The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 17, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

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<2)a^,-^2 wi" snf)jle h ^ou we&f & bur fur4 ""??^:s;5:*^ Tl}l& tinje of tl?e ye&r is cert&iply kte to buy your furs, dop't you tlplpk? Our furs &re selllpg out red r&pidiy. be cause tipe styles tfyls year we so c&.tel?y. f /l&ture puts fur clocks 09 aipin^Is. ipstekd ef clotl? clocks, because furs keep trpem} v&rn) cr. furs will keep you w&xnjer. But we dop t warn) you 09 tlpe price. Conje, judge for yourselves. Prices fron) $1.50 up to $S0,0 0 peck piece &pd njuffs to n^tcj^. Our store is tl?e fur tyu&rters foT tl?is city. Furs nj&Jte good Ciprlstnj&s presents. Cordially. FURMAN F. MALFASS, MANAGER? SAY STOP IN We are the principal headquarters for stuff to keep cool these hot days. Kefrigeraters, Ice cream churns, Ice shavers, Ice pick, etc. Drink purejwater by using our combined cooler and fil ter. Hammocks and Lawn Swings. Don't let your wile suffer with kitchen heat when ycu can get one of ourlB. & B. wickless Blue Flame toves cheap. y Our Furniture line is complete just received a carjoad of new season?goods to your advantage to get our prices. A Fine line of Cooking toves and Ranges Enamel and Tin Ware. Orangeburg Hard^ar^ & Furniture Co. iOUR NEW OFFERING. (I) Vacant Lot Lowman St., 80x136. (1) House and Lot corner Windsor and Glover Streets. (1) House and Lot Windsor street, $1000. ?(1) Hous6 and Lot corner Doyle St., and Sellers Avenue. (1) House and Lot Peasley Street. $750. (1; House and Lot Dickson Street, cheap, tfn (1) New Residence, now being erected, "Modern home." jg (14) New tenant hoiibes, a paying investment. Q (1) Vacant L?>t West Amelia St.. 8<>xl30 "Bargain." a "The Km? House Corner Railroad Avenue and Pine Street. O The Williamson House and Lot corner Broughton and Cal ? houn streets, "fine plaot." 'y) FARMS 9 (1) Farm (123) A<-res 2\ miles b- low City, on Clnrlf ston road. ?(1) Farm (336) Acres 4| miles below City, on River Road. (\) Farm (282) Acres 8"l- miles West of City, near Ninety Six ?Road. (1) Farm (271) Acres 6 miles West of City, on Ninety Six Road (1) Farm (35) Acres 2 miles North of City, on Road to Stilton. q (1) Farm (88) Acres 2 miles West of City, on roed to Cordova, if (1) Farm (11">) Acres 2 miles North of Bowman, S. O., very -iQl cheap. A (1) Farm (98) acres 4 miles South East of City. (1) Farm (106) Acres 9 miles north of City near Boll Swamp Road. ? (1) Farm (54) Acres 9 miles West of City on Ninety Six Road. jg (1) Farm (300) Arres in several tracts in Branchvllle. S. C. ?1 Farm 9 miles South East of City counting 00 Acres a Low price. The McKeva Farm one mile from City 90 Acres, finep ac HjI good timber. Also the L. E Riley Buggy House and Shops corner Middle on and Ar lelia^treet measuring (19 feet on Midleton St H 7VI I^AIREY & * o. Real Est iie Xgen'a. 5 Court Hens9 Square THE MONEY QUESTION Our Financial System Has Failed of Its Duty. ITS INCOMPETENCE PROVED. Government, Not Banks, Should Con . trol Money of the Nation?Weakness of Proposed Emergency Currency Leg islation?Senator Owen's Remedy. Recrudescence of "Offensive Par tisanship"?Roosevelt's Use of F?d oral Patronage. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. When the national convention meets in 1?0S it will be confronted by the question as to whether William J. Bry an shall be nominated for the presiden cy. The Democratic convention nomi nates only by a two-thirds vote. Its candidate, whoever be may be, must have two-thirds of all the delegates in his support. Of course as a recom pense for this the Democratic party stands for the unit rule. Every state delegation votes as unit. The only time when this rule ?was broken was in Michigan in 1892, when the state dele gation was split. Today there is no possibility of a break in ,any state. If Mr. Bryan is not the favorite of the whole convention, he w?l not be nom inated, and of all men he would be the last to seek a nomination under such conditions. Senator Owen on "in? Panic." Off course Oklahoma is far away from the financial center of the United States. Senator Owen has offered as a remedy for the financial panic this proposition: "Let the United States treasury advance treasury notes against acceptable bonds deposited witi? tbc treasury up to UO per cent of their present market value to any. person or corporation or bank. .Let the treasury charge for these advances of treasury notes a-charge of 6 per cent, per an num for the first four i months and 8 per cent thereafter." The measure which Senator Owen :Js going to pre sent is to a certain extent very much like that which the bankers ? of the country are going to ? offer under the name of an emergency currency. The chief difference is that the proposition of the senator from Oklahoma makes the issuance of currency part of the duty of the treasury :.aud:.not part of the business of the national bauks. He urges that the currency should be ua J tional currency and not'national bank I currency. He says. "The treasury notes advanced in this manner under a penalty of 6 and S;per cent would not inflate the currency, I but, on the contrary, would be automatically self contracting and return ito the treasury j Immediately the present-exigency has passed." Men who are in a position to. talk with Authority say that the. proposi tion of the bankers for an. emergency currency based upon all sorts of cu rious securities will be pressed befoie congress, will be reported by the com mittee on currency anil :ls likely to'lie adopted. Personally I do not'believe this. It does not seem possible that the congress, of the United States will permit the enactment of a law which will allow the banks to issue currency based upon securities which may or may not be thoroughly acceptable. There is a certainty that the committee on banking and currency In both house and senate will demand some uew reg ulation of the banking currency. What that regulation may l>e it 5s too early to determine. It will not be the conces sion to the banks of the right to Issue currency based upon any sort of securi ties. The lime has passed when banks could be permitted to buy a railroad bond, deposit 5r in their own vanlts;and then issue mouey based upon iL Only last week one of the great railroad sys tems in the south went into the hands of a receiver. If the banks of Virginia and North and South Carolina had been Issuing uotes based on the bonds of the Seaboard Air L-xne, what would those notes have been worth? Undoubtedly the money question is ?going to come up agaiu in the next ?campaign. It will not come up in its <3(ld shape of the free coinage of sliver, though many people believe that it might well have been fought out .on that line and that today the banking system would have been better had that ttprht been won. But it must be argued agaiu because the banking system has shown itself incompetent to cope with present business necessi ties. The treasury is not able to carry out the needs of the nation, and so in some way the country must determine how to correct a financial system which has ?been shown to be utterly Incompetent to take care of the busi ness of the nation. Every fall we find that it is impossible to get money enough to move the crops. Every winter wo find it impossible to get money enough to carry the cotton of the south to the seaboard. That means that the financial system of the Unit \ ed States has failed of its duty. The] banks have controlled the money of the nation, they have controlled to [ some extent the politics-of the nation. ' but now. after all their boasting of their system, they are unable to carry from the north and the northwest food products to the seaboard, and they are equally unable to carry cotton from the south and the southwest to tide water. It would seem that the bank ing system should be changed or else that the banks should no longer at tempt to control the politics of the nation. The Two-thirds Rule. The New York Sun. which as far as the memory of man irnos has been a! bitterly anti-Democratic or^an. de votes a whole column of its editorial paire to explain Ins how the Democratic It sometimes happens that the girl jilts a young man does him a favor. Are you having trouble with your kidneys? There are lots of people to-' day who wonder why they have pain . I across the back, why ti;ey are tired and larking energy and ambitlcn. j Your kidneys are wrong. They ve--i\ relief without delay. Take-DeWitt's! Kidney and Bladder Pills; they are I for weak back, inflammation of the biadder, backache and weak kidneys. Sold by j A. C. Dukes; A. C. Doyl9 & Co. national convention can avoid nomi nating a rea! Democrat for the presi dency. Periiaps this Is not quite fair. It might be more fair to say that it ex plains how some real Democrats can be used to prevent the nomination of other Democratic Democrats. The Sun is anxious only to see that Sir. Bryan rhduld be defeated for the [ nomination. It seems to be anxious not for the nomination of any other man, but merely for the defeat of Bry an. After a long and careful study of the Sun's editorial page \ cannot point out any suggestion on its part of a sin gle candidate for the Democratic parry. The Sun goes on to say that Texas might give its thirty votes to Senator Charles A. Culberson, a::d the votes could he cast for no more able repre sentative of the people. But Senator Culberson has declared himself not a candidate and is today for the candi date of the Democratic masses. As for the candidacy 'Of Governor John son of Minnesota, no true Democrat would question its propriety. Gov ernor Johnson is a Democrat from start to finish. He suffers, of course, from the fact that his prominence in the Democratic party has been very much advanced by such papers as the New York Sun. Tills'is not Iiis fault, and the time will come when he may be able to live down this sort of journal istic support and get as close to the people of tire nation rs he is today close to the people of his own state. Every real Democrat will be glad to see in the convention at Denver a strong contest for the nomination. The hi' 4r the fight the greater the interest and in'the end the larger the vote. Whoever may be nominated this time "will go before the members of his party as a fair winner in a fair fight. In the 1904 convention the gentlemen who pressed the candidacy of Judge Parker saw no better way to do it than to wantonly insult every man who stood for another candidate or for a man who was not a candidate, but who had a host' of friends. This year the situation >ls different. Whether Mr. Bryan or Mr. Johnson should be the candidate, there are going to be Democratic unity and Democratic de termination for success. Officeholders In-Politics. The friends of Theodore Roosevelt in his early days, when his whole political activity was based upon devotiou to civil service reform, must wonder some what at'his present attitude toward that doctrine. In a Washington news paper of recent date was an interview with a New Yorker who had known the present president when he was a boy of ten years of age. This New Yorker tells that even: at that tender age the young Roosevelt, had stirred the emo tions of a family gathering by declar ing after overhearing a conversation about the sinfulness of polities that when he grew up he was going to be a political reformer. The reminiscence appeared at a somewhat unfortunate moment. In the same paper which published it appeared the news that the secretary of the interior, James Rudolph Garfield, iad presided over a county convention in Ohio which was Intended to advance a,presidential fa vorite, and to injure the prospects of Seuator Foraker. It is a matter of his tory that for the last twenty years no cabinet officer has taken so open and avowed interest: in partisan or faction al politics. On the same day attention was called to the fact that First As sistant Postmaster General Hitchcock had been Invited to undertake the management of the Taft campaign and was seriously considering it. More over, the United States commissioner of internal revenue, John G. Capers, had also been summoned to the aid of the Taft forces. Mr. Hitchcock has throughout the south an army of ap pointees in tiie persons of the presi dential postmasters. Mr. Capers has :the internal revenue collectors, the gaugers, the secret service men and all the hangers-on of the great bureau of which he is the head. At this moment.of writing no news :has come that the civil service reform ier in the White House has rebuked these federal officials for what used to be.called in the days.of Cleveland *iof fensjve partisanship:" Why should one, iiowever, expect that the ideals of youth should still he cherished by the practical ^politician | now in the White House? Let us not 1 forget that it was he who invited Mr.! Harrlman to call upon biro and discuss I the New York situation as between [ practical men. One can bardly over look the fact that no word of rebuke has ever been uttered by the president to either Treasurer Bliss or Secretary Cortelyon for the part they took in col lecting and expending in the Roosevelt behalf more than $200,000 collected from trusts, life insurance companies and (manciers doing business with the gove-. '.iment. While the public memory is notoriously short, yet people proba bly remember that Mr. Cortelyou held the position of postmaster general, with its colossal patronage, while still chairman of the Republican national committee, and that today he would still be holding that chairmanship if the scandal of the secretary of the treasury acting in such a capacity had not been too much for the caseharden ed consciences of United States sena tors who refused to confirm him as sec retary unless he resigned as chairman. Friends of the early reformer Roose velt woukl find sorrow if not shame in his present utilization of ull the pat ronage of the federal government to advance his own ends. Ills excuse Is that the policies which he desires to enforce justify the means which he is adopting. That excuse can be offered by the most unblushing spoilsman of any of our municipalities. It is a curi ous one to be offered by a man whose lifo was a protest against the spoils system until lie found himself in a po sition lo distribute the spoils. Washington, D. C. Public Speaker Interrupted. Public speakers are frequently in terrupted by people coughing. This would not haiipen ir Poley's Honey and Tar were taken, as iL cures j coughs and colds and prevent pneu monia and consumption. The genuine contains no opiates and is in a yel ?'?w package. Dr. A. C. Dukes. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the I new Laxative, stimulates, but. does not irritate. It Is the best Laxative. 1 Guaranteed or your money back. A. C. DukeB. Brought a Rush. "Yes," related the old postmaster I at Bacon Ridge, "times were getting rather dnll around here, so we had a [ resort to some press agent tactics like yon show fellows. The village editor put an ad. in his paper that 'Hiram Brown would take city boarders at S5 a dozen.'" "Great Bernhardt!" gasped the the | atrlcal manager. "Yon don't mecn to say that Hiram kept his word?" "That's what he did, stranger, with reductions in large lots." "But?but how could he board them at $5 a dozen?" # "He didn't board them, stranger. He just took them. You see, Hiram Brown Is the village photographer."?Chi.cage News. The Bulgarians do not go into ath letic sports enthusiastically, and, with the exception of "horo," the national dance, wrestling is about the only di version they allow themselves. It is said that at some of the best matches the Bulgarians will stand around the ring without a sound of applause. Game laws appear to have originated with William the Conqueror. This monarch in order to preserve his game made It forfeiture of property to kill or disable wild creatures within cer tain seasms and localities. The first real game act was passed in England in the year 1496.?New York American. Actor ?You ran over me. I shall sue yon for damages. Can you give me an advance on account??Megg<mdor fer Blatter. Hunting Rifles From the ten different Winchester repeaters you can surely select a rifle adapted for hunting your favorite game, be it squirrels cor grizzly bears. N-o matter which model you select you can count on ks being well made, ac curate and ireliablc. SHOOT WINCHESTER CARTRIDGES IN WINCHESTER GUNS iCASTOtUA et: 3 The Kind Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been In use for over 30 years, has borne the Signatare of and has been made under his per? sonsl supervision since its infancy* _ f'tk^cAM^, Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are bat Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of infants and Children?Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Fare* goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic* substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation End Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* She Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of The Kind Ton Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. 1HI eCNTMJR OOHMNV, TT MURRAY STRUT, MCW VORR CJTY. ' If you were sure of a situation paying $35 to $50 per month, you would probably not hesitate to en roll with us. We guarantee this, if I] the combine course is completed. Many secure good positions be* fore a single course is finished. READ. Florence, S. C, January 3, 1908. To those who contemplate taking a business course, I would un hesitatingly recommend the Orangeburg Business College. After tak ing a course there, I am occuping a position, which pays $40 per month. Kora Harrison. What others have done you can do. Adress. OR?NGEBURG, 3. 0, GIVEN AWAY! Rubber Tire send other Expensive Buggies, Fine Sets of Harness, Elegant Lap-Robes, Whips, Saddles, Bridles I AND NUMEROUS OTHER VALUABLE PRIZES ACTUALLY GIVEN AWAY Ju. E. RILEY'S GREAT TEN DAYS CASH SACRIFICE SALE ORANGEBURG, S. C. Saturday, Jan. 18 to Jan. BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS, LAP-ROBES, BRIDLES and SADDLES, WHIPS, MALORY PLOWS, and ALL KINDS of FARMING IMPLEMENTS WILL be SOLD at GREAT REDUCTION, at COST, BELOW COST, and GIVEN AWAY IN PRIZES For ten days L. E. Riley will reduce his Imminse Stock of Goods at astonishingly Low and Deep Cut Prices. Nev?>r before wf-n w rrany beautiful and costly Prizes offered to tbe citizens of Orangeburg County.