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pThe Fort Mill Times. ' DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Mnrninjrs. B. W. & W. K. Hkaiifokd ..PUBUSHKRS W. R. Bradford ...... Editor B. W. Bradford Manaukr^ The Times invites contributions on live subjects, but does riot lurree to publish more than 200 words on nny subject. The rijrht is reserves! to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interests!. Telephone, loeal and lonij distance. No. 112. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year . f 1,2.r. Si* Months .... .61", FORT Mil.L. S. ('.. JANUARY r>. 19U. Opportunity. Master of human destinies am I. Famo, love and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields 1 walk. I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing i by Hovel and mart and palace, soon *or late I knock unhidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state < Mortals desire and conquer every foe i Save death, hut those who doubt or hesitate , Condemned to failure, penury and woe. Seek me in vain and uselessly im- ' plore. j I answer not, and 1 return no more. , John J. Ingalls. ,' I A York County Need. While it was gratifying to York county folk to learn from the recent census returns for South Carolina that in the matter of population the county ranks seventh among the 43 counties of the State, the figures presented by the returns really occasioned little surprise. York people already knew that their county was one of the foremost of the State, that the increase in population for the last decade was substantial and that the figures would show a gain of several thousand. Not only in the matter of population is the county growing, but the intelligent energy of her citizens is being rewarded by increasing property values. In every section of the county the value of land is from 25 to 100 per cent, greater today than it was a dozen years ago. York is indeed one of South Carolina's foremost counties, but in one respect our people have not shown the progress that is notice- i able in several other counties of the State, where within recent years the people have put up court houses in keeping with the spirit of the times and the needs of the day. In Sumter, in Dar- . lington. in Laurens and in other | counties of the State the old court houses that were perhaps j as good as the York court house j have been replaced in the last half dozen years with modern court houses. Not one of these counties needed a new court house more than York needs one today. The old building in Yorkville has served its day and our people should recognize the fact and provide a new court house. If every citizen of the county could visit the old building and observe the inadequate quarters of only one of the county offices ? that of the treasurer within two years York county would have a new court house. John C. Calhoun on the Tariff. The greatest burden the mass es or tnejAmencan people have to bear, the high cost of living, is due directly to the protective tariff. It oppresses the many for the benefit of the few and nullifies the principle of popular government?equal rights to all, special privileges to none. Since the formation of the Federal government nearly a century and a half ago the tariff has been a bone of contention in the halls of Congress between the two great political parties of the day. Sixtyeight years ago one of the strongest expositions of the theory of protection ever delivered in the national house of representatives was made by John C. Calhoun. He foresaw, as could none of his contemj>oraries, the tremendous and ruinous greed which the system would foster. On the tariff as on other subjects which came , up for consideration in Congress ; b- ' ' ' . .. \ during- b\r. Calhoun's service in that body he was ever the champion of the people and brought to bear all his great powers of reasoning in their behalf. In view of the present-day interest' throughout the country in the tariff question and the probability of relief being afforded the masses by the incoming Democratic Congress, the summing up of the subject by the groat South Carolinian in 1842 cannot fail of interest. The same principles so clearly pointed out by Mr. Calhoun are involved today. Mr. Calhoun said: "On what ground do they ask protection? Protection against what? Against violence, oppression, or fraud? If so. government is bound to afford it. If it comes within the sphere of its l>owers, cost what it may, it is j the object for which the govern-' ment is instituted: and if it fails in this, it fails in the highest point of duty. No: it is against neither violence, oppression, nor fraud. There is no complaint of being disturbed in property or pursuits, or of being defrauded out of the proceeds of industry. Against what, then, is protection asked? It is against low prices. The manufacturers complain that they cannot carry on their pursuits at prices as low as the present, and that unless they can get higher they must give up nianutactunng. The evil, then, is low prices, and what] they ask of government is to give them higher; but how lo they risk it to be done? Do they ask government to compel those who want to purchase to give them higher? No; that would be a hard task and not a little odious; lillicult to be defended on the principles of equity, justice, or the constitution, or to be en-' forced, if it could be. Do they isk that a tax should be laid on ; the rest of the community and' the proceeds be divided among them to make up for low prices? 3r, in other words, do they ask for a bounty? No; that would pe rather too open, oppressive. 1 mil indefensible. How, then, do hey ask it to be done? By puting down competition;- by the mposition of taxes on the part' if others, so as to give them the; exclusion of the market, or at east a decided advantage over ithers, and thereby enable them .<) sell at higher prices. Stripped >f all disguise, this is their rejuest, and this they call protection. Call it tribute, levy, exacion, monopoly, plunder; or, if ,hese be too harsh, call it charity, issistanoe, aid anything rather ban protection, with which it las not a feature in common." , An aggressive business policy in the part of Fort Mill business men, reaching out for everything within reach, encouraging ill would-be comers, expending nnnpv lvVipn a foi*> j .. . w i? tun I VlHI H IS) reasonably certain, would seem :o be one way to help the town. \ town is what its people make t. It may slowiy grow by the ittle accretions that accidentaly fall within its influence, or it :an be pushed into vigorous and rapid growth by the aggressive activity of its business element. tl. i* mc ung Mr. Roystei Manufacturer o above other cor idea Twenty-se to-day; the resi Factories to supj F. S. NORFOLK . VA. MACON. UA. C 1 Jw (I 'ill |tl Ppl \'Wii<3 " % If 1 # m I V m YOUR CI knowledge is limited because two suits a season, possibly 11 varies from season to season, time and a poor one the secon if you bought "ALCO SYSTE by experts in a large modern pervision given tlicni renders ment to be produced. That ii suit here, you will want ano complete assortment of the m S10.00 t E. W. KIMBRE Happy New Year I o the friends and patrons who have made 1910a Very prosperous year for us, we wish to extend sincere thanks. We wish for you a New Year of happiness and prosperity. Ft. Mill Drug Co. J. R. 11A1LE, Prop. m.t ?i v, iv. ..v I* o|/u^ci .*? mi mi it* ai i no Times office. in of Royster Ft r believed that succe f Fertilizers who wou isiderations. This wai ven years ago and t Lilt has been that it . it i ??f *-* piy uieaemana ior no> ROYSTKK <;UAN<) CO>1 PA FACTORIES AND SALES OFFICES. TARBORO, N. C. COLUMBIA. 9. C. 8PART OLUMGUS, GA. MONTGOMERY. ALA. B, i * A .OTHES you do not buy more than lot more than one. Your luck You get a good suit the first d. This could never happen M" Clothes. Thev are made factory and the personal suit impossible for a poor gar5 why, if you buy an "ALCO" ther next time. We have a ost approved styles. o $20.00 LL COMPANY. *? 1V.' 1 J\ O U.IH.:. A State of South Carolina, County of t York Court of Common Picas. ( J. M. Merritt ?*t al against Lutie Hass. In obedience to a decree for partition in the above stated rase, I will expose to public sale, before the door of the Savings Hank of Fort Mill, on Saturday, January 7th, 1911, between 11 a. m. and 2 p. in., the real estate described as follows: ; "All of that piece or lot of land in I the town of Fort Mill, State and county aforesaid, situate on White street, in the northeast corner of the lands formerly owned by H. 1). Springs and adjoining lands of S. E. White, near the Fort Mill Manufacturing company; beginning at a stone on White street, S. E. White's corner, and runs South 61 West 210 feet with S. E. White's line to a stone, thence South 40 East 150 feet to a stake, thence North 52 1-2 East 242 feet to a stone on White ' street, thence North 44.120 feet with said White street to the beginning; containing three-fourths (3-4) of an acre, more or less." 1 1 Terms: Cash, purchaser to pay for I papers. J. A. TATE. I ('. C. I Ms. December 19. 1910. FOR SALE Pine v.- >od, on stump, at 50c and $1 per i oni, according to j quality. Also a quantity of wood free for clearing land. OS KARHF.P A ' UDE MARK ffS.R/ s~i REGISTERED. utilizers. ss awaited the Id place quality s Mr. Royster's his is his idea { requires Eight * 'Ster Fertilizers- * ny, ( ANBURfi, 8. C. 1 ALTIMORC, MO. I 1 pJBCZZZnZlBI 1 [El CE11 1BI - 1 = GREETING f j ] I _ i i I We desire to extend our J ^ very best wishes for Happy Hew Year jj to al! of our numerous pa- | 1 1 trons and friends yv ho have , , ^ I favored us with meir busi- !' ness, making it possible for I i i_j 11 Q fn pmmr 1 1 - -1 - LUC L lUllUciy trade in the history of our D E business. J L 0 - ? McElhaney & Co. k 0 J B m 1=11=11= il=ll= i E l=li ?=11=11 =1I=II=J \A Happy and Prosper- f I jj ous New Year I ? n To all our customers and the public in general. ^ We wish to thank all of you who have patron a ized us during the year just closing and also jk 0 to express our desire for a continuance of 0 your trade. n Our motto is: "Give our customers entire ^ satisfaction and treat all alike." jj JONES, The Grocer. | Mules and Horses t >ibT' viJKJ1 L ' I & L Ld??* v? o ; V -' ft A ' JLh^J:^ Li VL /J* ^ wVsy^: f Wc have just received our first shipment ) )f Tennessee Mules and Horses. They are ( lie good kind and now is the time to huy, t llO% .UMtr 1W4 !?:?!,?? 1?4 .1 * >>< 1,1 V, y III I (I I. (' I III till' SCilSOIl. ) Everyone guaranteed to be as represented or your money refunded. See these beore you buy; it will pay you. Mills & Young Company. ; .1 i