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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