The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 17, 1919, Image 9
Chronicle
NUMBER U,
Fight to Sixteen
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919
[remember LINCOLN'S WORDS
(Kmu the Charlotte ? o
Mb*"'* the recent outbreak of ]ttw
0rm and disgraceful mob violence at
bai. the Chamber of <\>iumerce < >f
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Omaha right with the world at
?Ttfiiu. A" wHtojr'ttl which appear
K, Thf World-Herald^Hepterober 30,
Lrio| the lynching oi William Itrown,
HgriiiuK of tlif courthouse and the
to Jjr?K?h (he Mayo?" ou Sunday
s?-pt?i?i)< r 28, tins been scut broad
fjn repriut fonrn. It sheds light
#y^ul occurrence at Omaha
jirw assurance that such an out
rill not occur there again. The
[erald in the midst of its lengthy
J, say* ?'
eltiienship of Omaha wilt be
? that the outride world should
i wbat it was that happened and
(t hai>IMMie<I- there be no mls
ilw (Jain fuels. The trouble, is
now. It was a tiare-up that died
quickly as it wus born. Omaha is
|U (he same safe and orderly city
skis always been. It will be safer,
Lw. hereafter, and more orderly, be
br of ihe lesson it ban . so dearly
Latd And the oare-up was the work
gjji this fact be emphasized ? of a few
Kfad rioters, some- of thewi incited by
P?trageiius deed, others of them skulk
19 ut the anarchistic underbrush who
ipd th?ii ou for their own four pur
pa of destroying property and paralyz
Iftifirru of the law. If the miserable
#io. rown, had bwn removed from
iime, as lie should have been ;
UuKdj to remove him. the public au
|fcitif* had'' taken vigorous measures to
jjRttt the ?ongre^a t ion and inflaming j
Iftfmob. the riot would never have
jiamd. An organized and intclljgent
flrtrted effort i^| advance would have
?Bfrred the good name ?tf ( >inalin un-|
BiSW. It would have p levari fed *the ;
Wait It Mould have saved ourj
spiendid new court bouse (vim being of
fered up in flames, its defense wi\li the
mob- victim in it, a contty sacrifice f ?u
the ultarof law and order. There wuivft
have been no thought,, even, of tlieama*
iiiK attempt to lyuch the mayor of Omaha,
bravely and honorably discharging his
duty as chief magistrate iu resisting the
wolf^ack.
The Oinaha paper thinks its commun
ity has learned a valuable lemon in the
bitter and iswtly school of experience
with lawlessness. The leason it has learn
ed should prove valuable to other Ameri
can citfsens* The World-Herald Hounds
a strong note of warning to all other
cities aud communities in the country
in thew Hnging words, which should im
press all law-abiding citizens every
where: ?' . f
For the first time in niauy years ?
and for the last time, let us hope, for
many year* to come? Omaha has had an
experience with lawlessness. We have
seen what it is. We have seen how it
woi'kfc. We have felt, however briefly^
that fetid breath of anarchy on our
?checks. W'e have experienced the cold
ehlll of fear which it arouses. We have
seen, as in a nightmare. ita awful possi
bilities.. Wo have learned how frail is
the barrier which divides civilization
from the primal jungle ? and we have
been given to see clearly- what that har
rier Ik.
It is the law ! It is the might of the
law, wisely and fearlessly administered!
It is respect for and obedience to the
law on the opart of the members of
society !.
When these fail us all things fail.
When th<*se are lost, all will be best.
Should the day ever come when the. rule
that was in Omaha Sunday night became
the dominant rule, the grasses of the
jungle would overspread our civilization,
its wild denizens, human and brute, would
make their foul feast 011 the ruins, and
the (lod who rules over uh would turn
1 1 in fact1 in sorrow from a world giveu
<wr to bestiality.
May the lesson of Sunday night sink
deep ! ,
In Coucl uMon, the Omaha paper
quotes i hose wonls of the revered Lin
coln, words that have been too nearly
forgotten b y the American pe<*plo, but
^yhieh' should be omblatoned ^pon the
.nindt- and hearts of all in this tint' of
unrest, <?f conflict uud of agitation and
radicalism :
"Let revereu<*e of the Jaw be breathed
by every mother to the lisping babe that
prattles on her lap; let it be taught in
wheels, seminaries and colleges; let it
be written iu primers, spelling books and
almanacs; let it be preached from the
pulpits and procluitnod in legislative halls
and enforced in courts of justice ; let it
bmmie tin* political religion of the
Nation/'
Indeed should the lesson learned by
Omaha be learned by every community
in th* land and the words of Lincolu
be taken home to our hearts, there to
be cherished and mtver foe- ? moment
forgotten !
Boll Weevil In Sumter County.
Sumter, Oct, 11. ? Following uncon
firmed rumors that the boll weevil had
been found at different points in Sum
ter county County Demonstration Agent
Williams set out Saturday with experts
from Cleiiisou College tin a tour of in
vestigation and it required but a short
time to confirm that worst fears for the
weevil was found and plenty of it on the
farm of S. ,7. White, six miles from the
city. This farm is chot far from the
Clarendon county lino ami the pest Jtad
been previously located right up to the
dVue on the Clarendon ?de.
It is reported that tbe weevil has
also been found On farms in the lMsgah
section on the opposite side of the
county where it was supposed it lias
been abundant and has done an amount
of damage to the late cotton. If the
hot weather continues an immediate
spread over the greater part of the
county is feared. j
OKKKKKI) THKM THK BlHlNKSS.
Jeweler Would Turn (Iver HU Plant To
Strikers Mid M Thein Kun It,
Now York, N. Y. ? The striking em
ploy e.s of Goldsmith, Stern A Co., of New
York city, one fo the largvat manufactur
ers of jewelry in tho I'nited States, have
refused to accept t.h?? gift of the factory
in which they worked.
August Goldsmith, the head of the tirm,
is the man who presented this proposition
to the surprised union worker* when 800
of the 34)0 he efploys-decided to walk out.
The employes who xtriwk receive salar
ies of from $25 to for for a 44-hour
week, with yearly boDUMt and overtime
thai ofteu make* the warary of expert* a?
high as $145 for a week's work. They
, wwf grante<l a 20 per cent increase iu
July. The union members reeeutly struck
for a ten per cent increase and a 39
hour week. ' The demand was refused.
As a compromise Mr. Goldsmith told
the men that, as he was only making a
ten ]>er cent prottt himself, he would let
thorn take over Ikeplgut iBfllioe If they
could make a better success of it than
he did. They refused.
"I told them,'* said Mr. (Joldstnith,
"that all they had to do was to buy the
tools, dies and machinery at its apprais
ed value, I accepting their notes and a
mortgage on a third, and assumiup all
debts and liabilities myself, and wy>uld
give them a bill of sale and see what
they could do with it. I also said I
would come in and manage the plant for
them for six months at no salary, and
after that would retire and agree not to
re-enter the jewelry trade to compete
with them. They refused to aceept the
, offer." ? " if 'r
Fire in one- section of the big ware
house of the John T. Roddey . Cotton
Company at Rock' Hill late Sunday night
partially- destroyed <150 hales of cotton.
The total loss is estimated at approxi
mately $100, 000. Several hundred bale^
of cotton were stored in other sections
of the building, but the fire was pre
vented from wpreading to these. (
? AI-.DKRMAN is kx-convkt.
Member of (ir*?r'? CharlMton Faction
SrntMicfd For Fraud.
< \>lwnd>ia, S. (Vt. 0. ? Kruest Ja
cob*. nominated from Ward 10 iu the
Charleston municipal primary election on
August 10 us ward alderman, oaunot bo
scaled if elected in the general election
on Oeoonvber 4, if an opinion handed
down by the office of the attorney gen
cral, written by 4'apt. Morris O, Lump
kin, the assistant, is held to be correct.
Jacobs is a metniber of the John P.
CJraee faction of Charleston politico. The
opinion* take the position that, if tho al?
legations brongkl against Jacobs ara cor*
reet, be cannot nveive a registration cer
tificate, without which he cannot be a
qualified ele<ctor and therefore is prohib
ited from holding office under the con
atitution. - ?
I According to an affidavit sworn to by
W. L. Itodriguez, court stenographer of
the 14th jiMlirial circuit, K. F. Jacoba
was Convicted of -obtaining money aatn
fcurance' premiums, misrepresenting him
self to be an agent of the Woodmen of
thi' World. He was triftjf averred the
affidavit, before Judge Jgme* F3. Pueri
foy, aty Kidgelaud, Jasper county, July
11. 1017, and was sentenced to jaid for
three month* or to pay a fine of $ifK).
Mr. Rodriguez further avers that Ernest
L. Jacobi, then running for alderman in
Ward 10 of tho city of Charleston, wus
identified by J. K. Gill* supervisor of
Jasjier <-ounty, as K. F. Jacobs, who was
turned over to him after conviction for
fraudulently obtaining insurance money.
George I). Kirkland, John Dunbar and
E. C. Lewis, ehnrgwl with the killing
of II. I). Marley, at. the Marley home.
Matthew's Bluff, Allendale county, Mny
21) last, aftejr Marley had shot to death
James W. Hogg, a prominent Allendale
county farmer, were declared 'not guiltj'
last Friday by n jury eni<panne11ed for
their trial. The rase consumed about
th^ee days and attracted wide atten-4
tioa.
?( IK(ITSI OH JOVI"
John Robinson With life Immense Show
WUt KnUfUin ThouHMMh Here.
With three tin ins of extra length mil
road cur*, 147U employee, 3'iO of the
world's famoutf arenic arilNtw, f?00 horse**,
100 cut? little high atffwJng ponies,
tents that comfortably aeat 10,000 peo
ple and a mile king parade, the John
Itobinsou Hncfts will visit Camden on
Thursday, Oct. 28wL
Hundreds of resident* of the surround
iug territory an* preparing lor the gala
day and win journey to Gantdtfn by
train, auto and behind their o*yu driv
ing horeea. John liotftmam is ft .JfrOtfftft-. ..
hold word here. The thow ie about the
oldest in the Iluited States, having been
organised in 1'tica, New York, In the
spring of 1824, It haa exhibited contiu
_ uoual v si nee that time and haa growu
from a "how hauled lu five wagenb to a.
monster aggregation second to none. The
third generation of Robinsons iw now in
charge and next afe&aon. John Robinson -
the Fourth will take active charge. Tbia
young man, twenty-five years old, has
Just returned from France and the bat
tlefields.
The menagerie with the John Robin
son circus has been groatly augmented
during the winter. There are forty
cages of rare wild a?>inals including
"Congo.-" the only baby Hippopotamus
in captivity* Fifteen- of t.he largest, and
best trained elephant* in the couutry are
also Jolm Robinson's.1 The performance
in the tlire^ riugs, on the two stages, in
the areial enclave and around the wide
hippodrome' racing track is said to be
the best the John Roblnwoo folks have
ever presented to a discriminating pub
lic. r
THE BATHING
BEAUTIES '
ARE COMING!
Cedar Grove Farm, 745 Acres, with 25 Tenant Houses
and about 901 under cultivation and well watered
; , North of Lancaster, S. C., will be sub-divided into small tracts
| Located on Landsford Public Road, Th ba|ance in l, 2, 3 and 4 years w.th
[Tuesday, October 21st, at Eleven O'clock
ladies ESPECIALLY INVITED MUSIC BY BAND
i FREE barbecue ? LAU ?
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Sale conducted for W. L. Steele and B. Cunningham by
Wagener Real Estate & Guaranty
Fillip p. toale WAGENER, S. C. ? _ * ??
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