The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1899, Image 4
BRYAN ON TRUSTS.
The Plainest and Strongest Presentation
of Facts Ever Made.
SOME REMEDIES SUGGESTED
Trusts Can Be Annihilated if
the People so Decree.
Nebraskan Given Ovation
by Chicagoans.
Tho conference on trusts which met
in Chicago o'osod its sessions on Saturday,
September !?'>, in ablaze of oratory,
in which Col. \\\ J. Bryan and
W. Bourke Cochran were tho eentral
figures. Mr. Bryan was introduced ?by
(lov. Stantley of Kansas, who acted as
ohairman of tho opening session. Wild
applause greeted the Nobraskan. W.
Bourkc Cock ran listened intently and
joined frequently in the applause. Mr.
Bryan spoke-in part as follows:
"Within two years more trusts have
been organized than in the previous
history of the country, and the people
now come face to face with this question:
Is the trust a blessing or a
curse? If a curse what remedy can he
applied to the curse?
"Monopoly in private hands is iiidofensihlo
from any standpoint and intolerable.
1 do not divide monopolies.
There can be no good monopoly in private
hands until the Almighty sends
us angels to preside over us.
"There may be a despot who is better
than another despot, but there is
no good despotism. The defence of the
monopoly is always placed on the
ground that if you will allow people to
control the market and fix the price
tllCV will ho I.t (lift nnftnlft
purchase of them. The cm ire defense
of the trusts rests upon a money argument.
If the trusts will sell an article
for a dollar less than the article will cost
under other conditions, then in the
opinion of some that proves a trust to
be a good thing. In the first place I
deny that under a monopoly the price
will be reduced. In the second place,
if under a monopoly the prico is reduced,
the objections to a monopoly
from other standpoints far outweigh
the financial advantage that the trust
would bring. Hut I protest against settling
every question on the dollar argument.
"In the early years of Lincoln's administration
lie sent a message to
congress warning his countrymen
against the approach of monarchy, lie
said ho saw in the attempt to put
capital even upon an equal footing
with labor in the structure of government,
the approach of monarchy, bincoin
was right. Whenever you put
Capital UUOn an WMinl fnnlinn
labor, or above labor in the structure
of government, you are on the road to
aid a government that rests not on
reason but on force.
"Nothing is more important than
that we shall, in tlie beginning rightly
understand the relation between money
and man.
"Man is the creature of God and
money is the servant of man and I
protest against all theories that enthrone
moneyand debase mankind.
"If you will go about over the country*
you will see where people havo
subscribed money to establish enter
prises, and wlicio those enterprises,
having conic under the control of tho
trusts, have been closed up and stand
now as Bilent monuments to the Sodom
of the trust system. In any caso of
local strikes and liros the work goes
on elsewhere, thus preventing serious
loss.
"When a branch of industry is found
in tho hands of one of the great monopolies
so that every skilled man
must go to the one man for employment,
the one man fixes the wages as he
pleases and laboring men wiH then
share tho suffering of the men who sells
the raw material.
"1 want to warn you that when the
monopoly has absolute control, brains
will be at a discount. Wo have not yet
had a taste of a complcto trust. But
when the trust has rid itself of all
competitors what is going to be the result?
My friends, all you have to
know is human nature. God made
man selfish.
"Un the larm wc used to protect
property froui the hops by putting
rings in their noses. Why? So that
while they were getting fat, they would
not destroy more than they were worth.
"Ono of the great purposes of government
is to put rings in the noses
of hogs. If 1 were going to try to tind
the root of tho monopoly evil I would
go back to tho Bible for an explanation,
and I would find it in the declation
that the love of money is the root
of all evil.
"Falling prices, caused by a rising
dollar, and tho high tariff, have contributed
tho desire to secure tho fruits
of monopoly.
"Some have suggested that to put
everything on the free list that trusts
make, would destroy trusts. But I do
v,?i:? it-* >' ?
uui uuncvu mat you couiu destroy all
trusts by putting all trust-made articles
on the free list, because if an
article can be produced in this country
as cheaply as it can be produced abroad,
then the trust could exist without the
benefit of any tariff at all, though it
could not extort so much. Wc cannot
destroy monopoly until wc lay the axe
at the root of the tree, and make monopoly
impossible by law.
"Discrimination by railroads has aided
trusts. That can be remedied by
laws which will placo producers on
equal footing. Hut the remedy must
be complete enough to prevent the organization
of a monopoly. Wc differ
more in remedy than wo do in oui
opinion of the trust. Fow people will
defend the trust as a principle. As to
the romcdy both State and nation
should have concurrent remedies. In
the first plaoo ovcry State has or should
have the right to create any private corporation
which is conducivo to the welfare
of the people of that State. I believe
that wo can safely entrust to the
poople of a State the settlement of a
question which concerns them. J f they
orcatc a corporation and it bccomos destructive
of their best interests they <
can destroy that corporation and wo can
safoly trust them both to crcato and i
to annihilate if conditions make annihilation
necessary. <
"In the second plaoo the State has
or should have the right to prohibit
atty foreign corporation from doing
business in tho State and it ought to
have or has the right to impose such
restrictions and limitations as the pcoplo
of the State may think necessary
upon any foreign corporation doing
business in tho State. 1 bciiovo in un
addition of State remedy but there
must be a federal remedy.
' Congress lias or should havo the
power to place such restrictions a- d
limitations, even to tho point of prohibitou,
upon any corporation organized
in one State, that wants to do husi
ncss out side of the State contrary to
public good.
"I believe that these con* urront remedies
will reach tho difficulty, that the
people of every State shall first decide
whether they want to create a corporation;
that they shall, secondly, decode
whether they want outside corporation
to <lo business in the Slate and if so,
upon what conditions, and thirdly that
congress shall exercise tho right to place
upon every corporation doing business
outside of the State in which it is organized,
such limitations and restrictions
as may ho necessary for tho protection
of the public good."
Col. Bryan at this point read the
famous circular letter advertising tho
corporation laws of Polawaro. Ho
commented sarcastically on advantages
sot forth in the letter.
A person in the audionoo inquired:
"Delaware and Now Jersey are both
Democratic States are they not?" To
which Mr. Brayan replied: "They wore
in 18%."
llo continued: "1 have read this
letter to show you that where a State
can gain an advantage from the incorporation
of thoso great aggregations
of wealth, it is not safe to place the
people ot other States at the tender
mercies of the people of such a State
as may desire to secure its running expenses
from the taxation of corporations
organized to prey upon the people outside.
"I am ready to adopt any method
for the annihilation of trusts. One
il.Ai I a ii !
nun, i is mis; i nat congress
should pass a law providing that no
corporation organized in any State
should do businoss outside of the Stato
in which it is organized until it receives
from soino power created-by congress
a license authorizing it to do business
outside of its own State. Now, if tho
corporation intid comic to this body
created by congress to secure permission
to do business outsid j the State, t1 o
that license can he granted upon eoi
tions which will, in tho first place, ]
vent tho watering of stocks; and secc d,
provide for publicity as to all of In
transactions and business of the eor.?o
ration.
"If this is unconstitutional and so
declared by the supremo court, I am in
favor of an amendment to tho constitution
that will give to congress power to
destroy every trust in tho country. In
my judgment, when you take from monopoly
tlie power to issuo watered stock
you will go more than half way toward
destroying monopoly in tho United
States.
"You can provide for publicity and
that annually or at such other times
the corporation shall make returns of
its business or its earnings, and will go
another long step toward the destruction
of the principle of monopoly.
"Hut I am no', willing to stop there,
and, therefore, as a third condition, 1
suggest that no license shall he granted
until tho corporation shows that it had
not had a monopoly and is not attempting
a monopoly of any branch of industry
or any article of merchandise, and
then provide that if the law is violated
the license can be revoked. I do not
believe in the government giving privileges
to be exercised by a corporation
without reserving the right to withdraw
them when tlosc privileges become
hurtful to the people.
"My contention has been that we
have been placing the dollar above tho
man, that we have been picking out
favorites in government; that we have
been bestowing upon them special privileges,
and every advantage wo have
given them havo been given them to
tho detriment of other people. My
contention is that there is a vicious
)iiiuv/i|Fiii luiiiiiuK mruugu i nc various
policies which we have been pursuing;
that in our taxation we have been imposing
upon the great struggling masses
tho burden *of government, while wo
have been voting the privileges to the
people who do not pay their share of
expenses to tho government.
"Every unjust tax law is an indirect
form of larceny," the speaker assorted.
An incotuo tax, lie believed would remedy
nuothor great evil.
"I have no fear that any man by his
own brain or his own muscle will bo
ablo to secure a fortune so great as to
be a menace to the welfare of his fellow
man.
"When Clod made man ho placed a
limit to his existence, so that if he was
a bad man lie could not do harm long,
but when we made our man-made man
(the corporation) we raised the limit of
his age.
"We did iot give him a soul, and if
he can avoid punishmont in this world
ho need not worry about the hereafter.
I want to protest against this doctrine I
that the trust is a natural outgrowth of
natural laws. It is not true. The
trust is tho natural outgrowth of unnatural
conditions created by man-made
laws.
"Government under the four groat
principles of the declaration of independence
is impossible under an industrial
aristocracy.
"Some people have tried to separate
the laboring man who works in tho factory
from tho laboring man who works
on the farm. I want to warn the laboring
men in the factories that they cannot
separate themselves from those who
toil on the farm without inviting their
own destruction. L warn the laboring
men in tho factories that when they
join with tho monopolies to crush tho
farmer, as soon as the farmer is crushed
the laboring man will be crushed, and
his ally will bo destroyed, and in a test
of endurance the farmer will stand it
longer than the laboring man. The
farmer was the first man on tho scene
when civilization began, and he will be
tho last one to disappear. You may
drive the fanner ilniun cm !./?
. _ .MV? v*vnU| OKf liU VilllHUL
buy coal, but he can bum com, Hut
you drive the coal miner down bo he
oannot buy corn and ho cannot cat
coal.
"Hut, my friends, why sh mid wo try
to Bee who could hold out the longest
in Buffering? Why try to see who can
endure the most hardships una yet live?
Why not try to see who can contribute
most to the greatness and to tho glory
and to tl o prosperity of this nation?
Why, thoso who can eontributo most
should make this government what tho
fathers intended for it. For 100 years
this nation has been tho light of tho
wo Id. For lOOycarstho best of all
nations have looked to this nation for
for hope and instruction. Latin settlo
tl cso groat quostions that wo have
beforo us, let us teach tho world the
blessing of a government that comes
from the people and let us show them
how happy and how prosperous people
can b :. I believe i*i the doctrine that
(iod made all men of tho sumo dust and
did not make some to crawl on bands
and knees and others to ride upon their
backs. Let up show what can bo done
I when we UUt into actual nraetion thnan
great doctrines of human equality and
of equal rights and make this govcrumcnt
what the fathers intended, so that
we shall lead the world step by stop on
to higher ground."
Facing a sea of widly waving anus
and a storm of cheers the orator resumed
his scat.
Three quarters of tho audience had
boon attracted by tho announcement of
his appearance, apparently, for that
proportion left when lie had finished.
The afternoon session opened with
adrisscs hy Attorney General T. S.
Smith of Texas and .lames B. Dill, who
had a hand in the framing of the New
.Jersey trust law. A general discussion
followed, which resulted in both Bryan
and Bourko Coekran taking the platform.
\V. D. Foulkc of Indiana made
a short speech, in which ho declared
that ho failed to see that the remedies
proposed by Col. Bryan in tho latter's
speceh, during the morning session,
could result in the attainment of the
object sought for.
Col. Bryan who was sitting in the
hack part of tho hall, arose, and, amid
cheering, started to reply. Before he
linil ntfnr/>rl *1 wiwAi
cries of "lake the platform" camo from
all parts of the hall, and with a smile
he did so.
"1 would not occupy the time again
but for tho fact that the gentleman
from Indiana (Mr. Foulke)has referred
to a plan which I suggested, and I am
afraid that ho docs not fully understand.
My plan was this:
"First, That the State should have
the right to create whatever private
corporations the people of the State
think best.
"Second, That the State has, or
' mild have, the right to impose such
lOatrictions [as congress may think
necessary upon any corporation which
does business outside of the State in
which it is organized. In other words,
1 would preserve to tho people of the
State all the rights they now have and
at the same time have congress exorcise
a concurrent remedy to supplement tho
State remedy. 1 would not tako away
from the pcoplo of the State any right
now existing, but I would have the federal
government and the State government
exercise the powers that may be
necessary to annihilate the monopoly.
I do not agree with the gentleman that
you cannot annihilate a monopoly.
(Applause.) 1 bclie\e it is possible to
do so.
"I have no doubt that any remedy
that is proposed will be assaulted. If
those who believe that tho trust must
remain and thoso who believe that the
trust means good will accept tho best
remedy they can find, try it and then
accept abetter one, if a better one is
proposed, and keep on trying until tho
people are protected. (Applause).
"Now I am not sure tho remedy I
propose is unconstitutional. I am not
sure that the constitution would prohibit
such an act of congress as 1 suggest.
Suppose congrosH should say
that whenever a corporation wanted to
do business outsido of the State it
must apply to and receive from some
body croated by congress for tho purpose
a license to do business. Suppose
the law should provido free commissions
upon which the license should bo
issued:
"First, that the evidence shall show
that thero is no water in the stock.
"Second, that the evidence should
show that this corporation has not in
tho past and is not attempting now to '
monopolize any branch of industry or
a branch of any article of merchandise,
and
"Third, providing for that publicity
which everybody has spoken of and (
about which everybody agrees. Supposo
that is done. Who is here to say
that such a law would bo unconstitutional?
"Hut supposo tho law is passed and !
is held unconstitutional, then we can
amend the constitution. The gentleman
suggests that it is a difficult ,
thing to get two-thirds of both houses ,
to favor amendment and three fourths
of the State. It is true, it is a difficult
thing, but if the people want to
destroy the trusts you can get twothirds
of both houses and throe-fourths
wi %-iiw uvwhjo. uui wuui ih me alternative?
Sit down and do nothing? Allow
thorn to traraplo upon you and ride ,
rough shod over you and then thank i
God that you still have some life left?
Is that tho only remedy? I
"The American people arc entitled ,
to tho host that thero is. (Applause.)
The> uro entitled to tho best system on
every subject. I bolievc when these
questions are presented to tho Ameri- '
can people they will select and sceuro
tho best system. 1 don't believe it noccssary
for us to sit down quietly ami
permit a great aggregation of wealth to
stranglo every competitor. I don't belicvo
that is in aceordanco with our
dignity as a peoplo, or in accordance
with tho rights of the people to say
because a urcat corporation is organized
that therefore it should be permiitcd to
go into the field of a new corporation, 1
undersell it until it bankrupts it, raising
tho money by higher prices somowhoro
clso. I don't think it is necessary
for us to do that. I have onlv
suggested a plan. It may not bo the
best plan. If you have anything hotter,
proposo it. If there is any amendment
that you can think of that will
improvo it, suggest it. I am anxious to
accept anything.
"Lot me suggest one other thing that ,
I believe will bo a step in tho right di- ,
rcction. Tho great troublo has been
that while our platforms denounce cur- i
porations, corporations omtrol the
elections and plaeo under obligation to
them tho nit ii who aro clootoCi to onforee
tho la .v. ( \pplau8C.) Let mo i
propose a remedy?uot a remedy, but a ]
step, I think in the right direction. Let t
the laws, State and national, make it a j
penal offonso for any corporation to 1
contributo to the campaign fund of any
political party. (Coutioucd cheers and
applause ) Nebraska has such a law,
passed two years ago. Tennessee has
sueh a law, p issed two years ago. Such
a law was passed, or was introduced, in
tbo State of Now York, but so far it
has not reached the stage of actual law
in the State of New York. (Laughter )
Now, I bolioye it is a step in the right
direction. You remember the testimony
taken before a senate committer a few
years ago when the head ??f tlio sugar
trust testified that tho sugar trust
made it its business to contribute to
campaign funds, and when asked to
which one it contributed, replied that
it depended upon circumstances. To
which fund do you contribute in Massachusetts?
was asked. To thn ltnonK.
lioan fi?nd.' 'To which fund in New
York?" 'To the Democratic fund.' 'To
which fund in New Jersey?" and tho
man says, 'Well, I have to look to tho
books; that is a doubtful State.' (Continued
laughter and applause ) Now,
that is almost a literal reproduction of
the testimony of one great eorpoiation
on the subject of campaign contributions.
I don't mean to say that that
remedy will bo a complete one; but 1
believe that whet you prevent a corporation
from contributing to campaign
funds that you take a step in the right
direction toward better legislation, bccauso
some corporations are compelled
to contribute; they aro blackmailed
into contributions, and such a law
would protect a corporation that did
not want to contribute, and also prevent
a corporation from contributing
that did want to contribute.
''If the people are in earnest they can
do it, and you never eould do anything
in this country until the pcoplo arc in
earnest. When the American people undi
rstand what the monopoly question
means I believe that there will bo no
power, political, financial or otherwise,
to prevent the people from taking possession
of every branch of government
from president to the supreme court,
and making a government responsible
to the people's will." (Cheers),
At the conclusion of Col. Bryan's
address, Bourkc Cock ran arose and
started to speak from his seat, but, in
response to cheering and calls to tako
the platform, he did so. Mr. Coekran
agreed with much that Mr. Bryan had
said. "If there bo a monopoly that
oppresses," he continued, "I blievc
there is no constitutional limitation,
there is no provision of government,
there is no power on earth against the
people redressing the wrong when it becomes
a wrong."
The question was whether such a
wrong exists and, if so, where. Ue
contended that much of tho opposition
t, i.? ?? i : ?i '
m uiu HUMS >Tii? mil! illlU meaningless
noise. Times were good and there was
little to complain about. Competition
was to bo urged, Home one must sueceed,
and no limitations could be put upon
it. As well attempt to limit tho competition
in intellect as in tbc industries,
and Mr. llrynn himself was a good illustration
of the fact that competition
oould not suppress intellect. Hence he
urged that much of the evil of monopolies
was fanciful. "If wo realizo for
the moment that this is an ago of improvement;
that the conditions of men
are growing better and better wo ought
to hesitate a whilo beforo wo ohango
and take tho side may be for one of
fanciful experiments."
Mr. Cock ran spoke earnestly in support
of 'rule unions, predicting that
the time would come when employers
would urge such unions in order to afford
facilities for discussion of perplexing
problems in labor.
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loan on a policy only one inont h out of twelve
wculd bo something like a bank making
iui>iin iu nn uusiomers ouiy onoa a inonl tiout
of the year, a limitation which would offer
but little accommodation to the depositor.
Neither loan nor cash value is s,ivon on the
Aetna policy until after ten years, and at
the expiration of any policy year thereafter;
while The Mutual Life gives both at any tinio
after threo years.
In the New Vork Life and the Equitable
cash dividends cannot be applied to purchase
additional insurance thus making the
amount more than the face of the policy,
unless the insured furnishes a certificate of
good heiltli Tho Mutual Life will make
the dividend additions without re examination,
if so elected two years before the end
of the distribution period.
Tho severest criticism which rival com a
nies and agents have made on tho new policy
of tho Mutual Life is that "it is too liberal,''
which is really the highest indorsement that
any policy has ever received, and one that
will obtain for it the preferonco over any
other offered by any company. With such a
contract, issued by tho Great Mutual Life,
wiih assets of t>277 000,000.00, and a surplus
of $ 11,000,000.00, with an income in lb'.'Hof
over $56,000 010.00, there can be nothing
surer, safer or better either as a financiti investment
or as a protection for the family
agninstthe possibilities of future disaster.
I was born on the
day of and year 18
My full naino in
My ad Ireas is
Amount of insurance desired J!..
Married or single ?
For further particulars till out this coupon
and send to
F. H. HYATT,
GENERAL AGENT
FOIi THE CAROLINAS
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure.
Digests what you eat.
It artlflci?!!y digests the food and aids
Nature In strengthening and reconstructing
the exhausted digestive organs.
It is tho latest discovered digestant
and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It instantly
relievos and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache, Gastialgia,Cramps, and
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Prepared by E. C. DeWltt & Co., Chicago.
For sale by Dr. K. Norton.
Atlantic Coast Line.
WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule.
Trains Going South.
No. 66* No.36
P.M. A.M.
Leave Wilmington 3:46
Leave Marion b.*34
Arrive Kloreuce 7:16
Leiive Unrancn *1 or.
Arrive Sumter 8:57 4
Leave Sumter 8:67 9 40
Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 tK)
No. 62 rune through from Charleston via
Central R. It., leaving CharleMton 7:00a m ,
Lanes 8:34 a. in., Manning 0:00 a in
Trains Going North.
No 64* No.68
A. M. 1? M
I.eave Columbia *6 60 *4 CKI
Arrivo Sumter 8:16 6 18
Leave Sumter *8:16 (i Ot?
Arrive Florence 0:80 7 20
Leave Florence 10 00
Leave Marion 10:40
Arrivo Wilmington 1:26
*l)aily.
'j. 68 runs through to Charleston, S. ('.,
via Central R R., arriving at Manning 6:41
p. m , Lanes 0:17 p.m., Charleston 8:00 p. m.
Trains on Conway llranch leave Chadbourn
6 85 p m, arrivo Conway 7 40 p m,
returning leave Conway 8 80 a m, arrive
Chadbourn 11 20 a m, leave ('hadbourn 11 60
a in, arrivo Hub 12 26 p in, returning leave
Hub 8 00 p m!] arrive Chadbourn 3 36 p m t
Daily except Sunday.
J. It Kenly, General Manager.
T M Kmerson, Traflio Manager
II. M . Kmerson, General Passenger Agen
Wilmington and Conway
Railroad.
Daily exoept Sunday.
l.V 1 V flT
uuuuiuuuuu. HO. 'J i
l/?ar? Hub 8 00 pm
Laa*? Iliona 8*10 pm
Arrive Ckadbouru 8 86 pm
[.mti Chadbourn 6 36 pm
Leave Clarendon 6 00 pm
Leave Mt Tabor 6 16 pm
Leave Loria 6 36 pm
Lear? Sanford 0 60 pm
Leave Bayboro 7 00 pm
La.v? Privetta 7 09 pm
Leave Adrian 7 I'd pm
Arrive Conway 7 40 pm
Northbound.?No. 98.
Lea*? Conway 8 80 am
Lea*? Adrian 8 66 am
Leave Privette 9 00 am
Lea*? Bayboro 9 10 am
Leave Sanford 9 20 ain
Lea*? Loria 9 86 pm
Lea*? Mt Tabor 10 10 am
Lea*? Ciarandon 1 40 am
Arrive Chadkouru 11 20 am
Lea*? ("bad bourn 11 60 am
1 eavo lliona 12 16 pm
Arrive Hub 12 26 pm
J. It. Tolar. J. H. Hari
T. II. Jllachly.
TOLAR. HART & CO.,
160 Front Strkbt,
NEW YORK,
Commission Merchants
and
Jobbers of Naval Stores.
Liberal advances on consign
meats of Naval Stores and
Cotton.
Members of the New York Cotton and
Produce Exchange.
R. B. SCA HBO ROUGH,
Attorney at Law,
Conway, S. C.
Agent Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of N#w York.
NOTICK
Conway Lodge, No. ttO. Knights ef
Pythias will meet regularly the tlrst and
third Thursday nights of each month until
otherwise ordered.
I). A.SnvET
Chan. Coin.
j. C. bpivkt
K. K. & 8
May 14th. 9fl ly
H. H. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Conway, S. C.
frSrOflico up stairs over Herald offico
opposite Iiank.
WACCAMAW LINK 8TE \ M LfUJ.?The
Fteamer will leave the wharf at Conway
every Monday and Wednesday morning
for n*Ar?ln?t> ?< a 4-?Ll
? m* M V VIW*| lUUOUIDg mil intermediate
point*; and will leer# her wharf
at Georgetown erery Tueeday and Friday
morning for Conway at \ o'olook, touching
at all intermediate point*.
D. T. MoNeill,
Gen'l Agt and Treaa., Ceaway, 8 C.
B. A. Munuerlyn
Agent, Georgetown, B,C.
To get strong
and healthy use
one bottle Murray's
Iron Mixture.
Price 50c
TH MAY DRUB 69.,
UCINEI1 1KB
MILL SUPPLIES OF |
EVERY DESCRIPTION. I
It is now unseasonable to
"Talk" Cotton Uinnintf Machinery,
but it is the time for you to
place your orders for?
Ill' K II ULLKP8,
UlCK TIIKKSKKS.
OKIST MIL'A ^7*
n ^ v? .*11 ^ 1
\\ ?' D WORKING MV IIINKUY. T |
KNUlNES rNL) BOILERS.
Ai ?1 many oOerutn-ful and noiersary inaol>incR
wo might ineuMon.
If you want the bent value for your
money, consult your it t?rrsl by writing or
calling on it* for price* and emirate* hefoie
placing your order*.
Large Stocks. I
Prompt Shipments.
Lowest Prices Consistent With
"Honest Goods." ^
W. H. Qibbes & Co.. I
COLUMBIA. S. C.
KIDNEY, I
9 V
BLADDER, UUINAR AND
LIVER '
DISEASES, DY3PEP81 V. INDIQE 8TI0N
and constipation positively
CURED BY THE USE OF
I)it. HILTON'S
T Ifiri
liirij
LIVER AND KIDNEYS.
A vegetable preparation, wherever known
the n?' ?t popular of all remedies, heouute the
most efTectual.
Bold wholosalo by?
Tlio Murray Drug Co. Columbia.
Dr 11. Hacr, Charleston, S. C.
It is the
Custom I
Hut a very poor one. to wait until the gin
ning season in on before lo king to see
what fix the gin is in. 1
Now is the time to
HURRY
YOU It (UN 10THE I
ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS
Do not delay and then ask us to let. yon
havo it at onoo, for thorough work csnnpt
be dono in a hurry The attention give*
his matter now will more than repay ycu
when the cotton is white in the field*
and the gin house crowded, T'>e worki*
coming in already, so ship at once to th?
undersigned, located at the old eleotric light
engine houso.
Keforcnoett by porminion:?W. II Gib
ji- rv. v n t?-.iv * ? *
w w , i v, unuuiiii, j no. ft ? 11 lis.
Bfcr Murk your ouine and shipping poiut
on work sent and prepay tho freight.
The Elliott Gin Repair Works,
W J. ELI/IOTP, Proprietor,
? No. 1314 Gates Strcot,
COLUMBIA. 8. 0.
Ginning
Machinery.
The Smith Pneumatic Suction
Elevating, Ginning and
Packing System
Is tho simplest and moat elBciont on
tho market. Forty-eight comploto
outfits in South Carolina; oach
one giving absolute
satisfaction.
Boilers and Engines; Slide
Valve, Automatic and Corliss.
My Light and Heavy Log lkoam Saw
Mills cannot be equalled in design, efficiency
or prico by any dealer or manu
eajturcr in the South.
Writo for orices and catalogues.
V. C. Badham,
1820 Main Street,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Morphine
?AND?
Whiskey
HABITS CURED.
HON. W. H. CLOUGII,
(loTornor of Minnesota. ^
"I hare always raid that the Kueley Institute
of 'his country had dotio more good, in
my judgment, than any other institutions or
organization* iu the country. 1 have said it
many limes, and 1 want to topoat it here,
that l>r Kccloy hat done more for the country,
has la'ed more unf.rtnnao men. than
any one man in tho United Stat-s "
(Extract from an address delivertd in
Minneapolis, August, IHV7.)
Addrass Communications to |
The Keeley Institute,
120 Prnith Straet, t?rnar Yandarhorst,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
fci * ?
mucwars ,
flobool of
SHORTHAND
?AND?
TYPEWRITING.
COLUMBIA, S. 0.
Thin School has the reputation of being the
beet buainew institution in the State. Graduates
are holding romuneratWo positions in
mercantile house*, banking, losuranoo. reel
estate, railroad oUic?s, &o., in thin and other
etatea. Write to W, II. Maofeat,
ographt'J) n it> %. J. f>: u;a?l