Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ASSAIL THE TKIISIS WilB JIM I. nUEfEUin MUTES MAKES 1ITIEI SPEECH Bays the Effort to Incorporate the Rockefeller Foundation la ‘a Pro* poaal to Farm Out to Him and Associates the Right to Educate the People on Tainted Money. Efforts In congress to Incorporate the $100,000,000 Rockefeller Foun dation were scored Monday by Sena tor Works who declared them a “pro posal to ‘farm out’ to Jdhn D. Rocke feller and his associates the right and power to educates the people of the country with money accumulat ed by criminal means.” Senator Works’ statement was made In con nection with a speech he delivered In the Senate Monday on trusts and combination, the existence of which he blamed the high protective tariff policy. “The extent to which this may be carried out is practically unlimited. The corporations and Institutions of learning which may be established throughout the country In the hands of people who will be subservient to to the Interests and views of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates are without number of limitation,” said the senator. We do not want our children to be taught the ways nor the methods of John D. Rockefeller or his kind, nor to be generous with Ill-gotten gains, gold that should blister the fingers of the man who has accumulated It by extortion, oppression, and crime, and Is now attempting to rid himself of it by giving It away, nor to be come Che receivers of stolen goods la the nume and uodsr the guise of charity.” The oontlnned existence of trusts and monopolies, the senator said, was doe to the Inadequacy of the Sherman anti trust-law which he de clared should be so amended that specific restraints at trade ah all be unlawful with suitable punishment tor those who violate the law. While be was not In favor of a high pro tective tariff which fostered capitalis tic combination, he said be would be In fsvor of an effort to protect the wage earner In his earnings and that he believed It would be “an excellent thing to harmonise the tariff and “The Interstate Commerce Com mission.” continued the senator, “should be allowed to determine whether fair wages are being paid by any concern, and If not. to com pel the employer employing foreign laborers and paying Europesn wages to pay the tame tariff on Its manu factured goods that are enforced against foreign importations until He wages srs Increased to s fair scale for Amerksn workmen If s higher tariff did In fact protect the wage* earner I would cheerfully stand for Its continuance, even at the expenee of higher prices to the con sumer* The evident purpose of the so-called tariff experts Is. so far as progress has been made, to deprive the farmers, who are themselves la boring men and wage earners In most cases, of all protection and preserve It to the trust and millionaire man ufacturers and business men can compete with the world and make profits. They can and do sell their goods cheaper than at home With the farmer, In many cases. It Is dif ferent. "The wage earner must be protect ed In his earnings and reasonable hours of labor, the consumer in rea sonable prices,, and the whole people must be protected In their Independ ence and liberty. Equality of all men must be made a reality and not a theory. If the Democratic party can and will accomplish these re- auRa, demanded by the people, It may live and maintain itself in power. If It doea not, Ita reign will be brief. If neither of the old parties can or will restore the government to the people as our forefathers handed it down, then a new party will be rais ed up that will do the people’s will. It will he a {>arty of the people’s own making, founded on Justice, fair dealing, and disinterested patriotism. I am ready to give the Democratic party a fair trial. I am willing to wait and see and to lend my aid to that yirty or any other to bring about just and benefleient laws throt. 6 h and by which the whole peo ple may be brought Into their own and their Just rights fostered and protected.” Raby Swallowed a Nail. Boyce Stewart, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Stewart, of near Gowensvllle, swallowed an elgbt-penny nail with which he was playing last Saturday. The baby hAs suffered no apparent inconvenience, but his parents have been greatly alarmed. Man Can’t Be Found. AH McCormick is stirred over the 4Mag>p«ftrance of John L. Talbert, Me of the leading business men of that town, which took place about throe weeks ago. SAYS WAR WILL COME JAPAN WILL LAND TROOPS HERE IN SIX WEEKS. This is the View Taken by a Promi nent States Right Democratic Sen ator. “It would be not at all surprising If Japan landed troops In California Inside of thirty days or six weeks,” declared a prominent Democratic senator Monday when he heard that the California senate had “railroad ed” a speedy, passage the anti-alien land bill. The senator who gave voice to this alarming statement la In no sense pessimist, nor is he one of those who condemn the attitude of the Cal ifornians toward the Japanese. lie is a strong states-righter and believes that California has the right to deal with the question as it sees fit. “Japan could easily land 250,00ft soldiers in California within a few weeks,” he continued. ‘‘The Mikado could take possession of the state and all its resources and Industries and soon pay off the big war Indebt edness which some persons believe is one of the things that will prevent the Japanese from fighting the Unit ed States at this time. “War between the United States and Japan is Inevitable soonor or later. The Japanese must recognize this fact as we do In this country, and now Is the moat lnop[K>rtunp time for us and the most opportune time for Japan to strike. We could not repel an invading army at this time. It would require fully a year for us to develop our army, and it Is out of the question to suppose that the national guard could beat them back “It would require three years or more for us to drive the Japs from our soil If they land, but eventually we would conquer them and In time we could and should take Toklo.” TWENTY IlLt’HHING BRIDES. Scottish and Irish I .assies Come Over to C»et Married. At New York Monday twenty blushing brides ran down the gang plank of the steamship California Into the arms of twenty esger bride grooms. Oladness reigned until the Immigration authorities found that eight of the girls could not prove their Identity and told them they could not remain unless they mere married at Ellis Island, the tmmlgra- tlon detention station When the other twelve heard this they said they would all stand together and the twenty left for the Island to find a cergyman The prospective brides esme from Scotland and Ireland and the Immigration authorities said they sere the prettiest as well an the largest company that ever came here to be married. PLANS TO RETURN I1IIU.K. William (< ail Lard Dueler the Owner of the Hook. The Washington correspondent of The Htste says Senator William Ald- en Smith of Michigan ha* called upon Senator Smith of South Carolina to aid him In locating the relatives of Wm Calllsrd Dozier, apparently an officer In the Confederate State* navy, In order that a Hlble captured at Sailor's Creek on April 6. IS6.".. may be n*Ktore(l to his family. The Hlble 1h now In the possession of Joseph Kinyon, who was a soldier in the War Between the Sections in Company I, Twenty-sixth Michigan Infantry. Senator Smith of South Carolina has taken the matter up with A. S. Salley, secretary of South Carolina historical commission. In the hope of Ascertaining the identity of the relatives of Mr. Gaillard. WANTS BUREAU HACK. Lever Trying to Get Internal Reve nue Collector Here. Congressman Lever recently called upon the new commissioner of In ternal revenue, Col. W H. Osborne, and had a very satisfactory discus sion with him. In which the prelim inary basis for further conferences with reepect to the revenue bureau for South Carolina with headquar ters at Columbia, was laid. No defi nite agreement was reached by Mr. Lever and Col. Osborne, but it is known that a careful consideration is being given to the recent reorgan ization of the internal revenue dis tricts which eleminated four of them, consolidating the South Carolina work with the state of North Caro lina. Blinded by Wood Alcohol. Thirteen persons In the State of New York were made blind for life and four others were killed during the past twelve months, either by drinking wood alcohol or inhaling Its poisonous fumes, according to the fourth annual report of the New York committee on the prevention of blindness. - ♦ ♦ ♦ • Dr. Wiley does not agree with Dr. Osier. He says the world's greatest benefactors are men over sixty years of age. THAT AUEN Bill »-■ HPUHATICSnOGHLE ABOUT TO COMMEKCE a- MAY 00 TO THE COUBTS ■ ■ Japanewe Embassy Handed Copy of California’s Alien BUI—Ambassa dor Will Prepare Formal Protest— Other AUeged Violation of Trea ties Being Discussed. The Japanese embassy was sup plied by the State department Mon day with a copy of the alien land owning bill passed by the California Legislature and the ambassador will employ the time between now and Secretary Bryan’s return to Washing- ten In preparing a formal protest against measure. Apparently the embassy has no hope that any word President Wilson may send after Sec retary Bryan returns will Influence Governor Johnson to withhold his signature from the Act, so the only object of the protest will be to ac quaint the American people with the Japanese contention, and, if possible, to Influence the executive branch of the Government to endeavor to nulli fy the action of the California Legis lature. The embassy w ill make known the ground of its protest in a diplomatic note to Secret ary Bryan. It is well understood that to settle the question no matter what may "be the point of objection, will require the action of the Ctilled States Courts and much consideration must be given to the procedure to be followed in arrang ing for a Judicial test of the Cali fornia law It will be for Secretary Brvan to determine whether the Cul led States Government Itself shall be come i party to a suit of thU kind, in tb* laclty of an Intervener. In- ten al law >ers hint that the Ad- m ; ' atlon Is In an exceedingly del- I ■ • position for the reason that. •• apT>areutl> a champion of the ineae through the Secretary of State before the California Legisla ture. probably from thia point on It muat defend the California law against Japan in the diplomatic druggie about to begin If the department ahould adopt the California contention that the land law doea not violate the existing treaty with Japan, then It might feel bound to refuse to submit the issue to arbitration Ny The Hague Trlbu nal Furthermore. It 1* contended that the Cnlted t*ate« Government probably would be unable to enforce the decree of the Tribunal In rase it ahould be adverse to California, If the American t'ourts found that the State acted within Its rights In enact Ing the law No case has yet been found where the Supreme Court has pnaaed upon the relative force of a treaty which Invade* the reaerved comtlt utlonal powers of a aoverelgn State and of a conflicting lawr of such State So the State department ha* nothing to guide It In that direction and probably mu*t ewtabllah a prece dent In disposing of this l**ue It developed Monday that, a* a re sult of the centering of attention up on the California situation, a number rtf tbe diplomatic representative* in Washington have been Informally discussing the conferring over alleg ed violations of treaties by many States of the Union Violations are said to have occurred particularly in connection with cast's involving the disposition of the property of aliens who have died intestate in this coun try and in which local State Courts haxe taken jurisdiction in defiance of t n-at le.s. Altogether there are indications of v feeling of unrest that may lead to demands upon the National Govern ment which could not be complied with without a general rearrange ment of the functions of the State overnments, e*o far as they concern aliens. ♦ ♦ ♦ PARDONS THREE NEGROES. ♦ Governor Rlease Turns Three More Convicts Ijoose. The Governor Monday paroled Sing Smith, colored, who was con victed of assault and battery with in tent to kill at the February, 1913, term of Court for Abbeville County and sentenced to one year on the chain gang. The parole was recom mended by the party whom Smith shot and was signed by a number of citizens. The Governor issued a pa role to Henry Robeys, alias Itenry Johnson, colored, who was convicted of manslaughter at Dillon in 1911 and sentenced to fifteen years’ im prisonment. The commutation was recommended by Judge Copes and a number of officers and citizens of Dil lon County. ♦ ♦ ♦ Thinks He’s a Dog Once a Year. W. H. Hedgepeth, an Oklahoma farmer, while mentally unbalanced, jumped from a moving car at Atchi son, Kan. He told officers that once a year, late in April, he became In sane and imagines he Is a dog until the spell Jias passed. He attributes the trouble to the fact that his moth er became tsrror-crtrickeu when a dog attacked her. * USED MEN AS SAND BAGS —r- i, TO STOP RUSH OF WATER AND SAVE THE LEVEE. Colored Men Risk Their Live* in 8uc- oeNsful Effort to Close Breach in the River Rank. Quick work by determined farm ers and a small bunch of willing ne groes who were thrown into an in cipient crevasse in the absence of sand bags saved another disaster along the turbulent Mississippi river. The dozen negroes who lay in the gap of the Paydras levee, holding hack the water until sand bags could be filled to take their places, risked their lives, but saved the day when it appeared hopeless to even try to hold the fast crumbling embank ment. TIih Poydras levee, which is only 13 miles south of New Orleans, be gan to cave rapidly shortly after five o'clock Saturday morning. When the caving was discovered the entire bat- ture in front of the Poydras store, 100 feet wide and extending from the levee to the river bank 200 feet out, had caved and a small gap in the levee had gone. The alarm was giv en and within twenty minutes a score of negroes were brought up by a planter who lives a few hundred yards south of the scene. The levee was caving rapidly and when this small force arrived water about two inches deep was pouring over the em bankment. It seemed too late to prevent the crash. A desperate chance was tak en when two 12-inch boards were put along the top of the broken levee and a dozen negroes accepted the task of holding it in place. These human sand bags might be taken with the very next hIIch" of the levee, but they held on until a row of bags filled with dirt were put in plaee behind the boards Other bags were hastily •Tipped into the gap and M>on a hun dred more negroes and white men working like flin nK H ack» and earning the filled bags to the ca p Then, without warning, the stretch of the |e\ee crown where the human sand bag* la> a few moment* before fell away to the depth of 2S feet A second row of bags held the water back and within an hour 2.000 of the dirt-filled aark* were In place and the caving wa* temporarily checked and. for the time, the levee w a* Oaved RURAL POLHT.MAN killed. Sumter County Much \rou%rd Over (tie UateJ shooting. A Sumter dispatch *av* the body of A M Bateman who died at the Sumter HoBpital Sunday a*, the result of wound* received at the hand* of T H Gaughman Saturday, wo* taken to Hore.b Haptlat Church, near Dal- zel. and burled Monday afternoon Mr Bateman w a* about thirty year* of ege and lea\es a wife and several small ohlldren Tbe people of the Ibilzel aeetlon are much aroused over the shooting It Is *a;d that Bate man was shot In the back Bate man made a dying declaration a* to the shooting, but this 1* being with held from the public ('aughman is still in ‘ail The dead man was a rural policeman and tried to arrest ('aughman and was shot by him sus nia \ NWILL RUN. Senator Mat tine Thinks He Mould be surely Elected. William J Trxan is a candidate for the t renidency in 191(1 and noth ing can prevent his election, accord ing to Senator James F. Marline, of New Jersey, who was at St lyouis to attend the dedication of the Jefferson memorial. Mr. Marline said the one- term plank in the Democratic plat form woul 1 prevent President Wil son's renomination. “Bryan will be the logical candidate,” he said. “Peo ple have come to know and to under stand him better. People think that he has become more stable in his views, struck an equilibrium, as it were. The fact is, that Mr. Bryan is juet as radical to-day as he was twenty years ago, but the people have grown up to him." Jail Breakers Given Dose. Among the sinners who appeared before his Honor, Mayor Sain ,on Monday morning, were Josh Taylor and Robert Kearse, two of the three negroes who broke out of the guard house in this city, and who were ap prehended recently. They were con victed of jail ^breaking and sentenc ed to pay a fine of fifty dollars each or serve thirty days on the chain gang. “Pistol Toting” a Felony. “Pistol toting” was made a felony in Ohio Monday when Governor Cox approved the Williams' bill.: Police officers, employee* of express com panies and others who guard largo sums of money are exempted. Jumped to Elis Death. The anarchist aasaasin of King George jumped from a window in the police building Tuesday and waa crushed to death on the pavement below. PRESIDENT IS PLEASED ♦ HE LEFT THE CAPITOL WEAR ING HAPPY SMILE. ♦ Appointments to Important Poets Result In Good Feeling Between Factions In Several States. President Wilson went to the Capi tol Wednesday for the fourth time, and after an hour of conferences with a score of senators, came away wearing a happy smile at having cleared lip to his own satisfaction a number of troublesome situations that had arisen over appointments. In New York and Kentucky fac tions of the Democratic party for several weeks had carried their fights on appointments to the White House. By the nomination of John Purroy Mitchell to be collector of the port of New York, the President satisfied Senator O’Gorman as well as Anti- Tammany Democrats here who look upon .Mr. Mitchell as an aggressive opponent of the Tammany organiza tion. In Kentucky the President stood by Senator Oltle James by appoint ing Ben Marshall to be collector of internal revenue for the seventh dis trict of Kentucky. A vigorous con test had been waged by former Gov ernor Beckham, who supported for the place Desha Breckrinridge, of Lexington, a cousin of the assistant Secretary of War, Henry C. Breckin ridge. The selection of his choice brought keen satisfaction to Senator lames. The nomination of Gaylord M. Saltsgaber to be commissioner of pensions ended a long contest in which petitions and political pres sure was exerted from many sides on the President Air. Wilson chatted briefly about the tariff situation with some of the Senators and was informed that the Democratic majority was working harmoniously to put the hill through. The President’s visit attracted lit tle attention The Senate was in ses sion while he w a* In the Presidents room He came and went ao Incon spicuously that some of the Senators on the floor were unaware that he waa in the building LOSES AFTER HARD FIGHT. Mr*. Hamm hucr<*e<l* Mr*. Ix>ag- street a* IN«*(mwstrr. Mrs Helen Ixmgstreet, widow of the famoua Confederate general. Wednesday lost her fight for reap polnttneut a* postmistrlK* of Game* Mile, Ga Mr* H W J Hamm was nominated to the off < e after Presl dent M llson had consulted the Geor gia senators it w a* learned that Postmaster General Hurlesnn * reports of the condition of th** post office over which Mrs I.ongstreet presided alleged that the olTVe waa poorly managed Much interest had been manlfeat ed In the appointment and Mr* Long street a friends had flooded the White House with telegram* and petitions In her t»ehalf An appeal setting out her fears that influence* were working against her appoint ment or her confirmation w a* sent to the senate Wednesday by Mrs Ixnig «t re<-t HE \\ \ REW \RR OEEERED. Twenty-five Hundred Dollars Will !>«• Paid for Austin. Governor Please Tuesday offered a U’’"o reward for the dead or alive body of Richard Henry Austin, the triple negro murderer, u no did to death last •Wednesday a week J Frank Powers. Fn-d H Edeufiel 1 and Dr. S. C. Moore and wounded two other white men The procla mation specifies that the reward will be paid for the body of Austin “just so there is enough of it to he recog- nified as him “ With the reward of fered by the governor, the turning over of the Inxly of Austin either to the sheriff of Hamilton county or the sheriff of Barnwell couniy will mean that some one will receive $2,500. The towns of Allendale, Fairfax, Hampton and Luray have each offer ed $500 reward. WILL SKVEKD LOKB. Mitchell Named for Collector of New York Port. John Purroy Mitchell, anti-Tam many Democrat, and president of the board of aldermen of New York city, was nominated Wednesday by Presi dent Wilson to be collector of the port of New York to succeed William Loeb Jr. This selection brought what the White House termed “a happy solution” to a eontest in which New lork state leaders of every wing of the party had taken a lively part ’for the last tw'o months. Candidates for the posts, which pays 1 2,000'and carries with it the appointment of art army of employees in the coun try's biggest customs house, were numerous from the start. —•» Good Ijkw to Pass. A bill prohibiting tyhe employment of white women or ) white girla in any place of busineaa owned or man aged by Chinese or Japanese ha* been introduced in the legislature by the government of Manitoba. TAKEN TO THE ISLAND ♦ FOUR EX-INBl*BCTOR8 SENTENC- KD xo PRISON. ♦ Former Police Officers Hussey, Mttr - tha, Thompson, and Sweeney Har ried to Jail to Serve Their Term*. Dennis Sweeney, John J. Murtha, James E. Hussey and James F. Thompson, former New York police inspectors, convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice to check graft revela tions involving them, were sentenced Friday to serve one year in the peni tentiary and pay a fine of $500 each. This is the maximum sentence. Up to the moment that sentence was pronounced the belief prevailed that one of the four would “squeal” to the district attorney oh ‘‘The man higher up”. If any of them entertained such in tention he masked it under a stolid front of calmness as he faced the bar. Reports that one of the four was bar gaining with Dir. Whitman for a sus pension of sentence and that the long sought guiding genius of the system would be brought to justice through a confession was still prevalent about the criminal court building after sen tence had been pronounced, it is not yet too late for the inspector to save himself by an eleventh hour state ment. No move of any sort looking to an appeal was taken by any of the four prisoners Friday. An effectual club against appeal is held by the dlslrict attorney in the form of 19 indict ments for bribery a felony recent ly returned against the quartette. The enm,- lor which the four In spectors, highest uniformed officials ;n the department, were convicted m.;s brought to light by the district attorn. \ in his crusade agains 1 g r aft in the police department, begun af- f er (be murd' r of Herman Rosenthal. George \ Sipp. a r, sort k.sqa-r told Mr Whitman that he paid regular proto* tn.n monev to co||e. tor* acting for Sweenev When it came time for Slpp to testtfv te-fore the grand jury he had fled He wan found at AMan- tlr ('tty brought back to New York an 1 testified that Swe*-ney and hi* three .'onfidan’e* had raid'd a fund and hired him to remain out of th« State Shackled in pair* Martha »1th >we, ne\ Thompson with Huiuvev - ’he four ex ! n * J -ec tor* w e re t A k r a ''orn the Tomb* *o HI*, kwrll * la ic l where thev reached their cell* c. five hour* 'rom the time they *er« »• n ’ • need hirst thev Were p'.oed In a or *<>n van and ' Den to j*d head iuar- wh.r>- they were t hot, gra, h«-I. r e i-i.'-ed ind ttiem , 'ni* r print* t.»k- "o' < 'i-’oM: ,rv * av M.irha. * 1 ’ ■’ e v 'I I, g ’ o " e pen tetltiar V w ;i * > 1 W ed t vte t h.» I "ICO ! u Brook * ' • 'e v ,,f hi» e.gh- rhi Iren * r111 I \Dh RWOOD'H HIKTHD4Y. I’olitirai I >|»|M)neni I'ay* Him a Hand- wonir < ompltment. The birthdav of Representative I nlerwood Tuesday w ** made the o. , as.oti of a Democratic and Repub lican love feast a* consideration of 'he f,,x ng provisions of the tariff bPl drew to a close Minority Lead er Mann announced he wished to put is Je p.irfisan feeling for a time and talk personally He said that fifty- ■ ’O' years ago one of the ablest men 'i pil’d , !Ue firs* saw the light” and ■ ongratulated the “Democratic party md the \nierican people that during the fifty-on»> years of his life there ha.s grown to greatness and bigness the able gentlemen from Alabama. Mr 1 nderwooil." Amid a roar of ap plause from both sides of the cham ber Mr. Underwood thanked Mr. Mann. BORDEN FINDS DAUGHTER. Missing (Tiild of Millionaire Sought to Escape Di.scinpline. Miss Romana Borden, daughter of Gail Borden, millionaire condensed milk dealer in New York city, was re stored to her father in Boston, Mass., by detectives this week. Her father now is planning to place her under medical care in some quiet retreat where she may recover from the phy sical and nervous strain she was un der during her flight. Miss Borden escaped from a sani tarium at Pompton Lakes, N. J., when she felt that the discipline to which she was being subjected was too irksome and a real punishment. She was sent to the school because she had run away to Washington a few weeks ago against her father's wishes. • Aviator Ix>st His Head. At Oakland, Cal., Herman E. Jans sen, a Los Angeles aviator, was be headed by the whirling propeller of a hydro-aeroplane. He was assisting Roy N. Francis to start the machine for a test over the bay when he lost his balance and fell forward. Francis made an unavailing effort to save hi* friend by stopping the machinery. The Summerville Advertiser think* one of the ironies of life is * bald- headed barber trying to sell you n hair tonic.