The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 03, 1909, Image 3
TI LIMA X - SM ITH SPLIT.
Illustrate* fonfudon Antons; Demo?
crat* Gear rail)?No Sign of Person
?1 I lost gl t v?Hot Difference Be?
tween fnrollna Senat ?rs on Tariff
la Fundamental.
Washington. June 17.?While the
question or special taxation Is troubl
dividing, and delaying; Republican
action en the tariff bill, the dilem as
04 free raw materials or raw materi tla
taxed Is playing; similar havoc w th
Democratic unity. A* I have Indicat?
ed ha these dispatches there were
Democratic differences In the hou<e.
hat ever In subjects for d ssonslot. tie
aanators take a wider outlook than do
the representatives.
I Where In the houae Democrat*
parted company over a duty on lum?
ber, oa Iron ore. on oil, on anything
focal to one stets and not common t?
all, la the senate the nplit follows the
Has of odvocacy of. or hostility to.
free raw au.teriale.
Vhat has been the recurring sub
Jtjsk In too many personal clashes on
the aoor between Democratic sen?
ators. When Democratic voices are
ratasd and the name <>f Bryan Is not
hoard in praise or la denunciation,
one knows, without leaving the leung
tag room for the opes press gslle *v.
that raw material ts before the sen
If Senator Aidrloh smiles and It ts
terrain that Mr. LaFoliette has not
oaJTod him a blackguard, one can
know without listening that his
Artend* across the agjlo are continu?
ing their refutation for disunion over
matter of raw material*
division In the party cornea
even < o South Carolina's sena
delegation of two. There Is no
ttgn ot hostility between the two men
atjt whore Mr. TlUmui voted for a
ssaaJl duty on Iron ore. Mr. 8m Ith
toted against it Where Mr. Smith
SWtsd for free lumber Mr. TlUman
voted against It (on the MoCum
amendment), though, as has been
before, his explanation of
vote has nothing tt Jo with raw
so such or with lumber as
Bat What explanations have
shade oa Iron ore show the sleav
pvor the apph) of discord.
TlUman recent ij ia a letter
ffhr. Smith of WUUoton ttald that In
ths dwty on Iron ore ho ? id Jt
at the stool trust
no Increased
on tnUMd products, but which
too trust to pay more for
ttttllti raw material. Senator
t) petition. Which he will set
th detail In a speech shortly,
which lo hsa already Indicated In
at fort, Is that a tax on raw
serials, ?specially the raw ma
te .'tals of a monopoly controlling the
?emotry's eiport as well as domestic
'lands, does Increase the price to the
American ccnaumer to the full extent
of too tax, while the burden to the
trust W not greater than one per cent
of the tax presumably levied against
jt I
This difference In position goes to
r.ho root of Democratic disunion, if for
a tnosatnt one disregard those dif?
ferences wh'ch are purely Individual
In their character, a riling chiefly from
local Interest of s selfish sort. The
existing law and ths pending bill In
an effort to encourage the American
saport trade provides that 99 per cent
i Of the tax levied on unmanufactured
goods shall lo refunded by the treas?
ury when those products are exported
la manufactured form. At a monopo
UrtJo corporation would certainly reg?
ulato Its exports so as to get draw
sacks oa sll Its important dutiable
raw material !. It Is app/i.ent that the
remaining one per cent Is the trust s
only burden from the tax. None the
lean, as Senator Smith suggested, the
knowledge of the theoretical ti
might justify In the public m nd slight
increase* in the dornest ic price of fin.
I*h?fd products all along the line.
(THE YOTR KIDNEY >.
Not F.iMtanger life When a Hum-|
tor Cltftsen SImiw* You the Cure.
Why will people cmulnue to tuffer
lo agonise of kidney complaint,
thacht. urinary dlsirder*. Inme
jOSh, headaches, languor, why allow
[hfmselve* to become chronic In
ralld?. whefl a certain cure ia offered
thorn?
Doan'a Kidney Pills it the remedy
lo use, because It gives to th- kidneys
tthO help they need to pert<>rm their
work
If you have any. even one. of the
symptoms of kidney diseases, cure
yourself i v. before diabetes, dropsy
or Bright * ?!>?ose sets in. Road In I
wfcgater testin, ?n\
J il Ored m Wright St.. Sumter.
%%. <1. says: "I have no hesitation In
rocomim-ndlng Doart's Kidney I'll 1m a-<
they proved benellclal to me I used
them for kidney trouble a^lthey
helped me more than an> nth lem
e-K I ha 1 pr?-\ ously t.?k?>n My I
ed nearly all the time and I had
gev?re pslns in tjq kidneys Ths kld
WOy secretion* were Irregular In pas?
sage sad when allowed to stand son
tstr.ed a dark ?edlment. I finally used
Doan * Kidney Pills. procured at
China't drug store and they regulated
the passages of the kidney secretions
and removed the lameness from my
back. I havs had no return <<( ths
tr >ibls since and I knew from ex
p*rlmce that they are a remedy thai
can he relied upon."
For sals by s ll dsalers. Pries 10
cents. Foster-alllburn Co.. ttuffalo.
New York, sole agents for the I'nlted
Stats*.
Ruwtembsr ths name?-Doan's?and
take ao other. No. 1.
bssssssssBm
CAMPAIGN FOK EDUCATION.
Meeting? In Various Counties Held In
August.
Columbia, June 27.?Plans for t ie
educational campaign to be held dur?
ing the month of August are meetit g
with a cordial reception throughout
the State.
One meeting will be held in each
county, the schedule having alreucy
been announcec. The county super?
intendents are to preside over the
meetings and I re to make all ai
rangements for he places of meetings
and secure the speakers. At these
meetings three ocal speakers will ba
heard and two from the campaign
committee. The month will be glveji
up to a gre^t educational rally and it 1'
the hop* of the committee to arouse
great interest in education throughou
South Carolina. These meetings wll
In all likelihood be largely attended.
One of the most important featurei
In connection with the educational
campaign will be the work for an
"educatic nal' commission," which
would go over tl e school laws of the
81 ste. This commission should It be
appointed would take up the matter
of revision and codification of the
school laws of South Carolina. The
p.op-siticn w?s before the general as?
sembly last year, being introduced by
Representative Ayer, but it was de?
feated.
One point the advocates point out
an illustrative of the need of an edu
i
catlonal commission was the recent
opinion of the attorney general as to
the date of appointment of school
trustees. There an; about 6,000 school
trustees in South Carolina, and the
law in reference to the appointment
of them has been amended three
times In t ie last a even years.
At the lust session of the legislature
Superintendent of Education Swearln
gen naked for the appointment of sev?
en men to go over the school laws and
suggest anr amendments.
One of the interested men In the
work of the educational campaign is
Mr. W. Parker of Greenville. He
has written Mr. Swearlngen that he
will give one week of his time to the
meetings which will be held In'tit
counties of the Piedmont aectlon of
the State. Dr. S. C. Mitchell, presi?
dent of the Unlvemlty of South Caro?
lina; Dr. S>nder, pi es I dent of Wofford
College, and Dr. Jo inson, president of
Winthrop, have wr tten Mr. Swearln
gtn that they will bo able to attend
four or five meeting* and will mal:e
addresses. Prof. Band, Superintend?
ent Hughes, of th? Greenville city
schools, and Go v. Ansel will represent
thi jommif.ee In leveral sections of
the State and will deliver addresses.
Mr. Sweat Ingen has announced that
the county superintendents who had
not sent In their suggestions to the
secretary of the committee would
probably do so in a few days.
The comrilttee Is preparing to Is?
sue a brief discussion of some Impor?
tant school needs and this will bo
placed In the hands of the speakers
and the courty sperlntendenta before
the opening of the campaign.
The follow ing are some of the sub?
jects that will be discussed at the
meetings to be held In the different
counties:
Better school houses and better
equipment.
Consolidation of small schools.
Better tea hern and better salaries.
Fewer cha ige? 'n teachers.
Better attendance, more pupils and
more regular compulsory attendance.
Longer school terms?nine months.
United community school support
of school and teachers.
More teachers and more courses in
the high sch< ol.
More funcb and l?> *al taxation.
Need of ar educational commission
-the certification of teachers.
Business m?n on the farm.
The school as a so?ial centre.
Stute scholarship* and college
standards.
WILL HACK IN BENNETTS VI LLE.
Fine S|M?rt In Planned for July
Ilu*ehall.
H 'tim tts\ ill". Juno 26.?Bennctts
\ Me Is aipaotttlg main visitors on
M unlay. July f>. All business will be
gunponded ii.i the n itionai holiday
< I -erved In n munner mOTi tlttlnu
than has been customary in this sec?
tion during many roam, A number of
different amusements irlll ???? offered
Tin- two featuie-; which are attracting
n fcr?-nt deal of attention are baseball
and racing. The P.en net tsv I He team
!..'?? been playing goo| hall with 111? ?
surrounding towns reo utly and a lire'
I.: bit 1? ?n ?>f baseball will be had.
The Bennettivllle Driving AsnocUv
tooi will hold Its first circuit n < ?
ami no doubt t ie greatest racing .\. ,
aondnatad ka Ihlt Motion win had,
There \% ill t ?? f "Ii rar. - ?<f fi\ -? In al
? '1 h, the winner being :eiilied t?> tak?
three.
A rather <>b* ure case of bomloldi
.rrtd BOOf < ?rangeburg a few da\s
ago TWO \<?ung negroes, Whltm ?re
j ml ?Mover had n pers ? nil altercation
using deadly weapon*, and GlOVef
killed Whltmore. Glover says It was
In self-defense. Neither of the ne?
groes are well known.
WILL AID YOUNG MEN.
A Unique Organization, Rut One That
Might Accomplish Much Good.
Columbia, June 26.?A unique
movement in philanthropy has had its
beginning in Greenville among a few
business men. It is about to crystallz?
in the formation of what ia to be
known as the Educational Investment
Company, of South Carolina, with a
capital of $100,000, the purpose of
which is to loan money to poor boys
of good moral character for use In ob?
taining a college education. Mr. Mar?
shall Moore, who has been selected as
field secretary, has started on a trip
throughout the State to raise the
stock. It is probable that the head?
quarters of the company when organ?
ized will be in Columbia.
In speaking of the company today
Mr. Moore said:
"The Educational Investment Com?
pany of South Carolina is something
new in the field of business activity.
Colleges have had their loan funds for
several decades, but nowhere yet has
th'*re been an effort to place this phi?
lanthropic work on the business basis
ol a banking house. The plan is some?
thing unique and it will soon be the
part of South Carolina to prove to the
country that investment In character
will return a money dividend.
"I have talked with many of the
ludest men In South Carolina, the
biggest men in purse and heart and
only one lone man of near five hun?
dred seen or written to has refused to
endorse the work. This I am sorry to
say is Senator Tlllman, who wrote
that he1 never lent his name to pri?
vate enterprises, or some such stuff.
In striking ^contrast to this are the
strong letters from members of Con?
gress, and especially the one from Mr.
Lever, with a voluntary offer to sub?
scribe to ten sharea of the capital
stock. Mr. Moore has several hun?
dred endorsements from prominent
Carolinians."
WHISKEY SANDWICH.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
lays the sale and distribution of the
whiskey sandwich is the latest meth?
od of evading the liquor laws in the
State of Alabama: Loaves of bread,
cut and arranged to represent oys?
ter sandwiches, are sold over the
counters In unchrooms, presumably
operated for that purpose, a bottle
of whiskey being arranged between
the lawyers of the bread. It is said
that questionable lunch-rooms have
sprung up all over the State, In which
these contraband goods constitute
practically the total blM of fare.
The discovery of the whlakey sand?
wich was made by the warden at the
Birmingham Jail, who took it into
his head to examine an apparently
innocent sandwich which was
brought to the Jail for one of the
prisoners by a relative. The prison?
er, Charles Smith, a negro, had only
recently attempted to make his es?
cape. ?
The warden was auspicious that
something might have been hidden
la the unusually large sandwich.
Upon opening the loaf a large bottle
of whiskey was discovered. A rigid
investigation was then put on foot,
which resulted in the discovery that
the whiskey sandwich is already an
important article of commerce in
Alabama.
Thrown Together.
"Are young people thrown togeth?
er much out here?" asked the ma?
tt on with a marriageable daughter.
"You bet," replied the proprietor
of the summer hotel- "We're extra
well provided with hammocks."?
Kansas City Times.
The navy department at Washing?
ton has granted Representative Alkali
the figurehead of the battleship South
Carolina to be placed In the State
House or some suitable place.
The dispensary commission holds n
special meeting tomorrow to consider
the disposition of the money turned
over to Chairman Murray by the
bunks of Columbia. There is a consid
* I
arable amount ot money Involved
and th? statement as to where it ?will
b. dopOSlted Will be awaited with In?
terest.
The Alumni Association of tin
Greenville Female College, has en?
dorsed the notion of the two literary
? ties of thai institution in peti?
tioning the trustees of the college
changa tin- nams of the Institution
from Greenville Female College to
Mary Judaon College In honoi ol
Miss Mary <*. ludson, who has been
Identified with the college for - ?
n.ioy years.
The < on ths i lally Bee scor< i
point when it taya of Senatoi Tin
mans cry of htfmbug, becauae tha
newspapers have asked for tree paper
that he is only humbugging hims< If
?nd bolsters up Its assertion admir?
ably. Unfortunately for tha senator.
the Impression has mown steadily In
n cost years that he does not moan
many ol the things which he says
with such a show of vohemonoe?
News and Courier.
TAFTS TWO PER CENT TAX.
An Estimate of What Some of the Big
Trusts Will Have to Pay Tinier
President Tuffs Corporation Tax
Amendment?The Heathen Chinese
Sets an Example to Civilized Na?
tions.
Washington, D. C, June 26.?The
tariff debate drags slowly on and the
flow of oratory, like Tennyson's brook,
seems destined to go on forover. On
Friday Senator Aldrich, for the Com?
mittee on Finance introduced the cor?
poration tax amendment. Despite
lurid predictions of failure to reach
an agreement, extravagant and exag.
gerated reports of "insurmountable
obstacles," and emphatic declarations
that the entire subject of special tax?
ation will be postponed until next
winter, the Taft amendment has pur?
sued a perfectly normal course, with?
out hitch and without obstacle, and is
now before the senate as a substitute
for the Bailey-Cummins income tax
amendment. The original draft was
prepared by the attorney general and
Senator Root under the supervision of
I the president himself. It was then
I submitted to a conference at the
White House which was attended by
I the lawyers of the cabinet and the
j Republican members of the Finance
I Committee. Certain changes having
been suggested, Messrs. Wickersham
I and Root prepared a second draft em?
bodying them and this was submitted
to a second White House conference
at which Speaker Cannon and Repre?
sentatives Payne and Dwight were
present in addition to those who had
I attended the first conference. (The
I amendment met with the unanimous
j approval of all present, and the lead
I ers of the house as well as those of
I the senate predicted Its speedy enact
I ment.
Briefly stated, the amendment pro
I vides for a tax of two per cent, on
j the net profits of all corporations and
insurance companies, except that mu
I tual savings banks are not taxed. Cor
I porations having a bonded indebted
I ness are permitted to deduct from the
I profits on which they will be taxed a
I sufficient sum to pay the Interest on
I their bonds not in excess of their cap.
I ital stock. In a word, It provides for
I an income tax for corporations but
I does not extend it to the Incomes of
I individuals as would the Balley-Cum
I mins amendment.
The Metropolitan press Is filled with
I denunciation of the Taft tax which, it
I insists, will prove unjust and Inex
I presslbly unpopular. When it is re?
called that most of the great news
I papers of the country are owned by
j corporations and will, therefore, be
I subject to the tax, their opposition is
I not perhaps surprising. A glance
I ahead at the results of the Taft fax
I oIbo reveals something of the reason
I back of the frantic'efforts of the big
I corporations to misrepresent and ren
?1 der unpopular the President's propos
I ition. For instance, It is estimated
that the Standard OH Company will
I under this amendment be compelled
to contribute between $800,000 and
$900,000 annually to the support of
J the government. The steel trust will
J have to pay a tax between these flg
I uies. The American Telegraph and
J Telephone Company will probably
I have to pay about $700.000 and the
I tax of the Tobacco Trust will exceed
$500,000. The General Electric Com
I pany will pay between $230,000 and
I $300,000; and the Copper Trust, in
I eluding the Amalgamated Copper
j Company, will contribute over $500,
000. Even the Sugar Trust will have
I the pleasure of paying about $165,000
j toward Uncle Sam's expenses, and a
J like sum will be contributed, no doubt
with little cheerfulness, by the Inter
I national Harvester Co. Most of the bis
railroads of the country will pay over
$500,000 a piece into the federal treas?
ury.
In the light of these figures and in
view of the fact that the great trusts
and corporations are being held up by
the throat, metaphorically speaking,
by the creature of their own generos?
ity, the Republican parry, it is hard?
ly surprising that their cries and la?
mentations should rend the stillness
ot" the midnight hour ami almost
cause the solid eaplto] to tremble <>n
its foundations. Jeremiah's lamenta?
tions ovei Jerusalem were as hut
whispers compared with the weeplnH
and wailing and gnashing of teeth of
the trust magnates over the treachery
of that partywhlch has been to them
their father and their mother and
ill their relations."
Bvery now ami again the benight
1 Oriental sets an example which the
civilised nations of the world w*ould
do woll to emulate. An instance of
this has just occurred in connection
with atrocious murder of a N. w Y?nk
girl by the Chinaman known as Wil?
liam Leon. Advices have been re?
ceived in Washington to the effect
tb.it the Imperial government at Pelt?
ing purposes Itself to offer a large
monetary reward for the apprehen?
sion and conviction of Leon, and the
Chinese Charge d' Affairs in Washing?
ton, Mr. Ou, has been instructed to
?end to ail Chinese consuls, prominent
merchants ami leaders of the tongs of
Chinese secret socltles, a letter urging
them to call together their fellow
countrymen In their neighborhoods
and, addressing them in the name of
the Imperial government, to say to
them that China is shamed and dis?
graced by this brutal murder and that
every Chinaman who has the good
name of his country at heart will do
all in his power to bring the fugitive
to justice.
TROLLY STRIKE CALLED.
3,500 Men on Pittsburg Traction
Lines to Quit Work.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 26.?After a
conference lasting until nearly mbt
night tonight with officials of the
Pittsburg Railways Company the
executive committee of the local
union of the Amalgamated Associa?
tion of Street and Electric Railway
Employees called a strike, which will
tie up the entire traction lines of
Pittsburg and vicinity. Thirty-five
hundred men will be affected. The
grievance of the men include the
charge of discrimination against
union men; a demand for proper
hearings for discharged men; longer
lunch hours and the installation of
bulletin boards In the car barns an?
nouncing lay-offs. The strike will
likely extend to the electrical help?
ers, machinists, trackmen and even
rail laying crews of the entire Pitts
burg lines. The present strike, it is
predicted, will more than likely be
a long drawn out affair, as the union
men expressed themselves in bitter
terms against the railway company.
It was reported at 12:30 tonight
that Strike Breaker Farley, of New
York, had been communicated with
by railway officials, and it is expect?
ed that by Monday at least 500 Im?
ported strike breakers will be housed
in the barns of the railway company.
At 2 a. m. the union conductors
began leaving their cars.
Several cars were left in the down
town streets, deserted by the crews.
Pickets have already been sent out
from union headquarters to the five
down-town car barns.
Commissioner Watson has written
letters to the governors of Georgia,
Florida and North Carolina, calling at?
tention to the National Irrigation Con?
ference, to be held at Shokane, Wash.,
beginning August 9. Mr. Watson
wants the South Atlantic States to
scnd their delegates in a body. He
has planned an Interesting trip and
win probably arrange for the running
of a special car straight through.
Cheap rates will be given, and there
will most likely be given a chance for
the party to visit Yellowstone Park,
the Alsaka-Youkon-Paclflc Exposiion,
and also most of the large cities on the
Pacific coast.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Ths Kind You Haie Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
USPOBT Or TBS CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
OF SUMTER,
At Sumter, in the State of South Carolina,
at the close of business. June 23rd. 1909.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts, $413,904 16
Overdrafts, secured and unse?
cured, 10,429 93
U. 8. Bonds to secure circula?
tion, 25,000 00
Premium* on U. 8. Bonds, 50J 00
Bonds, securities, etc., 18,000 00
Banking house, furniture and
fixtures, 3,000 00
Other Real Estate Owned 503 22
Due from National Banks
(not reserve agents), 1 997 ? 0
Due from State and Priv te
Banks and Baukers, T OSt
Companies, and Savings
Banks, 3 580 03
Due from approved reserve
agents, 11,823 88
Checks and other cash items, 1,114 82
Notes of other National Banks, 3,195 00
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents, 2.375 03
Lawful Money Reserve
in Bank, viz:
Specie, 13,365 20
Legal-tender notes, 35 00 13,400 20
Redemption Fund with U. S.
Treasurer, (8 per ct. of cir?
culation,) 1 .-'50 00
Total, $510,1;'.:) 27
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in, 1100,000 00
Surplus fund, tOfiOO (.<>
Undivided profits, less ex?
penses and taxes paid. 61,607 16
NatK l- d B nk notes outstaud
ing.
2;*. 000 0
Due to other National Banks Lies BJ
Dae ?o Statf and PrWole
Banks an I Hanker* 2,70;> 68
Individual depo Ito subject
to oheck, 221,*?',t
Natt s and Bills rodlaoonntad 16,600 oo
Bills p*) able, including ostti
Aoatea of Dspoail for
money borrowed 50,000 00
Total |51 ,133 27
State of South Carolina. ) ag
County of Sumter. S k
1, J. L MiCALUTM, Cashier of the
SOOTS named bank, do solemnly swear thft*t
the above stat* meat is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
J. L. McC ALLEM, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
2i?th day of June 1800,
GE<>. L. BICKER.
Notary Public.
Correct?Attest:
JOHN RE1D, )
GEO. D. SHORE. V Directors.
h. D. BARNETT, )
And the secret of the failure t?
prosecute the Sugar Trust is burled in
the African jungle.?Washington
Post.
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SUMMER SCHOOLS,
Tickets on sale June i$th, 16th.
17th, 18th, 28th, July 5th and
12th, 1909, limited to leave desti?
nation fifteen days from, but not
including date of sale.
Extension of limit returning to
Sept. 30th, may be obtained by
depositing ticket with the Depot
Ticket Agent at destination with?
in two days after arrival and pay?
ment of fee of 51.00.
For information, call on Ticket
Agent, or write
W. J. CRAI6, T. C. WHITE,
Pas. Traf. Mgr. Gen. Pas. Agent.
WILMINGTON. N. C.
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?TO ?
c.
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limited to return Monday follow?
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An excellent opportunity to
visit the famous Seashore Resort*?
of South Carolina at a minrrrrurrs
cost.
For information, call on TicW.il
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WILMINGTON, N. G\