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SOOTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 t 1896.
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Bryan’s Campaign Speeches.
AT LYNN, M ASS.
No Market for the Shoe Factor tea
When the Farmer* Are Out of
Money. tV
Mr. Bryan made a short address on
Monday morning at Lynn, Mass., as he
was returning from the visit to Maine.
His remarks were pointed and appro
priate as follows :
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens
Our opponents are all the time assert-
log that the business men ought to
take an interest in this campaign in
order to protect their business inter
ests. It has always made me indig
nant that a few people in each commu
nity should assume to be the only busi
ness men in it, and should always iu-
■ist upon throating their busim-sa in
terests forward in preference V) any
body elae's business interests. 1 have
always believed that anyone
trlbuted to a nation's prosperity, who
aaded to a nation’s wealth or to a na
tion's greartnes*. was a business man.
I Applansa. 1
The man wltfr small interests baa as
mack right to protect those .amall In-
teresta by hla ballot aa the vhn with
large bus) nr as has the right to protect
hla intereata by hla ballot. (Ap| lauae.)
I want to show you bow tbecmoaey
question concerns toe various classes
of people.
1 want to show you that you cannot
separate the Intereata of lbs wage-
earning ciaesee from the Inte/rete of
the farming ciaaaee. You don't pro
duce shoes lor ornament, but for veer
People cannot wear shoro until they
ere ah«e to bqy them, end they raannl
btif thus** UfciMi tlM*? hfttr lb# t*u##v
AT PROVIDENCE, R. I
He Advocates Nothing Revolutionary
—An Honest Dollar Does Not
Chaoge itrFurohaaiwh Power.
A crowd of 15,000 people greeted
Wm. J, Bryan when he reached Prov-
I., where he spoke as tol-
country which we are willing
cede to the gold standard. (A
and cheew:f ' _ TTiere ft
idence, R
lows : . . ,
“ I do not come to preach to you a
new gospel. The position which we
take on the money question is an old
position, not a new one. We are not
dying in the face of natural laws as
our opponents sometimes assert, nor
are we trying to overturn the princi-
ples of political economy. Those who
advocate bimetallism are the only ones
in this campaign who are telling econo
mic truths and defending the natural
laws of trade. When I define an
honest dollar as an honest dollar which
does not change in its purchasing
power It may give to you a definition
Which has been a sound definition
aipong all writura on political economy.
, i When 1 give you that definition, I am
0 con -! ttmply giving you a definition which
has been given |o the world by that
distinguished educator who lives in
this city and who is an honor not only
• : to ♦.- » ♦'in*.- b*?t t'-f
nation. (Applause)
Prof MOOT Andrews la a recent work
entitled: “An hooest dollar," com
mences tbe Unit chaper with the words
which I shall quote: *‘lt is alwrys
assumed or admitted that the ideal
sort of money would be money with a
unit having a steadfast general pur
chasing power." When Prvfemoe
Andrews describes tbe ideal money ns
n money whose wait In tbe steadfast
general or average of eurchaelng
There is no part of this country which
ft excluded from the benefits of hi
metallism; there ft i
part
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km Id rock aed all tha ftaaarlsre or this
and other oowatrtea oaa
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f A nptaae* 1 The post has told as that I
M aa hi wasl man is the o obi eel worh
of tiod " Wa may supplemaot thU !
n
dei
aot prevail
lid'Sr ■■ o
of this
tocon-
iause
ife in
this Union which will be benefitted by
the maintenance of the present finan
cial policy, and if in some portions of
the Union the silver sentiment is not
as strong as in other portions, it is be
cause those portions where the silver
sentiment is weakest are the portions
where there has been the least agita
tion and discussion and study of the
money question. (Applause and cries
of “You’re right.’’) You not only
have lacked the opportunity of investi-
gating this question which some other
portions of the country have had, hut
your papers have denounoed it as a
matter unworthy of study, even if they
have not insulted tbe intelligence of
tbe voters by telling them that only a
few people were able to understand
the question anyhow. (Applause.)
Some of the HdpUWtcan' pthtforms of
the Eastern States have not only de
clared against silver, but have de
clared against agitation. When I find
h man who is opposed to ue discus
sion of a public question t find a man
who would feel more at home under a
monarchy than he would in a Itepublic.
TAppIause.) ^ ~
Agitation i« nothing but discussion.
(Applause and cries of “That’s so”)
And discussion is tha only moans by
which tbe people oaa flafi owl what is
baut aed remedy a wrong. (Applause.)
Jt man who denounces agitation, a
man who opuuees public discussion of
pubift queetiows, would have you suffer
not permit yon to secure tbe only I
‘y which relief caa odtae. My
I friends our opponents
Iona dosLoj agitation
for a dollar, then you cannot fiod any
body who will sell you that silver for
use.) Now, my friends,
into
53 cento. (Applet
gL3.fi? !£ THE POLITIC,, LSmiATIOX » THE
without knowing that proposition, NORTHWESTERN STATES
without und
expect to reac
the money question.
I assert that the business man de
pends for success upon the farmers and
the laboring men. (Applause.) If you
want business men to prosper you can
not make them prosperous by making
the money loaner prosperous, because
business men do not make their money
out of these from whom they borrow.
They make their money out of those
to whom they sell goods. (Applause.)
And if the people cannot buy goods,
the merchants caanot sell goods, and
people cannot buy goods until they
have the money to nuy goods with.
(Applause.) And the way the people
get money to buy goods with is by
selling something which they them
selves produce. If the farmer cannot
get money for what he produces, how
is he going to have the money to buy
what other people have to sell?
A Voice-SUM up thd mills.
Suppose you sUrt up tbe mills how
are you going to dispose of the things
which tbe mills produce unless pco-
f>le can buy the produce of your muITT
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III WTEmiEV WITH GOVERKOR NORIHEH.
He Believes that Bryan Will Carry
Iowa and Illinois—Interesting Fea
tures of the Campaign. «
Atlanta Journal.
Governor Northen has just returned
from a Western tour of three months,
during which time he went through
eleven SUtes andstopped at 100 or more
towns and cities. He made the trip on
immigration business, but took adyan
Uge of the opportunity to study the Wfci “I"* 1 “P
political situation. In-order that juif * 1| ‘ * *■"
I ♦ yam b {g\sa
OtbunBlOu.
might get at the facts better, he went
about the political headquarters and
mixed with the crowds Incognito, heard
their street discussions, sounded men
of every class and every shade of po
litical opinion, and took note of every
straw tqat showed which ’ way the
wind blew. He has had some interest
ing experiences aad comes back prob
ably the best posted Georgian who has
been West. Uo tells what he found
and relates some of hft experiences ia
the following interview :
“The West ft aot
of mesas, said he.
Cal. D. P. Du acne
Alltaaes Rack
s warfare
I have never
seen such political conditions. Tarty
lines are obiltaratad. If you address a
man as a Republican he says :
“ ’Don’t speak to me as a Itrp.jii.isttBfc,,
wa nra aot known as Rapab«loans or I rharlesioa's Re
Democrats aay more, but as advocates
of the gold standard or tha silver stao
(lord
* “Old landmark* are fooa. Too have
aad when you do It Is so mixed that;
yoa cas t tali aa*thia« about it. Noth- j
tug short af a coast af beads will re
veal tha result They are nimstaatly I tie trust, is hot
polllag tbe trains aad tbe people who
travel are usually gold standard advo
cates. Tbe beet result I saw was four
rotas for Bryaa aat of S oa a *>snpsr
A labor!ag man said, 'That's arotty
good lor a sleeper, bat wait Ul* the
sorb train names '
" 1 oaalda'l gal aay saHafantary la*
tarmaiioo from t- k -a party baadqaarter*
as olthar side Tbsee It aa* a gold or
all si Ivor. Th* ^ailiag of trains show
sd nothing Tbs hast ossthad I avoid
find ana to tabs op saeh ciaos or aaoa
pqtlsa separately aad
moat late, .goat man la that pursuit
11. The next morning the hotel man
told me be drove them away at 1
ho disputants in these discussions
are well posted, if you evince any
interest, a bystander will pull h wad
of literature out of his inside pocket
and ask you to read it. The discussions
are mostly good natured. There is
hehd cracking sometimes, but general
ly, when things" get warm They guy
each other and laugh it off. When a
fellow makes a point you will hear
them say ‘good boy,’ and tbe other
aide say ‘rats!” At Minneapolis,
where tbe Journal was displaying base
ball news in an unusually attractive
manner, the time between bulletins
was filled up with argument for silver
block and the discussion amounted to
an open air mass meetiug.
“ I found tbe newspapers very lib
eral," continued tbe Governor. “Sli
ver papers printed a gold orator’s
speech and put in all the applause, and
the ovation. The gold paper* did the
same when a crowd went wild over a
silver orator. That is my idea of the
way to run newspapers. And they had
enormous sales. They sett their pa
pers for a cent a copy aad the circula
tions aro enormous. I saw a poor wo-
maa buying a paper for a Cent. The
JT carry impiense buuffla
have to carry them long.’'
repeat we will get all our wired 1
of cotton taken care of witltoat
lag Sprunt & JSon of Wii
C., to rob you out of M cento per 1
|Ln<l w i LtiOUl Wfircvim? lyti* PT n errof
his compress in Charleston. *
“We are witling toatoad by our owb
people when they stand hr us. If wa
don't make the cotton, will the ootn-
presses have any to peek? Then whew
they see and admit that an outrageous
extortion is being committed upon ns
why should they not.m*ke some little
sacrifice to help us out ? We oan and
will find those who will do it if you all
rtUind together for a little while. I
want to add this: The interior mar koto
h%ve stood by the farmers in their
fight; they have ordered the wire ties
t<»- them end have aided u* all in their
power, and you must stand by them.
Say to them that you will not allow
these 200 cotton buyers of Sprunt A
Son of Wilmington to doek your cotton
30 cento per bale because you have seem
fit to bale it with wire ties.
“ The cotton trust have gotten uneasy
and have reduced the price 8 cento per
bundle, that ft at porto 81 fit par Niw
die, but three buyers say they are go
ing to make a deduction of 30 oeats a
hale or 81 M per handle of Uea. Who
get the 2H centsy
■ “ BObth Carol iso «——n Lsre token
la ialtiatfta ■
LET THE FARMKRfi STICK
•al to Handle Wire
-The Alltoaca Kx-
nad deal the Initiative la this fight, aad I
Hero yow will aot ftvs It ap. I don't
feel at liberty to state at this time
all I know, hat tbaro to a vast amount
more of money I a vested la tha wire
beslaeas than ia the hoop tie boot*
Dam, nod tha wire maaofaoteroro
have aaeurad me teat la tha fa taro
they will stand by ae If wa I stead to
at wart aa a machine to bo aaad at tha
onai pesos to fastaathaaa wtro ttoa
-A f
lartlilf
of tha porta Half of boath Carol tab’s
if tha rofasa 1 of Cbarloatoa aad Wl 1 - aooaompUao will "
miagtoa aomprosoas to hand is tha wtro I the later lor tsr t
haled staple. Ha bal iaros he oaa make I seooastty will ant
arroagamaats siseahero lathe later 1 pro— la tha h
aat af tha taessars, aad sJl he aehs to the aext aottaa aram wbtsh
that they be eM nasry la tha fight haled largely el to etro Uea"
He talked as let lows la a reporter .
** 1 am sorry tha Nows aad Coaster I
can’t saa Its way dear to help at oat la I
tha fight As this Is a matter af mash •
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to aaybMly lor ball toe
market prim aad let toe purchaser
make the profit f The itepubttoaa
party does aot pres sal aay flaaac'al
policy aad say that they propose that
the policy alii hr net)'. tbe ppople.
inilcaa pasty simply proposes
policy of their plat-
e li
You manufacture*! and merchaoto
go to the banks (or >pney. The banks
tell you they are v«y sorry, but they
cannot loan any morjust new. There
can be no more mony ia this country
than people permit, f you make your
lalff so you draw a |rt of your money
out of circulation ai lock it up, you
can't use it in your ftinese, and have
it in the vaults at 'ushington, both
at the same time, 'bat look* plain
enough, yet there ai financier* who
go on the theory thathe more money
you take out of circfition the more
you have left in it.
There are financiers ho actually re
joice at the issue of lad*, and said it
would restore confldtee. They are
trying to run busiuestn this country
with a larger per ce. of confidence
than the amount of oney on hand.
And if they goon, theeople will have
all the confidence ancho money. My
obeervation has bcehhat if a confi
dence man comes inta community,,
the man who has theiast confidence
has the most money ten the fellow
goes out-
You say. “I am hung.’’ They say,
“I have got a remedyjust have con
fidence, and if you hatoot bad a full
meal you will be justvwell off as if
you had.” You say yoikn’t get work.
They say, ‘’Just havemfldence, you
will have work and will, be all
right.”
You say, “We cannotad a market
for our shoes.” “Just he confidence,
the people will buy id they will
pay.” ; „
There is only one placrhere I think
^a confidence game won'tyrk. You go
to one of those men who all the time
talking About confiden and ask to
borrow money. He sa> ‘ What aa-
V’ 'V,.!
T
to maintain tha policy of their
form aad that platform professes to b«
bad when it promises to main tola that
policy until foreign nations coire to
our relief. Hut my friends, If you be
lieve tbe Uoitod btotes government
shjuld have a financial policy of Its
own, suited to it* own needs, its own
people, administered by the hands of
those who love her, then you can col*
express yourselves when you act with
those who advocate bimetallism at Hi
to 1 without the aid or consent of any
other nation upon the earth. If the
financiers who want the government to
issue bond* so they can buy bonds,
have the right to keep the govern
ment iesuiog bonds all the time, putting
a debt upon the people, then you, tb«
people, have to be taxed to pay these
bond*.
-saa are you la favor
go 4 standard f
TVs voice—l am.
Mr. Bryaa—Tall me oh* ?
Tbe votes —Because I be Hove
best tor tbe couatrv- Every
will accept a goid dollar for a doil
Mr. Bryaa - WhyI will tail
Brea uea of Its valua. The reason
it to
yoa
kj
AT NEW
e
No Part
LONDON, CONN.
curity have vou ?’ Tfotay, ‘ I will
give you all Inn coafidet you want.’
He will tell you he la i loaning on
oooldence this year, ft it thdSe
financiers are eo anxk for you to of ability, of courage ai
have confidence ia th^wbeq they —those three ettorar
don’t have aay ooefldte in you?'
They waat security aiuftey tell you
to cahago-d aamsoey onto or put
«p eometh .r.g aaigfibie. , )
The true me to ^hai eerily that
aay ■erne ikrough the eiog dawn < ( i. r ^ V, r -mrh
tos vaavuf^r t; bj.driviag .p tSSu. pdSSm hto
el too *el«a el maoay haroja^ tort al yaie tusa (
of the Country Excluded
from the Benefit* of Bimetallisin.
A stand had been erected at the
soldier* and sailors* monument ad
jacent to the railway station, and from
this Mr. Bryan made an address an
hour long to an audience of about 3,000
people. He was-cheered frequently
and asked several ^questions by people
in the crowd: Heaaid:
Mr. Chairman, Dadiek-and Gentle
men—I am informed'Thatrl am speak
ing today in the county in which
Lyman Trumbull was born. When I
went to Chicago as a law student I
found a place in his office, and for
nearly two years was associated with
him as a student is associated with an
instructor. And it is one of the friend
ships whioh I prize, because the ac
quaintance formed then grew into at
tachment, and when be was called
from earth no oae mourned his depar
ture more sincerely than I. I am glad
to stand, therefore, among the people
among whom he was born, because la
his life I believe that he gave evldeno:
of ability,/>f courage aad of patriotism
torislics which
combine to earn (of a maa the loro aad
gratitude of hft oountrymea.
Today I leave CooaectleuV I hare
New England
e, I have
only
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fl
our gold dollar aad gold bullion are
worth ths same is because the law says
that you can convert bullion iato a
do 1 lar at tha mint.
The voice—Well, how about silver ?
Mr. Bryan—When the laws are so,
under the free coinage of silver, that
the holder of silver nultlon can coo
vert hU silver ^bullion Into dollars at
ths mint, that wit fix a mint price
for silver then, ae we have a mint price
for gold now and' silver dollars will
he worth as much abroad as our gold
dollar. (GroAt applause and cheering.)
Now, my friends, I do not object to
having questions asked, because if I am
wrong on this question, there ft no
body more anxious to find it out than
l am.. But if I am right and my friend
is strong, I hope he will be as anxious
to get right as I am. (Great applause.)
Question* do not hurt, my friends. We
are glad to answer questions, because
there is not a question that can be
asked by an advocateilf the goid stan
dard that cannot be answered by ad
vocates of free coinage* (Applause
and cries of “Why don't McKinley
come out and answer some of them ?”
A voice: People here-have the im
pression Chat when the free coinage of
silver is brought into effect they can
take their silver teapots and coin them
•into money.”
Mr. Bryan—The gentleman says
that the people have the impression
here that under free coinage the peo
ple can take silver teapots and their
silverware and have it converted into
moqey. It U true that under free
coinage that any man can m*lt up a
dollar and half’s worth of spoons and
have the silver coined into one dollar
and twenty-nine cents, if you have a
man who is fool enough to do it. (Great
applause.)
Now, why will people refuse to melt
up their sliver plate ? Because it will
be worth more as silver plate than if
will be worth as silver dollars under
free coinage. (Applause.) And, my
friends, you cantdepend upon it that
people wilr aot do things that' are
going to hurt them If they know it.
There to one of toe things that yon
base yo| reason lag upon, aad la that
conat-clion I frequently have people
ask me, “ Woaldn’t It be possible for a
maa to buy silver for 53 eeots aad have
it coined Into a dollar aad maaa to
dlffweaoe (Laughter aed' a voids
' Who to going to eeli it?**)
' ehicb
_ _ Ha says.
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XAA — The At
later stewed Dr- J.
w be has iakeiy rote reed
ta toebuuto
aad he say* there to oaty oaa ea
eat to are where food crone hero has
made aad that to from Helena, Ark
ep ta sue titers Missouri. There
land will moke from half a bale to a
bale of ootooa to the note, aad (ram
toirty-flve to seventy five bushels of
a neat to the acre.
la the famous black loads of Tsaas,
where the finest crops la the world are
produced, everyth lag to alotoei a failure.
Both cotton aad corn are shorter there
tbaa they have been for many years.
No rain nas fallen there since the 1st
of May, and la tome sections there has
been ao raia since April. This drought
is being felt more severely from Dailss
through to Waco and down to Galves
ton. in the central part of southern
Texas crops are better than at aay
other point in the State, but that is
saying little for it.
Moore says the people out la
Texas say this is tbe worst season of
drought they have experienced since
IbtiO. Much of the cotton that waa
planted in April has never come up,
the seed having laid in the ground to
[>aroh all through the summer, there
Deing not enough moisture to germi
nate them. In some places where the^
cotton came up the plant has never
come to maturity, and stands shriveled
n the fields.
Corn, which is always very fine in
Texas, ft almost a total failure th ! ->
year, and in many places tbe fields a. >
filled with little, half-grown staikt
that have dried up in the summer sun
and rustle mournfully in the wind that
sweeps across the barren waste usually
filled with vigorous corn ytalks, loaded
down with the golden grain.
Call
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Mi
—One of the chief causes of the turn
ing of the tide of gold from Europe
into this country recently has been the
phenomenal European demand for
American cotton. The reserves of the
British and Continental mills got
almost to the lowest figures on record
last season, something like 1,000,000
bales less than In tpe previous year,
and it ft to replenish these exhausted
mill stocks that the fleet of tramp
steathers' as well as tbe swifter and
stancher ctaft of the regular transat-
lantic lines, is nqir loading at Ameri
can ports with cotton for Europe. The
exteqtand Importance of the movement
can be seen by glancing at the figures
up to date as compared with the ship
ments two years ago, the reco.x -break
ing year qf cotton exportation, when
« great volume of 6,726,000 bal
went abroad out of aa Americas crop
of V,900,000 bales. Last season, owing
to tha higher pries, th* foreigaa
took as llttla or our cotton as they
ouald gat along with. Even aader
thafio ylreamstaacc* they had carried
away abaat ty&OO.OOO bodes wbea tha
a* v
with
Sa<>*>r4{*. Bryns will
gat ths 5,008 yr S.OOfi itsyshlloaas nec
essary to ctoaag* tha res alt.' *
On* of th* awet lateraatlag facta
brought cat hy Governor North aa**
study of tbs situation Is that Illinois ft
uksly to go Democratic He did not
roach this ooaclueioa until be had
sladled the situation forssvaral weak*.
“ 1 canvassed Uliooft thoroughly,"
said ha, “ aad wat la diffsroot parts of
ths blats. Tbe Ant thing that made
a deep impression oa m* was th* Pop
ulist convention at Springfield. I saw
it, aad it was an enthusiastic Indorse
ment of Bryaa. The McKinley paper
at Springfield said that this meant s
victory for Bryan In Illiaoft, and re
marked that it was strange the Repub
licans had overlooked such an impor
tant factor as this convention. Still 1
was not convinced, for I knew there
was an immense population of working
men, and that the Republicans were
canvassing this element with tremend-
ous energy. I thought the labor vote
would give McKinley a majority in
Illiaoft. This oplolon was changed on
Labor Day. There was an immense
demonstration and 40,000 people went
out. Tbe Republican national com
mittee adjourned out of respect for the
occasion and started out to attend the
exercises. Then it occurred to some
of them that they had received no .in
vitation to be present,
to the master of ceremonies and aug-
£ sated to him that he had overlooked
ir. Hacna’a committee. ‘No,’ said he,
Mr. Hanna hqa not been invited, nor
will he be invited.’ .If thft incident
ft any ndicatlon of the aentiment
of the workingmen of Ullnola, it
ia important, for if they go againat
McKinley he losea the State, It ft
my opinion after what I aaw that
Bryan will carry Jllinoia.”
In regard Vo fusion, Governor North
en said : “ Until recently Kansas and
Nebraska were regarded as safe for
Bryan, but complicatioas connected
with fusion have disturbed matters
very much and the reeult ft not cer
tain.”
The Governor gave a pictureeque
description ol the street debates which
Constitute an Interesting feature of
the Western campaign. “The discus
sions are oqntiauous find uninterrupt
ed," said he with a smile. “They
know no Sundays and night la robbed
of sleep. Tko neighbors will mast on
the street and talk about gold aad sil
ver. They get animated and talk
loader. One or
People
finger* or their fists at
com* to eeo what's tto* matter. Pretty
,t.. •*.- '
laeapraaocd. aad to he c**! ihlags. It ft a aoaalbh
* worked a* easily ihlng for aaybody to Ao wh* hto net i
hoop Uas, It a as f M i t . to look aftor the* whee U*
ling thefr
S other aad
agutotMah,
ait trades, that hare to
1 knew tha ■■tier of
oompraasiag the ax ported
vary Import*at (actor la
lag ef th# aot toe crop aad mask ho
given da* onoaldaraWo* With-thft
view ta mlad. 1 had a bale pafihsd aith
wtro aad •hipped to Chartoaiae- I
waat myself to so* It com pi
a hit* ttoa wtro was sot worked as easily
or a* rapid lv os tha hoop Uoo, It
used aad the •spartaleadaal
oom proas said If the wtro wi
larger aad softer aad eom* batter wajJ^eld
of I as ten lag tbs Ua, he thought tt
I could bo used. I was officially notified
by tbe Charleston Lotto* sxohaagw
| that tbe cotton baled with wire would
• be considered a good delivery. On tbs
I faith of this announcement I have re-
comm .tided nod urged tbe use of
(the wire ties instead of tbe cotton
tie trust's flat hoop tie. I a addition to
the action taken by tbe Cotton ex
change, Mr. H. F. Bremer notified me
that hft old firm, F. W. Wegener A Co.,
would receive nod handle all tbe cot
ton baled with wire ties at the same
prices paid for the other cottoa.
“ Now, I suppose, we are notified
that Charleston will not receive tbe
wire-packed hales except ata discount.
I am also notified that Messrs. Sprunt
& Son of Wilmington will not not ac
cept the wired bales. I desire to any
this to the farmers of the State, I do
hope you will not allow yourselves to
of your position in
the action of either
ilmington. Don’t ao
oept any deduction or discount on your
cotton because it is baled with wire
and if you will hold your cotton long
enough to give me time to make ar
rangements I will guarantee that we
will get every hale handled, without
any discount. I have written to some
business friends D have id Norfolk,
Portsmouth and Baltimore, and I be
lieve we can get our cotton handled if
Cbarlestou and Wilmington cann
afford to do it. g—
• ‘. All I ask. of you farxners whoJawp.
entered thft fight and instructed me to
ft to now stand by me.
uncture. I have
ordered for you all th,600 bundles up to
today. This mean* tbe balling of 53,008
hale* of ootton. The Cincinnati Wire
company ha* sold several thousand
bundles, I don't know exactly how
many, but I am satisfied that there has
been at least ties enough ordered to
bal# 75,000 bales. Now wa will tarn thft
ootton through oaa railroad
aad to oa* port, aad we caa atak
Interesting for soma people who
be induced to handla ovr wlro-beled
oouoa. - I repeat, don’t gal rallied ha-
ttoaTta* wire ito* waat ha
“ La IW3 Norfolk cottoa axpurtors
' a mas to my tana la Cafte caaaty
> to ttoa ad vv
of ttoa
Some one went4-he bulldozed ont
thft matter b
Charleston or
aot for you,
Don’t give up at thft jv
.u alftb.e
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have coffin* la
pointing, “
edfor at least six y
for at th* Urn*. It may Se aix or'six-
year* before they or* waa tod, hat
wbea th* owner n»ed* thorn they will
be ready, aad I will fulfill every part
of th* cob tract. It ft aot ao long ago
1 fulfilled a coo tract of this kind
after I had th* oontract for several
years. When the maa mada it b*
looked ready to die, and ao doubt
thought he would live only a few
months. In thft case tbe casket was a
fine oae aad he paid cash for it. Ha
also made arrangements for the grave,
hearse, ca'rlages, shroud nod every
little detail. He left lettera say lag
that I would be hft undertaker, and, of
course, I wa* notified at oaoe and did
all I agreed to.
“But there are oases where I have to
find out about the person’s death my
self. I always keep watch of thoaa
events, of course, and as soon as 1 know
of a case I have been paid for I go at
once and attend to it. In more than
one case I came as a surprise to poor
relatives, who were almost craiv won
dering how they were going to bury
their dead.
‘All kinds of ppople make those con
tracts—rich and poor, #lek aad well.
Some think they are going to die soon
and some are preparing for. a thing a
long way off. Sometimes berth
right, and sometimes just ihe
happens. You cannot toll an]
about It If a man ft l
certain day he ft going- to die, aafttf
he isn’t why, he vronHr That, I thiak,
ft the reason that many people waat
to b* prepared- for d^ath when Bdoaa
come/’ •
' ^ "mam ■
—There ft a citliea rosidiag near
Roblnooa Creek, Ky n who has a dog
who actually oalahes fish i
hft master’s family with
dog will dive < '
aad bring oat catfish that'will
fro* two to fit
a 1
I anything
to die on a