The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 26, 1911, Image 4
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NONE LEFT ALIVft
Tie Ckiieie Spare Neither Age Nor Sex
in Missac e of Mtnchos
THE DEAD ARE PILED UP
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Consummation llcKiogitcri at file Capital
All Hay Thursday, and Rofti
gees from (ho Fighting Zone Toil
of Horrors of Chinese Revolutions
at Hankow and War Chang.
A cablegram from Shanghai,
China, says six packed steamers arrived
here from Hankow today carrying
refugees. The steamer Belgravia
was occupied exclusively by ft>reign
passengers who were given free
{accommodations at the directions of
he consul in Hankow. The ship was
so crowded that 111 nay of the ?as?
~ nn +Viq flnrtv n f fhft
tft'lllgUi a BlCjJV Wl* IUU
hold. Most of the foreigners* were
Russians employed in the tea factories
and Belgian iron workers, employed
in the steel works, the Han
Yang arsenal, and on the PekingHankow
Railway.
The refugees declare that the whole
Yang Tse Valley, from Hankow to
Shanghai, is in the hands of the rebels
with the possible exception of one
or two of the larger cities to which
provincial ofllcials have retired with
their available troops. It has been insistently
stated hero that Kiu Kiang,
15 miles below Hankow, is under
revolutionary control. This is denied,
however, by foreign oflicials and by
the representatives of the Chinese I
custom service.
Accounts of the revolutionary attack
on Wo Chang as given by the
refugees emphasize particularly the
massacre of the manchus in that city.
In the slaughter neither age nor sex
was regarded and it is doubtful, the
refugees say, whether a single representative
of the Mnichu race was
left alive there. Similar slaughter of
the Manchus followed in Hankow
and Han Yang, when those cities
fell.
Copies of the Central China Post,
which arrived on the lielgravia, describe
the early progress of the revolutionary
movement. "The revolutionary
leaders," the pa/per says,
"displayed secrecy, promptitude and
thoroughness ? qualities seldom
shown by the governing classes in
China. But the massacre of the Manchus
in our three cities is a ghastly
blot on the reputation of the revolutionaries."
Shanghai is a hot bed of revolution
and rumors of plots and counter
plots 'are numberless. A formal appeal
issued by the revolutionary a gents
here today says:
"Wo appeal ror tne cooperation or
cur brethren throughout tho world.
Those with money should contribute
funds; those with wisdom should
devise plans; those with information
should secretly report the enemy's
condition. We expect that our movement
will succeed. If it fails, the ten
days' massacres of Hang Cliaw and
Kiating, when the Manchus subdued
China, will be repeated.
"It is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all
directions and with unanimous minds
will turn this universe about."
A proclamation credited to tho
revolutionav leader in Hankow is as
follows:
"I come to save the Chinese people
. 1 have no idea of acquiring
personal profit or preference but aim
only to pull you out of the fire and
cure your cankering maladies. Hitherto
you have been bitterly Oppress
ed. You have been drowned in a sea
of misery by a government of aliens*
Your rulers have treated you like
bastards, not like children.
"Let whoever is animated by patriotic
sentiment come quickly and
join our ranks. With us he will obtain
unending glory by delivering his
country from the Mancliu barbaian
who hitherto has eaten our fiesh.
From now on we shall sleep in his
skin.
"I^et us be merciful even to
our enemies. Our soldiers must be
careful not to recklessly kill the
Manchus. Lot us give them an op
portunlty to surrender their uniform
and weapons. If they do not then
yield and Continue enemies of the
revolutloary movement, they must
be killed.
The official announcement this
morning that telegraphic communication
with Ilankow had been interrupted
since sunset last night, caused
consternation throughout the
capital today.
The wildest rumors of reverses to
the imperial arms spread like wild
fire, although no definite facts to support
them were available. Much
significance was attached to the fact
that the government has refrained
from issuing any official ansouncemenf
of a victory In yesterday's engagement
with the rebels.
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Three Natives Were Koten.
News comes from the New Met*
rides that a French trading, vessel
made a raid and a number of na*
fives were kidnapped. The naClvef
I it revenge attacked the steamer and
captured three of the crew, all na
PEOPLE ARE ROBBED
FOK THE BKNKFIT -OF WOOL
TKUST WHO OWN MILLS.
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The Americans Pay Over a Hundred
Million Dollars in Taxes on the
Clothes They Wear.
The people of the United (States
pay a subsidy to the wool industry
of at least $104,400,000 a year, acicording
to calculations of the Hon.
Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama,
chairman of tlio Ways and Means
committee of the house of representatives,
who discussed schedule K
before the Industrial club, of Chicago,
recently. ^
After relating the history of the
tariff on wool which he said had been
recommended in 18C7, after a meeting
of the wool growers of the west
and the wool manufacturers of the
east, Congressman lluderwood undertook
to show the actual tax imposed
on the individual through the
tariff.
"An illustration of the extent of
the burden is afforded by a study of
a typical article of comparatively
cheap cloth such as enters the ordi?-j
nary men's suit worn by the great
masses of the people," he said. "The
article is an all worsted fancy fabric,
the wholesale English price per yard
of which is seventy-seven cents, and
the freight to New York, one cent.
"The compensatory duty is fortyfour
cents per pound or twenty-three
cents per yard, the ad valorem duty
forty per cent or thirty-eight cents
1 er yard in addition, or seventy-eight
i ~ o ii. /? : ?~..4- Tf
per cent ui mu impute pi n;;. 11 idquires
three and one-half yards to
make a man's suit. There are at
present 92,000,000 persons of the
United States. It is estimated onefifth
are heads of families, or men
making 1 8,400,000 such splits used
a year. There are doubtless an equal
number of women wearing woolen
making a total of such cloth, which
with the children's suits makes a total,
figured at the small estimate of
one suit a year, 171,200,000 yards.
"The taiff tax of 61 per cent per
yard, to say nothing of any increase
in tax as it passes to the
jobber, makes not less than $104,4
00,00 paid each year to subsidize
the wool industry of America
"On the other hand, the entire
duties paid the United States on all
imports of woolens and worsteds in
1910 amounted to a total of less
than one-fourth of one per cent of
$1 5,5 00,000 for the use of the government
and over $100,000,000 subtracted
from the pockets of the people.
Is it fair or just or right to maintain
these enormous taxes unduly to
foster the business of less than oneand
three-fourths to stagger under
this enormous burden?
"I do not believe the American
people will justify the president in
Ms veto of the wool schedule. He
does not say the rates of duty fixed
in the bill presented to him were too
high or too low, but says that congress
was not informed and that
they minst wait the decision of the
socalled tariff hoard. , The congress
had all the information it had when
it passed the revision of the tariff
schedule, that the Ways and Means
committee had when it drafted the
Payne bill, which the president
signed.
"The chairman of the tariff board
does not seem to agree with the president
as to the ability of that board
to secure facts that will aid congress
in rewriting that schedule. He said
at a banquet of the American Association
of Woolen and Worsted manufacturers
in New York last December
"there are certain things that are
difficult to get and one thine is to
try to get cost of production."
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MrilDttHUIlS TO HK HANUKl).
Two Negroes Will He Kvceuted for
Killing Negroes.
At the conclusion of the Court of
General Sessions at Chester on Wednesday,
Judge Watts passed sentence
on Henry Kee, for the murder of
Sam Dye; and Mack Hood, for the
murder of Walker Dunlap, sentenc
ing thoni to hang on December 8.
These will be the first legal hangings
in Lancaster county in twentyone
years. The last hanging was
that of Roach Catoo and Will Clyburn,
for the murder of CI us Hemnis.
Out of the twelve murder cases
to come up at this term, all except
two were tried. Two were convicted
, of murder in the first degree, one
. with recommendation to mercy, and
. one of manslaughter.
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Was Killed on Street Car.
i At. Montgomery, Ala., A. C. Jaml[
son, a fruit vender, shot and killed
. .John Dice, a street car conductor, on
i the rear end of a street car in the
; heart of- the city. Circumstances
I leading to the killing are unknown,
- Jamison has been arrested on a
charge of murder.
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Killed a Huge Ilattler.
A rattlesnake that had as its
. caudal appendage 23 rattles and a
L button was killed In Saltkehatchfc
? swamp, several miles from Barnwell,
i by D. B. Aldrtch, last week. The
t. rattles were cut off and brought tc
> Darnwell. They measured five inchef
. In length.
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AWFUL STORY
Millitas Arc Starviig ia Ckiaa asi
Ciaibalisa Is Canta.
SEEN UPON EVERY HAND
Heaps of Decaying Dead Piled in
?Streets and Other Places and
Sights are Sickening Horror of
Devastations Produced by Vast
Flood Which Swept Central China.
Advices from Shanghai say that
millions of people face starvation in
Central China. Parents are eating
their children in the flood-stricken
districts. Marauding bands are in
control and head the fight for the
survival of tho fittest. .Missionaries
coming from the interior state that
tho situation surpasses anything
within the history of the country.
From Ichang to the sea, a dis<tance
of a thousand miles, the valley
of the Yangtse is bordered by heaps
of decaying dead, while the black
flag and canibalism holds undisputed
sway. The flood-devastated villages
are overrun with starving Chinese.
The water-sodden ground is past all
cultivation. The rice crop is completely
destroyed, and even the grass
along the river .bank has been utilized
for food. Not a dog, rat or
hinl tli{if- nmilfl lift rantiirftd lins liftftii
spared.
The same conditions prevail in all
the valleys of Central China. Reports
from the interior proclaim a
state of ananchy. All trade is sus1pended
and the principal cities will
soon be in a state of siege, with their
inhabitants facing starvation, the
government is unable to cope with
the conditions. Millions of dollars
in food are needed at once.
Driven from their homes by the
floods, thousands of refugees iled to
the hills and camped on the sides
in little mat sheds. Here they have
been making pitiful efforts to preserve
their lives until the subsiding
flood gives them an opportunity to
return to their homes. They brought
with them in their ilight small
stocks of rice 'but in the weeks of
waiting this has been exhausted and
now they are eating anything that
holds nourishment. On the hillsides
they are digging into the ground with
their Uare fingers to get roots of
weeds and grass and some have
mixed clay with tueir rice in order
to give it more bulk.
In Anhui province the refugees
have overrun the wheat fields which
were recently harvested and are
gleaming the stubble of every grain
which was left by the harvesters.
Those who have been able to reach
the larger eities are offering their
children for sale, many little girls
hoimr fr?r a fpw dollars and the
boys for a slightly larger amount. In
the smaller villages which have been
cut off from any food supply for
weeks canibalism is the depth to
which starvation has driven the flood
victims. Many parents have eaten
their own children.
Ordinary flood statistics are insignificant
in ^comparison to those which
are necessary in enumerating the
extent of this flood. For a thousand
miles the Yangtse i? a vast inland
sea, its former course serving only
as a channel in the stream which
stretches away to the horizon or the
hills on either side. For two hundred
miles to the north of the
Yangste the Han is out of its hanks
and south of Hankow, Tung Ting
lake is so far out of its banks that
it has flooded villages fifty miles inland.
In one village six hundred
were drowned, in another three hundred.
At least ten thousand were
drowned in the villages and towns
alone.
An area as large as a European
country, is under water, its crops
ruined, and its population nomeless.
As to the number which are starving,
two millions is as conservative estimate,
the most conservative of any
which have been made. After a
ill roe-weeks' trip through the flooded
region, it is my opinion Uiat the
number will exceed 2,500,000. In
Anhui province alone the homeless
number half a million. In the Tung
Ting lake region there is an equal
number and these two sections cover
only a small part of the vase area of
the flood.
From American standards thoir
necessities of life are ridiculously
small. A dollar will supply a whole
family with food for a week. A hundred
dollars will keep a village in
comfort for a month. Poverty such
as is ever present in China, is unknown
in America, just as suffering
such as is caused by this flood is
unknown here. There may be hungry
people in America but none is
' starving. In Changteh and in other
1 cities in the flooded district, they I
1 are dying by the hundreds daily of
actual starvation.
In all of these cities you may see
linn/la Af raf n (ynna cn nroulr frnm
i;auuo vi. i vluowp ov tt vm? ? v
starvation that thoy can scarcely lift
their hands to receive the penny you
give them You can see dozens of
those who retain some strength of
body fight like madmen over the possession
of a bit of rice whfch has
been spilled In the mud. Rats, cats
and dogs are being eaten just as any
other race would eat them it driven
to it by the pangs of hunger.
SAYS HEU WIN
A New Yark lea flualn Gamaar Wisaa
Will Break All Becaria
THE COUNTRY FOR HIM
Sentiment as Seen by the New York
cur on a Business Trip of Ten
Thousand Miles Makes Him Be.
. lieve that Gov. Wilson Will Sweep
the Country Next Year.
J. W. Binder, of New York,
writes as follows to the New York
Times concerning the presedential
election next year.
Editor of New York Times:
The next President of the United
States will be a Democrat. His
name is Woodrow Wilson. His majority
in the electoral college will
be greater than that given to any
President ever elected. These are
strong statements. Det m? tell you
why I believe them to be true.
1 have, within the past two
months traveled more than ten
thousand miles in the United States.
I have talked with some of tho biggest
men in the country. I have also
talked with workingmen, commercial
travelers, small merchants
and others.
Tlio spntinip.nt in favor of Wilson
is simply tremendous. J lis administration
in New Jersey since his election
as Governor has made friends
for him by the thousand. Business
men feel that in the hands of such
a man their interests would be conserved,
while the working men hail
the New Jersey employers' liability
law, enacted at his urgent demand,
as one of the best laws ever put on
our statute books. A CS'ichigan manufacturer,
many times a millionaire
none of whose fortune has been
made by security juggling, said to
me:
"I am for Wilson because I believe
he recognizes that the government
of this great nation should
be put on a business basis. The
business men of the United States
have accustomed themselves to regard
government as something asidc
something mysterious, in tang
ible, in which they had but a passing
interest, and to which plain
business principles could not be applied.
Hence, for the past fifty years
the functions of government have
been largely in the hands of lawyers.
Now, while I have the highest
regard for law and for its exponents,
I have yet to see the lawyer
whom I would make tho general
manager of my business. If this
be true of my own personal business,
involving a capitalization of
less than $10,000,000, on what
grounds can the people of this country
possLbly justify their placing the
control of the greatest business in
the world?the government of these
United States?almost entirely in
the hands of lawyers? I have no
hesitation in saying that the post
office department of the United
States should be made to bo selfsupporting,
if, indeed, it cannot be
made to show a profit. I believe it
r>nn if it. is administered without ;<?
g<ard to politics. It should be the
buisness of the President of the
United States to see that it is so
administered. I believe that Woodrow
Wilson would insist that it he
so administered. Hence I am for
him."
One of the men I talked with
was vice mayor of a large midwestern
city. He is an enthusiastic
Wilson supporter. I asked him what
objections he had heard to Wilson's
candidacy. He could name only one.
That was that Wilson changed his
mind on the matter of the initiative,
referendum and recall. It is true. He
did. He says himself that for fifteen
years he taught his classes in
Princeton that neither of these doctrines
would work. He says, further,
he can prove today that they
von't work. Then he adds with native
frankness, "but the trouble is
they do work," and, recognizing
that practice is always better than
theory, he adapts himself to the
changed conditions, and faces conditions
as they are, not as he theoretically
believed them to be. "This,"
continued my Democratic friend, "is
in my estimation, the best indication
of Wilson's strength."
J. W. Hinder.
Deadly llot Supper Hcgin.
Walter Cobb, colored, lies at the
point of death as the result of four
pistol shot wounds received at the
hands of one Jim Howland, also colored.
The shooting occurred Saturday
night some two or three miles
south of Aiken, and fo-llowed a dispute
which had arisen at a hot supper
at the homo of Howland.
Mayor Seriously Hurt.
Mayor W. M. M^Intire, of Mullins,
met with a serious accident Thursday.
Mr. Mclntyro was directing
the loading of the town's large safe
which was being removed to the
clerk's new office. The sale fell
from the dray and pinning him underneath
terribly mangled his leg.
His leg was broken In two places and
otherwise badly crushed.
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J. A. McDermott, John C
JK B. G. Collins, H. L. E
a? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui
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/A Successor to the Bank ol
it Horry County, and a pioneer
^ ly allied with the recent dev
^ Republic. Backed by the <
% United States Bonds, we are r
? tomers any reasonable acconu
jL H. A. SPIVEY,
f|S Cashier.
BODIES FOUND
rhcy Hay Be These of the Crew of a
Schooner Lost in tic Gale.
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ARE BURIED ON BEACH
Party ' Cone From Charleston to
liearn Whether the I)en<l Men
Floating Ashore Included ('apt.
Jurvis, of the Margaret A. May,
and His Two Brothers.
The News and Courier says Collector
of the Port R. W. Durant, Jr.,
President John G. Cherry, of the
North State Lumber Company, and
Capt. McGee, master of the schooner
Collins W. Walton, and others left
the city Monday aboaid the Govern
ment boat tsumter ror iviawan island
to investigate reports to the effect
that several bodies of white
men drowned at sea were either recovered
from a wreck or washed up
on the beach of the island some time
ago and buried by the inhabitants.
The gentlemen who compose the
party going to Kiawah Island beflieve
that among the bodies may
have been the remains of Capt. Kdward
L. Jarvis, master of the schooner
Margaret A. May, which was lost
during the storm of August 27, supposedly
in the neighborhood of
Cole's Island or Kiawah Island. The
only relic of the wreck was the stern
of the vessel, which washed up 011
Cole's Island beach after the storm.
A Mr. Grimball, living 011 Kiawah
found a scarf pin on the beach after
the storm, bearing the initials
"Ii3. L. J." This pin is supposed to
have been the property of the master
of the ill-fated schooner. Grimball
stated that he found the pin in
the end of a piece of piping attached
to a portion of the wreckage from
the deck house of a schooner.
It is said that Capt. McNeill, who
is working on the wreck of a schooner
at Kiawah Island, believed by
many to be the schooner Margaret
A May, discovered dead bodies in
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j LHO WrUCK, 1 I1UHU, it in nam, uuiv
been temporarily buried in the sand,
pending further investigation. The
bodies will be examined by Mr. I)mrant
and his party. When the bodies
were found Magistrate Ilill, of Kiawah
Island, is said to have ordered
them interred.
Capt. E. L. Jarvis was a member
of the Commercial Club, and of the
Carolina Yacht Club. He was one of
the youngest and most popular
skippers on the coast, and his death
was a great shock to his many
friends. He was beloved and honor?w
nil who knew him. Aboard
f? - ?
the Margaret A. May when she was
destroyed were two brothers of the
master of the vessel. George L. and
Raymond Jarvis. The party going to
Kiawah to make investigation of
the report that bodies wore found
from the wreck are hopeful that the
remains of Capt. Jarvis can bo
found and turned over to members
of his family.
The anti-trust law, like the Chinese
statute, forbids all improper
conduct.
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ny bank in Horry county. More
lus of all other banks in the county.
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12,600
HOLDERS .... 60,000
ORS ..112,600
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D. V. Richardson,
W. A. Johiitoii,
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elopment of the Independent ^
Lrovernment and secured by
irepared to extend to our cu?- jLi
nodations.
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U. H. WOODWARD
attorney and Councelor At Law. I
CONWAY; S. C.
R, B. 8CARBROUGH
CONWAY, s. a
Attorney at Law.
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H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Sorgeoi.
I CONWAY, 8. O.
B. WOFFOKD WAIT.
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Attorney at Law,
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CONWAY, g. O.
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FLAPS OVER TO WILSON.
A Republican Newspaper Holts It#
Party for Him.
A Sacrameno, Cal., dispatch says
the Sacramento Union has ccmo out 4
strong for Governor Wilson, Demo- ^
orat, of New Jersey, for President ill
1012. The Union .ras always been
Republican and was still supposed to
be Republican at least, but It has.
announced that it is independent and
believes the best thing for the nation
ip to defeat the Republican party.
It extols President Taft, but doubts
the wisdom of re-electing him. The
country needs a staple and a responsible
government and in the present
condition of the Republican party
this can only be obtained through
the Democrats.