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9 i WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver- i tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. 'if*'- , * I "» • lL The Ledger. F. O. Stacy. trcsIdcnJ. J. G. Wardlaw. Vice President THE HATlOIAl BiHX OF CAFFHET. Capital $50,000.00. Wn.t. buy county olsilms. receive «lcposlta ami make liberal on approved pap«T. I). C. Bom. Caabler. . 'V'- A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interest c f t h e People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1«, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l, S98 $1.00 A YEAR. THENEWEXPANDINGSOUTH. ITS ANGLO-SAXON SPIRIT KIN DLED BY THE WAR. Attention Called to Immense Undevel oped Resources Ami0 a Popula tion of Which 95 Per Cent, are Native Born. [New York Commercial Advertiser.] Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Baltimore Manufacturer’s Record, a persistant and painstaking exponent of Southern affairs, is now in New York, and, being asked for his views on the subject, he talked last night with much earnestness and vigor about the benefits the South ought to reap from the coming expansion of America influence in the world’s commerce. He said: “In my opinion, the most striking result of the present war has been the far-reaching advertisement which it has given to America, the American people and American institutions. It has brought about a deeper and wider recognition of what the sturdy civilization which we might denom inate as American Auglo-Saxonism means to mankind. It has broadened and deepened the patriotism of our own people and given us a fresh con ception of the virility and strength of our country ; it has shown us as nothing else could have done, that patriotism is not confined either to the rich or to the poor, either to the North or to the South, but that all classes and all sections are alike in their devotion to their country and in their readiness to sacrifice even life for its honor. It has focused upon America the searching eyes of wide awake men looking for fields for en terprise and investment—fields in which the rights and possessions of the individual are safeguarded to the utmost, and where social, industrial and commercial possibilities exist in the greatest number.” “From this general advertisement of our entire country the South ought to be able to receive the great est benefits, and these benefits will be in proportion to the growing ap preciations in which the civilizing, safeguarding force which we call An- glo-Saxonism, standing, as it does, for aggressiveness tempered by fair play, is upheld and lived up to by the people of that section and in proportion to the energy displayed by them in the development of their resources. In this respect the South, I am sure, will do its part, as over 95 per cent, of its people are Ameri can born.” “In discussing the question of An- glo-Saxonism. the New York Ledger, seven years ago, seemed to foresee its importance, and, in speaking of the South in this connection, said : “This homogeneity and intense Americanism were shared by New England fifty years ago, but since the sweeping emigration of New Englanders to the West and the oc cupation of the vacated places by French Canadians, there is a large and growing admixture of alien and unassimilated elements in the New England population. South of the Polomac, on the other hand, the ethnological conditions remain sub stantially wljat they were at the be ginning of the century. If wo ex cept a few descendants of French Protestants in South Carolina and of the French Catholics in Louisiana, all of the white people of the South are of pure English lineage, or else are the offshoots of that Scotch-Irish stock to which we owe Patrick Henry, John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jack- son. It should also be remembered that the English and Ssotch-Irislf emigrants, from whom the Southern whites are descended, reached this country almost to a man before the Revolutionary War. The result is that if we should see the so-called native American the typical Ameri can, the man who best represents the conjoint effects of English or Scotch-Irish hereditary aptitudes and of trans-Atlantic environment, we are most certain to find him in the South. Whatever triumps, therefore, . in the evolution of natural resources ‘or in the solution of social problems may be achieved by Southern whites, have a peculiar interest and impor tance of genuine Americans all over this country.” “Thus this war with Spain, by showing the world-wide domination of the Anglo-Saxon element, has opened the way for a most valuable Southern asset to be brought into activity and to exert its proper influ ence in the development of the re sources of that section of the Union. “In estimating the value of that saset in the light of the new and growing regard for Anglo-Saxon civili zation, there is little danger of one’s going too far. Indeed, there may be found those who will predict, after investigating the showing made by the latest census on this score, that > the South, with 95 per cent, of its Population native born, coupled with Ihe fact that it is endowed with the Anost remarkable wealth-making re sources, must soon be found occupy ing a commanding position in ccm- raerce and exerting a controlling in fluence in the word’s industry and enjoying to such an extent all that that makes for local prosperity that, enormous as was the loss which these States sustained in the civil war, it may be ultimately recouped through influences which the war now being closed will soon actively set in mo tion. And I am almost prepared to concur in such a prediction. “Of course, so stupendous a gain could not be due directly to the wag ing of war, but will come partly from a better appreciation of the South on the part of the world at large, while incalculably good results will ensue from a complete realization of the final obliteration of sectional ani mosity ; for the extent to which misconception on this score has mili tated against Northern participation in the South’s rehabilitation has never been quite realized. It will also come in part from the South’s share in the revival of trade and the expansion of our commercial activities as an out come of the quickened national busi ness life that has followed the war. The extent of this is hardly compre hended now, but that it will astonish the world by its magnitude cannot be questioned. “The tendency of the world’s industries is to the lowest possible cost of production and distribution. The movement is world-wide, and no power, no artifiiclal barrier, can stay its progress. Looking at the South in, the light, we find a condtion dup licated nowhere else. It has been said that no other country has the fundamental resources of all indus trial development. Here we find coal and iron and cotton and timber in such vast quantities and capable of being so cheaply utilized as to dictate the world's prices, constituting a basis for the unlimited expansion of all the industries employing these raw materials. Take cotton, to begin with. Three-fourths of the world’s cotton crop is grown in the South. The capital invested in turning this cotton into the finished product is probably over $1,500,000,000. The preeminent advantages of this section for growing cotton, w.hose importance the majorty of the people scarcely comprehend, are not more striking than its advantages for cotton manu facturing. Admitting this, we can form some idea of what it would mean to find the South in the future manufacturing as much cotton as all the world now does. An investment in Southern cotton mills of upward of a billion and a half dollars would turn the 10,000,000 bales annually produced, now, and worth to this section only $300,000,000 a yoar, into the finished product worth a billion dollars a year. We may not see this in the near future, but it must come. Moreover, it should be remembred that the building of the Nicaraguan Canal and the opening of the Far East to the commerce of the world, with America in the lead, will create in China and Japan an enlarged mar ket for American cotton as well as cotton goods. This, I believe, was estimated by Gen. Grant at five mil lion bales or more a year. Ex-Gover nor Hubbard of Texas, formerly Minister to Japan, after a careful study of the situation in the Far East, stated that with the Nicaraguan Canal in operation a market would be developed in the Eastern world for not less than ten million bales of American cotton. We i^re already producing from 10,000,000 to 11,000, 000 bales a year, und with this pos sible expansion of the Oriental demand, even If Gen. Grant’s esti mate is too large, and with the steady broadening of the world’s require ments—for the consumption of cot ton measures the civilization of every nation—it may not be many years before the 10,000,000 bales crop of to day shall have reached 20,000,000 bales. “The production and manufacture of the bulk of the world’s cotton is in itself enough to enrich sn empire and create wealth beyond anything that the South has dreamed of, and yet cotton is only one item of many in the South’s great storehouse. “1 take it that with this rapid expansion of the world’s coLon requirements there will be room enough for the profitable operation of many of New England’s mills on finer goods, while the South continues to extend its textile Interests as rapi dly as ^he capital and needed skill can be supplied. Eventually it will dominate the manufacture of fine goods as well as coarse. The views so ably expressed recently by Mr. D. A. Tompkins of Charlotte, N. C., to the effect that low-priced cotton, Instead of being a disadvantage to the South, is not an unmixed evil since it prevents the large develop ment of cotton growing in other countries and enables the South to maintain its world monopoly of this industry and causes an increase of cotton consumption in new fields as well as old, are worthy of careful study by the South. In many senses cotton Is still kind in the world’s business affairs, and the importance to our country that the South shall maintain und strengthen its domi nating position in this staple cannot be overestimated. I do not recall any other Instance where the production of a great staple of almost universal consumption, the demand for which must necessarily increase year by year in proportion to the increase of wealth and the progress of civilization, is so completely con trolled by one section or even by one country as is the case with the South and its cotton. With the cost of fertilizers constantly decreasing by reason of the phosphate discoveries in Florida and Tennessee, with the spread of ‘intensive’ farming and the consequent lower actual cost of pro ducing cotton, with the improved methods of handling this staple from the gin to the mill now commanding general investigation, with the introduction of cylindrical baling, it Is only reasonable to hope that even if prices continue as low as for several years past the net profits to the farmer will be greater than in the past with high prices. With this increased consumption of the South’s chief staple and the multiplication of industries for the utilization of this and other resources likely to result, from movements which the war will start, there will be added to the avail able wealth of those needing it most, viz., the land-owning classes, enough to contribute materially to the recoup ment of the losses caused by the civil war. “Coming to iron, I believe it is universally admitted that the South is to-day making iron at a lower cost than any other country in the world, and Alabama is now dictating the price in the world’s markets for pig iron. What it has done in iron there is reason to hope it is destined to do in steel. And Alabama in this respect is but a type of the South. England’s supremacy £in the world’s affairs, its vast shipping business (almost ex ceeding our conprehension), its vast manufacturing industries, have been mainly based upon coal and iron and cotton. In these industries its su premacy has passed; this country controls them and the Sou f h can take the lead over any other section of this country. The field for expansion in the development of Southern cotton, iron and steel is as limitless as are the world’s requirements for centuries to come. But even this is not all. One-half of the standing timber of the United States is reported by the United States authorities to be in this South, and this will furnish a base for great woodworking business in every Southern State. When we come to agriculture we find that the South is producing at the present time nearly $1,000,000,000 worth of agricultural products, although it has as yet barely scratched the surface in its agricultural development as com pared with what the future may be. With the increase of manufacturing, the creation of home markets for agricultural products, intensive farming, the reduced cost of fertili zers, the South seems to be preparing for as radical change in its agricul tural as it has accomplished in the last ten years in its industrial ad vancement. “Moreover, when the situation is studied, it is seen that the South with its genial climate, its abqpdant and even rainfall, its magnificent rivers and great water powers, the nearness of its ports to the productive centres of the West, furnishing the most direct outlet to foreign markets, presents a peculiar combination, one that I believe has no parallel in the world’s history and one which I am sure must have a more far reaching effect, not only upon our own country, but upon the world iu general, than has yet been fully grasped either by our Northern friends or by the pt jpie of the South themselves. “I am sure that a study of the South's advantages will cause any one to be more and more impressed with the fact that there bus beeu centered in this region possibilties for the creation of wealth, for the develop ment of enormous industrial enter prises and great shipping interests and for profitable agriculture, that cannot he duplicated in any other equal area on earth. I am sure that as these facts are more and more impressed upon the people of the North and of Europe, now that every trace of sectionalism has been blotted out by the war, those who have held aloof from that section because of the sectional question will see that in this favored land are unequalled opportunities for the display of energy and for the development of business such as can be found nowhere else. The development and enrichment of the South mean greater prosperity to the North and West, the expansion of our commercial power and a vast strengthening of the dominating influence of the Anglo-Saxon on the world’s future. For we have now en tered a new period in the world’s affairs. Every day brings out more clearly the commanding position that our country is to hold, and shows how our great financial and businss In stitutions are to play the leading part in the control of the ever-expanding trade and commerce of the whole world. The very magnitude of our great institutione and their splendid management, acquired through years of training, fit them now to enter into the struggle for the world’e trade, and so wo see that the policy of combination and consolidation, which is but the working out of an inex orable economic law, has put us in a position to enter the markets of Europe und Asia as a power to be reckoned with.' To the extent that the South appreciates and takes ad vantage of its oportunities will be its share in the rapidly growing wealth- creating trade. “Coming back, however,” said Mr. Edmonds, “of course, the fact that our country as a nation, greatly strengthens the South’s position. It has been well said that no other country, no other age in the world’s history, can show such widespread prosperity among the people as the United States. Our natural resour ces, greater than those of all Europe combined, have only been touched on the edge, the outcrops,so to speak; while in England and some countries of continental Europe, the cost of production in nearly all industries is increasing because of decreasing sup plies of material and their con sequently increasing coat. With .us the cost of production is decreasing day by day, and we open up our richer regions to capital and labor. We have more than half the railway mile age of the world and water transpor tation by sea, by rivers and by lakes, and have only to adjust our varied productions of the farm, the factory and the mine, to right proportions, in order to permit unlimited increase in wealth and prosperity. We have the material, with every natural con dition for making it useful in the highest degree; we have over 70,000, 000 people to work it up: we have the skill, intelligence, industry, thrift and enterprise to carry on work on a scale never dreamed of in any other coutry or age. The ability of the American people to adapt themselves to the work in hand, to ‘catch on,’ has long been proven to be superior to that of any other people. Tne results they hate attained in the creation of wealth, comfort and prog ress are entirely without parallel in the history of the world. What they have done and are doing is the best guarantee of what they can do. “With an area equal to that of all Europe and natural resources far greater, with a homogeneous popula tion working under common laws, we must in time exceed not what com bined Europe has, but what she might have had if she had been from the start a single country working in harmony, instead of divided into a score of nations with artificial and unnatural boundaries and still worse, divided by language, laws, prejudices and old grudges, and wasting their energies and resources iu wars and in standing armies. “And so, taking into consideration the new impetus that will be given to Southern development, I am inclined to think that if Judge Kelly of Pen nsylvania were now alive, instead of saying, as he did, shortly before his death that ‘the South afforded the most inviting field for the enormous energies and surplus accumulation of tiie North,'he would say with truth that the South to-day constitutes the focal spot of opportunity for the energies and capital of the world. My own faith in the early and rapid progress of the South, based upon the admirable characteristics of the controlling population, the assurance of the decline of populistic agitation and a growing realization on the part of the whole world of its natural endowments in most of those things which underlie successful human endeavor, has been greatly strength ened by a study of the benefits which it will derive from the recent world wide advertisement of the United States, and likewise by the contem plation of the mighty tidal wave of prosperity whose inflow is even now upon this nation.” COlMN VERSUS CATTLE. Some Pointed Questions. [Greenville News.] Is Spartanburg city going to vote for Stanyarne Wilson and thereby ap prove the methods by which he se cured office? Didn’t he say a few years ago in public speeches that he didn't expect any Spartanburg city votes and didn’t want them? Are the people over there going to endorse with their ballots a man who talked that way ? Of course he d'dn’t mean it. He didn’t mean a good many things he said, but is it right or safe to support and endorse a man who says what he doesn’t mean to carry his political point? Married men as a rule do not lie from choice, but their wives will per sist in asking such fool questions. A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, 8. D. “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set in and finally terminated in Consumption. Four Doctors gave me up, saying I could life but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was ad vised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Cooghs and Colds. I gave It a trial, took in all eight bottles. It has cured me, and thank God I am saved and now a well and healthy woman. Trial bottles free at DuPre Drug Co. Regular size 50c and $1.00. Guar anteed or price refunded, J. R. UUjQg. DISCUSSES the SUBJECT CHARMINGLY. Cotton Growing Exc i U8;ve i y Wa8 the Natural Outgr^ th o{thaP i an . tations and u mve Sys . tem in D>.( e . The effort of Edward A^j n60n t 0 combine cotton growing an 8 heep husbandry is commendable, .^ yg j R. Dodge, in Country Gentlei, an> Possibly in the changes of the futu^ something may be done In this direc tion, but in the past toothing was nearer an impossibility than a union of the two industries. Indeed, in the cotton palntation districts, it was a matter of caste, and to enter wool growing, orcharding, castor bean planting melon growing or the culti vation of anything except the royal plant, would have placed one under social ostracism. I could name many notable facts in proof of this state ment, which no one familiar with Southern agricultural history can deny. Cotton growing was the natural outgrowth of the plantation and slave system, stimulated by the short sighted view that a single product of world-wide demand, and with com paratively little competition, could alone support a great population. It could for a time, but originators of this one-crop practice did not look ahead far enough to a time when a cotton crop worth $300,000 000 would mean but $20 a head for a Southern popu'ation of 15,000,000. It was not statesmanship, but provincialism, that restricted industry to agricul ture and agriculture to cotton. Not to outgrow this idea, in a fertile and productive territory suited to the production of almost anything that can be grown within the limits of the United States, would secure a sure Inheritance of poverty. The tradi tions of this fetich controlled too long the labor and effort of a great coun try, till the price of an acre of land, the average value of the product of a man’s labor, and of course the wages of labor, all helped to emphasize the story of the unproductiveness and economic fallacy of the single crop idea. It is now more than forty years since diversification was politi cally and socially possible there, yet more has been accomplished in that direction in the last ten years than in the preceding thirty, and far more still will be in the next ten—so stre ig have been the indnstrial fet ters forged by heredity and long es tablished custom. This accounts for the absence of cattle, sheep and miscellaneous agri cultural production in the great plan tation districts. The tenant system was not much in vogue before I860, and now it is only a modus vivendi of the planter and the freedmen, in new relations, for the cultivation of the same plant upon the same plantation, and in neither ease is it responsible for the absence of live stock. As to crop mortgages, the crop was actually or virtually mortgaged under the old regime more generally than at pres ent, and it was not uncommon for planters to be indebted to city or country merchant the full value of the year's crop, for money, farm sup plies and provisions advanced while the crop was growing. A year’s credit was allowed, and not unfre- quently a large balance unpaid was carried over again&j the next crop. There is now a smaller percentage of this indebtedness than formerly, and but for the advances to colored share- renters the proportion would be much more reduced. Fifty years ago, in the great cot ton districts, a few cows of inferior milKing quality were kept, scarcely and butter made, and little bought from Northern or Western dairies. Milk was used to a limited extent in summer, and often in^he winter the cows world wander to the canebrakes and cause a lacteal dearth at the homestead. A great change has oc curred in recent years, and milk and butter are in many districts abun dant, cows are better bred and better fed, and fine butter is not infequent- ly made, and in some cases sent to Northern markets. When the era for live stock grow ing began to dawn, as cotton exclu siveness showed signs of dying out, it was found that the native cattle were of little value, either for milk or meat—a Texas or Florida stoer being worth in market scarcely a fifth as much as a finished Western steer. And when the short-horn was Introduced for stock improvement, the Texas fever, which has its habi tat, in all the great cotton growing sections, soon destroyed It, delaying for a long time improvementof South ern stock. Eventually, however, the progeny of the victims became im mune to the attacks of this dreaded disease, and cattle of the best breeds are now numerous. In Texas, this improvement is so general that it amounts to a revolution in stock- growing, the price of Texas beef is appreciated in all markets, and the original lank and bony long-horn is losing much of his distinctively Spanish character. And feeding, as well as breeding, has a large share in the renovation. Net only cotton seed but corn in immense quantities is used in feeding, and the great Northern ranges no longer get a full supply of cheap Texas yearlings, which take a shorter road to market in much shorter time. A great impetus to extension of stock-growing is now felt in the South. Cotton seed, per se, should not be fed, but cotton seed meal la safe and valuable, and should be employed, not as a fad or exclusive of other feeds combined in a balanced ration, any more than linseed oil cake should ^ made the basis of sheep and cat- feeding among the flax fields of the Northwest. The Sooth has more acres corn than of cotton. Mil lions of acres of cbw peas can be grown wijj corn at little more than sowing broadcast before the last plowing. L*e stock can be fed on winter oats, oiother grain or natural grasses, every <ny of the winter with out shelter. No nther part of the country can supply forage more cheaply or handle 'Ave stock from birth to butcher at less cost, whether cattle, sheep or hogs. It is a great opportunity of the South only be ginning to be appreciated. It could not have been availed of in the past; only recently have Icoaditions, agri cultural, economic, and social, made it practicable or possible. But no more single crop ideas, or even the double crops of cotton and mutton, must be adopted and worked exclu sively; but Rjiiculture should be symmetrical, diversified to utilize all available resources of land and labor, soil and climate. Then all sections will have large production and large profit, though the proportion of live stock to other production will by no means be uniform or equal in all. Some Predictions. [Edgefield Monitor.] We suggest to the esteemed Colum bia Record that it would be well to run the following predictions through its predicting apparatus: Dr. Timmerman well be re-elected state treasurer on the first ballot. M. B. McSweeney will be re-elected lieutenant governor on the first ballot. Joe Allen will be re-elected probate judge of Edgefield county. Tom Morgan will be re-elected treasurer of Edgefield county. Jas Talbert will be re-elected to Congress by a safe majority on the first ballot. Walt Whitman is running like a scared rabbit for the tail end of the ticket for the governorship. He will get there unless headed off by Archer. The Record’s apparatus has suffered some severe strains re cently. We hope thejjrecord will keep a file of its predictions, and af ter the 8ist of August will own up to f he people that its machine was the clumsiest th'ng it ever owned.' In Spite of Hard Times. IKiutfatree County Record.] About four years ago Mr. J. H. Pearce came to Williamsburg from Darlington county. He was a poor man and had to work us a farm laborer at six dollars a month. He worked he-d, saved his money and now owns a comfortable home near Cades,a well-stocked fr rm of 250 acres and is out of debt. This has been done in four years by a man depen dent on his own labor, in spite of hard times and ill health during one of these four years. This is a fine object lesson for those who are continually complaining of hard times and the low pree of farm products. There is no State in the Union with more natural advantages than South Carolina, and no county in the State where it is easier to make a living than Willimsburg. This is only one of the several instances we have in mind, where, during the last few years, men starting with no capital, have succeeded remarkably well as farmers in this county. Turner—Painter. Last Saturday at the home of t bride’s father. Mr. B. O. Turner a Miss Mary T. Painter were united the holy bonds of wedlock. T ceremony took place in the foreno and a large number of friends of t contracting parties were present enjoy the bountiful repast which w spread iu their honor. Rev. W. Thomson pronounced the words tfa made them man and wiL. The Sure La Grippe Cure. There is no use suffering from thia dreadful malady, if you will only get the right remedy. You are having pain all through your body, your liver is out of order, have no appe tite, no life or ambition, have a bad cold, in fact are completely used up. 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