The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 13, 1906, Page 4, Image 4
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N'TON, 8. C., JULY i:i, IbMJ.
Senator Tillman should remember
how it stirred his blood when
Mebuurin called him a liar. To
call a I.yon a liar is a dangerous
business.
Never mind, Senator Tillman.
The Dispensary system as a state
institution is duad in South Caro-'
lina. It is not only dead, it has
alreadt passed on to putrifaction.
The funeral is the only way out.
The list of fatalities on the fourth
of July this year about equals that
of last. Well, there is no better
day that our young Americans;;
could choose for dying since fj
Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe set, <
them the example.
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The Chester Reporter has .<
changed hands and is now puh- f
lished and edited by Messrs. I'er- i
kins and Irwin. We congratulate s
these gentlemen on their first issue. 1
It is neat, newsy and shows a f
marked improvement in the gener- i
*1 get-up. s
^ l^ yy^y^artof^thevoters in t]
counties that are now dry were not h
allowed to vote whose fault was it? h
Why did they not look after their tl
registration? Ix?t them register, a,
We believe there is manhood and a
moral integrity in Union county \:
sufficient to forever banish the dispensary
system. V
Inconsistency thy name is Tillman!
A year ago he demanded (
that Governor Hey ward discharge (
the members of the dispensary J *
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IKXirU j U)-n;iy Il? innmiuun |
Youman'8 for stating that no
action can Ik; taken because of in-!
sufficient evidence. If there was!
evidence enough then, pray what is
there now!
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Yes, let us have "local option," !
let the people speak. That was i
one of the most infamous things i
about the dispensary system prior
to the Bricc act. When the vile
thing got fastened upon a community
there was no way to get rid of
it. Talk about a free people when
that people had no opportunity to
be rid of so base a thing.
We say "Amen" to Tillman's
"kill out all the pestiferous, candygiving,
baby-kissing, fence-straddling
candidates." It is one com-1
niendahle characteristic in the
make-up of Senator Tillman that
he has never pursued that method
of campaigning. It was always a
case of "if you don't like it, don't
take it; if you don't like me, don't
vote fur mo."
Why does Senator Tillman, after
the record lie has just made in tinSenate,
come hack to South Carolina
and give such a tone to State
politics? "Infamous lie," "liar,"
"dirty, cowardly insinuation," are
Home expressions used hy him at
Columbia last Monday. It would
H-em the Senator thinks these
things necessary to "whoop 'em
up" again. But has South Carolina
not reached that stage of advancement
when she should require
refinement even in politics? Conditions
have changed since the days
of 'DO and 1)2.
4 Mi,
We regret that our old friend,
Mr. J. II. Buchanan of the: Chester
Reporter has retired from the
ranks of the newspaper men in
South Carolina. lie was a good
editor, conservative and generally
on the right side of every question.
A vein of humor, rare and refreshing,
ran through all his writings.
Mr. Buchanan, after his long years
of service, will he able to enjoy the
"well done" of an appreciative
people all over the State.
Senator Tillman believes that the
State should receive the profits derived
from the sale of whiskey.
"The man who objects to the
profits is a higher type of man than
I am," said Tillman at Columbia
Monday night. This is clear admission
that there is a higher type
than that to which he belongs, and
that that type is represented by
men who refuse to take these profit*;
men who look upon it as blood
money made in hellish trallie at
the cost of South Carolina's manhood.
Senator Tillman, without doubt,
pays the prohibitionists a high compliment.
iie takes oft' his hat and
says, Gentlemen, you are of a higher
type than I am; 1 am not in
your class.
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The Hon. J. Frazer Lyon is the
object a severe vituperative attack
by Senator B. It. Tillman. And
why? Because he, as an officer
commissioned by the General Assembly
of South Carolina, has been
faithful and fearless in the prosecution
of his duty. Tillman, by
his old method of outrageous abuse,
seeks to defeat this man, who has
so exposed the rottenness of the
lispensary system, of which system |
Fillinan is the founder, and which
ie is now striving so desperately to
ave. This is a strange departure
or Senator Tillman, so great in
lational affairs; it is low. But the |
ecret is plain now. It is a hopeess
cause for which the Senator
ights and he is forced to these
neans. In vain he heats the air,
triving for something sound and
[>lid on which to lay hold. But
his fact remains; lie will certainly!
ave to get something better than '
is present plan. The people of
his State see through it all; they
re better educated in politics now,
nd because they are, Tillman's
lully-vagging days are over.
VHY DO BOYS LEAVFTHE fARM?
This was the subject of an able
iditorial in the State, July 1. The 1
sditorial was brought out by statis,ies
prepared by L. H. Bailey,direcor
of the College of Agriculture of
Cornell University. This educator
isked a number of those who had
eft the farm to state their reason
tor leaving, rorty per cent, of
them *ay they left for the reason
that the farm is unremunerative.
Seventeen per cent, left for the reason
that the farmer was under
social disabilities. Twenty per
cent, left for the reason that the;
farm was excessive hard work.
These reasons the educator believes
to be unsatisfactory, and
The State answers each of these
abjections to the farm in the following
striking paragraphs:
"Four hoys out of every ten of
the deserters, for instance, give as
the reason for their flight that
the farm is not reinumerative.
Yet there was never a time when
farming was so remunerative as it
is to-day. It may not be remunerative
on the roekv hill-slopes of New
England, where lie so many abandoned
farms; but it is remunerative
throughout the entire South, the
West, and the Southwest. It pays
well even in the somewhat crowded
states of the North and Middle
West. The prosperity of the South
to-<lay rest firmly upon the cotton
fields and the or< hards and the
truck ^aniens. There are planters
in 11 lis state that make incomes of
srj,0(H) a yeor, clear profit, from
their faams. This means that tin;
man who can do this is rich; he is
more than prosperous. The farmlands
of the South hring in thousands
of fortunes in each year's
harvest. The senhoard is lining
transformed into a garden and is
yielding independence and wealth
to many thousands of planters.
There is money in farming: tin;
farm is rcmnnerativt?more remunerative
than it ever was.
As to hard work, the farmer has (
a far easier time than the clerk in
i
tin- store or the telegraph operator I
at his desk or than millions of Ixm
and men and girls and women in,
the crowded cities. The nature
of tlie work on the farm?the grim-i
iness of it, the hours of lalwjr in \
the hot sun, the lowly kind of work h
that the lxiy on the farm has to do .
?this has more to do with driving
him into the fancied paradise of i
tlu; city than has the hardness of [
the tasks on the farm. Hut. the!
farm loses little hy the desertion of
those who are afraid of "hard I
work."
There is something to he said for ! g
the social disability of the hoy on 9
the farm. lie is shut out from I
most society, and shut out from t
some. It is true that he has a *
social circle of his own; hut if he E
he a hit ambitious and not content 5
to "wait until he wins oppor- g
tunity, this condition will chafe S
him. Here, also, the farm- j g
hoy of the South has a distinct ad-1 9
vantage over the farm hoy of the (I
North. The farmer of the South P
is a tower of strength, and he' 5
stands tour-square to nil the c
winds that lilnw.*' llo is second to g
nobody. lie is the peer the best. g
This is largely due t<> the old "aris- g
tocratic" system of the South, jy
which had its foundations on the
plantation. We have inherited j
good, clean, honorable, traditions
that dignify and exalt tlrtt calling of j
the farmer. t \
The hoy should not leave the
farm. He should own land as soon j
as possshle and attain independence \
through his own labor. There is, j
no other condition so' pleasant, so \
promising, so gratifying to tlu- tern- i
per and disposition and tastes of a i
healthy manhood as that of farm- I
ing. It is the true life and calling \
of the "gentleman" in the broad- j
est and best sense of that word. It I
is almost the only post in our com- I
plcx civilization in which a man ?
may he truly independent and on- A
joy in middle life and age leisure i*1
and comfort and happiness. *
Don't leave the farm. Stick to
it, and it will be the making of
you, if you will do there your true '
part in the battle of life." .
To the above reasons for leaving
the farm might he added the isolation
that is, or more properly, has
been an invariable condition of
farm life. Peoole are driven to th?
towns and cities because of the ?
loneliness of life on the farm. J
There is a feeling of safety in the s
throng that is not felt on the iso- I
latcd farm. Happily even this o b-??
,v-cuon is nefng rapidly met. The
telephone, trolly lines, rural free .
delivery of mail and other things nQ
are fast binding even the remote tht
sections to the densly populated m<
community. As The State well
savs: "'Don't leave the farm, stick
to Ei
JONESVILLE NEWS. ta
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Crops?Postofflce?Strike?Hon .
Jos. T. Johnson?Daughters of in
Gonfederaoy?Personals. sp
Joncsville, July 10.?So much
rain has put farm work hack and sj,
nr?? ytnnip ornssv fields nf lw?ili
corn .and cotton, but right now the jQ
weather is favorable and the needed
work is being pusebed. Farmers as ^
a rule want to get through laying at
by their crops by the first of August.
Capt. R. \V. Scott, who has just pu
been appointed postmaster here, u(
took charge of the postoflice today
and is holding the oHice for thejvj,
present in Mr. Whitlock's building :()j
where it has*been all the while.
There was a small strike; in the
Knitting mill here last Saturday.
The knitters were the strikers and
they walked out because they are
not paid off every two weeks. The Ft)
custom has been ever since the mill
was built to pay off monthly. It
makes but little or no difference to
the company whether they pay off sl^
once a month or every two weeks
except the olliee work, which is :l"
some more t<> payolftwicea month.
The matter will no doubt be adjust1
, l.l I vv<
cti i?y tomorrow ana uio Knitters
will return to work again. The
mill is running on just the same
and the other departments are all at <>N
work. !"
Hon. Joseph T. Johnson came 111
down from Spartanburg yesterday
and made a speech here last night. m
Mr. Johnson makes a clean talk ar
and don't "pitchfork" any one and <"
is runnning on his own merits and
not on the demerits of other's. M
The local chapter of the Datigh- ol
ters meet at the home of Mrs. L. J. en
Fowler this evening. They had Wl
three gentlemen to meet with them 111
who are sellingmonmuentsand they :i
were showing lie ir designs and talking
their good. The chapter is P;
making a strong effort to get in al
shape to give their order for the j
new monument to he erected to the \\J
Confederate dead at Jonesvillc and X
they hope to he ahlc to place their M
order soon.
Miss Carrie Southard graduated^?
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Come
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J other day at Worcester, Mass.
domestic economy, and she is
v in Newark, N. J., teaching in
B^culinary department of the Sum
tl* Ol'IIUUl,
Mrs. K. U. Ayeock and children, I
Clinton,are spending a while with
ra. Ayeock's mother, Mrs. N. C.
son.
Sir. Charles Littlejohn, of j\tlan,
visited his brother, Mr. Sam
ttlejohn last week,
tylrs. J. L. McWhirter is improv-:
gi very fast now from her long
3ll of illness.
Messrs. J. B. Lancaster and MunJFaucett
candidates for county
ijiitor are circulating in our town,
jaking hands with their friends.
'Mr. J. D. Epps Bpent a day in
nesville last week.
Miss Julia (irace Littlejohn, who
is been teaching at Chesterfield is
home now "for the vacation.
Miss Nellie Douglass, of ChesterId,
is the guest of Miss Cirace Lit -1
gohn:
Miss Addic Sanders, of I'nion, is
<iting hef sister Mrs. T. A. Little- (
lin. Tklkpho.nk.
MAti iCTUt uinnrimiro
itiuivaliiia ii?rrlmrwjd.
urth of July?Personals?Music.
The Fourth was a clay of pleasure
nlk happiness for our people,
like there was nothing of iiifftort-1
ice that took place here, our poo- j
e sjM-nt the day away from home,
une went to Buffalo, while others
lit to l.ockhart to see the ball :
me between Monarch and I/>ckirt.
We are delighted with our!
er winning team. Some few re- i
aincd at home and s|>ent the day !
quiet rest.
Miss Bessie Palmer and Miss Colean,
of Jonesville, spent Saturday
id Sunday here, visiting relatives
id friends.
A musical entertainment was
v??r? mI 1.. ...... ,.f M..J I! I
?v.. I?I v??x w? i'i iMUiiruii
i last Saturday night , which was
i joyed hy all present. Another
is given at the home of Mrs. Wade
id everyone who attended reports
good time.
l>r. <). \j. I'. Jackson wont to
icolct last Thursday on profession-;
j business,
Hev. J. T. doing is away this
ick at his home near Mount Joy.
Another game of base ball is to
: played here next Saturday afterx>n
between Santuc and Monarch.
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