The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 02, 1910, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, I9K
The Sumter Watchman was )
*d In 1860 and the True South
18?? The Watchman and Sot
now has the combined clrculatlc
Influence of both of the old p
end Is manifestly the best advei
medium In Sumter.
Comptroller Oeneral Jones
there Is no use In trying t I
property at its market value an?
no i h inge In the present valuat
necessary, but that the boan
equalisation should endeavor to i
Ise assessments so that each pr<
owner shall pay neither more nc
than his Just share of taxes. Th
Ina true It Is a hard proposition that
the township boards have to tackle.
There Is neither uniformity nor Justice
In the present assessment o4 property
In the city of Sumter and In the coun?
ty of Sumter. There are property
owners In this city who have their
property returned for taxation at leas
than a fourth the market value and
many who would laugh at a spot cash
offer of three to four times the valua?
tion they themselves place on It when
making return for taxation. There
are thousands of acres of excellent
farm lands In Sumter county that are
returned at $2. $3 or $5 an acre that
could not be bought for $10. $20 or
$30 an acre. The Inequality and In?
justice of this sort of thing lies In the
fact that some property owners in the
city have their property returned at
$0 to 7 5 per cent, of Its market value
and many farmers are paying taxes
on their land on a valuation two to
three times as great as others whose
land is Just as good or better. The
boards of assessors should equalize as?
sessments and not permit the men who
make falr'y honest returns to bear
the burden that the tax-dodgers ar,e
escaping by returning their property
at ten per cent, of Its market value.
a e s
If the Sumter Oil Mill can buy so ja
beans in Louisiana and Mlssis'.ppi. pay
freight and still make money on ?hem
It would seem to be to the interest of
the mill to encourage the larmers of
Sumter to plant the beans We are
satisfied many farmers woold plant
the beans If assured of a mark t at a
fair price, but none of them would
risk planting a larger acreage cn an
uncertainty. If the cotton seed oil
mills expect to crush beans regularly
hereafter they should let It be known
so the farmers can arrange to plant a
sufficient acreage to supply the local
demand.
? ? ?
The bill Introduced In the leglsla- j
tore Providing that the Master in
Equity of Sumter county should be
patd a salary of $1.500 per annum and
one-half of all fees received in excess
of $1,600. was Anally passed, but It
was first amended so as to he unob?
jectionable. Public opinion Is Influen?
tial sometimes.
a a s
As usual In campaign years there is
now more or less talk of opposition to
Congressman Lever, but. as usual, the
opposition will peter out and Lever
will be returned for another term.
The Hlg lliisiucsM of Heef.
Let fancy endow Adam with the
gift of eternal life. Start him the day
of his creation, to piling up sliver dol
larsat the rate of a dollar a minute,
permit him to work Incessantly eight
hours a day the week long down the
ages. He will lack $?;?;:}.000.000 of
having enough money to pay for all
live cattle in the Untied States in the
year 1910.
Such Is the mugnltude of the beef
Industry. The annual i oort of the
Department of Agriculture. Issued a
few days ago. Indicates that there are
S6.S58.000 cattle In the country. At
the estimated Increase in population
over the census of 1900 this provides
a cow or a bullock for every human
inhabitant, adult or minor.
it h but general that the atttaea
should manifest Interest In ascertain?
ing what become of this beef. It is
his rUht to bo Informed that the
source of his beef-steak Is rapidly
diminishing, that the number of cat
lie decrease on g ratio with the in?
crease In population, that the great
cattle ranges, which the late Frederic
Remington loved to picture, are on
the verge of consignment to memory,
and that there are m'ghty elements
besides the beef trust which will enter
into this thing we call "the cost of
living" Itevb w of Reviews.
That was a pretty good story pub
H hod ^ iturdav about gejg leans and
the Sumter Cotton OH Mill, even
though It was not t-m . The facts are
th tt the Southern Cotton Oil Co. Is
II OSS I BBS a Hag with s<?ja beans, has
p,in bused 250 tons at New Orleans
and will Klve them B try-out this sum?
mer. The ? OSnpany will, also, dis?
tribute a |eW biMhels of Heed from
e i. n of Its plants for the pairpoge of
Inducing farmers to , xp rim. nt In the
grow inn of this promising new crop
The understanding Is always the
dupe of the heart. La ROOhefon*
can Id.
armers' Union News
?AND ?
tical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
cted by E. W? Dubbs, PffjlldtlH Farmers' Union of Sumter
County.)
cbman and Southron having decided to double its service by
y publication, would improve that service by special feature*.
be inaugurated I? this Department for the Farmers' Union and
ariners which I have been requested to conduct. It will be my
) the Union news and official calls of the Union. To that end
1 members of the Union are requested to use these columns,
blish such clippings from the agricultural papers and Govern
tlns as I think will be of practical benefit to our readers. Ori
>a by any of o<*r readers telling of their successes or failures
will he appreciated and | ublished.
Trusting this Departme.it will be of mutual benefit to all concerned,
THE EDITOR.
All communications for tl U Department should be sent to E. W. Dabbs,
Mayesville. S. C.
NOTICE.
The officers-elect of the County
Union will please bear In mind that
\\ ?? wish to install them at the meet?
ing at Trinity on Friday, March 4th.
So do not fall to attend this meeting
In one of the li\est communities in
the County.
E. W. DA BBS,
President.
Hush Witherspoon, Secretary.
The Soy Bean Agnin.
In connection with a recent editor?
ial in the Greenville News this item
from the New York Comemrcial is in?
teresting:
"Out in Manchuria they are grow?
ing a bean to compete with cotton
seed, and so lustily does this same
bean grow out there that it was re?
ported in Vladivostok, when August
Held left there on the last trans-Si?
berian express connecting with a
steamship at Hamburg, that between
60 and 70 ships have been chartered
to ship the beans to Denmark,
France, England and Germany, be?
tween tne 1st of last October and
May 1st, next."
Mr. Heid has been in Vladivostok
for a year establishing an agency
there for the International Harvester
Company and he arrived on the
Amerika yesterday, accompanied by
W. W. Couchman, manager of the
company In Hamburg.
"The Soy bean," said Mr. Held,
"has been mentioned several times in
consular reports, though in an indus?
trial way, it Is an entirely new article.
It Is about the size of the ordinary
white bean, but flatter and yellow In
color. The soil for the beans doesn't
have to be very fertile and Manchuria
Is raising an enormous quantity. They
press the oil out, and this will come
Into competition with cotton seed oil
In many ways. The residue, which
they call bean cake, is used for food
for animals and for fertilizer."
This information should serve to
impress upon our farmers the impor?
tance of experimenting with the soy
bean crop. It will do all that is
claimed for it and more too.
Our oil mill men should not let the
opportunity slip to experiment with
the s?>\ i . an oil, for the crop could be
worked up after the cotton season is
over, thus allowing them to get full
action on their plants at all seasons
Of |hs \'-ar.--Greenville News.
The I>a of High Prices.
It Is a good sign that nobody st ems
prepared Instantaneously to an
nounee the cause of high prices. We
have had too much quack doctoring
of aoonomlc Ms. and it is well that
all the authorities are this time with?
holding judgment.
Tin-re has been allegation that
folks have been hurrying to town to
live until the farms don't realize
? -nough to feed us all. The answer
oomei promptly, holwever, that of
nu?st primary agricultural products
we arc ra'slng more per osplta than
ever before. w?- must look further.
Combinations, big end little?of manu?
facturers, Of transportation, and of
merchants?are chargod with large
responsibility. The universality of
ih<- complaint points the med of find?
ing a universal cause; end more and
nmre serious attention has been given
i", ecnomists to the increasing supply
of primary money metal?gold?rs
the universal cause,
Without doubt, the increasing out?
put of gold is an important factor,
imt there is an underlying cause in
the changing conditions of living. We
may tall it extravagance, hut It Is not
merely that. It Is the effort of the
people to appropriate their share of
the advantages, the cmoforts, the
luxuri' ?, it" you Sflll, Which modern
conditions of Industry, Invetlon end
? lenee hnv< made possible,
At one side we see the powerful
few, with multifold devices of organl?
satton, patent-protected monopoly,
subsides, tariffs,, privileges of all
I >rts, leeklni to control production. On
Ihe other are Ihe millions, insistently
ii oh ni oul for means to supply non
needs, to Indulge new ambitions, to
gratify new tastes. The captain of fin?
ance exploits his industry by the pro?
cess of overcapitalizing it in order to
squeeze more profits from it; h s em?
ployees exploit it by enforcii g de?
mands for higher wages. The joint
burden is laid on the consumer.
The present phenomenon in econo?
mics finds its paralled in the earth?
quake. Pressure forces readjustments
in the earth's crust from time to time.
The pressure exists all the time; it Is
steady as gravitation; there are re?
gions of weakness in the crust, and
when the pressure has been borne as
long as possible there is suddenly a
slip and a readjustment of position
along the line of geological "fault."
This slipping and readjustment come
suddenly and with terrific force.
Very similar is the present read?
justment of price conditions to the
long-accumulated pressure of econom?
ic and social conditions. The pres?
sure has been there right along; the
slip and the earthquake have come
suddenly.?"Success Magazine."
The Call For I Axe Stock In the South.
Manufacturers' Record.
In the fifty years between 1860 and .
1910 the population of the country
increased from 31,500,000 to 89,000,
000, and the population of the South
from 11,000,000 to 28,000,000. In the
same period, according to official
figures and allowing for variation in
census schedules, the raising of live?
stock used for food has not kept
pace with the growth of population
In the whole country, and In the
South has actually declined In the
case of sheep and swine.
Statistics show* that in 1860 the
southern states, exclusive of Missou
ri, raised, 8,642,109 meat cattle and
the same states in 1910 reported 13,
834,000. The increase in the whole
country was very large. The South
dropped In sheep raising from 233,
609 in 1860 to 56,000 in 1910. There
was also a falling off in swine. In
livestock the older southern states
are falling behind.
There is an explanation for this
notable and regretable showing made
by the South In this particular. In
1860 the South had 50 per cent of the
meat cattle of the country, 27 per
cent of the sheep and 54 per cent of
the swine, though its population was
only about 35 per cent of the total.
In 1910, with about 32 per cent of
the total population of the country,
the South has less than 30 per cent
? >f the cattle, less than 11 per cent
of the sheep and less than 32 per
cent of the nvine. Why?
The year 1H65 found the South, or
at least large sections of it, practi?
cally depleted of livestock to be used
as the basis for future supplies. The
South'! pockets were empty of mon?
ey, and the only means of obtaining
sufficient food for Immediate neces?
sities was to go into debt for the
purpose of raising a crop of cotton.
At the same time a great part of the
agricultural machinery of the south,
j its negro population, was deprived of
its directive brain power and, as a
whole, has not yet gotten back to
the otHeiency that it was in 1S60.
This unfortunate situation fastened
the all-cotton habit upon thousands
of southern farmers, and from that
habit it was difficult for the second
generation to escape. Furthermore,
about the time of the return of the
Inclination toward diversified farm?
ing, toward depending more upon
home-raised foodstuffs and feedstuffs
than upon the West und other parts
of the country for such supplies, the
South began to revive its Industrial
Instincts, suddenly checked by the
war, and the population of the South
w;is not large enough to meet at the
same time the demands of manufactu?
ring, There was just so much human
energy, and the part directed into
one channel was diverted from an?
other.
There i.-- n better balance now de?
veloping which should be reached
with accessions to the Sotith's popu
Inl; ii through Immii i itlon of the
lb; ply and the competent. Put even
before that balance can be estab?
lished the South can create a better
balance in its agriculture, so that
cutton. tobacco, rice, fruit and truck
?hall not monopolize the energies of
individual farnnrs, and that more
acreage und labor be given to rais?
ing mure livestock not merely for
the sake of the meat and the by?
products in the shape of wool, hides,
bones, etc., but also as a means of
increasing the fertility of the south?
ern soil. Prevailing high prices for
meats ought to spur the South to rais_
ing more livestock.
IS TILLMAN TO RESIGN POSITION?
Humor That Is Current In Washing?
ton?It Is Not Known Definitely
That He Will Do So.
The Washington correspondent of
the Savannah News sends that pa?
per the following:
"The almost certain resignation of
Seanotor Benjamin R. Tillman from
the senate of the United States, as
the result of his present illness, has
caused a considerable amount of in?
teresting political gossip to be heard
here concerning his successor. That
there are many persons in South
Carolina who would have no objec?
tion to wearing the senatorial toga,
if Tillman resigns, has been appar?
ent for some time, but naturally has
become more pronounced since the
serious illness of the senator.
"Had Tillman resigned before the
legislature adjourned Saturday that
body would have been called upon to
name his successor and the new man
would have held on until next De?
cember, when congress will recon?
vene. Now, however, the legislature
having ended its work and gone home
it would be for the governor to name
the new man should a vacancy oc?
cur.
"Without discussing the matter
with any candidate, but just from
what may be picked up here and
there among the South Carolina poli?
ticians who have been in Washing?
ton the last day or two, it is believed
that the men who would probably
be considered by Governor Ansel are
George Johnstone of Newberry, a
member of congress several years
ago from the third district; R. Good
wyn Rhett, present mayor of Charles?
ton; Lewis W. Parker of Greenville,
one of the best known cotton mill
presidents of the country, and Jo?
seph A. McCullough, a lawyer of
Greenville. In addition to those
there is J. Fr?ser Lyon, now serving
his second term as attorney general
of South Carolina, and former Gov?
ernor D. C. Heyward. All are good,
strong men and would no doubt fill
the senatorial chair with credit.
"The nominee, whoever ~^ight
be, would go at once into the priiii?-.*y
and stump the state during the
coming summer. In the list of free
for-all candidates would probably be
not only some of those already men?
tioned, but Representative Lever, the
seventh district congressman, it is
believed, would also make the race.
If this primary should be like those
that have been held for many years
past there might be at least half
a dozen men to seek the nomination.
"While none of the persons named
probably would care to discuss this
matter now, because Senator Tillman
has not yet resigned, and, in fact,
many not do so, there is reason to be?
lieve that few of them would decline
the honor of representing their state
in the upper house of congress.
"Should Mr. Lever enter the race
under the conditions named there
would ensue a scramble for his seat
in the house, with the field open for
many good men to choose from and
any one of a half a dozen would make
a good, capable representative. It is
said that Commissioner E. J. Watson
of the state department of agri?
culture, is perhaps better known for
his public work than any other man
in the district, and there is a feeling
that he might make the race a lively
one for his competitors should he
run.
"The whole situation is most in?
teresting and while, as stated, Sen?
ator Tillman has not yet resigned
and may serve out the remainder of
his term, should he decide to quit
and spend the balance of his life on
the farm. South Carolina would have
some lively politics In the near fu?
ture."
The recent meeting of the legisla?
ture changed the time for holding
court in this county, and divorced the
two courts. Just as soon as advance
sheets arrive announcement will be
made as to the specific time for the
convening of eac h court. At present
the information cannot be had.
A white man. tanked up on blind
tiger boose, was arrested about noon
Saturduy by Officer McKagen. He was
so far gone that help had to be call?
ed iu to manage him. When searched
he had two pints of whiskey upon his
person.
The Union Brokerage Co, which
was organized here some time ago
found that it would be necessary to
Increase the capital stock as the
stock was over subscribed, At B meet?
ing of tin stockholders lasl Saturday
the stock was Increased from 15,000
to $7,500, This Institution has ma.de
1 a fine beginning.
South Carolina's Robespierre: lien
Tillman.
In an editorial which is strikingly
stamped with the independence of
thought for which it is noted. The
Washington Post declares that "In
resistless force of character Benjamin
H. Tillman is the greatest man South
Carolina ever produced."
Doubtless when this superlative
sentence was penned by the editor
it was under the apprehension that
the distinguished senator from South
Carolina was upon his bed of death.
Such tributes are seeldom pro?
nounced before the end comes.
For usually it requires the miracle
of dissolution to convert the politi?
cian into the statesman.
But the latest news dispatches
from Washington are decidedly reas?
suring In regard to Senator Tillman's
health, and like another famous in?
valid?Mr. Stephens?he may yet en?
joy the somewhat uncanny satisfac?
tion of reading his obituary in print.
The special achievement with
which The Post credits Senator Till?
man is the feat of overthrowing the
oligarchy of illustrious families which
from the time of the Revolution down
to the last decade of the nineteenth
century ruled the State of South Car?
olina.
"This regime," says The Post, "was
partly political and partly social. It
was never guilty of extravagance and
never accused of graft. But the
great families ruled."
At some length The Post goes on
to enumerate the illustrious names
on the honor roll of oligarchs. The
list includes the Pinckneys, the Rut
ledges, the Marions, the Sumters, the
Legares, the Calhouns, the McDuffles
the Prestons, the Barnwells, the
Rhetts, the Hamptons, the Butlers.
To overthrow this powerful aristocra?
tic dynasty was a task for Robes?
pierre. But eventually from the
sand hills of Edgefield there stepped
forth an angular and awkward man
of the people who was prepared to
take over the contract.
Says The Post:
"Less than 25 years ago Benjamin
R. Tillman determined to destroy
this aristocratic regime. It was a
battle of the giants. Hampton and
Butler were representatives of it
Both were of illustrious families
both had fought and died for the
South on many a stricken field, both
were men of unblemished honor
There rallied to them the serious
of the old families, and they were in?
trenched in the traditions of cen?
turies. Even Ben ruiman's eld<r
brother, who bail displayed conspi<
cuous abilities In congress, spoke and
vore? against tin policies of his
brothei
"But the 'Craker was, aroused. He
had found a leader brave as Caesar,
devoted as Hampden, impetuous as
Hotspur, resolute, earnest, honest
invincible. After a tremendous
struggle Tillman was elected gover?
nor in 1890, and two years thereafter
he was re-elected. He was an 'archi?
tect of ruin,' In that he held in con?
tempt the traditions of the past and
smote the oligarchy until it trembled
and fell. Wade Hampton was the
first citizen of the State; a hero and
a statesman, the heir of a great name
and of an immense fortune. No
more gallant soldier drew sword in
the big war, at the close of which
he could have said with more truth
than did the crowned Valois on the
day of Pa via. 'All is lost save hon?
or.'
'But without hesitation the new
champion of popular government
stripped Wade Hampton of his toga
and gave it to another. Only a little
while and he defeated M. C. Butler
for the Senate in which body he took
his scat in 1S95.
"Nobody who witnessed the scene
when Tillman delivered his maiden
speech In the senate will ever forget
it. His fellows appeared to he awed.
Certainly nothing like it ever before
transpired in that theatre. It recall?
ed the presence of the rude Gaul in
the Roman senate, as recorded in an?
cient story. Tillman was fierce in
his denunciation of the then Demo?
cratic president and the Democratic
secretary of the treasury. Nor was
lie content with that. He assailed
everything political then in existence,
talked as though he felt that there
was hut one honest man in public
life, and he ;i senator from South
Carolina with but one eye and a
pitchfork in his hand.
?*Hut Tillman got bravely over that.
As In1 came to know the senate he re?
spected it. Blunt to vulgarity, he was
honest to the core, and the senate
(Mine to respect him and senators to
love him. Perhaps had he been a
greater Intellect and a thoroughly
cultivated scholar he would have
made for himself a smaller place.
Certainly he would not have been the
picturesque figure he became.
"Not in breadth of Intellect, not in
learning, not in eloquence, hut in re?
sistless force of character, Ben Till?
man is Ihe greatest man South Caro?
lina ever produced, and one of the
most i xtraordlnary men our country
has produced." Atlanta Georgian.
I Virtue is hold, and goodness never
I fearful. - Shakespeare.
LUNG HEMORRHAGES
<! TOOK PE-RU-NA.)
MISS NINETTE PORTER.
Miss Ninette Porter, Braintree, Ver?
mont, writes: "I have been cured by
Peruna.
"I had several hemorrhages of the
lungs. The doctors did not help me
much and would never have cured me.
'?I saw a testimonial in a Peruna
almanac of a case similar to mine, and
I commenced using it. I wrote to Dr.
Hartman for advice. He kindly gave
?M free advice.
*'I was not able to wait on myself
when I began using it. I gained very
slowly at first, but I could see that it
was helping me.
"After I had taken it a while I com?
menced to raise up a stringy, sticky,
substance from my lungs. This grew
less and less in quantity as I continued
the treatment.
? I grew more fleshy than I had been
for a long time, and now 1 call myself
well."
A Bad Cou&h.
Mrs. Emma Martin, Odessa, Mo.,
writes: 4,I cannot thank you enough
for curing me.
'?For two years I doctored my cough,
which cost me many dollars, but st 11 I
seemed to get worse. My cough wa* so
bad I could not sleep.
?'Finally I purchased a bottle of Pe
ruua. After the use of six bottles I feel
thai I am cured."
People who object to liquid medicines
can now secure Peruna tablets.
i
Another Term for Taft.
The Republican organization was
never more busily engaged in the
game of national politics than now.
It wishes to win the Congressional
election this coming fall, and it also
wishes to win the Presidental elections
of 1912. Further than that, it wisheil
to make a succes of the Taft adminis?
tration, and to make sure noj
that Mr. Taft shall be denominated
but alec re-elected, All the tendencies
ot our political ife now ? all for a
two-term Incumbency President
Clev dand intended to be a one-tei
Presiueni, out conaiiions muue
renomination inevitable. Mr. Ha
son, like Mr. Cleveland, was reno
nated for a second term, though, a
like Mr. Cleveland, he was defeated
the election. Mr. McKinley was
nomlated under conditions that ma
opposition impossible. In Roos
velt's first year of the Presidency, ar
even in his second and third yea
the elements of opposition to h
nomination in 1904 were so powerf
that the chances seemed quite
favor of the coalition of leaders an
interests determined to eliminate tl
Rough Rider from political conditio"
that cleared the way, in the winter
1903-4, and made Mr. Roosevelt's r
nomination an easy certainty,
business of paving the way for M
Taft's nenomination is going forwar
quite as actively,?now that he h
been In office exactly one year,
the same sort of business went on
the same stage of Mr. Roosevelt'
Presidency, and in various earlier ad
ministrations. State by State all ove
the country the situation has bee
?'v.Jied with careful forecast; an
nothing is allowed to pass unheede
of uninfluenced. Old-line politician
are taking lessons.?Review of Re
views for March.
Rice Flour.
35 tons fresh from the mills. Best
and Cheapest Feed for Horses, Cows
and Hogs you can buy. Booth-Har
by Live Stock Co., Sumter S. C.
2 12-St.?W
The W. O. W. will soon have th<
uniform rank. The squad is bein
drilled by Capt. G. C. Warren. The
uniforms will soon arrive.
Judge Richardson, in speaking o
the proposed paving of Main street
offers the suggestion that the materia
used should not be one that will make
a noisy thoroughfare.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have Always bought
Bears the
Signature of
roil SALB?Genuine Marlbore Proli?
fic seed corn. Bushel $2.00; hall
bushel $1.25; peck 7 5 cents. Last
year this corn measured 7 7 bush?
els per acre with less than $11.00
worth of fertilizers. J. H. Myers,
Sumter, S. C, R. P. D. No. 4