Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. ./. k msi;i:t k,iit,,r. Notice in this issue that one fellow lias started a frog and turtle farm. Now jf we remember right brother .1. K. Knight has had quite a lot of frogs in his pond for a good while but we do not know if he has been marketing his frogs. What, about it. brother Knight; This i- an oil' y ar in politic.and we ought t< g ' *.?mc good work for the Alliance while onr minds ;nv? not oreup' -d w?ih the excitement of i e.unpaign. l.et n- strive to iicrea^ ?.ur :;i nber ship. The principles ot tin Alii ance are .just as strong in the minds of our poop i' n t'n y \ or were, out from inattention. no;li . - : i>r muiiii' ' 'iii:-!' tit.. oruer na? decreased in rneintie. '.up. Now. whatever the cause ina\ ha\e bocil,lot US see lo it thai il ellects our organization no longer lor the mission of the Alliae *e will never bo accom pli.-hed until the burners of tin' south and west are in hot tor condition iban they are to day. Those who are opposed to the Alliance say that it has had its day and i- dying on', but let us remember that they want it to die. and say that polities killed it. That is all right, we know it is not dead nor is it in politic*, any more than it should lie and let us keep posted on tin' <|uos tions of the day so that we can vote intelligently when we go to the ballot box. Push the educa ion.".! work, read and think and give us the benetit of your thoughts. Starts a Frog Farm. A bake Odessa (Mich.) farmer, discouraged at the low prices products of the soil are bringing, lias turned lib attention to a new industry, says an e, diange. It is .... i .i ' in> n.-s> i n.iii :i int- imi. ? mi I no east shore of the lake where the inlet llows in he has surrounded several .acres of the marsh with a tight hoard fence, and here he rftises trogs and turtles for the market, shipping mostly to Chi eago. At present he has in the inelosure something like do/en hoppers, varying in size from the pollv wog to the largest sized hull frog, who makes the air melodious with his Lasso profundi) "knee deep." Last week he made a shipment ol several hundred dozen frogs and thirty seven turtles,for which he received llat tering returns. The turtles weigh i....... .1;.. iiwiii iiiiiin i<> mrty pounus :111?1 ho lisis sevorsu more in slock, lie :?>"> the "farm" has passed 11u* ex peri men t al -laue ami i- a sure winner. I iimips. Kj ?? ' *rm? ? ? I k -' ' ii\ il .< ...ui KMI W u: . Soil ?Turnip* thrive host upon i in e' >v loam. I 'irly interim li ate hetween clay ami >an>l ; i.nt tine crops can he made <>n any sandy 1 ami. well supplied with I not!. Kolation ami fertilizer ? fur Dips call follow after clover, lu cerno. ^taiii ami after yrain fo.| <ler crops gathered early. As they are o| ouick erowih they need a IiI><>rstl supply ol ni !roirrlnill> lood. Hot I) cow Iti;i iiurc mid sheep manure an- hot tor than horse stable manure lor turnips. il these are wanting, use per acre l.">0 pound.-, ol a fertilizer containing : Available plio-phone aciil -> pt-r rtf. Cota>li 'J " Nifroifcn 21 , " CASTOTIIA. 3.. % I THIS PARITY OF TUB COINS. K. E. EWIMS PISCl'SSES THE LOGIC OF FACTS. II Silver is Forced Down Other Commodities Must Full With it ?The Fitty-ceut Dollar Sophistry Has Lost its Power to Frighten the People ? The I'nited States Has Nothing to Fear hy Independent Action. In the Silver Knight W'ateh' man of June 10 C. J. Ilillvar dis I eussos a phase of the free coinage of silver in which he takes conn ' so! ol Ins fears rather than of the logic of his fact-. Among the' possibilities stated is that the ! same gold conihinat ion may m ceod in pressing the price of si! ver down to I." or even |0 cents! within he next three years, ath y have depressed the price to i cents on the dollar, Or .'Id ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold. When silver became a ! merchandise rather than a money I metal it wa- associated with all oilier staple articles of inerchan ' I disc. All have fallen together, and if silver i< forced down to lit ! cents' worth of bullion in thedol| Iarall other commodities must, as 'in 111past, tall with it. and all debts ri*e with gold a^ they have in the past. There is a point, however, below which silver can ,1 ... i ...i.: i- ?? ' | inn ucnu-IIU. ? IIM ii |- WIM'll II I ceases in pay rust of ils produc-i tii n. To that point all other nun ! inodities must fall. Silver as a' 1 commodity will exchange for jollier commodities in the same ratio or proportion that it ever! I would, and it- commodity ratio I must ever tie maintained. Vif dm | not fear that the "ratio" bugaho, lor the 10 or f?0 cent dollar sophistry will ever frighten the people las much as it has in the past., ' They realized that a I nited States i dollar was always a dollar equal to gold, let it he composed ot whatever material it might. This ; demons! rated fact so well ground | cd in the public mind lhat. the | .">0 cent" dollar and "ratio" cry j 'ceased to have any inllueuce on the public, and the goldites to ward till' close ol the I'resident eil ,, ii -ii. 111 |ii'riurm very Inaction which ran he performed hy money within the jurisdict ion nl 11?i-s nation. Tin' same cause which makes the Americon silver dollar worth a< much as gold does nnt exist in Mexien or other na linns tn make their silver dollars ' earnpaiiTM outirelv changed their 'tactics, resorting lo bulldozing ' ami frightening <1??1 ?t*?rs an.l laborers with the refusal to longer ex tend obligations and the shutting down of mill- and general suspen sion ol work. At this point .Mr. 11 illyer asks what ho appears to think an emhurtassing f|ueslion. which is ; "Is the conduct ol the organ i /ation lor *ii\?-r restoration to he hcrcaltor contused and embarrass ei 1 by a consideration ol the re!a live value, present or prospective, of gold and silver bullion in for eign markets, or irold and silver coin in the I nited States Mr. 11 illy er seenis to think this a most embarrassing ?juestion. I'm our part wo consider tliis ,t very harm le* collateral or side issue, which never ha* or never w ill end arvass any sileer advocate ii he under *tands his subject or concern the I common mass of humanity in the least. It is a logical <|iiestion? the parity of the metal- while tlit* parity of the doil.tr- cannot In- brought into di-puto. No gold itc could In* found to soil liis -dl ver dollar of at> cents tor loss t han Hit) cents in tho lato campaign ami was mad*' a laughing -lock for 111? crowd. it i? not because there are -'IT \ grains of line silver in the I'nited Stales dollar that makes it equal to a gold dollar in this or any other country for it is equal to a : gold dollar anywhere.hut hecaitse of tlie law of the I'nited States tt-l.w.l : ? " - -* - worth as much ?s much as United States dollars. France's silver coin is worth as much as gpld,15.l j to l,oinl for the same reason that our dollars are worth as much 1 <! to 1. And for this reason silver | bullion will be at a parity with : gold 1<> to 1 as soon as the United I States open their mints to free I coinage, and no silver advocate ! need fear 10 be embarrassed by I declaring the fact, though Mr. ; Uillyer says he believes it, he is not sure of it. And why not sure of it If (ireat Frit inn. France and < icriiiiiny were to open their mint to live coinage does not even intelligent pet-am believe without n single doubt 'hat silver Im111 i<?ii would at once he >i -d i<? a parity with gold :.t I " to i [ iVrtainiy they do. And why ' iJecauso t he law ot ' !;o < " orics would declare silver coin a legal tender for all debts. pub'A and private, witliin the realm >r nation. therefore all manner ol'mer ehandi-e would lie freely bought and sold lor the legal tender ino ney of those nations, and people would go iroin the reiuoterl cor nets of tin' earth to sell their pro duels lor the money ol those eountries and buy in exchange the goods of those count rtes whieh they ini?rlit want. And this i- a reason that sjjv, r would lie at a ' parity" with gold, whelher in hullion or coin at the ratio lixed by tin' laws of those nations, which nations could supply the whole world with everything they wanted.and the laws of the countries guaranteed that the money should lie sijllicient for every pur pose mono*. can be used. The proposition in a nut shell is that those countries could furnish everything that they own and other people have use for. and their laws declared their money was a legal tender. And now that we claim that tin* I mi eel States can <lo alone anything in the money line that those three Kuropean nations can do. and for similai reasons. The tir^t ahd most important reason is that the Coiled States can furnish all manner of merchandise from a mammoth Cattle ship to the finest piece of art in the woiId. K very tiling that is useful and ornamental 'hat the heart of man can des:ro can be produced hv t he people of I he I nited States on demand and in any <|uantities desired. The money, the legal tender money of t lie 1 nited States will pay lor sncli merchandise,because the government has power to enforce? its acceptance for all debts, taxes and dues, if there could he found anv one who re fn.-od?which there could not. When any faint heart doubts tin ability of the I nited States to do all ot these things we have mentioned, and they all cluster round their ability and uillingiiess to open their mints to free coinage ot silver, we a-l< faint hearts to eonsider tie power and wealth ot this nation .villi tcrri lory 1 ivi time greater than Ilire-e i !. . unbilled, with ......... i . . . iin?i? iiumi'-'in or in: Thai ir.uli* i Killi ail 1)irt ?? ul' i In- i?i I world 11:1 lions tnj;i IliiT, with ;i -arly 'J"", 000 mile* ol railways, to their <*<>111 liiii?*< 1 mileage i?l .">0.000 or ?>0,000 noli'-, with a ] > ] 111 a I ion o| TJ,000,000 ami steadily and rapidly im-ivasin^r to their com bined population ot ahout 1 _? !, 000.000 and not increa-in^ to any appreciable extent, with a jrco graphical an*a in the middle ol iln* temperate /one, extending from iln* semi frozen reirion* on the north to the semi tropical re lions on the south. \vn>hed I?y two thousand inil<*s ot ocean on i in* easi a Mil ? \\?> thousand miles on Mm west, a climate and -oil that prod woes every variety of food and raw material which the wants of man demand and in nn equaled ahundanee, a country produce- more fjold and more sil ver than any other country in the world, and whose soil i< a viririn soil with ils inconceivable natnrai 4 wealth undeveloped, to doubt the ability ot such a country and such a people to coin all the silver in the world that could be brought , to it and exchanged for the pro ducts of her people, is enough to make one doubt the sanity of the doubter. When the I'nited States opened their mints to the free coinage of l silver and their farms, shops, fae tories, shops and mints to supplv the nations of the world with every need, what could Kit rope do hut trade on the same terms or tarve. The parity ot silver and gold, both bullion and coin at the ratio named by lb I'nited States lis one ot the most logical facts wit bin t 1m realms o( human' events. Who can take in review | all these tacts and doubt for a single moment ' Tin .Urbin!e\ boon linn s. I I'imiii tlx .N \\ N Mil. .loiaixi. The heartrending description?' [ of "Me K inlev prosperity" sent by! doiirnal correspondents from < )hio, Illinois.I'ennsylvania.Indiana and New Jersey are distasteful to some of our war tariff contemporaries, i < >ne ot them daringly remarks: Sensible people will not eredit tin-) I exaggerated accounts of popular itisi 1 ress it; industrial centers printed ii niter liar in;; In ad tines by -en sal ior.ul ! I leinocral ic newspapers. 'I here is no sucb prevalent misery and idleness as! these sheets picture. M ult it tides are I not starving nor mortgages being j foreclosed by wholesale. The savings banks accounts of the people have not been depleted. There are more spinal.... ? i - * .... i.j; .urn iimri' 111? rI ill work [iiday than there were one year ago. 11 i is true that the nation is not normal! ly prosperous,toil this does not by any i means imply that the people are going i about hungry or insutlleienlly clad. Well, Mr. Wat.namaker, late ol i Harrison s t aiiinet, is not a Hr\ anile, and the Herald is not it ' sensat iotutl Democrat ie newspaper." Mr. Wanitiitnakcr mm 1 jilaided through the Herald ol the "creeping paralysis and hitter Want ol the community." And t hen he said : i To keep work for the six thousand and more persons in my employ and : turn away several hundred who apply I daily and beg for the prty ilege of labor to keep the wolf from the door, drives I me into a fever and I must speak out. I Any citizen lots that right. I cannot sit on a fence with it still ' wind blowing and whistle for prosperity, the vanished bird of beautiful ; plumage, to come back. She has been gone for live long years. Mow any can live on forever in :t thunder storm I don't know. Mr. Wanatnakcr spoke con temptonsly ol campaign speeches, concernin?* which lt<> r>t.t -The public heart cannot be tired bv eloquence in this way now, lor the powder of patriotism is wet with the tears of suil'erinis." The Herald publishes other items that bear out the Journal's information, for instance, it hat hi- story to tell of t lie economies introduced by the Pennsylvania Railroad, always one ol the most -olidly prosperous of American corporal ions : Although when lie returned fruin an i n* pert ion hi all tic lilies, President I'lli illi Ii-i in. of I lie Peliii -\ lv a 11 i- ? I i road. -:?i?1 that Ik* looked for a return of jfoM'l limes soon, I he fart that word v a* at the company's repair -Imps in l-amherl ville, N. .1.. >at urday, i hat until further notice t lie -tmpwould only lie run live days, of nine hours, each w eek doe- not see'u to bear out his predict ion. * ^tunnel Curry,a carpenter and a Republican, when informed of the cut in tunc, -natched hi- Mckinley button from his coat, where he 1 ad worn it since election, threw it on t lie lloor and stamped it. Nothing would please the .lour nul better than nit opporlunity to chronicle the arrival of an industrial boom. It would like to tell o! happy, smiling workmen.draw inn 1 heir dividends on t heir shares of Mckinley prosperity in the shape of full hours and increased j wages. There is only one tiling that k?|- it from tilling its columns with such stories: It lt-?* 1 .under obligations to tell the t rut h. "Kut we cannot live on papa," protested the savage's bride-to-be. : "He is dreadfully poor." "We can wait until he is fa'ter!" exclaimed the youth, for I ve is brave.? Detroit Free I'ress. I f Summer Fallow ami Flat Turnips ^ In case a lieltl is to be summer fallowed it is preferable to raise some kind of a green crop on it, either lor feeding or to turn down. I think the hat turnips about as rood for that purpose as any- ^ thing. They should be sown from duly 15 to August 1. They make I excellent feed for cattle, vnd can [be plowed und? r with good results. However they may be used, it is far better lor the land to raise thorn than to let it lav ,i bare. * *NJ>. Q j fmi r.r \ urr.it ?/ v% ?a Jfl Trof. w. u. Pesttc, who lr* 1^1 W Sv * i:pil. J>sv, 1 I'S Vltll'iut B B d .v. ! and > ur- * PJ ?v |J| rd inori'i linn uny Wo hrivi- h- m i c.isea of so vi-nrs" r.'nnitliK* tf "31 uuiwup3 Ho of his nbsoluto euro, *rco to nny ...uTorera who in a y semi tlieir < ). niul Kvpreai.. 1 ! ress. Wo n-iviso any otw wishing acura to address ? ProX.W. H. PEEKE, F. 1).. 4 Cedar St., Hew York WANTKI).- WK l?n \dT WANT IIOY.S OK i.OAT'Klt>, In write, tint men of ability. $joo in *.*>nn per month, salary ?>r commission. state ami j general managers. I!A< I\K I IKK lINKlNIi Co.. Ka. iiie. \Yi>. ; Itch on Human, Mange on Horses, Dogs ami all stock, cured in MO minutes b> | Woolt'nrd's Sanitary Lotion. I'lns never tails. Sold by ,1. F. Mackey lit Co., DruggiHt, Lancaster, S. 0. It, in I Uj AGENTS to solicit 9 V ~T| 1/^ ' orders by sample lor our | 3 W Wanl Pant* In order t3. oig Inducements intho right parties. A Mt< GUARANTEE mil OWING Co fcrfA. 2' 1-217 Grand St , N Y. ~~ bppoison .A _ VSi ' 5 U rmdirr orTop. " i rir ?.l ,,, , ">y. perruan.'iHly ' i v. Y.eic." tMitronti'dnit ..? i i irtin1 ' - t 'Vllfi I. . !' IM?, f. In; I I :.i| . l- ? ml. e irv, j?? . - U Mid Mill tin 4 ? i nrnt . ' iu'ii*ii?? n mouth, Sj mat, 111 ,.. < r. . ? ,,a . < r i ' ^ , It . * .. . ry >" i iv I * i cruur.-.a too ( > r.tro. \>. nolo it thf n <> > . itiI ?; casod and chaltoarco ? wort I . r a 1 fa??\vominti()tci!ri>. Tali ?it aro li u ji't -its 1 li.illlml i- niiH ii! |>: - . i? ciitiih. y.*i(i?,otiO capital I. liimt our unc 'iull. Clonal trunrauty. Absolute .irni.fs sr-ut M'ai r i u pplictak'ii. AOdrcrn COOK liKMKUV CO*. SO? Alasuuto Ttuiplv, CHICAGO ;L1*? Don't Pail to read mij ad. each tceek. You nuiy or may not want a piano or an organ. It yon ilo want olio. I ran furnish you tho snmo on loisj Terms unl Mas) l*a.\ inonts. Komoiiiln i , an o\porioiiiao of l> year-, a eonrso in piano ami organ building. timing ami ropairing in Now York oity, and a lull aoi|iiuintaiiro with all tho groat in imi I a1 l ii ro ? onahlo mo togi\o \ o 11 tho llni'st -oloot oil . I.. I I ...I."..I " .. a.? l I Illlt-Il? IMHHI IIUlil<* at !i reasonable priee. I'ianos, II -1 > !? - I ! Organs, III styles!'. Kei-p your "weather eye" open mi prii i-s. K. .1. II KKNhoN. York vi ll?*, S. < t'lu ii/t I'ii /. t fs. I lie Seaboard Air Line wiil sell round lri|? tickets to Nashville, Ten ii ., on the llMli. 'J<Mh and 21 st of Iiiiic on 11 rasion of the Ttli Annual IJoimion of Confederate Veterans, for -flO/tO, ^nod , ; for -0 days. <?ii every Tuesday and Thurs day I hoy* will sell Id day tickets at .+12.'. (), via. the Lancaster iY ('lu\st?T Kail way to ('ln-sler. OA8TOIIIA. ^ ""T'&Lvfr7?I<S&r 3-. I