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11 ? r 1 j fjonp TOGKmOfcR picnic at din. ftUIV HILIi WAfi a worth WHUjB OOOAfilON. Crowd Enjoyed a Pleasant hi Social Inerrronrse and llcnr fedttresnte hy John and Drr. Duvid Klein. The Mmt-toc?ln?r" picnic, held at Dtnhina* Mill on tho old Charleston between Stateburg and Hagood, a big picnic and a hlg succcsm In ?vary respect. The id?a, which was first enggeeted by Rev. H. C. Bethen, the Hagood correspondent of The Dally Item, In hie correspondent to Una paper, was received immediately wRh approbation by the people ofl gaunter eoanty and i he Interest grew | an arangemente proi resscd until ev-1 verybody In the western section of x * eonnty wae enthusiastically work? ing to make the occasion a success, the local committee of arroiige the Humter Chamber of Com* I oeoperated most heartily and the resort of their combined efforts one of the large st and most rcp gathertnge of Sumter .people that has been held In ream The crowd that had as* eosnbted by neon beneath the sliede of the treea that cover the gently htO that borders the beautiful wan variously estimated at eta hundred r.o more than a The western section of the Hagood. Rembert, St&te aejrg. Providence and Borden neigh of course most numer inted. but there vere delegadone from Wedgefleld, Privateer, Brogdon, Ose ego gtgg ether sections >f Bumtor county and alee from m. Clmrlee, spring Hin and other sections <f Lm county. 11 emn mm congenial and as happy Orowd. mm It wae numerically large, and the.old ae welt as the young ap? peared to enjoy the elm pie pleas-jres of the day to the Millet* extent The noon hour bed come before the erowd had gathered on the picnu rend and It wae then that Rev. M. Bethen, who acted an master of ' Ceremonies, called the meeting to or igf and in a brief and cordial spoccl at welcome made all feel at home. He {nan Introduced Hon. John U Mc aaurta, Btgte Warehouse Commission? er, who had been Invited to add r Mr. MeLuurln prefaced hie spsech wtth expressions of gratification that hw had been naked to meet the peo? ple et Bnwiter county on such an oc " earn on, feeling It to* be a high oompll nusat to himself and the e orlt to which he Is now dedicating his :lmo and effort. In the hope of establishing and netting on a fhm foundation cotton warehouse system that will open the door of agricultural an financial Independence to the farm of South Carolina and ultimatcl all the people of the State with a wlde-eBread and general prosperity that would make for tho education end uplift of the mate. Mr. Mcl<aur In discussed the State Cotton Ware system at considerable length detail, going Into the question of r, marketing, and financing the gallon crop, and explaining how the ggtabllehment of a warehouse system, controlled and backed by the State, would make the products of the farms a basis of credit of equal importance and stability as the stocks and bonds of the railroads and Industrial cor? porations, which. ' under practices heretofore existing, have hod the preference over the baslo wealth of the farmers of the country. His ex? position of this phase of the question wan no clearly and plainly put that no one could have Called to under? stand hie point, nor fall to nwiiz? that the future prosperity of tho cotton States la In a large measure depend? ent upon the development of a ware? house system and an acrompnnying system of marketing. In connection with the use of warohou.se certificates as a basis of credit he discussed tho Insurance question und the necessity of having the warehouse certificates backed up by safe insurance policies. Without insurance sgainst lors by flro the cotton In a local warehouse Is not a safe basis of credit, and if the lo? cal warehouses can he prevented from obtaining Insurance ?U all, or at such high rates as to bo practically pro? hibitive, the system will be destroyed. He charged that tho "big Interests" and the big financiers, who are striv? ing to control the otton cro?. by th< agency of big centralized warehouses ere fighting the state system ami the small local warehounen, and havo the active aid and So-opsrnl on of the in? surance combine which Is in (lose al? liance with the tnterestn that havo heretofore mado the profit out of th< cetton crop that tho farmers have lost through their Inahidty to hold their cotton and market It gradually. It la a matter of record thut for the past twcn?y-flvo years tho average difference In the market price of OSt> too between cotton sold In November and In May has been $24 per bale. As loeg as cotton Is not handled so as to m^ke It a basis of credit, available for* the frmers who produce it, the WIPE Oil MBIT FORCE. MEXTKEN KILLED AND NUMBER TAKEN PRISONERS, INCLUD 1NO LEADER. Reported Thai Force of Mexicans Were Looiinjr Ranch When Surprise Attack by Employees of Hearst Was Made. Field Headquarters, Near Naml qulpa. May 19.?A strong force of Mexican bandit* under Atexautro Do mlnguez and Pedro Costillc were practically annihilate 1 today by 25 I native employees of the Hearst ranch at Babrl Cora, Gen. Porshing reports. The bandits were raiding the ranch and carrying off property at the time and were completely sur? prised. Sixteen were killed, and a number of prisoners, Including Cos tillo, were taken. SMUGGLING ON BORDER. Secret Agents Discover Gigantic Plot . -?Mexican Consuls Implicated. El Paso. May 19.?Agents of the department of Justice have discovered a gigantic smuggling plot which is believed to be backed by Carranza consuls on the border. Arms and ammuniton have been taken across the border from New Mexico. They raided house in Douglas and found a Mexican wireless station, forty rifles and a thousand rounds of ammuni? tion. AMERICAN FORCES TO UNITE. Cot. Slbley Reported Going to Join Obi. Longhorne. Washington, May 19.?Col. Slbley la reported to be going to j Major Longhorno and the two may be merging their forces. Col. Slbley la at Los Animos. Mexir 1 Lang home's location is not revealed. middlemen will get the profit und the farmers will continue to grow it at little or no profit. Mr. McLaurin de? voted comparatively little time to the insurance fight, but ho stated that he had succeeded in holding the insur? ance on State warehouses intact and at this time he was in better position insofar as Insurance la concorncd than ho had been for sometime. Ho said that Sumter county and tho banks of Sumter had given the ware? house system more substantial support than he had received from any other county. He referred to Mr. C. G. Rowland, Mr. O'Donnell, Col. Thomas Wilson. Mr. U D. Jennings and sever? al other Sumter business men as among the first to realize the fact that tho warehouse system was a good thing and Jo make use of to their own and Sumtcr's benefit, for by so doing they had k?pt the money at home. Mr. McLaurln's speech was re? markably freo from political refer? ences, considering the fact that the warehouse system and the insurance light have been the chief issues in political discussions for sevoral months. The most direct political reference was his statement that the warehouse sytsem, having already demonstrated its usefulness and its fundamental strength, despito tho fact that tho law as enacted by the legislature is defective, weak and but a shadow'of what it should be, it now has a hoot of men going around claim? ing to be its friends, who at. the in ciplency of the organization fought it openly. These men suy that they arc strV?ng for the system, but are against McLaurin and they tight tho system by trying to undermine the man who Is giving his time and all tho ability ho possesses to make the system an instrument of good for the people. Uke tho State convention, they come out strong for tho warehouse system, hut in the next breath say "club Mc I^aurin." Referring to tho charge that ho is trying to uso the warehouse system as a political machine to ad vunoe his personal ambitions, he de? clared that ho now has no political ambition, his only ambition is to build up tho State warehouse system and make its foundations so broad and strong that it will be a bulwark and a defense for tho producers of South Carolina. He nsscrtcd positive? ly that he now wants no ofllco and un'.oss he changes his mind absolute? ly would never again ask tho people fvr any political offleo. in tho past PS had held offleo and had l>ecn given ill |he poilttce] honors that are apt to fall to the lot of ono man. His ambition Is to he of service, not to at ell office; he Is not one of those who when he has done some little service for the public Immediately un? dertakes to collect pay for that service by demanding a fat political job. At the conclusion of Mr. McLaurln's apse eh the Kex Orchestra rendered ? M*<l?ctlon, and then the chairman In? Itwdvetd Rev, David Klein, i>. iv, the sseeao! invited apse her, !>r. Klent whose reputation as an eloquent and I morses!v< orator has grown steadily since hla coming to Sumter only ? few yens ago, WgS at bis best, and his largo and attentive I ' dlcnce enjoyed a real treat in his scholarly address on the subject of. WILSON SPEAKS OF FUTURE. ?SKES AT CLOSE OF WAU THE OUT? STRETCHED HI AND OF HU? MANITY. Says That After the Rartlkquakc Comes the Still Small Voice, W hich Will Prevail Against the Strife or Nations, Who Will Look to America for Moral Force to tiuicle Them. Charlotte, N. C, May 20.?The pre? diction that after tho war the still small voice of humanity would pre? vail against the rumblings of hatred and disunion, the closing phrase of President Wilson's address here today, was the logical development of his review of the processes by which America had grown great. The presi? dent traced, in a slight outline, the in? ception of American liberty in its de? pendence upon the moral forces. The president's speech follows: "It is with vfc^Tccted pleasure that I find myself in^he presence of this interesting company today, for I have come back fo ra visit all too brief to a region very familiar to my heart, and the greeting of whoso people is peculiarly welcome to me. "I do not know, my fellow citizens, whether I can interpret for you today the spirit of this occasion, but it is necessary when we get together in celebrations like this to take counsel together with regard to just what It Is that we wish to celebrate. You will say that we wish to celebrate the memories of that time to which wo look back with such pride, when our fathers with singular wisdom of counsel and stoutness of heart under? took to set up an independent nation on this side of the water; but it is very much more important that we should remind ourselves of the ele? ments with which our . forefathers dealt. There were only three million citizens in that original republic of the United States of America. Now, there are one hundred millions. It is a long cry back to those modern be? ginnings; a great period of time, not only, but a great period of profound change separates'us from that time, and yet I would remind >ou that the same elements'were present then that are present now. "What Interests my thought more than anything else about tho United States Is that it has always been in process of being made ever since that little beginning and that there have always been the same elements in the process. ? At tho outsot there was at tho heart of the men who led the movement for independence a very high and handsome passion of hu? man liberty and free institutions. And yet there lay before them a great continent which it was necessary tb subdue to the uses of civilization, if they were going to build upon it a great Btato among the family of na? tions. "I heard a preached once point out the very interesting circumstance that our Lord's prayer beginn with the petition for 'our dally "bread/ from which he drew tho inference that it is very difficult to worship God on an empty stomach, and that the material foundations of our Ufa are the first foundations. What I want to call your attention to is thai: this country ever since that time has de? voted practically all of its attention, perhaps too much of its attention, to tho material foundation of its life; of subduing this continent to the uses of the nation and to tho building up a great body of wealth and material power. I find some men who, when they think of America, do not think of anything else hut that. But friends, there have been other nations just as rich and just as powerful in compar? ison with tho other nations of the world as the United States is, and it is a groat deal more important that Farming. It was a tribute to the farmer and his calling?its responsi? bilities, it joys, Its duties and its re? wards. He handled tho subject in an original manner and it is safe to say that none of that largo audience had ever heard tho prosaic, every-day sub? ject of farming treated in the way Dr. Klein treated it. And the best of Dr. Klein's address was that it was full of ideas and of inspiration. Alter the speeches came more music and then dinner. The dinner was adequato to tho occasion, and no more need be said. There was an abundance for everybody and every? body had an abundance, with lots left ?<ver. In the afternoon the Hex Orchestra gave an enjoyable musical programme and Mrs. Clifton Drown sang, accom? panied on the violin by Prof. Oirard. Miss Mary Lemmon, County Dem? onstrator of Domestic Science and Supervisor of Girls' Tomato clubs, gave a demonstration of the tireless cooker and the loeless refrigreator and made a short talk to an Interested audience of several bundled?many mm evincing as great interest in her demonstration and talk as the indies. AM things considered the Dinkins' Min "get-together" picnic was a de? cidedly Worth While occasion, and it should be Imitated and improved up? on if thai be possible?in other sec? tions of the county. we should determine what we are go ins to do with our power than that we should possess it. "You must remember, therefore, the elements with which we are deal? ing. Sometimes those of us who were born in this part of the country per? suade ourselves that this is the char? acteristic part of America. Here more than anywhere else has been preserved a great part of the original stock which settled this country, particu? larly that portion of the stock which came from tho British Isles. (I am not meaning to exclude Ireland.) And ithen I find a great many of my friends who live in New England imagining that the history of this country is merely the history of the expansion of New England, and that Plymouth Rock lies at the foundation of our Institutions. As a matter of fact, my fellow citizens, however mortifying it may be to them n* to us, America did not come out 6f tho South and it did not come out of New England. "The characteristic part cf America originated in the Middle States cf New York and Pennsylvania and New Jer? sey, because there from the first was that mixture Of populations, that mix? ture of racial stocks, that mixture of, antecedents which is the most sin? gular and distinguishing mark of the United States. The most important I single fact about this great nation which we represent is that it is made out of all the nations of the world. I dare say that the men who came to America then and the men who have come to America since came with a single purpose; sharing some part of tho passion for human liberty which characterized the men who founded the republic, but they came with all Sorts of blood in their veins, all sorts of antecedents behind them, all sorts of traditions in their family and na? tional life, and America has held to serve as a melting pot for all these diversified and contrasted elements. What kind of fire of pure passion are you going to keep burning under the pot in order that the mixture that comes out may be purged of its dross and may be the fine gold of untainted Americanism; that is the problem. "I want to call your attention to another picture America has always been making and is to be made, and ?while we were in the midst of this process, apparently at the acme and crisis of this process, while this travail of soul and fermentation of elements was at' its height came this great cataclysm of European war and al? most every other nation in the world became involved in a tremendous struggle which was what, my fellow citizens? What are the elements In the struggle? Don't you see that in this European war is involved the , very thing that has been going on in America? It is a competition of na? tional standards, of national tradi? tions, and national politics?political systems. Europe has grappled in war as we have grappled In peace to see what is going to be done with these things when they come Into hot contact with one another. For do you not remember that while these pro? cesses were going on in America some very interesting things were happen? ing? "It was a very big world into which this nation came when it was born, but it is a very little world now. It used to take as many days to go from Washington to Charlotte in those days as it now takes hours. I heard an Irishman say if the power of steam continued to increase in the next fifty years as it had in the last, we would get to Charlotte two hours before we left Washington. And as these pro? cesses of intercommunication have heen developed and quickened, men of the same nation not only have grown closer neighbors, but men of different nations- have grown closer neighbors with each other; and now that wo have these invisible tongues that speak by the wireless through the trackless air to the ends of the world, every man can make every other man In the world his neighbor and speak to him upon the moment. While those processes of fermentation and travail were going on, men were learning about each other, nations were becoming more and more ac? quainted with each other, nations were more and more becoming inter? related and Intercommunication was! being quickened in every possible way; that now tho melting pot is big? ger than America. It is as big as the world. And what you see taking place on the other side of the water is the tremendous?I had about said fival?process by which a contest of elements may in God's process be turned into a coordination and cooper? ation of elements. "For It is an Interesting circum? stance that the procsesOS of the war stand still. These hot things that are In contact with each other do not make very much progress against each other. When you can not over? come you must take counsel. See then, ladies and gentlemen, what a new age we have come into. I should think that it would quicken the Ima? gination of every man and quicken the partlrotlsm of every man who cared for America. Here in America we have tried to set the example of bringing all the world together on terms of liberty and cooperation and peace, and In that great experience that we have been going through, America has been a sort of prophetic sample of mankind. Now the world outside of America has felt the forces of America; felt the forces of free? dom, the forces of common aspira? tions, the forces that bring every man and every nation face to face with this question, 'What are you going to do with your power? Are you going to translate it into force, or are you going to translate it into peace and the salvation of society?' "Does it not interest you that Amer? ica has run before the rest of the world in making trial of this great human experiment, and is it not the sign and dawn of a new age that the one thing upon which the world is now about to fall back is the moral judgment of mankind?- There is no finer sentence in the history of great nations than that sentence which oc? cur in the Declaration of Independ? ence (I am now referring to the minor declaration at Philadelphia, not to the Mecklenburg declaration) in which Mr. Jefferson said: 'A decent respect for the opinion of mankind makes it necessary?I am not now quoting the words exactly?that we should state the grounds upon which we have taken the Important step of asserting our independence.' A decent respect for the opinion of mankind?it is as if Jefferson knew that this was the way in which mankind itself was to strug? gle to realize its aspirations and that, standing in the presence of mankind, this little group of 3,000,000 people should say, 'Friends and fellow citi? zens of the great moral wrold, our reason for doing this thing we now intend to state to you in candid and complete terms, so that you will never think that we were merely throwing off a yoke out of impatience, but know that we were throwing off this thing in order that a great world of liberty should be open to man through our instrumentality/ "I would like, therefore, to think that the spirt of this occasion could be expressed if we imagined ourselves lifting some sacred emblem of coun? sel and of peace?of accommodation and righteous judgment?before the nations of the world, and reminding them of that passage in scripture 'after the wind, after the earthquake, after the fire, the still small voice of humanity.'" LINCOLN SCHOOL CLOSING. Exercises to Be Heid Next Week at School Auditorium. The invitations to the annual clos? ing exercises of the Lincoln Graded school have been issued to friends of the school. They are as follows: The faculty and members of the class of 1916 Lincoln Graded School invite you to attend Their Annual Commencement Friday evening, June the second nineteen hundred and sixteen at 8:00 o'clock School Auditorium Program for the Week. Annual sermon Sunday, May 28th, Shlloh Baptist Church by Dr. I. W. Williams, 11 o'clock a. m. Oratorical prize contest, class '17, Wednesday, May 31st, 8.?0 o'clock p. m. Admission 15c. Commencement, Friday evening, June 2nd, 8:00 o'clock. Admission 26c. Motto: "Born not for ourselves alone, but for tho whole world." Class colors: Blue and Gold. Class Honors: Norman Percival Andrews. Class Roll. Andrews, Norman Percival. Alston, Pauline. Brown, Rosalie Eugenia. Counts, Rosa Lee. Herlott, Frances. Hilton, William Eugene. Jacobs, Frederick H. Jones, Onelta Vermelle. Lewis, Solomon Bennard. Moore, Hattle. MacKnight, Henry D., Jr. MacLeod, Mattie Mae Louise. Nelson,. Elizabeth Bculah. Scott, Lynwood B. F. Slater, Andrew Robert. Sumter, Amanda O'Delle. Swinton, Berthinia Edith. Fire Sunday Morning. A small fire occurred Sunday morn? ing In the three-story building on W. Liberty street owned by tho Colored Investment Company. The fire start? ed in a pile of trash in the back part of the building on the second lloor, the cause being unknown. Little dam? age was done to the building. The restaurant underneath, however, sus? tained some damage from tho water. Death or Baby Boy. Tho friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hoyt Stuckcy deeply sympathise with them in the death of their dear little boy, Lewis Brooks, ago 19 months, which occurred Thursday, May 11th, after a short illness. The little body was burled at Bethlehem, and the grave was covered with flowers, loving tokens from saddened hearts.?Leader and Vindicator. THE NATION'S MONEY NEEDS. M'ADOOS REPORT INDICATES AMOUNT OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED. Submits Statement to Kitchen and, Simms Showing That Situation Ja. Not Serious?$150,000,000 Extra tor-. Preparedness Plans will be Raised; by Revenue from Incomes, Inherit tance and Munition Manufactures^ r. Washington, May 18.?Secretary McAdoo today submitted to Chairman Kitchin of the house ways and meaois committee and Chairman Simmons of the senate finance committee revised^ estimates of the government receipts and expenditures for the remainder of the current fiscal year and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, tending to show that much less new revenue will have to be raised to meet the bill for preparedness and other large contem? plated expenditures than had been supposed. Only about $160,000,000 in addition? al revenue will have to be provided during the corning year. Mr. McAdoo said. This is less by $75,000,000 than the most conservative members of congress calculated at the outset of the session would be needed. All the additional revenue will come from taxes on incomes, inheritances and munitions in accordance with a plan approved last week by President Wil? son. A meeting of the Democratic mem? bers of the ways and means commit? tee quickly followed the return of Mr. Kitchin to the capitol. Later he an? nounced that the revenue raisins' plan would be whipped into shape within two weeks and that the house would begin to consider It immediately after the national conventions. It Is probable that all the revenue measures. Including provisions for preparedness, a tariff commission and the encouragement of the dyestufts In? dustry, will be Included in an omnibus bill. Tho president is understood to favor that plan. Solution of the revenue problem, which as a result of the conference to? day appears to be In sight, will go far, Mr. Kitchin believes, towards making an early adjournment of con? gress possible. He told the ways and means conferees that nothing would prevent hi;a putting the legislative programme through the house so as to be ready to adjourn August 1. The senate however may delay adjourn? ment by prolonged debate on some of the big measures. Secretary McAdoo's figures showed that the balance in the geenral fand exclusive of disbursing officers' credits probably would be $150,000,000 at the end of the present fiscal year and $13, 500,000 at the end of the fiscal year of 1917. This estimate included expendi? tures likely to be made for the pro? posed increase in the standing army and expenditures which Drobably will be made next year on the naval pro? gramme. In addition to preparedness meas? ures, the revised estimates included liberal provisions for good roadf. rural credits and flood prevention expenditure. In making up the estimates the ad* ditional cost to the country of pre? paredness during the year 1917 wae placed at from $90,000,000 to $100, 000,000. An estimate compiled by Mr. McAdoo when congress convened last December showed a deficit of $62,000,000 in the general fund June 30, 1917. instead of the $13,600,000 balance in the present estimate. The previous estimate contemplated the extension of the emergency revenue tax to the end of the fiscal year of 1917. The emergency measure ex? pires by limitation December 31 next and in the revised estimate Mr. Mc? Adoo figured on eliminating the stamp tax features of the measure from July 1. The estimated $62,000,000 deficit, which seemed likely when congress convened, did not include provisions for good roads, rural credits or flood expenditures, all of which are includ? ed in the revised estimate. It was then figured that congress would have to raise $12,000,000 by additional legislation. ' i Increases in treasury receipts have been most marked in the internal revenue department. Ordinary rev? enues, placed at $272,000,000 for the fiscal year 1916 in the estimate of last December, will approximate $303, 000,000, an increase of $31,000,000. Next year's ordinary revenue receipts were placed in the previous estimate at about $265,000,000; in the revised estimate at about the same figure ?s this year's. ?f Revenue from the income tax wyi go above $100,000,000 this year, Sec? retary McAdoo estimates, and certain? ly about $105,000,000 next year. The previous estimate had placed this rev? enue at $85,000,000 and $90,000,OQO. respectively. The increase of nearjy $5,000,000 in theso two items of rev? enue alone this year is attributed,,^ general prosperity, to strict enforce? ment of the intern^ revenue laws and tho elimination of long standing frauds in the payment of taxes on to? bacco, whiskey and oleomargarine by which the government lost tens of millions of dollars.