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f THE ST31TER WATCHMAN, Ests ? CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 N0?PPEAT I FROM VERDICT OF J?DGELYNCH fAlleridale Mob" Exe cutes Murderer and Burns His Body in Town of Appleton AHendale, Oct. 24.?Eugene P. [ Walker, a prominent farmer of \Appleton, about four miles from Jhere^ was shot .and instantly killed gthis morning about 10 o'clock by a negro-tenant named Ed Kirkland. LA. mob which formed immediate ly upon the hearing of the killing took Kirkland from Sheriff Bennett at Fairfax' this afternoon from Seaboard train No. 2, upon which the sheriff was attempting to take I the prisoner to Columbia for safe I keeping and taking him to the f-se&ne of the crime in the center of ? the. to^-n of Appleton burned him. I the c emation taking'place about 9 I o'clock tonight, according to re |-;;p0r^.''.-^: ?* * ?;? l\ The killing of Mr. Walker arose fo?t ?f a difficulty over ? settlement ? for rent due Walker, some diffi f culty having been had between Mr. : Walker and Kirkland; on last Sat f! urday, it is said. This morning Mr. f Walker met Kirkland on the t streets of Appleton and demanded i a settlement, whereupon the negro.j i drew a gun and shot him. The I shot entering the head of Mr. I.Walker acts, killing him instantly. f;The iiegio attempted to make his I escape, but was captured about a mile from Appleton by a party of men who turned him over to Sher . iff Bennett. In -^e . meantime a " mob was being ferihed all over the ^county and when "the hews reached " the mob that the negro was in the -hands of the sheriff and that he - intended to spirit him away to Co lumbia every avenue escape for t^e sheriff .and his prisoner was s&ut off. Portions of the mob were at every station in the vicinity, it is stdd, even the bridge at Colum bia, being picketed. The sheriff" took a roundabout route to Gibbons, S. C, where he boarded the Seaboard train with .Kirkland, making a. detour re ~quiring over five hours, hiding him . between two of the coaches. When vhe train, reached'Fairfax it was, et by a mob of several hundred bts boarded the train and search every coach from the mail car o the last Pullman in search of the prisoner. He was finally locat ed and jumped from the train and / tried to escape. He was shot at .several times and hit, but was still conscious when: the mob carried him through' the country and reached Appleton, the scene of the crime. The mob was. assembled at Appleton while the unconscious body of the negro lay in an auto mobile in the middle of the streets and then disappeared apparent iy ^quiet with no violence evident. When the shades of the night had gathered, upon previous arrange ? ments, it seems, the members .gathered again and burned the ^?dy of the negro just on the main thoroughfare of the town. There was no excitement about the affair It seems everything took place in a quiet, matter of fact way. No de tails as to the final burning could ? be learned, as all the members of j the mob were masked at Fairfax vwhen the train was boarded and searched. This is the first mob demonstra tion that has occurred in this county since its formation. ~ There was considerable excite ment here a few weeks ago in re " gard to the capture of Memminger Priester, but there was no mob :spirit exemplified then, as every one in the mob was a member of the sheriffs posse and at all times completely under his-control. Sher iff Bennett is receiving unstinted praise here on the manner in which he handled the situation here today, having used every means within his power to avoid the results. It is estimated that over 1,000 men were at some time members of the mob here today, being scattered all over this county -and other counties, it has been -stated. ? Eugene Payton Walker, the slain man, was a member of one of the most prominent families of this en tire section and was popular all over this state. His father, Capt. N. M. Walker, also of Appleton, was on his way to the Confederate reunion at Chattanooga and was located en route between Atlanta and Chattanooga and informed of the tragedy. Mr. Walker is survived by a and two small children, his er and mother and one sister two brothers. The funeral ?Services will be held here tomorrow i and the interment will take placi, Waterloo, the ho.me of Mrs. ? alker, some time tomorrow af teraooi}. Mr. Walker was 43 years of age and prominent in all activi ties of his county and community. Augusta Banker Commits Suicide Augusta, Oct. 27.?Eugene E. osenborough. vice president of, the Merchants' Bank killed himself j in his. apartment, after notice had j been posted last night announcing j that the bank's affairs would be I turned over to the superintendent of the state banking department. ? ? ? Sometimes a man's better half becomes his better three-fourths. iblisbed April, 1830. 881. _ DRUGSTORES WILL NOW BE BARROOMS Treasury Department Issues Regulations! For Sale of Beer,j Wine and Liquor For Medicinal Pur poses Washington. Oct. 24.?As unex pected as a rainstorm in a desert, regulations permitting the manu facture and use of beer for me dicinal purposes were issued today by the treasury department. Withheld since March 3 last when former Attorney General Palmer held the use of beer as a medicine to be legal under the pro hibition laws the* issuance of the beer regulations came as a com plete surprise to leaders of the dry forces, who declared there had been an understanding with the treasury that the new rules should not be promulgated until the senate had acted upon the pending anti-beer bill. Issuance of the beer regulations will cause redoubled efforts to ef fect the passage of the anti-beer measure. Senate leaders declared, while Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon league, described the treasury's action as "less defensible than at any other time." Secretary Mellon, in announcing the issuance of the beer rules, de- ! clareoV thatA,the legal rights of the parties concerned being plain, the department is unable to longer de lay the issuance of these regula tions." The new rules cover comprehen sively the use of beer, wines and spirituous liquors as medicines. The amount of beer a physician may prescribe at one time for the use of the same person is limited to 2 1-2 gallons, the equivalent of a case, but no arbitrary limit i3 placed upon the number of such pre scriptions a physician may write or the same person may obtain with in a given period. Two quarts of wine was the limit put upon a single prescription for that beverage but otherwise the regulations are the same as for beer. Spirituous liquors are limited to one pint within any ten day period and alcohol for external use was limited to a pint to the same per son at one-time. Prescriptions for these medicines may.be filled only by a licensed pharmacist who is also a retail druggfct. or a licensed pharmacist hi the employ of a retail druggist. Prescriptions are not refillable and the regulations declare that a pharmacist "should refuse to fill any prescription for liquor if he has any reason to believe that phy sicians are prescribing for other than medicinal uses cr that a pa tient is securing through one or more physicians quantities of in toxicating liquor in excess of the amount necessary for medicinal purposes." In connection with the issuance of prescriptions the regulations said: "No prescription may be issued for a greater quantity of intoxicat ing liquor than is necessary for use as medicine by persons for whom prescribed in the treatment of an ailment from which such patient is known "by the physician to be suf fering." Besides beer the regulations per mit the use for medicinal pur poses of other intoxicating malt li quors such as ale, porter, malt ex tracts and similar fermented malt liquors containing one-half of 1 per cent, or more of alcohol by volume. Manufacture of these medicinal preparations is confined to duly qualified brewers on brewry prem ises and may be sold by them only in bottles and closed cases. The new regulations, according to Secretary Mellon are in accord ance with former Attorney General Palmer's interpretation of the law. Medical beer can be sold in only a few states, Mr. Wheeler declared in a formal statement and would then be used "largely by bootleg gers." "JBvery brewer who has violated the law within a year is disquali fied." he said, "and we will fight ev ery application on this ground as they have practically all violated the law. Issuance of the regulations, he added, was "bad politics" both from the standpoint of (lie temper ance people and the brewers. Senator St^rlin^. Repui Ilcan, in charge of the anti-beer measure in the senate, declared flu- hill would be taken up immediately after dis posal of tiie pending fax bill and that {here "was no question of its ultimate passage/* Warehouse Destroyed Howard Cannon Suffers Large Loss at Florence j Florence, Got. 24.?Fire last ! night destroyed Gannon's tobacco warehouse, with heavy loss to Howard Gannon, its owner, who had insurance on the building of less than $15.0int. There were $2, 000 worth of tobacco burned but this was insured. It is not known how the fire started. Mr. Cannon j will rebuild. "Be Just and Fear 3 REPUBLICAN IDEA OF ECONOMY Salaries of New York Federal Reserve Bank Officials In creased Five Hun dred Per cent. By Wallace Bassford (Special News Correspondent). Washington. Oct. 22.?Every-day the Washington newspapers con tain Republican preachments- of economy, and occasionally there creeps into the news columns a con crete example of the sort of econ omy it really is; it is economy for the wage-earner in the navy yards and extravagance run wild in the places where personal and political pull are most effective. Here is a sample from the salary list of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The first column gives the salaries received Under the Wilson administration, while the second column gives present salaries. Of course it would be ridiculous to as sert that these men whose salaries were increased 500 to 600 per cent, would not have remained with the bank at increases of 100 or 200 per cent. Be it remembered that every salary grab of this kind inevitably passes on to the taxpayers and con sumers of the country?like the law of gravitation, it operates all the time. Here are the figures I from the Manufacturers' Record: Benjamin Strong $30,000 to $50,000 Pierre Jay. 16.000 to 30.000 J. H. Chase_ 20,000 to 30,000 E. R. Kensel_ 4,000 to 25,000 L. F. Sailer 7,000 to 25,000 G. L. Harrison 4.000 to 22,000 L. H. Hendricks . 6,000 to 18,000 Shephard Morgan 5,000 to 15,000 A. W. Gilba c 18,000 to 12,000 J. D. Higgins_ 2,500 to 12.000 J. W. Jones_ 2,500 to 12,000 L. R. Rounds . 2,000 to 12,000 J. L. Morris_ 9.000 to 12.000 W. Df Matteson 1,500 to 10,000 A. J.' Lins . 1,300 to 10,000 Finnis Garrett of Tennessee, the brilliant young statesman who leads the house Democrats in the absence of Mr. Kitchin. is a parliamentar ian of the first rank, an able de bater, a deep logician?in short a leader of real strength?but he is also at home in prodding the Re publicans with short-arm jabs that are frequently touched with hu mor. The other day the house passed the bill to extend the pro visions of the "Emergency Tar iff Act;" in the course of discus sion Mr. Garrett said: "Mr. Chairman, for almost three years now the Republican party has been in complete control of both the legislative branches of the government. For eight months, practically, that party has been in control of both the executive and the legislative branches, and this measure this afternoon is the substance of its three years of ef fort and labor, to-wit a measure to extend the life of a measure which even when it was passed was a joke and which has since become the universal laughingstock of the re ! "It is no wonder that that distin j guished philosopher, Abe Martin, j gives us this: j " 'At th' big git-t'-gether meetin' j at Melodeon Hall last night. Hon. ex-Editor Cale Fluhart spoke for almost a minute, confining himself closely t' th' wonderful record o' th' present congress?' "With a world in turmoil, con fronted by conditions the most se rious that ever confronted the hu man race; with our own nation torn by dissension and threatened by economic ills, the most serious perhaps in the nation's history, wo find this party, this party of proud traditions, this party that has had its great leaders, this party which has been wont to boast that it pos sessed the only ability along the line of statecraft to be found in any party, stumbles and staggers through almost three years of leg islative power and through eigbt months of complete power without a single measure designed to meet the aftermath of conditions grow ing out of the world war, without a single measure holding forth an idea of relief to a starving, suffering world and to a panic-stricken, frightened nation, except this con tinuance of a poor, pitiful joke that was a travesty upon statesmanship and a shame upon any legislative body. The American Cot tion Association ; Birmingham, Oct. 27.?Every 1 section of the cotton belt was rep resented in the annual meeting of the American Cotton Associntion which oj)on<?d a three day session this morning. BLANTON DENIES MONDELL'S CHARGE Washington, Oct. 27.?The res olution by Representative Mondell, Republican leader, who introduc ed the resolution terming the affi davit inserted in Congressional Record by Representative Blanton "unspeakably vile." being taken up for consideration. Blanton re plied that his only intent was the protection of the citizens in their rights and "not an improper word was used by me in the printed speech." I ?<ot?Let all the ends Thou Aims't a Sumter. S. C, Saturda\ MOND ELL ASKS | EXPULSION I OF BLANTON Republican Leader In troduces Resolution to Unseat Demo cratic Representa tive from Texas - i Washington. Oct. 25.?The ex-j pulsion of Representative Blanton. Democrat, of Texas is called for in. a resolution introduced by Repre4 sentative Mondell, the Republican leader. The move i3 based on the publication in the congressional I record by Blanton of an affidavit I relating to the government print ing office row which some repre- I sentatives characterized as ob- j scene and unfit, for mail. STATE~~ FAIR OFFICIALS! ?-? . i State Agricultural and Mechanical Society Holds Annual Meet ing. Robert M. Coop er Elect President Columbia, Oct. 26.?Robert M. Cooper, of Wisacky, one of the youngest of the progressive farm ers of the state, was tonight elect ed president, of the State Agricul tural and Mechanical Society with out opposition and by acclamation,, to succeed J. X. Kirven, of Dar lington, the retiring executive. John D. W. Watts of Laurens. was rr--elected vice president. To assist Mr. Cooper in the piloting of the South Carolina State fairs of the immediate future the follow ing executive committee was nomi nated and elected: First Congressional District?W. M. Frampton, Charleston; Second. R. B. Cunningham, Ulmerfc; Third. J. C. Gamell, Ware Shoals; Fourth, O. P. Mills, Greenville: Fifth, L. I. Guion. Lugoff; Sixth. J. L. Mc Intosh. Dovesville, and Seventh, D. G. Ellison. Columbia. Messrs. Frampton. Guion and Mc Intosh were re-elected. The rec ommendation of the committee of which J. L. Mclntosh of Doves ville was chairman, that the execu tive committee of seven, one from each congressional district, draw lots so that two will hold office for one year, two for two years and two for three years and one for four years and that the com missioner of agriculture, be ex-of ficio, member was accepted and will be acted on as an amendment i to the constitution of the society at the February meeting. Likewise the same action was taken on the recommendation of the committee that the society incorporate itself into a stock company with a cap italization of $100.000. There was a fight made on the election of Mr. Watts, of Laurens, when A. B. Langley. of Columbia, nominated Victor M. Montgomery, of Spartanburg, as vice president. After considerable parliamentary skirminishing President Kirven ruled that Mr. Montgomery was not eligible as he vas not a mem ber. His name was entered for j election as a life member, and had not been acted upon. Mr. Langley1 then withdrew Mr. Montgomery's name, stating that Mr. Montgom ery did not know he was to be ' nominated. T. C. Thrower, of Columbia, then entered the name of W. A. Cole man, of Columbia, and at the lat ter's request if. was withdrawn. Mr. Watts was then reelected by ac-' clamation. L. I. Guion, of Lugoff. propos ed that the executive committee be nominated by a committee of five ! chosen by President Kirven. and this was unsuccessfully contested by many who wanted the nomina tions from the floor. The nominat ing committee, the selections of which were elected without oppo sition, were. R. M. Cooper, of Wisacky; W. A. Sttickey, of Bish opville: T. C. Moss, of S'. Mat thews; Dr. I). M. Crosson. of Lees ville. and T. J. Cunningham of Chester. The secretary and treasurer will be elected by the executive com mittee at its meeting in February. 1). F. Bfird, of Columbia, is now secretary and i>. G. Ellison, of Co lumbia, is treasurer. G. A. Guignard, of Cayce, gave notice of an amendment to the con stitution ;jf the next meeting of the society, increasing the initia tion fee of members from ten to twenty dollars. A number of life members were elected to the so ciety tonight. Rain Prevents Parade Committee Calls Off Parade of Confederate Veterans Chattanooga. Oct. 27.?The re union committee called off the Con federate veterans' parade because of rain. The remaining program was completed, ending the reunion. V it be thy Country's, Thy God's and " r, October 29, 1921 LITTLE ENTENTE WARLIKE Charles' Futile Revo lution Used as Ex-j cuse to Despoil Hun - j gary London, Oet 27.?The little en tente, composed of Rumania. Cze cho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia have dispatched a note to Hungary de manding the surrender of Charles, the demobilization of the Hungar ian army and the payment of rep arations to defray the expenses of the little entente's mobilization, says a Vienna dispatch to the Cen tral News .Agency. Entente troops will enter Hungary, unless a satis factory reply is received within two days says the dispatch. CAROLINA VICTOR OVER JLEMSON University Team Won Annual Gridi ron Battle by Score 'of 21 toO Columbia. Oct. 27.?The score in the Carolina and Clemson football game today at the ^nd of the first quarter was 0 to 0. Carolina got the. kickoff in the toss. Carolina got within twenty yards of the goal, but an incomplete forward pass and the failure of a punt left the ball with Clemson. The biggest crowd of any simi lar game in the state saw the great cor t<?st todav. At the end of the first half the score stood seven to nothing in Carolina's favor. Forward passes by both sides were proving ineffec tive. During the second quarter Ambs ran thirty-five yards, making the first down of the game. Snipes then gained twenty-five yards around the right end, takin;; the ball to the one yard line. YVaite then carried the pigskin over the goal line* and Belk kicked goal. When the first half ended the ball was Clemson's on her own j twenty yard line. I' The final score in the football j game here today was twenty-one to j ! nothing in favor of Carolina. The game was one of the most exciting I and one of the best exhibitions of j gridiron athletics 'that has ever I been seen in the state. Carolina outplayed Clemson all through the game. Forward passes failed in many cases and trick work was of I no avail. It was simply a case of i Clemson being out-played. The Clemson Tigers put up a wonderful exhibition, however. The game was a splendid battle. The largest crowd in the history of the State Fair saw the exhibition. In the third quarter Carolina made seven points, bringing her score to 14, on a sixty yard advance by Belk, who intercepted a forward pass attempted by Clemson. In the same quarter Carolina made a third touchdown, when White car ried the ball over the line, follow ing stubbornly gaind advances made by the Gamecocks, Belk kick ing goal. -? ? o ! Baby Room of i Fair to Have Gas Mr. E. E. Austin, superintendent I of the Sumter Gas and Power com pany has generously consented for his company to run pipes and put in gas stoves and furnish gas for heating the rooms where the babies will be received, examined, measur ed and weighed, during the bettet baby contest and health clinic at the Sumter County Fair November 15th to 18th, between the hours of U? a. m. and 1 p. m. each day. The ; Sumter Gas and Power company i I will make no charges for their ser- j vice or for putting in the pipes and ! stoves, this enterprising corpora- j tion being desirous of assisting in j making the better baby contest j and health clinic a success and contributing to the comfort of tho ' babies and their mothers. Repeal of Excess i Profits Tax Washington, Oct. 26.? A vote on : the repeal of the excess profits tax j on January 1st is scheduled for late I today in the senate. The adoption of the house revision climiroitiug-| the tax is regarded as certain. Hays Investigating Mail Robbery; New York. (><-t. 27.?Postmaster General Hays has arrived to take j personal Charge of the fuvestiga-I tion of Monday's registered mail robbery by automol ile bandits. Mr. Hays coming lead to reports that ? the loot exceeded one million dol- ! lars in value as at first intimated. The worst movie villain is the j one who eats peanuts. rruth's." PRESIDENT HARDING ON RACE ISSUE Head of Republican Party Goes on Record Against So cial Equality of Ne roes' Aspirations Birmingham. Ala.. Oct. 25.? The right of the American negro to broader political, economic and educational advantages, based on a pride of race, but never on an as- j piration for social equality was championed by President Harding . here today in a plainly worded enunciation of his views on the whole American race problem. These are some of the principles on which the president appealed to the nation to "lay aside old preju dices and old antagonisms," and give support to a constructive po licy of racial relationship. "Politically and economical^-? there need be no occasion for great and permanent differentiation on both sides there shall be recogni tion of the absolute dive-gence in things social and racial." "I would pay let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohib it the white man voting when he is unfit to vote." "I wish that both the fadition of a solidly democratic south and the tradition of a solidly republican black race might be broken up." "I would insist upon equal edu cational opportunity for both." "Men of both races may well stand uncompromisingly against every suggestion of social equality. This is not a question of social equality, but a question of recog nizing a fundamental, ete'rnal, in escapable difference." "Racial amalgamation there can not be. Partnership of the races in developing the highest aims of all humanity there must be if hu manity is to achieve the ends which we have set fcr it." "The black man should seek to j be and he should be encouraged to j be the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man." The president's address, which brought him from "Washington on his first extended trip into the south since inauguration, was de livered at a semi-centennial cele- j bration of the founding of the city of Birmingham. It was devoted almost exclusively to the race I question, although Mr. Harding I also took occasion to praise for its industrial recovery and to renew his faith in the world leadership of a reunited nation. He said in part: "The world war brought us to full recognition that the race prob lem is national rather than mere ly sectional. There are no authen tic statistics, but it is common j knowledge that the world war was j marked by a great migration of colored people to thp north and west. They were attracted by the demand for labor and the higher wages offered. It has brought the question of race closer to north and west and I believe it has served to modify somewhat the views of those sections on this question. It has made the south realize its in dustrial dependence on the labor j of the black man and made the north realize the difficulties of the community in which two greatly I differing races are brought to live side by side. I should say that it j has been responsible for a larger charity on both sdies, a beginning of better understanding; and in the light of that better understanding perhaps we shall be able to con sider this problem together as a problem of all sections and of both j races, in whose solution the best i intelligence of both must be en I listed. "Indeed, we will be wise to rec- i ognize it as wider yet. Whoever will take the time to read and pon der Mr. Lothrop Stoddard's book on the rising tide of color, or say, the thoughtful review of some re cent literature of this question j which Mr. F. D. Lugard presented in a recent Edinburgh review, j must realize that our race problem . here in the United States is only] a phase of a race issue that the; whole world confronts. Surely we shall gain nothing by blinking the j facts or refusing to give thought! to them. That is not the American Way of approaching such issues. Mr. Lugard. in hfs recent essay, after surveying the world's problem of races, concludes thus: " 'Here then is the true conception of the inter relation of color?completion uni- ! fortuity in ideals, absolute equal- i ity in the paths of knowledge and culture, equal opportunity for those who strive, equal admiration i for those who achieve; in matters social and racial a separate path. ' ea< !i pursuing his own inherited j traditions, preserving his own race purity and rac?- pride, equality in. things spiritual: agreed divergence; in the physical and material." "Here, it has seemed to me. is suggestion :>f the true way out. Po litieally and economically there | need he no occasion for great "<nd ! permanent differentiation, for limi tations of the individual's oppor tunity, provided that on both sides there shall he recognition of the absolute divergence in things so cial and racial. When I suggest the possibility of economic equal ity between the races I mean it in j precisely the same way and to the same extent that I would mean it if I spoke of equality of economic THE TRUE SOU TERMS DICTATED TO CHARLES Hungarian Govern ment Demands For mal Abdication and Renunciation of Rights Budapest, Oct. 26.?The Hun garian government has formally asked former Emperor Charles to abdicate and recognize the com plete cessation of dynastic rights, and ordered him also to surrender himself to the British authorities. He was told that an answer is ex pected today. ' Texas Strike Not Effective Railroads Remove the Freight Embargo San Antonio. Oct. 27.?The In ternational and Great Northern Railroad announced today they would remove the freight embargo declared when the trainmen on their road struck Saturday. opportunity as- between members of the same race. In each case I would mean equality proportioned to the honest capacities and deserts of the individual. "Men of both races may well stand uncompromisingly against every suggestion of social equality. Indeed, it would be helpful to have the word 'equality' eliminated from this consideration; to have it ac cepted on both sides that this is not a question of social equality, but a question of recognizing a fun damental, eternal, and inescapable difference. We shall have made real progress when we develop an attitude in the public and commun ity thought of both races which recognizes this difference. "Take the political aspect. I would say let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is un fit to vote. Especially would I ap peal to the self-respect of the col ored race. I would inculcate in it the wish to improve itself as a dis tinct race, with a heredity, a set of traditions, an array of aspira tions all its own. Out of such ra cial ambiitons and pride will come natural segregations, without nar rowing any rights, such as are proceeding in both rural and urban communities now in southern states, satisfying natural inclina tions and adding notably to happi ness and contentment. "On the other hand I would in sist upon equal educational oppor tunity for both. This does not mean that both would become equally educated within a genera tion or two generations or ten gen erations, even men of the same race do not accomplish such an equality as that. But there must be such education among the col ored people as will enable them to develop their own leaders, capable of understanding and sympathizing with such a differentiation between the races as I have suggested? leaders who will inspire the race with proper ideals of race pride, of national pride, of an honorable destiny, an important participation in the universal effort for advance ment of humanity as a whole. Ra cial amalgamation there can not be. Partnership of the races in developing the highest aims of all humanity there must be if human ity, not only here, but everywhere, is to achieve the ends which we have set for it. "I can ray to you people of the south, both white and black, that the time ha3 passed when you are entitled to assume that this prob lem of races is peculiarly and par ticularly your problem. More and more it is becoming a problem of the north; more and more it is the problem of Africa, of South Amer ica, of the Pacific, of the south seas, of the world. It Is the problem of democracy everywhere, if we mean the thinprs we gay about democracy as the ideal political state. "The one thing we must se dulously avoid is the development of group and class organizations in this country. There has been time when we heard too much about the labor vote, the business vote, the Irish vote, the Scandinavian vote, the Italian vote, and so on. But the demagogues who would array class against class and group apainst group have fortunately found little to reward their efforts. That is because, despite the dem agogues, the idea of our oneness as Americans has risen superior to ev ery appeal to mere class and group. And so I would wish it might be in this matter of our national prob lem of races. I would accept that a black man can not be a white man. and that hp does not need and should not aspire to be as much like a. white man as possible in or der to accomplish the best that is possible for him. He should seek to be. and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man. and not the best possible imitation of a white man. "It is a matter of the keenest national concern that the south shall not be encouraged to make its colored population a vast reser voir of ignorance, to be drained away by the processes of migration into all other sections. That is what has been going on in recent years at a rate so accentuated that rHROX, Established June 1, 1866. _VOL.LII. NO. 22 STORM DAMAGE FIVE MILLION ^DOLLARS Insurance Men Make Estimate of Proper ty Loss in Tampa Section Tampa,, Oct. 27.?The property damage from the hurricane v/hieh swept this section cf Florida is estimated at five million dollars by insurance men. Tae known death list is five, including three in this vicinity and two at St. Petersburg. -All means of communications have been most disastrously dam aged in the memory of the oidest inhabitants. Bridges were washed out, roads inuniared or washed away and wires paralyzed. The Seaboard Air Line tracks between here and St. Petersburg are i'<>od ed Reports sav that tW citrus crop has been heavily damaged. Fire in Aiken _o_ Early Morning Blaze Threat ened Entire Town Aiken, Oct. 26.?A fire early this morning in the business section, fanned by a high wind, threatened to destroy the entire town, but it was brought under control after a hard fight by volunteer fire fight ers, aided by Augusta apparatus. The damage is estimated at five thousand collars. Fight Over Cor poration Tax Washington, Oct. 27.?Senate Democrats have renewed their fight for a greater tax on corporations than the fifteen per cent proposed in the Republican compromise rev enue program. ? it has caused this question of races to be, as I have already said, no longer one of a particular section. Just as I dp not wish the south to be politically of one party; just/so I believe that it is bad for the south, and for the rest of the country as welk so I do not want the colored people to be entirely of one party. I wish that both the tradition of a solidly democratic south and the tradition of a solidly republican black race might be broken up. Neither political sec*' alism nor any system of rigid groupings of the people will in the long run prosper our country. "With such convictions one must urge the people of the south to take advantage of their superior understanding of this problem and to assume an attitude toward it that will deserve the confidence of the colored people. Likewise. I plead with my own political party to lay aside every program that looks to lining up the black man as a mere political adjunct. Let there be an end of prejudice ar.d of demogogy in this line. Let the south understand the menace that lies in forcing the black race into an attitude of political solidarity. "Every consideration, it seems to me, brings us back at last to the question of education. When I speak of education as' a part of this race question I do not want the states or the nation to attempt to educate people, whether white or black, *nto something they are not fitted to be. I have no sympathy with the half-baked altruism that would overstock us with doctors and lawyers of whatever color, and leave us in need of people fit and willing to do the manual work of a workaday world. But I would like to see an education that would I fit even* man not only to do his I particular work as well as possible, but to rise to a higher plane if he would deserve it. For that sort of education I have no fears, whether it be given to a black man or a white man. From that sort of edu cation, I believe, black men, white men. the whole nation, would draw immeasurable benefit. "It is probable that as a nation we have come to the end of the period of very rapid increase in our population. Restricted immigra tion will reduce the rate of in crease, and force us back upon our older population to fii.d people to do the simpler, physical harder, manual tasks. This will require some difficult readjustments. In anticipation of such a condition, the south may well recognize that north and west are likely to con tinue their draft3 upon its colored population and that if the souui wishes to keep its fields producing and its industry still expanding it will have to compete for the ser vices of the colored man. If it will realize its need for him and deal quite fairly with him. the south will be able to keep him in such numbers as your activities make desirable. "Is it not possible then. that, in the long era of readjustment upon which we are entering for the na tion to lay aside old prejudices and old antagonisms and "? the broad clear light of nationalism enter upon a constructive policy in deal ing with these intricate issuer.? Just as we shall prove ourselves ca pable of doing this we shall en sure the industrial progress the ag ricultural security, and the social and political safety of our whole country regardless of race or sec tions and along the line of ideals superior to every consideration of groups or class of race or color or ectional prejudice."