THE STATESBORO AFFAIR.
r rom The Daily Item, Aug. 18.
The mob murders at Statesboro,
"Ga., Tuesday evening were, without
exception, the most outrageous exhibi?
tion of lawlessness tbat has ever come
within our observation, and shows to
whr.t extremes the mob spirit will car?
ry supposedly civilized American citi?
zens.' There was not the shadow of an
excuse for the lynching of the negroes,
for they had been legally convicted and
sentenced to death at an early day,
and the savagely cruel methods resorted
to by the mob are positive proof that
the mob was actuated, not by a desire
to see the negroes pay the" penalthy
-prescribed by law for murder, but
by a wanton and savage lust for blood.
The men who participated in the
burning of Cato and Seed flouted the
majesty of the law, defied the courts
and reverted to a type of ferociously
primitive barbarism that one would
scarcely believe possible among peop?e
who are etizens of a civilized,
Chistian country and decendants of a
lorg line of law respecting and justice
loving freemen.
The Statesboro horror emphasizes a
point that we endeavored to bring out
clearly in an article published yester?
day, but written before the dews of
the burning- of Cato and Seed had
been received: Mobs are, asa rule,
cowardly and have not the\grit to face
rail danger, as was instanced by the cau?
tious tactics of the Statesboro crowd
?until it was revealed that the militia
were more for show than for service
- and were ornamentally armed wi th un?
loaded guns and under orders not to
shoot. Does any one question that
the result would have been different
ha d Sheri S Kendrick and the com?
mander ot^ the militia drawn a dead
line around the Court House and made
/. it known to the mob that the first
man to cross it would be shot do<vn?
"Waat sort of Sheriff would a mob
most respect and fear-fear being the
essence of respect in the case of a mob
-the ene who, like Sheriff Kendrick
protests his friendship toward the
mob and pleads with its members to
disperse,' or one who commands obed?
ience to the law and enforces his com?
mand at the muzzle o? a gnn, as did
that Sheriff ot Birmingham, Ala., of
valiant memory, who put a mob to
-Bight and saved his prisoners, though
he was forced to fire into it and kill
a few of its members in the discharge
of his duty?
Unlawful force and violence must be
met and curbed by greater force, law?
fully exercised. As soon asyit is made
dear by a few impressive examples
"that it means death to at least a few
of every mob that seeks to defy the
law and rob the courts of their right
to try the. accused and to punish the
guilty, as the law provides, mob mur?
ders will become of rare occurrence.
One officer of known courage and de?
termination, with a double barrel gun
in his hands and a supply of shells, j
loaded with buckshot, will keep a
mob from storming one side of a jail,
or court ho?se and, four such men
could and would bold the fort against
any ordinary mob.
The apologists for mob law will
promptly exclaim that it would be an
outrage to shoot down good citizens
and taxpayers to save the miserable life
ox a no-count nigger - villain ! It
would be a sad pity to take the life of
any good ciitzen in order to preserve
a villain's life. But that is not the real
issue. It is not the villain's life only !
that is at stake, but the law of the !
land, the very bed-rock of our civiliza- j
tion. Perhaps, a? in the case of !
Cato and Seed, the lives of the crimi?
nals have already been ad judged.forfeit
to the law, and the only thing really
at stake is the law i tee If. Further
more, the plea of the lynch law apolo?
gist is. fatally defective in another
particular. The man who joins with
a mob to violate the Iaw 'ceases that
moment to be good citizen, in the
legal sense of the term, though he may
remain a good fellow, a taxpayer and
a voter, and, if he loses his life in his
unlawful undertaking, the fault is his
alone. The law, in ' theory, is exact
jusice, inflexible, inexorable and ter?
rible, and the man who takes an oath
to execute the law is held blameless
if, in the dicharge of his duty, he in?
jures or kills those who, individually
or collectively, seek to violate its pro?
visions.
G. P.Osteen, M.?
Na. 18 W. Liberty St.,
. (Over Osteen's Book Store),
SUMTEB, S. C.
CON ?ND LOCKSMITH. ~~~
I take pleasure in giving no?
tice to my friends and the pub?
lic generally, , that, having re?
gained my he??th, i have re?
opened my shop, and-am ready '
to do any work in th?
line of Guns, Locks,- dewing
Machines, &c Pric?^reasona- !
ble, work done prompt y and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop removed to No. %% j
West Liberty street, two doors :
from Qsteea's Book Store.
K. H. BRAD WELL. ?
r SH BOTH SISES OF EKOTMi
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! The Republicans Ably Consiste
j - .
< in Their Devotion to the Trust
on Which They Rely for the
Means of Corruption.
From the Louisville Courier-Jourm
j Of course the Republican campaij
text-book for 1904 claims everythi'
and claims it exultingly. It is a pa
of the unwriten law of the Rep. Mia
party to claim to be the senior partn
in the firm that sends the ref resins
dew, the early and the late rain, wh?<
makes the deserts blossom and ti
waste places glad.
The four "facts" with which tl
book starts are not facts at all, bi
are either outrageous fictions or ha
truths, intended to mislead. The fir
is that the party's pledge of 1896 hi
been redeemed ; but that pledge was i
favor of international bimetallisn
The second allegation is that prosper
ty has come as a result of the redemj
tion of a pledge, and here the refe;
ence is to the tariff. The party pron
ised a tariff that would, afford sufficier
revenue, but the Dingley tariff wi
followed by a-d?ficit, until re-enfoK
ed by the war revenue bill and a loa
of $200,000,000. As to prosperity, tha
was beginning to return before th
Republicans got into power. But R?
publican pledges to put the money o
ia satisfactory basis-satisfactory frc:
the standpoint of their cwn expert
and officials--has never been defiant!
ignored. The reference to 1 the issue
of 1896 is intended to mislead by ?old
ing ont the idea that the main issue o
that year is still confronting us, whici
is notoriously untrue. There is i
fourth ' ' f act,, vaguely stated as to con
ditions that have come to other parti
of the world from Republican policy
but it may be said that our policy cai
not properly be directed to other part!
of the world, but should be for on:
own benefit, and it is besides hard tc
understand how this can be mention?
ed as a fact. So far from the Repub?
lican policy being definite and out?
spoken, it is halting and insincere ir
every particular. The regulation ol
combines intended to create mono?
polies, genrally called trusts, is an
important question. The ^Republican
party professes to be their enemy, yet
it was put into power by them and is
maintained there by their contribu?
tions. It passed a Tariff Act made
by and for the trusts, and it stands
pat upon it. At the same time it
winks the other eye and conveys to
the trusts the intimation that it must
seem to intend to regulate them,
otherwise an indignant and defrauded
people will sweep it from power. The
trusts understand this, and cheerfully
consent to the insincere war intended
for no other purpose than to perpetu
ate control of " American consumers
j and American markets for all time to
come. The tariff might be considered
an exception to the rule th?t the party
is on both sides of every question, but
even this is not so. While brucally
standing pat on a measure of extor?
tion which was dictated by the mono?
polists, it yet holds out the hope to
the disaffected that it will be modified
by its friends whenever it is neces?
sary. With its broken pledge as to
reciprocity extending over seven years,
it stilt professes that it is the great
and only friend of reciprocity.
In another matter the claim of the
Republican text-book is grossly incon?
sistent. It claims to have made the
country prosperous by the encatment
of a protected tariff the proof of which
is found in the great rise in prices
that has occurred since 1897. ' But
with singular inconsistency this same
Republican campaign book says' that
"the claim that the protective tariff
increases prices is met with facts and
figures from the economic history of
the United States and other countries
?which-fully show the inaccuracy of
the charge." This is, the Republi?
can party is on both sides of this
question. It went to the monopolists
and offered to sell them for a suffi?
ciency of campaign funds to put it into
power a tariff law that would enable
them to exact millions from consum?
ers in increased prices of the neces?
saries of life. This pledge was kept,
but it was not made to the people,
but to the trusts. Having put up the
prices of trust-made articles, and get
credit for it as promoting prosperity,
it now says that the position that pro?
tection increases prices is false, and
seeks to prove it by the economic his?
tory of the country. Eight years ago
when it was claimed that the gold
s tan da rc made prices low, the Repub?
licans said it was the progress of in?
vention, tho improvements in machin?
ery, the application of improved pro?
cesses that had cheapened many goods,
and this was true. But now when
high prices, instead of low prices, are
the subject of complaint, they say it
is the tariff that makes prices low.
Here they are distinctly on both sides
of the question. For the seller they
make erices high and they make them
low for the buyer, and all by the de?
vice \of a monopoly tariff. In seek?
ing to capture votes, they are all
tilings to all men, but consistent in
nothing except their devotion to the
trusts on which they rely for the means
of corruption. "
N. G. Osteen, Jr.,
SURGEON DENTIST,
OFFICE :
No. 18 W. Liberty St.,
(Over Osteen's Book Store.)
SUMTER, S. C.
Office hours, 9 to 1.30 ; 2.30
to 6
THE DAGUERREOTYPE.
Odd Notions Conoernlnff the Pro???
When It Waa New.
Many amusing remarks were made
at tho doors of daguerreotype galleries
when they were first opened in this
country. A small frame containing a
dozen specimens would draw a crowd.
One mau would undertake to describe
how they wore made. "You look in the
machine, and tte picture comes-if you
)ook long enough." Another would
say: "It is not so much the looking-that
does it The sun burns it in if you
keep still." Another made it all very
plain by stating, "The plate is a look?
ing glass, and when you sit in front o?
it your shadow sticks on the plate."
How it cain?? about was never
known, but the impression became
general that the sitter must not wink.
No operator of intelligence ever told
the sitter not to wink, for the effort to
refrain would have given the eye an
unnatural expression. We found it a
duty to tel! the sitter to wink as usual;
that natural winking did not affect the
picture. Evei^ then it was not always
understood. One old lady jumped out
of the chair before a sitting was half
over, raising both hands and exclaim?
ing: "Step it. stop it:* I winked!"
Another remarkable fact was that
sitters seldom acknowledged their own
likenesses. "All good,but mine," was
the common decision. An aged couple
after examining their pictures came to
this conclusion. "Maria, yours is per?
fect, but this does not look like me."
But the old lady answered. ".Teems,
yours is as natural as life, but mine is
a failure." After a longer consultation
the old gentleman said. "We must
know each other better than we know
ourselves." At one time when Daniel
Webster sat for a daguerreotype the
finished picture was held before him.
Turning away, he said: "I am not to
judge of my own looks. It is for you
to judge, and you must decide whether
the work is worthy of your reputa?
tion.**-A. Bogardus in Century.
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