Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.. 11.-if the ques dhere hAliA I sleep while .at teffng the Jamestown F.*position 1.1-1 iaa' been troubliing any one. tere is p v nQ use for further worry or 'anxi ey. If "Necessity is the Mother of Invention,' Genuis is the father and o him. it cannot be said \'"Evei"ybody W9rks but father." The old man has ben exceedingly busy for many years and every time the Mother of Neces Sity told him that-the ''kid'' needed anything lie at once produced it. He 14as,never been yanked up in the church or In courts for non-support or dereliction of duty. For some time Old Mother Neces 'sity has. been distressed because In vention did not provide some means by which tie denizens of this mun dane sphere could carry their house along with them somnething.after the order of the tortoise. She finally -mentioned it Ito Father Genius and he sat-down and pondered over the pro blem f9r a few minutes and then went out to manufacturer bf vehicles and gave them a friendly tip. The result is. that visitors to the Jamestown Exposition need have no further anxiety about -where they will repose at night if all the hotels, boarding houses and park benches are full. They can stand 6n a corner of the grounds or some of the streets or avenues of the grounds for a few Aifutes and a handsome equippage will drive-along. They will hail it .and say, "I wish to retire at some desir able spot along the water front on Hampton Roads and be left at the Military Catering Company's cafe for breakfast. They will then step into the vehicle and the driver will seek .the desired spot, dismount from his seat, touch a spring and the team will walk away. He will then touch. an other spring and lo I and bohold, the guests will find themselves sitting in a cozy little room with berths on' each side, Brussels carpet oil the floor and all other .modern conveniences, figuratively speaking. The driver will then take the team to another like equippage and attach them to it and set out for another '"fare." In the morning he will land them all at thdir breakfast rendezvous and .col leet fare. This may be a little over-drawn but it is virtually descriptive of a vehi COle that is nlow iRn use for touringi in wagons for market purposes and var ious other uses. It is built with 'a collapsible top that in a few minutes can be transformed into a market booth with roof and walls -and a stand oil which to display vegetables of other produce, or into a ieat sleep ing compartment. When asembled it looks ver'y mfuchI like a regular handsome covered delivery wagon with side wvindows, such as you see every day in cities. LIEN LAW SHOULD GO. ~'Major Caldwell States Strongly the Qase Against It.-Thinks it Breeds Thriftlessness in Whites and Idleness. ~.To the Editor of the News aRnd Courier: It is to be hop1ed ,that the Sstate senate, notwithstanding its ae E in a few days ago, wvill agree to a 'Al tile agricultural-lien law. That la wv was nlever needed iRn this state ex colt in tihe counties through whlichl the Federal armies passed in 1865, and in them only temporarily. 1t has been highly injurious ill that it has .eneouraged in whiitei men extravqg~ ance, improvidence and the incurrink of impruldenit risks, has p,;t an1 exces sive cost.Onl sup)plies aRnd hlas given cotton practically a monopoly of pro duction, because that crop alone has always a market for sale. Thle iuneer tainty of the extenit or value of any man's crop, and 'the certainty that severy year some farmers wvill fall Sshort of paying their debts have com ifpelled merchants to scharge much be yond the cash value of supplies, and Sthe general result has been that the farmer lives from hand to mouth and -begins every year just about as poor as lie was the year before. Tile habits~ of thlriftlessn ess, impro vidence and extravagance engendered by living on credit are encouraged ad -intensified by the system. It le as bad as always living on a salar~y. Almost anyone can get his supplies on tile strength of a lien on his expected crop; nearly everyone acquires the-ha bit of running to the full length of is tether and finding that, ordinar ily, the result of his year's operationis is only a sqularinig with his merchant, the average farnmer falls into tile feel {ng that about all he has to do is to ~,6Dem out even and abandons econiomy, ~frualitor ip ff&' bl1 here is ldyn irelt nulle d,tiie lieno plan 0p.0 1 wielt n of grAilo;i,, h .fatlthat he ei buy his meat at il tiuea from the 1erchant leads hii t neglQet thigising of cattle, hogij. 4ik sheep. gain, his single crop has t( be applied almost as soon. as it i picked t6 his debt for' supplies, and hi must take the price it coilmauds a he t6o The system of storig cot ton to,await imnpi'oved prices, no mat ter how honestly - or how wisely i may be conducted, will do most far mers very little. good; for the far ner.'s debt to the nmerchant, or hii debt for the money to pay the mer chant, will go on at a ruinous rate o: interest till, even - at a considerabI; increased price for his product, - h will at the end find himself very lit tle a gainer, and at a reduced p. lie will be decidedly a loser. With the negro the case is stil worse. The lien system enables hin to rent land, procure subsistence oi the strength <f his future crop, idl whelWe feels so inclined, work whe it. uit. him, wander about as muel as His l'aley suggests (mostly on o behind his own or his landlord's half starved mule,) and lead, in general, f life of indolence and animal self-in. diligeince, often culminating in crinic His life of independence of the whit man has bred in him an exaggerate idea of his own importance and le hini' to assert himself against th white man asefdr as he dares. IndeeJ this feeling of importance, with th urging of envy and race antipathy has made him tile w-hite man's enemy If lie continues to grow in this frami of mind as lie has grown during th, last ten years he will before long as pire to be the white man's mastei And this disaffection towards thi whites has spread amiong the peopl of that race wherever located, o ho.vever engaged. Hence' it is diffj cult to hire a cook, 1waslIerwoman o domestic servant in towns or in ti( country, and almost impossible t procure an agricultural laborer. The negro has never been able t( develop a civilization, or to nintai1 one, without the white man. His seg regation from the whites renders hin anable to improve or to keep what hi has, and leaves hiim a prey to pro clivities which drag him down to wards the condition of his savage an cestors and make him positively dan gerous inl every neighborhood wher tile whites are much ill tile minority in consequence there is a stead strean of white families flowing froll tile coulltry to the towns; and it i not impossible that, ill SUCh sectiol there will before long be a genera exodus. Perhaps no part of thi, state has, so far, experienced the mis fortine which is described as havini befallen that portion of Alaban known as tile Black Belt. But condi tiois ill the middle anid tidewater por tion.s are1 miuchl the same11 11a thOS which obitaiined thlere; and( if tiles things conltinuei to exist wh'lat is save us from a similar fate? Sloth filtih, licent ioulsness, lawlessniess, viU Ilnce and1 every form of crime (ex cept of a comimercial chlaracter!) ar describ)ed as prevailing in that Blad Belt ; anId what shall hlinder' a lik barbarisml witin our borders if th progre'ss of A frican control is nt ITl thle country ninlety-nline ini ever hundrelSd nlegro menCl should lbe lal overs unditer tile direction of a whit eml)oyer. And so should many c1 tihe wvomen. Such a coniditioni of thing would greatly improve bothl tile min and mno:als of the negro and add i terially to the usefulness, thle con fort anid the longevity of his mol frequent victim, tile mule. It woul also bring about much better keepin of land, larger crops, better order the community anid far greater secui ity of life and property. I do not at vocate anything like tile enslavemer of that race, nor do I approve of an form or degree of peonage. On tt contrary, I inlsist that the negro shla enjoy all the protection, rights all privileges contemplated by tile 13th 14th anid 15th amendments of the co1 stitution of the United States. Bi hardly 0one in a hundred of the race fit to be an independent farmer, anl as long as tihe average negro is so, I stands in his own light, is an evil e: amp)le to hlis fellows, anid is *a nlui anece and a menace to~ society. Legi hationi repealing the agricultural lic lawv and prohlibiting mortgages of i matuired crops ill have tile effect i eliminate him as a renter of land ar remit him to his proper plate as a I b)orer under the direction of the whi mani. . He, as wvell ais weO, will th< fare better. He will earn more the lie now earns and will have all t1 beonefits whlich are sure to result fro a more regular anld decent life. Thle protest uitter'ed in b)ehalf ofC tl poor1 white mani who owns no0 land hi ill it much mlor'e sounid thlan sour reason . The white man who deserv credit will be pretty sure to get t Mt and 14 seses hee 'chant is in doubt the landlor4.ill hardly .ever refuse to give. desorv.' V" ing tenant the benefit of a reasibQ 0 endorseinent. All white men who owu a land and all negroes who by work and t econfomy have acquired land, ra,y so- y cure supplies by giving nortgages. g Some sentimental persons expemo hQr- a' ror at the thought of a man mortgag ing his home for supplies. The sym- PI pathy is badly misplaced: the best ti thing that can happen to most of us 01 is to have a good, hot coal of fire put 11 on our backs. A mortgage on one's tj home is calculated to stimulate one's ni energies far more effectually than a ti lien on his future crop. si The repeal of the lien. law alone t will accomplish no great good so a: long as mortgages of ungrown crops nw are allowed to constitute valid pled- it ges of the saine. An act. should be Ii passed destroying the efficacy of both. I submit the following' rough b k draft of a bill to that effect: ''A Bill to Prohibit Liens,- or Pledges t( or, Unplanited or (Irowing Crops. N Be it ellacted, etc: ) Section 1. That from and after the J. thirty-first day of, December, in the h year nineteen hunidred and seven, no. contrclet, promnise, tundertakintg or conveyance, whether verbal or in writ ing, or whether in consideration of agricultural supplies of other values to be furnished after the time of mak ing or entering into such contract, promise, undertaking or conveyance, shall have the effect to create a con veyance or pledge of, or lien or incum brance upon any uninatured crop of cotton, grain or other product of ag riculture any former legislation, or existing usage, or decision of the courts to the 'Contrary notwithstand ing: Provided, however, that on and after the first day of August in any year, any owner of a matured or growing crop may place a valid and enforeible mortgage or lien or such crop, to secure the payment for sup plies, or the repayment of money thereafter to be furnished to enable such owner to complete the making of his crop and harvest and prepare the same for market. Section 2. That. all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provision of this Acst be, and they are hereby, repealed." I suppose we may safely incorpor ate tile proviso above suggested. Far miers may well need assistance in their expense in picking, ginning and packing their cotton, and in harvest ing other crops, anid getting crops to market. At the same time the renter will be shut off from his all-year lien and it injurious consequences. I J. F. J. Caldwell. Newberry, S. C., February 4,-1907. UNOLE REMUS ON THE NEGRO. Thinks He is Getting Along All Right On the Whole, a Temperate and Industrious Race. Joel Chandler. Harris ill the Satur (day Evening Post. I believe that, at the bo'ttomn, a ma jority of tile American peole are at one with respect to tIle negroi and his future, and the reason I have for tmaking the statement is a sound one. namely, that a large majority of the( Speople of this country are blessedi -with comm11on1 sense inl a larger meaCfs ure than those of anly other countrmy on thle globe. This innate commIlon-~ 5ense has brushled' away so many oit f leulties, and solved so manyproblemis, -and carried thle country .safely . trough so many crises, and has conme .to the front in so many emergencies i that it may confidently be depended , on1 in the~ future. Nevertheless, there ~are many southern people who steadily refuse -to believe that the negro has any a vhiolesome future before him, and some of them evenu write commumi Scations to the papersV ini order to dec 11 monstra te tile shiftless chiaracteris atics of the -race and whlo claim that. the two races can never live under the same government and in the same tcommunities without inviting a race war on the one hand or amalgama tion on tile other,"and that one or the Sother of these contingencies can only be aver ted by deportation to some country or territory whlere the negro can have everything his own way. Moreover, there are to be found indli vidual instances where the assertion is made that the negro is going back wliard instead of forward; but indi vidual instances of this kind are worth no0 more thlan the individuals them selves. In rsuch cases you cannot Sargue from the particular to the gen r l wtout doing whlolesale injustice, ifor the facts are all tile othe~r wvay. The negro is of a different race, it is t rue, and his mind may fail to reinond to tihe different pro'cetsses of civili',ation andl enlightuient ; buIt this rtmains to be seen. It has not ;failed to respond thus far. He seems to be getting along remarkably well, mlsiderinig-all 'the: circtmsta'ja4es 'by hieli he has been $urroundd. C co The neo* is also acquiring an th lncationl, slowly, as a matter of m , but surely; and by so much to tile iiiids of the preseut genera- sit Oi atie prepared and equipped, by mu ist so mitch will the mipds of the of Hieration to come be prepared to et ;sinilate knowledge. al We tire placed- in a position of ex Icting a race but- a few years from di ie inevitable ignorance imposed up- Pe it by the conditions of slavery to I ake the most remarkable progress gr at the aworld ias ever heard of; to id when we discover that in the na- b< re f(' things this is impossible we cr make our heads sadly, and are ready gi lose heart and hope. * * * I do not co k IlY (Ine to share my hopeful- re ss with respect to the negro, nor is Ou lvceesisary that the views I am put- of n.- l'orth should be accepted. * * * * The re.sou that I cal aiford to I Ihpeul in the matter lies in tie I wct tlat f -1m1 famillar with the his- ti ry li' a coulnty ill mlliddle Georgia, t here 1' w ne".00roes have a Ijorit I' thv' popullat.1ionl. lin 0ta County hil 'iiinz is unknown. Such a crime Ils PVV:, beel eomulit(ed inl tile For Tv Rc Fe TRADE MARK - REGISTERED P. S. ROYS'6 Quality It! tags chewed (CCHNAPr"S is made c ' leaf, and in fatctorie3 as clean chewir.g tobacco growir.g c< -facturing, end v:ho have dir . . SHNAPPS ha. the pi the fondnests fosr chewin*g. IIx a;nount ofi awcetLning than i.ad satiUfying effect on chies P.nynoidn braui'.i ocu enough < f c and a quarter nmillion ca~1lusumptioni in the United S 1.i !Iure the1 latters on I L J. REYNOLDS .as Winston-Sntl unty, and I mention the. fact with uiderable pride, for the reason tat it is teh. county of my birth. It ty be thought that this is a descent the particular, but the point I do e to make is, that the overwhelming %jority of the negroes in all parts the south, especially in the agri Itural regions, are leading sober d industrious lives. A temperate race is bound to be in strious, and the negroes are tem rate, as compared with the whites. am speaking, of course, of the no oes on the farms, but even in the wns the majority of them are so r and industrious. The idle and iminal classes among them make a eat show- in the iolico court re rds, but right here in Atlanta the spectablo and decent negroes far tnumber those who are on the lists the police as old or new offenders. I am bound to conclude from what see all about me, and from what know of the race elsewhere, that e negro, notwithstanding the late art. he has made in civilization and lightienient, is capable of making mnelf at useful member in the coi 11nities in which le lives and moves, renty-one iyster rti111z have been th because they from honest See that the 1 is on every b genuine withoi E~R GUANO Co., The fact is so widelyi that it is the best flat plug. Other pli the size and shape and c ther tags are made to lo< -yet there are more pous annually than all othe f only choice selections of well matu as the cleanest kite hen, a:tuated in the va :ntry, 1-y mn of 1.fe-lonag expeience ected the Rt. J. Reynolds Tobacco~ (Cem rasing, appetizing airomia which c.reated pcrt tesats prove th:t it requires nnl any othe~r ld.d-and has a wholes;ome csi show that SCH-NAPPS~ and otihe chewers in one fis cal y::ar to make a n' p)o-..nds,L or onre-third of the entire inlcre late,s on chewing and smoking tobacco. he tag and under the tag epell you will have the genuino. ,, TOBACCO CO. sm, N. C. and that he is becoiing "more and more desirous of conforming to all the laws that have been enacted for the protection of society. RiENoE FOR 5ALB. A five room cottage on Summer street and Mayer avenue for sale $2500.00. Popular location. House 2 years old, all heart timber, double floors and storm sheet. Fine well, electric lights, stables, barn, and gar den. Apply at once to Roland G. Spearman, Talladega, Ala. LAYTON 0OTTON SEED. Layton's improved cotton seed for sale in any quantities. This seed has stood at the head at the Georgia Ex. periinental station for three years; out of 26 varieties last year it was the best. I planted 300 acres last year of this seed, kept it entirely separate, and made 250 bales. If it had been a good year would have made 300. Price of the seed 50 cents a bushel. Jalapa, S. C. Years 'S Trs e standard are made materials. :rade mark ag. None .it it. Norfolk, Va. that SCHNAPPS mnitated only proves chew-the standard rs are made to imitate :o1or of SCHNAPPS k like SCHNAPPS 2ds of SCHNAPPS :r silar tobaccos. rd, th'rongbly cured in tobacco manu p'ay in'ce 1875. take:t asmle r of the t gain With Less Sweetening han Any Other