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FACE TH[ FACTS NOW AND ALWAYS KEEP BUSI It is very peculiar, this human na ture of ours, because 90 per cent of th men and women are very quick to se< the clouds of trouble and to miss th< bright sunshine of pleasure. Let a rumor emanate from an insane asylun that there is going to be a failure o: the crops, and the multitudes com mence to mourn right away. Seem: as if people like to be in trouble. And so it is that there has sprea< over this country an almost universa belief that we had to have a financia panic; we must have a commercia depression; we were due for a perio of hard times; Hades was to pay an( no pitch hot. Rumor upon rumor o1 a shortage in crops, shortage in mech. anical production, shortage in labor in fact, it seemed as if the whole worlk was going to be so doggone short tha it was liable. to drop into a hole an disappear. The prophets of cheerful. ness were like the poverbial hen'. teeth-few and far between. Now let us look at the facts, foi never before in the history of civiliza. tion has mankind had a more roseatt future to vision, and this applies t< every part of the globe, as we could prove if we had the time and the space, But let us just take: America. Nevez in our history has there been so much money, real, honest-to-goodness cash in the United States as there is today. This country has been growing ir wealth by leaps and bounds, becaust we have the best educated people in the world; the most moral people; the most humane people; people with more initiative than obtains among any other peoples on earth. Then we have a country whose unlimited nat ural resources represent wealth un told. We were coming to the master. ship of the wealth of the world before the war. For instance, in 1913 this country produced $14,000,000,000 mor< than it consumed. Then the wai came *n and our production was hur ried until in 1917 we produced $18,. 000,000,000 more than we consumed. We loaned to the nations of Europ< in excess of $30,000,000,000. With the exception of some $3,000,000,000, this money remained in America and was spent by the hmrrowers in our markets It was not taken out of America-il is here still. Since the war close( hundreds of millions of gold have beer The ear 0 ~memn Thea the uphc The ul 1111. U I_ [rlTE IC sent into the United States by foreign countires in payments on their debts; Then in 1919 our production was the largest in the history of the country. We produced more goods than we did in 1917, an~d we had an eager market for everything we produced, and all we sold brought the money to Ameri ca-it'a here. Take this statement by John Fletcher, vice-president of the Ford Dearborn National Bank of Chicago. "The United States is far and away the richest country in the world. The aggregate deposits of its banks are bil I lions more than the combined deposits of all the banks in the world outside of I the Uniite States. We have more actual cash than al ithe other nations, and in the last few years have obtain ed an almost unbelievable supremacy in trade." Now with this vast accumulation of money, how can we have a financial panic; how can we have a commercial depression; how can we have hard times? Impossible! There was naturally a reconstrue tion period which must follow after a world conflict. After our own Civil War of 1861-65 we were ten years passing through what was called the reconstruction period, (luring which our money went down to fifty cents on the dollar. We are going through the present reconstruction period inside of three years, and our money is at a premium the world over. Talk about hard times; talk about depression-nonsense! Let us tell you that there is one hundred years of intense prosperity right at the doors of the people of the United States. We won't have men and women enough to manufacture all that is necessary to meet the de mand. We are producing more today than ever before in practically every line, unless it be shipbuilding, and that will come-back. We have millions of acres untilled. We have billions of lumber uncut. We have billions of gold, silver, copper and lead to be unearthed. Oil is be ing found in every state in the Union. All the resources of the country are coming to the surface, and we are going to be the busiest people that humanity has ever known, and like wise the richest. The financial center of the world today is in New York. The center of civilization has pusesd from the Old World to the New, and now rests with Ilif u i Ifij"I nI'F _ _,ji rour doors have more than ev( ed the Sedan to those fern bers of the family to whom mece means so much. also appreciate the high qual genuine mohair velvet used i: 'Istering. gasoline consumption is unus low. he tire mileage is unusally hig J. H. McCOLLUM, Sumter, S. C. us. We are great. We don't wani to boast, but we want to know ou strength and our power. If any band of bankers or politicians think the5 can hoodwink the American people they have got a mighty sharp lessoi coming very quick. The intelligenc4 of the American people won't tolerat< any speculative crisis. Honest busi ness is too big i nvolume, too intens< in value, for the American people t< be sidetracked by the speculators an( promoters. , Go to it--build and equip and pre pare yourselves for a future rich ir development, rich in production, riel in business and rich in profits. Good wages, lots of work, the prof. iteer eliminated, cheerfulness, cour age, optimism filling every nook anc corner of America. Let there be n( hesitancy---hang your banners on the outer walls and sound the trumpets o triumplh-success is here. 0 TH E SOUTH INTERESTED The interest of the South in Demo. cratic success this year is not merely academic and sentimental. It is vital The second paragraph of the Four teenth Amendment to the Constitutior is very clear in providing that whei the right to vote is denied by a stat( to its citizens for any other reason ex cept participation in rebellion or othei crime, the representation in Congress of that state shall be reduced in pro portion. The Constitutional power of Congress to reduce the Southern rep. resentation in Congress proportioned to the number of citizens -deprived of the vote is undoubted. Moreover, a census has just beer completed and the question of reap portioning representation in CongresF is imminent. Representative Seige of New York, Republican Chairman of of the Reapportionment Committee of the House of Representatives, has re ceived a number of letters advocating the rfeduction of Southern represen tation in Congress and in the Electoral College and he announces publicly that his committee will take up seriously at the coming session of Congress the question of cutting down the repre. sentation in states where negroes are disfranchised. He does not propos< cutting down Massachusetts' repre. resentation although it has a ver5 restricted electorate. The Republicar papers all over the countiry are agitat ing the question and showing that ir some northern districts a Congress ininei Con- C ity of a the ually h. VAPj~kp A55~s UAGS.A59 &JO %op A.Lion J Il Are 1 HERE ai I LTing wear because it is b Here is a Sho, stands up und ordinary Shoe I I 8 N. Main St. man represents many times as many voters as some Southern Congressman 1 represent. The question has been ac centuated by the doubling of the num ber of voters by woman suffrage. This strikes at the very heart of the South's share in the government of the United States. The southern people, like Massachusetts, understand that a large clas sof illiterate citizens is a great governmental burden, more of a governmental burde nthan an equal number of intelligent voters, and that representation in Congress based on their numbers is a just apportionment. But the Fourteenth Amendment puts power in the hands of Congress which may be abused. The South's interest in this election is vital and Southeras Democrats should (10 all they can for Democratic success. The best way they can help is to subscribe liberally to the Democratic campaign fund. Every Democrat ought to bear this in mind when asked to contribute to the Democratic fund. Remember the Lodge Force Bill, and think of the tremendlous influence Lodge will have wvith the Republican administration. if UNS Snv - fails inth t~r'r~t rf ? TCH. RCZitMA. 'rry a 75 c-nt box at OUr risk. . . D)ICKSON'S D)RUG STORE IHORSE A Car Saddle Horses Several Speeds good Mules ca See us for 1 3rand Shoes lade for Service! 'e more extra days of hard grind- I -real endurance in the leather- A uilt for work. e that stays soft and easy, but er severe service long after an is hard, brittle and worn out. dber g, Sumter, S. C. Palmetto College Palmetto College offers thorough courses in Stenography, Secretarial, Typewriting, Bookkeep ing, Accounting and kindred branches. A scholar ship in Palmetto College gives you a membership in our Free Employment Department. We receive more calls for trained executives than all other colleges in the South. We furnish all the old es tablished business colleges with teachers, indivi dual instruction. New equipment. Experienced teachers. Day and Night School. Positions guar anteed. You can complete the prescribed course of study in Palmetto College in less than half the time required in any other school. Our student body represents every state in the South and as far east as Pennsylvania. The reason is Palmetto College is known everywhere. Address, Box 65 Varnville, S. C. (Mother School) or Box 173 Orangeburg, S. C., or 57 Went worth St. Charleston, S. C. PALMETTO COLLEGE The School that's Known Everywher2e. We pay your railroad fare to Palmetto College. S and MULES! load Just Arrived. Driving Horses, Farm Horses. ~tersin the bunch. Also a lot of me in this car. Jp-to-date Fann Machinery. EY & RIGBY