The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 04, 1919, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Tuesday, February 4, 19 IS.
"When all is said and done, gamb- j
ling is the root of most of the cotton!
market evils."
This we believe is true. And if the t
government can stop the lottery and
the race track gamblers why can not'
it take a hand and stop this gambling
in a staple crop of the country which
is necessary to the human race.
There is a shortage of the crop i
everywhere. It is stated that at the
present time the stock in Liverpool is!
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*1 million OcilfS umuw VVllUl It, r> Ci-J u
year ago and there is a shortage every-j.
where else in Europe. And we have
heard that the mills in the South had j
only a sufficient supply to run them for,
but a few months. The trouble is that!
it is gambling pure and simple that is
bearing the market down as it has
gone, it is aamutea mat mere is a
shortage of cloth all around.
The only recourse we see for thej.
cotton farmer is to reduce the acre/
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age the present year and hold on to;
the cotton that he still has until the
speculator and the others in sympathy!
with him is made to realize that thej
farmer is master of the situation andj
is going to control it.
It may be a good thing for the pricej
to remain down for the next sixty
.days because it will keep a lot of
farmers from planting a big crop and:
buying heavily of fertilizer. But if
the crop that is now on hand is forced
to sale at present prices it will al-1
most cause financial ruin to the South..
There was hazy weather on February
2 but there was sufficient sun-,
shine for the ground hog to see his
shadow so we may expect some winter
weather in February. The fact is the
biggest snow we remember was late in
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Pebruary in 1899. And it was somej
cold weather at that time. I
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The legislature has completed three
weeks of the usual six weeks session.
Nothing done yet and it is well. The
least done the better for the good of
the .State.
The successful land sale pulled off ,
here Jast week bv Mr. Dozier only ,
shows what can be done by a man who ,
knows his business and then goes and
does things. Several efforts had been
made to sell this land and for less by ,
considerably than half of it brought at ;
this sale. And the people who bought ,
have good bargains The great thing ']
is to know how. 11
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Give Us Larger Service.
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The Newberry postoffice contains a J
good set of men, competent and acrKmmn^atinjr
hnt tho fr>rr?p ic Tint
large enough and doubtless is over- ,
"worked at times. The building is one
of the finest in the State and Newberry
is large and important enough
to have the very best service. A too
limited force cannot of necessity giye
that service. The public demands
should be obeyed. The government is
rich enough to give us what we want.
There is no fault to be found with the
men here, but we need more men. A
man is needed to stav at the stamn
window and one at the money order
window, etc., and another for night
work to distribute the night Cannon
Ball mail, which traveling men at the
hotej and some of the citizens want
to got when it comes. Business men
don't have time to wait for stanjps and
to send money orders and registered
letters. Business accumulates ana
people wait while everybo.lv in the
office is busy distributing the mails.
It is not the fault of me men there;
it is the fault of the "men higher up."
AS TO FUEL.
The following letter has been received
by the Newberry County Fuel
Committee: J
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xiiid uini/7 10 in xcv/tipt kjl xvi
; * lowing order from Washington, which
is self-explanatory:
" 'Dr. Garfield announced today that
all zone and price regulations on coke
and coal, oxcept Pennsylvania anthracite,
will be suspended February 1st.
This refers to mine prices, wholesalers
margins, purchasing agents' commission
and retail margins and prices.'
"Pl.ease give this to your county
papers and notify all your dealers.
"Yours very truly,
"B. E. Geer, |
"Federal Fuel Administrator for S. C.'!;
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Miss Marie Epting and Mr. Floyd j
Pi its were married by the Rev. L. P. I
lioland on Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock, at the residence of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Epting,
of tbe Tranwood neighborhood.
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RIGHTS OF STATES !"
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Mr. Caldwell Says Disaster for South
Will Follow Adoption of Worr.an {
Suffrage Amendment.
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We read that tlie women 01 .ueinnos
once murdered all the men on the
island, except perhaps one. They had
great provocation, for the men had discarded
them. A milder revenge on ns
who oppose woman suffrage has been
suggested by a lady?our banishment,
when her sex gets into power. I was
disquieted until I bethought me of a
possible refuge at Mount Athos, in
Greece, whose peaceful precints, we s-s-vsl
Tiorl navi5T? hoon in.
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vaded by the female human foot for
more than 500 years. I must inquire
if that is still the condition.
It is hard to imagine what those
women would do, if they had power,
since they have burned all of President
Wilson's speeches,, which, of
course, includes his vehement appeal
to the senate to adopt the woman suffrage
resolution and his similar urging
in his farewell to congress. Since
they have thus treated their ardent, j
persistent, importunate ally and advo-'
cate, what will they do witfr Senator
Pollock, if he votes against them,,
after eating their victuals and receiv- 5
ing their caressing flattery? Burn
him, I conjecture, as well as his;
SDeeches.
The leading women of that party
look to be positively obsessed. They
lobby persistently, they pester unceasingly,
they practice disorderly public
demonstrations, they raise large sums
of money (can it be to buy their way
through?) and now they have a great
banquet, on the Sabbath day, in compliment
to a senator who has DpU at
least openly, aligned himself on their
side. If that is not an attempt* to
bribe, I have been misled by the defi
nitidis of those terms. And if he has
secretly committed himself to their
support, it is a kind of payment which
no representative of the people should
accept, and no self respecting persons
should offer.
Nobody expects anything fair, just
or rational of the Catt-Shaw-Paul element;
but the obstinate persistence of
good women in the South is as incomprehensible
as it is lamentable. They
seem to have decided that we men who
pppose woman suffrage are eijjemies
who wish to deny them a right;
whereas, as all men know who know
us, we honor and care for woman
assiduously and devotedly. And what ,
do they think of the tens of thousands
of Southern women who unite with us
In opposing woman suffrage? Are they '
besotted slaves, or traitors to their
sex, or silly triflers? They are wise ,
as they are noble in refusing to ex- \
change their throne of spiritual and .
beneficent sway for a scramble in the
Serbonian bog of political and public
me. i invite compansuu ui mew wnu
the brawling seekers of notoriety and j
public office who lead the deluded suffragist
forces.
If the resolution for woman suffrage ,
is adopted by the senate of the United
States, and is ratified by three-fourths
of the^States, we shall not be allowed
to frame State laws to govern the-fran
chise, but shall be at the mercy of a'
majority in congress, who will be authorized
to enact laws to carry the
amendment of the constitution into
effect. A large majority of each house
of congress will always come from
States where there is no negro peril;
and they will represent constituencies :
who know little, and care as little, !or
less, about our trouble with that race, j
and themselves will be about as igno-:
rant and indifferent. And there will
be a socialist element in future con-|
gresses who are for abolishing all sex}
ana ra^.e discriminations, ana aiso an
avowedly negro favoring element. The
majority of negro women 21 years of;
age, over white women of like age,.in
South Carolina, is 25,000 or more. And
is it conceivable thaf negro men will
be kept disfranchised when their women
vote? The 15th amendment of
the constitution of the United States,
abolishing race discriminations, still
stands. The'- enfranchisement of
both sexes of that race will nroduce a
majority of negro voters over white
voters in South Carolina of at least
50,000. How shall we manage to prevent
that majority from ruling the
State? By force? Or by fraud? And i
the general enfranchisement of that
race, even in States where there is an
aggregate white majority, will enable
the negro voters to fill county offices
wherever they have the majority in
the county.
Nothing can save the South from
terrible disaster except the control of
the vote by each State within its ter-,
ritory. And yet som? Southern women,
and a few Southern men. demand
that this power be given to other
States, and to congress, and scoff at
State rights as a stale, obsolete
theory; State rights, declared by the
constitution of the United States, and
recognized to this hour by the supreme
court of the Union; State
rights, for which 300,000 Southern,
men gave their lives; State rights,
whose violation brought upon us all
the horrors and abominations of so- j
called reconstruction;.. State ie rigfets^'
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whose power enabled us to? rescue j
government from barbarous negroes j
and plundering carpetbaggers, and re- j
store decent and civilized administra-.
tion of affairs.
And with Strang inconsistency, our
suffragists claim for State, as States,
the right to force other States, while
denying the right of a State to defend
A ? DAmAWATIA
iiseii. AS oeuaiui i umcicuc oaiu,
after the State of Ohio has three times
voted against woman suffrage, they
propose that the 13 States which he
named, whose combined population is
less than that of the single State of
Ohio, shall fcave 13 times the freight
she shall have in determining whether (
Ohio shall have woman suffrage, or
not.
Our dear enthused suffrage ladies
refuse to hearken to argument, or to
the teaching of experience. They have
caught the glimmer of an ignis fatus,
a noison bred Jack-o'-lantern, and
tkey take it for the morning star, to
usher in a brighter day than we have
known, and despite all warnings of
the filth, and thorns, and dangers
which b^set. the course,of the false,
beacon.
"That tyrant, hope, mark how she
domineers.
She bids us quit realities for dreams;
Safety and peace for hazard and
alarm; I
And plunge m toils and dangers, ror
repose."
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' jit were well that our people be reminded
of the evils of the former reconstruction,
of the frequent collisions
throughout the State, of the bloody
riots ^t Hamburg, Cainhoy, Ellenton
and Laurens, of our having to defend
with our pistols at Newberry, a negro
voting our ticket against a mob of
Republican negroes, of the kukluxing
necessitated for our defense and the
consequent persecution of white men,
of the election of the basest negroes
to public offices, of the control of.the
legislature by as vicious negroes,! of
the perversion of justice by negro
juries, of the ignorant negro, J. J.
Wright, placed upon the supreme
bench of the State, of the turbulent
negro, W. J. Whipper, and the malefactor,
F. J. Moses, Jr., elected to the
circuit bench, of the prevalent exclusion
of decent white men from office,
of millions of dollars stolen, and of
the State saddled with a debt of other
Bullions. Isvthere any ground for supposing
that a negro majority, will acquit
themselves better in a second reconstruction,
for which this constitutional
amendment opens the door? ,
That race is now as resolute to rule as
were their predecessors, and much
more capable than they of close, grind-..
ing tyranny.
The suffragists seem to be dazzled
by a vision of great beatitude to follow
the success of their movement.
We opponents have such a vision, as .
?to employ Lord Chatham's language?"drew
King Priam's curtains
in the dead of the night, and showed .
bim the conflagration of his empire."
And our sense of duty says to each .
one of us, .as Cacciaguida to Dante,
"Make all thy vision known; for al- ,
though thy voice be disagreeable at
the first taste, it will furnish essential
nourishment when digested."
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"Tutta tua vision fa manifesta:
Che, se la voce tua sara molesta
Nel primo gusto, vital nutrimento
Lascerea poi quando sara digesta."
\ J. P. J. Caldwell, j
Newberry.
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FORMER MAYOR OF
SAMSON IS DEAD
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Y. J. Boozer Is Victim of "Flu" While1
Visiting Parents in South
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Samson, Ala., Jan. 9.?The entire
town was saddened when news reached
here of the death of former mayor
Y. J. Boozer, which occurred at the
home of his parents, Spartanburg. S.
C. Mr. Boozer will be greatly miss- j
ed in every avenue of life, not only in
Samson but in the surrounding country.
He was manager of Thos. N. Bak- j
er Lumber Co., of this place, whicL
position he has held since the organization
. of the company. He was an
active leader in the local Red Cross
work.
In his death the Baptist church has
sustained a heavy loss. He was a
junior deacon, and the superintendent
of the Sunday school. He was very
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jipHx'o in nnv wnrlc he undertook. He
was every ready to do more than his
part Of any thing that would be beneficial
to his church, his town or his i
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country.
He served one term as mayor of,
Samson, filling the position in a very
acceptable manner
About two weeks ago Mr. Boozer j
went to Spartanburg, S. C., to visit his i
parents. He was stricken with in-1
fluenza a few days after his arrival |
there and death resulted. Besides his
parents and other relatives he leaves
a wife and four small children.
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ills remains win <mivc ucic ivua;
and will be taken to Geneva for interment.
Sabscribe, to,Thd&^H told>6nd
HOW LAWRENCE M. KEITT DIED. t
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Heroism of a Famous South Caro-j
linian Recalled by a Veteran of
the Confederacy.
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(By 0. G. T.)
The notice of the death of Miss j
Anna Keitt recalls the tragedy of!
Cold Harbor and the glorious bearing !
and fall of Colonel Keitt. The writer
had reached home at the time, having
been furloughed on account of severe
wounds received at Spottsylvania j
Court House on the Sth of May.
I spent the summer at home, but'
recall very distinctly the principal !
events of the campaign from the ;
Rapidan to the James. Grant crossed i
the Rapidan the night of the 4th* of;
May, 1864, with 147,000 men. Lee, not j
waiting for his antagonist to get into
the open country with his vastly su- j
"fnw/voo tlironr hie nnlnmno intn !
pCIIUi 1U1V,C-D, C AAIV" UIU Wium.w
the Wilderness and in two days of I
awful conflict, beat the army of the j
Potomac.
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Then followed the ten days' strug- j
gle at Spottsylvania Court House, beginning
the morning of the 8th of
May. Baffled and beaten by the superior
leadership and fighting of the
Confederates, again Grant and Meade
withdrew from Lee's front and sought
to pass by his right toward Richmond.
Again Lee showed to great advantage
over his adversary by drawing him
into a position at the North Anna
River, where he could not give battle
and escape the certainty of defeat.
Once more, resorting to his flanking
tactfcs, Grant marched his forces to
Cold Harbor, there to find Lee again
across his track. It was here that,
two years before, the right of McClellan's
great army was beaten and j
DroKen up. mis neia now Decame uie
scene of one of the bloodiest tragedies
of the great war between the two
great sections of the American Union.
The fighting was heavy on the 1st and
2nd, but it was in the early morning
of the 3rd day of June that Grant assaulted
with an immense force, in
which he lost 12,500 in 30 minutes,
from a force of about 100,000. It is [
doubtful if the annals of war show a j
greater proportionate loss in such a j
brief length of time.
So crushing had been the repulse j
and so ghastly the tragedy that when
orders were given by the Union commander
to renew the attack, the
troops flatly refused to move and
merely opened fire where they lay.
Hancock, Smith and others of division
and corps commanders refused to
repeat that order to their troops.
A section of the line was known as
the "Kershaw' Salient." Kershaw was
then commanding a division. The old
brigade originally composed of the
Second, Third, Seventh and Eighth
Regiments, until the -autumn of 1862,
following the battles of Sharpsburg
and South Mountain, when the Fifteenth
Resiment and Third Battalion
were attached to the brigade and during
this campaign was, I think, commanded
by Gen. John Kennedy and
others. It was on this field that the
Twentieth South Carolina Regiment,
led by Col. Lawrence M. Keitt, joined
the old brigade.
This regiment was fresh from the
coast of South Carolina, had seen little
of active service' and with full
ranks had perhaps something like a |
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(.uuuaauu men. i uc uuja ^an&u n i
Keitt's Corps.
I think it was on the 3rd that Colo-1
nel Keitt, on horseback, I think, led
the brigade in a desperate charge and
was killed under circumstances of
great gallantry. He had been greatly
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distinguished in civil life, having
served as a member cf the lower house
of congress prior to the war and also
the lower house of the Confederate
congress. He was an ardent disciple
of State rights and when the crucial
period came, in the relation between
the two great sections, stood for separate
State action. On this field he,
along with thousands no less brave
and loyal, sealed with his blood his
devotion to duty and to country.
The three days' fighting at Cold Harbor
closed the campaign from the
Rapidan to the James. On the night
of the 12th of June Grant pulled away
from Lee's front and taking a route
farther eastward and crossing the
Pamunkey and the James, set before
Richmond and went to ditching.
A month's awful slaughter in which
1 1 a 1 i A AAA ~ C 1 1 n AAA
ne naa lost oir.uuv out ui ineu, i
a number very nearly equal to Lee's
army at the beginning of the campaign,
had convinced the Union commander
that he must adopt other
methods than direct assault against
the incomparable infantry of the Armyof
Northern Virginia.
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ALL U. S. BOYS HEROES.
Taking for his subject, ''All U. S.. J
Boys Are Heroes," Peter Rice, colored,
of Newberry, a member of the- ^flj
American Expeditionary Forces, com- 'MBA
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A:though we are tired and. weary, MH|
Although we are wearied and sad, flSB
Yet we are holding up for our. country ^B9
As we did in 1812. ?9
This war was called the- greatest V
That ever has been known, 9
But the U. S. boys won the victory,
And brought the bacon home:
Hear the band a-playing,
Hear the bovs how they are singing; jHH
see tnem marcmng straigni in line; . / m
Victory must be on behind. ' k i
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Listen to that melodious music,
That filling in my ears.
May the Stars and Stripes wave forever,
O'er the land of Victory.
Down in Chateau Theirry.
It was on the 4th of July
When the boys went over the top;
You should have^heard the'cannon
That were roaring all around. J
General Pershing gave out his orders,.
And Foch he held his ground,
The U. S. boys were winning ,
From the enemy all around.
The flashing of the cannon,
And the roaring of the guns
Made me think the army
Was something more than fan.
Many U. S. boys were fallingr^ 1 .
But how the Huns did flee, J
We inif bedf them back across the- ]
Marne,
And saved the gay Paree.
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