SIANDKKH THI8 HTATK.
Carolina Ktlitor Takes Jndlamt JRtfitor
To Tank For Hi* Remark#,
Tho Qroonvllle Now* MnvwUly took
to tatfk a columnist In the Indianapolis
(Indiana) Star, for gross slanders
which lit* ik'I'jm'Irated against South
Carolina, Aftt-r taking a lh?k at ('bar
legion UukhcI M. Heeds broadOUs to
the ontlre Utah1 and remark*;
"ProudpBt, poorest and most back
ward of all tho states, South Carolina
offOr^ an Interesting study In mass
IwyOhology. She has no roads to His*ak
of her flue old tfriautuiiODM have gono
to rack and ruin 01' have heen
Hold to Northern millionaires for will*
tcr homoa or hutnihg MM and |h6
*?tut(! seems fast roVcrtfug to a wilder
neas. Thoro Is more wild pnic \vlthln
hventy miles of Charieston today thnn
In what we comvlve to Ik* the wilds
of Arkansas. As a final blow, tho lw?ll
weevil has struck the state and Its
splendid sea Inland eolton seems a
thin# t>f - the .past."
Tho Nows then replies with some
good fljpires, us foil own:
"So wo ni'e to he jd. tidied for our
mass psychology like tho Liberia Aft ?r
i.'alagonlans, ehV A different, dlslinet
and backward Irihe, having nothing to
do with tho rest of the world, resting
rontontly in our hi Ire, revoitlng against
Improvement, letting millionaires come
In and make htmliug fields of our
farms and (lie lsdl weevils eat up what
little Cotton wo have planted. 'TIs a
gloomy picture, me lads! Pretty *<oon
tho government will he setting aside n
hunting ground or a reservation f??r us
as it-did for the Indians and we an III
depart to.lt as a race which could not
keep stopwltli other White men in the
inarch of progress,
"Proudest, jH?orest and most hack
ward." What a pity the last word did
not 'lM'gln also with a *p* t?> make the
alliteration complete. The language
could ha\e been thus liniproved but the
Jylnn never. Il Is su|Ht-h and tts-lml
rally jwrf?M-|;>- -not a word <>f truth in
If except that We are proud, proud of
our progress, proud of tho fact that
we nro either hotter Informed or h-s*
vicious IIimii our critic.
"We have no roads to s*peak "f and
yet wo have 1,000 miles of improved
highways built and maintained by Ox*
State !ft|b?QX ?lij>artmeut ami as
good roads as there are in tU.tr state
of Indiana or anywhere flue.' More
over, wo are building hundred* of
miles of now roads annually and two
yeah* hence will have every county neat
In thO state connected by a highway
upon which one may (ravel in coinfort
(?very day of the year.
"Not only do we have good roads
hut wo have automobiles to ride on
them Then' arc 84,000 oar* In Smith
Carolina and though we arc ''poor' we
manage to hoy gasoline to ke<i> them
going.
"The Northern millionaires hnv#
mndn htmttnjr preserve*- ntttf?winter
hom?'>? of 0m1?limitation* ami 'the
state seems fast reverting to a wilder
ness' tint wo have 0,200,64-1 aeros of
Improved land in this state and only
f?.0lH,(M1 acres of unimproved
land ' tiei this! r.j?on our
six million acres of improved land we
raise, farm products valuing almost as
much as Indiana does on 10.680,212
acre*. To ho exact, the yaluo of farm
products in this state in 1010 (the
latest compilation) was M<n,121t,?S37
as against $1)17,220,710 in Indiana. Tty
the same ratio if we had the same area
as imliuua our farm prislnots would
amount to more than twice what they
do in that state. South Carolina, on
a much smaller area than most states,
has a higher farm revenue than any
of Hie New Ivngland or Middle Atlantic
states, Michigan, North Dakota, Souili
Dakota. Delaware. Maryland, /Ken
tucky. West Virginia, Florida/ Louis
iana and any of the mountain or Pa
rifle Kt^itcs except California.
"Here in the wilds we not only farm
quite profitably but we have a few fac
tories where industry is also carried
on. It may Interest our critic to know
I Iim t South Curolian has 4,OT?0,5><^0 cot
ton spindles in active service. more
than Jhe states of Virginia, (leorgia,
Alaluiina, Mississippi, Txaiisiana, Mis
souri and Texas slid third in the
t'uitcd States. In addition we have
II U>T>r> looms, more than any other
Southern shite.
"We are loafers and yet there are
more actual hours Worked jit our s-pln
Olea than ut an$ other 8tate in the
union.
? VSV have (Irvr.'tijMt! more uhi.t
(power than any other Southoni state
and more than Indiana.
"Till# development ha* stimulated
our Industry. In Inno the v?lii?% of
Mouth Carolina's m aim fuel ured pr<?d?
neth was iii 11, was
$ttKl,4.VI,ooO. Thin was an Increase of
iiioii' than ?'WM> jut ? ?cut. ('an ludluna j
mateli thin gain? .
Tht, Iohh of slaves was ail 'eeonoihle
death' and yet there are more people
who work every day In .South <-ar
ollria than In any other state In t
United States hy an official govtrn:
inriit report.
"Our 'social exHuslvenegs pr<? vents
oi|>ltal from coining In ami lfteK of
Opportunity drives the host of .voting
men away! and yet Ave had $.'l74,r>.'JSlTH50
Invested In 1010 as ugalnst ,rt paltry
|U,200,?H In 1H80.
"The News could go on res.-1 ting farts
to refute the misinformation of Mr.
Heeds and others 1ij his section who
persist* In kec*])1ng their eyes shut to
lhe phenomenal progress of South
(Woliua and other Southern st-ites.
They si I'll thln/k <?f the South as lying
In the ashes of the^.civil war? a <-<?inll
llon that, thank (?od, is no longer true.
We are now on our feet and the man
who falls to recognize It Is standing
In his own light. Instead of reverting
to a wilderness we have reverted from
a pillaged and war torn empire Into a
progressive, enlightened and prosper
ous commonwealth."
"No Foot" Negro in Ten.
Absence of feet, something usually
needed by those who deal iu "Joy
fluids," had no "worry for Saui Roh??rt
K?viL, negro, as Sum has been convicted
of violating the prohibition law, and
is now in the penitentiary for one year,
according to /prison officials.
Sam's f?*d ami part, of his logs are
gone, having been amputated .between
the ankle and knee, but just the same
lie must have violated the prohibit ion
law as he Is in the prison with a one
year iscntpnt*> for so doing, penitentiary
officials said .Vosterdwy. Sani was
convitotod in Kershaw county an<l
Iwought to the prison last week?Col
umbia State.
KIMaS BHOTUBR-IN J^AW.
Whiskey CauHe# Fatal Shooting Noar
' Spartanburg.,
?Spartanburg, July A. Bhack
well was hehl by the Coroner'* Jury
this rriornlpg for the murder of B. H.
<J lover last night. Tho shooting oe?
PUfrcd Ht the home of Mr. (Hover on
t he Howard < r<? j> roiul, just out of Mie
city limits. FroWi the testimony of
Mrs. Glover, who was the only eyewit
ness examined by the coroner's Jury,
BJackwoH, who married Mr. (Jlover's
sister, went to tl?o house yestorday l?e
twi'cii 12 nnd 1 o'clock in a drunken
condition and who put him to bed.
. 14ist night at Ix-d time she went to
bed herself in another room, tier hus
band wtfs away. After she had lieon
asleep for soim? time she heard her
husband at tht" door and got up and
let him in, telling him that it lack well
was in the other room and not to both
er him as ho was drunk.
" l
Mrs. Glover testified that her bus
hand cam? in and started into the
room where BJavkwell was in bed and
as he got to the door ho saw Black
well get up aiul flash a iplstol. She
saw the pls'tol and told him not to
shoot hut just then lie shot, and her
husband fell In the doorway. She
went for a physMan
Black-well claims that he was . at
tacked by Mr. Glover and shot in self
defense.
Mr. (Hover was shot in the leg when
officers of the law raided a distillery
in the lower |wrt of the county two
ytvirs ago, and as a Consequence one
leg was about two Indies shorter than
the other. When the officers searched
the house last night Uicy foil ml a small
distillery such as is sometimes used
on the cookstovo, they said.
Authorities of Okron, Ohio, are In
vestigating the (1<mitJi of a 7-year-old
lM?y. said, to have been burned at the
stake late Moiukiy by companions dur
ing a game of "Indians.'' The boy.
Billy Durbin, was a "cowboy." lie
was "captured" by the "Indians" and
tied to the stake. (Hue of his play
mates, it is 3aid, 'playfully piled wood
about the "captive*' and poured gaso
line over it. .
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