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HtSBEIT UFT? mifORH
SYNOPSIS OF IHK IN.U'Gl UAL AD
D RICKS.
A Ptnin Statement of Ills Mowh oii
(Jnrwtlona of National lui|m>rtaiice?
On .ho Negro Imune He Trlee to
Plena* Both the Southern Whites
And to Retain the Political Friend
?hip of Ute Negro.
The following etxracta from Presi?
dent Tafts Inaugural address cover
the moat Important features of his
declarstfon of principles and define
his attitude In respect to questions of
national policy, domeetlc and foreign.
My Ftllow Citizen.
Any one who takes the oath 1 have
Just taken must feel a heavy weight
of responsibility. If not. he has no
eoneeptlon of the powers and duties
of the office upon which he is about
to enter, or he is lacking in a proper
sense of the obligation which the oath
f Impose!.
The office of an Inaugural addrese
Is to give a summary Outline of the
main policies of the new admlnistra
I'on. so far as they can be anticipat?
ed. 1 have had the honor to be one
Of the advisers of my distinguished
predecessor, and as such, to hold up
hie hands in the reforms he haa ini?
tiated, l shV uld be untrue to myself.
Is my premises area to the declara?
tion of the party platform upon whi*-h
X was elected to office, if I did not
make the maintenance and enforco
mint ?: f thoee reforms a most imp*, r
f tant feature of my adminh trath n.
Tney a er? directed to the suppression
of the lawlessness and abuses of pow
< r of the great combinations of capi?
tal insisted In railroads and In indus?
trial enterprises carrying on Inter
State commerce. The steps which my
wpredecessor took and the legislation
' laeeed on his recommendation have
accomplished much, have caused a
gtneral halt in the vicious policies
which ereated popular alarm, and
have brought about in the bualness
effected, a much higher regard for
fxleting law.
To render the reforms lasting, how?
ever, end to iccure at the same time
freedom from alarm on the part of
those oursutng proper and progres?
sive bualness methods, further legis?
lative it ad executive action are need
i eel Relief of the railroads from cer?
tain reitrtctlons of the antl-trust law
has b.?en urged by my predecessor
spd will be urged by me. On the
Other hsnd. the administration Is
pledged to legislation looking to a
proper federsl '.upervtslon and ro
I strletloM to prevent excessive Issues of
f bonds and stocks hy companies own
SI and operating Interstate coin
tree railroads.
Then, too, a reorganisation of the
department of Justice, of the bureau
of corporations in the department of
commerce and labor, and of the Inter
sfstate commerce commission, looking
to effective cooperation of tlwso
agencies. Is needed to secure a more
rapid and certain enforcement of the
laws affecting interstate railroads and
Industrial combinations.
I hope to be able to submit, at the
'first regular session of the incoming
congress. In I ?e* ember next definite
snsjpssllons in respect to the needed
amendments to the anti-trust and the
Interstate commerce law. and the
changes required In the executive de
[Apartments concerned In their enforce
r ment
pshal
* to I
A matter of moel presalng Impo?
tence is the revision of the tariff. In
SSS er dance with the promises of the
platform upon which I was elected. T
It call congress Into extra session,
to meet on the 15th day of March,
In order that consideration may beat
once given to a bill revising the Ding
ley act. This should secure an ade?
quate revenue and adjust the duties
In such a manner aa to afford to la?
bor and to all industries in this coun?
try, whether of the farm, mine or fac?
tory, protection by tariff equal to the
difference between the cost of produc?
tion abroad and tin cost of produc?
tion here, and have a provlalon which
shall put into force, upon executive
determination of certain facts. ahl<h
er of maslrnum tariff against those
countries whose trade policy toward
ue equitably requires such dlscrlrr In
atlon It is thought that there haa
been such a change in condltl ?n*
since the enactment of the Dim ley
act. drafted on a similarly protsstlvs
principle that the measure of the
tariff above stated will permit the re?
duction of rates in certain schedules
and a 111 require the advancement of
few. if any.
In :he making of a tariff bill, the
prime motive la taxation, and the se
Wji wring thereby of a revenue. Due
largely to the business depression
"^whlch followed the linanclal panic ?r
1107. KA?m revenue from customs and
other sources has decreased to such
an extent that the expenditure* for
the current fiscal year will exceed the
I receipts by $ 100,000.000. It is Imper?
ative that such a denclt shall not con?
tinue, snd the framers of the tariff
bill must of course have In mind the
total revenues likely to be produced
by It, and so arrange the duties aa to
secure sn adequate income. Should It
i
be impossible to do 10 by import
duties, new kinds of taxation must be
adopted, and among these I raoom
mend a graduated inheritance tax, as
correct in principle and as certain and
easy of collection.
in the department of agriculture,
the use of scientific experiments on a
large scale and the spread of inform?
ation derived from them for the Im?
provement of general agriculture,
must go on.
The Importance of supervising b?j
Iness of great railways and Industrial
combinations, and the necessary In?
vestigation and prosecution of unlaw?
ful business methods, are another nec?
essary tax upon government which
did not exist half a century ago.
The putting into force of laws
which ?hall secure the conservation of
our resources, so far as they may be
within the Jurisdiction of the federal
government, Including the most Im?
portant work of saving and restoring
our forests, and the great Improve?
ment of waterways, are all proper
government functions which must In?
volve large expenditure If properly
performed.
Then, too there are expenditures of
our country Is to maintain Its proper
government absolutely necesasry If
place among the nations of the world,
und Is to exercise Its proper influence
In defense of its own trade interests.
In the maintenance of traditional
American policy against the coloni?
zation of European monarchies in
this hemisphere, and in the promo?
tion of peace and international mor?
ality. I refer to the cost of main?
taining a proper army, a proper navy
and suitable fortifications upon the
mainland of the United States und in
Its dependencies.
We should have an army so organ?
ized, and so officered, as to be cap?
able in time of emergency. In cooper?
ation with the national militia, and
under the provisions of a proper na?
tional volunteer law, rapidly to ex?
pand Into a force sufficient to resist
all probable Invasion from abroad
and to furnish a respetcable expendl
tlonary force, if necessary, in the
maintenance of our traditional Amer?
ican policy which bears the name of
President Monroe.
A modern navy can not be im?
provised. It must be built and in ex?
istence when the emergency arises
which cats for Its use and operation/.
Our international policy is always
to promote peace. We shall enter Into
any war with a full consciousness of
the awful consequences that it al?
ways entails, whether successful or
not, we, of course,shall make every
effort, consistent with national honor
and the highest national Interest, to
avoid a resort to arms. We favor ev?
ery Instrumentality, like that of The
Hague tribunal and arbitration trea?
ties made with a view to its use in
all International controversies, in or?
der to maintain peace and to avoid
war. But we should not be blind to
existing conditions, and should not
Allow ourselves to become foolish
idealists, if we did not realize that
with all the nations of the world arm?
ed and prepared for war, we must be
ourselves In a similar condition, in
order to prevent other nations from
taking advantage of us and of our
Inability to defend our interests and
assert our rights with a strong hand.
The admission of Asiatic immi?
grants who can not be amalgamated
with our population has been made
the subject either of prohibitory
clauses in our treaties and statutes,
or of strict administrative regulation
securedby diplomatic negotiation. I
sincerely hope that we may continue
to minimize the evils likely to arise
from such immigration without un?
necessary friction and by mutual con?
cessions between self-respecting gov?
ernments. Meantime, we must take
every precaution to prevent, or fall?
ing that, to punish outbursts of race
feeling among our people against for?
eigners, of whatever nationality who
have by our grant a treaty right to
pursue lawful business here and to
be protected against lawless assault
or Injury.
This leads me to point out a seri?
ous defect in the present federal Jur?
isdiction which ought to be remedied
at once. Having assured to other
countries by treaty tho protection of
our laws for such of their subjects
or citizens as we permit to come with?
in our Jurisdiction, we now leave to
a State or a city, not under the con?
trol of the federal government, the
duty c* performing our international
obligations in this respect. By prop?
er legislation we may. and ought to,
place In the hands of the federal exe?
cutive the means of enforcing the
treaty rights of such aliens in th>
courts of the federal government, it
puts our government In a pusillani?
mous position to make definite en
Kugemen s to protect aliens and then
to excuse the failure to perform those
engagements by an explanation that
the duty to keep them Is In States or
cities, not within our control. If we
would promise, we must put ourselves
in a position to perform our promise.
We can not permit the possible fail?
ure of Justice due to local prejudice
j In any State or municipal government
! to expose us to the risk of a war
which might be avoided if federal
Jurisdiction was asserted by suitable
I legislation by congress and carried
i out by proper proceeding! instituted
I by the executive in the courts of the
national government].
One of the reforms to be Carried
out during the incoming administra?
tion is a change of our monetary and
banking laws, so as to secure great, v
el letlClty in tin- forma of currency
available for trade, and to prevent the
limitations of law from operating to
in -rease tin- ? ml-airassments of a
iii aneial panic.
The Incoming congress should
promptly fulfil] the promise of the
Republican platform and pass a prop?
er postal savings bank bill. It will
net be unwiser or execessive paternal?
ism.
I sincerely hope that the incoming
congress will be alive, as it should be
to the importance of our foreign trade
and of encouraging it in every way
feasible. The possibility of increas?
ing this trade in the Orient, in the
Philippines and in South Amorica is
known to every one who has given
the matter attention. The direct ef?
fect of free trade between this coun?
try and the Philippines will be mark?
ed upon our sale of cottons, agricul?
tural machinery and other manufac?
tures. The necessity of the establish?
ment of direct lines of steamers be?
tween North and South America has
been brought to the attention of con?
gress by my predecessor, and by Mr.
Root before and arter his noteworthy
visit to that continent, and I sincerely
hope that congress may be induced to
see the wisdom of a tentative effort
to establish such lines by the use of
trail subsidies.
The Panama canal will have a most
Important bearing upon the trade be?
tween the Eastern and Far Western
sections of our country, and will
g-eatly Increase the facilities for
tiansportation between the Eastern
and Westrn seaboard, and may pos?
sibly revolutionize the .transcontinen?
tal rattl with respect to bulky mer?
chandise. It will also have a most
beneficial effect to increase the trade
between the Eastern seaboard of the
United States and the western coast
of South America, and, indeed, with
some of the important ports on the
east coast of South America reached
by rail from the west coast. The work
on the canal Is making most satisfac?
tory progress.
Some type of canal must be con?
structed. The lock type has been se?
lected. We are all in favor of having
it built as promptly as possible. We
must not now, therefore, keep up a
fire in the rear of the agpnss^whom
we have authorized to do our work
on the isthmus. We must hold up
their hands, and speaking for the in?
coming administration, I wish to say
that I propose to devote all the ener?
gy possible and under my control to
the pushing of this work on the plans
which have been adopted, and to
stand behind the men who are doing
faithful hard work to bring about the
early completion of this, the greatest
onstructive enterprise of modern
times.
I look forward with hope to in?
creasing the already good feeling be
tweeu the South and the other sec?
tions of the country. My chief pur?
pose is not to effect a change in the
electoral vote of the Southern States.
That is a secondary consideration.
What I look forward to is an increase
in the tolerance of political views of
all kinds and their advocacy through?
out the South, and the existence of
a respectable political opposition In
every State; even more than this, to
an Increased feeling on the part of all
the people in the South that this gov?
ernment Is their government, and
that its officers in their States are
their officers.
The consideration of this question
can not, however, be completed and
full without reference to the negro
race, its progress and its present con?
dition. The 13th amendment secured
them freedom; the 14th amendment
due process of law, protection of
property and the pursuit of happi?
ness and the 15th amendment at?
tempted to secure tho negro against
any deprivation of the privilege to
vote, because he was a negro. The
13th and the 14th amendments have
beer? generally enforced and have se
ured the obje^ for which they were
intended. While the 15th amendment
has not been generally observed In
the past, It ought to he observed, and
the tendency of Southern legislation
today is toward the enactment of elec?
toral qualifications which shall square
with that amendment. Of course, the
mere adoption of a constitutional law
Is only one step In the right direction.
It must be fairly and justly enforced
as well. In time both will come.
Hence It is clear to all that the dom?
ination of an ignorant, irresponsible
element can be prevented by consti?
tutional laws which shall exclude
from voting both negroes and whites
not having education or other quali?
fications thought to be necessary for
a proper electorate. The danger of
the control of an Ignorant elcctroute
has therefore passed. With this
change, the interest which many of
the Southern white citizens take in
the welfare of the negroes has in
( creased. The colored men must base
, their hope on tho results of their own
industry, self-restraint, thrift and
business success, aa well aa upon the
aid and comfort and sympathy which
they may receive from their white
neighbors of the South. There was a
time when Northerners who sympa?
thized with the negro In his necesasry
Struggle for better conditions sought
to give to him the suffrage as a pro?
tection, and to enforce its exercise
against the prevailing sentiment of
the South. The movement proved
to be a failure. What remains Is the
15th amendment to the constitution
and the right to have statutes of
states specifying qualifications for
electors subject to the test of com?
pliance with that amendment. This
is a great protection to the negro. It
never will be repealed. If it had not
been passed, it might he difficult now
to adopt it; but with It in our funda?
mental law, the policy of Southern
legislation must and will tend to obey
it and so long as the statutes of the
States meet the test of this amend?
ment and are not otherwise In con?
flict with the constitution and laws of
the United States, it is not the dispo?
sition or within the province of the
federal government to interfere with
the regulation by Souhern States of
their domestic affairs. There Is in
j the South a stronger feeling than ever
among the intelligent, well-to-do and
influential element in favor of the
industrial education of the negro and
and the enouragement of the race to
make themselves useful members of
the community. The progress which
the negro has made in the last 50
years from slavery, when its statistics
are viewed, is marvelous, and it fur
I nishrs every reason to hope that In
the next 25 years a still greater im
I provement In his condition as a pro?
ductive member of society, on the
farm, and in the shop and in other
I occupations, may come. The negroes
are now Americans. Their ancestors
came here years ago against their
will, and this is their only country
and their only flag. They have shown
themselves anxious to live for it and
J to die for it. Encountering the race
feeling against them, subjected at
j times to cruel injustice growing out
I of it, they may well have our pro?
found sympathy and aid in the strug
I gle they are making. We are charg
I ed with the sacred duty of making
J their path as smooth and easy as we
I can. Any recognition of their dis?
tinguished men, any appointment to
office from among their number, is
properly taken as an encouragement
and an appreciation of their progress |
and this just policy shall be pursued.
But it may well admit of doubt
whether, In the case of any race, an
j appointment of one of their number
J to a local office In a community In
I which the race feeling IS so wide?
spread and acute as to interfere with
I the ease and facility with which the
local government business can be
J done by the appointee, is of sufficient
I benefit by way of encouragement to
the race to outweigh the recurrence
and increase of race feeling which
such an appointment is likely to en?
gender. Therefore, tho executive, in
recognizing the negro race by appoint?
ments must exercise a careful discre?
tion not thereby to do it more harm
than good. On the other hand, we
must be careful not to encourage the
mere pretense of race feeling manu?
factured In the Interest of individual
political ambition.
j Personally I have not the slightest
race prejudice or feeling and recog?
nition of its existence only awakens
my heart a deeper sympathy for those
who have to bear it or suffer from it,
and I question the wisdom of a policy
which Is likely to increase it. Mean?
time, if nothing is done to prevent,
a better feeing between the negroes
and the whites in the South will con?
tinue to grow, and more and more of
the white people will come to realize
that the future of the South is to be
much benefited by the industrial and
intellectual progress of the negro. The
exercise of political franchises by
those of his race who are intelligent
and well-to-do will be acquiesced in,
and the right to vote will be withheld
only from the ignorant and irrespon?
sible of both races.
I Having thus reveiwed the questions
likely to recur during my administra?
tion, and having expressed in a sum?
mary way the position which I expeol
to take In recommendations to con?
gress and In my conduct as an execu?
tive, I Invoke the considerate sym?
pathy and support of my fellow citi?
zens, and the aid of Almighty God,
In the discharge of my responsible
duties.
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Ten thousand acres of timber land
In Charleston County were sold for
$116,000.
The Lurid Glow of Doom
?Was seen In the red face, hands
and body of the little son of H. M.
Adams, of Henrietta, Ha. His awful
plight from eczema had for live
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THI-N AM) NOW.
Eighty Years Rfttitmpeci of un Eng
? Uti) Publicist.
Eighty years ago in an old hOUM
Of an old English town, a little box
was lying In tod listening to the
Christmas chil \ perhaps to the last
eaii of the watchman on the street,
and locking rt the servant lighting
the fire with the flint, Steel and tinder
bog of the olden time, writes Coldwin
Smith in the Cornell Bra, Since that'
morning what changes!
The main st^rm of the French rev?
olution may l e said to have ended at
Waterloo. Bu there has been a se?
ries of afterblasts which has changed
the political face of all Europe and is
now apparently extending itself to the
hitherto stagnant east. We may set
down in some measure to the same
account, the overthrow by civil war
of the same power in the United
States.
The impelling force everywhere has
been democracy, generally triumph?
ant, advancing to rule apparently
even in Russia, and in England com?
pletely possessed of the legislative
seat of real prwer, the house of com?
mons, though a remnant of aristo?
cratic control still retains a precari?
ous existence n the house of lords.
The United States now, instead of
being the vanguard of democracy,
might almost be said to he its rear
guard, the power of the president and
the senate making its constitution in
some respects the most conservative
of the set.
Not less, but rather more, moment?
ous than the political movement, and
fraught with ultimate change, is the
advance of science, which in two or
three generations has been almost mi?
raculous, and has carried mechanical
invention with it. Mechanical inven?
tion with steamship, rail and tele?
graph, is bringing the nations into far
closer communication and making of
them in some respects p.lmost one
do mmon wealth.
In one way, unhappily, invention
has been retrograde. It has always
been increasing the construction of
new instruments of war, the incen?
tive to enmity between nations or the
appeal to violence and destruction.
The growth of physical science, or
the increase of its influence over the
mind, has had the most momejitous
effects in another sphere. Those
Christmas chimes, when the child
first heard them, spoke to ah hearts
alike, both of home and the church.
To not a few they now speak of the
home alone. This change has com??
rapidly and startingly over the intel?
lectual world.
The child when still a youth heard
a great professor of physical science
struggling to reconcile geology with
Genesis. Now he reads the work of a
religious writer, such as Gladstone,
struggling to reconcile Genesis with
geology.
Let the evolutionists, however, re?
member two things: First, that evo?
lution cannot have evolved itself ; sec?
ond, that unlike brutes, humanity, c.s
we have been noting, advances, and
we cannot tell what the end will be,
whether it may not be the final as?
cendency of the Spiritual over the
material in man. Man, let the evolu?
tionists remember, advances and rises.
The beast does not.
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TAX NOTICE.
The County Treasurer's office la
Court House building, will be open fo?
the collection of taxes vithout penakV
ty, from the 15th day cf October la
the 31st day of December, 1908. Thn
levy Is as follows:
For State, & 1-2 mills.
For County, ordinary. i 3-4 mills.
For Sinking Fund loan of 1907, 1
mill.
For Sinking Fund loan of 1908, l-o
mill.
For Constitutional School, 3 milk*
Polls, $1.00. Capitation Dcg tan?
50 cents.
Also Special School tax as followsr
Bchool District, No. 1, 2 mills.
School District, No. 2. 2 mills.
School District, No. 3. 2 miUa,
School District. No. 4. 2 mills.
School District, No. 8, l mill.
School District, No. 11. 2 mill?.
SchOOd District, No. 12. 3 milla.
School District, No. 13. 3 mills.
School District. No. 14. 3 mill*.
School District, No. 16, 2 mills.
School District, No. 17, 3 mills.
School District. No. IS. 2 mills.
A penalty of 1 per cent, added fo?
month ?>f January, 1909. AddlUcac*'
penalty of 1 per cent, for month of
February, 1909. Additional penalty
of B por cent until 15th day of Mart**
ItOt, wrhen the tax books will cl
for the collection of taxes for
year, 1908.
T. W. LBB,
Co. Treas. for Sumter Co., ? C
10-7-mehl6,O9