The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, January 25, 1900, Image 1
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VOL 9.---NO. 2. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, IANUARY 25, 1900. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
Silver Dollars Given Aw
Greenville, S
We have plaeed in our store i
Silver Dollars. We have had made ft
will unlock the box. With every C
given a key attached to a tag. Keys
month after October let, and the 11ol
be given $5.00 ats a presont.
This is a new and novel way we i
in cash what we have heretofore paid
greater number will be benefitted.
AT
SMITH &
You will find the b
Men's Wear at
GREENVI
Sole agents for Stetson's Stiff Hats. Se
IT IS AIL JUSr THE SAME.
DIFFEIRENT NAMES FORlt STEAL
ING.
Bill Arp Writes a Chapter on the
Prevailing Sin of the Ninet enth
Century-The Darkey's Pica on the
Score of Foraging.
I have always contended that steal
ing little things was the besetting sin
of the negro and was a rar'e trait.
And that cheating in a trade was a
race trait in Jews and Gentiles. Wt
white folks do not call it cheating, but
say he got the advantage or he got th
best of the bargain, but this advantagt
is generally got by deception Or a sup
pression of the truth. The negro
smooths his sin over by calling it tak
ing things- just as our cook once saiL
to me when I coInplained about he:
stealing lard and flour and rice anc
such things : " Mr. Major, I don'.
think you miss what I takes." Well
I didnt very much, for she never toot
much aG a time, but it annoyed we fo.
her to think she was fooling me wher
she wasnt. But that same negro woulh
sit up all night with a sick memoer o
the family and was always good an,
kind to our children. Now the whit,
man rarely btealn anything and th
negro as rarely cueats you in a trade.
Before the civil war the negroes' mus,
frequent crime was stualing chickens
and he got so expert In that business
that a law was passed making it a
penal offense for anybody to buy
chickens fiom a negro even though he
had raised them in his own yard. We
coum buy foot mats and brooms and
baskets, but we must not buy chickens.
Law or no law , he continued his mid
night vocation, and if the command
nent had said thou shalt pot covet thy
nieighubr's UhiLUenLO it w- utd 'aIv.
been all the same to him. First covet
and then steal was part of his reli
gion.
I was ruminating about this because
I bought a turkey yeeterday from a
negro for a very low price and I won
dered where he go it. I didn t ques
tion him, for I didn't want to hurt his
feelings. When I was In North Caro
lina a friend told me about an old
darkey who was on trial foe stealing a
turkey and the proof was positive, and
vet he did not seem to be alarme
Iiis lawyer was discouraged and saf
"Uncle Jack, it looks like they have
got you." "No dey aint, Mas John;
dey aint got me yet and dey aint
ag wine to get me. Tell you ho.v it is,
Mae John. De jedge seten up dar was
my young. master when de war broke
out and not, gwine to send me to do
pen. No, sir ; he aint, he aint done
forget wha I know." But Mas John
had lost confidence, for he knew that
the judge would do ills duty and ex
ecute the law. in a short time the
trial was over and the judge asked
Uncle Jack if he bad anything to say
in extenuation of his crime.
The old gray-headed man got up
with a grunt and looking around upon
the spectators and then at the judge
sa'd : " Nuffln' much, Mas Judge,
numai' much. Only die you know all
about dat old war wbich we all got
whooped and you haint forgot how I
went cud wid you to de army for you
was a cappen and old master told me
to go 'long and take keer of ye-u, and
you knows I did de very bes' I codd
for four mighty long years and how
one time you got wounded and I staid
by you ontell you was well again and
hew anoder time you took the measles
and me, too, and 1 stay by you and nus'
you and how anoder time dem yankees
cotch me andl I got away in de night
and come back to you and how some
times you get out of money and out of
sumfen to eat all at de same time and
you call me up and say, 'Jack, y'ou
mus' go out a foragin' and get us sum
fin,' andl I go nut late in de night and
bring you chickens and rostlin'.. erni's
and one time I bring you a turkey, ant
you neber ax me nuflin' about whar I
got him and you never glv' me any
money to buy him, did you. Mas Jedge.
You call it foragin' don, didnt you,
Mae Jedge, and if it w-as foraging e
how cum it to be stealin' now ?"gde
By tbis time the courtroom was c'on
vulsed with laughter and the juidge
could not conceal his emotion, for 'his
recollection of the old darkov's faith
fulness was revived afresh. 1:10 wip~ed
his brow and his eyes, and said : "Mr.
Sheriff adjourn court. Uncle Jackl
will pay for that turkey, but you must
not do so any more. When you need
anything you must come to me. I
havent forgot you.''..
it is amazing to read our penitep
tiary reports where we learn that
there are over 2.000 negroes In the
State and county chainganga who are
there for stealing of some kind. Meal
of them are of the new issue who were
never in slavery and a majority have
advanced under freedom from simple
larceny to burglary. Chickens are toa
small game for the modern dark ey. On'
of my farm hands was sent there tea
two years, and was disgusted with hit
asdiates and said, " I tell you w bat,
boss, dar is some mean folks in de
chaingang. Fact is, dar. is some folki
jusat as mean in dar as dar is outeri
dar.' Cobe says that -Cuba is a good
ay by Snlith & Brisfow
oth Carolnn.
i handsome Oak Money-Box containing
>r us a nitiber of keys, some of which
ish Purchaso' of- $1.00 or more will be
chn be tried the first Saturday in each
dersvf Keys That Unlock the Box will
wye of advertising,. and give to our trade
for advertising, with the hqpe that tho
BRISTOW'S
est of everything in
Popular Prices!!
LLE, S. C.
c our special line of Men's $3.50 Shoes.
place to send the darkeys to, for the
trees are small and the chickens roost
low, but the new negroes dont seem to
hanker after chickeas like the old
fashioned negroes. They had rather
snatch a lady's pocketbook and run. It
is astonishing how many chances they
will taice to get something for nothing,
and will take the risk of arrest and
punishment and yet I have never heard
of one being turned out of church for
stealing.
War will make white folks steal and
Judge Dooley believed that mean
%vhisky would. The old-time lawybr
used to tell how he was broke of tak
iOg too -nuc h, whep he was on the
bench of the Nort hern cil'duit. A man
'>y name of Sterrett kept a dirty saloon
anar the hotel and the judge patroniz:.d
aim every morning before breakfast
ind by court time was pretty mellow.
One cold morging the mischievous
awyers borro'ed; half .dozen silver
,poons from the landlady'of the hotel
ind slipped them into the judge's over
:oat pocket. He never discovered
,hem until court adjourned for dinner
*nd was dre'dfdi-ky; puzzled and per
alexed. He recogn.z3d the spoons, far
tney had his landlady's mark and were
ancient heirlooms in her family. He
-ent for her to come to his room and
,ave them back with- abject apology
and said it must have been Sterrett's
ffhisky that done it. It sobered him
up and made him very serious all the
afternoon. Next morning a triling
felluw was put on trial for stealing a
package of pocketknives from a stol'e
in town. He was easily convicted and
the judge asked him if he had any'
thing to say for himself. " Notbin,'
judge," said he, " only that I was
urinking an' don't remember about it."
The judge leaned forward and said,
"Young man, whre 4id you get your
linnor ?1 "At St-5rrAtt.'a." aid h&
A Wlac.g& F f * I yD1 A. r-.5eriff-dis
. Acr 'Drfotly aware
that Sterrett's whisky will make any
body steal."
.W~Adlers diin't steal nuch dur
ing the o'ivil war, but sonretimes we
were sorel ,.tp nied fell ome
times we k . i I ofys' mneat
and longed fio' irg.befti I re
member that when. . V *amped near
Orange courthouse there was a lovely
little shoto that took up where our
horses were tet erd. It belonged to a
-crosq old man vwt& lived on a hill near
.by-a d ajok 'Ayor rode up there one
even ng tVd'- triU to buy it. The old
man reftised-in an insolent manner, for
he was a union man and was mad bs
cause our army had camped on his
land and was cutting his timbeor. Cap
tain Cothran. wps a good shot with a
pistol ansi aa~s .pro'ud ot, liis kkill, and
so the nex1 evening" Majof Ayer bet
him a quarter that he couldn't shoot
that pig's eye out: He took the bet
and won, and our faithful servant Trip
dressed and batted It, and we feastei.
. he. old m~an came p'owling arourad
S.efry.ay.h11nting {Ifjat pig and it
.Was h~ardeX. to li6.'Qnit Of It sthan it Was
to steal It. But ithW morning we brdkh
camp we sent Tip up there and paid
the old woman two dollars and quieted
our consoiee. A fat shote was almost
irresistible,
One tinie George Burnett and Tonm
Ayer killed one under similar circum
stances and sent a quarter to our mess.
The old man missed his hog ,n dite
time, and when he inquired of Burnett
if they had seen it arouna, Burnett
wbisperedo-him taCaptain StIll
Well's mesh ad fres hig for dinner
yesterday bril he mustent tell who
told him. I belonge.l to Stillwell's
mess and the first thing we knew
Colonel Yeiser had us -ummoned be
fore him to be trioq.oon a otharge of
stealing the old 'ma'n.'s pig. It was a
kind of- mock trial' and rehutted in eon
victing Burnetht .and. Ayer., and they
had- to pay for tepig. But I am
pleased to say of our . Cunfeder-ate
.flagrantiW.ue~l i'obbery, or pillage,
nor did I ever kdowr of but,'one Instance,
of a soldier' violating the sacred rights
of a man's family. At Centerville the
Louisiana Tigers, pis they were called,
committed a palpfulppti'gge in the
country near'Iy kad wheei llnmedilately
arrested and tried [bat evening and
shot tl de t'ioningtt sunrise. Old
-Je* M da ly~nch law out of
I-sighth en he had a Sure case.
There are various kinds of stealing,
but the most aggravatIng to -writers
.for the p ross is the ,stealing by the
press. T wo'it'ien ".'-nen Birming
ham and the other, in Los Augeles,
Oalifornia-he 'rscnly sent me'
copies of patpers published in their'
towns in rliob the said papers have
copied fromn The OblWge.nter-Ocean
the it er 1 wrote for The Constitution
about P -Izer, Soutb' 4)arolina. My~
-name is not mentioned, inor is the let
ter credited to The Constitution ; only
a few Immaterial changes have been
made, just enough to make it appear
that Tne Inter-Ucean sent a reporter
down there to write up the town. L
have known petty thieves sent to the
c haingang for doing things not half so
mean as that. BILL ARP.
I- Washington's birthday is to he
celebrated in the island of Guam by
the abolition of nliver.
INQUIRIES ABOUT
THU PHIILIPPINUS.
AMEKICA FOLLOWING THE EX
AMPLE OF GREAT BtITAIN.
Figlting a Catholic Popwilation and
Making Treatles With Mohanne
dans-Protecting Slavery and Poly
gamy Under the Stars and Stripes
-- rhe Trade that Does Not Follow
the Flag.
The following are extracts froqi the
speech of Hon. Richard F. Pettigrew,
of South Dakota, delivered in the
United States Senate on the 15th in
stant :
The President of the United States,
in his speech at Sioux Falls, S. Dak ,
in October last, said :
" That from the hour the treaty was
ratified it became our territory ; there
was but one authority and but one sov
erignty that euld be recognized any
where in those islands, and it became
our duty to restore order, to preserve
peace, to protect life and property."
Yet he went to war with the Chris.
tian people of that country, with those
who believed in the Catholic religion,
and made a treaty with the Mohamme
dana by which they ware to set up and
maintain their own government almost
absolutely independent and free from
us. If he had granted to the Chris-lans
of the Philippines the same rights he
granted to the lit.veholders and poly
gamists of the Philippines there would
have been no war whatever. And yet
we, as a great Christian nation, select
for self-govern mnent the slaveholding
Mohanamedans, occupying more than
one-third of the area of the entire
grou p, and proceed to establish what?
Not Christianity, for they are already
Christians ; but we make the effort to
sboot Protestantism into the Catholic
population of the rest of the islands.
If our filg fl iata over that entire re
gion, and if, as the President said, it is
absolutely under the domain and con
trol of the constitution of the United
States, seems to me that he violated the
constitution when he made the treaty
with the Sultan of Sulu, and that he
ought to be impeached.
Mr. President, it would be in accord
more with my ideas of American insti
tutions if we had gone to the Sultan of
Sulu and said, " You must abandor,
polygamy and slavery, and if you do
not do it and recognize the power and
authority of the government of tht
United States over the whole group of
islands under your control we wili
wage war upon you until you do it,'
instead of going to the people who had
bad been our allies, the Christian peo
pa of the northern islands, and saying
to them, " Unless you surrender your
constitution which you have adopted.
and which is framed after our constitu
tion, unless you surrender your right
as a government of a free people, w(
will proceed to, kill you until you do."
Instead of drawing a trail of blood over
those islands, where the population can
read and write, -where they have em
braced the same religion as ours and
pray .to the same God, it would have
been better had we attacked the so
lled barbarous people of the southern
Islands.
I might read several other extracts
from the President's speech all to the
3ame effect. He has hardly made ,
tpeech without an allusion to the flag.
until I am almost convinced that b<
receives his direction from the English
painiter, for it is the same song always
t.hat England sings whenever she pro
poses to rob somebody. Whenever En
gland concludes to go upon an expedi
tion and plunder some of the weaker
nations of the world, she makes her
first appeal .to patriotism, and then,
ste p by step, goes on until she has com
mitte. the wrong, has transgressed.
and then declares that the flag hat.
been fired on and that no Englishman
must question the right or wrong of
what tney arc doing until the enemy
is defeated and the country annexed.
We are pursuing the same course.
Our minister of state was trained in
the English school, and he has come
home with their ideas and notions and
is going to try their way of humbug
gIng the people of this country as the
people of England have been humbug
ged. You can do it in England, but
you can not do it heru. More than a
million of the pcepic of England do not
vote. Most of the population have been
degraded by being herded in manu
facturing towns until a very large per
cent. of her population have no prop
erty, no capacity, and no opinions cx
cept to toady to the aristocracy.
How appropriate, Mr. President,
that the restoration of slavery and the
new interpretation of the Declaration of
Independence should come together.
It seems to me, however, that it marks
the saddest chapter in the history of
t-hat great political organization, the
Republican patty. It came into being
as a protest against slavery, as the
special champion of the Declaration of
Independence, and it goes out of being
and out of power as the champion of
slavery and the repudiator of the Di
claration of Independence.
The President says that moral rea
sons compel us to stay in the Philip
pines, and that we, under God's direc.
tion, owe a duty to mankind, and more
of similar cant. Here is what John
Morley, the English statesman, and
wirtor and biographer of Gladstone,
says with regard to England's policy in
this same connection :
" irst, (speaking of England,) you
iush on into territories where you
have no business to be and wbere you
had promised not to go ; secondly, your
intrusion provokes resentment, and, in
these wild countries, resentment means
resistance ; thirdly, you instantly cry
out that the people are rebellious and
that their act is rebellion (this in spite
of your own assurance that you have no
intention of setting up a permanent sov
oreignty over them); fourthly you ser~d
a force to stamp out the rebellion, and
Of thly, having spread bloodshed, con
fusion, and anarchy, you declare, with
hands uplifted to the heavens, that
moral reasons force you to st-ay, for if
you were toleave, this territory would
beleft in acondition which no civilized
power could contemplate with equani
mity or composure."
There is not a thing there that does
not absolutely accord with the e xcuses
giyen by the imperialists why we
should abandon our forme form of
government and conquer and rule
agaiht their will an uawilling people.
What blessing has England given to
her colonier that has justified this
plan throughout the world ? Ireland
came first, and the persecutions of Ire
land were justified on a doctrine of
benevolent assimilation--that they
were Catholics, and therefore, unless
they were converted from Catholicism,
they would go to the devil, and it was
England's great and grand mission to
make them Protestant anyhow. She
has succeeded neither in the one n')ir
the other. Her course in Ireland has
been one of the blackest pages in the
history of the world-starvation and
plunder.
If England will govern Ireland as
she has done, what right has she to the
claim that sbe can confer benef- a upon
any country. What is there in Eng
land's example that can justify us in
undertaking the same work? The mio.
erablo, miserable, contemptible rot of
Rudyard Kipl ng whore he talks about
the white man's burden it seems to me
in the light of English history is con
temptible-the white man's burden to
confer the curses of Eiglish rule upon
the other nations of the world.
England commenced with [reland
How is it with India? They have
made no converts practically to Chris
tianity in India; neither have the na
tives learned the English language.
None of the people of India talk Eng
lish. They have to keep an army of
210.000 men to hold them in subjection
and prevent them from securing mo
dern implements of destruction, while
they trample upon their riarhis as a
people. What blesting has Eigland
conferred upon fndia? Nothing but
the fact that taking away her food
supply has caused the starvation of a
million of men in India every year for
years, and some years six or seven
millions of people in a year. One hun
dred and fifty million dollars' worth of
the foog products of India are shipped
away to pay pensions in England, and
the result is that the want of that
tood causes the people of India to
starve.
Compare the provinces of India that
do not recognize English rule,"that are
under an English protectorate, and you
will find that there is no starvation
there. The native princes rule, and
the people govern themselves, and E -
gland simply has a suzerainty over
them. There is no starvation in thost:
provinces ; the starvation is in the En
liish part of India, where the English
system of robbery and plunder holds
sway. India gives no money to the
English treasury, but India is a field
'or exploiting private enterprise, and
thus further enriching the already
>ver-rich classes that govern the En
glish empire.
What of New Z 'aland ? Did the con
quest of New Z aland confer the bless
ngs of Christianity upon New Z3aland'?
Why, it resulted in the destruction of
the inhabitants. To-day a great colony
f Englia people are in New Z3aland,
but the inhabitants who formerly oc
cupied that land have disappeared as
the result of English government.
flow lia IL in Egypt ? The Eg'yptian
government was bad, and bad for the
same reason that the Englicih govern
*xent was bad ; but Enga-.;d went into
Egypt to enforce the collection of a
usurious debt for money which Egypt
never received. England went there
to force upon that people a debt which
was composed almost entirely of inter
est at 26 per cent. on a small sum of
money, until to-day every acre of
Egypt that is tillable is taxed $10 a
year.
Every man, woman, and child in
Egypt of native population, toiling
sad tilling the soil, is a slave to the
English taxgatherer. Three thousand
ti've hundred Englishmen wring the
,.axes by imprionmeut and by the lash
from those people, and yet the ac-called
.ivillzed world looks on with approval.
[n order to better enlarge their capa
sity to pay taxes and bear burdens, the
English officials have compelled those
people to toil in a systematic manner,
leaving nothing for themselves but a
,are existence and a bar-e subsistence.
8o It Is everywhere that England hab
gone.
As I said before, England's first con
quest was Catholic Ireland, and the ex
cuse for oppression there was that the
Irish were Catholics. How appropriate
that in our first act In the drama of Im
perialism we should undertake the
cocquest of another Catholic country,
should undertake the conquest of the
Philippines, and should make the eame
miserable and contr'mptlble excuoe
which has justified England's atroci
tiles in Ireland during all time. From
the pulpits of this country we hear
prayer-s for our success in order that
we may introduce Christianity. Oh,
Mr. President, if we are to go to war
against Catholics, it is not necessary
to go half way around the world to do
so. We have more of them at home,
although there are 6,000,000 of them
in the Philippines.
If these islands were rich in every
mineral men desire, if their supplies
of gold surpassed those of the Trn
vaal, if every ott~er metal precious and
desirable were in unlimited Quantities,
if their soil were so fertile that it sur
passed even the famosa valleys of the
N'ile, if they could produce ever"' comn
fort with half the effort with which It
can be produced elsewhere throughout
the world, yet I would Oppose the an
nexation of these islands because it Is
wrong, because. it leaves thosn who
have sneered at us in our claim tnat
we were advtcates of freedom a jus
tiflation for their sneers in the fu
ture.
But, Mr. President, I hold that we
can not profit from these islands. None
of our race live within tho Trropics.
Thkere is not a colony of our race, the
Aryan race, anjwhero within 22 do
grees of the equator. The men of our
race who have neon doing a commercial
business in Manila do not have their
families there. They raise a family of
half-mixed natives in Manila and leave
their real families at home. So it has
been with commercial England through
the Trropicseverywhere, for-you can no
more produce a white man, a man of
our blood, in the Tropics than you can
a plar bear. Cimatic conditions place
their limits upon men just as firmly as
upon plants and upon animals.
You can not claim that our race have
not been colonists and that they have
not gone forward to plant colonies
throughout the wo i d, for they have ;
but they settae in that belt ar-mund the
world, between the twenty frth and
uitty-tfth degrees of north or south la
titude.
Mr. President. we are told by the
President of the United States and by
the orators who favor imperialism that
this will be a paying venture-thatt
trade follows the flag. Well, the mor
ality of that argument can be fairly I)
lustrated, I think, in this way : If a
buy of a numerous family should cross a
wide desert and find at the foot of a
mountain an old man with a family of
children, possessed of vast wealth in
gold, jewels, horses, and cattle, a-d
should return to his brothers and say,
" There are nine of us, and I believe,
if we go together, we can overturn the
old man, who is not fit to bring up those
children anyway, and rob him o' bi
wealth, and I think It will be a profit.
able venture," and they should start
out and accomplish that act, it seems
to me they would stand upon exactly
the same plane as the man who btands
upon this floor and advocates taking all
the Philippine Islands because it would
pay.
lut, Mr. President, trade does not
follow the flag. If It be true that trade
follows the flag, then England's trade
with her colonies ought to ha a good
example and an argument in its favor.
Toat ought to settle the question
Trade follows the best markets, and
England's experience is a refutavlon
of the doctrine that trade follows the
flag.
So far as the Eagllsh tropical colo
nies are concerned, Eagland only sold
to them 71 cents' worth of goods last
year for each Inhabitant in those col
onies, and most of that was to supply
her own army and her owr ofli3ebold
era, who wanted English goods. Her
trade would have been intlitestimal,
almost absolutely nothing, with her
tropical colonies, except for hert army
in India of 70 000 Englishmen and her
equally great army of oilicoholders
there. So, such an argumenu is all
nonsense. Trade does not follow the
flag.
The United States can only secure
tropical countries as colonies. As
Schurman, our commissioner to the
Philippines, said, the Sultan of Su.u
and his people would tight, and there
fore it was not well to bother with
them. So the people who inhabit the.
temperate zone will fight, and our only
place to get a people who are easy to
control, a people who will not fight, too
bard, a people who are not armed with
modern implements of war, a people
who can be run over with battalions of
our troopa, Is in the tropics.
How, then, in the light of England's
exoerlence, In the light of the fact
that England has practically no trade
with the Inhabitants of her tropical
colonies, except the trade that comes
from supplying her officeholders and
her army, can we expect to have much
trade with the people of the Philip
pines ? H-.w are we going to get rich
keepIng a standing army in the Phillp
pines, so as to make people whose
wages are not over 5 cents a day trade
with us ?
Mr. President, in the Philippines
we do not even suppiy our own army.
If trade follows the flag, 1.- seems to me
that the trade with our own army
ought to follow the fl4g. So prone is
trade to seek the best markets that our
army is supplied with potatoes and
beef and butter and pork from the En
glish colonies ; practically none of it
comes from the United States.
Our soldiers are clothed by the E i
glish contractors at Hong Kong. Only
shoes..and a few canned goods go from
the United States, and the reason they
go is because we export shoes and that
people everywhere can buy shoos
cheaper in this country than anywhere
else, thus proving conclusively that
trade does no,. follow the Rag, but goes
to the best markLets. Tu coal 1,hai
prop~els our ships across the Pacolac -is
English coal. We do not even patron
ize our own coal mines on the western
coasit. Every vessel coming this way3
or going that, way in massing Nagasaki
takes on a load of English coal. Ouw
transports are chartered by the gov
ernent, and, therefore, every trans
port carries goods from the United
States free of cost to the producers
lt seems to me exceedingly strange
why, if trade will follow the flag, it
does not get under the flag and just
float over and supply our own army in
the tropics.
What Is there In the future to war
rant us to believe that trade will here
after follow the flag in the Philippine?
[ should like to have somebody tell me
We made a treaty with Spain by which
we agreed that the Pnilipplnes should
have the " open door," so that all ths
world could trade there througrh all
time to come. Therefore we broke
down the barriers of protection, aban
doned the policy upon which the 1
publican party has ridden into power
for years. We declared that we would
have the "open door," there by destroy
ing absoluteiy all hope of any trade in
she future with the people of the Pil
Ippines, for, tinder the decions of our
Supreme Court, we can not, impose a
tarIff upon their productsa unless we
amendl the constituilon.
So their products will come to us
free of duty. The tobacco made into
into cigars by thbe nimble lingers of
those capable Malays will closme the to
bacco and cIgar factories of this coumn
try and drive our labor into othber chan,
neis of employment, There is no rea
son why they can not supply unlindt
odly the cigars for A merican consump.
t~on. La~bor there Is cheap, labor is at
undant,, and New Eingiand's money
the vast fortunes of the men who have
accumulated by sho control of monopo
lies in our country-will go there-tu
exploit this labor, go there to -ma~ke
cotton goods out of Chinese cotton to
os Rold in the American markat.
Mr. President. I saw a cotton mill in
China havIng 34,000 splnd les, a modern
mill, wit,. i think, 2,100 ChInese em
iployetes or laborers, sivery og'e of them
men, full grown. Thero were no chil
dren and no women in that mill, an'd
ju8t. one Englishman. Evory otipr em
ployee, every spinner, carder, weaver,
engineer, every man runo'ng a loom,
was a Chinaman , and the average,
wages-mark that-amouinted to *3 50
a month ; andl they hoard themselves.
Desides, they were paid in silver, in
Mexican dollars, equa' to $1 75 in our
money. Yet the American laborer Is
wn ited to compete with 10 000 000 of
this kind of labor by annextng the
Philippines.
It seems to me the sum and ahannc
GREENVLLE'S.
GREATEST STORE
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"THE NE\V S'ORL"'
r This store's business, ending with the old
year, is phenomenal and to continue to
merit your atronage shall be our constaht
aim throu out tlh new year. We have
proven time after time the truthfulness of
our statenimis, and the straightforward
jprinci lles upon which this business is con
duce . and to furtherex ,and our business
along these ies we shall provide the nest
goods for the people at the lowest prices,
and lower than same qualities can be had
else% le re.
Our Big January Sale
of rhite Goods, Embroideries, Laces,
Madrass Cloths, Pereales, iuelin Under
wear, etc.. is attracting much attlention.
Commencing Monday morning, next, we
will add many additions.
Special Mentioni.
2000 yards 10c and 12%c C rash for ladies
suits and skirts at 6c a) ard--nev patterns.
20, pieces line all 8ilk Satin libbon.
will go on sale at 10c a yard for choice.
1,50 yards line 40 inch India Linens
..value 18c and 23c. for 12%/c.
A Percale Bargain.
2,500 yards fine 12%c Pereales in new
spring patterns in this sale 10o.
ate lot 3J inch Percales, dark and light,
at So
Embroidery Values.
5100 yards of 414 yard strips. Sold by
the strips 25c to18c according to widths.
Novelties in Ladies Neckwear
1. 200 line M ull Ties, embriderod and hem
stitched edge-just the thing-in this sale
18c
One lot Bovinet Ties, 35c value, only 23o.
New Shoes Arrived.
A new shipme, t of ladies fine shoes.
A- Remember the ab e sale and take
advantage of tthe opportunity.
MAHON & ARNOLD,
NO. 2xx UPPER MAIN STR"IT,
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hJ. 11. MOUIGAN & BRo.'s OLD STAND.
k Agents for McCall Bazar Pat terns.
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THE CASH
a
h
STALK IS CHEAP
n There is a vast differenace between
hi talking aund doIng what you talk about
n loing. We always do what we say,
i. and mean to back up every thing we
-put in print,.
Ladies Muslin Underwear.
Jus-t received a flne line and offering
them at very close dgures,
GownR, Chemlis, Drawers, Coats,
Corset Covers. Drawers for the little
ones, 100 each.
Embrcideries and
White Goods.
We will placo on sate this week the
largest and prettlest line of IEmbrold
ries and Allevere ever offered -in
I Dmbroidery Net (or yokes 250 to 600.
.Paris Muslin, sheer as organdy and
'iiwahi ik lawn, 8-4 wide, 50., and
Persian Lawn 263 to 50,.
Spreads- Spreads.
We are still offering them at last
4mmer'd prices.
New Percales
and Ginghams.
Percales at 7c, 8o, and 103,--great
* 50 F'reh Gingham at 9jo.
20o Pique, now, at 15o--beauties,
Towels., Towels.
Tbo beat 5e andi 10o towels on earth,
Come in and price goods ; no trouble
..o sbOw thorn.
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.Yours for business,
R. L R. Bentz
Leader in Low Prices.
The Cash Drv Gonods Storm
of the whole scheme is to find a fiel
where cheap labor can be socur, d, a
bor that will not strike, tbat does no
belong to a union, that does not, nee,
an army to keep it In leading stringe
that will make goods for the trusts c
this country ; and, as trusts dominate
the St. Louis convention and own th
Republican party, it 13 a very prope
enterprise for them to engage in.
England has not been enriched b
her conquests. To-day, what is tb
happiest country in the world I It I
little Swizerland. Where l there th
best distribution of wealth, the bet
opportunity for. man ? Where is ther
the least poverty, misery, and distrese
it Is In Switozerland, without colonlei
It is not in Etgland. Hoe cocquosts hav
bestowed no l'lessings upon her people
Most of her peop e have no property
most of the people of England owl
nothing. Two-thirds of t-em-66 pr
cent. (of them-owvn nothing, whjt
about 222 000 persons own all the pro
perty of Great Britain.
You ask me what I would do witi
the PIlhimflnes. I would draw ou
army back to Manila. I would stend t(
the Philipplu people asurance tha
they could set up their own t ov- ro
ment-a republic, such as they hav
set up under tl-e'r consttuton, framr
after ours, providing, as it uoos, fo
universal education, for the protecti1
of life and property, and I would sa
to the world, " Hands off I" Th ein
would try to neutralz that, cunt ry
that Is, I would try to make a treat
with the nations of the world by whic
those islands and their waters ehoul
-je neutral ground, where any ve-;ist o
any country could go and coal an
trade-not free trade, if they chose t
put up a tariff wall against al! th
world, but it should ho equal to all
but no nation could go there to flghl
I would do what Europe has don
wit~h Switzerland and what they hav
done with the Suez Oanal ; and if th
nations of all Earopo would not agre
to it, I woula say, ", Hinds off ; we wil
plant. a republic on tneshores of AsIa.
The Malay race have shown t-heir ca
pacily for governing in their triumpt
in Japan. No nation in the work
stands higher in the scale of civilizi
tion than the Malays of Japan, a kin
dred race to the people of the Pnillp
pines. Give then a chance, and the3
will plant r'publilcan principles on tht
short a of Asia that will spread to tha
continent and .undermin and over
throw the despotim of colonial rul
and the despotism of monarelices.
-Four modern Oweilings, which ari
en be the flinest private residences It
Brooklyn, will be built on the site o
lalmage's Tabernacle. The edile
was burned on the 13,h of May, 189-1
the day Mr. Talmage preached kit
farewell sermon there previous to hi
depar ure for Europe. The Hoetel L t
gent; next to the church, was deetroye
by iro at the same time, the total los
being $1.250,000. Since that time ther
has been nothing built on the plot. I
is grass grown, and some of the ruin
of tihe tabernacle are btill there. I
the tabernacle were four large stone
.which Talmage had brought bac
with hIm from the Hlly Land, an
thay wer incorporat.ecl in the intorio
walls. One of the new houses has al
ready been sold before it Is built fo
$48,000.
-The Gettysburg, Pa., Star an
Sentinel, In commenting on a story r<
contly printed In a Philadelphia pape
to the effect that back of Gettysbur
there Is located a factory building ei
gaged In manufacturtng battletlol
" relics," calls attention to the fai
that the manufacture of hogus relics
not necosary, as .,here are still enoug
bullets, buttons, swords, buckles ar
pieces of bone on the battleild
supply the demand for some years
come, and all of them genuine.
.-1, I's estimated that the rallrore
in the United States issue two mli<
ft*e passes annual'y.
Just out of reach, is where every ma
would like to be when danger thireatene
himit. Disease is more dangerous tha
any wild beast. To be just out of reac
of disease, is safer than to en gage it i
a death struggle with doubtful result.
Trhe secret of keei
inlg just out 'of reac
of disease is in keeping tho
blood pure and rich. Purn
llood offers no breed inj
ground for disease germs. Rich bloot
creates A vigorous vital force to resist dis
ease. Thlis ideal condition of the bloo<
Is best obtained by the use of Dr. Pierce'
Golden Medical Discovery. In thou
sands of cases where there has been o1
stinate cough, bronchitis, spitting. c
blood, weakness or other ailmients whic1
if neglected lea-d on to consumnptiori
"Golden Medical Discovery" has heale<
the dliseas-e and put the life just
lout of reach of the dlest'foyer.
There is no alcohol or other
Intoxicant containied in
"Goldeni M'edical Dis
covery."
"Afer' using nhout five hot
Medical 'tDiscoverv may boy
sets to be all right." writes.
Mr. J1. v. P'rice.'of Oz7an'k..Mon.
roe Co., Oio. "lie was very
hadi when , co,:nineced to give
him, tlbc -Colden'Medical DIls
covery.' Tihe -dctrjrs claimied
he had consumptioni andl we'
'doctored wilt 'tem .ntil he
was past walking. It has been
tfn mointhis since he stopped
takin~g your medicin~e and lhe Is -
tIll Inn godd-enl(h. We
are very thtankful to you
fr savinng our sona."
,Jree.. '4'he -People's Common Sensa
Medlicaj. Adviser Is sent free by ur
Piece;c lihffalo, N. Y., on1 .receipt .0
*tamnps to defray expe)se of mallnj
only. ,Send 21 one-cent statiips for pape
covere1rt'ldio, 'fr 31 stamaps for sam
editioln in clgth binding.
WANTED
A few thotpsand fe'lt of one in<h
Q *arter Sawed Oa&k Lumber.
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