The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 25, 1905, Image 4
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UNION, 8. r., AUGUST-T?, 1W5.
It is peculiarly ridiculous and
would be amusing if separated from
its serious consequences, that so
many ncwspajjers arrogate to theniselves
the duty of moulding public
opinion. In the advancement < f
their crude, pueril ideas*, the masses
fo'low the buhhle as it lloats upon
the surface, until reason pricks the
shining bubble, and they realize
to their Consternation that they have
been following the shadow for the
substance. This happens when it
i? possibly too late for substantial
remedy. The existence of such
newspajsrs is a menace to good
government and sound principles.
rmiUTv mcnpucjiniRC
1AJUIX I I I/IJKLI1JHKIU3.
In another editorial in this issue
we say that if the i?eople of a county
want whiskey sold in theyounty,
the county should have the right to
establish and control its own dispensary.
Wo are sustained in this
by actual experience in the State of
(ieorgia. This state of affairs exists
in several counties in Georgia, the
State having absolutely no control
of these dispensaries. This is as it
should be. If liquor must be sold
at all, local dispensaries are provided
for by special acts of the legislature.
The representatives of
the counties desiring the establishment
of a dispensary in these counties,
have an act passed which gives
them the privilege of having a dispensary,
and the entire manage"
ment is local, over which the State
has no control.
SENATOR TILLMAN'S REMEDY.
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In his speech at Anderson, S.
last week, Senator Tillman said
that he held to the original dispensary
system and plan, and suggested
that since there had heen graft and
corruption discovered in the management,
the law he amended as
it now stands so as to put the purchase
of whiskey in the hands of the
(iovernor, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Uuy a
years supply at once, open the hids
f]J(. session of the Legislature.
This ren.e ly or reeommemlation
by Senator Tillman by which he
purposes to prevent graft and corruption
is to our mind an insult,
pure and simple, to tin* judiciary,
executive and legislative ImmHos of
our State. He would make tliein
parties to the liquor traffic, and in
the possible event of there heing
any crookedness in the management,
the people would he absolutely
without means of redress. The
(iovernor, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and Attorney IJcncrnl,
meml>ers of the general assemhy,
one and all particeps criminis,
where would the people l>c. And
further, if the people do not
want the dispensary as it is, or
otherwise, why does Senator Tillman
insist upon devising plans for
t /- - ' its perpetuation? Why the ncces'
sity of a State Dispensary? We,
/' on one occasion, suggested to Senator
Tillman the plan of giving to
private individuals the right to sell
whiskey under the dispensary law,
localise we never thought the State
ought to sell liquor. lie replied, that
would place the business in the hands
of a few rich men and thus create a
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monopoly. We Paid we did not see
that the State had any more right
to a monopoly than a private citizen.
We think that each county should
1h? allowed to manage its own liquor
business under the dispensary law.
The granting of license for the sale
of liquor would then l?e left to the
people to say whether they wanted
liquor sold in the County or not,
the license to he granted by the
Supervisor and City Council jointly,
one third of prolits to the schools,
one third to the County, one third
to the City.
CUBA'S INDUSTRIES.
Mr. Frank (}. Carpenter, writing
to The State from Antilda, the
future great city of Cuba, on Nipe
Bay, says that Cuba is destined to
Iw the garden spot of the world.
In the past four years several millions
of acres of land have lieen
planted in banana trees, conee
trees, orange, lemon and pineapple,
that tropical and semi-tropical fruits
grow there in abundance. One
company has s,(KH) acres in sugar
cane; the cane does not have to he
planted hut once in twenty years.
That this company has a sugar mill
that cost 8800,000 and is now grinding
out 40 million pounds of sugar
a year. This is only one mill, there
are hundreds of others. The Xipe
hay company is composed of men
from the United States, has a capital
of ?0,000,000 and if its plans
are carried out it will have the largest
sugar mill in the world, one
which will grind :?,000 hags per day
and which will eat up as much
sugar cane as can he produced on
Hi,000 acres. Already these farms
are shipping yearly millions of
hunches of bananas, [1k)\cs of
oranges and lemons, hags of coffee
and pineapples. This new hay and
port is far superior to Havana.
There is no scarcity of good hays on
the coast of Cuba, and the lands
arc so rich they require no cultivation.
All that is necessary is to
pull the weeds and grass from
among the plants. We ought to
get sugar cheaper and fruits also.
THE GREAT WESTERN TRIP.
The South Carolina Press Association
Visit the Grand
Canon of Arizona, Travel
Over Bright Angel Trail,
Visit Los Angeles, Catalina
Islands and Enter the Golden
Gate of San Erancisco Bay.
August ' >.?When I wrote last we
were roekine alone over the nlateaus
of Now Mexico. All that day and
night we were riding along at an
elevation almost as great as the
highest peak of our Blue Ridge with
ranges of mountains as high again
piled on top of this. Part of the
time we were winding along through
these, following through gorges and
around cliffs the course of some
river. The river, however, we had
to hike on faith, for none but the
greatest streams are flowing at this
time of the year, and even these
are rather poor looking specimens
in comparison with their importance
on the map.
Alwuit midday on Saturday we
reached Williams, from which place
- nius off to the Grand
Canyon, uc were
wait here an hour, and the party
grateful for every chance to escape
from the car, spent the time in
buying souvenirs, looking at a
small menagerie of native animals,
and speculating on how neonle
could possibly live in such a place.
The feature of this place is the
saloons, the main street of the town
having nothing on it hut places of
this kind. The cow ln>ys lounged
around, ready enough to talk to the
men, but blushing like debutantes
when spoken to by the ladies of the
party.
One sign here that caught the
fancy of some of the crowd particularly
was "Life Saving Station
and Thirst Parlor," at which place
businsss seemed to Ik; flourishing.
Of course I don't mean to suggest
any connection, hut the train to the
canyon had started well on its way,
when it was discovered that representatives
of two of the most important
pupcrs had Ihjoii left behind,
and it was only by strong representations
to the conductor that the
train was stopped to allow them to
catch up. As narrow as had been
their escape, there was yet a happy
light in their eye, for which I do
not undertake to account.
The trip from this place to the
canyon was the roughest any of the
crowd had ever taken, and for three
hours the whole party "was boml to
death, especially as dinner had to
be delayed until we could reach the
canyon, on account of this roughness.
But for this there would have
been a stampede for the edge of the
great gorge. The porters, however,
were conscientious enough and did
their duty by the meal, poning enjoyment
until they reached O'Neill's
Point by a hack, a distance of about
two and a half miles from the hotel.
THE 1IOTKL IN GENERAL
Occupying a site 7,000 feet above
sea-level, clow to the rim of the
Grand Canyon, at the railway
terminus and not far from the head
of Bright Angel trail, El Tovar
commands a prospect without parallel
in the world.
The hotel is from three to four
stories high. It contains more than
a hundred bedrooms. The main
building and entrance face the east.
Ample accommodations arc provided
for 250 guests. More can be
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coinloruiuiy nouscn in ine annex ai
Bright Angel Camp.
Outside are wide porches and
roof gardens. Boulders and logs
for the walls and shakes for the
roof, stained a weather-beaten color,
merge into the gray-green of the
surroundings.
The inside finish is mainly peeled
slabs, wood in thorough, and tinted
plaster, interspersed with huge
1 wooden 1 warns. Triple casement
, windows and generous fireplaces
abound. Indian curios and trophies
of the chase arc liberally used
in the decorations. The furniture
. is of special pattern.
1 El Tovar is more than n hotel; it
i is a village devoted to the entertainment
of travelers. Far from the
( accustomed home of luxury, money
has here summoned the Ixmeficent
genii who minister to our bodily
comfort. Merely that you may
have pure water to drink, it is
brought from a mountain spring
120 miles away! And that is only
one of the many provisions for unquestioned
excellence of shelter and
food.
The hotel is conducted on the
American plan. There are twenty
rooms at 8H.A0 a day: about fortv
rooms at 84.00 a day; the remainder
are 84. ">() a day and upwards.
The hotel itself is right on the
hrink, but from this point the river
cannot l>e seen. The licst view of
the canyon within easy reach of the
railroad is Howe's Point, to which
some of the party walked before
breakfast on Sunday morning. The
shortness of the stay made a trip
down into the canyon impracticable.
This was a serious disappointment
and great regret to many of us, but
the schedule having been arranged
long l?efore, it could not l>c helped.
To attempt a description of this
mighty phenomenon of nature would
be impertinence in one whose brain
was too stupefied by the grandeur
of the thing to even comprehend it
for himself. I might say this,
, however, that no picture can possibly
portray this chasm, nor can
| any painting reproduce the match,
less mingling of colors that succeed
I each other, ?reds and yellows,
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shades and tints with a misty blue
' over tlie whole. Headlands and
peninsulars run on in to the chasm,
hays and inlets run into the land.
' Jagged peaks and spires mount up
from the vast floor of the canyon;
castellated turrets suggest fortifica.
tions which need no defenders, and
J amphitheatres abound, wherein
could sit by thousands of awe struck
spectators of this glorious spectacle,
i were they only accessible.
But the enormousness of this
scene bids my pen hasten on to
more trivial places and leave behind
the work of an omnipotent Creator
who so directed the waters of what
looks like a little yellow stream, as
w the sublimest scene which
human eye can witness.
Back to Williams we came in the
bright and bracing air of a Sabbath
U|K>n the Arizona plateau, and in
the rooking, lurching car, with no
ringing of church bells nor solemn
peal of organ, worship was offered
to Him, the work of whose mighty
hands had just overawed us.
Mr. Win. Allen White in Septenilier
number McLurc's magazine
says:
It cannot be that the fascination
one feels in looking at this Canon
is a delusion having its root in idleness
or mere self-mesmerism. The
Utnon must have some moaning for
men, as the other "visible forms"
of Nature have. The sea, with its
ceaseless motion and its changeless
shores, may have taught men poetry
and given them the first dreams of
immortality: the woods have taught
men to pray, and the sky has taught
them hope. Here at this Canon,
the sun and the dry, clear air arc
painting a changing picture, full of
color, full of the spirit of motion,
full of mystery. One should not
say that the Canon is l>eautiful; it
transcends mere beuuty and passes
into a "far more exceeding glory."
Hut the. heart of it is color. It is a
rhapsody in color-great splashes
and ImiimIs and daubs of color?blue
shadows, decj> and dead; tawny,
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strawberry-tinged layers of granite; E
all the yellows in the paint-box; 1
greens and gray-greens and pinks
and lavenders, with the half-tones \
floating on the sun wraiths that ^
haunt the air. He who can look at f
this monster chasm and not feel his |
soul stirring in uncanny sympathy '
with its depth, is dead, and Gabriel's I
trumpet will do little for him. One
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may nuiu communion witn it as 1
with great music; with the monody
of the ocean, or with any of those |
big primitive expressions of the .
force that moves the universe, J 1
whether through man in art or i
through what we call Nature, as '
Clod made it. No 1 letter proof is J
needed of the existence of a dominant
mind through all the universe j
than the consideration of how, on
the one hand, the great passionate \
outbursts of the masters are art? .
great symphonies, great paintings, \
great messages to men, through
words or symlxils ? and of how, on *
the other hand, the sights and 1
sounds of stark, untamed Nature 1
rouse the human soul from its I
lethargy in the same miraculous
fashion. The God that moves ^
through "Ixuir" and "Ixihcngrin," .
is He who "plants his footsteps on '
the sea." and "rides upon the m
storm." The pilgrim to the Canon ?
must not go as one who visits a ?
peepshow or a freak of Nature, but
upproacn u as Moses came to the
burning bush.
The best possible view of the pj.
Canon is from the top. There the ni(
atmosphere piles up over the crags on
and peaks l>eneat}i one's feet, and ^h
through this atmosphere, when the r(1]
day is at its height, the actinic rays m
of the sun paint marvels in*the C01
huge, gaping furrow in the earth. m(
From the rim one gets two impressions?so
strong that they seem al- ...
most too big for the soul to hold? .' '
like the soul-smiting terror that 'V'
comes to one who gazes long at the ( .1
stars. The two impressions are of V'
numberless infinitely-reaching hori- . v
zontal lines and of eternal silence. !?r
There are few curves in the stretches .'
of stratified rock that make colored !V
ribbons many miles long; and the .
human eye is not used to taking in sal
so much. Over* these vistas the
dry air of the desert quivers with
the heat. Perhaps it is the river 8el
mist rising, perhaps it is sheer de- W'
lusion; but in the motion that ^1(
seems to stir ' the radiant air, a 'en
white wraith floats, eluding the ?P
eyes that would locates it, yet ever u?
present in the sunlight that falls Pj*
upon tl?e facing cliffs. One feels nit
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hat you are |i
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at this illusory apparition is the Wrest and most absolutely uninvit- V
irit of silence that dominates the in8 regions to l>c found anywhere
inc. And it is the silence of the side the desert of Sahara,
ice that appalls; for such a tur- When we passed over sections of
3il, even of rock, as rages beneath ^ie road where there had been
c, would seem in the nature of recent washouts and where the bed
ings to need some wild voice to Wtl not been oiled with crude peicase
its wrath; but here is silence troleum, the whole party were mode
deep that an engine's scream wretched by clouds of penetrating,
aid not rend one corner of the suffocating, irritating, debilitating,
iasureless pall. exasperating alkali dust. It was
There is something of death in a^ni?8^ [^addoning, and one of the
. ,, . moat. pari mo liln ? ?
, uuain in uic grim ??. ?V," ". l?rW
sivitnhlcncss of this silence, no jvasbowai hng lier rashnessim over
sngclcss mid yet so vital. The '?.Tg r,1 0n'.y
irs and the yawning Canon grip ?'tho ^h.c, the next day made
5 soul and draw it U. a commun- ^ ?' ,thc, tnpPn<)ura:
, with something strong outside b}?-^lie heat and tlie dust put
elf?something that escapes deft- 8H?r? of ?'? <l??<tion
ion and analysis; something that 11,18 n,?ht of wretchedness howi
ancient people meant when they cvf " M tb? b?8ht"
,1 that they walked with Godl ness of a California day. The palms
, , and tho ever-blooming geraniums,
At W illiams wo were coupled on l)rjHiftnt in hue, large and luxuriant
tnnd the coach of Col. Magee, enough to form hedges, orange
leral superintendent of the groVes, olive orchards, red roofed
ibash system, which is one of viuaS| built in the cool Spanish
i Gould roads. Col. Magee, on style of architecture,?all passed by
ruing who the party was, threw ug witl? kaleidoscopic rapidity, and
en his handsome private car to aftej. the desert were as grateful to
and many of us enjoyed his hos- ll8 ftH a (lrink of WK)1 Wftter to a *>
ality. All that afternoon and
>ht wc were traveling through the] (Continued on next page.)