The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 16, 1904, Image 4
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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.
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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.
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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
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CLOTHING DEPA
Without exceptioi
the best line~<5T~Cl
sell at satisfactory j
colors are right, t
manship is absolute
and they look right
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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.
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lase here do net prove |J|
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ted a chance to make ?j " ?
it is earnestly request- ||
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*as3 friend *o your feet than-the ?a %
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$7 50 T^ Shoe lias no equal Ijj
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$i|'$3.5t)/and $4. . S
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carry the largest and f|
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Grips and Telescopes 00 H
j place. Let us show iVffr'i K
this line before you
lase. |j
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R. P. HARRY, Manager. - jJj
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