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ALDRICH DENOUNCES LYNCH LAW. In Charge to Berkeley Jury Judge Discusses Race Problem-Points Out the Difficulty of Two Un equal Races Living To glther on Equial Terms. Monck's Corner, November 4.-In his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the fall term of the court of general sessions at Monck's Cor ner, on November 2, Judge Robert Aldrich spoke in part as follows: "Here today are seven indictments for murder in one county and, while I don't know, I would not be at all surprised if there are not others that the solicitor has not been able to get ready. The hewspapers, ministers of the gospel, good men in every voca tion, cry out every day about our brothers' blood crying out from the ground. No use for it to cry, if no one heeds it. We all hear it. You -are the ones to heed it. "In addition to these seven indict ments for murder, there is a full com plement of cases of minor importance, but still of great magnitude in them selves. "I am forcibly struck with the fact that the great majority of these cases occur am;ong edlored ipd3ple; from their ranks come the principal law b.-eakers. That is a subject that I feel my duty to present as forcibly as I can for your consideration. "The people of South Carolina, and of the South generally, are face to face with a problem, more momen tous, and more difficult, than any peo ple'have ever faced-have ever been called to solve-in the history of civi lization. Twelve millions of white people, the highest grade of human itv are forced to live in the same ter ritory with eight millions of black people of the lowest grade of human beings. This problem is not of our making, but we have to solve it. To give you some idea of the difficulties to be encountered in the solution of this question, it is necessary to re flect upon one characteristic of hu man nature. Whenever men are di vided upon any lines, there is that in -the human mind which causes ri valry to spring up; rivalry grows into jealousy, jealousy into 'hositility, and, unless restrained, hostility be gets force and bloodshed. You see this illustrated in the case of school boys in their foot ball clubs, their base ball clubs and their debating so cieties-rivalry, jealousy. hositility .and violence. You see it between po litical parties and factions, you see it between different religious denomina tions in a very accentuated form. Sometimes in the past it has broken out aind found expression in the fires and massacres of St. Bartholomew. *Smithfield and the Spanish Inquisi tion. He.re we are divided, our popula tion is divided upon the most acute and accentuated lines that it is possi ble for civilized men to find themsel ves divided upon: tha~t is. upon race li'nes. race instincts and race jealous ies. We are in a most unnatural con dition. Phila nthropists are very fond, in their comments on the sub ject. of reminding us of the word of God, in saying. "That of one blood God made all classes of men '-but they stop too soon, they do not go on and say, 'And fixed the boundaries of their habitations.' God intended every race of man to live to itself. Here we have two races of men, to gether in the same territory and in vested with the same privileges try ing.to live together in 'the same com munity upon terms of legal and politi cal equality. Whenever that experi ment has been tried in other pai.3 of 'the world, it was tried in 'the same way that it was tried when first in troduced here. One .race has had to live in subordination to the other. Here we have to try the experiment of both races living together upon terms of equality, political and legal. "I say that it is the greatest pro blem that has ever been submitted to civilized man to solve. How are you going to solvi it? I don't know. A gre at many theories have been ad vanced in regard t.o it, but those the or'ists don 't know anyt.hing more about it than I do. I would say that the only practical way to meet those difficulties, is. .as they arise. Let the wise and virtuous of both races divest themselves as far as they can of human prejudice, rivalry and jeal ousy, and try to meet these obstacles and overcome them as they arise, and in that way make progress from year to year, and in .God's own time this question may be determhaed to the best interest of both races. In doing this we must plant ourselves upon the great moral principles 'that govern mankind in this world. It is an old saying. but a wise one. that if you want men 'to respect your rights, you must respect theirs; that is the easi est way and the best way to com mand their respeet. White men who boast of their superiority and who have a right to boast of it, have to meet this question firmly, fairly and humanely. Cruelty and injustice never accomplished anything since the foundation of the world. Chas tise a boy unjustly and you have made no improvement on him; on the contrary, you 'have filled hi mind with a sense of injustice and embit tered him and have chastized him at a loss. Chastise him in a proper man ner and it does improve him, unmerci fully abuse and mistreat any one de pendent on us, or responsible to us, do that unjustly, you don't reform 1m, you brutal..ze him, and make him c-.ve on ver.geance and con,inca in h:s wrongs. Do it lawfully and rightfully it has a good effect, and every true man in South Carolina, gentlemen of the grand jury, should put his foot down on this damnable practice prevailing in some parts of our country, the mob law, what is call ed 'lynch law.' It is mean, it is co wardly, it is brutal, it is barbarous and accomplishes no good purpose whatever. The best man, the man who occupies the most cerditable position in a 'lynching bee' is the victim-he passes off of the stage and is done with it. Every other man connected with that ilftal transac tion goes through life with the stain of blood guiltiness upon his soul. Talk about protecting our women! God have mercy on our women,, if that style of man is their only pro tection. "In this connection, the colored people have high duty to perform. When white men commit crimes, white men bring the criminals to jus tice. As a rule when colored men commit crimes against wMite men, colored men shield them from pun ishment and aid and abet them in cov ering up their offences. The majority of colored people are law abiding, but there is a lawless element among them, who give a bad name to the en tire race, and it is to the interest as well as it is the duty of every law abiding and self-respecting colored man to wipe that stigma from the face of his race by bringing to justice every one of his color who violates the law; and this will do more to abolish mob violence than anything else. Let colored men feel that they have duties in society as well as rights, and the best way to maintain the one is to perform the other. "Any man, negro or otherwise, who violates the law, let him be brought here and let him be tried according to the orderly method of the law, and if guilty, let him be convicted and executed according to law and let that example go out to the public and they will see it is right and it will have its effect. Yes, in dealing with this problem, plant yourselves on the great principles of the Bible and you will find no better rule of conduct by which to be governed 'than the one which was enunciated two thousand years ago by Him who spoke, as nev er man spake, 'that ye would, that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them.'' THE COST TO JA.PAN. American fleet's Welcome Paid for by Very Hard Work by Farmers. The brav-e show that the Japanese people.- mad'e in welcoming the American fleet at Yokohama 'must have contained some elements of the pathetic to close observers among the foreign residents in Japan who know -the true condition of the country's poverty. Perhaps -they knew that the money s pent in the decoration of Tokio 's streets, the casting of gold and silver medals for*the officers of the fleet and the lavish entertain ments in a score of towns came ulti mnately from the meagre increase of fields rio larger in many instances than the court of an apartment house airshaft. Ih old Japan, where hundreds of generations have lived on scraps of land that the mountains grudgingly leave tillable, every artifice of taxed ingenuity has been employed to draw erops commensurate with the heavily increasing population. Hills have been levelled, mountains terraced in to parallel alleyways only wide enough to hold a double row of plants and rivers so carefully banked- up and tenderly petted into docility that they are made to share their beds with the rice planter. So precious is the arable land that recently when the government built a new railroad across the main island of Hondo hundreds of claims had to be settled for the dots -of ground pre empted for the erection of telegraph poles. One of the fertile valleys near the base of Mount Fuji when viewed from an elevation resembles nothing so much as a piece of cloth figured with rescta.ngular blocks of gold and green. The rice fields are squared about by mud dikes, each in perfe order; next to them, on slightly hig er ground, are t-he patches of barle peas and millet, all arranged with precisi6n almost mathematic While one field lies fallow for a bri six months, another next to it is ten ed with an individual care almost b yond belief. Each rice plant that is sunk in tl mud of the flooded field receives a most as much attention as the car fully numbered fowls that roost,ea( night on the thatch of the farme hut. Seed is not scattered boardeas it is too precious for that. Instead is pushed into the loam of a foreir bed by the finger of the farmer 4 his wife. When th.e rice plants are three four inches high they are transplan ed to the paddy, groups of three four plants in a hill. This is grillir work. It means that the farmer, h wife and his daughters, naked all them save a cloth about the wais must bend their backs all day in tl streaming fields during May and ea ly Jane in water and heavy mud i to their knees and fighting leech constantly. When the stalks of grain and ri are above ground and flourishir comes the farmers dread: The tc rential rains of the naiubai (phonet eally transcribed,) or summer w season. In an hour the work months may be flattened to t ground, dikes washed out and t rivers roaring over the fields that h encroached on their dry channe Nothing but a total loss of crops cE result from this onslaught of the rai Even with all conditions favorin the Japanese farmer has to work i a serf to gather his harvest. The rov of grain are cut with a sickle, for i field is large enough to accommoda a cutting and threshing machine ev( though so expensive an adjunct farming on a large scale could be a forded. When the grain is brought out i I the field it is laid by handfuls on tl ground in front of the farmers hou and there the heads are pulled off ar the kernels, still bearded. are caug] on a piece of matting by the laborioi process of pulling each handful - grain through the close set teeth of dentated iron knife. Old women and children .do tb work and it is usually the old wom who have to place the kernels in wooden mortar and pound -them wi a heavy mallet until the chaff loosened. Then the handfuls of mixi kernels and grain are tossed in t) air over a piece of matting conti uously until the wind has carri4 away the chaff. Each seed that the farmer gains a ter his long year of untiring effo seems to~ represent an individual pl< for inehease made to the parent set that was planted, for on no other lar under heaven is the parable of t] seed that is sown so faithfully exer plified and perhaps nowhere else do the planter of the seed pray so a dently against the inexorable propo tion of disappointment. The "Joy Ride." Newark News. "That the nocturnal automobi] as a vehicle of dissipation, is a hig ly dangerous implement of death have at large in the community is obvious conclusion," remarks the D troit Journal. That excellent new paper gives several cogent reasol for its belief further on, chief which is that three persons have r cently been killed in Detroit by e actly the kind of an automfobi which it describes. It would hal been an easy matter to gather stati tics of the same kind from the r cords in nearly every city in the cou try, for i: a unhappily true that small proportion of the fatal autom bile easualties in recent years is c reetly ascriable to diss'nation on t1 part of either driver or passengei or both. As yet the motor car is distinctiv ly the vehicle for pleasure. Its ow er is usually a man who can afford dissipate. if he so chooses, and tho who ride with him on pleasure be very frequently regard wine as: indispensable ad,junct to enjoymer At any rate, it frequently happei that roistering parties whiz along ti streets at all hours of the night. whi whether intoxicated or not. perm their hilarity to blunt their appreci tion of the danger involved. Som times it is the owner with someb< companions. Frequently it is tl 'ehauffeur, out for a "joy~ ride.'" A wars the shadow of dea.th hove over the jolly party and invariab the automobile is a menace to tho upon the streets. FOR SALE-500 bushels home rai ed seed oats. 500 bushels hon raised seed wheat. A. L. Coleman, Silver Street, S. ~JNO. P. ON LI f I have a nice up-to-date e- line of Shoes, Hats, e Dress Goods, Notions, 1 ~h Underwear, and every ,S F; thingthat goes to make it is a complete stock of >r general merchandise. >r r SEE ME BEFORE BUYING JNO. P. LONG, SILVER STRET, S. C. rp LP The Standard Warehousi , Company Bees to Announae r- 1st. The rates of storage cover all cost ;j- to the farmer, including protection fo et his cotton from fire and the weather, an )f the rate is as low or lower than th farmer can insure his cotton when housei at home d 2. Its warehouse receipts are regarde as the highest class of bankable collatera n 3. f moncy can be borrowed on any n. thing it can be borrowed on the receipt of The Standard Warehouse Company. 4. The identical cotton that you plac vs in the warehouse is returned upon th 10 surrender of receipts. te 5. In case of fire your cotton is pai for at market value, and you have n to difficulty as to insurance, the full im surance being maintained by The Stand ard Warehouse Company. 6. The Standard Warehouse Compan; is absolutely independent of any othe ie organization and conducts its affairs upoi ;e strict business methods. id 7. The paid up capital stock of Th Standard Warehouse Company is $35o, sooo.oo and the company is absolutel; safe, and its warehouse receipts com a ahead of the stockholders. . is The Standard Warehouse Compan; n others stored, and offers the most com a plete protection and encouragement fo hfarmers desiring to hold their cotton. is 9. Rates will be furnished upon app' dcation to Mr. J. D. Wheeler, Local Mani ie ager Standard Warehouse Newberry, S. C ST. B. STACKNOUSE, Presideni f Columbia, S. C, a TO DRAW JURY. d Notice is hereby given that the un e dersigned, Jury Commissioners fo: ~Newberry county, S. C., will at nin, a o'cloek A. M., November 7th, 1908 r- in the office of the Clerk of Court r- openly and publicly draw the name: of thirty six men who shall serve a the Court of General Sessions as Peti Jurors for one week beginning No v'ember 23, 1908, this being the secon< e, week oif the Court of General Ses 2. sions which will convene at Newberi to ry, S. C., oneNovemnber 16, 1908. *n Jno. L. Epps, e-Win. W. Cromer, sJno. C. Goggans, is Jury Commnsisioners for Newberr: )j County. S. C. e- Newberry, S. C., October 26, 1908. rNOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the Distriot Court of the Unite< LO States. r- For the Western District of Souti i- Carolina. ie In the matter of Elebtr L. Bailes ', Bankrupt. eIn Bankruptcy. STo the creditors of the above namn o ed Bankrupt: se Ta.ke notice that on the 21st day o itOctober, 1908, Elbert L. Bailes, T inNewberry, Newberry County. Soutl tCarolina, heretofore adjudged i Bankrupt in said court, filed his pe 1 ttion in said Court, praying for: idischarge as such Bankrupt; and tha a hearing was thereupon ordered, an< awill be ha.d upon said petition. befort esaid court, at Charleston, in said Dis ne trict, on the 4th day of November l1908, at11 o'clock a. mn.. at whic] time and place, all known creditors yand other persons in interest, ma: appear and show eause. if any the' have, why the prayer of the sai' petition should not be granted. s. Witness the Hon. William H ie Bruwley, judge of said court, and th< seal thereof, at Charleston. S. C.. this 21st d:1y of October, A. D . 1908. 3(Seal) Riehard W. Hutson, Clerk. JUST Al Cleaned Currants Seeded Raisins, Citron, Extr Spices, Cr< Fresh VegetablE Fruits received fre Our line of Fanc; complete. For cake baking J. E. M. Flour. We carry a fulllir r and solicit your pa JONES' Gf e IFresh-Norfolk 03 every day. Sold b Served on Short Styl Patronage of La solicited. All seasonable di Jones' Rel iYOUR BA THE NEWDERRY S Capital $50,000 - - No Matter How Small, I The Newberry S - -ill give it careful atten1 ap plies to the men anu the I AS. McINTOSH. F resident. COME T( 'Charleston Fa AND VISI: WihNAVY l Wihher large Battleship pedo Fleet i DON'T FORGE T Nov. 16-2 This is the Time of the City by the WEDNESDAY, "SN Military Parade; Fantastic Fire Department Parade a test; Automobile Floral Game, Charleston vs.! Carnival in H arbor; Street Low .Rates or R IV ED! acts, Dam of Tartar. ks, Celery and sh every week. y Groceries is try a sack of ie of Groceries, tronage. IOCERY, (sters received iy the quart or Notice in any dies especially shes at NKING! AVINGS DANK. -Surplus $30,000 we Matter How Large, avfrngs Bank tion. This message Swomen slike. s. E. NOPWOOD, Ca: ;,r II Festival. "TEX AS" arnd Tor 'a Port. THE DATE. 1,.1908 year to Visit .he Sea RINERS DAY" and Trades Display; .nd Horse Reel Con Parade; Foot Ball avannah; Aquatic Carnival. :: i Railroads.