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McLAURIN WRITES IN"REGARD b TO COTTON SITUATION f Mr. Ben IIarris, Commissioner of a Agriculture, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter asking my opinion in this crisis is to hand and t since the brief reply I made I have c concluded to write you an open let- t ter setting forth my views more v fully. Very few persons realized that s when Germany involved the world in C a war it overturned the foundations I1 upon which our political and indus- d trial systems rested. C I was struck by a sentence in some t statement that I read from the kaiser L in 1915. Ile said in effect, that Ger- a many might be deefated, but it would t upset every government in the 0 world if she were. Avaricious Ger many, with its caste privileges back- I ed by arme(l force, once destroyed, V would be followed by every nation on h earth in destroying class privileges. a Every nation engaged in the war has a been going through a revolution, but t we have not realized it. The United c States has just passed through the C period of billions, a millionaire too common to attract, attention; the bil- b lionaire barely exciting notice. Ev crybody was looking to the return of s pre-war days The rich expecting to h1 return richer and the poor to spend h1 more and still more and work less t] and still less. Suddenly the earth n rumbles, there is an angry jar, and c, the earthquake of falling prices is d upon us. One says it is the Federal h Reserve act, another Wall street, an- t other labor troubles and another ex- tj travagance. I say that it is all, and k yet none of these. It is another v phase of evolution or revol tion; we it can make it either, bWt it is bound to I be one or the other. The rumbling you hear and the shock you feel are the groans and dying eonvalsions of a civilization. In the face of the impending tragedy how futile and small seems man; how insolent and trivial with his v.,gue complaints in this country, and the misery, disorder and delay of Europe. There is probably not a book writ ten since the war that has attracted iore attention from students the world over than "The Economic Con seqiuences of the Peace," by Profess or Keyes of Cambridge University, 4 England, Professor Keyes was car ried to the conference by Lloyd George, on account of his profound I knowledge of po!!tial economy. Af ter the treaty was agreed upon, he resigned without giving any reason. Recently lie publ'shed this book as a just ification. I (1o not agree with him in ninny things, iost especially his analysis of President Wilson. I emphatically dissent, although he does picture Wilson as the only idealist and uni selfish man in the con ference. I would picture him about Ui Iou This l An exceedingly attractive littl comfortable, convenient, dure built in a very few days at a per cent less than ordinary h BUNI~GALO Built by skilled workmen in quantities irom timber cut, manufactured in our own fore; after modern practical plant skilled architects and sold < from the forests at tremendoi The Modern Me E conomical House C The house arrives not only ma-terial already cut, prepai to 6it, hut also comopletelyr It will more than Cut Your Labor Bi This and many other attracti shown in natural color in book of homes. Write fori today. Sent postpaid, free upon request. Address ~APIIII~fl o Bngalo A. C. Tuxbury Lumber Company, Charleston, ~ j '' S. C. ~.r.~ ike Chri!zt would be- amohg m ti ears and bulls of Wall street. Pro ssor Keyes in summing up the sit ation in 1914, says in effect. "That the present civilization i rganized to secure the maximur ceumulation of capital, society b ng so framed as to throw the great r part of the increased income iit he hands of those least likely t onsume it. In fact it was precisel lie inequality of the distribution o ealth," which made p'ssible thos ast accumulations of capital, neces ary to girdle this globe with band f steel. In no other way could th resent industrial system have beei eveloped, and in this fact lies th nly justification of the present cap! alistic system, which has monopo zed coal, oil and mineral resource ad exploited agriculture, until thos illing the soil are the poorest clas n earth. "If the rich had spent their ne' ound wealth on their own enjoy lent ,the world would long ag ave found such a regime intoler blg. But like bees they saved an ccumulated, not less to the advan Age of the whole community, be Ause they themselves held narrowe nds in prospect." Viewed in this light what of th enefactions of Rockefeller, Carne ic and others ? Moved by som trange impulse they do not compre end ,they seek to return their vas orde into the common store fo i1 benefit of the human race.. Car egie's "to die rich is to die disgrac :P" takes on a new meaning. Th, evelopments of this age could neve ave come, if wealth had been equi lbly divided. Professor Keyes say in tthe railroads of this world, n ss than the pyramids of 8gypt ere built as a monument to poster y, and that the labor engaged in th tilroad building was no more able t ansuie the full equivalent of thei Ibor than the labor which built th "Felt Lik Man and Wife, All Ru Were Greatly Y WIFE and I, after a hari spring on the farm, wer tired and run-down," say Ar. 1. B. Mulkey, of Route 1, Acworth ia, "We nelther felt well. I knew m: >lood was bad, as I had little boils o1 he back of my neck. "We felt we needed a builder. W< iad heard of Ziron and thought i nust be what we needed. It cortainl: vns. We took it faithfully, and afte I veek or such a matter we began ti S dr My wife felt like cookinC asmemmO Amem'men e home, snug, Lble. Can be cost nearly 50 ouses its size. tremendous >re pared and ts and plants, designed by lirect to you is savings thod of onstruction with all the -ed and ready nanufactu red. !l in Half. ye houses are our beautiful Ii a pyrmaids. iThis->wat hoi ended that e era; the very restlessness: hd waste of the surplus accUmulation of . cen turies; the rape, of Belgium, and, de s struction in France;.. -the 'horrors of i Bolshevik Russia, have, taught :not - only the. possibilities of-pruduction and consumption, "but, the futility and folly of abstinence merely - to ac -cumulate." The -producers and -work r ers in this world -will nevelr pinch f themselves again ,that there may .be 3 Rockefellers, Morgans and Carnegies. The capitalistic clasp are more de termined than ever, that they shall. They have the machinery of govern ment in their hands. They can de press the price br contracting cred its. They are exercising this power rudely and cruelly, and thereby they are hastening the hour when the pro ducers of all wealth will get togeth er and an era of confiscation begin. The income tax points the way to the confiscation, and used ruthlessly as - it will be, it is an engine of oppres sion more unjust and hardly less - cruel than the methods of Lenine an( Trotsky. I have been through there panics in my life. The great panje of 18 3, following the Civil war, was brought about by an amendment to a curren 3 cy bill introduced by John Sherman. - This seemingly harmless amend 3 ment was construed. to mean that - currency should be retired and silver coinage limited, and that all money including silver, should be redeemed - in gold. It was known as "Black Friday," The panic that followed (did not hurt the South much because --we had nothing left to lose. It made over night the monied class twice as rich and doubled the debts of the country. These conditions kept up more or less until 1893, wHen Cleve land undertook to repeal the entire Jpurchasing clause in the Sherman act. It is a well known fact that prices of products are absolutely regulated by the increase or decrease e Eating" r-Down from Farm Work, fHelped by Ziron. I and I sure felt like eating. 3 "Ziron sure did us good. It made 1 us both feel stronger and better for the fall work, which everyone knows is 'Bome work' on a farm. My boils r began to dry up, though Just at first i they seemed worse. "We are much better and can highly recommend Ziron, and gladly do so.for it sure did us good." t Ziron is a Bate, reliable, tonic medi cine, good- for men, women and child. ren,- when an iron tonie Is indicated. It is easy to take and contains no habit-forming drugs. Ask your druggist or dealer. FIYj s' s ucso N94 ORCAAO sKw n Te yW ATTACTIV HOM3 of -the aidutit'of turey in circulv tion. Under the Sherman act i 1878, they :brought 'a panic bf th retirement of currency; in -1893, j was silver. We -were to go from th bimetallic to the. single gold basi: Everybody was told that we mnuE maintain the gold reserve, and - th first thing a man did in the mornin was to look at the paper and . se whether the gold - reserve was up c down. Wall street would gather u currency and send it down and g( gold. The treasury would issue mor currency and Wall street - would r( peat the performance. Iti is a fo< thing to look, at now, but It put col ton to five cents a pound, wheat, 2 cents a bushel, and Kansas foirmne burned corn instead of coal. I r( member in 1893, that I traveled fro Bennettsville - to Washington an never saw the smoke coming out of single factory chimney. Cleveland went out of . office ha ed by Democrats and his only d< fenders in congress, Republicans rel resenting the monied interest. -Mc Kinley was elected and he brougl about the first real prosperity thi country had had since 1873.' He di it by issuing currency and expandin the volume of credits. He followe the same policy that Bryan was d( feated for advocating - and coine more silver than Bryan could hav coined, because Wall street was suI porting McKinley and fighting Br3 an. Yet strange to say, McKinle died at the hands of an assassion. H was one of the kindliest, sanest, an most lovable characters I have evc known, breathing with his dyin lips forgiveness to the miserab] wretch who fired the fatal shot. Roosevelt came. into power, strer uous an( energetic. He undertook I curb the trusts. The people backe him up, and "certain malefactors ( great wealth" engineered an artif cial panic to curb Roosevelt, an they did it, by contracting credit There was the same tremendor drop in prices as in 1873, but - ver few failures, because it was not real panic. Banks suspended pa! ment; even the National City Ban ef New York issued scrip. Son states passed stay laws, and we a used clearing house certificates h stead of money. Now I call attentic to one strange thing. In 1873 an: 1893, it was a farmer panic, and r scrip was issued. We tried clearin house paper in 1893, and to his evei lasting shame John G. Carlisle, the secretary of the treasury, placed 10 per cent tax on it. In 1907, was a bankers panic, and they isst ed al lthe scrip they wanted, an farmers had to take it. This is farmers panic and I (1o not hear anj thing about stay laws or clearin house certificates. Now comimn dlown to present conditions; Senatt Aldrich of Rhode Island, a represei tative of Wall street, proposed tf present Federal Reserve act, but 'bi fore it could be passed the Repub Cans passed out of power and Wool row Wilson became president. T1 Democrats immediately took po session o fthe Aldrich-Vreeland. a and converted it to their own usc They inserted section 13, which pr vides for the discount of agricultur paper based either on live stock field crops, not only when in actu eyistence, but also for money to grc the crops. It does not say that sui paper may be discounted, but that shall be discounted. It was the intention of this act provide an elastic currency wit should contarct an( expand as t business needs of the country e pands and contracts. Last sprih federal reserve banks were free discounting paper on cotton as hij as 35 cents a pound. This of cour encouraged a large acreage and e travagance. The time to contra credlits would have been then if r gard was to be had to the true spi it of the lawv, ubt no, Wall street wv gunning for the South. There was "joker" in the Federal Reserve a just as there wvas in 1873. Some IR pubilicanm senator stuck in a cla u amending the house hill so as toi cor pel a 40 per cent gold reserIve to 1 manintabined for the redemption< the treasury note~s. Nobody seems have attached any i mpo(rtance. to hut either by that or sonme othe means, Wall street dlomi nat es t I federal reserva e hoard, as comp jlete as it -ver~ did the national bankir act. One hacs only to readc the stat ment nmade b~y .John Skelton WVii iams, comptroller of the current( for confirnmation on. I believe~ this the real reason why Mr. McAdoo r< signed and also why he didi not di sire to be a candidate for presiden I wish he wvas in there nowv, for 1 ai sure he would answer Wall streeti the only way it can be answvere< flood this country with credlits a put prices up, so that the debts; en be repaid in the same kind of monc in which they were contractedl. is the only square, honest thingi do. There is no hope with H ousta and Harding. The first is a commen mns risen to power, a social climh< currying favor ,and Harding hasnm got backbone of a guinea pig. It. easy to see wvhat John Skelton Wil iams,- the real man, would do( if l had the power. We all knowv wvh wouldl be McAdoo's policy. In fam if McAdoo were in there, that Wa street bunch would never have dIare attemp~t this bold robbery of our ei tire people. Now failing in that, what is ot best policy? I can say this: TI governor of anty Sout hern st ate wh: dloes not e~xerise5 every', c'onstituio: d al power to iprol ct hiis people is e lhter a coward, a weakling or a fool. If I were governor of South Cai olina I would inmmtediately call II1 legislature together as we didi 19141, and( 1 would put the. wVho Moneyv book without question if HUT's alvefaItn In the treatment of ITCH EdCZEMA, h2UNGWORM, TETT ER on other Itching skin diseases, Tya 75 cent born at our risk DVICKRON'S I)lle STomE - po*ev Dof'this.tate9bhind>the -4otjon 8 a crop. (iithe veiy1iotioe' thataI'Iiitind- a e ed to do it, would - inthnidate' - moiA t. who khow tatit is- an unjust -an t e cruel atthek"i they- nre' making-:on a i. the prodties~of dthis)6tate. b As lou "as they v'efuse to accept a e wa4rehoiq 6 ldlb":dh collatetal, the're ' h0"4hdynntagd In haviig 0. wavrehous6'tiecdlptP. I would '-by r proclantation e ubun every fardier not ~to gin bae d'f cottorig nor sell (Cvntinued dn. page six) STATE OF SOUTl CAROLINA, C Clarendon County. d s COURT OF COMMON PLEAS 2 SUMMONS 0 (Complain Served) R. B. Fulton and V. M. Fulton, Plain4 tiffs, - Vs. Aleine Fulton, Alma Bagnal, Alice Pendergrass, Louise Robinson, Amanda Belle McCaskill, an infant S under the age of fourteen years, t C. M. Fulton, in his own right and E i as Administrator of the Estate of d Benjamin P. Fulton, deceased, Alida s g Dickson, Launah Fulton and Tar- 11 d quita Fulton, an infant over the u age of fourteen years, Defeidants. d To the defendants above named and n e to Kenneth McCaskill, the Father of a and with whom the infant defendant i Anianda Belle McCaskill resides, and a Y to R. B. Fulton, with whom the in- b C fant defendant Tarquita Fulton r-e- 2 d sides: e r You are hereby summoned and re- f 9 quired t'o answer the complaint in li e this action of which a copy is here- s with -served upon you- and to serve a copy of your answer to said Complaint o o on the subscriber, (J. A. Weinberg) d at his oflice in the town of Manning, P y Pure, Rich Blood k Your Body Vigoa When impurities creep into your blood the first symptois are usu. ally a loss of appetite, followed by a gradual lessening of energy, the sytem becomes' weaker day by ii day, until you feel yourself on the a verge of a breakdown. Nearly everybody needs a few bottles of S. S. S., the great vege d table blood remedy, to cleanse out a all impurities about twice a year. r- It is an excellent idea to take this g ~10 D3onq'neglect that barn --don't wait until the paini al and the wood starte to crack ano rI It is far cheaper to protect it al or twooof it Lo It resists all weather conditions a color. Pee Gee Barn Paint spread g -has greatest covering capacity. It to bi ay fLY ars reputation and will gi ,-h vlCO at ow1est cost. Theres A Pee GeelPalat Product For I 1 ct, Aldeet yeman motor 1 eaytob IH si st CIst Cost Genlilet Mye otors l f to answer meafore linte pla ts herein will ap > the Court for the relief demani 4 i th eliplaint., r m J. A. Weinberg, ..Plawtiff's, Attoxney. DatedMarch19 0. NOTC To the defendants Lq ',q. Robinson ad Amanda,.Belle lIiCap i1l: TAKE NOTICEitha1tthe Siqnrions nd Complaint.-in..abve, stated action 'ere filed in the ofile of .the . k.of ourt of 99mmon s, f ra ren an County, SouthlLaroli 69 . eh 2, 1920 and,. are..nowon le .n.said flce. J. A. Weinberg, N38t-e Plailntiff's Attorne~y. CITATION NOTICE TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Cla'rendon y J. M. Windham, Probate Judge: Whereas, R. Leon Burgess. mad At to me to grant him Letters of Ad iinistration of the Estate and effects f Andrew P. Burgess. These are, therefore to cite.and ad konish all and singular the Kindred nd'Creditors of the said Andrew-P. urgess deceased, that they be, and pear before me, In the Court of Pro ate, to be held at Maining on 'the Bth day of October next, after publi Ation hereof, at 11 o'clock in 'the >renoon, to show cause, if any they ave, why the said Administration iould not be granted. Given under my hand this 13th day r October, Anno Domini, 1920. J. M. Windham d. Judge of Probate I Will Keep ous and Healthy precaution to keep the system in a vigorous condition so as to more easily resist disease to which'every one is subject. S.S. S. is without an equal as a general tonic and sys tem builder. It improves the appo. tite and gives new strength and vi. tality to both old and young. Full information and valuable lifA erature can be had by writing tA Swift Specific Co., 156 Swift Lab4 oratory. Atlanta, Ga, of yours wears off I rot. with a coat FREE Paint Book U 61I1mnesand How to Paint thenu. 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