The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 25, 1900, Image 3
BRYAN IN NEW YORK
Addresses the Gathered Thousands
in the Metropolis.
WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY OVATION
rx? At._ C
Dryan discusses me issues ui mc
>Campaign--Trusts, Imperialism and
Our Foreign Policy.
New York. Special.?Wm. J. Bryan
arrived in the city at 2:Go o'clock luesday.
His reception was an emphatic
ovation. As the train steamed into the
annex of the Grand Central depot that
part of the immense building was pack
de with a waiting multHude. Col.
Bryan was driven to the Hoffman
House :n an open carriage, in which he
sat next to Richard Croker, and with
uncovered head, bowed and smiled to
the thousands who cheered him. Fcr
v-seennd street nresented an anima.
ted s.ene. From Lexington avenue on
one side to SSiith avenue on the other,
the fjidewalks were lined with the popular?.
Being introduced to the vast audience
pree?at. Mr. Bryan said in part:
COL BRYAN'S SPE^H.
Col. Bryan began by referring to the
vast audience before him and said that
It indicated an interest in the campaign
which must be gratifying to ail
who realized the importance of the
questions involved. He declared that
he was not vain enough to accept the
enthusiasm manifested as a personal
tribute to himself "because," he said,
"the individual counts for nothing except
that he may be the instrument
used by the people to carry out their
own will. He immediately entered upon
a defense of the Democratic cause and
said: "To say that the people gathered
here who support our cause are the
enemies of honest wealth is a slander
which could not be uttered without the
one who uttered it knew it to ba f;Wse.
We are not opposed to that wealth
which comes as the reward of honest
toil and is enjoyed by those who give
to society something in return for that
which society throws upon them. The
Democratic party to-day is not only
not the enemy of honest wealth, but
the Democratic party of to-day is the
best friend of that wealth that represents
ability of muscle or of mind employed
in its accumulation." Col. Bry-an
went on to say that the party draws
and predatory wealth, "between that
wecJtn which is a just compensation
for services rendered and that wealth
which simply measures the advantages
which some citizens hae taken over
many cins." z e 1234512
many citizens."
HONESTY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
He declared that no honest industry
no honest occupation, no honest man
^^epd fear the success of the Democratismparty.
"The Democratic party." he
BKRid. "showed its honesty by stating
what it believed and telling the people
what it will do." He asked for a com
pavison or tne uemocranc piauorm
with the Republican platform and expressed
confidence that any honest man
making such comparison must be convinced
of the sincerity of the Democratic
declaration and the hypooracy of
the Rcpublian platform. Taking up
the Republican declaration of principles.
Col. Bryan said that party is not
prepared to-day to make a fight on a
question before the country. "And."
he continued, "if you want proof let me
Temind you that the Republican party
to-day, instead of presenting any great
principle and defending it, is presenting
an appeal to every class of people
supposed to-be approachable in any direction."
He then went on to enumerate
the various c'.asses to which he said
the Republicans were making specious
appeals, and he included in the list th?
a* V a 1QK/VI>AV nfy*
lit! JiiUt , tUC i?UV4 V4 , V t/V.
REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY.
"It gives the laborer," he said, "the
.assurance that he will have a full dinner
pail, and then it assures him that
there will be a large army to make
him satisfied with his full dinner pail."
He declared that the prosperity of
which the Republican party boasts is a
different thing in different localities.
"In the East." he said, "they tell ycu
Jhow prosperous the farmer of the West
Is, and in the West you hear of the
high wages and general employment of
the laboring man throughout the
East." In this connection Col. Bryan
related the report of his own prosperity
as a farmer and proceeded to shrw
that the report was a gross exaggera
tton. "If," He sa:d. "i am a sampie or
what Is going on on the farm. I have
6ame idea of what is taking place
there." Referring further to the Republican
claim of prosperity, Col. Bryan
claimed he was willing to admit the
army contractors and the trust magnates
might be prosperous. "A man
who gets special priviliges at the hard
<rf the government can prosper under
Republican administration." he said,
"but I deny that the wealth producers
of the country are enjoying their share
of the government productions."
At this point there were cries of
"Ranna!" Col. Bryan merely responded
by asking his audience not to trifle
with a great name.
THE TRUSTS.
Taking up the subject of trusts. Col.
Bryan declaied that they had grown
under this administration more rapidly
than ever before and he asserted that
the Republicans refused to meet the
Issues they created. He declared that
the President "spends more time
warning you not to hurt your good
I
I
trust than he rloe^ telling you how to
hurt the bad ones." In the same <o*neotion
he referred to the position of
Governor Roosevelt and Senator Hanna
on the subject cf trusts and a reference
in both instances met with groan- and
htfiScs. "Mr. Hanna says there ari
no trust?," Col. Bryan went on. "Are
you going to send a man cut to hunt
the trusts who knows where every
trust treasurer is. but says tnere are no
trust??" In response to this last interrogation
q voice from the audience responded:
"We v.*i11 send you." Col.
Bryan again quoted from President
McKinley's inaugural address on the
subject of trusts ard charged that the
President had neither enforced the existing
anti-trust laws nor recommended
new ones. His Attorney Gflcral, he
said draws his salary and permits the
trusts to go on an'd oppress the people.
Col. Bryan referred to the ice trust,
declaring that apparently this was the
only trust of which Republicans had
any knowledge. "If any Republican
tells you," he said, "that the ice trust
is hurting the people you tell them
that you have so much confidence in
the Republican Governor that you
know that he would not be out West
making speeches if the people were
suffering from the ice tiust." This remark
was '-eceived with cheers.
THE REMEDY.
Oo). uryan outlined his remedy for
trusts, which was to put on the fn g
list every trust-made article, and to require
trust corporations to take out a
license and under strict security in
all other States than mose m wr.ic i
they were organized. He expressed
conviction that we are approaching a
period of industrial despotism, where
a few men will control each gr at
branch of industry, when every psis.n
who finished products will buy at a
trust price, and where every man who
works for wages will work for the
wages fixed by the trust. Such a condition
as this meant, he said, serfdom
for the people for a government of the
people, by the people and for the people
was impossible unoer the reign of
the trust.
Dwelling upon his remedy for trusts
he said he would squeeze the water out
of the stock. " There would be a flood
for a while," he declared, "but there
will be honest sorporatioas afterwards."
4.AB0H WOULD.
There are 0i>-? members of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers.
Curb set.trs aud cutters went on
strike at Schenectady, X. Y., for $11 per
day.
Aliout 15.000 Thames lightermen
struck at London, considerably dislocating
trade.
Heading. Penn.. letter earners expect
to have their salaries increased
$150 a year.
All the electric plants at Torre
iiauie. inu., wire uvu up o v a Mi.ui'
a few days ago.
The Chicngd building oomrnctcrs
have agreed not to oppose the foimation
ol' a new central labor body.
The strike of the wood-workers,
which threatened to tie up all the
mills in Denver. Col., has been settled
and work has been resumed.
One hundred railroad laborers taken
from New York City to New London.
Conn., refused to work when they
were told to take the place of strikers.
The colliery owners at I.nneashve.
England, do not like the eight-hour
day. but the miners are solidly organized
and the'system seems to work
Wvll for all concirm d.
The HacK-Drivers' Cnion in Detroit
wn?f< in iieijriiborhoofls where
<leatlis occur, warning the people
against patronizing undertakers who
hire in..Minion carriages.
Hundreds of the cotton mill operatives
in Lancashire. England, are einigrating
to Cauada. Russia. Portugal,
Japan and Mexico, where high wages
are offered to men and vouien skilled
in the industry.
Th > Pennsylvania Railroad Company
lias suspended its order allowing all
employes coal for their own use at
cost of mining and transportation.
The company cannot get sufficient coal
for its own use and it was necessary
to suspend tiie deliveries to employes.
The criminal statistics of the Do
minion of Canada for the year ending
September 30. 1809. show that twentylive
persons were charged with murder
during the period covered by the
report. These cases resulted as follows:
Eleven convictions, all followed
by the infliction of the death penalty.
nine acquittals, three prisoners
detained as insane and two cases in
which the prosecutions are still pending.
The proportion of murder cases
in the United States is so much larger
as to justify the Canadian newspapers
in eonaxatulatimr themselves on the
comparative freedom of their country
from crimes of violence. The Ottawa
Journal attributes the difference
largely to the lax laws and the lax
administration of the law in the United
States. "In Canada," we are told,
'there are practically no delays. There
is no appeal to a second court. No
stop is possible except by the action of
the Minister of Justice, which is rare
and to which the majority of Canadians
strenuously object under any
circumstances. Of twenty-five accused
murderers in Canada last year,
eleven were hanged, or nearly one in
two. Of the 7.840 accused murderers
in the United States in partly the corresponding
year. 1011 were executed clone
in seventy-one,"
*
ARP LOSES TEMPER.
That Is When He Reads Some Northern
Papers.
SAY THEY SI ILL HA l? IS
Bill Gets So Mad at Some of the
Flings at the South and Goes to
Work.
As Patrick Henry said, "It is us?liss
to cry pe:ue when there is no
peace." Henry Grady never loved the
nation into peace more than about a
week. Better uui.e that inscription eff
his monument. What alarms me is
the fact that the Northern papers that
are most bitter against us are the
nost popular with their people. This
is a bad sign. The New York Press
boasts that its circulation is twice as
great as that of all the Republican
papers of New York and Brooklyn
combined and it is increasing every
day. It is ably and bitterly edited.
Not a daily issue but has some fling or
slander against the South. I wouldn't
care for what an editor said if his
readers didn't approve and enforse it,
and it js reasonable to suppose that
the million Northern readers of the
Press bate us as cordially as the editor.
I can't account for this antipathy,
for we are not doing anything to them.
In last Sunday's paper the Press says
that we "should build a monument
Paul Sloan, the deputy sheriff of Lake
Charles, La., because he lost his Hie
trying to protect a negro from a mob.'
That is not so bad. but he continues
his remarks and says we ' should set
up his statue in place of one of those
erected to 'Calhoun and Taney and
Davis, whom their cwn followers admit
were incurably wrong in every
question of their time and the Northern
mind reads Paul Sloan's title to a
monum:-nt as clearly as John Brown's."
What is the use of trying to keep
calm and serene under such provocations.
Chief Justice Taney and John
C. Calhoun were dead before our civil
s r Jt.i *.a
war aiiu i uni iiui miuw iuai auj icspectable
citizen of thp United States
would dare to di.-hono:- their great
names. They were statesmen, not
politicians, and the tributes and eulogies
paid to them by northern men
were full of praise and overflowing
with national lamentation. Even Daniel
Webster spoke with much emotion
in his beautiful eulogy on Mr. Calhoun.
But nov; at this late day the
same old fanatical cry is heard that
caused New England to send John
Brown on his malicious and de.ilish
errand. The same malignant howl
that inspired John G. Whittier to
write of Webster:
4 So fallen! So lost! the light with/Iwa
ii-ti W* AHAA Vt o n'nvo
The glory from his gray hairs gone
forevermore.
All else is gone; from those great eyes
the soul has tied
When faith is lost and honor dies, the
man is dead."
And this because he' honored Calhoun
and in his old age dared to. say
in his spe ch at Capon Springs that
a state had the right to secede from
the Union when the compact was broken.
My father was from Massachusetts
and honored Mr. Webster above
all men and was intensely indignant at
Whittier's fanatical puritanical verses.
That triumveraie Webster. Clay acd
Calhoun was his ideal of great men,
patriots and statesmen, and it is mine
to-day. My contempt for old Whi'tier
is very great and none of hisr slanderous
effusions shall find a place in
my collection of poems. I was surprised
to find a lot of them in Wfiliam
Cullen Bryant's collection.
But I am going to quit reading such '
newspapers as destroy my serenity. 1
have to hurry out into mv garden and
dig too hard and too often this hot <
weather to keep my choler down. I've :
been building a woodshed, and a chick- i
en coop with two appartments. one of
which is for the Christmas turkeys,
when the time comes Old Uncle Sam i
did die sure enough, and I am now emnhatieally
the boy?but I reckon it is
good for me. My wife says it is. I've I
worn out my forked hoe digging up ,
the hard ground in the hose bed3 fcr
the worse?I am insulted the harder I
dig. I don't understand some things. .
General Gordon and General Wheeler ,
and some cf our orators and preachers
go up north and mix up with those
Yankees and come back loaded down ,
and say: Oh. they are all right; they
are ha-monious, but I notice that the
Grand Army wants to regulate our
nnH the editors dictate
5UV^Uii?wvno, _
how we shall manage our negToes. I'm
doing my best to harmonize, but when
I read their editorials I want to hire
a cuss'.n'. man?one that can't be
broke of it?and I'll give him $2 a day
to use language on that editor. He
wouldent mind IVng cuised afar off
and miybe it would relieve my feelings.
He knows that every follower
of Taney and Calhoun still glory in
their constitutional teachings. He
knows that Dr. Andrews, who is the
honored head of the public schools of
Chicago, declared in a public address
that every principle the south maintained
and fought for had been decided
i:i our favor by the supremo
court of the United States before the
war and has been since the war confirmed
by the present court. He know9
all that and he knows all about Pana
ami Akron and New York city's treatment
of the negro, and in face of all
this he dares to spit out his venom
at us. I don't understand him nor
what manner of man he is nor how he
can sleep in peace or enjoy and digest
his daily food.
But v\e wi'.l get even next month
and then you will hear a howl. Good
gracious! What a consternation?
what weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth?Bryan and Stevenson!
Both names er.d with a big N and that
combination has never failed yet.
W/?11 I am -.vork!n<r nn that hnnlr
now. end my friends are sending ir.e
names cf their favorite poems from ail
over the south. It is already interestins
and curious to note the ones that
a~e most popi'ar. I shall publish a
list of them before lorg n the order in
which they -tied.
And now about that scrintural euifrma.
I have received several letters
about it, and but one correct answer
and so 1 will have to give the solution
cs sent bv the Mississippi g'rls:
"You have heard, no doubt, the oft-told
tale
Of Prophet Jonah and the whale.
His living soul was kept within
Till hr. renented of his Sin.
When the whale dies its oil wives
light
Dispelling darkness from the night.
?Bill Aru in Atlanta Constituting
TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
Relations Between Northern and
Southern Mills Discussid.
Following is an extract from a paper
read by Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, before
the meeting of the New England
Manufacturers', Association in Washington
city on Wednesday last:
In some quarters alarm has been exKOEeed
at the inroads upon the textile
Industry in this country made by the
iwuiu aiiu Hit? uiuir ldpiu in
that section than in New England, as
indicated by the steady increa.-^e of consumption
of cotton in Southern mills,
the building of new mills and the enlargement
of old ones. Side by side
with these expressions have been suggestions
that New England mills
should change their financial methods
and their organization, or should equip
themselves throughout with the latest
machinery, if they hepe to hold their
own; that they should improve upon
their products, going still further into
the manufacture of still finer graces, or
that in the culture of flax and the manufacture
of linen the North should find
compensation for possible loss of pres.
tige as a cotton manufacturer, ifeanwhile
one distinct advantage of the
South, but by no means a preponderating
one?its supply of mill labor?has
been the subject of agitation in a
spirit on its surface unfriendly to the
South, and, judging from its experience
elsewhere, unfortunate for the mill
worker and mill owner. That the mill
owner of New England, rather than
the mill worker there, has taken the
leau in mis agiiauon, wuitu ua-a e?cu
gone to the extent of an attempt to secure
the amendment to the national
constitution, permitting Congress to
interfere with the relations of employ
er and employe in any part of the
country, seems to point in any other
direction than that promotive of the
poMcy which must prevail if American
cotton manufacturers are to reap the
reward which will be theirs if there be
do Interference with natural laws. If
the sale of the product of American
rams were 10 De connnea iu umtcu
States there might be reason for alarm
in the older sections at the onward
march of the Southern mills, for it is
certain that they are to dominate in
the manufacture cf the coarser grades,
and there is no reason to believe that
they will not have a constantly-increasing
share in the trade for finer
goods. The South is confident that
whatever may happen within the next
25 years in the textile field, whatever
may be its own achievements there.
New England will hold it3 own. It
knows, too, that in a union or co-operation
of all the textile interests of
the country there will be a steady
betterment all along the line in spite
of temporary setbacks. The limits of
further improvement in the textile iniustry
in this country have not yet
been determined. Inventive skill has
not yet reached its climax. Until it
does we need have little fear for the
future of cur great American industry
provided we leave nothing undone
which may legitimately place us in
control of the great market South and
West of us?markets populated by
two-thirds of the inhabitants of the
globe, the majority of whom will need
cotton goods in amounts increasing by
geometrical progression, and provided
we strengthen the abilities o: our own
textue-manuiaciuring popmawuu.
We have advanced in recent years
wonderfully well, but we have by no
means encroached upon our possibilities.
No better time than the present could
be had for an agreement to suspend indefinitely
such skirmisnes. which can
Anltf aP tioaIIoc rtrif
UcLV C LUC TTilCOL KJIk i J V/i i* ?wv
wasteful, irritation. N'o better place
could be selected for the recording of
such an agreement than Washington
city. As part of the several compromises
thought necessary in the formation
of this government?compromise-,
which were destined to give New England
decided commercia advantages
and to check any tendency of the
South toward industrial life?the capital
of the United States was place don
the Potomac, midway between Ma.-sa
chusetts and South Carolina. On this
common ground, an inheritance of concessions
ot the Union. Northern and
Southern cotton manufacturers may
properly join hands and hearts and
minds for the great task of insuring
the stability and expansion of t.heu
mighty iDdustrv.
ar
i Our iron and steel makers now lead
the world in their output; they are the
dominating factors in the world's iron
and steel trade, and it cao almost be
said that no great iron bride is built
and no railroad laid anywhere on the
face of the earth but what America
sets the price. We have conquered the
world in iron and steel, though our advantages
for that industry, as compar
eci wun tne advantages or otner countries
*are not as great as are our advantages
for supremacy in cotton man.
ufacturing. What they have done may
well lb?, an Inspiration to our textile
leaders.'1 The world is our market, and
unless our fotton manufacturers go in
and possess It they will be forced ip
admit that ttyey are not equal in daring
genius and broad leadership to the
giants who have made America the
supreme power in the world's iron and
steel interests.
The South proposes to do its share;
though it has scarcely laid the foundation
for its work, it boldly enters the
field for its share -n the wor.-s trade.
The South has watched with wonder,
I with admiration, perhaps, sometimes
j with jealousy, the virility, the energy
I which have enabled New England's
i people on the artificial foundation of
Imported cotton, imported coal, imported
pig iron and imported foodstuffs
to rear such a marvelous struc- i
tore of industry, to create such vast
wealth, and with its wealtn to build
such magnificent churches and endow
such splendid 6eats of learning; and
while giving all honor to the men who
have done this, it bids them enter a
friendly rivalry where there is room
enough for all for the broadest possible
expansion of America's textile interests?a
rivalry which should be free
from all sectional bitterness, and in
which it should be remembered that as
our co.untry practically holds a monopoly
of the world's cotton crop, _
Both Sides Obstinate.
Sc/anton, Pa.. Special.?Upon one
' point, at least, both miners'and operators
agreed. Both sides of the great
strike gave out a story to the effect
that it looked as if the strike would
l>e prolonged. The operators, a number
of them, submitted to interviews
J declaring that they had gone as far as
J they couid and would concede nothing
more. The men declared that they
, adhered to the resolutions passed by
i their convention and would not think
i of returning to work unless the operaj
tors yielded the point.
Chiefs of Black Flags Leave Canton.
j Paris, By Cable.?trustworthy ca{
bie dispatch from Shanghai says that
j Gen. Lin, the chief of the?BIack Flags,
has left Canton at the heaji-of a considI
erable force, and that he will traverse
the province of Hu Nii^ try to.crosa
the Yang Tse at Oua,/and then, traversing
the province of "Ho-Nan,' join
the empress at Slan-Fli?: capital* of the
province of Shea-Si, for. the purpose
of acting as her body guardsThe
dispatch adds that It Is believed
the dowager empress.; trill arrive at
; Slan-Fu about Oct. 2(J>?
No Respose to Notices.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., .Special.?Thw Lehigh
Valley and a few other coal com|
panies in the Wyoming valley posted
notices at their collieries in which
they invite their old employes to return
to work at a 10 per cent, increase
in wages, the same to hold good until
April 1, 1901. Few of the 3trlkera
went near the collieries to read the notices.
the newspapers furnishing them,
all the information desired. Up to
noon none of the companies posting
the notices had received any applicants
for work.
Telecraoohlc Briefs.
A report that Prince Hohenlohe has
resigned the post of Imperial ChanI
tellor of Germany is given credence in
Berlin.
President Kruger, it is said," will
land at Marseilles.
The president of the Britiah Chartered
Bank of India, Australia and
China, at a meeting of the bairk in London,
expressed pleasure that America
had taken possession of the Philip*
I pines.
| The Chinese Minister at London
says peace negotiations have begun in
j Pekin, but the news is discounted in
official circles.
Severe earthquake shocks occurred
at Kodiak, Alaska, on October 9, and
one life was lost
The order of Railway Telegraphere
at St. Louis, Mo., has elected M. M.
j Dblph-in president.
The steamer Humbolt has arrived
at Seattle. Wash., with $700,000 in gold
ar.d 200 passengers from Alaska.
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson was received
with great enthusiasm on his trip
through Delaware.
President Hammer cf the International
Coopers' Unionopposes dropping
internal revenue stamps from oneeigth
and one-sixth beer and ale barrels
because it would throw mmy men
out of work.
There are C.000 members of the OrPollw.iv
Telesraohers.
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
has declared against the war
stamp tax.
For successfully defending his car
and k.lling a train robber, Express
Messenger C. E. Baxter, of St. Louis,
Mo., ha3 been given $1000 by the Adams
Express Company.
Spain is managing to keep out of international
discussion with all the persistent
discretion of a government
that has had trouble cuough. . ^