Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Hf- * _ I [PALMFmjAPPENINGsl < News Noted of General Interest <| ) From All Parts of the State. ![ The "Unloaded Gun" May Cost Boy Sight. Union, S: .'cial.?Another "unloaded gun" nearly resulted in a terrible tragedy, even though no fa tality (tccurml, and may make a Iit11? boy Mind for life. It was at Buffalo, in this county, that Elmer and Luther McCreight, aged 10 and 8 years respectively, sons of Mr. Robt. McCreight were playing on the bed with a shotgun that was supposed to be unloaded as their father usually kept it that way, but was loaded now because Mr. McCreight had loaded it to kill some dogs that had been worrying him. In playing with the gun it suddenly went clT. the charge tearing a large hole in the ceiling of the room and a few of the scattering shot entering Elmer's eyes. Sowing Clever and Alfalfa Scientifically. Columbia. Special.?Over 200 farmer.; of the State are now planting winter leguminous clover crops under the direction of Prof. A. G. Smith of the Uni'iv-d States bureau of plant industry, who has charge of the work in South Carolina. Many of the farmers arc planting crimson clover, red clover, burr clover, alfalfa and vetch. Those desiring information concerning the planting of winter clover crops can securo specllic information by applying to Prof. Smith, who has an office in the State capital and gives personal attention to all in quiries made to his department. Want Circus Kept Out. Spartanburg, Special.?Barnum & Bailey's big eureus, which will show Iin this immediate locality October 27, and the Spartanburg County Fair I Assoc in t: 1 have clashed. The Fair j Association wants the city to keep the circus from showing within the city limits for the reason that October '27 is tlv date for the opening of the Fair, and if allowed to pitch their tents in the city, the business o fthc Fair will be ruined. The city, when asked for a license fixed tl:o f.o at $2,000. ami then dropped to $1,000. The circus people have refused to cough up. but will show on the outskirts of the city near the Fair Grounds. Magistrate Suspended For Misconduct and Neglect of Duty. l.io v:.n * vv.M.uw.uf upvtmi.?VJV* ClliUI Allsol suspended Magistrate J. E. Davis, who was appointed last spring for Clearwater township, Aiken county, for " misconduct and neglect of duty," in failing to turn over to the county $4.90 he collected as costs in a negro disorderly case which was compromised. Mr. Davis was given a hearing and explained that the case was compromised last spring and he neglected to make a record of it and in this way forgot to turn over the funds. The Governor regarded his answer to the charges insufficient and removed him. Plans for the Celebration. GafTney, Special.?Mr. J. A. Carroll, who was recently appointed from Gaffney as a member of the executive committee of tho King's Mountain Monument association, met the members of the committee at Gastonia Monday. About 20 members of the commit too wore pivsont, and all wore most enthusiastio as to the prospects at the time of the unveiling: of the monument. Mr. Carroll said that it was the sense of the committee that a day would he devoted to the unveiling: and one day to the reproduction of the battle of King's Mountain, 'which was really the turning point of the war. Wants a Decision. Columbia, Special.?The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Hailroad has requested the Supreme Court of South Carolina to hold a special session to J* pass on the constitutionality of the Lefrislature'a act permitting the comtpanv to obtain a charter in this State. Chief Justice Jones now has the matter under advisement. Eice Birds Are Destructive. Charleston, Special.?Harvesting | of rice is progressing satisfactorily for the planters in the Savannah river territory, ami within the week will be finished, says the Savannah Morning News. Some of the larger planters have commenced threshing | The condition of the rice crop is very good, and unless some very bad weather turns up will givo an abundant yield. Rice birds are playing I havoc with the alte rice particularly recording to reports which are W brought to Savannah. Mp Lota of Boors back to Baltimore. Charleston, Special.?Three thoui two hundred and fiftv-siz quarts Ik whiskey and 4,680 bottles of imH beer wore loaded Tuesday on I a steamship of the Baltimore line and shipped back to Baltimore and im- I mediate points. The conrtaband had Wen consigned to blind tigers hero, bat never reached ther consignees as the police patroi ;V water front day and night and the stalY gradually TO USE BLACK ANT IN THE EX Ants, the little black species which frequently infest kitchens and pantries, may be experimented with near Durant by the government next year to exterminate boll weevils. The discovery was recently made by Special Agent S. W. Murphy of the department of agriculture, who is located in this city, that the ants will devour the young weevil and the larvae beNEW NAVAL SHELL EFFEC' France's latest pattern of naval shell for heavy ordinance se-cms to ba highly effective, judging from the results obtained last week when the wrecked battle ship Ienn was used as a turr?1. The first shell was fired at one of the funnels, which it piercedj as easily as a revolver shot would go j thrnmrh a niece of turner, and carried F It won't cost yon a renny to reach ont a helping hand to a great army of j honest, hard-working and deserving ' men and women. t Just your moral support will Insure work, a living, and comforts which are now either partly or wholly denied them. How so? f,nmn on Inf'c ? ? w?*( ivv o ua?c a IUUK. 1 You've often been Importuned and many have been commanded by advertisement or otherwise to "refuse to Buy anything unless it bears the union label." Looks harmless on Its face, doesn't It? It really la a "demand" that you boycott the products made by over 80 per cent, of our American working-1 men and women, who decline to pay j fees to, and obey the dictates of the1 union leaders. It demands that yon ask the merchant for articles with the "union I label," thus to Impress hirn with Its' Importance. !t seeks to tell you what to buy and j what to refuse. The demands are; sometimes most Insolent, with u! "holler than thou" Impudence. It demands that you take away tho living of this 80 per cent, of American worklngtuen and women. Is that clear? Why should a small body of workmen ask you to help starve tho larger body? There must be some reason for the "union label" scheme. i Run over In your mind and remem- I ber how they carry on their work. During a discussion about working i or striking In the coal regions, about i 25,000 men preforred to work, they i had wives and babies to feed. The i union men said openly In their convention that if the employers didn't | discharge these men they (the union men) would kill them. I So they dynamited about a dozen i homes, maimed and crippled women 1 and children and brutally assaulted \ scores of th? e independent workers. i The big bo? a of the union men were I taught to pound the school children < of the Independent men. How would I you like to have your little girl short- ! i ly grown from the toddling baby who I used to sit on your lap and love "Dad- | I dy" pounded by some big bullies on I her way home from the school where j: sho had gone to try and please Daddy j 1 by learning to read? ] The little bruised face and body would ttrst need tender care while you i ponder the Inscription writ deep in < your heart, by that Master and Guide to all human compass.on, ** Inasmuch ; as ye have done it unto one of the I least of these My brethren ye have I done it unto Me." Then perhaps yon s would drop to your knees and pray Almlghtfy God for strength in your i right arm to strike one uianiy and i powerful blow for baby's sake, even If i /vu "cut. iu uvHin lor it. | Helpless children were brought ; home, with faces black or bleeding , from the blows and kicks of these 1 fiends, teaching Independent Amerl- ' cans that they must stop work when 1 told and pay fees to the leaders of i "labor." Thousands of men, women and children have been treated thus. 1 Worn somewhere, Oh, Father of us I all, we try to believe that You look < with pityiug eyes upon these brutal 1 blows, cuts and scars on the many human bodies made In your likeness I and Image. I They are beautifully and wonder- i fully made, each the dwelling place i of a Divine Soul. 1 Is It Your wish that they be crushed 1 by Iron shod heels, cut by knives or I torn asunder by bullets and dyna- ; mite? < May we venture to think that a long suffering patience ts extended In i the hope that the men and women of < America may some day wake to a i realization of the awful cruelties per- 1 petrated by this spirit of oppression hjiu mat mey win some time learn | the lesson that the "sacred gift of bu- ] man freedom and liberty" was given \ by God and must be defended even to! \ death Itself. I 1 Our forefathers were need by thej t Infinite God to establish our freedom i In 1776. and our fathers gave freely 1 of their blood and treasure to as tab- t llah the freedom of the black. Now | again It seems we are called upon to t protect our brothers and ourselves i from that old time spirit of tyranny I fMcfc somes up from Usee to time to < force people to obey tyrannous rules ' and bend the knee of the sluva < KHV ^T'-' HMKKffi * TERMINAION OF BOLL WEEVIL fore they hatch, and that they ai very fdnd of the weevil as food. The discovery was mad? entire] by accident in the following mauno Mr. Murphy had visited a local cotto field and secured several weevil which were about ready to hatel They were taken to his office for ol nervation under a magnifying gins to determine what effect, if any, th recent hot weather had had upo IIVE IN MODERN WARFARE. it away, hurling it into the sea 401 yards off. A second shot struck oni of the gun turrets, and when twenty minutes later the artillery committei arrived in a stream pinnace to see th* effect of the shot the steel walls o, the turret were red hot from the fir* started by the explosion. For mor? than an hour it was impossible to np 'ass ti In Wellston, Ohio, thirty Americans sought employment In a factory. They were seeking to earn food for their families. They were bombarded by rocks and pounded with clubs ir the hands of union men. One of the Injured, John Brannlhan, was taken to the city hospital with a broken law rrnsheH oWnll ?nil Qth?r cuts and bruises. He was the fatTTer of two children, and was thought to be dying, perhaps ho did. 1 don't know, but 1 sometimes wondei what the children said to Mother when "Papy" didn't come home, and how they and the little woman got any food, and how they could place their wrongs before their own American fellows. Mayhap sometime some kind person will equip a home where the orphans and widows of the victims ol the Labor Trust may be cared for and fed. It would take a big home. It has been said there were 31 Americans, many of them fathers, killed In one strike, (the teamsters In Chicago) and over 5000 maimed, many for life. Thafb only one "lesson" of these bullies. There are literally thousands of cases wherein your fellow American has been assaulted, maimed or killed by these men. The same worh is going on day by day. Suppose you make a practice of picking out each day from the papers, accounts of brutality to American worklngmen who prefer to work free from the Impudence and tyranny of self constituted ieaaers (?) than to be always subject to their beck and call, pay tbem fees and be told by them when and where to work, and for whom. You will discover the same general conditions underlying all these dally attacks. In every case the worklngman prefers to be free. He has that right. He then tries to go to work. He and bis family sorely need the money for food or be wouldn't run the risk of tils life. Many such a man has wiped the tears away and quieted the fears af a loving wife, left with a kiss on her Hps, set his manly jaw and walked Into a shower of stones and tiullets to win food for the loved mother and babies. A good many have been brought dome on stretchers with blood oozing from nose and ears, some cold, while mine gradually recover, and carry for life the grim marks of the "nninn label." Tbey are your fellows, my friends, ind yet you supinely read the accounts and say "too bad." Have you grown so calloused that iron care uothing for the sufferings of these men who need food and these helpless ones who rely on the life and strength of husband and father? Let us hope that soon you inay be moved by a Just God to rice In your might and by voice and pen, by vote and right arm you will do a man's part In protecting yourselves and your brothers from this onslaught on American citizens. This cruel warrare is carried on not always to raise wages, hut to establish union control, kick out the Independent men and establish the "label." Unfortunately the "Labor movement" which started many years ago honestly enough, has fallen under control of a lot of tyrannical, vIcIoub "men of violent tendencies." There are too many to attempt to name. You can recall them. They Include men who have planned the murders of miners, teamsters, pressmen and carpenters, shoemakers and Independent workmen of all kinds. Many of them have escaped hanging :>y an outraged public only because lurles became terror stricken and lared not convict them. Some have been punished slightly ind some, Including the principal offl".ers of thlB nefarious crew are now jnder sentence to Imprisonment but lave appealed their cases. Right here some apologist rises to protest against "speaking thus of aborlng men." Bless your dear leart, tt Isn't the honest and real workman who does these things. It Is be excitable ones and the loughs and :htigs who don't work except with their nouths. but have secured control of loo many unlona 1 don't even at.etnpt to specify the criminal acts Lhese persons have assisted or winked kt In their plan for destroying free srorklngmen and forcing men to stay In "the anion" and hence under their ;ontrol. The newspapers for the pas! 7 years contain almost dally aecounti >f the criminal, lawleee and tyrnnai them. They were placed on a newsri. paper and left upon a table while Mr. Murphy went out to dinner When he returned scores of little - black ants were devouring the weev: ils. He watched the ants with the aid n of his glass until he was thoroughly Is satisfied that they were really devour1. ing the weevils and not attacking y- them by chance. He then wrote a is full report of his discovery and obe servations to I)r. Knapp. head of the n bureau of plant life industry, under proach within six feet of the turret, 0 so great was the heat, and the turret ; wall was battered as though it had j been a tin cup. Some goats and poulu try shut up within it had been killed j? by the gases liberated by the exploit sion. A third shot was fired at the ? lower decks of the battle ship, which n were protected by a thick steel belt, . and although it did not pierce the ar \e Wo cal acts against American citizens and haven't told half the tale. Right here ' It becomes necessary to say for the ten thousandth time that there are i scores of honest, law-abiding union men who deplore and are In no way responsible for the long Infamous rec1 ord of the "Labor Trust" under Its [ present management, but they don't i seem to stop it. i The men who manaee who null the strings and guide the policy have made the record and it stands, as made by them, ' Examine, if you please, the record of a string of members of the Araer1 lean Federation of Labor and you will view a list of crimes against Americans, stupendous beyond belief. They defy the laws, sneer at the courts, incite mobs and are avowed enemies ' of the peaceable citizens of all classes. This band wields an iron bar over their subjects and drives them to 1 idleness whenever they want to call a > strike or exact extra pocket money > for themselves. Men don't want to be thrown out of work and lose their livelihood, but ' what can they do when the slugging 1 and murdering committee stands al ways ready to "do them" if they try ' to work. The poor women and helpless chil1 dren suffer and no one dares present 1 their caBe to the public. They must suffer in silence for they have no way to right their wrongs, while the no torlety-seeklng leaders carry out their I work. These men cannot thus force op1 presslon on the weak and innocent or 1 use them to bring newspaper notice to 1 themselves and money to their pock1 ets unless they can "hold them in line." Therefore, with the craft of the fox and venom of the serpent they devise the "union label" and tell tho public to buy only articles carrying that label. Smooth bcheme Isn't It? 1 They extract a fee from every union man, and In order to get these monthly fees, they must hold the workers in "tho union" and force nanufacturers to kick out all independent men. Can anyone devise a more complete and tyrannical trust? If allowed full sway, no Independent man could keep working In a free factory, for the goods wouldn't oell, no matter how perfectly they be made. Then, when the factory has been forced to close and the employes get hungry enough from lack of wages the workers must supplicate the union leaders to be "allowed" to pay their fines (for not becoming members before) and pay their monthly fees to the purse-fat managers of the Labor Trust. Thereupon (under orders) before the factory be allowed to start they must force the owners of the business to put on the "union label" or strike, picket the works, and turn themselves into sluggers and criminals towards the Independent workers who might still refuse to bend the knee and bow the head. In the meantime babies and mothers go hungry and shoeless, but who cares. The scheming leaders are trained to talk of the "uplifting of labor" and shed tears when they speak of the "brotherhood of man." meaning the brotherhood of the "Skinny Maddens," "Sheas," "Gompors." et al., always excluding the medium or high-grade Independent workers. Perhaps you have noticed lately that the makers of the finest hats, shoes and other articles have stopped putting on the union label. Naturally the Labor Trust managers have ordered their dupes to strike, lie Idle, scrap, fight, slug and destroy property to force the makers to again put on "the label." But for some reason the buying public has been aroused to the Insults and oppression behind It, and in thousands of cases have refused to buy any article carrying, what some one named the "tag of servitude and oppression." The bound and gagged union slave Is fined from $5.00 to $26.00 If he buys any article not bearing the "union label." Nevertheless, he. time and again, risks the penalty and I i buys "free" good* simply to order to help the fellow worklngmnn wbo Is i hTsre enough to work where he yfsnnss without eeklng permission on bended kaeee from the bulldoslng ; lenders who eeeh. by every known i method of oppression nnd bnte to . Hint Ma. - whose direetion Mr. Murphy is wor ? iug. Mr. Murphy has made further o servations of the habits of ants ai is confident that in them he has foui I an insect which will destroy the b< 1 weevil without damaging the cro . His explanation of the reason wl the ants have not already extermina ed the weevils is that the advent i the latter into this country is of cor paratively recent date, and that sin their coming they have spread and i mor the force of the explosion wi such that the elcctaic conduits thr< tiers higher up were completely pu verized. So far as the experimen have gone the impression has be? created that in a naval fight ever part of a battle ship pdojecting abo> the main armored framework of tl vessel would under fire from the! shells be destroyed in a breif time. >rd Aior If these poor wageworkers wl thus brave fine and slugging to he out other men who seek to live a Trt life under our laws and constitute J cannot you, reader, help a little? Will you reach out a hand to he! an Independent workman earn foe for his wife and babies? Or will yc from apathy and carelessness alio him to be thrown out of work an the helpless suffer until they pro trate themselves before this stupei dous and tyrannical aggregation ? leeches upon honest American labor The successor of Henry War Beecher In Plymouth Church, Brool lyn, says: "Union labor hatred for labc burns like a flame, eats like nltr acid, is malignant beyond all descrl] tion. But the other day, a woma representing a certain union vislte many families in Plymouth Churc asking them to boycott a certain ii stitution. Alas, this unlo woman's hatred for non-union wome burned In her like the fires of hell." She was pitilessly, relentlessly an tirelessly pursuing the non-unlo women and men to destroy the ma ket for goods, to ruin their factoi and to starve them out. In the French Revolution only per cent, of the French people b< lleved in violence. The 98 per cen disclaimed violence and yet the 8 per cent, allowed the 2 per cent, t fill the streets of Paris with festerln corpses, to clog the Seine with dea bodies, to shut up every factory 1 Paris, until the laboring classc starved by the score. The small per cent, clement In tt Labor Trust which hates and seel to destroy the large per cent, of lndi pendent Americans sends out lettei declaring "free" industries unfair an tries to boycott their products, they could bind every one it woul bring suffering upon hundreds < thousands, immeasurable ruin upo the country, and land It absolute! under control of the men now a tempting to dictate the daily acts < our people and extract from each mnnthlv foo There are babies, children, wome and honest, hard-working and skll ful fathers who rely upon the protei tion of their follows, when they sec to sell their labor where they choost when they choose, and for a sum the believe it to be worth. Every citizen having the right privileges and protection of a citlze has also the responsibility of a cltizei I The Labor Trust leaders ma I suavely "request" (or order thos 1 they can) to buy only "union label | articles, and you can of course obey I you are under orders. | Depend upon It. the creatures t the Labor Trust will, upon readln this, visit stores and threaten dire r< suits unless all the things bear "th label." They go so far as to have thel women pretend to buy things, orde yards of silk or cloth torn off and vi rlous articles wrapped up and the discover "no label," and refuse then That's been done hundreds of time and Is but one of the petty acts c hatred and tyranny. Let no one who reads this artlcl understand tnat He or she Is asked t I boycott any product whether It beat a "union label" or not. One has constitutional right to examine th article and see whether Its makers ar Labor Trust contributors and slave or are tree and Independent Amer cans. I have tried to tell yon somethln ^bout those who are oppressed, vll fled, hated, and when opportunity 01 fera are attacked because they prefe to retain their own Independent Amei lean manhood. These men are in th vast majority and include the mot skillful artisans in the known worlr They have wives and babes depender on them. These men are frequently oppresse and have no way to make the! wrongs known. They are worth* r defense. That's the reason for th expenditure of a few thousands of do I Inrs to send this message to rb | American people. Remember, ! dldu't say my "excuse" for sendtu It, The cause needs no "excuse." C. W. POST. Battle Creek. Mlct N. B. Some "parlor socialist" who know nothing of the Russian Ctarlsm of th greet Labor Trust will ask rlgh here: "Doat you believe In the r'.gfc creased much more rapidly than tha ants. He intends to colonize as many I), ants as possible in a cotton field near ud this city next year, and to assist him 3d in his efforts he has asked that a gov>11 ernment expert to detailed. ,p. If the ants ean be successfully cololy nized and propagated Mr. Murphy's tt- discovery will prove of untold worth 0f t%> the cotton-growing industry, and n. the ants, which are now regarded as ce household posts may prove a blessn ing.?From the Dallas Morning News. is There's a Rub. ;e "Died in povorty!" cried the phil1 osopher scornfully, te "Died in poverty, did he, an' you >n expeet me to sympathize? What is 'V there in dying in poverty? I've got re to live in it."?The Sporting Times. le ^ se I^ris not every man's lot to gain the nnrt nf Pnrin 1 li 14n*?n/in 4 II | of certain workmen to 'organize?'" Ip i Oh, yes, brother, when real workmen IP I manocrp i?* T _?UE)U nisei; all U IICntClUUIJT, UUl X in j would challenge the right of even a church organization when Its affairs lp had been seized by a motley crew of id heartless, vicious men who stopped iu Industries. Incited mobs tn attack citiw zens and destroy property in order to ia establish their control of communis ties and affairs, and subject every one i- to their orders and exact the fees, jf When you see work of this kind being ? done call on or write the prosecuting d oincers of your district and demand t- procedure under the Sherman antitrust law, and prosecution for con>r splracy and restraint of trade. We lc hnve the law, but the politicians and [i- j maay of our officers even while drawn lng pay from the people are afraid to id enforce it in protection of our cltl,h zens, and now the big Labor Trust Is 3_ moving heaven and earth to repeal n the law so their nefarious work may m be more safely carried on. Hut l'eu. Why don't you strike id out and demand defense for your fel,n lows? r- Put your prosecuting officers to the y test and insist that they do their sworn duty, and protest to your Con 2 gressmen and legislators against the 8_ repeal of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. t. Its repeal is being pushed by the LaiS bor Trust and some big capital trusts to in order to give each more power to lg oppress. Do your duty and protest. ,d In this great American Republic in every one must be Jealous of the right 38 of Individual liberty and always and ever resent the attempts made to gain ie power for personal aggrandizement, cs Only the poor fool allows his lib8 erty to be wrested from him. a Qni*?o "* ,? who MHK3 now about your d own workmen?" If I didn't intend to speak of my own d nffairs, but so long as the question is jf almost sure to be asked I don't mind ,n telling you. [y The Postum workers are about a t_ thousand strong, men and women, }f and don't belong to labor unions. The a Labor Trust has, time without numbers, sent "organizers" with money n to give "smokers," etc., and had their ]_ "orators" declaim the "brotherhood c. of man" business, and cry salty tears k describing the fearful conditions of e> the "slaves of capital" and all that. ,y But the "confidence game" never worked, for the decent and high 3 grade Postum workers receive 10 per n cent, over the regular wage scale. They are the highest paid, richest and v best grade of working people In the ;e State of Michigan and I believe In the United States. They mostly own jf their own homes, and good ones. Their wages como 52 weeks in a year ,f and are never stopped on the order of g some paid agent of the Labor Trust. j_ They have savings accounts in the e banks, houses of their own and Bteady t work at high wages. ir They like their dally occupation In ,r the works (come and ask them) and are not slaves, and yet the Labor n Trust leaders have done their best to , ruin the sale of their products and _ fnrno ,J'* (SI tucui invij luioness and poverty. It would coat the workingmen of Battle Creek (our people and about ie 3000 others) from $1000.00 to 0 $2000.00 a month In fees to send out a to the leaders of the Labor Trust, If a j they would allow themselves to bee come "organized" nnd Join the Trust. 0 Not for them, they koep the money, school the children nnd live "froo." That's some comfort for white people. Once In a whllo one of the little g hooks "The Road to Wellville," we l_ put In the pkgs. of Postum, Grape- ^ f. Nuts and Post Tonstles, Is sent hack ,r to us with a sticker pasted across It saying "Returned because it don't e bear the union label." 5t Then we join hands and sing a j hymn of praiso for the discovering by ,j some one that our souls are not Beared with the guilt of being cond ' splrators to help bind the chains of r slavery u|>on fellow Americans by >f plsctng added power In the hands of ? the largest, most oppressive and I. harmful trust theworld has over soon. e When you seok to buy something I look for the "union label" and speak your sentiments. That'* ? vj.^ihi* " j nlty to reach out a helping hand to i the countless men and women In all i. kinds of Industry who brave bricka, I stones and bullets, to maintain tkelr s ; American manhood and freedom by a I making the finest goods la America t | and wbMi do not bear fid seal at tan