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MClAURIN WRITES IN REGARD is TO THE COTTON SITUATION I It (Continued from page three) s: a bale, and I would advise the legis- ti inture to pass a moratorium which tl would - protect debtors while things were standing still. I would warn Lvery man that we were proceeding! 0 strictly within the law, and I would t' see to it that the law was enforced everywhere to both rich and poor. - If blnks In 1907 could declare a moratorium without law, why can we not declare ofte with law? It will be too late after- our cotton is b sold far below the cost of produc- c tion. Ror myself, I would freely sacrifice my life before I would see the farmers go back induustrially to where we were in 1914. If we do, it is because we are too cowardly or too ignorant to stand up and main- I tain our rights. There is no relief for us that I sel except for the gov ernors of the Southern states to step to the front like men and become the champions of their people. We are oppressed by official finan cial power directed by shrewd Eng lish domination. The whole plan was worked up when Sir George Paish visited this country last winter Why should America graciously low er and defer payment of Intetrest on foreign debts dueu usu ,and simultane ousuly increase Interest and close credits down on cotton? Are we to pauperize the South, in order to re habilitate3 England. . I know it to be a fact, that Germany will do any thing in her power to get two million bales of cotton. Shv wants it from America, not as a re-purchase from England. Germany has the men, women and machinery to manufac ture it and return payment in goods. Why not return for a time to barter and escape the tyranny of manipu lated foreign exchange rates. Are the present leaders In the South going to allow our cotton to be squeezed out of our hands by the English board of commerce, which was in session all during the war to devise ways to rtheir own post war interests? This board actually pub lished after the armistice, that crude products must be withheld from Ger many until Efngland, France and Belgium could rebuild their factories and virtually contro Ithe commerce of the word at the expense of the producers of America. The recent arbitrary action of the Federal Reserve bankhonly empha size sEnglish power, through Wall street, to pauperize our people, to en able Wall street to collect its Eng lish debts. No honest man wants, to escape his just share toward paying the cost of the war, but it seems that only la bor and the products of labor are to pay. What are we going to do? Lock the stable after the horse is gone? Run off after some impossible export company, founded on voluntary con tributions ? I say no, let us use our C BI) -7*3p333.I r~I A O IIII MM E ate governments. to the- limit. I the only way to get united action ake all the law will giye us, bring to play every power left and abso itely decline to be led off into tho Ilderness after an ignis fatuus. Let us develop: our state bankinj rstem and keep our resources wher, iey cannot be manipdlated to throt e us. With a state banking syster ad state warehouse, let us tel arding and Houston if they can ge i without the proceeds of our col )h crop, we will in the future kee at home and finanee oursolves. Remember first that this loss a early a billion dollars will be born y the cotton states. Remember second, that it will b orne entirely by the producers c otton. The banks, lawyers, doctors no merchants will insist upon their pa a full. Remember thied, that it falls hea 'iest on the poorest planters, withot ersonal credit. Tell me that suc vrongs do not need drastic remedie You are the organizer of ti iarmers Union in this state. Yc re commissioner of agriculture. kope you will call a meeting of fari1 rs, not lawyers and bankers, to coi ider these questions. Cotton >ringing arounn fifteen cents he: md it cost 30 cents. It is vain expect things to get better. This >art of a carefully laid plan ai ;hey will turn the screws as tight :hey dare, short of bringing on revolution. When people get t lesperate they ease up a little, b it is going on to the end unless N take a radical action. This cold blooded policy of Wi street and the insolent manner which Houston put it into effect, an English importation, and one c; understand the misery of Irelar The United States will not be ma an outlying province of Great Br ain. Nor will we allow the sub power of money to oppress and F our farmers on the level of Europe peasants. The safe foundation government is a prosperous peop and he who strikes a blow at th material welfare, ig a breeder of t archy. Jno. L. McLaurin. ----- 0 AMERICANIZATION LECTURE AT TIE CHAUTAUQUA AT SUMMERTON NOV The purpose of our Radcliffe Chi tauqua this year is to tell the story the United States Government i its ideals. The reason for the ad< tion of such a program is appar when one considers the condition national unrest, nnd the committee charge of the Radcliffe Chautau< programs ,in Washington, D. C., I decided that a thorough understa ing of the fundamental principles Americanism is necessary to proper adjustment of the many pr lems troubling us today. A la number of speakers have been secu for this purpose, and three are signed to each Chautauqua. Chautauqua Directors will lecture :k's Friend The 7th. We have sok :ember, but arrow in De Visit ou WORN NERVES Nervous troubles, with backach, dizzy spells, queer pains and irreguli 3 kidneys, give reason to suspect kidne weakness and to try the remedy thi i has helped your neighbors. Ask yoi 3 neighbor. - Mrs. B. F. Louder, Dinken St., Mal 11 ning, says: "I had a slight attack 4 1 kidney trouble about three years at t which started with smart pali through the small of my back. Hea, p) aches bothered me a good deal, a: sometimes I was so nervous I couldr f hold anything in my hand. I w e bothered with dizzy spells, too, at black specks often came before me, e fact, I was feeling all out of fix. f friend told me about Doan's Kidn Pills and I got some. Doan's not on d helped me but cured me entirely y the trouble as I haven't been bother since." t- Price 60c, at all dealers. Doi t simply ask for a kidney remedy-g h Doan's Kidney Pills-the same th s. Mrs. Louder had. Foster-Milburn C ie Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. i- the second day, but there will be *'- different speaker for each of the ott is two (lays, and the probabilities f re that the following men will be i to signed us: is Dr. W. T . S. Culp, of Clevelai id lecturer, educator and author. s Edward Tomlinson, of Georl a traveler and lecturer, a member :o the A. E. F. at These men are all splendid spej ve ers, and have had a great deal of 1 perience in public work. They co ill to the circuit directly from a conf in ence at Washington, D. C., and th is lectures alone will be worth the pi al of the season ticket. The good wh id. ought to result from the presentat de of this Americanization program h it- cannot be estimated, and it is ho: le that every one in the community N ut can possibly do so will arrange to an tend all of the Chautauqua assessit of To be at Summerton November le, 5th, and 6th. air n- SNOW FALLS IN WEST Alliance, Neb., Oct. 31.-A he blanket of wet snow, which be falling late Saturday night, coi Northwestern Nebraska and part , South Dakota..and Wyoming, ext< ing as far as Montana. of0 mnd TWELVE MEN DIE FROM EXILOS) ent of North Tonawanda, N. Y., Oct. 3 in Twelve men were killed early lua morning in an explosion and fire has the distributing tower oi he I nd- gara Falls Power company here. of The explosion occurred a few i the utes after two new transfori ob- had been cut in at the distribu rge tower of the power company's pl red Thirteen men were crowded in as- room watching the work of the 'he machinery when there was an on plosion, apparently caused by a s cetmb~r. Pla Yi4 IMa circuit. The force of the blast burst a steel barrel of lubricating oil which a, formed part of the new equipment r and the flash of the .iectricity ignit y ed the oil, which was thrown over, at the men in the room. Ir Four men were instantly killed, ap parently. One escaped serious burns I- by jumping through a window. The )f other eight managed to escape froim, ;o the flame filled room, but all were is so badly burned that they died in the l- hospital today and tonight. id - k't VESSEL MAKES PORT id Washington, Oct. 30.-The Ameri can steamer Rambler, reported help A less today and adrift off the Cuban Y coast, has reached Sautiago, the navy of department was advised tonight. The o mine sweeper Tanger, which had B been sent to look fo rthe Rambler, , was diverted to aid the steamer Lake et Daranga, also reported In trouble et near Guanatanamo. Radio messages received here did not give details of 0.' the accidents to either ship further than that the Rambler was short of - water for her boilers. a er BOLSIIEVIKI DRIVE re AGAINST WRANGEL to Sebastopol, Oct. 29 (By the Asso id, ciated Press.)-Russian Bolshevik . forces have begun a violent offensive Vi to wipe out the armies commanded Of by General Wrangel, head of the south Russian government. The Bol. xk .x me er eir 'ice ich ion rUl ere ro ec vho at ins. B ith, If desired we *A Corrugated gan a of anc mnd Cement, F [ON 1.-S this at fia t Carolina ant. the new ex hort iroc Farm ur Producing Sows ws that will f several nice ce your orderm npion and World Chan rmning. S. C. sheviki have attacked at two points, crossing the Dnieper river opposite Nipolpol and branching uot from Khakova. b Troops from the Polish front, as 2 well as masses of Siberian soldiers, are being used in the Bolsheviki of- 0 fensive and heavy reinforcements are being rushed up in the effort to b-eak through General Wrangel's lines. o- -- FOUR BADLY HURT IN WEST VIRGINIA Williamson, W. Va., Oct. 31. Travis Horton, of Thacker was killed instantly, Matt Lester of Matewan was probably fatally injured and Doug Mounts and James Overstreet of Matewan were seriously hurt in three separate shooting aiffrays in Mingo county today. Mounts and Overstreet are under indictment and awaiting trial on charges growing out of the recent fatal rioting at Matewan. 0 TO INVESTIGATE ACCIDENT Washington, Oct. 30.-Investigation by a technical board of officers is being conducted aboard the super dreadnaught Tennessee to fix respon sibility for the accident to the ves sels propelling machinery which oc curred several days ago while she was on her trial run. Subscribe to The Times t Your C UILD THAT WAREHOU ill furnish a plan, and I Sheets, Nail I any other mater ,ime, Plaster, Wall B ingles, Asphalt Shint Write or Phone Portland C CHARLESTON, S. C. Fancy Orion arrow before Sows that rpion Durocs. CFAI NOTICE OF DISCHARGE I will apply to the Judge of Pro ate for Clarendon County on the 9th day of November 1920, at 11 'clock a. in., for Letters of Discharge a guardian for Annie Marie Buddin ormerly Annie Marie Turbeville, for nerly a minor. J. M. Buddin, Guardian. Tinimonsville, S. C., October 26th, 920. pd. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE I will apply to the Judge of Probate 'or Clarendon County, on the 18th day >f November, 1920, at eleven o'clock !L. M., for Letters of Discharge as ommittee of Ela B. Lemaster, now de :eased. J. G. Senn, Committee. Summerton, S. C., Oct. 18, 1920 Pd NOTICE I will apply to the Probate Court of Clarendon County, South Carolina, on Saturday, November 27, 1920 at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for Letters of Dismissary as Administra tor with the Will Annexed of the estate of Wesley E. Richbourg do ceased. J. F. Richbourg, October 27, 1920. pd ,otton! [s, Roofiing ials. oard, Metal fles. ement Co. Chief De viii t M , - L~l~