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TOLtTSE LII, NUMBEK 93. NEWBERRY, S. C. 1TESDAV, NOVEMBER -I, 1914. TWICE 4 WEEK. ?M? ? v? . p M'LAURIN SAYS I SYSTEM IS READY HAS COMPLETED MACHINERY TO .MAKE IT EFFECTIVE Comni/ss;oner Writes Tliat He Will Cse tlie Appropr/at/on as F.ir as /t Goes. To the People of South Carolina: I have completed the .machinery to j put \N ill truuussc in w ^ operation. Application blanks may be .had from this office, also t:.e form of contract. Under the act I can only pay rein a ter all operating expenses j are met; consequently, 1 am forced to j rV?Q wor-olioiicoc +'nqt o ro nffprpfl f I d rv. C tut caa vajvuovo mut m v. w. . at a nominal rent, and require the i owners to pay all charges and exI ipenses, including 3 cents per bale per month to the State, to meet the cost of postage, telegrams, express, travelHL ing expenses, printing the receipts, B tags and other blanks. 1 fini that the charge does not cover the cost, but 1 1 I will use the appropriation as far as j il will go. and submit the matter to j the next general assembly. 1 do not j expect to use a cent of the salary t given me, unless there is a further ap- ; propriation, as all the mone.- will be f needed to continue the acceptance o: ! T rtnlr m \r QMuqI I <il CUUU5C5. i ?v uiit uij , expenses, and no receipts will come in until cotton is taken out, which may fbe a year, while insurance, etc., is paid i in advance. 1 hoi.oe to a.ve some information later as to the use of State warehouse receipts as a collateral, but do not wish to make a statement until 1 can a A/) 1 V T* Wo^Q QfQPt. I ?pcatv au > iocui.' . isi. ?? wiuvu . house submitted the receipts to cer-, tain capitalists in New York, and his! i report was that the State receipt j would be preferred by t em to that of any private or corporate receipt for : ^ cotton on storage. A New Departure. This is a new departure in both Y finance and government, it win taKe lime and patience to inaugurate it, and I especially ask trie farmers of, this State to give me their confidence j and sup-port. Don't expect miracles. I am not "a miracle man,'" as one of I < the newspapers intimates, nor the man j who "found a s' oe string and J I built a factory." My purpose is to in-! J augurate a sane, sound system of mars' keting cotton. I notice in the morning paper a decision h.y Associate Justice Gage, 1 which further emphasizes the decree in the warehouse case of 1912. No jurist has in clearer language set forth the principles upon wnich sucn leg-1 islation as the South Carolina, Louisiana T^xas warehouse acts are v based. Judge Gage says: "Cotton, and that includes its seed, j ** * ' -J! il. - ,|1 li. e siap;e product 01 me cnaie aiiu of the South; in this year o' grace the ' | irig'-itful collapse of its price, inc-i deut to a we'inigh universal war, has shocked two continents; the whole j 1 policy of tne State is bound up in the growing, the sale and t. e manufacture Eg of cotton." V The individual cotton grower is powerless to proitct himself. If we I \ can unite the un-ts. we can control *1id citnaiinn ('onnprarion snells SUC ft ' cess. We will never get this except | tv.rough our State legislation. If our ; P experiment ails, then no other State j will try it. Expects Benefits. I am only meeting such opposition as I expected. I am depending on : my fel'ow farmers?not those whose interests are against us. Some of the newspapers have been libdfal and f^:r. v< while some have been harsh and un just. Try to sift out t:e truth. K' you .In not understand anvihin.tr. write me. and do not let your mind be poisoned :>\ insidious methods of b littiing me ior the purpose o destroying a meastire whicu will be of inestimable benHL cfit to you and your children's chil&'iren. accepted unsought the tremenHhous responsibility, and if my health holds out. I will To B soil cotton at presen* prices is prac tically the confiscation of $50,000,000 of property belonging to you. The B estate is attempting to aid you. It is B 7iot only a function, but it is the duty | of a government to protect citizens in ?ihei~ property rights as well as in life Kma liberty. The declaration o Judge page is a splendid onunciaiion of this principle. ! wish some case would oc err giving him an opportunity to define wi;<.: the same clear insight, just what the constitution means by protecting d citizen in the ownership of property. Does it include the use of that property or does it mean merely I physical possession? V. restricted to mere physical possession, then the constitutional guarantee is a hollow j inecKeiy ior iwuiuauuiis ui uapnai lean confiscate the profits and thereby (depri'.p me of my property by dej stroying its use. | All of these questions must be final! ly adjudicated in the cour;s of the land. I feel that this worldwide war is the end o:' one epoc<\ and the beginning of a new one in the science of government and finance. The ultimate aim of a true democracy it to give to each individual tis just rights and no more. This must involve an equitable division o. the burdens of organized socie:y. as well as the benefits. ! A situation like the present offers a fc-r-rilri f r\ r inrmox- anri l ir.wpr to fatten at the expense of weakness and poverty. T:.e farmers can not bear, without destruction, the entire bur- j den of* this situation. It must be dis- j tributed over the entire body politic, and there is no force strong enough ; to curb money and its power, save or- , ganized government. This is the log- ! ical sequence of the statement, "the j whole policy of the 'State is bound up | in t-~e growing, the sale and tne manufacture of cotton." , Strong Protector. What a grand conception of govern- 1 ment it is to stand strong, curbing human greed and protecting human weakness. Do not be deceived; the' entire world is deeply interested in getting your cotton at t.e lowest pos-1 sible price. They intend you to shoul- j der the entire loss on this crop and ' let you make another one if you can. j. a. T i-T 1 i ne more colioii you maive, me icss you get. If one-half of the cotton ; crop were destroyed, the portin le t would sell fr more tnan the whole. ; Why is it that as soon as Liverpool ! and New York settled t^eir straddle . contracts, that the exchange opened? T ey are knocking the price down every day. Why does not the stock i exchange ppen? Because it would j lower the price of stocks and bonds. \ Trese are held by capitalists, while i rr\ttnn ic hv thp Srmthprn 'farm- I er. These capitalists wish to use j high-priced stocks, through the re- i gion reserve system, to get money to buy 6-cent cotton in the South. Cotton in Europe is nw worth 22 cents per pound. If they can get your cotton at 6 cent, they will make t' e biggest "killing'' ever seen. Any government that will stand for sutf'.i infamy and not hold out a protecting hand to the producers is unworthy the support of an honest man. Tf I Viorl tlia warohnnco vVCtPm that i I pleaded with the legislature for one year ago. 1 would be opening up direct trade wit Manchester and establishing a stable price for cotton. The onlv remedv is to warehouse ! your cotton and set money on the re- j ceipts to ease up your creditors, if ' yuu will plant grain, raise stock and j produce no cotton in 191-\ you will j lil?l I' tf UUIX Cii L Ul 1^1 IV.CO iaui. Respect fully. John Lowndes McLaurin. j Columbia, November 2l. Search ?<>. Insane Neerro Vet Fa,lure; ] Seen at Anderson? Columbia Record, 22nd. | An unofficial and unconfirmed rei port that Jeff Means, an insane negro 1 slayer who escaped Monday from the , State Hospital for t.:e Insne. ha-d | been seen in the upper part of An' derson county reached Columbia Sa turday. Though one week liad eiaps; cct since ine Newberry county con| \ict broke his way tc liberty no clue I to his w. erea'bouts had been received i t rcug"' official channels. so far as i cculJ be learned. i The State penitentiary's blocd| hounds were not employed to trail j the negro, it was stated at the peni; tentiarv. Desnite the incentive of i'eretl by the rewi of $200 Governor Blease will pay ur his recapture, the negro had successfully covered every trace of his flight- from the officers or the law, it was asserted. This is one of rbe rare known escapes from t^e asylum, where more than 1.000 demented persons are confined. according to last reports of t'.at i institution's officials. i <iOV. KLKASK TELLS I A BO IT HiS YIKWS I ! Jiiease l iiat the (ieneral Assein- j !>!} Should Have Done as He Asked It. I ? i fiftv Ri.^risp Sjturdav save out j the following statement in reference | j to the borrowing of $100,000 to $150,- ' j 000 more money for general expenses: j In my general message to t):e extra ! I session of t. e legislature?in fact, one | Jo the very principal reasons for iv 1 I 1 j cal;mg them together?Avas to carry , ; out a recommendation to extend the j time for the payment c. raxes and to l provide for the incoming administrai . i tion to borrow a sufficient amount or money to run the State government, in order that said extension might be granted the people. In a verbal message delivered to them on my return l'rom the Memphis conference and in several written messages during their session I urged w th all my heart the ( passage of these t.v/o measures and r I i ad prepared in my office ancf intro- : dueed by Mr. 'Summers of Anderson bills looking to this end. The extra :] session did nothing along this line. , A large majority of the body, both 3 ilOUSe ailU Stiicilt;, >\<as ?u uiift.j and .Blease. Therefore, they ignored all , t'..e requests and suggestions I made in reference to these matters and left the people in a helpless and pitiful (Condition. 1 knew this relief should ( be given; I know our financial condi- ] tion, and I knew what it was going to j be later?just as I set out in those ( .various messages?still toe legisla ture, playing cheap politics, refused t .to take any actioru They refused to extend the time ior the payment off f taxes; they refused to make arrange- j} .ments for the borrowing of money, f except to provide thai tne sinking j fund commission should borrow a!, .certain amount to pay' the extra ses- j j sion appropriations. j:J I declined to meet with the sinking j j fund commission to borrow this | < money because I think (! per cent was ] absolutely excessive and if the ' < Jegislature had not forced through j ; what I considered a most outrageous li] .ac? but allowed t?.:e bill to take '"si] 20-day course, as provided by law, we j i could have borrowed this money < .within that time at a very .much lower 1 rate of interest. In view of these ?< matters. I "wrote Mr. Carter the fol- < lowing letter: j "Columbia, November 17, 1914. < "Hon. S. T. Carter, State Treasurer. Columbia, S. C. y 1 "Dear Sir: Your note of Xo>ember * IT, 1914, received. ! "In repjy I beg to state that i am 1 absolutely opposed to borrowing any 1 .more money for the State of South 1 Carolina because I deem it absolutely ' unnecessary and an extravagant ex- [ penditure in the payment of interest. ! 1 "I recently vetoed an act of the leg- !' I t slature, which, in ray opinion, was !1 -clearly in violation oi the oaths o the ; 1 i . members. They passed it over my.j< veto and I understand i' e linking M fund commission has p?i4 as I igh j * rate of interest as 0 per cent, by v:r-j; tue of that act. 1 refused to be a party to that, and 1 think every man j 1 who took part in it *.iolared the oath :;] r. at lie took w en he assumed the,' duties ol' the office he was filling. 1' i * '1 "1 do not propose to meet with your 1 .borrowing committee, or tiie sinking; ! fund commission during the re-: irainder of my term as governor and j ( !shr.ll, and do now, enter my protest j J against any action of the borrowing (1 jcommitttee or the sinking fund com- ] ! mission. I do not believe that we ^ 1 have a legal sinking fund ccmmission.il The act making the chairman of the 1; i finance committee of t e senate and ft'Ve chaiman c' t e ways and means ] >er<mmittee o ;he house members o;' ; ; that commission. as cldovers ;s j deary in violation of the constitution of t is State and without those i i two members there can be no legal | action of the sinking fund commisj sion as there will not be a quorum . 1 present. 1 am satisfied that the ex! travagance on the part of the mem- ' I bers of t e general assembly and the , | |tier failure on ti.ie part of others to j ; do their duty to the people of this i State has caused the trouble of which i ; you speak. I am in no manner re| sponsible for it and I do not propose ! to carry their burdens. I pleaded ! with the general assembly, at is exi j tra session, to extend the time for | the payment of taxes because of the I terrible financial crisis now upon our , people. They refused to heed my request. I also p eaded with teem to make arrangements 10 borrow money to financc the State under t'.e exiencv. They assain re used \o heed my request and I do not now propose to take upon my shoulders the responsibi'ity of relieving them of their dereliction of duty to their people and utter disregard cf t'.eir oaths and their tvoufnnnA.-t' , r? unrfArnutur o naiHUXUJ^iSO in jn.uv;i a duty to the 'people whose servants they were. "Therefore, you need not c">unt upon me at your meting:' ! ' r will 1 sign any paper unless you borrow t e money at at least as low a rale of interest as 3 per cent. "Very respectfully, "Cole. L. Blease. "Governor." 1 notice <\'r. .]'4ies and Mr. Career say thai ihcy are going to ask for 1 m .'1 r? T f t'Q y> r\ nliiAr?ti An ij iu.1. una i uci*c uv u ujt^uun. * notice Mr. .Jones says ihat ae will pay out no morp school money unless this ; money is borrowed. A very nice suggestion to >uiir money lender?out ' your bids as high as you please?we need t;e money for the schools?-we : ire obliged to ha.e it?you need not make a low bid?but make it as high ! as you want?t. e State needs the j money to run er schools. I also see! mplied in this remark a threat that : f the governor does not take part n the loan that the responsibility for j closing the schools will be upon his ! lead but tliat is a mistake. If the; people do not want their schools' jlosed. all that tsey will have to do! kvill be to pay tJheir taxes to the couny treasurers. The county treasurers | '/ill send it to the Stace treasurer and :here will be sufficient amount of j noney to run the government and the j schools without borrowing a dollar.; [i the people do not pay t'.:eir taxes j md the schools should be closed, t'rej esposibility will be with those who j ailed to pay and not with those who J 'ailed to borrow at an exorbitant rate : :;f interest. And, 1 repeat, I shall lave absolutely nothing whatever to ]o with t'.:e borrowing of this money i ind s all not put my name on any j paper. Therefore, if the people do' not want their schools to close, let i :hem pay their taxes. If it is a hard- | ship upon them to pay their taxes, let i :hem curse the men they ejected and j sent to the legislature and not t'::e j governor, "for he certainly did his part | rr/vf f V* A\v? f A nail AAfl _ I .It llJMlJLg IU SCL IUC11I W Itlltlt j virions and they refused to do. so.. Vow, if t e people will pay their taxes, the schools will run on, the government will run on and these same taxpayers will be saved paying more exorbitant interest on $100,000, 3r $150,000 loan. If they don't do it, 4- ". ? ?.A.-rvAnc.iKt1iMr rr r\ - Vi O ~ Ck it 1 iCl IHC 1 C3?/Lriioi uiii i y ?? i11 uv longs. There is quite a difference between .lie borrowing of money now and the j I jorrowmg o.:' money m May or June ; jec-ause, in May or June, fere were r.o taxes to collect and t .e people :ould not relieve the situation at that j :ime. Now. it is absolutely unneces- j si' rv 10 utin i mc yo-j > ind as i'. e legislature said that they j ivouId not extend the time, I see no i t /tdress for the suffering people but j or them to obey the mandate of the J legislature or suffer the result. I at- j :empted to avoid this but was not al? owed to do so. T/nie to Help tlie Merchant. Greenwood Journal. We have been having line upon line about helping other people over financial rough places, on account of :he European war, and t':e merchant iias been forced to do his part and a ire-it deal more than ''..is part. He > lias had to do it, whether he wanted j ;o do it or not, and regardless of Lis j ability to stand the strain. Now, we think that the time iias j mine when there should be some-j thing said about relieveing the mer- j chant. He has oobligations ro meet! j'.nd 1 i' must meet them or go to the ! wall, it is not right that he should be lield up. and embarrassed, as he j must inevitably be. unless re gets j what is iustlv and honestly due him 1 I ?(much of it long past due. He can j not pay, unless he is paid. It is all well enough to he'd one's produce foi* righer prices if the owner can c7n so without pressing and ruining people who 'nave indulged him. But we submit that no creditor has a right to hold back any tiding when | he is bound to so^;^ one else. The facts are. it does rot l^elong to him*. | Cotton fo'nned Prior to November 1, I Crops of II) 1 i and 1913, ;n South CaroI/na. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census W'm. J. Harris, Director Washington. ' I Win. .1. Harris, director of the cenI j sus. department o: commerce, an! nounces the preliminary report of cot; ton ginned by counties in South Car- j ' olina for the crops of 1914 and 1913. ! The report was made public for the ' ' State at 10 a. ni. on Monday, So- I vember U. The amounts ror tne au[ ferent counties for the crops o 1914 , and 1913 are furnished for publicai tion in tt..e local papers. j. (Quantities are in running bales, i | counting round as half bales. Lintres :are not included). I ; i County 1914 1913 ' A! beviile 20,746 19,439 j I Aiken 33,275 33,676 ! Anderson 35,776 43,804 . Bamberg 20,374 20,065 Barnwell 44,123 39,222 Beaufort 5,002 4,261 Berkeley 10,015 7,923 Calhoun 20,458 16,969 j Charleston 6,943 6,660 Cherokee 9,163 10,577 Chester 21,375 19,728 Chesterfield 21,442 20,047 parendon 34?074 26,675 Colleton 15,129 12,994 Darlington 26,714 . 20,785 Dillon 23,959 20467 < Dorchester 12,336 11,110 Edgefield 21,016 21,372 Fairfield 13,920 15,411 j Florence 27,206 26,764 n ) Qfl4 1 11 v | Greenville 26,717 23,803 , Greenwood 19,933 17,867 , Hampton 16,266 13,885 , Horry 4,972 4,276 ( Jasper 4'.713 4,381 , Kershaw 18.440 16,410 Lancaster 12,749 14,241 Laurens 23,891 26,60o Lee 27.594 23,921 , Lexington 16,204 16,570 Marion 8,902 10,204 Marlboro 39,584 29,723 Newberry 20,291 22,899 . Oconee 9.971 10,901 Orangeburg 56,112 n2,499 Pickens 11,521 9,298 Ric':.land 16,8S4 14,704 Saluda 15,064 15,923 Spartanburg 42,226 41,051 o?q- Ann 9? SQQ OUXI1LCI ?v,vv. Union 10,344 11,441 Williamsburg 22,850 15,270 York 24,028 24,641 Total 910,611 846,468 Reedy R/ier Association. T'/e union meeting of the Reedy River association will 'be held with the Enoree Baptist cr.urch Xovember 28-29 1914. with the following programme: Saturday, November 28. 10:00 a. m.?Devotional service by the paster. W. E. Furcron. 10:15 a. m.?Organization. 11:00 a. m,-?Sermon by G. T. Asbill, or J. M. Trogden. 2:00 p. m.?What's the relationship between the home, the Sunday school and the cuireh??E. Pendleton Jones, ' W. H. Wallace, T. P. Davis and W. 1 H. Long. 3:00 p. m.?The aim of State mis- . sions, by J. Dawson Bowen or T. H. Garrett. f 3:30 p. m.?The orphanage, by J. S. Dominick. G. C. Riser and ;W. H. Hunt. ^inn/?nv- \nvpmliPr 29 10:00 a. m.?Devotional, by G. Y. , Dickert. 10:15 a. in.?The problems that confront the Sunday schools, by J. L. Langford and .1. T. Whitmire. !!:00 a. m.?-Sermon, ov J. X. Booth. ! 2:00 p. m.?The relationship oetv/een education and Christianity, by G. C. Riser. W. H. Wallace and W E. Furcron. 2:30 v. m.? How s'ould a church member live, by ,1. S. Doniinick, T. P. . 13avis and other: Every body cordially invited to attend t':.e*se services. i i F/re ;n the County. | )n Saturday afternoon bout 2 o'clock the house of Mr. T. W. Keitt's place in No. 3 township was destroy- j e:l by lire. The fire caught from the j I 1 roof, and was accidental. Tr.e house . was insured but (Mr. Adams had no i i insurance and lost practically all he had. ? wiinrnnnMm THE JOLLY STREET SCHOOL F/ite Exercises ;md Much Interest At Exerc/ses Commemorating Completion of New Bu/ld/ng. The addition of the school biulding at Jolly Street, which was madnQ/^AOCOrTr O f ^ A + V\?r V * - uv^vtuai j auci llJC 111 Ok JfCClI uy V' V increased attendance and the necessity of employing three teachers, wa.. completed sometime ago and tht school opened. The trustees, patron' and teachers desired to celehratr t?e occasion with a public meeting ami with the presence of the State superintendent of education, the county sr. perintendent and the county supervising teacher. Last Friday was the da; for the event. It was cold and a strong, north eastern was blowing but tU school spirit in that community is so strong that such little thinrs as these ccol winds' could not cool their ardor or keep them away from the meeting. /T? e exercises began in the morning about 11 o'clock in the presence o: 'Practically all o: the patrons of the district. State superintendt of education Swearingen was present and made an address, complimenting the county superintendent and the people of the community upon the wonderful progress w:ich they had made. Hon. C. T. Wyche was also present and' made a congratulatory speech to the people, in which he told them tha: during tee past summer he had held that community up as an ideal of w.at could be accomplished in every school district in Newberry county. An intermission was then had for dinner and though it was a little chilly an elegant picnic dinner was enjoyed on the school grounds. In the afternoon at the earnest request of the people of the community and the principal of the school Mr. E. H. Aull made a talk reviewing the history which led up to the movement for the establishment of the rural graded school in that community. He gave credit to Miss Lizzie Hawkins for the work which she did in helping the people of the community to discover the school house and in creating tue school spirit and in showing the people what they could -cc-omplish. Superintendent Brown, also made a talk. This is now one of the best rural graded sc.ools in the county and th^ only one of the rural schools with three teachers and it has grown in two years from a little crowded uncomfortable building with one teacher to a commodious two-story four room building, with cloak rooms ami all modern conveniences and three tea<' ers. This school will prove a great factor in hie growth and devel epment and uph.t of this community. There are now enrolled about 100 children. The teae ers are Mr. D. L. Wedaman, principal, Misses Mae Amick and Lottie Lee Hail3ere, assistants. The school spirit has taken possession of tlie people and greater interest may be expected in the future: In connection with the school the district owns two acres of land, the gi.t of Dr. 3. V. Hunter and his wife, o4" Prosperity, and has t'.e use of several acres throng, the generosity of [he same people, for farm demonstrate n worfl. It was the pleasure of the editor in company with Miss Fannie Hollo way, t e tomato club organizer for the county, to be present and enjjy and take part in the exercises last Friday. We wish the people o.? this community even greater success and at all timps stan-' ready to help. aid and encourage them in tv ?ir gooc work. Crosses of Honor. Any Confederate veteran or descendant of veteran, wishing to secure a Cross of Konor will please procure an application blank at once so that it may bo filled out and sent in to the ~7?? x + ? a t a li o t'n tlia nrnc ' Uiiiipitl ill lliiiC LU ua>t luv, ready :or bestowal on Lee's birthday, January 19, 1914. The little bronze cross, which eloquently tells that you have served your country well, will be a priceless legancy to your descendants, and tne j Daughters of the Confederacy count A it a privilede to bestcw it upon you. The blanks bhould be filled out and returned to me by December 15th. Mrs. J. H. W":st, .;[j( President Drayton Rutherford Cbap-^B||S?