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The Fort Mill Times DEMOCRATIC. Publiahed Thursday Morninir*. B. W.& w r. hradkokd .. PuBusiieiu tt . n. oxaoi okd fcditoi B. W. Bradford Managei The Time* invite* contribution* on live subjects but doe* not aitree to publish more than 200 wordi on any subject. The rij?ht is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. Subscription Rates: One Year S1.2C Six Months ...... .61 FORT MILL. S. C.. JUNE 9. 1910. Why Ship Subsidies? As usual certain Republican leaders are renewing their proposition to pay subsidies to AmeHcan lines of ocean-going ships. They point to our "far flung battle line" and they question: "What shall we do in time of war?" One would think, to hear their plaintive wails for a "merchant marine" that America, like Athens, must depend for its very existence on its ' 'wooden walls." But is there any basis for their pessimistic predictions? America's foreign commerce, despite this country's prohibitive tariff, is increasing steadily. There is no danger on that score. What of the possibility of war? War with whom? With anybody? These frenzied advocates of this gigantic graft scheme are willing to see battle clouds in any quarter. There is no real danger. America has nothing to fear. But suppose there were danger. What remedy do they offer for their darkly painted conditions? They propose, by taxing the eighty-odd millions of Americans. to grant bounties to American ships. Their proposition is weak in an economic sense. When an industry?and such the merchant marine of the nation may be termed-is unable to maintain itself it should perish. The wise merchant finds that he is losing money on shoes but is making money on silks. Does he therefore take money from the sills department and spend it in swelling the business of the shoe department? Hardly. He usually expands his silk trade and cuts off his shoe trade in proportion. Otherwise he fails. America needs no merchant marine to insure her existence. Seme one has said that if a mar 1 !IJ - I uunu a neuer mouse-trap thar any other man the world wil wear a path to his doorway. Lei this be America's aim. Let th< world come to America for goods That is merely the materialis tic side. The argument that ; ship subsidy does not pay sink: into relative insignificance befon the colossal injustice of it. Win should a farmer in South Caro linaorin Nebraska be taxed fo the support of a shipping finn ii New York? What good does i do him? The advocates of ship subsi dies claim that their plan, by in creasing the nation's carryinj trade, will add to the genera prosperity. That has somewha the savor of the story of peopl on a far off island, who eked ou a scanty living by taking in eacl other's washing. Take the mone; from the farmer's pocket, say the ship subsidy advocate. Giv it to the ship-owner so that h< can afford to let his ships pi: between American and foreigi ports. Thus, he claims, Amer ica's foreign trade will increase But will it? Let the farme and the laborer, the tradepmai and the professional man, thos who work for their living, le them consider whether they wisl to barter their birthright ? th< American repugnance to specia privilege?for a mess of pottage And then, if they decide to maki the trade, let them look to i that their mess of pottage turi not to ashes in the mouth. Le them carefully consider whethe the purely hypothetical advan tages of doubtful artificial in crease in the nation's merchan k 7 1 ! marine will overbalance with j them the moral stigma of rob1 bing the poor by means of an inflated tariff in order to pour uncounted millions into the coffers s of unscrupulous magnates of mo* nopoly. I Newspaper Disappointment. If there be a credulous individual who imagine? that newspapers, in contradistinction to persons, are beyond the scope of rlicorvnninf rnnwf Inf Ut*v? /4Ir.?rtl Mioc ^j/viiitllICIIt, ICt 111X11 the delusion. The Times' experience is otherwise, and it therefore speaks by the book. During the 19 and more years of the life of this paper it has striven dili;! gently to make its politics so t plain that even the understand ing of a widgeon could not fail to accredit it with fealty to the Democratic party. But alas! 1 there bobs up a death's head to ' haunt The Times' waking hours , and rob it of the placid sleep it ' has long enjoyed. A North Carolinian is done with The Times because he was mistaken in thinking the paper independent in politics; he was surprised to read in last week's issue the editorial on "North Carolina Republicanism," which he consid- 1 ers an attack on Mr. S. S. Mc- ' Ninch's candidacy for Congress. . Which last estimate of the edi, torial proves the erstwhile Times subscriber less of a dullard than he appears at first blush, for he hit the bull's eye the first shot | and is entitled to two cheap cigars for his clever marksmanship. Ti e Times certainly had Mr. McNinch and his political gyrations more or less in mind when in a sort of round-op of the Republican highbinders he was caught in the dragnet. The ' complainant is destined to lose I L 1 J! a. * 1 i/ r - uiuen uy uivesung mmseii oi ' The Times at this most inauspi- ' cious season. By reading it re- 1 ligiously during the next few < months he could learn much of the lumpish downcast look characteristic of hypocrisy and would also learn to ever after detect ! the wrinkles of party treason which it will be pleased to point i out from time to time. ,! Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster, . for six years, in the '90s,congressman from the Fifth district, is a [ candidate for the State senate in i Lancaster county. T. Y. 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The examination for the award of scholarships in Clemson Agricultural College will be held in the County Court House on Friday, duly 8th, at 9 a. m. Applicants must fill out proper J forms, to be secured from the C ounty 1 Superintendent of Education, before I they will be allowed to stand the exam- 1 inations. For detailed information, ap- J ply to the Superintendent of Education. 1 or to the President >>f Clemson College. 1 Applicants for admission to the Col- * lege, but not seeking for the scholarships, will also stand entrance examinations at the court house July 8th. The scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. 1 The next session of the college opens I Sept. 14th, 1910. COST AND COURSES OK STUDY. | (1) Agriculture. J (2) Agriculture and Chemistry. J (.'<) Agriculture and Animal Industry. i (4) Chemistry and Geology. | (5) Civil Engineering. (t>) Mechanical and Electrical EnginI eeritig. (7) Textile Industry. 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