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K . iIlil - _____NEWBERRY, S. Cop TUESDAY.NOVE~MBER 80,19.TIEAWE, AYA ma a Okeular Letter Been asned-soan' SGotton Growerb. tr thre bpoomes shorter for Conyention of the cotton growers the sothern States the interest in eveint increases. It is to be on Deca 14. On all sides a 1ble and effective plan to prevent divipg down of the price of cot. n is being sought after. A lively interest is being manifest in Mr. Ioddey's plan to organize o Southern Planters' Cotton nIon." 'In regard to this Mr. Rod 0y has, in the last few days, from ow York sent broadcast the follow g letter: the Southern Farmers: No doubt, several years ago, you eroe urprised at my not continuing for organizing thelarmers, o tharket immediltely began o, and sold up $20 per bale, or object had leen acsom I deemed it best to say and I would have remained not in the last few weeks essoinah operatorm began tics,, ,4 are tryidg again, it 40~ .he south. Now, I it an absolute necessity that our union, and show tq the at the south will not submit -kind of servitude that the of . the world is trying to pon them; that tbe south has tisal ,monopoly of a product s nof -k!ry to all classes and lea, and vmat they will no long w operators representing dif sections and countries to keep in a condition of servitude. I e if you do not organize and cotton company that you will r remain in the depths of pov O.he interests are diametri opposed to high prices of full for your cotton; they are or ed and work -upon business Jiples;,.*ey combino and force price o your cotton to a point re you pan baiely live in order to w .themto make their profits and keep you in a dependent condi They want to keep you from anizing, to make you distrust and no confidence in. each other, d. to ridicule in every way the idea at you have th) ability to organ e. If you would only realize that ey wore opposed to you, you would poet no assistance from them. Has eill, the En lishm filed to he an .. *ieprices lower,'ind not naa oral that other sections countries that have you in their er sliouldl try to keep you there get your cotton for as little as Ible and under the present sys they will keep you there unless wake up and decide that you 1 not tamely. submit .to such an position. I1tris your duty to your lldren and your wives that they do ot have to carry a- burden all their yes which you have not attempted to t dlown. I want every farmerJ~o oak to)hiis neighbor.and urge the ecessity ot 'formation. 'Miany may. *ay that this is a scheme of miue to dieece the farmer, but I am a south ern man, with southern instinct and southern inclinations, and it is the dearest wish of my heart to promote the welfare of the south. Official figures show that the cot ton produoepri have created over one. half the weiIth of the whole country, d aj4z4the assessed valuation on all b4Te property of the cotton States is not as great as tl-' athe State of Now York alone. Is there any rca pon' for this? Is there any sense in this? Xe there any justice in this i Will you' allow the price of your la)or to be fired by a people in other seetions and in other countries who have no Interest in your welfare, but rather the eontrary; or will you wake tp and show to the world that you are at lest intelligent, rational bi ings, ad not slaves? A professional gambler in gamb )Ig only ruins the individual with 7 hom he is gamblinag, but professien tl operators, in order to accomplish their ends Dot nly rnin the mdit vidual, bUt will also ruin many mil. lions of individuals, by effecting markets which affect them all, in or der to make their profits: Supply and demar ' for spot cotton.does not fix the price, but supply and de mand or futures establishes the price. or instanco, - every spot buyer simply ask how is the futuro market and if the future market is 10 points lower he immediately low ers his limit equal to the drop in futures, and every farmer that mark ets his cotton simply suffers from the drop speculators cause. In other words, spot buyers and umill men on ly have to break the future market in order to buy their spots at what ever price they care to fix, knowing absolutely that the average farmer must sell, on account of his poverty, at least a potion of his crop. Large american and European spinners never give themselves one moment's uneasiness about getting their supplies. In fact, they simply reason that they will get together, sell thousands of bales of futures, which will put down the price, and as long as they continue to sell the lower the price will be, and when they g't the price barely where the farmer can exist they then buy their spot cotton, realizing that over a million bales per month will be marketed at abso lutely any price they may fix. Many farmers owe for their sup plies and fertilizers, and simply must sell, and the lower the price the stronger the creditor insists on his money, because ho fears that at the low price the crop will not be suffi oient to pay; whereas, if cotton was at a good price the creditor would know he need not worry about his money, and would not insist on hav ing the crop rushed to the market and forcing a salo. It must undoubtedly be very dis. couraging to the farmers that, be fore they begin planting, many -wealthy operators are willing to sell them what they expect to make at a price at which they can barely exist. There. is no other class of labor, except the farmer, that has the pro duct of his labor traded upon by a people that neither know nor care anything about his welfare or pros perity. Suppose there would be al lowed an exchange on the labor of clerks, lawyers or niechanics, where a crowd of uninterested people could get together and trie in the futuro labor of this class of people. One party would offer to get a clerk who is now receiving $1,000 a year for $900. Another will offer to fill his lace for $850, another $'T50, and so n.lln his labor to a point where he can :.rmak ends meet. This clerk must iithe octiptiie salary the speculators fix or allow! his family to starve, and the lower his salary can be kept the less chance he has to improve his condition in any manner. Now, it is. just this way with the farmer, lie is allowed a price for his labor avhich enables him barely exist; but how is it possi ble for him ever to improve? In case he should receive a legitimate price .for his labor for a few years, he would be in a position to have son..e thing to say as regards his future labor, and wvould not allow a price to be fixed by people who know nothing and care less for his labor. Will any class of laborers, except the farmer, allow their labor to be bought and sold for a year ini advance? No, the farmers are considered as being the, most important class, and these shrewd operators would not attempt it on any other class of labor. Yet, at the same time, in rt.ining the farmer, they are ruining overy other class of labor. Yet, at the same time, in ruining the farmer, they are ruining every other class of people with whom the tarmer comes in con tact. Nearly every class anda race of people must have your cotton, but if we think that foreign countries, and even other sect ions of this country will not force us to take as little as possible for our product, then we had better realize it at o-100. Don't let us look for sympathy. The balance of the world is depen dent upon the south, whereas the south should be and could be abso lutely independent of any section. What is the south going to do about it? Let things roll along as they are? Many continue to work for 40 cents per day; strong, able-bodied, sensible, good white farmers, for $12 per month. Will you take no inter est whatever in your future condi tion and thus give renewed energy to those that are injuring you? You are, in my honest opinion, being sys. tematically robbed, wrecked and ruined. I have watched the system, and studied it closely, and have boon in a position, for seven years, to see how it is done, and I trust I have the courage to state openly what I consider the cause of your depres sion, why that, though naturally blessed, you cAnnot improve your condition. Our constitution says that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, yg under the -present conditions you are absolutely slaves. If you make a large crop, you will receive a bare living, and if you make a small crop you may recuive a little more in price, but still a bare living. You will not be entirely crushed out, simply bocauso your cotton is neces siry. If you pormit other sections and other coui.tries, through their representatives to dictate the price of your labor when you have a prac tical monopoly of a product that is -lsolutely necessary to all sections and countries, your deserve no better fate. No; you have the the greatest organizations in the world against you, with the most perfect system, and you will be allowed to be in a positiou to help yourselves, if you can be prevented. I have received a great many en couraging letters from all parts of the south, urging the necessity of forming the Southern Cotton Plant ors' Union, and stating that all alasses are eager and willing to work for the south's welfare. Whithin a short time the charter will be granted for the Southern Cot ton Planter's Union, and no man or set of men will undertake to hereaf ter dictate the price of our greatsta ple, if we stick together. I ask the good wishes, influence and coporation of all interested in the south's welfare, and justice to all men. Do nothing, expect sympathy, and God pity us; but wake up. work and God pity those who attempt to wreck our lives and our country. Full details of the play for our protection will be given later. It ii not necessary for the wreckers to have anything but an inkling of it just yet. John T. Roddey. Here is what the New York World says: "Members of the Cotton exchange here and in other cities are some what excited over the proposition to form a -gigantic trust of all the cot ton raisers of the south which is be ing advocated by John T. Roddy, a prominent broker of this city- The exchanges are opposed to the suhome. If such a trust is formed the brokers say their business will be ruined, so far as exercising any control of the market is concerned. The trust would be able to practically dictate the price of cotton in open market." The Mercantile and Financial Times, New York, says this: "It has long been a notrious fact that the original producers of cotton in this country get a far smaller share than anybody else of the pro fits which it yields before it reaches the mill. Speculators, brokers, spin ners and capitalists manage to me crue a bulk of the rich returns which the magnificent cotton fields of the south reader possible. -The trouble is that the cotton grower as a rule has not capital enough to enable hIm ,,to handle his product as he would like to. To a largo extent he has gone in debt for it before it was raised; and whien it is picked he has no chance, in the majority of cases, but to sell it for whatever he can get. The cotton producers of the south ought to be rich men by right. That they are not is only too well known. "Mr. John T. Toddey, a native of South Carolina, now doing business in Now York as a member of the cotton brokerage firm of John T. Roddey & Co., has suggested a plan whereby the cotton growers shall from a gigantic combination or com pany." As may be supposed, Mr. Itoddey's suggestion has caused a tremendous sensation. The speculators in New York and elsewhere are alarmed be yond. measure and the southern planters are delighted. There is no doubt but the thing can be done if those concerned will "put their shouldera to the whool." If five-cent cotton will not stiniu late the planters to malil an effort to help themselves, we do not know what will. It is quite certain, also, that unless they do something, and that right speedily, they will get deeper in the mud than they are now in the mire. From the Now York Tribune, Nov. 13th. "The bear element in speculative excbangea is one of the most vicious abstacles the inductries of the coun try have had to contend against. The depresing influence the bears of speculation have had for the last year upon legitimate trading has been one of the unfortunate features of the hard timos, and recuperation under their savgage attacks has been slow. Natural conditions may, of necessity, compel prices to drop, but then the bears for them still lower, never taking any thought of who is to be the loser. The bear element in speenlation has caused more distress, bankruptcy and ruin than any ad verso condition of the times. It is an element that stops at nothing to make profits for itsolf, and it reVis in its success. "Unfortunately for the people of the south, their staple product, cotton, has for the last year boon the foot ball of the operators of decline in the trading on the cotton exchanges here and abroad. There has been no lot up in the steady warfare they have carried on against it, and every possible trick and device has been used to hammer down the price." Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FBVER TONIC.. u __s Saved by a Song. [From The, Presbyterian.] Two Americans who were crossin Atlantic met in the cabin on Sunda) night to sing hymns. As they sang the lat hymn, "Jesus lover of my soul,"one of them heard an exceeding ly rich and beautiful|voice behind him. He looked around, and, although he did not know the face' he thoughi that he knew the voice. So whera the music censed he turned and asked the man if he had been in thc civil wvar. The man replied that h< had been a confederate soldier. "Were you at such a p)lace at suclt a night?" asked the first. "Yes," he replied, "and a curious thing happened that night whiclt this hymn has recalled to my mind. I was posted on sentry duty near th< edge of a wood. It was a dark nighi and very cold, and I was a little frightened because the enemy were supposed -to be very near. Aboul midnight, when everything was very still, and I was feeling homesick and miserable and weary, I thought 1 would comfort myself by praying anai singing a hymn. I remember sing ing this hymn: "'All my trust on Thelec is stayed, All my help fr'om TIhee I bring; Cover my defenseless head Wit,h the shadow of Thy wigg.' "After singing that a strangi peaco came down upon me, ani through the long night I felt n< more fear." "Now," said the other, "listen t< my story. I was a union soldier, anc was in the wood that night with party of scouts. I saw you stand ing, .IiMough I did not see you face. i ., men had their rifles fo cused upon you, waiting the word ta fire, but when you sang out: S"'Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Trhy wing,' I said, 'Boys, lower your rifles; wi will o home.'i MUCH PRIZED RELIC TEONENsEAt4s WANT CUSTODY OF "JACK8ON VASE." Col. Dianding's Views-A Circular Letter to the Other Mexican war Ieterans About theMatter-Tho Statun. Col. James D. Blanding, the pres ident of the Palmetto Regiment Sur vivor's association, composed of the veterans of the Mexican war who saw services in that comiand, has written the open letter below in re gard to the disposition of the fa mous Jackson vase, of which he is the custodian at present, and other relics of the famous band of Caro lina soldiers who formed the regi ment. It will be recalled that the famous vase was only saved during the late war with the greatest diffi culty. It has been most carefully cared for by the veterans since the war. It is now wanted in Tennessee and its custodian has taken this means of ascertaining the views of the members of the association. . Col. Blanding recoutly received the following: Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 19, 1897. Col. Jas. D. Blanding, Sumter, S. 0. Dear Sir-For some timo past the Ladies' HermitAge association through several of the members, no tably Miss Louise Baxter, Mrs. W. B. Walton, Mrs. Sharpe, -and others have been very much interested in the valuable historic silver vase giv en by the ladies of South Carolina to Gen. Andrew Jackson and in turn by him willed back to that State for fur ther disposition. For the past eight years the patriotic ladies of this State have been laboring faithfully to preserve the Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson as a memorial to him, and to place therein such relics as could be secured. They have done good work, and in the past fe-a months have caused to be returned to the Hermitage, the valuable rolic ftirni. ture of his bedroom and the hall and other value articles. Now this vase is one of peculiar beauty and value, and it would be most appropriate that now under new conditions it re turn to the Hermitage, there to re main forever as a memento, and one of the highly prized relics of the grand old hero who!for 41 years of his eventful life was identified with this same Hermitage. There is no spot on earth where it could be more fitting ly placed; and in behalf of the asso ciation, I now for them reiterate the p)etitition to you and your comrades of the Mexican war veterans to peri mit the Ladies' Hermitage associa tion to become the custodian of this bcautiful relic, and the Hermitage its home from this time on forever. Should your friends decide to p)lace this in the Hermitage you would do honor to yourselves by adding an other interest to this beautiful his toric Hermitage, and pie' it in hands that would with reverential touch, preserve it sacredly a. long as time shall last. The association will have built for it a case of the strongest thickness of glass, and would take every step to protect and preserve it. This letter is written oficially at the instance of the directors of the association who hereby make their petition as set forth in this commun ication. Hoping that the veterans will de termine that the Hermitage is the proper repository for the beautiful historic vase, I am very respect fully, Mrs. Mary CI. Dorris, Sec. Ladies' Hermitage * Associr. tion. Col. Blanding's open letter just issued reads as follows: At the request of the Ladies' 1Hcr muitage associations of the United States I carried to Nashville in Sept ember the Andrew Jackson vase. Trhe president of the associations, Mrs. Mary S. Baxter, writes: "It at tracted.more attention than any one at the centennial, and it was the un iversal verdict of all the visitors that the Hermitage was the place of all others for it; especially as it was given by the ladies, it ought to re turn to the ladies * * Tell the vete rans that 'gallantry alwaysaomm. shall see this communication to writo me at once their respective wishes, both as to the disposition of the Jackson vase, and of the flag and records of the regiment. JAMES D. B3LANDINO, Pres. Pal. Reg. Surv. Association. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. THE UOVIHNOt AND NEWnOLI). Mr. A. M. Alk(m, Jr., of Choster, Very 'roperly Itemonts the Charge of L,ying Alade Agatnta Min l,y (lovernor Elerbe. and Furnihees an Ai1da vit from tihe Sheriff, of Chestor. [Nows and Courier.] Chestor, S. C,. Nov. 20.---Governor Ellerbo, in a lit of tempor, accutcs this correspondent, of lying. I wish to say to his Majosty that I am never afraid to write aiything containing tht truth, and that (ho report I mado of the Nowbold affair was a correct statoment, as far as Chester is con corned, ats the following affidavit will show: Stato of South Carolina, County of Choster: Pesonally appeared beforo mil, It. P. Morgan, who on oath says that lie is chief of polico of the city of Chester. That on November 22, 1807, in a conversation with W. 11. Newbold, at Chestor, said Newbold told hini that ho spent the proceding Sunday in Colunbia band was there instructod by tho State officials not to surrendor until the Court of Gen oral Sossions of Spartanburg Conn ty had adjourned, and that the tio count of Newbold in Chestor is writon up by the correspondent ( f The News and Courier att Choster in all material particulars is true and correct. R. P. MOnoAN. Sworn to heforo nie this November 16, 1897. SAMUR. E. MOPADDEN. Notary Public, S. C. Mr. Morgan is known in this city and all over the county as a reliable and truthful citizen and as a highly eficient officer of the law. The Lanturn of this dato has a full ac count of the arrest and includes some information from Sheriff John E. Cornwell, another respoeotable and honorable citizen and a most compe tent and efiicient officer, wvhioh I wais unable to ob)tainl when miaking my report. It iS as5 follows: it connec tion with tile Newbold remark about the State authlorities ho hiand(ed the sheriff a letter which, he said, would ex plalin everything Mr. Cornwell thinks the envolope showed that it had been sont by3 hand, though h.0 didl not notico ia paIticularly, and the printed head of the letter seemed to have b)oon purposely torn off. It said: "We regret this affair as much as you (10," or words to that eifect. It gave Newbold full directions about the time anid other details of surron der, saying that Thomiason would arrest him anid wvould not claimn the reward. There were a numb)er of ox pressions about what "lhe" said, "lhe" would do, etc--"h,e" referring, as the Sheriff understood, to the Gov ernor. Owing to the interruption of the reading by3 the conlversationi, and to his having in mind that lie was reading a letter from tile Governor's ofmeo and writtenl b)y his autthiorit, hie gave no atteintion to the signaturr, in fact lie did not road1 thIe last linere. Shieriff Cornwell is not qjuito hut al most, sure that Newbold that lie had commnuicated with Governor Eleorbo whenl in Columbia a week before. Governor Ellerbo is a good fellow, with an good heart and a good charac ter, but he wofully Jacks two quahi ties of a well rounded man, sense and judgment, as a careful examina tion of hi8 interview will reveal. If he does niot wish lisa oficial conduct riticised anid censured in the future lie bad bettor act caref ully and guard cagainst so many mistakes, anid learn to control his temper. A. M. AIKn,w J.f paniei bravery,' and we fool sure such a body would not hesitate to do the gallant act to such a patrio tic body of women." To the awco a'ion, composed of the most prominent citizens of Ton nessee, the State donated the Her witage building and grounds, under a perpetual charter, it. has exponded large sums in extending and beauti fying the same and in procuring and preserving the furniture and person al effects and relics of the old hero. It will be remembered that the vase was donated by ladies of South Carolina to General Jackson soon after and in honor of the victory at New Orleans in 1815. By his will (therein styling South Carolina "Imy native State"] he bequeated the vase not, as is generally thought, to the bravest man from South Carolina in the first foreign war, but t; bo re turned by his ecjutors to the ladios of Sor.th Carolina to be by them given "to the patriot of that Stato most voliant in defense in his coun try's rights." The words are from memory, but believed to be correct, having read the will carefully last summer. In 1848 the executors sont the vase to the Governor of this State, who turned i, over to the Palmetto Survivors' association to be disposed of as they should doei best. The association decided to hold it sub ject to the futuro disposition of the survivors, and if none be made by them, then for, the last survivor. Doubt may arise whether the execu tors carried out properly their trust by dolivering the vase to the lover nor instead of to the ladies of South Carolina to determine who was "the patriot of the State most valiant in defence of his country's honor and his country's rights." But both the executors and the Uovernor were mot by the unsolvable problems, who were the ladios entrusted to decide, and how to got their decision; and as difficult it would have boon for the ladies to decide who was the most valiant patriot. But they tried to untangle the tagle by assuming that some one of the 350 survivors must be the most valiant, patriot, and threw upon then to decide who was the man. They could not untangle it, so cut the Gordian knot by say ing "the lust survivor," which will not be carrying out the trust, and be as false in fact as impracticable of ascertainment. But, again, there has been, and still is decided differ ence of opinion whether any Mexi can veteran was engaged "in defence of his country's honor and his coun tr y's rights." Mr. Calhoun thought n"# so; what old Hickory might have thought had lie lived, none can tell. However, wo had nothing to do with deciding this (quest ion; our country called and we answered the call. As suming that the 30 octogenarian survivors [more or loss in number and years] are entitled to linal dis position of the vas(o, the question re mains; what shall b)e done with it? My chance of suporvisorsi p, hum an - ly speaking, is possibly as good as~ that of any other; but I cannot be lieve that any one will ever clamm this historic relic as his private prop. erty. My judgment is that it should be donated either to the Ladlies' H1or mitago Association of the United] States in compliance with their poeti. tion, or to the State of South Caro. in. The objection to the latto: courno is that the State has noithei oflicer nor proper place for kooping such relics. It was once p)laced un der the care of Gov. Simpson in th< capitol, but he knew not what to (d< with it, so returned it to P)resuidoni Stanley. Certainly the flag and re cords of the Palmotto regiment roni in my possession, should be turno over to the State, but it would seen more "appropriate that now undei new coniditions" the vase be dorato& to the Ladieo' Hermitage Association to be kept among other res of the old hero, a native of South Caroi'na This would dloubtless lie the decision of the ladies who gave it, if than could be ascertained, and thur control the matter. It is impossible to get a meeting of the survivors. I equnnt sucha:n