The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 13, 1915, Page 7, Image 7
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.
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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
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But this is not the only loss from
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fodder is pulled. By pulling fodder,
therefore, a man not only loses on his
current crop, but also damages his
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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. Served through the Civil War
and afterward became a planter and
financier. He was a snecial ambas
sador to France in 1897 and has acted
as nresident and director of many
southern railroads.
"Atlantans still remember the marriage
of another of the younger Calhouns
here. John C. Calhoun. Jr.,
wedded the beautiful Mamie Martin
at midnight at the Georgia Terrace
hotel in November, Ibl3. A year
later he started action against her,
alleging that she had neglected to
get a divorce from one Benjamin Irwin
of Louisville."
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