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She County iKrrnrii W. F. Tolley & L. H. Cromer, Jr. Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Single copy, one year $1.50 Single copy, six months 73 Single copv, three months 50 TELEPHONE NO. 83 THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921 STATE NEWS ITEMS. Many Things of Interest Gleaned from from Many Points. 1 ?The Columbia city council Tues- i day ousted John W. Richardson as j chief of police and elected Fred S.! Strickland, chief of detectives, to sue^ l*tvw T1*A O/I *V? 1 ni cf V1_ tccu nun. AliC tuaii^c vx auiiuiuoviM tion became effective August 10th, at 2 o'clock, but the present chief said that he would refuse to relin- j quish his office. The ouster proceed-1 ir.gs were brought under a resolution j passed several months ago by city [ council providing that city employes' must be elected biennially for terms ; of two years. ?J. W. McCullough, Jr., and Dar. McKeithan, Jr., of Darlington are in a hospital at Greenville suffering from injuries received six miles from that city Sunday when their automobile turned over. D. D. Witcover of Darlrngton and Theodore Kohn of Columbia, were only slightly hurt. A negro chauffeur was pinned beneath the car. The machine had to be jacked up before the driver was rescued. Another driver was thrown clear of the machine. ?Attorney General Wolfe has been advised by authorities at Detriot, Mich., that John Alcmwain, coiorea, wanted in South Carolina for the murder at Lancaster several years ago of Ernest Watkins, brother of Senator Frank Watkins, of Anderson, is now available. Requisition issued for McUwain by Governor Cooper last year was not honored by the Michigan governor nutil last week, and the attorney general was advised to have an officer go for Mcllwain. Sheriff Hunter, of Lancaster, will go to Detriot this week to get Mcllwain. He w"li be brought to Lancaster to face trial. ?Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer his returned to his office in Columbia from Washington where he attended the conference of health officials last week in regard to the statements sent out over the country recently picturing the South in the grip of famine and pellagra. "We exonerated the South completely." Dr. Hayne said upon his return, "and proved to the public health service ana others responsible for the statements of famine and destitution that no occasion had arisen for such statements to have been sent out" GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Interesting Throughout the Country Briefly Told. ?This year's cotton crop is valued at approximately one Diiiion ana seventy-six million dollars, less than half of last year's crop, by Secretary Hester of New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who said it was remarkable how financial institutions held up under the depreciation. ?The Willis-Campbell anti-beer bill was passed by th* senate Monday 2d to 20, and sent to conference with the house with the , rospect of its final enactment before the week-end. Should this bill become a law, as it most likely will, the lid will be tightened on beer and light wines and home brew will perhaps be less common. ?Fifteen men, are believed to have been burned to death in the wreck of a Gulf Coast Line freight train ht Reeves, La., Monday. Work of clearing the debris is proceeding. The bodies are burned beyond recognition. o Bonds Sold, Contract Let. After a considerable amount of negotiating, Kingstree's $200,000 worth of bonds, authorized for street paving and other public service improvements has been sold, much to the gratifica' * - ?"L ~ uon 01 our Citizens nuu, auiiuBt unanimously voted for the issue several months ago. At the saem time the bonds were disposed of, a contract was let for the work of paving our streets and extending sidewalks. During the first days of the week several firms had their representatives here either for the purpose of bidding on the bor.ds or on the work to be done. After several meetings of the town council with its legal advisers the deal was concluded Tuesday _ afternoon, * * -I- J! ~ 3 wnereDy me Donus were uispu^eu ui advantageously and contract let for street paving, the latter to the firm of Adams & Evans, of New York and Jacksonville. o WANTED TO RENT.?House with six to eight rooms in good location i and modern conveniences. M. A. Waring, Salters Depot, S. C. 8-4-2t,j . /, ' jv , V* P. H. Stolll On the Tariff. Speech of Hon. Phillip H. Stoll of Kingstree, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday July 13, 1921. Mr. Stoll said: Mr. Chairman, when this congress was called to meet in extra session I. in common with the great mass of people of this countn, hoped that remedial legislation would be speedi' 1 1 i 1? ? i-1- ? a/ jy enacted to relieve me uuiu. ui ai; overtaxed people; that something: would be done to provide ways and means for our people to emerge from the financial chaos that is following the readjustment period incident to the World War. We have now been ir. session for four months, and nothing has been done. During these four months and for some months previous the gentlemen from .Michigan (Mr. Fordney) has been acting as a wet r.urse to old Mother Tariff and now present us a monstrosity which, if he is to be believed, will prove a Moses that will lead us out of the wilderness of high cost of living, high taxes, and financial distress into a land of plenty, into a veritable land of milk and honey. Although I am opposed to the theory of protective tariff and think it fundamentally wrong in principle, still if I thought the roseate predictions of better times as promised by some gentlemen would follow the enactment of the pending bill into law I woald vote for the bill, believing the present emergency to be so critical as to justify such a vote. Put I cannot accept what the gentlemen who so ardently sponsor this bill say about it. I do not consider the bill economically j-ound, and I believe that under it our last state will be worse than the first, that instead of bringing relief it will bring disaster. The economical princplc announced by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Garner) I think sound, and am satisfied that the rates under this bill will so effectually shut out foreign goods as to practically destroy our imports and that a paralysis of our exports will result. Believing this, I shall vote against the bill. There may be* many ways to ascertain what the proper vote on any pending legislation is, but for me there is only one, and that is I must be convinced that the proposed legislation is just and equitable. Legislation that makes provision for any particular interest to the detriment of the general public is wrong and should not be enacted. This is a gavernment of the people, and to legislate for the benefit of a few against the interests of the great mass of people that make up the Nation is fundamentally wrong. 'And yet this is what is being done in the bill now under consideration. The title of the bill is? "To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes. To provide revenue is, of course necessary, and it is all right to do so by custom house dutiese, provided the duties are just and equitable, being an equal burden on all the people and providing no special priviledge to any person or interest. To regulate commerce with foreign countries and encourage our own industries is also all right, provided it is done on a just and enuitable basis. But the big thing in this proposed legislation is the last clause of the bill, namely, "and for all other purposes." This is a bill not only to provide revenue and regulate commerce and encourage industries but it has other purposes, and those purposes are to give to the special interests a chance to make a clean-up at the expense of the people. If there is a golden harvest after this bill becomes a law, it will be a harvest for a special few and not for the masses. I am thoroughly convinced that the purpose of this oiil is to exploit the great mass of the people for the benefit of a few. But in their mad desire to hog everything in sight I believe they are overstepping the mark and that in sowing the wind they will reap the whirlwind. An effort is being made in this bill to make the tariff rates J.Jgner man was ever oeiuie an,cuiy</ ea. To make it appear otherwise, the aci valorum tax is based upon the American valuation. When* the provlsioions of this bill are put into operation the American people will not remain fooled very long. The greatest mistake that the distinguished chairamn of the Ways and Means Committee and his high-tariff followers made is that of drafting a bill without knowing all the facts that should be known in order to intelligently frame it. A tariff bill, of all bills should be based upon tacts. Tc undertake to fix a tax to provide revenue without knowing all the facts bearing upon the matter is legislation on guesswork or assumed statement of facts. To undertake to regulate our commerce with foreign countries on facts that are nothing more than guesswork is downright criminal. And yet this is what has been done. The commercial condition of the world to day is such that ro one knows what tomorrow will bring forth. The time; are really out of joint, with no assurances that the conditions that confront the commercial world today will ft . , be the same tomorrow, Partial information will not do and partial regulation will not do. To leg- j if late properly theie should be full and ' definite information and the tariff law I enacted should be to safeguard all of our commerce. To properly regulate I our commerce we should enact a law that would give a strong and healthy tone to both cur import and export trade. Is this done in the pending bill? To the contrary, if all economic principles hold true. If our tariff wall i.- built so high as to keep out entirely foreign competition and give the American market to Americans only,; just to the extent that we cut off im- j ports, to the same extent will we cu* off our exports. We are compelled tc have a basis of some kind for trading. We can not expect Europe to buy our surplus commodities with money, for she has not the money with which to pay. We are now a creditor nation and not a debtor nation. Things have been reversed and America now ocI cuDies the position that European na tions formerly occupied. The only way for us to do business with Europe is to exchange our goods for other goods. In other words, if we expect to export our goods we must import . Europe's goods. This can not be done if the duties imposed by this bill are so high as to make it impossible for foreign goods to come upon our markets. The conclusion, therefore, can only be that in our greed to monopolize the markets of the world we will force a condition that will stagnate our own markets and bring about conditions even worse than what we now have. While I am opposed to a protective tariff on theory, I think this bill doubly vicious, because it undertakes to fool the people, especially the farmers, If there ever was a thne when the farmers of this country needed assis tance from the Federal government it is now. His story has often been told from the floor of this house. Every member here who has farmers among his constituency has received letters and telegrams from individuals and farmer organizations urging that something be done to help those who toil on the farm. The cry for help f: cm the farmer is from every section and his plaintive voice has been calling now for a year or more. During the last session of the Sixty-sixth congress the Republicans tried to appease the clamornig of the farmer and the socalled emergency tariff was offered as the panacea for all ills. During the summer and fall of 1920 widei spread discontent was evidenced a!) over the country. Republican politicians, although this party had been in control of the senate and house for two years, foretold great changes for the voter if the Republican parly was continued in power in the congress. The great unrest in the country was such as to make it susceptible 1:o any promises that bespoke h*tte- conditions. The result was a Republican in the White House and large majorities in both branches of congress. The conspirator's archconspiracy succeeded and the Republican party got complete control of the government. We were called into extraordinary session on April 11. Four months have passed. Conditions are no better, assurances to the contrary, notwithstanding. What his become of the great intellects, far-seeing statesmanship * * i --- i ?t I renei at nome ana enlarging inuuences abroad, that were to be the gift to the nation by the new administration? Four months and nothing done. And now comes the gentleman :from Michigan (Mr. Fordney) an! names the tariff bill the Magna Charta of American commercial life. 01 word.- to that effect. Here is the medicine that we have needed so long and which will cure all the 'lis that the nation is heir to. Again they seek to foo1 the people. Our people are burdened w ith the high cost of living and no market for their nroducts. And now come.-, 'he pend ing tariff bill, which unquestionably means higher cost of living and fewer markets for our Droducts The South today has her cotton crop that she cannot sell; the South produces the bulk of the cotton raised in the world. A tariff to keep foreign grown cotton cut of America will not help us seil ;cur crop abrtad. A tariff that keeps ! ! foreign goods out of our markets Aril! 1 r.ot help us lo sell our cdtton abroad < j b? cause they can rnly buy our cotton through the medium of exchanging | their products for ours. This bill, in my opinion, does not and < I will not help us. It is designed to help ! only a few. If I understand the Re- ; publican attitude, it is to legislate for < the special interest?for a few favored ! ones?and let the masses get the J crumbs that fall from the rich man's < table. 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