The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 16, 1913, Image 4

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EARLY VIEWS TRUE ? (TILLMAN'S RETROSPECT IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SHOWS GREAT PROGRESS +. Senior Senator Tells of Hostile Attitude of Many Towards Him Kighteen Years Ago, Hut Since Then The Things He Advocated Have Become Bart of the Law. Stating that when he came to the senate 18 years ago ho was looked upon as an ultra-radical and semianarchist and that the plutocratic press has never ceased to hold the prejudice they then had a ainst him, i hough some have become more liberal and eenernns. Senator Tillman Saturday secured consent of the senate to publish in the JiocoM and to have printed as a public document nil article he prepa;cd at that time giving his impressions and beliefs about Wall street and the money power. "I am asking for its publication," Senator Tillman said, "because so much that was mere surmise and prophecy then has come true, and I feel it very appropriate for me to reproduce it. 1 shall incorporate in it, it the senate will permit me, statistics and facts to make the picture a photograph of present conditions, to be compared with conditions which existed in 1 896 something on the order of 'before and after taking' or Tillninti on conditions on 1S96 and those conditions now brought down to date. My retrospect is only for IS years. "When 1 came to the senate 18 years ago 1 was looked upon as an ultra-radical and semi-anarchist, and the plutocratic press have never ceased to hold tho prejudice they then imbibed against mo, though of recent years they have become more liberal and somo of them oven generous in their comments about my personal characteristics. One point that will strike everybody?and it is a most importnat one ?is that, the income tax which the supreme court then declared unconstitutional lias just been enacted into law, the constitution having been amended so as to make it legal for congress to do it. "We have bad a great bowl in the senate about the inequality and injustice of the income tax. Rome eastern senators have lamented the wrong done to their constituents, the well groomed and well fed millionaires, who will have to contribute to the expenses of running the government because of this tax. They have spoken about the injury done their 'people'?'my people' collectively?seemingly unconscious of the fact, which is very patent to any one, that while the well-to-do in New England and the middle West will bear most of tho burden of the income tax, these very men have been robbing their fellow citizens, the working men, and keeping them poor. These rich men have systematically milked the poor man's cow in tho east just as they have milked the farmer's cow in the West and South, but they have been shrewd enough to make him believe tho contrary. They have appealed to tho poorer classes to vote with them to keep the Democrats out of power, and have succeeded until the last election. "1 do not believe that these poor men can be bamboozled Into voting against our Democratic president and his policies by any such claptrap or illogical appeals. The time is coming very rapidly when the poor men everywhere will line up at the ballot box against wrong and oppression without regard to party, and a demand for laws which will secure equality of opportunity with equality of burden will be made in thundren tones. "Hut we have just begun to undo the deviltry which has been perpetuated by the Republican party in the past 25 or 4 0 years. Let us continue the good work until we enact laws which will insure the country against m an u feet u red panics such as was produced in 1007. "The 'silver craze' as it was called in derision, has quieted down. The 'goldbugs' promised all sorts of blessings to the country if the gold standard was maintained. But somehow the high cost of living continues to climb and the poor people are getting more and more restless. Some of mem are annosi desperate and Hopeless of any relief. "I do not know myself what Is wrong with the world, but I do know this: The unrest is growing daily and Socialists multiplying apace, and congress should set itself honestly and earnestly to the task of righting things and furnishing relief. Charles Francis Adams' address will throw a great flood of light from the viewpoint of that distinguished publicist and patriot now verging on 80. The essential parts of the Democratic platform of 189G are going to he enacted into law sooner or later. "The people have chosen a wise and patriotic, leader, who will neither betray nor sell them out. Woodrow Wilson is 'making good' every day of his life and will go down in American history as one of the greatest of our presidents. Lett all laggard Dcm BRYAN LAUDS WILSON giihat commonkk sukaks at SPAKTAXni'IUi. I ? Taking (he People's View, Says Mr. llryan, is the Distinguishing Feature of (lie President's Stand. Secretary of State B.ryan spoke to an audience of 1,501) people at Spartanburg Tuesday night in Converse college auditorium and afterwards ho and Mrs. Bryan held u reception and shook hands with practically every person in the audience. Ho was introduced hv Former (Jov. John Gary I'iVans. Mr. Bryan took as his sub!ect "President Woodrow Wilson's Point of View". Ho paid an eloquent tribute to the president, shownig how upon every issue ho takes the people's views. His address was said by many to have been the greatest they had ever heard him deliver. lie touched upon tlie four great issues that the present administration lias had to deal with the tariff?he said the hill just passed was a better bill than lie had ever hoped for, particularly commending the income tax feature ?tho currency question, the attitude of the administration toward lie Phillipines, as just announced by Francis Burton Harrison, tho newly appointed governor general of the is .atids, and the administration's peace program, contemplating investigation and report upon all questions of difference arising between the nations of the world. Upon each of these questions Mr. Bryan spoke at length, making particularly clear the provision of the currency bill now before congress and advocating its passage. Answering the demand of certain banking interests of the country that they be tillowed to have the naming of members of the commission or board, that is, to have supervision of the banking business, under the provision of the hill as it now stands, he asked why the bankers should he more entitled to name such a commission than the railroads to elect the members of the interstate commerce commission, lie aid the people trusted the government in everything else and would have to trust it in handling their 11scal affairs. Mr. Bryan closed with an account of administration's efforts in furthering the cause of world-wide peace, saying that four-fifths of the nations or the world have indorsed the policy advanced by the United States, lie regards this as a great step toward making wars improbable. Mr. 'Bryan, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan, arrived in Spartanburg Tuesday afternoon at 0:30 o'clock from. King's Mountain, N. C., making the 4 5 milo trip in an automobile. Tuesday niglit lie and Mrs. Bryan were the guests of Former Gov. John Gary Evans. They loft Wednesday morning for Ashcvillc, where they spent a day or so. BOYS AM) GIBTjS WORK. 1 .Many Corn and Tomato Clubs Arc In the Land. Tho department of Agriculture Tuesday announced that winners of the State prizes in the boys' corn club, contests in the Southern States would visit Washington and he welcomeed by the department on December 11. It is proable that winners of Stato prizes in tho girls' tomato raising contests will visit here at the same time. There now are about 70,000 hoys in the corn clubs in tho Southern States and about34,000 girls in the tomato clubs. The Northern States have just started organizing this year, hut it is thought that altogether there are about 100,000 children in the club work. Present indications are that there will he something over 2 00 hoys in the Southern States whose corn crop will average more that 100 bushels to the acre, although this was a had year for corn in the South. Twenty five bushels an acre has been the av im age 01 ino united states lor several years. The department is workin/; out a plan for crop rotation and hop; raising by which, with two acres, it is believed a boy will be able permanently to improve the fertility of an acre of ground and make enough to keep a family of five. The officials arc not yet ready to give out the details of tho new club plan. ? ? AVifo Guilty of Murder. Mrs. Susan Ross, on trial at Fulton, Mo., for the murder of her husband, J. II. Ross, was found guilty in the second degree and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Ross was murdered while he slept, tho revolver with which ho was shot being found hidden under a rug in tho room. ocrats, If there bo any, buckle on their armor and fall Into lino undei bis leadership, and lot us move forward toward tbe restoration of oui proat republic, to tbat grand Ideal ol Lincoln's 'A government of tbo people, for tbe people, and by tbo people.' " Senator Tillman recently bad the senate print as a public document the speech of Charles Francis Adams, delivered on the occasion of Founders' day at the University of South Carolina last winter, entitled " 'Tls Sixty Years Since." ? Old newspapers for sale. [SAYS HE WILL WIN1 i * ji St NA i UK Mil III CHNFIUtNT OF i KtbLtCritiN Pit AIMS IAKIFF BILL Sa)s Am-IfiiItui-iil Interests Have u ! i Brighter Outlook Now Than Kver! , Before?Commends Administration ' t ii in I (lives .McAdoo (ioncroiiH Credit i i for flaring Money in South. I expressing confidence in his ability ' to defeat Coventor Colo L. Blease in ' the primaries next summer, United States Senator 10. 1). Smith, when in Columbia Tuesday would comment no further on the race than to say, "1 will succeed myself." He listened to questions about politics and show- 1 ed that ho is keeping up with every ' development, but would a Id nothing ' more, lie had nothing to say when ' told of the conference of tho Blease lenders, which has been called for ( Fair Week to outline tho 1 Mease program for capturing the State Con- 1 vontion, and Iho Democratic execu- 1 live committee next spring. Senator Smith would not say anything on the tangle over the appoint- 1 ment of a United States district at- 1 torney and marshal for South Caro- 1 Una. He gave it as his opinion that the bill, which has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Tillman and in the House by Congressman Aiken, ( providing for the division of the State into two Federal districts would he- ! come law. ' Senator Smith talked interestingly on national matters, and is satisfied ' the pasago of the new tariff bill will work greatly to the advantage of the 1 country, and especially to the farmers. He thinks the banking and cur- ( rency bill will he passed by the Senate, and that along with the reduction in the t.'iriff duties the farmers 1 will benefit greatly. ( "The outlook for the agricultural ; interests is brighter than I have ever ' known it, and thoro is more general interest manifested in farming and farmers along practical lines than ever before," he said. "With the ' tariff adjusted and with the banking 1 and currency law so framed as to ' give the farmers equal facilities for ? 1 -- --.1,1- - , i - ' ' ' i-it-uiL, ?tmiln wuii oiiKT urancnes ana interests, I (liink (hero 5s a brighter J future today than ever before for 1 the farmers since the passage of our : war banking and currency measure. The farmers have waited long enough 1 and borno the burden long enough ' to tie recognized,' said the Senator. Senator Smith thinks the present session of Congress will run rigitt in- 1 to the regular session. He believes 1 the currency bill will get through tIte 1 upper branch lit time for the regular session. The junior senator has only praise for the Wilson administration ' and warmly commended (lie work of 1 Secretary McAdoo in depositing Government money in Southern and 1 Western banks to assist in moving the crops, which prevented a panic. ' The Senator was greeted by scores 1 of his friends. Many men called at ^ his room in the hotel to shake hands with and assure him that he would f be re-elected United States Senator. Senator Smith was accompanied by ltis wife, and they are attendinig the 1 sessions of the Wesley Bible Conference. They will return to Washington the latter part of the week. < PISTOL ACTS AS CUPII). + i In Irate Mother's llaiul It Almost ; 1 Makes a Match. t "I have a man in my house at tho | point of a pistol." Mrs. J. K. .lohn son telephoned the police of Savan- 1 nah Tuesday morning. "Send a policeman and a preacher; he's got to ' marry my daughter." Two motorcycle ofllcors were dispatched to the address given. There they found Joel A. Dickinson, Jr., in 1 tho predicament laconically described over the wire by Mrs. Johnson. Her daughter, Caroline, aged 15, was the third principal in tho affair. Simultaneously with tho call at the police headquarters was another at the court of ordinary. A licenso was desired. Tho stage was set at Mrs. Johnson's home for tho mar* riage when a complication developed. ' The couple were willing to marry, but it was discovered that tho groom1 to-bo was a married man already. > . i Cunman l\ills AVrong Man. Two Now York peddlers offered Frank Van Tonio, a Brooklyn gunman, $50 to beat up David Connor, who took their horso by the bridle ^ and amused himself hy leading the animal around in circles. Van Tonio [ mistook Robert Brady for Connor ^ and shot him dead. The peddlers confessed to the bargain with the gunman, but protested they had no grievance against Brady and no desiro to get Connor anything worse ' than a beating. ? ? 1 $1,500,000 for South Carolina. The treasury department has de pospited in national banks $.10,4 08,000 of tho proposed $50,000,000 of government crop-moving funds. South Carolina $1,500,000. ENTOMBED MINER FREED I SUNK THE WOKKE AH'MH EIGHT DAYS I/XDKltGItOL'NI). I i^'sruen Worked FuiUifully to Get Entombed .\luu From His Awful i Prlion. Thomas Touhesky, prisoner Blnce Friday of last week in an abandoned ? chamber of the Continental mine of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Centralia, Pa., walked into the open lir a free and comparatively well man fit 22 minutes before 8 o'clock Saturday morning. He was taken to his home in Centralis, three miles away, from his underground prison, and at 3nco put to hed, apparently none the ^ worse for his remarkable experience. , It was 7:15 o'clock when the last ; barrier of coal was driven away and ^ Toshesky crawled through the open- j ing from his prison chamber into the , tunnel which had been steadily driv- ( m toward him by eager, willing res- t cuers. Seven minutes later the first t Intimation was given to the outside \ world that the big task was complet- v ?d and the prisoner was free. This t was when a miner crawled to the ^ mouth of the tunnel and called to the ] top of the pit for blankets and hot \ ?van-1 10 uo Belli, down. Toshesky climbed the path to the ( rim of tlio pit almost unaided. A v stretcher had been taken to tho foot and thcro were plenty of willing c hands to carry him, but he would x have none of it. llis whole attitude ( from the time of the rescue until he j disappeared beneath the blankets in . his own bod at home was one of semi- \ stolidity. Tosheskv was glad to get < ant of liis prison, but he acted as if it r were an old story to him and nothing , over which to make a great fuss. I Once before in his career as a min- ( cr he had been entombed for nearly f 4 8 hours. Half way up the pit Tosh- i ?8ky was stopped anil posed for a photograph, together with Dr. H. ft. ^ Fortner, who had been in almost con- \ stand touch with him since communi- \ nation was established Tuesday night, 7 and to whom is largely duo to good j healths of the man. Toshesky wore ( I ho broadest smilo of any person in ( the vicinity when brought out. 7 Describing his experience, Tosh- | r?sky said when he was closed in he j thought lie would bo crushed to N death, as there was several thousand ?. wagon loads of coal piled towards ( him from the hotton of tho breast. t In faet, two breasts of coal ran away. Continuing, Toshesky said through p in interpreter: 7 "My dinner bucket and coat at the v bottom of tho breast were lost as the f coal rushed in. I had all my tools f with me and my lamp was burning, j T had a half quart of oil in a can by \ my side. Sizing up the situation, I j found T was entombed in a space sev cn by fifteen feet. i "I had been entombed twice before g uul rescuers soon got mo out. I felt t lliat they would again take care of f me. From Friday until Tuesday I i was without anything to eat or drink < mil on the last day my oil gave out. ( 1 was in darkness. It was a dismal f period from then until the rescuers a lrove tho boro hole through. After 1 got several drinks of eggnog I felt ^ like a new man." c TILLMAN'S "ALLEGORICAL COW". 't f Illustrated Article in Congressional J 1 Record Causes Flurry. , Senator Tillman's "allegorical f cow" sketched eighteen years ago to 1 accompany an attack by tho South ( Carolina Senator upon Wall Street :ui(l tho "money power" illustrated ( the same article in Wednesday's Con- \ gressional Record. One view shows J the cow as an elongated animal, symbolic of the national resource feeding 1 011 the farms of tho South and West. While her golden milk is being drawn 1 in Now York and New England. Then 1 the cow is pictured turned around, 1 but the Supreme Court is choking her ( as she attempts to feed on the in- ^ come tax. Southern farmers are get- ' ting no milk. * Unanimous consent for Inserting 1 the .article with illustrations in the ' Record was obtained by Senator Till- * man, who said ho made tho request 1 "because so much that was mere sur- 1 mise and prophecy then has come 1 true". lie added that lie rejoiced ! that tho country no longer could be ' "bamboozled" and that under a Rem- ' oeratlc administration legislation was ' being enacted which would prevent the robbery that had gone on in the 1 past. The appearance of tho cartoon 1 in the Record created a flurry at the i Capitol. Nobody remembered when < such a thinp had happened before." * i Horse (Jets His Own Shoes. Gilbert A. Penney, of Quoguo, P. I., owns a horse that knows when he needs new shoes. Several days ago Pig Pen went to a blacksmith shop, took his place in the line of waiting horses and was shod. Then he returned home. ( T<a<l Sells Cow to See llall Game. Adolph Deusclier, aged sixteen years, left his parental home near West Liverpool, N. J., after selling the family cow to see the game in the world's series between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics. ilitL FOUND DEAD ? ITIABLE FATE OF A PURE GIRL WHO SOUGHT SUCCESS LIVED EXEMPLARY LIFE j -d niggling Student of Art AnswerH Advertisement, Seeking Position W hich Would Enable Her to Continue Her Studies, and Is Cured to a Fiendish Death. Miss Ida Leegson, art student, vhoso nude body was found Saturlay on the prairie west of Chicago, vas lured to her death by some man rvlio telephoned to her in response to ter advertisement for a place as a lurse. This was the conclusion of he police Tuesday night, after more ban twenty-four hours search. The hin silken fish line found near the iody and the bruised circle it left iround Miss l.oegson's neck, showed ho manner of her death. Her tatered clothes indicated that death lad come only after a hard struggle, nit there was nothing found to show \\r U'll A tvi Yf ioo I nnrrt'/M> 1? '1 ' *? fj ?? 11 v in in 100 iiuv;^ovn 11 civ I UCUU ill*" luced to visit the lonely spot in the vestern outskirts of the city. I Saturday afternoon a telephone all came from a "Mr. Wilson" who, vlien told Miss Leegson was out, injuired closely after her personal aplearance. An hour later lie called igain and asked to go to a house on he West Side to care for liis wife. Mio left to answer tho call and was lot heard from again. The street adlress given by "Mr. Wilson" proved o be a vacant lot 011 the prairie. A anvass of the houses of the vicinity >f the prairie showed none occupied iy any one named Wilson. Tho possibility that Miss Leegson vas lured to her death by an organzed band of "white slavers" is not lelicvod to offer a solution of the nystery. An investigation among lie teachers at the University of 'liicago and at the Art Institute inlicated that Miss Leegson had 110 nan friends, and that her nights had ieen spent in study. Miss Leegson's land satchel was found a block from vhere the body lay. It had been dashed with a knife and its contents, ixcept a pair of stockings and a piece )f soap removed. Investigation has shown only that die led an exemplary life, had 110 lien callers at any of the places vhere she is known to have resided, md she is not thought to have po?;essed any largo amount of money, diss Leegson was a graduate of tho Jniversity of Chicago, a sculpture 111 nil of Lorarln Tnft nnd n cfnHonl it, tho art institute. Her murder narked tho end of a long pitiful it niggle to make her way as a sculpor. Hoi studies at the University if Chicago were to fit her for work >y which she could earn enough to complete her art education. For several winters she taught school, reurning to tho city to resume her vork at the art institute. Only a few hours before she was ured to her death she answered an ulvertisement for a domestic, saying ihe had to have funds to enable her o continue her studies and was not oo proud to do kitchen work. Hate Saturday afternoon a man who gave he name of Wilson telephoned the esidence where Miss I.ecgson lived ind asked her to take a position as uirse in a maternity case. Sho was lirected to go to 71st street and ^Vestern avenue and walk to an adlress four miles west. The body was ound three miles west of the street ntersection in a clump of bushes. The address to which she had been lirected does not exist. flame wardens followed a trail of orn clothing to the spot where her inlf nude form was lying. On her leeks were finger marks and encircling it was a thin blue line which vas made by a pieco of cord found ii-ai i?y. j\ goiu watcn with tlio iniials T. CJ. M., which belonged to Miss [iOcgson, was recovered Tuesday rrom a pawn shop in the negro disriet at Chicago. The police were >;iven a full description of the negro who pawned the watch and they expect to arrest him soon. The oflicers ilso obtained from the pawn broker i description of a small knife bearing the same initials, which the negro ittempted to pawn. The polico theory of the murder is that Miss T,eegson was killed while resisting the attack of a negro, who robbed her after luring her to the outskirts of the city with a promise of employment, according to the belief of the police. Masked Itnndit Stenl? ooa Three masked bandits robbed tho Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sauit. St. Mario depot at Three River Falls, Minn., and secured an express box containing $7,000 in cash. In their raid the desperadoes knocked several railroad and express company employees senseless. 4 Underwood for Senate. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, majority leador in the ITouso, late Saturday issued a formal stateSaturday issued a statement announcing his candidacy for tho Senate. THE NEW TARIFF BILL ?? SOME OF MANY GOOD THINGS CLAIMED FOK IT. ? It Will Deduce tlio Prices of Many of the Necessities of Life to the Consumer. President "Wilson's signing of the Underwood-Simmons hill brings into effect one of the most far-reaching revisions of tariff rates and revenue laws enacted for many years. A new income tax, appling directly to the incomes of citizens; the abolition of all tariff on scores of items of immenso importance to American industry and American consumers and a heavy reduction of tariff rates on most of the articles in general use in this country aro its chief features. While certain portions of the new law do not take effect at once, most of its provisions and almost all the direct tariff reductions, do. At every port collectors of customs, appraisers of merchandise and hundreds of other emplyoees of the treasury department will plunge at once into the task of collecting the nation's revenue on a new basis, and with hundreds of new classifications and new provisions of law to complicate their activities. The Federal government lias been spending nearly a billion dollars a year and the new tariff law will raise less than one-third of that sum. Recent estimates by tariff experts in Congress predict that the rates will raise $24 9,000,000 a year; and that the income tax will raise $1 22,000,000. The remainder of the government's rrreat income is made nn nrln cipally of internal revenue taxes ami postal receipts. The income tax probably will bring the new tariff law most forcibly to the attention of citizens. President Wilson and Democratic lenders in Congress believe, however, that the reduction of duties on clothing, foodstuffs and other necessaries of life, and the complete removal of the duty from many like articles, will eventually bring a reduction in the "cost of living" without materially affecting business prosperity. A brief summary of the tariff law as prepared for the Senate follows: Average percentage of tariff rates, as compared to the value of all imported merchandise, old law 3 7 per cent; new law 27 per cent. Value o&annual imports added to the free list $14 2,000,000. Estimated revenue from all import rates, old law $3 05,000,000; new law $249,000,000. Estimated revenue from corporation and income taxes, old law, $37,000,000; new law $122,000,000. Altogether, consumers in the United States probably will receive from abroad free of all tariff, more than $1,000,000,000 worth of merchandise during the next year. During 1912 the amount of "free imports" was more than $3 80,000,0 00, and when the tariff is entirely removed from wool, sugar, iron ore and plionn imn and other Important items, (lie total Is expected to increase notably. Under the old law more than 53 per cent, of all goods brought to the United States from all parts of tbo world paid no tariff, and that proportion will be Increased by the new law. The free wool provisions of the new law takes effect December 1, 1913; the free sugar provision May 1, 1910. The new tariff law, passed four years after President Taft signed tho existing Aldrich-Payne law, is tho result of more than nine months of work in Congress. Hearings were started January G, by the House ways and means committee. Chairman Underwood introduced the tariff bill April 7, immediately after President Wilson had convened the new Congress. It passed tho House May S and the Senate September 9. In the opinion of its makers tho Democratic leaders of Congress, the most important features of the new tariff are: A reduction of nearly one-half in the average tariff on foodstuffs and farm products. The placing of raw wool on tho free list, and a reduction of nearly two-thirds in the tariff on woollen clothing, especially of tho cheaper grades. A reduction of one-third (average) on cotton clothing. Reduction of the sugar tariff and its ultimate abolishment in 1910. A reduction of one-third (average) in the tariff on earthenware and glassware. Abolishment of all tariff on meats, fish, dairy products, flour, potatoes, coal, iron ore, lumber and many classes of farm and ofllce machinery. General tariff reduction on all important articles in general use. r?ig 1'oitco S!mko*up, What, is Bald to ho the biggest police Bhake-up which Now York lias known will ho effected during tho next few days by tho uprooting of all the policemen in tho uupor West Sido tenderloin section and roplacing them with f>00 young men just turned out of tho police school. Tho new tariff law will put old, antiquated cotton, and woolen mills out of commission.