Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lluS Hl MTtR WATCHMAN. ?tdjfcjj I J Apnl 1850 'B? JnM ?nd Pe?r qq^-!^ ^ Thoo AWt m he ?h, Co??,.,, TTiy ^, fc^. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, lMf Consolidated Amt. 3,1881. 8TJMTER, 8 CWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 19H. Vol. XXXIII. No. 37. KEMEL Of C0IT0N SITUATION. JOtlS U Mcl. VI ltl\ K FT I.I IS TO M\NY gi'iOTIONft. Follow lag <o ton Conference at New OrtrejM Questions Regarding Val ortMUIon. SMi,. Validation and the Mornry Hi test loo Have Artern? Thee* Mr. MoLaurin Answere In light of l)i?t4 u*a<)iH at Conference. Wh?? the Fnrmcr la I p Against. To the Editor of The Sunday News: Since tha recant cotton conference In New Orkans I am In receplt of many letters from various auctions of the State requesting Information. It la a physical Impossibility for je to reply at length to all of these term With your permission I will the columns of your paper to er tho various Inquiries; begging those* to whom I have been unable to reply to take this without consider. Ing mi unaupreclative or discour? teous. The questions may be embraced nr. fleet: What la valorisation? Second?What Is Stats validation? Third?What currency reform was proposed at the conference? Valorisation comes from the re? cent ftrar Man experiment In coffee. This eras not seriously discussed at the conference except incidentally to 1)1 net rat* what can he d>>ne. If we are driven to the wall. Also as a strlk. hag eroample of the woatore to he ac? complished by organised government? al actio i. There can he do doubt were "j other course open that the eotton Mates could succeed netter Use* Brasil. Firat Because we have the ad of the higher political and merctal standing of the United. as compared with Brasil. Second?The resources of the South seers varied and the character of Che people far above that of Brasil. ThJrdV?The cotton States could Vastly apportion among themselves In %etlo of cotton production the amount 0 eottoa to be eared for by each aad possibly by legislative en These are. palates.! would as complete rrld of cotton sow holde la f the lasted of eetfe* } attention off those who feel even aa aemdemle Interest to a press report on the ascend page of the Co- . of the 17th Instant. The National Convention United States to interpose 1 wp this ooeaaeae of coffee pla storm. That would sound good to aso If It were only eottoa. 1 Brasil ks a repeblle modelled after the United Stetem. Sa? Paulo beere about the same relation to coffee pro doction that Texas end South Car? olina together do to eottoa produo ^ About eta years ago the trust and money so Wer had tho coffee planters about wise > we will be this time next pear, mal?i something both radical aad practical is done. They were bankrupt. Coffee coot 7 cents a pound to the I I planter and he was being forced to sell It it 1. i The Legislature of San Paulo waa sailed together, and the State Issued bonds for eevency-flve million del- | lore. They were promptly placed and San Paulo begs a to buy coffee and store It away. The coffee bears laugh *d and the wies financiers said tha tttau* would go broke, but ehe did not. | else bought coffee and the market pmlnfuHy struggled to a little above I cents, then she began to eel! all the 4-sent coffee at over I cents that ehe could without breaking the market. When the market got weak more ee*ee was bought and stored. Coffee production increased, but In spite of that by the policy of never selling except at a profit, the mar? ket In the f ? ? of Increased produc? tion has advanced from 4 to IS cents. The middle man was wiped out. lAgttlmate bu>? r? of coffee bought direct from the State warehouses. The teeth of every coffee hear were drawn and hie claws clipped: you only near hie growl and plaintive whine begging governmental aid for ' a return to the dare of the "good stealing." in which the cotton hears ere now revelling. Further than this, the profits to the Statt are so great, that t am Informed all Internal taxes In Sao P do have b#?en abolished. O ever nor Cujuultt, of Texas, Is en tlttel( to 'tho th'eJks A fie vS<>ui .pJk for b.tvW'-nfl?^^onfjl^ f.the Cotton States In NeW Or? to consider the present Indueirl crisis. It to a patent fact ?hat anr INTEREST IN CORN SHOW. MAN Y r XHIIUTS EXPKCTKD FOR THK UMMffflOX. Farmen? of North Carolina. Georgia ami south Carolina to Parthipnte ?Give Special Rate?. Columbia, Nov. 24.?The Indica? tions are that there will be several thousand exhibits sent to the second South Atlantic stat a Corn exposition to be held here from December 11 to 15, when $8,000 In prises will be given for the best corn shown. The programme for the exposition Is be? ing prepared by A. D. Hudson of New berry, the president, and will soon be announced. All entries of exhibits should be made through C. C. Porter of Columbia. It Is the purpose of the manage? ment of the exposition to make It distinctly educational, and to that *nd exhibits have been secured from the agricultural experiment stations of North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina. Friday of the exposition will be "Boys' Corn club days." and several hundred members of the cluba In the above-named States are expected to attend. There will be special prizes for the boys, and Dr. Bradford Knapp, head of the Uni? ted States farm demonstration work, will bo present to deliver an address. The management of ?M exposition will secure cheap round-trip rates from ail points In Georgia, South Car? olina and North Carolina. A feature of the exposition this year will be the oorn judging school and the corn Judging contest to be conducted between teams represent? ing Clemson colloge and the Agricul? tural and Mechanical college of North Carolina. The teams have been in training since the first of the year. Two trophy cups, ens valued at $100. given by the Southern railway, and the other, valued at $25, given by The Progressive Farmer, will be awarded to the team making the moat points. plan stopping short of concerted Stats action must fall. \?|>? reeuU of the conference 1% m- | bodied in three Idee* to wit: 1. A recommendation that the several cotton States adopt the plan now being followed with sec cess in Louisiana. I named this baby "State validation." | t. That the members of Congress from the South see to it that when the currency commission makes Its report, that cotton warehouse certi? ficates be made a basis for the issue of currency. 2. The tentative proposition of certain New York bankers to advance $60.000,000 for retirement of 2,000, 000 bales of the crop of 1911. Lou? isiana by a constitutional amendment created a board of port commissioners who were empowered under the right of eminent domain to acquire the terminal facilities and land necessary for the construction of a great cen? tral State warehouse In New Or? leans. Cotton Is to be warehoused on a scale of greater magnitude than has svsr been attempted before. The certificates are in effect rs celpts from Louisiana under the gre*? seal of the State, 1 The Stats does not buy the cotton, nor does she lend money on It.. she merely does for the farmer that which hs can not do for himself, to wit; cheap storage, with his assets put In such commercial form as maks I them command the lowest rate of in? terest. I The proposition of currency reform, 1 regard as of greater importance than any measure which has been proposed since the war. It will strlks the shackles from our limbs and emancipate us forever from the burden Inflicted upon us for waging fan unsuccessful war. It Is a favorite theme of the Fouth of July orators to proudly boast that it remained for the United States to give to history its first example of no war debt being exacted from a conquered people. This is not true; no people In dollars and cents have ever paid a heavier tribute through the exactions of a subtle ard crafty money system as the people of the South. ftgej raw mstorlal with protected manufacture backed by a money mo? nopoly for fifty years has drained the South and made New Fngland wllh Its barren hills and bleak ell njpfcte tho synonym for wealth. M??n*y in nothing but a yardsth k or measure of value. Ninety per cent of t^e business pf l>e country F done ? paper,.J&wlthout any money t''*?rii? 1 b It takes an utousuul amount of cash* to peg picking?, ginning, freights, etc l?"SjHfg lb the transaction. rn^rneVlne- j,?.fiov1 < oinee. HISTORY OF BOER WAR. RELEASED BY TIME FROM OATH HAMMOND TALKS. Many American* in Reform Associa? tion Whose AciiVitien Resulted In the Jameson Haid. Boaton, Nov. 26.?Released by time from an oath not to talk on South African affairs or reveal any of the "inside" of events leading: up to the Boer war for a period of years, John Hays Hammond, who was conspicuous in that war, broke his silence for the first time last night at a dinner of the Clover club. Mr. Hammond said the Jameson raid was the result of the activities ( of a reform association formed at Johannesburg and consisting largely of Americans. "I want especially," said Mr. Ham? mond, "to correct a misunderstanding. It has been said we were acting un? der the British flag. That is false, j "Much sympathy hag been wasted *Sj Oom' Paul Kruger. He was op- J posed to progress, believed the world was flat and that the devil had a tail. His Impositions were ?such as no man I of the Anglo-Saxon race would have tolerated. "The reform movement against Kruger was not an English move-1 ment. Jameson came into the fight against our wishes and against the wishes of the British high commis? sioner. I sent word to him to go back, and when he persisted the only thing to do was to bluff kruger Into believing that we had more arms than we really had. We did so, and Kruger sent over an olive branch to Johannesburg. They agreed to all but two things, and that was that no contract should be accepted with a Catholic or a Jew. This we flatly re? fused. "Kruger played false with the re? form committee, after the Jameson raid, broke all hrs promises, and af? ter he had secured the arms In Johan? nesburg through Sir Hercules Bohl? sen, he arrested the entire commit? tee. "He gave the men to understand tf^at If they plaadad guilty they waxftd, be let off with a fine. Instead they were sentenced to be hung within 24 hours. A dispatch from Secretary Qlney caused Kruger and the Boer council to hesitate, and after an all night session the council voted to commute the sentences to life Im? prisonment" If this could also be handled on paper , it would not make much difference,1 but at this particular time cash is required, hence New York, where we all are forced to go. begins to feel the drain upon her reserves of cash. Immediately the call goee to the country banks: Send us money. The country banker rushes out and calls the merchant, the merchant calls the farmer, the poor farmer has ne one to call except God, and I do not think God has much to do with the financial system of theee | United States. The farmer is so afraid that that thing "credit" (about which they speak In bated breath) will be hurt. A few days after the call starts from New York we are all In the street with our cotton, ready to take whatever we are offered. Our money, doled out to us to pick the crop, goes j right back to New York, and Is lock I ed up In the vaults until the next crop moving period cornea and j again we go on the same weary, heart-breaking round. A singular condition now confronts the country. The panic of 1907 created great alarm for the money centres; the country has grown too big for such a close monopoly. There are not enough United States bonds to go round. It Is now proposed that cer? tain classea of security, like United States Steel bonds shall be issued as a baals for the Issue of currency. I say. why not use a cotton warehouse certificate, validated by the 8tate? What Is a United States Steel bond? It represents so many pound.* of steel rails, and its value also depends upon the honesty and ability of the officers of the corporation. What would a cotton certificate represent? So many pounds of cotton that sells at any time the world over for gold. Stop making cotton, and steel rails in the 8outh would be worthless Junk. The third proposition Is merely temporary, looking to the remnant of the if?ii crop, it la speculative In ItH oharacter? and every man must judge, for hlrnsolf. As to the general proposition of Mute aid I can only say: "It Is I condition and not a theory that eon ? noi)ts uh." Is not a crop supporting twenty-live million people und r. ' ? lug f balance of the worla , trade TOM FELDER INDICTED. CHARGED WITH BRIBERY AS RE. SULT OF "WIND-UP INVES? TIGATION. Indictment Handed Out to Newberry Grand Jury. HI en sc, Towill and Boykin, Star Witnesses?Felder Not Present, However. Newberry, Nov. 27.?Solicitor Coop? er handed to the grand jury in Gen? eral sessions court today an indict? ment of three counts, charging brib? ery against Thomas B. Felder, an At? lanta attorney, the allegation being that he made offers of stock and money in October, 1905, to Herbert H. Evans, of Newberry, who was then Chairman of the Board of Directors] of the South Carolina Dispensary ,tol procure Evans* influence toward se? curing orders for liquor from the dispensary for a wholesale liquor house which it Is alleged Felder was! then organizing. It is alleged that Folder first offered Evans stock in! his Liquor Company to the par value of $50,000. that he later offered him stock in this concern to the par val ce of $250,000 and that he finally of? fered Evans $250,000, "in lawful money of the United States." The indictment follows an investi? gation conducted for some months past by the dispensary winding-up commission at the urging of Oov. Blease. Governor Blease was in the court room when the indictment was handed out. The witnesses sworn to go before the grand jury are Gov. Blease and former dispensary direc? tors, John Bell Towill and L. W. Boy kin. Towill and Boykin were mem? bers of the boarn when Evans was chairman. Solicitor Cooper also handed to the grand Jury a certain letter, the text of which was recently furnished to the press by Governor Blease, pur? porting to be from Felder, and chid? ing Evans for indifference toward an offer by Felder which Felder thought highly advantageous to Evans. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the grand Jury took a recess until 3 o'clock with? out giving any intimation as to how It would .deal with the Felder ln-^ dlctment Recently a warrant olifarg^ Ihg Felder with bribery was sworn out in Newberry by B. F. Kelly, then secretary of the dispensary wlnding ! up commission and placed In the hands of Sheriff Buford of this coun i ty for service. But Gov. Jos. M. Brown of Georgia refused to honor the requisition for Felder. Issued to Sheriff Buford by Gov. Blease. \ mmmmmmmmtmmmmmmwmmmmmmmtm SUPPLIES SHIPPED SOUTH. Aviation Materials Dispatched to Au? gusta, Ga. Augusta, Qa., Nov. 24.?Notice has j been received here from the war de* I partment of the shipment front , Washington of the first lot of sup? plies for the aviation training school st Augusta, of the United States aero? nautical reserve*. j The officers and men will arrive in Augusta on a special train the 28th of this month. , in favor of the United States as j worthy of governmental aid aa trust protected monopoly? The cry, "Back to the farm!" is a delusion [ and a snare, unleee the statesman? ship of the nation can preserve to , production a fair share of the fruits of Us own toll. Under our money system all prop? erty gravitates towards the posses? sors of wealth. Tollers increase, I while labor-saving machinery passes under the control of capital. Worker competes with worker, and under the iron law of economics the present ; tendency (unleee checked) means i here what it le in Europe, that the i (compensation for productive labor will be Just sufficient to do the work and enable the laborer to reproduce . himself. The American farmer and i laborer will never submit to this. Tho Government cannot afford to risk the ballot In the hands of a discon? tented citizenship. The people who live in the peaceful country places, who have time to think and commune With nature in the temple of her untarnished skies, ars not only nation builders, but na? tion savers. How can any govern? ment maintain this mighty fortress In the souls of her people if It per? mits to be destroyed the peace and comfort, BO dependent upon a fair reward for toll? How long would New England tolerate auch a condi? tion of affairs if she owned the cotton fields of the BbuHt? i venture to say thai bo world would be glad lb gel c I' "i at twenty cents B pound. (Respectfully* John L. Mef/iurin. Don n ill?, 8. C, . PROBABLY $?0,000 SECURED IN REGISTERED MAIL. Loss May Reach $50,000, Result of Daring Robery of Mail Car in Co? lumbia Friday Night by Lone Rob? ber. Who After Holding Up Mail Clerk and Making Big "Haul" Es? caped Without Leaving Clue to Identity?Search Continues. Columbia, Nov. 25.?Interest cen? tres in the identity of the bandit who held up and robbed the mail car on Comet Line train No. 55, at the city' limits Friday night at midnight. No clue to the robber has been obtained. J although detectives are on the trail j and every effort is being mado to ap- I prehend him. The fact that the robbery was pull? ed off right at the city limits leads the authorities to believe that the rob? ber is an old, cool hand at the'busi? ness. That he was acquainted with the road and knew that it was the schedule to send a good amount of coin in over that line last night is evident, and It is stated here today that the amount he obtained in reg? istered mail was around $30,000 and some estimate the loss at $50,000. It Is said that the money was being forwarded here for the cotton buyers. The robbery occurred just at the city limits. Coast Line train No. 55 had passed the block at Royster's and was heading into the city, when a masked man entered the mail car and commanded the mail clerk, H. L. Meridlth, and his negro helper, B. L. Dreher, to throw up their hands. He then reached over and grabbed the registered mall pouches, which were In sacks consigned to Columbia, and still keeping the men covered with his gun, pulled the emergency cord, bringing the train to a standstill, he, however, escaping before the train stopped. The train proceeded Into the city, where the robbery was re? ported, and, although bloodhoude were taken at once to the scene, no trail was struck. Mr. Meredith went out on his re? turn run to Wilmington this morn? ing, aijg, according to h.ls schedule, j will return here Monday night Pos? tal inspectors are expected here short- j ly and then a report on the robbery will be made. It is thought that In? spector H. T. Gregory, the well-known j and fearless postofflce inspector, might come here and take charge of the investigation into this case. Beyond the fact that the man was white, was masked and wore a large coat, no accurate description of the robber has been obtained. He Is said to be sllmly built, but this is a matter of mere supposition. i The robber left the train at the cor? ner of ?umter and Whaley streets, and, thinking that he might have cut the canvas mall sacks and thrown them aside after leaving the train, a search over the whole spot was made this morning, but no evidence nor sight of the sacks waa found. No clue at all has been obtained. The boldness of the affair, right In the outskirts of the city and within a stone's throw of the union station, the robber venturing into the very Jaws of the police, made the whole city gasp when It awoke this morning and learned of the robbery. Such affairs have been read of in the West and other sections, but no one dreamed that It would happen In the Capital City of South Carolina. The very nerve of the perpetrator of the deed is amazing and at the same time ex? cites one's admiration. REWARD FOR BLACK. Dave Rivers Seems to Have Msae Good His Escape?Mr. Pitts' Con? dition Unfavorable. Hampton, Nov. 24.?The citizens of Hampton have offered a reward of $300 for the - rest or delivery of Dave Rivers, tiit \egro who Tuesday afternoon attempted a criminal as? sault on a little white girl near here. The negro fugutlve seems to have made good his escape. Last heard of he was In the vicinity of Olar, about 30 miles from here. All mem? bers of the posses from Hampton who have been pursuing the negro have returned home. John Reid Ftts, who was shot by Rivers while pursuing the negro, shortly after the fiendish attempt ^aa made, Is not improving as rapidly as might be expected, and his condition is reported today as being unfavor? able. Marriage License Record, Only one marriage license was is? sued Thursday. Mr. Joseph B. Macky, of Blshopyllle end Miss Hat tie J. Mason of Sumter wore the parties securing the license. ? flOW OF LIQUOR. \ production FOB 1911 is 19,461,. 567 GALLONS MORE THAN 1910. Mo?B Clears and Cigarettes, Too, Were Made in the Year Drawing to e Close. Washington, Nov. 25.?Prohibition? ists will have something worth while to think about in the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue Royal E. Cabell, for tr ?sent year, where it is shown ' a 1910 the total pi oduction j& -died spirits in the United Sta' ^ >s 163,893,960 gal? lons, and ir ^, 183,355,527 gallons, an increr 19,461,567 gallons. This * ,e is one of the most Sj mar ' ^ the country's history, and r V je accounted for in only one v . that the people wanted the wet goods and the distillers were accom? modating and turned out the stuff to satisfy their thirst. No other explanation is forthcom? ing from the treasury department, in fact there is no other to give. It I is simply that the distillers know pthe wants of the consumers and made the goods to suit them, j The four States having the largest production of distilled spirits were: Kentucky, 46,133,576 gallons; Illinois, 40,467,742; Indiana, 28,588,922, and Ohio, 10,305,038 gallons. I The four States which produced the largest amounts of fermented li? quors were: New York, 13,732,743 barrels; Pennsylvania, 7,811,732 bar? rels; Illinois, 6,630,254 barrels, and Wisconsin, !>,287,347 barrels. These figures are enough to open the eyes of prohibitionists all over the country, who are interested in the manufacture and consumption of al? coholic spirits. Along with the increased manufac? ture of liquor went also a very mark? ed Increase in the production of cigars [and cigarettes. j The two districts showing the larg? est production of cigars are the Ninth Pennsylvania, 715,999.485, and the First Pennsylvania, 694,J36,?$5, The States showing the largest pra ductlor of little cigars (weighing leas t ??3k?;I*>uxS? J** thousand were*H Virginia, 344,452,36/); MaVy? land, 327,179,270; Pennsylvania, 221,789,270. The States of New York, Virginia, Louisiana, California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, in the order ' named, showed the greatest produc? tion of cigarettes weighing less than three pounds per thousand. The three districts showing the greatest production of little cirgarettes were: 'The Second Virginia, which produced 12,077.463,866; the Second New York, 2,053,621,008; the Third New York, 1,866.205,701. I New York State produced the I greatest number of large cigarettes, j showing a production of 18,614,404, of I which number 13,058,214 were manu? factured in the Third District and 5, 453,050 in the Second District. The States of North Carolina, Mis? souri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and New Jersey, in the order named were the States reporting the largest man? ufacture of both chewing and amok* lng tobacco. ESTIMATE 14,835,000 RALE CROP, Correspondents Throughout Cotton Belt Report to New Orleans Pa? per. New Orleans, Nov. 26.?Final es? timates on the cotton crop of 1911 received by the New Orleans Times Democrat from its correspondents throughout the cotton belt give the total of 14,835,000 bales exclusive of I Unters repacks and similar addi? tions. The concensus of opinion indicates the following results: Alabama 1,500,000, Arkansas and Missouri 960,000, Georgia and Florida 2,650,000, Louisiana 375,000, Missis? sippi 1.150,000, Oklahoma 960,000, North Carolina and Virginia 1.000, 000, South Carolina 1,500,000, Ten? nessee and Kentucky 450,000, Texan and California 4.300,000. Total 14, 835,000. CANADA SORRY, BUT TOO LATE. Toronto Editor Says People Wish Reciprocity nad Carried. Chicago, Nov. 24.?According to J. A. McDonald, editor of The Toronto Globe, and a prominent member of the Liberal party, is sorry she reject? ed reciprocity. Mr. McDonald so de Clared in an address before the Sun? day Evening Club last niRht. ' The people have returned t ) sober thinking and repret their action," he said. "The annexation bugbear was to blame for it all." Mr. McDonald's subject was 'The Man and the Orowd."