The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 16, 1904, Image 4
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UNION, S. DECEMBER 16. 1904.
BISHOP DUNCAN FOR PRESIDENT.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Quite a inimNjr of fine home taised
hogs have been killed in our town in th*
last few days They tip the beam anywhere
from two hundred to four hundu d
and fifty pounds
M rs. Corrie OJom. of Chesterfield, is
i visitine her father's family, Mr. J. H
. Litthjohn. Telephone.
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