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a 4 iwMr. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C. NOVEMRER 17, 1898. 1 Tn ic Si.oo per Year. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY Ed. II. DeCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for ♦.he views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur bish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point 'jO insure publication ; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. All correspondence should be ad- iressed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published at five merits a line. Cards of thanks will be published t* one cent a word. Heading notices will be published i*. ten cents a line each insertion. IMPORTANT. Watch the date on your label and it you are in arrears call in and settle up. thus saving us the unpleasant duty of mailing you a notice inform ing you of that fact. I'artiss wishing the address of their paper changed to another post- f.ffice must give the name of the office where they have been getting it a* well as the one where they want it changed to. THE PHCENIX BUTCHERY. The tilling of the negroes near (ireenwood on election day is all ot lier dark blot on the name and fame of South Carolina. It is true that the white people were justly in censed. It is true that a negro had wantonly, and without any personal provocation whatever, shot a white man who was engaged in an alterca tion with another white man; and if in the tumult that followed, the whites had killed that negro and a 11 >zen others, there would have not been wanting palliation and excuse. In a free-for-all fight with guns and pistols it is not expected that men will exercise culm reason or nice discrimination, or that they will be wry particular as to the direction in which they shoot. Nor could \v« Mi!me the white men for killing as I mg as the negroes had arms and were trying to kill in turn. But when from twelve to eighteen hours after the row had terminated, when the negroes baa been already pretty severely punished, and dispersed, when men had had ample time to re- il-ot, when the negro who shot Eth ridge had not been found—then for a mob of white men to fall upon eleven negroes unarmed, prisoners, and lu-ipless, and shoot them to death, without being able to impute any crime to at least two of them, is one nf the blackest, foulest, most dia- boiical crimes ever perpetrated un der heaven. There was not the shHow of ex cuse for it; no fear that .o guilty ones would escape punishment in t he courts, which are entirely in the hands of the whites—no dread of further danger from the negroes, for they were disarmed and helpless— nothing but the savage instincts of an unreasoning and blood-thirsty mob. The condition of the negroes was such as has always appealed power fully to every generous and noble sentiment of the truly brave, and t hero were many good and true men there who felt the full force of the appeal and exerted themselves to prevent the dastardly deed. But tin-y were as powerless before the surges of phrensied passion as a feather before the gale. And thus another dark crime is added to a record already black with crime. Thus there is more blood crying from the ground, and surely a> there is a just God in Heaven it will not always cry in vain. Oh! blind indeed is he who thinks there i- no retribution for such crimes timt violate every instinct of human ity and shock the whole natural and moral world! The law of the land is powerless. It lies prostrate, dishonored, and trampled into the dust—a stricken and helpless thing, the scoff and scorn alike of those who have sworn to enforce it and those who are re quired to obey it. God help the country when there is not a man from the Governor down to the petty constable who has the nerve to up hold its dignity or assert its power! But this event brings another em phatic lesson with it, especially to the negroes. The lesson is that they will not be allowed to rule this country. How much more blood must be shed before they can learn this lesson? They ought to have kno vn that with the restrictions now put upon suffrage there Wasn’t the slightest chance upon earth for them to win the congressional election in Greenwood county. The white scoundrels who manipulated them did know it. The only motive was to give trouble and stir up mischief. Just us long us the negroes remain in this country they will be the wil ling tools of unprincipled and design ing white men, and just as long us they serve as such tools, just so long will such scenes as those at Phoenix be re-enacted. The tools will suffer, and the sleek rascals who handle them will go scot free. There is but one commendable way out of it all. That is separation, complete, final, and forever. THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. The pleasant little town of Foun tain Inn, Greenville county, comes to the front with a village improve ment society and by so doing it sets an example which ought to be fol lowed by every town, city, and densely populated community in the State. So absorbed are the citizens of our towns in making money that they have become almost oblivious to the fact that there is any other kind of improvement than that which money can make, and when they hear of an improvement society, nine- tenths of them will have no other thought than that it is a society for buying and selling lands and houses and making money for the stock holders. But that is not the object of the society at Fountain Inn. Its object, as stated by the Greenville News, is to cultivate a taste for the useful and the beautiful in private and public improvements; to teach the people how to make their houses, grounds, and streets attractive with out materially increasing the cost; and incidentally to infuse a spirit of refinement into social life and man ners. We do not know of a more sorely felt need in our town of Gaffney than that of something to promote the ob jects of such a society. It seems to us that the whole town is in such a rage for material improvements that it is becoming in a great measure in different to the demands of social, moral, and religious life—demands in finitely higher and more imperative than any ever made upon a people by the necessities of trade or the exigencies of material progress. Never before in the history of this country—perhaps never in the his tory of the human race—has there been such a struggle for material advancement, such a wild, mad rush for money, such a strain upon the powers of life, such a we a .• and tear of body, and such a tax on the re sources of mind, as may be witnessed almost anywhere in this God-favored land to-day. Every town is straining its re sources in rivalry of some other town ; every newspaper is booming its own locality, applauding what it calls the spirit of push and enterprise, and stimulating by every means in its power a spirit already wild and al most uncontrollable; while individ ual life is wrought up to a degree of intensity that excludes every thought of physical, moral or social well-being and threatens to snap the chains that hold it to its moorings and let it go down in the raging waters, a mad sacrafice to selfish greed. The religion of our fathers, their hours for reading and pious medita tion, their leisure for social enjoy ment, their happy quiet homes, their sturdy honesty, their subi'ino con tentment, are all in a measure things that were. The scene has shifted, and another play has come on the stage, which, if we watch attentively, we shall discover to be a charade of which the key-word is moxey, with contentment, happiness, duty, and honor, all in the back ground. The play is corrupt, pitiable, deceptive. Not one in ten of the actors will ever grasp the glittering prize, not one of them all but is doomed to bitter dis appointment in the end; for the prize when gained, loses its luster, rusts and cankers, and finally turns to dross in the possession. This play is on the Gaffney stage and will end just as laid down in the book, just as it will ever end. Nine- tenths of our people will never amass wealth, and the one-tenth that get it, will fail to find the satisfaction in it that they fondly expected. Material progress is desirable and and gratifying to every man who feels an interest In the welfare of the town. But if we can boast only of material progress, if social life must be dwarfed, if religion must languish, if greed and selfishness must be the ruling principles and, the strong mo tives of life, then the progress is downwards and backwards, and our boasting is our everlasting shame. ENTRIES FROM OUR DAY BOOK. One acre of land with its appur tenances, was leased the other day at auction in the city of London for 80 years at an rental of ijtSo.OOO a year. The value of land seems to depend mostly upon where the land is and what it has on it. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Spain swears on the altar of her oft-insulted but ever sensitive honor, that she will not giva up the Philip pines. Indeed, since she comes to think about it. she is not so sure but that she will take back Lugon. If the United States persist in her bullying high handed measures, she Spain, will—ask the Emperer Wil liam to arbitrate—blamed if she don’t! In the elections held last week over the United States, the Repub licans were generally victorious. It is conceded that the next congress will be Republican by a decided majority. This is all right. Let the Republicans run things during Mc Kinley’s term. Let them be respon sible for the settlement of the ques tion of territorial expansion, and all other questions arising out of the war with Spain. Let Boss Reed crack his party whip and rush through party measurers thick and fast. There will be a reckoning in 1900 and the Democratic party will be in condition to make it. The war ship, Maria Teresa, which was sunk by the American guns in the battle of! Santiago, then raised by Hobson, then lost in u storm and supposed to be resting quietly, at the bottom of the ocean, after an eventful career, is again in evidence and promises to attract yet more interest and perhaps to give more trouble. She is stranded near Cat Island in British waters, with her stores intact, her masts uninjured and her anchors out. The wreckers of the Island claim the cargo, and the British authorities have taken possession of the vessel as derelict, while the United States enters a vigorous protest. The question now is, who owns the Maria Teresa? The Spartanburg Waterworks Com pany has gone into the hands of a receiver, and a new company, con sisting of most of the strongest moneyed men of the city, has been organized for the purpose of operating waterworks. The latter company proposes to furnish water by utilizing the force of gravitation. It might be well for the people of Gaffney to consider the feasibility of organizing a company for such a purpose, and also the practicability of getting water by gravitation. Water ob tained by this method would no doubt have to be brought from a considerable distance, but it would be clear, and might be cheaper in the long run than expensive machinery. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The city of Wilmington, N. C., freed herself from negro rule with a strong hand. Eleven negroes were killed, the office of the Daily Record was broken up and burned, and num bers of negroes and objectionable whites were put aboard the cars and told to leave a blue streak behind them. The officers of the city govern ment all resigned and the revolution was rapid and complete. The de struction of the Record office was a just and righteous retribution. The editorial of the negro editor, which excited the vengeance of the people, was a vile slander on the white wo men of the country, and such a one as no white man would dare to write and print. The pity is that the editor himself was allowed to escape. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The property owners within the corporate limits of Gaffney will now be required to pay an annual tax for ail purposes of about mills. A further tux must come for water works. Before u great while longer they must make up their minds to pay a yearly tax of at least 30 mills. That is 3 per cent, the legal rate of interest in the bank of England, the rate at which money can be borrowed on gilt edge paper in New York. Wo don’t believe that as many as one- fourth of our people make 3 per cent, annually above all expenses, on their capital. If not, then three- fourths of them will be taxed above the amount of their clear income, it seems to be as easy to levy taxes as ib is for individuals to contract debts, but taxes, unlike individual debts, must be paid every time and paid when due without offset, discount, or compromise. We were opposed to the tax for the Graded School, and were prepared to give good reasons for our opposition. But there was no opportunity afforded for discus sion. The order for the election was published-in the paper on Thursday and the election followed on Tuesday. Eighty-three voters,out of a voting population of 600 voted for it, and the thing was done. We have no censure for those who voted for it, nor for those whose apathy allowed the tax to be fastened upon them. If there is any luxury In it, we’ll all try to enjoy it together. We wrote the articles in another column on the Phoenix butchery, immediately after the first news of the occurrence reached us; but everything that has come to light since has but confirmed the first view that we took of it. While the ne groes had arms, and were using or attempting to use them, of course there was but one thing for the whites to do, that was to shoot and shoot straight. But when the whites, after the negroes had been dispersed and their ring leaders were out of reach, went to murdering prisoners whose guilt was not established and who in all probability had not got out of the way because they were conscious of innocence, then the whites put themselves deeply and awfully in the wrong. A corres pondent of the Greenville News, who has visited the scene of the disturb ance, says that only about 15 per cent, of the white men present took part in the bloody and cruel work, and they composed the drunken, riotous element of the crowd. Ah! there is the secret which need not to have been told in words. Fifteen drunken rowdies dominating eighty- five good law-abiding citizens and glutting their savage instincts with red-handed murder! It is one of the deplorable results of all such disturbances, that they quickly pass into the hands of an irresponsible j element, and good men are as power- ; less to stay the tide of murder as j the poor victims themselves. PRESS OPINION. Makes the food more delicious and wholesome »OY«l B*KIWO POWDER CO., NFW YOBK. Praise for Gaffney. [baptist Courier.] We spent a day very pleasantly in the thriving city of Gaffney last week, mingling with our subscribers and other good people of the place. Gaffney is the centre of a large Bap tist community, and the cause in the town and country roundabout is in good hands and prosperous. Pastors Robertson and Bridges, of the town churches, are popular with their peo ple and are doing a good work, and it was pleasant to hear them well spoken of by the members of their flocks. Towards the close of the day we walked out to Limestone College, where we spent a delightful evening with Prof. Mack and his happy house hold. The college is enjoying a fairly prosperous session, with a small increase in the number of boarding pupils but a slight decrease in the local attendance, on account of the establishment in Gaffney of a Graded school. The work of the ses sion is progressing most satisfactorily, and it was very pleasing to observe the perfect order and system with which all the affairs of the institution are conducted The faculty and pupils are happy in their work, a condition absolutely necessary to the faithful performance of daily tasks. A New Firm. [Union Times.] Messrs. J. C. Otis and J. Clough Wallace have formed a partnership for the practice of law. Mr. Otts will move to Gaffney next week where he will open an office, while Mr. Wallace will have charge of the local office. We wish these gentle men success. Y°U MUST have pure blood for good health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. Take Hood’s Sar saparilla if you would be well. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co.’s Stcre. Can tjo found at office six (lays in tlic week CLINE BROS. & CO., Livery Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-els>ss turnouts; prompt attention: and courteous attendants. 82F“We solicit your patronage. A. K. HAWKES The president has done well not to seek a pretext for interference in the Bhcenix mutter. Federal interference could do no good whatever.—Yorkville Enquirer. * * * Prof. Fiske’s new history ought to be condemned as unworthy of a place in any Southern home or school. Specimen sheets show that it is a tis sue of lalse statements of every thing connected with the South.—Saluda Sentinl. * * * Gov. Ellerbe has turned over a new leaf in his treatment of dispen sary constables. He has actually discharged one who shot at a negro when the negro made an attempt to escape. Perhaps the punishment was inflicted as a penalty for poor marks manship.—Watchman and Southern. Efforts to make dispensary liquor convenient for soldiers in camp are without excuse. With the right kind of officers, whiskey could be al most kept entirely from the soluiers, and it should be done as far as pos sible. Many disgraceful things have happened among the soldiers on ac count of whiskey.—Chester Lantern. * * * The farmers, not only in Edgefield but throughout the South, have be come thoroughly aroused on the sub ject of wheat culture. There is a great demand in all sections of our State for seed wheat; and the indica tions are that after this year, home- raised Hour will no longer be a va riety . —Edgefield Chronicle. ¥ ¥ * The shooting of the colored woman in the Phoenix neighborhood is with out possible excuse. Possibly the bullet was intended for some negro man. This does not alter the ease. The recklessness of the assaulting party was as outrageous as would have been the assault upon the negro whom they actually intended to shoot.—Columbia Register. ¥ ¥ ¥ In New York, where the currency issue was ignored by the democrats, there were iieavy democratic gains. In the West and along the Pacific coast the democrats made their fight on free silver and there were heavy republican gains. “Experience,” re marks Dr. Benjamin Franklin, “keeps a severe school, but fools will learn at no other.”—Greenville News. How’s This. 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