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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
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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.
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)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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.~ \ :
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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.
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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;
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jp ? =*
* J. I). Aktuuii, Cashter;
nters National Bank
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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,
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