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LET A CONTENTED PEOPLE ALONI Columbia Record. In these days when in places c large population many are huntin for work, we feel that it is a littl short of criminal for meddlers to b going around interfering with labc that is contented. The world at large has a distorte idea of the condition of the people wh work in the mills. Mill workers ar about the healthiest, happiest, boj conditioned people in the Soutl The man who would disturb thei contentment is an enemy to them an a destroyer of their happiness If the people had wrongs c grievances, it would not be right t let them be imposed on. But wha wrongs have been inflicted upo them ? They are better paid tha clerks in stores and some of th young women get higher wages tha stenographers, have lighter work, ai not subject to so many mortifica tions in poinp and cominp from wor and are able to dress neatly and, i fact, prettily. The mill girl of toda is a type of Southern womanhood tha will compare well in appearenct.i education, in mind and in characte with the best classes anywhere. The mill people have hut little ren to pay; in some communities pet wa ter and liphts free; have free school: and church buildinps and lodpe room piven to them; have their deliphtfi flower yards and prolific vepetahl pardens. These are our mill peopl of t oday. Sober, honorable, honest ambitious, neiphborly, charitable like able people?and contented. Peopl of whom we may be poud. Some mills for a stipend of $4 pe month let their operators have com fortable homes and furnished the mul power to plow the parden; and fui nish the fertilizer at cost?and th consequence is that the mill opera tive may have a pood parden all th year round. In some communities we hav known mill operatives to save enoup to buy their little farms. In Colum bia the workers have their own coop erative store, operated by mill worli ers, and we are informed that in th first year of operation a dividend c 25 per cent was declared?for th mill workers. We do not believe in oppressin such a virtuous race of people. W believe rn pivinp them opportunity and all of these thinps they havefreedom opportunity and a fai wape. On the other hand, considc the mill manager. These men come in for all sorts c criticism and abuse and it is undc served. We know that the mill mar agers have a hard time of it. The have problems that are vexing an full of worry and responsibility. Lik good soldiers, they put on a bold fror ever in the midst of the ever wearin cares. The mill managers a year ag were confronted with the most se rious problems that has effeted th South. The world must eat, but the worl can wear little of clothes. It is th cotton manufacturer who suffers i case of great international controv ersies. The situation was evolved to th full credit of the nation, and the mar ufacturing enterprises of the Sout have pulled through the crisis, but i was a great battle for the valiant an the strong hearted men who are or deavoring to handle the financial re sponsibility of the industry. Every man in the world has hi burdens, cares and sorrows, his re sponsibilities. The humane mill own er has his own and the cares of man others. We here lay down one broa proposition?To whom should the mil people stick in case of disaster? T the office hunter who comes arouir every year or so wun me most guue ful and at the same time, most plausi bl<> lot of talk? Or to the mill man ager who will stand by his people, o at least those of them who are de serving? We hope that the issue may neve come, that the great war will neve cause the mills to suspend, for evei one day; but if the day should come we venture to say that the mill man agement \vdll Ijn every communitj spare no pains to see that the opera tives are cared for in the best manne possible until the time for resuminj operations. Suppose all of the mills should hi blotted out of existence tomorrow' Then, what suffering would there be The unthinking people of today di not appreciate the great boon of th< cotton mills. They have given cm ployment, education, preaching am in fact, burial aid to many industriou: people, who, if they had been left a hired labors upon the farms migh have been living in drudgery and un happiness. In case of the mills being forced t< suspend operations temporarily w< believe that the operatives could g( on living in their homes at no ex pense and to some of them right hen in Columbia one spot has been honu for 16 years. ii 1?i:?~ _ il ?MI ??t* iiciiuvt? in me nuu mana^en and mill workers understanding eacl nt hor CiriYiniltJilvmrr ii'itK na/ili /\4 li/in aiding each other. The industry i; yet in the formative period. Tt is th< main dependence of perhaps l.r>0,00( persons in South Carolina. As long a; ' the wheels hre turning, they make th< shutters hum a song of thrift and tin looms roar a deep diapason of con tent. But when the hush of inactivity falls upon an industry, it is the deej silence of death in the house. We repeat that the mill managers have their problems, their burdens and they need incouragement ir fighting the fight upon which depends so much of the prosperity, happiness and hope of the South. What a man would call "enthusi asm" in himself he is very apt to la bel "gush" in others. Shoplifters should go into a dru> store and take something for what': the matter with them. LIQUOR LITERATURE, ETC. j, It is not wise for any man to reply to anonymous circulars affecting the public, but so many liquor dealers have sent to our office by our Prohie bition friends with inquires for exie planations, etc., that we have decided ir to write an article dealing with the false statements that the unwar> j reader may not be decieved. Some 0 things are unreasonable, in these ,e circulars, that it is not worth while ,t to lose time or energy in denying. 1 We are told by one of the liquor advocates that 200,000,000 families have (j wine, beer, or spirits always on their tables in Continental Europe, and that >r there is no drunkenness in all tha\, 0 land, and that the people live longer t over there than they do in the United n States. The writer surely was adn dressing his remarks to the lunatics e confined within the wall of the n asylums. When we read such stuff, a thinking man at once begins to ask, "Why has France declared for Prok hibiti'on during the war?" "Why n 'has Russia declared for Prohibition y during the war?" "Why has Lloydt George, or.e of the great leaders of n England, declared that the three grea*^ r enemies to fight?Germany, Austria. and Rum?the greatest enemy to be ^ conquered is Rum?" Just for the sake of giving the pub; lie a little information, I will statt g that during the year 1912 the gov,1 ernment of ^Russia owned and manage ed 2,983 distilleries and 20,016 bars. e In other words, they had a bar for ^ every 5,922 of their population. Dur Z ing the same year England and Walei e had a dram shop for every 571 population, and 200,000,000 gallons of liquor were sold through these shops. These liquor shops paid more thai. e 70 per cent, of the total revenue of .. the kingdom and more than twice the e total of revenue of the United States Government. And yet the people of c this country are told that everything on the other side of the Atlantic e Ocean is happy and sober, h Financial Scarecrow Another great scarecrow brought into the open by the liquorite circulars is that the United Staes Govevne ment is in danger of becoming bank,f i rupt, and that a financial panic is e fcure to come if the bars of this nation are closed and the revenue from the g sale of intoxicating liquors is cut off. e It is surprising how few people stop ? to think of the actual facts in regara _ to this revenue issue When we are ir told that the liquor business pays to r the United States Government $225,000,000, some people reach the? con>f elusion at once that it would ruin the nation if this should cease; but with they are shown that this liquor revey nue amounts to but very little when d compared with the whole, they can e scarcely be made to believe the state!t ment. The editor of the Vindicator, K 'a newspaper published in Franklin, o Penn., and which has a nation circulation, put in an expert accountant e on the job and got the facts for his paper. The following is part of his d expert's reports, published April 15th, e 1915: n "Taking first the broad, national r_ 1 vipw nf tho eiihiriot u;o fin/1 4-hot- in the year 1913 the total revenues of e all States, counties and incorporateu i- places having a population of more h than 2,500 were$l,845,901,128, a per t capita average of $19. We also disii cover that the revenue from 'liquor license and other imports,' which, it >- is to he assumed, includes all forms of revenue from liquor traffic res ceived by the State, county, and munit. cipal governments, amounted to $79,516,989, or a per capita of 82 cents, y "In other words, the enormous reved nues which the liquor business is supII posed to pay for the support of the o State, county, and municipal governd ment, as revealed by these statistics, i- amounted to 4.3 per cent of the total - revenue. "The general property tax included r in the total revenues of the States, - counties, and municipalities amounted to $1,082,971,468, a per capita ot r $11,15. i- From this we see that in the year ii 1913 it had been necessary to raise >, every dollar of the sum paid by the . liquor business for the support of the j state, county, and municipal govern ment by direct taxation uqon the propr erty it would have required an inr crease of only 7.3 oer cent. Or, in other words, a man who did pay in e that year $10 taxes would have paid ? $10.73, or a man who paid $100 taxes (. would have paid $107.73. !> "There is another consideration e which has its place right here. Tn - 1013 the per capita drink bill of the 1 American people was in excess of $23. s, Therefore, the avrag prrson 'hnefits ed" by the liquor revenue under cont sideration parted with $23 t) the liquor business as a tax collector and got oac!< cent in the way of revei nue collected, somewhere in the s ncig'iboi hi od of 3 1-2 cents uqon each > dollar the traffic took hi.n. "Considering the liquor truffic a tax collecetor, commissioned by the ? ^tate and municipal governments to gather the people's contributions to * the common expenses, the collector 1 was keeping a 'rake-off or receiving ? a commission of 2,704 per ceni. upon * the revenue which he turned in " ' The greatest of the revenues from ' the liquor traffic goes to the fedora. s or national government. Let us fee - what are the figures, taking this govJ ernment also into consideration and so ' giving the liquor traffic the most fuv f arable showing possible. In 1913 the ' total revenues of the national govern \ment were $724,111,230, of which the J liquor revenue was I280.2M.0W. ? The total revenues to run all our gov1 ernments?national, State, and local ' ?in 1913 were thus $2,012,358, and of i this total the liquor revenues equaled in 1913 $309,522,378, or an amount equal to 12 per cent, of the total revenues. Estimating the population of the United Staes at nresent at 100,000,, 000, the liquor revenues for 1913 equal * $3.09 per capita; the national drink bill equals more than $23 per capita. . I Hence, in "saving" a revenue of $3.09 per capita through the liquor traffic, the American people spend in a way that incalculable destroys their efficieency an amount equaling more than $23, or a net loss of $20. Death Kate Spectre I notice that the liquor sheets deals with the number of prisoners and insane. This is done very adroitly. The uninformed reader, of course, would not understand the reasons for such tabulation. The liquor people represent Kansas as having a higher 1 death rate, for instance, than Nebraska, which is a liquor State. The people do not know that this is taken from cities covered by the registration. It must be remembered that in Kansas twelve cities are covered by the registration, while ?in Nebraska there are only two?Lincoln and Omaha. However, when you comi pare Kansas not as a State, but with the other cities, in regard to death rate she shows up as follows: Registration cities in other States, per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1913, 16.3, Kansas, per 1,000 inhabitants, in 1913, 14.3. Any one who cares to examine this matter will find that there are only two cities in Kansas with a higher rate than cities in other States cover- t ed by the registration. These two < are Leavenworth and Topeka, and their increase is only fractional. The < explanation of this is thatTopeka is the seat of the State Hospital for Insane, and Leavenworth is the sear, of a federal prison, a military post, and also of an Old Soldiers Home. This (explanation is valid is shown by the following facts: Illnois has eight cities on the registration list; the total death rate is 15.5 per 100,000. The dry city of E'vanston shows up with 10.2 while Jacksonville, whore the State Hospital for the Insane is, shows up 25.5. Kentucky has eight cities in the registration list. The total death rate is 17 (per 100,000). The lowest death rate is shown up by Newport, 11.6, while Lexington, with its State Hospital and open bars, show up 23.5. It might be mentioned ' that every city in Kentucky except Newport, has a higher death rate than any city in Kansas. It must also be remembered that while Kansas has 98.3 for violent deaths that Nebraska cities show up 156.5 per 100,000. The city of Omaha, Nebraska, shows up 174.7. Criminal Bugbear Dealing with the criminal proposition, the liquor sheets are trying to make it appear that Kansas, the Prohibition State, does not compare fav- , orably with the liquor States; that Kansas has more prisoners than her fcister State of Nebraska, where they have open bar rooms. This is true, and yet it is a terrible falsehood. When a writer records something for the purpose of deceiving, of course, he does not explain the facts. They falsely claim that their figures do not include United States prisons in the federal prison at Leavenworth; but , their figures are taken from the fed- . eral leports, and every one knows that ' all prisons within the State of Kansas are included in these reports. Bur there is yet another reason why Kansas has so many more prisoners than her sister State. Kansas does not ir.flict capital punishment for anv crime whatsoever. All convicts ore sent to the penitentiary. A man convicted of stealing a chicken :3 seni tc 1 the penitentiary, and if convicted of selling whiskey the second t'me he is sent to tht penitentiary, it is r.o wonder that Kansas has more prisoners than ether States, and yet in the face of ail this she shows up very ( favorably when compared with str.t 1 other liquor Staes. Another lae?, which should he mentioned is this: The liquor people are taking their 1 figures from the United States FedOfill PpnAi*f a aT 1 Ol A A t 4- V%4? * - ? ~ w. ... ?.v(/v( vo vi i?/AT. /It lilUL Lllflf Oklahoma Territory was wet, and all ' her prisoners were sent to the prisons of Kansas. It was no wonder that Kansas was over run with prisoners at that time. But when we come to the latest report 11)10, we find that Prohibition Kansas sent to prison 212 (people for each 100,000 inhabitants, a rate loyer than any State in the Union, except North Dakota and Mississippi, and both of these are Pro- ' hibition States; but wet Nebaska sent 103 people to prison for every 100,000 the same year. , The liquor people are also having: something: to say about the number of Prohibition Kansas. Just a brief comparison here will suffice on this question: Kansas (Prohibition) 100 Nevada (wet) 111 Wyoming: (wet) 113 Arizona (wet) 120 Idaho (wet) 120 Texas (wot) 131 Arkansas (wet) 136 Indiana (wet) 142 Colorado (wet) 138 (Montana (wet) 167 Washington (wet) 184 It is plain to be seen from the above shooting; in the dark, that when their figures are brought to the 1 igrht they deceive no one. J. L. HARLBY, Superintendent S. C. Anti-Saloon League. PileB Cured In 6 to wa n?vi Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The lirst application gives Ease and itest. 60c. T. H. MUNRO^ ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE j UNION, S. C. MONEY TO LEND | ON J FARM LANDS U $300.00 to $10,000?Seven years time. See I JOHN K. IIAMIHJN Office 2nd door East of Postoffice. ! tf. t I DO NOT PULL FODDER. ? Serious Injury to Corn Crop from this Southern Farm Practice. I Clemson College, Auk. 9?One of the most costly mistakes of Southern farmers is fodder pulling. Pulling fodder not only reduces the yield of corn but also seriously injuries the vitality of the seed for the following year. Experiments conducted in South Carolina on the Coker farm in D arlington Counuty, proved that when fodder was pulled when the bottom leaves began to turn there was a loss of at least 24 per cent, in the yield of corn. If pulled when three-fourths of the leaves were dry, the decrease in yield was about 10 per cent. But this is not the only loss from fodder-pulling. Pulling fodder has a serious effect upon the next year's crop by lowering the vitality of the seed produced on stalks from which fodder is pulled. By pulling fodder, therefore, a man not only loses on his current crop, but also damages his chances of producing a good crop the following year. A good authority on the subject advises that a farmer feels he must pull fodder, he should leave at least two or three acres of his crop unpulled and from this select his feed corn. In this way he can keep up the quality of his seed and not suffer the second loss from fodder pulling, that which through planting inferior seed. THE CALHOUN FAMILY Friends in Anderson of Col. John C. Calhoun, of New York City, will be interested, says the Anderson Intelligencer, in the report that his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Snyder Calhoun, has brought suit against him for $100,000 for the alienation of her husband's affections and also suit against her young husband for separation, alimony and a whole lot of other things. The Atlanta Georgian of yesterday carried the affair, together with a large photo lof the young Mrs. Calhoun, a dashing ivvnill^ VVUIIUUI . "The John C. Calhoun family, as well known in Atlanta as it is in South Carolina and in the neighborhood of Broad and Wall streets, New York has come another matrimonal cropper. "This time it is James C., who is in the divorce court. Hi's wife is blue-eyed and golden-haired, and has the other qualifications which (?o to make a stunning show girl, the which she was in Ziegfield's Follies. Her name was Mabel yes, Mabel Snyder. "Mrs. Mabel Snyder Calhoun is suing her husband for separation and incidentally $200 a week alimony; to say nothing of several thousand dollar's attorney's fee. She is also suing: her father-in-law John C. Calhoun, for $100,000 for alienation of her husband's affections. "I was a stage girl and that was too much for John C. Calhoun, my father-in-law," says Mabel. "He couldn't bear to have it said that his son married an actress. That's the sum and substance of it. My, are actresses so dreadful? Really he'd never recognize me as a member of the family. "Young Calhoun,s father is a wealthy financier who has accumulated a fortune in railroad promotion in the south, a grandson of John Caldwell Calhoun, once vice-president, of the United States, and a brother of Patrick Calhoun, once a noted figure in Atlanta, and later in San Francisco. He married Linnie Adams, grandniece of Richard M. Tohn.vm, also a former vice-president of the Unittd States. 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