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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by thk? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building oyer postojkice, bell Fhone No. 1. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the Poatofflce In Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter.. 3UB8CRIPTIONJ*AT-E8 One year - - - fli(50 8Ix months - - - - . - a -50?cents Three months - - - - *>*25 cents. ADVERTlseMfeNiFs :^T . One sq-wire, first insertion - - fl.OO. Every absequent insertion - 50 cent a 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 reurned. Obituaries and tributes of repect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, 8. C., SEPTEMBER 10, 1904. EX-GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN ON NEGRO ROLE. On the first page of this issue of ^ The Times we publish a rather lengthy, but very interesting article written by Mr. Daniel H. Chamberlain, who by many citizens of this State is remembered as governor of SouthOarolina during the troublesome rtapu nf rnrlir??l ?.nd netrrn rule in this State. He was also Attorney General In 1871 and 1872. We are rather disposed to credit Mr. Chamberlain with being a better man than were those with whom he affiliated at that time, as he conduoted himslf with more deoent dignity than did his associates. Mr. Chamberlain was in this State at a time when the real character of the negro conld be more eaBily judged, having the State authorities and the United StateB in sympathy with and ready to sustain the negro in whatever he did, thus being, as it were, without restraint in the exercise of his own desires. Mr. Chamberlain had everj opportunity and facility for finding out every characteristic of the negro race, and when he writes he knows whereof he speaks, without having to rely upon the testimony of the prejudiced, unprejudiced or ignorant. Mr. Chamberlain makes a clear, clean cut statement, and fully sustains his assertions that negro rule is misrule, This he had fully demonstrated while he was governor Qf South Carolina, and further proof of the fact that the negro is incapable of ruling without ruining. A trip to San Domingo will satisfy the most skeptical or incredulous of the truth of what Mr. Chamberlain says. T H E P RIC E 0 F C OTT 0 N. The Chatnber of Commerce of this city took the first step toward securing good prices for cotton during the ^ coming season. Since Union made J this move nearly every county in the / State has organized under ons or another name, looking to the same object; that is to get the best price possible for all the cotton sold this season. Various have been the plans formulated and resolutions adopted by the different organizations throughout the State. While these organizations have been planning to get better prices for cotton, the cotton spinners in this country and England have not been idle in their efforts to organize a congress, the purpose of which is to establish a uniform price as far as possible, having a maximum but no minimum. It has developed in the general round up of facts and figures relative to the ootton supply and the cotton mill business, that last year's crop fell hnrt nf t.hn Hftmarwl 7f?H Old) hnlna that the mills that bought their supply of cotton early in the season have made money and been able to run on fall time, while those that bought later in the season have paid as high as 10 cents, and on account of high prices have lost money and been compelled to run on half time, and s*?me have had to close down for some time. Now with a shortage of 750,(XX) bales, the cotton growers are urged to sell no cotton during the month of September and October. ThetatMisnob having the cotton they need, rmtbraii# and necessarily, in order to ruu.^V must pay the producers a good pri? for their ootton. Statistics^how til1 actual consumption of cotton per year to be not less than 10,650,00# bales. The crop last year was only 10 million bales. For several yeartl it was shown by actual facts and figures, that the consumption was greater than the productan of those years. This was so of tile years in whioh this was the case, b^h the surplus of former years supplie^the deficiency of those years when the con-1 sumption exceeded the production. \ , V No years production had muoh to do with the price, the price being controlled by the speculators, without regard to supply or demand. The warehouse plan has been suggested by several; but we, as we said in a previous issue of The Times, entertain doubts as to the practicability and satisfactory management of this plan, to the extent of the material benefit brought to the farms. Mr. Sully, the great cotton bear of last season, and Mr. L. \V. Parker, a .South Carolina cotton mill president and a number of others are advocating the ware house plan. The expenses connected with storing cotton in a ware house are various and sometimes uncertain. When a farmer puts his cotton in a warehouse, he does it for the purpose of holding it for a better price, therefore the time the cotton is to remain .in the warehouse is indefinite, the storage and insurance must be paid, and finally when the cotton must be sold to pay debts, etc., the farmer is in i) cases out of ten dissatisfied. The experience of many farmers has been that the man who sold his cotton as fast as he gathered it, from year to year, has been the man who has realized the-best average price for his cotton. THE SOUTH'S RACE PROBLEM. An Open Letter From Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin. Mr.'Wm. H. Luke, Nashville, Tenn; Dear Sir?Yours of August 29th to hand and contents noted. Your inquiry is legitimate and one to which you have a right to expect a reply. The nomination of Dr. Crura for collector of port at Charleston was not referred to me by the president, nor do I recall that I made any recomendation as to tilling this otlice. My recollection is that the pTesident withdrew the appointment when he found there was opposition, and, as the matter at that time was purely local iu its character, I am satisfied that had the contest been limited to the fitness, etc., of the applicant Dr. Crura would not have received the appointment, in the face of the almost unanimous objection of the business Interests of the citv of Charleston. The color question, however, was squarely presented, and the president found himself in the mwition where to decline the appointment was to admit that the color of the applicant c?i.s ilnted an insuperable bar. What a striking illustration of the ease with which every trivial matter is converted into a race question. The otllce of Dr. Drum dwindled into insignificance beside the otber issues involved. It seems to me that before long a crisis will be reached where the subterfuges and expedients which have served in the pist will lie ineffective and this race question will have to lie met and settled squaiely on its merits. The sooner the liettei; each day only adds to the complications and dangers. Patience, courage and self-control are the cardinal virtues of a Christian civilization, and when these are cast aside the social structure itself will fall. Yet we all know that sc long as one crime is committed lynching will occur, this to he followed, it seems, bv "Beforeday clubs," indiscriminate slaughter, the overturning of courts anc military. Lynching does not lesson the crime nor does the crime limit lynching, The great underlying questions lielong to the realms of the spiritual, where moral principles have their birthplace and home. Ex-Gov. Chamberlain iu t very able paper says in effect that the first step is for the negro leaders to be gin a stern crusade against this crime and stamp it out and that lynch law wil disappear; he may be right, hut, there is i work for both races to do and then must be some common starting join and concerted action Gov. ^Chamberlain is a striking exam pie of how certainly every intelligen and honorable northerner who takes hi residence south changes his views an< becomes more extreme, if possible, thai those to the "manner born." The danger is in just what I refer t< in the Crum case: no matter what hap pens the issue is made one of race. / division on race 01 religion is the mos cruel, deadly and dangerous that can di vide rrfen. The honest and high ar held responsible for the crimes of the ig norant and degraded. An average citi speaking to me last week of th< ptateslxrro affair, where an entire whiU Ijonily were murdered without provoca tfon and then burned by a "Beforedaj Hub" said: "If one of my family were j | IRtinf, 1 wouldn't care who. I wonlt 1 Ptbply go out arid kill niggers." W her %Ui's sentiment is fully crystaliz"d in hot! fifes you have all the material to makr l*he records of I lit? Sej?>y insurrection anc Indian warfare pale into insignificance J. caunot believe that all of tins fever ol race hatred, suspicion and distru-t car \ie held at the door of any single crime, it Is too d?ep and widespead. nor can J think that the race question would ht settled if such a crime were never again committed The crime is an aggravation and only one of the dire effects of ? third of a century's false doctrines and teachings. These disorders are the symptoms, not the disease, just as tiie flushed cheek and quickened pulse only point to the inward fever that is consuming the patient. The rofcts of the " disease lie amid the passions and errors of the Reconstruction period when full citizenship was suddeuly thrust upon a race of slaves totally unprepared for such great moral and political responsibility. We are only gathering the second harvest frqpa the seed then sown. The first harvest was in that sad day when the South to maintain its civilization had to Ignore and defy the constitution of the United States. We are still struggling with the nearby effects of our Uivil War and the heavy burden put upon both races is beyond their strength, for new consequences are continually cropping up in national life, i 1 read with interest a very thoughtful article by a Mr. Thomas of Ohio, published in The North American Review, in which he advocates the repeal of certain portions of the RaqMbtcamendments to the constitution - I do not know, but it is possible tbaJJ We may have yet to go back to thia question where Lincoln left it and Mclfikile^-took it up, and as neaily as poegJ>Je right every wrong. The constitutional restrictions of suffrage in the State must be in harmony with the spirit and letter of the constitution of the United Sta'es; so long as tbey are not it gives the entire machinery a sinister twitch. Then we can rafely rest upoty the only endur. iug foundation by making the true test, of citizenship moral ahd, intellectual worth, applying every restriction fairly ' and honestly without regard \o race or color. The race question would disap1 pear from politics and when it disappears rhoi-A if. will plnAnhArn nnii nnf hufiirA The standard of citizenship would be so high that instead of the ballot box being regarded" as a danger, it would become ihe true safeguard of property and liberty. For 30 years, forced by these conditions in the south to vote as a unit, theie has been no room for the discussion and settlement of honest differences of opin. ion. The ballot box at a general election has meiely been a machine registering the color of the voter, not his political opinions. When you take into consideration the mighty forces at work and the inevitable trend of events I cannot see how any thinker who believes in God and recognizes that uplifting, evolutionary force ever at work pushing Dations from one epoch into another, can have confidence in the makeshifts which surround us or believe that they eau long endure I know not what the iflifftfdiate. future^ may have in ktore, but I believe in oiy: country and 1 know that the democratic f ideas upon which it is fouuded are surely ' working us toward that condition, where ' liberty and justice will be the birth-right 1 of each unit composing what we call 1 government. I know that the race, la1 bor nor any other of the great issues of the day can ever be settled except m 1 harmony with the catholic spirit o? the age, and that iu time every false doc1 trine and Ilimsy pretext which impedts 1 this onward march will be crushed out 1 of existence. Conditions are likely to ! grow much worse before they get better * on the principle that out of chaos comes T rtrrlar If fl/imo iinamr nmilH l?ue ah? ?I?a W.V.V fv/ ?? v * vuuiu mil uuv HIC i politicians of the north who traffic with 5 the negro vote in national conventions ' and those of the South who "holler nig* ger" every time there is an honest dif> ference of opinion, and then call into a > great convention the wisest and safest ) men of the nation without regard to race J or party these great issues might be con1 sidered upon tb?tf?$tff|ps and a way be * found out of the wildfcnless which would * save much sorrow and suffering. * I know too much, however, of public 1 life to expect anything to be done until 1 conditions become unbearable; then the 5 good sense and awakened conscience of t the American people will find a solution for this and other problems affecting * national life, which now seem well nigh t hopeless. Yours sincerely, 8 John Lowndks McLaurin. i Bennettsville, Sent. 4, 1904. a ? -< - JONESVILLE NEWS. Graded School Opened with Large Enrollment?Child Burned? l Another Death. Jonesville, Sept. 12.?tast Saturday e two hales of new cotton were ginned by - Mr. J. L. McWhirter and bought Ijy - Mr. McWhirter for 10^ cents. The first a bale last year was sold here on the 11th j of September, one day later than this . year, and was bought by J. L. McWhirt terror 11 oents. Farmers tiegin to reali 1'/? the feet *hat the cotton crop will be 1 considerably off from what, it, promised i to be a month ago There is some rust i on sandy soils and the cotton in these > fields is opening very fast. The corn I ciop is certainly very good. Some fanners have morn fodder than tliey can wave I and are offering half of it to get it pul!- ' , ed. Mr. Lafayette Brlggi, who ia well i skilled in the mining buainean, has b*en prospecting in this coinin .nlty for gold i and I underRtand he haa found the yellow Huff in considerable quant itica on i Mr. I). A. T. Farr'a plantation, and the . * SATI * 111 ' Is a g g^ing isfact mmy?u * ripi Purch " entire resem it rigl ed. CLOTHING DEPA Without exceptioi the best line~<5T~Cl sell at satisfactory j colors are right, t manship is absolute and they look right specially strong on '$10 and $12.50 Suits TRU We newe WW Cases in thi 1'"' I you I purch MUTUAL D lame vein runs across the country from jast to west. 1 would, however, advise Lhe people along this line to keep cool and gather their crops. A two year old child of Mr. Bealby Waddell fell into a bucket of hot water al>out ten days ago and was so badly bnmed that it died last Saturday Every thing possible was done for the little sufferer but death claimed it. The remains were carried to Union yesterday and buried there. Several of our young men &ent to Clemson last week to enter that college for the coming session. These young men were Laurence Southard, who goes for the fourth year, and Walter Hames, James Littlejohu, Hussel Littlejohn and Roy Whitlock go for the first year. The (traded school opened here today with 1*27 pupils, the largest enrollment it ever had. Prof. Ackerman and his three assistants, Misses Ktha Hames, Ethel Walker and Mary Cunningham were in their places ready for duty. The old school house will be used until the new,'brick building is completed, wljiph will be some time this fall. The work has been somewhat delayed on the thwfcew building for want of material. Dr.-W. J. Douglas will move to Cross Keys this week, where he will locate and practice his profession. Dr. Douglas is a good physician and is ever ready to ai swer all calls and give his best service to his patients He has l>een very successful in his practice since he has been at Jonesville and his patrons regret to give him up but the doctor thinks there is a better openiog for his profession at Cross Keys. Rev. David Hucks tilled his pulpit at the Methodist church yesterday morning ai d received live persons into the church on profession of faith, ltev. A. A. James f.lled his appointment at the Presbyterian church in the afternoon, after which Mr. James Black was elected and ordained an elder in the church here. Miss Nina West, of |Dardeuell, Ark., who has been on an extended visit to Jonesville and other communities, left Saturday for iter home in the far West. Mr. and Mrs Carrol R. Foetei went over to Oafltney yeaterday to visit Mrs. Foster'a parents; they returned today. *Misa Cora Beam died in our town today She was a daughter of Mf. J. T. Beam, and had that dreadful disease consumption. Miss Murphy, of Mt. Tabor, ia visiting friends in town. Tbuepiionk. .. ?? .# DeWIWi Salve rwPHM.aHnM.SOTM. I, ^ -HI) ' ~ S FACT 10 NI * ood thing and worth |j| a great \ysy 1>c; sat- p| ion is getting Svjiat . ||j /ant; if the aHides you rava IS lase here do net prove |J| sly satisfactory Ssrep- ||j ted a chance to make ?j " ? it is earnestly request- || RTMEN^Tr" SHO^^EPARTMENT^T| ||| I A i?ew line of nobby Queen I EH 1 we have u , . . . , I hps - aiicr nnpnpn .inn f/vj rorarng to! ? ga th? ready for your inspection. 33 , a ^ i c \ VgYoO cannot find a better Kg he work-** i. , ^ A .. gfi *as3 friend *o your feet than-the ?a % ily correct/ Eg JqNhan Shoes. ,-v ... fig $7 50 T^ Shoe lias no equal Ijj ' ' in^tyle/qiiality and comfort, gj $i|'$3.5t)/and $4. . S 'NK DEPARTMENT. * 1 carry the largest and f| st line of Trunks, Suit || Grips and Telescopes 00 H j place. Let us show iVffr'i K this line before you lase. |j urs for Satisfaction, || RY GOODS CAMPANY, I R. P. HARRY, Manager. - jJj <i ^ Specialties! rr I II Monarch Olives 11 || No. I Mackerfet Fish |r IE || - Union County Cheese 7 H | || Monarch Maple Syrup lr*^ || Monarch Tomato Catsup I] II . ' / * || Schrofts Chocolates and. Bonbons || || &vi ,/' tI ; ~ Hi* R. M. Este s.J|, . 'PHONE 34. II -jj - - ; * ' - ?r . ; - . . '& '$?&* ,* ... ;- ' siM