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Makes Hone Baking Easy ' ^AWNC POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powdor mado from Royal Grapo Oroam of Tartar IB tLUM-KQ LIME PHOSPHATE FALSE BASIS r i_L cl c_n i/ODgrrssmaD juuusuu jouws raiidty ui The Protective Tariff. ?' LUMBER TRUST ACTIVE In a Tetter to One of His Constituents the (/onKi'CNNinnn Tells Why He Opposes the Doctrine and I'oints Out Who Profits by the Timber Duty. Congressman Joseph T. Johnson of South Carolina states that he has recently received a number of letters from various sources in his district, suggesting that he use his influence to induce tho Democratic majority in the house to "go slow" in its handling of tho tariff question * The following letter, written by him to one of his constituents and friends, shows how he stands on the subject: "I have your favor of the 21st, in which you state that before the tariff question is agitated very much and before I commit myself, you would like to say some things to me relative to the manufacturing interests of the South, and in the * North as well. "I have committed myself 20 years ago on that question, and so has the Democratic party. I do not believe in the doctrine of nrotoction. The Democratic party haa always contended that the government haa 110 right to levy a tax, except for the purpose of raiaing revenue to defray the expenses of the government. The other political party contends that the government has the right to levy taxes not for the purpose of raising revenue, but for the purpose of protecting American manuacturers from competing with the manufacturers of other countries. It is unfortunate that many people in this country have actually come to believe that business prosperity is dependent upon laws that give certain classes special privileges. "During all the last week we were engaged in considering the Canadian reciprocity bill. All speakers in opposition to that measure professed their belief that the American farmer would he ruined if Canadian products were permitted to come into this country free of duty. I do not believe it. The statement made oftener than any other against permitting the importation of Canadian products was that land was cheaper in Canada than it is in Minnesota and other States in that section of the Union, and that the farmer on high-priced land could not compete ^ with the farmer on cheaper land. "This proposition won't bear analysis. The lands in every State in the Union vary in value. The lands in every county in every State in the Union vary in value, and yet all farmers compete with ono another. There are farming lands in every county of the Fourth congressional district of South Carolina that readily sell for $100 per acre, and in every case within ten miles there are lands equally as productive that'sell for $20 per acre. The arguments that I have heard in favor of protec* (An Hrhon an<ilvy<w1 ni'fl nhrtnt nn n tiv/ll , '? ?l VII MVV., ?? W V W M par with the one above suggested. Southern farmers have no protection upon their products, but we sell cotton in Liverpool in competition with the low-priced labor of Egpyt and . India. As a matter of truth, the Northern farmer has no protection. It is true that the tariff law levies ' a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat, and similar duties upon corn, barley and various products of the farm; but those duties are put there for the purpos2 of fooling the farmer and getting him to vote the Republican ticket. The Northern farmers ' not only make all the wheat we can < consume in the United States, but 1 they make a surplus of many, many 1 millions of bushels, which is export- . ed and sold in the markets of the 1 world in competition with the i wheat that Is grown in Russia and I' in other wheat growing countries. |< "The most active opponent of r Canadian reciprocity was the lumber trust; but the lumber trust never shows its own hand. It spent Its energies in trying to get the farmers and others to protest against Canadian reciprocity; but the real object of Its activities was in order that the great timber lords might hold up the American peopl". There are three holders of timber in the United States who have S8.0O0,000 acres of standing timber ? an area nearly three times as large as all the cotton llelds of the Southern States. These three holders own timber enough to build a cottage for every family in the United States The lumber on the land at its present prices is worth 10, 20 and 50 times what they paid for the land, and the land after tho timber is cut off is worth many times what they paid for it. And these powerful influences have put every agency in operation to kill tariff revision?not because they care anything about the farmer's wheat or his buckwheat or his barley?but because they want still further to be able to multiply their almost countless millions by holding up our people 011 the price of lumber. "Our New Bedford friends, who have evidently written to you, are not concerned about Southern mills, but they want you to pull the chestnuts out of the tire for them; and if I could reach the ear of every busI 1 r\ r\ I ? hn C^aii t h m if ocl iri/io liiunn ijiciu *11 mi/ kjv/ii lii , iuj tivt ? iv\> to him would be to watch for the hands that dare not show their motives and not allow thein to work upon the fears of our people. The South has never gotten anything out of the doctrine of protection. It Is the law that has enabled the steel trust, the rubber trust and the paint trust, the sugar trust, the lumber trust the rubber trust and the meat trust to garner their millions at the expense of all the people. They don't want tills great privilege cut off, but they dare not come out in the open and plead that they should be allowed to continue their exploitations, and consequently they resort to bring pressure to bear upon their representative In congress to prevent them legislating In the interest of all the people. "The ways and means committee of the present congress is composed of careful, painstaking, conscientious men. They have no desire, and the members of congress have no desire, to do anything that will injure or hinder legitimate business. We realize perfectly that the country has been operating upon a false foundation and upon a false doctrine, and that however vicious that system may be, we must destroy it gradually, conservatively and cautiously. The house is Democratic, but the senate is Republican and the president is a Republican; so our tariff legislation must of necessity he moderate, or it could not pass a Republican president. I realize fully that it is possible for these great influences to cause depression in business just as I know a man may create a stampede in a theatre by shouting "Fire!" when there is 110 fire. Hut what I want to warn you and fill my friends in the South against is permitting yourselves to be stampepded by these peopple, who do not wish to come out in tlie open, but who are crying "Fire!" and business depression in order to create alarm throughout the country and try to stampede congress from doing what the people want it to do, and what is right." P. H. McGo. ? ? TWKLVK PKIfilSHKO. - More People Were Killed in Wreck Than Thought. One more teachers, Miss Margaret Jones, 4 5 Eagle street, IJtica, is reported among the missing, and it is assumed she perished in the wreck of \f orHn'o P rnol/ P/\n n Hn <r \Hto fi i i*A ill tin vyi vv;n. v.uuin 111/^ ?uico .lones dead, the total of the disaster at this time is 12, eight Uticans, and four railroad men. All of the injured at the Kaston hospital are recovering, those most seriously hurt showing marked improvement. The only victim of the wreck who has been identified is Miss Louisa Lindaman of Ut.ic.a. She was identified by the buttons on her cuffs, which were not destroyed in the lire. All the bodies of the unidentified will be shipped to Utica tomorrow in a special train over the Pennsylvania and Delaware, Lackawanna western railroad. ? ? Wants Everybody Pardoned. Following the unusual number of pardons, paroles and commutations, the governor of South Carolina lias received a letter, written in an uneducated tone asking that he pardon all of the convicts in the State penitentiary next Thanksgiving Day. The letter has been taken under considedation by the chief executive. Over 100 prisoners have been liberated by the present governor in three months. Holland Is Acquitted. Tn general sessions court at Greenville Judge Sease directed a verdict of not guilty in the case of Lee Holland,* intendant of the town of Maudlin, charged with killing Robert McAbee of Rnoree in a street duel last February. The shooting of Robert j McAbee occurred after McAbee had Lried to "shoot-up" the town of Maul- < Tin, and in the skirmish in which he i was shot Holland was also wounded. GAVE A GOOD TALK f MILLER CITES SOME FACTS ON THE XEOltO COLLEGE. ? ReviewH History of Institution, its lfar<l Fight for Existence and the Success Attained. In bidding farewell to Orangeburg and the State Colored College, Wed' nesday, President Thos. E. Miller, who has been its efficient President since its establishment, reviewed briefly his connection with the College, his efforts to secure its establishment and the struggle he has encountered in the administration of the president's office. In the course of his address he cites some facts that will be of general interest to the people of both races. It is recalled that R. S. Wilkinson was recently elected to succeed Miller. The full text of President's Miller's address is as follows: "Sixteen years ago the Constitu tlonai convention met tor tne purpose of disfranchising the negroes. It was composed of not less than one hundred and sixty members, all of whom save six were of the white race, Smalls, Whipper, Wigg, Reid, Anderson and myself were the Republican members. The six of us managed, by a brave and bold fight to secure for the negro race this College. "About eighteen years previous two nogres, Bruce Williams and Thos. E. Miller, made it possible, by their votes and voice, for the South Carolina College and the grand old Citadel to be restored to the white youths of the State. That was a bitter fight between the Hampton faction and the other Democratic faction. The opposition to those two colleges had a majority of two in the State senate. It required the votes of Senator Bruce Williams and myself to make it a tie. The tie was secured, and that grand commoner, Gen Kennedy, voted with us; the tie was broken and these institutions were once more made the shrine of learning to and for the white youths of the State. At that time the faction led by Gen. Hampton promised us this College, but it was more than eighteen years before I was able to force the white people of South Carolina to redeem that pledge. Soifie day I will give the people of our State a full history of how I won this College in the Constitutional Convention for my people. "I had no intention of becoming president, but I could not have secured the school for my people without leaving active political life. I made the sacrifice; we have had the College these fifteen years. The past of its existence is secure; the verdict of our people is that we have done well; we have made good in this College. We have matriculated more than 10,000 students; we have grad uateci more tnan < ui?, ami inose wno have attended here have gone out in the world industrious, prudent, successful citizens. We never left God out of the equation in the management of this school. The College's motto is: "The Glory of God and the Good of Man.' 'Hv the sweat of thy brow thou shalt eat bread is the command of God, and our aim here has been, and is my fervent hope ever will be, to inculcate into every and all of our students moral rectitude, lofty idea of patriotism, thrift, obedience, frugality and a clinging devotion to the Golden Rule. "Very many presidents have only to look to the government and management of the College, and their task should be easy; but mine has been a duplex administration. When 1 came here some of the white people of the State were against the higher education of the negroes. The negro denominational colleges were fighting us and the one across the fence, through its president, vowed our annihlation. Hence, it became | my lot to so act and speak as to I show to the white people of this |? State, that it was, and is their duty to i plant, support, protect and maintain < this institution for the negro youth. I had to prove to the negro that the 1 best school in South Carolina is this s school. Then, again, I was surround- < ed in the beginning by a cabal of \ preachers on my faculty, who had 1 little or no experience as educators, t who were against Industrial educa- 1 tion, and they permitted no oppor- t tunity to escape, one and all of them, i in their endeavor to destroy my ad- 1 ministration and break up this College. If they had been hired by the 1 people across the fence instead of I by the State of South Carolina, they I could not have been more persist- t ent in their efforts of the destruc- t tion of my administration and this t College. t "Those of us who have been here t i u ^ i ...ill. i lur iiiu jmtsi ten yums, wiin very iuw i exceptions, have been faithful to ev- ? ery trust, and we have done all that I man can do for the good of South t Carolina by instructing, faithfully instructing, all who have come with- t in our gate. Hence, I leave this in- p stitution with the best wishes and t esteem of all the white people of 1 this town. Words are not mine with t which to thank them all for the en- v couragement and support they have given me during the fifteen years I have been here. The best certificate " of success that I carry from here is ii the high regard my work and myself c are held by these very excellent cit- v / 4 : K izens of Orangeburg town and county. I have but one personal regret In leaving, and It is this: That these good white people will cease to be my neighbors, but I shall ever remember them, and prove by my labor wherever I may go, that I have been and will remain worthy of their confidence. "Students, the best and greatest asset of a State or nation is her labor. The Slate whose labor ? profligate, the State whose labor is immoral, the State whose labor is ignorant, is doomed to poverty. Hear me, the motto of South Carolina is: 'Prepared in mind and in wealth. If she ceases to bo prepared in intellect., she will cease to be prepared in wealth. 'A fool and his money soon parts.' Whether it be individual or State. Therefore, my parting word to you is this, lie up! lrp and doing with a resolution to become educated in the arts of thrift and frugality, morals and industry and devotion to South Carolina! Let these principles become a part of every portion of you, and then South Carolina will never have cause to regret the money, let the amount be large or small, she spends upon this institution and upon you. "To my people, the negroes, who have sent their children here to us, I have not words with which to thank them for their loyalty to me and this College, and T assure them that I have been a father to their children at all times. The humblest and most needy have received my strongest love and best devotion. It is my prayer that they will give my successor their undivided support in the future. "Professors, instructors, teachers, I leave here with the best wishes for this institution and for you. 1 pray God that all of you shall see your duty and discharge it. Do not remain here only for the money you are getting, but do all in your power to prove to the enemies and friends of this institution that it is the best place in South Carolina for negroes to send their children. He faithful to every trust, be true to each other, be loyal to your president. For him to be successful he needs untiring service from you, he needs your confidence, he needs your loyalty, and South Carolina demands the fullest discharge of every duty intrusted to you. Here is your new president; on the 30th of June the keys to this College will be handed him by me, with them my burdens will fall upon him. May God give him prudence, patience, health, strength, and above all, fidelity to every trust, and the wisdom of Solomon to execute the task. Honorable trustees and devoted friends, how can I say to you faiewell? I have been here serving you and South Carolina for fifteen years, and I have never been associated with or under better men. The superior of our hoard of trustees is not to be found in the State. Governor Evans permitted me to name the trustees of this School in the beginning, and I selected Bradham, Floyd, Brlce, Kibler, Lowman, men of-honor and integrity and patriotism. And as soon as some of them have dropped out they have been succeeded by Mrssrs. Dukes, White, Sawyer, each and every one of whom have proven the equal of their predecessors. Hut the future only will reveal the fact if South Carolina has in her confines the equal of Major D. .1. Bradham. He has been the devoted, trusty, I say the fathers of the board in patience, prudence and devotion to the task assigned him in the management of this school. He is now succeeded by Mr. Hodge. The name j.s a good one, the Hodges of America have been the leaders in part lot ism and educated thought, I pray for him eminent success in the management of this school. All of you gentlemen know why 1 have been forced to leave you; I opposed the election of our Governor. I have never said an unkind word about him: I wrote and spoke the truth. I uttered only facts. God forbid that I should ever publicly or privately slander any man, yet I can thank my God enough for having given me courage to speak the truth, let its cost he ever so dear. "My task here has been heavy. I have given fifteen years of devoted service, my very best of manly existence. Governor 1 Mease has emancipated me from the heavy burden. Words are not mine with which to hank him for my freedom. I leave lere with a heart full of gratitude , o Governor HI ease for my emancipation. He is a gited young man; lis enemies are praying to sum up his administration when he shall ' lave finished it, and truthfully place ; liim in the class of Franklin J. doses, Jr. But my prayers are for he good of South Carolina and him, hat God may direct him, protect him ind keep him from wrong, that when * he impartial historian shall take up ' he pen to write his administration, le will bo classed in truth; with ' doultrie, Rut ledge, Pinckney and McJuflle, and last but not least, with he immortal Wade Hampton. "Only one more word, and I am hrough. Teachers, my successor, 1 it u uent 8 lot all of you rem ember hat 'In union there Is strength.' < fence take unto yourselves this mot- 1 o, "We are Many In Oiie.' Fare- 1 veil." < It seems to he Impossible to bury ? 'that Lor/.mer matter." The case 1 s sb black that whitewash enough s an not be put on to make It look < vhlte. c P HA BY ONLY TRAGEDY WITNESS. Athens, Go., Man Kills Wife, then Commits Suicide. With a little wide-eyed baby girl, the only witness, R. W. McKinney, until recently of Newport, Tenn., shot and killed his wife and then himself at 9.3 0 o'clock Monday night, within earshot of a revival, which was progressing at the Young Harris Memorial Methodist Church, at Athens, Qa. It was at first believed that the two people had been murdered by a third party, but a careful examination of the ground and room in which they were found by the police served to convince them that the man had first shot his wife and then himself. No cause for the shooting is known. EDITOR GETS A PEACE. Another South Carolina!) Also Finds a Good Jol>. Mr. \V. n. Bradford, of Fort Mill, S. C., who has had years of experience as a practical newspaper man, and also in the Government printing oflice, has been appointed assistant clerk to the joint printing investigation committee of Congress. This Is an important position. The committee will have a great deal of work to do and has been actuated by the ut'sire iu Bt'i uie ex|i?n unMouuivt' in its labors. iMr. Bradford is now the publisher of the Fort Mill Times. Mr. William II. Barron, of Chester, S. C., will be messenger to the House committee on postoflices and post roads. ? ? A Quality That Needs Cultivating. The Santa Fe railroad has done a good thing in issuing a circular enjoining its conductors and other officials to exercise courtesy toward passengers. Not that the subordinate ofllcials of that road are sinners above others in their demeanor toward the public. As a rule the men employed in responsible positions on all the railroads are considerate and obliging, yet there is room for improvement, not only on railroad and steamboat lines, but also in all concerns where employes come into contact with the public. In the police force of some of our cities there is oftentimes a painful lack of civility, to say nothing of courtesy. It is admitted that the patience of many ofllcials is often sorely tried by the foolish questions frequently put | to them and by the fussiness which many people show. At the same time it. must, be remembered that what seem foolish questions to the initiated do not seem foolish to the people putting them. It would be well for every public servant in discharging his duties to bear in mind that it is well to put oneself in the other person's place. This would result in a greater forbearance and courtesy in dealing with others. If by courtesy is meant the giving to others what is their due and giving it in kindly spirit, then it is a quality which may well be practiced more widely than at present. In the mad rush that characterizes this age many people are not sumcienuy considerate of the rights and feelings of others. There is too frequently a brusquesness of speech and manner which hurts. The old fashioned courtesy of our forefathers may have been a little too elaborate, but some return of it would be welcome. Those Wicked Democrats. The New York Sun exposes a hideous conspiracy among the wicked Democrats in Congress to "do nothing to spoil the chance of electing a President" and to "leave nothing undone to promote the success of their part^ in the election next year." To this despicable end "they are going to put revision up to President Taft and the Republican Senate, and in a way that makes co-operation impossible; and then they propose to go to the country and say, 'We have done our best to revise the tariff, but we have failed because wo do not control the Government.' " The New York World says this miserable plot is enough to raise goose-pimples on the skin of every Republican patriot, but it can be thwarted. Suppose Mr. Taft and the Republican Senate were to allow those godforsaken Democrats to have their own way about tariff revision. If the revision were unsatisfactory to the country the blame 1 could be thrown upon the Democrat- < Ic party, which would be sternly re- i buked at the polls in IP 12. If it I wore satisfactory the Republicans ' would share in the glory. We find 1 nothing in this Democratic program I of tariff revision which "makes cooperation impossible'' on the part of Republicans who sincerely desire to eliminate the abuses of the Payne- j A Id rich schedules. I Pastor in Trouble. j George Nowland, who is pastor of ] two churcheH, according to G. R. I Randolph, United States revenue 1 commissioner, will be tried at Anniston, Ala., Monday on the charge of Mowland was capturedserg.e ,9|Ae operating a moonshine distillery. < Mowland was captured near the Kb- I ^nezer church, said to bo one of < tiis charges, last Sunday when a big s still of which he was the alleged j >wner was destroyed by the ruiding 1 >fficers. t 1 THEY MUST BE TRUE THK PEOPLE OF UNITED STATES IAX>K TO TIIE DEMOCRATS. Senator O'Gornian Says Public Ha* Put Its Trust in Party Which Opposes Tariff Crab. In an address Wednesday evening at a dinner -given in his honor by the National Democratic Club, of New York, James A. O'Gorman the newly elected Senator to the United States Senate, said in part: "Today the American people are looking hopefully to the Democratic party for redress against economic and political conditions which weigh heavily upon them and which can not be successfully defended. There is a growing and widespread public sentiment that the American consumer must be relieved from unjust and unnecessary tribute. "The house of representatives, Democratic for the first time In 16 years, has set a splendid example of advancing necessary legislation during the last month. The pledges of the party have been kept and the record of the house is one of achievement. "In our own State the Democratic majority intends, during this session, to enact laws which will maJce for economy and efficiency in government and thus lighten the burden of" the citizens of the State. In NowJersey, under the inspiring leadership of Gcv. Wilson, the Democratic party 1n one session of the legislature has redeemed all the pledges of constructive legislation. These are a few of the achievements of the Democratic party in 1011. "I believe the people of the land want an immediate downward revision of the tariff. They demand a parcels post. They demand that the Panama canal he fortified. They demand the election of United States senators by direct vote, and they demand that the reserved rights of the States be jealously guarded against federal usurpation. I shall support these and all similar measures as ! they arise." ? Makes Ua<l Break. Tho Spartanburg Herald thinks that former Secretary of the Treasury, Leslie f.Yf. Shaw, will have to learn to control himself a little bettor if he expects to continue to receive the invitations to make speeches to alumni associations. The fact that the other night at such a gathering in New York, Mr. Shaw saw fit to denounce the so-called "Progressive" tendencies in politics at the present time, and in the course of his remarks to denounce the course of Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, fully warrants tho Herald in saying what it does. The rebuke Mr. Shaw got from those present will never bo forgotten by him. After denouncing Gov. Wilson's course, Shaw mentioned the Jersey executive's doings, the diners cheered Gov. Wilson, with such shouts as, "Wilson will be our next President." and the like. Mr. Shaw utterly disgusted with the turn of affairs sat down, and, so far as the newspaper reports indicate, he never did finish his speech. He was "very sore" over tho action of the diners, whose guest of honor he was. Put, as the Herald says, Mr. Shaw should have known better than to speak dispariugly of any prominent character at a nonpartisan gathering, such as an alumni dinner necessarily is, and it seems that he has no 0110 but himself to blame for the turn that was taken In the evening's proceedings. \V here Was Jobn ? A San Francisco wort) an whose husband had been dead some years went to a medium, who produced the spirit of her dead husband. "My dear John," said the widow to the spirit, "are you happy now?" "I am very happy," John replied. "Happier than you were on earth with me?" she asked "Yes," was the answer: "I am far happier now than I was on earth with you." "Tell me. John, what is it like in heaven ?" "Heaven!" said John. "I'm not in heaven." Fight. About Money. At Walter, Ala., Monday afternoon F. W. Hosey shot and killed William Mack, a well known citizen. Dne of Hlack'8 sons took the gun from Hosey and shot him, and when Hosey s son interfered, shot him also, rhe fight grew out of a debt, which Hosey owed Mack and for which IUr?i>h tnnV hint I ft ? > Crow of Fight All hope of finding member of :ho crew of the schooner Emma Hawkins, eight negroes, alive has been abandoned after 12 hours search in the vicinity of the wreck in Lake Ponchartrain. The Hawkins wan found bottom side up four miles rrom Poss Manchanc, La. ^ ^ i Illcrts in Columbia. Following a conference between ?ren. R. H. Teague and iMayor Glbbs, t was announced that the reunion if the Confederate veterans of the date will be held in Columbia on \ugust 9 and 10. The Red Shirts net in Columbia on August 11 and 12. ^