The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 03, 1913, Image 4
WILSON'S SPEECH"
WHAT THE PRESIDLNr SAID TO
THE EQNtiKLSS
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URGES AOTIUN AT USEE
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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.
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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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
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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~
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?<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.
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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
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<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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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GEORGE J. HOLIDAY.
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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.
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Attorney at JLaw.
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Lund Surveying
and
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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
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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."
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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,
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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.