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V. Wlxt xm mtd -M tandari O VOL. XXIX. WALTERBORO, S. C, JUNE 26, 1907. ROBBERY OF CHILDHOOD. »without tasting' of the joys of heathy of our work r.n<l teachings as respon- intelligent life. ‘ sible for a land of i>cacc and liberty. It is impossible for me to picture' That land was pictured by the great- tho sadness of th*lives of these un- ttHHiern poet of England: Speech Delivered at the Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest footunate children, or to pronounce Where the w^r drums throb noIqng- anathemaa as scathing as the black ness of the crime against their liber ties. Listen to one who has nobly CENTREVILLE “DISK1VERED” by D. B. Peurifoy, Jr., at Greenwood, S. C, - ' April 27,1S07. of love and 'tr In the Golden Ag' there was a time when prosperity, j-eace ami honesty ruled suprem", Every man felt himself responsible for the wel- " fare of every child in the community. It was a time when children were wrapped in soft and tender luxury and were lulled to rest in the gentle woman’.? kind embrace. Th*ey were not forced to work, but were given time to breathe fresh air, to play in the sunshine, to listen to the warb ling of th£ song-bird, and to enjoy 4b the happiness of innocent child hood. As we stand at the dawn of a new century, we find conditions greatly, differing from those of the Golden Age. Materialism has triumphed over the nobler instincts. The high est ambition of American manhood s&ms to be toJ.a* its grasping hand upon the almighty dollar. Illiterate parents, the men of affairs, busied with pay-rolls, and society women with poodle dogs; 1 factory owners itching for dividends sire all sacrific ing the children upon “an altar of gold.” There are to-day one million seven hundred thousand children one is faded by the cold, unhealthy air of the cellar, elamrnfy, so is the sung out of the fullness noble hearts: you.hear the children, w-eeping, O my* brothers. Ere the sorrow comes with years? Choi .CUT of the other tarnished and head “ blasted in trie vicious, baneful, ahd canno t stop their teare. immoral atmosphere of the mill. rr. » i, If duly cared for, these children ' meadows; may make as good citizens as any The young birds are chirping in the that face me to night, and growto ;__ nest; the full statue of leaders of the peo- The “Foreat of Arden,” or a Modern “Billville”, Wher o ' - % * * Every Prospect Pleases and Not a Man is Vile.—By J. B. Dodd. Standard:- I er - „ /• Where the battle flags are furled In the parliament of man, the fed«[ eratii-n of the world Where the common sense of some-, shall hold the fretful realm in awe * *- I i And the peaceful earth ’ shall slum- j 1 E htor Press and j bf r r made you a fair business prop«>sition Lapt in universal law. week but you did not catch on, . If tbciv was l ut one poor needy or rather you made the terms of the j child in the whole world all human- contract so tough that I could not ity would lift itself up and cry aloud comply. where is that child.’ Is it less ap- jj c would be a great big fool who pealing is it less sympathetic that would go into a fight with the under- ■fthej aie here by the^thousands in- standing that the fellow who got a to pie. The supply of the cotton mills The young flowers are blowing comes from the people of wards the west; the rural districts who are the But the young children, 0 my l)e<l-rock of civilization and the| brothers! foundation of this republic. Through They are weeping bitterlyi T '’ e shadows;"* 115 P,a> ' il,g *** *'*' «««l »f ‘he *» «r the tw..i There 1 is not a person in this audience this evening, 'but can aid some poor ! helpless child, so let us determine to I loosen from their little arms the )shackles that bind them as steel and courses the purest strain of Apglo Saxon blood the strongest, clean est blood on earth. They are direct descendants of the sturdy back woodsmen w ho out-classed theBritLsh invaders at King’s Mountain. They are legitimate sons and daughters of the “American Revolution.” Robert Burns is a typical example of this class of’people. He was reared in penury and squalor, with not the slightest ray of hope, through a young boyhood and manhood vexed with all the bitter diappointments of poverty. Yet through all these u oi mis repuuuc. inrougn a*'- ..., _ : wimoiuo uuu oinu mi the veins o? the cotton mills children Ibeyareweeping in the playtime o j j ea( j ^em into the ways of hope and In the country of the free.” happiness. Let us remember the 11 * I L 1 words of our Saviour “Suffer thelit- Would that I had the touch of the . , Artist th»t I mi K ht paint cHMJ.yn tncolne antnme and for- shrunken chests and plallid faces as a b,,1 them nilt f ' ,r ' ,f liu ‘ ;h ls th >' kln *- reproach to ourselves and a warning to others! Would that I had the skill of the historian that I might record in burning condemnation the igno minious short comings of the State, that the generations to follow might profit by our mistakes. Now, in conclusion, let me dom of God, and inasmuch as ye did st unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto me.” Help the Editor. Every newspajier wants to publish !the news. The better the paper the ask. i more prosperous it will be. Local got licking was to be damned a» a penal ty. I dont know that I am especial ly afraid of the Editor, but the Bible says, in substance, “fear not him who can kill the body and has no further power over you, but rather fear him who is able to damn the soul.” I make fuss enough when I have a case of toothache, and I guess if I should suddenly find myself in hell I would raise more cain than a goat in a steel trap. When it comes to this damnation bus - (ess I will run every time. .Jow since this is a “water haul” under the age of fourteen at work t vicissitudes, like a nightingale from “in this boasted land of ti e free.” j.th© brushwood, he broke into exqui- Picture the great throng—enough to j s Hc song which was silenced only by people a n oJern Babylon, all shut hN death. Is it not true that what will be the future of thiscoun- news items are especially hard to run try, if we continue allowing the down. How many times have you, cotton mills to employ our undevel- dear reader, been apfri-oached by the niHxl, uneducated, children? We. newspaper man for an item of news kilns from history that if a nation and t >ld him that you knew nothing lacks the deeper life, that if it be of interest. Probably ah th(* I will leave the Editor to take care of the The Press and Standard, w hich he is abundantly able to do and I will turn my pencil to write up Centreville. Let me state in the out set that when I sneak-ofXoilire-.iUe I mean all this community that get their time! mail at the same pon office, worship irffrc*m4he green fields and the pure air; deprived of education; dragged from i i.tv and sleep, and set tramp ing in forced marches to the offices, the shops, the mills, and the mines. Fifty thousand children - most of them girls are working in the textile mills of the south. This is the army of children keeping ^Ipurcbes. to the mills “ aruuf tbet outw’atches the sun by day a i l the stars by night. We are “Pull man serene • The dark unfathomed caves of ocean den'tints of the autumn V1 l ^ a ‘" : _ ' . Frame paid no heed to the r uH many a ifowvr is urn to .bra>!: animated by no^ nobler Mntimentsj your family were away on a visit or some one from out of town was visit ing at your home. Of course you sunset, didn’t rnr.m io deceive the scribe,, yet cry of when you nvt ived your paper .yiu a gem of purest ray : than mere material ambitions, its xfFirkv arc ys transient as the gd- uncen And waste its sweetness on ert air.” at the same church buy their “chunk meat” at the rame store, and grind their corn at tlv' same mill. >- Colleton County i the E.r. y t of S«4»:tb Corolina. and t'riiti j, ,1!ie , is the Goshen of Co! W ton, hot fir the number of - i 1.-. Jo s l ut for the fertility of its iar. 1. iVht n you want her children except that of utter wondered, whv your family fir* friends the dcs- helpless, until over her prostrate! were not mentioned, A good way to ! form anarchy raised aloft its bloody | avoid ail of this 1? to,kindly inform us | • ° 1 banner, and the streets of Paris ran 1 of the facts or drop us a note in the corn and do not find 't at ( entre- We have daily marching from the crimson with blood of Vie popple.' t*ostoffkv"Ui tru‘ paper. Tno one iW.n ville you liad just as w II make out an i thei>*iiUi.‘.>: i u < f f linHHj li 1~, iiriFi.i our fate wff not amount to much, bp stweml .y^r onim i*r the west, lor when, ble Burnses that migV.t shine wiih a p c ^ that 0 f France unless we be- splendid brilliancy, not only in the come arou3C( i need of thc told that in a period of ten years the! poetical world, but inevery pha e of ! p our j beJi e ve that if an angel increase of fifty-eight per cent— life, if wp would only establish the should descend from heaven to-night beacon light of education and dispel on ^mission of mercy to the Amcri- the murky gloom of ignorance. 1 - • - ’ 11 • more than twice as fast at that of the population! According to the census of 1900 there were five hun dred thousand children betw’een the ages of ten and fourteen stark illit erates! No true-hearted man or woman can think of these figures without a shudder! Child-labor has about it no halo of antiquity, but is pre-eminently a It is true that our hearts swell with pride as we turn the pages of history and note the material pro gress of this young nation. But as our hearts swell with pride, there omes a chapter in the book of the history which chills that joy and fills caA people, its fifsf words would be “take care of the children!” 0 Foreseeing the calamity awaiting the future generations, let us de termine to crush the venomous ser pent that is poisoning the life-blood of our nation. Let us begin the fight at once, for the unreturning^fno- the heart with indignation mingled 1 men ts are pregnant with the the modern curse. It wa^the new Eng-1 with regret and shame, as we road destiny of a great people. Let the land skipper greedy for gold at any the accounts of the wrongs of child- p U ]pj t( i e t the press, let every hu- cost, who brought the blacks to the hood. ^ man agency rise in the magesty of its south and planted the tree of slavery Our eloquent speakers have pic-, m i g ht and struggle to raise South on* our soil. Likewise, it was the tured the great smokestacks of the Carolina from the quagmire of illit- flourishing cotton mills as “flaunting eracvand ma ke her the “brighest their banners of industry against star ’ in the ga i axy <* t h e republic.” Warren the, sky” and have sung of the! We m ust have a wider unification G W Ackerman “thousands of spindles striking the j of the bapds of justice and mercy- ' northern money grubber, who, only a few years ago, began grafting up on our civilization, this, new and far nrore terrible parasite-child labor, columns of such ne.vs is the life of a local paper. - Ex. We could always do a lot of good with the money another man has. Just about the tjme a man thinks he knows all about woman he falls vic tim to one. Jurors for Second Week. * ° • ‘ The following list of jurors will sen e at the second week of court: P M Buckner John Spell '* J W Hiers JHMiley S E Baldwin NAKinard . L M Prine U H Hiers GW Campbell; W J $mnak f.A $ ing its slimy tenacles into every ave nue of life to wither and destroy, and gorged, to fatness is revelling in fiendish glee over the wreckage it has wrought. The sight of the little children in the cotton mills of thcr south will sadden the lightest heart. I can conceive of nothing more ten ibie than child slavery. I have seen many conditions of depraved human- ity. I have seen, in our State peni tentiary, prisoners sentenced for life, % with all the hopes of liberty blasted, and I thought it was sad. I have v seen the red handed criminal ascend the gallows to meet his doom, and I thought the picture was sad. I haye looked upon the pallid face of the pure young girl as shfi lay still and white in the robes of death, and 1 knew that was sad. But the saddest picture upon which my eyes have ever gazed is that >of the sallow, sickly, hopeless, and even death-like laces of the helpless children slaving • in the cotton mills. As a plant withers and dies if airland sunshine are withdrawn, so does a child, if deprived of play, education, and good home influences. As the Crea tor’s klea oftangible beauty is ex pressed in the beautiful rose, so is his idea of abstract beauty embodied in the purity and innocence of child hood. As the deliesto color of the JP Wilson WC Brant JW Walker T J Rloeke-i JCKinard ' an which like a large octopuses extend- ( chorus of harmony,” They seem to a fusing and moulding of public * f orge t the little lives confined with- i opinion. Let each one of you that in those walls- lives robbed of child- has gathared here tonight unite in I hood’sjoys, it hopes, its dreams, and the one loyal, comprehensive, de-L “ ^ its sacred rights. There in the mills,! termined effort to heed the cry of their lungs choked with dust and thc children; to give them their their minds confined to the workings rightful heritage of health, happi- J D Hudson S J Rumph J P Remley John E Herndon, Gus Herndon W R Fox J A Willis T W Biitch J E Moore W F Hoats W E Polk E L Commins John Barnei - A J Lemacks J H Remley A B Garris J D Carroll J N Woods 0 f | here where whiskey could be bought of One piece of machinery, they be-1 ne88 and hope; to give to every child- -Mr and Mrs Cleveland Hiatt, died at! an( ^ was a ^ >ar room opened here come stunted in their intellect and body, and incapacitated for the per formance of the duties of citizenship by the time they are grown. These abodps of disease and lurk ing death are not confined to the cotton mills only; but from the scorching heat of the blinding glass factories and from the sunless depths of slimy mines there comes a heart rending cry from little children slaving their tender lives away. The savages in the jungles of Africa do not prematurely inflict labor upon their children; yet we who boast so much of civilization are murdering the children for the sake of money. Is this the fruit of civilization? If so, let civilisation decay! Let the walls of the cotton mills crumble, and in their stead let the ancient deserts return! v*- ~ 6 The terrible results of child-labor do net stop with the death dwarfed and oppressed children. Some of these' enervated miserably survive to kind, and send on a still more pitiful progeny who will toil suffer, its right to live,, play, dream and grow to the fellowship of all the gladness and music of the world. And as in the presence of his father, the little boy Hannibal stood with his hand upon the altar Baal, and swore enteraal hatred to Rome, so may each one of you raise your hand to the Heavens above and swear eternal love for the precious jewels of our land. For •• , ' o “Love will make the path before them all dainty, smooth and fair Will cull away the brambles letting only the roses blossom there.” Do these things my people, and He who feeds the crying ravens will guide the children’s feet. Then Heaven and earth will ring universal symphony, and of little children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Potomac to the Gulf, will shout forever the hal leluiahs of the triumphs of southern chivalry, and attribute to this Gold en Southland of ours, the achieve ment of the land where children are Death of little Eiffm. Litllc Elma. infant daughter there is no eog-fi hurt there is none in South Carolina We have jJairted com enough on the Williamson plan this year for a satisfactory experi ment, and I believe the old plan of 25 acres to the plow, one stalk in the hill,* checked off four by four, has had its day and that it is to be sup erceded by the Williamson plan and we will plant five acres to the plow and make all the com we need and plant the other 20 acres in small grain and forage. As to cotton, our land is as well adapted to it as any in the country, but we do not plant as large acreage as some nther sections. We have two ginning plants which gin about 1500 bales from an area of five miles square. We have four stores which we, to venture ■> a guess, would say, 6arry an aggregate stoqk of $20,000 of anything needed on thc farm, from a toothpick to a harvesting machine. We are all Prohibitionists as we will prove when we have an oppor tunity to vote on this question. There ha*never bceabut one place the home of home of her maternal grandfather, W. A. Durant on the evening of the 20th inst. The little one was not yet three months of age, having come to bless t° ring with thousands her young parents on April 1st, but of such sweetly angelic feature was she her every relative and friend had learned to love and cherish her. Her illness was brief, but so in tensely painful as to draw heavily upon the sympathies of those who endeavored to minister relief and comfort. Neither human hands, nor medical skill could avail, but the gentle Saviour called her to Himself, to form a tie in Heaven to* the grief stricken ones to follow. Christian parents may have the sweet consolation in the knowledge that they can and will follow. Amacus. o , |ip He that throws Miray money with his hands wtil seek it with his feet. —Itakaa. Levity ia manner, "leads to laxitf in principle. in 1872. It ran but a short time when one member of the firm went into bankruptcy the other into win ter quarters and the bar room went Well I dont cuss like the Editor and I wont say where it went. But we are just on the line of the black district where blind tigers abound, fed from the county dispen sary and we feel most keenly the effect of these, and we will vote solidly for prohibition when the time domes. The health of Centreville is per fect. We raised one good doctor, but he said it was so distressingly healthy that he could not stay here so he went to Walterboro. The harmony of Centreville is also worthy of mention. We raised a lawyer but he complained that the people did not quarrel enough for him, and he also went to Walter boro.' The morals of Centfeville are above the average. We tamed out one of the best preachers in the state, but he soon decided that ICentxwviUe was not so much in need of preaching as some other place and now he is preaching in Walter boro. Did you catch that Mr Editor.? Woe unto you Walterboro, for i the advantages that have been la' ished upon you hud been given t Centreville, she would long ago hav bewi know to the world as a city < commerce and a high standard « morality. Little as Centreville is, if a diaper - sary was pawing here in a hail storr = it could not stop. This is the vok of the people. J. B. Dodd, Round, S. C. The Bond Question. *#> With The Enquirer is decided; « of opinion thst the only way to g Rood roads in this county is to inti bonds in sufficient amount to bail them, it would not be understood t suggest that the responsibility of th people would end with the issnanc of the bonds. The luccossful prosecution of wot of any kind calls for foioiietent, eff cient management, and a work ( such magnitude as the constr jctioi of good roads throughout this oounD must, to be successful and satisfaetpn be uuder the supervision of men c breadth and business < xperienoe. 1 i is not a task that c iu be perform!*' with economy or credit by men cf ordinary capacity. If the people of York county tbouh’ decide upon a of road bnildingjthejfirltItepsuggested by ordinary prudence would be organ ization of Hie county govemmec along lines Hut would be equal t< such an under taking. Then a Well digested plan of development laid before the people as intcHigentiy and us frank!v as possible. That the proposition of road con struction by means of bonds involn* many points upon which objectors may confuse the people who are real ly favorable to action along this liar, is obvious. In the first placet it will be out of the question fo secure tftfr immediate improvement of all tin roads, and many people who asay Ml see immediate, direct benefitdo them selves can be induced to object oa the ground of lavoritism to some othfci locality. Then again, the argameat against placing a debt on posterity notwithstanding pos'erity, ia to" gt the benefit of the value received, and will be inclined to praise the wisdom ofits fathers rather thui grumble, tan also hethe cause much kicking from the "people who pay but little taxes, and with it all the proposition involves very long, hard campaign. • We have no hesitation in saying that there is absoiiltely no hope for extensive road improvement under present conditions. There mast be a raising of standards all aloof tic line, and this is something much easier talked a boat than done. Far for several reasons, one of the Mat important being that the men of the finest and beat abilities are not in clined to make a scramble to j the public service. It is a (act; I evef, that if a movement were augurated that looked like a 1 bond issue,it wonld not be a | while before the leading interests of the country wonld to take n bakd. It wonld not be to risk in inexperienced hi the expendirure of such large i as would be involved ia nr m II such magnitude.—Yorkville Knqairar Ootton—middling 12 I S Com—new 80 oeuu per In 75 pertmsheL 8west potatoes OOoper CnslM ~ ,•! pw boutol. r. .. jm