The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 28, 1900, Image 1

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N OL.. X.. 'AA OL XV. MANNING., S. C,. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 90 O 4 BRYAN'S CHIANCES. The Trusts Are Driving Thous ands to the Democratic Party. SO SAYS JAMES CREELMAN. He Declares that the Crushing Power of the Cerporations is Hurting the Repub lican Party. In a re.-ent issue of the New Yoik Jlournal Mr. James Creelman. who has been traveling extensively over the Northern and Eastern States, says the rushing power of the trusts so un 'crupulously cxerci-cd is forcing the -mall dealers and manufacturers out of -he Republican party into the Demo -ratie party. Here is the letter of Mr. Jreelmzan in ful!: The most significant fact revealed ..y .Mr. liryan's tour through the east , ru states is that thousands :f small .usinoss tien and manufacturers whi. ,up'pvorcd McKinley in 1S96 have de .ided to support the IDeiocratic party I his year. A more significant move etelL a hardly be iuagined. This imieaus it.:at tie crushiog powt r exerted 1y the trc'ts i-I driving the sienms of this all-engulfing, rapacious system of cewi~rsization out of the party domin ated by Mr. McKinley and Senator ilanna, the open agents of trusts and n dicatcs. For the first time the trust issue has be:ome a factor-probably a controliog f actor-in p-ractical politicl-, not only ia the west and south, but also in the . ast atnd particulary in New York. While desiator Hauna is arranging with the truzts for a c4paigU fund of t'wenty-:VC mrillion dodiars-that is -aid to be the ehtimated sum-Mr. JBryan has teeu receiving assurances from hundreds and hundreds of busi I.ess men who opposed him in 1896 hiat they will aid him now is self de There is but little real opposition in the country to corporate combinations Snd trusts fot med and operated for the purpose of reducing necessary expenses aud i.olviug the problem of cheap and intelliaent distribution. Workmen and consumers alike recognize that or ianization and s3 stem are necessary co ollaries of cheap production, and that with reasonable opportunity for com I ctition the general public will ulti iately get the benefits. But the cry which inugs from state to state and in creascs in volume and intensity every -eek is a cry against a system of abso late monopoly, backed by government favoritsic, which is crushing out snall preprietors, shutting the gates of op I-otunity and converting ! large and izuportaia budy of hitherto independ it b-asiness men into silaried em ayes. The change has been swift a1.t aLu-sst noiseless. 1., every city and town are to be fon eores of hired men who, only o ersago, were in business on their onacsount. These men were help bss to at S;S the overpowering weight of the trust so stem. Let any man in an) p-alt 0~r the country investigate this statena it in his ow n community. The great danger which threatens the coun iry is t-at ho man will be able to en gage in any of the businesses controlled tiy tiusts unless lie does so as a hire lieg, and that, a ith ecmpetition de s' ri))ed, the prices of necessaries of life will be fixed arbitrarily by the t:usts, without restraint. GIo to any store in your neighborhood and ask whether the trusts have re :uced prices. The rapid risse in the i~-ie withiri the past year is startling, etuost incredible. Senator Hanna says pulicly that the trusts are doing good by lowering the coat of manufac ture andi distribution. That is true. ') he Journal has said the same thling. I t is a piart of the order of progress. Orgaiition and systematic economy, w he-ther by trusts or otherwise, must cheapen atanu cture. I have t ailed to find any ian whose opinions on any subjecct are not worth hearing who is iiutng to say that it ,.s not a good thing to lessen the cost of producing any neces-ary of life. But Senator Ilanna has nothing to stay about the fac-. that the trusts have become so, powerful, so rutblhss, that, while the cost5 of manufacture is gr owing less, the pr ice to the consumer ix increasing. 'The st artliiag rise in :.be price of ar tieles nuftactured by t rusts complete ly unnmasks the gigantic industrial and comamercial conspiracy which is bleed ing the whole counitry. No man is safe no~w. No man dares to interfere with the pillage. Within one year the trusts have nearly doubled in power and in perfection of organisation. Yet the price~s in the retai stores everywhere are going up and up and up. If you are not already aware of this ask your wife, y our honusekeeper, your butcher, your groer. This is the most over wheluming thing on the whole social, political orlecon2DmiC landscape. This t is that is driving tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of new recruits to the democratic party. Monopoly stalks grimly on the ashes of competition. These arc not theories-they are plain facts 1 personally know that even important bankers have iniormed Mr. Bry an within the past few weeks that they are no longer indepetadent; that they feel the enslaving, humiliat ing clutch of the g:cat tiusts and syn dicates, for cing them this way and that against their will. The business com munity is losing its independence; the trusts, with a newly awakening realis ation of power, are raising the prices of everything they manufacture; in small towns and ;illages clerks are tak ing the place of proprietors. President McKinley and Attorney General Griggs are sy mpathetically in active. They know that the supreme court of the Ubited States has declared in the most positive and unmistakable >-Muage that the anti trust law passed by ege-iress is constitutional, and that it is sutnae2nt to reach the criminal na ture of the to:~t conspiracy. The pres ident and the attorney general know that at the present time there is being organized the most extensive and irre sistible combination of railroad trans poratns, h a in h and with the other trusts, and that the nation is becoming weak and bloodless under the burden. But they also know that Mr. Ilanna expects to get twenty-five million dol lars from the trusts to be used in keep ing the administration in power. 'hc attorney general refuses to enforce the anti-trust law, and the president will not comp'el him to do it. The result of my investigation in New York and the middle west during the past few weeks is a firm conviction that for the first time the country is aroused to the real peril to a Republican form of gov ernment arising from the tru:t s3 stem, which Mr. Hanna sa's is a good thingl This is the supreme Democratic issue. No leader or combination of leaders can increase its power or importance. It is changing votes every hour. There may be a difference of opinion regard ing legidlation on the subject, but every man I have met seems to undersiand that with a president and cabinet free from the control of the trusts, the coun try has a better chance to strike at the giant crimes of the trusts than is possi ble when the president and the cabinet place the whole power of the govern ment behiud the criminal combinations. James Creelman. A JUVENILE REFORMATORY. Text of An Important Act Passed at the Late Sessions. Among the acts passed at the re cent session of the general asscmbly none is of more general interest than that providing for the establishment of a juvenile reformatory for prisoners of tender years sent to the State peniteu tiary. Efforts have long been made in this direction, but the question of the expense has always barred ti-e way. Theboard of directors will at its next meeting proceed under the act to es tablisih the reformatory. The !ot of putting the buildiug in pr.'per svjoe will hardly exceed $500. Ilere is tie act: Section 1. That the board of direc tors and superintendent of the State penitentiary are hereby authorized and required to set apart so much of the State farm in the county in Lexington as may be necessary for such refrua tory. They shall also provide suitable buildings and stockade for the safe keeping and comfort of persons sen tenced thereto. Sec. 2 The superintendent of the penitentiary is autborized to use any money on hand or that may accrue out of the profits of the State penitentiary to defray the expenses incurred in pro viding such buaidings and stockade and other appurtenances to the State re formatory farm. See' 3 le shall also appoint, as warden or overseer, a person who, from practical experience, pess:sses the ability and qualifications necessary to successfully carry on the industries of the reformatory, and to enforce and maintain proper discipline therein, and snall remove the same at will. Salary of the warden shall be p.id out of the profits of the State penitentiary. See. 4. The board of directors and superintendent of the penitentiary shall make rules and regulations for the government of the reformatory. Sec. 5. The superintendent of the penitentiary shall place in the' rodorma tory all male-criina-ls under 16 yeare, of age who sll be legally sentenced to said reformatory on conviction of any crimainal offence in any court having jurisdiction thereof and puniahable by imprisonment in the State penitentiary. lHe shall also remove all such convicts now in the penitentiary as soon as ex isting circumstances will allow. The dircipline to be observed in the said prison shall be reformatory, and the warden shall have po-.er to uise such tneans of reformation, consistent with the improvement of the inmates, as may be prescrtbed by the board and superintendent. The superintendent shall provide for the instruction of the~ inmates in morals as well as useful la bor. The white convicts shah be kepat akd emplo) ed separately from the col' ored convictsn. He Waa Slasher A dispatch from Wilhiston, S. C., to The State, says: "Our little town, noted for its usual good order, had its peace disturbed Wednesday evening. Mr. Bad Hudson went to the home of Mr. M. Jowers to collect house rent. A quarrel followed which resulted in Mr. Budson teitag cut by Mr. Jowers Mr. Hudson had no knife with him. A little later Mr Hudson returned and entered the house of Mr. Jowers, at tacked him and succeeded in slicing Mr. Jowers in several places. It is re por:ed that Mr Hudson was drinking. Mr. Hudson has disappeared. A NIovel Suit. In Idaho a unique suit for damages has been filed by a tramp against the Oregon Short Line. The hobo recites that ho was stealing a ride, being lo cated on the brake rods undcrneath a car; that he sustained the injuties re ceived owing entirely to the fact that servants of the corporation knew he was there without right and did not put him of, as was their duty, and that through their gross negligence he sus tained the ir juries for which he claims damages. Owing to the peculiar claim the attorneys of the road are deeply in terested. The Borrors of War. The London Daily Mail prints the following dispatch from Mafeking dated Tuesday, Feb. 20: "The houses in the womens' lasger are riddled with bullets notwithstanding the 150er prom ises. A woman who was standing with a suckling child, wan shot through the breast, while among 400 women arid children. An explosive 91 pounder shell burst in the laager, a piece fixing itself in the spine of a 9-y ear-old boy. The explosive used caused blootd poi soning and he lingered several days in agony. _________ Don't Like the Customs. The Turkish minister Ali Ferrough Bey, recently returned from Conistanti nople to Washington. accompanied by his wife and sister, and this led to sev eral references to them in the press. The minister does not question the good intent of the writers, but he requested today that the press respect the cus toms of his country in this particular and refrain from reference to affairs personal to his household. He Eaid he felt sure that a nation of such hospi tality and greatness would readily ap preiate this reqnest. IKANSAS CITY WINS. Democrats Will Name Their Lead er on Fourth of July. MILWAUKEE NOT IN IT. An Invitation to All Good Citizens Who Favor a Republic to Join the Democratic Party The next national Democratic con vention will be held at KAnsas City, 31o., July 4. This was the decision of the Democratic national committee which met at the Hotel Raleigh, in Washingten Thursday, to fix the time and place of holding the convention. Milwaukee was the only other city which competed for the honor of enter tainig the convention, and the poor showir'g she made when the vote was taken (the result being Kansas City, 40; 31ilwaukee, 9) caused a general sur prize. The claims of the rival cities are to ltel acecoawmodations, railroad ar.d telegraphic facilities were present C in open session by representatives of cach city and subsequently in exec uti%-c session. Ex-Guv. Stone, on be ha:f of Kansas City, and National Com udittecmau E C. Wall, on behalf of Midkaukee, explained the financial in ducements, which the cities they rep r,-sented were willing to make. EAch effered the committee $50,000. but in addition Kansas City was willing to f'.'riAih hotel accomniodations for the members of the committee and the hall with decoratious and music free of ex pense to the committee. Oae of Nilwaukecs strongest argu ments was the political effect which the holding of the convention in that city would have upon the German-American voters, who were represented to the eCmmittee as wavering in their allegi ance to the Republican party. It seemed to be taken for granted by at least two speakers that Bryan would be renominated and that the Chicago platform in substance would be reaf tirmed. Opporsitiou totrusts, expansion and imperialism, together with every mention of Bryan and the Chicago platform, aroubed enthusiasm, but dur ing the open ses.,ion of the committee there was n allusion to the iszue of free silver. Three dates for holding the convention were proposel-May 9 by 31r. Townsend of Oregon, June 14 ny Scoator Tilman of South Carolina and July 4 by Mr. Mcraw of West Virginia. A speech by ex-Senator Gormnan in favor of holding to prece dent and naming a date later than that for the convention of the party in power had considerable influence in causing iudependence day to be chosen. After the con mittee had selected the "Gate City' of the west the Kansas City boou, rs held a jo.lification meet ingin their rooms at the Italeigh. Ex Gov. Stone addressed the gathering, predicting that those who attended the convention would, depart with praises upon their lips for the hospitality they had received and that the nominee of the convention would be the victor at the polls in Novembe:. fTe coummittee was cahied to order by Senator Jones, chairman. Every State and Territory was represented either by the national committeeman or by proxy. There were strong indi ations when the convention met that Kansas City would be chosen. Each ety was allowed 30 minutes to present its claims and tho two rival cities ar gued in rotation. James A. Reed, proscentingattorney, of Kansaa City, made the opening speech, p'resenting the c'aims of the metropolhs of tho southwest. The in vitat ion he presented, he said. came not only from the citizens of Kansas City, but fr'm the unlaltering, triumphant Demotcracy of Mlisaouri. Kan.,as City has 39 lines of railroad, and her telegraphic lacilities are ex cellent. 11er hotels are more than am ile. Outside of the great hotels of New York, there were in Kansas City seven hotels that will rank as high as any in the United States. The corn mittee, he said, should have the hrst choice of rooms at these hotels, the delegates the second choice. Hotel rates he promised would not be raised. 31r. Reed was especta~ly fuhi.otne in his eulogy of the convention hall, which, he said, would seat 25,000 people. New York was passed, as there was no one to p'resent her name. Mayor Rose of Milwaukee presented the claims of the Badger City, whose selection, he said, would do its De mocracy good Although McKinley carried Wisconsin by 100Q,000 majority he promised ti-at the State would this year give her electorial vote to Bryan. This annoneement was greeted with great applause. The same clement which carried Wisconsin in 1892 was in sympathy with the Democrats now, he said. Tfhe hope of success for the De mocracy this fall lay in the German American vote. "Show to the Germans," he said, "that the Democrats are opposed to imperialism and expansion and they will be with us." (Applause.) 3Mayor Rose then turned to the fa cilities of Mlilwaukee for accommodat ing the couvenion. In the matter of railroads, hotel capacity and tele graphic facilities he said that the con vent ion had tLothitng to gaitn by going to Kansas City. Besidts, Mlilwaukee hadl a summer climate superior to that of her rival. T he determinati ,n of the convention city, he said, should not be a question of personal predeliction but of p'arty welfare. Among the others who spoke were e-Governor Peek of Wisconsin and ipresentative Leniz of Ohio for 3i[ waukee and David Uvermyer c'. Kan sas for Kansas City. At 3 o'clock the committee reassem bled. The vote then taken resulted: Kansas City 43; Milwaukee 9. The vote fixing the date of the con vention was in favor of July 4, 27 votes; June 14, 21 votes; May 9, 1 vote. A speech which had a great deal of influence in fixing the date was made by ex Senator Gorman. Hie said that four years ago it might have been well to hold the convention early, as the party then took a new position, one which Adrv anyof tihe lader out of the party or into temporary retire ment. ,The original then went into DOW hands, in the hands of able men, but many of whom had Rot been active in control of party affairs, it took them some time to organize. Now there was a good organization. The party was ready and equipped to enter upon the campaign. The party in power should be allowed to hold its convention first and the indictment of that party could be made as it has been in times past. Mr. McLean of Ohio also favored the latter date. Chairman Jones was autherized to appoint a sub-committee of seven to make arrangements for the conven tion. It is probable that Messrs Store of Missouri and Johnson of Kansas will be members of this committee The follswing callowas issu, d: "The national Democratic commit tee, having met in the city of Wash ington, on the 221 day of February, 1900, hasappointed Wednesday, the 4th day of July, as the time, and chosen the city of Kansas City, Missouri, as the place for holding the nttional Democratic conv,!ntion. Each State is entitled to a representation therein equal to doubled the number of its sen ators and representatives in the con gress of the United States; and each territory, Alaska, Indian Territory and the District of Columbia, shall have six delegates. All Democratic, conser vative reform citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political as sociations and differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and constitutional govern ment and who favor the republic and oppose the empire, are cordially invit ed to join us in sending delegates to the convention. The committee then adjourned. Starving Millions. Two weeks ago Lord Curzon gave the number cf persons receiving aid and fond from the Government in India at 3.252,000. He has raised the total twice since then to 3.500,000 and 4, 000,000. But large as these figures are they give no full idea of the extent of the suffering. "There are, as a mat ter of fact, two famines, one covering an are of 300,000 square miles, with 40,000.000 people, the greater propor tion of whom will be brought very near to starvation before they can har vest anothe- crop, and another of 145, 000 square miles, with 21,000,000 in habitants, where more or less relief will be needed." The wholA number of people affected, it will be noted. is about equal to the population of the United States ten years ago.-New and Courier. Tried to Walk a Trestle. A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says a remarkable feat was undertaken by a horse Wednesday, which had a fatal ending for the horse. The animal, a fine gray, owned by Mr. J. J. Thur mond, was turned loose and was grazing near the railroad trestle at Ilhwk's gul ly. This trestle is about thirty feet high and a hundred feet 1mng. The rails are laid on sawed trestle ties, about a foot apart, and without a plank run ning lengthwise between the rails. The horse started to walk across this trestle and actually made abuut one- third the distance safely. Here he made a mis stop and slipped through the ties, breaking two of his lees. it was neces sary to kill him and drag the body off with ropes to clear the track for the approaching train. A Popular Mayor. T1. Carson, the M1ayor of Brownsville, Texas, is known in that country as the "perpetual Mayor." He has held the office for twenty-one ye ar's, and he can not get out of it. He has declined re nomination time and again, and threat ened to resign if elected; but the peo ple have nominated and elected him in ipite of it. Hle was the first Mlayor elected in Texeq under rho new Con stitution of 1879, and before that he had been an Alderman for a number of years. Sold His Daughter Bessie Titsworth, who is only sit years old, the only daughter of Simon Titsworth, .f Milfoad, Pike county, Pa., by a second wife, was sold by her father for $1 to the Rev. W. RI. Neff, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. The father relinquished all rights and claim to the chili. An in strument in writing was drawn up and signed by the cnntracting parties and the custody of Bessie was transferred to Mr. Neff The Only One. Dallas, Texas, has a woman deputy sheriff, the only one in this country. Her name is Mrs. E-ama Van Du~sen. Her father was Robert 0 Daniel of County Cork, Ireland, and her mother was a cousin of "Stonewall' Jackson. Her husnand, Charles Palmer Van Du sen of Evansville, Ind., died nine years ago. Soon after his death ahe removed to Dallas, and until her recent promo tion has been connected with the office of the clerk of the federal court. A Million Stamps. Some three or four years ago a wealthy man of Chicago told a young woman that he would provide for life for a protege of hers, a heloiless man, if she would colleet a million postage stamps. She has just done so, but in the mean time the helpless man has not only recovered his health, but has made a fortune of a quarter of a million, while he young womnan's parents have died and left her in straightened circum stances. A Bad Boy. Oscar Collins, of New York the son of John Collins, a cotton broker, has been mis.ing'.,ince Thursday. hlis disappear ance brought out a story that he was an embezzler in his fathers's tirm for $6, 00. fuday Eugene J. Monthen, the book keeper, was arraigned in the police court, charged with being an accom plice. Oscar circulated a story to hide the embezzlement that his father had failed. Disappointed in Love. A dispatch from Darlington says James Gardner committed suicide at Mehanicsville in that county Thursday night by taking strichnine. D~isap pointment in love was the cause. Mr. Gardner was from North Carolina and was 55 years old. He willei all his 1roperty to the girl who rejected him. The coroner's verdict was that deceased came to his death by taking strichnino in grap wine with suicidal intent. AN ADDIRESS Issued by the Prohibitionists' Exca tive Committee WAR ON THE DISPENSARY. The Newspapers, The Good Women and Christian Ministers Called on to Help the Cause. The prohibition conference held in Columbia on the 12th of January, 1900, adopted the following: "lResolved. That Joel E Brunson. J. S M.'ffatt, E D Smith, J. A. Hoyt, F. R llbatt, W. C Thomson and Jere miah Smith be and hereby are appoint ed to prepare an address to the people of South 'arolina, setting forth the work and issues before us, and to plan for and perfect an organization of the prohibitionists for the coming cam paign." In accordance with the above, we submit the following address: To the people of South Carolina: The prohibitionists of the State are encouraned to make another appeal to the roi.ers for a supreme ff;rt along the line for the abolition of the manu facture and sale of liquor in South .arolina. For many years the men and women of our State have toiled earnestly to effect legal prohibition of the liquor traffic, and gratifying pro gress was being made not only in ban ishing the licensed saloon from all ter ritory withouL i-orporatcd towns and cities, but there was at-h being ac complished in the way of reducing the number of saloons here and there, and also in securing control of the smaller municipalities through the ballot box or restrictive legislation. This pro gress in temperance reform induced an application the regularly constituted authorities of the Democratic party in control of the election machinery of the State for a separate b x in which to vote for or against prohibition, and this privilege was granted in the pri mary election of 1892, resulting in an overwhelming majority for the legal prohibition of the liquor traffic, and along with this result there was ob tained a clear majority of members in the lower house, who passed a strict prohibitory measure in accordance with the verdict ot the people. This measure was defeated, however, and in its stead was substituted the dispen sary law for the regulation and control of the traffic, an importation that was recognized as contrary to the wishes of the people and in direct conflict with their ascertained verdict. Thus the dispensary bvgan its career as a supplanter, and it has made seven years of uncanny record, marked by bloody and disgraceful steps from the beginning. The present condition of the liquor business can hardly be said to be sat isfactory to a single intelligent person in the State. When the dispensary law was first adopted, thousands of our honest people hoped for, and expected much from it. They were told that the restrictive features of the law would be enforced by sober State offcials, who, not having any financial interest at stake, would labor to reduce consump tion of liquor and make the dispensary system a stepping stone to prohibition. The dispensary had been in operation but a short time Defore the greed of gold be gan to manifest itself among high offiials, and pressure was brought to bear upon dispensers to increase sales. The annual salary paid to a common county dispenser would buy thirty bales of cotton, and he was given to understand that his dispensary must be profitable to the State or it would be clo-e iand he himself dismia-ed from the service. The sales inorcased at once and have increased month by month ever since; so that today the State is welling nearly as much liquor as ever -did the old barrooms in? their palmiest days. And how sould it be otherwise? The appetite for drink is the same and every hisdrance to the sale of liquor has been swept away. The door of the dispen eary stands wide open to serve every one that will buy, No knowledge of the purchaser necessary, ne inqutry as to the purpose for which the lhquor is wanted, and no signature to any request; simply pay your money and take your liquor, as much as sou can carry, if von like. So indifferent -and demoralized have become our State and county off cials, that although these violations of law arc known to all of them, they have neithtr the manliness nor moral couri age .o iiy to bring the offenders to jus tice. Tourat hotel privileges and beer shops i.aise been, and are still, conduct ed under the very nose of the governor of the Sate without a shadow of law, and no effort made to prevent it. Dis penser after dispenser has stolen or lost the money of the State and not one has ever been punished or even prosecuted, except in one or two instances. Com missions and rebates and bribes and thefts and murders have been the natu ral products of this system of State liquor selling, and, after years of such work, its managers still plead with us to ' gite it a fair trial." The.,e who manage it say the dispen sary pauid last year $130,000 to the edu cation of the children of the State, but they did not tell the startling fact that the dispensary had drawn from the peo pie of the State at least 20) times as much and spent it in fat salaries and other expenses, purch-aes, etc , of the liquor system. It may be said that in addition to the $130,000, the counties and towns received a small sum ea~sh and to th'.s we reply: The ex penses incurred by the counties and towns in the trial, punishment and support of criminals, who hav'e been made such by the l quor sold them by the State, will far more than balance the money received from the dispensary. We state- it modestly when we say the present system of liquor selling is robbing the people of the State of $20 for every dollar paid to the State treasurer for educational purposes. The State board of control is sending out of our State each sear at least $1,000,000, and in exchange for it bringing into the State and distri buting to our people five times the amount in poverty, wretchedness, dis ease and death. We appeal to every newspaper in the State that has a sense of honesty and fain tohoe sight of the few dollars that may come to it through those who love liquor; to forego the imaginary pleasure of holding up the hands of those who cry, "personal liberty," when the personal liberty is violative of the rights of others, and to join with us in the effort to remove the accursed lilunr traffic from our State. We appeal to the good women of the State. and when have the women of South Carolina ever failed in a good cause? You cannot vote, it is true. but you can Live expression to your opp~si tion to the liquor traffie by weariug the badge and by a thousand acts of your life, and it way be your hand that shall drive the "tent nail" through the head of the monster that is now actually eating your off spring. We appeal to the Christian ministers of the State. Shall th*.se who preach the gospel enter the field and speak against liquor selling? See the Master with a scourage driving out the money changers frout the temple, overthrow ing the tables and pouring out their money; and hear Him cry, "Woe unto scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can 5e escape the damnation of hell?" and you will see that le did not seem to have a sort of namby pamby citi zenship, nor to have been afraid of of fending against the proprieties of life. Remember that this liquor selling and liquor drinking is the one great battery of hell, manned chiefly by the devil himself, and is shelling the church of Christ, slaying you brothers all around you, and you stand as watch men on the walls of Zion and must cry out with warning to those around you. Arise as soldiers of the cross and sil ence forever this distructive agency of the devil. Light the fires of prohibition on every hilltop in the State; let the rays go gliding down the valleys and floating on the bosom of every stream until the healing beams shall penetrate every nook and corner, every crack and crev ice in the homes and hearts of our peo ple. "Then shall the earth Yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us." Joel E. Brunson, Chairman. J. S. Moffatt, E D. Smith, James A. Hoyt, F. H. Hyatt, W. C. Thomson, Jeremiah Smith. TO SUE THE S'ATE. The Carolina National Bank of Colum bia Authorized to Do So. The legislature passed the bill auth orizing the Carolina National Bank to bring suit against the State for the re covery of money placed to the credit of the State penitentiary on two notes en dorsed by Neal as superintendent, the said notes having never been paid. The State will lose nothing in the suit. If it it be shown that the bank can hold the State responsible, then the State may go back on Neal's bondholders. If the State is not accountable, then the bank and Neal must have it out be tween them. The recent legislation further provides that this suit will not aflect the status of the criminal action already brought against Neal. l'he joint resolution reads: Whereas thbe Carolina National Bank of Columbia, now holds one note of W. W. Russell for $600 dated July 8th, 1899. and one note of C. W. iRaesdale for $2.000i both payable to the order of W A. Neal, superintendent, and en dorsed by W. A. Neal, superintendent, and discounted by the said bank for the accommodation of the State peniten tiary, the proceeds thereof going to the credit of the penitentiary in the said bank; and whereas both of said notes are nsow pa~c due and unpaid, and the makers thereof having failed and re fa~ed to pay the amne on demand, the said bank claims that the State should pay the said notes and refund and re turn to it the proceeds thereof, placed by it to the credit of the pentitentiary, with interest thereon; and whereas, the State is un willing to do so unless its liability in the premises shall first be legally established; and whereas, no action can be brought against the State without its aut hority; therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the State of South Carolina: Thbat the said banik be. and it is hereby authorized to bring and prose cute against the State, in the courts of the State. any action or actions, as it may be advised, for the purpose of test ing the liability of the State in the premises, and of establishing the validi ty of the said claim against the State. The leave herein granted to sue the State is upon the express condition that nothing herein contained is to be con sidered as estopping the State upon any action that it may be deemed proper to bring on the offiial bond of Neal and his sureties upon the matter in ques tion; and upon the further condition that if such action so allowed to be brought is not carried to final judg ment (should the said be against the State) by six months before the riuiht of action in the State on said offiial bond would be barred, then said a~tion is discontinued, and any judgment against the State rendered thereon tereafter, is null and void and of none effect. See. 2. In case the claim of the said bank shall be legally established by fial judgment of the courts of this St ate, as provided-for in the preceding section, then, and in that event, the superintendent of the State peniten tiary, and the board of directors there of, shall pay the full amount of the samne as fired by such final judgment, with legal interest thereon to date of payment, together with the cost and diabrsementi of the action in which said final judgment mr~y be recovered, such payment to be made out of the re eipts of the State penitentiary, or any funds in their hands belonging to the said penitentiary. Where is Aguinaldot A special from Hong Kong, British China, to The Evening World, says: "United States Cousul Wildman has information that three members of the Flipiaio junta, Luban, Ponce and Agon cillo, brother of the envoy, left recently for Japan to meet Aguinaldo. This gives credence to the story that Aguin aldo escaped from the island of Luzon to Foremosa when hunted by Gen. Lawton's expedition through the north en nart of the island. PENSION GRBBUS. Congressman Sims of Tennessee Makes an Invidious Comparison. The Savannah Morning News makes the following comment on a matter that has been attracting a great deal of at lention lately: The politicians of the north have debauched pnblic sentiment, in that section in respect to pensions. In their efforts to curry favor with the soldier voters they have favored pen sion laws of such a liberal character that about every one who served in the Union armies during the wtr of seces sion has been, or will be, able to get a pension. Tens of thousands of men have been given pensions who are no more de:erving of the assistance from the government than if they bad never been in the army. As a result of this there is a violatcd public sentiment in the north in respect to pensions. That this is so is shown by the number or applications for pensions by northern volunteers who served in the Spanish American war. In a speech in the house on Wed nesday representative Sims of Tennes see called attention to the fact that from eight volunteer regiments from the states of New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and the District of Co lumbia which were engaged in the bat tle of Santiago, and which had 209 men killed and wounded, there have been filed already 3,588 applications for pen sions, and that from twenty three regi ments and two battalions of regulars that participated in the same battles, and lost in killed, wouaded and missing 1,344, there have been 2,962 applica tions for pensions. It seems, therefore, that eight volunteerregiments from the north have filed 636 more applications for pensions than the twenty-three regi ments and two battalions of reguiars, though the regulars have served from April, 1898, until the present time, while the olunteers served only about six months. Mr. Sims compared the pension re cord of the foregoing eight northern regiments with eight regiments from .the states of Alabama, Georgia, Ken tucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. These southern regiments served for a longer pcriod than the eight northern regiments. but from them have been filed only 761 ap plications for pensions, being 2,827 less han the number filed by the eight northern regiments. "Look at the Ninth Massachusetts," said Mr. Sims, in the course of his speech, "and notice what a record it has for pension applica tions. It did not have a man kiled, wounded or disabled, ani yet it has on file 643 applications," for pension. Mr. Sims expressed the opinion that if it had remained in service six months longer every man in it would have been an applicant for a pension. Tnere does not seem to be any doubt that in the north the idea is to miss no chance to get a pension. The people of that section have been in the enjoy ment of pensions so long, and on such a liberal scale, that the pension craze is general and acute. The foregoing comparison between the eight northern regiments is a remarkable one. If the pension record of these regiments show anything, it is said in the south the young men volunteered from patriotism, while those in the northi had in mind the opportunity for getting on the pen sion roll for life. It will be said in the north probably that: the difference in the number of pension applications does not show treater patriotism in the south, but greater thriftiness in the north. A National Dishonor. The first trade to follow the flag in the East, it appears, is the liquor trade. The Chicago Chronicle reports: "['he trade in strong drink has outstripped all other lines of American commercial enterprise in Manilla. There were but three salo'ns in the city when the first American troops arrivod; now there are four hundred. If one picks up an American paper p'iblished at the metro polis of the Philippines he finds that practically all the advertisements set f..rth the attractions of saloons and the virtues of numerous brands of American beer and whi~key." As the President piously remarked in his re cent message: "The F'ilipinos will soon recognize the fact that our flag has not lost its gift of benediction in its journey to their sihores." Nor our beer and whiskey-News and Courier. Gilt Edged Affections. Just after the minister united Mil lionaire Samuel Stone and Regina Neville in the holy bond of wedded bhise at Colorado Springs, Cal., a deputy sheriff presented the blushing bride groom with a capias calling for bonds in the sum of $:50,000 to insure the payment of damages in a suit institut ed by Anabella Vance, of Goldfield, who charges him with trifling with her affec tions. As Mr. and Mrs. Stone were about to start upon their wedding trip another deputy sheriff served a capais issued to Miss Nelli Lewis who charges that Stone enticed her to New York upon a promise of marriage, and that he there cruelly deserted her, and shij ped her and her sisters to Pasa. dena, Cal., where they now reside She placesher damagesat $200,000. What they Need. In his speech in the House on the Porto Rican tariff bill Mr. Swanson, of Virginia, "argued the inja-tice of per mitting the 300 001) tons of sugar in Hawaii to be admitted free of duty, while at the same time the bill -mpose's a heavy castoma duty upon the 60,000 tons of sugar fro'm Porto Rico; that the difference in this treatment resulted from the fact that the sugar interest of Hawaii was owned by a few million aires, while that of Porto Rico was owned by several thousand small farm r." The Porto Ricans should get some of the trusts interested in their products. They would have no more trouble then, except, of course, to pay the trusts for their services.-News and Courier. Sewall and Bryan Meet. Hon. Aithur Sewall, of Bath, Me., candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Bryan in 1896, met Bryan in Atlanta on Wednesday. Mr. Sewall said he had no choice for the vice presi dential nomination. Mr. Bryan's nomi nation for first place on the ticket he put down as a foregone conclusion. TUE STATE CAPITOL. The Text of Act Recently Passe to Complete it. WORK WILL BEGIN AT ONCE. All Realize That the Combrtion of the Structure is the Wish of the People and Legislature. In a-few months the neighborhood around the old State capitol will be the scene of great activity, unless--there is trouble with the sinking fundoommis sion about getting the money. The building is to be finished if the legis latute's wishes are to be carried out. The splendid, but rather ponderouF, .pile of granite is to be transformed nto something nore stately and more State like. It was with some trepidatien that friends of the movement introduced a hill to appropriate $50 000 out of the State treasury for that purpose. The <enate passed the bill by a large ma j)rity. The h.)use was not so strongly 1u favor of the measure, for the $10 000 appropriation for the Chickamauga monument and the $3500A) appropria tion for Winthrop'snew.dormitory had been granted. But Mr. Stevenson from Chesterfield, came to the rescue. He showed that the sinking fund commission had near ly $200,000 in the bank drawing four per cent. interest. Why not lend this amount to the State treasury refund it at the rate of $15,000 per annum? This would not increase the levy of the State and wouid not hurt the ap propriations to other causes. The suggestion was adopted by both houses, and the following at was pass ed and has been approved-by-the gover nor: Section 1. That- the sum of $175 000 of the sinking fund in the hands of the sinking fund commission, as shown by their report, shall be used by the sink ing fund commission to complete the State house, the said commission acting with the commission hereinafter ap pointed in haviniz the same completed; .Lnd the sum of $15,tm10 per year of the taxes collected annually for State pur poses is hereby set aside and pledged annually to repay.the sum so used from the sinking fund for this purpose, and four per cent. annual interest thereon till the whole is paid. See. 2 That the governor, -secretary of State and one member of the senate, to be appointed by the president of the senate, and two members of the house, to beappointed by the speaker of the house, be, and are hereby, appointed a commission with the sinking fund com mission to take charge of and direct the completion of the State house; to let out all work herein authorized. to make all necessary contracts, inluding the employment of an architect, and to cee that the said work is completed accord ing to the contract, and to do any and every act necessary to carry out the p-rpose of this act. Provided, hat no funds shall be set aside except as they are actually needed, and shall not be used unless a contract be entered into to complete the said State house for the sum set apart. Since the adjournment of the general assembly the point raised in the sen ate as to the legal right to loan the sinking fund money to the State has retcd no end of discussion am-ing lawyers, and those who are mcmters of the commission have been looking into it with care. They say if the State could be sued there would be no trouble. They realize that it is the wish of the people and the general as sembly that the capitol be completed in this way, and say it will be done if it can be done. From what can be heard now it looks as if the whole mat ter will be taken up when the sinking fund commission meets early in 3Lrc. There is a strong sentiment among t he members to make yip a case to be taken before the supreme court, ssking sa immediate deliverance from that tri bnal so that the work will not be de layed if the lesistature's wishes can be carried out.--The State. To Punish Assassin. A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky, says as a result of a conference of thle Dmoratic legislators on the proposed reward bill a substitute for Senator Ferguson's bill was drafted. The new measure provides for the election of five commissioners, viz: John K. Hendrick Joseph H. Lewis, John D. Clark, William M. Moore and B. W. Bradbarnt, to hive charge of a fund of $100.000 apppropriated out of the state treasury and to expend so much there of as they deem necessary to apprehend and convict the assassin of Governor William Goebel and coispirators re sponsible for the act of the asu&ssin. It provided that not exceeding $15,000 be voted to the prelimninary work of the commission. The commissioners shall offer out of the fund whatever reward they deem necessary for the apprehen sion of the assasin, and each conspirator. The bill provides thaL not a cent of the fund shall be used in the employment of counsel and that no order expending money shall be valid except by the unanimous consent of the commis sioers. Burned to Death. Ben~ Walker, an old Negro, was burned to death, near Thomaaton, Ga., Wdesday night, in a peculiar m n nr. Walker had some money buried under his house and when the building took fire he crawled under it and at tempted to dig it up. When he was taken from under the burning building e had received burns which proved fatal. It Took Money. Senator Clark insists that he paid no money for the purchase of votes, but says: "It was estimated that it would take $35,000 to control the committec and that $75,000) would be necessary to control the legislature. There was no limit and I agreed to pay whatever might be necessary." An yet Senator Clark insists that he was working to purify hi pa ad bought no votes.