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TEUTONS' H Dl Terrific Attacks North or Paris Denies Break in Lint portance in Other The F Inspired by presence of the emperor ai.u icU uy liu'un rrincc 1< retlerick William, German troopsare engaged in one ot tne greatest battles of the war on the Western front centering around the tortress ol* Verdun. Attack has fol1 * ' TTVoriMi Imp. u i. iowtru aiUll'N agauwi l?iv j. 4.A.N, v.. ttr bombardments incessant and territic, continuing for sevral days. While the Germans have not been able, despite the rain of shells and fu i rious onslaughts by the infantry, to break the French line, nevertheless the French on their right and left wings have been compelled to withdraw their line? respectively to the south of Ornes and behind the town of Samogncux. six miles north ot the fortress. Only between Malancourt and the left bank of the Meuse has there been any diminution in the intensity of the artillery fire. With Brabant, Haumont and Samogneux ani the wooded sections north and northeast of Beaumont in their possession, the Germans from the Meuse eastward to Fromezey are forcing the fighting, seemingly regardless of the cost of life. Tne French guns have answered the German guns shell for shell and casualties on both sides are very great. The French official report describes the battle field between the Meuse and Ornes as piled with German dead. In Champagne at several points, and in the Argonne forest German works have been pounded by the concentrated RURAL CREDIT LEGISLATION STORY OF AN IMPORTANT BILL THAT WAS LAID ON THE SHELF BY WAY OF COMMISSION ROUTE Anderson Farmers Tribune. Senator Sherard's rural credits bill has been killed, and I am sorry because it was a good bill, in the interest of the people, and in the interst of general prosperity. I hold no brief from Senator Sherard to eulogize this bill, or to commend ;:iim for his splendid efforts in behalf of it; but I will not allow Senator Sherard or any other man, even Governor Manning, to go further in trying to promote the real welfare of the t people than I am willing to go. Sen- j <tlUl Oiivi di U n?c1\JLK, <1 ?WU 11511k, cwaw j i take pleasure in conceding the fact. This rural credits proposition is the last word in constructive legislation, so far as the needs of this country are concerned. and every liberal, broadminded, true hearted man in South Carolina who will take the trouble to study it. will give it his support. There can be no opposition to it except in the narrow, selfish interst of skinflints who have never realized an income except from the sweat and blood of honest, earnest and unsuspecting productive labor, and whose narrow perspective will not en able them to see that there is any other way of getting an income. Xo, I am not bitter. I am not narrow, and in this I am not unfairly one-sided. It is true that there are two sides to every question; but as to this rural credits question, there i\ only ore right .side, and that is the side I am on. There are professing conservatives, "who say that this proposition is radical, wild and chimerical. Of course j 'that is not argument, and I am not thinking of trying to answer it with argument. I will answer it in kind by saying pshaw !?rats !?rot! I am al- : most indignant enough to say "damned ; tie!" In the supreme court room in the j capital one nigh? a few weeke ago, I I heard Joiin L. McLaurin make the most j earnest, reasonable and logical spec?... J I ever listened to. Among other things ; he said that only 13 per cent of the j farms of Great Britain were owned by men who worked them while 85 per | cent of the farmers of France and 90 j 'per cent of the farmers of Germany j owned their own farms. That, he said, j *was the principal reason of the military! strength of Germany compared with 1 "Prance, and the military strength of 1 * ?^4- "Dnf'jin I 3?"rance as compared wiui , iBrave, intelligent people who own the ^soil, love it, and thrice strengthened on their arms to fight for it. Both Ger-; many and France, France following after Germany, have brought about th*?. tremendous proportion of independent, ownership of farms through their sys- j terns of rural credits. Great Britain, re-1 'lying upon navies bought with concen- [ trated wealth, and holding in contempt j Ki-vnA and sinew of the masses that li*V? WVMV feeds the idle mouths of the aristocratic 4 AMMER BLO ZNT THE FRE Verdun Force Republic's Trc ts?Losses Said to Have Been \atres of War9 Through Usual ? - - - ? mm rench Make Air Kaid on Met; force of the French guns, while in Lorraine the French repulsed a German re- { connoitering party which attempted to j capture a French post north of St. Mar- ; tin. On their end of the line, near Hul-! luch, the British exploded a mine and [ occupicd the crater and also bombarded German trenches near Frelinghien , 1 and Boesignhe. On the Russian front from the Riga 1 region to East Galacia, there have been ; engagements at various points but no I great results have been attained by ; either side. In the Caucasus, Petrograd reports that the Russians continue successfully ! to press back the Turks. The usual activities by the Austrians and Italians on the Austro-Italian front continue. A French air squadron has dropped a large number of bombs on the outskirts of Metz, a big fire being observ-, ed after the attack. Official announcement has been made in the Japanase diet by the minister of foreign affairs that Japan does not intend to send troops to aid the Russians, j The Earl of Derby has accepted the | chairmanship of the joint army and navy board which will control the British air service. After the men of the German prize ! crew on board the captured British steamer Westburn had landed their prisoners on the Canary islands they took the 'Westburn outside the harbor i I classes, has done nothing to uplift ami i improve the condition of her farmers. I i iThat was only a part of what Mr. < McLaurin said. In painting his pic- j ture he brought in a wealth of detailed 1 facts and figures that held his hearers; i spell-bound, and I was in that class. He ' carried me into realms where I 'had ' 1 >ieevr strayed before, and showed me ; old truths in a new light. As I was com- i < ing to myself I felt the same sensation J as when coming out from under the j convincing power of "Cyclone Mack," ; j and as I looked about I saw scores of < others as intent and motionless as if ] in a trance. Evident!} they had been \ my fellow travelers to the shrine of < truth, and had not yet found themselves I on their return. ! ; The opposition to rural credits comes j from men who think that the only way ; of getting" rich is by lending money at < usurious rates of interest and a certain < class of little bankers who fear that i rural credits would make money so j cheap that their slaves would quit work- ? ing and they themselves would nave to t do their own grubbing. ' , I might have thought that once, but 1 listen at McLaurin : 1 i "fWhy, gentlemen, I am land poor! > True, I paid a big price for my land, < and I hold it now at a high valuation, i just like my neighbors around me; but i suppose you would require me to make .I.. i 1 ?i._ ? uie legui rate ui unci cm uu wuujc m- 1 vestment by farming it. how would J do it? I cannot do it, nor can any other i large land owner in South Carolina do ( it. Why not sell it then? it may be ; asked. Who is going to buy it? Who I is able to buy it? 'There are plenty of ? men without either capital or credit who would like to buy it; but if I cannol r handle such?a'? proposition in a way thai t will pay interest, how can they handle it ( cn oe tiit- nrmrinMl nrul inter- c est?" These questions, of course, answer i themselves; but give us a rural credit t system?a system under which funds 2 may be provided by means of State c bonds. Put it in the way of a small ] r -.1 _ 1:^1 _ 1 1 ? iarmer wun a nine capiuu iu uuv u i small piece of land of value proportion 1 ed to his earning capacity. Let the c man have a low rate of interest and c privilege of paying a certain fixed pro- t portion of the principal each year for t twenty of thirty years. I^et his land be r security for the bonds issued against it, c and there be proper provision for get- t ting the payments and see what will hap- c pen. f "Why, under a system like this. Mc- g Laurin's big plantation will be cut up among a hundred small owners, in the c aggregate value of all of those -holding t will be increased to twice what McLau- ' rin would take for the whole thing i in cash today. Not only would it be 5 so with McLaurin but it would be so e here in Anderson county and through- r out the State. : t, That is what rural credit means, and ' j give us small farmers owning their 1 ; own farms, instead of hopeless, dis- i couraged tenants?hundreds of them? ws :nch fronl ) ops to Withdraw Wings? Heavy?Little of Real ImActivities Continue. 5. of Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, and sank her, according to a Santa Cruz dispatch. 'The crew is believed to have been from the German sea raider which captured the British steamer Appam. .An unexpected development is reported from Lisbon, where 36 German and Aus trian vessels in the Tagus river were seized yesterday by the commander of the Portuguese. The commander hoisted Portuguese colors and saluted them with a salvo from the Portuguese fleet. Portugal, although not in a state of war with the central powers, is in close treaty relations with Great Britain and the Portuguese congress long ago voted to coperate with alies whenever that step seemed necssary. A bottle containing last message from the captain of the German Zeppelin L-i<; which was wrecked in the North sea after the recnt airship raid on Eng land, has been picked up. The final message said that the air ship had dropped into the sea and that the crew was drowning. Germany is reported to have secured a second contract for 100,000 carloads of Roumanian grain and to have entered into other commercial engagements in Roumania. Emperor Nicholas, after attending the opening session of the Russian duma, j has reported to the front. The death of Admiral Hugo von J Plml who had inst retired from com- I inand of the German battle fleet, is announced in Berlin. md watch how not only the stores, the railroads, banks and every other kind business will flourish. Yes I have watched the progress of lie debate on this bill with tremendous ! nterst; but with faint hope. When Senator Arthur Banks got be- i lind it, I knew it had a powerful friend. Maybe, raider, you don't know this Senator Banks; but I know him. He s a rare, rare, jewel, and there are but few of his kind. He is worth a quarter niliion dollars; but reader, .don't be:ome incredulous! He made it himself, lonestly and honorably by the hardest | and of licks. In all his life he never soiled his hands with a usurious penny, md in all South Carolina there is not i man who has a deeper or more abidng love for his State or his fellow man. t once read of Senator Banks being quoted as saying to a friend on the steps of the State house: "The poor nan does not stand any more chance lere than a yellow dog." I had no personal acquaintance with the senator :hen, and as such words are so often | ased by demagogues, I did not know; | 3ut since then I have seen more of him, md I have come to know that when Senator Banks gets behind any kind of i measure, the bone and sinew and the real -hopes of South Carolina are being represented. Well, Senator Banks was behind this neasure, and for a time it looked as if t wer going through. The element that s intersted in keeping the poor man jown to his humble work of ditching md the like became truly alarmed. It j ooked like the rural credits bill was j i joing through. ' But after all, the expected happened. The senate was really not in favor of his thing, any more than it was in favor )f the warehouse law; but it did not lare kill it openly. Not long ago I printed an editorial n which I described newspaper condiions in Lancaster county. There is not i county in the State in which the fartn rs have suffered more than those of j Lancaster. They began shortly after [ he war raising crops on the ruinious ien system, and they kept it up until a lozen of more ''business men" of Lanaster \^ere the holders of nine-tenths of he wealth of the county, and a more ruly selfish and narrow crowd I know j lothing about. I told how this crowd ! ?ven bought up the newspapers so as j :o control the very sources of intelligence upon which the farmers were de;endent for information as to what is foing on in the outside world. itUia nnlv dode-e bv which the rural rredits biil was to be gotten rid of was J >y the old ''commission" dodge like this: | 'Well, gentlemen, this is a tremendously j mportent bill, calculated to be of great J .? to the Slite: but we must be J ixceciingly careful not to make any nliiake, and. in o.c'ci to be sure that' ve got it right. I move that we post- ; >one the whole tl irg until next session, i >n<i sppoint a commission to study it n the meantime." Of course, it was known that another i house and half the members of the senate are to be elected this year and there is plenty of chance that the next legislature will not even think of rural credits and the like. It was Senator D. 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