The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 26, 1920, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
* Entered as second-class matter April
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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the Bamberg ?team is not a party to
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taking part in it. While this writer
I is not a base ball fan and therefore
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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
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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
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of it, and after reading wnat tney
are saying to each other, we feel constrained
to be thankful that we are
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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