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THE.UNIQN TIMES . ' PUBLISHED EVERY ER1DIf. ?by yhfc? . '* ^J*gSl*6tlON TIMES COMPANY ' ^ s&pqtnd flook Times Buil&ikg \ . over Post office, Bell Phone Njf.'l." :?1 JNO. R. MATH IS, Editor# L. Q. Youwo, Manager. i>_ Registered at the Postollice la Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES c One year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every ubsequent insertion - 50 cents. Con . acts for three months or longer will l>e nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates, ?______ UNION, 8. C., MARCH 0, 1903. MISS GARNER AND SOCIAI, EQUALlTf. % Miss Eliza Garner comes again this week with another letter on Soctyll Equality, between the negro and tfee white races. It is a matter of surprise that jre should find In our oWD State intelligent white' people who would advocate social equality between the two races, and it is in the nature of a painful surprise to find a Southern lady, native and to the manor born, who from her childhood up has been familiar with the conditions that have existed, and do exist in and around her, defending the Prasident, Roosevelt, in his elTort for social equality between the black man and the white man and his insane and senseless effort to force such doctrine down the throat of the South. Miss Garner is an intelligent woman, can she not see through the flimsy veil which covers the motive behind the acts of Roosevelt? Can she uot see that philanthropy has no place in play? Is it not evident to her as to every thinking person, unbiased by party or factional feeling, that he is playing a game for his own personal benefit, with a recklessness bordering upon insanity? Exhibiting a disposition to elevate himself, no matter what the cost to humanity. If Roosevelt as an individual wished to dine, drink, and mingle with his sable brother, upon terms of social equality, he had a perfect right to do so in his private home, in the bosom of his family. But in the White House at ..Washington Roosevelt's actions are wot construed as the acts of Roosevelt the individual, but as Roosevelt the President of these great United States, the representative head of some seventy-odd millions of people, and not the representative othis own personal whims and idiosynocracies, and .he should be very careful not to* misrepresent these millions of people, lest lie cast a boomerang which returning may . cut off his own head. The AugloJfr Saxon race and the African race will ' * never stand on the ground of social qmlity, and Roosevelt and Miss Garner and the others know this as well as we. It is suicidal to. attempt to introduce any such doctrine. The intelligent negroes know that Rooso velt is holding out to them an ignis fatuus, that would purely lead them to their destrwt;ioi*$H|ftey know that 'Roosevelt anchfclhftdf'tfegrophilists in Christendom can never bring this state of affairs to exist, and that the inevitable result of any determined effort to forco the issue would and could only result in a war, which i would practically mean the extermination of the negro race. Booker Washington knows this and has striven manfttlly to educate his 1 race to the understanding of the fact 1 that the white people were born to 1 rule and are going to do so, that the 1 negro's best and safest policy was to ' endeavor to retain the friendship of ' hi3 white brother, by Jotting politics J severely alone, attending to his own I business and working faithfully to ' build themsolvos homes among the 3 people whom they know will treat J them with justice and kindness, but < who can never bo made to recognize j . them as their equals socially, ^ut i JtdGfcJhr Washington was seduced by J?xeaidant Roosevelt and in falling tnibo tRe trap he has lost friends among tb^wRite people whose friend* ship it cost hilff*years to gain. . J If Koosovelt ahd his edRortsu^rth < ol the Mason and Dixon line would y * let thoaysegto alone aiMl leave the j to settle the inattdr there would < t# no trouble oi confusion. The |j %' ' 1 ? Aegro's home is in the South, his best ( friends are Ids white friends. He is ' ? 1 allowed-?o work when and where he 1 will to make an honest living, and { buy laiM and build for himself a ( home. .His rights are protected in { our courts the same as those of the * White man'. * *fhe iVfason and Dixon lino however does not mark the removal of the barrier against social equality be tween tne Airican ajia cne wnuo ma*, but the barrier stands like a wall of adamant North, South. East and West, and there be not power enough upon this continent to break it down. Lets see about tlio great love the North professes for the negro, through some of their journals. In the North labor of every kind is organized, we know practically nothing in this country of what organized labor in the North means, suffice it to say it moans about S5 to 90 per cent, of the population. Now as to their idea of social equality : They not only object to associating with the negro, and taking him into their home, but they absolutely refuse to allow him to join any of their unions and consequently practically deprive him of obtaining work, as there is not much chance for obtaining any work in the trades, excopt tho applicant belong to a union, there is nothing open to him except tho drudgery work around the home or other menial work. There are Go,(>o0,0oo whites in this country and 18,000,009 of the negro race. It will readily be seen that with their insignificant number, and their sreat inferiority intellectually. morally and financially, it is worse than foolish to suppose the whites will submit to social equality. Miss Garner talks very plainly regarding the mulattoes among us and why they are hero We think it the most unkind cut of all to say that R )OS?velt's action was a "compliment to the South as corresponding with the custom that has produced so many mulattoes." Custom indeed. Has social equality been the custom in the South? Is the mulatto the result of the practice of social equality in the South? Miss Garner kr.ows full well this is not the case, but naturally the result of the criminal indulgence of a lustful immoral passion. The deplorable fact that the fruits of this is to be seen on every side, is no evidence of a custom of s?cial equality. It is doubtful if a feeling of social equality could be traced to one case in a thousand, but rather a feeling of remorse and degradation. Can Miss Garner use such an excuse for insulting the South, the home of her forefathers? Does she think that social .'equality would tend to lessen the mulatto element, n.mr?nrr 119? We think that with a little effort Miss G. could find some object much more worthy and deserving of her sympathy and championship than Itobajevolt in his role of negropholite. Ap to Kx-President Cleveland, and his extraordinary ability to straddle ' and blow both hot and cold, stand on ' the Democratic platform opposed to trusts, monopolies and combines, , where the people are oppressed, and , yet protect those same institutions while they winked the other eye. Miss Garner says: "Yes indeed, ( Cleveland did exhibit such an extraordinary amount 01 tact and policy that it was very hard to tell if he was , a Republican or a Dcrnociat, and ( that seems to be his finest accomp- ^ lishment." Well, we will let it go at ( lihat, but will remark that if we were ( running for office we would hardly make such a declaration on the ( stump. < In answer to her question will say : No, we would not wish for a President incompetent to be the President of all the people, but wo would want a man honest in his convictions, one who would bo honest and brave enough to stand up for the right and for tho best interests of the people, one who could not be approached by a grasping, humanity oppressing syndicate and receive immunity from the law for a consideration. But we have given much more space to the 30n9icleration of this matter than we bad intended. We will drop the sub- i l?ct by saying wo are charitable \ Jnough to hope that Miss E. A. G. loes not mean what she says, or at i least not all that her letters would < leem to imply. 1 t III} TfihtfPtiQFK SITUATION. [ ' s The telephone service in Union j bai kept paca with other intorests in j >ur city. t In April 1 an exchango was i itarted with 10 subscribers, at rates < >f $1.2.) for business and $1.00 for 1 cesidenov stations, which was a ^reat f iODvetiience to our citizens, who patronized it so liberally that in 1902 it lad 110 subscribers, and was connected by a toll line with Jonesyille, Packet and Spartanburg, and all of the stations. of the Citizens' Telephone Company and the Home Telepli^np Comqany in Spartanburg and Greet**" ville. The rates, however, were so low that the revenue was not sufficient to properly maintain the plans, and the service greatly deteriorated as a natural result. The toll lino to Spartanburg was subjected to more trouble than the exchange lines, as our citizens wore frequently, and for long intervals, cut out of connection with that oity. About this time, the American ( Telephone and Telegraph Company constructed their magnificent trunk line, between New York and New Orleans, through Spartanburg, and our citizens requested the Souther Bell Company to extend their toll service to Union, which they did, in 1902. The Bell Company grew rapidly until it had Si subscribers, but our citizens felt the burden of the two telephone rentals, which they had to pay, and public sentiment was very strongly in favor of having only one exchange, so it was a great relief to 1 this community when the Independent Exchange was sold, at a nominal price to the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, who combined the two exchanges, and when consolidation was effected, reduced their rates instead of increasing them, which was a surprise to our citizens as they naturally concluded that when the Bell people got a monopoly they would raise rates. But the service they had been receiving from the Bell was so far ahead of that received from the old system that wo doubt if much objection would have hppn rn ianr) fr.rt ft ma^ohofo ; ?? ....wwv. w M (iivuviuno luvicaofi The voluntary reduction of rates by the Bell, however, after having the situation entirely within their grasp, was an agreeable surprise, and the rapid manner in which new contracts have been made, necessitating the installment of an additional 10' drop switchboard at central office, which has already been utilized to nearly its capacity, is sufficient evidence of their appreciation. Wheu tho increased subscription list and the more efficient service is considered; it can hardly be $ald that the Bell service is more expensive than the Independent, especially as it has the featuro of permanency 1 about it, which the Independent Company never had. Union is to bo congratulated on having so satisfactorily settled the telephone question; we now onjoy r? t ? ? ? uue service, an extensive connection, and very moderate rates. It is quite a satisfaction to feel , that we are now in touch with the ( outside world, and that when we so | desire we can step to our own tele- i phone and converse with persous j thousands of miles away, as we have 1 connection with most of the large < cities of the United States. I ? ?( The Atlanta News, that hustling, ( wide-awake afternoon paper called , the red headed paper is surely a red ( headed rustler. It has made a phe- i nomenal record. Its first issue c.arxyB ( out Aug. 1th, 1902, seven months 1 ago, its circulation at the start vy^s t 10,221. Since that time, it * gained according to the sworn state- i ment of its managers more than C>1 percent. 1 ts circulation for the last 1 three days in February was over 18,- 1 >00 a day. Average for February daily ^ 17,7o9. Another evidence of the growing demand for the afternoon N iaily. 3 Joncsville News Notes. 1 Jonesvillti, March 2.?The storm c ast Friday night turned over a few J imall houses in Jonesvilie, and just beow our town on Mr. Banks Fowlei's. s jeorge Fowler's and Mrs. Cornelia Fow- 1 er's place there was much more damege 1 lone, as the storm centre seemed to pass iver these places. Several houses were aised and fences and timbers were 1 down down, but fortunately no one was t lurt. ] Saturday and Sunday were ideal days 1 ind made a good impression on tho peo- 1 >le for good weather. c A go<xl deal is being said and written I itxrut good roads and the I est methods j >f working the roads. Soino want the i oads woiked by taxation, claiming that t ,he corporations use the roads and cut t ;hem up and that they should be taxed o kyep up the roads. Well there w two lides to all questions and I propose to ook at this matter of working the roads t 'rom lx>th. Take the large land owner ? ind in mast every case tiis lands are d?- c rided up into small farnn aud rented to | dther own their own stock or work tlie andlords stock, which is the same thing k> far its using the public roads are cou NEW MERCI AT Plain and Figured Pi Mercerized Madras, Merceri PRICES: 15c, 2< COnE QUICK B Ni Pretty lino in New Wash Silks i green, choice ouly 27-incli Jap Silks in rose, Lt. bli and black, choice per yard. Satin Duchess and Liberty Satin 6-inch Black Taffetta Silk, wear Yard wide Black Taffetta, warrai Beautiful line of Silk Grenadines Big lot of the well krii Corsets, America's leading Corse Ft We will have new goods of everj 1.1. j 1 .1 now nurd at worK in tne eastern the prettiest line of Dress Goods and keep posted as to what is goi , WE A MUTUAL D! R. P. HARRY, corned, so these tenants use the roads hauliug for themselves as much as for the landlord. Now we will take up the factories, which, of course, causes the roads to he used more than they were before the factories were built, but it must be remembered that a large psr cent, of the Irauling to the mills is done by the farmre, and small farmers at that, hauling their weod and produce to the mills and selling them for a good price. So the mills are not using the roads so much after all. Before the two mills were built here in Jonesville wood was worth >nly one dollar a cord, and now it is wringing a dollar and a half, and every lay that comes there are plenty of farm;rs, both white and colored, hauling .vood to town with Iheirown teams, cut.iug up the roads. Now I say it would lot be fair to make either class kf ?p up ,he roads, but let a reasonable tax be aid upon property and then a commuta,ion tax also and let the two be properly id justed and su ill cleat to giveusbotUr oads. Mr. lljbert Cathca-t and Miss Cariie. West, both of West Springs, were marled at the Methodist Parsonage last rVednetday by ltev. David Ilucks. Miss Zillah Ilolcomb, who lias beeu 'isitiug her brother at Bogausvllle for ome time, has returned home. Miss Anna Penney, or Abbeville, is 'isiting her uncle, E M. Penney. Mecs. Boyd 1/ e aud J. N. Whitehead ?f liogansville, spmt tin Sabbith in ronesville. Mr. C. C. Harden returmd a few days ince from his homo in Cluster, whei e le had been to so his father die ai d J aid to rest. Tkt.kimionk. Th# Democrats on Friday in the :Iouse at Washington, carried out heir threat to block business if Mr. ' Sutler, the Denrmrmf >na L'ho result was a stormy session from LI o'clock in tho morning to 11 >'clock in tho evening. They intood docking all business except the ap)ropriation bill daring the remaining 10 days of the session. They claim hat a quorum was not present upon he vote to unseat Butler. Any Cook Good Enough. "Clifton" flour makes the sweetest ind most nutritions biscuits that iver came out of the oven?and any :ook is a good enough cook to mako hem. Macbeth Young and Union lotton Mills Store keep it. Do Witt's ffilit Salvo for PSm.Bim ?.??! Ml 1. ERI3ED WHITE thV-muWal. . - . *" .. ,t iques. . .Mercerised Fledred Ma sed Basket weave Madpi t Dc, v 25c, 3oe? 38c>. EFORE THEY * ARE aw Lot off Silks. lb black,* white, pink, Lt. blue, maizeton Lie, red, pink, tan, cream, white, royal I J ' s, white black and evening shades, onl} guaranteed, a very pretty number, per 3 Xr V , Qted all silk; piece dyed, per yard 1, entirely new designer at $1.00 and own F. C. Corsets just in, also i t. Prices 25c, 50c and $1. f OR THE NEXT 60 DAYS r kind pouring in our large department i markets studying and selecting the grea , Millinery, etc. ever brought to Union, ing to he worn this comiDg season. ? iRE HEADQUARTERS RY GOODS GO gr. Opp, Union Shoe Co's Shoes F O R? ~ |f^ HIM $2.50 A H $2.00 4 V *Y (W? $ 1.50 2 r w*. r I ' 1 ^ \ 4* Since the Janding of tl better Sho^^aveb unTO^SMC SHDB IWERCflA Main Street*y GOODS ' . #< ? V * ' Oxfords, dras, as. and $1.50. ALL GONE. % :^Z 50c due, helio 50c 50c $1.00 $1.25 r . $2.00 1 full line of ike W. B ully guaranteed. store. Our buyers are test variety and by far Come to see us often A v._._ . IFANT. jsite Hotel Union , v iLfOWWOWIj jm. shoeOQ'SHMHi^ mwm^AX ?5ho?QC W PICNIC MlACt . IGOLA tftg? ^mwr ^ -N fa oil | w^Pilgrims no ?8en oyide. . ^ >b c6., , Nfs, * Union, S. C. > j- ** '. ?*ir 1