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AS HE SEES IT. Demccracy and Repub'icanism Clearly Defired. BY HON. D. S. HENDERSON. A Clear Cut Vie w of the O.ffer ence 8!wsen the TwD Great Parties in the United States. Hon. D S. Henderson, of Alken. who spoke at the mass meeting in Union recently, has defined the diff-r enees between the Democrats and H e publicans in this country, as follows: Fellow Citizens: It is esteemed a high privilege to be invited to address the people of this favored section of South Carolina. When your unexpected and unsolici ted invitation came, to come hither and address you on the grave naticnal issues pending before the American people it was accepted as a call to duty. I have felt that in the diszussion of these issues at this meeting, in an of election year, which is only the pre liminary of many which may follow next year, it were best not to address you in an off hand, extemporaneous manner, which is best suited to per sonal political debate, but to commi: my reflection to manuscript in the hope that I may be more accurate, sec cinet and clear. Issues are brought about by the hap pening of events, which generate idea3 of interest and concern; and being dis cussed and acted uon by the public become formulated into concrete facts as the basis of public and private a tion. Nations are initiated or destroyed by the result of such issues; and it is the duty of every liberty loving citizen, as the best indicia to his right to citizen ship to take an active part in such events. We should bring to the consideration of such matters not Rhetorical pyro technics in speech and glittering gen eralities from history, but common sense andreason and apply the subjest at hand to our home needs and home duties. As a people, as a nation, by the per mission of Provilence we occupy the greatest country of the earth. Born amid the peans of liberty; liberty of conscience; liberty of speech, and liberty of religion, she has been baptized in the waters of adversity and is now marching up the slopes of apparent prosperity and power. It is the people who compose the government. It is the people who formulate the ideas that guide national growth; and it is the people who muss decide the issues which the formula tion of such ideas bring about. All nations of the nature of our American republic must have rival political parties. It started soon after the breath of life was blown into the body politic of this National republic as the necessary concomitant of the fact that men run the government. They have existed ever sire under various name;, creeds and banners and will continue to remain as lorg as-the republic lives, or until its enemies, i they have their way, sink is into Imperi alistic oblivion. The written charts which bind us together, namely, "The Declar ation of Independence"; "The Articles of Con federation" and "The Constitution of the United States of America", were begotten in the revolt of liberty against the Royal Imperialistic colonization idea. The Constitution was a grant of power from the people; what was not therein granted to the government thereby formed was reserved absolutely to the people. EIEvery line, every syllable of this Magna Charts of the people was evolv ed from a struggle of debate between centralized government on the one hand and a government of the people on the other. The dust of battle which vindicated the liberty principles of the Constitu tion had scarcely rolled away when Hamilton. and his followers espoused the cause of a Centrainzd government; and 'Jdfferson and his followers the cause of a Democracy pure and simple. Ever since through various mutations and changes, amid shifting scenes and circumstances; amid battle and treason and traitorism and tyranny and pros peyity and adversity, the struggle has continued; and it subsists to lay. You called this meeting to-day be cause it was still going on. The Hamiltonian, Federalistic or Republican party bending all of its energies to centralize all power in one Federal head with the machinery for the promotion of its combines and &e pendencies to perpetuate the power of that head; and the Jeffersonian or Democratic party bending its energies for she preservation of popular govern ment and a strict construction of the constitution handed down by.- the fathers. The same Democratic party has seen defeat and stood it like a Spartan hero. It has seen victory and dispensed power; and stood that success with equanmmity and dispensed that power as an even handed governor of the pso ple's rights. It may again see defeat, but it will again see victory if its sons are true to its cause. It has stood as the Great Conservator of the business interests of the country; demanding competition in all the marts of trade. So that labor and in dustry in all modes of life can be com pensated. It has stood against the encroach ments of the greedy money gatherei and for the promotion of the healthy trade and enterprise in all departments. For the extension and protection ol commerce to the remotest regions oi the earth so that American progresi and American enterprise by the making of better goods at cheaper prices coui: command the markets of the world and it advocates to-day the promotios and protection of that trade and com merce to the fullest extent. Is has stood for the enforcement o! its own life bought doctrine that ther< must be no further encroachment up az American territory by Continenta powers for the purposes of monarchica colonization and. vassel rule; and i should never surrender or violate tb:0 principle of self preservation and .i as tice, least the worid powers shall clain such violations as a pretext for thei3 greedy action. It has gone further; and by deed and act stood for the peaceful acquisition o: American territory for the preservatioz of American liberty and tne develop. ment of American enterprise and progress, but it never has and I pra; God it never will lend its aid and sane uon to th.e acqusition of foreign terri tory for plunder and pelf. In 1803, under the leadership of it founder, the immortal Jdfferson, b: peanfu means anel money freely grnt ed in time. of peace by the people, it erected the Stars and Stripes over the Louisiana purchase after the tri color of France was withdrawn; and in that act as a part, written in the contract of purchase, it guaranteed the fall right of statehood to the component parts of the territory; and protection of life and liber:y to every inhabitant thereof. It took in the land and procecded to gov ern it with "the consent of the govern ad", carrying out the bed rock doctrine o: the Union :dr State'. it woud make t!u. .ame apostle of Democracy scud der i his coma, to know that in less than a century thereafter the govern which he had so carefully kept co vn in, its territorial acquirements to the principles of liberty, in the far East away from cur ocean washed Republic had seized territory claimed by two dure en sets of people and were en ccavoring to force upon it a govern moent contrary to their wishes and de sire. 1Iis ame old Democratic party after it had given liberty to the Texan re public, even by force of arms, saw no disgrace in hauling down its glorious flag from the ramparts of the Monte zu mas; and there will be no diegrace in the hauling down of that flsg irom the battlement of Moro Castle when Cuba's own government is complete. except it be the stigma upon her freedom of ac tion which the P'att amendment en grafted in its Constitution, put there by the Republican party. In the time of our dire disaster when property values by the fate of war ha i shrneh: to nothing; when life was scarcely worth living; when hope was near gone forever, anu the Republican pary big an:d bloated with blood and power, scught to make the Southern states dependencies and the abode of cultures to prey on us and to eat out our vitals, that same old Democratic iother with the brave sturdy Demo erats of the East and West stood by us and helped us to assert our manhood and regain our freedom of action. And now in tne high tide of the Na tion's progress, because forsooth the Democratic party (which has stood sun shine and shadow and will never die) has been twice defeated because of some differsnces of opinion as to certain party policies and because of the use of Republican money contributed by the enemies of the liberties of the people, we are invited to swallow, without even mastification, all of the policies of the party of centralized power to call it PROGRESSIVE Democrac;. God save the marki Not simply that, but we are asked to remain Democratic and absorb and as similate the beniicent principles of re puolicanism because we live in an eleo trical age of progress; and because we are told we should give up our trali tions, our history, our memories and our past forever. in the paraphrased words of Tom Watson or Private John Allen) I know not which, if we did it, if we tollowed this friendly advice where would we be at? The Democratic party would be dead, the Republican par.y would be the masters of the situation and the scat tered forces of the people would be forced into Populistic party, which is now sneered at by some of its formerly ardent admirers. Tiaat is what the parents who are behind this movement to invade the South hope for, but your goodjac g ment, your patriotic purposee and kisn regard for duty to the past and in the present will stamp it out in its incipi ency. Nay, rather let the memorable words of the great Ben Hil of Georgia as they sounded througn the halls of theo United States Senate sink into your heart, "The South is once more in the home of her fathers and there she pro poses to remain," exerising her privil eges and standing with all lovers of htierty in the grand union of states against monopolies and combines ani centra'ztion, no matter in what form it comes. Why should we take such a course? Why shaould we as Amnericans as weiA as Southerners and Carolinians, abro gate our fealty to the Dem ;cratic party; or worse still keep our name as Demo rat and carry Republican principles into its party councils, and thus attack its vitals whilst avowing ourse v3s in batont termns members of its political houehole? The negative answer to this itrquiry comes easy from a simple dispasion te statement of the avowed policies for which thre Republican party sands inthis year of Grace. In its FOREIGN policy it advocates in its platforms and through its acminis traton and its representative in Con gress, FIRST, territorial expansion and aggression beyond the Western hem isphere; and governmental colonization wnch when pushed to its finality means rapant imperialism; and SECOND, it advocates Congressional absoiix ism in the management of such colonies with out regard to the hmwaation of the Great Constitution. In its DoMESTIC policy it harbors and upholds the rarnkst monopoly in the shape of trusts and combines, in des tructiol of competition in trade, thus string at the vary arteries of industrial life and hoe living among the masses of the people. It prides itself as the originator and unceasing champion of the protective tariff not being content .o ring from the people only encugh to pay the legiti mate expenses of the government; and to allow to the consuming masses the fiiats of legitimate competition even in the necessities of life for the sake of protection of favore d classes which sup port it in its machinations and plans, it establishes a rubber tariff which op presses .snd tyramnizes those who need protection much more than those who are avowedly aided. It goes further and proposes to grant bounties and subsidies to ship lines un der the pretension that it is to aid the building up of our Mlerchant Marine, when it is well known and understood that such favoritism is only to pay off pat party debts and if inaugurated as the policy will tend to destroy the en ergies of our people and their individu ality, by causing them to look to the paterra'ism of government, instead of relying on their own efforts to extend their trade. Such doctrines are atd can only be considered republican no matter by whom promulg..ted. N y one can or ouht to object to the exercise personal prefeence in opinion butlet those vwho come out and avow such ideas announce thmselves openly as republicans Aptat from this paramount considera tion, what necessity, expedienicy or justification is there in our foreign re latons for an American policy of foreig a territorial expansion or kingly coloniza tion? N; one says a word against the ex pansion and extension ot our trade and Icomrce to the uttermost part of the earth; and its full protection by ev-ery ageny of government. IU China is to be dismembered, as she wuil be some day, simply insist on our tr~nde rights by proper treaty relations and let the territory go to other nations who wnsh - to own it and thus ample markets can be open even in that event for our in creasing cotton goods from our welcom ed cotton mills as well from all our other resources of trade, without em broiling ourselves in all ofthe evils which follow in the wake of the seizing of foreign territory. What d*- we want with more territory? There are waste places enough in our own land that need building up. T :re are idle people enough here to be employed without putting capitsi elsewhere to train up untamed pccpio to trades and hud:orafts. Let us take care of our own laboring class at home before expending our surplus energ~e3 on others. Far better would it be for us to ex pend the money whieb the government will waste in such untried ventures in a measure of governmental relief for the education of our ebidren by turning it over to the States to be administered under their school laws in proportion to the population. Such circumscribed countries as Great Britain witn its over crowded popula tion and its near by adjacent enemies may see some advantage in acquiring colonies whose people can be turned into standing armies to help in her de fense and as an outlet fcr her E r s and Lords, but we have no such conditions at alt. In my humble jn dgment when Dewey landed at 31aeilia and took charge of Archipelago of the Paillipines instead of confning his action to the order "to find and destroy the Spanish flei", which with added glory to the Ameri can flg ho did, a policy was opened up whion portends, if carried out, grave and terrible disaster to our people as a nation. The half child and half savage inhabi tants of these islands were found in re volt with spain and ought to have been left alone to have helped in her needed humiliation. But we were on the crest of victory and the Republican politicians seeing the opportunity to extend their grasp ing methods opened wide the.new door in order that there should be new fields for monopolies and trusts. The prin ciples of the forefather Paritan; the hope of the gallant Cavalier and the trust of the sturdy Hugenot when they settled this country and redeemed it from kingly colonization that we should shine as an example to other nations as the republic of the people and for the people was trampled in the duet; and by the treaty of Paris that policy of plunder was attempted to be molified by an act of purchase. Such a policy begun has no bounds to its fruition and therein lies the dan ger. The Phillipines will not be enough to satisfy the cupidity of grasping after foreign territory. Eight thousand miles away from us in unknown seas and amid unknown people it will re quire a stand ing army equal to those of the Power of Europe to maintain our authority among the nations and our prestige among the powers of earth; and this drain upon our treasury kept full by taxation, indirect thrcu3h it be from a suffering people is to be counted as nothing, for it gives the administration party the opportunity to make more of hices to be fided by more supporters. The maintenance of such dependen cies even if it be in the shape of a protectorate government only will lead to the formation of military assistance to other powers for mu ual interests, and this will inevit ably lead us into the warlike embroil ment in the inevitable warlike struggle which is always impending and mast sooner or later come 'jetween the armed powers of E irope and Asia and all of this danger to the principles and policy of our institution is witnout the aiight es nroessity therefore, becauce when we hal viindicated a rig t and the abili y to ne a WorAd Power all we hal to do was to rcquire by treaty or purchase if need be, coating stations for our ships, keep up our navy and nemand proper treaty rights in the future as in the past for the open door of trade and the free spread of the religion (of Chris tianity, and it never wrmid or nuld be denied. A recmnt Independence Day bard has put the whole thing in verne in a nut shelL. "Great is our heritage of hope, an d great The obligation of our civic fate.' "We need The fine audacities of honest deed, The homely old initegrities of soul, The Swift temerities that take the. pirt Of outcast Rig it-the wisdom uf t.he heart; Brave hopes that Mammon never can detain Nor sully with his gainless clutch for gain." To popularize this propaganda for greed and gain, the wily managers of this policy endeavor to infase into it a destiny and a fate in which they say Religion must take a psr t! The religion of the meek and lowly Nazrene as given us in the Ntw D).s pensation of God's Revalation, was never intended to be propagazed and extended with the Btole in one hand and a M~auser rie in the other. "Psace and good will" is the frontis piece on the pure white banner of chris taniy. That religion peop'e do not embrace which comes to them~ at the mouh of the cannon, nor will they buy goods from those who batter do en their places of trade with the guns of war ships. This pernicious policy of aggressive teritoial expansion has alreaiy given birth to a young Hercules of discord and dangdr in the shape of 2ongres sional ABsorLrnsaI Lurtured by the par ty in po wer and advocate~l by its pimps, which, if nor throttled by the Ameri can people will destroy every vestige of liberty left us. The Foraker Act hatched in the in terest of th-e Republican party was passed placing protective du'.ies on the products of Porto Rico. The waj rity of the Supreme Court of the United States, in its construction of the uni formitv excise and duty clause of the Constitution as between the states has declared that the power of Congress in its placing of tariff duties on its colonies is unimited; andl thus the bridle is taken off the horse and he is turned loose from the stall free to roam where he may. The power of the English Parliament is given to Congress in its management of these kingly acquirements; and the Constitution restrains them not. If this doctrine be extended to the inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and Property, as it is likeley to ne, then it erects a kingdom of Imperialism worse than that of kings and emperors. Danger signals hang out all arounm on this phase of this burning issue of Imperialism. And the call of duty whispers loudly to the p:.ople of these United States to have none to repre sent them in Congress who would vote to tear down the banner of the grand old Constitution for a mess of pottage. 0r fathers never intended that the inherent rights of the citizens of free soil in the protection of their lives. liberty and property should be legis lated upon by a Congress unbridlod by the limitations of the fundamental law, When we turn to the DOxzsTIC policy of this political octopus, tue same old party of greed and guin, the Republi by its proteges to swallow horse, foot and dragoon and to digest as good for the health of the Democratic party, what do we fned as the soothing medi cine prescribed for us by our anxious friends? Trusts: Protective Tariff3 to aid these frusts, and ship subsidies to pay off the rich concerns already bloated with other proteotives of protection: No right minded man objects to cor p-rate organjiz tions in reason acd right, because thereby capital can better meet the o'bjects of iegitim:,te trade, but those niommoth monopolies which en. gulf the aggregate capital of snaller corporations with the object and eff d of stifling competition; and destroying the opportunities of business and iveli hood of thousands of men and families; should not be fostored bat ought to meet the outraged opprobrium of all right thinking people. Our own State. along with other states, has passed strict Anti Trust laws, but I apprehend when the State's Attorney General comes to apply it, he will be met with the diac:ult qa :s tion of inter-state complication. If the United States statute called the Shrrman Anti-Trust Act is not found efficacious enough to-destroy this evil, let the party in power frame a Constitutional Amendment broad enough to root up the evil and submit it to the people under the machinery of the Constitution. Bat no, that would not suit them for th.ir campaign friends are in the Trus:e; and more campaign funds will be needed. Just before Congre-s ad jaourns a great fass is made that Anti fruat legislation is to be passed, but it is all fuss. And yet, this is the party we are called upon to embrace: God Lord deliver us: This formation of Trusts to rain the interests of trade and aggrandize the few to the injury of the many, natural ly arose, as its quintessence and eon stquence from the favorite fundamen tat doctrine of the Republican party, a protective Tariff f ar the sake of pro tection; as opposed to the Consttu tional principle of equal rights to all and special privileges to none; and as opposed to the Damncoratio doctrine of a tariff for revenue only In this day and time in which we live, by its workings we behold the trade anomaly of American Tru:t goods selling cheaper abroad than they de at home. The Rissian can buy American pro teoted steel for their cruisers cheaper than this government of the United States can for the upbuilding of her Navy. It can only be remedied by the con sumers of the American public demand ing that raw material of all kinds shall be placed on the free list along with all Trust goods. The Revision of this R >bber Tariff and the Regulation of these D:agog Trusts should be made the rallying crg of the Damocratic battle of 1904. Just at this juncture in our business history the export trade of the United State nas becme and will contiune to be immense, because of the industry of our people and the development of our rsources; and not beause of Tariff laws; and because thereof and its na turat interference with kindred domes tic enterprises there, the foreign con tries such as Russia and Germany, are threstening retaliatory meamures of protection (vhich we cannot logically rsist if we protect ourselves) and this status will surely oring to the Demo ratic fold an army of new adherents, if systematically nurtured as natural allies of this party of a tariff for a rev enue only. Yet we are advised to em brace Protection as a prper doctrine for PROGRESSIVE Demo cracy. It is an a'bsurdity, self evident on its face,, to cry for "an open door" in Asia and E~arope and elsewhere and then to close that door of trade at home to the outside world comning h:re to trade with u-.. It is pharisaical and dishonest to ex peci others to trade with us and *we nut to traie with them. The re cigrooity of the situavtion must ba looked na from the STANDPOINT of allthe people of this Repuolne, and not simply froz the standpint of the fcW. Mr. Mark Hauna, the king bee of the grand oid party, promised his campaign friends a ship subsidy dose as a silace for their aid and comnfort. T wo hundred and tthirty-five millions of the peopie's honest earnings to be dlled out at an anaiuity -of nine mil lions per year to aid existing lines; and it is said this was to aid in the estanlish mnt of our Merchant Marine to carry our trade to the new clonies and the world. Our- new apostles tell us to take this dose also into our political anatomy; that it would do us good. If it were right tc d> so, how much of it would iMARK allow to be adminis tered below Mason and Dixo2's line? Nay, rather, he and his confreres would j in the transcontinental Rail oad Lines in endeavoring to throitie our hope of an Isthrnian Canal, waich means so much to thee South. We needed no ship subsidy from 1850 to 1860, when the Democratic party honestly and practically and success fully administered the National Gov ernent; and our Merchant Marine representing the hanesty earnings of Americans tramped the seas in safety; and when no Robber Tariff was present to increase the price of ship building material; anid we necd none now; if we will only insist that steel ana iron, which are mostly used for building sea faing vessels are pt.t on the free list. Let not the Soutt be entrappd with this (Greoian horse vihich is painted all over with Hanna slime! Like the expansion policy this wan swallowed by some of our Demicratico Rpubican friendE after conierence with Hanna forsocth; and without waiting even to see if the Filipinos were shooting down our f ag, for this was an appropriation for the boys who ran the exhequer of the Gr and O'.d Party. These are some only, but perhaps the chief of these political National issues no vimpending betueen the great politi cal parties. We are advised, laowever, in pathetic terms "to reorganiz " the Democratic party. It has been organznd ever eince the dais of Jefferson. Why "re organizn" Why declare if you don't do this W E will stay with the Republicans or SOME MOR1! of us will go? Because she has been defeated in two pitch baties, shall we desert her and put a stain and d amoralination *an her leadenhip, which would be comforting to her enemies, by "re-organizing" her? Because some of her leaders have been dehorsed, shall we give up her principles and espouse those of our enemies? No, gentlemen, her escutcheon is broad enough, her fold is ample enough, her hope is strong enough, her mission of liberty is ete::nal enough, come in and j in the peoplie in their caucuses, conventions and primaries; give and take; confer and compromise; use tact and j odgment; and what things are lead and not progressive; what things ire against the interest of the business world; and what men ara not needed ,or victory, can all be left out, for the grand old party is not a dead party; or i one man party; at d let us all march >n to victory in 1904; but for Heaven'e ake don't expect us to "re-organize" on the basis of Republican territorial !xpansion; aid congressianal abso lutism! Protection and ship subsilies; and especially in South Carolina where that is advocated by the aimoners of Repub lican patronage. One more mord. National controvcraies sr; partiou !any interesesting to us as they arise and ar solved in respect to our homes. How do~s it stand in South Csr Aina today? She has passed through the period of factional strife. Her sons set together, as representatives of her people. in a Constitutional Convention in 1895 and solved the suffrage question and eiimi nated the friction or race by putting ,he negro where he belongs in politics; and further they laii the foundation for a broad education in the masses as well as the higher schools to enable future generations to keep dooa that race friction by being q ialtfied for the educational suffrage. From Washington we hear forebod ings and warning that the South's basis of Representation must be cut down, because of our action. These threats are made as to every Southern State who has acted like we have or are now doing so, like Alabama ad Virginia. The qiestion of the validity of our Laws. ara held up for consideration in the questions made on the ele ion of o ir I presentatives. And on the heels of all this we are told that in this state especially we ought to have two white paries. That more freedom of speech must be indulged. Let it come, but let it come in the Right way; under right colora. As Republican and Democrat. And when it comes, remember it means a fight over the negro. When sue whites divide ani one party is backed by the patrogage of the Powers at Washington, it mesos a new registration will be deman-led; and the entire reconsideration of the ula qiee tions will be brought forward. Are you ready for it? If co pitch in, As far as I am concerned, the same old party which I fought with in the Tax Payer's Convention from 1870 to 1876, to preserve white saprem yac; the same- old party which with tee RA" Shirt brigade in 1876 flung afs the alien yoke; this same old party which ever since has fought for that end, and in 1895 after tnree long months of work in Columbia framed a Constitution which-metthe approval of the white peo ple of the entire S ;ate, is good enough for me. No entering wedge for a division should be allowed in the name of any new fangled Democracy, whether it be called ,PRO RESSIVE or COX. MERCIAL. These divisions, these dangers, these contentions in the past have cost n too much. Tne grand old State, battle scarred, earth qake rocked and adversity tried as she has been, needs now more than ever the loyal support of her sons. In my humblc judgment the white people of South C..arolina at tis jainc ture are, and ought to be less interested in what issues shall be made paramunt in the Democratic National platform ii 1904; or who shall be our standard bearer then, than in maintaining the pumiy and autonomy of our party here in the State. National issues cannot be invented they are born by the way from the paramount ideas of the peo pie, and practical sense must be used at the right time te take advantage of them.. National candidates had best not be threshed out too far ahead of time les they may not suit the ideas, but it ii imperative, it is important, it is para msnt that we should keep the atmos paere around our own political hearth stone pure and at least Democratic. L et us see to it that no insidious R 3 publican poison is injected in'o the body politic in the name of Democracy. We want no scatter shots in that fight; no me teor-like flash-lights to lead us into the space of political oblivion, but the old time principles with tru' son1 behind them, and t'een the rad and file as the REAL proyenive Lmc racy will march for ward, along with thel other Democratic States if the Unios to National victory in 1904 Tne grand old S2ip of State is not wrz eked; she only. rocks andrells in the trough of a dangerous sea, waiting fo her true sons to steer her safely through. "Fear not each sudden souznd or shocir, 'hie of the wave and not the rock; 'Tii but the fispping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale. In spite or rock and tempest's roar, ln spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on old Ship. ncr tear to breast the sea, cUur hearts, our hopes are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our tears, our prayers, Our Faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, are all with thee." "Carolina, forever, God's blessings attend her!" Riding on the Tender. In a head end collision boiween the Chicago and ALton westbound "Hum men" and a freight train at Prentics, Ills., Wednesday, five men were killed and six badly wrounded. None of the passengers were i jared beyond sligh brises. Dead-Eegineer Sheelian of the pas senger train, fireman Evans of the pas senger train, three unknown men ci the tender of the passenger train. Just how the accident occurred probably never will be known. The freight trai had pulled into a siding from the Wes. und to await the passenger train. It is suppsed the train gradually worked out over the switch uneoserved by the crew. How It Works. Here is a convincing argument on the pernicious effsects-of the tariff: Amueri can steel producers are offering wire rods delivered at Manchester for $29.3( a ton. The price to consumers in the United States is about $39 a ton. Tak ing into account the cost of freight and other charges incident to trans-oceanic shipment, it is clear to the iEngineering News of New York that the. wire rod maker "is netting at least $15 per ton more profit from his American custo mers than from his foreign sales." *Power of Wealth. Senator Clark, of Arizona, is wininli to keep his copper mine stowed unti the grass grows in the streets of Jerome rather than yield to the strikers' de mand for an eight-h u- day. He loses $27,000 for evert- day the miners are ide. This shows the power of wealth. The little town is paralyzed by the cap rice of one man, while Waiter Jennings, a Standard Oil magnate, annoyed by the summer visitors at Cold Spring Harboer, has bought the two hotels and cloed them, thus paralying that town. CROPS IN T HE ST ATE. A Succint Statement of Conditions Prepared by Mr. Bauer. The following is the weekly bulletin of the weather and crops in South Carolina issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the cimate and crop service of the United States weather bureau: The woek ending 8 a. m , Monday, August 19th, had even, nearly normal, temperature, with a mximum of 96 degrees at Greenwood, and a minimum of 66 degrees at Greenville. These temperatures were favorable for crop growth and development. There was a slight deficiency in sunshine over the southeastern portion, while over the remainder of the State general cloud iness prevailed, generally detrimental to crop development. High winds dam aged corn and cottoa in the ex!rame northwestern counties. Excessive rains occured over the western and northern counties, causing freshets in all the rivers and creeks that destroyed what bottom land crops remained. Greenville hai 7.04 inches, Spartanbure 7 50. Anderson 8 20, and Liberty 6 68, while many other places had smaller, but excebsive amounts for the week. Over the central, southern and eastern counties, the rainfall was normal, or below; and generally bene ficial. Many points had some rain on every day. In small sections of Edge field and Greenwood counties the ground is still dry, but with those ex ceptions, the need of dry weather is in diCated. On sandy lands, cotton has taken on rust extensively, is shedding freely, and is losing color, but on clay lands a fur ther improvement is indicated during the week, especially for early cotton, which is heavily fruited. Young cot ton is growing too much to weed and is not fruiting satisfactorily. Early cot ton is beginning to open over practi cally the whole State, alth'ough pick ing will not De general for some time. The first bale of the season was mar keted at Chrrlesten on the 17sh. Sea island cotton continues to improve and is fruiting, but remains undersized. Young corn looks promising where not destroyed by freshets, but the general condition of corn indicates an extremly short yield. Fodder pulling i general. To cacao cutting and curing ih nearing completion, although some to basso has taken on a new growth. Ric< is heading and filling well, and sc me ii rea y to harvest. The forage crops, in eluaing peavines and grass, look pron icing. Sweet potatoes are coming up Turnip sowir g continues under favor able soil conditions. In many sectioni the late peach crop is rotting extensive ly. Army worms have appeared ii large numbers in a few eastern counties and are destroying much grass. Pastures are excellent. Species of Salt-Water Fishes. The number of species of ishes liv ing habitually in the salt waters of th< world can only be approximately esti mated, probably about 10,000. Thos< classed as "shore fishes" live, as a rule close to the surface and near the land and are well known to the salt-wate: angler in his outings as the weakfish striped bass, kingfish, etc. Of the shore fishes there are about 4.000 spo cies. The "pelagic fishes," or thos< which inhabit the upper waters of the seas, are relatively few in number The "deep-sea fishes," which live 1I depths varying from 200 to 2,500 fath oms, cannot be even approximately es timated, as new species are being con stantly discovered.-Field and Farmi Marked Difference. Willie-Pa, what's meant by th< "prime of life?" Pa-Well, when a man reaches 41 or so he is said to be in the prime o. Ilife. "And is it the same with a womn an" " ,son, you would insult a womn an by telling her she was In the prime of life. She's always younger." Philadelphia Press. Rickets from Water. In urging the necessity of a nev hospital a speaker at the forty-firsi annual meeting of the dental hoe pital said that since Glasgow hai been using water from Loch Katrine dental caries and rickets had in creased greatly. The same resul from the use of soft water has beet noticed among the natives of Sout] Africa.-Dentists' Journal. Finest Hedges. The nnest garden hedges in Eng land are at Hall Barn, in Bucking hamshire. They are over 30 feel high, are immensely thick, and arn clipped so as to present the smooth velvety appearance peculiar to the finest yew and box hedges.-N. Y The Wards Are Named. In Richmond, Va., the wards are noi designated by numbers, as is the casi in other American cities, but by the names of statesmen: Clay, Monroe Madison, Jefferson, Marshall and Jackson. Clay ward is the largest ii Richmond in voting population -Chi cago Daily News. A Kitchen Romance. Lady-What do you think? I have a servant who gets up in the morn ing without being called. Chorus of Voices-Impossible! "But it's true; she's in love witi the milkman!"-N. Y. World. The Modern Version. Teacher-People who live in glass houses should not-. What is the rest of the proverb, Johhny? Kansas Child-Should not try te run joint s.-Indianapolis Press. alow Progress. Pearl-So Dick gave you a lesson in poker. What hand did you hold? Ruby-I really can't remember. Dick held my hand all the time.-Chi engo Daily News. Married a Millionaire. A few weeks ago Miss Sarah Carr oa Boston was a cloak model in a depart ment store. Now she is Mrs. Frani Skinner, Jr., wife of a millionaire ar~i mistresq of one of the finest homes on the Back Bay. While accompanying his aunt on a shopping expedition, the y oung millionaire saw the girl who be came his wife, andi his parents made tno ohjgetion to the match. R./B. Weddington, a Uinion County, N. C. ,farmner, who died recently, was not troubled by the "race issue." He lived in the kindliest relations with the negroes and in his will he gave three tracts of land to three of his faithful colored servants, leaving money to others. The remainder of his estate, amnount ing to 1,i000 acres, he bequeath edi to the Methodis+ Churh. How Qaeen Pnshed Her Daughters. The queen's daughters were as sim ply and strictly rearer as she herself had been. They had regular hours of work and play, dressed in neat, simple clothes and ate of the plainest fare. "Quite poor living," an old servant of the queen's called it. If they were naughty they received the time-hon- 1 ored punishment of being sent to bed. This was not always a deterrent to the princess royal, as the following story will show: She had several times been scolded for calling Dr. Brown, of Windsor, "Brown," and was threatened with "bed" if she trans gressed again. Next day, when the doctor entered the room, the young princess said, in her most daring man ner: "Good morning, Brown," and, catching the queen's threatening eye. she composedly added: "And good night, Brown, for I am going to bed,'" and she walked resolutely away to her punishment.-St. James Gazette. A Colored Philosopher. "Ain't no use a worryin' about nuthin'," said the colored philosopher. dangling his feet over the edge of the barrel on which he sat. "Ain't no use t' get blue ner t' feel down in the mout', 'cause it ain't goin' to do any good 'tall. I say to myself, says I: 'Mose, what's the use of you scratchin'? Wife's been dead 'bout four yeahs. Last of ma child'en shuffled off las' week. I don' care if I eats cawn pones o' lasses bread. Live just as long, nohow. Ain' goin' t' trouble ma min' bout nothin'. W'ite man, he have wife an' child'en an' a good coat an' a 'ouse. Bar'l good nuf fur me. Ain't got nuthin' t' work fur an' ain't goin' to work." He shuffled off the barrel and moseyed easily down Hickory al ley.-Columbus Dispatch. A Definition. "Where's your daughter Mary living now, Mrs. Herlihy?" inquired one of the neighbors. "Her hoosband's got a line job," said Mrs. Herlihy, proudly, "and the two av thim and little Moike is living in a suit up town." "What's a suit?" inquired the neigh bor. "A snit," said Mrs. Herlihy, slowly, "is one o' them places where the par :or is the bedroom, and the bedroom is the kitchen, and the closetsis down in the cellar, and the beds is piannies -or organs, and - well, it's one o' ,him places where iverything is some thing else," concluded Mrs. Herlihy. Buffalo Commercia Mother Always Won. They are not exactly bad boys, these two in a certain East Memphis family, but they are invariably quar reling and fighting with one anoth er. Probably it was the fact of fre quent parental intervention that caused the few pauses in hostilities. At any rate, they are rather famous in their neighborhood. One day not long since one of the neighbors, who was fond of contests of any Ind, asked: . "Edwin, when you and your broth er fight so much, who generally whips?" Edwin gave a little wriggle as if in - sympathy with memories of recent occurrences, and said, resignedly: "Mother."-Memphis Scimitar. Animals for Taxes. The natives of Uganda lately paid their taxes for the current year, amounting approximately to 2 60,000. This includes payments in kind, con sisting of five elephants, one zebra, 20 chimpanzees, several warthogs, wate: antelopes, porcupine., snakes and cranes and numerous monkeys. All these creatures have been received at the government headquarters at Port Alice.-Troy Times. Casks at Sea. There are now afloat in the Arctic ocean some 50 spindle-shaped casks, whose finding is awaited with inter est by pole-seekers as conveying much-desired information in regard to the set of the polar currents. The casks were set adrift north of Behr ing strait in 1899 by whalers, at the instance of Admiral Melville and Henry G. Bryant, of the Philadelphia Geographical association.-N. Y. Sun. His Physicians Are Numerous. No other sovereign In the world has so many physicians as the czar. They number 77, and are all selected from among the medical celebrities of Rus' e ia. There is first a physician in chief; then come ten honorary surgeons; two oculists, a chiropodist and honor ary chiropodist; two court physicians and three specialists for the czarina. -N. Y. Sun. An Essential Mensber. Ritem-There goes Blitherby. , He belongs to our Authors' club. Readem-Why,he never wrote a line pof anything in his life. "I know it. But we had to have some one for an audience at our au thors' readings."--Baltimore Ameri can. A Sliding Scale. IErastus-Pawson, what yo' charge toe marry me an' Mary Jane ? Parson -Twenty dollars. "Dat's high. What yo' charge to marry me to Iliza Smif?" "One dollar. Yo' see, I admiahs Mary Jane mahself."-Boston JournaL. A Swiss Law. There is still in existence a law in Switzerland which forbids the wear ing of hats more than 18 inches In diameter, artificial flowers, and f or eign feathers, under a heavy pen alty.,'N. Y. Sun. Only a Notion. Nearly every man has a sneaking notion that he is a shrewd dealer. Washington (Ia.) DVemocrat. True Love. True love will find an unsmooth way, if there be any such.-D~etroit Journal Price of Cotton Ties. A matter of keen interest to home folks if the increasing scarcity in the supply of cotton ties throughout the cotton growing States. Unless early relief be forthcoming they can be had only at a premium. The price in Savan nah, which is the distributing station for all ties east of the Mississippi, has gone from $1 05 to $1 25. This short age is one of the fruits of the steel strike, and can only end when that is declared off. It appears that the Steel Hoop company's mill, now closed by the Amalgamated association, is the largest manufacturer of cotton ties. There are other tie mills-one in'O~hio, two in Georgia and one at Pittsburg, but the combined output situation, and the factor to be reckoned with is the probability which points to the early1 shutting down of the mills at Young town, Ohio, and Pittsburg. Inquiry into the local market's condition shows Columbia to be in a rather more hopeful way. The whole salers have .to buy their ties "second hand." They are, therefore, anticipating no difficulty in eing able to supply the local demand. As to the possibility of raining ,the c Electric Fans. A feature of interest connected with electric fans is that they are purely kmerican. both by right of invention nd of use. It is a somewhat singular act that their use in other countries Lnd in hot climates has been so limit d, but it is believed that at least the eginning of a considerable export rade in this class of merchandise has een made, and that from now on ncreasing and satisfactory numbers f these instruments will be shipped broad from our American ports. A nodern development of the fan, which vas primarily designed for ventila-' ion and for moving air or the creation f small breezes, is the application to he fan mechanism of cooling and eating devices, so that an actual hange in the temperature of the air nay be made. In this way certain electric fan installations have been nade lately which serve the triple pur >ose of cooling in summer, heating in inter and ventilating the rooms. 3lectrical Review. Caste in India. With the Mahrattahs caste preju lices are, as is well known, not so trong as among some races in India, >ut in Baroda all strongly approved >f Maharajah Partab Singh's helping o carry the coffin of a deceased Eu -opean. Where no caste fellows of he deceased are available for this ast service, I think all Hindus would old a man disgraced if he did not kelp. Still it is usual only for per ons of the same caste to carry a orpse. Among the Mahrattahs, gen rally speaking, water must only be aken from a member of our own aste, but with modern ideas these >bllgations are getting relaxed. The lrinking water in my palace is drawn nd served by a caste man.-The Ma- - iarajah of Baroda, in Nineteenth Cen ury. He Won Out. The fly collector asked the modest hotel clerk to change a twenty for um. "Got nothing but two five-dollar 2ills,' said the clerk, looking over his - safe deposit. "By the way," asked the fy col ector, going down into- his pocket aook, "did you ever see an eight-dolar )ill?" - "No; nor you either," responded the 1erk with confidence. "Bet you the drinks," ventured the ay collector, holding something in his sand. "Done," said the clerk. "I'm willing to pay for the drinks to see that kin&l of a bill, but I guess I won't have to." "No?" grinned the fly collector "Iow's that?" and he handed to the lerk an eight-dollar bill for a pair of trousers.-Detroit Free Press. Huguenot Oath of Alegiance. The French Huguenot refugees, who save met in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral ever since 1550, when a royal charter of liberty to worship was granted to them, have sworn al legiance to King Edward VII. Their pastor, Rev. Jean I. Barnabas, preached a memorial service for her late majesty, Queen Victoria, and then, according to ancient custom, the oath of allegiance was taken, th~e pes tor with uplifted hands making'the solemn declaration, to which the yeo pe responded "Amen"-N. Y.-Sun. Successful Scieptine Egg Sellees. Danish eggs are taking the lead toi their good qualities, thank to the sys tem of cooperation and selection adopted by the producers. Every egg shell supplied carries the name of its raiser', and as the eggs are all tested a bad egg is traced home. Eachraiser must supply eggs thrice a week. The central authority can reject an egg several days old. The eggs are tested and sorted according to their size by an automatic machine.-LondonGlobe. Men Pretty Decent After AIfl. M1en are pretty decent, after all A man walked into this office to-day and said he wanted to pay a bill 12 years ld. The bookkeeper could not-find the account. "Never mind," the man said; "I remember the amount; it is $16, and - here is the money. I would have paidit long ago, but have Dot been able." Ih you ever have a thing like that hapisen to you?-Atchison Globe. Just a Wish. I Mr. Plodder-I see there's a man i !ew York who has just paid $51,00C for a seat in the stock exchange. i wish I had enough money to buy one. Mrs. Plodder-For goodness' sake! What do you want with a seat in the stock exchange? "I don't. I merely want to have that much money."-Philadelphia Press. A Royal Chair. An interesting chair in the newly estored church called the Garrison hurch, at Berlin, has been ordered >y the kaiser to be placed in his pew here. It is a simple wooden affair, nd bears the following inscription: 'King Frederick William I. once sat m this chair during divine service." hicago Inter Ocean. A General Idea. "But," said the cruel editor, "this s not good dialect poetry." "Not good dialect?" answered the reamy poet. "Sir, I defy you to nd a single word that is spelled orrectly in that poem. I guess I knowv what dialect is."-Baltimore kmerican. Easy to "String." Nell-I never knew a girl so sus :eptible to flattery as Maude. Belle-That's right. Jack told her she was an angel, and she went right >ff and began taking lessons on the aarp.-Philadelphia Record. Suspious. Some men think nearly everybody is ying awake nights trying to invent svays to swindle them.-Washington (1a.) Democrat. Uses of Spanish Mouss. Besides the thousands of pounds f Spanish moss sent annually from Elorida and other southern states to -orthern upholsterers, the plant has arious other uses. One of these, a .se that has recently been discov red, is that of a strainer and puri ir of cane sirup. It has been found hat a finer sirup can be made by straining the cane juice through noss than through any other mate ial .-Chicago Chronicle. Natural Cause. Juryman-Yes, we brought in a ver-. lit of death from natural causes. Reporter-But an iron beam fell on iim from the fourth floor? "Of course. Wasn't that natural? iou wouldn't expect it to fall uip to he eighth floor, would you? That's here he ought to have been at work nstead of down in the basement." udge. "I am awfully disappointed inmy on," said the fond father. "How so' "Why, I've used, I suppose, 50 bottles different hair producers, in my ef* rts to make him a professional