The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 24, 1897, Image 3
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I VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM.
K Budget of Palmetto Happenings
Arranged for the Fireside.
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A BRILLIANT METEOR SEEN.
History of Edgefield County--Brlght
Prospects--WolTord College Grad|
. nates.
The F.egis.er of the l?th says: A
brilliant meteor was seen to tlash across
the western sky last night about 8:?0.
Those who saw it said that it api>eared
to be about as big a* a man's head and
was a most beautiful spectacle, lighting
ur> the streets in great briiliaury.
the eieotrie lights being temporarily
out. The meteor passed over the city
hall tower apparently and then disappeared.
Of the same date, the Spartanburg
Herald says: A large meteor
passed with great brilliancy over the |
the southwestern heavens last night at
8:40. An observer, who had a plain
view, says the rirst appearance was attended
with a cloud looking like a small
cvclone. and quickly breaking through
this, the burning meteor shot quickly
across at least one quarter of the heavens
attended with a halo Tesembling
that which surrounds the moon on
some hazy nights. The sight was a
treat to those who were in a position to
see its ingress and egress of the atmosphere.
The people of Troy. Abbeville county,
saw a brilliant meter going southwest.
It exploded, followed by a
thundering noise lasting several seconds.
Negroes were terribly frightened
and went to praying. Sparxs seemeu
to fly &om it and strike in the trees. It
was* as light as day and people were
terribly frightened. When the meteor
exploded with a report like a blast in a
quarry the air was tilled with thousands
of sparks.
, The 16th marked the close of the
commencement exercises of Wofford
College. This also ended one of the
most prosperous and flourishing epochs
in the history of this seat of learning.
i> The exercises were deToted to the senior
class. It numbers eighteen, the following
receiving diplomas: W. M. Connor,
Jr., Charleston; E. L. Cutler,
Orangeburg; W. Boyd Evans, Marion;
J. P. Inabinit, Orangeburg; W. A.
Medlock, Laurens, K. C. Newton,
Marlboro; G. T. Push, Newberry; T.
Mr Baysor, N. N. Sallay, M, L. Smith,
Orangeburg; P. H. Stoll, Abbeville;
R S. Truesdale, New Hanover; H. A.
C. Walker, Dorchester; T. O. Epps,
Williams ton; W. A. Hudgins, Anderkaon;
T. L. Manning, Marion; J. C.
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The final exercises wound up with the
address to the alnmni by Capt. W. E.
Bennett, after which a grand banquet
was served at alumni halL
It has been calculated that if the
intention of the State officers not to
borrow money to meet the deficit this
summer is carried out, that the saving
in salaries of all State officers of every
class will amount to $11,744.38. For
two months this will be about $25,000,
leering a balance of $75,000 to be raised
before taxes come in. Exactly how
this is to be gotten up has not yet been
stated. It is a serious problem, however,
and deserves and will receive the
serious consideration of the officials.?
The Register.
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Hon. John Malcomb Johnstone, a;
former citizen of Newberry, who received
the appointment of consul general
at Pernambnco, Brazil, from the
Cleveland administration three years
ago, is at home on a leave of absence.
Mr. Johnstone is quite a voung man
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ana ue u&> sucu geuvrui
tion to both the Brazilian and English
people that the McKinley administration
trill retain him in service.
President D. B. Johnson, of Winthrop
College was in Colombia last 1
week, so says the Register, preparing
(for the printing of the catalogue for
the college for next year. He sots that
the prospects for the college are bright
indeed, and that already he has received
numerous applications, indicating
that the attendance trill be larger
next session than last The college
trill open again on Sept 22.
A correspondent to the State savs:
"Xewberry college is not the first denominational
college in Sonth Carolina
to open its doors to women. Farm ail
university tras opened to females in
1893. The catalogue of that institution
for 1893-94 has the names of Misses
Brunner, of Sumter, Johnson and
Manly, of Greenville, as students of
that session. Their number has increased
since then."
Mr. John A. Chapman, the author of
Chapman's "School History of South
Carolina," Chapman's "Book of.
Poems," "The Annals of Newberry"
and many other books, has just had !
published the history of Edgefield;
county, a book containing 528 pages, j
The work of storing ammunition at
the new fort on Sullivan's Island is j
about to begin. It is understood that
a large shipment, consisting of twenty |
Iwitps afrirr<?r?otin?T 1? rUS) Tionnds is
now eu route and will be immediately
placed in the magazines of the recently
completed fort.
Florence experienced last week a
cloudburst. 3ome parts of her streets
were completely covered by water, being
six inches deep on the oavements.
The oldest residents say it was the
heaviest rain ever seen there.
The peach crop this year is said to be j
a sad disappointment to llidge Spring ;
ahippers.
The Cotton States Fertilizer company,
oi Charleston, which proposed
to organize with a capital stock of
$300,000. has filed notice with the Secretary
of Mate that it has decreased its
capital stock to3!.4S0.
Governor Ellerbe has received a telegrarn
from President Craighead, of
lemson College, saying that malarial
fever was in the college among the students,
but he did not think it was
spreading.
The Enterprise cotton mills at
Orangeburg is nearing completion.
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MAY CAI'SE TROUBLE.
White Operatives of Charleston
Mills to Issue an Appeal. I
Mill people in Columbia, where
there are four mills.and in Spartanburg
aud Greenville, where the cotton mill
industry is so large, are greatly concerned
in the outcome of the struggle
in Charleston between the discharged
employees and the management which
l>o? ?Mit in niicrn lnhnr
The Charleston white operatives propose
printing 15.000 dodgers containing
a statement of their grievances and to
distribute thorn all over the State and
to newspapers in every part of the country.
The dodger is addressed to the operatives
of the State and country. Its object
is ostensibly to get the sympathy '
! of all wage earners atul others who may i
lend a kindly aid to the cause of the I
o;>erati ."es. The o|>eratives hoj^e to enlist
their sympathy to the end that the
mill and its products may suffer iu con- j
sequence of their displacement and the <
substitution of negro labor.
There is much sympathy expressed
for them among the laboring classes, !
[ but bevond these classes very little
| symmthy is heard. There are. however, '
! more prominent people who think ihe
| mill made a mistake iu adopting negro j
j labor.and do not hesitate to not onlysay
I so. but to add that the mill will l?e
forced later on to come back to white
! labor The willingness of the man- !
agement to mix the labor is condemned.
The mill is willing toemplov and has
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white operatives, who are retained
chiefly to the end that the negroes maybe
instructed. It appears from the
letter of the operatives that this willingness
and desire to mix the labor is
what especially aggravates them.
It is generally conceded that if
the experiment is successful in Charleston
it will be the death knell to white
ootton mill operatives in the South.
It has been charged by the management
of the Charleston mills that the
white operatives did not work for the
best interest of the company. When
the mill was taxed to its capacity they
would remain away from work. They
are declared to be "worthless and unreliable.
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CAN'T BREAK BUNDLE.
Governor Eilerbe Makes a Ruling on
the Liquor Question Again.
Governor Eilerbe now holds that the
dispensary regulations must be complied
with bv original package agents;
that agents must directly represent
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UX UlSUiicxo, ouu uvt ucmuqic
who handle their goods; that liqaor
cannot be stored for sale in this State.
On these grounds he ordered the arrest
of Pinkussohn.
The Governor further maintains that
as Judge Simonton in his decision used I
the word manufacture throughout and
no where said the dealers in the products
of manufacturers had the right
to establish agencies in this State, he
would not permit Pinkussohn to act as
agent of dealers, as he is trying to do.
Pinkussohn is willing to test this very
point, claiming to have legal advice
that he has the right to act as agent for
dealers as well as manufacturers.
He also put a new ruling on the
State's view of the powers of an original
package agent, and it is probably
on this line that the contest will be
made in court
He says that an agent can take orders
for shipment of liquor from other
States for delivery in the original package,
but that if he opens a warehouse
and store liquors in this State for delivery
ui>on sale, he becomes as much
subject to the State's police power as
citizens of this State who might attempt
to manufacture 01 sell liquor.
l ne uovernor, upon consuitauon
with Attorney General Barber, is
determined to maintain these grounds
until a further judicial deliverance:
That alcoholic liquors cannot be
stored in South Carolina for sale in
this State.
That the original package cannot be
broken and its component quantities
sold separately.
That manufacturers only, and not
dealers, can be represented in this
State by agents.
That the dispensary regulations must
be obeyed by original package agents
as well as by dispensers.
DON'T WANT ATHLETICS.
Furman's Board of Trnstees Bar Outdoor
Sports at Greenville.
The trustees of Fur man University
have put a stop to the students engaging
in intercollegiate athletic contests.
A resolution forbidding participation
has been passed almost unanimously.
Furtuan has always been a leader in
athletics in this State and for many
years in succession held the football
championship.
In a game at Greenville with Clemson
last fall a Furmau player, one of the !(
Iwst man nf tha I'nivarsitr had several i
ribs broken and suffered severe injuries,
from which he has never fully recovered.
This fact, together with the reI>ort
that a South Carolina College student
died from injuries received while ;
playing football, had much to do with
the* action of the trustees. ,
The trustees will raise money for a
complete gymnasium so that the students
will not be without means of ex- J
ercise.
PINKUSSOHN MAKES A BOND I
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Test Case on Original Packages la
Being Made.
J. S. Pinkussohn, who was arrested ,
in Charleston for selling liquor in the j
original unbrokea package, has been
bound over to the court of general ses- ^
sions for violating the dispensary law
and maintaining a common nuisance.
His bond was fixed at $200.
Circuit Judge Bonnet issued arestraining
order against Pinkussohn j
preventing him from continuing to sell, i
The store is closed.
The State is to make this a test case i ]
and it is understood that habeas corpus 1
proceedings will be held before Judge *
Simonton to get the case in the United 1
States court <
The other original package shops are 1
still doing business in Charleston. 1
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Ml'KDKKKK PAUE CONFESSES.
Serving a Life Sentence, He Tells of
the Butchery of Carson.
Every one is familiar with most of
the facts about the foul butchery of J.
; C. Carson in Spartanburg by Green,
his wife's paramour, assisted by young
j Page. There has always been some
doubt as to how the killing was actually
' done. Mrs. Carson was convicted as
; aec?"-sory before the fact and is now iu
| the State prison; Page was likewise
convicted with recommendation to
I mercy and is at present serving a life
sentence. Green's attorneys are trying
still to save his neck.
Below is given a copy of the confession
that Page has just made:
"I. John L. Page, now in South
Carolina penitentiary, do hereby make j
a confession of the killing of J. C. Car- i
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"Question. Did you help kill Car-j
son?
"Answer. Yes; Green and I killed .
him.
"When we first entered the room '
Green grabbed Cars:?n asleep ami j
struck at him with a razor and missed ;
him and cut the pillow. He started to j
rise when I struck him three times with !
an axe handle. That stunned him and I
Green cut his throat; and as Green cut j
his throat he fell back on the bed and
Green said blow out the light and we
will <*nt up the ted, but decided not to
do it In the scuffle Groen cut himself
on the side. We theu started for
Green's house. I pulled oft my socks
and threw them in the river as we
crossed, but Green kept his on. It
was Green's hand print on the bed
sheet and my foot prints on the door.
When we got to Green's house I was
too drunk to remember much more,
but remembered Green taking
mine and his bloody clothes and
going towards the spring to hide
them. He threw the broken razor in the
river, oqi ma ine ciuuie> uc?u iu? >
spring. I had on a suit of Green's |
clothe*. The ax ? handle was also thrown
in the river. Green was to pay me 5100
for helping him, bat did not do so.'
Mrs. Car sou told the truth in her confession
and I corroborate every word
she says. It has weighed heavily on
my mind ever since and I now feel a
burden off of my mind. He and Mrs.
Carson persuaded me a long time before
I consented. I went back and looked
for the clothes that Green had hid. but
oould not find them. I was led into the
matter under the influence of liquor,
and sorely repent the same. But I am
thankful to the jury who tried me and
my lawyers who worked so faithful for
me, for recommending me to the mercy
of the courts, for it was an awful crime,
but now that I have told it I feel free.
So saying good-bye to the people of
Spartanburg county, I am respectfully,
"John L. Page.
' Witness: W. A. Nkaii. "
A GARRISON FOR THE ISLAND.
As Soon as the Forts are Completed
lOO Men Will Garrison Them.
A Washington special of the 15th, ;
says: Twelve commissioned officers
and one hundred enlisted men will oon- 1
stitnte the garrison of troops ordered to ,
the new fortifications on Sullivan's
Island. This information was obtained
today by Senator McLaurin direct from
Gen. Rugbies, the adjutant general of
the army. The junior Senator is
greatly interested in adding to the attractions
of Sullivan's Island as a sea- i
side resort, and he fully appreciates the .
imiortance of having a garrison ;
stationed there as early as practicable. (
He called at the war department this
morning to consult Geo. Ruggles on
the subject The General stated that '
it was not customary for the de- i
partment to give out information of
that nature until the official order is '
promulgated. Senator McLaurin urged t
him '?o make an exception in this in- !
stance owing to the deep interest felt :
by the citizens of Charleston. Gen. )j
Ruggles yielded and stated that there ! j
will be two batteries of fifty men and
six officers to each battery. They will 11
be ordered to report for duty as soon as :,
the general in chief of engineers noti- j
ties the adjutant general that the fortifications
are completed.
Senator McLauren says his interest
in the matter was awakened last year
when he made his first visit to Sullivan's
Island, so says the News and
Courier. He was deeply impressed |
with its unequaled facilities, as a seaside
resort and theadditional attractions {
which will surely follow the establish- '
meat of a military garrison. The for- I,
mal ooeniner of the season on the Island .
last Sunday was alluded to by Senator j |
McLauxin, and he expressed the hope j
that the troops would be ordered there j (
before the season closed. Gen. Buggies j
again stated that the garrison would be [,
established as soon as the fortifications j (
were finished.
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WHITE MAN WHIPPED
By "Regulators" and Then Compelled j
to Leave the County. <
Jim Soott, (white) who lives on the J
farm of Earle, below Greenville, west
of Traveler's Best, west of the city, and 1
while there grossly insulted the wife of 1
John Marchbanks, a prominent farmer ]
in that section.! About 200men collect- (
ed and rode down to Scott's house, i
took him out in the yard, stripped him i
and gave him an unmerciful beating, :
and then served notice on him that if 1
he did not leave the county in twenty- \
four hours he would be lynched. A ]
guard remained to see that he obeyed j
the order. He left the same night * <
Scott was a .former resident of this i
rounty, but has lived for several years j
in Texas, where he gdt demoralized. ? <
The Begister.
"THE PENSIONS."" !
The Soldiers Will Not Get Their
Cheeks Until Au<rust.
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Comptroller General Norton states
that he cannot have the pension lists
ready before August 1. That is the
earliest possible time at which the lists
san be afirarged and prepared. The
rounty lists have to be sent back almost
laily for correction, but the number has
ieen materially increased. In this conaeotion
it may be stated that the pension
fund is $100,000, but is provided
for bv the appropriation and the consul
plated deficiency will have no effect
an the pensioners. They will get their
noney as soon as the lists are properly
nade out ?The Register.
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1. I R. IlllU'S
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Speech Before the Senate on
Bounties on Agricultural Exports.
DON'T WANT FARMERS ROBBED.!
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Everything Consumed by Our People j
Should Be Produced by Them? j
Want an Equal Showing. j
The following is a synopsis of a
si>eech of Hon. B. R. Tillman in the :
United States Senate. June 10th, on \
Bounties on Agricultural Exports:
''The tariff is net a principle unless I
it be that it rests on principle. It is j
merely a qustion of policy as to '
how the Government shall derive <
its revenue. It has been talked about ;
so much and so long and so ably that I
can not expect to present any new phase |
of it; but I propose, as one humble j
representative of a State on this door, j
to give some views that may be mine ;
only, but which appear to me to be
those which should obtain in govern- j
ing men who come here to frame [
tariff.
"What is the true doctrine of tarifl
taxation, the American doctrine, the
patriotic doctrine, the statesman's doctrine?
I for one stand ready to confess
and announce my faith in the belief
that it is to the best interests of American
people as a whole that everything
consumed by our teople should lie produced
bv our people, if it is possible.
If that be Republican doctrine, then I
am a Renublican. If it is not Demo- i
cralio doctrine, it ought to be Democratic
doctrine.
"It is not necessary for me state, because
it is known to all students of history,
that those nations which confine
all their labors to one product, or to
agriculture only, are pauper nations.
They do not progress; tney do not
achieve any place in history that
amounts to* anything. They do not
gather wealth; they do not produceoul- >
tore; they hare not advanced civilization.
ThefVfore, I announce as a hypothesis
that we ought to diversify our
industries as far ?.f we can and give
employment to a* many men of as
many occupations as can get work at a
profitable figure.
"We do not want all fanners in this
oountry. We want to have manufacturers.
And why do we not want any
more farmers just now? Because we
are today producing more of the staple
m-ops of export railed on the farm than
we can get a living or deoent price for;
and why, in Goa's name, should we
undertake by a tsriff policy to drive
from the factories and from the cities
to the farm more competitors to produce
cotton and wheat to export at a
loss? We do not 'want any more ursera.
Whet we went is a tariff so levied
that the farmei shall not be robbed for
the benefit of the laborer in the cities ,
aacl that he 8hail liave an equal chance
ui life to get that for his family and for
his oomfort that the Declaration of Independence
declares is the inalienable
right of every freeman.
'There is a reciprocity of interests |
here. The fanner wants a market for ,
that whioh he produces; the mannfao- (
Hirer wants a market for that whioh he
prod noes. There is no oonflict of inter- (
est between those two when their interests
are weighed in equal balance by
honest legislators. It is only when yon !
throw into the soale in favor of mann- (
faoturers your laws which give them
undue advantage, when yon rob the
producing farmer for the benefit of the ,
manufacturer, that any man has a right ,
to complain. t
"Now, for ihe first tirja in our his- ]
kory, when this ]irotective policy has
borne its frnitti and the pauperized far- t
mer stands heie with his skinny, bony
hands begging justice and equality, ana |
the opportunity is given you, by a <
bounty on his exports, to give him some
xnnpenwition for the robbery that he i
has undergone foi a century, you sit in ]
stony silence, you sneer, you (
alevate your eyebrows, yon refnse to
iiscnss the proposition as unworthy of ]
iebate, and yc a expect to see this uli>tio
farmer noH know that yon had the
opportunity to give him some meed of j
justioe and" yo i refused it (
"But I pledge you my word and hon- ,
ar, gentlemen, you are face to fsoe with
in issue that you can not shirk or dodge,
ind both parties will hare to faoe it in I
the near future, because the 9,000,000 *
men in this country who are engaged <
in agriculture and who are faoe to nee ,
with pauperism and bankruptcy, whose i
farms are slipping from beneath them
ind are being absorbed by loan and
trust companies that loan them money, ]
will settle with you at the ballot box as j
k> whether you shall continue to take j
from their pockets their hard-earned i
dol lars to give to the manufacturing m- ,
in:; tries and give them nothing in re- 1
torn. j
' 'How has the tariff policy of protec- i
tion, which has beeh the governing 1
principle ever since the war, and even
before the war to a limited degree, (
worked? It was intended by domestic i
rorapetition to reduce prices; but in- i
stead it has been the means and in- j
striment of building up domestic monoiaoly
to raise prices, and the wealth ,
that has poured into the coffers of a few
thousand men, or 10,000, or 50,000, or
100.000 engaged ir. and who own manufactures,
has been taken from the hard
farnings of the masses of the people,
and you have got to settle with these
r ? nnr refuse them re
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iress.
'Trusts and monopolies coulu not
exist if the products o/ those trusts
wrere admitted free of duty; but when
rou erect barriers between us and the
foreign market and allow no opportunity
for the import of these thing?,
fou put it in the power of the domestic
manufacturers, by forming combinations
among themselves, to fix the price
that they choose to charge in the home ?
market, and the farmers must pay a
bounty to these men and cannot help
themselves.
"You Republicans proclaim the doctrine
a cardinal, one, of 'America for
Americans.' To :hat I say amen, for I
im an American. But I want you to 1
Include in that charmed circle of America
for Americans the farmer along 1
with the rest, and give us an equal 1
showing. Aa I am a farmer, pure and \
umple, as I never had any other ooou- i
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pation juid never bed any other means
of income bnt from the farm, I can
stand here with more propriety, r?Mi~
bly, than any other man and demand
equality end justice.
"The cry is, 'Protect TAmerican labor
against the pauper labor of Europe.
' It is your sole reliance in appealing
to the voters to say, "We do
not want the prices which * we pay you
for yc or work to sink to the level* of
your European competitors.'
"Who competes with the Ameripan
farmer? Where are you driving him?
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his competitors? The people of India,
Argentina and Rnssia. Take the cotton
grower. "Who compete with him?
The people of Egypt and India. Yon
are driving the producers of those
staple crops which are largely exported,
to the leVel of the paupers who
work in Egypt, in India, in Argentina,
and in Russia. You can not deny the
proposition.
"As long as we had a monetary system
which gave us fair prices tor our
exports, we could stand the competition
by reason of our rich virgin soil
and cur improved machinerv and the
superior industry and intelligence of
the American farmer. But we have got
to a point, sinoe the repeal of the Sherman
law and the final annihilation of
silver as money, where we arc face to
face w ith a crisis in agricultural affairs
in this country; and you gentlemen
who are pressing madly onward, imagining
that yon can hold your farmer
vote, that you can hold the wheat
grower to your standard by pretending
that he wiil be benefitted indirectly
while you can not give him a bounty
and cm not compensate him, will find
when this question is presented to him,
as ill will be presented in the next two
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real's, tnat you musi nrsv expi&ui ?ut
yon refuse to give the farmer equality
and justice in this scheme of protection.
If yon can hold his rote aiter he
sha.' l be made to clearly understand the
class favoritism in reived in the refusal
to vote this bonnty, then he will deserve
his fate, and will be a fit 'mudsill'
to serve as a basis of the plutocracy
which now controls in this
country.
'*1 said a moment ago that the American
farmer furnishes the exports with
which you pay your foreign exchanges.
I will give the -exact figures. Ail the
exports sent abroad by this oountry in
1996 amounted to $863,000,000. Of that
sum, the farmers dug out of the ground
and shipped, because the home market
wo4d not take it, $598,000,000 worth,
or nearly three-fourths. You are not
able to consume his surplus, ana ne is
forced to sell wherever he can find a
buyer. You force him to buy at home
in a market the prices of which have
been raised from '30 per cent ad valorem,'
which is the true Democratic
proposition, I believe, to somewhere
between 100 and 15(?per cent on many
articles and an average of over 50 per
cent on alL
"Mr. President, it is not worth while
for as to discuss here how the word
'only' oame to be left out of the platform,
or why. I will say this however,
that the reason it was stricken out was
because we wished to confine the attention
of the country and fight the battle
on the money question only. We did
not care to have the tariff brought into
it as an issue at all; and after the passage
of the Wilson bill, those of us who
were perhaps more advanoed than the
Senator from Missoui in our ideas on
this question did not feel that we oonld
consistently contend about the word
'only' when the Wilson bill from one
end to the other had reoognized the
protective principle, and that the party
stood committed to the acknowledgment
that it was right and proper?or
expedient if you choose?to protect
American industries.
"Somebody will ask, and all of ^ou
are asking in your minus uuw, wuuw
right have yon to take money out of
the Treasury and pay a bounty to anybody;
what right hare you to raise
money by taxation and pay it dut in
bounties? You Republicans can answer
that when you explain by what right
you took money out of the Treasury
and paid a bounty to the sugar planters
of Louisiana, not on exports, but on
what they produced. But I want to
ask you who dispute the right to take
money out of the Treasury and pay it
out in bounties what right have you to
levy taxes which take money out of the
pockets of the people and pay bounties
to the manufacturer? You may call it
tariff, but it is a bounty on manufacturing,
and the farmer has to pay one-half
of it. What I mean is that the agricultural
population of this country being
about one-half of it, therefore, in
proportion to cosumption, they pay
one-half of the tariff duties of this
country, and they get nothing in return.
What right, if we oome to the
question of right and wrong, have you
to take money from these people and
pay it as a bounty to manufacturers?
"I believe that it has been asserted
here by almost every Democrat who
has had anything to say about the iniquities
of this bill that it proposes a
scheme of robbery by which the people
are to be mulcted, robbed, not so much
to put money into the Treac iry, but
indirectly by raising the pri e of all
that is consumed in the co id try. I
think the Senator from Texas (Mr.
Mills) calculated yesterday that for one
dollar paid in revenue the bounty to j
the manufacturing industries would do
something like twelve dollars. The
figures were staggering. To take the
most conservative estimate, if the beneits
to the protected industries by
neons of the tariff amount to $8 to the
manufacturers and their employes as
com pared to $1 received by the Government,
it would still he an enormous
unount
"Is it not robbery? Will some Demxcrut
dare say that he does not think it
is robbery? How many of you have
stated that it is robbery? Well, my
colleagues, my fellow-Senators, my
bre'thern of this party, who stand
ip and proclaim the doctrine of equal
rights for all and special privileges to
aoieas the cardinal principle of Democracy,
if it be robbery in this bill to
take from the masses of the people
these hundreds of millions of dollars
?nd pay it into the coffers of the manufacturers
and into the coffers of the
Government, how will you face your
constituents and vote against a provision
in this same bill which will re- 1
siore a minimum amount, a very small i
proportion of the amount that they (
have been robbed of?
"It is not a question of whether it is
Democratic policy or not to pay bounties,
because you are not responsible
for this measure. You have gbt to take i
t whether you like it or not, and you
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' have an opportunity by this amendment,
with the help of a few Republicans over
here who are not loet to all senae oi .
shame and decency and patriotism, to
pnt the farmer on tome basis, however
small, on an equality with the balance
of the country; ana you can not be accused
of having deserted your party
policy or your party platform or anything
else if yon try to amend the bill
so as to do justice to your own State, to
your own constituents, and to the mrzners
throughout the oountry, without
regard to politics or section.
"l'on can not getarobnd the proposition
that if it is robbery to take it away^
it woum oe nonest ana pamuuiiiu ua
Democracy to restore it. It is not a
question of party policy. It is not*
question of whether you would favor
bounties per se as a party policy if you
had the framiue of the bill, but it is
simply a question as to whether you
will endeavor to amend this bill in a
way to do justice to your people.
"This may be a 'new Democracy,
which seeks to lead some of ns into the
camp of the enemy,' as the Senator
from Texas twitted us with yesterday.
It may be 'a new evangel cf Democracy1
to ask you to amend this iniquitous
tariff measure or vote to amend it so-as
to restore to your people that which
you sav they have been robbel of; but '"
to iuv mind it is the essenoe of Dmdo- 3
cracy to proclaim equality, the cardinal
doctrine of onr party* rather than
to offer your constituents the dry husk
and the* Sodom apples of party plat- forms
for 'revenue only.'
"It is not a question of how yon are
going to get the money. The money
is there. They proclaim that they ex
peet a surplus; they are proclaiming
that they want to increase the gold re- serve
to $150,000,000, so as to absorb
some of this prospective surplus. They
have proclaimed a desire to retire the
greenbacks by locking up this money
in the treasury. You have the opportunity
to force them to show their hands
by voting to pay out $40,000,000 to the
farmers who make wheat and cotton, %.
who have been robbed in every schedule f ,
of this bill, and you say, 'no; I will
not do it because it is not Democratic; ^
it is not for revenue only.' Greet God,
Such Democracy! They ask yon for
bread and you offer them a stone; thsj
ask you for an adherence to your principles
and you put up a mummy labeled
'tariff for revenue only. * The quee- t,
tion is with yon gentlemen.
'Ton have got the teleeoope with the
big end close to your eye, the little end i
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n n mj va jivuuvt, mmrn w. . . ?
you see," 'Tariff for revenue only/ ^
Turn it around and you will am js
'Equality' as tbe cardinal doctrine of, *
Democracy; 'Equal rights for ell, special
privileges for none;' The greatest " f
good for the greatest number.' Three
are the fundamental principles of Democracy
as I understand the word," end
I propose to stand by them. You will
not accept it, you wul not support it, X
you will not vote for it because you put $
party platforms above party prinoiplea,
and party policy above the principle! J"
of Jefferson ana of Jackeoe.
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"For my part, I believe in getting m
everything out of this tariff bnsinaee <?
that we can get, for if the policy of the J
government is to be one of robbery or 1
to be one of special olaaaee or prir- u
ileges, while I know it is impossible for
the Southern States to get anytfung
like their share, thea when I can pat
anything into the bill whioh will give i
us only a small proportion of what is *
our due, I shall vote to put H there.
A tariff tax on cotton will do '
us no good. There are very, tew ,
planters out of the millions who raise
cotton who grow eea island or long
staple cotton or anything of that kind. ^
The tax on wheat, the tux on earn, will . - J
do the Western fanners no good, end -f
yon know it Do you think that we '%
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dawn our throats and ni us to vote. Jj
with you ou that proposition ? Do you
not know that this country cannot ab- $
sorb our surplus and that we hare got {
to export it ? Do you not know that
the surplus is lowered in price by reas J
on of the destruetion of one of the - >'
money metals of the world ? Do you.
not know the only way you can raise 4
the price of agricultural exports is torn* -j
store silver and thereby increase the 3
volume of the money of the world ?
' 'I take my stand for 'equality of banefit
and equality of burden* aa toe highest
and noblest principle of Democracy,
and will fight for it here and elsewhere
as long as I have breath, t maybe
alone now, but the time will oome
speedily when that principle will triumph
in this goTeramehtor liberty will 3
cease to claim America as her bom*"
CREATED COMMENT. J
The Race Qaesdon In the Charleetea $H
Cotton Mill.
A special to the Register from Charles*
ston of the 16th, says the trouble in the 4
Charleston cotton millshas broken out
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afresh. A large numoer ok ossaouw ,-v
hare been distributed on the streets^ J
which contained an address to the public
and was signed ' <Many Operatives.'*||fl
The address is very lengthy and *et>
forth the grievances of the white oper? .;.atives,
and protests against the employ* *??
ment of negroes in the mills, "Someb
(that is, white operatives, j have applied *3
and been refused employment," thhjsa
address 6ays, "because their complex- {
ion clearly indicated they were not
tinged with negro blcod." The eddrest j
concludes with these words:
"But, as a herditary right, we claim *18
for our race the flr^t prints of the land,
and are determined to oppose all foreign
^socialists or Southern apostates
who attempt to deprive ns of them. We ,Y<S
affirm, by all onr physical powers and j
brave hearts, not to sit supinely by and
witness the nogro horde turned loose
upon the pursuits of our mothers, oar 4
wives, our widows, our daughters, our ;
sisters, and rob them of them living."
The paper has been widely circulated 0a
and has created some comment
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DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY
For Practicing Medicine Without a
License.
A. A. McCain, claiming to be a grad- ^
nate of a medical college, and who has ^
proved himself a successful practition- 'j
er, has been on trial at Marion on the 3
charge of praciicing medicine without a
license.
There was <jreat interest in the oase,
it being the hrst of the kind in this j^y
State for many years.
The jury found Dr. McCain guilty ^
with a recommendation to mercy.
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