The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, August 26, 1891, Image 1
If fbr the btbei'ty of the World we can do Anything.
VOL.
That Siiteei-to Wait
“ClflS” DRIVES IT THROTCH
THE SPEECHES AT PROS
PERITY.
«Tfc«c Mr. SUkes Sk««W bt Wrm
was t# ke Expeeled,” k«l SfiaUr
Bailrr Oafjht tt kare Kaawa Bct-
ter—Batler DeBtllskfA thf Stk-
Trrasary, k*t R#l Stack ia (hr
Fref Sllcfr Sw«Mp-SI*kfs 414
tkr Best ke CaaU—TWr Per
Capita Cirralatiaa Lamer ■•«
than Ever Before In Tke History
•f Tke Coantry—Calhonn on Tke
Danger of WlWeat State Banks.
T„ the 1’ditor »f The News ami
Courier. Before ilisniissing the
I’rosjx'rity meeting fiom <>ur thoughts
C non hi like to call special attention
to a few iM)ints and arguments in the
speeches of both Dr. Stokes and Sen
ator Butler. I will not refer to Mr.
Talbert’s speech, as 1 did not hear it,
not having understood that he was
to sja ak until I had left the ground.
I had looked forward with much
interest to this debate, because I am
a great advocate of
sides of important public <|i
In my opinion a chief objection to
the Alliance, and to such secret or
ganizations generally, is that it tends
to can » its members to
SEE ONLY ONE 8II»K
of questions in which it is specially
interested. How many of our Alli
ance men ever read any other paper
than the “Cotton I’lant" or “Nation
al Economist,” in which not only but
one side of All lance quest ions is given
unv hearing, hut the other side is
most grossly misrepresented, and our
farmers are taught to regard those
of their fellow-citizens who do not
accept Alliance doctrine as their bit
ter enemies! Here, then, was an op
portunity for our farmers in a very
strong Alliance section to hear the
other side presented by a very able
and popular debater. Besides I was
anxious to bear the discussion on m\
own account. I have sought in vain
for what seemed to me any se dous
zw4 valid arguments in favor of the
.sub-treasury scheme of the Alliance,
.and I thoughi surely Dr. Stokes,
when pitted against so expert a dy-
liater us Senator Butler, would pro
duce valid arguments, if any such
existed. But in this I was wofnlly
disappointed,for his argument struck
me as nuustjglh^veak byth I
conclusions—either that it has al
ways been too small, and that we
have had our extraordinary prosper
ity as a people for over a hundred
years with too little currency or
that we need more currency per
capita now than heretofore, (and if
so, why?) or that both Mr. Stokes
DAHLIXOTON, 8. C„ WKI)NE.SDAY AUGUST 2(i, 1801.
lor i wile World.
NO.
Now Mr. Stokes is mi advocate, I lA-’iioneyhii^ab least to the ’ ettent oft
li cve) 0 f ■ j 25 per cent; that is, that lie believes
THE EKKK COIWAOE OE SILVER
at the present ratio, and is of .opin
ion that the Government stamp is all
that is necesear^i^inake 75 cents
worth of silver tnuMlollar. ff this
be true, f suhiflUPe diiliculty id
and Senator Butler are mistaken Lyeiy «*sih overcome. If the Govern
thinking that we need more cur- 1 ,„ eIlt eun n ,ake 75 cents worth
renev.
MR. STOKESS H )K8E
StokesVj . ar
tali we need * gre;
struck nm its
use. no rei
■qHp*amount! jmU
^^pririli-!^%
of silver a full dollar, there can be
MEon.why it .cannot make pO
worth, or 2o cents wortll, a full
Ixt then all our mints he
work at once, dividing our
tivc and amusing, not to say puerile, j p rwen f s j| ver dollars into two equal
He supjAised a ease: That he had a p ar ^ :l iid coining each into silver
horsy admitted to bo worth $250. dollars. This would give us over
Circumstances forced him to part j $so0,000,000. If after a year or two
with him, but no one in reach has | wt , f oun d still did nui havtjs
available more than $150 to invest in e „ 0 , 1K l,, jvW.nld’ inevitahfy be the . ... . ,i ss
his horse, so he is forced to sell this ^ ^ Zd repeat the proce^! ’“f‘‘T ^ ! " 12
fine $250 horse fer $15(1. This vvpul4 f ^ v ing ns over $1,000,00<),000. I ^ . ' ,q f l)K , ri . l)L .
lie unfortunate certainly,hut it seems „ m mvare thi8< aniads exceedingly '- 1 • V r ti * UilM 1 l<v
.i.i i e .i...... ... . anyone iioint fnllv cstablishea In
to me the natural conclusion to draw g) ] T to ^.|. ril |,i 0 meu. But, 11 is not • . 1 , i i ii •
hi i .u . i ■ ; i. r: , exiienunncand reason, l hold it lo
would he, either that his neighbors a w hit more silly than rl'e pretence 1 1
the Government can, by its stamp,
add 25 jier cent to the value of sil
ver. Ijfet ns hope, however, tliat he
did not explain his position fully on
8 point,-mid that 4i^j|ill soon put
self clearly and JB^uivocally on
side of full vuluWdwTars, whether
of gohl, silvqr or paper.
nrri.Eii ov state hanks.
The other point of Senator But
ler’s speech, to which the friends of
sound nionev may, well take excep-
it:.-- 1 . 1 . ? . 1 * C O i-akf-.. 1 ..a 1— 1,
lion, is his advocacy of State banks
instead of onr present United States
hanking system. Your space will not
allow me to more than touch on this
point at present. I may return to it
on another occasion. To refer again
to Mr. Dulhoun, l Inni Inii ex pres.:-
did not value the hnrae as hi^ h as he
did, or that they had made bad cot
ton crops the year previous. Such a
case hardly affords ground for the
bough
hearing Hjtrth 1 wtfcluaomXhift then*Is not
blic dliestioiis. currency in the conn try. 'J’h
of our free silverites that the Govern
ment stamp can make 75 or 80 cents
worth of si^MLa DJI dollai
nrTiTupro »'
But 1 nTOtHfav^blii - . as
j lie the utter incompetency-of the
State banks to furnish, of themselve i,
a sound and stable currency.” Gen.
\vr0H^n reply^to MRWlke
hb argu- | ^ to p mc ,|, briefly on two jioints
ment somewhat resembles tlmt of a )f ( ; el| Bl|tl ,, r - ii r e p |y. ] may say
farmer neighbor, who insists t&cre is ^ on(wt t)mt j regrtrd his speech
not currency enough in the coiuitry! of f , m .„ slc strategy and
because he has not money to build ^ qq^^ was an Alliance meeting,
him a calf pasture. he it remembered, called by and
TiNKfcHtNO with the finances. presided over by the Alliancepresi-
I have no kind of difficulty in nd-j 0 f t | u . co ,inty. It was in the
mittiug as a general principle that j verv hotbed of Alliance principles,
we ought to have currency enough u|1( , (| f the strongest Alliance
to transact the ordinary business of com ,ti t .s {n the State. I’he Alliance
the country. But who is to decide li(lc Wllrt r ,presented by both* Mr.
THE GOLDEN HARVESTS OF THE
GREAT NORTHWEST.
SOMETHING WORTH READING.
Ad Exekaage Gives sSome Good Ad
vice to tke Farmers.
eedented Crops of Wkeat—
ier Cereals—Lark of Lakor—
TransportatioH Facilities Taxed
to Tkeir Utmost.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 17.—Har
vesting is well under way all over
the Northwest, and the promise of a
big crop is being more than fulfilled.
Instead of averaging fifteen to twen
ty bushels to the acre, wheat is turn
ing out from twenty-five to thirty
bushels, and the increased yield from
an increased acreage makes 150,000-j hup,.,
O00 bushels the minimum product |
fat Ihe Dakotas and Minnesota.
Other grains are close to wheat, oats
especially turning out well. There | With the preseiit" prices of "bc.it,
Farmers are doing considerable
amount of thinking these days. If
they would only conform their ac
tion to their best thoughts, they
would soon see signs of improvement
everywhere. They should not only
think for themselves, but get the
benefits of the best plans ami
thoughts of others. A few days
silent in visiting neighboring farms
awl talking over their methods of
work, eiaming the tools used, com
paring different kinds of seeds and
fertilizers, would be most beneficial
to those who are anxious to learn
ove. . A few good object
lessons are worth a dozen page- of
A ritt m information.
*
and cotton, it is very reasonable
how much is necessary? Is this im
portant decision, on which the pros
perity of all classes depends, to be
made by Tom, Dick and Harry, who
base their opinions on (inch ridicu
lous arguments as the above? Dr
should it not rather be decided on
the experience of the leading and
most civilized nations, including our
own, and on the teachings of lirst-
Stokes, the State president,, ami Mr.
Talbert, the State lecturer. The
other side by Senator Butler \lone.
Y|t, in spite of all these odds against
him, to which J may add the contin
uous attempts to break the force of
his (argument by irrelevant questions,
there can hardly he any question to
any unbiased mind that he came off
decidedly victorious; or, as he ex-
HT.I) tltjn ov
GRAVE
‘d-tjCjktt could know, (lie interpretation
inputting on some of
his language. Would he not at least
become somewhat nervous in his
grave if he could know that his im
mediate successors in the United
States Senate were advocating the
re-establishment of State hanks,
which he held resjwjnsihle for the
great' financial crisis of 18:37? I
would not object to State blinks, as
such, if any means could be found
for keeping them muter proper con
trol, and on a safe, and sonml basis,
We might possibly here in the South
class political economists and finan-1 p rcH ^i j t to Mr. Talbert, “That he
eiers, whose opinions are "'"Dl 1 , drove a sixteen-horse wagon through
something? I hold that the subject, a p. irt o{ th(1 Alliance platform.”
of the currency and-of national linan- j |jj g ( |i- so ,.ti,,n 0 f the sub-treasury
ciering in general is a most impor-, exposure of its uncon-
.)ECe v i
and suhstumas, ; It hac^noi
the l»old and a|gresav^|lioul*ft^|i«
1 had expected; In fact he seemed
quite ready to throw up the plan,
siceept another, and ‘-thank the bird
for it” He started out with the
proposition that there is an insuffi
ciency of cireulatingwiedium .(ciir-
rcucy) for the tninsaction of the or
dinary business of the country and
in this Senator Butler, wrongly, as
I think, concurred with him.
THE PER CAPITA CIRCULATION.
1 have hitherto shown by unques
tionable official figures that the per
capita circulation in the county is
aliout $21, and considerably more
than usual. But here is the latest
official statement from the treasury
department up to July 1 of this
year. According to this statement
our circulatin'* in 1850 was $1135,-
000,000. Amount per capita $13.85.
In 1805 the circulation was $723,-
000,000; amount jier capita $20.82.
This was just at the close of the war
when there was so much paper infla-'
tion, and both gold and silver at a
high premium and thus driven out
of circulation, twenty years later,
in 1881, after we had resumed specie
payments, and our finances had re
turned to a normal condition, the
peculation w as $1,272,000,000;
/HWWWf pc 1 " capita $23.02. On the
(st of January, 1891, the circulation
was about $1,528,000,000; amount
per capita $24.10, lhat is thiehij^
per capita cirdul^on^-as is officially
stated, hi ttaeliistory of tke ftmawri
Since then the circulation had de
clined on account of the heavy ship
ments of gold to Europe during the
spring and early summer, so tliat on
July 1 last the actual circulation
was about $1,500,000,000, and the
amount per capita $23.37. In vew
of such official information at 1 is
disposal, was it not somewhat singu
lar that Senator Butler should be so
far wro» g as to estimate the per cap
ita circulation at only $10? That
Mr. Stokes should lie wrong was to
be expected, for he accepts blindly
the figures of the National Econo
mist, and it fabricates them to suit
its purpose.
Seeing then that onr per capita
circulation is larger than ever in o r 000,000 per auii’tnL And
history, we must iwit«3o one of three are avsur&i there i» no.
taut science, on which the welfare of; gtitutiomility, and many other objec
nations depend?, and tinkering 1 tionuble features, especially for us
it by inexperienced demagogues is i | R . R . in tlK , South, could hardly have
exceedingly dangerous. M e have hail | | )tvn improviil on. His diagnosis of
some quotations of late from Joh’D the ■liseasi.-that afflicts our farmers
C. Calhonn on this subject and the | a)u . i a t )or ii)^ classes, and is in a
Niilioual Ejainoinist. b!^bceu pleased ] |irgt . im.-^ure, if not nminly, instru-
ogizehf n very as ant Hi: nion t a i in keeping them i>oor, he at-
^ ji.Hw’ibuted to the ri; ht source, that is
fully concnr with tb*' l0 unjust and burdensome tariff.
Economist and strongly commend toj Thig it i^afte wAer ,ha; ,all tJiil «gtld give us? \X
conskleratitRi the following utterance | t i lue tW ikip^tWlA.ibiyltc, timst
THE KKITTa AND STOKEREri AND TAL-
UEHTS
with their wild and vague financial
theories, to establish for us a State
derive one advantage therefrom over
the national banks, that is a more
equal distribnlion of the currency.
I say might possibly.
But in the present state of the
country, with so many visionary
financial schemes floating in the air,
it could hardly lx- regarded other
wise than the extreme of folly to
give up a sound and safe financial
system, such as Don. Butler admits
the national banking system to be,
to return to the old system of Stitte
hanks, which has Ix-en tried and
found wanting, ami which our great
est statesman has pronounced “ut
terly incompetent to furnish a sound
and stable currency.”
What kind of hanking system does
Gen. Butler suppose the present,
“dominant element” in our State
mild he lx- willing
is great trouble being experienced
for labor to handle the immense crop! (lJ , SU p |X)a . (liat t()t i ou r ;in ;ier.-
and the railroads are hard at work | W()ul(1 rcllutv their acreage of cotton
preparing to handle thegiaiu. ^ 1"' t and increase the production of corn
ack of storage facilities will compel j a|1( | gIlla |j g ra i Ui But the farmer
great majority of the farmers to| who p| :l „ts, year after year, accord-
rse of their grain soon, and trails-, j llg ru ]ing prices will always lx- a
ition facilities will lx- taxed to
their utmost. "’he weather for
harvesting is all f hat could be de
sired.
CHOI’S SOU) IN ADVANCE.
Fort Doihie, Ja., Aug. 17.—'i’he
farmers of Northwestern Iowa are
x‘uixeu 1,1 1 p;irti;il, if not a complete failure.
This plan necessitates a lack of sys
tem and this leads to slouchy work,
improvident habits and a deteriora
tion of the soil. The man who runs
everything in corn and small grain
when cotton is low, will live from
besieged by an army of agents of j hand to mouth and never be iude-
Eastern elevators, commission houses, | p wn j 01l h
etc., who wish to contract for all 1
threshold and unlhresthoid crops of
N.'pt'Mnber and Octolwr delivery.
Lower prices than thoie of last year
are offered on the strength of the
bountiful harvest. Many of the
*
sk *
Fa mu rs, alxne all meu, need set
tled, established principles. These
should be the result of their own ex
perience, united with the best sug-
thev can get from their
gestions
fanners have thus sold their crops in He who settles down
of Mr. Calhoun on the subject °f: drains the purses of the iijasscs of
the currency:. “Nothing,” he tl*jpeople and empties their con-
~ ^ ^ ““In iheikurt
‘can be uwiro de|iciit6 tha
rency. Nothin/* cuk nxpii^e to U
nioic delicately handled. It ought
never to he tampcretl with nor
touched until it becomes absolutely
necessary. Untried experiments
jnstly deserve ccnshre.” These are
wordj of wisdom spkoken by South
Carolina’s greatest statesman, with
which 1 fully concur. \Vhy sayeth
the Economist, and Dr. Stokes, of
whom I was speaking? Docs it not
‘•squelch o t” the sub-treasury and
all such visionary schemes of finan
ciering?
THE WILDCAT .STATE BANKS.
One other jxiiiit of Mr. Stokes’s
argument I wish to notice. He in
sists that there is not enough gold
Mid silveFiu the etfi(Alry 5 « U J flj
a Inisis for currency, and therefore
somcthingelse must lie found to serve
the purpose. Well, the Alliance of
our day cannot lay claim to having
originated this idea. I find Mr. Cal
houn very emphatically answering
this same prenteucc way buck in
1837, during the great financial
W 1
not into the national treasury
but into the pockets of the favored
few. This it is that makes a few
advance, hut the majority have heard
of I he shortage in European coun
tries, and will hold their grain for
higher prices. It is tl ought that
the hulk of the crops in this vicinity
will not be marketed until a month
lat^i - than usual this year.
AN IMMENSE OAT CHOI’.
Cedar Hai-ids, la., Aug. 17.—
Never before has Iowa har-
vesteed such a crop of cereals as it
will this year. The oat ’crop especi
ally is immyhpc. It will easily aver
age sixty to senveuty bushe's and in
(nany places will go lot) bushels to
theatre. In addition to this, oats
will weigh, from thirty-four to forty
pounds -to the bushel. This great
crop is causing railroad officials no
little trouble. All the railroads are
building a large number of grain
cars, in order to be prepared for the
business when the movement of grain
sets in.
Frankness.
that plan as a fixed principle ami
pursues it ten years, will certainly
find that he has a Ix-tter dwelling
house, better stock, better barns and
stables, improved land, a happier
(family, and if he has anything to do
with land mortgages he will be- at
the right end of them. M e call fm-
volunteers to enlist in this plan for
life. Who will he the first' to send
in their name?
— -*t»~ -
Books in Use in Ihe Public Schools.
In answer to many inquiries con
cerning Ixxtks to he used in public
schools—the County Boards adopted
the following in 1888 for live years:
Appleton’s Headers,
I'upplunentary Reader .
“ Reading Chart,
David ion’s History of : • C,
Barnes’ I 'rimary U. C.
“ Brief ••
General History.
Maury's Series of Geography.
Heath’s IVogressive Outline Maps.
Robinson’s Rudiments of Arillinie-
tic*.
Robinson's i’raetical Arithme
tics.
Reed and Kellogg’s Scries of
Grammar.
M oreester 1 lictionary.
Harper’s Copy Books.
, Swinton’s Word I’rinie-r,
“ “ Book,
“ “Analysis.
SOUND SENSE OX THE SUB-THE1S-
URY.
A Uaterhlsni for the Advocates of
the Scheme-( an thi'j
Answer!
I’ickens county has been gettinv u
pret ry good dose of suh-treiiSTirv
tore. Now we Woiltd tiki-''!|y8 fi,
pie of I’ickens to honestlv ask them
selves and answer a few qiiestions:
First, is it true tliat they haw been
growing poorer every since ihe wa^.
Do they not know men w hose eo, vV
dition lias been steadily improving
ever since tile war? ifavo the\ n-T
in every neighborhood farmers •.vfn’
hi'-' e made and k< pi money hv f.v'
im e tho war?
e ui.\ till- ovik ra! eoo.li
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coloivd h-ii.r.
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criptions?
ilow manv of ;
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i.ivy not - ,1
‘'oi!”. imp
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Krusi’s Series of drawing
Wa
hanking system ? To do so would
millionaires on the one side and mil- he. ( 0 bring on our State something
lions of paupers on the other. And | worse than the wildest cat schemes
yet when Senator Butler referred to. 0 f Arkansas in the ante-bellum day.:,
that most outrageous hit of sectional I Wc would have worse than an Ar-
Be frank with the world. Frank
ness is the child of honesty and cour
age. Say just what you mean (o do
and partisan malignity, the imposi
tion of over 100 per cent duty on
cotton ties, there was one man in
the audignev so ineyprgsyi h 1 tujud
as to e4y out, “Dh, wc* don’t Lid
that?”
gentin
crisis just as sinm as wild
financial theories had had time to
bring it alxmt.
No, Senator Butler, you are a con
servative man, and as such you must
surely see, on re licet ion, that it would
A bad break on THE money qi'ES-1 | w exceedingly dangerous to attempt
, tion. , i so imjxn tant a change in our fiuan-
But excellent as Cen. Ikutler’s i (iffil system, for the present at least,
speech was in the main and well-i When the prevailing popular frenzy
smk as it was to ncoomplish Up ] has run its course, and its leaders
purpose, there were two important
on every occasion, and take it for
grunted that yon dietm to do what
is right. If a friend asks of you a
favor, you should grant it if it is
reasonable. If it is not, tell him
plainly why you cannot. You will
wrong him and yourself by equivoca
tion of any kind. Never do a wrong
thing to make a friend or to keep
one; the man who requires you to do
so is dearly purchased, and at a
sacrifice. Deal kindly and firmly
with all men amt von will find it the
on
this bed rock: “I will raise ill I the
home supplies possible, and make
cotton the surplus, or money crop”
will succeed, and high prices will
not disturb him greatly. The man
who starts out on a journey to a far
distant ‘own and takes the advice of
I every man he meets, or lakes no -mic’s
[advice, and changes his mind every
morning, will have a hard road to
travel. So with the farmer, who
changes his crops to suit some whim
or because the price of this or that is
low, will not accomplish much.
*
* *
Our farmers are not going to he
governed by Alliance resolutions, or
lx- dictated to by cotton growers’ con
ventions. Some of them may adopt
the plan of cutting down their cotton
acreage next spring in accordance
with resolutions passed by a conven-|
lion of farmers; but if about the first
of April cottoi should jump to ten
c-nts all the resolution! would he
knocked in the head and the cotton
seed would go in the ground as usual.
Unless the farmer settles down on
some general plan of planting and
sticks to that year after year, unless
he can change to a better, he will
just drift with the tide and do as he
has been doing in the past.
points in jt to which I am sure (be
friends of sound |ti)4 honest money,
Democrats as (veil as _ J,
will generally take- exception, The
first of these was his acceptance
have I een relegated to welDmerited
obscurity, it may lx- well 1 either to
modify our national hankiug.systein,
so as to make it better meet the
’popular wants, as 1 have little doubt
could he done, or lo replace it by
crash of that year. This crash, he | f or i had all the time presumed that
it remembered, was brought on by |j e ra nfced among sound money
without qualification as to ratio of | something Mter. But for the pre-
the Alliance jdaulk .Tree comiigy i^unt it is Ix-tter to let well enough
of silver. Ifis >lt#alil^is^ *one. At^astsuck isJhc-oj.in^n
to me, as I know it was to others, j <‘f j
Gen. Greely to Vbh the Soitth'
iianc
e wil
uks of thS pen
ry scbeHtgiSf on
a short time bring on us a still worse
one, if put in execution. There was
more reason, however, for such a pre
tence then than in our day. From
policy which wears (he Ix-st. Allow
all, do not appear to others what you
are not. If you have any fault to
find with any diic, tell him,,, not
others, of what yon complain, '■’here
is no more dangerous cxix-riim-nt
than that of undertaking to be one
thing to a man’s face and another l>e-
hind his buck. Me should live, act
and speak out of door as the phrase
iA s$y and do what we are willing
* *
Legislation is in vain when it
conies to taking charge of a man’s
crop and stating what he shall plant
| and how much. Major Harry llnm-
; nioud, of Beech Island, who thinks
| much, suggests that the- remedy is
I for each cotton runner to take out a
: license in February of each year and
1 ;t.
Lupton’a F.leiiients of Sciviitifiv
Agriculture.
Smith’s Primer of Physiology and
Hygeine.
Smith’s—The Huimiu body and
its Health.
And the following was adopted by
the State Board of Examiners: —
“Any teacher who, while receiving
public school funds, uses lext-books
in the course of study prescribed for
public schools that are not on (In
state list, shall forfeit his pav from
public school fund for the time he
uses them. Any teacher may refuse
to te.ich any pupil who is not sup
plied with the text-books prescribed
for said school. Pupils passing from
one school to anolh -r m-.isl conform
to the list adopted forthe latter.
The Trustees, or, in theit default,
the County Board of Examiners
shall enforce these provisions. Tin-
County 'School Commissioner shal!
withhold approval of pay certificate
of any teacher not conforming there
to; and the teacher persisting in
violat’iig the same shall lu- deprived
of his certificate of qualification.”
CONVERTING THE HEATHEN.
A Class of Celestials at Trinity
Sun day School.
Who would ever think of seeing
“heathen” Chinamen in a Sunday
school class, praying and singing the
sacred songs of onr own prayer
books? This very spectacle can lx-
seen on Sundays by a visit to the
Sunday school room of Trinity
Methodist church on (lusclt slri-et,
where a Chinese class lias been form
ed and is in good condition.
Mrs. M. D. M’ightnian first con
ceived the idea and set to work in
■September, 1881), to orgmize a eki. o.
She secured six pupils at first and
to ! cetn
r-. r d- iTri-.-
Itii
i ( linn*
•1 Kvh'
enn tig-,;
-f oat imv.
; Ii*
•ami a
id suo-
treasurv
would he
H: ^
(•ill’'
in ti,
• Full ey
*1\ 1;
ai-. who Inis
cotton <•
m get mo
Uc V
uit her
hv sel 1-
ing or 1
y bon-o"
i* 1 ©
on thc
Maple.
Tic jiiii
-h. Hi- ii:
‘A
ID.) j!<»(
r men
need to
x helped,
i- i
: til
imme-r.
Tie- ad
i-tr. as ar-,
voi;
1(1 !;<**
lend on
liens or
cim:!"l mi
n-tir:
liV.*- i >i* 1
ersona!
i redit.
It would
;us
ont «>:
bu;i-
ness th
■ men
U> (1
>.
■U tin
alliauee
stores ant
fV(
■ ha up’s
would
deal onl
v for cash.
Woul
1 anybnuv
w
iivlpnl
by the
land loa
Ii scheme
>11 i.
hose who have
land air
-ady imirt
•jatn
-d or 'v
lio own
land ai
d desire
o ]>
rr.iwg)
i ;; 111
lend at
higher ra
It*'
o i iieir
neigh-
hors?
Woul
I liol the
a!»i
lity to
money >
u land at
two
per eei
i make
m-n wb
a have la
k1 :
''Id it
tig!) hr.
Would
I no! mak
* i L,
iiarder
•>!' i I;-.-
poor in: 1
n to Imv
V
Sapp.
I’i.-ki
ns
County
grows
10,00(1
lilies of <••.
1 ton
id $40
a/bale.
When t
hat is ko1(
Ol
n rigid
1 1U1"
sloo.ooo in thi-
hands of
j’iekeiis
people.
Supp-i-e
till
; all u
Sed illr
su’l >-trea
sury, dr:
win
g univ
eighty
per cent
. ot the Vi
!uc.
Tha
t would
pat oni
- ;>S-20,0'!0 in
Hie Li
uto.s of
! ’ick'-ns
\V'*H
Idn’; ii
? And
interest
mu! insur
inn.
would
have to
be take-,
from tha
Siiii-;
run.-:nrv ;
i! vo
•are.- t
-II you
their s
•hfim* wf
mill
make
money
more a
mmlimt.
Ho
do
hey g« r
over these figure
J oi
make
eight-.
per een
. ns miuMi
as :
■inmli'
•d? Ask
them.
If your cotton rose in price von
would lx- winner. If it went down
you would be loser. Did you ever
try holding cotton for a rise? IIov.
did you come out?
by the past.
if every
gaged now
Julige the future
man whose land is niort-
!w
lommeu money iron; tr.e
government on it, who would get
that money? The holder of the
mortgage, the innn to whom the
money is due. Would von get a
dollar of it? How? Does the niort-
gagi- holder owe you anything?
Have you any tiling lie wants to buv?
Do von reckon jn- is going to be so
flush with it that he’ll give you a
few hats fiill'? The lain, holiter who
is under inoiugoge wiii have his -deli!
transf'-nvii troi:! Hu- ;er;.. .. l.-nder
to the govt-t-mm-ni. Ins lunv . xi-nded
d Ids iut-.-n-
'X
Gen. Greely, the Chief of the
United States Weather Bureau, and
(hi- Coiunmmjilr o^ f)ie fatnoiig North
Pole exploring expedition, has con
sented to visit the Southerp Exposi
tion at 'Raleigh, N. C., and deliver
an pad^QrfH$J04xf|is$$un \0o
open October letauiii doses I teeein-
imocrats alongside of sueji meu as
lond, Bayard, Caflirie and
pton. i know, of eourse, that
he hail voted with the frek eilveHteS
in the United States Senate last ses
sion, as did all the Democrats, I lx--
lieve, except Mcl’hersou of New J* r-
the passage of the first Coinage Act 1 ^.y a)ll \ (j rav 0 f Dek-ware. But this ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^
in 1792 up to 1812, a ixriod of fifty was miderstoiKl to lx- for the purpose ''|^ pitR. ^^Gem
years, only 1,859,440 silver dollars 0 f dyfeating tho obnoxious force bill, |j w
had Ix-en coined, fraction il currency HU( i nu ( iW n test of the views of the wi) ,
not incliidixl, this too, lx- it remem- individual Senators on the free cum
bered, with entire free coinage. And ago question. Senator Carbu
yet we are assured the silver dollar vokxl, though he is a pronmwaM ^i
was Hie “dollar of our daddies,” ami ponent of the paying our sUier kings j The August* report of the cot-
that we should reverence it as such, of the Rockies 20 to 25 jmw cent ton makes the average 88.9. That is
Now we have over 400,000,000,000 above fhe marketSflfle of i flu-ir sil- aLmt the same it was July 1st. In
of these dollars outstanding—or rath- ver., nutor Hampton iM the same, some States the crop has improved,
er stored away in the vaults of tin- though he is tit'opposition while iu others (f it lias fallen back,
treasury—and this cuortnoin anio-mt to 75 cents silver dollars. But it North • f’aroMn*' reports 75, which h
increasing .tt the rate of ov-r $‘>0.- would see-n from Senator BnHer’s: the Ifixveat. Mississippi leads with
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t
oiild be known and read by all
men. It is not only best as a matter
of principle, hut as a matter of
policy.
Thf Acmr Reached.
y
pay $1.50 to the county treasury for
each acre planted in cotton that
year. A fine of $50.00 per acre is to
be paid for each acre in excess of the
number he pays a license for. If
such a plan was practical or con
stitutional, it .smacks too much of
paternalism and takes away all op
portunity for the assertion of one’s
independence. If the government is
to do the thinking and planning for
the farmer, it will not bo long until
he is sunk to a servile and helpless
couditi m.
**
has now ten in the classjseveru! other, j .,j| j-p-lii
ivuue
i
iiat
t!)
eur renev
Alabama Insists of her “Kor.i
Gem,” Georgia of her “RattH'nake,”
into Marlboro can Inuist of her “.VHi-
ittii-e Jumbo,” the acme of all water
melons. Mr. D. C. Odom, one of tie
1891. Gen. tireto^ fill (la-, farnim ou thc Diver, had on
an interesting address, and it| q i;lii
x-a great treat for those who 1
;> fortunate as to lx- present at
exposition at that time.
still
eno if
.<c I’ro.peft
h after
! exhibition here Monday afternrxm
one of these favorites that weighed
just tjO I In. It was grown Xm his farm
live miles M'est of town, where he
has some of the finest melons ever
made in the county. All who saw
this melon say it was really and
truthfully a “Jumbo” melon. Who
has any Ix-tter? Talk out.—Marlboro
Democrat.
of evl-ry million jx'ople hi (he
n-1 T>xas follows with 92. S^iith ; world, 800 arc blind, aito the olh'.r
iliuiv^con;^ tl^t. ! ytii^oo conhut see their own faults, i mieal farmer, who settles down
The countiyisiu greitneed of
intolligeut, iudejx-ndent fanners,
who will not be driven about by
every wind of strange doctrine, and
who will not blindly follow resolu
tions of conventions and leading edi
torials, unless they are hacked up by
common senee. If Ihe fanners of
upper Carolina will hangup Ibis
motto amt ;;i i up to it they will soon
triumph; “Home supplies first; cot
ton as a surplus crop.” That means
that the farmer # will raise his own
wheat, oats, corn, sorghum, hay, cat
tle, cotlts, garden truck, fruit, and,
in fact, everything that this climate
will produce. M'hen he plans for
that he will find that he has about
k-n to tiittc-'-n acres for cotton to|
each horse. The. industrious, ecQno-
ou
also were in attendance, but a lew
have left the city who were pupils.
There are ten teachers iu the school
atpresent, one for each pupil. They
seem really interested and anxious to
learn, and the teachers are greatly
encouraged at their progress. They
are taught principally the Bible, but
arc likewise instructed in ,a primer
having the English words and i a »j 01 . ( i p, r i.sk bavin
Chinese hieroglyphics in parallel
columns.
They are also instructed in sing
ing. They usually sing their verses
in their native tongue, sometimes in
English. Tho liberality of the
pupils is very conimemlable, and
during the existence of the class to
this date they have contributed
$95.85 between them for various
benevolent causes.
In the language of one of the
teachers, “M e believe that if we
are faithful in teaching tn-.-se men
the way of salvation, with God’s
blessing they will teach their own
people and bring them from darkness
to light.”—News and Courier.
lilt ■bn ;
ot
; rain all !o-
gether, but how w ill it help Hie free
land owner or non land owner?
And you man who work occasion
ally or regularly for wages: Is it not
to your interest to have the dollar
put in your hand a sure, olid, full
dollar, worth one huitoted cents at
the store or anywhere else, uoiv and
twenty years hence, if von enu lav
by a dollar now am! then? <'an von
your dollar you
have worked for discounted ten or
twenty or thirty cents, or to find
when the rainy day von have provi
ded for comes that your dollar is
good only for half a dollar, although
you have done a dollar’s worth of
work, put a dollar’s worth of your
time and muscle in it? Don’t you
know that wages are always ;he last
thing to rise? I >on’t you ' know you
and your family will suffer if you
are earning, only the same dollar you
now cam while’prices are kiting'up
and your dollar will pay for only half
the food and eiothes it buys now?
These questions limy he' taken, an
swered and thought over in other
places In-sides Fickc’is.
For every man who knows more
than he tells, there are fifty who tell
more than they know.
Truthfulness is a corner-stoue ,in
|character, and it'nut lirmly laid in
youth there will ever after tv a weak
"pot ia the found*(ten.
J. 0. Wynn, business agent of
the (State Alliance of Georgia, is said
to lx- about $30,000 behind in his
accounts. He gave a lalij Unto for
$50/(OU, so liiai his creditors will
Ins.- nothing. He said he used the
money to pay lus privai.- debts, hut
Hie general niqiivs.-ioii ; Hint he got
on tin wrung ■id' .-I’ -ire-ton tion i-
futures,
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m.,
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