The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 10, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
COWBOYS TOURING COUNTRY. e
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Making a 30,000 Mile Trip and will ^
Visit Every Capital in the Union. t
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Four typical cowboys, who are t
making a 20,000 mile trip on horse- a
back through every state in the Union e
touching each capital, spent Sunday a
night here. They left Monday morn- f,
ing for Columbia. The Overland e
Westerners started from Olympia, e
. 0 Washington, May 1, 1912, and so far
have reached fifteen state capitals. e
They expect to complete their jour- a
nev by June 1, 1915. at San Francis- t)
the Pan American ^
tu, UU* *4*o ? ^
exposition. The party was composed ^
of 0. C. Beck G. W. Beck, J. B. Ram- p
son and R. G, Rayne. They hope to e
write a booke of their travels, taking ^
pictures as they go, and realize con- p
siderable money from the sale of mov- ^
ing picture reels.?Lexington Dis- i
patch. t]
SUCCUMBS TO PISTOL WOUN DS. ^
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W. C. Mears, of Tarl>oro, S. Ct, Dies
in Savannah Hospital. ^
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Savannah, July 6.?W. C. Mears, 2
of Tarboro. S. C., died in a local hos- P
pital this morning as the result of a Ci
pistol duel with William Barnhill, of ^
Tillman, S. C., at Tillman, Saturday e
evening. The cause of the shooting
? is not known. Mears is survived by tl
his wife and two sons. His body was ^
sent to Tarboro to-night. Barnhill is T
in the Tillman jail under arrest.
SPEECH OF HON'. s
JOHN L. McLAURIN. ir
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(Continued from page 3.)
right and wrong is so finely develop- 3*
ed that no other law is needed. If e:
you believe the Bible you are bound r<
in heiievp that some day the code h
w ? - promulgated
in one sentence by the
greatest law giver of all times "Love
ye one another" will be the one law
in the land. p]
So far every effort has been in the f?
extension of suffrage in the direction
of the poor, the ignorant, and often 0]
the criminal classes; this has play- ja
ed its part in securing personal liberty.
This accepted, the next great ^
step in suffrage will be in the direc- ^
tion of intelligence, purity, and vir- ni
tue. That is what this great woman w
suffrage movement means in Eng- p]
land. Bad men and impure men could fT
not be elected to office with the bal- g(
lot in woman's hand. We give a bal- a]
lot to the most idle vicious negro and r(
the newly landed emigrant, and yet
deny the privilege to the highest gC
and finest creation of God, a good jr
woman. The time will come when C]
the ballot will be purified and the C]
criminal and vicious denied; our vot- tl
ing places, where freemen express gi
their will, made as clean and sacred
as a temple God, where the gentlest, s(
purest, and best may go without fear jr
of contamination to exercise the high- S1
est function of citizenship. It is a 0i
shame and a disgrace to Anglo Sax- ^
on manhood that we are forced to b
say. "No, the polling place is unsafe r<
and unfit and politics so corrupt that c<
it will degrade womanhood to take d
part." My friends, any business or p
pleasure that i6 unfit to share with &
your wife or your mother will cor- ei
rupt your manhood and taint your w
purity.
Problems Yet to Meet. tl
We have to meet in the near future rr
other great problems. A Democratic b
administration is now at work trying rj
to undo and straighten out the tan- C1
gle which comes to us as the financial b
results of the war. The greed and
selfishness in human nature has n
found ample field for its exercise, n
and with the control of the volume o
of money through the national bank- v,
ing system has been developed great p
'trusts; not content with destroying o
competition but also limiting produc- h
tion to the point of greatest possible n
profiL Instead of encouraging for- u
eign trade to meet increased produc- tl
tion, they raised the tariff duties so i]
high that it has stifled trade. I a
believe firmly in a home market for t'
home products, but when they raise a
the price of home articles so high as d
to enable a domestic manufacturer p
to go abroad and on the profit he
makes here undersell a competitor e
in that competitor's home market, it s
is all wrong from the point of morals c
and business. New markets cannot 1
be developed by such cut-throat I
methods, and we invite the enmity of v
all other nations, who will surely n
find some way to retaliate. 1
The great need of America, espec- a
ially the South, is new markets, and r
these I do not believe will ever come c
except through reciprocal trade re- c
lations. This will mean the creation p
of new lines of employment, new v
industries, and channels of trade. r
The Labor Question. t
There can be no doubt that the h
immediate effect of this new tariff f
bill will be to precipitate a great 1
struggle between labor and capital, c
There is bound to be a radical change s
in the status of labor. It might as f
well come now as later. All of the r
old theories of government treated
labor as a commodity, without refer- >
ence to the individual laborer. This t
will be changed, because the labor- 5
r has value and power lying in his
allot, and for the first time in the
istory of the country it is apparent
hat the organized labor vote holds
he balance of power. The agriculural
element is going to stand firm
gainst monopoly, and in the last
lection these two were a unit. It is
n axiom of politise that with two
orces nearly evenly divided, a smallr
force holding the balance of powr
can dictate terms.
Samuel Gompers and John Miteh11
are very able men but will probbly
go to their graves unrewarded,
ecause it will take at least a half
?ntury to understand what they have
one to add to the dignity and imortance
of labor. They completely
xploded the theory that you can
reat labor as inseparable from the
r\f lohnror TTniipr
dUlicixiij> ui iuMVA v*
he doctrine of equal justice to all
hty contend that it is the duty of
he government to protect labor in
:s employment, as capital is protectd
in its employment.
The interest of the laborer and
is employer, they contend are recipocal.
Both are interested to bring
bout one result, the profitable emloyment
of labor to the good of both
apital and labor. At any rate, for
he first time, chiefly through the
fforts of these great leaders of men,
ibor has a direct representative in the
lat the time is near at hand when
?gal arbitration will determine all
uestions arising between capital and
ibor, on a basis that is fair to both.
This is the practical beginning of a
ystem of government which will
take man a moral as well as intel>ctual
unit; securing freedom and
istice by giving to each individual
tactly what his brains, energies, and
esources entitle him to; making
im ashamed to ask for more or give
(SS.
The Farmer.
What I have said about labor aplies
with even greater force to the
irmer. A nation ever draws its
uest wisdom from the deep wells
F a contented agriculture. Like the
Lborer, the farmer is delving into
le root of things, asking himself
le question; "What is the advantge
of a government guaranteeing
te the possession of my property,
hen combinations of capital can derive
me of the just profits arising
om the use of that property?" The
Dvernment permits a trust to exist,
ad in the fall curtail all credit by
jfusing extensions in order to force
ly cotton on the market to draw
)ld from Europe. Is this not confertg
upon one class the power, by incasing
or decreasing the volume of
edit and gold, to fix the price of
le product of my labor without reard
to the law of supply and deland?
This question is pressing for
)lution in every agricultural state
l this Union. The first bill on the
lbject was from the wheat growers
F Minnesota, then our cotton wareouse
bill in South Carolina, and a
ill more comprehensive ajid faraaching
in Wisconsin, creating a
?mmission to handle all farm proucts.
When such men as Clarence
oe, of the Progressive Farmer, is
evoting his masterly mind and enrgies
of a vigorous manhood to this
ork something is bound to happen.
Next to God, the farmer stands
le only .Creator. He takes the elelents
and makes something %here
efore was nothing. Others grow
ich and live in luxury by merely
hanging the form of what is created
y these hard handed sons of toil.
Our cotton crop constitutes a
ational asset that has been used to
lake the United States the mistress
f the financial world, and yet we
ho grow it remain comparatively
oor. Food prducts are distributed
ver the entire world, but the South
as a practical monopoly in clothing
laterial. Once we make intelligent
se of this power, we will become
he richest and most cultured people
i the world. It is lying right there
waiting us. I for one do not believe
hat we can ever secure the unity of
ction demanded by so large an unertaking
except by invoking the
owers and functions of government.
A llinrtA/x T O T? _
1 lie (Ji augc, AlUrtlUJC ailli r ai uir's
Union are movements telling the
tory of wasted effort in individual
o-operation. Is there not necessity?
'ake 1911 as an example: in October
sold cotton as low as 6V2 cents,
rhich I was forced to do in order to
neet the expense of making the crop,
"he balance of my crop I put into
. warehouse and the next June sold
t at 12V2 cents. Xow, a pound of
otton in June would make as much
loth as a pound in October. The
irice of cloth was the same, so there
^as $30.00 per bale that somebody
tiade out of my cotton between Ocober
and June. There must have
ieen 800.000 bales of cotton sacriiced
in that way in South Carolina.
Tiink of it, twenty million dollars
lear loss for the farmers of this
tate. They bore it all. the fertilizer,
actory, doctor, lawyer, preacher, and |
nerchant were paid in full.
Take a table of prices for ten years,
'ou will find the average difference
letween October and May runs about
; 15.00 per bale. The losses on any
one of these crops would establish a
warehouse system for South Carolina
which would render us independent.
The warahouse receipts would
be a collateral eagerly sought in Europe
when the price of our cotton is
fixed. All of the money of this country
for practical purposes is drained
each year into reserve banks of New
York. The advance funds for
making the crops, and all of the
obligations are made to come due in
the fall. New York must have our
cotton to draw European gold to
maintain her supremacy. If the
farmers on a large scale undertake
to hold, the New York banks calls
the local bank, it calls the merchant,
and he calls the farmer, who can only
pay by sacrificing his cotton. This
means a twelve months supply
thrown on the market in three
months, with the price steadily falling.
It enables domestic mills to
stock up with a supply of cheap cotton
and the cotton merchants take
the surplus at lowest prices, and in
late years with an almost total absence
of competitive buying between
the domestic and foreign merchants.
Th lower they can force the price in
the fall the more room there is for
an advance in that held on storage
by these great cotton merchants.
When you consider that the funds
used in large part for this is money
sent by the country banks to New
York, as a reserve fund, its full
enormity is comprehended. Twothirds
of the reserve funds of the entire
country are deposited in New
York; it is used as "call money" and
loaned to cotton and stock speculators
to gamble with. They can create
a stringency at any time they
please by calling these banks. What
everybody should want is stable
prices. It is not a question of supply
and demand for cotton, but of
supply and demand of money, and
this is absolutely in the hands of a
few men in New York City controlling
the Clearing House Association.
Cotton is the corner stone of the
great structure which they have built
up. because it is the one crop that
draws gold from Europe. I would
like to know why, if Ve produce the
crop, and own the lands and Europe
is to be drained of her gold reserves,
that there is not sufficient financial
wisdom in Congress from the South
to utilize a God-given monopoly for
the benefit of our own section? Why
should all of the bank reserves of the
country be concentrated in NewYork?
Under Wilson's new currency
scheme there will be regional reserve
banks, ana the money from the South
Carolina crop will be kept at home.
At present in the United States the
right to issue money is basedVupon
United States bonds. I understand
that this relic of barbarism and heritage
of the war, by means of which
they have made us pay a heavier war
debt than France paid Germany, is
to be changed, and that the right to,
issue money will be based upon the
assets of the banks, as it is in Canada,
cotton warehouse certmcates, unaer
State management. We could finance
our cotton with these certificates and
pay all of our domestic debts. Then
demand from the consumers of cotton
a.price that would forever put the
man with land beyond the reach
of the usurer and money shark, both
great and small. Land itself is unwieldy
and not a good bankable asset,
but put the product of that land ,
into a paper that passes from hand
to hand as readily as money itself,
and you give the land a value hard
to estimate. This is nothing more
than what other nations are doing.
It is to'*nationalize a great monopoly,
as Germany has done the potash industry,
and Sweden its iron and steel
industries. It is based upon the fundamental
principles of justice, and
is in accord with the trend of events
and the spirit of the times. Minne
sota has applied it to wheat, ana tne
governor of Wisconsin is backing a
similar bill for all farm products.
The South produces two-thirds of
the clothing material of the world;
they must have our cotton or go half
clothed. Furthermore, the cotton of
the South is absolutely necessary to
this nation in maintaining its supremacy
in finance. Take it away and the
balance of trade is against us.
Thirty years ago our railroads and
manufacturing industries were practically
owned abroad. Since then
these securities have been bought
and are owned largely by the "Napoleons
of Finance" in New York,
Boston, and Philadelphia. How have
they done it? When silver was demonetized
and the balance of trade payable
in gold, an annual average of
five hundred million dollars was
bought in by the cotton crop of the j
South: through our national bank
iiisr system this vast sum was controlled
in Xew York. They advanced
us paper money, promises to pay,
and demanded gold from Europe for
cotton. In other words, we made
cotton on a paper basis and for thirty
years have sold it on a gold basis.
That the cotton planter is not bankrupt
is only because of the wonderful
country in which he lives, his rigid
economy and self-denial. ,
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