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fiity of Union and Suburbs Has f jp ff T I ^ I T 1\T T /*\ |\ T Has 'W. Large Cotton MHto, One Knitting I K 8 8 J I j % I fl | ^ I I M /I 6 J %w Five a?de<l School., W.ter Work., nd^ Spinning Mill with Dye Htent, Oil I I, I I 1 . I ^ III ^ *? I I Vrl I 1 J ***?riSy stem, Electric Lights, Thro till, Furniture Manufacturing and I J ^ I I F lL * ft .> I V I I 1 J k L Hanks w& aggregate capital of *2*0,000, jumber Yards, Female Seminary. JL. - ?H WLJk \^S X 1 _ BL X W JL JLJ f^y % Electric Railway. Population 7,000. VOL. LV. NO 21. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRlDAifi MikY 26, 1905. " #1.00 A YEAR~ *->'erk of f'nilrf m?m?mmmmmm?mm? I | Wm. A. Nicholson ' * Union, Soul I PAY INTEI IpSt I Time Certificat A HOT REPLY. Cleveland's View of Club Women Resented With Murh hu Mice max.aa i^pil ?/y I IOO Alice Stone Blackwell. Editor Evening Post, Sir: ExPresident Cleveland has written an article on "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs," which is so extremely reactionary in tone that it will make the average : * , reader smile. Mr. Cleveland is an honest and courageous man, but he has always had a streak of narrowness, and this shows itself especially on the woman question. When some Democratic women years ago organized a club to work for the success of that party, and wanted to name it the Frances Cleveland Club, Mr. Cleveland's wrath was almost comic, as was his pompous announcement to h these well-meaning Democratic P ladies that he considered it most Unbecoming for a woman's name , ty be brought before the public ! ^Hfi^ttLas an adjunct to her husi \ru f Jj-Vt v * and safest cfuK for e woman tcJ v patronize is her home.^ If she * joins even one dub, she is in danger. "Membership in one such organization induces toleration and defence of club ideas ingeneral." The club woman should remember that "she may be directly responsible for marred happiness in other households and that as an aider and abetter of woman's clubs she must bear her share of liability for the injury they may inflict upon the domestic life of our land." Mr. Cleveland thinks women join clubs largelv in order to punish their husbands for neglecting them, but "as agencies for retaliation ?r man's punish <v ment, woman's clubs are horribly misplaced and miserably vicious." The great majority of married women are on good terms with their husbands, and have no wish to punish them. The United States now has thousand of women's clubs, with hundreds of thousands of members. It is abV - 3 A- >1 * i\ sura to suppose mat any considerable portion of these women joined the clubs for the sake of wreaking vengeance on their husbands. Women are merely learning the lesson men learned long ago, that organized effort is more effective than isolated endeavors, and that whatever they want, whether it be amusement, in?struction, or the accomplishment of charitable and benevolent work, they can attain to it best by 4 'getting together.'' Let any unprejudiced person read the long list of practical good works that have been accomplished by the women's clubs of our country to say nothing of the broadening of women's own minds and the brightening of their lives, and he must be convinced that the X club movement has been an enormous benefit, with some incidental evils, and not, as Mr. Clevelapd thinks, an enormous evil with some incidental rood. I The incidental evils certainly exist. There is no doubt that Some women join too many clubs and devote too much time to E** them. Mr. Cleveland seems to think this has something to do i > . with woman suffrage, but he offers no proof to show that excessive indulgence in clubs is more common in the equal suffrage States than in those where women do not vote. & Son, Bankers, 1 h Carolina, $ REST ON 1 es of Deposit. j j Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the j president of one of the pioneer women's clubs, and also an early advocate of equal suffrage, while she heartily approves of the club movement in general, nevertheless warns women not to let themselves be "clubbed to !death." What Mr. Cleveland calls the "club habit" is quite as common among women who oppose suffrage as among thos who favor it, if not more so. One prominent member of the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Snf frage to Women, Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, is popularly reported to be an officer in fourteen different women's clubs. Any good thing may be carried to excess; but that does not prove that it is in itself bad. Mr. Cleveland says: "And discontent on the part of woman ' with her ordained lot, or a restless desire on her part to be and to do something not within the sphere of her appointed ministrations, can not appear otherwise than as perversions of a gift of God to the human race." Mr, Cleveland regards man as restlessness and rebellion. Mr. Cleveland insists over and over again on God's intentions as to woman's mission, and finds women's clubs opposed to the di- ; vine purpose. But women do not believe that Mr. Cleveland has had any special revelation as to the divine purpose. They think that some of the women who have rejoiced in the club movement?such as Frances Willard for instance?were quite as likely as he to guess correctly at the secret of God's inten uons. i Cherbuliez puts into the mouth of a rough old Russian noble the blunt statement: "The great , misfortune is that in the design of nature, careful for the per- ' petuation of the race, woman is , only a means, and she cannot I help considering herself as an end. It reminds me of a poor \ greyhound that was employed to turn a spjt. She was never able to persuade herself that the roast meat was not for her. Every day it was a fresh disappointment, and I must add that the , roast was more than once in dan?;er. Therefore it would be well or the roast, i. e. for society, to , take precautions against the ap- ( petite for happiness of this creature at once weak and violent, and quite incapable of un- , derstanding her true destiny. And I know of nothing better than the captivity of the Byzan- , tine or Mussalman harem to re- ( mind the daughters of Eve that < they have not the right to live on their own account." It would be unjust to Mr. ; Cleveland to say that this ex- i presses his view: but a jefined i and modernized version of this i idea underlies his whole article. He is as far as the Russian was from realizing that women are " half of the human race, and that , their welfare and happiness are ? as important as those of the other half. 9*till less does he realize that a woman can do more for her husband and children when she is not wholly absorbed : in her domestic affairs, but can see beyond them. A narrow and somewhat coarse view of woman's mission is apt to ; characterize men who have fed a i profigate life. It remains like a scar on the soul, even after the man has reformed. Let Mr. Cleveland preach to men against < political corruption; on that subject he is entitled to be heard with respect. But when he undertakes to lecture women on purity, morality, the sanctity of the home, and the duty of abstaining from all amusements that may set a bad example or have an injurious influence on domestic life, then women will be apt to tell him that in view of his record, there are subjects on which it is not appropriate for him to preach to them. Alice Stone Blackwell. Dunkirk, N. Y., May 6. COTTON Its Marketing and Equalizing Supply and Price. * Cotton is a subtropical plant. In the tropics the bugs and weevils destroy it. In cold climates the frost destroys the immature boll and the plant; even in a temperate climate, sometimes a drought in summer or an early frost will very materially effect the production per acre. If the drought and the frost are * cumulative the result is disastrous in proportion to the square of the damage of either. If good seasons of rain and sunshine in summer and fair weather in fall and early winter combine, the production is immense and beyond requirement. If in one summer t.hprp is a damaging drought and in the fall of the same year there is an early frost, the crop is very short. If in summer tnere are fair seasons and the fall is open and fair, there is a big production. If a minimum crop, because of weather conditions, precedes a The famine year ruins the cotton manufacturer. The fat year ruins the farmer. In the years past we heard that the cotton farmer needed a Moses. The cotton farmer did need a Moses. Look at the record: 111. the first decade after the Civil War the cotton farmer made 2,5000,000 bales of cotton, for which he got 24 cents a pound, which yielded $300,000,000. In the second decade he made 5,000,000 bales, for which he got 12 cents a pound, which yielded $300,000,000. In the third decade he made 10,000,000 bales, for which he got six cents a pound, which yielded $300,000,000. rnree decades were enough to show that he needed a Moses. The cotton factory was his Moses. It took labor off the farms and turned them to spinners and weavers. It took competitors and made them patrons of the farmer. The factory so reduced the competition and so increased the demand for cotton that in the fourth decade the production has been about the same as in the third decade and the price 12 cents instead of 6 cents. The result is that the crop of the fourth decade remains the same as that of the third instead of double what it was in the third ?instead of the crop doubling the price doubles and the same old 10,000,000 bales brings not $300,000,000, but $600,000,000. Yet in this fourth decade a 10,000,000-bale crop yields the farmer $700,000,000, while in the succeeding year a crop of 13,500,D00 bales yielded only $450,000,300. The farmer's Moses has been found. He is the cotton factory. What thef farmer now needs is a Joseph. Listen to what Joseph J J - Luu; "And in the seven plenteous vears the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were i? the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; the food of the field which was round about every city laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea very much, until he left numbering, for it was without number. ~ "" )T' ..v'^ ?~ And the : seven years of plenl teousness ttfAt wag in the land of Egypt were^nded. And the seven .years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had saidi and the dearth was in all tlrnds; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. And when-all the land of Egypt was famidhed the people cried to Pharoah for bread, and Pharoah said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph, what he saith to you do. : v-' ; And the famine was over all the face of tjie earth. And Joseph opened^all the storehouses and said unfb the Egyptians; and the famine} waxed sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came unto Egypt to Jofcenh for to buy corn; because thai the famine was so sore in all lands." As the development of manufactures vtas the Moses to lead the cotton farmer out of the wilderness, sb^the development of Commerce ^must be the Joseph who is tb^taerage the production of a seriefiNff years and thereby meet the world's demands and steady the--price. We ha#|?all appreciated more or less thijfeeed of some means to averqy the conditions - to average-ttH^ quantity of cotton (1 e 1 ivoredthe factories pi ovidej^^>??ycty. the' SUTfi|tt6 j from full yeifts \ built, btfl|^H?ibB|fithdtVlB^l house ro^ 'ftSl li, factor in i the refdMt naaufed Mo tWeou:-1 merce ton nt'n-4 company? Therefore the receipt of a local warehouse for cotton is not negotiable in Europe for this reason alone. But there is another reason still more important, and this is that the spinner cannot take the risks of grade, of weight and of many other features of the quality of the cotton. Therefore, in order to bring the surplus of an excess crop within reach of the investment money of the world, all of the conditions must be worked out and brought to be available at once. Part of them do not advance the purpose to be accomplished. The warehouse room necessary to carry 3,000,000 bales of cotton is not sufficient. The cotton is too cumbersome and unknown about to make a basis of credit and trade exceDt bv passing the cotton itself. To the man who is willing to buy part of the surplus and carry it for future use the cotton is too cumbersome for him to ship it and take charge of it. A warehouse receipt guaranteeing the proper storage and delivery of a bale of cotton is not sufficient. What is needed to make cotton a basis of general trade and credit is a combined storage receipt and guaranteed certificate of classification, grade, weight and other points affecting the working quality or value of the cotton. This would require a guarantee company which woula have in its employ a corps of expert cotton graders. One of these would examine and determine every factor affecting the value or use of a bale of cotton. He would fill out a certificate with the facts about a bale of cotton and the guarantee company would become responsible for every feature of the cotton as specified in the certificate, including storage, insurance and , delivery when called for, as well as classification, grade, weight, etc. A certificate so filled out and guaranteed would become a negotiable commercial document. The spinner, European or American, could buy these certificates when the surplus was depressing the market and lay them away in his safe until the cotton was wanted to spin. The local warehouse would be benefitted because ' purchasers would in most cases prefer not to move the cotton | ' until wanted. There would be no reclamations. The spinner j Qould buyhiacottonbythefigures 4 P. M. PARR, President, T 1 | Merchants and Pla Successfully Doing Bus BMB Is th<> OLDEST linnk i M has a (.'auitiil and snrpl n 5 is theonlv NATION A y| K tins paid dividends ?i: H H phvs FOUH per cent. I is the only Dank in Un ^ lias Burglar-Proof vnu M m pays more taxes than J WE EARNESTLY SOL ! ' " in the certificate, and this could be done in Europe as well as if. the cotton was there. It would* relieve the banks of the South from the burden of carrying the cotton crop for the farmer, aha would relieve the farmers frprty the necessity of fordffig ga'esN because he could getifor his o^h cotton guaranteed!' certificates, which would starts for a . Ibanigr, New York or elsewhere tKiftlare South. jt It would gtfVe a natural com-1 mercial nfeans of ecjuaihffhg market^ and prices, and wbula makeAour commerce with* the ^^^^mc^tmiva3tly more an advantage to both. P A guarantee company could do its business in existing warehouses and in compresses. It would improve the businesses of these.- D. A. Tompkins in Manufacturers' Record. A white World and a Black World. The Rev. Richard Carroll, of Columbia, South Carolina, has been making himself very offensive to some of the people of his race by his plain speaking as to the position which the colored people should occupy in this white man's country. He has admitted frankly the superiority of the dominant race, and has expressed the opinion from time to time that the welfare of the negroes in the South depends upon the negroes living on terms of the closest friendship with their white neighbors. By his methods he has managed to accomplish a great deal of good for the uplifting of his race, but now we are told by Archibald H. Grimke in the New York Age that Carroll has only proved by his course that he is "a past grand master of the art of 'crooking' the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." The correspondent of the Age declares that any colored man in the South like Mr. Carroll is "Janus-faced. The face turned over to the white South is the face of a slave," but that this face is only the black man's stage face, "Men like Mr. Carroll never uncover this other face to the white world. In the black world this other face is seen oftener than is seen its mate or mask, is known better likewise than it. The black world knows the black world, it knows the white world too, but the white world knows only its own world, and flatters itself that it knows besides the black world, but in that under world the blacks laugh at the baselessness of this belief of the whites and' hold their conceit and ignorance in derision. This is what the oppression of the white South has brought upon itself. This is the natural effect of its caste brutalities, its cruel distinctions and discriminations against a race on account of its color. The South is doomed ever in these conditions to have eyes 1 J, D. ARTHUR, Cashier. Q Ei E?? H niers National Bank, I iness at the "Old Stand." | n I'ukMi. v S us orflO\OnO, 0 r. Hunk in Untun, noiiuttxnr to moo too. O intordBUi on dcpositR,? B ion inspected by an officer, R It, and Safe with Tlme-I/oek. ta VLL the 1'ankB in Union combined. p ! Vy v, wljlch cannot See, and ears which e^tiriot hear what goes on beneath them in a world on which foundation of their world pvuw rest. And when out of jthif nether world there emerges lhtd.' the upper world of the Suites a denizen of the lower Tpfr*; like Mr. Carroll, men like t' Hey ward, Mayor Gibbes. . Gonzales and the heads of - hern banking houses will themselves as helpless a9>-;.. > blind Isaac when his b deceived him- They wwl not be able to distinguish fake from the true, eithei^igC word or act. The hands seem to thnem Esau's; anu^yffife voice Jacob's. Bat the tion, the ,sorry tricky will$ttc oeed with^hem evqry t^eCjwstTrv las it succdroed* do rftanw^htu?: ps'ago^^x blind o Kwever may ' haVe J& j pronged jRi^ev. Richard CarToll and ^s j^k}d^kiUntio^^t^^y^ moral pluvot; > > mu- .* j - - ' w.v-,unuii. aiic mea or a iTTSJ black world and a white world"" *' ' is an idea which has not been considered by those who exercise the mastery in this country. It would appear from the theory advanced by Mr. Grimke that there is a great gulf fixed between the races.?News and Courier. A SILENT TONGUE. < There Are Times When it is the Part of Wisdom Not to Talk. ? q The best of us talk too much. "The essence of power is reserve," said a man who knew. Many a reputation has teen built on silence. Many a one is spoiled through rushing prema Lureiy and volubly into speech. It is safe to be silent when your words would wound. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," says the old proverb, but one wants to be mighty sure one's friend needs the wounding and that we are qualified to administer it. Keep still when your words will discourage. It is infinitely better to be dumb forever than to make one fellow being less able to cope with life. Keep still when your words will incite to anger or discomfort. An incredible amount of breath is used in the evil practice of trying to make our friends dis like their friends. Never speak when what you have to say is merely for the purpose of exalting yourself. Shut your lips with a key when you are inspired to babble incontinently of yourself?your ailments, accomplishments, relations, loves, hatreds, hopes and desires. It is only to the choice, rare friend that one may speak of these things without becoming a fool.?Philadelphia Bulletin. The Times and Metropolitan Magazine one year for $1.80,