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BATESBURC* ADVOCATE A Tri-County Paper 1 N- ROGERS BAYLY ED. AND PROP. I BAThSBURO, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year $1.00 Six Months 5Ocents No three months subscriptions taken. No bill presented (or over due subscriptions aii wopy sent in must oe wrmen on one side only. When changing address always : 0 give old post office otherwise change [ will not be made. " i Advertising Rates One Inch One Year $5.00 One Inch Six Months $3.00 _ One Inch Three Months $2.00 1 First page double the above amounts. 1 Local Insertions 25cts per inch. First Page Readers lOcts per lino. Readers to take run of pap^r Sets per Line. ^ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1$07. Many ITlorkla saw mills have shut flown unl?K iu une scarcity of orders /or building materia). Internal Keventic Commissioner Capers is ROing after the illicit distillers w iu tli >ugh he really wanted to break ,lC up the solid south one way or another, cu ?. it All the female iuvestigators report m that the men on the C.inal job are ' yearning for wives. Now girls, why ^ shou'ei you marry a man who had w been rool enough to go to Panama? 11 The Chicago Tribune modestly stig- ^ gests that President Ho isevelt, who ;l! cut out the "In Cod We Trust" on p< the sliver dollars, might be willing to 1' let it be printed on the clearing house li ii certificates. I e , | Now a lot of conservative molly- a Coddles are talking ??-- ? ' 0 UI1C 1 IC3"" ' 1 Jdent had a little wrestling match 11 rl pulled oil in the East Room of the | "White IfulISO. Til' v .^t "1:. ! ti I , sco some of the sti' V.s that are don< j ra at a Dip'omatic il oepU it. \ ( I (ft T* * safe blowers are at wT>r!: i" South Carohu? igain. The sal-'in si the Postottlce at Seneca was blow o ope1, on Friday night last and more than |l,0hj was stolen. Tho heav> 11 sentence of the offenders of the law at Aiken does not -appear to have oi intimidated tliem in (he least. 11 _ _ _ e< The Fall Festival is on in < harles a ton this week. i, Charleston is a great place for en- en tertainin;r visitors and we doubt very ti much if there is a city or town wit hin lv tbe borders of the Palmetto State 1 that know lnw to do the act better e( than tlio-e who live in the Pity by the ei Sea 01 _______ o ii What a big time President housevelt will have on May 13, 14 and 15 j, with all the governors of the States l\ and'territories as his guests. Won't. !l' there be big times in the national capital about thai time. The President ' w can entertain the Northern and Bastern men by showing them through his a Zoo and the Western and Southerners \ will find delight in his private wrest 11 ljng matches Don't worry Teddy d? will llnd a w.iy to make them all have ( a jolly good time. it ________________ be na Next Thursday will be Thank.sglv ing and many are trie turkeys that|w,? will sulTor death at the hands of the m Thanksgiving dinner cook. The dav t-i'i will be spent in various ways, some !l,1( will go hunting and some will go 10 ,SL1' ma church but no nutter what other jiav things Lliey will d >, it is quite sure ?? the Thanksgiving dinner will not be tlie missed. The great majority of tiie is t stores bore will be closed, the banks P<* also. President Roosevelt will spend 'O'1 tho day shooting wilil turkeys in it. Virginia. co' PUT MONEY IN HANK. jll,E Thr.rr. I* i ! nfl * v IJ (V 1 I J 11'" ' * I Ul* / II UIIIUM^ 'Ulll V "" persons unversed in business proce wl dure, and not familiar with present Ar conditions, to criticize Southern bank j ?*oi era for not making freer advances to J fai farmers on tbcir cotton. Tiie fact * pri that banks, from New York to Sari j col Francisco and from Chicago to New wr Orleans, have had to issue clearing tin house certiticates is sufficient expla- po< nation why banks, neither in the be South nor elsewhere, have been lend to ing no money. ! col Conditions from this time forward > tin will improve steadily, but the farmers J cot 'MS. V.? SOIITHIRJI r Yi ran ? r MVEH5 2 CHARL01 BE or THE PR1N31P, ANNUM. BANQUET CHAELO VISHES POLITICS RAILROA rHILE INS1STINC ON THE PEES) Of ALL THEIR EIGHTS, AND ON PRllPPR MfANS TH DRPSPRVl A UU AUUU11U IV i UliVUUT J TBEIR COMPLETE ABST AC1 ' Governmental regulation of railays, within its proper sphere, does )t hivolve the surrender by a railway >mp<any of any constitutional right is not inconsistent with governental regulation tor a railway to lopt proper means to acquaint the ublic and Stale and Federal author,ies wltli facts as to legislation that ould be hurtful to it and injurious U sown is. 1 am not willing to hoove that tlie American people, o ny government deriving its authorit om them will ever In sn r>.rhitr:ir > to deny t<? a great property interest erforming an important service t< te public, and subject to govcrnmen il regulation, the right to be heart i argument and in protest before t!;t gtslalive body or administrative ribunal that determines tha nature nd extent of that regnl.it ion. Thi iglit is Inseparable from free govern ie> t It is embraced in the saeret ight of petition, which we hare in erited from tlie great charter whicl as w rung i'r rn King .1 ilin a' Unnm it'I . so d wiiich lias li en gtiarnr' 'Ci i our State a d l-ederal OonstittiLion: "In advocating (In. applicati <n o i*:?ion;ic prilicit estothe r-cuntloi t raiiwa.iI r. ... ../j i oal I <?' : |ie ippos s the coi.f >rinlty of railway lanogrmerit to a li ^!i stando d o] t hi. s. 'i' ?ailway m inn r wli, elieves. as 1 do, that lb nrop>rt: lleteals entrust d i - en - h ; e made the ol?j :ct of regulation baser n economic ana business principle! I list see to it, that, his; t>iisinr>?a i inducted in accordance with thosi rinciples. lie must recognize tin ict that the property entrusted t< is care Is a public service inslitutltsi ivoted to the performance of a fum on essential to the prosperity of th< immunity, and he must strive at ai mes to have all questions alfcctinj s rc'ations with tlie nuh'.'c conside 1 on t.licr merits as affecting ai uteipri.se in t lie successful and prop r management o which hotli it: wners and the pil>)ic are concerned le must see to it that he does not rouse p ipular resentment and polil a I animosities through being proper ' credited with controlling, or with t..,empi ing to control, political action. "Mul, it must not V forgotten that few year? a .o participation by railay companies in political affairs vas, y ptiniic sentiment, not only tolerterl, but was encouraged. Appeals ere made to thorn to assist, as a ighly patriotic service, the success of len, of parties and of principles j jemed essential to our ci vili/.ition as people, if abu.'es arose trom litis, was hardly more than c mid luve ien anticipated -hardly less than a tur.ii and inevi ahle consequence. 'I fuily rec gni/e, ho./ever, that h participation by these companies] politic il matters is iu longer jusd, if it ever was, by conditions, 1 is no longer approved by public timcnl. It lias passed away with ny other political abuses which e been condemned and abandoned smselvescau help effectively. There oo mwc'.i currency in stockings and :kefc books The banks need Ui it. ney to lend individuals that need 1 he farmer that selis two I ales of ton and carries home $40 to lock up in effect, preventing the bank in i court house town from making an vance of 140 to some other farirer 10 has cotton In the toil warehouse H1 he is forcing the bank in his uru house town to pics-, some other rmer for payn ent of bis note. That h?.vmre fnreo-i 1 lio rlf>h!.nr le -<>11 lii>i tlonata sacrilice. If every dollar s in ilie bank?, where it in safer i*n in stockings, cupboards, or cket books. Hie banks would Imj Iter able to extend accommodation all that w.sh advances on their Hon, and belter able to extend the nc of paynr.cu* to borrowers wlio?e Aon Is their security.?'The State. f. FINLEY OF R. R. DESPEECH AT TE, N. C. AT. SPEAKERS AT THE i?u wi uaiiuuiw a a iiiu ' or THE GREATER HE CLUB KEPT OUT OP THE D BUSIES ERVATION TO TRESE CORPORATION* THE PROPRIETY OF PURSUING E THESE RIGHTS. HE ADVOCATES iNrwrr mnm patttipat iiVUlWU A UVUl A UJU1 IIUAil 'IViTY i ' I am in hearty accord with this - cha> Re and elevation of public standards, and with the view that would .! limit the participation of these com* , J pan'es in public matters to the field ol i fair statement, protest and argument. "'1 do not, however, think it just to , the management of railways, whicl > have been o ily too glad to conform tc | these higher ai d better standards, tc rjcondemn tliem tor a course, now a y matter o! t lie past, and which was y when in use. adopted and pursued in .. accordance with a public sentiment ) which, ilien at least, even in mauy ol - its abuses, tol rated, if it did not jusi tifv.it. It is justcr to let that 'dear j past, bury its dead' and for us, win e are charged with tlie solemn respon > nihilities of the present and of the fu s lure, to turn our faces towards tin i . . - j amies, wiiic.i. in the interest of man ; kind, we must perform?juster Ilia - , we 1 ?e judged by the fidelity which wi i j exhibit, under these new and bettei ' f|>n r^ontinsibil ilies w :cii w( h;. V3 assumed, s " i . railways ask no special favors f Thev ask i,i; it they be reccgui/eJ a 'is*, i' ;:s o.nd thai tluv :'\'ei an i outt unify, under tin I pr.?tei i >11 of just Ia"s. and an en I i;:;' in d public o, ini n, to c opera t w '.b ili ir people for the dove; , r infill, i ; iir e p.noii country. : I much < . o tornt. ?i. in <>i r Mo.-thor< II section, lucn put mci, :u.i . . : < s rat'way construction and into tin *! welding together of weak and dls; j tinted inns in ellicienl through sys s {terns, not on the assurance or thin?! > that were, but in the faith In thing? i to c nne. Tlicv looked into I lie future b i and saw the South, with Its great ? natural resources developed, teeming I with a prosperous people and with a r I comm nee ii<t longer restricted to raw r ! materials, but made u|> in larger part i j of manufactured products. Wjiii tlie 'eye (f faith, tliey saw a Greater *! Char'otte and other greater cities developing in all our states They saw the Southern farmer, not only . reaping greater returns from cotton, but cnj yiug that largei prosperity from r.ivers!lied agriculture, made possili'e by enlarged home markets 'and bv adequate transportation to the 'markets of the world. '1 hey have been content with very moderate returns, in the faith that they would be ' aI iwed to benefit, In some measure, from the increased prosperity made possible by their courage and their faith in the Southern people ar.n in Southern opportunities. Tlnir work is not yet clone. With every Southern community calling for more and better facilities, they have a r ght to expect that their high sense of justice and an intelligent roal zation of their own interests will impel tie .Southern i people to uphold their hands and aid. j rather than obstruct, the improvement of the highways over which j Southern products must be carried to i market. ' Blessed with a wide range of climate condili'.ns. from the low lands of , the coastal icgion . n the K tst. to the 1 mountain region on the West, with varieties of soil siiiable for the I r.'li an; - pursuit of a liighly diversilied agiiicul ure. with almost every useful mineral found in commercial quantities m some part oi your territory, and with your timber lands, which can bo made, by tlie adoption of >.oh ntilij forestry, a great store of present and t'utuie wealth, North *Jaroiioa c11 look forward to a great and prosper u > fill ure The people cf tiie () (I North >tate have shown a high appreciation of their opportunities. Recovering from the ino.istria! and coir menial prosl r il ion in which the j entire moth was left at the close of the Civil War. Nori h Caiolioa has advanced with uiant strides. In no State in I lie South, in no State in the l'nion, except some of ihcse in the f,ir West, lias the proportionate incese in the production of wealth been greater than in North Carolina. "Your future prosperity is assured but I believe that the rate of your i progress will depend, in large measure, ? t. . V ? i . ' "Olie M C Don't be in too I r\ l. TT-i. CiI vjvercoax, nai, onue look around and be i Above all d and furnis Magnificien L^f i $3J| HATSj ! Her OnlyRimT^ : Bat fifth 5UllJk)U e j % i a * i 4 % -t .1 Irf * * . *. v m . - - r,r r-m^mmmmmmsm i B on the support hv public opinion of' i 4 two fundamental principles of our < ' civilization, and their application, not < only to vour transportation agencies, t but to all other kinds of business. I |The first of these is. that economic i laws are indexible and as unchanging < ai the laws or nature, and that arbitrary interference with tbeir opera- t lion can only result disastrously. The t second is, that the prosperity of a ( community depends on the prosperity i of its individuals, which can attain ( the highest development only when i cacli individual enjoys the fullest op- < portunity for tbe exercise of his in dustry and his initiative, either in- i dependently, or in combination >\ith | otliers, free from limitations imposed < by government restriction, except in so far as they may he necessary to i protect other individna's from wrong. , "I advance these propositions with i confidence in Charlotte?the real cradle, i of American liberty?and among a people whose ancestors, in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, i more than a }ear before the action of the Continental Congress in I'llila- i delphia, pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their most sacred honor, to the maintenance of free government." ] Taking as his text the motto of the Greater Charlotte Club, "Watch Charlotte Grow," Mr Finley referred to (he growth of Charlotte and the Piedmont s.ctionof the South in the 1 past, and to the prospects for the j future, and pointed out the impor lance of tlie adequacy of transpor tat ion facilities to tho development ' and prosperity of any locality. In tliis connection, lie said: ' Transportation must ever in the | future continue to be as important | an element in human affairs as IL lias 1 been in the past, lis relation to the ' development of prosperity and civil ( Izatlon is based on certain axiomatic economic principles which are s<? clear 1 that n.i amount of elaboration can ;' add to the fo'ce of their hare state- * nient. The first of these is, that ad- j I cquucy of transportation is essential j to the prog re-is c.f any cominunily.lt The si cond Is, i lint a community can ' at lain I lie fullest measure of pros- js I pern y only wli u the agencies on ! t whicli it n.os depend for transpor -' < lulioti are able (o inciease tlni fa i cilllles so as to keep pace Willi the! i Increasing demand for their service. I I lie third is, tl:nt a transportation agency can prosper only as a result of i tlie prosperity of the communities ? served by it. Another is, that cap i | i ta 1 will tlow most freely into those t oment, jentlen ; jyrcc*TflS? w www big a hurry about th s. Better take plen sure you are getting on't buy your clott hings until you see it Lines we are sell Hti 'LE ?rAbt.NTS\ UYifi KnAA I'M v \s 15 g|"'. 81.1 > ? kyilvu t./ :-'V> V" % ", |l , ;>A' ; t>'- '.rt *: v ^r y-r yoynm?t :hanne)s of business in which invent- 1 ais can feel a reasonable dckiee of ^ :crtainty that their principal will be , o.>,l U ...*11 ? >air, mill man in >v i n yiciu il lilir TCmro as a result of the earning of a jroper margin of income over the 1 josis of operation and maintenance." \ He showed the application of these 1 ixiomatic principles to the building ipofa greater Charlotte, and thai my retardation of railway developnent would tend to retard thegro-.vtn 1 ?f the city, while the permanent ar- 1 rest of that development would be a \ calamity. .Advocat'eg conservative ! ( md construri i e policies affecting) transpor*a i,.,i agencies and their regu i.ioo within the sphere of econ- ' imies, Mr. Finley cxpreseed the con- < viction that a clear understanding of ( Llie interdependence of the interests Df the public and the railways, and of , the importance of adequate transp >r Lation facilities to every community will lead intelligent mm everywhere to feel that, when legislation unfavor able to transportation agencies is pr>> posed, their own interests are affected and that the result would he that 1 they would take an active personal interest in seeing that, transportation problems were dealt with as economic, rather than political, questions. AIKEN HANDLING COTTON i IN LARGE AMOUNT. I People There Are Hustling To Increase The Trade. ] Aiken, S. C.; Nov. 19.?The ship;J ments of cotton from Aiken are hold ing up and have, already more th in louhled the amount handled here last /ear. .'1.140 hales were shipped from Aiken throughout the entire season i as! year. Up lo yesterday morning , i.l l- bales had been shipped for the present season. In view of the, faet that the efforts ,oinduce shipments from Aiken were legun so lat e this 's certainly a fine uowinif ami SMOuifi he a tfood indica inn of what the business might tie Icvenprdup to. It is als-; interest; p in know that mole than lialf off r > Ins coi I "I b.i . been iKHlght and paid t or here a <1 great part of tlie mon v y spent in Aiken. I lie fact Ih.V I nore cot.ton hi> iieeii shipped from J \ I ken I bis y< ar tin n to< i ye.rdoes a lot mean tliat a bigger crop lias been < fathered. Just the < pp >si:c is true. I len" rs at new suit, I ty of time to 1M the best. Ml ling the ing. I :r Stock all Kew SCHLOSS BF Fine Clothes Baltimore an .rried over stock or < ines. Prices are abs less than You can g here. T nemcer ws . e latest styles in all our ^ ^ r 1 ? 'pi i lA'ihi M IjiuMii jftt. WwX h. m <r" v m imm Hut the increase e:in bj attributed to' i frowiiitf contidonce of the Aiken coun j y farmers in Aiken as a cotton mar Ji cet. This confidence \mU be maiiijt auicu tit an cosis a. 11(1 next year Aiiteii * vill be better prepared than ever to * lawlle tin; business. ( The Increase in shipments over last 'ear would have been greater but for ' the fact that Aiken county farmers i lave'entered heartily into the plans t which have been made to hold their ' ;ottun and force ttie price up. There i s tin: bulk of the Aiken county crop \ c ilillon the farms and when the linan iial conditions improve and prices * ,'et right this cotton will come in. OKLAHOMA JOINS: THE STSTES IN : X 1LJU W A 11 X XIU All BIG CELE- ' BRATION. ? INAUGURATION MARKED BY !. PARADE AND BARBECUE " Or 30 ROASTED STEERS. INDIAN CHIEFS PROMINENT. ; JOVERNOR DELIVERS ADDRESS '' AND NEW 0IT1CIALS TAKE PART iS BALI AND n i mntirT BAJiyUL 1 > I (I (New York American, Nov. IT | fiulhrie, Okla.? Nov. It;. ?In many ^ ft .peels the ceremonies celebrating he., inauguration of Oklahoma as a ( itate toilay were the most, novel of their kind in the hi lory of the States ;t \ ha hecue, for which 5N> fat. steers vera .'aughtered and roasted, formed rimi the principal features,and tins, ' loo. a' the request of the new (jover ?& w IOS. & CO. Makers d New York Job lots in our regolutely guaranteed etsame class goods are showing s and colors 1 lines I Ai iisp Co i ?! V./ V V ; V memn a?8?r&. swum ior, Charles N. Haskell. The governor ills:) forbade even any Mention of his appearing in a dress iiiiL at ll)e ball and banquet to. night, jivei) by the citizens in honor of Governor iiaskcii ami aii llie now Stale ,nicers and members of congress. (lie Indians, of wli in there mo learly one hundred and litty Hi msaud u the State, viere prominent during ,be day, occupying positions of honor n the inaugural parade and b-iog >articularly at home while the burbe. :ued beef was being served. Judge Frank Dale, of Guthrie, who erved as Chief Justice of the Okla loma Supreme Court during the Administration of President G rover Cleveland, was chairman of the committee in control of the inaugural arangemcnts for the eiiy of Gutlirio, vhile the committee representing the utire state was headed by Charles G. ones, of (>alahom i City. In chaige of the inaugural parade vere Alva J. Niles, Adjuiant General ii liiu * 'k i in is id o rsaiionai unai'U; Jolonel ll'iy V. llolTini.ii, of Luc First tcifeinent, a:? 1 <1 oil ii li. Ab'rnithy lie I nile I Miles marshall ?>f Oklaoina, who liasK'uimU lame by catchup wolves alive with bis bare bands. noVKIlNOR I'AKKS OATII ?>; 01'KICK. Tli; pro>;r.iminj I or the day bo^an ,t 11 o'clock a". Hi e < aii <K'a 1 il rary, /hen the oath of o r.ice was a(.minlsered to (Joveruur II ; >U? II liy Senator jeslie NibUck, o!' the (iutbrie )aily Leader, who lock out a notarial ominissicii just, for Ibis occassion. 'lie oalli lo the other otbceis was ad11 i 11 isle red by John " burke, of I nl Ii i ii> Governor Haskell then dcliwud his iiuugural address. The Statehood iroclamation issued I lay by I'rc.silenl Koo.scvclt and wir -d immediately u (iuthiie was read i?y Charles II. iison, the retiring Secretary <>f >klahom;. Territory. Hilling these lirsL eeren onies and lsi> in tli parade II c Indiau governors f tie' live eiviii/.ed tribes of Indian L'erriloiy ocCiipied proininont places, Cjntinucd on last page.