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fib ??ia?tjpra aili) BB??? WBPy&SDAY, JUNK 23: 1897 UVE C?utb"Hbr4S. A Series of Articles Contributed ? V ._Adv^ced^TMii^ers. - WHAT ?S^ TO ' ??' '-?O?Y'A?I?' Wh< SHOULD DC IT? A Strong and iucid Discussion of tho Li bor Question. Sv'r ? IL But irv so allying themselves they ar aonstanfcly strengthening this unprinci pied power which is taking from Jabe its cse inalienable right-work. If i : oar constitution this one word "work' had been inserted instead of "life, lib ?s$y and the pursuit of happiness,5 ' th es would have followed for themselves ?where now they are impossible to man; because public opinion can view so calm ly ibis decrease of the last possessio] left to labor. This last is due to tho unquestionet habit of making a god of "property.' . To suggest that a mau may not alway do ss be pleases with his own mone^ arouses the intense antagonism even o those who are suffering from the un principled use of this power. In far dis taut times it was the unquestioned right of the ono with the strongest fisc U [ knock down and appropriate whatevei wished of his weaker neighbors' pos seasons-wives, gold, silver and flocks. ^ Then dawned gradually a purer peri oe when might did not always mean right, tat, without doubt, there were many who honestly thought it an outrage te talk of limiting a man's own fist power in any direction. We are going today through exactly tho same evolution with regard to the rights of money power as against human rights. Can the conscientious man oz woman give too much time to deciding upon which side he shall stand? The mere fact that the strongest of these powers is able to go alone needs no one's championship, while that the great mass of laborers is the most helpless of all fac ; tors should arouse a generous glow cf interest in "the under dog in the fight " But, to go still deeper in the matter of wages, it is not even true that they are higher today than in the past, except in isolated cases. In certain occupations where skilled labor is scarce wages are " high, but from a cause that is no credit to our so cai.ed civilization, since it is Itecause the great mass cannot afford the education which would enable them to do skilled work. The other cases where wages are sufficiently high is due to the unions, which brings us to the third question, Are unions ga il ry of as much "injustice as that they are fighting? Do their mistakes so overbalance the good they are doing as to forbid their exist? erce, or is it only that the injustice now janela somewhere else? Where Inj cst :ce Fall*. This injustice falls in two places ; upon the public at large and upon labor ; itself The public at large has always had a weapon cf defense which only needed sharpening for use--that is, it has always be?n possible to create a pub? lic opinion which would have evolved a way to protect labor without injustice to any factor. All progress is due to'the . act of thinking. Why, then, has la? bor given the thinker his better enviroc \ment, if not that he shall pay back this great gift by being ready in season and cut of season to protect the rights of . this helpless being, who, in the sweat of his brow, carries ail the world upon his shoulders? And yet during that fear t fal sufficer1? experience at Homestead there appeared at istervais from these workmen three most pathetic cards in the papers asking for this one been that the thinkers should seek some way \ oui of their distress. But the cards were printed in the finest type, and the think? ers we:e taking their vacation. Does not . labor need a vacation also? The injustice clone by unions to labor j is net so easily disposed cf, since it bears upon that most helpless cf all the fac? tors, the nonunion man. But just be? cause the case is so extreme should tho exact truth te known about it before one hastens to complicate it by au un? digested opinion. In what, then, dees this cul rage to? ward the nonunion man consist? In de? priving him of work. Of what does work consist? It is the housing, feeding, training and amusing of humanity, with all the mclt?tucincus accessories necessary to this, in accordance with every conceiv? able need. Every human being brings with bim into the world the need cf a certain amount of work to b6 done for him, if he is to live as a nineteenth cen? tury being should live. / Is work, then, scarce?. On the con? trary, if all should be done that ought to be done ??very human being would be kept busy: What makes it scarce, then? Vindicating tho Unions. Not the unions, whatever their other mistakes may be. After work had been decreased the unions simply pooled what is left and divided it among the few in order to prevent a still further decrease. Unions, then, are net the worst enemy of the nonunion man, but the power which diminishes work. And the unions are the only bulwark which stands between them and this irresisti? ble power, before which the nonunion 1 man woahri long ago have been swept out of .existence. Without doubt all kinds of persona; ?i>?ed have* crept into this effort to pru t?ct labor. But is this any harder to bt excused than the greed at the top, which is destroying the prospects of la b^r and has no excuse bot psrsonal ag? grandizement? As for the unavoidable Mistakes made by unions, we must re nrember that they, too, are a minority, j fighting not only the greatest of all h? j mt.n powers, but public opinion as wei; j ti1 they are to arrest the encroach- j ment3 of the money power, which ?:- j trying to possess the earth, there is no ! oth?r way but the one they are taking j until public opinion insists upon seeing the exact truth in every issue. But. alas, this sleeping giant refuses too often I round by an impenetrable wall of trac tious, which ?ave seemed to make right that the laborer should, as a ral be poorly housed, fed, amused. Tl very first of these traditions is the i: terprctation mau has seen fit to pi upon Christ's words, "The poor je ha always with yen." Instead of assncm that Christ was merely stating a s; fact, which he regretted, these won \ have been twisted into a belief that ci Saviour thought it right that thei i should be poverty in order that the ric should be made sympathetic. This is ( course the extreme view, bat it exists i all possible degrees and has dulled hi inanity to the horrors of poverty. Added to this is the comfortable a: sertion that all peverty is due solely t the shiftlessness and indolence of tb poor, or the still more extreme positio of even intelli gent people that there i no poverty to speak cf-that it only ei ists in the minds of a troublesome an officious set of reformers. The idea that so grand and altogethe good a thing as money might be as ac tive a cause of poverty, as shiftlessnes and indolence could never have pene trated, unaided, this triple plated wal of prejudice. Protect Labor. Even yet the question, Boes labor neei protecting from unprincipled moue; power? is never asked by those mos ready to condemn not only the mistake of unions, but their very existence. T< protect labe* means to see that wage are kept high enough for each labore of every kind to live. Here again ther< is an almost impenetrable mass of tradi tiona to be dug through before l?gica conclusions can be reached. To live means to be able to feed th? soul as well a? the body, to be able t< gratify every pure and rightful taste an? ambition-than is, it should mean noth ing less than this,in any country whici calls itself Christian, and especially must it mean this in our great republic if we are to prove ourselves worthy ol ?is inheritance But the wages of many laborers mere ly keep body and soul together, anc "man cannot live by bread alone.7' Il takes most careful surroundings to breed the virtues of industry, perseverance, forethought and courage, and the vice? which belong to poverty are usualiy the result of that poverty rather than the cause. Noone will deny that labor needs protecting in the extreme cases where the working man or woman cannot even consult decency in the housing and feed? ing of their families or where children are deprived of an education in order to help earn the living. But from this un? pleasant subject the public always seeks relief in the monotonous answer that "wages are higher now than they used to be. " This really switches the atten? tion oft from the real evil But grant for the moment that they are higher. Then it must be remembered that higher does not mean at all the same thing as high enough. Conditions are better in many ways fer every one today, but is any class being content because of this? Men today own tens of millions where in the past tens of thousands fully answer? ed the purpose. But is the millionaire content? The Fast So Guide For thc Future. Why, then, is the viaborer to be con? tent when the trivial advance in wages still keeps him shut ont from the many legitimate uses for money which exist: If the advance in wages does not keep pace with prices and the greater advan? tages which money can buy, then it is net really an advance. And what assurance have wo that those wages of the past were even high enough: And if they were sufficient-, it was for more primitive times which had not grown up to the better advantages, comforts and refinements of today. But to get away irom primitive times, with all their crudities, into the broader con? ditions of today is what we mean by progressn the advance of civilization. Is the laborer, then, to have no share in this growth of ideals? But the laborer has been one of the greatest agents in bringing about this progress. In the past, at least, nothing was possible without this being, whom hard necessity has forced to do the world's drudgery, and not necessarily because he was able to do nothing else, as too many think, but because the brute I strength, which wants ease and comfort j at any cost to others, is always the strongest. No Success Without Labor. In the past at least dollars might have been piled mountains high and the ac- j tive brain cf the originator might have j conceived most brilliant projects, but j without the hand of the laborer nothing j could have been done. Had these orig- j inators or thinkers of all kinds been al? ways obliged to do their own drudgery | progress would have gone ac a snail's pace, for the human mind, as a rule, ? cannot do two things at once. And then when we have climbed on ! the bent shoulders of the laborer to an j atmosphere of light and leisure and comfort and inspiration we want to posh him back to the primitive conditions foi | which today's wages vould be all suffi- ; cient. This is done hourly by conscien- j tious, sympathetic people just because j they do not think, and in doing it they , are allying themselves with the active, conscious greediness from which they would shrink in disgust if they looked i at it long enough to see it as it is. MRS. C. H. STONE. Paris. 11-? , , mum i Why take Johnson's j Chill & Fever Tonic? j Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY. New Magazines Argosy, Scribner, McClure, Metropolitan Munsey, Coecaopo'.itan, Puritan, Ladie3, Home Journal, Vouo? Ladies' Journal, Black j Cat, just received at Osteen's Book Store Base ball goods at the 3ook Store.-E. G I 2steeD4Co. j THE BANK OF SUMTER, SUMTER, S. C. City and County Depo story Transacts a general Bsnfciog business, also UES A Savings Bank Department, Deposits of Si and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of Januarv, April, Julv and October. . W. F. B. HAYNS WORTH, W. F. RHAME, Cashier. President. Jan 13. Olio Riyer& Charleston Railway Co SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. In efieet May 5, 1897. CAROLINAS DIVISION. NORTHBOUND.-(Daily except Sunday.) No. 33. No. ll. Lv Camden.? Lr Kershaw. Lv Lancaster. Lv Catawba Junction Ar Rock: Hill. Lv Rook Hill...... Lv Yorkville. Ar Biacksbnrg. Lv Biacksbnrg.. Lv Patterson Springs. Lv Shelby ............. Lv Rutherford ton..... Ar Marion. 2 00 p m 2 45 p m 3.25 p m 4 00 p m 4.30 p rn 4.30 pm 5.05 p m 6.20 p m ir 8.10 8.40 9.10 10.50 12.20 a m a m a m a m p m SOUTH BOUND.-(Daily except Sunday.) Nc. 32. No. 10. Lv Marion ..... ....... Lv Ratherford ton. Lv Shelby. Lv Patterson Springs. Ar Blacksburg......... Lv Blacksburg......... Lv Yorkville............ Ar Rock Hill........... Lv Rock Hill............ Lv Catawba Jonction. Lv Lancaster........... Ar Kershaw.,,....,...,, Lv Kershaw... Ar Camden 8 30 a m 9.35 a m 10.20 a m 10.20 a m 10.45 a m 11.22 a ra 12.05 p m 12 05 pm 1.00 p m 4. 45 p m 6.20 p m 8.25 m 8.40 p m 9.00 pm Dinner at Kershaw. CONNECTIONS No 32 bas connection with the Chester & Lenoir Railroad at Yorkville, S. C., with the Southern Railway at Rock Hill, S. C., with the Seaboard Air Line at -Catawba Junction, S. C., with the Lancaster & Chester Railroad at Lancaster, S. C., and with the Sooth Car? olina and Georgia Railway at Camden, S. C. No. 33 North bound train bas same con nee. ions as No. 32. SAMUEL HUNT, PresideBt. S B. LU4PKIN, Gen. Par* A*t Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND A?GUS TA RAILROAD, CONDENSED: SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated May 16, 1896. Leave Wilmington Leave Marion Arrive Florence Leave Florence Arrive Sumter Leave Sumter Arme Columbia No.55. P.M. ?3 40 6 40 7 25 P. M. ?7 40 ;9 i2 P.M. 9 15 10 3? No.51 A.M. *3 35 4 4c No.52. A.M. *S 35 10 55 No. 52 runs tbrougn from (Jnarleston ia Central R. R., leaving Laces 8 26 a. m., Mao cine 9 05 a. m. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Leav? Columbia Arrive Sumter Leave Stinter Arrive Florence Leave Florence Leave Marion Arrive Wilmington ?Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C., /ia Centrai R. R., arriving Manning 7 10 p. m., Laces 7 48 pm., Charleston 9 30 p. a Trains on Conway Branch ?save Chad bourn 10 40 a. m., arrive at Conway way 1 00 p. m., returning leave Conway at 2 45 p. m., -ive Chacbourn 5 13 p. m\ jeave Chadooarn > ?3 p m., arrive at Hub a? 6 20 p. m., return..-? leave Hub 8 30 a. m. arrive at Cbadbourn 8.15 a. ci. Daily ex? cept Sondav. JOHN F. DIVINS, Gen'l Supt. J. n KEN LY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON. Traffc Manager Atlantic Coast Line. Manchester-& Augusts Railroad. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In effect January 19, 189o. TRAINS GOING SOOTH. No. ?35. .No. f57. Lv Darlington, Lv Elliott, Ar Sumter, Lv Sumter, Ar Creston, Lv Creston, Ar Pregnalle, Ar Orangeburg, .Ar Denmark, L. li. 4 30 5 22 5 47 6 20 A.. V. A. li 7 53 8 40 9 25 5 45 9 15 a k TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. T5ti .No. ?32 Lv Denmark, LT Oraogeburg, Lv Pregnsils, Ar Creston, Lv Creston, Ar Sumter, Lv Sumter, Ar Elliott, Ar Darlington A. U. 10 CO 3 50 6 55 7 40 8 30 p ii p. v. 4 55 5 25 B 47 b 40 y. u *DaiIy fDaiiy except Sunday. Trains 50 and 51 carry through PuHnun Pal.-ce Buffet Sleeping Cart? between New York a^ Atlanta via Augusta. T. M. EM ERSON, HM. EM ER SON, Traine Manager Aes't Gen. Pass. Ar; J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager. Wilson ai kwmm IB In effect January 15tb, 1896. TRAINS GOING NORTH, Leare Wilecns Mill t: Jordon, " Davi;., " Summerton. 51 Millard, " Siller, '* Packsviile. " Ttndai. " W. & S.Janj Ar. Sumter. No. 72* 9 10 a m 9 35 a m 9 45 a a iO IC a rr: 10 45 a Ci 11 10 a m 11 30 p ED 11 55 o ra 12 27 p m 12 30 p m TRAINS GOING SOUTH. No. 73* i Leave Sumter, I " W.&S.Jnnc, " Tindal, Pack8ville. Silver, Millard, Suomertor, Davis, Jordon, Wil9on Mill, Ar. 2 30 p ra 2 33 p ca 2 50 p EU 3 10 pm 3 35 p m 3 45 p m 4 40 p m 5 20 p m 5 50 p m 6 30 p m Trains between Millard and St. Paul leave Millard 10 15 a m and 3 45 p m., arriving St. Paul 10 25 a m and 3 55 p m. Returning leave St. Paul 10 35 a m and 4 10 pm, and arrive Millard 10 45 a m aud 4 20 p m. Dai? ly except Sunday. ?Daily except Sunday : TH J M AS WILSON Predaieot. HARB Y $ CO., WHOLESALE BROKERS, -AND Cotton Storage Warehouse PROPRIETORS. UP-TOW5 OFFICE: COURT HOUSE SQUARE* 1,000- Tons High Grade Am moniated Fertilizer, 1,000 TODS Acid with Potash. 500 Tons Dissolved Bone. 500 Tons German Kainit, 400 Tons C. S. Meal, For Sale. We are prepared to meet any and all prices for STAND? ARD GOODS. Get our prices before purchasing. Respectfully, HARBY & CO. Dec. 16. . 50 YEARS* EXPERIENCE. TRADE WARKS, DESIGNS, COPYRIGHTS Anyone sending a sket?-h ard description. :.?ay quickly ascertain, free? whether an invent, on probably pate::tab'e. Commnn.caticaa etr?et?y confidential. Oldest, ajrency fcrgecuring pvi :n:? la America. We have a Wsshingtoa oiSce. Patents taken through, iluaa & CO. re^elTO special notice in tbe 8KEHT1F1G AMERiOSH, beautifully iltostr ited, farces: circulation any scientific journal. veeS ry.1errasSv.frj a year: l&SOsix m?nthf. i?r?eciiaea coi?i^3 r<nd ' : .\y.x> HOOK 02: I'.vriiN'Ts soat?ree. Address MUNN ci CC, 361 Bread war-, yew Yor't. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GSa f. STEFFENS & SON, holesale Agents, Charleston, S C -Agents for MOTT'S* CIDES BED SEAL CIGAES, AND DOVE HAMS Atlantic Coast Line. Kor?h-Eas?era R. R? o? S. C. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Mar I>*O.3.VNO 23iso.53; 16, 1896. j * ? * j * Le. Florence 11 Kingtree Ar. Lanes Le. Lanes Ar.Chr.rl't'n A. M. o OJ 4 49 P X. 7 35 8 50 9 15 4 4?| 9 15 6 l?jlO 50 A. M. P. If. 7 52 9 25 P. M 'P. M. i TRAINS GOING NORTH. Le. Charl't'n Ar. Lanes Le. Lanes " Kingstree Ar. Florence NO 78 A M. 5 20 7 05 7 05 7 23 8 25 NO 32 J so 52 P. M. 5 20 6 45 6 45 7 55 A.M. I P. M. A. M. 7 00 8 26 P. M. ?Daily, f Daily except Sunday. Ne. 52 runs through to Columbia via Oo irai R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 73 and 32 run via Wilson aci Fayetteville-Short Line-and make elote connection for all points North. Trains on C k D. R. R. leave Florence 8 55 am, arrive Darlington 9 28 a rn, Che raw 10 40 a m, Wadeshoro 2 25 p m. Leave Florence, daih except Sunday, 8 10 p ra, ar? rive Dariington ? 40 p m, Hartsviile 9 35 p m, Benoettsv?le 9 36 p ra, Gibson !0 00 p ni Leave Florene?, Sundi.y only 0 00 p tu, ar? rive Darlington 9 27 a ra, Hurtsville 10 10 a m Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 15 a tn, Bennettsville 6 41 a rn, arrive Darlington 7 40 a m. Leave Barieville daily except Sun? day 6 30 a m, arrive Darlington 7 15 am, leave Darlington 7 45 a ra, arrive Florence S 15 a m. Leave Wadesboro, daily except Sunday 3 00 pm, Cberaw 5 15 p m, Dar? lington 6 27 p ra, F ic."ec ce t? :>b p RI Leave Hurtsville, Sundav only 7 00 a m , Darling ton'7 45 am, arrive Flortnce S 10 a m. J R. KENLY, JN?. F. DIVINE Gen'I Manager, Geo 1 .Sup'i T U EMERSON. Traffic Manager THE I I J, ffer For Sale: 1.000 Tons Prime Cotton Seed Meal of our own manufacture. -ALSO 500 Tons "Standard" or "Royal" Brand Am moniated G-uano. 500 Tons G-enuine German Kain it. 500 Tons Acid with Potash. 300 Tons Dissolved Bone. You will save money by giving us a chance to sell you. ?p-Town Office : Main Street, next to Court House Square. Mill at A. C. L. Depot. P. MOSES, President* A. C. PHELPS, Sec. & Treas. Machinery* SEE THE LATEST DEERING BALL BEARING MOWING MACHINE Buy none but the Deering ; it is the best up-to-date Mower. MACHINERY OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. M. B. 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