The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 20, 1922, Page 2, Image 2
Pres. Harding Will
Not Tell Certain Facts
Washington, D. C., July 17.?President
Harding has gone to the country
to sound sentiment on the pending
Ship Subsidy 'bill. Unfortunately,
he will not tell certain facts about
the effect of this bill?he is so intensely
for the measure that he will
sing its praises, with none present
to state to the audience the following
truths which the peo.ple are entitled
to know:
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The bill proposes to turn over to
the shipping trust $3,000,000,000
xcnrth r?f fine steel ships built by the
government, the most modern fleet in
the world, most of them oil-burners.
{ The people of the United Stales own
these ships. The bill proposes to
sell them to this group of capitalists
for $200,000,000, or one fifteenth of
their cost.
The bill also iproposes to lend these
men $125,000,000 to recondition the
ships. If they had been properly
cared for during the Harding administration
this would not be needi
The
bill provides for the payment
of a subsidy of $750,000,000 to the
capitalists in the next ten years for
using this great grab of ships for
* their own private gain. During
three recent years the Atlantic Gulf
and West Indies Steamship company
made a clear profit of 100 per cent.
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on its shipping business without a
subsidy; the published reports of the
company show this, and it is merely
used here as an example because it is
one of the largest of American companies.
During the war some ships
earned their entire cost in one trip.
f. v There Is no reason why any of them
should fail to be self-supporting at
fany time.
This subsidy will be paid even
to the value of the ships
ot the Standard Oil company
and the Steel Corporation for
transporting their own products
in their own ships for their own
nrnflt. Is it any wonder they are
all for Harding? And the passage
of this bill greatly increases the list
t of calling places for the campaign
fund collectors of the Republican party
when Mr. Harding comes up for
reelection. Is it any wonder, therefore,
that Warren is for the bill?
Under this bill the army and navy
transports will be abolished?sold for
junk at a great loss?and the business
turned over to the trupt, when
we already have the ships, built and
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paid for?not only the transports
but the merchant fleet?in our own
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possession. Is there a business man
in the country who would make such
a deal?
The bill does not require any reports
to be made to congress and no
accounting as to earnings of these
ships. Thus the people will never
know how badly the Republican party
sold them out.
The bill exempts the shipping trust
from the payment of all federal taxes,
providing the amount is set aside
for the building of new ships?and
.
all the time the party is claiming that
too many ships are already built for
the business being done?under a Republican
administration.
The bill makes no provision for
regulation of freight rates on the water
and creates a gigantic combination
which can make rates as high
as it chooses and leave the shippers
helpless.
Whether they will make
the rates high can be determined by
. / harking back to the open robbery of
tne war rates.
In the committee hearings practi'
/
cal steamship men admitted that; the
wages of'our seamen do not hurt the
American steamship in competition
with European vessels. Their testimony
showed that the difference in
thes wages does not exceed two per
cent. John C. Seager, Jr., vice president
of the Seager Steamship company,
admitted in the hearings that
there is no reason why American
ships cannot compete with the world
under present conditions; his and
other companies are doin? it. The on
ly difficulty he saw was that some
of the American companies paid very
large salaries to unnecessary executives,
some of them as high as $100,000
per year, greater than that of
President Harding.
The hill provides for the shipping
hoard to make subsidy contracts with
the shipping trust covering periods
of ten years?this to prevent an effective
repeal of the law,- for its repeal
by a new congress would not
stop the robbery of the people's treasury.
The bill even fixes it so that
this fund is not dependent on each
congress appropriating the money ail*
nually, as is done for all other expenses
of the government.
The hill confers on the shipping
board the most enormous and unrestricted
powers in regard to selling
ships, making loans and subsidy contracts
and in handling enormous
sums of money. The present members
of the board are rushing about
the country making speeches in favor
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Charges Against
t Sheriff Dukes
Columbia, July 17.?Last Friday
afternoon a delegation of Orangeburg
citizens called on Governor Wilson G.
Harvey and made oral charges
. against Sheriff Dukes of Orangeburg,
asking the governor to require the
sheriff to vacate the office. They
, charged the sheriff with negligence in
performance of his duties and conduct
unbecoming the office.
Governor Harvey refused to consid"
er the charges, telling the delegation
that he could not take cognizance
of charges preferred orally; that
the charges would have to be submitted
in writing before he could
consider them.
The governor also told the Orangeburg
men that his powers with
regard to sheriffs are limited, and
that grand jury action would be necessary
before he could act, probably
an indictment.
The delegation left the capitol indicating
that they would institute
action in Orangeburg county.
Sheriff Dukes's Statement.
A recent news item from Columbia
stated that a delegation of Orangeburg
citizens visited Governor
Harvey Friday and asked for the removal
of Sheriff Dukes. It is understood
that the governor informed the
men that he could do nothing on verbal
complaint and also that such a
matter is more for consideration by
the grand jury than by the governor.
It is understood that there were three
or four men in the party who visited
the governor.
Sheriff Dukes states that he will
immediately ask for an investigation
of the affair by the Orangeburg county
grand jury and gives his belief as
to the cause of the visit to Governor
Harvey.
Sheriff Dukes says the incident is
the outgrowth of the loss of an automobile
by a local transfer driver several
months ago. This driver, he
states, became disgruntled because
he, the sheriff, did not find his automobile.
Mr. Dukes says the machine
was loaned by the owner, the
transfer driver, to another person for
immoral purposes and that the owner
knew at the time that it was to 'be
used for such purposes. The person
to whom it was loaned, he states,
ran off with the machine.
Mr. Dukes states that the law does
not make it the duty of a sheriff to
run down every automobile reported
missing nor does :t provide funds
for so doing, especially, ne states,
when a machine is loaned for immoral
purposes. He states, however,
that despite this he made efforts to
recover the car on the basis of the
feeling he had that the owner could
not afford the .loss of his machine.
He says that although he made these
efforts, the owner became disgruntled
because the car was not recovered
and disseminated reports prejudicial
to himself which later caused him
and the owner to have a few words
over the matter.
The sheriff says the Columbia visit
was the outcome of the situation as
here described by himself, that he
will insist on an investigation by the
franri inrv. knowina that there is no
justifiable basis for the complaint.
Lightning Causes Big Cotton Fire.
St. Matthews, July 15.?Calhoun
had its second big cotton loss this
afternoon when lightning set fire to
and destroyed the cotton warehouse
at Fort Motte with its complement of
520 bales. It is said the cotton was
practically all of high grade and was
of the 1920 crop.
This, with the loss of 178 bales by
Zeagler Bros., at Lone Star, and Mr.
Chaplin, near th'e Orangeburg line of
one bale by lightning, brings the total
burnings of recent days for tl^s
community up to 699 bales. *
It is said that the last was the 12th
time Mr. Chaplin had been visited by
lightning in five years, and he is reported
to have requested an investigation
by the federal government of
his environment to ascertain if there
is latent cause. An old mine is said
to have existed there once and he suspects
the existence of minerals, which
may prove the attraction.
the form of subsidies, by fifty per
cent., than the total amount paid in
subsidies, bounties and ocean mail
pay by all of the other countries of
the world put together.
President Harding goes to the
country on this measure and says
he is ready to stand or fall with it.
It seems that any citizen who considers
these facts, taken from the minority
report on the bill, will agree
that the president who would sup*- >
j
port sucn a steai uesci vcs iu ian
with the bill he advocates. The minority
report was signed by Judge
Davis, of Tennessee, Rufus Hardy, of
Texas, William B. Bankhead, of Alabama,
Schuyler 0. Bland, of Virginia,
and Clay Stone Briggs, of Texas,
and is a masterly and patriotic effort
to defeat the worst steal ever
attempted in the history of the government.
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Southern Non-Union
Coal Saving Nation
Non-union labor in southern coal
fields is saving the nation from a coal
famine, which union miners are seeking
to create. Without this nonunion
production we would have been
forced to shut down many of our industries,
and possibly some of our
railroads. This would have brought
stagnation to the country.
These non-union coal mines are
producing steadily, day in and day
out, and their product is being pushon
far afiplrl into territories in which
these coals had never before had apy
regular market, but from which by
reason of their superior quality they
will never be driven.
As the south with its output of 99 !
per cent, of sulphur and its cotton
production made possible our success
an the European War?for without
these two products, it would have
been impossible for us to wage war
in Europe?so southern coal is nowsaving
the nation industrially, and
winning the battle few independent
or non-union, labor as against the
domineering policy of rule or ruin
with which union labor seeks to control
the country. /
Union miners have for years struggled
to force their organization into
Waet Virenn.in arid sometimes have
been almost as despotic and lawless
as were the murderous union miners
of Illinois. They have murdered
without compunction innocent nonunion
miners. They have defied the
laws of the state and of the nation,
led by unscrupulous agitators hoping
to break down non-union mining opoperations
in West Virginia, Ken
tucky and Alabama, and thus give to
union miners an absolute domina- 1
tion over the entire industry. ]
The whole nation has cause to be
thankful for the sturdy independence
of the non-union coal miners of the
south, and for the backbone and
stamina of the coal operators of these
states who have stood for independence
in mining operations regardless
of threats of death and regardless of
the denunciation heaped upon them
by many newspapers and agitators
who have sided with union labor
without knowing anything of its influence
for evil.
General Grant more than forty
years ago said to his son Jesse, as
reported to us a year ago by the latter,
that 'he regarded the rush of
foreign immigration to America as
so serious a danger that he thought
the time would come when the AngloSaxonism
of the south alone could
save this country from destruction
by the alien element. The indescribably
"horrible conditions which have
prevailed in Illinois where men and
women and children joined gleefully
in gloating over the death of dozens
of non-union miners, murdered in
cold blood, murdered as fiendishly as
ever the savage Indians in olden
days killed their victims, were
brought about by the union coal labor
element composed largely of the lower
classes of aliens led by unscrupulous
radicalism. We can readily comprehend
that if this country is to be
saved from destruction it must be
by other sections and the south
standing together in the fight, re
gardless of personal consequences or
personal danger, for the right of
every man to work untrammeled by
the chains of union laborism. We
have brought in the lower class of
foreign immigrants more rapidly
than they could be assimilated and
Americanized and that is Why they
are a danger to our nation at present.
The managers of every railroad
and every industrial enterprise in the
country using coal, and all people
who are dependent upon the operation
of their enterprises, may well
give praise to the southern non-union
miners, and to the southern coal operators
who, having fought the good
fight for. independent l^b.or, are saving
the country from ruin.?Manu
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iacmrers iveuuru.
Results of Southern* Diversification.
A witty North Carolinian illustrates
in vivid fashion the extent and
the variety of southern manufactures:
"In the morning I put on WinstonSalem
underwear, Burlington socks,
Elkin s'hoes, Greensboro overalls of
North Carolina denim, and use a
Kannapolis towel. Breakfast is served
on a High Point table, with a cover
of North Carolina damask, and a
Greensboro silence cloth under it.
On the table are Florida grape fruit,
Louisiana sugar, home-produced
milk, 'butter, *bacon, biscuits, chicken,
eggs, griddle cakes and sorghum. My
Ashe county horse is fed on Guilford
county hay harnessed to a ChatfonrtrterQ
ninw rir a Hiokorv waeron. I
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sleep on a High Point bed with a
Mebane-made mattress, between
sheets made in Charlotte, and under
a blanket made in Winston-Salem.
All my food, save coffee, is made in
the south; nearly all of it in North
Carolina."?Manufacturers Record.
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