The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 08, 1910, Page TWO, Image 2
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I read the following in a paper
:the other iday and I want to print it.
It was the opening address of a col
*red bishop of the Methodisi
church:
New Orleans, January 20.-"]
have no faith in a negro who sits
around and complains in a bus3
world like this," declared Bishop E
W. Larnpton, in calling td ordei -thE
Louisiana conference of the Afriear
Methodist church here last night.
"Complaints and wailing nevei
yet made a race, and never will,'
continued Bishop Lampton. "OM
people must do something more thax
talk. teach the loafers of the race
and make them something. Industr3
and honesty will help the negro mor
than a thousand men going around
and aboasting as race leaders, and
ineuleating a spirit of strife be
twen the races."
Now,what I want to ask is 1don'I
you think that is pretty good gospel
It is good for the negto as a race anc
it is good for the white man too
"Complaints and wailing never yel
made a race, and never will." No
and "y never have am-d never wil
make a man. "Industry and hon
esty' will int only -help to make a
race, but they are things of whieh
men are built. Take this thought
along with you,
U-0
I have been reading where the leg
is lature went to Winthrop and to
'Charleston and to Clemson and L did
not know it was such a large 'body
and that there were so, many ladies
connected with the law makig
branch of our grand old State. I no
tice where there were "455 passen
gers" on the train for the legislative
trip to Charleston and to Clemson
there were 100 ladies in the party
and "it a. raining." That was nice.
I am sure a good poroportion of
those "400" who went to Charles
ton were ladies, too. It would be a
mighty du:1 trip anywhere without
the ladies. There are still- three
weeks of an ordinary session left
and the -legislature -should take a
junket to Orangeburg to see what
sort of a new college building Torn
Miller needs and anothrer trip to
Florence to see the agrieutue
school or college the Stt setb
lishing over there and then the Ce
arSprings Institute should be vis
ited and three hours might be spent
in Spartanburg. I am sure Spartan.
'burg does not iike ila that the legis
~lature went right through that town
and did not stop 'and spent two
hours in Anderson. I would like to
sremind the statesnien that Spartan
burg is the biggest vEting county in
the State. Of course, I know none
of tem eare a.bout thbat but then it
is well to have this knowledge on
hand. It might come in wel.1 some
time.
As I don't .pay any tax and can't
eat any meat and am not permitted
to take a drink in Newberry and
'can't get out .of town, I don 't care
much what the legislature does.
IAbout all my liberties are gone any
way and I can't ibe hurt or helped
much anyway. But I am still hope
ful and happy and I am going to take
Frank Stanton's advice:
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- Rse Up!
Little sense in sighin'
Settin' thar an' eryin ',
While thunder is a-fixin' for to rum
ble
Bette~ 'fa.r' to rise
An' face the frownin' skies,
An' help to make high prices take a
tumble.
"Happy on the Way."
Trouble enough in the world today,
The rose is elose to the thistle,
But we make-believe it 's a pleasant
An' sing to the storm, an' whistle!
And vet sometimes I feel like the
hopeless o::e that lie tells us about:
The Hopeless One.
"How in the world," said the Old
Grumbler. "can a feller hold his
own when he doesn't own anything
to hold? There used to be plenty of
space in the air abhove us, but the
tall bui-ldings and the airships are
taking even that. So there 's no hope
at all!"
Speaking .about the legislature go
ing to Charleston did you see where
Marion Rucker and Jno. Richards
and several other statesmen were
'all grouped together at one table,
coc-ked and primed to 'make speeches
and somebody announced there would
be no oratory. I am sure this ran
made by a Charlestonian for no one
in Charleston would be so rude. It
was terrible. What will become-of
that pent up oratory and when it
was ready to come. They are all
fine fellows and can make good
speeches, but when you go to Char
leston they tell me the trip is not
complete unless you take a sail
around the harbor and that took
time and they .could not take it and
have oratory too.
City council is going to make it
possible to have a small park. What
.is the matter with the civie associa
tion centering its efforts and its
money in fixing up a nice little park
in front of the old court house-or
the building once used as a court
house-that is the way to call it..
Get that coping put around so as to
prevent driving over the grounds. I
am mor.ally certaint that Mayor
Blease and his council will cooper
ate. This would not be a big under
taking and when it was done-if
properly done-would be a boost for
the association. The eivie associa
tion ought to do something and not
spread out its energies too thin.
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You know that reminds me to re
mark that this thing of doing things
is what appeals to me in the present
city council. I had rather have a
city council that does things if ocea
sionally it does something wrong
than to have one -that never did any
thing at all.
I read in the paper the other day
that there were a half millon Amer
ican .tramps. And they have held a
national convention. Three fourths
of, them are highly educated. This
teeii and twenty-one years, and many
of them reh ighly educated-. This
is a problem right h-:e at home that
the missionary workers might tackle.
It is estimated that fifty per cent. of
these young fellows develop into hu
man wolves ard prey upon the pub
lic as a profession until they die of
exposure or are killed by the rail
roads, shot, 'hanged or imprisoned.
Think of it for a moment. They all
had loving mothers. Some of them
came fVom homes of refLnement and
culture and luxurj.
The Idler.
A Ten Hour Law.
Editor Herald and News:
In The Herakd aidd! News oi Feb
ruanry 1st; appears a letter by Mrs.
Ethel Thomas addressed to the S. C.
Legislature prohibiting interfernce
with the work in the millk.
The lady makes specious plea
against the ten hour law whieh is be
ing proposed. The argument pre
sented consists whaolly in .the pre
sumed fact thiat sub,h a 'kaw wou-ld de
prive the workers of their Saturday
afterndon vacation.
Without arguing "pro or con'' tlhe
principle involved, but -readily ad
mnitting 'such undesirable result
'wou-ld follow, yet there are better
ways of a.pproaching the subject
than through inveetives against ian
imaginary enemy applying "thumb
screws to her (womian 's) interest.''"
If peradven.bure the legislators
were aequainted only with the bless
ediness said to reign at the Newberry
mills and at the same time were ig
norant of the adverse conditions at
other mills, then strong language
may be exiousable; but when, -as the
writer knows, periodicals .in ether
States every now and then refer to
the inhuman conditions existing in
the cotton milks of South Carolina,
though they may be exaggerated yet
there must be something ,wrong some
where, and more plases than one.
Our State pride rebels against these
alsions, but also demands 'legisla
tion on the ?ubject, to say nothing of
feelings of 'humanity, -even if .the
wrongs should exist only isu a si.ngle
comnmuity-it should not be possi
ble to exist in anywise.
The legislators proposing the bill
must be aware of the necessity of it,
without the remotest idea to "deny
every Go'd-given light anid! privi
lege,'' nay, rather to secure and
strengthen them.
The object contemplated by a ten
hour lair is that employees be not
imposed oni with overwork. If, as
Mrs. Thomas says eleven hours per
day is not too much, still other mills
may exact twelve, possibly more,
nor give the half day vacation per
week. The workers should be pro
tected, though Mr',. Thomas' vision
extends no further than the tall
chimneys about Newberry.
The lady has errred in asserting thart
what she was pleased to call "unrea
sonable bills'' for thle welfare of
workers are "proposed through mis
::ken ideais of a few who are not
oneerneii~d.' It is known to the
writer that a list cf measures pre
~ented to the legidlature at its last
~ession was framed in the hails of
more than p?obable that the bill for
a teoi hour day in the cotton mills
has emanated from the cotton mills.
That the plea of Mrs. Thomas
makes for the mills of Newberry to
continue the same policy merits con
Sideration there can be not a shadow
of doubt but not to the extent of
setting aside measures of relief to
the workers in other mills needing
protection.
Cast vituperation to the winds and
pekition for an amend!=ent to the
bill, in substance as follows: That
the employees of no mik be jcompell
ed or allowed to work more than
sixty hours in a week nor more thaa
eleven hours in any one day'-This
would prevent the working of hands
more than ten hours per day six iays
in the week, and at the same time
permit the arrangement for work
eleven 'hours five days in the week
and five hours on a Saturday with
the half-day holidy.
,Comparison has be.n made with
farm labor, bat there is a great dif
ference in the varied work on a fann.
The frequent chainges from one thing
to another have the effect of a rest
is a rest of the various muscles in
turn. Eleven hours continuous work
at one thing, at the machine is surely
stretching the limit of strain on the
mervous system. Yet a half day ex
tra rest and recreation (in addition
to Sunday) compensates for the one
hour too much each day.
Wishing good! to all.
Hilmanitas.
VIRGINIA MAY VOTE
ON STATE-WIDE LAW.
Anti-Saloon League Proposes to Sub
mit Liquor Questions to Test
of Elections.
Richmond, Va., Feb. 5.-In pursu
ance of the plan of the Virginia
Anti Saloon league, Senater Strode
today introduced a bill providing for
an election by all -the qualified voters
of the State on the subjeet of State
wide prohibition to be held whenever
.petitioned for by a number of voters
equal to 25 per cent. of the number
voting at the preceding general elee
tion. The bil was referred to the
comnmittee on privileges and elee
tions. -Its introduction will open
the door for a great deal of discus
sion b.efore the general assembly.
Public .hearings by comimittees will
probably bhe had and more or less
aerimonious debate is likely to ensue.
'The Braggart.
''Hulko, Jimmy! Are you coming
to s0hool1'
''Not me-I've got the measles.''
"''arn! I don't believe yer, you 're
allus braggin'.''-M. A. P.
The Piece do Resistaneet.
"'Did t'he -ah prisonahi offer any
-ah-resistanece?''
''Only a shilling, your wushop,
and I wouldn't take it.' '-Exc,hange.
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