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Timm SUMTES WATCHSANi Established Arril I8 0. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON. Established Jone. 12*6 Consolidated lng. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ll. 1899. Sew Series-Yol. XYIII. No. 24 fifa i&att nnan soft j&raftnm. W. Gt. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C, TERMS : $1,50 per annum- o advance. IDTlBTIBlUilf: Oco Square first insertion.......$1 00 3very subsequent insertion" .<. .. ......... 50 Contracts for three months, or longer wil he made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private interests viii be charged for aa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged ter. Bryan Quotes McKin ley OD Anaexation. Tiae Case as to the Philippines Handled Briefly bat Stroog * ly by tbe Democratic Leader. Springfield, Uh., January 4 - liliana Jennings Bryan arrived in Sp rio g Seid at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He-will leave for Jackson ville, Ills., l to-morrow and will go to Cincinnati Friday. At S o'clock he address an im sense audience in Central music hall. Touching the question of annex ation, Mr. Bryan said: "The party that wat willing to oppose the gold jv standard because it was wrong ought to be good enough to oppose an English cohnial system because it is wrong. It is astonishing that any mao living io th Ut age. of the world in the United States should uphold the doctrine of j seeurici; laud by conques ;. Blaine was against it in 1890. - And a year ago last December tbs president of the United States scot a message to con gress, a ad in that message he said : "I speak not of forcible annexation, because that is not to be thought of ; *ZT and nuder our code of morality that would be criminal aggression/ My friends, there is a great morai question io wived, declared so by your president ; a cede oi: morality ie io question, and according to that code, for annexation is erimia al aggression. "I say, give in dependen ca to the people of Cuba, oct because we promised it them, "bat because they foug ht for it S3Q they have a right to it whether we promised it or not. Why cannot we apply the sams principle to the Philippines ? Why should we pur chase a title to the Philippine? from Spain? We declared that Spain did cot have any title to Cuba. When I boy the Filipinos I want to deal direct ly with them and I want to pay more than $2 50 apiece for them. i- ? . '-i '' Senator Perkins on Expan sion. Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 3 -Wheo the v Ssna.te was called to order to day a com munication wac received from Senator Perkins, ia which he asked instructions from the Senato on the pending question . of territorial expansion. He expressed thc opinion that this question is of more importance to the country than any prob lem that has arisen during the present generation. He stated that, in the ab sance of instruction from the Legislature ' > rf Californita, he will vote to amend Sec lion 7 of the treaty, which poo vides or ti rayment of $20,000,000 for the re linquishment of Spain's sovereign ty and interests io the Ph il i pine Is! co cs He is of the opinion that thc United States requires only a military station, naval! aod coaling station in th 2 islands Farther it seems to bim that to acquire territory io the islands or 00 tbe Asiatic coast is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. The cost of maintaic *? " jog a standing army io the Philippines and cbe expense of a civil government ,- for the islands is also given as another reason why the United States should oct acquire them. The exports from the inlands to all the worid are pointed out to be bot $30.000.000 annually. The fact that the islands are densely populated is given as the reason why they are in enable of being developed, as were the Louisiana, California and s Alaska* purchases. The ouhealtbfol fc ness' of the region is another argomentd agaiost them. The influence 00 Amer^ icsn industry, notably that of the raising of sugar beets, and upoo Amer ican labor, by the acquiring of the islands, is pointed out in the letter as not for the best interests of the couc hy. _ Oo December 18 the engineers of tbe Chicago and Northwestern railway accomplished the wonderful engineering task of moving its/200-ton bridge crossing the Kinnickinnic river at Milwaukee, ca its Chicago division, dowe stream 250 feet. This is a feat that bas beeo undertaken but a few times in the history of eogioeericg. be bridge was a single-track draw, d was removed to a new foucdation the qujfitf time of two hours and .sevtmflBPicteB. Filipinos Ready to Resist. Manila, January 3.-Advices just received from Iloilo say the rebels at a meeting on Saturday ratified the action of a delegation which assured the Americans that they might land unarmed, but that if the latter landed armed the natives would be uncontroll able. It is further said that every prepartion is being made for resistance upon the parc of the rebeis, and that reinforcements are arriving from Negros and tbe neighboring islands, in spite of the efforts,of tbe United States cruiser Baltimore and the gunboat Arizona to scare them with searchlights* The Spanish gunboat El Cano is still at Iloiio, but as her status is not defined she has not been molested. It is understood that she is destined to go to Samboangan, a towo of the Philippine Islands, on the southwest of the island of Mindanao. I The American troops are restless. The rebels are drilling OB the beach, I evening and morning, ic full view of toe'American exp dition, which is still afloat. The California volunteers were embarked on four transports to-day. Their destination ia unknown. The natives are quiescent, bot watch ful. A MASSACRE AT BALABAC. Madrid, January 3-Gen. Rios cables from. Maoiia confirming the report that all the Spaniards at Balaban, an island of the Philippine group, situated thirty miles south of Palawan, have been assassinated, with the exception of the women, whose release is being asked for. Gomez's Proclamation. Gen. Maximo Gomez, from his camp, 200 miles westward, of Narciso, has addressed a proclamation to the Cuban army advising them against disbanding until the proceedings at Washington regarding the pay of in surgent troops have been completed It is dated Dec. 29, and is in part as follows: "The moment bas arrived to give public explanation of my conduct and my purposes, which are- always in accord with my sense of duty to the conn try I serve. The Americans, tacitly, our allies, have terminated the war with Spain and signed a treaty of peace. I believed it was my ! duty not to move, for any political or other object, from the spot where I had drawn my swprd, so long ac< the enemies of the army had not com pletely evacuated the island. My presence elsewhere would have dis turbed the repose and calmness nec essary to consolidate peace; nor ought I to have caused the Cubans trouble by unnecessary manifestations during the jubilee "The per od of transition is ter minated; the army of the enemy is abandoning the county; the sover eignty of the great United States is beginning, as stipulated in the pro tocal, over all the island. But Cuba is not yet free or in peace. Self government is not consisted. For that reason we must dedicate our selves to bring about the disappear ance of the cause for American inter vention .'But above everything else, iu the spirit of justice to the Cuban army, it is necessary that before the libera tors of the people can dissolve a guarantee of order, that the debt which the country owes to its sol diers should be satisfied. Awaiting this result, I remain in my present position, always ready to help the Cubans finish the work to which I have dedicated my life " CUBAN ARMY DISBANDING. London, Jan 4 -The Habana cor respondent of The Times says: "I have had an interview wUh General Mario Menocal, commanding the Cuban forces io the provinces of Ha bana and Matanzas. He told me the insurgent generals would not accept any proposals by Gen. Maximo Go mez calculated to produce friction between the Americans in Cuba and t^at the disbanding of the Cuban ty was proceeding steadily A^pughout the island " Nesbips to the Pacific. % - Washington, Jan. 3-Secretary Long to-day cabled orders to the Oregoo at Callao to proceed to Hono lulu taking the distilling ship Iris wiih her Tbe Iowa was ordered to San FrancifcOO to make repairs to her boilers and replace a broken cylinder With her wiil go the supply steamer Celtic and the oolliers Scanda and Justin. The Oregon will get orders at Honolulu to proceed to Maoiia if the situation does not change in the meantime The gunboat Castine has also been ordered to Maoiia. TOM MILLER'S ADDRESS. President Toni Miller's Emancipation Day address io Spartanbarg, is well worth reading by whites as well as ne groes, by northerners aa well as sontb eroer8. It is racy ali the way through, and some of tho points it makes have not been better presented by any body. TomMiller.like Brooker Washington, is the president of an agricultural and mechanical ealiege, and be stands stout* ly to Washington in his policy of making industrial education the negro's path to prosperity and influence, but he goes farther than his Alabama co-worker. His olden experience as a politician enables bim to detect political shams and hts practice as a lawyer qualifies bim to puncture them, "The oegroTmust so live io the south as to prove by bis acts that his only hope is confined within r.he limit of the State in which be lives, lt is better by far to have no politioal hope than have one that is predcated upon national aid, na tional protection or national interference in our behalf." The negroes genoraly need his advice : "Shatter the idol of our hopes duriog the past 30 years, the idol that has been enthroned on the outside of the State, for it is impotent, though reigning. It bas bands, but i oancot be uplifted io your behalf; it has ears, but it will bear not ; it bas voice, but the voice hse been bushed ; it bas eyes., but the eyes will not penetrate across the line of any sovereign States ; it has understanding, but not for your cause ; it bas regard for the rights of the citizens of the Uni ted States, but that citizenship must not be clothed in black skin." There is cleverness in the way he uses the addrees of Senator Hoar in Charleston to brove to bis race that the north bas abandoned them and that they must apply themselves to making friends of the southern white people. Indeed he has plenty of other material at hand to prove this fact, and be uses some of it. Relief from such ill as the negroes really stiffer must come, be says, through the good white men of the sooth : "We will have to stay here trusting to God, acknowledging to our white citi zens our helplessness sod weaknesses, relying on them to right the ills we bear. Shoulder to shoulder, taegroes and white men must stand, band in haod they must stoop under the burden, and together, with a heart of love, labor for tbe State of South Carolina, the good of the races and the glory of God V That is a sound sentiment. Many southirn white mein, Democrats, have dared fioaociai loso, personal villifioa tion and even violence in order to pro tect the negro from outrage by the baser element of the ruling race ; but do what they may they cannot succeed without the negro's cooperation. It is to be borne in mind that of negroes iii treated by white men hardly one in a hundred is guiltless of some ill-conduct We recall very few oases io which sober, quiet negroes engaged in their regular avocations have been troubled by white men, however reckless. There are oe groes io every community who are re spected by all white people, who have strong friends among them. These are rarely if ever victims of lawlessness. The moral then is plain that in propor tion as the negroes earn for themselves the respect of the white people they will enjoy immunity from injustice - The State. A Ten Thousand Dollar Dead Negro. The Washington correspondent of the Columbia Record, under date of the 29th ult., says : Senator McLaarin stated yester day that he would push the measure which is pending in the senate for tbe relief of the wife and family of Postmaster Baker, who was murdered at Lake City, S. C. The measure provides for an appropriation of ten thousand dollars for tbe wife and family of the dead postmaster. The senator is interesting himself in tbe matter personally as he regards the measure as a just one, in view of the circumstances surrounding the case." Now, Senator McLaurin, it seems to us, places a high value on the dead negro postmaster in question and his proposed prodigal appropria tion from tbe people's money box will not meet with public approval in Sooth Carolina. Getting Ready for the Session, Col. J. W. Floyd, as sergcant-at arms of the senate is caving the senate chamber prepared for the session next Tuesday. Oo the 18th Col Floyd j will become adjutant general. There are a number of applicants for the position of sergeant-at-arms of the senate, among them being Mr. L R. Marshall, of this city, a one armed Confederate soldier. The hons? of representatives is being changed of ali dust, and the desk and chairs rearranged tinder direction of Mr. N. H Stansell, sergeaot-at-arms. Col. Floyd has not announced the name of the assistant adjutant general, but will do so io a few days.-The State, Jan. 6. GLANCE AT COUN? TRY'S FUTURE. Senator M'Laurin's Charles? ton Speech-McKinley's Tri? bute to the Confederate Dead. Special to The State. Charleston, Deo. 22 -Senators Geo F. Hoar and John L. MoLanrin, who arrived here last night to participate io the banqnet of the New England society to-eight, were shown a great deal of attention to-day, and loder the chaperonage of Messrs. A. H. Mowry and James M. Seignioos, the special oommittee en reception, were driven about the city \and to Magnolia cemetery. Senator Hoar has a round, beamingly, benevolent, boyishly fresh countenance, occasionally met with io weil preserved old meo, even the pinkish tints of the flesh, and irresisti? bly reminds one, at the first glanoe, of tbe pictures of Dickens' immortal character, Mr. Piokwiok. In reply to the question whether the seoate would ratify the Paris treaty, Senator Hoar said : "The whole thing will be beaten if the Democrats stick, bat if the fight is postponed for three years, success would be doubtful.'7 The bar association will tender Senators Hoar aod McLaurin ao excur? sion around the bar and to Fort Sumter to morrow. The constables created consternation this morning by seizing a shipment of wine consigned to the stewards of the New England society and intended for ose at the banquet to-nighc. During the day Gov. Ellerbe was wired for orders granting the release of the j wioe. Messrs. W. A. Neal, superintendent of the State penitentiary, and Francis '< Yv eston, of Columbia, arrived in the city last night and were registered at \ tbe Charleston hotel to-day. They were on Broad street this morning in conversation with the Charleston delegation. Messrs. Neal and Weston's visit was the subject of some comment. It is opined that Col. Neal is looking after his political fences. The Saratoga sailed for Coba this afternoon with tbe third and last de? tachment of the Tenth regular infantry. Companies A, H, I and L, 439 men and five officers, under the commacd of Capt. W. T. Duggan arrived this morn? ing from Huntsville, Ala , and were promptly transferred with their bag? gage aod provisions to the Saratoga bv Maj. Edward Willis, qoartermaste. today. Ooly one mao was sick, Lieut. Tibbett, who was left at the City hos? pital. Promptly at 7 o'clock this eveoieg the New England society and their in? vited guests sat down to an elegant banquet in honor of Forefathers Day, at the Charleston hotel. It is a some? what curious faot that the New Eng? landers (many of them by courtesy so called) compose the best endowed so? ciety of the kind in the city and are best able to give banquets on a national soale, as it were. That is to invite and entertain distinguished visitors of national reputation at their banqueting board. It has been their custom for years past to have one or more distin? guished speakers from abroad, and on this occasion. Senator Hoar was the pieoe de resistance provided. The set speeches this evening were "Forefather's Day," responded to by Senator Hoar; "Our Country," re? sponded to by Senator John L Mo? Lanrin; "The Mayflower," by Hon. Joseph B. Cummings, of Augusta; "Education," Principal Tait, of the Memioger High school. The auditors were charmed with Senator Hoar, and in fact with eaoh of the speakers in turn, but perhaps the speech which at? tracted most attention was that of Sena tor MoLaurin, who said io part: The war between the States is over, that tragic chapter io our country's history is forever closed. The memory of its pain and sorrow yet lingers with ns. But standing tonight upon the birthplace and very cradle of secession with siocere hearts, we can all thank God that out of its supreme agony has come a union, one and indivisible. I thank God for a president, whose great soul aod Christian spirit has done so mnoh to reunite this nation In the name of the sooth, I thank him for the laurel wreath laid opon the graves of our dead. The time will come when the great heart of this nation will care for the living as well as for the dead. Wheo the poverty-stricken aod feeble old Confederate veteran wili not have to die in order to wio a place io the na? tional regard. "The race and suffrage question by I reason of the sudden exigency forcp? upon the sooth, has secured a partial solution as evidenced by the constitu? tions sod election laws of the various States. Some of those who have crit? icised us, may find the justification of our methods io providing a scheme for the government of these colonial pos? sessions. "I will never vote to'give the ignor? ant, degraded and servile of the for The Negro-Ridden Planter. The same ianda upon which people amassed fortunes before the war are now lying idle, overgrown with pines and more or less washed iBto gullies The creek bottoms upon which grew as fine corn as. ever greeted the eye of Joseph in the land of Egypt, have gone to waste. Tbe beds of the creeks have been overgrown by bushes, the streams have filled up, and the bottoms are now covered with water or are too wet for culti vation. Vast stretches of fertile lands are here waiting for the coming of more labor and more capital-not waiting for the departure of the limited amounts of 'abor that may now be fonnd upon the unprofitable fields Our streams have been filled up, and their course is now the width of the valley, and with each succeeding rain the valleys become great seas and additional deposits are being made upon them. If these creeks were ditched the bed of the streams would be so lowered that the bottom land would again become profitable. Abbeville county has in the past suffered by emigration. Before the war, the small land owners and other "poor white trash," were encouraged or forced to go to the west Thousands of white peo pie of this county, under pressure, or from force of circustances, went westward before the war For sev eral years after the war a great mass of our young white men left the negro-ridden State for new fields of usefulness. This is the gloomy picture which the Abbeville Press and Banner draws of agricultural conditions in those parts of its county from which the negroes wish to emigrate, to the alarm and distress of the white land owners. By a coincidence, the same day that brought ns this jeremiad brought us also a statement of experience in dealing with just euch conditions in another state. We quote from an article by Col. J. B. Killebrew, Af M., Ph. D , in the Southern Farm Magazine for January : No more striking illustration can be given of the great benefits to be derived from a diversification of crops than to detail what has taken place in the central and southern parts of West Tennessee within the past 20 years. There is a region of country of which Humboldt, Tenn., is the centre, that 20 years ago was devoted mainly to the cultivation of cotton and corn. The average farmer of that region at that time aspired to be a planter. He rejoiced in seeing many broad acres in cotton on his farm He was ambitious and indus trious, careless and energetic. He cared for no crop except cotton. He did not try to raise his supplies, but stoutly maintained that he could buy them cheaper than he could grow them * * As for chickens, eggs, butter, wheat bay, fruits, meats, in his estimation these were all little things, aad cotton woald buy them. Cotton was the grand mogul of all the crops. It controlled all and bought all. * * Gollies might wash on his farm, fences might rot and bouses might fall to decay, bot with all this cottoo must be raised. A big orop of this staple supplied all other deficiencies and relieved every calamity. What if the land should bo exhausted in one place, a large crop of cotton would buy fresh fields with virgin soil in another. Preserving the fertility of the soil and improving it by rest and rotation might do for the farmer else where, but time was too valuable to be T - wasted io this way by the average West Tennessee cotton planter 20 years ago. * * He would crop out his land or rent it, payable io cotton, which he seemed to prefer even to money. He was willing to buy mules, to supply provender, to advance provisions on the faith 6f the cotton crop, but of nothing else. * * But the evil day came when the cotton planter of that region could co longer, make himself comfortable at home by devoting bis attention to one crop. His lands were sterilized. Great gullies coursed themselves down every steep slope and made the land in many spots not only unproductive but impassable for teams. Something bad to be done. Many a farmer became discouraged, sold out and went to Texas Others learned wisdom by experience. Here and there a farmer wooid be so bold as to ship a few early vegetables and fruits to market. Those brought good prices. Others followed the wake of these pioneers and pros pered, and now one may see over a large extent of country thousands of acres planted io strawberries, raspber ries, early orchard fruits, asparagus, tomatoes, beans, peas, equash, potatoes, early and late corn, egg plant, rhubarb, okra, cucumbers, melons, wheat, oats, bay and numerous other farm acd orchard products, which bring back returns that have made the whole region blossom in a magnificent pros perity. Many of the large farms have been divided. Elegant country places with surroundings embellished with flower? and gravelled walks pud green lawns and fruitful orchards are now seen where 20 years ago dilapidation and ruin marked the habitations on every country road. THE FARMERS NOW HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. Then they sold only one crop once a year, and oftentimes the proceeds of that orop were expended before it came into the planter's haods This is the lesson which a diversified agriculture teaches, and this is the lesson also taught by the disasters of a one-crop system of agriculture. We submit to the Abbeville Press and Banner that the conditions of its county are fully paralleled by the. conditions in West Tennessee 20 years ago, as described by Col. Killebrew, and may be as radically obanged as they have been there. It is not "the coming of more labor and more capital" that those worn and vacant fields require-it is better labor and better brains. More labor and more capital, if applied to a continuance of the present ruinous agricultural methods, will simply mean more loss aod more poverty. It is only by a change of methods tbab redemption can be had, and that requires no more labor and no more capital. If, as The Press and Banner saye thousands of poor white men of its coun ty were before the war "encouraged or forced to go west,77 that is a fact which amply accounts for the great negro ma jority there and the corresponding prev alence of thirtles8 and unprofitable agri culture. Anderson county, apparently, did not drive its poor whites away, aod that is the secret of its steady progress. If ss our contemporary says, "for several years after the war a great mass of yoong white men left the negro-rid ren State for new fields of usefulness" it is a warning to ns that they will in like manner leave any negro-ridden region in the State. It is not only in polities that white men can be ** negro-ridden.77 Farmers are negro-ridden when they make themselves dependent on the ne gro labor when they degrade their agri culture to the level of the negro's intel ligence and customs and preference, when they allow the negro, riding on their backs, to drive them down the bill of inevitable disaster. This is to be negro-riddeo-end if we are to believe The Press and Banner white planters of Abbeville county so enjoy their subjection to the cottooto negro that rather than permit them selves to be freed from his thraldom they will endorse the murder of those who may seek to dislodge him and take him away.-The State. Change of Government is Imminent in Spain. Madrid, Jan. 5 -Gen. Polavieja, the former governor general of Cuba and the Philippines, and Senor Sil vela, the Conservative lea^r, have agreed upon the formation of a new cabinet and have been summoned by the queen regent. 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