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LOUsI APPELT. Editor. - MANNING. S. C., AUG. 6, 1913. PUBLIstED EVERY WEDNESDAY One year...............-.--.------'..1 Pom months.................... ADVERTiSING RATES: One square, one time, 51; each subsequent in sertion. 50- cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts naude for three. six and twelve LIEN LAW SITUATION. Mr. J. J. Cantey of Summer ton has discovered himself not alone in his position he took be fore the supreme court in the '.ease of Cantey vs. McClary =roadway Co. Hen. John L. McLaurin has written him en dorsing his contention, and fav oring the necessary legislation ,,.which will give the relief the court declined to give. If the legislature repeals the statute referred to, it will give to the landlord the prior lien on the crops of tenants with or without writing, whether the same be for supplies or rent or both. -Should this be the case it may bring about a condition that the landlords do not desire, it may force them to release their rights to the merchant in order for their tenants to get supplies, it may also have the effect of forc ing many a mortgage on the land itseif. Lands untenanted be come a burden to the owner, and unless the tenants can be sup plied with the necessaries of life and the fertilizers for the soil they are likely to become un tenanted; true, the large land owner may be in a position to supply his tenants, but the small land owner will either have to make arrangements for his ten ants or let his lands become idle.. The merchant cannot af ford to take the chance of ad vancing supplies and fertilizer upon the lands of another with ont security, therefore if the lien on the crop is taken away from him there will be no secur ity except such as he can ar range with the owner of the land, this may not always be satisfactory to the tenant and ight resuft in disadvantage to owner. Atpresent the law gives a prior lien for rent with or without writing, but if he also furnishes supplies he must take a lien the same as a mer chant, this, as we understand Mr. Cantey's position, he wishes to change, so as to give to the landloid the prior claim for everything, rent, supplies or S what not. ' '" The farmers might be willing -for such a law, and it does ap pear the thing at first glance,but when other things are taken ini to. consideration we think they wilt go slow about urging such legislation. The large landowners can pro tect themselves now by merely dictating to their tenants how Sand where they shall obtain their supplies without legislation, if they propose to do the supplying Srhemselves all they have to do is h.to-comply with the law as it is, then if the merchant advances to them he does it at his own risk, -at the same time the smaller Sland owner who is unable to make -advances will not be discrimi nated against because the tenantfl is permitted to make his own arrangements and give as security the crop less the rent. We have a high opinion of the views of Mr. McLaurin gen erally, but in this matter we can -not see as he and Mr. Cantey does, however, we are open to conviction, and if these gentle -men can show wherein the giv ing the landlord prior rights over the crops raised by tenant with out~writing, tends to help condi tions with both landlord and'ten .ant it will be illuminating. The following is the letter Senator McLaurin sent to Mr. Cantey: -MR. McLAUTRIN'S VIEwS. Mr. J J. Cantey, Summerton; S. C. Dear Sir:-I have watched with much interest the course of the case of Cantey vs. McClary-Broadway company. The -issue involved in~ this .decision of the supreme court vitally effects the farm ing interests of the State, and as a member of that class I thank you for -the ability and clearness with which -you presented it. I agree in toto withi thbeiviews you bold and fail to follow the supreme court decision which regard to section 4165, code of 1912. However, the decision of the court makes the law, and there is no way to reverse it except *by the repeal of this section. -This is the kind of a decision -that is developing sentiment for the initiative, referendum and recall. Which only means that the people want a little more hard horse sense and less hair splitting technicality in the adminis tration of justice. It is only those who )come into direct contact with labor con ditions, who know how difficult it is to handle. The course of our present sys tern has been that an ignorant tenant goes to town and gives a merchant a chattel mortgage or lien on crop. Then the land owner is helpless. The mer chant makes him plant all cotton, sells him a red wheel buggy and puts him to ridiog the road, while his wife and children fight-the grass. The land owner should make the nec essary advances and the fact that the tenant is on my land should be notice to all the world that the crops raised on that land are responsible first to me for all debts due by that tenant. No one should by any judicial legislation be permittedi to get between landlord and tenant at the expense of the former and the denmoralization of the latter. You have done a good work: go on now and get your representativ-es in the general assembly to complete it. Yours truly, J~o. L. MCLAURIN. Hendersonville, N. C., July 29th. Kidney Trouble Began With a Lame Back. J. L. Hacki, 915 Eighth St., Lincoln, Ill., was recently cured of a bad case of kidney trouble that started with a lame back, and says: "I am certainly thank ful in getting a cure of my kidney trou ble by using Foley Kidney Pills." Try them yourself. For sale by all druggists eery where. WILD TALK OBJECTIONABLE. It is quite evident that in our neighboring counties, Williams- v burg and Sumter, is soon to have y the ballot on whether or not the t dispensary shall be re establish ed, considerable activity is goingf on. and much feeling is being ! eugendered by statements that a are being made. Tbose who are t opposed to the institution or the legal sale, are making a tremen dous effort to prevent it, they c are making the fight on moral grounds, which of course, brings r into the contest organizations S that usually refrain from taking 1 part in elections. t In reply to a question, a gen- c tleman residing in Williamsburg t county was in Manning a few g days ago on business, as ta his e opinion of the outcome of the u election in his county, he said: "I had given the matter very little consideration until a few weeks . ago, my interest was aroused by c the statements made by a man f who claimed to be an officialin C the prohibition league. He said c the whiskey trust had men em ployed to go over Williamsburg county to bribe and debauch the electorate, it had a lawyer em ployed to carry the election in its interest, and intimated that men of prominence in the county 1 are the bought tools of the liquor c trust. I am so satisfied that their a is no-truth in such declarations. s E can vouch for there being un true, why a man should go about making such wild utterances and 4landering men because they V happen to view this question dif- e ferent from him, I cannot under- a stand. Personally, it matters not to me how the election goes, I am not a user of alcoholic bever- i. ages in any way, shape, or form unless the same is prescribed by 6 a physician, but I have my views as to the policy between the le gal sale, or the present system V of liquor dens all over the coun- a try, and the pouring in of liquor a from outside States. Perhaps the consumption of liquor, since the dispensary was voted out c may have been decreased to some extent, which is questionable, but grant it has been reduced some, in my opinion, the reduc tion has not been sufficient to justify the loss of revenue, no, we have the liquor with us, and t Florence and the outside States get the money. I would much prefer to let the question be decided by the vot- e ers untrammelled, I am opposed t to this agitation every few years, d but still more opposed to strang- p ers coming among our people m a k i n g reckless charges to arouse prejudices and creating ill feeling. If the voters turn out and vote Williamsburg will likely establish the dispensary, ( because, the people have exper- ( ienced the effect of liquor being ( sold all around them, and they c are not content with the present condition. I do not know how they would look at it if George town on the one side, and Flor ence on the other, was not sell- ~ ing whIskey and making money out of it, but with this condition ~ they say, if they must have the lquor consumption, it is well for ~ them to get some of the profit to put on their roads and into their schools., There are many good people in Williamsburg who favor the legal sale of liquor under present ~ coditions, but whether they will ~ go -actively to work in its inter est is doubtful, unless their re sentment of the slanders that ~ have been made by some of the ' speakers, who are in the employ ~ of the anti-saloon league or some other temperance organization ~ prompts them to get active; I ~ have heard a number of tbem say they are not willing to tamely submit to being charged with ' corrupt motives when they are exercising their conscientious judgment. I have also heard men who are not in favor of the dispensary express themselves as deploring the extravagant I statements of visiting speakers." SMITH ANID THE BOLL WEEVIL. c The press dispatches relating to Senator Smith's cottonlessC zone proposition do not seem to agree. Monday afternoon news papers carried a story that at a conference called by Senator Smith, at which was present.ex- a perts from the agricultural de artment, after a two hours ses-r sion they decided the Senator's S plan was too costly and alto gether impractical, but in yes terday morning's newspapers a the reverse is reported, and in stead of the experts falling down on the junior senator's views they agree with him that if the-V proposed zone is establishedV it would drive out the boll c weevil. The more the matter is being looked into the more does a it becomes interesting, the main objection so far raised is the a cost it would entail. It is i thought if the government un certakes to carry out the idea of Senator Smith it will cut down I ver a auarter of a million acres U :f cotton. unless the making of t this cottonless zone emboldens t4 the other sections to increase S thei'acreage. There is this much to be said ibout Senator Smith's efforts to get government aid for the cot d ton farmers, he has made the o subject a study and a specialty, S t is what he hopes for to be re- C urned to the senate, and it is ri what he must convince the Si masses of to win their votes. He rI vent into office talking cotton,| t ae has been talking cotton at very opportunity,, and as the ~ie comes for h: successor to~ >e chosen he is mote active than ~ver in behalf cdf the cottou THE SOUTHS OPPORTUNITY. One of the best suggestion re have seen from any of ou1 ublic men, is the one to urgi de farmers of the South to g< ito stock raising. The West i, ist being cut up into smal arms, what was once cattl anches, has given way to town nd cities, made necessary b3 he tremendous immigrant pop lation that has settled there nd what has not yet been mad( ito towns and cities, has bee] onverted into small farm hereon there are no mor anges upon which cattle car ubsist, therefore, there is a de land for ranges; nowhere it ie world can better ranges foi attle and hogs be found that ie swamps and flat lands of the outh. In our swamps cattl an feed the year round, anc pon our flat lands they ca raze the greater part of th< ear, there is no better produc ig forage lands anywhere that an be found in the South, ii ict, everything is here to en urage cattle raising whici reated much of the wealth o: 3e West; what was done foi at section can be done here a, ell, and better with less ex ense. It may be the foresightednes f the syndicates which bough trgely of the swamps of thi untry to convert the lands fter the timber is removed, int< tock ranges, and finally cana aem for planting purposes, i: ch was their purpose, we be .eve they will reap a rich re rard, but aside from them very land owner who conduct, farm can raise some stock foi iarket, if this is done it will no ike long before the cost of liv ig will be lessened, and if stool ; extensively raised in th( outh, the meat packing con erns will eventually look thi ray for plants to manufactur be food into marketable shap s they are now doing in the bic ities of the West. We believe there is a grea rospect for the South to be ome the richest section of thi: nion; the eyes of the moniei iterests are turning this way e fact of the Secretary an< 'reasurer proposing to throv pen the vaults of the govern ient and loan to the banks o: be South $25,000,000, and th Vest a similar amount to aid it oving the crop of this year ; an indication that more inter st is being shown this sectior ban before, and,that money ha iscovered tine opportunities fo: ivestment in this section. A SAD CASE. It was a great misfortuna tba lovernor Blease was out o jolumbia when' Judge Ernes ary assumed jurisdiction in th ase involving the custody o e children of Mr.*'and Mrs ulian Zachry of Augusta, ha< e been in the city, we doub xceedingly the success of Zach y's escape into Georgia wit: he child Judge Gary awarde< tim, because. the Governo rould have had him arreste< nd detained. We cannot sei ow a South Carolina circui ~udge can assume jurisdiction il case like this. The courts o ~eorgia granted the custody a he Zachry children to the fathi r. who is a member of the ba: f that State, but the mother istead of yielding to the judg aent of that court, appealed he ase, then lef t the jurisdiction o he court with her two children ,nd escaped into South Carolina 's soon as she struck the soil o his State it appears to us sh< ras beyond the reach of the leorgia court, but if she comn itted an offense the only wa; he could be returned, would be pon a warrant issued for he: rrest and a requisition bonore< y the Governor of this State nis however, was not the course ursued. The husband and fath r wvent before Judge Gary, wh< ssumed jurisdiction and issue< ,n order giving the custody o: >ne of the children to the father ho had an automobile waiting in the outside, after a struggli ith the mother. the officern orced the child from her arm: nd gave it to the father, immed tely he jumped in the machine nd pulled out for Georgia. As soon as Governor Blease eturned to the city he at onci et to work to have the mar rought back, the Governor oj ~eorgia was communicated witl: nd warrants charging Zachry ith violations of the law of thi: tate have been forwarded tc ave him arrested, which we hope 'ilL succeed, and if there is any ay to punish this man, we sin rely hope he will get it. as we >ok upon the case as heartless ud high handed. There has no1 e en the slightest intimatior ainst the character of the dis essed mother, but the proceed gs in the court of Georgia al ge th at the husband is not what e should have been, that he was afaithful, and cruel to the wife, the extent that she had to gc >her mother for protection and a~pport Good Reason For His Enthusiasm. When a man has suffered for several ts with colic, diarrhoea or other forn bowel complaint and is then cured und and well by one or two doses o1 bamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diar oea Remedy, as is often the case, it but natural that he should be enthu astic in his praise of the remedy, and~ pecially is this the case of a sev'ere tack when life is threatened. Try it ben in need of such a remedy. It ever fails. Sold by all dealers. Arouses the Liver and Purifies the Blood e Old Standard general strengthening tonic, covES TASTELESS chill TONIC, arousesthe er to action. drives Malaria out of the blood and UNCLE SAM AS LAND BUTER. United States is World's Largest Dealer and Has Made Some Good Bargains. Since the American colonies threw off the galling yoke of English rule and became an in dependent nation "Uncle Sam" h has been the largest real estate dealer the world has ever pro duced. Instead of trading in a few town lots or an occasional one-thous I and acre farm, the government i has transacted a whole sale bus iness, dealing in thousands of square miles, and on three sep arate occasions the transfers have involved more than500,000square miles each. Commencing with the purchase from Napoleon in 1803 of what is known as the "Louisiana Par chase," a tract of 875,825 square L miles, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian bor der and from the Mississippi river to the Pacitic ocean, for which $15,000,000 was paid, the United States has bought land whenever opportunity presented itself, until no European power owns a square foot of territory on this continent with the single exception of England, which still retains her Canadian possessions. Originally the English colonies were supposed to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacitic coast, but in reality no effort was made by them or the mother country to occupy any part of the unknown country west of the Mississippi river. Even their attempts to expand beyond the Allegheny mountains were strenuously and successfully opposed by t h e French for many years. By virtue of owning land on both sides of the mouth of the Mississippi, Spain claimed con trol of that river, thus shutting in without an outlet all the coun try west of -the then impassable mountains. Later Spain was forced to cede the Louisiana territory to France, but her sovereignty lasted a com paratively short time. When Na - poleon had become so involved in wars that he stood along against the whol'e of Europe he saw the utter impossibility of protecting his American possessions against the superior navy of England. and gladly seized upon the op E portunity to rid himself of some a thing he could not hold and at 1 the same time put 15,000,000 gold dollars into his coffers in Paris. Mr. Jefferson, president of the 1 United States, no less gladly ac 5 cepted the chance of acquiring the territory at an almost nomi nal cost, and at the same time taking the first step toward what afterward became known as the Monroe Doctrine, "America for t Americans." f This territory of 875,425 square t miles, nearly .18 times as large as the state of New York, .contains B the great gold, silver and bopper i mines of the Black Hills and the .wonderful prairie lands which I have become the granary of the t world. For this rich country the - United States paid 2i cents per 1 acre. I Our next royal customer was r Ferdinand VII, of Spain. I Having squandered his ready a cash in vain attempts to regain t his South American possessions. 1 he was sadly in need of money f to keep up his dissipated court f and licentious indulgences which - which had cost his country so e dearly in men, morals and money. ,Ferdinand's minister of finance -havmng exhausted every source r from which funds could be pro f cured, suggested the sale of tbe ."Land of Flowers," Florida, as ;a last resort. Negotiations were f immediately entered into with a the United States, which result a ed in the transfer of this jewel -from the Spanish crown to the r starry field of the Union flag. 3 Thus, for $5,500,000, sufficient to e enable Ferdinand to continue his i extravagant pleasures for a brief .period, Uncle Sam became the a possessor of 70,107 square miles - of territory, and one more Europ ) ean thorn was withdrawn from i North America. r While the cost, 12* cents an acre, was considerably higher Sthan the Louisiana purchase, it must be remembered thatin those days Florida was much more ac cessible than the territory wvest of the Mississippi. In 1848, after the close of the war with Mexico, that country ceded to the United States 523, 802 square miles of land for the sum of $13,250,000. $3,z50,000 of which was to be paid to the citi zens of the United States, who held war claims against Mexico. This magnificent property in chided the present sta.tes of Cai fornia, Arizona and New Mexico, containing some of the richest mineral and agricultural land in the world. The cost was a little less than 4i cents an acre. These purchases from France, Spain and Mexico, for which Uncle Sam paid $38,749,769 rep resents an area of 1,463.934 square miles. A little more than two fifths of the area of the Uni ted States in North America was acquired for the cost of the Manhattan and the Queensboro Bridges across the East River. In 1.853 Uncle Sam became lib eral and made his second deal with Mexico, the Gladsden pur-1 chase, buying a narrow strip along the southern boundary of Arizona and New Mexico, 36, 211 square miles, for $10,000,000 or 43.15 cents per acre, the top t price paid for an addition to our territory-. For 14 years after the Gadsden purchase Uncle Sam retired from :le real estste market. Then an other royal customer presented himself. In 1867 the czar of all the Rus sians, in consideration of $z7,200, 000 in ood and lnawful coein of the .s realm, set over, assigned, bar bained and sold to the United States of America all of his right, title and interest in and to the 599,446 square miles of territory, more or less, known as Alaska, and further covenanted to relin quish all claims to the tract of land then jointly occupied by Russia and the United States and now embraced in the states of Washington and Montana. The low price-one and nine tenths ents per acre-was doubtless due to the inaccessibility of the property, as at that time nothing was known of the gold deposits which were later discovered in the Klondike and other sections. Having thus retired every Eu ropean nation except England from the continent of North Am arica, Uncle Sam lay on his oars until the war with Spain had been fought and won. Then with his characteristic generosity, he gain relieved the stress of the Spanish crown by paying into ts treasury 20,100,000 bright new ollars, in consideratiod of which the rebellious Phillippine Islands were ceded to the United States and we became a factor i n the af Fairs of the Orient. For these 3,063 square miles were paid a Eraction less than 20 cents an cre, next to the highest price ever paid by the government. From the above figures it will be seen that a total of 2,247,659 square miles of land has been purchased at a cost of $76,049, 768, or an average of 5.28 cents per acre. While $76,409,768 is not an ap palling sum of money in these days of tremendous fiscal tran sactions, the total area of land acquisitions to our government by these "deals" is so vast tnat mere figures do not set the mean Ing of it all clearly before the reader's eye. The amount of ter ritory acquired is practically as large as all that portion of the United States west of the Miss issippi river, or seven times as large as the original thirteen states. For this territory we paid about ne half of what the government pays every year i pensions. The four bridges across the East River cost more tha.n the whole amount. Less than one third of the annual budget of New York ity would have bought it all. St. Louis Republic. The South is fortunate in hav ing southern men at the seat of power; the government cain f a vor sections as has been demon strated in the past when the North came in for the lion's share, now however, it is differ ent, Secretary McAdoo, who is a southerner, proposes to depos it in the southern national banks between $25,000.000 and $50,000, 000 of government funds to aid in the movement of the croos. This money will be loaned to the banks at 2 per cent interest, which should have a good effect upon making money easy to pro vide the necessary funds for crop movement. Just how this loan to the national banks will help the borrower from State banks to get money cheaper we do not know, but it seems these banks should get the benefit of the cheap loan to the national banks, and give their patrons the advantage. There will be no armed inter vention by the United States in Mexico at present and the Pres ident will deal with Mexico by other means. He will not recog nize the Huerta administration, and has accepted the resigna tion of Ambassador Henry Lane W i ls on,. as his successor he has appointed Governor J o li n Lmnd, of Minnesota, as his per sonal representative who star-ted on his mission at once, Gov ernor Lind is to investigate, and report on the situation. The ac tion of the President will be dis appointing to an element that was urging immediate interven tion, they wanted war, in fact, it is intimated that in border states there have been men en gaged in organizing forces to be ready to go over the line as soon as the sign was given, but these adventurers will have to r-est their souls in patience. Before Judge Spain in Flor nce Monday the dispensarites sought to enjoin the election in that county, but were as un sccessful as was the Prohi-' bitionists in Sumter. The elec ion to vote out the dispensary in Florence county will be1 eld nnless the supr-emne court reverses the action of the c-rc-uit1 ourt. It is -our opinion that oth Judges. Wilson and Spain dave taken the proper view in i he exercise of the power of in-' jnction. If an irreparable in ury was about to be done a udge should stop it, but where( ~here are remedies at law in ~hese election matters we do not ~hink it proper to enjoin, it is I a better to let the question go'i o the ballot box to be decidedC ~hen if the ballot discloses fraud t he courts may be resor-ted to or r-elief. In the Flor-ence case he Prohibitionists are seeking o have the dispensary removed, id the Dispensaryites are re-c ;isting; in Sumter the reverse is t he case. the Dispensar-yites are-c ;eekinng to establish the institu- I ion and the Prohibitionists are-c -esisting, and in both cases echnicallities are being resorted o. t The daugihter of A. Mitchell, Bag C ad, Ky., had a bad case or kidney troc- v le and they feared her health was p'er- Ic anently impaired. Mr Mitchell says: She was in terrible shape but I got hzer o take Foley Kinney Pils and now she I s completely cured." Women are- more v able to have kidney trouble than men md will find Foley Kidney Pills a safe ependable and honest medicine. For r ale '. all drngisets ev-eywhere. STRUGGLE Real Meaning of Prot SENATOR MCLAURIN rrue Politician is the Man Who See Rather Than the Promotion of Good in Government Easily nated With / Leaving all politics out of the luestion, easily the most strik ng development at Filbert last Friday, was in that portion of Senator McLaurin's a d d r e ss which undertook to explain the aignificance of Progressiveness n politics. The speech was re narkable in that it was different rom anything of a political na Lure that has been, previously 2eard from a South Carolina ros rum. Here is what the speaker 1ad to say on the subject: Fellow Citizens: I am not here to talk politics urther than what is in accord vith the relation which every ood citizen bears to his fellow man. Nor am I nere, (as often ieralded,) as the evangel of a new lispensation, either religious or political. I want to talk about cotton, for have an extract from the New York World, showing how Con ressman Ragsdale and Henry f Texas, have the new currency >ill held up, trying to amend it, o as to embrace every principle ontained in the warehouse bill, which is now on the calendar of be state senate. They are hav ng a hard fight against intrench d privilege, but sooner or later, he volume of money must be made to bear its true relation to he products for exchange. it has become a common thing to sneer at men who feel called upon to follow a public career as politicians." The word has come to mean to thousands, a low, dirty intriguer with no ambition save the promotion of his per sonal interests. The only states men are dead politicians. As long as one is alive he is sur rounded by the fires of hate and suspicion-a center for the at tack of harpies, who care noth ing for the welfare of the people they pretend to serve. So many men have small ability coupled with vaulting ambition; these can protect nothing, and only rise by pulling others down, and point ing out the defects of any plan hat does not include the promo ion of their ambition. A gang of wolves, when one of heir number is wounded, always stops long enough to devour their brother. then give tongue in pur suit of fresh prey. These men re not politicians they are hu ran wolves, ever crouching in terror at the feet of power, but ready at any moment to tui-n and rink the heart blood, while lick ng the hand of the master. Trhe trne politician is called of od, as much as he who expounds is holy word, lie battles for his fellow man through good and vil r-epor-t; he suffers the slings and ar-rowrof vituperation: if in uman weakness he talters and i sta k es the road lie hears trough the dark hours t h e voice caliing and rises. girds up is loins and presses on; he bears ith patience and forgiveness he doubt and suspicion of those for whom he would gladly give is life, and like the Man of God, e has no reward except in the ext world. "Well done. thou ood and faithful servant." You lder men, know the conditions hat existed twenty years ago, ad all of you know them.as they exist today. There have been remendous changes for the bet er. How have they been brought tout? By men who fought error n spite of popular clamor, who oted out the way of progress, with no thought of its effect on ersonal or political fortunes. You remember that greatest f all popular movements, the amers Alliance, with its hated md despised sub treasury plank. 'oday a pr-esident and congress s trying to devise a currency re orm based upon this very prin ple. A government commission s traveling Europe, studying he system of agricultural credits broad, and tnat all the sub reasury meant with a view of laking the products of the farm , basis of cred it. Every one of he great leaders of the Alliance! vent dlown under the load of buse, many of themi broken earted. Yet today the speeches f Peffei. Polk, Tom Watson and -Sockle.s" .Jerry Simpson. iread ike prophecies. Their wor-k was iot in vain, even though others' ap wheire they sowed. We old r men. r-emnembei how sweet ose docti-ines sounded and how ust and right. You recmemnber how the entir-e epresentation in congr-ess fr-omn outh Car-olina, on all tinancial uestions. were pledged to stand y these demands and not the auns of a political par-ty. Tphe eocratic par-ty at that time, oinated Wall Street interests :ent coimpletely to pieces. then .fter year-s of str-uggle. in the ast election the Republican par went to pieces, and the Demn cratic party went into power ith Bryan and Wilson, as the lination of the great up eaval set in motion twventy-tire 'ears ago by the farmners~ of the est and the south. You were Wd then that no matter- how it esulted, you would nevei- be' FOR RIGHT. ressiveism in Politics. ON SUPREME iSSUE. &s the Advancement of His Fellows, His Own Interests-All that is Identified as Having Origi. Lmighty God. Let me ask you older men, who remember the beginning of this fight, to note the prosperous, contented and well to do appear ance of the people wbo make up this great audience, then look, back and contrast this crowd, with the anxious faces, and the generally poverty stricken ap pearance in the campaigns about 1890. They told you then that the practical realization of that revolution meant ruin to all. I ask you today. who has been hurt? Such prosperity, as has come to the farmers of the west and south, has been shared by all other classes of people. And I want to tell you, that this is on ly the beginning, for if we con tinue steadfast and faithful the rewards for productive labor are greater than any yet received. Those who clothe and feed this world are entitled to the greater share ot its comforts and luxu ries, and they receive less. It is a common thing to hear this man or that lay claim to be ing the discoverer of progressive principles, but I want to say to' you my friends, that progressive principles are as old as the his tory of man. You will find the fundamentals laid down in the book of Genesis. If you will read your Bible and then profane his tory, you will see that the ques tion through all the ages has been the vain and ruinous strug gle of man made government to supersede an-1 overthrow th e governmornt framed and perfect ed by Almighty .*od. The difference, between these contending ideas has overthrown empires and built civilization. Man made government has ever been arrogant, selfish and cruel, while tl.e theocracy which God established for Israel is the per fection of charity and justice, contributing to the peace, com fort and happiness of each indi vidual in exact proportion to his or her capacity for enjoyment. The only perfect government that the world has. ever seen was established by God four thousand years ago, its force and power is evidenced by the fact, that the Hebrews, though scattered for 2,000 years over all the world, are as distinctly a nation today as they were then. On the other hand every strictly man made government that has ever existed has been based upon the idea of the dom ination of the few over the many. They have either fallen into decay and perished, or sav ed themselves as we are doing, by the gradual adoption of the cardinal principles of the old Israelitish theocracy. And I am here to tell you that what we call "Progressivism" in A merican politics, elected Wood row Wilson president, and is nothing more or less than a re volt agoinst selfish man made government, back to original principlks as comprehended in our Declaration of Independence. The American revolution was the grandest and most important iri the world's history since the birth of Christ. and on yonder little mountain, only ten miles from here. your forefathers fought the battle, which made that revolution an actual reality. That battle was for God and Right;.but you and I know that it was won, our leaders could not resist the subtle temptation of ambition, and set up anew, the old principles of privileges f o r the destruction of which our fathers have poured out their blood. But the eternal principle which God had laid down at the beginning, was de finately and finally unshackled, and today we can see that the world is coming more and more under its demonstration. Every intelligent man has noted within the past few years the mighty crystalization of this sentiment. What a similarity there is between the Roosevelt Taft split in the Republican party. with the split of the gold wing of the Democracy under Palmer and Buckner, against the Progressives of years ago. This means that the Progress ives in both old parties are in a majority and control the destiny of this county. no matter which party is in power. I have often asked myself the question, "Why this change of senti ment?" I have heard it explain ed in many ways, but none of them are satisfactory to me. I tell you what I think about it. After the revolution the people were ignorant, education was to the few. The leaders would shout, "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none," and then go in for gathering for themselves all the special priv ileges to be had. But about sev nty years ago the cemmon scool idea began to find its birth in a modest way. Trhen out of the tr-avail and sorrowv of the civil war, the siave >Wning caste was destroyed, and i new era dawned. Privilege and vealth began to be taxed, and ritude and poverty taught in the schools. That all i,:i axc born free, entitled to the same opportanities and that privilege is a matter of worth, not birth. A great and eternal truth is about to become in this nation a grand and glorious fact. But, my friends, I have not come here to.talk about the past, it is of the future and the oppor tunity now open to the South of utilizing her cotton crop to become the dominant factor in the finaneial world. I would not have you think that I regard the question as one of mere' money, but I recognize the fact that with wealth goes intelli gence, culture and an ever ad vancing civilization. Here the senator gave a full exposition of his well knowi views of State owned and oper ated warehtuses for agricurtural products. In the course of his remarks, he referred with ap proval to an editorial in the News and Courier on the sub ject of the proposed $50 tax on contracts for futrue delivrey, saying if it was paid, it would come out of the cotton grower, as every expense from the gin house to the factory was deduc ted from the price paid to the planter. The way to do was to give cotton a stable price like the coffee growers of Brazil did, then there would be no Bulls and Bears, and the exchanges would serve their legitimate purpose as the coffee exchanges are now doing all over the world. If you get a doctor who can't diagnose the case he is apt to give you the wrong medicine and kill you. veafnes Canot be Cured by localapplhations, as they cannot reach the disea-ed portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness; and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in amed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflam ed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition,hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by- catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu. cous surf aoes. , we will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Dearness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for eirculars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hairs Family Pills are the best. Bob White Abroad. Dear Editor:-Several of our county folks asked that I write them while on my trip. Now if you will be so kind many of our friends can learn of my trip through THE TIMES. My brother, A G. White, and I started on our trip Tuesday, July 29th. with the expectation of spending one day in Cheraw, S. C , one at Norfolk, Va., four or five at Washington, D. C., and a short while at New York City. We unintentionally spent the greater part of Tuesday in Darlington, S. C., not being able to make connection with the morning Cheraw train. We secur ed a check board ana during the day played checks with about one dozen of Darlington's citizens. We caught the morning train for Cheraw, arriving there about ten p. m.,. and we were splendidly entertained at, the home of Mr. C. A. Malloy until. Wednesday evening. To catch th e. "north bound" over the Seaboard for Norfolk, Va., was our intention,, but that train was delayed in Columbia, S.. C., by a wreck on that line, throwing it some four and one-half hours late, con sequently we were stopped at Norlina, N. C., but this time we were 'not alone, there were several others in the same box so we all, after writing to our home folks, set about having a good time and taking into consideration all the incon veniences we had a pleasant wait. When we arrived at Portsmouth, Va., the ferry was waiting and took us over to that cityv of crooked streets. We put up at Hotel Fairfax. The Norfolk navy ard with its stops, dry docks and the war vessels are great. Ocean View is ne, but Old Point beats them all. I would just love to tell about its water front, fort, soldiers brave, Hotel Cham berlain, etc. From Old Point we took the steamer Northland up the bay and river to Washing ton, D. C. About one o'clock Friday night, just before we get out of the bay, a storm struck us which caus ed a good bit of excitement, but after abut two hours most of the three hun dred passengers turned in We reached Washington 0. K., Sat urday, a. in., and am much pleased with our Capitol. I was oleased and surpris ed to meet Mr. L. M. Jones and his brother on Penn Avenue We will leave. for New York Tuesday. p. m. Will give. the rest of my trip next week. BOB WHITE. Danger in Delay. Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous For Manning People to Neglect. The great danger of kidney troubles is that they so often get a firm' hold be fore the sufferer recognizes t h e m. ealth will be gradually undermined. Backache, headache, nervousness, lameness, soreness, lumbago, urinary roubles, dropsy', gravel and Bright's isease may follow as the kidneys get worse. Don't neglect your kidneys. elp the kidneys with Doan's Kidney Pills, which are so strongly recommen ed right here in Manning. George June, carpenter, Manning, S. C., says: "My kidneys troubled me and he kidney secretions were unnatural ad filled with sediment. My back was lame and I did' not get much rest at ight. Doan's Kidney Pills, which I ot at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co.'s Drug Store, (now the Dickson Drug Co.,) re :oved the lameness and soreness and fter taking this remedy. I felt much etter in every way." For sale by all dealers. Price 50' ents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. New York, sole agents for thle United States. Remember the name-Doan's -and ake no other. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Clarendon, 3v -James M. Windham, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas, Josephine Clark made suit o me, to grant her Letters of Ad inistration of the Estate and effects of iobert Lee Clark. These are therfore, to cite and ad onish all and singular the kindred and reditorsof the said Robert Lee Clark, Leceased, that they be and appear be ore me, in the Court of Probate, to be eid at Manning on the 14th day of ~ugust next, after publication here , at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show ause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under' my hand, this 29th dlay - *f July, A. D. 1913. JAMES M. WINDHAM, rEA 1 Judg or f Prohnate