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Established 1891.
SPEECH ON TARIFF.
Incident of Passage of Wilson
Bill Recalled.
'P The passage a few days ago of
the Fordney tariff bill by the
house of representatives in Washington
takes at least one South
Carolina newspaper man back in .
memory to another tariff meas- i
ure, the Wilson bill, which was !
passed by the saihe body nearly j
30 years ago. a few months after j
the second inauguration of Pres- j
ident Cleveland in March. 18W&. j
to be a little more exact. The ;
Wilson bill bore the name of the j
chairman of the ways and means
committee of the bouse of that !
day just as the Fordtiev bill of |
today bears the name of the
chairman of the same committee. |
William L. Wilson of Wot
Virginia. Democrat, was the author
of the Wilson bill, which was
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only?that is. carrying out the ;
<Joc trine of the Democratic party, ;
the hill was drawn to raise only j
enough revenue to run the gov- j
eminent. It was in no sense a
protective measure and did not
take money from one citizen's
pocket to put it into another's.
Following weeks of debate, the j
house passed the hill and sent it
to the senate, there to he emasculated
by certain Democratic
senators, led by Arthur Pugh
Gorman of Maryland, who had
fallen out with President Clevc- i
laud and thought to get even
with him in that way.
When the Wilson hill was tinder
consideration the house of
representatives was Democratic j
ami the majority mcmhei> stood
as one for,lower tariff rates to j
relieve the country of the hard j
times upon which it had fallen.
Compared with the panic through
which the country was then passing,
the business depression of
tlu* present day Walks big us pros- !
perity?a statement which will J
be indorsed by all the middleaged
and oUler eiti/ens who Wave
memory enough to recall what a
terrible fix the Harrison admin- I
fc* istrution left the nation in when
it gave tip control of the govern- j
inent in March. 1893. Many
placed the blame for the panic of
that year at the door of President J
Cleveland because it came an
shortly after his second inauguration;
hut these people conveniently
ignored the fact that the i
plates from which the millions of |
dollars worth of government
bonds President Cleveland was
forced to issue had been made hv
the Harrison administration in
anticipation of the necessity of
thus raising revenue to meet the
expenses of the government.
There were many men of out - j
standing ability in the house of
renresentatives in 189d. many I
more than there are in the house
I oil ay. One of these was a young !
man from the Middle West who I
"Wuk serving his seeond term. He
"Was the type of man who won hi
readily attract attention in any
gathering ?t handsome of face,
broad shouldered, of medium
height, with mild blue eyes, a
pleasing manner and a massive
head tlmt bespoke intelligence 1
his brain was happy to indorse.
. It was the good fortune of the
writer one Saturday night while
the Wilson hill was under consideration
in the house of representatives
to receive an invitation
from a South Carolina congress- j
man to occupy a seat in the members'
gallery for that night.
Shortly after the session opened
the young representative from
the Middle West rose from his
seat to speak for the hill. He was
greeted by practically the entire
membership of the house, it was
stated at the time, and people
were packed in the galleries like
grains of eory on a well matured
' ear. He had not spoken five
minutes before everybody realized
that they were listening to
a master debater who was thornilfflllv
fittiiiliiir with lii?
The Republicans, knowing in advance
that he was tt? apeak, had
) on hand their strongest men
ready with many perplexing
questions they put to hiui in im
effort to break the thread of bis
argument or foree from him u
statement favorable to their view
of the tariff. But they were only .
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FUNERAL* SUNDAY.
Body of Corp. Harvey McManus
Expected This Week.
Funeral services will be held in
Confederate park. Fort Mill Sunday
afternoon at .'1 o'clock for
Corp. llarvey F. McManus. whose
body is expected here tomorrow
or Saturday from Hoboken.
N. .1.. where it arrived several
days ago from France. The order
of the exercises will he similar i
to those held in honor of the j
other Fort Mill soldiers whose J
bodies have been brought hoiiie
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body will lie in state in the arm- !
ory of tin* Tom Hall Guards from
tlit* time it arrives until the hour
for the funeral, when it will he
borne by a number of his comrades
to the park. There will be
a prayer by one of the local min- j
isters and a eulogy by a member j
of Kb Bailes post. American He- '
fjion. "under whose auspices the 1
services will be held. The body, i
accompanied by a military escort,
will then be taken to New Unity
cemetery and interred in the plot
of the Legion post, where lie the ,
bodies of five other Fort Mill
boys who made the supreme sac- |
rifice in the World war.
<'orp. McMuiiiik died in a base
hospital in France about 15 days
after he was severely wounded
on October S. 1!>1S. in the memorable
attack of the itOtli division
on the 11 indcnbur<r line. He was
a member of the Fort Mill <*oiupany.
11 Sth regiment, and was a I
model soldier, in the estimation ,
of lu^tli the officers and men of I
the comnuiiv. He ioineil the com- 1
panv on April 7. 1 ! 17? the ilav j
after tlir deelaration of war oil i
(Jerinany. tints attesting; his patriotism
to a tnarki'd decree. Ho I
was a soil of Mr. ami Mrs. M. M.
MeManus of Fort Mill and was
nhout 1l'i years old when lu? dii'd.
Tht* K4?v. W. K. Botikhigrbt, I
pastor of St, John's Methodist j
idiurcli. is this week conducting; a |
special mooting at Niigcly-Six. I
< i roi'iiwood county.
pouring; water on his whr?d. ys ,
tl.cv learned to tlieir disugyy aip)
chagrin before he had eoipdipled
his speeeli. .Not oiicr did h?' fy'ter
or want for u word or facts
of any kind to express his party's ;
attitude on the tariff question.,
Always in delightfully tfood humor.
lie drove home with uiian- |
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to li?* derived liy lli?* mass of tin* !
people from n low tariff ami with
i'?|iial force told of tin* injustice j
to which they had been subjected
under tin* provisions of tlu>l>in^ley
tariff law. which bis party
was about to w ipe from the statute
books. h'or years that speech
was remembered throughout the
country and overnight it brought
its author into national prominence.
Twenty-ei^ht years ayo! The!
author of that speech is no Ion- I
jrer a member of Congress. The j
day of his young manhood is gone j
and mow bis footsteps arc lead- I
ill}; to the setting sun. Ami the
beardless youth of that day who j
listened with rapt attention to j
what In* had to say could not
now be thrrlled as lie then was
should I'aul himself return in the
flesh and deliver for his special
benefit an oration such as In*
alone o! Hit* hilli?m*t who have
tarried here a little while eould
deliver. So iinieli tor the changed
pe rapedive that passage from
youth to middle age brings. lint
perhaps it has heen the good fortune
of the reader to hear this
man spent. lie is Still one of |
earth's passengers, lie has done
an immeasurable amount of good
in the years lie has gone in ami
out anions his fellow-man. Not
only has he made the government
tinder whirh we live better
than it was before he entereil
pnblie life a third of a century
ago. but what is more In* has rekindled
hope and brought courage
anew to thousands who were
despondent and ready to sink in
the maelstrom of what they con
sidefed life's uiKMptal struggle.
One speeeh on the Wilson tariff
hill that any man was fortunate
to hear was delivered by William
.1. Bryan, friend then, as he ever
since has been, of the man trying
to gain a foothold m lii'u.
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QDAXHT OLD CHAKLE8TOH.
StrMt Venders Add Pictorasque 1
nees to State's Chief City.
(Charleston is a citv of im own
peculiar kind. Nowhere throughout
America can quite snuh aunt
her he found, one that retains
aiuul the hustle of up-to-date 1
coiuinercial activity so much of
an old world flavor or of picturesque
features. l*arts of the city,
with the quaint houses turned
gable ends to the street, others of
the dignified old-time Georgian
type-: the narrow winding streets 1
ami high walls surrounding the
gardens; the exquisitely wrought
iron balconies and gateways?all
tl*ese give to the old city a mellowness.
a picturesqueness all its
own. Hut for the newer and mod
orn buildings that rise here aud
there, one could well imugine
himself in some ?>1?1 city of the j
mother ebuutrv.
<'harlestouiaus have Ween loyal j
to their Kuglish ancestry through i
alt the centuries since the place
was settled by the KugliRh col
ony under \V ill Lain Sayle. There
is still a King street, a Queen
street and a Princess street in ,
('harleston.
One feature, however, that is j
quite distinct from any of the
mother country is that of the negro
venders who throng Charleston's
streets, especially during
the early morning hours. While
in other ejtles of the Sopth tjiis
custom has long ago to a cot|sii|
crahle extent heeome a thing of
tin past, it its still much in evidence
in tin* old city by tlu? *eu.
The succeeding generations of
negroes luivc followed naturally j
i.? the footsteps of their streetvending
ancestry.
Charleston is rated as having
about the largest percentage. 45.
of negro population of any city* 1
in the country. If t|ie population
of the udjnceut islands *ve*v in
eluded, the percentage of negroes
would be larger than' that of
whites. ,
It is on these neighboring islands
that most of the vegetables
sold in Charleston are raised, almost
the -year .round, owing to
the mjhJ climate, us well as her- j
tins a.m| pigtoips in season. The
more wall tn-ilQ negro farmers t
have horsMli-'Hwn gQiivpyances inl
v hull t|m produce p? taken 1
< Imrlestmi httt by f#r the ma- j
jority of the vendors tran?|>?rt
their wgres by means uf p"P?h
certs or great baskids balanced
upon their heads. The hulk of :
the island produce is tukou to |
the city by bout. The venders
| throng the wharves at the com-|
ing of the boats in order to pur- |
chase tin* supplies for their street j
soles. Hy sunup, or shortly there- i
after, the venders are weuding j
their way through the streets,
e.ieh with his or her own special
cry to advertise the quality as
veil as the character of the wares
tor srvft*. While many of the
cries are little more than a medley
of meaningless words, yet,
when rendered in the deep, mellow
negro voice, some of them
are quite musical. i
There is nothing more quaintly
attractive to the Northern visitor
to Charleston than these picturesque
street venders, and ,the
odd cries hy which they seek to i
a tract the attention of prospective
buyers. Some of I lit1 cries
are considered sweet, pitched in
a high voice that in t he ease of
tjie aged is usually quavering
and which often ends in a mournful
cadence long drawn out.
T)te vegetable sellers, many of ,
them wo pi erf. strong shouldered,
hig hipped, nutve easily along,
a huge basket of produce, 60 to
7(1 pounds in weight, hulanced
with the greatest ease upon tlu?
head.
Negro Woman Loses Mind.
A Fort Mill negro woman.
Maria Caruthers, beunte violently
insane on*" day last week and for
several days had to be con fined
in the local guard house. -She is
now being eared for by a negro
family near town and will be taken
to the State hospital in Co- <
lumhia as soon as the commitment i!
papers are received, perhaps to- i
day-or tomorrow, by Magistrate i
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ENCAMPMENT AT1 WD. |
fort Mill Company Wins JMs tine
tions at Mount Pleasant.
T*o hundred citizens of the
community were at the ^WtKtiiern
passenger station Sunday night
it 9 o'clock to greet the Fort Mill
military company upon its return
from Mount Pleasant, where
for 15 days it had bet'n in camp
fcith the other companies of the
First regiment, S. N. U. The
officers and men of the company
oaroe home in good condition
physically, there having been
Onfy one or two sii gilt attacks of
illness among them during the encampment.
Excessive rainfall at Mount
i'leasant interfered serioualy with
the training of the regiment during
the encampment and it is
laid to be a foregone conclusion
that the encampment next year
b ill not U* held there. The Mount
I'leasant camp is built ujmu low.
tuarshy ground anil in wet weutIter
is not suitable for military
training purposes. For several
Hays the companies could not go
through the prescribed drills, water
betug from two to six inches
deep on the drill grounds. But
hot withstanding the discomforts
in which both the officers and
men were subjected on accouut
01 the heavy rainfall, the morale
01 the regiment was said to have
been of high order.
The Fort Mill company, with
men and three officers, had the
distinction of being the largest
company m eatun. The second
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largest company. also from Yurk
county, was the Frank ttoueh
Guards ot ttock Hill, which flad
in eniup Si men and three officers.
I he looul company also
?oii the distinction, as a result of
the competitive regimental shoot,
of furnishing two men, Corp.
I harlton (7 (iarrison and Liut. K.
f\ Grier, .Jr., for the State rifle
ttim of 14 faen to take part in
die shoot next mouth of the entire
National Guard at (amp
ferry, Ohio. In the same compititive
shoot the Fort Mill com- i
puny won tonrth place among the
i- coinpauieH of the regiment.
Much praise was given Mess
Sergt. Alfred Jones of the Fort
.uill company tor tin; painstaking
care with winch he looked after
tlie quantity, quality and preparation
ot the tood tor his company
during the encampment, tfegiincntay
officers pronounced Mte
bort M?U company mean the best
ill tlu^capip.
Fleet ion of a major of the 3d
l attaliou, which it was aunouueul
would be held during the en- ,
cumpuieut and in the outcoun^af i
which there is considerable interest
in Fort Mill because of the
candidacy for the majority of
t apt. F. Murray Mack, was post
poned. *
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Talk of New School Building.
The building which lias tor
\cars been used by the Gold Hill
public school has outlived its day
and now the trustees are planning
to either erect an entirely j
new building next year or make
additions to and remodel the t
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in Kiuiiiiiig 10 proviue lor ;
tiu* ilierfused attendance at the t
school. Keeentlv the chairman 1
of the hoard ot trustees, W. 11.
t rook, has been in correspond- I
ence with the county superintendent,
.John K. Carroll, with ,
reference to State aid for a new
buihiiiig. which Mr. Carroll urges j
instead of additions and repairs
to the old building. There seeius J
practically no doubt that finan- I
ciul assistance for a new building
would be forthcoming from the !
State, but the law does not oth- j
or wise provide building aid for I
schools. x Already the U old Hill
school is considered one of the
best country schools in this aeetion
of the State, but with the
improved facilities which the
tPiiut^o U. V.. 1 .if 1 I
..".Hirn OIT III Ol prOVllllllg j
it will be even better tbau it j
now ift.
The condition yesterday afternoon
of Kravor Kiinbrell, who j
had been critically ill for several J
dnys up to a few days ago at the I
home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
K. W. Kiinbrell, was considered
mnch improved by the attending
physician.
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OLD 8LESPEB8 DECAY.
Timber in Uu Many Years at
Local Cotton Mill.
An interesting and not untimely
discovery was made at mill No. 1
of the Fort Mill Manufacturing
company recently when preliminary
plans Mere being made for
the enlurgeiuent of the original
weave room. Workmen in examining
the heavy wooden timbers
that supported the weave room
found that the timbers were af
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ttiru wuii ury rot aiul that
uiaiiv of the in were in suck condition
where they entered the
walls of the building that new
supports for the floor would have
to be provided at once. In consequence
of the discovery a row
of brick columns was immediately
erected in the cellar of the
building and ouv these columns
supporting timbers were placed,
thereby removing all danger of
the floor collapsing. ]
An interesting story is told in
connection with these sleepers of
the old weave room, which was
erected in 1887. At that time the
Southern railway was tearing
down the. wooden bridge which
spanned the Catawba river three
miles south of Fort Mill preparatory
to erecting the steel structure
which stood there until it !
wus washed away by the freshet
of l^lti. Much of the timber in
the briilgo w?s as sound as when j
it was put in place shortly after
the close of the Civil war. This
timber was bought hy the Fort ,
Mill Manufacturing company ami
a considerable part of it. including
the sleepers for the weave
room, was used iu the construe
tion ot the mill. It is these
sleepers which have finally decayed.
after years of service in
the t 'atuwbu river railroad bridge
and for the last 34 years as an
important part of the weave room
of the original Fort Mill eoMou
mill.
BOY 8C0UTS IN CAMP.
Fort Mill Troop Leaves for Chimney
Rock, N. C.
Twenty-two members of the
Fort Mill troop. Hoy Scouts of
America, left town at t?:3U o'clock
Wednesday morning fur Hiituuey
Kock. in the mountain* of western
North Carolina, where they
will go into camp for ten days
The trip was made in a large motor
truck ami was expected to
consume about 13 hours. Assistant
Scoutmaster W. II. Niius was
in cluvrge of the troop in the absence
of Scoutmaster H. ll.Stribling.
The hovs were well equipped
for camp life, taking with
them a complete outfit of tents,
I tedding and cooking utensils, besides
many articles they expected
to need while away from home.
They looked forward with much
pleasure to camp life in the mountains.
The following members of tintroop
are in the camping party:!
W. H. Niius. Mike Link, John M.
Spratt, llenrv Link. Thomas H.
Spratt. dr., B. W. Bradford. Jr.. I
James Ferguson. B. C. Ferguson,
Jr., Dan Broudnax. Joe Broad
nax, Jr.. Karle Steele. Kdwurd I
Harris. Tom Harris. Klliott liar I
ris, Pat Brown. Lee Ca rot hers,
Luther Patterson. Fvuns Wolfe.
Dudley Crook. T. K. Kimbrell. J.
P?. Mills. Jr.. I). C. Patterson.
Big Engine DestroyedTrip
hammers *a few days ago
made junk of a ?d0 horsepower
Corliss engine whiehwus installed
at tnill No. 1 of the Fort Mill
.Manufacturing company 30-odd
years ago and which was in good
running order when it was used
fo# the last time several years
ago when steam power was discarded
for electricity. The engine
was given to a junk dealer
to remove it from the premises.
The original cost of the engine
was about $3,f>00 and although it
was considered in good condition
it was said a purchaser could not
be found for it at any price. The
space occupied by the engine was
needed for other purposes.
Dr. James H. Drakcford Qf New
York eitv spent Friday and Saturday
of last week in Fort Mill
with his mother, Mrs. Laura H.
Drakcford.
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BURIED IN YORK.
Body of Corp. Erwin 0. Graham
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A firing squad of nine men
from the Tom Hall Guards, in
charge of Sergt. dames O. Hammonds.
Tuesday afternoon went
from fort Mill to York to participate
in the funeral of Corp. hlrwin
C. Orahaiu. whose body
Monday " reached York from
France, where he lost his life in
the severe fighting of the 30th
division on October f>. 1918. Corp.
Graham's home was in York, hilt
he was a member of the Fort
Mill company, in which he enlisted
in 1916. lie was with the
company on the Mexican border
in 1916 and was one of the first .
members to respond for duty
when the company was ordered
into camp after war was declared
on Germany in the spring of
1917. He was an excellent soldier
and was well liked by his comrades.
Corp. Graham lost his life by
the explosion of a German shell,
which also killed two oflieers and
two other non-commisioned oflieers.
all of the 118th regiment.
At the time he was with an advance
party that had -been ordered
to the front to show the
Fort Mill company the position
i? was to occupy in relieveing another
company. The party had
Hone as far as oossihle in a truck
and was preparing to forward
a foot vvht'll 1 ki?* shell e.\plod< d.
('apt. F. Murray Mai'k of Fort
Mill was a member of the party
and was within a few feet of
('grp. (irahaiu when lie was
killed.
The funeral of Corp. (Irahaiu
was under the auspiees of Meeeli
Stewart post. Amerieau Lotion,
of York. The funeral oration
was delivered by Col. T. It. Spratt
of Fort Mill. Interment was in
Kose llill cemetery, York.
Among the Fort Mill citizens
who went to York for the funeral
of Corp. (irahaiu was his
captain. S. \V. Harks, and ('apt.
F. Murray Mack and Lieut. A.
C. Lytic.
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i Pleased With "Times'' Editorial.
The following communication
from Congressman John J. MeSwaiA
of the Clreenville district
relative to an editorial which apj?eared
in The Times last week on
the proposed soldier Junius has
been received at this oflicc -.
"I am much interested in your
editorial dated July lilst. 15)'J1<
1 ami especially the latter pari with
reference to the magnificent
gifts that our national go\eminent
is dumping iuto the lap of
I the railroads. 1 cannot understand
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mr lo^ir ur i in* |?M in
i tli** action taken in this connecI
tion. 1 tin not charge any actual
I corruption ami 1 believe it is
'only a mistaken view of the situation.
Nobody has proposed that
| the farmers, whose business is
more indispensable than any other.
should be made whole for the
losses they have sustained incident
to def la t ion.
"When you write any more
such interesting editorials, please
send me a copy."
"Buck" Bryant in Town.
"Buck" Bryant, attached to
the Washington bureau of the
New York World as eapitol correspondent,
was in Kort Mill for
a short time Sunday morning,
coming here from the home of his
brother. Badger Bryant, in the
Providence section of Mecklenburg
county, to board a train
for Columbia and other Southern
cities to report the activities of
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Air. Bryant's trip 1 lir??u*fli tin*
South will take liiiu as far as
Texas and In* plans to In* aW,?y
from Washington for several
weeks.
Barron Bennett, son of .Mr. ami
Mrs. K. I*. Bennett, has lieen seri
oiihIv ill for several days, hut his
condition was reported uiueh improved
yesterday hy the attending
physieian.who said the report
that he had typhoid fever was ineorreet.
Young Mr. Bennett has
had reeurring spells of illness
sinee he returned from the World
war. due. it is thought, to some
extent, to German poison gas he
inhaled, while in the service.
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