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BRAVE WORDS. Democratic Doctrin That Has the Right Ring to It. DEMOCRATS CAN WIN Next Year If They Will Unite and Stick to the People. The Party Has a Great Opportunity. Its Principles Are Now Stronger Than Ever. Many of the Larger Papers Are in the Pay of the Trusts and Can't Be Trusted. From Mr. Bryan's latest great speech the following extracts are cull ed. They are words that have the right ring, that breathe true demo cratic principles that are calculated to enthuse, and that point the way to democratic success in 1908: As the DemocratiC party believes in the right of the majority to dic tate the policy of the government. so it believes in the right of the major ity to control the policy of the par ty. The attorneys general of the vari ous states have endorsed another democratic doctrine, namely, the right to each state to control its do mestic affair, and this endorsement will strengthen our party's posi tion. The democratic party is a people's party; it stands for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It demands that the govern ment shall be administered in the in terest of the people and by those whose sympathies are with the peo ple and not with the exploiters. Every question, whether it con cerns trade, taxation, transporta tion, labor or imperialism, presents the issue between the few and the many-between a government ad ministered for the benefit of a class and a government administered for the benefit'of the whole people. The democratic party has no rea son for existence unless it cham pions the cause of the people and it can only do this when the voters con trol its policy. The people are hon est, and they are intelligent enough to know the cause of their sufferings and to select the remedies. What the party now needs is to prove to the people that it can be trusted to carry out the desired re forms, and this confdence can only be established by rooting out of the democratic organization every mem ber whose busmness connections are such as to bias him in favor of the corporations which have been secur ing privileges and favors against the people. With a platform which is really democratic, with candidates who really represent the platform, and with an organization that is really in sympathy with the platform and the candidates, the democratic party can enter upon a vigorous campaign with splendid prospects of success. Will the rank and file undertake the work and thus pave the way for a victory? On the trust question, on the tar iff question, on imperialism, on the labor question-on every question the democratic party insists that its policy shall be guided by the people and that the party shall act im the in terest of the people. In all matters concerning the structure of govern ment, the democratic party stands for the largest participation of the people in the control of their public affairs, state and national. The representatives of plutocracy and of aristocracy speak contemptu ously of the opinions of the people; Jefferson did not, and the democrat ic party prefers to follow Jefferson. The rank and file of the party fur nish the votes, and in their hands is the destiny of the party. The pri mary system overthrows the boss and places the machinery of the par ty in the hands of the masses. This is as it ought to be, for the masses are brave when the politicians are timid, and the masses can tell what they want when the self-appointed leaders misrepresent them or misin terpret their wishes. The campaign of 1908 is approach ing; the public is awake as seldom before. Economic problems are be ing studied as they were not studied until 1896-that was the beginning, and investigation has gone on with accelerated speed. The time has ar rived to prepare for the coming cam paign, and the planning must be by the democratic masses. No man or group of men can dictate a platform or nominate the candidates. The platform must be written by the vo ters, and the candidates must be se lected by the voters, then we can have enithusiasm and hope of suc-: cess. Each individual, whether he calls himself a leader or not, can: propose, but the decision niust be made by the rank and file of thc par ty. Democratic prin -ip'es are si ror ger thtn ever befcre. The presider.! ha endorsed our democratic doctrines the regulaton of railreads. the pros ecuti 'e of the trusts, the ii.cm tax and arbitration, but the republican leade . e refuz~?d to follo-.v him. What a : rogth it wi.& le ti. us to quote the p .Aent in support of our doctrines w~hiel the renublican leaid ers oppose them. When have we had such an advantage before? Secretarv Taft goes a step farther than the~ president does on the tariff question and gives us arguments which we can use in favor of tariff reform, and then he weakens on the proposition and asks to have tariff reform post poned until after the election for fear an early revision might hurt the republican party. The Democratic party has a great opportunity at this time. Have the federal courts trespassed upon the rights of the states? It is the people* who suffer. Have our elections been 4d? It is the people who suffer. Have the monopolies stifled competition and plur.dered the public? It is the people who suffer. Has the United States Senate become the rendez'oads of the representative of predatury wealth? It is the people who suffer and to the people we must look for relief through the election of sena tors by direct vote. Do high import duties tax the many for the benefit of the few? It is the people who suf fer. Do the railroads extort an ex cessive rate to pay dividends upon watered stock? It is the people who suffer. There arc a few metropolitan pa pers, calling themselves democratic, which are now urging the democrat ic party to become the exponent of predatory wealth. It were better for the party if these papers did not call themselves democratic. for they do the party far more injury by pre suming to speak for it than '..,y could do if they openly opposed the party. These papers not only mis represent democratic sentiment themselves, but they constantly quote each other as the exponents of demo cratic sentiment, and what is worse. they are quoted by republican papers as reflecting democratic sentiment. They sometimes admit that the mass es favor a progressive policy but in a "holier than thou" tone castigate the masses and call upon the "super ior" element to save the party from its own folly. Some of these papers are owned bodily by favor-seeking corporations, and their editors are employed to chloroform their readers while the proprietors pick their pock ets. Others are owned by men who are aristocratic rather than demo cratic in their sympathies and whose let.nings toward plutocracy are due to a habit of mind or a perversion of heart, but whatever the reason, these papers do not represent the rank and file of the party and do not appreci ate the party's opportunities or its obligations. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. A Man Crazed With Jealousy Kill ed Self and Wife. Clutching her two-year-old baby in her arms and fleeing in her night clothes from ner crazed husband, Mrs. Minnie Rainey was shot down in front of the grocery store kept by the couple at 108 Bry Street, Bruns wick, Ga., at 1 o'clock Sunday morn ing. Catching his wife by the arm, Rain ey placed the muzzle of his revolver in her left eye, sending a bullet through her brain. The woman fell on the board walk with a shriek. The man's mother, who had been arous ed by the wife's first cry for help reached the place in time to see her shot down. The mother ran to her own house, rarrowly escaping from the crazed man. Standing by the foot of his dying wife, Rainey put the smoking revol ver to his left ear and sent a ball crashing through his brain. He fell but a few inches from his wife, and the blood spurting from his wound over the face and clothes of the child. In a few minutes he was dead. The woman was carried to the city hospital and was barely alive Sunday night. Death is expected any mo ment. Rainey was 29 years of age. He married four years ago and the couple were devoted to each other. Three weeks ago he broke off drink ing and soon developed signs of in sanity. Hie became intensely jealous and both the mother and wife feared just such a tragedy. Saturday night the grocery store was kept open until midnight. The couple had just retir ed to their rooms in the rear when the man's mother, living next door. heard the shrieks of her daughter-in law and rushed to the store door, she found it locked. She could hear the couple struggling on the inside. Finally the door was partly opened and the young wife, with her child, escaped. Rainey followed a moment later, revolver in hand. A pathetic feature of the tragedy is the continued calls of the little two-year-old boy for his father and mother. Standing by the side of the coffin Sunday evening, he kissed the face of his dead father and bid him good-bye wnen the corp-e was car ried to the undertakers. GEN. LEE'S WAR HORSE. Skeleton of Traveler to Be Mounted at Washington and Lee. The skeleton of Gen. Robert E. Lee's famous warhorse, "Traveler," has been mounted and will be set up at Washington and Lee university. The bones were preserved at Wash ington and Lee until a few months ago, -when they were sent to Roches ter, N. Y., to be mounted, the ex pense to be defrayed by Mr. Joseph Bryan at Richmond. "Traveler" was one of the most noted of all the great warhorses of history. He was a fine specimen of the Gray Eagle stock, and was a great favorite with his master. He came into the possession of General Lee early in 1862. At first he was used as an extra horse, but his indo mitable pluck and splendid qualities so appealed to General Lee that he was used almost constantly. He bore his owner from Appomattox to Rich mond after the surrender. When General Lee came to Lex ington, in 1865. to accept the presi dency of Wa~hington college, he rode "Traveler," and the faithful animal was his riding horse until the death of General Lee. Many times did the old Confederate chieftain ride over the beautiful hills surrounding Lex inrton or. the bek of his patient old horse. "Tr ~av eler," died in June following the doth of his imaster. General Lee d e i ni: Oec wbe :. 1870. The old torse, w hile azin the yard of the president's house, on the campus of Wash'ngton s ni L e, ran a nail in his fcot, wnichl reau. ed in lockjaw, nd this caused his death. The buJy was bu'i 'd, an I long aftrward the bor:e 4wera taken up and preserved at thie unirrrsityi, and now they have been returned, and will occupy an important place in the university museum. A socalled Democratic mass meet ing was held at Shelbyville Tenn., on Thursday, for the purpose of urging the cmination of a Southern man for the preridency. It was suggest ed that similar meetings be held in: all the Southern States. This idea, we believe originated with the New York Sun, a rabid Republican paper,. but it will fall fiat, as the real Dem-: crats of the South know that the: movement is being pushed in the in KILLED BY A NEGRO. Mr. Nathan G. Garrick, a Young Farmer, the Victim. The Murder Was Committed by Han dy Gloster Near the Place Where Constable Valentine Was Murdered. Handy Gloster. a negro tenant on the place of Mrs. Samuel Dibble,- near Cope, shot and Villed Mr. Nathan G. Garrick, on last Monday afternoon in the presence of Mr. W.H.Champey, constable for Magistrate C. P. Brun son, of this city. There are a number of negro tenants living on this place, and Mr. Garrick was Mrs. Dibble's agent, and Gloster had given him considerable trouble during the year. Gloster is said to be a bad, turbulent fellow, and evidently had made up his mind to have it out with Mr. Garrick when he could safely do so. He owed Mrs. Dibble $250 rent, which he was very slow about pay ing All the other tenant.s had set tied up, but he had not paid a cent, and did not seem to care whether he paid or not. It was Mr. Garrick's duty, as Mrs. Dibble's agent, to col lect the rent from Gloster. In at tempting to do so, Mr. Garrick and Gloster had several rows, but did not come to blows. Finally Gloster told Mr. Garrick that he would not pay him the rent but would come up to Orangeburg and pay Mrs. Dibble him self. This was some weeks ago, but Gloster did not come to Orangeburg and pay the rent as he said he vould do. In the meantime, Mr. Garrick kept a close look out on Gloster, and found out that he had shipped some of his cotton to a merchant at Black ville. It was evident to Mr. Gar rick that Gloster did not intend to pay the rent at all, and was appar ently getting ready to skip the coun ty and possibly the State.- Under these circumstances it was clearly Mr. Garrick's duty to report the mat ter to Mrs. Dibble, for whom he was acting as an agent, which he did on Monday morning. Mrs. Dibble turn ed the matter over to her attorney, Capt. B. H. Moss, to attend to. Capt. Moss got Mr.- Champey constable for Magistrate C. P. 2runson, to go out to where Gloster lived and collect the rent. Mr. Champy, who is a cool, discreet man, left the city Monday morning to execute his mission. He went to Gloster's house and while talking to him about the rent and running off his cotton, Mr. Garrick approached from behind, but was not seen by Mr. Champey until Gloster rushed by him and grabbed a pistol that Mr. Garrick had in his hand and shot him before Mr. Champey could interfere. The ball penetrated the heart and Mr. Garrick fell dead after walking a short distance. The shooting was witnessed by Mr. Champey and the wife of Gloster. It took place near the house of Gloster. Mr. Chamapey then arrested Glos ter and started for Orangeburg with all haste, as he was afraid that if the murder leaked out that Gloster might be roughly dealt with. As soon as he got to a phone he notified Sheriff Dukes, who, with his usual promptness, started out to meet Mr. Champey and his prisoner. He met them about two miles from the city and accompanied them to jail, where Gloster was kept until a few min utes of eight o'clock, when he was taken to the train and carried to Columbia and lodged in the Peni Itentiary for safe keeping. While we have not heard of a single threat of violence on the part of anybody, we think the precaution taken by Sher iff Dukes in sending the prisoner to Columbia was the proper thing to do. Mr. Garrick evidently carried his pistol in his hand, as he had had trouble. several times during the year with Gloster, but there Is no evidence that he attempted to use the pis tol. In fact it was in a case. He had just returned from Orangeburg after having reported the fact to his emloyer and Gloster's :.andlady that Gloster was making way with his cotton and she had better take measures to protect her interests. IThis report caused the sending of IConstable Champey to Gloster's home to collect the rent. Mr. Champey, no doubt, had told Gloster what Mr. Garrick had told his employer in Orangeburg, and also that he, Mvr. Champey, had been sent to collect the rent due by Gloster. This no doubt made him more angry than ev er with Mr. Garrick. Knowing the mission of Constable Champer and seeing him talking to Gloster, and remembering the many rows he had had with Gloster during the year. it was perfectly natural for Mr'. Gar rick to approach Gloster with his pistol, handy for use in case he was attacked. As Mr. Chanmpey was between Gloster and Mr Garrick it was an easy matter for Gloster to spring on Mr.. Garrick and catch his -;>stol be fore it could be taken out of its case. Being a more powerful man than Mr Garrick it was an easier matter for Gloster to wretch the pis tol out of his hand as lhe did and murder the man that had caused the constable to -be sent after him. The fact that Mr. Garrick did not shoot Gloster is strong evince that he merely had his pistol in his hand so as he could use it if attacked by Gloster, but there is no evidence that he attempted to use it. H-ad he had the pistol out of its case and pointed at Gloster he would certainly have had time to shoot the negro before he was overpowered and disarmed by his murderer. When Gloster jumped around Mr Champey and caught the pistol, he and Mr. Gar rick were cluite near each cother with Mr. Champey between them. The fact that Gloster shot and killed Mr. Garrick after he had dis armed him shows that his feeling was bitter against his victim, and he did not hesitate to murder him In the presence of a sworn cfiicer of the law, who could and would have pro-' ected him had he been in any dan ger'. These evident facts make a strong case against Gloster, and. he will have a hard time to convince a iury that he did not murder Mr.j Garick in cold blood. It will be noticed that Gloster's wife refused to surrender the pistol when requested to do so by C'onsta le Champey. This circiustance al so shows the feeling of Gloster notI only against Mr. Garrick but against Constable Champey. Acccrding to toe testimony, Gloster instead of surre n derin the pistolwith which he had AS IT USE TO BE. Revival of Old Farming Conditions in the South. During the prosperous age of slav ery and plantation conditions, the Southern foarmer or Cotton planter devoted his main attention to the production of cotton as a money crop. but in the order to do this on a large scale, it was a vital necessity for him to provide lavish food supplies for the men and animals employed in the prod'uction of the cotton crop. These cotton plantations were at that time mostly -ote from all good transpcr' vstems. It would be a m. he greatest difficulty, if not m: ity, for the ulanter to unde. - ..e purchase of these supplies in .-.tnt markets. He was therefore compelled by force of circumstances to produce on his own plantation practically all of his food supplies. It thus became a fixed hab it or tradition amosg the old plant ers to raise large crops of corn and oats. and wheat, and with the hell) of these crops to maintain a large quantity of live stock. He naturally had to have a great many mules for plowing cotton and other crops. and he also made it a point to raise large quantities of hogs, sheep and cattle. The standard food for the slave was corn-bread and bacon. This was also largely the food of all other peo ple on the plantation, but it was sup plemented by .wheat bread and beef. and syrup, and milk and butter. all home raised. Not much care was given to the particular breeds of cat tle. The main thing was to have large num bers of theim. These were fed and cared for on the plantation as a matter of (urse. It was a rare condition for any of these food pro ducts to ie sold away from the plan tation. Tc planter's idea was to ob tain his money entirely from the cot ton crop and to raise other crops merely as an incident to this con dition. This habit was so firmly fix ed is the minds of the old planters that it is with difficulty changed with the changed conditions at the present time. One of these old planters was re cently heard to remark that with the advent of finer cattle on his farm he produced very much more butter than he and all his plantation could con sume. He therefore did not know what to do with it, except to grease his wagons and buggies with it. In answer to the suggestion that he might sell some of this butter, he re plied that this was an entirely new scheme to him. and that it had never occurred to him to try to raise money on anything but cotton. The Civil War broke up the msti tutios of slavery and necessarily revo lutionized the entire labor system and farming system of the South. With the passing of the slaves, the planters found difficulty in obtaining sufficient reliable help to conduct his ,arming operations on the same bas is as before. His first attention tursed to cotton, and if there should be scarcity of labor, it would natur ally affect the supplementary crops which were th~e food crops. This gradually led to the adoption cf the system of purchasing food supplies from distant 1:oints. About this time there was rapid developments in the West of large grain _producing farms, making corn and wheat apparently very cheap for the planter to punrchase. Also rail road systems began to permeate the cotton planting regions, thus making it very easy for the cotton planter to purchase bacon and corn, and have same delivered at a nearby rail road station. This looked like the logical arrangements, allowing the cotton lands to be devoted entirely to cotton and the grain lands of the West to be devoted to grain, and meat. but there were several fatal defects in this scheme. First of all, the cotton planters had no ready money with which to pay for these food supplies. This lead to the system of lavish bor rowing, and what was even worse. the purchase from local merchants on what was known as credit prices. which were often 60 per cent. higher than cash prices. The survival of this system through 15 years almost impoverished tihe cotton planters. Then they began to change this system and devote more attention to the production of food supplies on the farm. This is now becoming the prevalent practice, and the cotton planter is now returning to his for mer prosplerity. This has been made much easier for him by the devel opment of the cotton seed oil busi ness. enabling him to exchange his surplus cotton seed for the finest food stuff that can be made. namely: cot ton seed meal. and cotton seed hulls le is enabled to raise cattle through 'jut most of the year on his farm prlo lucts, and through the winter moths he can cheaply feed cotton seed meal and hulls. He can also use this for stall feeding beef cattle and dairy cattle. It is very easy now for any farmer in the cotton regions. who gives thought to the subect to make a clear profit on all beef cat tie of from $5 to 510 per aead. This in itself is a profitable occupation without regard to other work. The only wonder is that it has not been more rapidly developed, espec ially in these times of scarce and high priced beef. This is a great op portunity for all farmers to produce large quantities of fine l:eef cattle. MR. Bryan was in Atlanta last Sat urday and received a most cordial and hearty welcome from the people of that city as well as p~eople from all over the great State of Georgia who were attending the Georgia State Fair which was then in prog ress at Atlanta. The Journal sas ever since Mr. Bryan's arrival at an early hour Saturday morning he was' the centre of an admiring throng: who were anxious to assure him of the warmth of their attachment, and he received a continuous ovation un il the hour of his departure fecz the ity. onmitted the murder to the officer of the law present, he threw it to his '.ife and she refused also to surrender the weapon that her hus band had used to commit a foul mur der. The above facts, taken in con nection with the fact that Gloster and Mr. Garrick had had several difficul ties during the year oa account of Glosters meanness and overbearing :lisposition. leaves littla doubt btut that he took the first opportunity to rnurder the man that tad prevented him from evading the payment of a: just debt.-The Orangeburg Times DON'T LIKE HIM. Roosevelt Not in Favor With Wall Street Gamblers. WENT BACK ON THEM. Having Contributed Largely to His Campaign Fund in the Last Pres idential Eection, They Thought They Had Bought Him, But After Serving Them Two Years He Kick ed Out, and Now They Turn to Cortelyou. The Washington correspondent of The State says George Bruce Cortel you has gone to New York. Of all the people who are scared at the panicky state of affairs in and about Wall street, George B. is the scard est. His little presidential boomlet would- be blown into smithereens in very short order were a real panic to come. and he has been so close to Wall street all his life that he is whol ly unable to differentiate a real pan ic from a break in securities in Wall street and the consequent failure of one or two of the big trust compan ies in that vicinity. For in spite of all the throwing of cold water on it, it is well understood here that the young man from New York who has had such a skyrocket career has his eye on the White House, and the only way he can get there is to be put there hi the same way that McKinley was put there, in the same way that Roosevelt was put there, namely by the backing of the financial interests. For whatever conspicuous circum stance Theodore Roesevelt may go down into history, it is beyond per adventure that with the financiers, I frienzied and others, who trade on what is termed "confidence" and who manipulate the people's money upon this "confidence" so as to amass the"ir enormous fortune, he will pass down the halls of fame as the man who would not stay bought. Because he would not stay bought, there is no man in public life or pri vate who is so unanimously hated as Roosevelt by Wall street. The money interests of New York have always hated Roosevelt. The one time they pretended to love him was when they bought him up in the last presidential election with large campaign funds. He stayed bought for a couple of years, during which time he was the hero of Wall street But when no longer able to stem the tide of public clamor for the ousting of those who had betrayed the peo ple's trust. and committed all sorts of outrages he turned upon them with his mighty flow of words. Wall street opened its phials of wrath against the man they had elec ted and who would not hold out against the people and let them in spite of the law continue their deeds of depredation. They still have faith in Cortelyou. He is the man with whom they made the trade in 1904. As campaign manager for Roosevelt he collected the money and the un derstanding was that the adminis tration was to let the frienzied finan iers and trust depredators alone. Cortelyou is still faithful to his promises, expressed or implied, but he can not control his chief. So Wall street's candidate for the presidency is Cortelyou. He promptly went tc New York to help out the Wall street crowd, and he helped them out. 0f course, Mr. Roosevelt approves of this helping out, for the mere mat ter of depositing a few million dol lars in banks in New York is such a customary thing and is so little un derstood by the people that there is comparatively little danger of an outburst from the people, ones feel that the little deal helps them out by reestablishing confidence in the bank ing insti-:utions of the country. But the very day of the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust company in New York and while Mr. Cortelyou was up there conferring with J. Pier pont Morgan and other magnates about how to relieve the situation and prevent the people from losing confidence in the men who have been untrue to their trusts, Mr. Roosevelt was down in Nashville declaring that during the 16 remaining months of his term he wrould continue to agi tite and put into oneration "My Pol ices." One prominent financier in Wali street declared that the man respon sble for the financial crisis in New York, whizh this fin~cier thinks means :he whole country, is Roose velt. Men are declaring that every day, hus: this man submitted to an terview on the subject and it was sent out over the wires. These who hate Mr. Roosevelt say further that if this be so it is a thing of which he is proud. Be thait as it may, those who have watched the course of the people and the ways of Wall street manipulators are of the opinion that the New York financiers are themselves to blamx. They are the ones responsible for the lack of confidence in them and their schemes. That once any scheme backed by prominent New York financiers was considered a good in vestment whereas now anything backed by them is under the shadow of suspicion is no fault of any one ex ept of the men who have been guil ty of such wholesale swindling that the public generally is inclined to feel that they ought to be behind the bars. There is no doubt that Roose velt would like to have all the credit for running in these swindlers, and there is little doubt that the people very largely attribute it all to him. He is a remarkable man. He keep-/ his ear close to the ground and he; knows what the people throughout, the couratry want. Cortelyou does n >t knowofhatare y want. He gets his; opiniown Ii theo many of his type* from the clke sn and patrons of the: Wold rf-Aub me dining rooms, and one and allstoria o the opinion that: "the people" consist of those who buy and sell stocks on the New York~ stock exchange. That is why Cortel you and his friends in New York havs the absurd idea that he could under any cir-umstances stand the ghost of chance for the presidency. ZACK McGHEE. Ir is nothing new for Bishop Pot er to~ dine negroes at his home in. New York, and if he likes that kind; f conmpany we. have no right to ob ject to his indulging his taste in that respec; there, but a decent respect Cor his hosts should have prevented PRICE OF PAPER. The Publishers Everywhere Are Objecting to the Raise. Subscription Rates Will Have to Be Raised to Meet the New Conditions in the Publishing Field. The Fourth Estate says while the outcry of publishers against the high prices of paper is practically uni versal the defenders of the pres;ut tariff deny that the repeal of the duty on pulp would mend matters But upon the whole the feeling against the "paper trust" is intensely bitter and krows more and more so as the subejt is talked over. The statement that the paper mills are run at a small profit, despite the rise in prices, is generally laughed at. The widespread dissatisfaction among publishers crc pped out -e cently at a meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Associated Dalies at the Hotel Lincoln, Pittsburg. Os tensibly the meeting was called to complete the organization of the as sociation, but all routine work was forgotten when the paper question came up The one fact of vital interest brought out was that the "paper trust" has raised the price of paper from $2 a hundred to 32.80 and $2.90 a hundred. and is even re fusing any quotation on future de livery orders. It was charged that the trust has contracted for the en tire product of 40.000 tons of the Canadian mills at a uniform price of $1.80 a hundred, of which it pays a duty of 30 cents a hundred, mak ing a handsome profit on the trans action. The consumers represented I at the meeting said that if the duty were removed they could import their paper from Norway or Sweden and save money. The New York Evening Post says the increased cost of paper and the general situation are worryng the newspapers that are using wood-pull paper: As already shown, the cosi has gone up tremendously and, what is more, the supply is by nc means as abundant. White paper is now costing $13 more per ton no,% than a few months ago. and the end is not yet. The Post sees great danger to the press unless the people come to th( I rescue of ths papers and patroniz them at a higher subscription rate. I The whole country will suffer if at unnatural rise in the cost of news paper living should either restrici freedom of utterance or force th( press into the hands of a few capi talists willing for one reason 0: another to accept a low profit, oi I none at all, The New York Commercial say: "this is a matter that comes vitall3 home to the millions upon million: of newspaper readers in the United States--people who in recent years have seen the price of every othel article that enters into the cost o: living steadily advancing while theia newspapers alone have been unchang ed in price or have actually declined; for unless this steady rise in thi price of paper is speedily checked through one agency or another, the prices of newspapers must be ma terially advanced sooner or later. "It is an open question whethel the cost of some "trust" controllec products--like mineral oil, for in stance-would have been highe1 had these industries been conductei Iwithout any combinations; the chie: indictment against these ''combines' is the stifling of competition killing off the smaller producers; but the exactions of the "pape: trust" threaten to put up prices or a product conusmed by five-sixth o1 the population." The Patterson Call says "those who have studied the subject deep ly say that the importation of all thc paper and material that Canadt cudproduce would not materially affect the price . The demand for paper is so great that the price will remain high, without doubt, in the opinion of experts . The real remedy will be in the direction of inventing some new method of makng paper, and if reports be true, some en couraging prospects for that achieve ment are in sight It ought to be possihle to find some material out of which paper is made that can be raised by cultivation, instead of hav ing to depend on spruce trees, over which man has comparitively little control. The Louisville Courier-Journal says "the increased cost of produc tion of which many industries are complaining has not passed the pub lishing house business by. The bur dens of the newspaper publisher have grown enormous in the past two years. All the important items of expense in getting out a paper nowadays are from 25 to 50 per cent. more than they were a year or two ago The price of print paper has steadily risen until it has reach ed exhorbitant figures. (Never has the publishing business been so bur dened. In some places newspapers have been compelled to raise their rates of advertising and subscrip t ion." The Reading Telegram says "to add to the perplexities of newspaper publishers, who are facing a tre mendous rise in the cost of making newspapers without finding as yet a workable way to distribute the burden, the Canadian government is threatening to put an export duty on wood pulp, which, if done, would soon doom American forests to ex tinction and force a recasting of the entire pulishing business. The spruce forests of Canada are ample to meet the needs of publishers for genera tions to come and under reasonable restrictions to open them to Amern can needs would be a source of inm mense profit to Canada. An arrange ment so obviously desirable to both parties should not be complicated by the interposition of export duties.' Harper's Weekly says "the puib lishers ask that the duties "on al! materials entering into the mainfl facure of prinlting-p~aper be imme diately repealed.' This is a move ment which will appeal to itelligenlt persons. War is not invoked. De str'uction is not threa tened. Crim ii statutes are not demanded. Bult the puh!shers assert that they suffer by reason of the tariff: that the paper makers are given an unfair advan tage also by reason of it: and they ask 'or remedial legislation. Takin' icio of the Manuft' urer"Cs a.sso-j ROOSEVELT HEDGING. He Hopes Case May Bedim the Brownsville Affair. Fedral Department of Justice About to Open Fight for Southern Ne groes Before Supreme Court. A dispatch from Washington says Roosevelt's Department of Justice is about to fight a battle for the ne groes of the South before the Su preme court of the United States that the administration hopes will bedim the recollection of the Brownsville affair. Attorney Gener al Bonaparte has buckled on his sword, and the skirmish is now on. The case arises out of an alleged attempt of white men of Arkansas to I frighten negroes who were working for the Arkansas Lumber Company, away from their jobs. Notices were posted warning the negroes from continuing at work. In this connec tion, a half dozen white men were convicted of violating the federal statute, enacted just after the adop tion of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, which makes it an offense to conspire, to threaten or in; timidate any citizen in the free exer cise of his rights. A little more than a year ago, the Supreme court liberated, in another case, certain men who had been con victed of a similar offense. With this situation, and, it is understood, upon orders from the president, the at torney general, unwilling to entrust the task to a subordinate, himself has prepared to plead the cause of the colored men. In addition to his brief, already filed with the Supreme court, Bonaparte is expected to ar gue the case orally before the court when it comes up in about ten days for hearing. "To be free isito be wholly free," says Bonaparte in his brief. "It does not mean that a man may merely have his personal liberties and at the same time be hedged about by pro hibitions and restrictions and denied first one right and then another that belongs to free men. "He can not have his full constitu tional right unless he is in no sense whatever in involuntary servitude. and he may claim the protection of Federal 'aw, if enacted by Congress, against the first infringement of his freedom, without waiting until he is striped of all his rights and forced into a condition of absolute and ab ject slavery. . "The government contends that the right of a colored man to dispose of his own service, to pursue any legitimate occupation or employment is a right secured to him by the thir teenth amendment to the constitu tion, and that to deprive him of the enjoyment of that right is to enforce upon him one of the inseparable and necessary invidents or badges of sla very, "If individuals can combine to hin der the negro, because of his race, in the pursuit of employment, they can, by persistent, progressive acts, at last deprive him of every right, the free enjoyment of which is nec essary to keep him from returning into practical bondage." RESCUED FROM A~ BOG. A Man Had Sunk in One Up to Hfis Armpits. John Lynch, of Jersey City, was sinking in a morass that held him like a quicksand at the foot of Ber gen Hill, between Fifteen and Six teenth streets, at 4 p. m. Thursday, when his cries were heard by Police -man James Donegan. The high weeds and cat tails hid Lynch from vien, and it was not un til Donegan had imperiled his own safety by venturing among them that he found the man. Lynch was thcn up to his armpits in the bog. Donegan sent a hurry call for the reserves and for a hook and ladder truck. When Captain Harms, of Truck No. 2. arrived, one of the lad ders was laid ovei- the morass and Donegan walked out on it and threw a rop;e to Lynch. who tried to get it and -turned face downward in the mud. Then Donegan jumped in him self with a rope about his waist, and fastened the other line under Lynch's arms. Tihe fireman hauled both men to firm ground. Lynch. who was un conscious, was taken to the hospital, Later he said hie had been unable to sleep and had dressed and goneifor a short walk. He walked into the bog, he said. without realizing his danger. SERVED BAKED BUZZARD. MIade All Sick and Killed One Who AtelIt. At Corbin, Ky., an Italian section hand, employed by the Louisville and Nashville railroad killed a buzzard Friday and cooked the bird, serving it wth umplngsHe invited three othr Ialanstopartake of the meat. Immediately afterward all four be came violently ill. An hour later the host died in great agony and his three countrymen are not expected to recover. Physicians attending ths. men say their condition is due entirely to having eaten of the buzzard flesh. Doubtless the way of the trans gressor may be hard, but the people who travel thereon have no time to get lonesome. 2iation one is led to wonder if the interests that first procured protec tion are to be the first to ask to be saved from their political device. "The newspaper publishers are sin ply asking for free raw material. They speak as manufacturers. Mr. Roosevelt. however, is of the general opinion that his party cannot prom ise tariff revision until after the presidential election, if, indeed, it :ill then see its way to do so. To his mind it seems that the party's chances will be injured if the country obtains ally inkling of its opinion on this leading subject." When the big papers of the coun ry like those quoted are kicking a~out the rise in the cost of making~ ewspapers, our readers can under-! -tand to what straits the average: ountry paper is put to to make both nds meet We see but one remedy. and that is to increase the income fthe Paper to meet the increased osjo rodluction or go out of busi-ji SHOT DEAD. A Merchant Assassinated at Mid night in His Home. SHOT FROM OUTSIDE. While Standing Near a Window Mr. R. F. Weeks, a Resident Merchant of Dunbarton. Is Instantly Killed by a Load of Buckshot Being Fired Into H is Side by an Unknown As sassin. Another atrocious crime was com mitted in Barnwell County SaturdaY night. This time the deed was com mitted at Dunbarton, a small town on the C. and W. C. Railroad about nine miles from the town of Barn well. ..r. R. Friendly Weeks, a prominet business man in his section, being assassinated in a room over his store. A dispatch to The State says Mr. Weeks closed his store about 11 o'clock. Saturday night, and went up to his room to retiire. He was stand ing near a window when some one - shot him from -the ground on the outside. The gun used was loased I with buck shot and several of these struck Mr. Weeks In the head, kill ing him, it is thought, Instaatly, The assassin got away unnoticed and the crime was ont discovered un til 'early Sunday morning when a light was seen burning in the room and it was noticed that the glass In the window had been shot out. Par ties went up to investigate and found Mr. Weeks lying on the floor where he had fallen when shot. The crime was first discovered by Mr. Staley, an R. F. D. Carrier. It was at first thought the crime might have been committed by some one who intended to rob Mr. Weeks, but this theory was soon exploded as -all his money was found intact in his room the amount checking up with his books. It is understood that Mr. Weeks had had some unpleasantness with pa rties in his neighborhood some time ago, but so far as the correspondent could learn no proof had been obtained against any one connecting them with this crime. Sheriff Creech and Coroner War ner hurried to the scene of the kill ing as soon as they heard of "it-ai held the inquest behind closed doors. It is- rumored that . the Inquest will bring out many interesting facts. Mr. Weeks was a native of Claren don county and had been living there for many years. He was marxried and is survived by his wife and one child. At the time of the killing' Mrs. Weeks and her' child were in Augusta on a visit. Truly a Great Man. The Atlanta Journal, which is by large odds the leading paper of the South. took occasion to pay Mr. Bry an a grand,,.but deserved, tribute in" its issue of Saturday while the dis tinguished gentleman was in Atlan ta. "It is not to be disputed," says theJournal, "that Mr. Bryan is one o'f the foremost citizens of the coun try and one of thestrongest, most~ compelling personalities of his time. For more than a decade he has been a national figure, and today his hold upon the'people seems stronger than' ever. The loftiness of his character, the breadth of his views and the ex tent of bis attaments places him among the most notable men of his generation. "In a remarkable decree he pos sesses that characteristic wh'ich, for want cof a better term, is often de scribed .s magnetism. His ability to catch and hold the attention of vast. audiences and to stir their enthusi asm has been demnonstrated under a thousand1 varying circumstances and always with e'qual success. 'It is a far cry to that autumn day in 1893?' when on the floor of the na tional house of representatives, dur ing the extra silver session of con gress, he delivered that misterly speech-"the drnmmer boy of Mary engo" oration-which first. caught. the ear of the republic. It was one of the dramatic scenes -in the history of the national legislation. He was, without effort, competing-.for the palm of eloquence with Cockran and Wilson and Sibley and a dozen of'the men of light and leading of the time, for there were giants in those days. "But when he sat down the coun try realized that "the boy orator of the Platte" was one of the forceful factors of his day and one of the' strong characters in ournational life. The hold he then acquired upon the' IAmerican people has never been lost. As time went on it became appear ent that he was something more than an orator. His facile and rounded periods were merely the harmonious vehicles of ideas and policies which found a hearty echo in the minds and hearts of his fellow countrymen. "He was accepted as one of the most steadfast of the friends of true Democracy-a forerunner in the wil derness whose contentions have since been embodied so largely in the prom ises and to a mneasurable extent in the performances of the republican party. The things for which he then---. stood and against which the Repub lican party resolutely set its face, were instinct witE 'the qualities which cannot die, and it is -not to be denied that to his eloquent and persistent advocacy are due many of the re forms which stand upon the statute books today, though placed there by the powers which opposed him." JOHN Tem~p'e Graves will become Editor-in- Chief of th~e New York Anerican. Hearst's chlef :a-re r' . a alary of $15,000 per annum. We are clad that he has been selected by Mr. Eearst to edit the American ashe can e of great benefit to the South. Mr. raves is a native of South Carolina ad has been engaged in journalisn