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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.
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special notice in tbe
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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. Bloom*
Sumter, S. C.
WOH'T HATCH
OUT A CHICKEN!
Neither will proclamations on dead
walls revive languishing trade.
is the great
IHK-UBATOR
FOR HATCHING^
OUT BUSINESS.
232 Meetiog Street, Charleston, S. C.
Wholesale Wr> -
STATE AGENTS PGR SALE CF
Tin Plats
Sheet Iron,
Tinner?'
Supplies,
Galvanized
Gutter
?nd
Pipe.
Over 200 dieren: sjjles of Cooking and Heating Stover. Also Oil Cookers and Headers.
We want the leading merchaot in every town in the State to sell our lirjes o?
Stoves. We guaraotee full protection in bis territcrv to each ?gent we appoiot
If nc: sold in your rowD send direst tu us fer cut? and prices.
Oct 27,
i?fli?T?P! -i WHITE & il
I wgk m | m V- i m% Fire Insurance Agency.
iWmWU ^ i feI?5i ESTABLISHED 1866.
. . ' - -'v .. Represent, among other Companies :
; :, : ; .-".*' ' ~ LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE,
Tii?yj;;".".;; : .NORTH BRITISH ? MERCANTILE
^IS^^^S^&^IW^, E5?? HOME, of New York.
L*F?Srci??'r S .... '. ..... . ..-. > UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y.
actuu? clients ? :=y ^ j LANCASTER INSURANCE CO.
iowa, v.:<J faXW^was^\7m\?F?S!*WSK^
t,lnyAw*gy\aK?m?SaS? ; Capital represented $75,000,000.
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