Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ »* THK IEDHEKs OAFF1SEY, 8. C., FEBUUAK\Y 9, 185)9. $1.00 per Year. ?n«U8HKl) BVKRY THURSDAY BY Ed. H. DeCamp. V TIMELY PRUDENCE. Our friend. Tlie Ledger, eh-'llv n"cs us to n show up as to the circuiatioa figures, and proposes that the paper having the small- <*st'Cir'ulation donate tiso snin of $d.‘» to charity. The proposition is alx)ut ns rela tive to the original discussion as in the well- known question: “Which would you rather do or jro a fishinjtV” \V« have no informa tion as to the'extjnt of The Ledger's' circu lation; but wo »1 > know that it be I ones to that class of publications that, are so:t to people with »ut authority, year after year, and which claim tint their victims arc honestly in lebt - I to them. We know of papers of this kind that are bein^ sent to people who have been dead for years, and wlio even left no successors to take the papers oui of th-‘ postodices. Such publica tions claim, of course, that their j*oliey is dictated by philanthropy; but when they dojreta chance to squeeze their victims, they generally squeeze. The circulation of The Enquirer is confine I strictly to those who take it and pay lor it of their own free will and because they want it. Although we have no idea that the genuine circula tion of The Enquirer is less than the padded circulation of our esteemed contemporary. The Ledger, we arc not inclined to measure clean, pure wheat against half chaff.—York- ▼illo i-nquirt r. It ia thus that the Yorkville En quirer gracefully and considerately dec i. es to accept our proposition to compare proofs of circulation. Wo give the declination verbatim uni in lull, in or.ier that the patrons of The ^dger may know something of the able opinions of them, cherisfied he Enquirer. i 1 >oks liae a pity to dissect such _ump l placid, well-rounded, smooth f ing piece of literature, but there some delicious bits in it for which our mouth waters, and we must ex tract them, though we paomise to do it as delicately as possible. The Enquirer cannot see how our proposition was pertinent to the questions at issue. It seems that the Enquirer’s mind is not much habituated to tracing connections and pertinent relations. We will ex plain : In its references to The Lodger our contempa/y has had a good deal ot say about “character” and “class” without doing us the kindness to elucidate the principles on which it establishes classes and delineates character. Wo think these words in newspaper parlance are frequently u&d interchangeably, and we have a notion more or less clear, that the class to which a newspaper belongs is sometimes determ ined bv the extent of its circulation At least this is one mode of classifica tion. Of course there are many oilier inodes, each depending upon the ob ject in view. Now, wo culled upon our esteemed neighbor to explain what he meant, bu'< he lias maintain ed a prudent silence us to explana tions, but still keeps talking about “class” and "character.” Under these circumstances wo felr. author ized to assume, us an hyphothesis at least, that he was classifying on the basis of circulation, and hence our challenge, which he so gracefully* declines. “We have no information as to the extent of The Ledger’s circulation ; but we do know that it belongs to that class of publications that are sent to people ^without authority.” Now, beloved, if you know nothing at all about the number of the people that read the Ledger, how cun you know^hat a great many of that num ber have it thrust upon them and do not pay for it? For that is what your assertion means in plain En glish. Had yon not better readjust your “kink works,” reconsider our p 'oposition, and let us fix the class of our respective journals on some well defined basis? MONEY IN THE MARKET. For the first time, perhaps, In the history of this country, for the first time, certainly, in the history of the New York Exchange, mou«y is loaned regularly on good paper at as low rates as it is loaned on call. When money was quoted on prime mercan tile paper at 5 to G per cent, cull loans were usually quoted at from 1$ to 2 per cent. Now, the quotations are 2 to G per cent, on both. This state of things si insignifi cant on the surface, means a great deal. It means first that there is more money in this country seeking investment than ever before in its history. If further evidence of thl fact were wanting, it would be found in the fact that recently Europe bus been borrowing money from the United States—a thing never before known. It means also that it is not more money that we need, as the advocates of free silver maintain, but a uio-e general and equal distribution. And we might step to enquire here what ie there in the mere increase of the amoont of money to prevent this same congestion of which we com plain? If the amount were doubled, it would still flow to the centers of tr;ulo and into the coffers of the great money kings. The owed >w from their coff-rs might be greater, but that would bo all. As the ease now stands, tho over flow is being felt in diminished rates of interest. The money kings in or dinary times do not wish to keep money to look at. They are con tinually looking out for safe invest ment, and the result is, that on ac ceptable collaterals money can now be had in almost unlimited amouotsat an astonishinly low rate of interest. Our banks still exact 8 per cent, when they can get it, bub moneyed men even in the South are beginning to consider G per cent, a good invest ment. One result of the present condi tions to be noted is that we now hear little or nothing of usury laws, a pretty strong indication that such laws never did do any good. The price of money, like the price of everything else, is regulated by sup ply and demand. If tho supply con tinue to increase, in proportion to the demand, the rate of interest will continue to fall, and it will not be long before farmers can borrow money at G per cent, or less. AS TO THE YORKVILLE ENQUIR- * ER" The Yorkville Enquirer of last Saturday accused us of unfairness in not publishing all that it had to say, and intimates that we refrained from doing so through fear tiiat a knowl edge of both sides of the question would redound greatly to our injury and discomfort. We admit that in a discussion be tween two newspapers each one ought to let its readers know what the other bus to say. We thought however, that we stated with suffi cient clearness the charges made by the Enquirer, when we published our answers to them, and we don’t be lieve tnat the Enquirer can cite a single fact or argument of any im portance adduced by it, with which our readers have not been made well acquainted by our replies, The truth is, it points were few and sim ple and easily grasped, and our readers care nothing for the cloud of words which enveloped them. In the first place the Enquirer on its own motion twitted the people of Cherokee ciunty on high taxes growing out of the organization of the new county. It’s so called proof was that one or two men of its ac quaintance had paid several dollars more on tracts of land, than they hud paid heretofore—a most unwarranta ble induction, us we clearly showed. We further showed from official fig- urea that while the county taxes proper for York county are one mill lower than for Cherokee, yet the township taxes are higher, and that York township in tiiat county pays a half mill more than the highest taxed township of Ciierokee county. It was not convenient for our es teemed contemporary to publish our confutation of this charge, and yet it complains of our unfairness in this very particular. It then asserted in substance that the town of Gaffney had made promises to the county which it had flagrantly violated, that it had palmed off on the people “an old opera house which it had no use for,” in lieu of the court house and jail which it had promised the people, and that The Ledger had hoodwinked and deceived its readers for its own selfish ends. These are the main points in tiie vituperation which our esteemed contemporary has been exhibiting in its columns, and we repeat that we give them sufficient publicity in our answers. CHARLESTON AND THE REUN ION. The grand old "City by the Sea” calls upon the people of the State to help her entertain the army of bat tered heroes who are to assemble there on the 10th of next May. She has not often asked for help in tho past, and be it said to her honor that it is not for herself that she asks it now, but for a fast vanishing host that once stood by “the storm-cradled nation that fell”—that offered their lives and all they held dear for the land they loved—that boat back t4i« multitudinous hordes of invaders for four long years “while all the world wondered.” No, Charleston asks nothing for herself but for the people of the State to unite with her in disciiarg- ing a duty endorsed by every gener ous instinct of every man who lias the heart and the soul of a man with in hi in. The old city has for over two hundred years “braved the battle and the breeze.” She bae been battered by shells, swept by Hood and fl imo and shaken to her foundations by earthquakes; and stood grim, silent, and proudly defi ant through it all. She is the smallest city that has ever yet. entertained the whole army of Confederate veterans, and her ap peal for cooperation should, and we believe will, meet with a hearty re sponse from the people of the entire state. We are not afraid to pledge the executive committee that Cherokee county will respond heartily with her full quota of money and supplies. Hon. Win. Jefferies is charged with the duty of collecting, and all lie has to do is to put the matter properly before the people. VVAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. The hall opened at Manila last Saturday night. After a consider able period of strained relations be tween the natives and the American soldiers, a sentinel shot and killed a native who was defying him and it proved to bo tho signal for the begin ning of a general battle, in which twenty Americans were killed and about two hundred wounded. Soire of Dewey’s ships took a hand, end the Filipinos were finally routed with great slaughter. All this is most unfortunate and someone has committed a great blunder—a blunder that will involve the United States in a long, costly and bloody war and bring untold suf fering to millions of ignorant savages with no prospect of any benefits to accrue toany body as a compensa tion for the waste of blood and treasure. Gen. Otis, the American comman der, has with him about 20.000 men, and 6,000 more are on the way to join him. The army of natives is sup posed to number about 30,000, and they are partly armed with modern weapons. Back of this army there is a population of about 10,000,000 scat, tered over 1,300 islands covered witli jungles impenetrable to organized armies. In addition to these condi tions the islands are 5,000 miles from the nearest points of the United States, and are located under the burning suns of the tropics. The natives can bid defiance to tho whole power of our government for 50 years to come, and tho United States is embarking on a fool’s errand. SHOP TALkT With this issue The Ledger com pletes its fifth year. It has taken no holidays during the five years of its life, having paid its subscribers 201 weekly visits, and it does not ex pect any holidays in the future. In fact it is not engaged in a holiday business. Neither does it pr'opose now to live iu tho past. We suppose it has had its usual share of diffi culties and trials, but these are all now left behind. Its motto has been upward ami onward, and it still ad heres to the motto. It will celebrate the advent of its sixth year by moving up to a semi- weekly edition containing four pages and soveii|columiis to the page. The price ot the paper will remain the same. Wo make this venture as an ex periment. If, after a reasonable trial, we become convinced that the public will ftot heartily endorse the change, wo shall return to tho weekly edition. If, on the other hand, tho public should demand still more' than the semi-weekly, it may call on us for a daily, and we shall stand ready to respond. We are deter- inined to keep abreast with the times. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Yorkville Enquirer “usually does not devote much time to the Gaffney Ledger.” This avowal clears up in a measure the mystery of its dense ignorance of the world at large and of Cherokee county in particular. Tt)o total income of the State’s big gin mill last year was $1,278,900 87; its total disbursements were $1,227,- 887,63, leaving u ba^nce in the State treasury on December Sisfc, 1893, of $55,073 21. Truly this “moral in stitution” seems to have driven a lively business. \ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦■ * General Gomez, the grim old Cu ban lighter, who has been in a surly, snarling mood ever since the tenni* nation of hostilities, has u.t last been propitiated; and now agrees to co operate cordially with the United States authorities in restoring order to Cuba. The $3,000,000 of money aent over by our government to pay Cuban soldiers, lias had a very sootn- ing «ind mollifying effect on the old man’ atemper. The last relic of discrimination by the government against ez-Confed- orates, was obliterated in Congress the other day by the passage of Mr. Gaines’ bill to repeal tho law pro hibiting any ex-Confederate soldier from silting on a Federal grand or petit jury. Ho now all old scores are rubbed out and tho Confedt rateo again hold the place in the Yankee bosom that they held before 18(51. They ought lo be polite enough to re turn thanks for this last delicate token of affection and confidence. The batt le at Manila reveals some unprecedented conditions. The treaty with Spain hud not been ratified, and technically the battle re-opened the war with Spain. An other phase of the situation, which would be ludicrous if it were not so serious, is that) the United States has paid $20,000,000, for the luxury of this war with the Filipinos. If the world can exhibit a more ludicrous specimen of gigantic folly than the United States presents to-day, we should like to see it. After the ablest debate perhaps ever heard in the State Capitol, the bill to exempt cotton mills from taxa tion for five years, was defeated in tho senate by a vote of 24 to 14. We believe that the people will bo satis fied with tire fate of the bill. In the infancy of the cotton mill industry in South Carolina, it was perhaps wise and politic to encourage the es tablishment of such mills by exemp tion from taxation. But the time has passed and the mills should now bear their part of the burden of taxa tion along with other enterprises. It is now pretty evident that the prohibitionists and the local option advocates together have a clear majority in the Legislature, and that the fate of the dispensary depends upon whether those two forces can find common ground to stand upon. If they can the dispensary must fa'l; if they cannot, it will hold the fort at least another year. We believe that in the emergency the prohibi tionists ought to accept local option us the less of two evils. According to Mr. Featherston, local option will result in prohibition for throe-fourths of the counties. That will bo a long step towards prohibition for the State, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ For the benefit of the Yorkville Enquirer wo will state that Tho Led ger is not “sent to people without authority” under any circumstances and it is not sent “year after year” to anj ono without pay. We do not w’ait for any one to order the paper discontinued but under all circutr- stances the paper is discontinued when a subscriber is a year in arrears unless a special request is made to continue it for a week or so until the debtor can find it convenient to call and settle. Tho Enquirer either dis plays its ignorance of tho business of this office when it makes such a statement or it tells a deliberate falsehood. There are three bills before the Legislature bearing on tho liquor question. Mr. Robinson, of Anderson, and Mr. Mauldin, of Greenville, have bills which propose to abolish the State dispensary and to establish county dispensaries entirely under county control. Mr. Robinson’s pro vides that the question of prohibi tion or county dispensary be sub mitted to the people; Mr. Mauldin’s that the question of high license shall also be submitted. Mr. McCullough, of Greenville, has a straight-out pro hibition bill. It is thought there will be a strong triangular fight made over these bills, and that the prohibitionists will be defeated, but m.iy still hold the balance of power. When tho Yorkville Enquirer as serts that Tile Ledger and those w ho endorsed its course, hoodwinked and deceived the people in the matter of the new county and the court house and jail, it not only does The Ledger a palpaple and flagrant injustice, but it indirectly insults the intelli gent people of Cherokee county. The question of the new county was fully and fairly discussed both in The Ledger and out of it, and its op ponents brought eveay argument that could be mustered up against it, and yet the people voted for it by .... --.--n ■; . . ' .JJS*. Htatx or Ohio, Ciiy or Toledo, i Lucas Cou xty. (”• Frank .1. cheney Riakesonthtliathe Wilie senior partner of the Him of F. J. f hunky A Co., tloliw busUioss In Hie City of Toledo. County timl State aforesaid, and tiiat slid firm will pay the sum of ONK Hl’NHKKD I »Ol.LA RS lor each and every case of Ca - TAltHM Unit eattnot be cured by the use of Hall's Cataiiuu cuke. FRANK .7. CHENEY. Sworn to before mo nnd subscribed in my presonco, this tith day of December. A. D.ISSU. t ffl r? » A. W. GLEASON. * — * Notary I'tibUe. Hall's Catarrh Cur^ Is t aken Internally and nets directly on the blood and mucous* sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Hold by Druiorists. 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Ol mm bWH>ER: ABSOMJIEEYfeuitE ” r ” ~ Makes the food more delicious ancjvvhofesome novAi ca/ikc eownra ro.. xt-v vork. a decided majority. Afterwards, when the matter of the court house Intcrqted Qaopn Victoria. Queen Vioriu took a good cieali and jail came up, Tho Ledger <!!<- kinttiy iutei-t in the receut marriai cussed at length tho question wit!) of thv nick of | Miss Brov.’I was tho lato John Brown! one of its ablest and most persistent j ono of bur ,ua i es ty’^ .... I many godaughters ami was named opponents, printing every word , v ictoria . 4 a child she often aocom^ which that opponent hud to say and nied her ado to the castle, and the giving him an equal opportunity fi Becu gov: her hosts cf pretty toys. with itself to impress the people. After the discussion, that opponent offered himself for tho State senate, making this question almost the sole issue, and was overwhelmingly de feated. Now the Enquirer says the people were hoodwinked! Bah! Come over brother, and let the peo ple see what you look like. A Fleshy Consumptive Did you ever see one ? Did you ever hear of one ? Most certainly not. Con sumption is a disease that invariably causes loss of flesh. If you are light in weight, even if your cough is only a slight one, you should certainly take Scott’s Etnuslion of cod liver oil vuith hypo- phosphites* No remedy is such a perfect prevent ive to consumption. Just the moment your throat begins to weaken and you find you are losing flesh, you should begin to take it. And no other remedy has cured so many cases of consumption. Unless you are far advanced with this disease, Scott’s Emul sion will hold every in ducement to you for a perfect cure. All Druggists, joc. and |i. Scott & Howne, Chemist.-;. N. Y. For a wetliug gift her majesty sent her silvr teapot inscribed “V. B., Freni Viqnria, R. 1., November 8, J 898,” as fell as presenting her with a haudt-om wedding dress and a bridal veil withicrange LIcesoius and lucky white heaaer. Womet's Complexions depend for beauty Ujoti Digestion. Dr. M. A.; SiinmonfLiver Medicine Regulates the 8touieh, Liver and Kidneys and secure s t.e blessings of good Digestion Pieton Saving and Investment Co, Greenville, S. C. I^OA^SSS. Tliolon plan of this company will b» found fa more desireable in ( very way than^* the plan of Building & Loans Associations. Our pint is a definin' contract at reasonable rates. Inins made tin approved property. «» J. C. Jefferies, Local Attorney, Gaffney. S. C. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, does ageneral Banking and Exchange^ | busintss. Well secured with Burglar- Proof jafe and Automatic Time Lock. I : Sufetj Deposit Boxes at moderate- rent. Bujs and sells Stocks andBonds. Buys County and School Claims. Yoir business solicited. THE PRUDENTIAL Insurance * Company * of *- America. Home Office, Newark, N. J. James O. V/ynn, Manage: John F. Dryden, Presidents Southern Dep’t., Atlanta, Ga. Assets Jan. 1st, 1899 Surplus Jan 1st, 1 399 Annual Income Insurance in force insurance written in 1898, Paid Policy Holders t) Dai $28,887,196.42, $5,888,894.7( $ 17,481,375.7 $414,547,053. $ 164,600,000.<Z t $36,450,000.01 THE PRUDENTIAL has forged its way ahead until it stantj in the front rank of the great Life Insurance Companies of the world. It offers all that is good in Life Insurance and under the best conditions. — C. T. Rawls, General Agent, Asheville, N. C. A.VOOS> & i-LVIi Itcsidcnt A gentis. I .