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THURSDAY, JANUARY, 25, 1906
WilLUR'SIDEASy
Says LaboiLaws and Trial Justice
Jystem Drives
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NEWRO FAKM HANDS
From the Statland That There is No
hoo!.. n II.
isioiic iui 3Ukiai cqaniny on
the Part of Negroes, Who
are Unlsr Obligations
to tie Whites.
President Thmoas E. Miller, of the
Colored State OUege, made a somewhat
remarkab?9peecbjL that institution
on E<4mcipatt^o Day. In
order that our traders may see for
themselves what a highly educated
colored man thin:s of the problems
that confront 'ne South we make
some extracts frcrn the speech. After
speaking of the 1 mancipation of the
negro, he took uj the subject of his
address, which wis,&"the things that
" effect the negroet In the South after
forty years of fnedom." Here are
some of the reasois that ho claimed
was affecting thenegroes for the ill:
First, the lav-making body of
ooum uaroiina is responsible Tor the
destruction of oui labor. If they had
been employed by the enemies of {in
agricultural South to run off the fa
bor from the South they could not
have done the job ?.ny more thoroughly
and completel" than they have
done it.
Lvery lav/ that l'as been enacted in
the last 28 years ha* been Intended to
protect the agriculturist* and keep
them a full supply of labo/; the rights
or protection of the laboi has never
been considered id a single one of
them. Ilence as the labor law was
against the laborer he has become
more shy year after year; and whenever
and wherever he could net awav
from it he would leave first to little
I towns, then to the cities, then to the
r North.
The second cause of the unrest of
the laborer Is the trial justice system
with its plenary powers, and its irresponsible
constables.
1 have seen the irresponsible constable
In the country use his ready
revolver on helpless accused charged
with the slightest misdemeanor?with
no punishment coming to the constable.
If I were an enemy to my dear beloved
Southland 1 would have paid
agents and lobbyists begging our
Legislature to continue in power the
irresponsible, harassing trial justice
system.
Of all the ills that aff-:ct, retard
and prevent the progress of the South
the trial Justice system, with its un1
I , 4- I ? J *
iiiuibcu power ana iaci or responsibility
to God or man, is the greatest.
Hence the things that atlect us and
the South, above all other ills and
destruction, are the labor laws and
the trial justice system. Continue
them as they are and we shall not
only succeed In driving away black
labor, but we" will never get wi^ite
r* Immigrants who are so greatly needed
to come and stay in our limits.
The third ill is the lack of protection
In the little towns. Hence our
people run away from the labor law
and the trial justice system to the
little towns for police protection; and
when they fail to get it there they go
to the big cities, and from the big
cities to the North.
What is the worth to community
in money of an honest laborer?man
or woman?between the ages of 10
and GO V
Under the slave values a laborer
was worth $1,000; but the best teachers
of political economy claim that
we muBt take into consideration of a
laborer the power to consume and
produce. This would make the value
* of each laborer to our Commonwealth
about SO,000. The price of his pro
ductloa annually plus the price of his
consumption is not less than $400.
This is 10 per ceiit on $4,000. And
to his producing and consuming power
must be addtd the wealth that
oomes from his irnrease In offspring,
which would maXe bis value to the
Commonwealth greater still.
Hence, every ?|ble bodied man or
woman that has left South Carolina
In the last 28 yetrs is a loss of not
less than $4,000 ftr each.
If the United Siates census is reliable
we have lost b reason of our people
having left th( State not less than
75,000 able bodied laborers in the last
30 years; each ondof them valued at
not less than 14,ob.
We have lost fr< n the field of production
and cot ;umption $75 000
multiplied by $4,0 3, or $300,000,000
^nd for what? W y did we not k/ep
these people? Wfc , because we are
short sighted. W have legislated In
the wrong way. f hey are gone, and
what? We must now appropriate
annually tbousandi of dollars to coax
and beg tbe Huns, he Poles and vthe
Italians", and in tli a the Chinese, to
oome here and tak ^their places.
I, as a negro, mnt prosperity in
I
the South; and if I had it in my power
I would bring here and locate every
nationality from Europe and by encouragement,
and repeal of the obnoxious
features of the labor law, and by
the curtailment of the great power
of the trial justice system keep them
here.
The South needs their presence
their comiDg oannot in any way injure
us negroes, hut instead will help
to develop our country and enlarge
the sphere of their own and the ne
gro's usefulness as producers.
We want this labor and the cheapest,
easiest and readiest way to get it
is to turn the pages of our statutes
and blot therefrom every labor law
that is detrimental to the common
man, write and black.
There Is another matter that 1
touch upon lightly. In Massachusetts,
Rhode Island or Iowa it takes
al?out 40,000 legal voters to elect one
Congressman, while in Mississippi It
takes less than 3,000; and in my beloved
State the beggarly number of
about 5,000.
The cry of the greatest American
agitator and orator, Patrick Henry,
was: "No taxation without represen
tation." It was the sentiment that
struck a lesson to the throne of Eng
land and gave us the land of freemen.
The North has been aroused over
this condition; hence there Is a movement
on foot to out down the South's
representation in Congress, and in the
Electoral College.
Our friends claim that this move
meat is for the benefit of us negroes.
But, people of the negro race, be not
deceived; for to cut down the South's
representation can in no way benefit
us; but, on the other hand, it will
work great injury to us here In the
South, To cut down the South's
representation will fan and set ablaze
the tlame of sectional prejudice and
hate which will rebound upon negroes
as the prime cause, and will atliict us
and Injure us.
That provision in the 14th amendment
was a compromise, and in the
fullness of time the 15th amendment
was passed, which guarantees to us
the ballot, and the protection to cast
It; and if the North were sincere and
wanted us to vote Congress would
seat the contestants from the South,
and the Supreme Court of the nation
would tind a way to enforce the 15th
amendment.
No, fellow citizens, let us stand up
and look this question squarely in the
face. We do not, as negroes, want
any legislation by Congress that will
embitter the South against us. What
we need is a united South?black and
white?what we need is freedom from
outside interference; what we need is
lcc il protection and a chance to labor
and be paid for our services; what we
need is the destruction of mob law
that is misnamed lynch law.
Law is the voice of the people, and
we ueed the law that will come from
the pulpit, press and the tireside of
our Southern homes! that will prevent
Southern sheriffs and constables ar
resting us to turn us over to the mob
violence that we may be butchered,
drowned or burned.
These Improvements can only come
to us from within; and the great
Southern conscience is not asleep oj
this subject. The best element, of
whom Governor Heyward is a fore
most representative, has resolved to
deliver the Southland from mob law.
For which let us return thanks, on
this our day of jubilee, to God and
the Southland.
There is no bad deed committed in
a community that wll? not and does
not affect the entire people. We,
white and black, of the South are a
Christian, God-loving, God fearing
people. Therefore, let us appeal for
the protection guaranteed us as citizens
and men. Let us so conduct
ourselves that they will see that we
are worthy of every protection that
should be given.
We must banish the criminals from
An* a/\/iL? 1 i - ? ? * *
v;ui ouv>iai lutnii'uurst; wt> Q1UHD
in turning every evil doer over to the
law; we must te^ch honest toll, loving
service, and frugality; we must teach
morality everywhere; we must Instruct
the young that this is our
home; that we must love all of its
citizens and obey its law; we must
put our trust in God and the Southland,
and do the right.
For God is not dead and He will
reward us if we prepare ourselves
for the full enjoyment of citizenship.
The third thing that affects us is
our great ignorance and our helpless
poverty, lgnorar c* is the mother of
all vices; and wnile we have many
schools still the great mass of our
race is untouched by the civilizing
influence of Christian education. For
there are not more than 15 per cent
of the children of our race in the public
schools of the South: and fch?v
permitted to attend school about four
months per year.
Then again there is not more than
half a million of our people out of the
servant class; there are about nine
million of our race among the wageearners,
or servants of the nation.
I am fearful that we have waited
almost too long to purchase homes
and farms; for the farmiag lands of
the South have advanced In the last
decade in selling value more than 800
per cent.
We need be frugal In all things. To
be lniluentlal we must secure property
?all kinds of property, but especially
real estate.
There is no such thing as social
equality anywhere under the sun. Social
equality is founded upon oaste
distinction, and it has always been
founded upon caste distinction; and
no one but a fool would attempt to
form It upon any other basis.
What we need is equality under the
law and equal administration of the
law, and an equal proteotlon of our
I possessions, life and liberties.
N
This may sound idealistic to the
thoughtless, but the foundation of
this government guarantees, these
sacred rlgbts that are inalienable from
human existence, and they must and
will come to us if we prepare ourselves
for their enjoyment.
We have at the head of the Govern
ment the greatest American sit 03
Lincoln. He is broad, catholic, courageous,
prophetic and patriotic.
kooskvklt's visit.
His visit to the South last fall is a
lesson that the South and the nation
will never forget. Ilis every utterance
was the speech of broad patriot
ism?-yes, of broad Americanism.
He was not speaking to the South
for the South; he was not speaking to
the white man for the white man; to
the negro for the negro: but he spoke
as the greatest living American to
Americans?all of every section; for
Americans about Americans.
But In his speeches we were not forgotten
as an integral part of the
American people.
At Jacksonville and atTuskegee his
admonition to our r?co was that of an
anxious parent to a helpless child;
wholesome and sound advice which
should never be forgotten.
Then again he did not fail to admonish
the South against its direful
and destructive agency, mob law: But
that was not all. In North Carolina
he explained to the full extent his
meaning of a square deal. No man
eould have said more for us than he
said. Hearken tc his woVds: "If the
negro stumble, help him up; but if he
lie clown let him lie."
That Is all we need and all we
should expect from the South, from
the laws of the land, or from Northern
philanthropy. Yes, If the negro
stumble while ascending the heights
of American civilization; If he stum
ble while he is climing the rugged
cbfTs of advanced American citizenship
he should ask, and does ask, of
the white man, who has assisted in
making his burden heavy by two hundred
years of slavery, not to push him
down and trample upon him, but to
step one side and lend him the hand
of help; help him to stand and walk
is the path of rectitude, the path of
thrift and industry, the path of morality,
the path of frugality; all of
which lead to the high plain of American
citizenship.
Let us upon this, our day of jubilee
return thanks to God for having given
the American people this greatest
of Americans, Theodore Roosevelt.
What have I to say, you ask, about
the future?
Fellow citlzms, if we negroes have
a future it is in the South. She is
undeveloped, teeming with millions of
wealth of the fields, forests and mines;
waiting for enlightened skill to light
the furnace tires that will st.arh t.ho
buzz of manufacturing industry upon
ovary hill top and amid the valleys.
There is standing room here for us,
and a lighting chance for the Aocumu
lation of wealth and the possession cf
refinement.
The industrial development of our
groat Southland has Just begun, and
every avenue of honest toil and
achievement is opened to us, her black
sons and daughters.
All we have tD do is to remain here,
join hands with the white man, ana
put our shoulder to the wheel of ma
terial progress and prosperity, and
wait the result: fOr the white man of
the South has been doing and is doing
his part toward us in very many more
ways than we have given him credit
for. He is roidy and willing to help
us; and if we remain as we have been,
faithful to every trust, he will wipe
frc m the statute books every law that
in any way frightens us, runs us oil,
or oppresses us.
He will give to us ah needed protection;
he will tax himself and us for
our education and improvement; he
will help us to make the South the
home of us all with no proscription
by the law. or under the law.
Any negro who does not believe
this doctrine that I am laying down
and cannot be converted thereto
should not live in the South./ For the
history of nations teaches that all
great reforms, lasting reforms, comes
t from within.
i Then let us be jubilant on this our
freedom's jubilee; let us praise God in
songs and prayers for having given us
the apostles of freedom who assisted
in making it possible for Lincoln to
free us and seal our commission with
his life blood.
T.nh no rife lao
uu piaioo uwvi iui uiic uf.w nation
that was founded after Appomat
tox, and let us praise Film above all
for the New South that Is educating
Itself to its full duty to us negroes.
Let us stand here prepared to answer
every call; to do every servipe; to love
the white man, and to stand by him
in a spirit of forgiveness and forbear,
ance and thankfulness, with a heart
free from rancor, strife, or bitterness,
laboring for the good of our country,
the uplift of all Americans, <vhite and
black, and the glory of God.
Let us always remember that the
soutn is full to overflow with good,
well-meaning white men, of whom
Wade Hampton wan the ripest type.
Let us not forget his dying benediction
of the blessing ot peace,
peace, peace
Kounit
At Charleston L. 1\ Fouche, of
Anderson, a pharmacy student of the
South Carollua Medical college, was
found wounded on Coming street at
an early hour Friday morning. He
bad been shot in the stomach, and a
friend, L S. Maxwell, who was with
him, was taken into custody by the
police, while ETouche was sent to the
Roper Hospital. An investegatlon
seemed to establish the fact Friday
that Fouohe had shot himself probably
ohanglng his pistol from his pistol
from his coat pocket to his hi p pocket
The wound is not serious and the
young man will doubtless reoover.
THI LOBLOLLY PINE.
An IntereHtlnjc lleport Concerning
Iteoent Tests.
The forest service department of
agriculture has just rendered an Interesting
report concerning tests recently
made at a large saw mill near
Charleston, to dctermiue the strength
of loblolly pine. The company operating
the mill has under its control
about 45,000 acres of loblolly pine land
and it was through their efforts that
the department has been making tbe
tests mentioned.
This timber which is kuowu on the
'local market as North Carolina pi 110,
forms the greater part of the lura
ber out at this mill. The loblolly pine
forms a> useful construction timber
of moderate strength, it Is of very
rapid growth and reproduce readily.
For these reasons it will remain one
of the most important timber trees
in the South. Correct data on its
strength will be of permanent valuo.
It Is found much more convenient
to take the testing machine to the
mill instead of bringing the large
sticks of timber to the laboratory from
the mill. The condition to which the
stock of timber is subjected after being
cut in the forest determine to some
degree how it will act when put in
use where it will have to carry a load
or bear a strain. It somotlmes bocomes
an important matter to know
the history of the sticks tested. The
logs from which it is desired to cut I
the test pieces, cau be selected in tbe
forest, marked and subsequently identified
at the log pond. A concise his
tory of eaoh log is kept, showing the
location of the tree in the forest, the
kind of soil in which it grew, the time
of cutting, and the length of the time
the log lies in the water. On arriving
at the mill, the log Is sawed any way
desired, and can then be tested short
ly after coming from the saw or laid
aside for the purpose of air drying cr
kiln drying before testing. Every step
of importance in the life of tho log
after cutting is thus known, and many
pecularlttcs which arise in the behavior
of stioks when tested can be
explained.
The testing machine is set up In the
mill and driven by the mill machinery.
The sawyer in the mill saws exactly
the kind of sticks desired, and the
pieces intended for test are sent directly
to the testing machi-e.
The plan of work at Charleston Included
investigations to determine
the otTeot of knots on the strength of
the timber; the relative strength of
air dried and kiln dried timber; the
f iY-iCt of rate of growth upon the
strength; the intluence of the relative
strength of sap and heart wood, and
the inlluence on the strength of tho
method of sawing.
Judging from the inquiries received
in tho service, a widespread Interest
is manifested in this line of work, and
without doubt many questions yet
undecided will be deliniitly answered
on the completion cf tho tests. The
specifications for instance under
which engineers and architects recoive
joists are very Imperfect because
no one knows the exact degree of
weakening which arises from the
presence of knots of various sizes aud
kinds in the joists. Again there is a
common prejudice against sap
wood on acojuut of the suppose weak
ness.
The experiments now going on are
most Important and lnteristiug to
lumber men and builders generally,
nriH u/lll Sn no?i?ln/l
wuu ?? ?? uu ouniou un yci> lur auiiJM
time.
ANOTHER KILLING.
One Colored Man Ktlln Another Ovf r
In the Kork,
Tho hob supper continues to get in
Its deadly work. On last Saturday
night over In the Fork of the Edlsto,
Lewis Curry shot and killed Earnest
Fuel, both parties being colored. The
killing took place at the house of
Curry, who lives on Mr. II. S. Spires
place near Norway. According to the
story of Curry there was a gathering
on Saturday, night of several colored
people at his house.
Early in the evening Fuel and another
roan got into a row about a debt of
ten cents, and was about to resort to
blows to settle the trouble between
them. Curry ran In the house and gob
a single barrel gun and got in betwoen
Fuel and the negro to preserve the
peaoe aim uigmuy 01 rus norae. At
this junoturc of alfilrs, Curry claims
that some one shoved him, and as he
fell his gun was discharged bhooting
Fuel in the brers*".
As soon as the snooting took place
every body ran away from Curry's
house leaving Fuel where befell when
shot. After waiting until two o'clock
Sunday morning, Curry went to Mr.
Spires' house, and after waking up
that gentleman, told him of the
shooting as above described. Wnen he
called Mr. Spires Curry ciaims that he
did not know how badly Fuel was
hurt. He requested Mr. Spires to go
with him to his house which that
gentleman did.
When they reached the house they
found Fuel dead having been shot
through the breast, the shot taking
effect in the lungs a><d no doubt some
of them pierced the heart of the dead
man. Curry was lodged In the county
jail. He has employed Messrs.
Wolfe & Be-ry to represent him.
Curry claims that the shooting was
altogether accidental, but the court
will have to decide the matter when
it meets next May.
Impossible to foresee an accident.
Not impossible to be prepared for it.
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Showdown on llural.
Postmaster General Corfcleyou In
his report outlines a policy of strlokter
ad her nee to the ltval regulation
of rural mail routes. Most important
to rural route patrons Is Ills intention
to "discontinue without delay any
route wnere it is round on inspection
thai because of a lack of appreciation
of the service the expenditure involved
is unwarranted," and tjie announcement
that where patronage is
insuilicient to warrant a dialy delivery
substitution will be made of a everyother
day service. Not every route is
appreciative and two many patrons
look upon the service as sometlilng to
which they have the same general
right as they have to receive mail at
a postollice. The $ 11,000,000 deticit
has brought the government to the
conclusion that there Is little sense in
spending the people's money on those
who do rot appreciate it.
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all foods Into tlssuebuildng
blood. Kodol relieves Sjur Stomach,
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of Indigestion. Palatable and
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Hjy with constipation, biliouvncm,
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on, has always striven for the up
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lafcronage received in the* past, wo
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tors:
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SURGEON DENTISTS,
Conway, S. C. /
BkayOvcr IUmk of Horry.
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H. H. WOODWARD,
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CONWAY, S. C.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Conway, S. C.
Office in Spivey Building.
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Boom No. 4, Spivey Building.
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