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Imp THE I NIOi\ TIMES, l(| VOL. I,IV. M) :'0iorkofCt:.rt c - U&iUK, SOUTH CAROLINA, FIIID^SEITKMIIER ' >. I!H)I. " V . j ^>1.00 A J.EAR~" ' ~ AVOID CC Executors, A dm dians and others leas confusion 1: of private and trt irig separate ac'cr Drop in and let i you about this in Wm. A. N1CH0LSC MMinn ati/\iii n \ii\ I II IIVIKHI IUH rtHU NEGRO KILLING. An Influx of Sober White People Will Remove the Block Rent from Country Homes. In one of the counties we observe that the immigration bureau lately established by the State has become an "Issue." We are not profoundly interested in this matter and we even fear that the danger in it is not so great as we would like to'see. Some of the statesmen who are running frantically for the legislature in Anderson and Florence and Abbeville are in terror lest the "riff-raff" of Europe be turned loose upon old South Carolina, i?"Riff-raff"?what is that? If we were to remark that any . South Carolina gentleman belong ed to the "riff-raff" we should probably have our eyes blacken ed and head broken. We are reasonably carefyl in alluding to ' ? 1_ j T\ JT pei suns in sucn terms. Meanwhile we sometimes suspect that all the "riff-raff" of the world is not confined to Europe or even to Russia and Italy. We have Aus^ ^ years ago we heard a great cry 7* raised in this State against the '"aristocracy."' The alarm was "sounded that the "Aristocracy" ; had its heel on the neck of the ' 'common people.'' Now if there T'be anything in this cry about the : "riff-raff" it must have for its ; bottom that we are all ' 'Aristocrats," as compared with most ; Europeans,?in other words that they are not as good as we are. . And yet we dare utter the heresy that perhaps the white people of Italy and Spain are approximately equal in virtue to ourselves. At any rate we are not sufficiently convinced of our own excellencies to insist that we are "it" as compared with all other peoples. No one denies that the population of one locality may be superior to that of another. For example, we are sure that the average intelligence, industry, thrift and even courage of the population of Laurens County is v as far above the average in the same qualities of the people of certain other counties, or parts of counties in South Carolina (which we have no purpose to name) as they are superior to the popula% tion of certain areas in Russia. There are limited dices of terri tory and population in this State which the State of South Carolina could safely offer to swap with . any nation of white folks on the face of the earth without injury ?just as school boys 'Throw" pocket knives. These sections are small but they can be found here $nd there in South Carolina arifl indeed some whole counties are not as good as others. A man or a newspaper would be a <1 fool to name them but they exist, as anybody who has traveled over f ' the State knows. Meanwhile, most of these statesmen who rear upon their hind Jegs when "immigration" is mentioned are given to bluster . about their "Anglo-Saxon blood." if*?.' *... The truth is that in their dismal W i -v'ignorance they reflect upon most of the people of Upper South . "' " Carolina when they suggest that Anglo-Saxons are superior .to other people. Moat of the Piedmont people are not Anglo-SaxJohn C. Calhounf*For example, had not a drop of AngloSaxon blood in his veins, that we have heard or. He wHa^ Prea. ? ! )NFUS#N." 1 i ni?tratocta flwOiin r~ * rrmy avv)|d en< lrom tHe^g^u^ling .1 St fLI Ticls b^opeIT tints fit t li|^ Bfinlt. is talk further wiML^ nportant matter, )N & SON.'^Wrikers. _ . ? ' i i I byterian, Scoteh^Irishman and most of our "Up country people" are of Scotch-Irish descent, many of them having ,ah infusion of Pennsylvania Dutch. The ScotchIrish belong to a race wholly distinct from the Anglo-Saxons. rney are Cells, whereas the An-1 glo-Saxons are Teutons or Germans in origin. It is only the man whose ancestors are English not Scotch. Irish or Welsh, who can claim to be an AngloSaxon and o: course the AngloSaxons became a mixed race centuries ago. Noy^the Scotch-Irish are just as abljKtfidjkbrave and shrewd a race a?Lh^yMglo-Saxon, many think u%y ate the salt of the earth, yetr most of these candidates who are snorting about all others than Anglo-Saxons ing "riff-raff" are themselves not Anglo-Saxon and don't know it. These are facts but .they are of no great importance. Such line distinctions count for little. We merely state them to point out and illustrate the vast and profound idiocy in which'candidates for th<|,ley^sM^Ujp^Wl^etimes indulge instilr nripnpL"~Ti.~inj; n 111 r thing that; wUFpEfefti to those votes thatavfe ignorance. They ar?*f>r tlte^ftbst part discussing this immigration law when they hayeflutest PrTn^erio&s Question about the immigratioifr ortice is: Will it bring any Immigrants? It remains to be deminstrated, and it will take time, whether Mr. Watson can induce any important number of new dwellers to settle, either "riff-raff" or elite. Until that is shown^it iA hardly worth while for our Anderson friends to throw themselves into iits. The immigration topic takes us to the roasting of. the negroes last week at Statesboro, Ga. The mob overpowered tlio militia and took Will Catoand Paul Reed, already condemned to be hung on September 8, for murdering Henry Hodges, his wife and three children and burning his house, and burned the negroes at the stake. The Advertiser has never failed to condemn lynching.. The burning of these negroes in Georgia was a pitiable afFair. Wo doubt if the negroes suffered a great deal more than if they had been hung. Having never, seen a man who was either hanged or burned at the stake ana. lived to tell the tale, it is impossible to say which "hurts the .most." The only thing reasonably sure is that hanging presents a more presentable corpse. The white men who participated in the .burning suffered. Their instinctsfwere brutalized, j When men act^ike beasts of the ; field their nhwres are lowered j permanently...^-They suffer de- . basement. Ionian whu helped ! to mast those,j?egroes will escape j from its effedtrupon his soul and mind in the .laming years. He j is not as pure,and clean a man today as he ~Jvas before he de- ! scended to theObiethod^ of Indian j savagery, andibe has in part cor rupted and .fflfoonerl his nature and.his life, ilf he is not wholly a beast the remainder of his days will be weighed with the shame he must feel. Men may excuse themselves as lynchers, but they cannot excuse themselves as barbarians and hyenas. We condemn all lynching. Nevertheless we know that in the oouth ' wher there are hordes of brutish negroes, ignorant savages when aroused (we are not alluding by any means to all negroes), when a family ie i murdered, and the home and bod- J i ies burned and it develops that a' j negro secret society organized 1 J W for murder purposes is responsible for it, there is going to be a lynching. So far as direct and immediate effect is concerned, the newspaper which condemns it would as well condemn a storm for blowing through a town and laying prostrate the court house and the church. To speak of law's when men feel that they are face to face with a problem where laws fail, where they feel that they are at war with a savage foe, just as their ancestors felt when they were guarding their little settlements against the night assaults of red Indians bent on scalps, fire and massacre, does not produce instantly seeable and touchable results. Condemning lynching calls attention to law, and in a century or two when the cause of lynching may have disappeared in part at least, men will remember that the laws are at hand and may respect them. I Ti. : 11 ' i < il is wen tnereiore to call attention. rriie traditionary knowledge of the laws may be preserved. The burners of the negroes, however, are the miserable victims of their own folly and passion. The Statesboro lynchers would have accomplished the same ends by hanging, and would have saved their souls from the deeper pollution. We condemn lynching. We prophesy at the same time that in this and surrounding counties in the Southern part of Georgia, no more men and women and children for many and many a long ,\ear will beTnurdered and burned by a ' Tiefore-day" society. A lesson has been taught. But what has this to do with immigration? Why, just so long as millions of negroes remain in the South, here and there the Statesboro horror will be repeated, in one form or another. The evil savagery or the negro will crop out and the still fiercer and more terrible savagery of the white man will burst out and co>iqueV it. Meanwhile., the white man's nature suffers deterioration. Learning the taste for blood and absorbing a contempt for human life, he turns upon and rends his white brother. So the time of the courts is consumed with trials of white men for slaying white mem In general, every white immigrant makes a negro emigrant. Industrially, the negro cannot compete with the white man. Immigrants are coming here to I a i^uui^iio ovsiiivj *;avv Wlit'lllt'l \\ u 1 want tliem or not. When two or three thousand families are crowd-1 ed in, two or three thousand l'ami- j die* of negroes will be crowded : out. The white man wants this) country. The white man is a land-grabber, lie has never yet | allowed inferior race to hold the choice parts of the earth. In time the negro must go as the Indian has gone. The negro must flee to the towns to become hotel-waiters, or he must segregate himself in the "black belts" not suited for the white man's habitation. The sooner he goes the better. The sooner the im-; migrants come into Laurens, the better. In the coming days there j will be no lynching. Immigra- : gration will bring sure peace to' Statesboro. (1-.., and forever put j an end to.the 4'Before-day" society. ?Laurens Advertiser. South Carolina Minerals. At the American mining Congress, to be held at Portland, Ore.. in October, representatives of a number of Southern States will read papers telling of the mineral resources of their respective States. Commissioner E. J. Watson of the South Carolina depart ment of agriculture, commerce and immigration has been quick to seize the opportunity for making known the resources of his State from a commercial standpoint, and has embodied in his report to the congress a paper by State Geologist Earle Sloan showing the location of the deposits of gold, copper, tin, iron, nickel, monozite, kaolin, fullej's earth, potter's clay, pyrites, granite, marble, limestone jand pearls adapted to the mAi?acLure of Portland cement and ?f|Puz<Jfl^ With commendable enten>rised^P Columbia Static Is publishing Ttt advance of. the congress chapters from the report. - ? _ TW15 tAN CITIZEN. A Se^rrteifppeached by d*eM. J,a:m|^l. Vance, D. . D., N^wa'r.R, N. J., Washington's Birthday. .7 I \ Text: "JrVith a great sum obtained^ I,' this freedom." -Acts 22:28. The American citizen should prize his citizenship because of its dignity. I do not care to brag about the bigness of America. I know we are disposed to gaze with the eye of admiration upon ourselves, and to mistake windy fulsome eulogies for patriotism. Perhaps it were better to remember that epitaphs are for tombstones. and that the nation which cannot be criticised is in peril of decline. The highest type of patriot is not the Fourth of July orator. What we need is not so much limitless bragging about America's greatness, as the calm : and \ irile treatment of the vast issue.; nnr rnni/1 H m>ocnnti- I - t,... fs.unH. (Iltotius. Nevertheless, it is not brag-! ging to say there is a dignity j about American citizenship whic h J is not surpassed. America stands ! fully abreast of the foremost nations of the world, and her attitude on any world question is a matter of deciding importance. It was American diplomacy which turned the tide in the Chinese imbroglio. .The hero of the recent Venezuelan disturbance is a man whose commanding position in that delicate and dangerous situation was due to the fact that he is an American citizen. America's greatness is not bigness. It is not the greatness of forc\ of a mighty army and formidable navy. It is not the greatness of despotism, fear, brutality. It is not the greatness of a big-bully jumping on a little child. -It is the greatness of humarhteL.. of moral influence. AmeociVs diplomacy is that of ib'goKlCttrule, ?ntl its greatness i he kind that makes weaker 'people glad. . To be a cjfto/.er. of such a i ation. to enjoy its rights, to be lustrous with its prestige, to live under its flag, and to be vested with its franchise, is to be clothed with a dignity of citizenship never surnessed and rarelv onurded The American citizen should ! prize his citizenship also because ?>f what it cost. The Roman, in the text, declared with a great sum he purchased his. While, like Paul, we are free-born, our citizenship has cost a .ureal sum. 1'erhaps the average American citizen rarely attends to this, lie takes his citizenship as a matter of course. Not many read hisi ry, and some who do, read it as critics rather than patriots. They read it to be informed or entertained rather than reminded of debts. Perhaps no man is a citizen at more stupendous cost than the American; for behind is every struggle made or battle fought for freedom in both, the old and new world. Let us read the story of the wars men have waged to be free; of the Revolutionary War, and every war since, against foreign foes, savages on the frontier, and among ourselves. Let us get some conception of the expenditure of men and means in subduing the ; wilderness, bringing order out I of chaos, and cementing national j bonds. Let us follow the school : master, the trader, the mission- 1 arv, as they have suffered and i . 1 _ -1 A- - -- I ? * ' * * siruggieu to maKo numan me ' safe and kind. If our muthe-' matics can got logarithms large ; enough, let us take the sum of! all of this and gain some faint conception of what American cit- 1 izenship has cost. Although it! lias cost so much it is offered 1 without money and without price, j I1 think it is too free. If it cost j the individual more he would j prize it higher. Citizenship should be a prize to be won rather than a date in the calendar. A man should do something more than become naturalized in order i . to vote. lie should be some-; thing more than twenty-one years old to cast a ballot. Again, the American citizen should prize his citizenship be^ cause of its privileges. The digjnity is gre<ii? the cost is vast, but the aurivileges are without '.parallel. IsWtiere in the world is ? :J * t ^3C 1 .. . .. 1'. M Kaku, President. T Merchants and ?la Is not finite (?) the largest Hank oh at the "Old rtaml" successfully, t lii"rty-1 wo years.~ \ : **#JU * Hie OLDEST bank in 1 H is .ho only NATIONAL It has a capital and .slitplus * I-t.pays I'OUK p? i cent, intt It l as paid divid nds mnottn It lias Hurular-proof vault, a It is the only Hank in Union It pays more taxes than ALI HV 8olic)fifcour business, lio'w< ll:c court* sirs that arc usually extc conducted Hank. ! human life safer, or held in highi er esteem? Where is property ! securer or freedom ampler? I It is difficult to see how a man ; could be freer than he is in Ameri] ca. He has freedom of worship. | He can worship anything he. : wants to, from the Almighty to a microbe. He has freedom of speech and freedom of press, tind freedom of person, and freedom to rise. The largest opportuni ties oiler to the common life, and the child oi' the cabin may reside in the White House. Where is citizenship more imperial? The centre of government in this land is not in the nation's Chief Executive, nor in the National Congress, but in the private citizen. To have this dignity- and be blessed with these privileges, to share in all that is American, to speak your manhood through a free ballot into the nation, and through the nation into the world is to be the foremost citizen .of the Lime. Great as it was to Tee a Roman citizen, greater ft^i^Ko he an American citizen* . By exercising it. -^Ffiian^.citizenship should repf??ent his highest conations. It ."should not be the coMir of a-p.arty slave, nor the foot nail ofifcemagogic expediency. It shdCTA^iand for something and. manhood. Some men's citi: enship nothing in particular and 'everything in general. It is ltfcejfcguf whom some one called a*."^ljii. dog." When asked to expj^ln. he sai I. "It is a dog of fiftyjseveti varities." This is the wat itffcs with some men's eitizensi . vt is of lifty seven varieties. *t Is everything in general an^ nothing in particular. It is irot. important that one be Republican, Democrat or Prohibitionist; but he should be something. . Hisi ballot should stand for a man. Vote! 1 vote as religiously as I pray. The citizen who fails to vote has emasculated his citizenship. He is a menace to the nation; perhaps more so than the man who votes wrong. Disuse may be a worst disaster than misuse. I may use my arm in the wrong kind of work. This is to be deplored, but even this misuse will enable the armfto retain its muscular strength, and maybe sometime the arm will get converted and go into a respectable business. But if, inat&ul of misuse, the arm be troate<tjtadisuse it atrophies. Some one once asked PfcesJ^ent McKinley why, when giMitt Jii-. ties were pressing at theijatA's capital, he took time to goalmhe way to Canton to cast lug .*te. He replied. "1 have ne^Br .oeen so tired or so busy that V.could consent to nullify mv\*manlioocl." If more men fe^.^s he did about the ballot, it v*iil&l)e* better for America. Let your ballot be pwxiotic/ A citizenship that can qftlTnr-, chased with anything is ij&diiin:' famy of citizenship. patriotism that can do* mo&jutttg' sing "America,-' or Spangled Banner,-' who .jfMketC' est is not confined to t^'dAy/ nor colon d b> the pen .it? roil; that rises above the s]>$jis and partisanship, and speaksMlf-re-^ snoctinir manhood throuirfc'ftn un ~X t o ? "Off. smirched ballot. fair Play. _ * ^ % The United Slates has* junderiaken to see that there is fair play in the Russo-Japanese war i so far as China is confined. , When hostilities were iBgtm, Secretary Hay, in conji?tion i with the State departmc^K' of | European governments, obtained from both Russia and iapan agreements to respect the piteg; - , JL ,K , w"' jp ? =* * J. I). Aktuuii, Cashter; nters National Bank V * -iv adrtli, but it continues to do business a.i'iit hnti boqu doing for the past " . Union, bunk in tJnko'i, . . 3i SloMOGtf*-. ; ; rest oii'-depqaitH, line to t'iWKOO, * v ' ml Safe wjrau Time-lock, '? inspected}^ an Ofllcer, j the Hanks-iti Uiiioif oMnbiiied. eVcr larfje or snnill, promising .ill tided by an obliging mid carefully C\ N pity off.- China, provided China Vould Yerhain neutral. Up to the presept time China has kept its compact, Russia has observed its obligations, but Japan has disre garded the agreement into which it entered. The first instance of such disregard was when Japan seized a disabled Russian war vessel in the harbor of Chefoo; the second when it undertook to seize Russian war vessels at Shanghai and other Chinese ports after the great naval battles of Aug. 13 a.id 14. It was at Shanghai that the United States first interposed to prevent a repetition of the Chefoo incident. The United States has undertaker. to insure fair play not because it would regulate in the least the conduct of war between Russia and Japan, but because a .piomise having been obtained from China to remain neutal the United States, together with European nations, placed itself und<|t obligation to China to assist mat nation in maintaining its mwildity. The United States, . . as vJBhas European nations fuljyiiflmtood when they secured raft^Kftise that it imposed such iblhapKHia- upon them, conseflueMgy&e United States has v EQtaHHfflbanghai and the GerInans at other ports in preventing' hostile a?ts within Chinese waters. Their position cannot he construed as assistance to either Russia or Japan; rather as obstructive interference, though Russia may profit thereby, owing I to*er misfortunes in war. The tear in some quarters that I the United States will involve it; self in this Eastern war because of the position it has taken is without adequate foundation; for | it the United States becomes inevolved all Europe must also, and I this is not likely, if all parties to i the agreements between Russia 'and ~Jupan. and China, observe international law. Neither Russia nor Japan is likely to have a case against the United States and European nations under international law, since both, especially Japan, have already violated such law. West vs. East. For more than a hundred years New York has been the money center of this country. It has dictated financial policies of the National government, prescribed i meinoas ot banking, fixed rates ' of interest and controled loans of all kinds. It may be still a power hi financial matters in this counI try, but it is no longer dictator, j ^e\v York has repeatedly been I underbidden by Western cities, | which goes to show that the West is a financial competitor of the East. The most recent instances in which the West has competed ^Successfully with the East is that Of the Philippine bonds. The Western National bank of Oklahoma City hid 101.41 for the $3:000,000 loan, the next highest bid being: that of Harvey Fisk & Sons of New York, which was for 101.37. Other bids from the I West were higher than those from New York City, but con tained conditions not acceptable to the Government. All of this shows that the West has increased in wealth to a point where in the future, unless something unforeseen occurs, it will be able to dispute with the East in financial affairs, and this will be to the advantage of the country, for competition will result in higher prices beinjj .;offered for Government securities, and it will reap the benefit of premiums paid for them, i *fm