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r JANUARY 17, 1894. t LOUIS APPELTF. f APRIL 21, 1915. C MANNING. S. C., JULY 28,1915. t PUBLLSIIED EVERY WEDNESDAY I. I. APPELT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. In a certain city recently an auto load of saloon keepers went t -smash through the plate glass I windows of a soft drink mann. a factory. Evidently everybody is I going dry, If fuel and provisions were ladin during the high tide# of business prosperity there would be less pinching and poverty t when-the winter of hard times t sets in. . Unless the legislature repeals the gallon-a-month law. it. will make no difference rhich way heelection goes on the 14th, of September. A gallon is ~enough to drink these hard tames ' -t 8 John McLaurin is growing in e minds and hearts of the peo every day, regardless of ~wba some politicians, say. Its themiasses he is working for, We heard a. 'Manningite' say C Bob Cooper is Manning's sbul dC tied out to set on I EfBmease:" A bull dog is hard to age, and liable td turn on its nmster, when iipatient of the t estraining collar. Feedhim well1 SDick ".and always have a club ndy -Sc*itar. Abbeville. ormer congressman says aamen are giving up the i habit, girls and young are taking it up." It one wonder what sort of t -the former legislator t ~ iein. No doubt there are ;' oegirls and young women n~oidulge in the habit, as tere always has been, but they armghty scarce except in the t so-called'"high soelety" or in -tegay carbarets and white s othing can be greater thiar t --Iecontrast between the great it ~-mes fighting one another in I 4-Juop.and the great army now a taiin assed in this country to t ~y'arvstthe'great crops of wheat # Tand other cereals. I one case I arhemies-are for the purpose ' odestroying life, while in the C N~Aahe i is for the sustenance of t e Thle one means bloodshed, t ~~atncton of property, misery, E ~ 6ovetyand bereavement gteat ethan the world has hitherto ~ enwhile the other means ersperity, comfort, happiness ad other blessings. Such is the -diferncebetween war and peace i Times often reverses public opin ion. When~Lloyd George first as 'umed the duties of finance min ister of Great Britain the com ,mercial classes of that country .regsrded him as a visionary and -dangerous revolutionist, and Mis--tey predicted trade paralysis ~ 'and all manner of economy dis asters. But they have so changed their minds as the result of his masterly handling of the finances of the country that when the ~ 3 econstruction of the govern- 1 ment was recently decided upon, the monied men of London and other business centers petition-C ed that he remain in charge of -the finances-. * Mexico continues to be a ver itable witches's cauldron of trouble with no prospect of im *provement unless the warring faction's take heed to the friendly warning and advice of President Wilson. The President, by theE way, does not find office a bed of -roses by any means, and he will not so long as world conditions -are as they are. All the more reason, therefore, that he should have the moral and active sup- ~ port of the whole nation. In in ternal matters parties may right ~ ly disagree, but when it comes to the relation uf this nation with outside nations, especially in the present crises. the nation speaks as one, and, if necessary it will act as one. A few days ago Warehouse ~ Commissioner John L. McLaurin by request of that body address-C ed the Georgia legislature, now in sesion on the South Carolina d -cotton wnahouse system. The r reek he Was asked by the leg .lature committee having barge the consideration of a imilar system for Georgia, to eturn and cxplain for the sys em in detail, and point out de ciencies, and suggest improve ients. The hankers association f Georgia have also invited the ommissioner to address that ody in Atlanta to explain to hem the State owned or con rolled cotton system, and its aerits as a source of "ural cred ts, that not only protects the armer but legitimate banking s well. Georgia is fortunate in ,legislature that can arise to a tiger level than peanut politics. nd bankers and editors with rains in their heads instead of awdust. The Alabama legisia are will soon consider a ware ouse bill, drawn by McLaurin ,t their request also, and yet a eopie are kept in ignorance by , servile press.-Scim'itar, Ab eville. WHAT CONSTITUTES NATIONALITY. Some papers in referring to he present war assert that na onally is not a matter of race, >t of political and moral unity. n confirmation of this view the ases of Canada, Belgium. Swit erland and the Austro Hungar in empire are stated. It is said hat while in. each of these coun ries there are various races, yet hey live together- in harmony s one nation. That is true only in part, and hat which is true is so because he racial distinctions have been egarded and provided for. It 5 true that there are French, ;erman and Italian Swiss and bat all are peacefully united un er one government. But that appy condition has been made ossible by the very large meas re of self-government enjoyed y each of thse twenty-two can ns and the recognition of rench, German and Italian as ational languages. The same is true as to Canada. n the Revolutionary war and bat of 1812-14 Canada would un ;oubtedly have sided with this ountry if Great Britain bad not 2ade allowance for racial dis inctions and power by securing he French population of Quebec n their old laws It the time of he conquest and in the "Quebec et" of 1774 and in making the rench language national with he English. The reference to Austro-Hun: ary is rather unfortunate, for r'hile the pressure of war holds be Dual Monarchy together emporarily ine relations be ween the heterogenous -races gave been and are most discord .nt, and mainly for the -reason at neither Austria nor Hun :ar have made due allowance or difference -of race. All of rhich goes to- show that there an be no political and mioral nity if racial tra'ditions~suscep ibilities 'and rights are not prop rly regarded. ENATOR McI.AURIN AN INDEPENDENT DOCRAT. The following editoitial ap eared in the "Glynn County 'ickett," Brunswick, Ga,. Feb. ,:901, and reproduced in The fanning Times the following reek. It can be seen that Mc aurin was then in Congress working for better facilities for be handling of cotton and other iroduce of the farmer. We gain publish it for the benetit f our readers, so that they may ee the strata in which this reat mind has always run, and ~who he has labored for: "Senatoi- John McLaurin of ~outh Carolina is one of the few ~emocrats now representing the outh in Congress. He is a man f strong personality and indi iduality, and is willing to stand rith the principles of his con tituents rather than to "stand a with" the interests of his litical colleagues. On account f his speeches and actions n any of the "wars in the ses ions of congress" between the adicalism of Democrats on one ide and Republicans on the oth r, he has seen i' his duty to the irinciples he upholds to vote eith the Republicans. Recent y his magnificient speech favor ag government aid to the res ration of the American merch nt marine (the ship subsidy sill) has called down upon him be anathema of political Democ acy. In the face of his action tands the fact that he is a can idate for re-election two years ence to the office he now fills enator from South C a r o na. Judging from the large mount of mail pouring into his ands from business men all ver the South at his bold stand .e must feel that he is fully un erstood and endorsed by s-hat eprsntse thoen cmmercial back. interests, he will side-track Cooper and get into the second race with either Manning or Blease. either of whom he would defeat with the "spite vote" of the other. A race between Manning and McLaurin would be a walkover for Mac. The reasons for that are as follows: Gov. Manning has not a large personal follow ing. and has failed utterly to unite upon himself th large in dependant element that twice as a balance of power elected Blease governor, then in turn, defeated Blease for the Senate and Rich ards for governor. His pernicious activity in a drastic attempt to enforce liquor laws in Charleston t h r o u g h t methods that smack of slave driving, and amount to perse cution has built up a hot resent ment against Manning extensive E ly in the low country and to a t less degree in the up-county. r Manning's church campaign C with the active support of his y lieutenant R. A. Cooper, is be ginning to recoil upon both of them. In many other ways that are vital, Gov- Manning is very C unsatisfactory to the liberal ele ment who, hoiding the balance t of power choose between too ex tremes when possible, and the C lesser of the too evils when nec cessary. The straighout Blease tollowing will vote for almost any man against Manning. In a race with Blease excluded, they would poll about 30,000 votes. t Manning's strength as governor, C wouid be about 60,000. A good speaker with the Warehouse System local option and improve a ment of rural schools for a plat- t form and who could command support from business men, could if running against Man ning get 50,000 votes from that element and the 30,000 extreme Bleaseites. Either R. A. Cooper or John L. McLaurin could do that and win over Gov. Manning with 20,000 majority. Blease may be a able to do that also, but, the chances of his doing it are de cidedly less. He is handicapped by the third term idea that is an tagonistic toa large number of his own following who would offer an enticing or.;ortunity to a third man to come in and de feat both he and Manning.r Of course Gov. Blease's par don record, to his personal fol lowing, or to men like this edi tor, who endorse it, as a means to amend, will not count against him in the least. But to a large number of these independant ~ voters, who voted for him twice. as a rebuke to arrogance-it will count heavily. Still with all that a third man may not enter and even then Blease might win. Certain it is that he will give them all a run for their money. But unless Blease enters Cooper will stay out, support Manning as lie is I doing now, and run with Man ning's support in 1918. Cooper's friends are nbw doing all thiey can to get Blease to enter in or der that Cooper's hands will be untied, so he can do likewise. Another factor in the comning race for governor is the C:ink scales vote. It Is true Dr. Clink S t scales is out of politics-as an active candidate-but his friends all over the State realize now ~ that we told them the truth lasta summer about the Manning-1 Cooper elimination plot. They ti thought then like many who read these speculations now will think-that we was talking "th rough our hat." After the ~ eliminator did its work they p knew better. Now if any man h, thinks these supporters of Dr. t) Clinkscales won't -swat either . Manning or Cooper one great big swat when the opportunity ~ is presented he has another ii think coming. Taking the ti above as a whole, ana judging from present indications, that is the way it looks to us--still it is yet along ways to the next cam e paign, and many things can hap d pen before that time arrives. I In a campaign of joint debate,0 Blease will put Manning to the. bad. In that case Bob Cooper with his Sunday school educa-" ion talk and winning personal- b ty may come in. But with Mc- ac [aurin also there to talk busi-| ess to farmers and business i a men and possessing an equally ti wmnning personality it is a cinch it hat he will be in .the second 3 ace with one of the three. As o what each must nearly r-epre ent, we would size them up) in his manner. t Manning is the expression of f aistocracy and money power. i Blease is the exponent of the oor man's political aspirations, and the expression of the farm. a ng andi business interests. Mc- t aurin is the exponent of the tI arm and business interests and he expression of the labor-ers'c spirations. Cooper is the expression of at religio pedagogic theocr-acy of hi iemocatic origine with aristo- tr :atic tendencies. .i Out of this bunch it seems tot s that all could make a true se etion, and "live happily ever t bone of the South. The South Carolina legislature is now in session and has taken occasion to shapen public opinion against this industrial independence that is so contrary to political Democracy, and to encourage an array of candidates to combat him trom now on. We love to talk about our northern neigh bors not wishing to bear the truth, yet in the north all politi. cal factions have an opportun ity through many newspapers to get facts on both sides of poli tics, but here in the South we are so trained politically to fear "negro domination" that we would not recognize a political platform if our commercial sue - sess depended upon it, if it was not served out to us on a polit ical Democratic waiter and ne ws paper. The result is, political Democracy represents nothing to us but "the white man must rule." Nearly every other plank in its make-up is composed of theories not feasible, practical nor wanted. We have been fol lowing this kind of leadership long enough. It is time to be independent and return to the first principle-an industrial Democracy. Senator McLaurin should be strongly supported. He favors a bill which calls upon our gov ernment to give financial aid to the work of upbuilding our mer chant marine, to increase the output of American built ships, to increase the cargoes to be carried in these American built ships, to open new territory for these ships and their cargoes. it means that more industries will be started, more labor employed more money in the payroll, more "filled dinner pails." What sec tion is more interested in this matter? What section will gain more benefits from this, -than the south?. Government aid to American shipbuilding industry will be the first step to the erec tion of ship building plants in the south, for all kinds of ships can be built here cheaper than at the north, and . such assist ance will start a permanent in dustry. Immediately there is activity in the lumber mills. in the forests, at the iron foundries in the iron mines, in the coal mines, in the steel factories, and in all branches of manufactur ing. The effect of this move ment will be to decrease the present freight rate from the United States, and particularly from the south, to all foreign points, where we now ship im nmense. quantities of .our mann facturers. A lesser freight rate will drive out the-worst form- of competition we now have. Brit ish trade in British ships. We will be enabled to open up en tirely new territory, and terri tory, strange to say, is ours by right, but British trade now holds it, the South American continent. The present freight rate and traffic is maintained by British ships, their lines have controlled it for years, and with out government aid, America will never get it. We want more territory for the purchase of our cotton manufactures, our naval stores, our lumber, our tobacco, our corn, our grain, our coal, iron, steel, coke, our marble, granite, all our output. We want it carried in American built ships arnd manned by Amer ican crews., We want to build many of these ships in the south We want more of our southern congressmen to stand alongside 'of Senator McLaurin and begin the work of an industrial Democ racy. Let us get in our father's house again and stay there. IF BI.EASE ENTERS? -'If Blease enters the race for governor next year what will be the effect?" That is the ques tion being asked now by politic ians all over the State since Col ie's tentative announcement." Here is how it looks to "a man up a tree." If Blease runs against Manning alone, he will beat him. Therefore R. A. Cooper' as Manning's lieutenant will enter also. to "save the State from the disgr-ace of Bleaseism." In that case Cooper will be in the second race with either Blease or Manning. If so he will beat eith'er with the 'spite vote' fr-om the other's personal following. That is a cinch for- Cooper if not disturbed. But what about John L. McLaurin? Aside from his personal following, the Ware house agitation, and success in getting cheap money on cotton receipts and cheap storage and insurance on cotton is rapidly concentrating the farmers and business men behind McLaurin. He can divide the force of Blease Manning and Cooper. Should he enter the race in the farmer's EVERYBODY GETS RICH - BUT COTTON PLANTER. Effect on South of Embargo on Cotton. Zemarks of Hon. John L. McLaurin to Farmers Meeting at Orangeburg on July 24. In the course of his address to the farmers of Orangeburg :ounty, at a meeting held here today, Hon. Jno. L. McLaurin, n discussing the position in which the South has been piaced uring the world war now in progress. said: "It is remarkable how little the wisest man comprehended he far-reaching effect of this world-wide war. The first impres ion that we had in this country was that our export trade would e absolutely destroyed and all business be practically at a stand till until the end of the war. We had estimates from the great st cotton experts in the lar.Z giving figures to show hat the consumption of American cotton would be less than ten illion bales. No one realized the new uses which the war would reate for the consumption of cotton. It is estimated that three aillion bales of cotton have been consumed in the manufacture of xplosives. This seems to me an extravagant statement, but if ou include tents. uniforms, gun cotton, etc., it probably falls hort of the figures. According to an estimate that I have re ently seen, there are now about twenty-nine million men under ,rms, not counting the armies of the neutral powers, which are at he maximum in order to protect their neutral rights. The with [rawal of this number from the productive walks 'of life has de reased the output of foreign factories and created -an enormous ,nd constantly increasing demand for American goods of every dnd. It is perfectly apparent now that the United States could speed ly have ended the war last October by an embargo on the ship ent of food and munitions. This would have -meant the speedy riumph of Germany. for strange a: it may seem, she was the only :ountry prepared for war. At the present rate, the trade balance in favor of the United 'tates will amount to one and a balf million dollars. more than touble the highest point which it has ever reache'd before. It is be genenally recepted idea that this large trade balance is due to. be munitions of war, but the department of commerce in its igures shows' this not to be the case, as food stuffs occupy the ost prominent figure in it. Unless the United States is drawn in o the war with an exhausting expenditure of men and money, she vill be richer at the end of another year than all the nations now ,t war combined. This enormous trade balance constitutes a debt hat Europe must pay America either in gold or products of some :ind. Some of it has been met by sale at a low price of securities n American corporations This money has gone to enrich Boston ,nd New York.' The iron and steel industries of Pittsburg and the Vest are reaping fabulous profits. The western farmer is growing ich.trom stock and grain. Here in the South our people, who row the greatest money crop in the world, have had it forced out f their hands, and a few middle-men have pocketed something ke four hundred million dollars out of the cotton crop of the outh. We are confronted by an almost complete embargo on the hipients of cotton. Is the South again to be the only sufferer? be sinking of the Lousitanma shocked this nation to its depths. ut, after all, the loss of one hundred and twenty homan lives les into insignificance when compared to the freedom of the eas for which our ancestors shed oceans of blood and expended illions of treasure. I have great confidence in the sagacity and the patriotism if President Wilson, and I fully realize the tremendous problem e has been facing for I the past year in maintaining the neutral by of the United States with the whole world at war. It was as possible for him as for any one else to have foreseen the great .emand made upon the United States for food and ammunition, ,nd how impossible it was for England to have antagonized tue he United States and conducted this war as successfully as she Las. So far as I am concerned, my sympathies are with neither ide and with both. I regret impartially the blood-shed, carnage ,nd ruin which has visited all of these nations; but I am for Am rica, first, and for the Southern end of America primarily. I do Lt believe that England had a right to declare the whole North iea cl6sed to our trade, and run the exports to Germany down rom four hundred mitlins to about fifty millions, largely at the xpense of the South, while our sales to France and to England ave run up from six hundred millions to about one and a quarter illion dollars. Much of this was cotton forced out of the hands f the producer at from five to seven cents a pound. Nor am I| eady to consent to the sequestration ol another cotton cr-op *by' imilar methods. I believe that if, when England issued this order, be United States Navy had been assembled and a fleet of ships earing American cotton started to Rotterdam, that not an English un would ever have been fir-ed, and the freedom of the high seas ssured to every neutral nation. Tphere would have been no sink ig of the Lusitantia by a submarine warefare that has shocked e civilized world. While England was secu ring from the United tates guns, powder, and other contraband of war, she denied to s the right of shipping food, cotton and other non-contraband to ny of the countries with whom she was at war. It is well for the eople of the United States to get these facts clearly and firmly i their minds in order to draw direct conclusions. Most of us in te South are of Scotch and English descent; we speak the Eng sh language, and the heritage of race mnclines us to side with ngland in a contest against any other nation. But never before Sthe history of the world has any nation-undertaken to prevent rade by a neutral nation in non-contraband of war, except where ich a nation was able to maintain an actual blockade. I have read everything that I can get my hands on with ref ence to this war, especially English papers. At first I was un er the impression that the real cause of this war was the desire the part of Germany for colonial expansion. I doubt if this is iictly true. It seems to me that the great ambition of Germany to develop foreign markets for her surplus products. and tne made-inGermany"' probably has had a good deal more to do with ringing about the war than colonial ambitions. When the Fran-. > Prussian war ciosed Germany was not a manufacturing nation. d she found a ready market in England for her surplus agr-icul ual products. She did not begin to develop her manufacturing iterests until about 1.880, after the perfec:tion of the Bessemer eel pi-ocess. Her progress was so rapid in manufactures that ithin the past ten years, instead of produacing sufficient food forc er own people, she, like England, became a food-importing coun -y. She began to look for world marikets for the product of her ttories, and became a competitor with Engla~nd. not only in sell ig those products, but in the purchase of r-aw material and food ,uffs. She began by subsidies to crecate a great merchant marine,1 d the German mer-chant flag began to invade the markets here- ec >fore monopolized by Great Brmitain. There are but two causes iat have ever produced a gi-eat war-religion or money.b I said that I sympathized with all of these nations. ang 1 (10, be tse you coulId not get men to fight and suffer the hardships that [ cy a re now doing il each nation did not feel that its cause was a hl and holy one. I saw in the paper-s coining down here on the 'ain how the Archdluke Nicholas of Russia issued an address cal! - g upon all the chur-ches of Russia to pray upon a certain day for i c success of Russian arms, and devoutly expressing his belie-f mat they wvere bzound to win because the God of bittles was on ~ Assie A few a, .ago I .:aw an address.fo Fm the Kiser in T. whichi he prociahned himself as the servant of God, bound i because of the approval of Jehovah. If it was not so desirous it would be almost lauzhable. I was in a barber shop a few days ago in Atlanta. and a German barber showed me a paper published in Berlin, and with shining eyes and a voice trembling with emotion. said, "Look at this picture-that's how Germany is." It was the picture of a knight of old, on a great war horse, his nostrils breathing fire, while the knight on his back, with a great sword in his hand, was hacking at a hon trying to catch his steed by the throat, a great bear setting his teeth into his flanks. and wolves all around him. That was this German's idea of the Fatherland. I think England sees herself as a wealthy, dlignified, amiable old gentleman, who has always "ruled the roost," trying to restore order in a troubled world, so that the golden stream may continue its flow-into his fat coffers. Russia sees herself as a great bear shut up in a criel trap, starving to death, with plenty on every side, hacking and bitting, trying to get to the Mediterranean sea in order to gain an outlet for her wheat and other products, so as to bring prosperity to her people. Poor little Belgium is like a dead game bull ter rier. She sees three or four Great Danes in a big fight, and with more courage than discretion dashes in to do or die.' A slap with a big paw, and one fierce shake, and she lies on the ground, limp and bleeding, trampled over by them all, but still holding with a death grip. The Turk believes that his religion is threatened and the green flag of the prophet has been sent to three hundred mil lion Mohaimmedans in Europe, Asia and Africa. Italy got in' be cause she couldn't stay out. The Balkan States. former rriends, now sullen and suspicious, ready at the first moment to fly at each others throats. In the midst of it all, poor old Uncle Sam is sit ting on top of the fence getting richer every day, with no army, a few good battleships, some submarines which are true to their name because when they go down they never come up any more. Everybody is getting rich except the cotton planter, and he don't matter much anyway. Our vessels are torp3doed, our products forbidden on the seas, and all the natioas tell us to help ourselves if we can. Mr. Bryan drinks grape juice, quits, and -preaches the -Prince of Peace" as long as Cariagie pays the bills. Our presi dent is helpless. We have wollowed in the fatuous belief that no harm could come to the United States, so we are forced to tell Kaiser Bill, "If you kill any more Americans we will consider it an "unfriendly act." NELSON'S BIG.. georgia Minstrel 14 - - People-i4 Summer ton. FRIDAY NIGHT 30 School Hiouse 8:30 Good Singing, Good Daning, Good Music.I Bring your mother, sis ter or lady friend. Show lasts 2 hours. Moneys worth or money back. IAdults 25c. Children 15c. state of South Carolina~ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLA RENDON, BY J. M. WINDHAM. PROBATE County of Clarendon. JUDGE. WHEREAS, P. HI. Broughton IBy James M. Windham, Esq., Judge ade suit to me, to grant him Letters Whre f uProbatew,. ad f Administration of the Estate. WLr' ula Bon mad nc effects of Thomas P. Broughton. suit to me. to grant her L'tters of TH ESE ARE TH EREFORE, to cite Administration of the Estate and effects d admonish all and singular the kin- of Cloase Brown. red and creditors of the said These Are Therefore, to cite and homas P'. lBroughton deceas;ed, that admonish all and singular the kindred hr be an~d apar b'fore me. in the and Creditors of the said ('boase otrt of P'robate.to be heid at Manning Brown deceased, and they be and a the 30th day of July next, after publi appear before me, in the Cour t of Pro ation her'eof itt 11 o'clock in the fore- bate. to be held at Manning on the ot o sweause. if any they have, 6th day or August next, after publi h the said Administration should not cation hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore e sr'nted.noon. to show cause, if any they have. -io nder my hand this, 12th. day why the said Administration should -.1 .D. 1915. not be granted. ;'r .] .LTlAMI M. WINDHAM, Given under my hand this 20th day Judze of Probate. of July Anno Domini DHAM, o Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System________________ ake the Old Standard GROVE'S ASTELESS chill TONIC. You know hat you are taking, as the forraula isThQineTatosNtAfctheea inted on every label, showing it is ncts fistncadlxtv fet AA uinine and Iron in a tasteless form. TV RM ~X~i etrhnodnr the Quinine a does not fcThe neseao he Quinine drives out malaria, rthe nhad eebrte ulnm n