The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 15, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C., JANUARY 15, 1904.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRY.
One great secret of the growth and
prosperity of the United States is the
variety of her products possessing as
she does a soil and climate with few
exceptions adapted to the growth of
every plant in the known world. Cotton
was crowned king when it sold
for 80 cents a pound at the close of
the civil war, and still sits upon the
commercial throne, and at the time
of the coronution the United States
Was its chief dominion, and now produces
five-sixths of all the cotton
^ raised. The high price of cotton this
season has awakened Kurope to a
greater activity in search of fields for
the growth of cotton so that they may
be leu dependent upon tho United
States. Our planters will no doubt
in rlew of the existing conditions and
facta, largely increase the area de ofced
to the crop. There are thousands
of acres of undeveloped cotton
land In this country. Texas alone
ooold raise all the cotton used in the
world, so that no fears of foreign
t competition need bo entertained for
7ears to come. We return to our
aubjeot and say, that the same rule
applies to individual farmer, as to
diversity of farm products. Our
conthern planters have too long been
! most to the exclusion- of all others,
and have suffered and groaned under
the burden of the grain crop of the
northwest. No portion of the United
States is so well suited to the growth
of all things needful as the Southern
States. No where else does Bermuda
grass llourish more luxuriantly and
the hay is now preferred to any other
oy tne owners ot line stock. The recent
introduction of this hay into the
northern markets, has to a great extent
supplanted western hay. Again
the growth of many kinds of trees is
assured in the South, as limited experiments
have been made. Since
the peach crop in South Carolina luis
become somewhat uncertuiu in
certain localities, it would be
well to try the different kinds of nut
trees. Pecans, English walnuts and
almonds can be successfully grown
here; Southern California is not the
only place in the United States where
the English walnut can be grown.
A persimmon farm has been started
in Crawford county, Ga. The fruit
can be distilled into quite a number
of delicious and wholesome beverages,
the wood is valuable for furniture,
spools, etc. The scarcity of timber
for railroad cross-ties, has sot the
people of the North to planting the
Catalpa, which is said to be far superior
to oak or pine, lasting twice as
long, being less subject to rot; the
Catalpa will grow here. The invention
and manufacture of iron crossties
clearly shows the necessity of an
increased growth of the best timber
trfloa f At* tKita oa uroll oa Af Jio* mm
poses. All this is within the reach
of the people of South Carolina.
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It will be interesting to know how
the rifles that were cuptured by the
United States army in Cuba came to
be in the hands of the people of Manama
when the recent revolution
broke out on the isthmus. It is said
that rifles captured in Cuba were
condemned and sold by the War Department,
the question remains the
same, how came the rifles in the
hands of Panama revolutionist.
m?mmmmmm??
The United States government is
now engaged in farming under the
waters of the deep sea, helping out
the sponge industry which has been
lagging for several years. Experiments
by the Bureau of Fisheries
have shown that sponges can bo
grown artificially as well as by nature's
process. There are doubtless
many people who think the sponge a
kind of vegetable growth, when as a
matter of fact it is a living animal,
on this basis the government is now
furthering its culture.
GliN. JOHN It. GORDON DEAD.
Gen'l John B. Gordon died at Biseayne,
Florida, his winter home, at
10:05 oclock p. m., Jun. 9th, after a
short illness. He was taken pick en
Wednesday with Route indigestion,
which scon afterwards developed into
serious and fatal complications. He
had sulTcred from a similar attack of
indigestion some months before, but
when he arrived at his Florida home
i he was in the best of spirits and
health. The death of Gen. Gordon
has cast a gloom over the entile
^ Southland, the home of his birth, a
child of her love nrul pride. The war
record of Gen. Gordon is upon the
. pages of every history of the civil
war. Jle entered the war as Captain
of the Raccoon lioughs Oth Alabama
. Infantry, from which position he
1 steadily rose by promotion to Lieutenant
General commanding second
. Army Corps, Lieutenant General
- commanding left wing Lee's army at
Appomattox April Oth, 18(55. Gen.
Gordon served his neonle as faithful
ly and acceptably in peace as in war.
He was honored by his people, being
three times elected United States
Senator and twice Governor; he held
many other positions of public trust,
and at last voluntarily retired.
Gen. Gordon came to the aid of
South Carolina at u time when she
most needed the presence, counsel
and courage of such inon as he.
Gen. Gordon was beloved by all
who knew him, for his sterling qualities
of heart find mind. His writings
have been read with interest aud
profit, his lectures listened to with
pleasure and due appreciation; but
when we attempt to chronicle nil his
virtues, all language fails and silence
begs for thought.
DR. L. G. li HOUGHTON
SCORCH US SUN. TIIJ.MA N.
In Atlanta on Sunday night at the
tabernacle Dr. Broughton replied to
the lecture of Senator Tillman delivered
in that city the week before.
Tillman's subject was the race question.
Dr Broughton's theme, the
"Sensitive Fool."
Dr. Broughton said:
"Much of this talk of the race
problem is also the result of morbid
sensitiveness. I heard Senator Tillman
Friday night give his lecture on
'The N'pi'ro.' I t.riprf f<1 ho foil* in mo
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estimate of it. lor reckless frankness
it was^ u juQiklJ?r, fyvt.m'oYe
argument it was a iness. I like
frankness; I like to see a man who
believes something and then is not
afraid to say it. In this respect and
in this respect alone, is Senator Tillman
entitled to a place among those
who are trying to shape the destinies
of the nation. His whole talk, from
dart to finish, was that of the cheap
politician, playing upon the most
subtile prejudices of ignorant people.
Never once in his solution of this
great question did ho get out of the
realm of the rankest paganism. The
Christian religion was never hinted
at as having anything to do with
overcoming bad conditions or uplifting
the raee. One of the mo9t prominent
Christian educators in the South
said to me just as he finished his
harangue, 'His position is nothing
short of the vilest paganism.' Senator
Tillman is a pagan arguing from
tlie standpoint of pagan philosophy.
"That there are wrongs with regard
to the negro that must be righted
nobody doubts. It was a blunder
to put the ballot in their hands when
they were freed. The North sees
this. Senator Tillman's effort to flro
Southern hearts with hate for the
North because they forced this iniquity
on us is unjust. I have traveled
North as much as he has. I have
circulated with a better class of
people where I have gone, and I toll
you tho best people of the North aro
perfectly willing that we should take
the negro out of politics. He ought
to bo taken out, and we are going to
do it, not for our good only, but for
his good as well. I said in Boston to
an audience as large as Senator Tillman
had Friday night, 'The negro
must be eliminated from polit.cs and
white folks' society.' The remark
was cheered, though made in church.
The negro needs moral and religoua
evolution. He needs to find his
place and settle. This he will do out
of politics, but in it he is an ignorant
tool of mean politicians. Socially
the negro is not a problem to us in
this country and never will be. Senator
Tillman's sarcastic comparison
of the love of his old faithful negro
servant and a Newfoundland dog, to
U/v ,.1. U..
iir uuctftcu uj nil Aiiuuiu auuiniw,
w?i?, to say the least of it, pitiable.
"Let cheap politicians and dema
goalies sneer as much as they will at
the Christian philanthrophy, it is
nevertheless the only hope for tho
salvation and civilization of this
world. Paganism, with its hell of
oppresion, is not the policy of our
peoplo. If now and then an exception
is tolefated, it is only for the {
lack of timo for the triumph of the
law of Christian equity."
Tho regular session-of ttto Legislature
convened Tuesday. There is
much business of great importance at
this session to bo considered and
passed upon by this honorable body
of representatives of the State of
South Carolina.
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A
BROOM CORN.
That broom corn can be successfully
grown in Union county there
can be no doubt, from the simple (
fact that it has already been tested.
Long before the civil war a number
of tho wealthier people grew this
corn, and had brooms made, using
the stalks for handles; the seed were
thrashed off and the stalks cut convenicnt
lengths, the brooin was made
by binding together the stalks using
as many as desired, aocordipg to the
size of broom and handle to be made
This was before the invention and
manufacture of the long stick-handle
broom in use today. The making of
the broom from the broom corn was
.
a particular job, was generally made
by the negro carpenter of the plantation,
was regarded the "nice" broom,<
and hold a position of honor in the
household, being the only broom allowed
to grace the rack beside the
mantle in the parlor, used only to
sweep the carpets, while the old straw
broom swept all the other floors
There were no broom corn brooms on
the market, the corn was only grown
by a few for their use; but this fact
does not go to show that it could* not
be more extensively and profitably
grown at this day and time by the
farmers of this State.
Mr. G. S. Guilford, of Bluffton, S.
C., writes to the Manufacturer's Record
regarding the organization of the
Blullton Lime Co., of which he is
president. Ho says that it has been
organized by a few young men, all
wage earners, to manufacture lime
from oyster shells. Their main object
is to put on the market a new waterproof
plaster, which one of their
number has perfected, and also a new
lime suitable ior brick and stone
work.
The gamblers in eggs and the-manufacturers
of artificial eggs have
formed a trust and put the price of
eggs beyond the reach of the masses
of the people. This is a greater outrage
than the cabbage trust, people
can do without cabbage, but eggs are
almost indispeusible, not a luxury,
but a necessity. This trust does not
alTect us to any serious extent, us the
lo-al markets handle the entire production
and not governed by the
prices put upon eggs by the trust.
m. Jenniugs Bryan hn? re.
turned from his extended lour
through the eastern continent. Mr. '
Bryan while in New Haven, Conn., i
a few days ago, was the guest of
nonor at a banquet. When called ,
upon to respond, Mr. Bryan said:
"The great issue at this time is
the issue between man and mammon '
?between plutocracy and deinoefacy.
All surface questions of policy, of
taxation, of regulation and of linance
aro but phases of century-long, that
world-wild struggle between the common
people and organized wealth.
To say that it does not pay for a nation
to violate the rights of the people
of another nation involves so
much of addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division that we may I
get lost in a maze of mathematics [
But to say that the wages of sin is
death, is to give an epitomo of history
that accords with each person's
experience. In dealing with finance,
with labor problems and with all the
other questions at issue we must view
them from a moral standpoint and
arraign every evil at the bar of the
public conscience."
LETTER FROM
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Our Former Texas Correspondent,
J. S. C., now Located in Indian
Terr.tory. lie writes Interestingly
of that Country?___
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CoAUJATE, I. T., Jan. 0, 1904.
; Editor Times:
It has been nearly one year since
this deponent sayeth ids say. And
for fear lie create an alarm among
the readers of The TimeS f>r his
silence he decides to speak once more
at least.
Well, it would take a small volume
. to enumerate all the disappointments
ttc. since the last communication, so
that will not be attempted, and it
would not interest the readers of
! The Times, anyway.
I I have had something to say about
the Indian Territory, in former communications
to Tiuc Times, and it
! it a i;i i *i- - L I "
m ijuuu nKfiy uie ouracn 01 tins one
, will bear directly upon this section of
: the great Southwest,
j The Indian Territory is being de'
veloped very fast at this time.
Towns are springing up on every
si le, railways are being projected
and built in almost every direction,
and a good deal of the land is being
put to cultivation. Extensive coal
fields are located in the Territory,
namely: at Krebs, North and South
McAlcster, Lehigh, Phillips and
Coalgato, besides many other places
Of course the coal industry is an immense
thing, so much so that one
will not realize it until sufficient
thought is given the snbjeot. Then,
THAT H/
The old
dh year is hei
\( i., in all the
moth depa
We sell Shoes
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men ana cniidren
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we are selling
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BARGAIN!
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MUTUAL Dl
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next in importance, if it is not the
greater industry, is that of catile i
raising. Then the money the U. S.
Government pays the Indians in
bounties, added to the farming interests,
makes the Indian Territory a
country wi'h a great deal of ready
money, hence it is a great trading
locality. , I find so many Jews engaged
in business in the new country.
You know the Jew is ever
faithful to his chosen calling?that of
merchandising?and where you find
trading in merchandising there you
find the Jew. The Indian Territory
is very mucli like Texas?in fact it
is the same in many respects. ? In
winter the "Nor* Wester" and the
Arctic Blasts 3wcep down upon this
beautiful land like a ravenous wolf
upon an unsuspecting lamb, when
you least Qxpect such sudden transitions,
then it is awfully-disagreeable
here.* But in spring and summer
when the balmy breezes come up
from the South, laden with the perfume
of the flowers and the sweetness
of budding time, when all nature
is aglow irnin the warm and brilliant
sun, everything reposing ?crenely
unuer our neautitul Italian skies,
then it is pleasant and agreeable.
The climate changes are so sudden
here sometimes that a hazard would
freeze by the time you could walk
from the court house to the depot at
Union. This assertion may seem
extravagant, but I think numerous
persons would bear me out in it.
This winter so far ha9 been lovely,
we have had a nice open winter with
some cold weather, but very little.
I must close. I hope I may have
time to scribble another scroll in the
near luiure. J> 8. U.
A Costly Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very expensive.
Occasionally life itself is the
price of a mistake, but you'll never be
wrong if you take^)r. Kings Now Life
Pills for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Headache,
Liver or Bowel troubles. They
are gentle, yet thorough. 2oc at F. C.
Duke's Drug Store.
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NOTICEI
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FOR
HAIBOUTTING \ND 8HAVING.
Opposite Post Office.
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Shoe interest,
Union, S. C.