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Scot ind wrann -zn g, B. O' Bet ref, Co LOUIS APPELT, Editor. ill lat Wi Wednesday, June 6, 1894. rei av The voters should keep in mind 71 that the reform movement is pledged l to the calling of a constitutional con vention. Let the battle cry be, give us a new constitution and a better cr to Our editorial last week nominating ac Hon. James E. Tindal for Governor n4 has met with the approval of a num- ju ber of the newspapers throughout the w State, and we have not talked to a oc man but what has told us that in that editorial we voiced the sentiments of p] the people of this county. Governor Tillman was present at the opening of the Southern Inter State Immigration Congress last ai Wednesday in the city of Augusta, pi and in responding to the speech of n4 welcome, said: PI "It was well enough to invite people and ti capital from the outside, and all that came q would be welcome; but for every dollar of st outside capital the Southern people must expend ten of their own if they were in e earnest about desiring to build up the ZI South. The future of this section depends W on the efforts of our own people, and what b Southern farmers need most is an immi- . gration of ideas and intelligent agricultural a methods. Sonthern farmers would never 'I prosper as long as they spent six months in r4 the year trying to kill the grass in their d fields, and the next six in buying hy fro Maine and Northern States." b 0 In looking upon the shelves in some of our stores we notice they d contain canned goods from the van ous ceuning factories in this State. This is something new, or rather un til recently all of the canned goods consumed in these p4rts came from abroad. We are told that the cost of the neccessary machinery to run a anning factory is comparatively 0 small. Now what is to hinder such d an institution from being put up in Manning? Goods canned in Man ng would find a market as well as those canned in Barnwell or George- S town. Past experience has taught us &I our farmers cannot live and pay debts b on six cents cotton, and if they do not learn to get money from some 01 other product their lands will be cov ered with mortgages and destroyed M with debt. Upon a small investment a. canning factory could be put up in Manning and the surrounding coun try would derive the benefit. Who will start the project ? fo b The Aiken Times has chaaged its editorial management, but not its mode of trying to misrepresent Con- Cj greaman McLaurin. That paper, g together with a few others, for some reason would like to get McLaurin ont of the reform ranks, and we can: see no other reason than the fear of the senatorial contest that will come . up when Senator Irby's term expires. at The people throughout the State a' have watched with deep interest the b' faithful service McLaurin has render- ' ed in the lower branch of the national legislature, and it is making the Aiken Times tremble lest its idol, B Senator Irby will be retired, and the eloquent representative of .the sixth district called to take his place. We s do not know whether Mr. McLaurin al hisany ambition or desire to go the es aenabut we do know that were the people to place him there they would a have no cause to regret it. The w Alken Times says that "The Manning a -Times is trying in vain to stir ups a boom" for McLaurin. What non- ,6 sense Why should we be trying to.a stir up a boom for a man.who by his w works has proien himself to be what 0* -the people ask of a public servant. * McLaurin needs no booming from at newspapers the people are his boom- T ers and they will continue to boom C him regardless of the slurs from men and papers that have "'axes to grind." s, If the apers now sluring at McLau- si rin 'il truthfully show where he has' been untrue to his constituents the al people wi'll investigate the matter and tc call~ him to account, but they will not fi regard him unfaithful for not being -willing to sneeze when other people c -take snuff. They did not send him r ta congress to do that, and they are b proud of him because he has the h brain and manhood to speak out in meeting. With imposing ceremonies a mon ument was unveiled last Wednesday in Richmond in honor of Confederate n soldiers and sailors. A great crowd t attended and General Hampton wasb among the speakers. General Thos. . L. Rosser also spoke, and his remarks t< werein bad taste and will not be I -enthusiastically received by his fellow * soldiers. He said: o: "Comrades, when vou marched out in tc 1861 you were bouyed by hopeof the future. Now you have only the memory of the past. U The great principles which we fought forj have been defeated, but they are not dead. k We are now only an ambulance corps, but we are here to-day to do honor to the men who fell, for we love their memory as we love our God. The men who overran us remind me of the locusts which are now in- bi jesting portions of this State. They could se not whip us, but they devoured our sub- ec stance. 'lhe army that devoured us was an et army of substitutes. We killed all the sub- ar stitutes and the men whom they represent- re edi stopped at home and made money and now draw pensions. "I despise the man who gives United States money to a pensioner. This country can't stand when it makes one cit. se izen support another. I shall never vote st for a congressmn who is in favor of the di government pension. I will, say to Massa- C< chusetts, you pay your pensioners as Vir- ar ginia pays hers." g Gen Rosser thenl went on to say ni that the grand army of the republic j .was banded together to get pensions, K and if he had been at Birhmingham It he would have voted against the in rooiin to invite them to Atlanta. Heddnot want them to come to nichmiond. He continued: "Sometime aao we unveiled a monument tei to the greatest general who ever lived, to- us day we unveil a. monument to the greatest ps private soldier who over lived, and in time tai we will unveil a monument to the Presi-. be dent of the Confederate States. But we are th< mnocked atthe North, and will live to see mi the Yankee army march again through the wi South and pull down our monuments. I sti don't know what sort of stuff the rnsing gen- ter eration are made of, but if you and I are > liigthere will be bloodshed when that is on 'he Washington correspondent of A Piedmont Headlight should not plain when the opposition press E ulge in misrepresenting facts and their columns with all sorts of sational abuse about the armers after his last week's respondence. His letter was so t ad up with abuse of Grover Cleve- < 4 that those honestly differing I h the president will take this cor ipondent's statements with much ition. There is such a thing as rdoing, and the article referred to s very much overdone in our opin 2. We do not agree with the pres Bnt in all of his measures, especial his financial measures, and often iticize them, which we have a right do, but while we have the right to fier from him, we are not licensed manufacture lies about his per nal or private matters, and the wspaper that indulges in such, in res its cause and sooner or later ill be left by its readers for lack of nfidence in its utterances. Fight fair and square for your inciples and your opponents will ) bound to admire, if they cannot ,-ee, with your views. We have seen evidences recently nong the leaders of the republican rty in this county to take on a re wed activity in politics. What has -oduced this spirit among them at is time is mere conjecture. We iestioned a colored voter on this ibject but he was inclined to be amish, and after considerable quiz ng he said that the "poor buckra as running things now, and it won't B long before the rich buckra will k the nigger tW help them down the hite trash." The colored voters are gistering all over the State, and no )ubt their leaders are holding out ig inducementa to them with the ject, we believe, to get them or mized for the next presidential ecion, so that in case the national mocracy is overthro'wn the organ ers in this State will be able to con ol federal patronage. We have no lea of a repetition of the tactics of 390, because those that went into te scheme learned the utter folly of ying to defeat the nominees of the te democracy. A large majority the white people in this State may fer to an extent that will amount bitterness, but they never will per it tihe republicans to again become Alitical factors. The two factions in yuth Carolina are like the old man id his wife, they quarrel and fight, t when an outsider jumps in to ke sides they stop fighting each her and both fall aboard the strang -. The reformers and conservatives ay wrangle, but neither one- will lerate outside interference. How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward r any case of catarrh that cannot be cured ' Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cuzszr & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. eney for the last 15 years, and believe m perfectly honorable in all business isactions and financially able to carry I any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Wading Kinnan & Marvin, Wholessa Drggsts, Toledo. 0. Ha' arhCure is taken internally. tng directly upon the blood and mucous faces of the system. Price, 75c. per ttle. Sold by all druggists. Testimon l free. CUFt McLEOD) KILLED. B Was Robbleg a Store at Lamar and Was Shot While Trying .to Escape. Taun. 8. C.. May 31.-This morning at s'elok Coffy Mc~Leod, alias Will Thomas, la ilM~oaisJohn McLeod was ptured at this place. At 2.45 this morn g a light was discovered in the store of ,W. Mims by8. C. and B. F. Starr, who Ld been uplate to meet a train. They t to the store and saw therein a negro Ld reported the sme to three other young en, viz., E. B. Turner, J. W. Smith and B. Jordan. all of whom proceeded to the are They found the back door open and ole picked in the brick wall through ich the robber went. They rushed in him through the back'door and ordered n to throw up his hands and surrender, ereupon he made a demonstration and rted towards the party. Then E. B, irner opened fire on him, the negro still lvancing. Turner shot again, and finding cartridges exhausted, he went out the ik door followed by the negro. J. W. nith, who was outside the door, fired one. Lot and the negro ran oft to a patch of sods with his bundle he had packed in o store, wforth some $50, pursued by the ove named parties, who gave the alarm the citizens of Lamar who turned out in tl blast and surrounded the woods and ipt watch until day. Then they scoured Le woods and succeeded ib finding the lprit in a ditch badly wounded. He sur ndered as soon as commanded to do so ' G. W. Stith. who was tbe first to get to m, saying "Gentlemen. I surrender like a A big crowd who was near by Stith rush up to him and with difficulty the crowd as kept from killing McLeod on the spot. :e was removed to the Charleston, Sumter id Northern depot platform He made no confession only as to his amie. The sheriff was at once wired of his cap. tre and the imininent danger of MeLeod ming lynched; whereupon the B. R. Till an Guards, of rLamar, were called upon protect the prisoner, and Captain Willi ird at once placed a detachment in charge the prisoner, who kept all trouble down itil McLeod died at 10.30 from the effect the wound inflicted by.a 32 calibre pie. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict at the deceased came to his death by a iehot wound in the bands of a party not iown. R. L DuBos.. BUCKTEN'S ARMICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for cute, -ises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever re, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, ns and all skin eruptions, and positively res piles or no pay required. It is guar iteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money funded. Price 25c. per box. For sale by J. G. Dinkins & Co., druggists. GUARANTEED CURE. We authorize our advertised druggists to 1 Dr. King's New Discovery for con mption, coughs and colds, upon this con. ion. If you are afflicted with a Cougb, >ld, or any Lung, Throat, or Chest trouble, Ed will use this remedy as directed, ring it a fair trial, and experience benefit, you may return the bottle and *ve your money refunded. We could not ie this offer did we not know that Dr. ngs New Discovery could be relied on. never disappoints. Trial bottles free. Lrge size 50e and $1. For sale by J. G. Dinkins & Co., druggists. .A LEADER. ince its first introduction Electric Bit has gained rapidly .in popular favor, til now it is clearly in the lead among re medicinal tonics and alteratives-con ning nothing which permits its use as a erge or intoxicant, it is recognized as best and purest medicine for all ail uts of Stomach, Liver, or Kidneys. It 1 cure Sick-headache, Indigestion, Con pation, and drive Malaria from the sye s. Satisfaction guaranteed with each tle or the money will be refunded. Price Ly 50c. per bottle. For sale by STRONG~ PLEA TO BRING RELIEF. Ion. J. L. McLahirin's Speech in the House of Representatives on Thurs day, May 31, 1894. The House being in Committee of the ihole, and having under consideration the >ill (H. R. 3825) to suspend the operations f the laws imposing a tax of 10 per cent. pon notes issued during the period therein nentioned Mr. McLaurin said: eir. Chairnan: I am ndebted to the House for its courtesy in teading my time, and as I was instru nental in first directing the attention of he Committee on Banking and Currency to the matter of the clearing-house paper issued and used in South Carolina during the panic, it will not be improper for me to have something to say upon the subject. During the financial stringency which existed in our State last fall, there was not enough money available to move the cotton crop. Our people stood appalled. They had been taught to believe that cotton was king, but when they saw loads of the fleecy product of their labor carried into the mar. ket and then brought back home, not be cause there were no naked backs to be clothed, but because there was no money to buy, they felt that if indeed cotton was still king, it was a dethroned and crownless monarch, and that the Moloch of money, reigned instead. But, sir, we could not see onr king robbed of his throne without striking a blow in his defense, and while the learned political economists and doctrinaries in Congress, like my friend from Massachusetts [Mr. Walker] were disenssing "what money was" and what were its "functions," we had in South Carolina to face the practical ques tion of no money and an entire absence of all its "functions." With that Udaptability to circumstances which is the distinguished trait of Ameri can citizenship, we devised the clearing house paper about which you have heard, and prolonged for yet awhile the reign of our king. I hold in my hand a little slip of paper issued for the sum of one dollar by the clearing-house association of Chester, S. C. It differs in a material degree from the paper read by my friend from Tennes see [Mr. Cox]. This paper is signed by the three gentlemen who are the trustees of the Chester Clearing House Association. Mr. Culberson: The gentleman had bet ter read it? Mr. McLaurin: It is suggested by my friend from Texas that the paper be read. I will ask the Clerk to read it. Tho Clerk read as follows: $1. Chester Clearing House Association Certificate. No. 617. Chester, S. C., Sep tember 27, 1893. This catifies that the banks composing the "Chester Clearing House AssociatiOn' have deposited with the undersigned trustees of ' said Clearing House Association, securities of the ap proved value of $2, to secure to the bearer hereof the sum of $1 lawful money of the United States, payable on or before four months after date. This certificate is issued in accordance with the proeeedings of the "Chester Clear ing House Association" at a meeting there of held on the 31st day of August, 1893; and is receivable for any and all dues to the banks which are members of said asso ciation, and are also receivable on deposit in either of said banks, and also in settle ment of all balances due from one of said banks to the other. J. T. Glenn, John C. McFadden, T. B. Woods, trustees. (Indorsement on the back): "Payment of the within certificate is guaranteed by theTollowing banks, oapposing the Ches ter Clearing House Association, viz: The Exchange Bank of Chester, S. C., The Bank of Chester, S. C." Mr. McLaurin: You see, Mr. Chairman, we bad plenty of confidence in South Caro lina. In fact it seems to me that most of the "lost conidence" of this country, about which we heard so much last fall, was cen tered in South Carolina, for we banked upon confidence and issued money our selves, until the heavy hand of Uncle Sam was laid upon our shoulder, and we were told that the Government would not help us, neither would it allow us to help our selves. These little slips of paper of the clearing house associations in various parts of our State passped current everywhere as money. They peformed every function of money. They paid debts, and in fact enabled us to tide ourselves over the crop-moving period. But, sir, the crop-moving period is again upon us, and financial conditjons are but littl'better that they were one year ago. The promised good times when the pur chasing clause of the sherman act was re pealed have utterly failed to materialize, and we are confronted by the same condi tions as last year. At the time the discus sion arose in regard to the cleaning house associations in my State, I was endeavoring to get favorably reported from the commit tee, a resolution authorizing the issuance of Treasury notes to take the place of those that were lost and destroyed, hoping that in some way they might be utilized- to move our cotton crop. I used the certificates as an object lesson, demonstrating the imperative need for an enlarged and more elastic volume of cur reney. It seemed to me that the very fact that this paper was issued and used and answered the purpose, was evidence of dis eased conditions in the financial body, which it was trying to throw off in a natural way through the ordinary laws of trade and finance. The matter created considerable interest on the part of the committee. and Mr. Brawley introduced this bill. Now, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Cox] engrafts upon it an amendment pro viding for the repeal of the 10 per cent. tax upon all papers of this character and upon State bank issues; sothat out of this simple matter, "originally introduced by me," has grown a great question of finance, one that will be fraught with weal or woe to the Democratic party, and which bids fair to create as interesting a debate as the silver question itself, for in fact nearly the same is sues are involved, that of more money. I will say in passing, that I care very lit tle about what is .known as the "Brawley bill," but if we are to pay the 10 per cent. tax in South Caroina upon our certificates, then the great clearing-house associations in New York and the other large cities should not be exempt. I will admit that in the use we made of our certificates we differed very materially fro-~n the use made by the clearing-house associ. ations of New York, but the legal principle upon which they were issued, as the gen tleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cox) argued, is the same, arnd if you tax one you must tax the other. Another fact, Mr. Chairman, to 'which I desire to call attention is, that no oe ever heard of the 10 per cent. tax upon clearing-house certificates, until we began to use them in South Carolina and among the grain elevators of the West. It comes within my personal knowledge that when one of the leading bankers of my State went North, at the usual time, to get his annual money supply, he was met with the statement by his correspondent, that he could not supply him with the money to move the cotton crop. When he came back to Washington, he stated "that he argued the matter with the gentleman, and asked what he was going to do, and his correspondent said: "We cannot help you. You must do the best you can about marketing your crop; we cannot supply the currency." The South Carolina banker safd to some of us here, that he would go home and organize clearing-house associa tions, issue certificates, and get along with out help. This was the origin of the cer tificates in South Carolina. Associations were formed all through the State, and we began to get along on this home-made mon ey. Then there came from the east a ten der of currency to move our crop, and for the irst time you heard from the Treasury Department of this Government a threat to collect the 10 per cent. tax on clearing-house certificates. When we wanted money we could not get it, and it is hard to say how much of it was done to influence votes on the silver question. At any rate, it became more plentiful, wher. WVall street found that we had "caught on" to one of their dodges. But, Mr. Chairman, if the imposition of this tax affects the New York banks, no one seriously believ~es that it will ever be collected. That will give complete protec tion to our little banks in South Carolina, This bill is merely used by the gentleman from Tennessee as a vehicle, through which to test the sense of this House upon the repeal of the 10 per cent. tax upon the issue ofState banks. For myself, I am on principle in favor of a national currency, ad I do not believe, as some seem to think, that State banks will cure all our Lmendment, because it is a step towards a i radical change in our system of finance. I t is a step towards decentralizing the enor-f mous and dangerous power vested in the national banking system of this country. Mr. Chairman for nine long weary months he people of this nation have had their eyes urned upon Congress, vainly awaiting some financial relief. What have we done? The great, patient, toiling masses, whose labor has made this one of the richest :a. tions on the face of the earth, are thor-s ands of them out of employment and ho:ie less, and are asking themselves the pies tion, "Must we starve amid the plenty our brawn has created." They have watched in vain for some light to break upon the financial horizon, and "hope deferred mak eth the heart sick" They have seen the purchasing clause of the Sheranan aet Ie pealed. with the promuise of appropriate legislation to redeeni the pledges of the Democratic platform, inaintaining th- par ity between the n(tals. The period l.as lengthened from weeks to months with no step taken to redeem the promise. Then they have seen vetoed the poor, pitiful !it tle seigniorage bill, that was not of uiuch account, except to give those gentlemen from the West and South who voted for the repeal of the parchasing clause of the Sher man act, a chance to "pull the wool over the eyes" of their constituents and get back into Congress. (Laughter.] And now, Mr. Chairmun, understanding as they do that the legislation of thi's House is shaped, directed, and controlled by its committees, they see the chairman ot the Committee on Banking and Currency, charged as he is with the sacred trust of re deeming the party pledges on the wioney question, come in here, after nine months of deliberation, with this poor httle bill as a result, and openly and publicly annonnce. that he is not in touch with the denimn is of the Democratic party on this snbject. when it was supposed (aspirina its he does to be a leader of Democracy) that his appoint ment to this important chairrmianiiip was in view of his special fitness, to releei the pledges of the party, not to defeat thErm. I heard his speech. and then I went home and read the platforim of my party, and af ter listening to the able and eloqnent re marks of the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cox), it seems to me, sir, that we need more "-Coxeyism" npon the Committee on Banking and Currency. [Laughter.) Mr. Chairman, I came from a section of the country where pledges in a political platform mean something. We were op pdsed to Mr. Cleveland, and fought him to the last Democratic ditch until after his nomination, then we gave him the largest majority in proportion to population of any State in the Union. Subsequent events show that we wore right to trust no Eastern Democrat. We have more respect for, and more affinity with the man who stands with us upou the financial question, be lie Re publican. Democrat, or Populist, than for the Mugwump like the gentleman from Illinois, who is true to no platform or par ty, and faithful to no political tie save the one that binds him to the money power, whose merciless oppression is robbing the people of the fruits of their labor. (Ap plause.] Our people have seen in this way the pledges of their party-openly, boldly. and impudently repudiated, thereby denying to them, a living voice in their own Govern ment. Oppressed by a cruel and a crafty money power, which absorbs like a sponge the fruits of their toil, men are looking each other in the face and beginning to ask themselves the question all over this broad land, "What must we do to .save ourselves and to save our children ?" [Appluse.] Makeshifts-the Sherman act a "make shift"? Yon cannot atone to our people for the destruction of one of their money met als by a makeshift measure upon the tariff, differing in degree rather than in principle from the McKinley act, but for which ev ery Democrat will vote, because, thank God, it is not so bad as McKinleyism. The income tax will go a great way and is a grand feature, but our people understand that the great paramount issue, overshadow. ing the tariff and everything else, is the fi nancial question. They want more money and financial relief, and they will be satis fied with nothing less. I am now spea1-ing for my own section of the country. There is a dearth of money there, anti it is neces sary that the sup~ply should be increased in some way. The gross amount of loanablefunds in this country is $6,412,000,000. In the State of Rhode Island the amount of loanable funds is $387.73 per cap ita, as against $6.80 in the State of Arkansas. In the State of Massachu setts the amo'unt is $326.52, as against $7.80 in North Carolina, and $16.06 in my own State. Let it be understood that the per capita of loanable funds is widely different from per capita in circulation, and that this difference represents the jugglery of banking, the difference between the two being the credit of the banks and bankers, which, by manipulation, is loaned to the people instead of money. The national banks are required to keep a reserve of from 15 to 25 per cent-15 per cent in the small towns and 25 per cent in the larger cities. Suppose we illustrate by an example starting with a deposit of $1,000 in a city where the reserve is 25 per cent and where it is fashionable to have a bank account; aggregating the loans. redeposits, and necessary reserves, and we have the following statements as the ultimate result: Certificates of deposits outstanding, $4,000; notes for deposits loaned, $3,000; and the original $1,000 held in reserve is still in the bank. This is the jugglery of banking. The banker has certificates out for $4,000; he has $3,000 drawing interest, and the original $1,000 in the bank. Now, the confidence in banking lies in the hope, that the notes will be paid before the certificates of deposit are presented. It is a matter of detail to explain in full. To carry this to its ultimate it requires about twelv-e redeposits and loans, which makes banking precarious and dangerous. The scarcity of money necessitates such transactions; besides the bank ers are usually anxious to take ad vantage of such opportunities. It is to avoid the dangers attending such transactions that I urge the removal of the 10 per cent tax, that mnoney may be made more plentiful and risk thereby lessened. Mr. A has $1,000, which he deposits and receives a certificates of deposit. Mr. B, wishing to borrow some mon ey, is loaned $750 of A's deposit. and $250 is put aside by the bank as the required reserve. B pays this money to Mr. C on a debt, and C deposits it in the same hank. Mr. D wants some -money, and is loaned three-fourths of the $750 deposited by C, or i$562.50, and $187.50 is placed as reserve.. 1) pays this money to Mr. E, who de posits it in the bank. Mr. F wants to borrow some money, and is loaned three-fourths of E's deposit, S421.87, $140.62 is put with the reserve. F pays a debt to Mr. G, who in turn deposits the money in the same bank. Mr. H wants some money, and is loaned three-fourths of the money deposited by G, or 316.40, and 105.47 is laid aside as reserve. H pays his money to Mr. I, who deposits it as the others have done. Now comes Mr. J, who borrows three-fourths of I's deposit, 237.30, and 79.10 goes to the reserve fund. J pays his debt to Mr. K, who returns the same to the bank on deposit. Mr. L borrows three-fourths of it as the others have, or 177.97, and the other one-fourth, 59.32 is held as reserve. L pays this to Mr. M, who likewise deposits it in the same manner. Mr. N needs some money, and borrows three-fourths of M's deposit, or 1:33.42 and again 44.47 is put with the re serves. N pays it to Mr. O, who in turn deposits it. Mr. P as the others borrows three-fourths of O's deposit, or 100.08, and 33.35 is held as reserve. P pays his debt to Mr. Q, who puts it in the bank. Mr. R borrows three fourths of Q's deposit, or 74.05, an 25.01 is put with the reserve fund. R pays Mr. 5, who deposits the same, and Mr. T borrows three-fourths of: it, 56.28, and 18.76 is put with the re serve. I will now advert to the table to which I first referred, and it will. easily be seen why the South wants more money and a. different plan ofi istribution. and it also explains w.hy ;ew England desires less money. In act, such an investigation proves onclusively the imperative need for .n absolute change in our svstera of inances, in order to maintain any hing like equal conditions between lasses and sections in the great truggle of life. This table shows all of the loanable (unds of tire country, and it is a strik ng illustration of the contest that is iow going on between the East and :he other sections of this countrv. It liscloses the reason why that section wants a small volume of money, which means a high-priced dollar and therefore low wages. Greed of gain ind not justice would deniand a con tinuation of sulich a system. Take the 11 Eastern States. Maine, Massa Ahusetts. Verniont. New Hampshire, Rhode Island. C('oinecticut, New York, -New Jersvy, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. and the 11 Southern States, Virginia. West V ir ginia. North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Flor ida, Alabama. Mississippi and Louisi ana. it will be noticed that out of the gross amount of loanable funds, aggregating 6,412,939.95*3, the 11 Eastern States control 4.142,372,216, or 64 per cent, while the 11 Southern States have only 291,711,796, ora little ov-er 5 per cent, and the remaining 27 States ant" Territories have 2.078,758. 960, or about 31 per cent. The 11 Easteri States, with ain area of 117,062,640 acres of land, hold !4, 142,472'21f in loanable funds, while the 11 Southern States, with 470. 995, 75S acres, have about $2!1,711,70. Reduced to an average this gives the 11 Eastern States Z35.38. and the 11 Southern States less than 0 cen-ts per aere. The population of the eleven Easteri States is 1,J184,000, and con trols $4,142,472,210 of loanable funds. which gives a per capita of $218. The 11 Southern Stateshave a population of 14,967.000 and have only s291,711,769 in loanable funds, or 14.63 per capita. These figures speak loudly in favor of a change in the method of a money distribution, and explain the paraly sis of business in this country-con gestion in one place from too much, starvation in the other from too little. I know these figures will he met by men like the gentleman from Massa chusetts, Mr. Walker, with the state ment that the East needs more money than the South, which under present onditions I freely admit is true. But sir, because it is true, furnishes all the stronger reason why there should be some change. I have h6re a clipping from Brad street's: -'On last Saturday the statements of averages presented by the New York Clearing If ouse asso ciation for the week ending that day showed aggregate deposits of the un precedented amount of nearly $.00, 000,000. Exceeding as it does all pre vious records, this fact is strongly in dicative of the present plethoric con dition of the money market, of which however, exceeding easy rates and liberal offerings by lenders of every class are an equally convincing proof. It is, indeed, significant that at the present moment lenders in the New York market seem to fairly outnum ber borrowers." What an argument from Wall street in favor of some change in the plan of money distribution. What earth ly use is all. this money piled up where it cannot be used? 'What good does it do the cotton-planter of the South or the wheat-grower of the West? Mr. Walker said he borrowed $0,000 for one year at le per cent on his note. We can not get it at 10 pei cent on a mortgage upon good land. We are entitled as a matter of righi to some banking system under which we can utilize the basis of our credit. which is the cotton crop in the Sou: and the -wheat crop in the West. It is a matter of right and justice not of favor. Why men should hesi tate I cannot see. More money than they (-an use, piled up, inert, dead,and useless! And South Carolina, with her great rice and cotton fields, forced to issue these poor pieces of paper, clearing-house scrip, in order to place her great cotton and rice crop, upon the market: barred out by unjust discrimination and the imposition of this unjust tax. A money famine ex isting in our land, and yet water, full, plentiful, and free on every bide of the ship-nothing to do but let the buckets down and draw up the sparkling draught to cool the parch ed throat, and send new blood bounding through the congested veins of the financial body. Plenty of money, but not a dollar to be had upon land, the basis of all wealth; railroad bonds, stocks, and securities alone recognized, at 1 and 2 per~ cent. Let us blot from the statute book every unjust discrimination. Let us ive each man and each class an equal chance before the law. If money is the lifeblood of the nation, let its circulation be free, not loaded down with usurious conditions that enslave the borrower, rob him of manhood. and impoverishes one sec tion for the benefit of another. (Ap plause.] This uill with its amendment is the most practical plan so far presented to bring money from the great cen ters into circulation among the peo ple. Some plan is necessary to coun teract this inequitable distributiorn of money a ad thus make higherpriee, for labor- and its products. Mr. Chairman. there are in the reat cities of this land, thousand: ho are ragged, gaunt, and hungry -a standing menace to law and or der. Give us enough currency tc raise our crops and to put them upor the market, and get a fair return foi our labor; give us a system of distri bution under which the farmer car get money upon the kind of' securi. es that he has, and under which b nds and stocks will not alone he rec.gized. Do not measure the pro duct of our labor, with a dlollar eacl day increasing in value, each day measuring more labor, and taking more of our products to buy it. Redeem the pledges in the Demo cratic platformi on the money ques. tion, and the wheels of y'our sileni industries will indeed be made tc hum, and instead of despair and pov erty the-re will be hope and prosperi tv, with songs of joy and gladnese throughout the land. The great plains of the glorious West will feed our hungry, and the fertile acres of the sunny South will clothe your naked. And. sir,. there will be no more Coxevs to invade the rights, the prerogaitives, andl dignities of our great American Congress by tramp ling upon the sacred grass. [Laugh. ter andl appllause.] The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Springer. sneered a good deal at "Coxeyism."- He ought not to do so, because the men composing that great army of unemployed come from his own section of country. It is in accordance with the "eternal fitness" of things that the leader of these "rude tramplers upon the grass" should hail from the McKinley dis trict in the State of Ohio, the home of Senator Sherman-the arch enemy of bimetallism-and of my friend Mr. Hiarter, wvho painted in such glowing terms last fall the great prosperity and happiness which wvas sure to fol lov a further contraction of the eur rency. [Laughter and applause.] I v-oice the sentiments of every Southern man on this floor when I ~oint with pride to the fact, that no reruit for this army came from south of Mason sud Dixon's line. There is no actual suffering for food in the South. We have plenty to eat and to spare, our unrivaled advantages, in soil, climate and product, will en able us to stand a panic longer than any other section of this country. To~day we stand patiently and quiet ,.. awa a settlement of these fi nancial questionis. nard times are no new thing to us: but in spite of the pension drain. in spite of a robber tariff, and hard monetary conditions, the patience, pluck, and perseverance of our people, has builded up out of the ashes of defeat, a mighty eipire, and one so distinctively American that in time of trouble yet to come, it will prove the hope and mainstay of this Union. We love our country and her insti- I tutions, and have not yet lost faith in the ballot, that palladiui of! American liberty. nor yet are we wil ling to believe (in spite of the utter ances of the gentleman from 1lliinois) that the platform of the Deinocratic party is made up entirely of "-catch words and glittering generlites. (live us, sir', a imorei equitable sys tern of nionev distribtitoni. 0.I(- thlt will eniable us, to .,et our r1C!, and. '.ur cotton upon lite iarket: and v.e will help to fteed and to the yo: hn grv Coxyites from hion-viw m of the financial vagaries, and fellow countryinen as they are, of 'Messrs. Sherman & McKinley. [Applause.] Mr. Chairman. I urge the passage I of this bill upon the ground of an iu mediate necessi:y for :tn increase of1 currency. There are but two avenues through which the currency cal now be in creased, to wit: First. The coinage of gold. Second. Additional national-bank notes. Every other channel has been closed, for the coinage of silver as money has been forbidden, and the voluie of United States notes can not be increased. 'Notwithstanding this condition, the banks are retiring i their currency, and the amount Of gold is grow n;; rapidly less: iii fact .6. Chairman, the enrency of this n ty h:as b--en red"' - sinc'- the !irst lay o try, niearly if not giwit inf hundr1' ol: hoin dollars by h saliv of'fi-:vmile boniids and the ionley i.-.eked ip in the ireisury. in the expor. Cf gold, :mdt r;tr :-r m n -ti0na' bank n- 0-s '. cont tio*1 is t::ai iF sitficient Vol can not ie (btined to c.ia into money and the nstional banks refae to furnis ai suf ticient v.dul m to th- people an i :' .w eutinmi. wxiii not lend a helpin a t.t the People themaselves, throligI :: :-t! governments. shoul be alow I r cise the sacre I right I.1f ' .aru, the first law if natuire. I believe ia er:n:-nl e .- is.-" direct as pos-ible from-i ' -* i it r: : the peopl-, but as we .-. . -,f S. i such a cirrency, t- i "..!nY port inl ca- < f a stcrm.' So far as a Stcte b n :-.: cerned in S uth Camioin 1, it is - d experiment; we hud on-- there before the war, and in the panic of 1W37, when finan cial wiecks were strewn along the slores everywhere, our b.i stood i h'aen amidst the storm and her ,ills p ed car rent everywhere, and it wa- only :,n:d the I devastation it a great ciViL war that she went down. Mr. Chairman., an increate of m-oney means an increase in pri'eS, inew':a,'-l pros. perity, and an ilncrease of the I: nra tion whie.. all bbor recivs f .,r its orts. Every economist benowleigs that propo sition to be trr-. Suc'h a cimnge is abso iutelv Iecessary in our economic nhitions. I am not in favor of the obI-ashioned State bank if we ein gct anythingi better. But :f Congri s; cannot-if it will n(t-sedbe this problen, then "then let down the bars," remove every unjust diser-naination, and give the common sense of the Armeican people a ciane", and they will olv' t"e problem upon which you Lave failed. My own opinion is that we need a eur rency which is both local and national in its character. I doubt whether anybody seriously proposes to establish juit such a banking institution as we hadl prior to tueI war. I do niot believe that the old State bank, operated in the same way, is i touch with the spirit or the age. which tends even towards an internationel inste-id of a local currency; but I do conte'id thbat it is one of the functions of the GoverE mient to issue, emlt, or coin money, and that if it does net choose to exercise this functio'n itself it has no right to del egatet to the national bankcs or to any individual1 or corporation. Every section of tlis Union is entitled to hate enough iuoney to raise its crops and to put thenm on the mar het, and such a system of distribution as will fit and meet the buisiness needs of each section, sna it is the duty of the Gov ernment to provide the machinery to efl'act uate this much desired end. My colleag~ue from South Carolica, Mr. Talbert, has introdluced a bill which was referred to the Banking and Currency Com mittee, and nlhich I utry mouch tear might come untder the bead of the sneer of "Cox cyism," vyhich the gentleman from Illinois had for measunes ol that character, but which, while not pierfect in its details, seems to me, emibodies some principles which might be worthy of more serious consideration. This bill provides for the issue of a national currency by the Govern ment of the United States, and for the ap portioniment of that currency out among the v'arious States according to business needs and population-the State Govern menits, depositing with the General Gov ernnment, their bonds hearing enough in terest to cover all the cost of the transac ticn. But without going into any scheme or proposing any particular measure, I. would urge the p)assage of the pending bill upon the broad ground that the General Govern ment has no right to tie our hands by re strictions of this character, arrogatin;, all the power to issue money to herself, and then not doing a single thing to relieve the country from the conditions which now confront us. [Applause.]I The comiparisons wbieh I have given be twveen rections exist in a griater' degree, be tween individals arid clames5. Million aie uuly upon the one hand, tramps upnteoher. The former tasy steps rom poor to rich are being destro.. and we are rapidly developing into a nation of the very rich and the very poor. The per petuity of our institution- depends upon the home owners of thie land, the iienr of moderate means. Either extremce is danger ons; there is an anarchy of wealth as wvell as poverty. A man with a home, a tiresihi to call his own, is a gooni citizen, capable of self-government. tib iam of houm, tuni~ him adrift with no place to lay his head, and he becomes a desperate membelar of so ciety, and one dangerous to tru'st with sucht a weapon as the American balt. Under the exactions of' th- moey power the home-owvners of the lad, ee te' bui iarks of civil liberty, are rapullyh beomg extinct. Two-thirds of the tarm s of the counctry are m'ortgage'd. 'The price of0ot on is down to where it wi ll not Ia ! Cost of hibor to produie 1 it; an :'con not be grown atl all at pre'~ n prcsi the laborer did not work for a -~ar inf thi crop and in this w ay share the ojiire'->:: and~ the pov'erty of the lEnd-iowner. !L. as they do each one his gai-le", i' - ii n corn p)atch, they manage to .Iuba. Olut leaving absolutely no chinc oo: r r land-owner to pay interes-t upon in e ed ness, to say naught of tie principa. li re to-day enfronted by the condi tion1 of an increase in populatio anI e rese in the man,-yv suppiy, and ae iichnc in prices following as a logteaCl sequencL . How can the peop~le pay1 theLr debts with a doliar whieu constantiv iecrese' in value ? The aggregate indebtednes fti on try, State, municipal, county, and pi)vate is vano isly estimated at fromi twenty-.ight to tifty-two billion, it is impossibl to sp ak with accuracy, but placing it :,ti thir til lion, a conservative estimati' ad at 'i e cent, it draws in interest anone ' t'ibutl of $2, 100, 000,000J ann ually hown the people. We see thait und-r tpresenit co"ditions the vaist prcdncts of this country fall S'P6000, )00 short on paying tile annlt Iitere. alone. Howv in the name of coon enr'se can they ever hope to i aythe pri al.' whn the gross aiinoont of thie pro:t their toil is not enoug~h to pay the imren Iupon their indebtedniess? These are the problems wih corott the statesmaanshipi of the day. Slav the God of 'Justice inspne forhe' jand miinds to meet the i.su , hike tr~e-y resentatives, looking to the int r- of n whole country and our .:rtire rl. one class andI to one section. The mortgage ind:ebtedies of ithe. n2e in 1880 was $3.t0t0,000,G00: in l1st wa SG,000,000,000). Pouainhas incased during thait tim 25pe cet;wealth hns incroes--5 t per cent; mortgage indebtedness has in creased 156 per cent. Such figures as these should lie read with ar nivn a we circulation. Baltimuore,'id. Run Down That Tired Feeling -Severe Headaches, No Appetite Six Gottles of Hozs Sarsaparilla Bring Back New * ife. 6 C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, M1ass.: "Dear Sirs:-Before using Hood's Sarsaps rilla I was frequently sick and did not know what was the matter with me. One day I would feel so tired I could hardly stand, the next I would have a severe heada::he and so on, not knowing what the next lay would bring forth. I did not have any appetite and Was Greatly Run Down. I tried a good many medicines but they did me no good. Having heard a great deal about Hood's Sarsaparilla I decided to try a bottle. I Hood's5 -Cures am glad to say I soon felt better. I have now used six bottles and feel as well as ever. It has been of great benefit to me as I have regained my appetite and Now Enjoy Good Health. I can strongly recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla as an excellent blood medicine." 31. SynoNs, 5:5 Aisquith Street, Baltimore, Maryland. - Hood's Pills act easily, yet promptly and effciently, on the liver and bowels. Z5e. Life of Mother and Child. My wife, after having used Mothers' Friend, passed through the ordeal with little pain, was STRONGER I.q ONE HoUiR than in a WEEK after the birth 4of her former chil..-J.J.McGotRCK, Bean Station, Tern. MOTHERS' FRIEND robbed pain of its terror and shortened labor. I have the heal. thiest child I ever saw. Mas. L. M. AHERN, Cochran, Ga. Expressed to any address, chages a, on re c : f iro per bo-tle Fsi e by n Drug 14 kit. o to Nohrmaldfree. .BRADFIELD REGUL.TOR CO.. Attanta, Ga. DR . UH lES o. GEIGER,. 'llY."!'AV AND SURGEO, OMers his -reZmional services to the peo pie V .Mnning and vicinity. Oti 'at J. G. D:akin & Co.'s drug slore. MANNING. S. C. D t. A. N. TALLY, Jn.. PIIYSICI.I AND SURGEO, Ollers his professional services to the peo p!e of Clarendon and vicinity. Oilice in the Ecterpiise building. MiANNING, S. C. osEPH F. UHAME. W.OC. DavIs. . T T OR NEYTS A T L AW, MIANNING, S. C. JOHN 8. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING. S. C. A.LEVI, Notary Public with seal. Associated with . 0. Purdy, Esq., in litigated cases. EFFERSO N D). ALSBROOK, ATTURSVEY AT LAW, MIANNING, S. C. Office in TIEs building. Special atten on given all business in his charge. H.L. B. WELLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. SUMTER, S. C. ~EO. W. DICENIK, SUMTER, S. C. Oficee hours-9 to 1:30-2:30 to 5. Over evi Urothers' dry'goods store. Palmetto Pharmacy Company, Charleston, S. C. ,f AIL, Express or freight goods to any .jpart of the United States or abroaa. rers receive pirompt attentlion i mmedi atey upon receipt. In sending moneyv for .ntich s not quoted in this list or our free atlogue, send the amount of retail price less 20 per cant. Any. difference wvill be returned by next mail. Our business is Srnie-rLs exsH. Goods sent C. 0. D. to re ponsible parties. We* solicit a share of our mil orders. 1ric. Jar. \lc.ck's Porons Phtsters, 10 25 BeladonaL Phsters, 15 25 Capi P lasters,~~ R enson' 15 25 \ k's** l'tnionT Phiszter.< 1ige 9 25 ToBa. :) boxes for 50 PSrvrpo f I~phspit1,' 1 50 r. F.-ixLeiran ' Ster! andi ~llto Lini'ment, i5 en' Emlin 6 7 1 00 e' Pho 1"sphate, Hforsford's, S .4l0 S .50 ve' Pills,111 20 25 re' Fa . 1vorite Prescription 75 1 00 Li:' Euk in 25e and 50 Lire il ure, 43e, pint, 50 I pLiv r Oil, pure, M0e, quart, 1 00 O:'iie soap, 12 oz cake, 10 15 Sik Sap impiorted, per lb., 20) 25 est's Ner've & Brain Treatment 67 1 00 hosp'ldne, 85 1(0 tract W\itch Haze, pints, 20) 25 rtr's ULtle Liver Pilis, 15 2.3 -:' we. en to hare the best stock of )rugg'i-ss' Sndries, Perfumierv, Tooth, vil and Hair Brinsbes. Combs. Sponges, ham''', Sk'ins and Toilet Requil~sites in the t. We can mili overq 2,0 articl &s in ie Prn'' lIn a nywhecre, and payV special tention to mali orders. We wxill utaa l our~ atlgeto ay address about April 1st 4. ,W liie this catalogue is not comiplete Iwil gi: some Side~ha 0f the stoaCkw ary: N77HING STREET, (One Door North of Wentworth. )pposite Dime Savings Bank. 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A ZibrazyinW Itself. it also - gives the often do 3ired inforinaton, conce gem nentpersons; fActsconcern ing the countries, cities, towrns, and nat ural features of the globe; patlculars con cerning noted fictitious personsandpl m; trnslation of foreign quotations. - It I In vaiuable in the home, oce, study, and schoolroom. The One Great Standard Authority. Ho;. D. Z. Brewer Juic of U.& cuSnm Cout, writes: " he Ntemafl is the perfection of dctiousare " I com*end to aul as the one great standard antbority."* Sold byA Booksellers. 4. & C. Merrim Co. Springfl4d, Mass. :g r not b%~bali~O r~bl rep ts Of anet CSendforfreeprospect5, HEALTH Better than Weahh. Preserve your health by using Pure Drugs and Mediclaes from the old established and always reliable drug house of J. G. 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