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KINGSTREE, S. C.
C. W. WOLFE,
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Kiugstree, S. C.
THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907
Hung It on the Wrong Peg.
Our readers this week will perhaps
wonder what has become of
the defender of the "Voice from
Connecticut," the expounder of
the "illuminated object lesson" of
what compulsory education has
done for that State. We can only
surmise that perhaps the Columbia
State has at last discovered
that it made the serious mistake
of undertaking to hang its
compulsory school satchel on the
wrong peg. If this office had Brantley
Smith and the rest of The State's
magnificent mechanical outfit
for jnst a few minutes, we
could show our readers better than
we have the space to tell, the exact
eituatioD, But," to make the
story short, according to the United
States census as presented in 1
our last issue, the Connecticut 1
peg was rotten and down went (
TheJState's compulsory education
satchel, documents and all?and !
now that the big gun is siletfced,
we will turn our rifle in another '
direction. 1
Some writers have recently inti- 1
mated that this cry fer compul- 1
eory education comes from educa- '
tional associations, school teachers, '
etc., to which the Columbia 1
.State in its editorial of May 30 (
*ery appropriately replies: "First,
the advocates of compulsion are !
i>y no means confined to members
of 'educational associations'?the I
school teachers are by no means
a majority of such advocates.'*
No, indeed! And perhaps very few ,
of them are such advocates.
But why does not the State go
on and tell its readers first, where
this cry for compulsorv education
did originate? Second, who the "majority(?)*'
is that is clamoring for
it today? And, third, w hy do they
clamor for it?
Todav we will undertake *0
give our readers a glimpse at the
history, agency and motive of
this inipoited innovation, and if
The State or any other newspaper
or correspondent can successfully
confute our statenn nts, \u will
not hide the facts from our readers.
If we are shown that we
are mistaken we have the in n hood
to admit it.
The beginning of this agitation
in behalf of ot the "poor, illiterate,
white children of the South"
dates back to about ISO?, when
the New England cotton mill industry
began to feel seriously the
competition of Southern cotton
mills, when competent New England
observers recognized the contentment
and happiness of Southern
operatives?their realization of
the mutual interests of themselves
and their employers, and their
disinclination to labor unionism;
and seeiDg that Northern capital
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was steadily flowing into the tex- j
tile industry of the South and ;
feeling the embarrassment of natural
disadvantages?it was then
that some of the Massachusetts
manufacturers threatened their oper-j
atives with a reduction in wages,
alleging that competition with the
cheaper labor of the South was ;
the cause of their embarrassed j
condition.
Under the spur of this discus-!
sion agitators from New England
and elsewhere soon appeared in
the South preaching the doctrine
of discontent, endeavoring to arrav
labor against capital, organizing
labor unions and threatening wth
strikes?and finally failing to
accomplish their purpose by this
method, and with the lapse ot a
little time to obscure the original
motive, the tactics were changed
and the appeal made to a pnblic
sentiment (which frequently acts
without thinking1 on both sides
of a question) to obtain legislation
against "'child labor." Thus
it was that under the guise of
humauitariauism. New England
unionism laid its hand upon the
Congress of the United States,
and some, even in the South
have allowed themselves to become
the unwitting sponsors ior an
agitation originating elsewhere and
based upon absolute material selfishness.
The design of a compulsory
education law among its originators,
is to obscure the real design
of the "child labor" law,
and the design of the "child
labor'' law among its originators
is to remove children from the
cotton mills, because with the machinery
there furnished they can
do the work of adults?can sometimes
do more and do it better
lud can do it for smaller wages.
The object is to get them out of
tiie way ana tnus be aoie to uemauil
higher wages. Of course,
these agitators have no idea that
i compulsory education law would
?ver be enforced. They know it
has never been done?not even in
Uonnecticut!?but with that machinery
they will aee to it that 1
their purpose is accomplished and
ill the other mischief will follow.
The following bit of history is 1
gathered from the Manufacturer's
Record: <
The Massachusetts Bureau of *
statistics of labor reported in the
spring of 1898 that long hours and
low wages were the priucipal advantages
of the South over Massachu- <
setts, and in the fall of that year ,
said that Southern mills reduce the
price of goods in Massachusetts by
overproduction. Later when philanthropy
begau to cover the movement,
the suggestion was made from '
another source that Northern mill - I
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owners comu weii auoru 10 s[iniu (
$100,000 iu "raising the condition
of the Southern labor," as x "our (
great hope lies in the labor agitator, '
who is now slowly closing in upon
the Soutnern mill and compelling
an increase of wage." i
"In September, 1001, the execu* |
live council of the American Feder
ation of Labor, at its meeting 111
Washington, diiected President Samuel
(Jumpers to use every effort to
Secure tile passage of laws in the
Southern S ates for the abolition of
eiulil labor and for Compul.-ory Kd ;
uea?.ion(!), and l>re?ideii' (.Jotiipers,
ia iiis ttsiiiuouy before the industri- 1
al commission, said that the American
Federation had three specially
appointed organizers in the South
traveling at the expense of the Federation
all through that section trying
to organize workers, principally
those in tlie textile industry. About;
that time, or a little earlier, cones- '
pondeiice from Fall River to the
New York Commercial mentioned
a visit to the Massachusetts mill
center of fifteen operatives from the .
C!. .ii t h lit Laih f La mnuiiLi^dii '
ovnuti 111 ? auui iuc uia ' uiatuu 1*1 ^
had been 'interested intlieir migrations
from mill to mill,' and who have;
gone South within a few weeks and I
are doubtless now at work spreading ; |
the trades-union propaganda that
has made the way of the Fall River i
manufacturer thorny in the past.' |
Thus it appears, that viewed <
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from the standpoint of the origi-1 i
nators of this movement, its ob- t
ject is to array labor against cap- a
ital and make the path of prog- t
ress thorny in the South as it is a
in the North, which we conceive v
to be even worse than the Col- 8
umbia State's idea of raising the: t'
people "above the level of manu- r
al labor." ' c
But ourmaiu objection ,toacom- }
pulsorv education law lies in the f
fact that the State has 110 right
to enact a law without making I
.
rvrAviciAM fAr oorrrinrr if Anf Tf 1
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is observed already that some |
who seem to be sincerely in fa- 1
vor of a compulsory law are advo- 1
eating larger appropriations to j
swell the funds for the poor, j *
needy childreu of the State. A 1 \
special appropriation for clothing, j [
board and books would have to' j
be made for some, and what would; i
be the result? What is the re- c
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suit with regard to the large ap- t
propriations already made for "the }
poor farmers' boys" in the school t
established by Ben Tillman "for j
the poor farmers' boys'?" Those1
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who need it worst get nothing,! x
and those who do not need it ?
get it all. Some conscientious
poor people are not willing to i
swear three lies for $20 twice a *
year, while some apparently well- t
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to-do people go down to the coun- ^
AAA ^ Vi rvl /I ?i v-\ 4 U Al W UnM ilfl hvA
iv seal, uuiu uji tucii uauuo vx:- xj
fore the three respective county ?
officers, take the oaths, sign the
papers and send their boys off to
be educated on the money that g
some poor fellow had to pay as
tax on his cotton seed meal. .
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Where is the man who is able g
to spare his boy from home, that c
cannot raise $20? Larger appro- j
priations! Oh yes! But what goes f
with it? It is to stuff the nlaw of ^
the grafter and pat the paltry 1
perjurer on the back.
Opportunity for Young Man, b
The Normal scholarships of j
the University of South Carolina 01
have been raised in value. Each 11
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scholarship is worth $100 in mouey, ^
besides remission of $40 tuition b
and $18 matriculation or "term" ^
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fee. The money is paid at the tl
rate of $12.50 a month for d
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cnarht mrmfViQ fn AQQicf in mppf
t.6wv ? "??? " ? p,
iag the necessary living expens- r<
es. There is one scholarship for ^
each county.
The current High-School h
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movement will greatlv incref.se the 1'
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demand for well-equipped men
teachers and the salaries thi.t they
will receive. _
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Examination will be held Fii- pi
Jay, July 5th, before the coun- &
ty Board of Education. Appli- fi.
3ants should be at least 19 years O1
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if age, and preferably teachers.! ^
Write President Benjamin Sloan, ! tc
University of South Carolina, Col- w
iimbia, S C., for blanks on which |j
to apply bifore July 5th. i ei
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We are glad to note that the
Board of Health is taking steps
t?? put our town in a better san- V)
itarv condition. Idle report oil- w
ciliated by a citizen of a neigh-1 ^
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boring town a few days ago, j w
that Kingstree was building w
twelve brick stores, while the;
town was grown up in weeds as; Y
high as one's head, was some
what exaggerated, nevertheless there
ire signs of serious neglect and care- <<(
lessness that we cannot longer i vy
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afford to allow to exist. hi
In
Senator John Tyler Morgan, who: ^
for thirty years represented Ala- h
bama in the upper house of conC(
^ress, died Tuesday night at the
ripe old age of eighty-three, pi
Senator Morgan is best known [
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ii connection with his fight for1
he Nicaraguan canal, in which ^
lthough lie lost, he made a nu-,^
ional reputation by the earnest! v
ml forceful presentation of his u
iew.<. He maintained his oppo- ] |
ition to the Panama cam! route 1 n
i ri
o the last, and the present slow 1 si
, . , jP
ate of progress in digging the!
ana! seems to justify Senator aorgan's
opinion that the way he j '
avored was the preferable route, j
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The Tailor Bird. 0|
Sewing seem3 so ingenious an art i e
:hat it must be reserved for the hu-! rr
nan species alone. Yet the tailor Jf(
)ird, the Orthotomus longicauda,! S(
ind other species possess the ele-; ti
nents of it. They place their nests w
n a large leaf, which they prepare
:o this end. With their beaks they
>ierce two rows of holes along the
wo edges of the leaf. They then >ass
a stout thread from one side to
;he other alternately. With this i
eaf, at first flat, they form a horn,!
n which they weave their nest with I
:otton or hair. These labors of j
veaving and sewing are preceded by J n
he spinning of the thread. The 1
>ird makes it itself by twisting in !
ts beak spiders' webs, bits of cot-1
on and the little ends of wool.
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Whera Rain Never Falls. C
Porn Vina h 11 ml roil* nf sriTiare u
niles along its coast of rainless! ^
country. In this tract rain is never ^
mown to fall from one century's i
md to another. Yet the region is G
lot entirely barren of vegetation. j
iome parts of it indeed are com- 10
>aratively fertile. This is due to v
he extraordinary fogs known as
rgaruas." They prevail every night
rom May to October after a sum- s
tier that is sultry and extend up to ti
. level of 1,200 feet above the sea.
ibove 1,200 feet rain falls. ?
Well Ported.
Mrs. Hayfork (in country postofice)?Anything
for me ?
Postmaster?I don't see nothin'.
Mrs. Hayfork?I wa3 expectin' a |
etter or post card from Aunt
ipriggs tellin' what day she was
omin'.
Postmaster (calling to his wife)?
)id ye see a post card from Mrs.
layfork's Aunt Sally tellin' what R
av she was comin' ?
His Wife?Yes. She's comin' on s<
Tiursday.?London Tit-Bits.
On* of Byron'* Eccentricities.
With reference to the story of ^
yron's first invitation to dinner at ?
le house of the poet Rogers, in St.
ames' place, which we quoted the
ther day, a correspondent reminds
3 that it had a sequel. Byron, it
ill b?' remembered, refused every 1
ish, saying he took nothing but
iscuits and soda water and made
is meal of mashed potatoes drenchi
with vinegar. Rogers completes
le story in his table talk. "Some ?
ays after, meeting Hobhouse, I
lid to him, 'How long will Byron
ersevere in his present diet?' He (g
jpiied, 'Just so long as you con- y,
nue to notice it.' I did not then yS
now what I now know to be a fact (g
-that Byron, after leaving my
ouse, had gone to a club in St. ?
ames' street and eaten a hearty (?
ieat supper."?London Globe. ^
A Judge of Music. (g
A concert was given at a Ger- jg
lan court in honor of some foreign i JS
rince. At its close the illustrious (?
nest asked for a repetition of the jg
rst item on the programme. The J?
rst piece was accordingly played (?
;er again, but the visitor failed to jg
;coimize it as the one he had liked N*
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2st. Suddenly the musicians fell i (O
) tuning their instruments, during ' <g
hich process all, the company stop- | S
2d their ears with the exception of (?
ic foreign monarch, who exclaim- /g
1 in a rapture of delight, ''That is r
iv favorite piece!" ? Fliegende (?
latter. jg
Truly Feminine. (5
"I am awfully lonely without < !g
du," the woman wrote to the girl ISho
had gone to the country, "but (?
lore's one good thing. When I (g
at myThings away now, they stay v,
here I put them, and I know J8
here to find them again." @
And the girl wrote back: Jg
"It's the same with me."?New j >ork
Piess. } (?
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"To Die In the Last Ditch." (g
The earlio.-t use of tiie exjiression u,
l'o die in the last ditch" was made }8
y William of Orange, the stadt- (g
older of the Dutch republic. While ^
e was carrying on his apparently J8
opeless struggle against Louis (g
IV., Buckingham, who was urging _
im to yield, asked him whether he ?
id not see the utter ruin of his (g
luntry that was impending.
"There is one certain means," re- v?
lied William, "by which I can be (g
ire never to see my country's ruin
-I will die in the last ditch!"
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Call at our store, please, for a free
ample packageof Dr. Shoep's "Health ;
ioffee." If real coffee disturbs your
romach, your heart or your kidneys,
hen try this Clever Coffee imitation.!(
I'hile Dr. Shoop has very closely
latched Old Java and Mocha coffee j
x flavor and taste, yet he has not a
ven a single grain of real coffee in it.'
>r Shoop's Health Coffee Imitation is |
lade from pure toasted grains or ce- j
ea!s, with Malts, Nuts, etc. You will |
urely like Health Coffee. Sold by!
'eopie's Mercantile Company. I]
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Jniversity of South Carolina\'
Scholarship Examination ! ]
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1? A 1 i_. U ill V UlVkJl X 1 VI VVV 111 ^
- CAROLINA offers Scholarships in
the Department of Education to
ne young man from each County.
!ach Scholarship is worth $100 m
toney snd $1S matriculation or "term"
?eExamination
will be held at County
?at FRIDAY, JULY 5th. Examinaon
for admission to the University
'ill be held at the same time.
Write for information to
Benjamin Sloan, President,
13?4t < olumbia, S. C.
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Rates to James)
The following- rates to the Jam<
e.xt Friday, April 26, have been
Season Ticket 60 C
cranton $15 85 $13
.ake City 16 CO 13
'ades 16 35 13
iingstree 16 75 14
lalters 16 95 14
.anes 17 20 14
lourdins 17 35 14
Coach excursion tickets will be
pening of the exposition and will
reek thereafter. They are limi
ickets will be sold on the day pri
itmn nnr) Ko nn c n 1 A J n ! I u Jll
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own Exposition,
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istown exposition, which opens
furnished us by the agent here:
7 Days
ays 10 Days Coach Excurs'n
25 $12 00 $7 50
40 12 10 7 70
65 12 30 8 10
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15 12 70 8 80
40 12 85 8 90
50 12 95 8 95
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ted to seven days. The other
or to the opening' of tbe?exporing
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their generous patronage,
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