Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOUTH CAROLINA'S rXHIBIT. Happy Address of Captain W. I Gonzales-Everybody Peased With Virginia Hospitaity. The State. Norfolk, Va.. June 28.-The men: bers of the South Carolina commis sion to the Jamestown expositio have a right to feel proud of thei work in connection with the admii able exhibit of the Palmetto Statf which, it may be safely asserted. ha attracted greater attention and elicii ed words of stronger praise and si cere appreciation than. that of an, other state. - With an appropriation exceed ingly meagre. compared with those o *other states. the men who compos South Carolina's commission hav simply -ght wo::ders and the ad vertising continue to receive, a a result e energetic labors o these gentlemen will be worth ai hundred times the money which i has cost. Occupying what is, perhaps, th most desirable section of the grea states' *e bit building, the magmi ficent exj t of South Carolina varied pr ucts of field and factor; has been most artistically arrangei by one of America's leading decora toTs and the pretty and harmoniou arched booths that run along the wal of the building, with its generou lighting, are decidedly fetching. It is a fact that on the day of th formal opening of the great shov; April 26, South Carolina alone of a] of the states had her exhibit in readi ness. This fact called forth waro words of praise for the efficient per sonnel of the South Carolina com mission, not only from the throng o visitors but from the exposition offi cials. In the selection of Mr. Paul MoorE the superintendent, who is presen with his assistants from day to day the commission showed wise discre tion. Mr. Moore is possessed of tha genial and hospitable manner fo which the people of South Carolina are noted and exposition visitors ar indeed made to feel "at home" b, him. Due to the thoughtfulness of th president of the commission, thous ands of the exposition visitors wer *today wearing sprigs of rice attache' to a tiny card which bore the words "South Carolina''-for a day, a . taking delight in acknowledg ag themselves adopted sons an< .aughters of the proud Palmetti tate. -Thousands carried away, also pretty and artistic folders, whiei told in a brief and entertaining man ner of South Carolina's resources. President W. E. Gonzales' Speech. In introdfreing Gov. Martin F. An sel, President William E. Gonzales o: the South Carolina commission said "In behalf of the South Carohne commission it is my privilege to be he first to welcome here today thi sons and daughters of the Palmett< State, and in that welcome none 1: slighted, for each of you, whereve: your home, that comes in sympth: with this occasion is claimed for ou: %'wn and is entitled to the insignia o: the palmetto. You will later have th honor of being welcomed by the presi dent of the Jamestownf Expositiol company, but he can not-brilliant ii expression as he is-convey in word: the cordiality of their greeting, ex pressed in deeds, to South Carolina' representatives at this exposition Confidentially, ,it is my opinion tha anything over which that comn pany has jurisdiction that is no nailed down, with a Powhatan guar< standing on the nails, is South Caro lina 's today. "Our state may be charged wit] inconsistency in celebrating the land ing of the English at Jamestovm three centuries ago, while at th' same time glorying at the inhospital ity of Col. William Moultrie in hi little fert of palmetto logs to the ad vances of Sir Peter Parker on th 2th of June, 1776. But it does no come within. my province to harmon ize the apparent contradiction. Th South Carolina commission was 'eal more with the present. 'I am not on the committee o ds and can neither distribut daIs nor present bouquets but i that which has been accomplishe< here is gratifying to South Carolin ians, if in viewing their State's firs appearance at a great exposition the: e given.a larger conception of tha tate's resources and made to appre ciate more fully her industrial vie tories, if by the stirring of their prid these sons and daughters are encour aged to greater endeavor and achieve ment, then the exhibit is justifica tion and those that created it are re warded. Patriotism may be stimulat ed in many ways wi'thout martial dis play or heroic action, and it can no bV too frequently stimulated. W ide in a glorious history: is it no more incumbent upon those of toda; to build with patriotic interest fo future g-eatne 9 Tn these times n OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. xovernment nmployees Preparing for Heavy Fight for Pension Af ter Twenty Years Service. Janes S. MeCarthy. Washinvt'n. D. C.. July 1.-As the ieree and .scmrchino rays of Old Sol )at dwn upn the farmer, mechan ::d laorer. and as merchants, doe ;rs. lawy~er. editors. and preachers Nait patiently for erop gathering in:e fr what I.: ue them. and as the :,X('# . '2en..le alhi nm le-;t matrolls and Sinter.V anP'b hi the irrila vl . , 111vner prevr :md fTil%ials. whNN o to W, ;k at iN e 'evlolk in thi morninz 'n 2,01 u lit :at ialf past four in the afternoon, amd rho have easy times at the hardest, ind who have thirty days' vacation wd 1 :h01ty daZ'll-leave. with, pa-.. :1.-1 ,ear, rrc 1-lJnning ai I schem mz .r to '*rek hi r-coming Core-es- to ass a law retiring them after twen y years' service upon a pension of wo-thirds of the pay received by hem at the time of retirement. They laim that they are as much entitled W-this consideration at the hands of he government as those of the army ini na:. a d V prdpoe er it -2ood and strong when the sta (smell assemble under the g-reat e:e first Monday in December. ly, oirler to insure wetess of their eitmri.. these e-aflity 'r-rployees of nele Sam have adopted the methods mployed by the high tariff boodlers o force Co.n:ress to do their bidding. 'hey have employed a press agent, Vhose duty it is to get matter in laud tion of the scheme into papers broughon+ the country. They have idopted the loibby plan also and vien the law-makers get here again hey will find trained lobbyists lying n wait to impress upon them the -ighteousness of the cause. Mr. States en will also be besieged by clerks in heir individual capacity. They will ell 'im that they have just lots of riends back home ready to annihilate tim ill the event he refuses to sup )ort their bill. Women- clerks, sever I thousand of whom are on the gov rnment payroll drawing easy money n sums from .$900 to .$1,800 per an tum. are counted upon to wield great' nluence in the fight. Blondes, natur .1 and peroxide, charming brunettes,, ed clever auburn haired lobbyists vi swarm the corridors of the capi ol for the purpose of entraneing chi alrous Congressmen into voting to reate a civil pension list for the Uni ed States. Jolly Grass widows, who oast that they tired of slaVing for oor working men, and who have se ired nice, soft jobs, with big pay, nder the government, will be on atnd to cajole doubting legislative ~homases into fallinug in line for ''the ust rights of the poor, downtrodden ~overnment slaves,'' as. they are ont to eharacterize themselves. Of course, everyone wishes to see ustice done government clerks, both aale and female, and no one would eny them salaries commensurate vith the actual -labor they perform. lut when it is proposed to retire hem upon a' pension, after stwenty rears' service, with fat pay, it is uite natural that the taxpayers of he country will raise a terrible howl hout it. The burden of the tax >ayer is already too heavy, and it is xpecting too.much of him to stand or this outrageous proposition. The government clerks claim that hey can not lay up enough out of heir salaries to keep them in- their >d age, but when it is known. that he majority of them live in costly Lnd richly furnished houses, ride to md from work in handsome automo iles and carriages, their appeals for his special and nefarious legislation vi fall flat. A "Boiled" Dinner. Mrs. Eldridge 's new hat had just rrived from New York. The brim Lad the fashionable downward ten ency, the ribbon was exquisite, and a ieavy wreath of large, many hued ~lobuar objects encicled the pictures lue crown.. The feminine member of the uousehold eyed it approvingly, but ould give no name to the botanical ortion of the decorations. Mr. Eld idge, however, regarded the crealtion v'ith mild disfavor. "I can see, John,'' said the owner >f the hat, pinning it into place and miling at her husband, "that you on't admire my hat. But why? Isn't t becoming?'' "It 's becoming enough," returned 1r. Eldridge. examining it critically, 'and it seems to be a nice hat, in pite of all those onions, beets and a-rots: but you know, Sallie, I nev r (lid like a boiled dinner." '.nnth 's Companion. WE MUST HAVE TIN SOUVE NIRS AND LIMESTONE WATER And the Moonshiners Must Not Be Let Nor Hindered. Edgefield Chronicle. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the South Carolina State Press Association is to meet in Gaffney, near the mountains, next summer-at the generous invitation of the Gaff ney Board of Trade. And Eduardo (not plain English Edward) DeCamp, the Hercules of the Gaffiiev Semi Weekly Ledger-and the Goliath of the Assceiation, against whom no Da vid has ever dared to go forth-has also welcomed the editors and their wives and their young, and promised that he will gather them under his wings as ,a hen gathereth her chick ens. But Eduardo must do more. He must promise each of us, men, wo men and children, a brilliant tin souvenir out of the Ross mine. Let him go to work at once designing and ordering them. They must be made in London, wvhither the Ross ore is sent. We wish for ourself a new and improved sausage-stuffer, while Edu ardo Norment wishes a brilliant sun burst for the best deluded of his many girls. Evan Lide wants a colan der or "sullender'' to strain his greens through. G. E. Moore, of the Honea Path Chronicle, wishes a large fluted cake pan with a hole through the middle. Jake Perkins, of the Chester Repor ter, wishes a shining bath tub fif teen feet long. W. L. McDowell, of the Camden Chronicle, wishes a curd press to pack cla(bber and whey for Lawrence and Eddie. Young Fulp, of Winnsboro, wants an engagement ring with a Cherokee blue diamond in it. Brunsdn, of the Greenville News, wants a long tin horn to toot up the moonshiners with-one that can sub sequently be used as a trump of fame. Hartwell Ayer wishes a dozen lovely tin cups, to keep his deyast ating young from breaking up and destroying the ancestral china. And so on. We can help you, Ed uardo, if you become embarrassed. And then, Eduardo, you must pro mise us not to interfere with your beloved near neighbors, the moon shiners, while we are in Gaffney. We wish the dear moonshiners to visit us often and affectionately, and bring with them their innocent and peculiar wares ,that we will be so delighted to purchase-moccasins and beaded bags and beaded pocket-books. But above all things, Eduardo, you mst promise us plenty of pure lime-j stone water out of that college spring that old Dr. Curtis opened and dedi cated about the middle of the eigh teenth eentury. We were there, Ed uardo, and delivered a prayer. At that time, that spring was only albout four feet square; and we know it has not been enlarged. But it will have to be enlarged now, Eduardo. ev en if the historical idol have to be smashed. No hole four feet square by five deep can water the South Car olina Press Association. You know that, eduardo. So you and your Board of Trade, get to work and enlarge the Pool of Bethesda to a vast gulf 50 yards in circumference. You must promise us all these things, Eduardo. on your honor as a Hercules and a Goliath and a Bill Taft-on your hon or, Eduardo, as the young br.other we all love and trust so faithfully. Not Fools. Southern Farm Magazine of Balti more for June. When Southern farmers find that they have placed themselves in a pos itison when they cannot borrow money from Southern bankers unless they follow methods taught by the in structors of an Educational Trust with headquarters in New York, and: t~at Trust virtually directing the Federal control of education ,in the United States, Southern farmers will proclaim themselves greater fools than anybody knowing them had sus pected them,of being. Piedmont possibilities. Southern Farm Magazine of Balti more for June. Dr. Frank K. Cameron of ,the Na tional Department of Agriculture 1s quoted as saying: 'If it were possible to build a Chinese wall about any one section of America, or even of the world, it can be safely said that the Piedmont plateau, with its range of climate and soil types; together with its na tural mineral and power resources. would be better able to sustain itself than any other known area of the eiv. ilized world.'' And yet some folks are trying te work up a sentiment that the Pied mont section of the South is especial y obliged to call upon the Nationa Government for aid. Persons hunting trouble would dli well to go to Tennessee and join the Dmocrtic party. peace wve can not indtil-e in Boston tea parties, or live entirelv within the . reflected halo of Moultrie and Sum ter, but it. is something to have the only tea gardens in America: it is more to be endeavoring by precept - and example to elevate the standard - of our 'citizenship.I 1 " While South Carolina is, unfor r tunately. without a building at this exposition we are not homeless. Whein the commission had to determine S whether it would invite the governor - of South Carolina and the governor - of North Carolina to violate the tradi tion by clinking, glasses of water, we looked in but one direction. In his ad i dress here on Patrick Henry 4ay Mr. Bryan, whose father was a Virzin ?,aln. said he knew nothing in the world could quite compensate, for not - being the son of Virginia, but he i thought that next to the best thing is a grandson. There we come to the 1 parting of the ways with the great t Nebraskan. South Carolinians-in Virginia-have 'always held that 3 there is nothimg in the world the t equal of the daughters of Virginia, - and it is almost historic that in those four years of war more South Caro- 1 lia soldiers gave up their arms to Virginia's daughters than surrender - ed to the bluecoats. And it is a South Carolinian-in Virginia-that is usu- 1 1 ally next to, the best thing in the I world, or thereabouts. S', seeking a home in Virginia, we .naturally knocked at the portals nf those but little less than kin and much more than kind, and the response of Gov. - Swanson was just like Virginia. Thus it happens that South Carolina will - be 'at home' this evening in Virgin ia's house. "Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor to present as the highest official representative of his state and as the presiding officer for this occasion, his excellency the governor Qf South Carolina, Martin F. An sel." t1 ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH. Some of the Things Mr. Roosevelt Has Written and Said of the South. By James S. McCarthy. Washii,gton, D. C., June 29.-Inas muc as a number of Southern nlews papers and politicians have lately been loudly proclaiming Theodore Rosevelt to be a great f rienna of the South. snd d.eclaring that he should be endorsed by the Democracy fri presiden c t year, it is aip. . pria le 'to call attention to some of the many t bitter 'things he has said and written of the south and 'her statesmen dur ing his career, which prov? beyond t possibility of doubt that he is any thing but a friend of the fair land of Dixie and the Southern people. 'In his lif of Thoma.; Hart Ben o, chapter S, page 161, Mr. Roose velt declared: ''Slavery was chiefly responsible for the streak of coarse and brutal barbarism which ran through the Southei-n character.'' Of Jefferson Davis, the beloved and immortal chieftain of the Southern Confederacy, in the same book, same -chapter, page 163, he wrote: "The moral difference between Benedict Arnold on the one hand, Sand Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis on the other, is precisely the differ ene that obtains between, a politician who sells his vote for money and one who supports a bad me'asure in con -sideration of being given some high Spoitial position." At Arlington, Va., just aeross the -Potomac River from the City of Washington, the old homestead of 1Geeral Robert E. Lee, which was 1stolen from him by the United States IGovernment during the Civil war and Sconverted into a burying ground for -dead Yankee soldiers, Mr. Roosevelt Sin an address delivered before the1 -Grand Army of the Republic, May 30, 1 902, said: ''"You brave men who went South - in the sixties and bared your breasts Sto the hostile bullets of the Southern toutlaws and traitors are deserving of all the glory and honor that can be Fheaped upon you by a grateful na. 3tion.' For these infamous insults to the Ipeople of the South Mr. Roosevelt - has never had the manhood to apolo : gize, and until he does apologize for ~them, all talk of his friendship forI :tthe South and her people is as ab - surd as to claim that a hyena would - not tear a child limb from limb if it 3got the chance. From the coun4y dispensary to the -soda fountain is a step towards prohi - bition. Nashville Tennesseean: "June is tdoing business at the same old stand.''" SAlso at the bleachers. 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