Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

• ' % ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS. A Call for Antl>Dlapensaryites to Unite for Opposition. At a conference of anti-dispensary- lies recently held in Columbia, a com mittee was appointed to prepare and issue an address to the Democratic voters of the State. This address is now issued as follows: As citizens of South Carolina op posed to the present State dispensary eysteni, we, the undersigned, call up on our fellow citizens of like opinion to unite for the purpose of organizing the opposition to the dispensary sys tem. So nearly of one mind concerning the dispensary system are the people of the State that it is only by their time being laid aside, the demand, first, now, be made that the State dis pensary system shall be destroyed. On trial now for thirteen years, for tified all the time by strong support and as truly protected by unceasing criticism and watchfulness, there no need to point out the ervils which tT-- State monopoly of the whiskey traffic has bred. Corruption at the fountainhead and in its branches, drunkenness and murder, woe and misery have been its products. A pernicious political machine of gigan tic proportions, with a beavered lob by in Columbia and a willing ring in every county, the monster has waxed fat, insolent and deflant. The will of the people has been perverted and suppressed, and when finally demand ion effective. They must choose rep resentative* who will repeal such laws as they desire to have repealed and who will enact such laws as they desire enacted. Then they must put in office men who, in full sympathy, will enforce Justly and vigorously whatever laws are upon the statute books. The people have shown, by their eager acceptance of the only op portunity accorded them, that they believe in the principle of local self- government, and now, lest thev have this inalienable right again wrested from them, the free citizens of South Carolina must make their sovereign power felt. There must be elected a legislature which will not yield to the dispensary machine: there must be elected executive and prosecuting of- Nationa) Bank Building failure to unite for action that the dis pensary can he preserved. It is only by default that th P dispensary can win another victory, before the electors are in the Legislature, and it will he fool-hardly for those who desire Its overthrow to sit supinely by and see the pernicious system again enthron ed in power in our commonwealth. Every sincere, patriotic citizen must regret that this issue should be again the paramount question in a South ing expression that demand has been thwarted and circumvented by an neals t6 the trival technicalities of Che law. In eighteen counties the people have spoken and i* 1 all these except two their voice has In thunder tones repudiated the system. In other coun ties they are now ready to give ex pression to their will, awaiting the summer primary. In this primary, where the life or the death of the dis Central Graded School Cafrc rolioa campaign. , But as long as the dispensary remains just so long win It continue to be the paramount issue, and it should therefore he the desire of every thoughtful citizen to see this festering sore removed and a healthier condition secured. To this end we Invite the co-operation of all those who believe the State dispen sary system to he an evil and propose, that, other differing policies for the: pensary will be and should be decid ed, it is vitally necessary that the op position to the dispensary shall be active and united. It is only by action and union that the dispensary has been voted out of sixteen counties under the Brice law and by no other means than action and union can the system he uprooted from the State. The people are decided. It merely remains for them to make their decis Cheiokee County Court House fieials who will not permit the law to be made a mockery for its undoing. We suggest consultation and co operation In every county and throuehout the State that these ends mav be attained. J. S. Brice, J. C. Otts, D. R. Coker, James A. Hoyt, Louis J. Bristow, W. L. Mauldin, Josejfh. A. McCullough, J. W. Hamel. W. H. Wallace, D. W. Hlott, W. C. Allen, Howell Morrall Charles A. Smith, R. L. Freeman, C. B. Edwards, A. B. Stuckey, D. F. Brad ley. Laban Mauldin, C. T. Martin. R. F. Smith, John A. Brunson, C. C. Featherstone, T. R. Waring. “97." (John Chas. McNeil In Charlotte Ob server.) Where the rails converge to the sta tion yard She slnnds one moment, breathing hard, And then, with a snort and a clang of steel, She settles her strength to the stub born wheel And out, through the tracks that lead astray, Cautiously, slowly she picks her way And gathers her muscle and guards her nerve. When she swings her nose to the west* ward curve, And take the grade, winch slopes to the sky. With a bound of speed and a con quering cry. The hazv horizon Is all she sees, - Nor cares for the meadows, stirred with bees, Nor the long straight stretches of si lent land, No r the ploughman that shades his eye with his hand, Nor the cots and hamlets that know no more Than a shriek and a flash and a flying roar; But, bearing her tidings, sh e trembles and throbs, And laughs in her throat, and quiv ers and sobs. And the Are in her heart is a red core of heat Thar drives like a passion through forest and street, Till she sees the great ships in their harbor at rest - And sniffs at the trail to the end of her quest. If I were the driver who handles her reins Up hill and down hill and over the plains. To watch the slow mountains give hack in the west, To know the new reaches that wait i. every ciest To hold, when she swerves, with a con fident clutch, And feel how she shivers and springs to the touch, With the snow on her back and the sun in her face And nothing but time as a quarry to chase, I should grip hard my teeth, and look where she led. And brace myself stooping, and give her her head, And urgp her, and soothe her, and serve all her need. And rejoice in her thrill and her thun der of speed. Pet dogs In sunbonnets and blue glass spectacles mav bo seen follow- Ine their owners through the streets of Berlin in hot weather. IMMIGRIWTS TO SETTLE TOE SOOTH NORTRERN CITIES ARE TOO CROWDED. Newly Arriving Immigrants Being Turned to Agrlcultura 1 Districts of South and Southwest. (New York Herald.) That the greater part of the vast army of immigrants which will come to America during the next five years will distribute Itself over the agri cultural States of the South and Southwest, and there found a new race of sturdy, progressive Ameri cans. is the prediction made by Friedrich von Pills, a director of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and one of the world’s ex perts on the subject of immigration. Throughout the continent of Eu rope the word has been spread, he asserts, that the cities of America, particularly New York and Chicago, are now filled to overflowing with foreigners, and with It. has gone the tidings that the great agricultural States like Texas, Missouri, Missis sippi and Louislanai. hold out golden promises to the rugged alien whose life dream is a home of his own and enough acres to provide a comfort able livelihood for his family. Hundreds of thousands of stalwart peasants of German blood from Southern Russia. Bulgaria, Rou- mania and Hungary will flock to America, he declares, with their bag gage checked straight' through to dis tant points in the South and South west, and they will bring money enough to give them a fair start in the life thev wish to lead. They will not come with the intention of re turning after they have accumulated what in their native countries would bp considered snug fortunes, but will leave home with the declared pur pose of becoming American citizens and adopting American ideas. Amer ica. Mr. von Pills says, should not re gard with alarm thp Incoming hordes of foreigners, but should welcome them, and should give a double wel come to the 'swarms of agricultural ists—which will come here in the next half-dozen years. Any country In Europe, he says, would be sorry to lose therm; every country should be glad to receive them as residents. As managing director of the steer age department of his steamer line, Mr. von Pills for more than a year has been conducting a campaign of education In the European countries which contribute to the Immigrant horde. He has sent agents Into the centers of population to tell the peo ple that American cities offer few advantages to the foreigner, because thev are already filled to overflowing, and has pointed out the opportunities in the great agricultural common wealths which, in many parts, are still in a state of undevelopment. Ameri can consuls, he says, have aided in this work of education, and hundreds of thousands of letters from foreign ers in America have opened the eyes of the restless European. What should now bo done, he says, to carry the Plan to fulfillment is for the sev eral States which are anxious for im migrants to settle in them and work their farms, to establish bureaus in New York, enlighten the new-comers and direct them. Studying in th e South. To prevent further congestion in the cities of New York, Chicago, Phil adelphia. Buffalo and Baltimore, the North German Lloyd Steamship Com pany is planning to start a new pas senger line between Bremen and New Orleans and will sell tickets direct from the point of embarkation to cities and villages in the interior of the Southern States just as It now scheme he is perfecting. Although young in years, being but thirty-two, his long connection with the great steamship company and his previous service with the German government as colonizer for Eastern Prussia, have made him one of the foremost authorities on immigration. Desiring to populate the thinly settled province of Posen, in Eastern Prussia, the goverament selected him to undertake the work and In three years he made a thriving agricultur al region of the province, sending In Germans from Galicia, Hungary, Russia and Roumanla. Completing this task, he became director of the steerage department of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, and in that capacity has visited all the corners of Europe, as well as South American countries and most of th- American States. “Is America to expect a million new residents from Europe every year?’’ he was asked. “America may always expect to re ceive a big army of immigrants from Europe,” he said, “but not a mil lion a year. The hivh water mark has been reached. Last year estab lished what probably always will be the record, although 1900 will see but a slight falling off. There were nlentv of causes for the remarkable exodus from Europe last year and Boston, and will pass on to the rich States whi h lie back ot them. Think New York is America. “To practically every immigrant and to all their fellows at home, America ha^. always been New York. Thev picture a great swarming city, a little stretch of farm land and forest, and then—Chicago, Boston, Philadielphia mean little to them— thev hav© heard the names and they suggest factories and teeming hlvee of humanity Little has the peasant population of Germany realized that Texas alone le larger than their en tire country and there are dozens of States half as large with thousands of acres of fertile soil uncultivated because there is no one to cultivate them. “Two years ago I made my first trip to American in the interest of our steerage service, and I then found that New York. Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City and a dozen other cities were overcrowded with foreign ers and that the tides of immigration should he directed to the rural sec tions of the country. The whole ques tion was taken up by the manage ment of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and as a result we established a line direct from Bremen to Galveston, Texas. Our first boat to that port carried fifteen Monument at Cowpens Battleground for the continued outpouring o the first few months of 190G. In the first place, failure of the crop in Hun-* | gary in 1904 caused a great many Hungarians t 0 migrate to America, j and the lack of settled government i aided. The chief cause, however, was the political disturbances in Rus- j sia. But conditions have righted ! themselves in a large measure now, ' and henceforth there will he but a | steady, healthy flow of Europeans to i American shores. “New York need not worry about j the Immigration of the future. The | Europeans who come to America in the steerage are beginning Ao learn j that there is an America that is not New York, and to realize that In the| great stretches of country to the south and west there are limitless op- immigrants; our last one. which land" ed only a few days ago, carried 1,100. To enable the immigrants to get to the interior of the country without trouble Wp arrange their transporta tion direct from Bremen to any in land destination. “So successful has the service to Texas proved that I shall recommend on mv return the establishment of a new line to New Orelans, this being the gateway to the great agricultural States of Louisiana, Georgia and Ala bama. Nowhere so much as In the Southern States should there be a de sire to turn the streams of immigra tion into the South. Those States need good farmers and hundreds and thousands of them will arrive in America in tha next few years. We have educated the prospective immt- . .. . v- Interior National Bank does over the line established a year ago to Galveston. Mr. von Pills Is now In the South making Inquiries concerning those sections which are most advantageous to the foreigners. He will return to New York in a week or ten days and will put into full operation the portunlties for the man of thrift who wishes to establish a home of his own and is willing to toll and thrive to do it. The great part of the army which will swarm into America in the next few years will check its baggage straight through the port entry, he it New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or gran* as well as we could and shall make every effort to direct them to the regions where they are needed end where they can reside with most profit to themselves, and I would sug gest that the various States establish bureaus in New York. Much could be accomplished in this way.”