Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established in 18(10. Vol. 40.No. 69 Published Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 9, 1909, at the postoffice at Or- , asgeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. lzlar Sims, ? Associate Editor. Subscription Rates. One Year.$1.50 Six Months.75 Tore? Months.40 Advertising Rates furnished on application. Remitances should be made by checks, money orders, registered let ters, or express orders, payable to The Times and Democrat, Orange burg, S. C. Cotton will soon beging to come in. Then times will ? brighten up. Nearly all the chirping about the South voting the Republican ticket Indulged in by men who wanted of fice has died out. We fear that President Taft is an artful dodger. But he could hardly be anything else and harmon ize politically with such highway robbers as Aldrich, Cannon and Payne. About the only folks who are pleased with the taric law just passed are the trust magnates and representatives of special interests who seem to have gotten about what they want. In effect President Taft says the tariff bill, just signed by him, is not what he wanted nor what the Re publican party promised, but we had better accept it for fear we might get a worse. We think it advisable for those papers that are afraid to trust themselves with a reciprocal adver tising arrangement for railroad transportation and phones to pay all cash for those things. Even The News and Courier, who is such a friend of President Taft that it called on him to organize a new party, gags at his signing the tariff bill. It is awful to have our ideals shattered or ruthlessly abused. It.is only another case of misplaced confidence. When President Taft signed the tariff bill he to all intents and pur poses assured the Republican leaders that he would assist them in robbing the people for the benefit of the trusts. So it seems that all his cam paign talk about reform was only to fool the people. The Surater Herald says the Dem ocracy of The News and Courier is more to its liking than the Democ racy of William Jennings Bryan. As the old woman said when she kissed the cow, there is no account ing for taste. Can the Herald de fine the kind of Democracy it likes. The Newberry Observer "wants to see a man in the governor's office who will see to it that the law is enforced if it takes a hundred thou sand dollars to do it." If our con temporary will tell him where to get the money we believe Gov. Ansel will do his level best to carry out its wishes. "She has an acute attack of phan tamasmographical aldabarondeostifi ality," says Colonel Robert M. How ard, of Columbus, Ga., in reply to a statement made in Chicago by a Mrs. McGowan that there were many echools in the South where the American flag is not allowed to fly over the buildings. Them's our sen timents exactly. We hope the prediction made by many that the next House will be Democratic will be verified. In the meantime, the voters of all the dis tricts now represented by so-called Democrats, who voted to tax the peo ple for the benefit of the trusts, should see to it tha: they are left at home and true Democrats sent to take their places. "Nobody wishes continued ill health for Senator Tillman, but the fact remains that Washington dur ing the past three weeks has b n quieter for his absence," says the Boston Herald. The Macon Tele graph retorts that the usual amount of devilment has been going <>;>. al though we may not know as much about i; as we would have known if Ben had been on hand. The tariff bill just passed show? how much Taft and the other Re publican leaders think of our farm ers. In that bill our farmers are taxed on the ties and jute bagging they bale their cotton with, white the farmers of the West are given twine, made out of the same mate rial that the bagging used by our farmers to bale their cotton is mace out of. free to bind their wheat. Why this discrimination? We would like those newspapers that claim that the success of the Republican party last fall spelleo prosperity for our farmers to prove that assertion. According to the tariff law, just passed, the success of the Republicans spells higher prices for everything our farmers have to buy, even to the cloth made out of the cotton they produce on their farms. This is a kind of pros perity that our farmers don't like. Shall the Negro Serve? William F. Pinkett is the author of a book just published by the Put nams with the comprehensive title, "The Negro Problem; Abraham Lin con's Solution." We are told by the Springfield Republican that Mr. Pickett reviews the whole race ques tion in a spirit sympathetic with the negro, whose environments and con dition he regards as altogether hope less for him while he remains where he is. "His book of nearly 600 pages presents perhaps," says the Repub lican, "the most comprehensive story of all sides of the problem and all views taken of It, and all difficulties to be met In dealing with it, which has been written within the compass of a singla volume. His own solu tion is colonization in Africa?Libe ria or the Congo Free State and this is presented with the prestige of Mr. Lincoln's name as a sustaining force." The Augusta Chronicle says, "The plan the Mr. Pickett offers is one of voluntary migration; that is, as far as migration may be con sidered voluntary when forced by the withdrawal of right and privileges, which, having been unwisely thrust upon them, Mr. Pickett thinks might now be wisely taken back again, as an Incentive to them to seek new territories and strike out roots anew in more carefully selected fields. The author thinks that the 14th amendment should be so mod ified as to exclude all persons of the negro race from National citizenship who shall be born after a certain date, as for instance, the year 1925, or some other date, to be decided upon. "The desire for change and adven tures in new lands, in the negro, thinks the author, would be effective ly stimulated by a repeal of all civil rights acts in addition to placing a time limit to the 14th-amendment. The "expense of exportation, accord ing to the plan, would be borne by the United States. Then, as a fur ther help toward stimulating the migrating movement, the United States might establish a penal col ony for negro criminals, somewhere jut of our own States and employ negroes at liberal compensation on the Panama canal and along with these provisions would go a prohi bition law against the return of the :ace into this country." Would Have Good Chance. If all the Senators and Represen tatives who were elected to Con gress as Democrats had been true ;o their party's doctrine of a tar ff for revenue instead of voting for :he trusts as some of them did, the Democratic party would occupy a nost advantageous position before he country. As it is, the prediction s freely made that unless extraor linary measures are employed, the lext House of Representatives will )e Democratic. The Republicans are o badly divided that the breach in heir ranks can hardly be healed by ?rdinary means. This is admitted by ome of the leaders of that party, md is shown by the vote on the ariff bill in the Senate and the louse. Grit says in the House the In urgents appear to be a constantly ncreasing body. The vote on the ariff bill did not develop their uaximum strength. Then only 20 tepublicans representing eight States voted with the opposition, 'he actual insurgent strength is learer 40. On the other hand, the trogressives in the Senate do not eem to increase in number. The egulars there are too firmily in renched. Besides senators are elect ed by legislatures and not by the ieople. Consequently it is a fore rone conclusion that the regualrs rill continue to hold the upper land. The House passed the tariff bill iy 12 majority. Had the Repub ioans six votes less they would have ailed to do so. With a Republican najority of 45 they had a margin iltogether too narrow for comfort. They are somewhat concerned, too, tecause the insurgent strength conies Vom States which must be carried n order to control Congress. India* la, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin have 53 members in the -louse, more than the present Re mblican majority. If one-half of hese members should bo lost, the louse would be Democratic. These states are extremely dissatisfied with he new tariff bill. Factional differences have been ?Men.led. They began in the last Congress with dissatisfaction with the Committee on Rules. They con tinued with the re-election of Speak ?r Cannon, which, it will be remem bered, was effected by the aid of Democratic voles. They now extend io the new tariff law, which brings the whole matter back to the peo ple at the polls in 1910. Factional differences make the great Middle West the battle ground in the Con gressional 'lection next year. The New Tariff Law. On" of the main reasons given by the Republican party for the pas sage of a high protective tariff is that it helps the wage earner to get betb r pay for his work. This is not true, for the simple reasons that nor more than one-sixth of the wage earners of this country are employed by the interests that are given the privilege of exploit ing the people through the opera tions of the tariff. It is possibly true that wages in some lines have steadi ly increased until labor shows an average gain for the past twenty years of 25 per cent. But, during the same period the cost of living has increased about 40 per cent, notwithstanding the country has had good crops and there has been an abundance to supply all wants. Of what value is in creased wages, if the cost of living has increased more? Of what real benefit to the people as a whole is the country's greater wealth, if it be held and controlled by the few ? What relief to the consumers can there be in a tariff law that revises duties upward, as the new law seems to do, despite the statements of its immediate sponsors? Of what ad vantage to the country in the long run, is protection that helps capital further to exploit the masses? These are the questions that the people are now asking, and not with out cause, says Grit. These are the Ireasons why they distrust Repre sentative Payne, Senator Aldrich and their supporters, and will make their own test of the new tariff law. The Republican party may have fooled a majority of the people in 1908, but its new tariff law cannot fool a majority of them now, for they will know whether the cost of liv ing is increased or reduced, and reach their own conclusions. If the Republican platform recognizes ex isting conditions, the people's test will be the correct one. Moonshine Whiskey. Deputy Commissioner Robert J. Williams, Jr., of the Internal rev enue department, has told a special writer for Grit that the making of moonshine whiskey has increased tremendously in the South since some of the States have prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages. The special writer says he has gone far- j ther than the statement made him by the deputy commissioner. He says he has carefully looked into the bearing of prohibition up on the moonshining industry, and he has found a state of affairs rath er remarkable. He has found that hundreds of men have taken to breaking the laws of the Unlten States in the manufacture of ilicit liquor and also the laws of the pro hibition States in selling the same. In other words, the prohibition regime has m ..le it necessary for two sets of laws to be transgressed gen erally. Moreover, he has found that the moonshiners do not discriminate in the sale of their fiery product, permitting it to get into the hands of the vicious and irresponsible whites and blacks, who are given to tippling. The consequence has been that the criminal element in the South has made itself most troublesome. Outrageous crimes of all sorts have been committed by home-drink ers of moonshine whiskey; negroes, who otherwise would behave proper ly, have been running amuck con stantly; race hatred has been inten cified, and political upheavals have been without end. In a long story the special writer gives in last week's Grit the truth concerning the nefarious moonshining industry and its effect upon life in the South. Make Use of the Banks. A dispatch from Kewanee, 111., says when Mrs. James Williams of that city, left her home to go to the woods for a day's outrng, she plac ed the family strong box containing cash and notes to the value of $1,000 in the cook stove oven. She was late in reaching home and started a quick fire in the stove to get sup per, forgetting the money. When the odor of burning paper was de tected, she opened the oven to find the box fallen to pieces and the pap er money destroyed. Only ashes remained of all the bills except one of the $20 denomination. Some papers were legible although badly scorched. If Mrs. Williams had de posited her money in one of the hanks in her town, as she should have done, she would not have lost it. People who have money should deposit it in a bank, as a protection not only against burglars but as a protection against themselves. S^ if you have any money hid out, dig it us and put it in a bank where it will be safe. England's Good Example. Tt is evident the British govern ment in deciding to tax the unearned increment has for its main object the breaking up of large estates which have little product value into small holdings that will be put to tillage. The land laws of England are a survival of feudal times and they have retarded the progress of agri culture and of prosperity generally. In the building up of vast estates the yeoman farmer, once the very hack none of the country, has well night disappeared and many thousands of acres have been withdrawn from cul tivation and converted into parks and hunting grounds which, how-, ever beautiful, do not contribute to ' the sustenance of the people. That I is a very serious matter in a coun try of such limited area and a steadi ly growing population. Taxing the! unearned increment therefore prom ises to work a land revolution. Eng land sets a good example, which ought to lie followed by the United States and all other nations. No; man has a right to hold valuable j property and not pay taxes on it. Letters of Administration. The State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. By Roberl E. Copes, Esquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas W. W. Pearson has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of W. A. F. Pearson, de ceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kind red and creditor* of the said W. A. F. Pearson, deceased, that they lie and appear before nie, in the Court ! of Probate, to be held at Orange burg C. II., on August 14th, 1909 next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 31st day of July Anno Domini, 1909. (L. S.) ROBT. E. COPES, Judge of Probate. Very F!ne Real Estate for Sale. On Monday, the 4th day of 'Oc tober, 1909, immediately after le gal sales, the following real estate will he offered for sale, to-wit: 1st. One corner lot in the City of Orangeburg, Orangeburg county, S. C. fronting on Bronghton street, in said city and measuring thereon 60 feet and measuring on Sellers avenue two hundred and thirty-eight feet, more or less. 2nd. One lot in the City of Or angeburg, in Orangeburg county, S. C., fronting on Bijoughton street, in said city of Orangeburg, and measuring thereon ninety feet and measuring in depth two hundred and forty feet, more or less. 3rd. One lot with the residence and buildings thereon in the City of Orangeburg, in Orange burg coun ty, S. C, fronting on Broughton street in said City of Orangeburg, and measuring thereon one hundred and fifty feet and measuring In depth two hundred and thirty-nine feet, more or less. 4th. That tract of land In the City and county of Orangeburg, S. C, containing thirty-four and one half acres, more or less, and bound ed by the causeway of Russell street, lands of W. L. Harley and A. L. Dukes. 5th. That tract of land In the City and county of Orangeburg, S. C, containing twenty-nine acres, more or less and bounded by the right of way of the A. C. L. Rail way Company, the North Edisto riv er and tract last above described. This property must be sold, as the owner does not live here. For further information apply to Ray sor & Summers, attorneys. Orangeburg. S. C. 8-10-lt Notice of Municipal Registration. Notice is hereby given that the books for the registration of the qualified electors of the City of Or angeburg, who desire to vote at and in the Municipal Election for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Orange burg, S. C, to be held on Tuesday, the fourteenth (14th) day of Sep tember, 1909, will be open at the City Hall, in the City of Orangeburg, S. C, from nine (9) o'clock a. m., to two (2) o'clock p. m., on ea.cn Tuesday in the months of June and July, 1909 (after the publication of this notice), and also on each Tues day in the month of August, 1909, up to and including Tuesday, the twenty-fourth day of August, 1909. and beginning Wednesday, August the twenty-fifth, 1909, the said books of registration will be open each day, Sundays excepted, from nine o'clock a. m. to five o'clock p. m? for the registration of said quali fied electors at said City Hall, up to and including Friday , September 3rd, 1909, at which time said books of registration will be ciosed. All male Inhabitants of the City of Orangeburg, S. C, over the age 3f twenty-one years, and otherwise qualified according to law, may regis ter. Section 191 of the Civil Code af Laws, of the State of South Car slina, Vol. 1, 19C2, provides, among other things, that: "The produc tion of a certificate of registration from the Board of Supervisors of Registration of the county, entitling the applicant to vote In a polling irecinct within the Incorporated City >r Town in which the applicant de sires to vote, shall be a condition prerequisite to the applicant's ob taining a certificate of registration for municipal election, etc. M. F. INABINET, Supervisor of Registration of the City of Orangeburg, South Caro lina. 6-S-tf Orangeburg, S. C, June 8, 1909. UNIVERSITY OF S. CAROLINA. School of Arts, Science, Education, Law, Engineering and Graduate Studies. Ten different courses leading to the degree of A. B. and B. S. Col lege fees, room and light, $66. Board, $12 per month. Tuition remit ted in special cases. Forty-two scholarships, each worth flOO in cash, and free tuition. For catalogue, address, S. C. MITCHELL, President, Columbia, S. C. Letters of Administration. The State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. By Robert E. Copes, Esquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas Ada V. Simmons has made suit to me to grant her Let ters of Administration of the Es tate of and effects of .lohn F. Sim mons, deceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kind red and creditors of the said John F. Simmons, deceased, thai they be and appear before me, in the Court, of Probate, to be held at Orangcburg C. IT., on August lGth, 1909 ncxl after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, 1o show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. (liven under my hand, this 30th day or July Anno Domini, l!>n9. (L. S.) ROBT. E. COPICS, Judge of Probate. Notice of Discharge. On the 24th day of August, 1 909, T will file my final account as ad ministrator of the estate of ,T. E. Corley, deceased, with the Judge of Probate for Orangeburg County, S. C, and will thereupon ask for my fi nal discharge as such administrator. July 21, 1909. John D. Shuler, Qualified Administrator of the estate of J. E. Corley, deceased. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills, small, gen tle and sure. Sold by A. C. Dukes, M. D., and A. C. Doyle 4 Co. Regular frauds?false teeth. The shoe seller seldom Is a Free Booter. I? a WITH THOSE WHERE YOU ARE NOW BUYING AND SEE IF ITS NOT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO TRADE WITH US. Granulated Sugar .5"^c lb. Light Brown Sugar.5c lb. Rice.7}&c, 10c and 13c qt. Coffee (Green) 10c, 12c and 15c lb. Coffee (parched and ground.... .... . .15c, 30c, 35c and 35c lb. Meal, very best.25c peck Grist, very best .35c peck Flour, 13-lb. sacks.... 45c and 55c Flour, 34-lb. sacks . .00c and SI.05 Lard._. 10c and 13c lb. Butter, very best.35c lb. Hams, very best.151? c lb. Picnic Hams, very best ... .11c lb. Boneless strip.17c lb. Cheese, very best.30c lb. Golden Grain Tobacco .... 40c lb. Kite Tobacco.,. .40c lb. Schnapps Tobacco.40"c lb. Brown's Mule Tobacco .. ..32c lb. Rich and Waxey Tobacco . .50c lb. Pride of Reidsville Tobacco, small package.C5c lb. Pride of Reidsville Tobacco large package.55c lb. WE HAVE OTHER GOODS TO OFFER?THE ABOVE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE MANY WE COULD MENTION. B.J.MIXSON PHONE 375. IF YOU HAVE ANY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE LIST IT WItTH THE CAROLINA SALES AGENCY, 49 E. Russell Orangeburg, S. C. The Greatest Southern Story CORNER" BV ZACH M'GHEE "A story that will make any person reading sit still until it is finished." It is a tale of present day hack- , woods life in the pinelands of the J South depicted In a delightfully viv id way some of the most picturesque scenes and personalities in American life. The school faker, the ignorant | preacher, the pompous statesman are all there, with the appropriation and familiar trappings along with a fasci nating love story. PRICE $1.00 NET lant i aiior Ladies Coat Suits and Gentlemen's Suits made to order. FIT GUARANTEED. 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