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THE UNION TIMES FUIL1SBED EVERY FRIDAY ?BT THE? UNION TIMES COMPANY 8b?o?i> Floor Times Boiluinu Bell Phoee Mo. 1. L. Q. Yodhb, Manager. Registered at the Poatoffice in Union, 8. C., as seoond-clasa mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oae year ------- $1.00 81* mouths ------ 60 cenvThree mouths ----- 26 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS Onesq tare, flrst insertion - - $1.00. Brery ibeequentinsertion - 60cent?. Coo . acta for three months or longei ill be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at 8} cents a line. Refected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of re aoect will be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. DECEMBER 16. 1904. BISHOP DUNCAN FOR PRESIDENT. ___ I The Barnwell Sentinel, of thic week, nominates Bishop Duncan a? ^ ik democratic candidate for president , > ?^ in 1908. Save the Sentinel: There has been talk of late as to the nomination of a southern man ?>the next democratic candidate for president. This paper knows out , man who would rank high above ati\ politician now living, North, Eist. South or West. He is a Virginian by birth, a Carolinian bv adoption, and an American by consecration In his veins flows purest blood < f the old and the new world and he if a gentleman by inheritance. As f o as humanity may, he has the courage of Joshua, the wisdom of St. Paul the inspiration of St. John, Bishop William Wallace Duncan, of Spartanburg." Under the existing circumstances and conditions of the present, we lead a rather forlorn hope of ever seeing a southern man president of the United States. If, however, it were possible in the next 4 or even 8 years lor ttie election oi a soutnern man to the presidency, we heartily endorse and second the nomination oi Bishop YT. W. Duncan. If it were possible for such a person to be president and his principles, virtues and ability and through his influence the ~ permeated with such pure and noble attributes we would feel that the millennium was at hand. DRAYMAN'S DNION. The draymen of this city have formed a Union, and like all labor unions have an established price, and anicss they get that price their dra^s won't turn a wheel. The most unreasonable basis of charges for hauling is that of hauling hulls. Since bulls bave advanced in price per ton, the draymen bave advanced in price for hauling hulls. Their price for hauling hulls when hulls were flve or siz dollars per ton, was 50 cents per ton, but since hulls have advanced to |8 the ton, the draymen have advanced 20 cents per ton for haulirg; the reason they give is that hulls have gone up in price, so they have gone up in their price for hauling. This seems to us the wrong way to reason, for to the buyer of hulls the weight of bulls grows lighter, as a ton of hulls doesn't last as long at $8 per ton as they do at $5 per ton. U the draymen could figure that the weight of hulls increased in proportion to the price, then they might have some excuse for increasing their price for hauling. This union or combine on the part of the draymen is nothing more or less than another form of a trust syndicate, and if there are any of the draymen who do not belong to this anion, they should be patronised, for if those who hare advanced their price for hauliner be cause the price of the stuff they haul has increased in price had the proper sense of justice, they would be more disposed to decrease their price for hauling, or at least not incerease their price. The drays do not belong to the drivers and those to whom the drays do belong say they don't know and bave nothing to do with the price charged for hauling. We aire satisfied that the owners of the drays Wotild knolv and have something to say about the price, if tot ttfUm WW* Hi ami* JV4UU* vi t cash received, showing a charge of' 10, 15, or 20 cents per hundred for ' hauling, whether the owners of the [ drays know or have anything to do with price charged or not, the own* era of drays are willing to let the people be imposed upon by such outrageous prices, in order that their receipts increase. No knowledge or conscience is necessary, the blame is on the driver and not on the owner, from the owner's standpoint. We do not think it generous or just for the owners of the drays to place the responsibility of the unjust and nn* reasonable charges for hauling entirely upon the drivers. The city council should regulate the price for draying, as is done in every city in the United States of any siie or importance. Then the price would be uniform, and everybody would know the price, and no one would or could be imposed upon by any drayman, or hack driver. The city council has the same right to regulate the charges as they have to impose.aliAonoA ? 1 w uco. ^ ?? - . / - - -- ? AN AGE OF INSANITY. In this ago of development, scienific discoveries and inventions, there Mas been a greater per centage of cranks, (jueer, unnatural, unaccount -?ble, unprecedented, unheard of, un 'bought of deeds committed than was ^ver known in any previous epoch in the history of this country. The deeds of which wo speak are those which arc in violation of the common, established, civil, moral and ecclesiastic laws of the land, all of which appear to the finite, normal mind of man, ns unnatural and inhuman, therefore classed as insane acts. When we say inhuman, we rather feel disposeed to apologize to the beast or four footed brute, against whom we have no record of the un* natural treatment of its off-spring ss is shown by man. Psychologists tell us that the human mind in an abnormal condition is absolutely irresponsible, that deeds committed by a person in an abnormal condition is without a motive, that a person so sufl'tiing does things involuntarily, is fEereforc "not encnAnoiU A f. vr n/itn !*?/-..! ^Pl. ^ i vp jiuuo i kj V ivn U IO UULliliiUtCU. I Ut' mind is i-ometimes suddenly bereft of reason, and whatever is done by the person so afllicted is not the act of the person, and once restored to a normal condition has no recollection of what had been done. These are the results of what the psychologists call scientific investigation, based upon scientific reasoning. If then the psychologist be correct in theory, the abnormal condition of a man's mind is a degree of ineanity and many an irresponsible man has been hung for murder, since in this abnormal condition the deed is committed without a motive, and there' fore is lacking in one of the essentials, that is malice. One has only to read the daily papers to be convinced of the prevalence of this de1 gree of insanity known to the psychologist as the abnormal condition of the human mind, and we conclude at 1 once that no one is safe. The commission of unnatural crimes, such as 1 boys killing their parents, sisters and " brothers, father killing wife and I /-hit it rnn DAn*.! wr vu*iv?i vf nvu-Jii-iavT) JllLiUUiU^ PUP cides of men, women and children is appalling and alarming. How arc we to account for this peculiar condition of the human family? Upon what hypothesis? Is it mental degeneracy, physical weakness, moral turpitude, decrepitude, or what? Is it traceable to slack moral and religious training of homo and pulpit? Is it the reckless and indifferent feeling of the people generally or the grand rash and push for gain or greed of graft, or is the world deaf to every sensibility of man's better nature, purer and nobler impulses, | thus educating the mind of man to a morbid and abnormal condition? Ei ho answers what? CHILD LABOR AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Somo weeks ago Dr. A. J. McKelway of Charlotte, N. C., one of the assistant secretaries of the Na? JMusi Cluld JLittbov "OuHMBatSw SMM to Gov. Howard on the sn>jectof| child labor. Gov. Heyward replied that he thought it advisable to let the subject ulone. Dr. McKelway afterwards visited Columbia in the interest of the child labor caaso. He advocates the passage of law by every state prohibiting the cotton mills from employing and working in the mills children under fourteen years of age. South Carolina already kas a law fixing the age at 12 years. We think that child labor law and compulsory education go hand in hand. The law forbidding cotton mills to work children tinder 12 years old lias two very good objects in view, one is to prevent the impairing the child's health and dwarfing its growth and natural physical and mental maturity and at the same time gives the child the opportunity to attend school. At every cotton mill we know of there is school advartagee provided for the chi'dren of the operative*?* and -wno know also that there are as many children under the legal age at which they are allowed to work in the mill in the mill village who do not attend school, but are allowed by their parents to spend their time in idleness. The law which pi events fr>>m placing their children under 12 years old at work in the mill is antagonistic A tKn V\uVAt\to w IDK An AV\/1 avaq^AA A v/ niv I'ui vuio ti iduvo a liu tivoivo a spirit of rebelion in the purenis, for the reason that there are many children under 12 years old who could earn for their parents by work ing in the mill all the way from 50 cents to $1 25 per day. Now in the face of these facts in order that this law about the age at which can work in the mill may serve the double purpose, it eeeuas to us to become necessary that a compulsory education law be passed, otherwise a majority of the children of the mill operatives will grow up in ignorance and will also learn the ways of the idle and useless. ???mmmmmmm NEWS FROM JONESVILLE. K. of P. Elects Officers?Rev. David Hucks Preached His Farewell Sermon Sunday?Negro Gets HJs^Arm Broken?Other Jofi*frvilIe, Dec. 12.?The K, of P. lodge hers elected i.flicers the other night for the ensuing year as follows: Dr. A S. F isier, C. C., E. F. Keliey, V. C., Dr. H. T. Hatnes, P., II. \V. Porter. M. of W., J. H. Gault, K. It. and S , H. J. Ilames, M. of F., J. L McWhirter, M of E , B. B. Reid M. at A , H. W. Aokerman, I G., B. F. Bryant. O. G. The lodge li-ve a banquet on the 28th inst. The Masons will have their annual election next Satnrdnv - ? J ?n1"" The slump in cotton makes dull times in our town and has a depressing affect on most everything. There is more cotton io the country than was thought to be until the drop came, and then there was confession all around the board from first one and another of what they had held back for tetter prices and how they were caught, and it makes up a large per cent of the crop in the hands of our farmers yet. Mr. T. II. Gore of Cross Keys ha? moved with his family to Jonesville and occupies Dr. Douglass's house. The graded school building is Hearing completion and so are the store houses ol the Gault Bros, and Williams Bros, and the dental office of Dr. A. 8. Foster. Mr. Carrel II. Faster left for Charleston this morning to attend the communication of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina. Rev. David Ilucks preached Ids last sermon for the year here yesterday and perhaps his last sermon for all time, a-c he haa served out his limited four years He will leave for Darlington, the seat ol the South Carolina conference, in lh< morning. Mr. T. II. Gore will also gr to the conference as a delegate from tht Spartanburg district. Ilev. A. A. James filled his pulpit at Grindall yesterday morning and here in the evening arid had another pulpit tc fill at Pacolet last night, which is remarkable work for one of scventv-five years. Mrs. James had a fall the other day in her house and hurt her hip c tnsideiably. Silas Worthy, a colored bov who was working at the oil mill, got one of his arms badly broken and mashed in the machinery last week and it was amputated just below the elbow. Mr E M Penney with his family m ived to Paoolet last week where he was Iransfeip'd by tbo Southern railway and Mr. W A Harper has been transferred to the agency here. Mr. John K liusb who has been here with a drove of hogs for some time closed out his hogs and left for his home TWnn , j?istrtay. | i'y 1 S5x I An I p is made tc P foot. 1 A QUE |j| is made t j|| foot===not H| That's wli 1 MUTUAL * ? ??r? Uoanl Beaty. James Q. lone, Jr , and Paul McNally of Union were in our town todiy on business. Mrs. Marvin Scott, of Union, is visitins her father's family, Mr. D. A. T Farr. 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