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f i ** ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. J. F. NISBET Editor. GENERAL BUTLER'S VIEWS. j Not Room lor Two Races?Favors Deportation. Greenwood Index. Mr. Wyatt Aiken, of Abbeville, last night sent the Index the following letter received by him from Gen. M. C. Butler. Gen. Bntler deals with a matter that is of great interest just at this time, and his letter is intensely interesting both on account of the boldness of the position he takes and the caustic manner in which be refers to Senator Tillman "and others" for their utterances on /the same subject. His letter is as * follows: r I Edgefield, S.O., Aug. 23. / Dear Wyatt: The newspaper accounts of the state of affairs in Greenwood county which I take to be in the main correct, portray a condition of affairs truly deplorable. I am no apologist for lawlessness at the hands of any class of people, and offer no excuse for it in Greenwood or any other county, but in order to check it we must find the causes that produce lawlessness and ap ply an effective remedy. Public meetings and denunciations will not cure the disease. You may plaster over a sore on the human body and conceal it for a time, but if the disease is in the blood If will hrnalr nnf nmairtiai'a !<>? v-v mmm www VV4 V U\/ IUV ?f UOi V) VIOOl A good doctor will strike at the root of the disease, and eradicate it there, while he applies pallatises on the surface. 60 it is with the race question in this country. Poor white men, who have to "earn their bread by the sweat of their faces," cannot compete with cheap negro labor, to attempt to do so implies their degradation and ultimate destruction or expatriation. One race or the other must go to the wall, and without any other feelings toward the negro race than that of absolute kindness and good will, I shall be found on the side of my own race when that issue is presented, as it is now, in my opinion. Two races cannot live together in peace on terms of entinl civil ?nH rvr,liH??.l J pull iiuai I l^'l I D, and the sooner we realize that the better it will be for both races. The gradual and permanent separation of the races is the races is the only solution of the terrible problem. The bitterness between them is growing more intense everyday and will continue to increase in intensity as time goes' on. unless some practical remedy i is applied Otherwise the day of I paintul retribution e? inevitable, | anil a#train of calamities are in! fitore for ns too distressing to con- ! template. The f?t?? of the negro is pathetic, pitiable, as things now are. The fate of the laboring white is worse so, as he has to I compete with negro labor. It is very easy for Tillman and i others to denounce ttie lawless ness of the poor white man, "the one galii.s, wool hat crowd; the| WA?. I M I *? 'nil i j;?"n i ?i luri my y 0 I JU L -VI V. I 111 man and those who join him as the guardians of the negro and present denunciators of the poor ^rhite man, put themselves in his place, and walk between the plow handles, shove the plane or wield the hammer from sunup to sun down, in competition with negro T 9 . ... Kodcl Dyspepsia Cure thoroughly digests fond without aid from the stomach, and at the same time heal and restores the diseased digestive organs. It is the only remedy that does both these things and can be relied upon to permanently cure dyspepsia. Crawford Bros d-w-s i A* labor, employed at from three to th five dollars a month, a peck of te meal and three pounds of baoon 1a a week. Some of these patriots now jumping on the "one-gallus, JjJj wool-hat crowd" are and have been for years living on fat salaries, enjoying the cream of the e( land, by the grdle of the "one- p( gallus, wool-hat crowd." Having to reached the top, they now kick Cs down the ladder on which they qi rose to wealth and power. Such ar sudden conversion to the ways of th law and order make one tired. 1? 1 repeat, I have no excuse to offer for "white capping" or any a( other form of outlawry, but sometimes justification, if not excuse, w may be dug up from the depths p] of poverty and the hard lines to which cheap negro labor have a) plunged many worthy, poor white n< men. And whenever you arraign 01 the accused and denounced before la a white jury to be tried for their itviolent and lawless effort to break down and drive out the competition with cheap negro labor, you 8 will strike a chord of sympathy rnnninff fKnanivK fKa V* ** ?* t uuutug vuv? u^u wuo ucai to ill ^ every member of the panel, for ^ the accused are of their own race. h. So we will continue to go through g< with the farce and expense of ir trying to convict white men for ji making raids on negroes. Reverse w the situation and put negroes in P the jury box to try negroes and you would have the same result. 01 God Almighty has implanted in a' the heart of each race an inerad* ^ icable hatred against the other, e, and you can no more expel it by trials and denunciations and lectures than you can change the P nuture or color of each by a cyclone. " The government of the United u States ought to appropriate $ 100, w 000,000 and duplicate as often as * may be necessary, to assist the ir Mftirrnoo in oatf linor o nnlfttiw O ?U M W1V/MJ IW themselves, or, what would be almost as effective, assist them in moving to the north or north- * west. The government did this fc for the Indians because they could 111 not live in peace with their white &1 neighbors. Why not adopt the 81 same policy for the colored race ? The stupid, untenable law on our statute books making it a penal offence for an emigrant agent to V induce Negroes to leave the state ought to be repealed, and the ? state ought to pay a bonus of so inm-li i? hftnd t'r?r avopv \To?i-n a'lm """ can be induced to go. Cheap labor is the curse of any country. m It may enrich a few, but the great fr body of the citizenship cannot a| emerge from a state of semi-peon- <1age of starvation wages. The landowners would be bet ter off if the cheap labor would got out and make way for an in- tclligcnt, thritty class of white laborers who would intelligently diversify agriculture, improve the lands and make plenty and pros perity where starvation and deg- c( nidation now bold sway. n; A temporary inconvenience J, might result if the N'egro should v* gi> away, but the white men L ( the south would meet the emergency and solve it with courage and intelligence. The terrors I which beset the females of their st families would give place to a (} feeling of security and composure; ^ society would adjust itself 011 the lines of safety and enlightened w progress. As it is, young men A are leaving the farms, seeking II employment where (hoy avoid |)( competition with cheap labor. c( Whenever they find themselves able, heads of families are moving to towns and villages for better security of their families, leaving m I)eWitt's Little Karly Itinera did ma ^ more good than all blood medicines ? and other pills," writes Geo. II. Jacobs, of Thompson, Conn. Prompt, si pleasant, never gripe,?they cure con- th stipation, arouse the torpid liver to li< action and give you a clean blood, d] steady nerves, a olear brain and a d< healthy appetite. Crawford Bros. M d-w-s N ( . * ^ V ie fields to a vicious, ruinous nant system, which kills the nd and demoralizes the country. It behooves young men to look ie situation squarely in the fadfe. hose of us who have passed the eridian of life cannot in the iture of things live to see the id, but as for myself I shall lint out the way as it appears* i me, and contribute as best 1 in to the solution of the race lestion on lines of humanity id justice. In the discussion lere is no room for passion or temperate language. The wild irangues of men who openly Ivise the murder of the Tolberts id keeping the Negro in a state ' quasi slavery, and yet who al ays manage to get into a safe lace when the ball opens, deserve ie contempt and execration of 1 right minded men. That is at the way to bring peace and der in the country and give the >w an opportunity to assert self. You will naturally ask whv not ire the evils of cheap Negro . ibor by advancing their wages " ad lift them up from their pres ' at plane of degradation. The i >ady answer is found in the fact i lat their mothods of work, their abits of life, their lack of intelli- ] ence and adaptation and thrift, i modern production does not 1 istify it. This has been tried ! ithin my knowledge, with disap j ointment and loss as the result. , The same argument was used ( a the Pacific coast during the citation of the Chinese labor ' uestion with the same result. < You may look at the subject in 1 rery one of its possible phases. | nd come back to the starting | oint, that the Negro, endowed i he is with every civil and po tical right that the law confers ' pon you and myself, cannot and < ill not live in peace with the i hite man, so long as he is in ] nmediate contact with him. It ( ever has and never can be done, 1 j ntil the Creator of us all change ^^4 ii T i ? io uniurcs ui uh an. juyncmngs, ' hite capping, mob law, every i irm of lawlessness, constantly lenaces society, obstructs pro- j ress, and keeps up a state of nxiety while such contact exists. Very truly, ' M. C. Butlkr. fllO IS Women as well as men i TO are made miserable by | LAME, kidney and bladder ( ouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp oot the great kidney remedy 1 romptly cures. At druggists in , Ftv cent and dollar sizes. You ( lay have a sample bottle by mail ee, also pamphlet telling all ' bout it. Address, Dr. Kilmer Co., Bighampton, N. Y. 1 BRYAN AS HE IS. I nines ('reclmaii Visits the Fa- i moiis Democrat at Home. James Creelm ui.tlie wellknown 1 >rrespondent of the N V. .Jour 1 al, has hoen visiting Hon. Win. 1 . Bryan, at his home in Lincoln,r eh., and, under date of Aug. '21. J a sends his paper the following: A little more than a week ago was walking the deck of the eamship St. Paul with Richard ' roker, listening to the tribute to r. Bryan's power and integrity hich has stirred the country nd here I am today, with Mr. ryan himself, the most stub Dmly sincere and convincingly invinced political leader I have ( let in the whole world. I have known Mr. Bryan for lany years, and during the cam aign of 189G 1 traveled nearly ' Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspepa because its ingredients are sucb ' tat it can't help doing so. MThe pub- < c can rely upon it as a master reme- i j for all disorders arising from im rfeet digestion."?James M. Thomas, i . D., in American Journal of Health, ! . Y. Crawford Bros. d-w-e . ,T ... . /' ?* 18,000 miles with him, although i ! did not support him with my i rote. He is today the same sober, < leliberate, intense American he ^ vae in those blistering days of 3 -oaring multitudes and political < ipheaval. There is not a shadow 1 >f turning or evasion in his con- ] rersation. Unlike Mr. McKinley, le does not shift his ground to < tuit the occasion. I I came to Lincoln to see Mr. Bryan bocause Mr. Croker said :hat many of the Democratic eaders in the eastern states believed it to be desirable that the ( -atio should be omitted from the , financial plank of the national platform next year, ami that the ( juestion of the relationship 01 diver to gold in our currency ] should be left to congress. The ( interview with Mr. Croker was the result of a statement made to me by him nearly a year ago in London. He said then that he believed Mr. Bryan to be the greatest statesman in America, if not in the world. Mr. Bryan looks older. In a tew mourns ne win oe <hj years aid. He is stouter and weighs 203 pounds. Since the last cam paign he has bought a farm of 25 acres just outside of Lincoln, and every two or three days the black charger which bore him as a sol flier carries him to his scented fields of clover, green corn, ripe melons, fruit trees, potatoes and tomatoes, over which broods of white and brown chickens go clucking contentedly. The Democratic leader is a good carpenter and makes his own chicken houses. 1 saw him today carry an armful of melsons trom the field to his buggy while his wife and children strolled about the scene of plenty and beauty. 1 have taken the trouble to investigate the story that Mr. Bryan is the richest man in Lincoln. It is preposterous. Mr. krvnn'ii wonllh rlnoo tint utcaiuI ' $200,000, and half of that is in! real estate. Ilis tirst, profits from ' iiis book amounted to $34,000 Of this he gave $17,000 to various J free silver clubs lie al<o gave ?4.500 to found prizes lore-sa\>[ on the science of govern merit iuj eighteen colleges. His house in! Lincoln cost him $0,000 lit- could , not probably sell it lor more than! $5,000. Ilis farm near Lincoln) cost him about $4,000 He also owns a farm of SO acres oar hist hrithplace. Salem, 111., uul a small house which his mother) occupied iri her last year The story that Mr liryan is rich j sprang trom the tact that he is ane of the few citizens of Lincoln 1 who have honestly declared their i personal properly for the pur poso of taxation. \ ? ii.:? < >t.. i? 1 .11 Iiim i n< l ill I . orvilll I stands at the very centre ami! heart of the Democracy, in daily.! almost hourly, contact, with the people and the leaders in all i parts of the country, lie rose from obscurity to this command ing position by sticking to prin ciple, regardless of consequences Ah ho stood on the lawn in front of his simple homo this morning, (lift inournotlrkti nl tnonlu uUnnnil. w. J n,iPllftl|| and courage, proud of his Amor "Our baby was sick for a month with severe cough and catarrhal fever. Although we tried many remedies she kept getting worse until we used One Minute Cough Cure.?it relieved at once and cured her in a few days."? B. L. Nance, Principal High School, HlufTdale, Texas. Crawford Bros. d-w-s 1 canism and glorying in the rough righteousness of the masses, I ;ould not help contrasting him with another figure I saw in the yellow gaslight of a London night >nly a few weeks ago?William Waldorf Astor?thrilling in the presence of an English duke, rhese two men represent the two txtremes of present tendencies on this continent. Tactful Messenger Boy. "One of the beautiful traits in . the make up of Washington mesjj senger boys," said a railroad man who lives in- Washington, "is -Mt their tactfulness." 1 think otherv* ise. They are chock full of and loaded down with tact?with the copper on. To illustrate : "My wife went over to New York a few weeks ago to attend the bedside of a seriously ill relative, who was not expected to live. This morning I was sitting I li tr\ if nrnn<l Afi n rv tit V* VT 1 I IIJar U1UOC) nvuuoiiu^ nujr A. hadn't got a letter from her by the first mail, when a tousle headed messenger boy joggled open the door. "'Where'll I find de office o' Mr. ?" he asked, mentioning my name. " 'Right here, son,' said I. 'You're talking to him.' "'Well,' said the kid, measuring me up, with the probable expectation that I'd do a stage back fall. I've got a death messenger fer you, an they tole me at th' office that it was important.' "Nice, mild, tactful way of put ting it, wasn't it ? He just left it up to me to wonder, while I was ripping the envelope open, whether the message announced j the death of our aged relative or / the decease of my wife. It happened to be the former, but I am inclined to believe that that boy would have been just a bit better pleased had it been the latter."? Washington Post. , Put Your Finger on Your Pulse W You feel the blood rushing W But what kind of blood? I I That is the question. I I Is it pure blood or impure I 1 If the blood is impure then I I you are weak and languid; I I your appetite is poor and your I I digestion is weak. You can* I I not sleep well and the morn* I ^ . I ing finds you unprepared for I I the work of the day. Your I I cheeks are pale and your com* I 1 plexion is sallow. You arc A I troubled with pimples, boils, I or some eruption of the skin.W Why not purify your blood? A A&a. A A p% W will do It. Take it a few days I . .. find th^n fMl# UAUP flnnnr AM 1 ??? ! |/U| JVUI llll^l VII I your pulse again. You can I I feel the difference. It is I I stronger and your circulation I I better. Send for our book on I 1 Impure Blood. B I If you are bilious, take I I Ayer's Pills. They greatly I 1 aid the Sarsaparilla, They I I cure constipation also. ^ I I Wrftm 1m mmr Burnt I Witt* tham fimIt *11 the particular* t* ! ?***. Von *<11 i*o*It* t ?????? . ^