred years to make two millionaires, j
1 the last twenty-live years the prevailing
mditions have made dl.OfMl, and in the
cxt twenty-live years there will be sixty-'
ve thousand millionaires and all the rest of
ic people will he slaves. I tell you it he- j
ooves every citizen here to consider seri-j
isly the signs of the times, or he will leave
hind him children to wait upon the few
lillioiiuircs of t he land.
Now I will say a lew words about the Al-1
ance. I tell you it is the worst treated or- '
inization on the face of the globe. It is the!
t . ? 1
'orst treated organization that over urealnI
tin- breath of life. I will tell you that
Ir. Cleveland hates the Alliance, and it is
iited by all the politicians of his stripe, and
icy will be <;ettiti? down on their knees beire
it, like Senator Cordon, of Ceorfjia.
Icvcland will liiiii it and kiss it. and when
e nets from it a little confidence, he will
ab it, ami step on the "owls and bats" who!
impose it. j
a i.iviav eoitrsi-:.
I will tell you, gentlemen, that tin re is no
time lor anything now hut to think, think,
think, and act, act, act. They tell you that
the Alliance is dead already. That it does
nothing but pass resolutions and make
threats hut; I tell you that U is not dead.
It is the livest corpse that I ever tried to
handle in my life. They talk about the
sub-treasury idea a great deal?a sub-treasury
for agricultural products?but they don't
say much about tbe sub-treasury for whisky.
There they can put away their whisky, in
which the government has an interest of DO
cents a gallon. They can keep it there four
years, and four years more, and if they don't
want to sell it, they can keep the government
out of its money for yeafs more, on and
on. but when we ask for tbe same thing,
they say paternalism ! paternalism !! Well,
a father is a mighty good thing to have
sometimes, but it isa mighty bad father that
will look after the whisky of his children,
and not do anything for their honest products.
A NKW FINANCIAL SYSTKM.
Well, now they come before you and they
talk State banks. They want to sec the 10
per cent, tax on the issue of State banks
repealed, and I want to see it repealed
too; but T don't want to see forty-four
different kinds of banks with a shaving
machine. If we repeal the tax on the issue
of State banks, and then go and establish
State banks on the same principle that national
banks arc now manipulated, I can't
see that we have gained anything by getting
rid of the national banks. We do not want
to arrange so that the State will give money
to the bankers and let them lend it to the
individual, and receive interest and principal
on that which costs them nothing. You
will only get rid of one monopoly by supplying
its place with another just as bad. Now,
here is my plan : Suppose we repeal the tax
on the issue of State banks. Let every State
in the Union issue bonds, secured by all the
property in the respective States. Let those
bonds be deposited in the national treasury,
aud let the government guarantee them and
issue to the States notes to the full amount of
the bonds, less one per cent. Let South
Carolina issue say $40,000,000 worth of these
bonds aud receive therefor currency. Now,
let the individual go to the State with his
cotton, his real estate, his railroad bonds, or
other property, and get his loan the same
as he would from a national bank. The interest
of course would go to the State of
South Carolina. We would thus have a
uniform currency. Of course, they would
cry paternalism! paternalism!! Well, we
would have a uniform currency, redeemable
through the treasury, just the same as is now
done with the national bank notes, but instead
of the profits going to the bankers, it
would to go the State.
Dr..Strait closed his speech with a few remarks
in which he expressed the hope of
having the pleasure of addressing his audiancc
again, and took his seat. He was listened
to quietly and respectfully throughout,
and the audience failed to show by any demonstrations
of applause, whether it was
pleased or displeased with anything be had
to say. The next speaker introduced was
W. X. KI.DKH,
a member of the house of representatives.
Mr. Elder explained that he was here by
invitation. Ife expected most of the time
to be taken up by visitors from a distance,
and bad only prepared a short address. He
made a slight reference to his service in the
legislature, his connection with the Alliance,
and also made a few remarks on the financial
question. As lie was about to take his
seat. ex-Representative Wm. Walker, asked
him for some information on the dispensary
law. Mr. Elder explained the efforts of the
legislature to enact a prohibition law, but
finding this impossible, as the next best
thing to it, told how it happened that the
dispensary law was enacted.
DINNER.
At the conclusion of Mr. Elder's address,
the chairman of the meeting announced a
recess for dinner. A great many people
had brought baskets and a great many had
not. Some of those who brought baskets
spread their contents on a common table,
but most of them separated in parties of
four, five and a half dozen, and enjoyed their
good things alone. Mr. James 31. M. Cain,
owner of the picnic grounds, treated as
many of his friends as could stand around
his tables, to a sumptuous spread in his
dining room. A great many people, however,
who failed to go provided against contingencies,
returned home hungry.
SENATOR BUTLER.
The first speaker after dinner was Senator
M. C. Butler, of Edgefield, who arrived 011 the
grounds shortly before the conclusion of the
address by Dr. Strait. After introduction by
the chairman, Senator Butler began to address
the people as follows :
rlininmnn Lwliou frni > <11 >ni 011 !1 tl < 1
iUI, \ 1IU! i 111(111 , IUU4VUJ f^v v
fellow citizens of York county : This is not
the iirst time I have had the honor of looking
the Democracy of York in the eye. I
I want to say to you now, ladies, gentlemen,
fel low conntryman''?
A SUCIIT INTKHKITTIOX.
Here there was a commotion in the crowd
caused by a horse turning over a bee hive.
There were quite a number of horses hitched
near the spot, and their owners hurried to
get them out of danger. Those in the immediate
vicinity of the stand did not know
the exact nature of the trouble, and neither
did Senator Butler, but surmising it, he explained
: "That horse has got into a yellow
jacket's nest, where I will be before long
maybe." Then, continuing where he left
off? "And there has been nothing that I
am aware of in my career to make me
ashamed to look you in the eyes again. For
the first time in thirty-two years, the Democratic
party of this? Well I'll wait. Xo
man can speak ngainst'a yellow jacket's nest
or a circus."
Here the crowd had become so scattered
and demoralized, it was useless for the
speaker to attempt to go on. At length the
band struck up with some music, and after a
while the crowd again collected around the
stand, when Senator Butler continued his
speech as follows:
TAKKS A NKW STAItT.
Ladies, gentlemen and fellow citizens: I
dislike very much to tax your patience, and
will not do so further than to make clear a
few propositions which I will submit.
For the first time in thirty-two years?for
the first time since IStiO?the National Democratic
parly to which you and I belong, has
control of every department of the government.
I know perfectly well, fellow citizens,
how, under this condition of dissatisfaction
and unrest, people look for something as a
reason for the unrest and the hard times, hut
I know, as you know, that the Democratic
party is for the first time in a condition to
be held responsible for the existing stale of
affairs. We have had t lie house of representatives.
the senate and the chief executive,
but at no time before, have we had them all
at once, and at no time have we been able to
put into execution the policies of our party.
i?i:.mo< i:ats auk now itKsi'oxsini.K.
l?.o ? !?!, tin. olix'linn of Mr fleee
land l?y the Democrats, the responsibility
devolves upon the Democratic party to bring
relief to the country, and I say to you here
and now, that if it does not do something
to bring about relief, it may very properly
be held responsible for it. As, however, the
Democratic party has not been in power, we
must not yet charge it with unfaithfulness.
It is the Republican party that is responsible
for the present condition of affairs?the
many failures in business, throughout the
country, the financial depression?much less
in the South than in other sections. Now.
the Democratic party is called upon to
enact such measures of reform as will bring
relief to the people of the whole country.
All this clamor we have heard among
the good people of the country, is not from
a desire for agitation. It linds its origin in
a deep seated and fundamental cause, and
while I have not been, and am not now, one
of those who has fault to find with the
Democratic party, I tell you now, that if it
fails to carry out its principles and promises
under present conditions, I will at once be
found among its severest critics.
(TKKKNCV TIIK TKolT.LK.
It* I nel'oil u'luif ic flu* rutko 1 In.
II I V?i;ii; UPUVU n ?n?v ?..w w. IIIV
existing uneasiness and unrest, I wnuhl say
that first, it is the unnatural capitalization of
corporations or industrial enterprises, whieli
are bonded and stocked for far more than their
earning capacity justifies. The investors in
stocks and bonds in these various enterprises
have found it out. Liquidation has set in
with them, and they are unahle to meet the
demands that are being made upon them.
This will create distrust for awhile, when
values will settle down to their proper basis,
and the result will be in a measure beneficial.
I think the next main and contruling cause
of our financial trouble and stringency, is
the iniquitous tarilf bill passed during Han i- !
son's administration under the Torn Iteed I
congress, and known as the McKinley law.
The third cause has heeii attributed to
what is known as the Sherman silver bill, j
It is a mere makeshift, passed by Tom Reed's
house to eoneiliate the Silver States. Kvery
Democratic member there voted, or was
i paired, against that bill. What is it? It is
simply a bill instructing the secretary of the
treasury to buy between four anil live million
ounces of silver bullion per month, and issue
i silver certificates on that bullion, and to the
extent silver certificates were issued, it was
a relief and no more.
TIIK PKNSION Flt.U'D.
Again, to the people of the South, 011c of
the greatest burdens we have to bear is tbis : I
Congress appropriates every year, or has I
for tlie past two years, appropriated $ 1 >(),i
000,000 for pensions. Nine-tenths of that
money goes to the North. When I entered
the.senate, the pension appropriation amountJed
to ?28,000,000. Since that time it has
grown to SI">0,000,000, and it bids fair, within
the next few years, to go up to ?200,000,000.
Well, now suppose each of us old sol:
dicrs had pensions and the money came down
South, we would be pretty well oil', wouldn't
we? Hut the money does not come down
1 this way. All the appropriations, or nearly
j all, are spent in the North. The nrfval ap|
propriation and army appropriation of ?28,000,000?everything
except the river and
harbor and postollice appropriations?are
! spent in the North. That is another thing
! that keeps us poor.
| Now, I have often been asked why I did
i not attempt to put a stop to this kind of
thing. I feel like answering as did Sam
: Rice out in Alabama. Just before the war
| broke out, be said in a public speech, that
I it would not amount to much. "Why," he
told his hearers, "we can whip the Yankees
with cornstalk guns." After the war, Sam
hncnnin a candidate for congress. and bis
opponent threw it up to him about his foolish
remark. He replied, "Yes, I said it, hut
they would not fight us that way."
IT TAKKS VOTES To MAKE LAWS.
So when 1 am asked why I don't put a stop
to it, I reply, "Simply because we have not
(got votes enough." F.very year since I have
been in the senate, some Democratic mem-j
! her lias introduced some measure of reform,
; but they invariably fail. A bill was introduced
by Senator Morgan, of Alabama, and
others, to require pension money to be raised
j by an income tax, but the bill would not go J
I through. Why ? You may as well ask me
' why we did not whip the Yankees in the
! last war. It was simply because we did not
!have troops enough.
The complaints of our people are well
j founded. We arc, as Dr. Strait has said,
hewers of wood and drawers of water for!
j the money kings of the North. When the
I Democratic senators seceded from the Union
; and left a majority of radicals, they did
1 what they had been attempting to do since
the foundation of the government. They
! united the
swoiti) and rrnsK,
and with the sword and the purse they put
i down our war, and in the same way they
! have been putting us down ever since.
WANTS KKKK C'OIN.UJK.
I have voted for th6 free coinage of silver
! as a small measure of relief. What is free
' coinage ? It is nothing but this. This goveminent
has about five mints. Now, suppose j
an individual had $10,000 worth of silver
bullion, or a hundred thousand, or a million I
I dollars worth, well, he goes into one of the
mints of the United States and says I want
this coined into dollars. The government
! takes the bullion and gives the individual in (
I return silver dollars equal in amount to the
| weight, and does not charge anything for conI
verting it into money. That is all. Now,
1 how much relief will this give to our people ?
About one dollar a head. There are five
' mints in the United States?one at l'hiladel!
phia, one at New Orleans, one at Charlotte,
| one at San Francisco, and the other, I don't J
; remember where. They can't coin but j
j $00,0(10,000 a year, and this would only be
about one dollar a head. While I have
voted for it, I think the free coinago of
??! ., mn.wllm nf vplipf is VP TV mUcll
I OIIVVl J ifc j - ' ~
! overestimated, but at every opportunity
II have voted in favor of the enlargement of j
the currency of tho country.
! DISTRIlU'TIXti MONKY TO THK I'KOI'LK. |
Some eight or ten years ago 1 was j
i making a speech down in Edgefield. The
proposition then was to issue $50 per capita j
to every man, woman and child in the conn- j
try and pay it out to them gratis.. My old J
| friend West Crawley was sitting on a log out,
1 in the edge of the crowd, and pointing to j
i him, I said: "Fellow citizens, suppose nj
United States officers would come along and j
I issue us out fifty dollars a piece, how long .
i would it be before some fellow would come
| along with a chuck-a-luck box, or a greasy
: pack of cards, and win every cent West
i had ?" "Well," said West, raising up, "we
j would have a mighty heap of fun while he
was a doiti' of it, general." Well, I would
like to get fifty dollars that way ; but at the
same time I know it would not be long until i
I would need another fifty, and another, and
I really don't believe the scheme would work, i
The trouble is with the financial system of j
! the country. That is the reason why I op posed
the sub-treasury plan. If money were
issued in that way, it would be in the hands,
of money sharks in less than six months.
SCARCITY or ITKKKNCY.
[ was talking with the president of a na|
tional bank in New York not long ago and
he was chiding me with the statement that
we Southern people arc trying to impair the
i credit of this government. I told him "That,
' is untrue: but you have had lis at your mercy
so long, that we are just trying to get
some kind of relief." Then he asked me I
what my remedy was, and whether I would
vote for*the repeal of the Sherman law. I,
told him "No." The law was a miserable;
makeshift by Mr. Sherman, but I don't in-1
tend to aotc for its repeal until I can get j
'some kind of concession from you people..
We have not currency enough in the South <
to discharge the business transactions, and
illustrated by giving him the experience of
two young men in Edgefield?one of them
my son. He had planted his crop and |
worked it at an expense of *7o0. The crop
was in good condition, but it would require
Slot) more to bring it through. I nlcss that;
amount could be raised, the crop would suiter
great loss. I went to the bank to borrow
the money for the young men myself, and
offered good security. The president of the
bank told me it was impossible: lie could,
not let me have the money if I would depos- j
it government bonds as collateral, lie sim-1
ply did not have it.
The New York bank president said this
was not so much the want of currency as
capital. 1 told him, "Not so." The credit of
the young men was capital, as was also their ,
crop, their horses and their lands. I here
; was plenty of capital there. I he trouble
! was altogether from a lack of currency.
Then I told him: "I want to repeal that 10
per cent, tax on bank circulation, because it
was passed by congress for the benefit of
national banks', and for the purpose of driving
State banks out of existence."
WANTS STATK RANKS.
Now, there is nothing new about the State
bank idea. We used to have them and issue
our own currency. Perhaps you remember
that one time there was one at Yorkvillc..
If you had *101),DUO in coin, nobody would,
ask whether it was gold or silver, and under
the law you had the right to issue three dol-J
lars in bills for one of coin. T take the (
ground that this tax is illegal, and that the |
government has no right to levy a tax on j
anything except for the purpose of raising
revenue. "Now then, I said to the New
York banker, "1 will be willing to vote for
the repeal of the Sherman law. if you will
remove the tax from State banks, for all the
silver bullion will soon be absorbed as a basis
for banking, and free coinage of silver will
follow as.a natural result."
Now, Dr. Strait makes the same remark
that this banker in New York made to inc. t
He said: 'You will have forty-four different
kinds of currency in the United States,
and you cannot use it as a circulating medium
between the States.' "So much the
better," said I, "If you had a State currency
today, we would have all the money ,
here' that we want, and it would not go
away just at the time we needed it most.'''
Hut," ho replied, "with so many different
kinds of money, how would you he able to
tell what a bill was worth? It would be
impossible to keep up with the lluetuations."
To that I replied, "Let each State use its
own money. Hut so far as that is concerned,
the bills of any bank that is managed well
will pass current anywhere in the Tailed
States. Hut. sir, nobody proposes to destroy
that $l,(5uiiT0ti0,()0() of national currency
now in existence. We will allow that
to remain as it is and use it for inter-state
trade, and further, with this nrrangemc it, j
j if a State does not see lit to permit the]
establishment of banks under this system, i
it may just let it alone." i
Now, in addition to the repeal of the ten - l
per rent, tax on the issue of State banks, I (
think the next congress should revise the tarill'.
To make up the deficiency, I think
that it should also levy an income tax so that
these people of the North would have to pay
their part of the expenses of the government. ;
I'ltKDK'TS I'KACK AM) I'KOSI'KltlTV.
I ain gratified that Mr. Cleveland knows
of no reason why the ten per cent, tax on
the;issue of State banks should not he repeal-;
ed. I am also gratified to know that he
favors the levy of a tax on incomes, and I will,
say that if the next congress passes these
three measures?revision of the tariff, repeal
i of the ten per cent, tax on State banks' issue,
and an income tax?the Third party of this
country will pass out of existence as the
snows of April. With the triumph of these
measures, and a readjustment of taxes so as j
to make the rich pay their portion, the Dem- j
ocratic party will control the country in ;
peace and prosperity for at least the next
! forty years.
I intended to say something about myself, i
but perhaps you do not want to hear it. A i
woman can talk about herself for hours, and
grow more interesting every minute, [Laughter.]
but when a man goes to talk about
himself, he grows tiresome. [Voice: (to
ahead, general, we want to hear you.]
It is not only your right to demand of me, I
when you choose, an account of my steward-1
ship, but it is your duty to do so. I was i
not sent to the senate by a clique, ring orj
I fuction, and I have not been kept there by !
them. When it comes to my keeping my j
position by bending the knee to any ring, j
clique or faction, I will not do it. My j
countrymen have honored me too long.'
But as I said before, tlm sovereign people !
i of South Carolina have a right to call upon
I me to give an account of my stewardship.1
' I have alway done the best I could, but I
| don't mean to say that I have always been
I right. Show me a man who claims this for !
j himself, and I will show you a fool. I have \
j made mistakes, but they have been mistakes1
| of the head. I have always tried to repre-'
sent the people of South Carolina as best I
! could.
"What has Butler done since he went to
the United States senate?'" What has he
done? I say that if I had devoted the same
amount of time and attention to my own
private business as I have devoted to the
business of the people, I would have been
worth ten times as much money as I am :
today. But I do not complain. I have discharged
the duties that have devolved upon 1
me cheerfully and gladly, to the best of'
my ability.
Here Senator Butler reviewed the various!
achievements of his official career. 1 Ic men- i
tioned the diflerent appropriations he had ]
secured for the rivers and harbors of the j
State, and showed that he was largely re- j
sponsible for nearly all the government appropriations
that have ever come to the
State, giving, however, his colleagues due
credit for their assistance in the work. He j
said he had never failed to answer a single i
request made to him by a constituent, and I
he had been present and participated in ;
every debate in the senate in which the interest
of South Carolina was concerned. He j
intends, he said, to have a schedule of his
various official acts published and distributed '
to the people, because an attempt has been ;
made by his enemies to create me impression i
that he has been doing nothing for his eon-.
stituents. Continuing, he said:
I have never committed an act, by word |
or deed, which has stirred up strife among
my fellow countrymen, turning brother[
against brother and father against son. My
voice and my influence have been to restore
among my countrymen feelings of confidence
and self-reliance one upon the other.
IN DKKKNSH OF CORDON.
I want to say a word here in justice to Gen.
Gordon. T heard every word of that speech,
and I wish every man in this crowd hail
heard it, for it was the manly talk of a soldier
talking to soldiers. lie made a touching
appeal to them to come back and get together,
and drew a most striking picture of
the difference between our race and the inferior
races, and he asked: "Old soldiers,
will you cut down the tall oaks that the
blackjacks may spring up." The matter
was called to my attention, and I asked him
what he meant by it. He said nobody could
take any exceptions to what he said but a
Negro. Nobody could put the construction
on it that he meant, "Will you cut down
certain white men that other white men
may spring up." I heard his whole speech
and I am sure there was no such intention
in it.
AN OPINION OK CI.KVKLANI).
Now I want to say another word. Some-;
thing has been said about Mr. Cleveland. I j
don't agree with him in some of his views, |
but I will say this : Anybody who supposes i
he is not one of the smartest politicans in '
this country is very badly mistaken. But
that does not justify me in saying that he is a
tool of Wall street, because I know lie is not
the tool of anybody. The best proof of that!
is that he is in favor of an income tax.
Cleveland's sympathies are with the people, j
and that is what gives him such great
strength with the masses. Mr. Cleveland is;
a great man, honest and pure, and although
he does a great many things I do not like, 11
would not be willing to condemn him as a
traitor, for I know that he is not.
I want to say also, that the election for
United States senator comes off next fall one
Vnnt 1\i. iMiTirlid I ilnn'f L'limv flint
I care much about going back, but I am not j
going to be kicked out if I can help it. I.
am coming buck home and I am going face
to face with the people and give them an j
account of myself. I am not going to make |
any compact with rings and bosses to get |
back to the senate or anywhere else. I did !
not ask where I was going, or what effect it j
would have, when they sent me to the sen-1
ate, and when I was elected I was the most!
surprised man in the State. But neither did
I inquire what was going to be the result j
when I went to the army in 1801. I went
there as I went to the senate, to do the best
I could, come what may.
Senator Butler next spoke of his connec-1
tion with the Hamburg and Cainhoy riots,)
and said that he would not again go through
the odium and abuse he incurred throughout j
the North on account of these things, to he j
president of the United States; but, were it:
necessary, under the same circumstances he I
would do the same thing again.
NO 1'KRSONAI.TIKS.
I am not going to make any personal fight,
and I am not going to allow anybody to make
a personal light on me. My public career is!
open to the public, and all my public acts ,
are subject to whatever criticism any one i
chooses to make, but when it comes to per-1
sonalties, I am not going to put up with it, and |:
I want to say this right now and here, if!
there is anything of that kind, one of us will
come off the stand feet foremost.
Dr. Strait says everybody hates the Alliance.
I do not hate the Alliance. Some-;
body asked me not long ago what I thought
about the Alliance. I have always sympa-1 ]
thized with the purposes for which it was I,
organized, but it reminds me of the fellow
who applied for membership in the church ]
and was refused admission, even on prolm- j
tion, and then got abused for not being a j j
member. Now, they want to say that I am ! j
in favor of the free coinage of silver and an in-;,
come tax, because the Alliance is in favor of (
it. I have voted for both of these measures ,
before the Alliance was horn.
llfTI.Kit AND ST It A IT. ]
Here, Dr. Strait, who was standing out in .
the crowd, interrupted Senator Butler with ,
a request for permission to ask a question.
Butler?Certainly, doctor.
Strait?Were you in sympathy with Hemphill
and Johnstone in their efforts to blacklist j
Mr. Latimer and myself? !'
Butler?I had nothing to do with tlue:
blacklisting of you and Mr. Latimer. '
Strait?But did you not sympathize with
Hemphill and Johnstone?
Butler?I got letters from all over this dis- .
trift to the cllect that you and Latimer were (
recommending Third party men for ofliee,;
and 1 intended to prevent it if I could. j
Strait?Why did you not inform me? ,
Butler?You never came near me. j >
Strait?I did. I came to sec you twice. A
Butler?You did not. But if you want to ,
know, I told Mr. Bissell that I did not think
it was proper to put Third party men in j
olllce, where there were Democrats to till
them. 11
Strait?Why did you go to Mr. Bissell's t
office? j j
Butler?Mr. Bissell wrote me a notcaskiyg |
me to be present. I said: "Mr. Postmaster t
(ieneral, 1 don't know anything about this.'' i t
lie asked me to come anyway, and I went. |!
Strait?Why did you refuse to recognize! |
- - ? 4..t;?r tin.. v i i
me lis (lie iTjnra-muim; v/i n...-> ,
Jiutler?You did not come to me.
Ki"ait?I did.
liu tier--You did not come to me as the J'
senior senator. Von came to me like you
thought I was a public enemy. You hurt
fixed up the slate among you, and then
mine to me to agree to it. I would do notli- w
ing of the kind.
Strait?We did nothing of the kind.
Butler?I got it from one of your friends.
The colloquy continued in this strain for
perhaps ten minutes, during which nothing ^
was developed that was either interesting or
instructive. Senator Butler maintained all
the while that he had nothing whatever to , '
do with the blacklisting. Finally, Dr. Strait
asked :
"Did you not recommend a Haskelite lor T
ollice ?"'
Butler?I don't know. All I asked of a
man was he a Democrat. I did not ask him, p
like you and Senator Irhy, was he a Reformer;
hut so far as that is concerned, I can j,,
prove that you recommended a Haskelite.
Strait?Well, he lied to me then.
Butler?l'erhaps lie lied to me, too. I
Strait?If you did not ask him. how can
you know?
Butler?Vou said when I recommended a;
Reformer to ollice that I was trying to hrihe ' '
him.
Mrau?it did iook very inucn use 11. n
Butler?Any one who suspicions another j
of bribery, is not only a briber, but a bribe- j v
taker.
Strait?Do you mean to say I am a bribetaker
? '
Butler?That depends upon how you understand
what I said.
Dr. Strait made a reply, the purport of
which the reporter did not catch. About i
this time the chairman tapped Senator Butler
on the shoulder, and requested him to
discontinue the colloquy. The senator took
his seat, and shortly afterward left the stand.
Both men were evidently very much in
earnest, but neither got excited or exhibited j e
a great deal of feeling. 1 '
'I'll K WIND IT. v
The next speaker was .Mr. K. I). Thompson,
county lecturer of the Alliance, llei
was not feeling very well, and the crowd ^
being already tired out, he made only a J'
short address. i
Several others down on the programme c
for short talks were present, but they decid- f
cd not to attempt to make them, and the j J1
picnic soon afterward broke up, everybody '
going home pretty well satisfied with thejt(
entertainment of the day.
n
ROCK HILL HAPPKNINUS. : |j
Senator Under Milkcs a Speech?Convict* ut Work s
oil the Industrial School?I'eople Who are :
Coming anil <>oing?Give the Correspondent j
the News.
Correspondence of the Yorkvilte Kmiuirer. j
Rock Mux. July 24.?On last Saturday
night, Senator M. C. Butler was at the C'aro-' ]
lina hotel, en route from the picnic at Cain's! i,
Spring. At 11 o'clock the citizens gave him '
an ovation in the form of a string band con-! y
cert, and made hearty calls for a speech. The i j,
senator responded, speaking about the linan- ^
cial and political situation. Me said he hoped
the present political dissensions would be ^
healed : that they are unnecessary, as well | ?
as unwise. The present general situation he ; j,
regarded as a great responsibly on the! j,
Democratic party. The Republicans have j
held us responsible in times past, when we ^
were not in power, but that was jjnjust.
The balance of power at Washington j
has never, before the present, been so well ?
in the hands of the Democrats that they | j
could justly be called to account for the!
governmental stutus. But now they have i.,
full control for the first time, and good | J.
things may be expected when they have I
been in power long enough to make their
influenc.i felt.
As to the financial outlook of the South, I j,
the senator held out a straw, very much of 11]
the same hue as those at which South C'aro- j \
liniaus have been grabbing for some years, j v
saying that he would make an effort to get! j,
the government to spend more money in
the South. That will be a worthy effort ci
for the senator, but after all, does the finan- ^
cial depression of the country have a politi- j *
cal solution? Good government is worth : a
struggling for, but the government cannot | p
make our country wealthy. Political i V
changes can form a sort of safety valve for j,
the temporary escape of unrest in society, >
but the bright future of our home-country h
must come from somewhere else. Will some Jj
one venture to suggest from where ? h
The thirty-four convicts and their seven a
guards, who arrived a week ago, to work on
the Woman's Industrial school building, are ! a
duly installed in the new stockade near the J tl
site of the proposed building. Of course the ?
convicts are all Negroes, and a happy looking 1
set they are. Some one who likes to study >
the Negro problem, will find nn interesting j
field for speculation in the cheerfulness of I
the Negro race under all conditions. Isju
cheerfulness simply an accompaniment of ?
shiftless improvidence? Or is it not a supe-1 c]
rior virtue, possessed by an inferior race?|j
Anyhow, these men laboring under the frown ,
of the ever present shot-gun and rifle, arc a]
happy looking lot of fellows. The stockade . S
is conveniently and very comfortably ar- ^
ranged. It and the force, which is to be
joined by over sixty others soon, are in in
charge of Mr. J. M. Knight, who is kind and
courteous and an experienced oflieer in his i
business. Religious services were held at
the stockade on Sunday, and will probably "
be repeated from time to time. *
Mrs. Neil Pressly, of Tampico, Mexico, j
and Miss Elliott, of Ilunlsville, Texas, are
visiting Mrs. A. r. Ruff".
Miss Caldwell, of Louisville, Ky., is visiting
Mrs. A. K. Hutchison. i
Miss Addic Drennan, of Richburg, is visit
ing Mrs. Minnie Ratterrce. ! (i
Miss Annie Watson, of Yorkville, is visit- t,
ing Miss Ktta Steele. ^
Misses Leila Steele and Lula Blair, of
Blackstoeks, and Aliss Fannie Moore, of '
Betlicsdn, arc visiting Miss C'aimnie Smith,
in Kbene/.er.
Miss Lettic Green has returned from a,
visit to Monroe, X. C'. [ p
J)r. Louis Friedheim has returned from a p
trip to Louisville, Ky. j jr
Messrs. Heath Blake and Ladson Mobley fi
have returned from a visit to friends in jt
Guthriesville. w
Mrs. John A Byers, who has been visiting ; ^
her mother, Mrs. M. K. Adams, of this place, t<
has returned to her home at Sharon. ,r
Miss Irene Withers, who has been visiting ?
Miss Mayinc Ivy, has returned to her home
in Savannah, (in. I (]
There was an election here yesterday for j e.
warden of Ward Xo. 1. The election was
to lill the vacancy made by the resignation v:
of Mr. State Morgan, the former incumbent. |)'
The friends of Mr. Win. Wliytc and Mr. A. I t<
J. Thompson, foreman at the Standard Cot- ! u
ton mills, had those gentlemen forward as, '
candidates for popular favor and public re- j j-j
sponsibility. The number of ballots cast i b
was 02. Mr. Thompson received ~>l, and; k
Mr. Wliytc 41, making Mr. Thompson the j'
successful candidate. u
On Sunday the infant child of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Sliurley, of Kbene/.er, died of 11
whooping-cough. The bereaved parents , {.*
have the sympathy of many friends in their ti
sad alllietion. il
If any one in this section has some special- ^
ly interesting watermelons, early cotton, tine ,-r
potatoes, large corn, or a new farming enter- [ ti
l>rise, and will communicate or bring the ?i
facts, potatoes, or melons to this correspond- j
L'lit, he will be ambitious to give them as
courteous attention as a bona tide editor
an do. Let some one try it.
The Rock Hill section had some rain on Z(
last Wednesday?not a "season," however? 1|
mil the development of the crops will de-1
maud a good rain at an early date.
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bHTTKK FROM FORT MILL. ; JJ
L'rop* arc SulVering?No Kuln far Seven Weeks? 1
A Home Made Incubator.
'orrespoiuleiiee of the Yorkville Knquircr. ; R
Four Mil,i., .Inly 21.?The fanners of this li;
lection are in a bad way for want of rain. It has I jp
jeen live weeks to ti day since we have had any,;
md then only alight shower. In the upper end
>f the township, they have not sutlered so badly a
is around the town, but in the Fork neigbor- p]
mod they have bad no rain for seven weeks. I C(
an see no ehauee for this township to make ..
nore than halfa crop this year. Cotton, though
anall, is full, and may do better than is expect- \v
d, but corn will not make morn than halfa crop.
The Luna Mill is running day and night in ?,
irder to supply the demand for its thread,
I saw a cheap incubator this morning which, j
t seems to me, is in tho reach of everybody. It tl
telongs to Rev. Mr. Harley, and consists of an ! ..
. ?I:........ 1..I.I ii,, uluiiil Iveii t'i?i*l with '
nil11iiii y JK'^xii-fivt iiuin* i?|/ uiM/ui -.wv
iiue mortar. .1 door is left near the bottom, and , sl
here is a tin partition with about six inches of in
(and on top of it. The top is covered over with a 1 u,
hick carpet, and the necessary heat is produced
>y means of three lamps under the tin parition.
Ninety eggs were put in the incubator
Itree weeks ago. Thirty-live hatched out yester- t<.
lay, and this morning there were several more,
icsides a largo number "pipped." This lueu- .
Mttor seems to be a good thin#, and there is M
lot hint; to hinder anybody from having one. |
Mr. A. H. Kiiubreli and family, of ltoek Hill, j ?,|
ire visiting friends and relatives in Fort Mill. , '
Captain and Mrs. S. K. White left home last ,
I'liesday for a month's visit to the springs, c. j vi
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
to \i:\v \n\ i:ktisi:>ii:\ts.
'. M. Houston .V <Are ottering all summer
goods :it and below Now York cost.
I. A' IF. (Strauss?Say tliov are careless as to
the cost of their gotsis, hut wish to sell
them iu order to get money with which to
luty a fall and winter stock.
.1. Roddey, Manager of the Ivpiitnblc Life
Insurance company?Says that ten thousand
dollars is a good estate, and tells you
how to accumulate one.
, It. Lindsay?Says that every man should
carry a life insurance policy, and gives a
reason w hy you shoiihl not delay in securing
one.
. M. I'olison, Manager.?Talks alioul the large
stock of cheap shoes, which may lie found
at "Ilohson's Racket." Also summer
goods and susnenders.
owry A* Starr?Tell youalimit fruit jars, Scott's
fruit powder, cigars at different prices, and
Mason's blacking?two boxes for cents.
erguson brothers? 1 lave become poetical and
make (fold Bust Washing mwuer im* simject.
hinter AOates?Have a lot of I mailt i fill white
goods which they wish to sell, and are
willing to receive in payment dollars that
are claimed to have hut *> "> cents worth of
silver in them.
. A. Barnes?"Still a Kicking."
liddle A- Carroll?Call special attention to their
100 per cent. Hour.
icth-Sliiloli Alliance?Will meet on next Saturday.
i". If. McCorkle, Probate Judge?(fives notice
that W. I), lileun has applied for letters of
administration 011 the estate of It. II.
(ilenn, deceased,
os. P. Wallace?on the tilth of August, will
make a linal settlement with the probate
judge and apply for a discharge as administrator
of the estate of M. Catharine (frier,
deceased.
. S. Price, Clerk of the Hoard of County Commissioners?(fives
notice to road -overseers
that the public roads must be worked by
the 1st day of September.
ALMOST KILLED BY BEES.
A fine young horse belonging to Mr. Jospli
llamell was almost killed by bees at
'ain's Spring last Saturday. The animal
.'as hitched near a beehive, which through
ome kind of accident was turned over,
'he bees attacked all the horses in the viinity
and created a stampede. Mr. Hamcli's
orse was unable to break loose, and in a
uw moments the maddened insects literally
overed it from head to foot, driving it franic.
Some one rushed in and released the
orse by cutting the bridle. By this time,
owever, the poor animal was scarcely able
0 stand. Its body was well bathed with soda
rater and other remedies used, but it was
otuntMthe next day that it could be reloved
from the grounds. News of yesteray
is to the effect that the swelling is subiding,
and the horse will get well.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Presbyterian?Sunday-school at 5 o'clock
. m.
Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at
0.30 a. m., and Sunday-school immediatef
afterward.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A.
Veber, pastor. Services next Sunday mornig
at 10.30, and evening at 8.30 o'clock,
unday-school at "? o'clock p. 111.
Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor.
'nion?Services next Sunday at 1L o'clock
. m. Yorkvili.k?Services Sunday evenMr
nt ? an r?vinpL- Scfviees tomorrow even
lg at 8.30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. H. C.
luckholtz, of Chester. Sunday-school at
o'clock p. m.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
. C. Galloway, pastor. Tirzah?Services
ext Sunday at 11 a. tn., conducted by Rev.
1. L. Grier. Yorkvji.i.r?Services at 8.30
'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock
. in. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at
.30 o'clock.
RKV. W. <;. XKYIIiliK.
The Frankfort, Ky., Journal of the 17th
istant, publishes the following account of
lie farewell services accorded to Rev. \V. G.
Seville on his last Sunday in that city, preious
to his departure for liis new field of
lbor in Yorkville :
The union services between the co-oporating
liurclies of this city was held last night at the
outhern Presbyterian churcli. Dr. Taylor, of
le baptist church, delivered the discourse of the
veiling to a large congregation. The speaker
linden in beautiful and touching terms to the
leasant and cordial relations that existed bevoen
the retiring pastor and his brother pastors
l this city, and Air. Henderson invoked the
lessings of heaven upon the future labors of
Ir. Neville and also upon the congregation he
wives behind. Rev. Mr. Neville, in a few approbate
words, expressed his gratitude for the exressionsof
fraternal goodwill, and stated that
e would long cherish the memory of the associtions
of his pastorate in Frankfort. Mr. Nevle,
in the three years of his ministry in this
ity, has endeared himself to all our citizens by his
bility as a preacher in the pulpit, and his genIciuanly
bearing in all his relations to the conilunitv.
He will carry with him to his new
eld of labor in South Carolina the best wishes
fa large number of friends.
uot'k HIIjIj VS. YOKKVIIiLE.
The "Polka Dots," of Rock Hill, and the
Juveniles, ' of Yorkville, played their w
rub" game of baseball at this place yesterry
afternoon in the presence of about 300
eeply interested spectators.
The two clubs were composed as follows :
Hock Hi nr.?.1. Owens, J. Beckham, M.
teele, W. C'reighton, W. White, N. Simpson, (,'.
fitherspoon, <J. White, .I. Hardin. Battery?
lardin, catcher; Simpson, pitcher.
Yokkvim.k?B. Parish, V. McClain, J. Parill,
J. Smith, of ('lover; \V. Moore, W. Harri?n,
H. McClain, W. Parish, J. Allison. Battery?
1. McClain, pitcher; Walter Parish, catcher.
In the first inning, the Polka Dots made
jvcn runs and the Juveniles two. The
;cond inning resulted Polka Dots one, Jucniles
nothing; and the third resulted Polka
lots one, Juveniles two. From the third ining
to the close of the game, the Polka Dots
ere completely shut out and the Juveniles
iccecded in piling up against tlieni a score
f twenty-seven to nine.
The game was umpired by Mr. P. T. Goron,
of Yorkville, and Mr. Groone, of Rock
[ill. There was a little kicking at one or
vo decisions, but upon the whole everything
assed otf as pleasantly as could be desired.
PROFESSOR BANKS COMING.
At a meeting held last Thursday, the
ustees of the Yorkville graded school eomleted
definite arrangements with Prof. A. R.
anks, of Rock Hill, to take charge of that
istitution. Prof. Banks will also conduct a
rst-class high school for boys, which though
i the same building with the graded school,
ill be separate and distinct. Both schools
ill be provided with a full corps of compe;ut
teachers and professors, and will comlence
work on August 28, to continue ten
lonths.
Speaking of his departure from that place,
le Rock llill Herald of last week gives its
itimate of Prof. Banks as follows;
This is a ease in which we can truly say Yorkille's
gain is Hock Hill's loss, for no man lias
veil in the town who gave to it more of charac>r
and importance. He was the lirst supcrin ndent
of the.Hock Hill graded school, which
nder his management ranked among the lirst
istitutions of its kind in the State, and as headlaster
of the Presbyterian High School, his
lends confidently expected to see it become
eforo manv vears the leading institution of its
imi in theSoufli. Ho is known most favorably
lroilghout North and South Carolina and will
avo no dilliriilty in commanding patronage
lierever ho may go in this section.
As wo have said, we deeply regret his depart re
from our midst on his own account, hut a 1st)
ivauso this removal carries his excellent family
out Hock Mill. It will he a long while before
teir place will he tilled here. The town can
1 alford the loss of such desirable citizens.
.'horover they may go they will always he
ivingly remembered by a multitude of sincere
lends here, whose prayers will be for their fuire
happiness and prosperity. We lose a good
k1 true friend in M r. Hanks, and feel a personal
rievitnee in his departure.
DKATH OK l>H. JOHN M.W.SK.
Dr. John May, Sr., one of the oldest citi;ns
of Vorkville, died at his home in litis
lace at 2 o'clock last Saturday morning,
a far as is known, he had no organic disease,
c had been confined to his bed for several
eeks and death resulted from a general
reaking down and wearing out ol the mniinory,
which had been in use longer than
to allotted time.
Dr. May was a native of Colleton county,
id was born on the I'disto river, on October
), ISIS). His father gave him a good Kngdi
education, and at the age of 21 turned
iin loose to shift for himself. The doctor
'cured a situation as school teacher, and in
year or two made enough money to comlete
his education in the classics and attend*
1 a course of lectures at the South Carolina
[edicnl college, from which institution lie
as graduated in 1S4I1.
I'pon the bombardment of Port lloyal, Dr.
lay left a good practice and volunteered his *
ir vices to the State, lie was assigned to
ic Sixteenth regiment of South Carolina
duntcers, and was soon afterward made
irgcon of the regiment. Next, he was
ade surgeon to the troops at Castle Pincki;y
and on the gunboats in Hog Island chan.'1,
and afterward he was made a member
' the medical examining hoard of Charles)ti,
Heaufort, Colleton, liarnwell and Or- ?
igeburg counties, in which lwwitimi h..
nued until the close the war.
After the war, finding all lus personal
ropcrty and plantation equipments destroy1,
ami his family having refugeed to Yorklie,
he rejoined his wife and children at