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THE UN ION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by th1? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building over postgikice, bell phone No. 1. L. Q. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postofflce in Union, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. ? - - ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 One year ------- $1.00 Six months ------ 60 cents Three months - - - - - 26 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every ibeequentinsertion - 50 cents. Con acts for three months or longer will be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8$ cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C., AUGUST 19, 1904. DANGEROUS IMMIGRANTS. Whether or not there is or will be an awakening in this country to the dunger of giving the right of citizenship indiscriminately to the immigrants who have been flocking here for the past few years, it is true that recent" events in the transoceanic immigration business have opened the eyes to the possibilities for evil which lie in the future. Considering this phase of the steamship cut-rate war which has been the means of bringing more foreigners in a bunch to these shores than at any previous time in our history, there is gratification to be found in the fact that naturalization courts are becoming more careful. On many recent occasions, men who were plainly not qualified to become citizens have been refused the privilege of swearing allegiance to the United States government and taking the part of citizens in its administration, and while it is not likely that drastic measures will be immediately ap plied to keep out forever those who might in time leurn the things they do not now kuow, the trend is toward higher requirements. An example worthy of emulation has been set by a St. Louis Judge who a few days ago refused to admit a foreigner to citizenship because he could not eminent. Tfirs rs~ oo/y onoJ oS5c while there are thousands admitted to citizenship without even a formal application, especially where the person has a few dollars to offer to prevent refusal, the money being furnished by some politician. All will agree that no man should have a hand in anything of which he is in densest ignorance, and will hope that the application of this ruling becomes general. In days gone by, there was too much politics in naturalization. No one doubts that thousands of aliens have become American voters without knowing the first principle of government, or even the names of men for whom they exercised the granted right of suffrage. While some of them have become worthy citizens, it stands to reason that there is danger in this course that can hardly be overestimated. One has but to go into the slums of the big cities to have this fact brought home to him with convicting force. There he can see men herded?"colonized," tho ward bosses call it?and coached in the art of voting long before they are able to read a word of English. One would naturally think that a man who has lived in this country long enough to be qualified for citizenship ought at least to be able to road tho language of the country of his adoption, but that there are thousands of casos in which voters have remained in absolute ignorance ward records show. And this in spite of the so-called restrictions thrown around the exercise of suffrage by the election laws. Hut whatever has been the process of transformation of 5r?nnrun? alien into the ignorant American voter in the past, there seems to be hope for the future. Citizenship is taking on a higher meaning. Some day, it will be generally agreed that the welfare of the Nation must come before politics, must come before a settled increase in the population, must come before everything. Without attempting to belittle theachievementa of certain classes of foreigners who have done a large part in the upbuilding of this country, we must stund for a higher degree of intelligence than is exhibited by some who are coming now, before we grant them a voice in the conduct of the Nation's alTairs. Those who come with a desire to do their beHt in the new home should he welcomed and encouraged, but that other class which is content to remain in ignorance should be permitted to have no part in government. A NEW COURTHOUSE. The Times has been very pronounced in its opposition to the voting by the people of Union county a tax upon themselves for the purpose of building a new court house. On Monday last we took occasion to question a number of representative farmers as to their views and the sentiment of | the people in their section of the county, and without exceptiou we found not a man wh^-favored ca^^ig his hallot in favor of a'taxtorSfe erection of a new court hotSSJPW^ All with whom we have talked without knowing our sentiments, have agreed with us that Union has the best court house in the State except those which wore built about the same time or even a little later, as in those days substantial work was done and the best material; but aside from the workmanship and material used, the present structure is sufliciently large to accomodate all who have business there, we have no inclination to encourage idlers or loafers by enlarged accomodations in the temple of justice for this class. We have been in several of the socalled modern court houses, and failed to observe the advantage these buildings are claimed to have over our court house. We admit that the outside presents to some a more attractive and imposing appearance, and if the modern court house be built for show, these now structures have it on the Union county court uuuse, io mat extern ana tnat alone. The only inconvenience of which any just and reasonable complaint can now be made with reference to the court houso is the use during a term of court of the clerk's office by the grand jury. A grand jury room could be arranged for without incurring any very great cost. The indebtedness of the county at this time is not less than seventy-five thousand and dollars, ilefore the disastrous Hoods of last year which swept away so many costly bridges, the indebtedness for ordinary county purposes was something over fifteen thousand dollars ; the estimated loss by the destruction of the bridges was about twelve thousand, this amount wai borrowed which added to the fifteer thousand dollars of debt already ow o tot uivuunij purposes twenty-seven thousand dol lars, this of course does not includi the bonded debt of the county. Now in thfi f?CB r,t fhooo - -- ? .?-ww v? vu?cv tav/uo ail the people of Union county preparec and willing to increase this debl twenty or thirty thousand dollarf more for something, for which ther< is at this time absolutely no necessi tv; but for a false pride and spirit o; foolish ambition to do what othei counties have done at a possible sac rilice of other material interests? No we have a better opinion of our level headed farmers and entire voting pop ulution of this county. One very prominent and successful farmer of Pinckney township said h< had been looking for a man in his neighborhood who was willing to vote yes on this question, but had failed to find him. The Times has alreanj expressed the opinion that this question of voting a tax to build a new court house ought not to be voted on at the primary election, but at the general election, and no one who did not pay tax on at least one hundred dollars on real or personal property should be allowed to vote. Union county has already had a rather serious experience when it voted to issue bonds in the sum ol one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in aid of a railroad that was built from Spartanburg to Asheville, North Carolina. This was carried by the vote of the non tax payer, this debt is still unpaid. The original bonds matured in at which time there had only been bonds to the amount of $2(5,500 retired, leaving $128,500 of bonds upon which to pay (> per cent interest semi-annually, Jau. 1, July 1. These matured bonds had to be renewed by an issue of new bonds to this amount, $128,500 as the county was not in a position to pay and retire them, therefore since August 1895 we have been paying interest on this amount. The sinking fund commission has enabled the county treasurer to so place the money accumulated as a sinking fund, and realize an interest on these bonds that the interest accrued on the bonds is promptly paid and by the time the bonds mature and possibly before that time the county treasurer can take up all of the bonds. Under this arrangement the county treasurer will be able to retire all of these bonds at, or before maturity. V THAT MISSISSIPPI POST OFFICE, * The shameful, disgraceful editorial I which was written and published in I the "Commonwealth," a newspaper I issued, owned and controlled by Var- I daman, governor of Mississippi, and acknowledged by him as his, about which so much has been written and published in the papers all over the United States, forms in our judgment a sufficient and just reason for the post master general for refusing to name a newly established post office in that state for such a man as Vardaman. We are surprised at the people of that State for electing such a man. Had a candidate for govern* or of the State of South Carolina said such a thing, not only about a decent and respectable white woman, but about a negro woman, a human being possessing a soul, would be sufficient to defeat him. Mr. Vardaman is evidently an educated man as is shown by his writings; but in our humble judgment devoid of those refined feelings and sentiments which make aud measure up to the standard of a true gentleman. The following is taken from the Newberry Observer, which we fully endorse, as every true ns-vC/MitU P.urnllna rlnoQ! OUII U1 uvuuil v>C*A m UVVVI> VAKDAMAN'S OF1-EN8E. We have seen Vardaman's letter and we have seen his editorial about the mother of'the president, and wo are ashamed that any southern man could be found to write such things about a woman. Postmaster Payne was.right in refusing to name a postoffice for him. We cannot see how any man can have any other opinion on this subject. The editorial is brutul and coarse in its reference to the president, and in its reference to the president's mother it is low and vile. Let no southern man with a spark of chivalry try to uphold the conduct of Vardaman. Here is the editorial, which Vardaman not only acknowledges, but attempts to justify. It appeared in the Commonwealth of January 10, 1908: "It is said that men follow the bent of their genius and that prenatal influences are often potent in shaping the thought and deeds of after-life. Probably good old lady i Roosevelt during the period of gestation was frightened by a dog, and that fact may account for tho qualities of the male pup which are so 1 pronounced in Teddy. I would not 1 do either an injustice, but I am dis. posed to apologize to the dog for mentioning it." The following is Mr. Vardaman's answer to an enquiry made of him by editor of the Anderson S. C. r D^ly Mailt executive nepBriitre?, .. . Miss., August G?My ' Boar tftr! 3 Your very kind favor of the -4th inst. has been received. If I had a copy j of the Commonwealth you desire, I . would take great pleasure in sending it to you, but the files of the old pab per are a hundred miles away. There i was nothing in that editorial ofTen5 sive to Mrs. Roosevelt, err that reflected upon her in the least I slmply undertook upon scientific grounds, ' an PYnluimt.inn nf TPflfl u'u /l nmnnoeunfT I , -J " r and general cussedness, without . holding his ancestors responsible for it. I thought I owed it to his ances' tors. Really, I should be ashamed ^ to charge the devil himself with the responsibility of the infamy of that distinguished accident. Sincerely I and cordially, J. K. Vardaman. } THE INDIANOLA POST OFFICE. ) > Is it postal tyranny for the postl master general to reduce the rank of r a post office from a presidential to a fourth class because its postal re' ceipts did not show a twelve months 1 earnings, he having closed and dis1 continued the office for six months? 1 If the postmaster general had good, I sufficient and legal grounds for discontinuing the office, then he has the right to rank it according to the law governing such cases based upon the postal receipts of this office. If on the other hand the act of discontinuing the office was nothing but ' the exercise of an arbitrary partlzan measure as u rebuke or punishment of the patrons of this office, then we 1 think that he would have no right to reduce the rank, for the simple reason that the cause of the failure to reach the required postal receipts to entitle this office to the place of a presidential appointive office was the result of his own acts and not the fault of the postmaster or patrons. The Indianola post office in the state of Mississippi was closed, discontinued for six months by the postmaster general, on account of the attitude and opposition of the white patrons of this office towards Mrs. Cox, the colored postmaster. She resigned; but tho post office department refused to accent her resl?rna tion. She further declined to hold the position, and the post office department through the president refused to make any other appointment of a postmaster for that office, rather than do so the department discontinued the office, and the patrons were forced in consequence to go 10 miles for their mail at another post office, . || I NEV i ' <S{p Have - || in Lo | Ladit I as v Our e Nei ! sii, 8 1 at a | f | and I and i I | but s MUTUAL I I1 Lockhart Locals. Lockhart, Aug. 15.?Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Keasler and sons, Roy and Floyd, have returned fron Woodruff, where they have been visiting Mr. J. S. Bailey. Miss Estelle Bailey is visiting at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Bailey. Mrs. F. Bulloch, of Westville, Fla., and Miss Bessie Rivers, of Greenwood, S. C., are visiting at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Brawley. Mr. Loy Cary, after an absence of over two years from among us, in Paris, Texas, is visiting at the | home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Cary, He will return some timo during the present week to his [adopted home. It goes without sav - w * ing that he baa many friends who were delighted to have him with us again. Mr. Cary has not lost sight of us, as Tiie Times goes to see him each week. Miss Essie Sanders, of Union, is visiting Miss Lena Reeder. Mrs. J. II. Wilburn, and daughter, Marie, have returned from an extended trip to the mountain resorts and different watering places. ? Pacolet and Lockhart teams played a game here Saturday even* which resulted 11 and 12 in favor of Lockhart. Messrs. Walker Revels and J. L. Damerson, who have been dangerously ill from fever, are considered better Possibly fruit and watermelons are somewhat cheaper now than they hflVA AVPr Koon oinrtii T Artl.U . I _ vvvu DIUUV JUUUBIiart UHH been invented. All can be bought and the buyer name the price. Mr. Harrison Wood gave "Homo" a bucket of tomatoes recently, and among them was one that weighed 19 ounces. In this connection, if you will, let me thank the good people of Lockhart for the many kindly deeds that they have shown us since our return from Oreers. Mrs. Bessie Riggins is now our efficient poet office clerk. She dispenses mail satisfactorily the patrons. IIomo. ER B. 4. * you seen such values T I w Cut Shoes for Men, | 1 :s, Misses and Children | I ^e are now showing. | 8 ntire stock of | I (V Up-to-date ' I apers J I ?rice that will sell each j I every pair. Come in i I see that this is no joke, jj I olid facts. | a )RY GOODS COMPANY, F\ HARRY, Manager. ?? . \u Groceries! M Flour, Meal, Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Grits, Meat, Lard, Hams, r Breakfast Bacon, Syrup and I * \ Molasses, Can Meats, Can Vegetables, Green Groceries, Fancy *? Groceries, Tinware, Crockeryware, Spices, Extracts, etc., etc., ? ^ . * ?-AT?? * . .." &'' i ? ' R. n. ESTES, * I Prices are always right. ft if