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Wfyz pamtog Jleralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. * Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. I $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 29. No. 34.! Thursday, August 26. 1920.; What has become of the state lawpassed by the South Carolina legislature fixing pasenger fares at two and one-half cents a mile? During + V.? T,TO-n law -croc CllSDPTlded OF ! LUC ?UJl cil^ AM ?? "V*w ~*T | done away with, presumably as an I emergency. The roads have now been j turned back to the owners, but nothing more is heard about two and onehalf cents fares. In fact state laws appear to count very little any more. The federal law giving the wage increase and consequent increase in passenger and freight rates uses words something like these:"the laws of any state to the contrary." State sovereignty seems to be t thing of the past. A^A i TA? VA? Vat TA "A" VAT l^h A A A A^A y ^ ft 1$ r* i| rirs ff Now Vv is the tim< W COUNT. YY know wha n now 5 PEB CJ I:' II HFIRSTN ft <4 ; N TADll IUDHI / | The Bambers m I n ison toba mar! DJ&TDflM 11 rninun I Bamberi I "Darkness Reigns Twenty Minutes" | in Charleston, according to a head-; line in the News and Courier. It is noted that this item of news is con-: sidered of sufficient importance to give it a "horse head." Darkness reigns in Bamberg all night frequently, and it has become so common that it is worth scarcely a single line head. i m* Apparently woman suffrage, so long fought for and so ardently desired by some of the women, is at hand, or will be soon. Tennessee has ratified the amendment, though it seems that the matter will likely be tied up in the courts until well after the .November elections, it is rather our idea that the Tennessee legislators acted somewhat silly in leaving the state in their attempt to defeat the majority of the house. That was not very democratic. Now that the women have the ballot, which has been forced on the south, we wonder how many southern women are going to use it. The Herald received last week a lengthy communication from Springfield in regard to the base ball controversy in the Orangeburg league ^ A. AAJ t National 6 i BAMBERG, S. C. e to open a permanent SAY! The boll weevil is here. ^ ,t the future holds. Save y< 3NT. PAID ON SAVINGS D IATIONA1 jTA. AVA A^. A A A iit^k A A A A A A A A yvy y t^V y v^v M??1^? ? UIIUC I [ Tobacco Marke [DAY, SEPT aMHHBHHBBHMBBr-HHBaM 't fail to bring y lcco in before ket closes. IZE YOUR HOME ft I Tobacco between Orangeburg, Springfield, et al. In view of the fact that the season is over, and the further fact that the Bamberg ?team is not a party to i this controversy, we think the matter j will not be improved by The Herald taking part in it. While this writer I is not a base ball fan and therefore | scarcely qualified to express an opinion, we have a pretty clear idea that ; the Bamberg team entered this league only for the sport of the game, and we believe that Bamberg played ball | in a sportsmanlike manner. As to ! the other clubs of the league we exj press no opinion. It seems very unfortunate that so popular a game as base ball cannot be indulged in without a wrangle. Some of the Orangej burg league clubs appear to be hav ing a real rough and tumble affair of it, and after reading wnat tney are saying to each other, we feel constrained to be thankful that we are , on the other side of the river. ' m io> ^ The French chamber of deputies ir. j its session of recent date approved an i appropriation of almost 300,000,000 j francs for French military and comj mercial airplane development. ft ank | ft tx: ft ft ft ft ft fx INGS AC>T7 A 4 a M rr c uu nut j t >ur money VY it lEPOSITS lBank1 Ik-J^k. J^k. A^k r y ?n WERS It Will Close ? I / rour the 1ARKET ESBHBBHBBBBIB I; ' Market BBffiPBBMBMMMMl i \ ADDR] The Democratic \ In view of the fact that I missed a number of campaign meetings, being absent from the State in attendance upon the I Democratic National Convention I at San Francisco where I was a member of the Committee c-n Platform and Resolutions and consequently did not have an opportunity to meet my fellow citizens of South Carolina face to face and give them an account of my stewardship in Washington, I have determined to issue this address to the people. I have been a farmer all my life and in common with the farmers I have had a struggle to make ends meet and I have no large fund at my service that permits me to send others from place to place advocating my reelection to the senaie. If reelected it must be upon my record I alone. \ In consideration of the services j rendered by me to the agricultural interests of my State and i the South, I was elected to the senate twelve years ago. On | every occasion I have stressed ! with all force in my legislation for the benefit of the agricultural interests. Briefly referring to some of the measures which I have advocated and had passed in the interest of the agricultural classes are: Agriculture: (1) Smith Cot: ton Futures Act, preventing the depression of prices by the tender of valueless cotton on contracts, jl (2) Standardization of cotton grades. I have co-operated in securing this very essential legislation. (3) Government comparison of various grades of cotton, showing much greater discrepancy in price than there is difference in actual value. (4) Resolution calling on diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States abroad to furnish information as to the needs and demands for American cotton in their respective countries and the best methods of | supplying it. > (5) Government cotton reports. I (6) Census Department to furt nish number of bales of spinnaI ble cotton and number of bales | of unspinnable cotton on hand. This Drevented the counting of Iunspinnable cotton in the carryover reports. (7) I led the fight which prevented cotton price fixing during the war with the result that it was defeated. (8) Nitrate of Soda: Under the Smith bill, originated, introduced and sponsired by me, the government hjas constructed a ] huge nitrate plant at Mussel | Shoals, Alabama, for the manuj facture of nitrogen from the air. I This plant is practically complete and this fall will turn out one hundred and sixty thousand tons (160,000) of 45 per cent pure nitrates, which being reduced to the percentage of nitrate of soda will amount to 480,000 tons. This output will be sold at a saving of millions of dollars to them, jj I am also the originator and \ author of the law by which nij trate of soda was purchased and ! sold to the farmers at cost during the war. The Congressional j Record will amply substantiate this statement in every respect. This law brought prices down from $110 and $120 per ton to $75.00 per ton, thereby saving the farmers millions of dollars. If :it had not been for this piece of legislation there is no telling where the price would have soar 1(9) Immediately upon the signing of the armistice I secured the lifting of the embargo on potash from Germany, enabling the farmers to secure this year a partial supply at a more reasonable cost. (10) f am the author of the amendment to section 13 of the New Banking and Currency Act, whereby the farmers secured six months' time on agricultural a paper as against ninety days on commercial paper. This puts the \ farmer on an equal footing with 1 other businesses and enables him I to secure the proper credit for \ the holding and marketing of his f crop.. I (11)1 co-operated in the passage of the Farm Loan Act, an I Act which placed farm lands for I the first time in the history of j this country where it was pos| sible for farmers to use their j land as an asset on easy terms ! to make them pay for themselves \ while supporting his family and I Helping to support nis state. By virtue of my services in tne senate I was ranking member of the Interstate Commerce Committee and on the death of SenaChairman Cons Ranking Demo< Ranking Demo< Ranking Democ Ranking Democ A Member of G A Member of F % ESS OF SENATOR TO t : Voters of the State o tor Xewlands I became Chairman. It was under my leadership at the request of the President that the railroads, telegraph, telephone and cable lines were turned over to the government during the war. While serving as Chairman of this Committee I discovered that the lack of growth of the commerce of the Southern ports in comparison with the Eastern and Northern ports was not due to natural causes but to the discrimination of the railroads in their rates to the various ports an/} the rf isfri mi nation of the government in the matter of appropriations for dry docks and harbor improvements since the Civil War. The country does not realize that the government in the last 50 years has expended for naval stations and harbor improvements n< rth of Hatteras, a distance of roughly 150 miles, nearly $700,000,000, while south of Hatteras, a distance of over 2,000 miles, only 70,000,000. The North Atlantic has 18 dry docks; the South Atlantic and . Gulf has one, a small one, at Charleston. During the past session of Congress two bills were ' introduced by Republican Senators which would discontinue tae appropriation for the deepening of the channel of Charleston, and the construction c a tremendous dry dock at that place. It was by my efforts in the senate that these bills were not passed and the work in Charleston is now going on. While I was Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee and the railroads were under the control of the government, I instituted and led the fight with other Southern Senators for an equalization 01 import, export ana domestic rates with other sections of the country. I was successful in this fight. Since the roads have been returned to private ownership they have sought to reestablish the old discriminatory rates against Southern ports, I intend to keep on with the fight to prevent this and at the Democratic National Convention I wrote and had incorporated in the platform that plank which pledges the party to stand for equality of rates, both import and export, for the ports of the country, to the end that there might be adequate and fair facilities and rates for the mobilization of the products of the country offered for shipment. The equalization of freight rates, import, export and domestic, and equal harbor facilities mean more than anything else in the rejuvenation and expansion of the direct foreign trade of Southern manufacturers and Southern products through Southern ports. I have taken a leading part in securing the allocation of ships by the Shipping Board to Southern ports and have had considerable success. With the increase in our foreign trade, the South will be able to take advantage of the opporr tunities offered, with its consequent prosperity. It is not gen erany kiiuwii inai must 01 me larger cities of the Middle West are closer to the ports of Charleston and other Southern ports than to the port of New York. In this connection, while discussing transportation, I might say that while ranking member of the Postoffice and Post Roads Committee, I collaborated and fought through with Senator Bankhead and others the Good Roads Act which appropriated $200,000,000 for the government to co-operation with the states in ' the construction %of good roads. The construction of good roads is one of the greatest needs which confront the people of this state as well as the country at large, and I pledge myself for the future as in the past, to fight for any proper measure which will lead to the construction of better roads. One of the very many evils that resulted from the Civil War was our financial condition under the Banking and Currency Act of 1863. This system was in effect up to the time of the present Democratic Administration. Panics were frequent and the victims of these panics were the weak and unbefriended. In 1913 was passed the Federal Reserve Act, the greatest constructive piece of legislation enacted since the Civil War. This Act, together with the Farm Loan Act, was passed by virtue of a direct personal appeal of President Wilson to representatives and senators who were** friendly to him. With this measure, as well as every other measure, I voted with the President and did all in my ervation National Resoi :ratic Member Agriculti :ratic Member Interstat< ratic Member Patents :ratic Member Manufac ieological Survey, 'ailroads. SMITH ? I f South Carolina I power to secure the passage of 1 these Acts. As the result of i these measures which enabled the j| South to capitalize its resources, m the bank deposits in the South jf ^ ^ J AAA V\ Am f o c 3^ iia.\e iucicascu O\JV yci ^cm. ?o against the Eastern and Western sections' increase of about 300 i per cent. These measures spelled \ the financial emancipation of the South. While the Federal Reserve \ Bank measure was pending, I realized that for the Act to have a direct benefit for the Agricultural classes, agricultural paper \ must be recognized the same as commercial paper and that six j months' time should be given that paper as against the 90 days given commercial paper. It takes six months for the farmer to produce an asset to meet his ; liabilities and any shorter time ! than this period given his paper ' was a mockery of him. I intro- \ duced and secured the incorporation in the law my amendment to Section 13, whereby agricultural ^ j paper is made the basis for the * issuance of Federal Reserve notes and is given six months' discount. While Chairman of the Immigration Committee of the Senate I introduced the bill and led the fight which resulted in the passage of the Smith-Burnett Immi- j gration Law. This is the law in effect now. It was, by far, more , restrictive than even its best friends thought possible to ac-~ complish. I believed then and i believe now that the influx of 1 undesirable immigrants to Amer- | ica was a source of danger to ? American labor by the competi- " tion of ignorant foreigners, used to a low standard of living. Furthermore, I believed that the class now coming in is doing much to undermine the principles and in- j stitutions of our government. I am always anxious and eager to ; push and support any bill which only, lets the desirable immigrant come in and leaves America for Americans. By virtue of my service in the j senate I am now at the top of several very importan committees among them the Committee on Interstate Commerce and the Cqmmittee on Agriculture, and with the coming#victory of the Democratic party, if I am re- \ \ elected, I will be Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, the committee which controls all 1 appropriations and measures per- if taining to the agricultural inter- I ests of the nation. JS A study of my record and ac- j| complishments will disclose that 5 I have been responsible for much B economic legislation and that it VB all tends to giving every section B a fair show and prevents the dis- ' nf nri/i AT* txcfl SPC- I V/iimiuai>ivu vi. v"o w> ?- ... ? tions against the rest of the I country by cruel and arbitrary laws. It is by virtue of. some of I these laws which J have had M passed, that the South has been B enabled to partake in so large a B measure of the prosperity engen- B1 dered by the war. ? I have served the people and I . my party with a zeal and fidelity ? since my election to the senate. J| By reason of the wisdom of the I * ? South in keeping its men in the S senate I have committee appoint- m ments and high rank therein m which could not be secured other 1 than by a long term of service. I These places would be lost to fl South Carolina by a change at i this time. The time is approach- ? ing when the fight is to be waged g by the Republicans and other . B reactionaries to return to the 1 pre-war and pre-democratic ad- g ministration of the financial system and the conduct of the gov- j ernment for the special interests. j I have experience in the senate, 1 | I have friends, I have influence , and I am in a position in this I ; crucial period to render more effective service to the people than I have ever rendered. Experience and training are great assets in politics as well as in j business, and every man, farmer, ; banker, merchant, lawyer and \ laboring man is paying .his money for service in the senate, and I am in a better position to render satisfactory service to my constituents than any of my oppo- \ nents, however able they may be. j In conclusion I wish to call to jgj the attention of the voters of this 1 State that out of our present del- fi egaticn to Congress, two sena- I tors and seven Representatives, fl I alone am a FARMER, the oth- J? ers being professional men, and S of these gentlemen now opposing ? me, I alone am a BONA FIDE ^ FARMER,, they also being pro- i fessional men. Surely the agri- If cultural interests of this State I. are entitled to one representative S out of nine. I \ r E. D. SMITH. 11 irces I ire and Forestry I 3 Commerce I tures. I ?- I |