The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 15, 1911, Image 3
m i.atf f.. h. hxrriman.
Otto II. Kuhn Talkt or the Personal
fllaV ot Mi ib?'!' Mini
I llUtIK
{ From th' \, w York Tunes.,
otto II. Kuhn, of Kuhn. Leob A
? poke on the late E. 11. Harrlman
last night before a gathering *>f dis?
tinguished men and women at the
finance forum of tie Young Men's
Christian Association at 318 West
Fifty-seventh street, giving some ln?
ttaaate reminiscences of the railroad
man, with whom he had been asso?
ciated for many years.
After his prepared address, Mr.
Kahn answered questions from the
audience. In the course of this in?
formal Ulk he declared that Hurrl
man, moved by patriotism, had plan
pad to build the Fttnama Canal If the
ted States had not undertaken the
great work. This announcement was
received with deep interest.
"My first vivid Impression of Mr.
Harrlman dates back to a hot sum?
mer afternoon In 1897, when, look
Ina pale, weary and tired out, he
came to our office to induce us to
take an Interest with him in a cer?
tain business. We did not particu?
larly care for It, and told him that
wa preferred not to Join In the trans?
action. He argued to convince us of
the merits of the proposition, and,
finally, not having made any headway,
he desisted. I thought he had accept?
ed our declination. He got up to go,
but turned around at the door und
said 1 am dead tired this after?
noon, and no good any more. I have
been on this Job uninterruptedly all
day. taking Bja time even for lunch?
eon. I'll tackle you agtln tomorrow
when 1 am fresh. I'm bound to con?
vince you. and to get you to come
along.' He did. He came again the
next day. and finally we yielded tQ the
sheer persistency of the man, and to
the lucldtty of his arguments. It is
worth mentioning, by the way, that
his Judgment was right; the business
turned out very well.
"He did not know the meaning of
the word 'defeat.* He never 'threw
up the sponge.' His power of will
wa* nothing short of phenomenal, and
by Its exercise, coupled with his hv
doml able pluck and amaxlng brain
facilities, I have seen him perform
veritable miracles In the way of
making people do as he wanted."
"Difficulties, r ska dangers." Mr.
Kahn went on to say, "were not only
no deterrents, r ut rather inducements
to undertake the fisk. When there
was an easy way to accomplish a
thing, and also s dl'lcu't way. Mr.
Harrlman's Inclination would be to
take the latter I once told him I
suspected hl*o of purposely creating
difficulties and obstacles for himself
for the riero sport of overcoming
tbem."
Illustrating Mr. Harrlman's persis?
tence, Mr Kahn referred to Harrl?
man's demand on Thomas F. Ryan In
IfOS for a share In the purchase of
the majority stock of the Equitable
Life, which Mr. Ryan refused
"For five years nothing more was
heard of the matter," Mr. Kahn said,
"and even Mr Harrlman's Intimate as?
sociates thought ho had dropped the
Idea, only a short while ago It be?
came known that a y?ar before his
death Mr. Harrlman lud finally suc?
ceeded In his object, having purchased
from Mr. Ryan one-half of his hold
Inga"
"At the time of his death the pa?
pers were full of enrnments as to the
vastness of NM territo y In which his
Influence was potent or controlling;
but the most rem irkable thing, to my
mind, was not the extent of his power,
but the faet that his commanding
position, his control over so many un?
dertaking'., rested not on money, but
on personality. I do not think that
the greater part of his personal for?
tune was Invested m railroad stocks,
and. If every cent of It had been so
Invested, It would have amounted to
but a small fraction of the share
capital of the properties In which his
Influence was predominant.
1 will oni\ point to the fact F .t In
the first fiscal year following Mr. Har?
rlman's SSfJSalSJJ |g UM Fnlou Pacific
Board th?* surplus earnings of the
Union Paclflc applicable to $107,00<t,
000 of common stuck were $5,H00,O0O.
Today, taking; the figures ?f the last
tlseal ye, r. the surplus earnings of the
Fnb?n Pscltle system < ?xcludtng the
Southern !*.? ev i applie ihle to JIH,
ooo,torn of eommon sfo.-k. at. $11.
SOO.000. From the time Mr. Harrl?
man assumed the direction of affairs
to the time ti his death $1^7..I,ttf
were spent In Improving the proper' .,
of three-quarters of which sum Oo
t .. .si.-. I'M' mi.'iou > not on.- dollar
of capitalisation was created. The
tree assets held e.bsolutely unlneum
bered In Its treasury have an aggre?
gate value of $ J 10.000,000.
of his patriotism and his attitude
toward the Ihwm Mr. Kahn said:
"Mr. Harrlman was an Intensely pa?
triotic man, proud of his ? ountry, Its
Institutions, and Its achievements,
Jealous of his own honor and tf
Amerlea s fair fame abroad, always
willing and tftfltt It it ids duty as a
cltlsen as he saw It, and he rfjgttjlid
deeply, and so did his friends, the
efforts of his detnu tors, to represent
him as a lawbreaker, and his pin -
non.enal NOtNl was due, at least in
I' it, t<? ins having managed t<. i>vade
.<!? s?'t at naught the UlWS of in I
country.
"ThS erlsis in Mr. Harriman's <\t
SfjtJT eame early in the year of lt07,"
flf OlaTSd Hr< Kahn. A few of his
bitterest enemies had set out the yeur
before on ? carefully planned, astutely
prepares1 onjnpelgu t?f destruction
against him. The Ilarriman Exter?
mination Lsegut -if i may so can it
?played us trump oard by poisoning
Mr. Roosevelt's mind against Mr.
Harrlman, with whom he used to be
on friendly t? rms, l?y gross misrepre?
sentations, which caused him to see In
Mr. Harrlman the embodiment of
everything which his own moral sense
most abhorred and the arch-type of
a class whose exposure and destruc?
tion he looked upon as a solemn pa?
triotic duty. With Mr. Roosevelt lead?
ing the attack, the league felt so cer?
tain of their ability to hurl Mr. Har?
rlman into outer darkness, defeat,
disgrace, that they actually sent con?
siderate warning to his close associates
to draw away from him while there
?us yet time to do so, lest they be
struck by fragments of the bomb
which would soon explode under Mr.
Ilarriman, and which was certain to
hurl him to destruction. Mr. Harrl?
man, of course, was fully aware of all
this. He braced himself against the
coming blow*, but did nothing to avert
it. let alone run away from it.
"The fight against Harrlman lasted
a full year, which covered the panic,
Harrlman doing more than his share
in the work of relief, and then the
aspect of things began to change.
"The Harrlman Extermination
League broke up; the more generous
of its members frankly acknowledged
his great qualities, admitted that he
had been wronged, and became 'Whole?
hearted adherents; others, from self
interest, made haste to climb on h';?
band wagon; only a few irreeoneii
ables continued to sulk and frown,
but no longer dared to attack him.
"It Is significant of the tendency of
Mr. Harriman's development that,
though he had graduated from the
'old' school of politics, he grew to
hold some heterodox views, and the
statesman for whom in his last years
I heard him oftenest express admir?
ation and respect was the late -lover
nor Johnson, the progressive Chief
Executive of Minnesota."
Remember the Name
Foley's Honey and Tar for all coughs
and colds, croup, bronchitis, hoarse?
ness and for racking lagrippe coughs.
No opiates. Refuse substitutes. W.
W. Slbert.
Look for Sibert's advertisement of
cut glass, which is said by all to he
the prettiest and cheap :si 1 ? the city.
2-10-2t-I&W.
Ealls Vic tim .o Thieves.
?S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala.,
has a justifiable grievance. Two
thieves stole his health for 12 years.
They were a liver and kidney trouble.
Then Dr. King's New Life Pills throt?
tled them. He's well now. Unrivaled
for constipation, malaria, headache,
dyspepsia. 25c. Sibert's Drug Store.
Many Matters Acted Upon.
Columbia, Feb. 11.?Uncontested
matters were considered in the legis?
lature today, nothing hut these be?
ing allowed to be taken up except by
unanimous consent. A whole raft of
these were ready for action as soon
as both houses met today at 10 o'clock
Baekachc, Ithcumutisni, Sleeplessness
Result from disordered kidneys. Fo
loy Kidney Pills have helped others,
they will help you. Mrs. J. R. Miller,
Syracuse, N. Y., says, "For a long
time 1 suffered with kidney trouble
and rheumatism. I had 3evere back?
aches and felt all played out. After
taking twv> bottles of Foley Kidney
Pill? my backache is gone arid where
I used to lie awako with rheumatic
pains I now sleep in comfort. Foley
Kidney Pills did wonderful things for
me." Try them now. W. W. Slbert.
Now that TyTOl Cobb is a stock?
holder in the Augusta Chronicle,
Augusta will be taking more in?
terest in her morning paper. The
Charleston Pont predicts that the
Chronicle win evcragt a hit a day.?
Clinton Chronicle.
Tortured for 13 Years
Ry a cure-defying stomach touble
that bafled doetora and resisted all
rented lee hi trtedi John sv. Moders,
.f sfoddtrevllle, Mich., teemed doom
cd. He had to sell his farm and give
up work. His neighbor! said, "he
can't live much longer." Whatever
i ate distressed me," he wrote, "till I
Bl ? rk Btttars, which worked
sueh frontiers for rue that i can now
eat things 1 COUld hot IftlM for years.
sirely v grand remedy for stom?
ach trouble." Just as good for the
Irret and Silbe) .-. Every bottls guar?
anteed, only lee, at Sibert's Drug
?Iota,
Look for glbet " advertisement ef
cut glass, which . i ?uld by all to be
the prettiest and cheapest In the city.
M*-SV?lcYW,
?Von are probabt) twars that pneu
moid a always rseults from s o *\c\ bul
you never heard of a cold resulting
in pneumonia when Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy was used. Why take
the risk when this remedy may be
had for a trifle'.' F.?r sab by all deal?
ers.
FEW ACRES OR MANY?
tone of the Reasons for Large Fernas,
and Some of the \ dvantages the
Large Fainter Has?When the
small Farm wr May Have the Ad?
vantage?A Matter for the [ndl
\ idm.ii to Decide,
Walt, r S. Fla^tfe, (?rcensboro, N. (\
We often read and hear the ad
vtcc given to buy small rather than
large numbers Of acres, and farm in?
tensively. Also, if you are tho owner
of a large number of acres to s 11
BOme (all but about 40 or 80 acres),
and raise as much on the remainder
as you did on the whole tract before.
MOW 1 am going to say something
that 'will brand me as ignorant on
the subject on which I write; but I
am very well satisfied that I am not
Without Justification.
What the average Southerner
wants Ig not fewer acres, but better
equipment. Tho man who owns only
40 to 50 acres can not afford the
more expensive labor-saving machin?
ery. With the man who owns so few
acres, no matter In what state of cul?
tivation, the corn harvester that cuts
and binds the fodder by machinery,
the hay baler, the grain binder, the
four or six-horse gang or disk plow,
the corn shredder that shreds the
fodder and husks the corn at the
same time, as well as the power to
run It economically, and do?ens of
other things are luxuries that must
be left entirely alone, or on which he
must pay some of his enlghbors a
handsome profit for their us-?. Is not
this thing entirely true?
The deeper significance of this is:
First, the small farmer must either
count his time as worth less than the
large number of acres would en?
able him to pay his hired men; or
he must receive a higher price to
pay him for his time that Is used to
produce these by hand work of the
crudest sort. Second, he is compell?
ed to leave some things of probt un?
done or pay that profit wholly, or al?
most wholly, to another. Third,
some things which if done by ma?
chinery, are pleasant work, must
ever remain a drudgery to him, be?
cause of the lack of proper equip?
ment or the reasonable justificat'on
for such equipment.
On the farm, the man's wages are
the largest expense, no matter
whether this man be owner or em?
ployee. So with the large and more
modern (as well as more expensive)
machinery the pay roll Is very mate?
rially decreased. With some of the
machinery mentioned above one man
can do the work of from 6 to 12 men
/ith the smaller machinery that the
httie farm could afford. And, with?
out some of these the work for which
they arc designed is entirely im?
possible.
Whilo I am a firm believer In the
theory of intensive farming, 1 do not
believe in the wholesale advice to
eell off land down tj 4 0 or 60 acres,
and farm this intensively. Many
Southern land owners own as much
as 500 or lf000 acres of good-gyado
land. Well, you say, these fellows
ought to sell 3orre. Maybe they
should; maybe they shouldn't. It
(b ponds largely on the Individual
under consideration. If he has rea?
son to believe he has the business
ability to manage a farm, I care not
whether he has the Immedate capi?
tal at his command or not, he will
come more nearly uot making a mis?
take by holding, than by any other
method, if he likes* farming as a
business and is willing to devote his
energies to it in a conscientious
manner.
He must then take this proposition
up as any other business. Prepare
in good manner 5, 10 or 20 acres?
Just whatever amount his pocketbook
will stand?for Intensive farming.
These few acres, well Improved, will
serve as a profitable nuclous for
other acres that are then sure to
follow. Each year will then see a
larger number of acres added to the
list of highly productive acres, be?
cause he frill have more money to
go ahead on; also, he will see that
It is good business policy to go on
thus. Ami It will surprise the man
who gives this an honest, business?
like trial, bow short will be the time
between the start and the time when
he will have all his land in tho high
. st of cultivation.
The only puestlon is: "Will you
sell your acres for from $10 to $20
or will you show yourself the real
business man and Improve the 500
acrei until each acre is worth $75
to fI MO V"
Editorial Comment.
There is food for thought in Mr,
Flagge's letter and his conclusloni
have some sound sense back of them.
This question of a large or small
farm for profit is one that admits of
no oil hand general answer, it must
be determined in each individual case
b) the man and his conditions.
What our coi-respondent says
about the advantage of the large
farmer over the small In the matter
of improved machinery la true, and
must remain true. Doutbless local
00 operation win in many oases en?
able the small farmer to have tin*
use of the most Improved machinery
v
on as favorable terms as his neigh?
bor with the larger farm, but often
the big t'arno-r will have an unques?
tionable advantage. still, the man
with only 40 or 50 acres who does
really good farming, can profitably
own many of the Improved machines
and can In many cases, do his work
as cheaply as the man with a large
farm. Again, much depends upon the ,
kind of farming. The general
farmer needs more land than the '
specialist. Forty acres would not be
much of a live stock or cotton farm,
but it would be a good-sized truck
or fruit farm.
Then there is always the question
of labor. The world over the best
farming is done?the most made
out of the land?where the farms
are small and under the immediate
direction of their owners. New Eng- j
land, for example, with its poor soil
and unfavorable climate, makes much
larger crops, and 'far more .valu?
able ones per acre, than do the States
in the Corn Belt. Yet the Corn Belt
farmer makes much more money be?
muse he works his land more cheap?
ly and cultivates more of it. If a
man can give a larger area his per?
sonal supervision and woik it prop?
erly and with the best machinery
there is no reason why he should not
ilnd it profitable to keep or even
increase his acreage. If, however, he
is "land poor"?that is, if all his
capital is invested in land, and he is
w ithout the proper equipment for
i ultivating it, as many Southern
farmers are, we believe It will pay
him better to sell a portion of it and
handle the other in a business way,
than to go on half working it, or
even to try the "little at a time"
plan suggested by Mr. Flagge.
Certain it is, that a man can make
money on either a small or a large
farm if he knows how to manage it,
and if he can manage a large one as
well as a small one, then should be
just that much more profit in it. But
better always "a little farm well till?
ed" than a big one poorly tilled.?
Progressive Farmer.
CALLING ON GIRL, WAS SHOT.
Alken Boy Shot by Another as he
Kntors Front Gate.
Alken, Feb. 9.?Will Carter, a
young white boy about 17 years of
age, lies dangerously wounded at his
home in Langley and another young
white boy, about 16 years of age, Is In
Jail, charged with the shooting.
From information that could be
gathered this morning, it seems thatj
Walter Cowens and Will Carter were !
in love with the same young lady,,
who was about their age, or younger,
and that Cowens, taking exception to
the attention being paid her by Will
Carter, shot Carter in the back and
side. Cowens boards at a home in
Burnett town, and It was at this
house that Carter was calling. He
started in. Cowens, seeing him!
coming, picked up a shotgun and
tired at Carter. The load took effect I
in the side and back. Carter was,
only about ten yeards from Cowens
when the shot was fired, and the
wound is a very serious one. Last
night the wounded boy was resting
well as could be expected.
Cowens fled, but was located in
Bath by Rural Policeman Busbee and
brought to Alken and lodged in jail.
Cowens in jail here today was in?
terviewed by the News and Courier
correspondent. He says that Carter
had been threatening him for the
past few days, and that on Tuesday
night had made threats at him as if
to draw his pistol; that he saw him i
coming Into the house last night, and
that he picked up his gun and fired
at him. He says he shot Carter in
the back just as he was latching the
gate. He also said that Carter was
mad with him about something that
he had said about a young lady.
It may be stated that Carter has
served several years in the State Re?
formatory. Cowens is in knee pants,
and when seen in jail yesterday was
pitiful in appearance.
Look for Sibert's advertisement of
CUt glass, which is said by all to be
the prettiest and cheapest in the city.
2-10-2t-I&W.
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Mr. Edmund R. Murray offers his
services to those who need an expert
and experienced Piano ami Organ
tuner and repairer. References fur?
nished and 'work guaranteed. Address
EDMUND R. MURRAY,
Swatter, S. C.
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YOUR BANK ACCOUNT; OUR DESIRE.
Your Satisfaction; Our Pleasure
Your Need; , Ours to Supply
Let's Talk it Over
THE PEOPLE'S BANK,
Capital $50,006
12 W. Liberty St.
Su inter, S. C.
poke on the Old Man.
Old man Jones and his son John came to town the other day and
sold their hogs. The men they sold to, gave each of them a
check on this bank for the proper amount. Now the old man
was just a little wise. "Say," says he, "if it is just the same to
you I would rather have the cash," and asked John if he
wanted the cash also. John said he haa just as soon
have the ch*ck. John gave the check to his father to keep
for him, but on the way home the old man lost his pocket book
and although they looked high and low it could not be found.
The money and check were both lost forever. But say, John
came back to the man who gave him the check and the man just
gave him another check for the amount and notified this bank
that if the old check turned up not to pay it?see ? But he
wouldn't give the old man some more cash ! A CHECK ON
THIS BANK IS BETTER THAN CASH.
THE FARMERS' BANK & TRUST CO.
-THE -
BANK OF SUMTER
SUMTER, S. C.
Capital and Profits
$140,000.00
When in need of
Lumber or Builders
Supplies
Call us up, or better still come and
look over our stock.
Our idea is to give you high grades
and prompt service at a reasonable cost.
Central Lumber Co.
Foot of E. Calhoun St. Sumter, S. C.
PHONE 631.