Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 09, 1909, Image 3
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f FORT MILL. S. C.. DECEMBER 0. 1?09. ^
THE LAST Cf RECONSTRUCTION,
A. B. Williams in Richmond
N?wa-Leader.
j November 7, the 33rd anniversary
of the final overthrow of
' the reconstruction governments
in the South! In the year 1876,
November 7th, in the States of
Louisiana, South Carolina and
Florida, especially, was looked to
with dread and nope. It was
the day of the general election.
These States, as officially deQPnKorl
of fLnf fi'mA
wvi.iwvu at tuat, tunc wcic ai tutu .
camps. The negroes, carpetbaggers
and scalawags and their ;
camp followers and dependents j
had normal majorities,. ranghig
from 50,000 to 20,000. The
native white people were gen- j
eraliy enlisted as Democrats. As
a matter of fact, they were giving
no thought to party principles.
They represented home ]
rule and white rule locally. The
fights were the most desperate *
and spectacular in the political j
history of civilization. In South
Carolina and Louisiana, on the ]
face of the returns as they came ]
from the polling precincts, the 1
Democrats had majorities. The
legal authorities, the returning
boards, composed of State of- 1
ficials calling themselves Re- '
publicans, but really the most
intelligent elements of the scum "
intent on plunder, threw out \
enough Democratic majorities,
on the grounds of fraud and |
intimidation, to give the States :
to the Republicans. Unquestionably
the fraud and intimidation
existed. In a scuffle like that j
nobody thought much of the fine
points of law. The negroes and
their carpet-bag leaders defraud- '
ed and intimidated where they 1
had the power and the opportunity.
The white men rode ,
their neighborhoods whooping J
and shooting during, the night,
fired cannon at daylight, repeated
from precinct to precinct as
long a* their horses would hold j
out and without hesitation shot *
up and burned. hostile ballot
boxes, beat hostile election officials
and obnoxious negroes i
over the head with the barrels of
long navy revolvers and when it i
became necessary for the exigencies
of the occasion, turned
loose bullets into the persons of <
unduly stubborn opponents.
In South Carolina the conditions
were especially dramatic.
* In the early, part of December,
1876. two houses of reDresenta
tives were occupying the same
hall in the State house with two
['/> speakers sitting side by side, E. <
Lji W. M. Mackey, of Charleston, '
|fl& presiding over the Republican
nouse, William H. Wallace, of
1 Union, presiding over the Pemo
cratic house. Sitting so close
I together that either could touch
I the other with his hand, each
B declined to recognize the ex- i
J' istence of the other or of the I
house presided over by the ]
B other. The white men and their i
|| few negro allies had walked into '
B^the chamber stiff-legged with
Winchester rifles inside their ]
Bflwrousers and stores of six shoot- 1
and ammunition in their i
H overcoats. On a Sunday night !
^Gen. Wade Hampton, supposed 1
KB to have been elected governor by i
'; taSF$iie Democrats, while Daniel H. !
^ Bhamberlain was officially dej^aBfcared
by the Republican repa^ferning
board to be the governor,
P^^Bceived an anonymous letter inIRrming
him that during the
IjOTmght several hundred desperate
IBpgroes brought up from Char- i
gBfeton and officially commissioned I
BV deputy sergeants-at-arms of |
II ill tB WHIm I V? All OA iifAIlM V%VAolr nrvrl l
Iiv-, vvv/uiu uitaa anu i uil 1
Democrats or slaughter <
id that they would be <
jp by the United States 1
i regiment being quar- i
Columbia and under the i
ders of President Grant, i
?re sent out by telegraph c
3 courier. Special trains
died into service. At c
; Monday morning the i
rts were piling in by s
nd pelting headlong on
cs of horses, driven at 1
ed, every man armed, t
f them veterans of the *
irate army trained to <
te fighting and eager for ?
nity to know again the i
3 exhilaration of battle t
smell of powder smoke,
i Hampton had concentrated
in Columbia probably
8,000 armed and fighting men
ready to sweep away the Re- I
publican government and to go t
against the United States regu- 2
lars. The rank and file of the 1
United States army, consorting *
with the South Carolina people, t
had given it out confidentially t
that if called on to fire on the f
Red Shirts they would "bust
h?1 out of the stars," the plain c
meaning of which was that,!
they would fire over the heads of j1
their antagonists and permit *
themselves to be run down and *
captured. Probably their of- I
ficers understood vei^wel^^^i
purposes oi the men and wouM
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Tillman Hits Money Power.
Senator B. R. Tillman was in
Vugusta a few days ago and
while there gave out the followng
interview:
'I believe," he said "that the
recent Federal court decision
igainst the Standard Oil company
s like the $29,000,000 fine and I
im going to watch which way
;he pieces fall before I throw up
hy nat and start a hurrah. It
ilways appears to. me that in
wery such decision of the United
States courts the judges fix it so
;hat their millionaire and multimillionaire
friends can slip out
jasily. The law was passed ten
pears ago and why in the thunier
didn't Roosevelt jump into
;hem and raise the devil with
them instead of shouting aloud
md tearing his hair about what
lie was going to do? I am going
to, and the people of this country
3hould also, watch the grafters
like a hawk, for I expect that
they will find it an easy matter
to sliD out and co thnir wav nn
punished. If a nigger or a poor
white man steals a small amount
of money or some little goods he
goes to the penitentiary. But
let a high financier make off with
millions of the people's money
and he is presented with a chromo
and hailed as a hero.
"About the mine disaster:
It is not for the national government
to attend to the punishment
of the irregularities existing, but
the States should be held to account.
The Illinois horror is only
a repetition of another result of
the greed of capitalists, x The
clamor of the States for national
aid is a bad thing and it is rapidly
destroying the belief of the
people in State government. The
recent utterance of President
Taft for the health of the country
to be placed under national
control is all wrong for the health
of the people was always intended
to be regulated by the
police laws of each city or
State."
Railroads Treated Unfairly?
Editor Fort Mill Times:
Very few people seem to be
familiar with the injustices the
railroads have to suffer. As a
rule all railroads have a rightof-way
which extends sixty
feet from the centre of the track
and it seems that the public invariably
turn their livestock out
to roam the countrv at this time
of year and, as is often the case,
they get on the tracks of the railway
and are killed by some passing
train. The owner then has
a nice large claim to file against
the corporation, his stock is always
the best that is going and
he must realiee a nice sum in
order to replace the killed animal.
This right-of-way belongs to the
railroad company and why should
they be responsible for the stock
killed on their property?
You might contend that the
railroads should stop their trains,
which they should do if possible,
but it is impossible for
them to always stop as .the stock
may be. on a curve and, besides,
it is dangerous for passenger
trains to apply the emergency
brake when they are going at a
good rate, of speed and it is especially
dangerous for passenger
trains to apply the emergency
brakes as some passenger mav
be standing in- the coach and
may be thrown violently against
something. It is certain the
railroad company would never be
able to collect anything from the
awner of the stock to pay for the
injuries received by the passenger.
It appears to me it would be a
good idea for our Legislature to
:ake this matter in hand and project
the railroads against such
niustices as t.ho "? ? ~
?- V..V M. Villi V/WUO XL C Ulir
)f the greatest benefactors our
country has, in fact, they make
che country. Erase the railroads
from our great United States
ind what would we have to transport
our grain, cotton, merchandise
etc. ?
I was informed by a railroad
pfficial that his livestock file
?or the past five years only
showed two cows that were not
'full blooded Jerseys." It hardly
ooks reasonable that the country
has so many Jerseys. There
nust be something fascinating
lbout a railroad track for Jerieys.
Why not give the railroads
their rights and make
;hem give us ours?
Sllh9PriKoi?
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Lancaster, Dec. 7, 1909.
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The 7-year-oId-son of B. F.
Martin was run over by a freight
rain and had both legs cut off
ibove the knee in Gastonia last
Friday.
heir demands. Blood is thicker
han water and it was a race
ight.
That was about the last serious ,
lemonstration of the reconst rueion
and Republican governments
n the South. The rotten fabric I
fell to pieces in May when Hayes,
>y some juggle or ? mysterious
>argaih, never yet clearly rehaving
been counted in
^ president, withdrew the
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THE ESKIMO AT HOME.
The New York Press has an
article giving some facts about
the men who made it possible
to reach the pole?the real Eskimos.
Following are a few extracts
from the article in The
Press that will doubtless be of,
interest to the reader who is
searching for North Pole information:
"The Eskimos are the filthiest
people in the world. They never
wash, not even face and hands.The
smell of their fur clothing
and secretions from the skin
causes a stink about their persons,
and especially in their igloos and
tents, that is unbearable to
tenderfeet.
"Living in huts of stone or ice
in winter, in sealskin tents in
summer. Eskimos never marry
in the sense we use the word,
but mate like animals. Swapping
of mates for an indefinite
time is common. Furs are used
for the common family bed, and
everybody from father to babe
ctrmo ofovlr r?olr nrl
oun^/o otai rv. naacu u^ivjl^ ittiring.
"Eskimos are all children, contented,
peaceable, honest and
hospitable, without rules and
without ambition for fame or
power.. They live almost entirely
on raw animal food, and this
explains the absence of a number
of diseases which are common
to civilization. Salt water
contains iodine, and all sea animals
as well as all who eat them
uncooked, absorb more or less of
this pickle chemical substance.
"Scurvy, so common and deadly
among early Polar explorers,
is totally unknown among Eskimos
who eat raw meat. This
iodized raw food also explains
the absence of enlarged tonsils,
glands and goiter. Their perfect,
splendid teeth and strong
lower jaws mark them completely
carnivorous. The exclusion
of vegetable food has shortened
their intestines, and indigestion
is unknown. One would suppose
their pure flesh diet would cause
biliousness, etc., but the large
percentage of oil in their food
acts as a gentle laxative and protects
against all harms. The
Esk eats with relish old rotten
blubber that would stagger a
buzzard.
"Esk's skin, though covered
with filth and vermin, is smooth
as satin and totally free of disease
or blemish. The very fact
that these people fear and hate
washing in water may account
for their fine'Arctic'skins. Exposure
of hair to midnight sun
for three months of the year
favors hair growth. Baldness
is unknown, and even time seldom
bleaches the hair to gray,
and at 60 it is still real black.
Their snecial senses are' verv
keen and eyesight seems undiminished
by age. Consumption
is unknown, nor is there
any skin or bone form of tuberculosis.
But when brought to
the United States they contract
consumption in most virulent
form. Of six brought to New
York all contracted the disease
in less than six months. One
who returned to his Arctic home
made a quick cure.
"It is well known that the
long Arctic winter, with its depressing
effects on body and
mind, often upsets the best
balanced nervous system, even
of the native. But this hysteria
vanishes with the summer. Explorers
have suffered in the same
way, and two have committed
suicide. In summer Esks get so
full-blooded that nose-bleeding is
very common.
"All degenerative diseases
that cause so much suffering and
death in civilization are absent
from the Eskimo. No arteriosA
Ovtl A*U A ACM
VIVIUOIL, Ullgllt O UiaCOdC, tilrhosis,
diabetes, cataract. The
pure, sterile Arctic air contains
no germs, but Esks invariably
take a bad 'ship cold' when they
go aboard white man's ship."
Worse than Pellagra.
Barnwell People.
There is among Southern cotton
mill operatives a general and increasing
ailment, of which physicians
and politicians teye made
no note. It affects all ages, men,
womerMind children. The sufferers
lack appetite, ambition
and energy.
Nostalgia is the name given it
in the medical books. It means
homesickness. In long standing
cases tne only cure is a change of
location, occupation and diet.
These mill victims are longing
for the country life that they
abandoned so cheerfully from
one to a dozen years ago. They
are hungry for the free work on
the farm, for eating the products
of their own hands, cornbread
without Western pellagrous >.
germs in the meal, peas, pota-!
toes, collards and cane syrup, all
the week and chicken pie on
Sundays, sausage aud spare ribs
toward Christmas.
Land owners in need of repentant
tenants may find it to
their interest to let the mill people
know that there is work and
welcome for them in the country. ,
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