The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 22, 1900, Image 2
MB-ifANySPEECEj
Democratic Leader Addresses the
Fee pie in Columbia.
IMPERIALISM AM) THE CURRENCY.)
The Sp ^ch Was One of the Besf Eve# j
D liv.r^d in Souih Caio'lna's CapK
tal Cliy. j
Hon. William Jennings Iirj-an spoko,
in Columbia ou Thursday cf last week
to a very large and appreciative audi-j
ence.
It was one of the most forceful and :
conviav.ng efforts of this most gifted;
and cu.q..ent of modern orators, an Ij
was listened to with breathless alter.-1
tioa by the vast throng of people present.
After an eloquent Introduction by j
Lieutenant Governor Scarborough and j
Speaker Gary Mr. Bryan said in part: |
Ladies and gentlemen: 1 esteem it
a great honor to be invited to South !
Carolina by the members of the legis
lature. selected by the voters of this i
great Slate :o represent them in the
legislative department of the govern-;
rnent, and 1 esteem it si great privilege ,
to adds ess those assembled here also
at the invitation of the legislature. If
I were speaking to the members of the
legislature alone. I would dwell upon
those questions with which legislato. -;
are chief!) concerned, anil, avoiding
national questions, contribute, if L j
could, to the sum of wisdom that would
enable them to discharge the duties do j
volving upon them, but as 1 look over
this audience, 1 feel I can safely say
that it stands about 16 to 1 on tfca'
outside. (Cheers. 1 That for evciy
representative in the legislature, there
are at least 16 who are not represent .tives,
and there, if I preserve a jus
ratio. I will have to stand about io,
times as much talking about things in
which the whole people are interest "1
as I do in talking about those thing.-,
in which legislators are especially interested.
These legislators arc alec,
interested in the national questions
? which concern the people at large.
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The people can now sec what they
did not see before, that when the gov.oi-r,,ncr>t
it fioaiinc with a citizen it is
unlimited in its power, but when it Is
dealing with the property of the citizen
it is limited. In an hour of peril the
government can draft a num. but can- j
not draft his poekctbook; in an hour j
of peril the government c?n take the
son from the mother, the. husband from
his wife, the father from his child,
stand them up in front of his enemies
!guns. but in an hour of danger the i
'government cannot lay Its hands upon
'accumulated wealth and make that
wealth bear a share of the government
that protects that iteaUh. (Cheers.)
Why? Eecauve the dollar is being
placed above the man in legislation :
and in the structure of government.
But in speaking on several questions.
1 canr.ot speak long on one. and 1 must
pass to another question, where I believe
the simo vicious doctrine of the
{dollrr first and the man afterwards, is
hrim* manifested the money ,
question.
I do net like to bring a dead question
up before a good-naturrd audience
Jike this. The silver qucsti- >n has been
buried so often that a little thing lik*
a funeral dees not bother us now like j
it used to. I remember tny opponent
jn 1892 said he would never'hear of the
!tnoney question after the election, but
it was up to 1S92 and had to be burled
jagain; then it was up in 1894 and had
to be buried again; It was up in 189i
and had to be buried again: and then
our opponents remember that Is was
up in 1896, and had to be buried again, j
(laughter); but they said they had
buried it then completely. I lemember
beading the morning after the election
bow dead it was. but it was up in 1897
and bad to be buried again; it was up
*in 1898 and had to bo buried again; it
was up in 1899 and they were burying
it aeain. but I have examined the so
called corpse and I believe there is life
lenough in it to last another year. !!
(Laughter.) Now. why do they have to
Iburv it so often? Because they didn't
bury it well enough. And why didn't
;tbey bury it once well and be done
[with it? They cannot bury the money
"uestion because it concerns every
man, woman and child. I want to tell
you that those who advocate the gold
standard to-day are not advocating
on the ground that they employed In
1S96. Why now tell us that r/e havd '
more monev since the election and do i
not need silver. j (
Vv'hcn the election was over and the ^
president took his seat the first thing ,
he did was to send a commission to Eu
rope to ask Europe to help us abandon
the gold standard and secuic the double 1
standard, and the Republican congress i
by an almost unanimous vote appro- I *
'.inn noi) to oav the commission. ! 1
I know how car.'ful the Republicans [
are with public money, and when 1 saw
a Republican congress appropriating
$100,000 of the people's money to pay a '
commission for trying -to get rid of the ; ;
gold standard, then I knew the gold .
standard 6ould not be a good thing.
Why do we have it? Not because we j 1
want it, but because the bankers of \
London met in secret on the. 22d of Do- J
cember. '97, closed the doors and declared
the gold standard was all right, J
and these bankers, few enough to meet ,
in the clearing house, control the policy j l
pf Europe and Europe controls the pol- j (
Icy of the Unitotd States.
You ask me when I am going to stop (
talking on the money question. I tell (
you I shall not stop until seventy mill- I .
ions of people ns-crt and'secure the
right to attend to their ov,-n business
without asking the aid or consent of
any other ration. Hut this bill we
started through as a gold standard
measure may rot come out that way.
Our opponents fought their battle in
under the mistake of international bemnt-jiism
Thev could not secure their
bill from the eon cress eWted in '!>o\
they had to wait until 1S98; in '98 we
were engaged in war. and every Republican
speaker was appealing to the people
to hold tip the hands of the president
until the treaty was signed, and
the financiers were planning to hold a?
the people, and when the election v.-a:
over that bill was forcad into congrcs
and the lower house, and it was a gol<
standard bill when it came before th<"
house, and all the little Republican,
every morning would look up to Mr.
Hanna and nay: "(Jive us this day out
daily opinions." (Laughter.) They did
not talk about international binKtai
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ism. tney nrougiu a iiuswikv, u a mistake,
sa!:i they were far trie gold ta-ndard.
and the bill went over to the sena'c.
having received the vote of everj
Republican in the house in its plaiD
gold standard form, and the financp
committee of the senate reported P
back a gold standard bill and they
commecced to discuss it. The other day
the storm signal was raised, and the
Republican committee reported an
amendment declaring that this was not
intended to settle the money question;
that it was not iutended to adopt the
gold standard permanently and that the
bill should not be considered as an obstacle
In the restoration of the double
standard?as soon as the commercial
nations of the world helped to do it.
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The trust question is really the same
In principle as the money question; the
same reason thtat lead men tot want to
strike down silver in order to get gold.
A monopoly of the mint privilege;
leads men to want to strike down competing
industries in order to secure >*
monopoly of the market. If you think
you can destroy industrial trusts by
making peace with the money trusts.
I want to tell you when you got near
enough to the trusts to see who stands
behind the trusts, you will find the big
financiers of this country defending
every industrial trust as they defended
the money trust. John J. Mitchell,
president of the Illinois Trust and Savings
bank at Chicago, gave out an in*
: - -fin- In*Arv in x
icrvrew a vtunr ugu aim i.mi mil.
was quoted with the approval by the
Times-Herald, one of the leading Republican
newspapers of Chicago, and in
that interview Mr. Mitt hell said that
in the long run the trusts would do no
harm. "In the long run." What consolation
is that to a short winded man
who can't stand a long run? (Laughter);
what consolation is that to the
man who suffers bankruptcy before the
end cf ;ae run is reached; what consolation
is that to the man who suffers
extortion during the prog ess of
the run. Vet "in the long run the trus
can do no barm."
The men who grew red in the faco
as they denounced a ?0 cent dollar have
their vaults full of the monopoly stock
that is net represented by It) cents to
the dollar in actual cash. The rest of
it is fietuiotis value that is to made
good by the power of the monopoly
to extort from the people. Do yru expect
(bat (hose who believe in the gold
stxiiuara win destroy me trust, i
want to remind you that we hat! a
Democratic administration that believed
in the gold standard, art it did
not destroy the trusts. We now have
a Republican administration chat believes
in the gold standard, and it is
not going to restroy the trusts. If yoii
want to destroy the trusts you have got'
to destroy the trusts through the people
who declare war against all monopoly
In private hands, not merely
against the little or.es: if you are going
to destroy the trusts, you have got
to go against all of thera: you cannot
afford to feed the old bear and then go
out to hunt the cub.
if * * * *
Why. 1 saw in a message the other
day that the president was talking
about the rcconsttruction of the Philippine
islands. The word had a familiar
sound. Reconstruction. When you
temember how the Republican party in
Its best days reconstructed the white
race near at home, you can imagine
tomettaing about the reconstruction of
the brown race about 7.000 miles away
?rom home now. (Great applause.)
My friends, if you want to lift up the
human rat ?, you have got to do it by
love; you cannot do it by your great
armies and cannons, and I'd rather
trust the loving influence of qne South
Carolina boy whose love to God carries
him far off from the confines of civilization:
I would rather trust the uplifting
influence of one great human heart
than the uplifting influence of all the
great armies sent to teach the doctrine
of conqne-t and force to an inferior
people. (Applause.) And as I talked
with that boy. this thought came to
me. Here was a son of South Carolina
going to Africa to give his life for the
uplifting of the Africans way off in
that distant land, and the Republican
party with all its boasted love for the
Aincan race, ior ca? man wuv ? uul
white, crossing the Pacific ocean to
Lake the declaration of independence
nut of the hands of the Brown people
if the orient. I the contrast and
i want this nation to he a great and
moral factor of the world's progress,
and. therefor" I am not willing that
this nation : :all step down from the
ligh plane o.i which it etands and follow
in the lead of the empires of the
aid world.
Yon ask me what my idea of this nation's
destiny is. 1 say let it stand
?rect and show the difference between
i renublic and a monarchy. Let i:
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I show that there; is a reality in the faith J
I nnfl tho nrine inlets that we; profess, anel |
then, as the nation grows great. as its
population increases, as its influence
increases, as its wealth increases, it
can rtand as an increasing factor for
good. i
ljIvS II on. mC . ..ain nniCaS fT?Ot.
The son of Mr. E. I.iinn. of Kirkgate, |
Wakefield. writes as follows: I
"I was in company with a sergeant in
charge of some wounded Boor prisoners.
One of these was lying on a 1
stretcher and was being carried in i (
when he whipped ont a revolver and i
aimed at an nltieer near. The sergeant
was carrying his gun on his shoulder ;
with the barrel in front of him. He (
quickly dashed the revolver out of th? ,
Boer's hand, clubbed his own rifle as
! he would a striking hammer, and ,
1 dashed the prisoner's bruins out where
: .lay. He whs not satisfied with one
! Mow. but had three. ami l*?at tlu* i
iiiiin's brad to a pulp. The captain did
not see what the prisoner had done, so 1
ordered the sergeant's arrest. A com- | i
I rude slipped out of the marching fine. I ,
I and asking to Ik* excused, saving he i ,
thought, the sergeant's circumstances i
needed some explanation, and told the ,
captain how tilings stood. The cap- .
tain gave the order for the sergeant's (
release, congratulating him. and Ibank ing
him for saving his life."
The same writer continues:
"I saw a Lancer who pitied an old [ 1
: Boer because of his gray hair and <
1 whiskers. The Lancer said that when | <
j lie pushed him out of the way. lie could ,
not give him the thrust because at the ! j
moment, lie thought of his old father. | ,
Well, the Lancer got five yards or so 1 ,
; past him, when the old hoy aimed and j ,
tired at his preserver, hnt (lie bullet I
missed. A oomrade, who saw the act, | 1
rode bach, and thrust the Boer through j
the heart with his lance, giving him a ;
I second thrust to make sure." West- '
| minster (England) Gazette.
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Boeaccn in New York Hotels.
Many people have not understood ' <
j wi.y all the great hotels in New York
city employ special detectives who aro 1
constantly lu the main corridor. Soma 1
have had an Idea that these detectives
j are employed as "bouncers.'' No such
: thing According to one of the most
intelligent of these detectives the other
night, the work of a detective in a hoj
tel is arduous. "You have no idea.'*
he said, "how many sides and sneaks ]
: and "rubbernecks' infest the corridors :
j of the New York hotels. These spies i
I are employed to watch public men and <
i if possible to listen to their utterances
| when talking to their friends in tlic
: , corridors. Those spies and snoaks art;
! iilso employed to report on all sorts of
i matters. It is a remarkable fact that
; o many men acquainted with public
j affairs are so guileless as not to Is;
j f.ware of the presence of these Tubber'
recks.' The detoetives in tlu; hotels
quickly spot these fellows, but so long
j us they conduct themselves decently (
there is no ground for ejeeting them.
Iv'Vertli- less, it is my opinion that
well-kuown men who desire to tliscnss
j 'he secret things of polities and of j
i 'inatice and of religion, and who also
I lesire to have business matters kept
) i"*ivatc, should lie very careful to as ertain
who is sitting beside them in
;iic corridors of our hotels, or they 1
: Iirmlfl ilii!/>neu Ilioir rontters else- '
| .There.'" New York Sua. j j
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THE DEFENSE OF THE GOOSE BONE, i .
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A Good Word is Favor of an Ancienl , ?
Weather Prophet.
f
j A correspondent sends us the follow- f
i ing defense of the goose bono us a f
I wen titer prophet: To show that the j j
popularity of the goose breast-bone has
some sclentilie foundation it should be j
remembered that the goose lives to be s
one hundred 3-ears old, unless it meets i
: with some melancholy accident. Such a
j an extended sphere of observation v
; gives the goose an instinct for atinos- i t
pheric probabilities. It liccomrs as fa- t
miliar with indications of air currents | t
and thermal conditions as man is wills J
Prince Alla-rt or Tuxedo ?-oats, aud this *
instinct it transmits from generation f
to generation; hence it anticipat?'s ell- |
rnatic conditions and supplies itself
witli nitrogenous food, which enriches g
the blood and colors the breast bone. I s
Again, as the breast-bone of the goose j j;
Is the lx?w of the ship that breaks the ! v
storm, its blood rushes to the part ) fi
which most requires it, anil this colors | n
the breast-bone. Farmers who ai*e in
close contact with nature nearly all tas Cl
lieve the prediction of the goose bono, (
and there is a legend that in tJcnoral ^
Washington's famous crossing of the _
Delaware he was influenced by the
views of local agriculturists as to the | n
I freezing of the river, and that those 1 y
opinions were founded upon obscrva- [ a
tion of the breast-bone of a wild goose. | w
Was this the reason that Benjamin ' ti
Franklin onee proj>oso<l the goose as
the emblematic bird of the Un'.tcd ^
States? Philadelphia Record.
It is reported from Indianapolis 7"
lhat a rigid enforcement of the curfew j ^
law in that city has caused a decrease ! a
of eighty per cent in the commitment ; 0
of the young to reform schools. I w
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WEATHErt BUntAl).
A Bill Embodying Many V/ilucbla
Features.
Representative J. W. Wad-worth,
?hairman of the committee oil Agriculture,
has introduced a bill into
rongre.-3 to reorganize the Weather
Bureau on rather radical lines. The
hill proposes to divide the employes of
the Bureau into nine grades, including
messengers ami stenographers, wnn a
definite salary for each grade, and requiring
not less than two years service
in any one grade before becoming eligible
for promotion tc the next higher
grade, as well as having to pass a prescribed
examination. The salary for
the lowest grade is fixed at $360. and of
the highest or ninth grade at from
?2,500 to $6,000.
The bill also provides that the chief
3f the Bureau shall be selected from j
among the officials of the seventh or
%
higher grade, and all the other executive
officials of the bureau, in their order,
are to be selected from the sub- [
ordinate officials. This feature of the ,
hill is to be commended as embodying
L A : t.xl tril cprvi'pp TP
Liu? irue priiicijiica ui v,n? ^v.
fcrra, as compared with appointments
for reward for political services. Whatever
objection might be made to thI5?
system, if it was proposed to apply it j
to all, do not hold good in the appli- j
cation of the system to a strictly scientific
bureau where it can not be but j
salutary, as the Weather Bureau lias
nothing whatever to do with the policy j
of any cue administration as compared
with any other. Its work is always the
same, and for the benefit of the whole |
people without distinction.
The bill requires an applicant for a !
position in the bureau to pass a civil
service examination, as at present, but
with this difference that only such perrons
be permitted to take the examination
as j hall have been selected and
recommended by the Senators and
Representatives in the order of their
seniority and by States in alphabetical
order. The appointments from without
Rh^li he to the lowest grade in ev
ery case. In other words, the patronage
far positions in the bureau shall
be with Congressmen, but they shall
have no influence in the advancement
of employes from grade ta grade. Favoritism
and political "pulls" are eliminated,
while merit and length cf service
are the recognized te^ts for pro- (
motion.
The most unique portion of the bill ,
U the retirement on pay feature. There j
are two conditions specified under
svliich employes may be retired cn pay.
ar on an annuity. The first on accruni
at physical disability, and second by j
reason cf an age limit. The bill pro- (
rides that when, after 20 years service,
in employe shall become dLabied for
the performance of hfs duties, he may
he retired and receive an annuity of
JO par centum cr tne mgnesi annual
pay ho may hr.vo received daring :h:previous
five years cf service. The age
limit for retirement is fixed at 63
, ars, and af;or 30 years of continuous
service, and is made compulsory. The
retired pay is fixed at 73 por centum
if the highr-t pay received.
The lengtli of previous service required
before an employe bs?omcs
?!igibl? for retirement on pay. is a suf- j
icient safeguard against any one seek- (
r.g employment in the bureau to.takt '
in unfair advantage of the retirement
'eatrue, and at the same time it operltes
as an inventive to the employes
:o perforin 5>cod and faithful work
o as to retain their positions the repiircd
length of time, while the retired
pay is small enough to be na inlucement
to feign disability so as to
)e placed on the retired list.
There is also a provision made, in
ase of the death of the employe beore
retirement, to pay to his heirs the
greater portion of the money withheld
rom his salary, and in case of volun
ary resignation the greater portion
hall be returned to hint.
While the plan Ls an innovation that
hould be carefully studied before Deng
enacted into- law, yet it seems but
n act of fairness and justice toward a
porthy cla^s of employes to allow them j
o make provision for themselves in
heir old age. after having given the
est years of their lives to a certain
ine of work which Ls peculiar and
echnical in its nature, and ur.lts
ather than tits them for an a?;ive
usiness career. They are never s.:re
f their location, and hold themselves
a readiness for a change of station at
ny time that the exigencies of the
ervice may require, thus tiey are in a
arge measure debarred from the adantages
and privileges that accrue
nom a long residence in any commu
ity.
It requires years of experience to be- I
omc thoroughly efficient in the higher ]
uties of the Weather Bureau, and efsctive
discipline is necessary that evry
order from the central office is
beyed without question or hesitation. !
The whole bill has the warm support 1
f all the present employes of the j
feather Bureau, many of whom have
1 ready served from 15 to 30 years, and j
rho would soon become eligible for re- J
rement under the provisions that preailed
when they took service in the
ignal Corp.s of the Army. The trans- j
sr to the Agricultural Department in j
S91 deprived thorn of that advantage.
True it is that the bill smacks some- I
hat of paternalism, but of a paternal- j
;m based on right principles that too ,
ften arc lost to sight in the hub-bub I
nd turmoil of politics which regards |
mployment in the public service a re- [
ard for ooittjcai zeal
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Va'ue of ths Co'ton Crop.
The world's output of gold in 1898
was $287,428,600, and that in the United
States was $64,463,000. The value of the
cotton crop in the United States?that
is. the raw cotton? in 1897 was $319,491.412.
The cotton crop in the United
States is therefore 11 per cent, greater
than the gold output of the wond and
five times as great as the gold wntput ol
I the United States.
j But three States in the Union pay i
I their Governor an annual salary of $io.? w
I ooo. They are New York, New Jersey V
and Pennsylvania. Oregon and Maint
I pay their Executives only $1,500 a year
I
The percentage ot recoveries in the
Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane last
year was 33.
The Coldest Community.
The coldest inhabitated country appears
to be the province of YVcrcho- j
jansk, in Oriental Siberia. A Russian
savant passed one entire year in the
inhospitable region, and kept a daily
record of the temperature, from which
it appears that the daily mean of the
entire year is 2 74 degrees below zero.
tj,? orravpvard ot vast
numbers of enormous fossils. The
bones of animals and great reptiles that
flourished in the jurassic and the triassic
period of the earth's geological history
are now being dug out of the sandstone
strata and the shale. Fossil mining
has become quite an industry in the
State.
Connecticut received from the inheritance
tax during the year ended September
30. 1S99. $115,195.30, while the year
before the receipts from this source were
$i33.03/-37- The Treasurer says this decrease
is only temporary.
Obstiuate Eczema.
"Enclosed please flat! SI.00 for two
more boxes of Tetterine. The hex
yon sent me has almost cured themosl
obstinate case of Eczema you evel
saw. I am very grateful for such a
blessiDg as your Tetterine has been t<?
me. James L. Jones, Jellico, Tenn.,
60c. box by mail, if your druggist don'l
bare it, l>y J. T. Siuuptrit e, o^vauuah,
Ga.
The American officials who have been
engaged in making a census of Cn^a report
having found in the moiin!?.rTis of
the interior tribes of Indians whose existence
was previously unknown, and
they ran across intelligent white persons
who were unaware that the L nited
States Government had taken control
of the island.
FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEB.
Two Letter* from Women Helped Through
the "Change of Life" by Lydia K.
liaiu's Vegetable Compound.
" Dear Mrs. Pink ham When I first '
wrote to you I-was in a very bad condition.
I was passing1 through the
change of life, and the doctors said I
had bladder and liver trouble. I had
su ftcred for nine,years. Doctors failed
to do me any good. Since I have taken
Lydia E. Pinkhiun's Vegetable Compound,
my health has improved very
much. I will gladly recommend your*
i 41.1.4 a
uaaiu uw viuvi r? uuii uiu i>u;? mat iu
will prove as great a Messing* to them
as it has to me."'? Mus. Ceo. II. J use,
001 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. V.
Relief Came Promptly
" Dear Mrs. prxkham:?\ had been ,
ander treatment with the doctors for
four years, and seemed to get no better,
I thought I would try your medicine.
My trouble was change of life, and I
must say that I never had anything
help me so much as Lydio E. I'inkhain's
Vegetable Compound. Relief
came almost immediately. I have
better health now thun I ever had. I
feel like a new woman, perfectly
strong. I give Bydia E. Pinkham's
Compound all the credit, and would
not do without her medicine for anything.
I have recommended it to
several of my friends. There is no
need of women suffering so much for
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are a sure
cure." ? Mauai.a Butler, Bridgewater.
III.
Another woman Helped
" Dear Mrs. Ptnkham I took L}*dia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
during change of life and derived great
benefit from its use." -Mary E. James,
136 Coydon St., BrMfnrd. Pn.
So. S.
NO crop can / )_^v
grow witha J
out Potash.
Every blade
Grass, even* grain |2?||S
of Corn, all l:ruits JSijy^
and Vegetables I J? \
must have it. If LJE8
enough is supplied l0Br^
you can-count on a full crop
if too little, the growth will be
"scrubby."
Send for our books telling al! about composition of
fertilizers bcit adapted for all crops. They co-- you
nothing.
<JEHMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York.
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