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f ROBBER BARONS' Fleace the Predacers a! Cattaa by the Aid tf the Tariff Law. ? ? FARMERS ARE ROBBED Urnler the 0|?erationH of this Pro tective Iniquity, and They Should d Combine and Work Together for ^ Self Protection, Says Senator Smith t 1 in Explaining His Position. j On account of the misunderstand- j ing on the part of Borne newspapers with rufor:tiu'ii (n thn ututpnipnt f?nn ~ 1 ? = cerning the cotton crop, issued by Senator E. D. Smith a few days ago. the senator Saturday gave out the following statement with the view of clearing up the matter and putting himself in-the proper light: "It is rather remarkable how a carefully guarded, conservative statement can be misinterpreted into just the opposite. In my interview in regard to the cotton crop a few days ago, 1 used the following language: '* 'I shall not attempt to dictate to the farmers of the South what they shall do. Hut under the circumstances I should he delighted to see them combine and hold their cotton from the market wherever it is possible for them to do so, until it shall bring such price as shall measure the artificial price placed upon manufactured articles by virtue of the tariff.' "In reference to my own opinion I used the following language: " 'My honest conviction is that 20 cents for the present crop is none too high, in view of the supply, the cost of production, the comparative value of cotton with other textiles, and the artificial price that now obtains on manufactured goods.' "The headlines and newspaper . nm tvvnn(c hwvn miiflr* it ntttmnr thut VVIUIUVUtO ' V ? " "V -V -???' ? I have advised the farmers to hold their cotton for 20 cents a pound. One newspaper, in an editorial comment. has said that the farmer should sell his cotton at present prices and pay hiB debts. That past experience has been to the effect that where the price looked enticing in the early fall, that farmers held and suffered a loss. This is true. "I have never advised any farmer who had pledged his cotton to a merchant or to" any one to withhold it from the market when it caused emibarrassment or loss to the one that credited him. But I have always advocated the banks of the South and the financiers of the South doing all in their power to help these weak and unfortunate ones to withhold their stuff from the market until it should bring such a price as would remunerate those that helped and give a profit to the unfortunate ones who needed help. "I have never advised any price on cotton, nor nave l stood ror any specific price on cotton until the farmers of the South, in convention < assembled, determined what, in their judgment, was a righteous price for what they themselves produced, and then I became on uncompromising advocate for that which they, in their Judgment, deemed a fair and legitimate return for their labor. "I rave been criticised for standing for 15 cents cotton. I stood rot 15 cents cotton when the farmers of the South demanded it, and had some of my critics been as loyal to the cause as I, the 15 cents mark might have been the sooner obtained. "I sometimes marvel that we are as well off as we are, when I think of the fact that the advocates of protection with their newspaper organs, their lobbies, their powerful advo rates on the floor of the house and senate shut out competition from abroad, combine their capital in America and force the price of articles beyond any reason, thus forcing the producer of the raw material, the salaried man and the wage-earner, to pay exorbitant prices for those manufactured articles which are a common necessity. It is a marvel a the seining prosperity that the t masses enjoy. "I am not asking, nor have I ev- l er asked, that there should be a leg- t al enactment protecting any one, in- t dividual or corporation. But when s the government is committed to the p doctrine of protection by legal enact- f ment, I think those who are the vie- J time should resist this unnatural a condition by Invoking the law of t God?which Is the law of supply and 1: demand?and, by standing solidly to- r gether, force its operation. o "If the price of manufactured articles Is forced to artificial heights, t and the great body of wage-earne-s, t laborers and producers of the raw o material are forced to pay these ex- b orbitant prices, reducing them to ab- o ject poverty, who shall gainsay their t right to combine in every depart- r ment of their life and demand such a remuneration for their lalmr and li their raw material as shall offset the h price what they have to pay to rob- o ber barons of the manufacturing interests? tl "Under the law, It is wrong for ti me to carry consented weapons, but p should some one threaten my life o 'RANK SALOON KEEPER. IE TKLLS WHAT HIS LlQCOIt I WILL IM> FOK ITS iSKltS. The Remarkable Curd Iscd by .1 1 Tombstone, Arizona, Iiurkee|H'r Ut Advertise His llusincss. The Medical Journal prints the allowing and credits it to an uul- t lentified "Lay Exchange." 1 "Tombstone, Arizona, claims to 1 iave the frankest saloonkeeper In ' he United States. He keeps the f rem pie Har Saloon and advertises ? lig business in a remarkable man- I ler. He has had curds printed bear- r UK the following words: c "Friends and Neighbors: I am 1 rrateful for past favors and having (applied my store with a fine line ' d choice liquors, allow me to in- * !orm you that I shall continue to I nake drunknrds, paupers and beg- > ;ars for the sober, industrious re- 1 (pecable part of the community to * support. 'My liquors will excite riot, "They will diminish your com- ' torts. Increase your expenses and 5 shorten life. I shall confidently re- ' :omiuend them as sure to multiply ' 'ntal accidents and incurable di- 1 leases. < "They will deprive some of life, ' itliers of reason, many of character * ind all of peace. They will make 'athers fiends, wives widows, chil- 1 iren orphans and all poor. 1 will 1 :rain your sons in infidelity, diss!- 1 mtion, ignorance, lewdness and ev- < >ry vice. 1 will cause as much tern- * loral and eternal death a* ; ecu. I ' will thus accommodate the public; it nay be at the loss of my never-dy- ! ng soul. Uut I have a family to ' support, the business pays and the < ?ublic encourages it. 5 "I have puid nty license and the < rnfiic is lawful, and if 1 don't sell it ' somebody will. 1 know the liible says 1 1'hou shall not kill, no drunkard .hall enter the kingdom of heaven. < ind I do not expect the drunkard 1 rraker to fare any better, but I waut ' in easy living and 1 have resolvd i .o gather the wages of iniquity and 1 'atten on the ruin of my species. i "I shall, therefore, carry on my 1 msiness with energy and do mv best .0 diminish the wealth of the nation 1 ind endanger the safety of the state. \s niy business flourishes in proportion to your sensibility and ignorinee, I will do my best to prevent [uorul purity and intellectual growth. "Should you doubt my ability, 1 1 refer you to the pawnshops, the poorhouse, the police court, the hospital, the penitentiary and the gallows, where you will find many of my best customers have gone. A sight of them will conviuee you that I do what 1 say. "Allow me to inform you that you tire fools, and that I am an honest saloonkeeper. ' and 1 know not where nor when 1 may meet him, what jury would convict me for preparing myself to defend my life at any time or place where this threatening foe might meet me? Who shall criticize lnbor organizations for combining and demanding a higher wage? Who Bhall criticize the producer of the raw material for combining and demanding a higher price, and by their numerical strength and their necessities to mankind forcing a recognition of their rights, when the law of the land is giving that opportunity to the manufacturers, who have Impoverished and are imporerlshing the masses and creating the coloslal millionaire of America? "I do not believe in class legislation or class discrimination, but 1 do itelieve in enual rights to all and ipecial privilige to none under the 1 uw. And so long as the law gives jpecial privilege to some, it is tlie ' nanifest duty of those discriiuinat- | ?d against to protect themselves (gainst this unjust discrimination. \.nd the best way to defeat the in- 1 'anions doctrine of protection is by ' he farmers and laborers protecting ' hemselves. The Republican party to- 8 lay is being defeated and driven * rom power because its doctrine, carled to its last analysis, has forced * uich prices that the wage-earner and 1 he salaried man cannot live. 1 "The farmers of the South wouid ? >e willing to take less price for heir stuff if they might buy what ' hey need under the same circum- * tances that they have to sell their ' iroduce. They have to sell und?>r ree trade and buy under protection. Vnd it is their duty to themselves ,nd to their country to do all in 1 heir power that is legitimate and (operable to offset this legalized obbery under the American system if nrnlootlnn s "I had some vague conceptions of r he enormity of the Republican pro- * ection system, but never did I dream f its unblushing effronter y and * oldnesg until I became a member ' f the United States senate. And if f he people of America could reali7C. 1 ather than vaguely know, the blat- 1 nt injustice being practiced by the a iw, they would a long time ago f avo swept the whole system out 8 f existence. "In conclusion, * invite the attenlon of my critics to the prices obtaining for wool, flax and silk under 1 rotection, as against cotton with- & ut it." P INFANTILE PARALYSIS IAS TAKEN MANY IJTTLK ONES DIKING LAST YEAR. riiin Disease Attacks Mostly White Cliihlren, Very Few Colored Children Kver Have It. There was 569 deaths from acute inrterior poliomyelitis, or infantile >ara>si6; 116 from pellagra. 55 from abies or hydrophobia, and 9 death rom leprosy in 1909 in the death eglstratlon area of continental Unit>d StateB. which comprises over 55 <er cent of the total population, acording to the census bureau's forthoming bulletin on mortality statists for 1909. It is reported that, of the 569 leaths from infantile paralysis, 552 vere of white and only 17 of colored lersons. There was a somewhat rreater incidence of disease among nales and an increased mortality, n August, September and October The bulletin states that no statisical segregation of infantile paralysis as a case of death has been tiade hretofore, but the Increasing mportance of the disease and its vide prevalence throughout the >ountry in the form of local epidemcs render a statement of the mortalty important. Like meningitis, which it sonievhnt resembles, it is difllcult to oIh tain an exact separation of the leal lis from the speclle infectious llseas-e. acute anterior poliomyelits, from other infections of similar tat ure. Acute anterior poliomyelitis is described by the bulletin as an acute infectious disease chiefly affecting children In the iirst five years of life, ind while not infrequently fatal is :>f even more seriou sconsequence as the cause of more or less permanent paralysis and atrophy of muscles. Numerous outbreaks have occurred in this country, the most important of which were those In Vermont, in 1894, and in New York and Connecticut, in 1907. The 569 deaths complied for the registration area for 1909 were widely distributed. and indicate endemic or epidemic prevalence in many parts of the country. It should be remembered, the bulletin points out, that the census data relates only to registration sources, and that for the non registration States the deaths are only those returned from the registration cities contained therein. >?r\ISTTK AM) W1FK SEl'KHATK. Presiding Khlcr O'Oell Makes Statement AlKUlt It. Presiding Elder O'Dell of the Rock vllle District, gives out the following statement in reference to Rev. H. R. Mills, who is stationed at llock Hill: inasmuch as the press will in all probability send out reports concerning the unfortunate affair involving the Rev. H. R. Mills, of the South Carolina conference, I deem it my duty to the church and to Brother and Mrs. 'Mills to give the facts to the public. "On Thursay, September 22, Brother Mills came to me and told me that he was in trouble; that he and his wife could not live together any longer and asked that I release him fiom his work, as he would feel a delicacy in appearing before hiR congregation under the circumstances. Having no authority to release him, 1 told him that the best and only thing to do was to have the matter investigated in due form by a cotn'littee. To do this he readily consented and expressed a desire that it he done as quickly as possible. I appointed an investigating committee, consisting of Revs. Matthew Move Brabham, D. Melvln McLeod and S. D. Bailey. They very carefully investigated the matter and reported that a trial was deemed necessary. There was nothing of a vandalizing nature charged by eith5i Mrs. Mills or tVlr. Mills, the sole .pecitication in the chargo being that Mr. Mills had seperated from his Mie, for other than the Scriptural r.aKon. The above is in brief a fair .tnteinent of the case." Mr. Mills and his wife came to >outh Carolina about four years ago roni Kentucky. They are both oung. WRAPPED IN MYSTERY. The Ihuly of n Young Uuly Found Radly MutiLnted. A special from Goderich, Ontario, ays Elisabeth Anderson, aged 16. egarded as one of the most beautiul girls in the city, was found mur ered Tuesday in a deserted house n the outskirts of that city. Her ather led a searching party, which ound the body in a dark corner of he cellar under a pile of clothing, ier throat was cut from ear to ear nd the body was horribly mutilated. !he disappeared Sunday, after being een in conversation with a stranger. Will Decide Today. Commissioner Watson is in Washngton, conferring with the President s to his acceptance of his recent aplointment. He will decide today. J r 'y ' ' y .... . . CENSUS REPORT Of Deaths by Suicide, Henicide ud Ac cideats far Last Tear. FACTS THAT STARTLE. The Statistics Tlmt Are Published for the Registration Area as Compiled by the ureau Shold Set All of I'h to Thinking and IIinitio;* for the Cause. External causes, other than suicide, were responsible for 4 7.135 of the deaths reported for the census registration area of 1909, It is stated in the Census Bureau's annual bulletin on mortality statistics for 19 09, now In press. The death rate declined from 97.9 to 96.7 per 100,000 estimated population. The total number of deaths from homicide, as reported for 1909, was 2,854, a decrease of 149 from the num'ber compiled for 1908. Not all deaths from homicide are specitled. so that the total number that actually occurred would be in excess of that compiled. The increase in the death rate, 5.9, from this cause for 1909 over the annual average rate. 2.9, for the liveyear period 1901-1905, is probably duo largely to greaier precision in the returns in this respect. Among the causes of accidental 1 deaths, in the order of numerical importance for the year 1909, were the following: | Railroad accidents and injuries. | 6,659; drowning, 4,558; burns and scalds, 3,992; injuries at bir?h, hereafter to he classified under diseases of early infancy, 3,508; injuries by horses and vehicles, 2,152, not including injuries by street cars, 1,723, and automobile accidents and injuries 632; inhalation of poisonous gases, including conflagration, 1,837; other accidental poisoning, 1,779; accidental gunshot wounds 944; heat and sunstroke, 816; cold and freezing, 251; lightning, 150. There were 1,174 fatal injuries uy machinery, chiefly In factories, hut the large number, 10,108, of accidental traumatisms of unspecified nature makes it necessary to consider many of the figures given abov* as only minimal, and it is Important that the means of injury be specified in all returns of death from accidental violence. The sliirhf nn mprlcnl lrrp?ni? ' ? the deaths, 8,402 from suicide registered for 1909 over the number, 8,332, for 1908 is less than the relative increase of the estimated population of the registration area, so that the death rate decreased from 18.5 to 17.2 per 100,000 population. The most common means of suicldo for the year was poison, 2,464, followed by firearms, 2,395; hanging, 1,215; asphyxia, chiefly by illuminating gas, 9S9; cutting instruments, 536; drowning, 507; jumping from high places 156; crushing 84; and other or unspecified means 58. Undoubtedly many deaths from suicide fail to be reported so that they can be compiled under this head, but the increasing precision or statement of the natrue of the deatli in cases of deaths from violent vauses renders the statistics more accurate from year to year and thus accounts for some of the apparent increase in the death rate from suicide. WHY S1IK WANTED TO DIE. Young Woman Scores Certain New York Men She Met. Miss Vera Fitch, the young Caltfornian who shot herself in the tin. tel Astor, in New York on August 29, has given her reasons in an unusual interview. She said she hoped for reincarnation in a more moral world. The case has been surrounded by much mystery. The young wotuan's relatives have refused to ad mit her indentity and the only hint of her motive was gleaned from a letter to her mother, in which she wrote: "The fourth estate has proven too strong for me. It is really deplorable that a girl cannot succeed honorably in New York. In some things I might have succeeded had I acceded to the wishes of men, cultured usually, moneyed usually, but minus morals. Death is preferable." It was known that she had literary ambitions. Lying in the hospital, where she is convalescing, MIsf Fitch said: "I dreamed of a better day when such men could be unknown. When the world would have Ann ni Are 1 of n o/l n e/1 ? u..u ?.w. 1*1 Dinuuniu iUI UUIU men and women. In the belief, I might live again in that purer time, I tried to kill myself." Miss Fitch w.ib born in Oakland, California, twentyfour years ago. How Over a Dog. A i tho result of a quarrel at Perryvllle, Ark., over a dog, Dub Thurinan, aged 18, died Tuesday night, and Hob Owen, aged twenty. Is charged with the killing. Thurman was fatally stabbed on Saturday night In a fight which followed Owen throwing a rock at the former's dog. RAILWAY REGULATION. TIIK NEW YORK TIMES MAKES SOME COMMENTS ON IT. It Snjs Even the Misfortune ol lirRailways Were Imputed to Tlieni For h Fault. In discussing the railway regulation the New York Times su.s "although there was little novelty in the railway's presentation of their case for the advance of their rates, there was much that was novel in the shipper's contentions. In Chicago it wa3 testified by one railway that forty million dollars of earnings had been put hack into the M property. In this city it was testified that some thirty-five millions of dollars of earnings had been expended upon the new Pennsylvania terminal. This was in accord with the formerly approved rule of practice by the best roads?"a dollar for dividends and a dollar for betterments. It was this principle of plowing the earnings back into the property which has kept down the capitalization of American railways, at the same time that their rates have not risen with other prices for services and goods. "On this formerly approved principle the shippers' counsel joined issue, taking their cue, it must be admitted. from certain rulings of the Inter-State Commerce Coin mission. These improvements made from earnings were regarded as grievances, and in themselves as proof of extortion. It was asserted as a right that the roads should reduce their rates by whatever sums of earnings they have been accustomed to devote to improvements. Even the misfortunes of the railways were imputed to them for a fault. For example, it was alleged that because one road had lost large sums by equipment frauds, and had prospered nevertheless, therefore it had oversharged by the amount it had lost by embezzlement, and should be held to reduce its rates by the amount of its losses. The broad prosit ion of those assuming to act for the general public is that the railways should lie allowed to charge no more than would jus? prevent their setting up a defense of confiscation. And, in estimating their permissible income the railways are held by these spokesmen to be entiled to no more than a reasonable income upon too amount of their own funds which iney imve aovoien to me puonc use. "These gentlemen seem in some danger of winning a battle and losing a campaign. it is conceivable that they may prevent an advance in rates, and come to regret the consequent lack of vitaity in the railways. American railways are far from having attained their growth. They are in heed not only of income enough to sustain their life, but to stimulate their growth. There is a certain justice In haveing the funds necessary for their growth contributed by those whose patronage of the railroads is a source of prolit, rather than by the general public whose gain front the railways is less direct. If the railways are held to capitalize their betterments, and must borrow the money, interest must be paid on the money borrowed, and the rates niUBt be adequate to pay the Interest and provide a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the debt. As interest and sinking fund must come from earnings, it would seem to come to the same thing in the end. "Whatever the merit of this argument on either side, it is plain that a new light is thrown upon what <s thought to be regulation of rates. Heretofore It has been thought that the function of government was merely to assume that rates were reasonable and just, that Is, neither extortionate nor discriminatory, toward either persons or nlaces. if the position assumed on behalf of tinshippers is sustained there is no detail of the management of the railways too trivial for examination and control. It is not enough for the railways to sustain their claim that they need more money. They cannot justify on totals, but nust prove in detail just how much they want for terminals, just how much they want for wages, how much for interest, and so on inedflnitely. "The railways plead that they cannot do it, and that nobody could. However that may be, it is evident that the success of the contention would establish a new definition of railway regulation, and one not in accord with the present law. SHOT I1Y GUN TRAP. Which Ho Had Set to Shoot Expected Burglars. J. B. Beasley, a prominent merchant and postmaster of Kockport, Mi8S., met death in a peculiar manner Monday. Several weeks ago burglars robbed Beasley's ptoro, and the postotllce. In expectation of another visit from the burglars Beasley had set a loaded shot gun so that when tho door wns opened the gun would be discharged. Forgetting the trap ho had laid. Beasley attempted to enter the store and tho gun was discharged, killing him almost instantly. . ' .1 TEDDY VICTOR Ckaaea Temporary Chair man Orcr YicePresideat Shernaa. RESULT NO SURPRISE D?nipl?'tP Rout of the "Old (tunr*)" by "ProgTM8lv?'ti," I"tuier l^'odfrship of the Formrr Pwsident, atNew York lli'pulilinin State Convention at Saratoga hu sdny. Teddy Roosevelt rode Tuesday to victory at Saratoga, N. Y., defeating Vice-President Sherman for temporary chairman of *he Republican State Convention anil bowling over the "Old Ouard" in the first engage- ? -?nient of a series of conflicts that sure to come. Roosevelt was In.Yti" element. / lAfter he had named the member* of tlie three important committee* anil the Convention h?'', adjourned tc meet Wednesday Roosevelt turned to the newspaper men and remarked : "I said 'frazzle,' you may quote ret* on that." At Troy on 'Monday the formtp President said he would beat his opponents to a ."frazzle." There were 1,01 l votes cast in tbe Convention, of which Roosevelt received 5 08 anil Vice President Sherman received 4 13, this electing the leader of the "progressives" by a majority of 1115. Roosevelt did not vote. Sherman voted for John Doe and two of the New York County delegates did net respond when llu-ir nam* s wore called. The vote as officially announced at the Convention gave Roosevelt 607 and Sherman 4 4 5, but an error in the count was discovered that nigWt. Roosevelt spoke feelingly, saying, that the laws passed reflect high credit "upon all who succeeded in putting them in their present shape upon the statute hook; they represent an earnest effort of the achievement which is yet to come, and the beneficence and far-reaching impor tance of this work done tor the who'i* oeonle measures the credit which >? rightly due to the Congress and to our ahle, upright and disinterested President Wm. Howard Taft." The spectators and many of the delegates warmly applauded the declaration of Roosevelt for a direot primary plank. Roosevelt bitterly assailed tbo "bosses." declaring that "the difference between a 'boss' drives. Tb*? difference 1b that the leader holde his place by firing the conscience and appealing to the reason of his followers and that the 'boss' holds bis place by crooked and underhand mamuplation." Thunders of applause greeted the Colonel as he was escorted to the Speaker's stand by Vice President Sherman and Cornelius V. Collins, and it was some time before he couldproceed with his speech. Thanking the delegates for the honor that they had conferred on him, he caused the greatest enthusiasm when he said: "You shall not have cause now or hereafter to regret what you ha^e done." It was a day of oratory; it was a day of bitter and acrimonious speech. With the opening of the Convention, State Chairman Woodruff defined the position of the "Old Guard" and announced that Sherman had been selected for temporary chairman. And then the real tight wai on. Col. Abraham Gruber, of New York City, had been selected to fire lh? verbal shot of the "Old Guard," and his speech attacking the former ^resident, which was a bitter arraign jtnent of him, was often broken and drowned by hisses and jeers. AITOMOIHLE CACHES RUNAWAY. One of the Three Young Men in ^ Ruggy Fatally Hurt. A sad accident occurred at Abbeville on Sundav afternoon. Lew Reid, a young man, died Monday afternoon from injuries received ir? the accident. Young Reid, with his brother and Clift King, were in a buggy driving down Trinity street when their horge became frightened at an automobile, .lust us they got past the automobile the bridle brote and as the horse bolted all three young men jumped. Young Reid fell and the back of his head si tuck the curb. He lingered until Monday afternoon but never regained consciousness. ??- m ? Sent C'l> Ten Years.. The trial of Dr. W. L. Vestel at fireensboro, N. C., for performing a criminal operation on a young wo in.hi ui 11 iK" t'oinr. w ncrc ho lived, resulted in his conviction, and sentence to the penitentiary at hard labor for ten years. Kills at PoMofllcc. At Vernon, Texas., in the midst of a throng waiting for tho Sunday mail at tho postofflce Sunday morning, Dr. A. P. Howard, a prominent physician, shot and killed H. A. Burns. The cause is not known. Dr. Howard surrendered.