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WILSON'S SPEECH" WHAT THE PRESIDLNr SAID TO THE EQNtiKLSS ?. . URGES AOTIUN AT USEE ? Ho Ask "What Will it l*rollt I s to ho Fro? if Wo Arc Not to Have the Ilcst and Most Accessible Instrumentalities of Commerce and K11I terprise?" The following is the full text of President Wilson's speech to Congress: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Clentlemon of the Congress: It is under the compulsion of what seems to me a clear and imperative duty that 1 have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in person. 1 know of course, that the heated season of the years is upon us, that work in these chambers and in the committee rooms is likely to become a burden as tho season lengthens, and that every consideration of personal convenience and personal comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of personal health even, dictate an early conclusion of the doliberations of the session; but. there are occasions of public duty when these things which touch us privately seem very small; when the work to be done is so pressing and so fraught with high consequence that we know that we .are not at liberty to weigh against it any point of personal sacrifice. We are now in the presence of such an occasion. It is absolutely imperative that we should give the business men of this country a banking and currency system by means of which they can make use of tlie freedom of enterprise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them. We are about to set them free; we must not. leave them wtthmo !.? tools of action when they are free. We are aboui to set them free by removing the trammels of the protective tariff. Ever since the Civil War they have waited for this emancipation and for the free opportunities it will bring with it. It has been reserved for us to give it to them. Some fell in love, indeed, with the slothful security of their dependence upon the government; some took advantage of the shelter of the nursery to set up a mimic mastery of their own within its walls. Now both the tonic and the discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some readjustments of purpose and point of view. There will follow a period of expansion and new enterprise, freshly conceived. It is for us to determine now whether it shall be rapid and facile and of easy accomplishment. This it can not be unless the resourceful business men who are to deal with the new circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative. It is not enough to strike the shackles from business. The duty of of o f nom A * okatcoinaiiniiip i?j iiui nu^ftiivo merely. It is constructive also. We must show that we understand what business needs and that we know how to supply it. No man, however casual and supercial his observation of the conditions now prevailing in the country, can fail to see that one of the chief things business needs now, and will need increasingly as it gains in scope and vigor in the years immediately ahead of us, is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit, corporate and individual, and itR originative brains. What will it profit us to be free if we are not to have the best and most accessible instrumentalities of commerce and enterprise? What will it profit us to be quit of one kind of monopoly if we are to remain in the grip of another and more effective kind? IIow are we to gain and keep the confidence of the business community unless we show how both to aid and to protect it? What shall we say if we make fresh enterprise necessary and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as we found it? The tyrannies of business, big and little, lie within the field of credit. We know that. Shall we not act upon the knowledge? Do wo not know how to act upon it? If a man can not make his assets available at pleasure, his assets of capacity and character and resource, what sat is faction is it to him to see opportunity beckoning to him on every hand, when others have the keys of credit in their pockets and treat them as all but their own private possessions? It is perfectly clear that it is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system the country needs, and that it will immediately need it more than ever. The only question is, When shall we supply it?now, or later, after the demands shall have become reproaches that we were so dull and so slow? Shall we hasten to change the tariff laws and then be laggards about making it possible and easy i for the country to take advantage of < the change? There can be only one < answer to that question. We must act now, at whatever sacrifice to our- ] NOTHING CAN BE DONE WITHDRAWAL OF MILITIA All) STANDS. / V w V * ? - ? - - - wur neicgaiioii 111 i "engross Kxpresses Kogrct at State of Affairs But Can Not Help It. The withdrawal of financial aid to South Carolina State troops has excited expressions of regret. Among the members of tho South Carolina delegation in congress Wednesday, the greatest regret was expressed when the existing condition of affairs became thoroughly known. Senator Smith said it was almost inconceivable. Senator Tillman, when asked if ho had anything to say regarding the matter, replied that as he saw it there was nothing ho could do to upset the orders of tho war department, but ho would bo willing to do whatever might be possible if he should be requested to act by responsible parties in South Carolina. "I shall probably have something to say regarding this matter," Senator Tillman said, when queried about the situation, "but until some one makes complaint to me, or I have something to work upon, there is nothing 1 can do." If tho members of the different companies affected by the determination of tho war department to lend no further assistance, which virtually means that the command must be disbanded unless the legislature sees lit to appropriate, take the matter up with the South Carolina delegation in congress, it is barely possible that something might be done, provided that the governor shows a disposition to receive further government aid. tT,,l^c.o IkU I. .1 ?- * . uicon iiiib IB mine, nowcvoi', 11101*0 IS but tho remotest chance that the troops will bo placed in their former position and he allowed to have tho same help they have had before the decision of the war department was announced. The fact that many of tho oldest commands in the State, some of which date hack many years, are to he denied further financial assistance from the government, for reasons now already known, is regretted not only by tho members of the South Carolina delegation by former South Carolinians resident in Washington and by war department ofllcials, but by all who are conversant with the facts in the case. , * + * Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. For throe days the greatest conflict on American soil went on, and not until tho end of the third day of determined fighting was tho end apparent. Up in Pennsylvania veterans of the hattie will assemble next week to talk over tho bygone days, and meet comrades of the war. ? Killed Teacher and Pupils. A school teacher and two children were shot dead, another teacher and three children were fatally wounded and three ot>.er children less seriously hurt by a former teacher named Schmidt, who with six revolvers, en n * * lci uu tv \juiuuiiv si'iiooi hi uernn, Germany, and started firing. selves. It is a duty which the circumstances forbid us to postpone. T should bo recreant to my deepest convictions of public obligation did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence. The principles upon which we should act are also clear. The country has sought and seen its path in this matter within the last few years ?sees it moro clearly now than it! ever saw it before?much more clearly than when the last legislative proposals on the subject were made. We must havo a currency, not rigid as now, but readily, elastically responsivo to sound credit, the expanding and contracting credits of every-day transactions, the normal ebb and flow of personal and corporate deal-! ings. Our banking laws must mobil-j ize reserves; must not permit the! concentration anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the country or their use for speculative purposes in such volume as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more legitimate, more fruitful uses. And the control of the system of banking and of issue which our new laws are to sot up must be public, not private, must be vested in the government itself, so that the hanks may bo the instruments, not the masters, of business and of individual enterprise and initiative. The committees of the congress to which legislation of this character is referred havo devoted careful and dispasslonato study to the means of accomplishing these objects. They have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. I havo come to you, as the head of the government and the responsible leader of the party in power, to urge action now, while there is time to serve the country deliberately and as wo should, in a clear air of common counsel. I appeal to you with a deep conviction of duty. I believe that you share this conviction. I therefore appeal to you with confidence. I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon mo to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to perform and discredit us to neglect. MAKES BIG SPEECH PRESIDENT WILSON SPEAKS T( THE CONGRESS. URGES PASSAGE OF m To lie vise I ho Hanking and Currency I.aws at This Session So That Ihis iness hi* Aided to .Meet the Chanee* Made Necessary by the Passage o| Tariff Act. Hearing a personal plea for immediate action by congress to revise the banking and currency laws, that bus inoss may be aided in meeting tarifl revision, President Wilson for the second time went to the House ol Representatives Monday and person ally rend bis address on the subject to both houses on congress assent bled in joint session. Although shorn of some of the novelty that attended his first appearance, when he upset presidential traditions of more than a century Monday's visit of the president tc congress took e>n a eleeper signiticance. On his first visit he delivered a message, long-anticipated, urging the carrying out e>f the party'e pledges for immediate revision of the tariff. His address Monday was an appeal to every member of the House and Senate to lay aside personal considerations and sacrifice comfort and even health, if necessary, to secure at once a revision and reform of the national banking system. Only in that way, ho declared, could the country secure the benefits of the tariff revision soon to bo completed. "It. is perfectly clear that it is our duty tc supply the n. w banking and currency system the country needs, and that it will immediately need it more than ever," said President Wilson. "Shall we hasten to change our tariff laws, and then be laggards about making it possible and easy for the country to take ad~ * 1 A * ?<iii ki-i; wi i ist- criange: rnore can be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at whatever sacrifico to ourselves." The vigor and strength of his short message, held rigid attention of his large audience throughout its delivery. As on his first, appearance before congress, the chamber was tilled with senators and representatives, galleries were crowded with men and women of the official set, and corridors about the gallery doors were jammed with those unable to gain entrance. Tho president gave no direct endorsement to the Glass currency bill, which is to form the basis for the Democratic revision of the banking laws, but in direct language made it known that it had been prepared with his counsel and approval. "The committees of congress to which legislation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accomplishing these objects," he said in conclusion. "They have honored mo by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action." Jiist before one o'clock the House doorkeeper dashed into the chamber and shouted: "The President of the United States." The galleries and the floor arose as the President walked in from the Speaker's lobby, and with a nod to tho Speaker and the Vice-President, mounted tho steps to tho clerk's "I present to tho Sixty-third Congress tho President of tho United States," announced Speaker Clark. Addressing first the two presiding oflioers, tho President turned to tho desk in a low, even voice that was never raised, but which penetrated clearly to every ear in the chamber, began the reading his address. Not a stir from the audience interrupted. At 1:10 o'clock the President had finished reading his address and left the House chamber. It had taken tho President a little moro than nine minutes to read his address, and its conclusion was greeted by a round of applause. As the President left the chamber ho shook hands with Speaker Clark and VicePresident Marshall. The Speaker dismissed tho joint session and tho Senators filed out to return to their own chamber. ? If there is any virtuo in tho old saying that it is a safe rule to do what your enemies advise you not to do, the Democrats in Congress should rush the tariff and currency bills through as soon as possible. The Republicans claim that the passage of those bills will put the Democracy out of commission, and pathetically warns the party of its direful fate. Tf the Democrats in Congress push their currency bill through in the same style that the tariff legislation has gone thus far the extra session of this year will go down as one of the most famous in recent years. Upon its labors the success or failure of tho Democratic party depends The Democrats have Introduced a currency bill in acordance with the plans of President Wilson. I SHUTS OFF THE FUNDS SOI Til CAROLINA MILITIA WILL ) GET NO AID. Governor's Attitude Towards the KnI forcemeats of the Militia Law Causes Action of War Department. Federal support of the National , Guard of South Carolina, amounting to about $70,000 a year, was with" drawn Tuesday by the war depart ^ ment because of "the attitude of the governor toward enforcement of fedf eral militia law". The following telegram was received Tuesday by W. VV. Moore, adjutant general, from . Brig Gen. A. L. .Mills, chief of the ; division of militia affairs, war department: f "\V. \V. Moore, Adjutant General, j South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. [ "In accordance with action of war department of this date, taken in consequence of attitude of governor of your State toward enforcement of federal militia law, as expressed in , his letters of May 5 and 2 7 to you and of June 11 to secretary of war, I no further federal assistance, either r in personnel or equipment, will be ( afforded the organized militia of your State: nor will further expenditure of federal funds in hartds of disbursing ofllcers be authorized by secre, tary of war, except to cover such ob, ligations as may have already been incurred and approved by secretary of war. Requisition for property now on hand in militia division is disapproved and no further requisition will bo honored. This informa, tion is telegraphed to you in connection with plans for encampment of South Carolina organized militia this , summer, in order that you may be guided by such telegram and act accordingly. Disbursing officer has , been informed of action by war department. "Mills. "Chief, Division of Militia Affairs. "Washington, June 22." Adjt. Gen. Moore said that the National Guard of South Carolina last year received about $0 0,00 0 for support from the war department but the average amount was about $70,000. Tie said that in 1911, when the joint manoeuvres were held, the companies received about $80,000. Under the order of the war department thirty-five companies of the infantry will be affected and one company of coast artillery. These companies aro made up of 2,000 men and officers. The annual appropriation by the general assembly of South Cm roli nn fnr Dm nrcontvait to $1 2,000. Adjt. Gen. Moore said that unless the order wag rescinded the encampments of the three regiments, at "Camp Wilie Jones", Aiken and Anderson, would have to he called off. lie said that the war department might also order all equipment now held .by the companies to be returned. The arms and ammunition, accoutrements and uniforms, camp equippage?in fact, practically all the equipment used by the citizen soldiers?are the property not of the State but of the fedral government. Civil llights Law Dead. The decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States last week declaring the Civil Rights Law passed by Congress in 1875, providing penalties for discriminating against persons of color, to be unconstitutional in its entirety finally and definitely disposes of the absurd and impossible pretensions of a few colored people to "social equality" with white people, and the spasmodic efforts that have been made in the courts from time to time to enforce their alleged rights. In its practical effect the decision of the court will make little difference. As the New York World says to-day the negro actually has more rights than it was attemtped to secure for him by act of Congress after the civil war. lie has won those rights for himself with the assistance of time. In such matters custom slowly and painfully finds solutions j that written statutes fail to provide. To think that race prejudices could he wiped out at one stroke by legislation was the foolish dream of ' fanatical haters of the white people of the South like Sumner, Stevens and others. What they really accomplished was to intensify prejudices to the disadvantage OLf the negro. Little hy little the Civil Rights act has been whittled away by the courts until to think of it is left, but in the end the negro is better off. The nulifying of the Civil Rights Law by the public ever since it was passed shows the absurdity of such laws. Mad Bulls Run Amuck in City. Four fierce bulls broke loose in Almeria, Spain, while they were being taken to the bull ring and charged furiously down the narrow streets, goring all in their path. One man was killed and many wero injured. Three old men were tossed. Eventually three of the bulls were caught, and the fourth rushed into the sea and was drr?wn*wl The editors of South Carolina aro enjoying a few days at the Isle of Palms, and truly they deserve it if anybody does. The only regretable thing about it is that they can only take two or three days instead of that many weeks to enjoy the seashore breezes. HITS LABOR UNIONS kays tim:y aiik most a<;cki?:ss1yk tkl'sts. Ciovernor Brown of (ieorgia, Criticises Organi/.isl Labor in Farewell Message to Lcgislat lire. A caustic arraignment of labor unions in which it is charged that they form the "most widespread and aggressively exacting trust in America", is contained in tin1 farewell message of Governor Joseph M. Brown, presented to the Georgia legislature at its opening session in Atlanta Wednesday. Governor Brown's criticism of organized labor is made in connection I with bis argument for the enactment of laws requiring compulsory arbitration between employees and employers. lie predicates this recommendation upon the strikes of employees j of the Georgia Railroad and the Augusta Street Railway Company last fall. Both of these strikes, the Governor declares, were "manifestly indefensible and condeninable", and "the strikers placed themselves in a state of open rebellion to the laws ot Georgia". "We are brought face to face with the fact," the message continues, "that these unions or combinations of employees on public service and other corporations have forced their wages above those received by workmen in all other departments of life who have not formed those aggressively militant combinations. "The trend of the laws of the present day is to suppress combinations or trusts in restraint of trade. Yet while it is a matter of public note that the labor trust is the most widespread and aggressively exacting in America, politicians pander to it, because of its voting power. "The labor unions, by combination, which they work through strikes and U i 11 f ! T*f 1| I mnt lw\/lci e ? : ' <u aftgrvjasiveiy levying a toll upon all other elements of out citizenship. They have organized a trust and demand that all other people buy labor at whatever price they choose to put upon it. And contemporaneously, they are trying to force from employment all similar workmen who do not join thei orders. "I do not declare that all of the members of the labor unions are willful violators of the law. Yet they are the victims of a system which is breeding anarchy, which already has put the State's Constitution in contempt. which has relentlessly wronged hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens. "Thousands of their fellow citizens, who have not offended them, which in plain words has applied lynch law methods to millions of dollars' worth of property. ? ? Genius That Counts. What most people call genius is chiefly a capacity for hard and intelligent labor. Sir lliram i.Maxim laughs at the idea that he is a genius and ascribes his great success to hard work. This same quality accounts for the great achievements of Edison and other masters in the various departments of the world's activities. This is an encouragement or ought to bo an encouragement to many a young man who may have the wrong idea that genius is something not do.1 x ? - * penimiil on worK but is born with a man, and that he who has it not can never hope to excel. Every young man is a genius at something. It may take hard work to bring it out, but the posibilities are there, and can be developed. The trouble is that so few of us are willing to give the labor that is necessary to develop the traits in us that would put Us in the genius class. ? Ambassador to Kussia. It was reiterated Thursday at Washington that within a year Charles It. Crane, of Chicago, would become ambassador to Russia. Practically the only European posts for which no choice has been made are Lisbon, Constantinople and the Balkan states. ? ? Cotton Crop of Turkey. The efforts to develop cotton growing in Africa, Turkey and other countries to deprive the Southern States of their natural monopoly of this staple do not seem to havo had any appreciable degree of success BANK OF Coriwfl1 W w M.M. I T HAS LARGEST CAPITAL. AND SUR COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMB ALL. OTHER BANKS IN THE COU CAPITAL STOCK. . .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC1 SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. M. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACC< COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert IL Scarborough, D. ' President. THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. TIH'ltSDAY, .11 LY 11)13. PKOFKHSIONAL CARD* f H. H. WOODWARD Ittornay and Councilor At Law CONWAY; 8. C. I I ?, U. SCAKUROL'Uli CON WAl'f 8. C Attorney at JLaw. it. H. UUliliOUOHA fhjiicUu and Hargeoa CONWAY, 8. C. W. E. McCOliD, Dental Suifeon CONWAY,S. C. ItKNI'i KAY l:\I0L Lund Surveying and Drainage Spivey Handing Conway, 8. C. XIWORLDS GREATESTSEWINS MACHINE |^t^HT RUNNI^^ Cnpoa want ell her a Vlbra tlngHhutt to, flota^ buttle or a Binglo Thread [C7iaf?&t/cA| / Sewing Machine wrlto to M KW HOME 8EWIN8 MACHINE COMPAQ Orange, Mass* IflMkysewfnff machInri arc made to sell rcirardleasSll' ?asiUy. but the New lloiuo is made to was. ' Ottr sruaranty never mm ouL ? If *alhorizc<t dealers IpLpT SOB SALS asr Ileal Secret of a Happy Life. Recently Senator W. E. Chilton, of West Virginia, answering a list of questions from a New York religious publication gave some other observations of his own: "The tendency to get away from the old-fashioned faith and church service is due to our modern 'getrich-quick* methods; but this tendency will bo short * lived," wrote the Senator. "Without the church and Sunday school wo should be lost. This 'corregnondonro fw?a ?./vvu ? 1 111 heaven' is now and always must bo our surest anchor. It. is hard to improve upon tho Sermon on the Mount and difficult to conceive of a religion less burdensome to carry than that of .Tesus Christ. "Money can do much, but it cannot obviate death. It cannot buy respect and love. It may take another generation to teach the world thnt. the road to happiness has some 'faith' at every milestone; and a* Christ's is the best, it will be uppermost in tho hearts of our people. It cannot be changed or modified. It must be loved and followed, or hated and abandoned. There is no middle ground. There is no improvement that man can make. It is right or wrong. Each heart, must answer." \ Champion Shot, Dead. Frank Fromm, champion revolver shot of the nUited States in 1909, and his wife were found dead in a. tent back of their home at Spokane, Wash., Tuesday. From a note in tho dead woman's handwriting the authorities believe Mrs. Fromm shot her husband through jealousy HORRY, y. s. c. / - - 7 ? PLUS OF ANY ;BANK IN HORRT INI5D CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF NTY. $50,000 12,500 {HOLDERS. . .. 50,000 TORS 112,000 TORS' W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON 3MMODATI0N WHICH THEIR ACSOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. V. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Caahier.