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TILLMAN'S PROPHECY. ff
Decries What Blind Won't See -Forecast S
of Lincoln-like Simplicity and Till:
. v ' < man-like Frankness.
* ..
The eternal principle of equal 8
opportunity for men, is tne obj ect ?
for which Selfttor THIman con- v
tends in his repot. Ito the United '
Scates senate on tV. ? railroad rate e
bill. Arguing in stihport of that 1
-/TAVMAM/I MIA /1A nAf 1\aUA1#T UA Q
uviiiatm nc uv nv/u wcuuiu ,LIIC ?
ranting demagogue of old &rn?$ o
with pitchfork arid blustering* a o
blasphemous tirade. This Ben ii
Tillman is the cool logician^ the v
calm controversialist ysM! tes s
V > an earnest, dispassionate -id t
unanswerable brief for control v
by the American people of the s
highways that should be their b
own. i^jH^TillmaifJi the wool ti
hat slips 0"t of the mind's eye; v
in his pls?e N?oms a statesman- li
like figure. h
The FateOhat intrusts the s
/ representative of a discredited t<
minority with the leadership of v
a momentous legislative battle, s
on whose outcome the fortunes s>
of both majority and democracy q
are staked, reveals to us the
shining worth of this human dia- s
> . mond in the rough. Chief won- ii
of his perfoi u Hv"tn at c
^ the railroad crew in the senate, tl
being resolved to assistance the g
square deal program and having ?
relinquished the majority's duty ii
to the minority in order the bet- J e
ter to ply their knives should a
nave appointed as cnier mourner ?
a very Antony to make the stones vv
cry out in mutiny. tl
Senator Tillman, once the most a
rampant of radicals, offers here tl
a plan at which the younger r<
generation will live to marvel for ti
its moderation. We have here a
the most frenzied of the Bryan
agitators preaching the doctrine o:
of conservatism as the only es- s<
cape from political and social oi
revolution. The breaking down si
of party lines in the senate on is
this issue in the strange manner w
he describes, is only one of the tl
^.-^ ^Qhprecedented features of the d
v " struggle between people and v
privilege. In the new alignment vv
of forces we see on the side of b
radicalism, passionately urging tl
immediate government owner- a:
ship of outright socialism, men h
-heretofore known for their mild c<
insistence on caution. On the t<
other side, pleading for the mini- "
mum of effective government n
supervision, are the "middle-of- s<
the-road" non-compromisers, the d
brandishers of pitchforks, the r<
"burn-your-cities" horde of two ^
incendiary campaigns. Your e
genuine conservatives of today ti
the leaders who stand for reason- a
? able redress of existing wrongs tl
^fj^^.as against those drastic and con- v
tWr vulsive remedies to which the si
people would repair as their al- tl
tefnative, are the Till mans and =
Bryans, and even the Tom Wat- ti
n/vv? n /\^ tmnf AH/Intr a
ouna, ui ,y ua,y.
There is not a line in the Till- n
man program to which the sup- u
f)orters of the Roosevelt Repubican
policy cannot subscribe. tl
Reasonable returns to railroads, d
but always and only on actual d
capital invested, and not on a
oceans of water. s
Prohibition of railroads from ii
creating the freight in competi- a
tion with their shippers in addi- p
tion to carrying it. n
Confirmation of the long-used f
and long-unchallenged power of c
the interstate. Commerce Com-! t
mission to afTolish extortionate' c
rates. I o
- 1l)mi nf ttivkaci waRa f a ami ?v\ ?
. x x lovsit oniuco i\ji jlcuaiu v;i till- I
/ Xpals. t
To these just provisions some. r
things need to be added. Noth-11
ing can be taken away without | <j
'continuing the cruel injustice S
which railroads a^d their crea- f
I- ?
HBi /1
NTEREsf""j?.
EPOSITS. sc
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'ROSPECT fjaR WHITE SERVANTS. I r
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iervant Problem to be Solved"?Good ' S0]
News for the Housekeepers.
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],t is to be hoped that Commute- ev_
lintlA" WdfeAn in ^Vij. I
va?v. f I lAVUyjl 111 UA1C CUtliUSlttOUl |
if hia eYideaVor is not deceived Wc
n his confidence that "we will w}
lave much of this servant girl C01
vil cured in about six months.," .
^he remark was-prefatory to $ in*
tatemeaJ^rrblished iiv The Rec- a t
rd y^jS^eay giving some details to
f hiscffdrt tpJukitgPa class of sta
rnmigraafcggtt cOTne to this State, | soc
/ho will be acceptable as house ific
e#^nts and who will be content, the
o work for reasonable wamw lab
/ith other perquisites, we may is
ay, of such a calling. Mr. Her- cai
ert is to tour North Ireland for the
he purpose of inducing young I
/omen to come to South Caro- pre
na and take places as cooks, fro
ouse maids and the like. If he vie
ucceeds in his mission they are wh
o be brought direct to Columbia ant
ia New York or sent to other by
ections of the State where their wil
ervices may be needed or re- kee
uested. . iati
Mr. Watson has certainly der
truck a popular chord in launch- the
lg this endeavor, and if he sue- abl
eedtf-nrlightenmg the* burdens, bel
he trials and tribulations of the cori
ood housewives of the State in tha
nly a degree in sixteen months are
istead of six, as he hopes to do, fat
very one of them will rise up the
nd call him blessed. Not only 1
rill he be held as a benefactor ism
rorthy of all the good things in "p(
his life, but after he has gone, ty
nd may many years pass before sioi
hat inevitable event, they will ery
Bar a monument to him as a tes- nov
monial of their indebtedness ed:
nd appreciation. mil
We had never thought before law
f the possibilities of Mr. Wat- the
m's office in this regard, but has
nly a slight consideration will the
now that if reasonable success he
i secured in this undertaking he F
rill have done as much good for Soc
ne State almost as would be in
one in settling colonies or pro- fou
iding lor the reclamation of | Ste
raste lands through foreign la- the
or. For the servant problem is ' pie
ne most all-pervading, as well tioi
3 the most exasperating, of all cor
tbor problems, separately or ual
ombined, with which we have chi
) deal. No only in cities, but inc
i town and villages and country erf
eighborhoods the "cullud lady" wei
ervants are becoming more in- Col
olent and insolent, while their Del
^liability is as nothing, a quality to i
ffiich has been well nigh banishd
from their catalogue of vir- me
les, if they may be said to have veil
ny. Yet in present conditions mu
^IPV firp tbp nnlv nvailnhlo cor. 'PK.
ants and the only remedy is to del
nbstitute white servants for jud
hem.?Columbia Daily Record, rou
ares Standard oil, beef trust, not
oal trust and a hundred private bri
lonopolies, are inflicting daily ' I
pon the people. ! hoi
With his single prophetic eye he
his champion of American free- the
om from economic shackles can Jn
eery the disaster that the blind infl
nd blundering knaves will not an(
ee. Standing almost solitary 01
i that wilderness of stratagems toe
nd spoils, with Lincoln-like sim- Ste
ilicity and Tillman-like fearless- as
ess he utters his impressive tha
orecast of the doom the Ameri- Krc
an judgment holds over the aJn
raitors and of the wreck Ameri- hb<
an wrath will make of their ^
dious system. cla:
The citizen who is not struck the
>y the import of the Tillman rec
nessage misses the meaning of our
he prologue to the most stirring tail
Irama since the War of the wh
Itates.?New York Press, (Re- cia
tublican.) ser
THE SOCIALISTIC MESACE. j
)ublc Between Labor and Capital not
AH Due to Tbe Laboring Classes.
Socially we are between the
ylla and the Charydis, beeen
the upper and nether
llstone. The rich corporations
d trusts grind a long-suffering
blic on the one hand, and the,
>or unions, in their ceaseless
irfare against capital, grV.id it
the other. Strikes abound
d the clamoring contentnorfbe^
een the two parties is heard,'
season and out of season. 1
id so long as the claims of the '
taker party are just and rea- (
lable, the sympathies of the ;
blic will, as a matter of course, \
er be with the laborer.
But, back of the earnest, hard- 1
irking masses of nnr mnnlona 1
,/V^U.UVVl |V
10 are sending out their sons
itinually to occupy command- (
r positions in life; and w#b, a? <
urn of the wheel, tfray belong t
the capitalistic class tomorrow 1
nds the gaunt-faced shadow of j
:ialism. A socialism whose ram- J
ations have spread throughout J
i length and breadth of our '
oring classes, and whose voice *
ever raised in a way which )
lses alarm to the patriot and 1
! Christian. ?
lowever we may turn the *
>blem of human existence, ^
m whatever angle we may *
w it, the fact remains for us, 2
0 believe in God, that "riches t
1 poverty do not come to us |
chance, but by his fatherly *
1." God makes rich and he
ips poor. He may work medsly,
and the way of his provi- .
ice may often be dark, but j
i final outcome ia unquestiony
of his ordering. We, who-U
iev'e in the divine providence, J
nfort ourselves with the idea
,t, whatever befalls us, we s
not the playthings of a cruel J
e, but "clay in the hands of F
potter." f
'his is utterly denied by Sociali.
Its favored motto is that ?
?ssession is a crime." Pover- ?
is the result of cruel oppres- *
k; riches is the fruit of knav;
labor is slavery; society, as J
v organized, must be destroy- ^
and on its ruins the Socialistic
lenium is to be erected. All ,
B i < 11
ana oraer are repugnant to "
true Socialist, who usually v
i advanced much further to a
camp of the anarchists than f
is aware. V
'erhaps the utterances of the i
ialistic press of the country |.
behalf of the men accused of,
lly murdering ex-Governor j
unenberg, of Idaho, will be ;a
means of awakening our peo-.K
to the seriousness of the situa- ] ^
i. As our readers know, the
ifession of the man who act- 1
ly rigged up the infernal ma- ^
ne which killed the Governor, a
ulpated the leaders of a pow- a
ul labor organization, who ia
re apprehended in the State of j c
orado. Of this arrest Eugene J
bs, in the Socialist, has this J
say: J
'All workingmen and all other
n who have red blood in their
ns, will rise up against this
rderous plot of the plutocracy,
gy have stolen our country, .
>ached our politics, defiiled our L
liciary and ridden over us
igh-shod, and now they prole
to murder those who will
; abjectly surrender to their t
ital dominion." jl
Ie wants the laboring men to v
d mass-meetings everywhere, | ?
wants to pull down the Bas- t
, he calls his readers to arms.
the Appeal to Reason, similar f
ammatory language is used, f
1 the men who are accused I
being - accessories to the
il murder of Ex-Governor i
unenberg, are described >
martys, "whose only crime is c
it they are at the head of a s
>at industrial movement, which I
is to give the working classes r
?rty and freedom." : f
vim tnese irantic appeals to c
ss prejudices, in our ears, and 3
s tabulated increase of the
ognized Socialistic vote, in 1
elections before us, we cer- t
nly need not to mince matters, i
en we call attention to the So- i
listic menace.?Christian Ob- 1
ver. <
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| F. M. FARR, President.
I Merchants and Pla
Successfully Doing Bus
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H B has a capita! and mii-pl
5 is the oil IV N ATION A .1
1 lias pniil dividends -i
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BS B pays more taxes than i
WE EARNESTLY SOL
1 ? ?1 ? ?
THE DUTY OF THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
Crime ol The Too Rich and Tlieir Relation
to Tlic Working Class.
Over against the contorted
picture of society, as it is presented
to us by the socialistic
press, stands the true picture of
actual conditions. And no one.
fD ONTO ^OUR COTTON!
President Smith to the Cottoi
5,000,000 BALES SHORT.
j.no.,tenners' report of linters
sea island cotton, the amount of
cotfc* which should have been
X&q? year's crop, and
^erence in the weights of
bah, his year and last, have all
beets*, deductvd from the total,
and^afcH mafce this crop practiC&lly
xen million bales. With the
jraafciponsumption requiring at
l6att?velve million bales out of
the sent crop, by the first day
of September next, the condition
of tne spinners can easily be
figured out, and the statistical
reportpf cotton easily appreciated.
. The frospects are that we will
begin he first of next year with
practii ally the stock depleted,
and if ;he farmers will only exercise
gdbd common sense and reiuce
their acreage in cotton, increasiig
their food products,
ibere will be no need to hold cot?n
^|^ther season for any length
)f tint, because the world will
De cm^norous for it from the
Degiiming. It has been of great
3enefit,-to me to be able to point
;o Spilth Carolina as standing
vhdfor by her pledge. It is no
dleiuoftst, nm- is it said in the
ipiiafcfltf boast, but rather to show
;he:?a?onsibility that is upon us
vhenML declare that the eyes of
he Aver cotton growing States
ire^AQn us, and South Carolina
hi*#ar will determine by what
(he w>es, largely the fate of the
Southern Cotton Association.
A LESSON FROM LAST YEAR.
aE**
Onb word before closing this
nteltidew as to the far-sightedless^bf
some of our people.
Be$j$use the mills have bought
ulfic^i.tNiv/fctofr to enable them
o stay out of the market for a
hort while, the bears took adrantage
of this and began to
lammer prices. A great many
leoeme frightened and threw
heir cotton on the market. The
peculators realizing the strength
f the statistical position of coton,
bought the surplus. And
rom now on they will reap the
eward of high prices, instead of
hose whom it would most beneit.
Surely, after so many repeated
essons, the people of the South
11 1 i-1- - * * 1
viu learn meir strengtn ana not
How themselves to be made the
ervants of the gambling speculators.
We will celebrate another
ubilee this year. I sincerely
tope that as manv will rejoice at
t as did. last year, when we cele>rated
the ten-cent victory. To
11 the cotton growers of the
Itate, let me make this plea: If
ou have not reduced your acrege,
and if you have already pre>ared
it for cotton, let me beg
ou as a business proposition, as
i good sense proposition; to reluce
your cotton acre^es" w:tu
nd increase your co;? a ,
rops supply yo?perity. jjold
nore hogs and cafifi3vys & c
he reward of proy
our spot cotton! -\
ier. <
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" ttle groups of il<
THE AMERlCAlrrtffirfor "v"rv
aid Enough Eggs in 1905, lo Nearly
Supply the World.
"Secretary Wilson figures that
he American hen last year laid
8 1-4 dozen eggs for every man,
voman and ehild in thp TTnitod
States. It would be interesting
o have the figures on the differ;nce
between the sum the farmer
tot and what the consumer paid
or the product."?Washington
Jost.
Secretary Wilson is either a
rreat man at figures or else the
(Vashington Post is giving him
:redit far beyond what he delerves.
If the statement of The
^ost be true, then the Hon. Sec etary
figures that each family of
ive souls has an average of 101)5
?ggs a year for every day in the
rear. The grand total of the
;ggs laid in one year by the
American hen is 17,520,000, and
his is leaving out out insular
\merica, which is inconsiderate,
f not cruel, becaiuse the Filipinos
ind Porto Ricans are fond of
jggs.-Greenville Daily News.
> i iK
who is not wilfully blind, can
doubt for a moment that the state
of society is largely responsible
for the existence of the caricatures
thus presented to us. There
never was a caricature without
an original, whom it portrays and
whom it in a measure resembles.
And 110 one will deny that the
state of our society is capable of
infinite improvement.
The simple life, the moderate
desire of our fathers ; the genu-!
ine democracy, on which we
prided ourselves in tne past; the
obedience to law, in which we
boasted ; the exalted patriotism,
which was our crown of glory,?
what became of them all? Yes.
they exist, and we praise God for
it, but the predominant impression,
made on foreigners, by our
social coxidition, is largely differ
enc.
There is among us an appalling !
egotism, a defiance of law and
principle, a thirst after gold, a
pliability of character, a senseless
worship of pleasure, a forgetfulness
of God, which bode ill for
the future.
Why should a man, who steals
little, be arraigned and punished
as a thief, whilst the man, who
appropriates millions from the
public is applauded as a "prince !
of finance?" >
Why should the man who |
waters the milk he sells, be
amenable to the law, whilst the j
same law winks and smiles at the (
man who waters his stocks?
Why should the law be appli- J
cable to small crimes and little !
criminals, whilst the great crimes
are condoned and the great criminals
are forgotten or applauded'ie
Why should the poor iraiue of
taxed to the limif burden of
his ^Ughs SO heaw imnn
i n\m> whilst the millionaire is taxed
for but a mere fraction of his
holdings, when the payment of
all he owes would lighten the burdens
of the poor and yet would
ne,ver be felt by him at all?
these things give color to the
.i"&dS8-of Socialism. They are,
manual
blemishes, which disfigure our
social life and spell ill for the future.
They are the very same
mistakes which were made in the
past and which ultimately proved
the undoing of the nations which
tolerated their existence.
| The privileged classes owe a
great debt to the poorer classes, j
They must set them on example,1
they must be absolutely fair to
them, they must defend .their
rights even at the cost of their '
own. The rich cannot live with-1
I out the poor, nor the poor without
the rich. So long as humanity
is sinful and the heart corrupt,
the ideal will never be re- j
alized in this world. But where
1
\^iii iai/i<iuii/jr Biieus us Iciyw, illlU
where men profess to be dominated
by its precepts, it has in- i
exorable demands, the denial of
which undermines the very foundations
of the social fabric.
Where the privileged classes, in
Christian communities, forget
these demands and laugh God's
law and man's law to scorn, they
dig their own graves and erect
the scaffold of their own punishment?Christian
Observer,
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J. L>. ARTHUR, Cashier. H
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iness at the "Old Stand."
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us of SKI >.000,
I- Hunk ill I'liiim
nnuiitinir to SiiKt 4<)0.
interest on deposits,
ion inspected l?v no oliicer.
It, and Siil'c with Time-Lock.
V LI. the Hanks in I'lilon combined.
.IC1T YOUR BUSINESS.
THESE UNDER SENTENCE?
' Report is That Senator Tillman Declares
i That He Will Cause the Defeat of
Every Senator and Representative
i Who Voted Against the Raysor-Manj
uiny Bill.
The following is from the news
columns of the Columbia State,
of March 21st.
Senator P>. It. Tillman stated
to Senator Niels Christensen, Jr..
ill Wnoliirin'tnn n 4V>... -J
... TT MOillll^tUll CI IKJW Ucl} S cl^U
that he would come down into
South Carolina [this summer and
defeat for re-election every Leg'
islator who voted against the
I Raysor-Manning bill. Following
I is the list of Representatives who
| will be defeated if his threats
should carry:
Messrs. Ardrey, Arnold, Ashley,
Ballentine, Banks, Beamguard,
Browning, Bruce, Colcock,
Cothran, Dabbs, Davis,
DeVore, Earhardt, Edwards,
Faust, Fishburne, Foster, Eraser,
Frost, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson,
Hamel, Hamlin, Harrison,
Harley, Haskell, Hemphill, Heyward,
Higgins, Hutto, Kershaw,
LaFitte, Lawson, Lofton, Lomax,
McMaster, Masey, Laban,
Mauldin, Morrison, Nance, Nash,
Nesbit, Nicholson, Otts, Parker,
Patterson, Poston, Reaves, Rucker,
Sanders, Saye, Sellers, Sheldon,
Vander Horst, M. W. Walker,
J. M. Walker, Whaley and
Wimberly.
Messrs. Bradham, Verner,
Brice, Lyon, and L. B. Etheredge,
who also opposed the Senate's
amendment, were paired.
The Senate passed the bill
GAmnxiTUnf wnlti ^tov.^1.. - 1
uv/a*iv/ >v nc4i/ i ciuttciiitiy i ciiL^i riciv
ing once defeated it.
The senators who voted against
the bill when it was first offered
as a substitute for the Morgan
bill were:
Senator Bates, C. L. Blease,
Brice, Brooks, Brown, Butler,
Carlisle, Christensen, Harden,
Holliday, Hough, Marshall. Mauldin,
Mclver, Von Kolnitz?15.
Senators Ilood, Hudson and Talbert
opposed t.b^ 1 *
paired. vote on the bill saw
A0 t Changes. Senators Bates, \
' T Please, Hardin, Holliday, \
Mclver voted for it, saying they \
would vote for some reforming \
bid and this was the only one
Shadows of Coming Events.
We suppose we are as much of
a prophet as anybody, so here
goes:
?WS*S&-x21-e!eaji
large majority of the house of
representatives in Congress this
fall. John |Sharpe Williams, of
Mississippi, will be speaker.
The republican ma.ioritv in th?
Senate will be greatly reduced.
2. William J. Bryan will be
nominated and elected president
of the United States in 1908.
Hearst can be vice president, if
he wants to.
3. The republican nominee
for president will be Joseph G.
Cannon, of Illinois. The nom>
nee for vice-president will be
anybody who can be persuaded
to accept the honor.
4. Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina, can have any place he
wants in Bryan's cabinet and
will be the biggest man in it.
5. William H. Taft, now secretary
of war, will become/* justice
of the United States supreme
court.
6. Elihu Root, now secretary
of state, will become United
States senator from New York,
succeeding Depew.
T f \TS\11 ^ 11 * *
** juu wiou any iuriner mtormation
ask us. ?The Spartanburg
Journal.