The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 09, 1914, Image 7
NEW YORK TIMES GIVES WILSON
PRAISE FX>R SUCCESS
MEDIATION IS A TRIUMPH
Says Results of Niagara Falls Con
ference Astonishes Even Staunch
est Supporters Of the President-
Disinterestedness of the United
States Made Clear to the World.
BLUE TO HANDLE Pl^GUE
u. s,
ARMY SURGEON GENERAL
GOING TO NEW ORLEANS.
Sharp Measures Taken to Prevent
Spread of Disease—Warnings Sent
to Seaport Authorities.
The New York Times is a news
paper that does not hesitate to “speak
its mind”—and a very forcefu^ mind
it is—on the Wilson administration
or any other administration. The
Times is in reality an independent
newspaper. It will praise President
Wilson or it will crittciee him, as it
conscientiously sees fit; nndv.it will
“knock” Republican^, arid*^Progres
sives and will “boosV^ sem.tf them
when it finds in theif'utteySliees or
tenets something mi considers
► worth while. . • *
Being that sort ol newspaper, the
following leading ed4'0£^l from Fri
day’s issue of The 'ftJiias f Is one of
the strongest expressions of approval
of President Wilson’s.ilfXitan policy
it would, be possible to find even
among the presidents ^nyst partisan
supporters:
“The result of Hhe^.fliagara Falls
conference, so fgr asflt .has gone, is
such a triumph fop* President Wil
sons much misunderstood policy as
to astonish; even tlie'staunchest sup
porters of t^je president: The proto
col, signed fly the South American
mediators and- the delegates of both
Mexico and the United States, opens
the way for the establishment of
peace in the troubled republic, and
the institution, after suitable prelimi
naries, of a government chosen to
conduct its affairs for the benefit of
its people, chosen by them without
hindrance. The disinterestedness of
the United States is made clear to the
world, and what is more to the point,
to the Mexicans themselves, who
reasoning by their past experiences
and the trouble caused by the Ameri
can interventionists, have been jus
tified in doubting our sincerity.
“We promise to recognize the pro
visional government to be set up
through the offices of the conference
and to restore diplomatic relations
with Mexico, and we exact no indem
nity whatever, Mexico binding her
self, for her part, to take measures
for the payment of all just claims
for the destruction of the property
of foreign residents. We avoid war,
a war which while, it threatened was
obviously to the taste of but few
Americans, and they not of the most
patriotic type: but we do mare and
even better than that, for, as one
party to a tripartite agreement, of
v bich thre three Soutn American re
publics acting Jointly and the Mexi
can delegates are the ather parties,
we pledge lasting friendship with
Mexiso and establish on a new and
promising footing our relations with
all Latin America.
"In fact, the result of this media
tion conference, which the easily dis
heartened were calling a failure only
ygsterday, may fairly be called pro
digioijs and unprecedented in the his
tory of international relations. It
will be hard for many persons to
realize all that has been-accomplish
ed by Mr. Wilson’s acceptance of the
good offices, but the. result will loom
large in history and it ought to be
taken as a wholesome antidote to
many of our ills, real and imaginary,
including'-business depression. In it
all there is nothing more satisfactory
than the assured fact of our estab
lishment of relations with the prin
cipal countries of South America,
which should be of great mutual ben
efit hereafter.
“The only, possible source of new
trouble will be the council of repre
sentatives of the two Mexican fac
tions. The facts that the Constitu
tionalists have sent agents to take
part in this council and that they
were obviously anxious to be repre
sented as well in the mediation con
ference, show that the leaders of that
party know that the aid of the Unit
ed States and the South American re
publics is essential to the” success of
any Mexican government hereafter,
and that, whatever individuals among
the, agents may say, or be accused of
saying, this council will tdlce up its
deliberations in the right spirit. We
have no doubt whatever of the out
come." ^
witwoi
HOUSE SUBSTITUTES MEASURE
BLACKS ONCE OUTNUMBERED
r »»-« ' \ *
WHITES IN LEGISLATURE.
FOR SENATE BILL
i
TO PROHIBir
Till man Distributes Photograph
Darker Days With Solemn Warn-
ing to Men of White Race.
•With the introduction of a joint
resolution in the two houses of the
general assembly of "Mississippi at
Baton Rouge Monday authbfizing the
governor to borrow $150,(ft)0 to be'
expended in the eradication of bu
bonic plague at New Orleans iand the
Inauguration of a rigid quarantine of
*he infected district by local author
ities, preliminary steps toward stamp
ing out the contagion were well ad-/
vanced.
The quarantine established by city
health authorities is backed by armed
guards, twentjMsight of whom were
stationed at intersecting streets
within four blocks oU the Industrial
Home of the Volunteers of America,
where the two cases so far reported
were discovered. Only breadwinners
While Depending Upon Taxes to Pre
vent Evil the Bill Cuts Off Drastic
Provisions of Senate Plan, Elimi
nating Proposal to Bar Future
Deals From Interstate Mails.
The House Monday substituted the
Lever bill for regulation of cotton
exchanges through prohibitive taxes
for the Senate measure, proposing
regulation by means of prohibiting
the use of the mails and telegraph
for so-called gambling transactions.
Tire House put the bill through
under suspension of the rules by a
vote of 84 to 21, and sent it to the
Senate. If the Senate fails to ag3*ee
will be 'allowed ingress or egress td to the substitute the differences will
the quarantine district, which in-
cludef some of the large French mar
kets, many of the commission houses
and a number of wholesale houses.
Persons who are permitted to cross
the dead line are required to report
three times a day for inspection.
While it is not believed at New
Orleans that the situation is well in
hand precautionary measures of a
stringent kind will be taken. A con
certed attack upon the rats of the
city began Tuesday. The rodents
will be destroyed by traps and poi
sons, those infesting the quarantined
area being given attention first.
Fleas, too, will come under the ban,
but' no plans for their destruction
have yet been announced. .. A rat that
was burled at <he Volunteers of
America Home Sunday will be ex
humed and examined by bacterlolo
gists.
Federal authorities will take part
in the fight against the disease with
the arrival of Surgean General Ru
pert Blue, of the public health ser
vice, and two experts from Washing
ton. New Orleans authorities have
been advised that in response to their
requent Surgeon General Blue is now
en route there. So far only two
cases of plague have been reported,
one death resulting. Further alarm
was caused by reports of the discov
ery of two more cases in a different
part of the city. The report, how
ever, proved to be erroneous.
After receipt of telegrams from
Oscar Dowling, president of the
Louisiana board of health, the treas
ury department ordered Ihe surgeon
general to take charge rf the situa
tion. Dowling reported bacteriolo
gical confirmation of th6 two cases.
The public health service, however,
will make its own examination.
Surgeon General Blue said that
neither the city of New Orleans nor
the territory surrounding was in any
danger, but that it was advisable
that the federal government take
sharp measures. Apparatus for fumi
gation are being sent to New Orleans,
and a poTps of experts in plague
eradication. Including Surgeon Creel,
of the public health service, will car
ry out the surgeon general's plans.
As a precautionary measure to pre
vent spread of the infection by ship
ping Surgeon General Blue sent
warnings to health authorities of the
Atlantic coast states and to those of
the Mississippi river states as far
north as Iowa, suggesting that they
take up the work of rodent eradica
tion actively.
HAVE NEW NAMES.
How Members of Press Are Nominat
ed Since Richards’ Attack.
The newspaper men who are cov
ering the campaign have new names,
as a result of the attacks by Major
John G. Richards, chairman of the
railroad commission, and a candidate
for, governor, on what he has named,
“The newspaper oligarchy.” A. D.
Olophant, of the Columbia State, has
designated the three newspaper men
as Oligarchy 1, 2, and 3. -We calls J.
A. Daly, of the Columbia Record,
Oligarchy No. 1, Caldwell, of The
News and Courier, as Oligarchy No.
2, himself as Oligarchy No. S," and
G. R. Calvert, the Western Union
man, who is making the rounds with
the campaign and handling press
copy, as chief slave of the Oligarchy.
Richards and Charles Carroll Simms,
betaken up. in conference. Senator
SmitlBsauthor of the Senate bill, is
now campaigning in South Carolina,
and consideration of the substitute
may be delayedT \until his return,
though Senator Smith, of Georgia or
some other Southern senator may call
it up in the meantime.
Both the Senate and House meas
ures aim to regulate alleged evil prac
tices on the cotton excanges which
the cotton producers contend keep
(Jow n the price of cotton.' The Sen
ate bill through the post office depart
ment and the interstate commerce
commission's jurisdiction over the
telegraph would prohibit the trans
mission of quotations and lists of
sales of cotton that did not comply
with the requirements as to stand
ardization prescribed in the bill. Both
bills would regulate, though they
would not prohibit, transactions in
future.
The House bill relies on the gov
ernment taxing power instead of in
hibition of the mail and the tele
graph, proposing a tax of |5 a bale
on contracts that do not comply with
the requirements. No tax would be
imposed on what are regarded as
legitimate contracts The measure
would require that contracts must be
in writing; must specify the quantity
of cotton involved in each transaction
and give names and addresses of buy-
ers and sellers, with the basis grade
of the cotton involved
Other sections would provide that
the cotton mutt be of or within the
grades specifically established by the
secretary of agriculture and that in
case other than the basis grade is de
livered the differences above or be
low the contract price must be the
actual commercial differences and not
the difference arbitrarily fixed by the
secretary of agriculture by compari
son of prices of five spot cotton mar
kets.
A lively debate preceded the vote.
Democratic Leader Underwood, favor
ing the measure, pointed out that the
whole-proposition rested on the pro
posal that congress should either sup
press or regulate the cotton ex
changes of the country. t '
“Whatever particular power you
use to enforce a law,” he said, "is a
secondary proposition, but there is no
better power in the government than
the power to tax, which is in this
bill. The Scott bill was intended to
wipe out the cotton exchanges. The
Lever bill is intended to regulate
them, so as to w ipe out the evils that
exist in the exchanges. In two dif-
forent congresses 1 have supported
legislation along the lines of the
Scott bill and they have been sent
over to the Senate and there have
died in committee. A similar bill
from this House at this time would
meet a similar fate.”
“I believe that the practices of the
New York cotton exchange cost the
Southern producers annually $100,-
O'C 0,0007’ ’declared Representative
Lever, who is author of the bill.
“The purpose of this bill is to elimi
nate the practices which constitute
such an enormous burden. Any man
voting against it piilfTilmseTrinThe
attitude of favgring a continuance of
practises that were denounced in ev
ery cotton state in the union.” .
Representative Hayes of Georgia
opposed the bill. He declared there
were both good and bad points in the
Uever bill and he opposed it because
certain features were detrimental to
cotton growers. H6 recognized the
need of some legislation, however,
The clerks of courts in the coun
ties of the state have received from
Senator B. R. Tillman a copy of a
irotograph showing! the radical
members of the South Carolina legi-
lature of 1868. Of 63 members of
this body, 50 were negroes or mulat-
toes, 41 were unable to read or write
?.nd 4 4 paid no taxes.
Senator Tillman writes that he
found the picture in Greenville and
had it enlarged and framed in order
to have one sent to each county, so
that the people of South Carolina
can see it for themselves.
Under the picture, which it is ex
pected will he hung in every court
house in the state, appears this in-
sciption: 1
“P'resenfed ty ’Senator Tillman to
the clerk’s office in each county of
South Ukrolina as a warming to his
fellow citizens of the necessity for
white unity. \
dates vjjo have attacked the newspa
pers so far.
Shot Through Glass.
Mrs. Louise Bailey, of Freeport,
N. Y., was killed Thursday while sit
ting in the office of Dr. Ed Carman of
that city. He r assassinator broke a
window pane, stuck a revolver
through and shot her in the hedft.
Champion Corp Planter Dead.
Zachariah J. Drake, of Bennetts-
ville, worlds, champion corn raiser,
holding a record of 254 bushels to
the acre died at his home Wednes
day at the age wpf .71.
Rat Traps on Duty.'
Six thousand baited traps did sil-
—. ent duty on the waterfront of New
- Orleans. ‘ The board of healt is vig-
orou^y e^ryyiqg out a protective
White Boy Loses Life Tor Negro.
Willis Parkmaii, o’f Spirtanflulrg,
■g—white boy drowned t Wedaewy
campaign..
while trying to save Luther Jones,,a
young negro, with whom , hes wgs
seining.
’ War Veeael to Haiti.
The armored cruiser Washington
has been
Haiti.
ered to Port Au Prince,
^ Navy Goes Dry.
- Secretary Daniel’:, order abolishln
the wing mess went into effect oh
the first and the-navy is now dry.
■ ' •' V-v
of
MUCH IMPROVEMENT ON COT-
1 ' i
TON’S CONDITION NOTED
BIG YIELD INDICATED
Government Cotton Crop Condition
Report Is Issued and Shows Splen
did Condition of Growing Crop-
Products Are for Largest Acreage
and Crop as Large as Last Year.
‘Lord God of hosts! be with usxyet,
‘Lest we forget! Lest we forgetI'X’
a state-
Senator Tillman issued
ment in which he says:
"When in South Carolina last
April returning to Washington from
Clemson College, I stopped in Green
ville to see my niece. While there
Mr. L. M. McBee showed me a photo-
praph, two by three inches in size,
of the Reconstruction legislature of
1868, the first we had. There were
far more negroes in it than white
men^, I borrowed it and brought it
to Washington and had it enlarged
I have had it framed, and intend to
send one to every Cognty to be hung
in the clerk s office; so that those
people may see it who have a mind
to. '
"Governor Blease and Mr. Fort
ner are howling about the negroes
having white teachers and the dan
ger to our civilization from that
source. I am inclined to believe the
Southern people made a great mis
take when they did not take charge
of the negroe’s education and put
them all under’white teachers in
stead of colored teachers. However
that may be the one real danger, and
a great one it is, to South Carolina’s
civilization lies in a possible division
among the white people themselves
making the negroes the balance of
power and the controlling factor in
our politics.
As long as the white people stand
shoulder to shoulder and fight it out
among themselves we need never
fear. The new rules adopted at the
last State Convention to govern the
primary insure an honest vote, and
every good Democrat will abide the
result, whatever it be. There is lit
tie possibility of our having ever
again as bad a Governor as Blease
has been.
“South Carolina can even stand
Blease in the Senate, however nau
seating it will be to some of us, but
would never recover from an appeal
by the Bleaseites or any others to the
negro vote. Should that occur our
civilization would be doomed. An
indefinite "era of good stealing
would come again, and in the course
of time another “ringed, streaked
and striped’^Legislature would as
semble in Columbia."
The photograph to which the Sen
ator refers has attracted much at
tention from visito’rs to his office in
the Capitol. Without exception ev
ery beholder who has commented up
on the pictWe has declared that
presented more eloquently than any
number of speeches or books could
do the horrible conditions under
which the State labored Yn the per
ibd of “Reconstruction.”
also running for governor, are the . .
only two out of the twenty-six candi- f eC ^ nK , . , \T pT0 ^ CeT
. . . _ , ; .. i. i n .... furnished the stake for the gambling
gamblin
indulged in by the exchanges. ’The
New York cotton exchange, ha^said,
had manipulated and controlleA^ot-
ton prices for many years and had
“made .themselves the self-constitut
ed guardians for the Southern farm-
Progressive Leader Murdock of
Kansas also opposed the bill. He
favored more drastic legislation, such
as that proposed in the Smith bill.
"The Smith bill," said Mr. Murdock.
estops them from using the mails.
The exchange is made up of 250 to
35<kdtid gloved gentlemen. The Amer
ican people want a halt to these gam
bling practices. To do awa/with the
fixed differences and to do aome of
the other things provided In this bill
all right, but they are not
WILL STAY ON THEIR JOBS UN
TIL BILLS ARB PASSED.
V
4
Should it Become Necessary
May Make Party Qoestloa of
Trust M
With the second largest acreage
ever recorded and with the prospects
of production probably equal to or
better than those of last year, the
growing cotton crop of the United
States Wednesday was reported by
the department of agriculture as be
ing 79.6 per cent, of a normal with
the area in cultivation as 36,960,000
acrefc. ' . . ”
The condition of the crop is slight
ly more than 1 per cent, under June
Bad weather early in the season
caused damage in some sections, but
during June conditions in those
localities improved greatly. In Texas,
where on May 25 the condition was
65 per cent a normal, the June"25 re
port showed a condition of 74 per
t.; in Oklahoma it improved from
68 Yo 79, in North Carolina from 76
to 82 And in South Carolina from 72
to 81.
The aretKJn cultivation is 498.000
acres, or 1.3 x per cent, less than the
tevised acreage in cultivation a year
ago. Oklahoma reported an 8 per
cent, decrease and Tex^ts and Virginia
5 per cent, decrease. In California
the area was more than doubled and
Louisiana reported an increase of iO
per cent, in acreage. t 'v
The month began with one of the
severest droughts ever known in the
eastern portions of the cotton belt.
It greatly retarded growth of early
planted cotton and delayed the ger
mination of late planted. In the
western portions of the belt the first
week of the month was excessively
wet. This prevented any improve
ment in the plants and made cultiva
tion and planting dlfficutt.
Better conditions prevailed during
the second week, the plant making
feood. progress i^the eastern and cen
tral portions o^the belt, while the
western portion had the most favor
able weather for several weeks.
During the third week local show
ers in the central and eastern por
tions of the belt greatly improved the
outlook and early planted cotton gen
erally was reported in good cpndl-
tion, but later planted was backward
and needed rain. Highly favorably
weather continued in the western
part of the belt.
The final week of the month was
reported as the most favorable thus
far this season,' good rains having
fallen over much of the central and
eastern portions and the plant having
made excellent growth. Over the
western portions warmth, with occa
sional showers, permitted rapid
growth and the dutlook greatly Im
proved. Btfll weevil were reported as
numerous in Louisiana. Mississippi
and Alabama.*
* The area planted, by states, with
last year’s planted area and area
picked (100’s omitted) follows:
Senate Democrats in conference
late Wednesday adopted a resolution
declaring their purpose to stay in
passed by the House has been actetf
upon in the Senate. The resolution
does not bind senators to vote for
the bills without change.
resolution is designed to sorvo
definite and final notice to business
and the country that anti-trust legis
lation is to be passed before congress
quits Washington. It was proposed
by Senator Stone, after a tejk with
President Wilson and with other
Democratic yaders. Senator Stone
said it was intended as an answer to
the propaganda for immediate ad
journment of congress. ‘ *
It party leaders decide in the fu
ture that it will be necessary to mhko
party measures of the three Honso
bills or the substitutes offered for
them, another conference will bo
held for the purpose of binding Dem
ocrats to definite legislation. Some
senators thought the resointion
might bind senators to vote for tbO
bills, but Senator Kern, chairman of
the conference, declared such wag
not its purpose and a clause stating
this in specific terms was adopted.
The resolution says: "Resolved,
That the conference of Democratic
senators, after due consideration,
hereby declares that the present ses
sion of congress should not adjourn
until at least the following bills now
pending in the Senate have been la-
ally disposed of." It names the
trade commission, the railrotd se
curities, and the Clayton anti-tragt
bills as the measures to be included.
The explanatory clause attached to
the resolution reads:
^he resolution hereinbefore a-
doptptl is Intended merely aa an ex
pression of the purpose of the major
ity party tu reference to adjourn
ment." Senators who hope to get
away from Washington within stx
weeks or two months found comfort
in the announcement from the con
ference that Senator Kern, majority
leader, will ask the senate to hold
night sessions next week. V _
At the same time Senator /> T*rtris,
the Democratic "whip,” was instruct
ed to keep a quorum present at all
times. These facts indicate an In
tention by the majority to proas tho
trade commission bill to a vote an
soon as possible and to put tho ap
propriation bills through when oppor
tunity offeder The trade commis
sion bill is before the senate and n
vote may be asked any day.
The railroad securities bill and tkn
Clayton bill still gre in committee,
but it is possible that one may bo
reported as soon as It becomes ap
parent the commission bill Is near
passage. Some leaders hope ad-.*'
journment can be taken with the pro
gramme complete by August 20 or
September 1. • —
* The conference was harmonious.
Several senators expressed dissatis
faction with provisions in some of
the bills, but it was made clear no
one was bound to vote for any par
ticular bill.
it
SPEAKS} BOLDLY,
Planted
Planted
Picked
1914
, 1913
1913
Missouri .
124
113
112
Iklahoma.
. 2,854
3,102
3,009
Virginia .
46
48
47
N. C. . .
era
oo
o
»—1
1,589
.1,576
S. C. . ..
. 2,826
2,798
2,790
Georgia .
. 5,398
5,345
5,318
Florida ,.
194
192
188
Alabama .
: 3,912
3,798
3,760
Mississippi
. 3,148
3,117.
3,067
Louisiana.
. 1,389
1,263 .
1,24 4
Texas . .
. 12,052
12,-689
12,597
Arkansas'.
. 2,527
2,527
2,502
Tennessee.
866
866
865
alifornia.
35
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14
Condition
of the
growing
cotton
\
READY TO HELP.
McAdoo Asks Banks Whether Iffiey
Want Help for Crop Funds.
Carranza Talks of the Jud&ses in Con-
... sUtutionalist’s Ranks.
crop on June 25 and May 25 this year,
with the June 25 condition last year
and the ten-year average of June 25
condition follows: •
“Constitutionalist leaders who have
the sympathy of all the people of
Mexico behind them not allow
the dignity of the nation to be low
ered by the interference of any for
eign power in the internal affairs of
tho country.”
Tr*h declaration was made by Gen.
Yenustiano Carranza at a banquet at
Monterey Saturday night, accordinz
to travelers’ reports. Carranza, it
was said, asserted that the United
States was assuming a dictatorial at
titude. The 400 Mexicans who at
atended the banquet received the dec
laration with cheeks, Jt is declared.
“The Constitutionalist movement
has now proceeded to such a point,"
the first chief is quoted as having
said, "Jhat the party has nothing to
fear except from the Judases in its
own ranks.” He mentioned no names.
June
May
June
iO-yr
1 - 2 ix i
25
25
aver.
Virginia ,
.86
83
81
84
N. C. . .
.82
76
76
81
S. C. . .
.81
72
73
79
Georgia. .
.83
80
74
81
Florida .
.86
82
85
85
Alabam. .
.82
85
7,9
80
Mississippi
.81
87
82
78
Louisiana.
.81
82
81
78
Texas . , .
.74
65
86
82
Arkansas .
.80
?79
86
81
Tennessee.
.79
'80
87
83
Missouri .
.93
86
,88
83
Oklahoma.
- .T9
68
89
8?
California
.100
100
95
97
North Carolina-
—There
has
been
Would Keep Negroes Out.
^TUprcsentative Park of- Georgia
has introduced a hill to keep negroes
from'homing- Commissions in the
~ Te
Ten of
fishing schc
ugly; the hill should go further.” Are reported
Are Lost,
pf the Gloucester,
ser near Portland, Me.,
pronounced improvement over a
month ago. Good rains brought up
practically all|cotton. Fields are un
even, but the plants are strong and
growing, rapidly.
South Carolina—All portions of
the State, except the northwest, have
^iad bountiful rains since the middle
of the month, causing cotton pre
viously germinated to come up. The
stand la. practically full.
Georgia—Probably 12, to. 15. per
cent, of the total planted acreage,
mainly in the northwest portion, did
not come np until, early in June. The
Secretary McAdoo mailed a letter
Monday to each of the national banks
inrihe United Stages asking whether
they believe, it will be advisable for
the treasury department to lend a
hand again this year in the move
ment of crops by distributing addi
tional government deposits.
The secretary asked for an opinion
as to what cities in each State may
be used to the best advantage as cen
ters from which the national banks
may place the money among their
country correspondents and as to the
sort of collateral the bankers regard
as best for the security of govern
ment funds.
"While It is expected that the fed
eral reserve banks will begin busi
ness in time to assist in moving the
crops this fall,” the letter concluded,
“the treasury department-will never
theless be disposed to help .businkfe
to the full extent of its powers
through the proper use of govern
ment funds, if it beepmes apparent
that such help Is needed’in any sec
tion of the country.”
* Last year Secretary McAdoo de
posited more than $3 ■ ,000,000, with
national banks for crop movements
and evayy cSlit of the money was
paid back rith interest before April
of this year.
. Tliree Burn in Fire.
Three persons were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed a
Manchester, N. H., department house
Thursday.
} Makes War oa Rodents. .j ')
The city 1 'of Charleston has offered
three cents A head te* all rats. In
an effort to stamp them noil r \ y
**
•y
remainder of the crop is tg
condition. Indiestioae petal to a !
crop.