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~~ U. ~~ . C.,~AYAM ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, TUESDAY, APRI 23, IWA 3910.01. ql?.MATAR M'I.AIID IV Ithoretina Dnmnnrnf;n i - - UiAVAL ILL MAD.ULII FIRES HIS FIRST GUN. HEAL "CAMPAION OPENER" AT HAIARLOTTD LAST.'NIGiHT. Dofence of Ilis Soveral Votoa-His Con coption of Work for Southern States mon-1insi8ts on uloing .Un tranimoled onlGreat Issues. (Special to Tho State.) Charlotte, N. C., April 18,-This was an oventiul day in the history of the Southern Manufacturers' Club. The Chineso Minister, Mr. Wu Ting Fang, was the guest:of Honor, while next in rank among the" prominent guests was John L. McLaurin. His address, which he read, is a declara tion of the Senator's position in poli tics, and while the address was en titled "Our Present Condition in the South and Our Duty in the Future," it was in reality the first gun in his campaign for the reelection to the senate from South Carolina. He in dicates the linosalong which he will fight. Ho has left the "ruts," he says, and for so doing defends him solf, and indicates the line in politics he thinks the south should follow. Mr. McLaurin spoke As follows: DENMES A REPORT. Mr. Toastmaker and Gentlemen: I desire to make a statement of somewhat a personal nature before proceeding with this speech, which I intend to deliver tonight, A certain newspaper correspondent in the city of Washington has persistently spread the report that I was coming to Charlotte to make a speech which would lurch a now party in the south. The report was absolutely false. If I had any such intention good taste would prevent me from taking advantage of an opportunity of this kind. I am content to advo cate with Democratic lines the policy which I believe best for the south, and when I can no longer do this I am ready to retire to private life. In the south we are today realiz ing some of the dreams of its far reaching statesmen and business - men of fifty years ago. With pro phetic eye, they saw the industrial and commercial possibilities of our highly favored south. With an advance of thought that is really surprising, they suggest en terprises of wonderful magnitude for its upbuiding and commercial domi nance. From 1838 to 1860, conven tions were held to voice the demands of a deepseated public sentiment for industrial progress. The story of these movements is drhonciled in a South Carolina publication, which, under the name of Debows review, did for the old south what the Manufactur ers record is doing for the south to day. The same spirit which enabled our fathers to leave the field of defeat with nothing but their courage and ' characters left, still lives in the d inspires you today in your ertaking. us of the great southern en and statesmen of fifty o are no longer ideal dreams, ned by a cruel war which de .. r social and industrial sys ed 0-. 'ch for years reached co em, and wa, toa udraig operation, in n~ t ich mne as Inmee almost impossible, . -heedam here tonmght are makm actual'living realities. wHAT WARS SETTLED. Talk about the "New South"'~e name is a misnomer. It is the samd old spirits revived which sixty years ago made the south the dominant power in this nation-a position of which nothing but war could have robbed her. What we need now to again attain that proud emmnence is the same broad co~eeption and the same ,comprehensive grasp of the true situation. The last twenty years hv.ve wrought an industrial revoln tion in the south, which must find ex pression in our social and political life. The time is past for the discussion as to whether this government is to be one consolidated in its structure or a loose aggregation of (so-called) sovereign States. The civil war set tled that. It is useless to discuss the question f whether this is to be a purely or an expanding and giant Republic. The Spanish war settled that. Why not then accept conditions as they are and make the most of them? The agitation of such issues only serves to sidetrack broad American doctrines and should not be made party questions because they grow out of actual political and economic conditions, which it is beyond the power of either party to change. I care not of what political faith the occupant of the white house might have been; for, if a true American, mindful of the honor and dignity of the nation, the refalts of the Spanish war could not be widely different from what they are today. Why should our people be the only ones to close their eyes to what is going on? Why should we move on in the same old ruts and insist that political policies and old traditions, long since dead, are vital living issues, and depend upon them for the salvation of the south. LESSONS OF MICINLEY's TRIUMPH. The triumphant re-election of Mr. McKinley in the last campaign is full of significance. It is a stubborn fact confronting the Democratic party today, suggossive of reproach ful remembrances and fearful me nances. What a reflection that this new Democracy did nA% carry a State where the issues were discussed and judgement passed by the people up on them on their merits. Of course with us it has been impossible to de. cide elections upon issues. It has been simply a question of white su premacy. In the north and the west, dissolved into faetions. tainted by the errors of rapublicanism and the follies of populism, the party could not withstand the tide of popn lar opposition excited by unreasona ble criticism of the conduct of a for eign war, and by the vicious and incendiary appeals made during the last month of the campaign to class hatred and prejudice. Fundamental principles were lost sight of, and in an insane effort to secure party success at any cost, the attempt was made to combine social ism, populism and sectionalism, with nothing but the sentimdnt and tra ditions of Democracy. The real Democratic leaders of the senate for the past three years have been Allen, Teller and Pettigrew, all of them able men, but one a Populist, one a high tariff Republican, and the other, I do not know what. All of them opposed to State banks of issue with proper safeguards, and most other things we nieed in the South. This was called the ''New Democracy"~ in contradistinction from the old, and some of its leaders stated that its creeds were revolutionary and were so designed to be. To sow discontent with industrial couditions and distrust of the gov erning power; to array class against class, in the hope of securing fancied social and industrial equality is to my mind the first step in revolution. The South is the American end of America. In no section is there so small a foreign element, so much conservatism, and so pure a patriot ism. What a political paradox then it is for our[people to be the allies of professed revolutionists elae whore. WHAT THE M' KINLEY VOTERS FEARED. It was not the pure type of South ern Democracy that the balance of the country feared in the last presi dential election. They knew that pr erly interpreted this was cQnser vative hu. d safe. It was well under stood, hoe yr what influences domi nated, and tha,.. herefore, the South in national affairs w~st.ill powerless. One doubtful North~ ~n State had th%n and has now mnoi% influence than the entire South combii ed. One party says, why should I consigiJt you, I can hope for nothing. The \3ther says, I've got you any way, an;d I will do as I please; help yourself \if you can. What a position for a brave, high~ spirited people bound hand and foot the miser able slaves of one party an~ a football for the other. I, for one, do not believe that thi people of the South are ready t~ trust this government into the hand of any party to begin the leveling taxing power; and yet this is exactly what this now propaganda mn1s, and outsido of the South it is pro claimed by the very same class who preach and practice social cquality between the races. The two dog mas aro insoparably intorwovon. Go into the West, attond one of their campaign meetings search boneath the skin and you will find the same old social equality dogma, to tho tune of which the soul of John Brown is still "marching on." Taxation for the purpose of equal izing or rodistriLuting property is rank socialism, not Democracy. Let it take hold in the South and with it will go thoso barriers which we havo erected to maintain the purity of our race and the integrity of our civiliza tion. )1',EN)s EXPANSION. Another thing-to my mind it is folly to oppose expansion under the name of imperialism. It deceives no man of intelligence. He under. stand that there is no analogy be tweon this country and the Roman empire, and that those who tak of imperialism do not take into account that power which is born of our free institutions, a fortress in the hoarts of our people stronger than any ever built of stone. As long as this is there they can never become slaves; and when it is dead it matters not whether under republic or empire, they become an easy proy. It de ponds upon the people, not the gov ernment, whether they be slavo. or freemen. It is the people that make the government, not the government the people. With a brave, strong, intelligent people, with a free pross and popular oducation, there can be no imperialism. Why should we bo afraid to trust ourselves? The whole tendency of the times and tho spirit of the age is toward Democratic in stead of imperialistic ideas of gov ernment. The throne of the "Great White Czar" trembles today at the roar of the Democratic Lion, and the echoes resound even from the far off Orient. Our people understand that it is not actual territory or dominion over people that we seek, but the expan sion of American thought, ideas of government commerce and civiliza iton. Political leaders might well learn that the law of progress will sweep away as chaff those who would place barriers against this mighty tide which is destined to spread the Democ itic idea of government to the uttermost bounds of the earth. ,My definition of Democracy is liberty for man, formulated into a theory of government. It means man's in alienable ownership of himself, it means free thought and free speech. In the dark ages of the past some' poor slave raised his bowed head and looking up into the blue sky caught inspiration from God's free air and sunshine that he also of right was free, and ever since, that vision of liberty has been an undying revela tion for every age and all climes. Grecian and Roman slaves saw the heaveuly light, and facing their masters' sword, bravely died. Saxon churl with wooden collar, and our own fathers, at Oowpens and King Mountain, looked upon the celestial picture, and with a smile.of joy gave up their lives. wHAT r,HoULD A PARITY DO? Why nee-1 a true Democracy hunt for issues in our rehlti>nsI with for eign countries?i it is upon domes tic problems, the rights of man and man, the relation of labor and capi tal and its stand upon these home issues that has endeared 30t to the people in the past and upon which it must finally stand or fall. It is folly to attempt to dwarf great national and international is sues into mere questions of party policy; it failed in the last campaign, and will fall every time it is tried. wILL NOT DEi TRAMMELLEDn. Every member of the American Congress, when it comes to a for eign policy, a foreign war, and army, a navy, a merchant marine, or any other question affecting our honor as Sa nation, or prosperity as a people, \ould be free and untrammelled to VOLo 11 mls jpulgilont 1111a CMiConciO dictatos. For myself, I would not, under existing conditions, bo willing to hold a soat in the United States sonato upon any other terms. To allow others to think for me upon these great quostions is i cowardly ovasion of my 'responsibilities, and a criminal noglect, of the truo interosts of those who select m1o. I am rojoiced tonight to b) in tWo presence of so many of the great captains of Southern industry. You are the men whoiso energy and enter prise and developing our natural ro sourcos and thus laying the founda tion for the full enjoyment by our section of all that must follow inl the wako of the expanding glory of our republic; and this in spito of the fact that it has becomo the fashion in some quarters to irtor at :what is tormod the "sordid conimercial" ar gument in favor of expansion and other national issues. Oc - political loadors should w.-t forget the fact that modern Diem racy had its origin in this sane C(! mnorcial instinct. Two hundred aA fifty yeaus ago it had its birth in thoso cities along tho river Rhiie, whore, through trado and imanufac. turing, the peoplo coiid compel the foudal lords to gr-mt theuu civil rights. ihe free iistitutionq of which wo boast grew upl under the fostering cnro of commerco. The rights of the individual expidod into rights for his city and those for the State, so that lodorn Democracy does not teach that thoro is an abso lute rule for government, and that. any particular theory of government is of permatont vilut-N and adapted under all oircnmstanven for the wol fare of man. Tho fathers of this Ro public never intendod to lay a found ation which was to be always of tho same circumscribed proportions, wit h a superstructure of nicely ionsured, parts all to exist pormanently just as construct-. They aimed to create a giant not a pigmy. For a nation the century has boon content to grapple with tho quostions of internal development, but suid denly in the evolut ion of r national destiny, we have become ao of the great powers of the world, and can no longer move in a circumscribed orbit. If we would maintain our su preiacy or even quality among the nations of the world, the shacklos forged by narrow, sectional preju dices must be broken. (JOVERINMENTS MOULD THEMsELVES. The question of the hour is not whether this Republic is wvhat its founders (with the light before them) intended to make it; not wheth-, er this is theoretically an ideal Domr ocratic government, at all times in exact conformity to the tehnical re qjuirements of a written constitution, but whether with the spirit rather than the letter of that constitution, we are making the most of our nra tional opportunities and meeting the political economic conditions grow. mng out of the constantly changing needs of the people. It is histori cally true that no form of govern ment ever did result from deliberate choico; it has always been the logi cal result of conditions. The nation is nothing but the ty po of individual life, and as from child hood to manhood we outgrow gar ments and duties, those airo put aside, so it is in the evolutionairy develop mont of a nation, social, political, and industrial systemns that have their day and thrust aside for nowv moth ods and new systems to meet a changed and higher state of exist once. WVo havo reached a stage of development in the South where it is unprofitable to rake the dr.d ashes and chtiAo ombers of thie past and where we must look forward rather than backward. True statesmaa. ship, while vigilant as to the p)reont, looks with prophetic eye to the fua ture. The people have a right to expect their loaders to be in advance of the thought of the age, and not tamely drift with the cnrrent. In an era of transition and change like this, with out some such forecast, political par. ties will cling to (dead issues, and finally flounder in the maelstrom of 1net na1v<bvi;ion andl grooti for of fico. V, Ien IuIIn-aIII, Ilori da, Toxas, and( CaIliforni wer Iacqu ' IW IIirokd thIm gret leador-i of tho Dmoneraey acted uiponl thin dovtrino, amd Iqo when0 this war with Spluin produced cortain ro ults it wvould havo boevi tho part, of witdom to havo mIado party plat forms and policit-e corrc,splonld with existing Conditions and thoi. natural and invital consequen301111 ces. Wo ari now inl tho commorciil Uar0en1a, conltonting witl tho other na11 tionls for tho trIlo Of tho world. So far wo havo buill, ll) our foreign trado bv ijntmi,o itbsorption ill tho internal devolopment of our domos tic iniustrios. Wo now produev sif liciont for tho needs of twico our p)p ulat ion, and not, to fii at market for our surplus is to invito stagnattion m8i:4 decay. The Most striking foaturo ill our w:p-)rt, dovolowimenlt is tho rolllika blo nd vow-tant ly ineroasing do n11!1(1 for our iron an1d Zteol. Within six year1 WO ha11v adiva und to the poition vhro A merill ir-onl and stol etrs into tho construction of evory bri v nd raillrid il tho world or fixe' th prico therofor. I sw inl iho paper at fkw days ago that, tho I::hwin locoilotivo worsli in Phil'lelphin wort supplying tho lls!zilmn govern11it with I 10 loco mlo!:1ve; for th1 , T11rans-.1-iberianl rail ioad. Tho fact,; surrouidmng this milo aro ol p-ouliar intore.st. Tho lussian goovornmont owns its rii! roads and )maitains largo chops. It pt;it dtitiy ')f 5centbi per pound( oil ii>ports, but when it eillo to supply ing ho o(ilment. for this giant road of ,,000 m11ilo!, it was found t hat. they had to e:nno to the Unlited States. And yet, seveil years ago tho first iron shipmile:nt abroad was from Bir YROM nORONVERS:I TO LLNnEAs . Another feattire of Amorican influ oneo is our addonly acquired finan cial indopondence. For years we have boon borrowers, but during the two years past wvo have b(vomo lond ors (if monoy. Throo of tho largost European g0ONMenlt-S, Enlghlnd, Germany and lZussin, have found it. necossary to comi to New York for important loans, thusshowingthat the centro of t he financiaN world ias boon transferrod from Lombard to Wall stret. Itis folly for tho political leadersof the South to close their oyos to the truth hL t th e commercial xpsion of the UnIited1 States is at facet of con stantly enlahrging proportion, (10 mantIdin)g chanogod gove rnontal poli - cios to1 moot0,now1~ cond(it ions. In spit10 of highor wvages, with la bor-saving ma11chinery, the0 supeIrior skill and(. inltelligenIce of our op)erat ivos, under ia factory system botter orgalnizAed Ihmn any in thet worldt, is giving 1us ind(ustriatl ascendoinCy. It needs, howvevor, to support it, a broad stattesmanlsh ip, not h and icappod by set.ionaul prejuidices. Woe cani differ about domestic matters and)0 dividoe upjoni party 11m.es, but whenI it comes to ultjilfing ationai l)pportunlities, ntorth, southi, east1 and)0 wost, shliuld unlito ini ma)linlltlning tho suipremnacy of thel Un rited1 S;tates in) the great strugg!o amionig thle nations for the comm)rer('0 of the world. coio .1 'rmo: m soi;r ACcux I N : -rNeil. Thel( south1 umiut play an important part in ouir couIntr'y's futuro. For a third of ia centuriy 81ho hasi beni ham pod by a struiggle for moore oxist ('nCO, forced) to devoto all oft her (en) ergy and staltPStuhi)p to Itho mintil tonancoi~ of whitlo supromlacy. ThankI1 (God, th is ii permai!nentI and assured beyond( p)eradven(itur0 of dIoubt. AtI 1last sho0 has) emierged fromi her for lorn and gootrato condition; freed fr-om her(1(1 nhra lbnen)t, she cani putl horsol1i in I o)uch wvithi th host thought of thoe ago, and againi exercise ar~ in Iileco in1 naItionalil life. I believi the timel will comoi wVhen) the south wvili be the hopo and salvation of [hi: nation. 11cr marveoous growth ii manuffacturing enterprises, her do velopmeont of natural resources, an her rapid advance in progrossivi thought and action, is making hi -angain [1.h1 lendintg section in thi country. Th'le contro of nufac turing inl the Ur.ited State!; hasbeen transferrod from Pall iver, M., to Coluimibia, S. (1. But if wo woulid mnako the best of our opportiitios wo must. rononuco nectional projudices 11I Hupport, brod nd t itinal policievs, looking to the croation of foreign imarkIts, the oxpansion of trado and the upbuilding of a common country. Wo must domand and have for tho 9u11111 I full sHa11ro of the botiolit as8 well s tho burden of na11tiona11l life. 1T1l soutlth il Virtually interested in the Asiatic markotm. Hor mnuifac. tirors aro studying tho neods of the pooplo inl an intellipeit efort to turn out products suitod to thos markkt. Tho closing mllarkots owing to recolut trouibleH ha11s calusod i gltut of goods, whlich Is affocted by i oeliune of throo conts a pound in raw cotton. WiAT M'KINI-Y IS 'OINl. Tho aimistration is doisig t grout deal towardLi improving our com Im0r0iil opportnilliti iel m1 i i vt, by showing Hoino reglard for the inalion ilbflo rights of China1, wIlilo proteet ing tho legit imMo dImaind.; of foroigni interest.. owvey's victory firA v-t iab lished Aioriean pie.9tigo itloncg (ho Ariatic coa1st. It, wai thon 'int 800 million popl inl th' orient eIrledl respect for th lni o <d t el F1a1uted uis as a it-hspwr Tho attitudo of t(e United Stak's sinco inl the fold of diploliacy inl (hinia Ias g_',iV0il Collfie ilco 1111(i incrleled that respoet. The ('mb11v( Stath's from the first took lead. a: I even lthe warlik 1m11permr of Gernmly has had to yield to "I'lcol Sam'" friendly ad1w'-nitions. \ 11Nw oe C1py tho VtaIltj1gkj grodlll, b (aus I friendly terms with all thle powers. I mau1ke assWOrtion tha1t tHIe south 1111 Inoro to gain 111111 a1ny ot her Section from the foreign policy now pursied by th administration, particolarly when the Isthiainn canal is coil structed ats it wvill b. I havo rol extrats from ho tioodi of my ami ablo and distiguisihed friend his ex colleney; Mlinintoer Wut,remontly mado in Chicago. It im reploto with wis dom and good Fionse. Wo cannot 1101) anid WO H1ou1ld not Wis1 to baso at polity, society and roligion tio slow growth of 4,000 y0ars. To do so is to destroy the Empiro ill the attempt to suddonly thrust upon her at western civilization for which her pooplo aro not preparod. All wo can hopo to do is to vitalize this old civ ilizationN with. westorn idas, scionco and inventivo gonius, thus making it more potential ill iuterial ichinvo mont11(. Th'Iis counltry has1 (don( wvell to u18o overy effort b)y the benign in fluenico of its political and csommnercial poe to preservo tile ident11ily of the Emipiro and the( integrity of its8 civ ilizaltion. Under this policy, it is rononablo to expect China to b)0 come the constanitly oxp)and(ing mar kot for our p)roducts, and a1s1grad uilly hler interior is fully dlevolopedl b)y a netwvork of railroads and all of her citios opened0( up to foreign com moerco, the opportunitios are abnuost without 'imiit. The South flow coni (rols most of this8 trado, andir with 'inch deOvelopmrent , ini the near4 futLure, it shoulid inicronsoe tonfol. CH1ANom54 coJN irno1Ns. Woe are y'o longer a pa11roly agri - ciutl sectionl, but mfininlg, manu111 factuiirinIg and 1;indred i nterom;u ha ve s4prulnig into p)romIlhonco and1 demiland goverIlnmontal pIolicios to I~ proect and deIvelop t hems. A sta ltesmansh153ip 8e prtisan1 ill its (chalracter as1 to) adheirc to old pol1itical (1oc1rine(s, (either seot (led b)y the aIritralmuent of the sword or firmnly ixed 1as goveriiinnantal pol. icios, caininot solvo the0 pl 1itil and1( economic0 prob)Ilems now co)i rontinpi mnanshiip cainnot pregerly intorprol proeent econom1ic mkovomntfl, no0 p)rovidoe by aggessivo and1( in resiv( thloumght for the rad1ical1ly 'chlange< coniditin no1811W conifronIting us8. MI NIia w's Almai1:sls. In 1118 addross ait 11t h inner to night Mr. Wn av aV01 genleral revios of the tradoe coniditionst b)tetoo thi - souith and 1110 orient, and of China' 1 importance as a market for southor: a goods. Aflor quoting from ad(vime r sihoo as the consulair roports fc n Fnbrnary. 121 hm oni,1 "' Lar'go as i th muI1lioun 1 of Amri n ('nn1 Vottonl l ood which inla im. pori overy year, it forms on1lyN one Sixth of. the quanfltity s10 buyF, from a1broltd. Indood, ony tho outski-ts1 of t ho colItI havo boon ontrod. It is well known that t1ho bllk of tho Amwricanul goods s shippedi to MIN. ch uria and the provinco Chi 'Li. Now Mlnicluri has a population of 7,. 700,000 and Chi iA it population of 18,(),)0()0. 11heS0 1lr' by 1111n1o01 thil most hiickly populatod parts of tho vnmpire. liero 17 other provin eN of Chiln prop0r, nuny of Which have ia don!!r population thia either (li LI or Mititchuria. Thoro iti no real-on why Ailricall cottong Cannot iln aul revady at imlarket m tho provinvos of cotdrial and tioitl Chiilna its in tho ntorthi. OUlR F'OOT11ot. IN CHINA. "It isl mit1l1fest," ho said, "tllat tho (ottonl groNwerst and 11mnf11 citurors of th outher :itat-s havo not. oliy glinlod a foot ho in MA1churia ani north Chlina, but, lwaVIys finld a m111r ket for thoir g(od!i throrghlout IL, whole of central anl(d souteirn Chin. Th i only (hing the Amerionn mann facturvr han to koop inl m1 iN tl-1t ho shouhl Imk glwds 'Oe for t ho Chbinw--;( mlarkok . WH.\T THEv P1,11'IM'. "If proper.1ly placod boforo tho Ci nm.sI, Amierican co n oodn vill ob. t,-in the !;anw fotothol in soiftliern China that thov b 1yhae nort hern. Taprevient impor-tation alro not Ilearly mflicient, to mnvot tho i 11ilts. It Inust ho 11011 in ill' wib.ut i C hiitse never wear wo i ot vn in thell(lp thofiene thalit, gonll111Y sponklin"., C ho (11t6iro popu hit ion (lotim vhoielves ill .ot ton all0 tihe year roIund. Thoir bedclothos, mn11brell"Im anld in mantty instancon, b1oat LilH s1 11M10 of c)tton, 1nd He0 COnsumip-1 n iS praI10Cally 111 limited if they aro inado il accord 1111CO with na11tivo rouiemllionts. Th1 Cloths nm1lit bo -ftrong, coar-mo un bloncli)d goods 22 incelos wioe, retail at about, 5> cnt. gold ia yard or 36 evintH goll por pieco of ninm yardf. Thero iti allo a virgin miort, for i cotton Cloth wIlich, innod or otlhuor Wiso Ironted, woll)d provo raii p:oof. All clohm would havo to bo put ill longths to filit tho pecublar requiiro ments of tho trado for which thoy ar10 (0igneld, an1d 8uh('1 ot a8ilt COUld bust, bo lurned aftor aliving mldo at trial shipment.. "Thm recont troublefi in North China- hav undoubtdly in-juarod th Ameorican cot ton traide in ihat cou1ntry for th10 mairkot for 811ch goods has1 bo como1 a1 vasIt campiI for aIrmied hosts8. 11n tho waliko4 opera'ltion11, t rado and~ commer101co cannlot 3onItinlu to flouris~h. Tiho resltorat ion of peaco0 and1( o)rder to thalt dist.ressed region will bo a1 1)00n not only to inihi - tanltIl of Nor't.h Ch ina, who( have a1 r01ady sufforod un1told1 108s08 and halrdships, but also0 to southern plant ers, manulilfactulrers and laboring mon01 of all cla131o0 in this8 country, who (d0p01nd upon tho return of no0rma11 traldo conlditionls in I hIOChinoCso empirno for t heir 'onItmued10( p)rospriIy, and1( I sin1ce'rely hop'o andu truist thait th)isi will not. be0 long deIlayed." Mir. llison1 A. Smiyth, presidenlt of the0 IPelzer anuufactorin)g compan111y, spoke 0on ''111 quesOtionI of the hour, or the o d o(1(f an1 eal nd 11( pIoacoful sett.1lment of tho oriontal qulostionl froini1118 llo sta lpoin)t of la ontborn (r.Cha. WV. DabneI)y, p)resident of (ho Uiivorlit y (I Tennesso8P, spoko on "Thei PIossibliiesi inl Cotton.'' Among otherI plromninlouti guo':t. was3 Sonator Pritehiard of North Carolina. On his alrrivlI thio inorning, Mr. Wui wasI escortod to the clubi roomsl, whe breakfaot wasI served. After that he was1 giveni a tour of tho cot toln mfills of the city. In the affornloon 1h0 hold( ai recoption in the parlors of tho club, For Infants and hlrn ' The Kind Yon Hna Always Bought