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| ' v ??&e Cowntn JJcrord. KINGSTREE, S. C. C. W. WOLFE, VEOrrOR AND PROPRIETOR. TFRMS .-SUBSCRIPTION* KATES: One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 t Sue copy. six month-. ? ? - .5) ?One copy, three months. ? ? .25 t^ibscription payable ii vlvanee. ADVERTISING RATES: *0:ie inch, first insertion. $1.00: each ubseqoent insertion. 50 cents. Obituries and Tributes of Respect over loO words charged for as regular advertis?ients Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve months contracts. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and addre-s -of writer in order to receive urtendon. No communication of a personal mature will be published except a- an .-advertisement. Address all letters and make all <d rafts pavableto C. VV. Woi.fe, Kiugstree. S. C. THURSDAY. flflAY 30.1907 Mur.Vi Perturbed, Judging from its numerous aud ve^ested sallies "out among the fern /'4o bicker down a valley," the Co durabia State is greatly perturoea over the fact that the Kingstree Kecord has picked up the State's -slip-up iu the logic of its argument f * (for compulsory education. We go to press only once a week and even -then with a limited space, but we are quite willing for our readers to have >in full the paragraph which The State claims we garbled and pervert ed in our last issue?and, by the irav, the very back-bone of which r The State leaves out in its attempt|*ed reproduction on May 28. Stick to your limb, Mr Editor, or else acknowledge that it is unsound *hen you abandon it. In its issue of the May 20, The flilitnria' nnrt t a i norl this Miru iUMIV^ O VUi vvr* iMt vvuvwiuvm wm.v ? graph: ''Tens of thousands of whites are -to be condearned to bear the yoke all their lives, condemned to rise no higher than plowmen and hoe hands, .no higher than croppers and renters, t*cause the negroes that work for the lowest wages are of the illiterate dass! That is the argument. In. deed, it is preferred that there be no intellectual advance, no rising above the level of manual labor, for we i iiave the college graduate at Kings tree spouting of the 'dignity of dabor.' The diguity of intelligent 'labor is something of which no man need be ashamed, bat the indignity -of the labor of slavery, of the hopelessness begotten of ignorance, is curstd." Now we submit that if this does . ?not mean that The State's policy of compulsory education has as its object au "intellectual advance" that is to raise people?black and .irhite?th*? IpvpI of manual Py ' ^labor," that they may remain no longer in the ranks of "plowmen and hoe hands?croppers and renters," then we do not know the meaning of language. We leave it to our V readers us to whether we are guilt v -of a "gaibled, and wholly unwarranted perversion" of the meaning of -the above paragraph and would Msk The State whether it is "creditable journalism" for a paper to leave out the very core and back-bone of its -own paragraph when that is the very point toward which the unfavorable criticism of a writer has been directed. Facts in Evidence. In one of its editorials of Mav 28 %The State says that before serious consideration will be given to its declaration the Kingstree County .Record will have to to furnish .something iu the shape of evidence .as to what has been done in Con oecticut under compulsory education, compared with what has been -done in South Carolina without it, .and we are quite willing to present a few comparative figntes?even the figures that measure most directlv * The State's ideal of excellence, ' * 'Marge tamers and producers" orj;"independence." Our figures are i taken from the census cf 1000. In Connecticut there were their < 203,454 families, with only 159,677 < dwellings?leaving 43,74$ families ] without homes. Of these homes ; 37,496 were under mortgage. In!; South Carolina there were 269,864 < families, with 259,302 dwelling*-'] leaving only 10,562 families without J: homes. Of these honie3 only 13,994 were under mortgage These figures show what compulsory education:; has done toward making these peo-! pie independent and emancipating, them from debt. And wl ea it is remembered, as some of our readers , I perhaps do, that South Carolina ( has just emerged from the direst scourge that ever swept a State, and that these homes are largely the hard earnings of orphan sons of the | South who for nearly a half century | have toiled and struggled against ( awful adds, and yet have gone for- ( ward by leaps and bounds to the day dawn of this glorious hour, we are prepared to repeat that our record of ( progress has no parallel in any State. , But even on the one point on which The State, according to its own confessed belief, is uselessly expeudmg so ( much of its valuable ener?v. does __ ?OJ, ( Connecticut present a much better ^ showing of literacy than South 1 Carolina? Turn to the census. In | 1900 Connecticut had a school age ^ population?5 to 20 years?252,760 whites and ouly 4,272 colored. Of r these altogether there were 18,984 ( illiterates; while in South Carolina there were 218,323 whites, and 343,401 colored, with only 99,516 illiter- t ates. Think of it! Here are two ] States with an almost evenly balanced , white school population,--Connecti- i cut having only 4,272 colored, while South Carolina has 343,401 colored children, and yet no greater differ-1 ence in the percentage of illiteracy. 1 Eliminate from South Carolina the negro population and how would I the States compare? { i A Point of Ethics. The Columbia State has seen ( fit to accuse us of violating the j ethics of journalism in not print- , ing in fnll its reply to our editorial; in fact, it has gone so far { as to charge us with methods { that are not creditable journalism. Just a word in replv. We have not the mechanical ( facilities of The State?which we freely concede to be one of the j best newspapers in the South, in . point of mechanical excellence? ^ and therefore cannot undertake to c reproduce in their entirety the ^ manv editorials that have been j i * directed at us. Were we to at- j tempt to do this we would have j no room for anything else in our;, olumns, and, however interesting | tll1? little* ilicAIICOIAll tnut, Ku viuo i i v v jv uicvucoivu uiaj v?*v j ^ sixteen hu ndred readers of The Record would not consent for it to monopolize all our space, we i feel assured, j 1 ' ( And then we notice that The State has done exactly the same thing it stigmatizes in us as dis- 1 creditable in uot only qnotingl* detached parts of our editorial, but answeiing what p6rts it chose to select iu two different is- y sues of that paper. . ! I As The State has sprung the 1 question of ethics we will I sav in that connection -that from j ^ * I * the si ai t we have endeavored to 1 conduct our argument on a high 1 plane and we refuse to descend to personalities and offensive epi- j thets. On the other band The ] State nas an unfortunate habit of 1 , , 1 trying to bolster up its argument |* by acrimonious personal allusions!; V - ' . . / v * ir.d asperities entirely uncalled | tor. . 11 < To stigmatize an opponent in a;( jontroversy ar "silly" or "dull." >r to say that he U hi: tided by ] prejudice, is u" argument at all, i ] .11 id such tractic3 are recognized ' :us tile last resort of the vjm- i :p-.i;htvl. To quote the expressive nhraseologv of the really brilliant Senator Cannack of Tennessee, j "One does not have to lift him- J i elf from his belly to rise to so great a retort." Is The State Sincere? In its editorial of May 24, The! State avows a sincere desire for the | expression of opinions by intelligent ' opponents of compuleory education, saying: "One reason for that earnest wish to hear the other side is out belief that no arguments presented bv the friends; of compulsion can bemore convincing of the propriety of :hat system than the reasoning in jpposition." Now, if The State really believef i that no argument for compulsory ed ucation can be more convincing that: argument agafhst it, then why is so mnch of its valnable space occupied lay after day, at its own solicitationand much of it by its own editor? for the accomplishment of a task vhich according to its own expressed relief, is beyond the rang* of a ( possibility? This is the first time | >ve have ever caught the editor of Hie Slate trying to lift himself over ( the fence by his boot straps. The State newspaper should start a fools' club, with an Ananias annex, for those who daie to dissent from its "illuminated" yiews. If there be any "scooting to the tall timber," in the elegant diction of the esteemed State, we leave it to a discriminating public as to who has been most conspicuous in the retrograde movement. The State's Commencement edition of May 29 is a creditable journalistic feat. However much tve differ with The State on its pet hobby, we admire the pluck md enterprise that is the moving spirit of a great newspaper. From all over the cotton belt '/itV rwssimistin renori.3 of the present cendition of the crop, it 1 jeing the poorest ever known, it s said, at this season of the(^ rear. Cold weather, boll weevil, I Iry weather in some places and vet weather iu others, have wrought ( )avoc and the outlook generally s very gloomy. In South Caroiua conditions seem to be more ravorable and it is to be hoped ;hat no disaster such as the storm )f last year will visit us again. The Atlantic Coast Line rail? rtuil hua rcfnscil fn orrmif .'lit* re. piest of the business men of Jbarleston to put on a train beweeu Lane and Maxton, N C, ind Mayor Rhett has appealed to he Railroad Commission. It is o be hoped that this service vill be established, as it would srove a great convenience to the ' ;raveling public generally, and es- ' pecially between Florence and Lane. The present schedule is very ueonvenieut to business men who visit Charleston for a day. Piles get quick and certain relief from ! Or whoop's Magic Ointment. Please I lote it is made alone for Piles, and its I iction is positive and certain. Itching, jainful, protruding or blind piles disappear like magic by its use. Large nckel-capped glass jars 50 cents, old by D (J Scott. 1-77ipea^fjr. ::y. r ^ . Free Samples of " Pre verities" and ' i booklet on Coids will be gladly mail-: ?d vou, on request, by Dr Shoop. Ra-1 :ine, Wis., simply to prove merit, j Preventic- are little Candy Cold Cure ; tablets. 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