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Entered at the Postoffice at New .erry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, January 16, 1912. It seems that South Carolina has the inviestigation fever. It is an end 3g Cban. Transportation in the country is practically at a stand-still in the pres ent condition of the public roads. Mayor Langford says he is going to 'egin street paving as soon as the snow melta away. That is good. Newberry has the biggest snow that has fallen here since February, 1899. We hope the weather man is correct wven we are told that there will be Id13ng temperature early this week. The legislature has -acted wisely to get rid of the election for judges ear -in the sesion. And so far as we aan see has selected good men for e various positions to be filled. Mr. J. T. Harris has been elected president of Spartanburg chamber of eommerce. Mr. Harris is brim full of energy and a great promoter and if the Spartanburg people will give him half a chance he will make things kum. The Greenwood Index announces that the "week of prayer" has been postponed on account of the incle ment weather. Don't the Greenwood folks believe in praying during. bad I weather.-Spartanburg Journal You naughty Spartanburg Journal. You should not have made that re mark. We agree with the Charleston Post that the legislature -has no right to expunge from the record any part of ie governor's message. In the case of his libel message we think he has said many things which should not have been In a message from the gov ernor to the legislature, but that is his business. The drive way between tile Crotwell hotel and the court house square is a beauty spot which it seems to us. the keeper of the court house square, and particularly the proprietor of the Crotwell hotel, would 'be delighted to wipe out. We were told that a one borse wagon stalled in there the other day. It is not an evidence either of civic 'beauty or civic pride. Comptroller General Jones esti mates the total cost of running the State goviernment during this year at $2,554,514.87 and a total estimated revenue of a little less than two mil lion dollars, or a deficit of more than half a million dollars. In order to make up this deficit it will take a increase of nearly two mills in the State tax levy. Don't you think it is time to think about cutting down ex penses somewhere. In the death of Mr. Josiah Doar the press of the State loses one of its most faithful and devoted members. Mr. Doar was one of the first memnbers of the State Press association that we met on our first visit to an annual meeting. He was kind to us then and we were ever after good friends. We mourn his death and extend our sym pathy to his family.' He had been connected with one paper for nearly half a century, and at the same time had filled different offices of honor and trust in his county. We can see no reason for the quar rel between Gov. Blease and State Treasurer Jennings. Neither One de-l serves any special credit for borrow :ing money. A man who could not bor 'row money to advantage 'with the credit of the great State of South Carolina is a mighty poor sort of bor rower. There is no use for G-ov. Blease to grup on Mr. Jrmnings and no use for Mr. Jennings to ask an in vestigation. Under the law both of~ auu,,Lsm.3.cou bure money to meet expenses at a low rate of interest. There is no use for an inxestigating committee. What Anderson needs is a produce exchange where the farmer may sell oats, peanuts, fresh meat, corn, or other -products at a fair market price. Anderson Mall. While such an exchange would be good for Anderson it would be a good thing for Newberry and many other towns. It is a fact that there is no regular market for such farm pro ducts and that in part accounts for the farmer giving his attention to cotton as his money crop. If he has a bale of cotton he knows that he can take it to market any day in the year and get the cash for it. While he can not do that for his other products. If there was a market or an exchange where these other products could be turned Into cash as readily as cotton the farmer would more readily go to their cultivation and he would be more .prosperous by so doing. The people of Rock Hill have decid ed that the :comnission, form of gor ernment Is not suited to the needs of tpeir town. A committee was ap pointed to investigate the question. They recommended the form of gov ernment now used in Staunton, Vir ginia. The Herald and News has spoken of this system before and commended it to the people of Newberry. As we un derstand it, the city government of Staunton is run on a business basis. The city elects the mayor and alder men and then the city council selects' a business man or business manager, one who is competent, to handle as large a business as the expenditures for the city would necessitate and he has charge of the affairs of the city. This takes the business out of poli ics and puts it in the hands of a man who is competent to conduct the busi ess affairs. Hub Evans is indicted so often that ae has decided to run for attorney . general so that he can attend to this indicting business himself.-Spartan burg Journal. It might be if he did he could get a trial. It'sem that the State is never ready to go to trial. The label cases have been on the docket In Columbia for five years and the defendants have been clamoring for a trial at every term of the court, and they are post poned again. Hub Evans was indicted in the Newberry court for the same charge that is in the Richland bill, and could not get a trial and finally the case was nol prossed. And by the way, we were told in Columbia that all the evidence before the grand jury in the Evans case was *a statement from Mr. Carter that Goodman was in Columbia at the time it is alleged that 'he gave the money to Evans. Quite different to the Felder case in \ewberry, unless the Richland grand' ury does not take much evidence to e convinced beyond a reasonable oubt THE LIBEL BILL As We published the Blease libel essage we print the card from Dr. romer. We do not intend to discuss the uestion at issue with Dr. Cromer or the State or Mr. Banks or Gov. Blease. What we are going to say is not meant to be personal at all, but we desire to se this concrete example to say what we want to say on this subject with ot in the least being understood as person al. We think that Gov. Blease would ave greatly strengthened his posi tion in his veto message if he had been less severe and had presented the ar gument from his viewpoint without the abusive adjectivies in referring to persons whom he seems not love, and had left off his wholesale denun iation of the newspaper editors and repo.trs in this State. True, he has some provcratie'r, but it would have1 been better not to have taken adlvan? tage of tbis occasion to have given expression of his views along that line. Now to the point we are trying to i.em to which iL refers might very wei have been left in the rubbish heap of pre-election campaign matter." The question is was it a news item at all at the time it was sent to the State on the eve of the election. If it was it was sent some several months after the item happened, if it happened at all. Grant that no one Intended tc misrepresent any one at all, what was the purpose of sending a news item several months old that was detrimen tal to a candidate, on the eve of the election, even though there be no in tention to misrepresent. It was meant to be a damaging statement to a can didate, and published at a time when he could not reply until after the election. As we said we are not Intending in these remarks to be personal, but simply to use this concrete example to ask what good will an apology seven days later, after the injury is done, do the party Injured. Of course, an editor or a reporter, either one, is liable to make a mistake, but if it Is an thonest mistake and the apology is forthcoming in the right spiTi there is rare chance for trouble, but if the mistake is meant to do Injury, then the party injured should have some re dress beyond an apology seven days later. Kirkpatrick Family. As a family reunion of Mrs. Kirk patrick's children on Monday, the en tire family was togeth for the airst time since childhoodl. Tbos- from out of town were: Mrs. W. :. .:,uug it., dean of the Due West 'r '1n!e cGk;', and daugnter Evelyi, and M::s adel Kirkpatrick, of nus West; Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Aull, of Dy;,nj. S Y ; . Q. Kirkpatrick, of Cmr','.'; A. G. Kirkpatrick, of the Airi.2an Tobacco ompany; J. W. Ki..?t-iek and wii, and Masters Grier and J W.. .ir., of Yorkville, S. C.-Hickory Democrat. Dr. Cromer Makes Statement. Io the Editor of The State: I am sorry that Gov. Blease saw fit to use my name in the special message giving his reasons for veto-' ig the libel <bill. It is a distinction that I did not covet, and in which I lnd no pleasure. The news item to which it refers might very well have been left in the rubbish heap of pre election campaign matter. The card that I wrote, and to which reference is made, was intended to make certain correction.s as a simple act of justice to Mr. Blease. It was not intended to charge either dirrecty or indirect ly that either Mr. Banks or The State hiad intentionally pablishedl what was false. I do not ahva~ys approve the editorial policy of the State, but I can not close my eyes to the great service that the paper has rendered. I had occasion in a recent letter to the edi tor to give him assurance of my ap preciation of the strong and manly fight that The State has persistutly made for order and decency in South Carolina. Geo. B. Cromer. Newberry, Jan. 12, 1912. From The State, Tuesday, September . . ,13, 1910. The following card, referring to a statement printed yesterday from Dr. Dromer in regard to Ma,yor Blease ma former clients explains itself: 'To the Editor of The State: "The statement in your paper of eptember 12, with regard :to the con aection of Mr. Cole. L. Blease with the case of J. M. Guin should be cor ected in several particulars. The infor nation was~ given by me over the tele phone and it was not taken down ac :rately. Up to the t,ime at which the otice of appeal was given from the ircuit to the supreme court, I am familiar with the whole matter. Guin bad been represented by Messrs. Cole. L. Blease and E. S. Blease, but my recollection is that 'the notice of ap peal to the supreme court was signed by Mr. E. S. Bles.se alone. As I stat d, I do not know what took place before the town council, except upon information. I did not state that Mr. Cole. L. Blease 'got council to reduce Gun's fine to $50.' I simply stated that council had reduced the fine to $50, and I did not say 'Blease practi ca-lly secured his pardon,' for I do not know what tr ak place at the meeting of the town council. "It is due to Mr. Blease that this correction be made. "Yours truly, "Geo. B. Cromer.'' The State regrets excedingly the misquotation of Dr. Cromer, due, doubtless, to the matter being taken over the telephone. Had the instruc tions of the editor of The State been :rried out in his absence from thet ofI:e no part of Dr. tTonier's view would have been printed. A ban was expressly laid upon all eleventh hour reports and statements; nothing of this nature was to have appeared after Saturday, September 10. That programe permitted time for correc tion or reply. THE COTTON SITUATION AS SEEN BY B. HARRIS AND REMEDIES FOR IT We saw cotton last August sell for 15 1-2 cents and inside of 90 days the same grade of cotton sold for 8 3-4 cents. There is something radically wrong when such 'wide variations in price occur. There is no other com modity under the heavens with such a fall in price. According to statis tics the world needs every bale that, will be made this year. If what I have stated above be true, there must be some cause for the drop in the price 1 of cotton. It is up to the farmers who are the producers to find out the cause and it is up to them and to them only, f to remedy it. Will he do it? I can t not say. Can he remedy it? I answer t emphatically he can. How? By di versifying his crops, so as to make x himself self-supporting. I * Now I do not want to appeal to t your prejudicies, but I want to appeal to your good common "horse" sense. I know that there are only a few of r our farmers that realize just what ' I South Carolina is spending annually for products which she ought to raise o here at home and these products can be raised in this State for less than p half of the amount it is costing our people to buy elsewhere. To show you how much money -we are sending to the west for these articles, I will enumerate: Flour, $20,000,000; bacon c and lard, $17,250,000; horses and s mules, $12,500,000; hay and oats, $11,-a 500,000; corn, $13,000,000; fertilizer, I $25,000,000, and I will just state that b Ithere is only just about fifteen perii I cent. of this money that ever gets back to us. There is no State in the Union that can raise the above articles cheaper than South Carolina. Horses 'n and mules can be raised from birth until they are three years old $75 each.T Pork can be raised at a cost of threee cents per pound gross.. Corn has been ~ raised at a cost of 12 1-2 cents .per0 bushel. Any farmer can .raise it for 35 cents per bushel. The farmer who 1 buys corn this year will give $1 for b it-so just remember -when you buy a d bushel of corn, you are giviing one dollar for 35 cents-or in fact any other commodity 'which you buy, that could .be raised at home on your farm, I you are swapping at the same ratio. Farmer, stop, think consider, wht you are doing.. Add what we are buy-i in-g and the total amounts to $99,250,-( 000. Now let us see what our cotton crop wi'll bring. Say we will make this year in South Carolina in round numbers 1,500,000 bales of cotton. Suppose the average price is $40 per bale-our cotton crop will sell for $60,000,000. The cotton seed -will bring approximately about $7 per bale, mak ing the total seed raised sell for $10, 500,000. You will now see that the cotton crop and the seed will not pay a for the commodities -that we have. bought elsewhere. Now 'brother far mers, when such conditions as I have' pointed out to you exist, you need not be surprised to see cotton drop in price from 15 1-2 cents to 8 3-4 cents inside odf 90 days. I wane to say to you that we, the farmers, are to blame for this and no one else. It is up to you and to you only to remedy the situation. As to higher prices for the remain der of the 1911 crop, I want to say to you that it all depends on the acreage d that you plant during the year 1912,t and the amount of fertilizer that you buy. As to the price at which you will sell the 1912 crop, I want to say, if you desire 5 cent cotton, just plant b the same acreage that you planted during 1911, and buy just as much fer- g tilizer as you did last year, and you will have it. However, if you want 15 cents cotton, just cut your cotton acreage 30 per cent., with a like cur-t tail in the fertilizer used last year and piant the 30 per cent. reduction in ' corn and oats and you will make the, 15 cents price. Of course some of t our farmers will say that Mr. Jones C is going to cut his cotton crop and I will plant a little. more. Now the tl man'that will do that, is not a true a man to his neighbors and his country. a and when he .passes over the river, a he will soon be forgotten. Brother hi farmers, stand for the right thing andl the right thing to do now is to cut n~ cotton acreage 30 per cent., with a 1U like ::eduction in the use of fertiliz,ers. After our experience in 1911, why I should we have to be soliciTed to re.. a duce cotton acreage. It has been pre iously demo~nstrated to us that a 14,-- tI 500,000 bale . -ov i bring about It I $3'~.00,0G iC~ ~ '~u ~.- n' l Absolui The only Bakir from Royal Crap NO ALUM, NO ve have practically raised 3,000,000 ales of cotton for nothing. Why will the farmers do such a hing-raise two bales of cotton, to get he price one ought to sell for? Re nember you did it, do not blame any ne else. Who is to'remedy this state f affairs. I say the farmers, you who )roduce the cotton. I wish to. state to you, brother far ners, that you are up against the big ,est proposition you have ever been tp against and you haYe got to. fight he battle. As to the cotton mill mergers, I do tot blame the mlfls.. They have mer ,ed for their own benefit, so as to buy he raw material cheaper and to sell '00,000 bale crop of 1910, .so you see heir flin1shed product better. So it is LOW up to the farmers to join the Far aers' union, and stand shoulder to houldei, and cooperate with each ther. Stand as one man, and if you ill do this and make home self-sup orting, you can always dictate the rice you will sell your cotton for. I ave heard many farmers, and like xpressions from other professions, iat we would not see any more cheap otton. I told them that they had not tudied the cotton situation. We are 11 wiser than 'we were a year ago. re have practically raised thrre mil on bales of cotton for nothing dur ?g the past .year. Brother farmers, is as plain as A B C, as to what is be matter. It is 'ruinious to any ountry to have only one crop. Let le remind you farmers that we did it -we raised the enormous crop, and ut this stick in the hands of our emies to crack our own heads with, athey have used it on us to their wn good. The stick was the threeI illion bales that we raised for noth ig. It-was a bear on the cotton mar t, which forced the price of cottont own to below the cost of production. Now in conclusion, I want to say a ~ord in justice -to our bankers. They ave been quite liberal the past year, aving allowed our farmers the money > raise the enormous crop of cotton nd they did all they could to let iem hold cotton for better prices, and any of them. almost 'strained their wn credit to tide over their custom Farmers you are .the ones that make gh price cotton and yiu are also e ones that make low price cotton. hich do you want for 1912? High r low? If you want low prices for our cotton crop this ,fall, do not cut creage. If you want high prices, cut our acreage 30 per cent., as well as tie use of fertilizers and plant oats d corn. The condition that exist i South Carolina, is the same that x:ists in every cotton Sta4e, which ows why cotton is selling below the st of production. B. Harris.. Pentleton, S. C. Toao Much for Him. One day a tdacher of mathematics rent shopping with his wife, says the rashington Star. He tagged along stessly from counter to counter un 1 they came to the dress trimmings partment, and there he.found some ing in his line. Said his wife to the aleswoman: "How wide is .tha,t gold-spangled lack crepe?" "Three-eighths of a yard," said the "How much is it a yard?" "Well," said the professor's wife, ow much of three-eighths wide ma ~rial will it take to put four six-inch ripes around a two and three-quara r-yard skirt that is seven inches arrower at the knees than it is at 'e bottom, and how much will it >st?' 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