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Entered at the Postoffnce at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, October 13, 1911. After these recent rains is a good time to use the split log drag on the roads that have been recently worked. It will take very little time and will keep the road in good repair. Try it for a few times. When a human vrute commits an assault upon the women of our coun try he may know that swift and sum mary punishment awaits him. You may talk and write about mob viol ence and the rule of the mob and tak ing the law into your .hands and all that sort as much as you please, but swift and sure punishment awaits the culprit if he can be found, and he is usually found. And we wonder some times if those who condemn the mob ever stop to think what they would do if they were in the place of the family of the victim. How would you feel about it if it were your daughter or your sister or your wife or your mother? We yield to no one in obed ience to law and order and a respect for the constituted authority, but such human 'rutes should be dealt with as you would deal with a wild animal or a rattlesnake. We can not understand, however, how any member of the mob should want a toe or a finger of the brute as a reminder of the horrible deed. It does seem strange, too, that such outrages as the one at Honea Path vill continue when it is known what the result will be. The same result follows wherever the deed is commit ted. It is not confined to any section. It is 4nevitable. The State publishes an editorial on the Honea Path lynching in which it says the criminal was caught and Identified and that a court could eas ily have been called to try the negro, or rather go. through the form of a trial, and the negro could have been aanged, which is all very true. It then calls attention to the oath which Citizen Ashley took as a member of the legislature, and says the governor took the same oath, and asks what they are going to do about it. And what is the county of Anderson and the county of GreenvilHe going to do about it. The intimation is made that Anderson is too much afraid of the influence of Mr. Ashley in politics to do anything. We remember that some years ago there was a lynching in Greenwood county, and the then governor, D. C. Heyward, went to Greenwood and fol lowed in mob and begged them to de sist. He saw them. He may not have seen the lynching, but he saw them on the way with the prisoner. It was the same result. He took the same' oath. What did he do? What could he do? What did other governors do under the same circumstances? What could they do? They did the same thing that will be done now. Just so long as we have such deeds commit ted by brutes as that at Honea Path we may expect the same result and it is no use to mince words about it. THE BUMPER COTTON CROP. In some parts of the adjacent coun try all of the cotton has been picked and most of it ginned. So far as this section is concernea, the heavy gin ning instead of sh(ywing a bumper crop means an extremely small crop. While the storm emphasized this con dition, the fact itself was evident to experienced planterl even before the storm. The crop was one of unusu ally early maturity, ft opened all at once. Even among the speculators we no tice a tendency to discredit reports of an enormous crop. They are begin ning to be suspicious. They have cause to be, but in the meantime the South has been selling freely. Much of the crop has already passed out of the hands of the producers. There is still time, however, for something to be saved from the wreck. The South can still hold to. a part of its profits. But there will be n1o improvement in the market so long as the willingness of farmers to sell below ten cents is emphasized by large offerings daily. A willing victim Is always a closely plucked vlictim. The holding move ment should gather force from now on.-News and Courier. We hope the holding movement will gather force, but the trouble is that those who most need the increase in price and who will suffer the most by the decline are the ones who have been forced to sell. Tne pity is the farmers could not have gotten togeth er before the decline in price. The small farmer will have gotten rid of his cotton before any help can come by the increase as a result of holding cotton from the market. There is no doubt that this crop has opened and been harvested more rapidly and ear lier than any crop in many years, which makes it appear that there was going to be a bumper crop. There is only one hope for the cot ton farmer, and that-Is to reduce the tcreage and plant and grow on the arm what he needs to sustain the arm and then he will be independent mnd can sell his cotton or not sell It s he likes.' THE RECALL OF JUDGES. The Orangeburg Times and Demo rat seeks to take The Herald and News to task for opposing the recall f judges. Says the Times and Democrat: "If the ,people have sense enough to elect gov"ernors, congressmen, sena ors, and other officials of high and low degree, they surely have sense enough to sustain officials when they o right or recall them when they do wrong. So far as we are concerned, we would much rather trust the 'cap rice of the majority' than the 'caprice of one man,' whether he be a judge or some other official." Carried to its logical conclusion, the argument of the Times and Democrat would be to the effect that we ought o go back to the practice of the an ients, and have a popular meeting to decide upon all questions confront ng the people. To take an extreme ase to which the argument of the 'imes and Democrat would logically ead, we would have a popular meet ng .to try a man for murder or to ry a civil case. 'What does the legislature elect udges for, except to follow the law, egardless of popular opinion, at the ime? Judges, as well as other men, re human, and with the recall of -SoMAN, nOiA HOUSE,R SATTUR judges in force, passing popular opin ion could not but be, in some instances, writ into judicial opinions and judicial decisions. The Herald ande News has not op posed the initiative, referendum and recall, to an extent limited by reason. The Herald and News believes in the rule of the people. The Herald and News believes so strongly in the rule of the people, and in a republican form of government, that it opposes any scheme looking towards the recall of judges. When the decisions of our courts are governed by what the Times and Democrat is disposed L term the "caprice of the majority," that means the beginning of the end of the rule of the people. That is plain language, but it states the truth. A commission form of government for a good many cities in the country, and for Columbia, In this State, with the initiative, referendum and recall provisions, seems to be working well. We have watched this departure of' the past few years with interest, and we are gratified that it is giving satis faction. But when it comes to taking a judge, State or Federal, off the bench, because an opinion does not happen to meet with popular approval at the time, then, indeed, the liberties of the people are encangered. W had almost as well let each com munity by popular vote try the cases. arising in that community, and if a case merits death, then let the com munity string the culprit to the high est limb. What do we want judges for, if they are to decide questions of law accord ing to the popular opinion, as they judge it? Why not havLe 'a primary system on each individual case? FARM LANDS FOR SALE. We will sell on salesday in Novem ber, 1911, at public outcry in front of the court house at INewberry, within the legal hours of sale, the real estate of which Mrs. E. L. Spearman die4 seized, in two tracts as follows: 1. The Home Place, containing 215 acres, more or less, and bounded 'by lands of Mrs. F. S. Maffett, Mrs. F. S. Paysinger, A. P. Werts and Tract No. 2. 2. Tract No. 2, conztaining 125 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Sam Nance, D. M. Ward, A. P. Werts, Tract No. 1, and the,public road. Terms: One-third !cash and balance payable one year from day of sale, secured by bond and mortgage, with interest from date dt the rate. of 8 per cent. and with the usual stipula tion for ten per cent. attorney's fees if the credit portion is not paid at maturity. The purcniaser will be re quired to carry insurance on the houses on the Home Place and as sign the same for the protection of the loan. Purchasens to pay for pap ers and for recording. This land lies near Silverstreet, a station on the Southern railroad, and is highly improved. Walter S. Spearman. Maggie S. Longshore. EXECUTORS NOTICE. All and singular the creditors of the late Tench C. Pool, are hereby requir ed to render to' J. A. Burton, executor, or to our attorney, .Geo. S. Mower, a statemen-t of their demands duly at tested as required by law, and all par-] ties indebted are required to make payment to the undersigned. Carrie A. Pool, Execuitr'x. J. A. Burton, Executor of Tench 0. 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