Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AGAINST IMMIGRATION. Xigures Show Tide of Europeans is Increasing Each Year-Danger in The Large American Cities is Al ready Apparent-This Expert Thinks South Should Be Satisfed. Mr. J. H. Patten, secretary of the Immigration Restriction League was in the city yesterday morning says the Greenville News. Y_tween trains on his way back to Washington af -ter a trip down south. Mr. Patten is perhaps one of the best informed students on the immigration question. For a number cf years he has been /secretary of the- Istriction Le.gue wil,] wa. recently or,alnizod by son' plublc spirited men like Owen Wister,- James Bronson Ylnolds. John Fiswe and others for zhe pur posg of securing legislation that would sift out the undesirables. To a representative of the New, Mr. .Patten said: "I have just come from Mississip -ii, Alabama and Georgia and I am we,y glad to say that I have not heard uuh else talked on the trains. at 1di and in public places except :ifteen cent cotton, immigration re -t-'efion and farmers unions. Never h -there been such an awakening to tfhe immigration evils as at present. 2t i certainly high time. Last y!ear '285.349. aliens entered the United States. This was an increase of 11 per cent over the previous year's, I.. 100,735. 'Next year will see a still larger , in$lux unless something is <Zone to dam the inpouring flood. Just -think! Last year there came to this -county more immigrants than there -are people in any southern dity or -1 any one of sixteen southern states and :erritories! And from parts and setions of Europe which a few years ago sent us no immigrants! "It is rt so much the quantity as 1the quality which alarms all thought -ful students of'the immigration pro 'blem. it is certainly true that a mil lion aliens is sufficient to over tax Uncle Sam's assimilating powers, 'since 92 per cent of the multitude -settles down in the big cities of six -nerthern states, but when one consid ers th4: nine-tenths of this vast army -of in aders is of a distinct* alien race :and has race traits, characteristics -anid tendencies as foreign, and every whit as incompatible and unassimil ating as the negro, the menace be comes all the more alarming. -"With regard to the character of tisnew immigration from souta-east lEurope and Western Asia let me ~quote what the late Commissioner of Tmm.igration at New York City,. Mr. 'William said in his last annual report: " 'The present laws do not reach a 'karge body -of immigrants w~ho are -generally undesirabl'e, b'eeause unin - 'telligent, of low vitalit,v, of poor phy sigue, able to perform only the cheap <est kind of labor, desirous of settling :almost exclusively in the cities, by their competition tending~ to reduce the standard of living of the American -wvage worker, and unfitted either 'nentally or morally for good citiz ~enship. It would be quite impossi 'ble to accurately state what propor tion of last year 's immigration should be elassitied as undesirable. I 'believe that at least 300,000 came here (of -the 631,885 that entered through Ellis lisland) who although they may be able to earn a living, yet are not -wanted, will be of no benefit to the 'country, and will, on .the contrary be :a detriment because their presence 'will tend to lower our standards; -a.nd 'if these same persons could have "been induced to stay at home, nobody, 'not even those clamoring for more labor would have missed them. Their 'coming has been a 'benefit chiefly, if -not only, -'a the foreign transporta 'tion companies which brought them "Here is a similar expert opinion. .About a year ago Mavor McClellan "'directed Dr. Darlinagton. President of -the N. Y. Board of Health to investi -gate the pushcart nuisance. At the 'conclusion of the investigation- the 'doctor said among other things: 'I have heard the assertion that immi gration is necesary to carry on pub Tie works. to build railroads, to dig "ana'ls and the like. But the present migrants now coming over do not come for that purpose and will not do :that sort of work. No, they prefer to 'become pushcart peddlers and to live in poverty in our cities, breeding crime and disease. They occupy our ~streets, the streets for which our tax ~payers have paid heavily. They in ter'fere with traffic and break the 'laws of sanitation which we have de 'cided are necessary for the preserva tion of public health, etc. "'This is the class of people which 'the big foreign steamship companies, 'often in collusion with foreign gov ernments and charitable societies tiind it so profitable to bring .to ::ew Savi-lberic or Mediterranear races, which are as incapable of ab sorption and amalgamation as theii kindred negro race, the,African, ther were none of the serious immigra ,ion in the northeast which are nov giving that section a taste of the im portunate presence of an inferioi race and awakening some apprecia tion of what the south has -suffered from the negro and the Pacific slopE from the Chinese.' "There is no end to first hand au thorities along this line from whom I could quote to show the vital econo Mic. political. racial and social pro lems which the present imigni-ra tlion is eausin-, the northeast. The t ha, i,le, b0k,i. 1.1e.kv in re ard to inunigration. Less than four per cent of the annual influx settlers in the sixteen states and territories south of the Mason and Dixon 's line. With the exception of the negro the southland knows nothing of the real immigration evils from which the northeast is suffering and crying out fir relief and yet at present she holds the key of the situation, the solution of the question. At the last session of congress in response to a strong demand for restriction a com prehensive law was passed and ade quate legislation would have been en acted, had it not been for the argu ment that the south was sorely in need of labor and would not only take the incoming hordes but would like to have the surplus city populations dis tributed. "But such would certainly be a great mistake in my judgment. You have a homogeneous population. Your people are happy and prosperous. Your progress during the last quarter of a century has been unparalled in history. Your population and labor supply have increased faster, eom paratively, than that of the north with all its foreign immigration, where immigrants owing to their low er standards of living and their con sequent ruinous competition in the strugle for existence have been a substitution and not an addition to the native population.'' PEANUT INDUSTRY PROIISES ur CONTAINS MORE NUTRIMENT 'WHAN DOES BEEFSTEAK. Fine Oils are Extracted-'"Arachide Oil" Said to be Preferred to the Best Olive Oil for Table Use. Washington cor. The State.. Washington, Oct. 17.-Our old friend 'the peanut, ground pea, pin dar, goober, groun' 'ut, is pronounc ed by the department of agriculture here as a*most valuable food for man and beast, containing more nutriment capable of being made into all kinds of good things. Peanut oil, known in the lsboratories as "arachide oil,'' is superior in many respects to olive oil. All in all the peanut, ground pea, etc., is a pretty good institution, and it is gomng to come some of these days int-, its own. The futherance of peanuut oil man ufacture in the United States is the text of an interesting report submit ted by Consul D. I. Murphy from Bordeaux, France. Among other things Mr. Murphy states that the annual value of the peanut crop in Tennessee, Virginia and South Car olina is between $8,000,000 and $10, 000,000. From those figures, the ac curacy of which Mr. Murphy does not, however, assert, he draws the con elusion that a very profitable indus try might be established in .the manu 'facture of arachide oil, if luch an in dustry is not already in existenee in the United States. Upon this he says: "Araehide oil, when well clarified and fresh, is preferred to the best olive oil for table use by many people in this part of France. In Bordeaux tihe sales of arachide oil exceed those of all other oils. In fact they are al most as large as the sales of all oth ers combined. Over 50,000 tons of peanuts are brought to this -port ev ery year from the French possessions in Africa, the average annual value of the peanut,,~or arachide oil manu facture in this city being over $2,000,. 000. An Excellent Table Oil. "Not only is arachide a most ex cellent table oil, pa]ata:ble, nutritious and heathful, and very much cheape1 than olive oil, but it is employed- al~ most exclusively in the manufacture of a high class compound lard. Foi cooking sardines before packing it olive oil I am told it is unsurpassed The best quality of arachide oil is selling wholesale at about 80 to 85 cents per gallon aL. this time, and lower grades at fro:-. 55 to 65 cents. "Th pro'c of manufacturing th( die* sanie li"Ind (,I* j)~"'.Ucl:rT ton seed. The oil is clarified in the same manner as olive oil, that is. by U filtering through layers of a card- D ed cotton, the quality depending largely upon the number of filterings and the degree of clarification attain- ru ed. The residium is pressed into cakes, making an excellent and nutri- tr tioits food for cattle. This cake is :c selling at from 15 to 18 frances per (I 100 kilos, or from $2.90 to $3.47 fer th every 220 pounds. ThEre is not a particle of waste 1hi in the manufacture. The shells are be finlry ground, mixed with common fo molasses, pressed into cakes. and used du as ea fle iood. not so good, it is true, 1i as the cake made from tile residium of the nuts, but still nutritious and sell- .it ing for about one-third its price. To Di make a fuel which burns well anI gives grreat heat, the powdered shells ta are mixed with coal dust and pressed into blocks. ibo "The records of the Bordeaux con- Pr sulate show that the exports of ara- by chide oil- to"the United States for the lot past five years amounted to $115, 220.'' by Interest in the food value- of pea- Ni nuts is heightened by a recent an- kn nouncement from the department of agriculture, one of whose chemists haq tai discovereC that ten cents worth of bo peanuts contains more nutriment than stc two pouinds of beefsteak. The depart- M ment is making other experiments , with a view to ascertaining the possi bilities of the peanut and the oil ex- fr< tract from it. tio pu The truth about the famous India- ise napolis luncheon seems to be that ral there never were any cocktails.- wi New York E 1. cir tio Messrs. Roosevelt, Taft and Root chi are away. But the country reposes co great confidence in Loeb as a lidhold er.-Milwaukee Sentinel. ins A married man says it isn't the jaws of death that worry hii, but the jaws of life. * 8 The 'Finest H~ There are hundreds market, but not one of ti the results attained by tl and not one of them is positive guarantee. "93"5 Ha positively cures dandruff, prevents baldness. It's th in the world. Its success Other so-called hair tonics but this will not. It is clea or gummy, or of disagi-eea Its use absolutely insi ant, beautiful head of hair1 60 Cents P THE "REXALL" If you get a bottle of this I not cure you, bring the empty dissatisfied, and we'll return this guarantee and we flve uS We'll give the entire f< whoever asks for it. ICILDER. & WEE RUJ51E' M SLE IN BANK RUPIACY. NITFJ STATES OF AMERICA, [STRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. In the District Court. In re., Adam Crane Jones, Bank .pt. Pursuant to an order of the Dis iet Court of the District of South Lrolina, in. the maLter of Adam ane Jones. Bankrupt, passed on e fourteenth day of October, 1907, will sell at public auction to the hest bidder, on Monday, Novem r 4th, 1907., at 11 o'clock in the re"1oln. Obefore the Court House -rt Nt : err . in the State and Kict a to. Sai1d. the following de rihed -al ei:a. all of which is uated In the Town of Newberry, strict and State aforesaid: 1. That lot or parcel of land con ining one and 32-100 acres, more less, known as the Boozer lot and unded by Calhoun street, -by essly street, by McMorries street, lot of William Johnson and by of Lucy B. Smith. 2. One-half an acre lot, bounded Caldwell street, Boundary street, Lnee street and the. Brown lot, own as the .Metts lot. 3. That lot or parcel of land, con .ning one-half an acre, more or less, unded by Caldwell street, John ne street, Nance street and by the atts lot. TERMS OF SLE: One-third cash d the balance payable in one year )v the date of sale; the credit por- 4 n to be secured by the bond of the rcbaser and mortgage of the prem s sold and to bear interest at the ;e of eight per centum per annum, ;h leave to the purphaser to anti iate the payment of the credit por n either in whole or in part. Pur iser to pjy for papers and re -ding same. 4 Purenaser will also be required to ure the buildings on said property I assign policies to the trustee. Frank R. Hunter, Trustee of A. C. Jones, Bankrupt. 4 4i od i orl ofhi Iod onth 1e4a ccmlse issinii re.medy ma ae faldyu n,peaat-o stck 4l dr ires heathy, bund thtwl4as o ie er Bottle ,1~ t air ncaFod in. ofuhai oths ton the KS.. hasaccmpised Glass! I have. just rece of Glass Ware. H cial bargains. So you see me. Lar of Bowls for grow MAYEF BOC SC SJONS' BBS' The up-to-date plac( S gentlemen. Everyti served in good style Game and A Specih JONES'. ORI The most complet and Staple Grocern We carrya stock th I tideous house-keepei wants from. The b I we offer. Everythir thing the best. Lowney's Choc Bon-B in packages and loos with usat both of t tioned places. JUST RECEIVEE] p1-2, 1,2, 3and 5pou Loose Chocolate o Great Departi MOSELEY WHAT IS EC Economy is a frugal and judicious u: hich spends money to advantage. Ec ~reat bargain sales. We have just returned from the Noi he market and securing many exceller or the public to inspect our immense tore. We have the new things, the rints from 5c. up, White Homespun 3 tp, complete line,of Dry Goods and nol touble width, at Soc.' is a great bargair ouths' $2.50 to $10.oo, Boys' from 75 uigs in Hats a'nd Caps. Prettiest 111 ave ever had. ,Our experienced Norn rom the North,' and our immense st;ocl eady for inspection, embracing the nel mense line of Furniture is now ready roceries, Hardware, Crockeryware, 'I s now complete. We have added a ne ers, and the bargains contained on the >1e wonder how we can sell goods so ch 8 lbs. best Granulated Sugar $1 .oo. iachine $25-oo, new Defender Machin or 20 years. We have only two Orga nake special offer, $42.50, elegant tone he old reliable Iron King and Elmo C( x st on the market. For every five do h)ice on our bargain counter. Just received our 33d car, making 3,/ ad while it lasts goes for best patent very barrel guaranteed to give satisfac MOSEIEY BEIPC Prosperity, S. C. Glass! ived 50 Barrels ave some spe don't buy until ge assortment ing Bulbs. K STORE. rAURANT) 0 for ladies and ting-good to eat on short notice. Oysters Itye DCERY. estock of Fancy s in- the city. at the most fas can supply her est is the kind Lg fresh, every- . 0 alates and ons e is a specialty he above men -Shipmnent in id boxes. I altinds.. ONES. neqi Store BROS. ONOMY? e of money-that management onomy is best exemplified in our -thern markets after searchink .t bargains. We are now ready stpck in our - great department nice things, the cheap things. c. up, Checked Homespun 5c. ions. Our Imperial Broadcloth, t.Men's Suits $3.50 to $15 00. c. to $6.00. New and nobby te of Rugs and Art Squares we ben Milliner has just returned : of fashionable Millinery is now v and up to date things. Our -for inspection. Our stock of 'runks, Valises and Woodenware w feature in roc. and 25c. coun m is creating a sensation. Peo eap. We mention a few specials. New drop head Domestic Sewing 3, drop head, $17.93, guaranteed uis left, and,to close them out we s, oak and'walnut. We handle >oking Sto've, beyond doubt the 1ars you trade we give free one i55 bbls.' Choi::e Tennessee Flour-, $535, best half patent $4.85, tion. Get the habit of corning to S., THEY SELL FOR LE.SS.