The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 13, 1915, Page 7, Image 7
LETT A CONTENTED
PEOPLE ALONE.
Columbia Record.
In these days when in places of
large population many are hunting
for work, we feel that it is a little
short of criminal for meddlers to be
going around interfering with labor
that is contented.
The world at large has a distorted
idea of the condition of the people who
work in the mills. Mill workers are
about the healthiest, happiest, best
cdnditioncd people in the South.
The man who would disturb their
contentment is an enemy to them and
a destroyer of their happiness
If the people had wrongs or
grievances, it would not be right to
let them be iniposed on. But what
wrongs have been inflicted upon
them? They are better paid than
clerks in stores and some of the
young women get higher wages than
stenographers, have lighter work, art
not subject to so many mortifications
in irointr and rnminir frnm utai-1
and are able to dress neatly and, in |
fact, prettily. The mill girl of today j
is a type of Southern womanhood that |
will compare well in appearenct.in
education, in mind and in character
with the best classes anywhere.
The mill people have but little rent
to pay; in some communities get water
and lights free; have free schools,
and church buildings and lodge rooms
given to them; have their delightful
flower yards and prolific vegetable
gardens. These are our mill people
of t oday. Sober, honorable, honest,
ambitious, neighborly, charitable likeable
people?and contented. People
of whom we may be poud.
Some mills for a stipend of $4 per
month let their operators have com- I
fortable homes and furnished the mule I
power to plow the garden; and fur- j
nish the fertilizer at cost?and the j
consequence is that the mill operative
may have a good garden all the
year round.
In some communities we have
known mill operatives to save enough
to buy their little farms. In Columbia
the workers have their own cooperative
store, operated by mill workers,
and we are informed that in the
first year of operation a dividend of
25 per cent was declared?for the
mill workers.
We do not believe in oppressing
such a virtuous race of people. We
believe in giving them opportunity,
and all of these things they have?
freedom opportunity and a fair
wage. On the other hand, consider
the mili manager.
These men come in for all sorts of
criticism and abuse and it is undeserved.
We know that the mill managers
have a hard time of it. They
have problems that are vexing and
full of worry and responsibility. Like
good soldiers, they put on a bold front
ever in the midst of the ever wearing
cares. The mill managers a year ago
were confronted with the most serious
problems that has effeted the
South.
The world must eat, but the world
can wear little of clothes. It is the
cotton manufacturer who suffers in
case of great international controversies.
The situation was evolved to the
full credit of the nation, and the manufacturing
enterprises of the South
have pulled through the crisis, but it
was a great battle for the valiant and
the strong hearted men who are on- |
deavoring to handle the financial re- j
sponsibility of the industry.
Every man in the world has his
burdens, cares and sorrows, his responsibilities.
The humane mill owner
has his own and the cares of many
others. We here lay down one broad
proposition?To whom should the mill !
people stick in case of disaster? To i
the office hunter who comes around
every year or so with the most guileful
and at the same time, most plausible
lot of talk? Or to the mill manager
who will stand by his people, or
at least those of them who are deserving?
We hope that the issue may never
come, that the great war will never
cause the mills to suspend, for even
one day; but if the day should come,
we venture to say that the mill management
Nvill 'in every community
spare no pains to see that the opera- i
tivcs are cared for in the best manner 1
possible until the time for resuming 1
operations. <
Suppose all of the mills should be
blotted out of existence tomorrow? >
Then, what suffering would there be
The unthinking people of today do
not appreciate the great boon of the
cotton mills. They have given employment,
education, preaching and .
in fact, burial aid to many industrious '
people, who, if they had been left as <
hired labors upon the farms might
have been living in drudgery and un 1
happiness. I
In case of the mills being forced to i
suspend operations temporarily we i
believe that the operatives could go <
on living in their homes at no expense
and to some of them ritrht here
in Columbia one spot has been home <
for 16 years. j
We believe in the mill managers (
and mill workers understanding each ,
other, sympathizing with each other, ,
aiding each other. The industry is |
yet in the formative period. Tt is the
main dependence of perhaps 150,000 j
persons in South Carolina. As long as (
the wheels are turning, they make the ,
shutters hum a song of thrift and the (
looms roar a deep diapason of con- f
tent. But when the hush of inactivity (
falls upon an industry, it is the deep {
silence of death in the house. \j
We repeat that the mill managers j
have their problems, their burdens, r
and they need incouragemcnt in t
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 drug (
store and take something for what's ^
the matter with them. I
LIQUOR LITERATURE, ETC.
It is not wise for any man to reply
to anonymous circulars affecting th?
public, but so many liquor dealers
have sent to our office by our Prolu
bition friends with inquires for explanations,
etc., that we have decided
to write an article dealing with tht
false statements that the unwar^
reader may not be decieved. Sorm
things are unreasonable, in thest
circulars, that it is not worth wink
to lose time or energy in denying
We are told by one of the liquor advocates
that 200,000,000 families have
wine, beer, or spirits always on theii
tables in Continental Europe, and that
there is no drunkenness in all thai
land, and that the people live longei
over there than they do in the United
States. The writer surely was addressing
his remarks to the lunatics
confined within the wall of the
asylums. When we read such stuff, a
thinking man at once begins to ask,
"Why has France declared for Prohibition
during the war?" "Why
lhas Russia declared for Prohibition
during the war?" "Why has LloydGeorge,
one of the great leaders of
RnrrlnnH nfKof 4-V*
enemies to fight?Germany, Austria,
and Rum?the greatest enemy to be
conquered is Rum?"
Just for the sake of giving the public
a little information, 1 will statt
that during the year 1912 the gov
eminent of JRussia owned and managed
2,983 distilleries and 26,01G bars.
In other words, they had a bar for
every 5,922 of their population. During
the same year England and Wale~
had a dram shop for every 571 population,
and 250,000,000 gallons of
liquor were sold through these shops.
These liquor shops paid more thai.
70 per cent, of the total revenue of
the kingdom and more than twice the
total of revenue of the United States
Government. And yet the people of
this country are told that everything
on the othqr side of the Atlantic
Ocean is happy and sober.
Financial Scarecrow
Another great scarecrow brought
into the open by the liquorite circulars
is that the United Staes Government
is in danger of becoming bankrupt,
and that a financial panic is
fcure to come if the bars of this nation
are closed and the revenue from the
sale of intoxicating liquors is cut off.
It is surprising how few people stop
to think of the actual facts in regara
to this revenue issue When we are
told that the liquor business pays to
the United States Government $226,000,000,
some people reach thj conclusion
at once that it would ruin the
nation if this should cease; but with
they are shown that this liquor revenue
amounts to but very little when
compared with the whole, they can
scarcely be made to believe the statement.
The editor of the Vindicator,
'a newspaper published in Franklin,
Penn., and which has a nation circulation,
put in an expert accountant
on the job and got the facts for his
paper. The following is part of his
cA^n s reports, puDiisnea April iotn,
1915:
"Taking first the broad, national
view of the subject, we find that in
the year 1913 the total revenues of
all States, counties and incorporateu
places having a population of more
than 2,500 \yere$l,845,901,128, a per
capita average of $19. We also discover
that the revenue from 'liquor
license and other imports,' which, it
is to be assumed, includes all forms
of revenue from liquor traffic received
by the State, county, and municipal
governments, amounted to $79,51(5,989,
or a per capita of 82 cents.
"In other words, the enormous revenues
which the liquor business is supposed
to pay for the support of the
State, county, and municipal .government,
as revealed by these statistics,
amounted to 4.3 per cent of the total
revenue.
"The general property tax included
in the total revenues of the States,
counties, and municipalities amounted
to $1,082,971,4(58, a per capita ol
$11.15.
From this we see that in the year
1913 it had been necessary to raise
every dollar of the sum paid by the
liquor business for the support of the
State, county, and municipal government
by direct taxation uqon the property
it would have required an increase
of only 7.3 oer cent. Or, in
other words, a man who did pay in
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
which has its place right here. In
1913 the per capita drinl: bill of (he
American people was in excess of $'23.
Therefore, the avrag prrson 'bneiitL>d"
by the liquor revenue under consideration
parted with $23 ( j the
liquor business as a tax collector and
trot Pack S3 cent in the way of revenue
collected, somewr.erc in the
rtcighboi hi cd of 3 1-2 cents uqon each
lollar the traffic took him.
"Considering the liquor traffic a
tax eollecetor, commissioned by the
State and municipal governments to
... * 1 tL --
iunici me peoples contributions to
.he common expenses, the collector
was keeping a 'rake-off' or receiving
i commission of 2,704 per cent, upon
,he revenue which he turned in "
The greatest of the revenues from
.he liquor traffic goes to the fedora.
?r national government. I.et '.i? see
what are the figures, taking this government
also into consideration and so
jiving the liquor traffic the most fnvnable
showing possible. In 1913 the
,otal revenues of the national govern
nerit were $724,111,230, of which the
iquor revenue was $230,260,989.
The total revenues to run all our govunments?national,
State, and local
?in 1913 were thus $2,012,358, and of
his total the liquor revenues equaled
n 1913 $309,522,378, or an amount
?qual to 12 per cent, of the total revalues.
Estimating the population of the
United Staes at nrcsent at 100,000,>00,
the liquor revenues for 1913 equal
53.09 per capita; the national drink
)ill equals more than $23 per capita.
Hence, in "saving" a revenue of $3.09
per capita through the liquor traffic,
r the American people spend in a
s way that incalculable destroys their
i efficieency an amount equaling more
than $'23, or a net loss of $20.
Death Rate Spectre
I I notice that the liquor sheets deals
? with the number of prisoners and insane.
This is done very adroitly,
s The uninformed reader, of course,
s would not understand the reasons for
s such tabulation. The liquor people
. represent Kansas as having a higher
death rate, for instance, than Nebras>
ka, which is a liquor State. The peo
pie do not know that this is taken
; from cities covered by the registra,
tion. It must be remembered that in
Kansas twelve cities are covered by
I the registration, while in Nebraska
there are only two?Lincoln and
i Omaha. However, when you com:
pare Kansas not as a State, but with
i the other cities, in regard to death
, rate she shows up as follows: Regi.
stration cities in other States, per
- 1,000 inhabitants, in 1913, 16.3, Kani
sas, 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 covered
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 In,
sane, and Leavenworth is the sear, of
a federal prison, a military post, and
. also of an Old Soldiers Home. This
i (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, where
; 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
L 98.3 for violent deaths that Nebras.
ka cities show up 156.5 per 100,000.
, The city of Omaha, Nebraska, shows
i n a n
I up JL 14. I #
1 Criminal Bugbear
. Dealing with the criminal proposii
tion, the liquor sheets are trying to
make it appear that Kansas, the Prohibition
State, does not compare fav!
orably with the liquor States; that
i Kansas has more prisoners than her
. fcister State of Nebraska, where they
i have open bar rooms. This is true,
i 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
l federal prison at Leavenworth; but
i 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.
But there is yet another reason why
Kansas has so many more prisoners
than her sister State. Kansas does
not ir.flict capital punishment l'or anv
crime whatsoever. All convicts are
sent to the penitentiary. A man convicted
of stealing a chicken is sen! in
the penitentiary, and if convicted of
selling whiskey the second t?me he is
sent lo the penitentiary, it is t o
wonder tlm* n.. o. ? -
W..VV tvunouo nan miMC priS'U.*
crs rhan ether States, and yot in the
face of all this she show.? up very
favorably when compared with sor-.t
other liquor Staes. Another la*.,
which should be mentioned is this:
The liquor people are taking their
figures from the United State.; Federal
Reports of 11)14. At that tirmOklahoma
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 1910, 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 Prohibition
States; but wet Nebaska sent
493 people to prison for every 100,000,
the same year.
The liquor people are also having j
something to say about the number of I
Prohibition Kansas. Just a brief j
comparison here will suffice on this i
question:
Kansas (Prohibition) 109
Nevada (wet) 111
Wyoming (wet) 113
Arizona (wet) 1201
Idaho (wet) 120 I
Texas (wet) 131!
Arkansas (wet) 13(5 j
Indiana (wet) 142
Colorado (wet) ir>8
(Montana (wet) 1(57
Washington (wet) 184
It is plain to be seen from the above
shooting in the dark, that when their
figures are brought to the light they
deceive no one.
J. L. HARLEY,
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Serious Injury to Corn Crop from this
Southern Farm Practice.
Clemson College, Aug. 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 leaver
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.
Put this is not the only loss from
fodder-pulling. Pulling fodder has a
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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
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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
of the young Mrs. Calhoun, a dashing
looking youg woman:
"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. His wife is
blue-eyed and golden-haired, and
has the other qualifications which
go 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
I sum and substance of it. My, are acI
tresses so dreadful ? Really he'd
I never recognize me as a member of
1 the family.
"Young Calhoun, s father is a
I wealthy financier who has accumulated
a fortune in railroad promotion in
the south, a grandson of John Cald'
well 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, grandi
niece of Richard M. Tohn.srm, also a
former vice-president of the Unittd
I States. Served through the Civil War
I and afterward became a planter and
j financier. He was a special ambas'
sador to France in 1897 and has acted
I us president and director of many
southern railroads.
"Atlantans still remember the mari
riage of another of the younger Cal,
houns here. John C. Calhoun, Jr.,
wedded the beautiful Mamie Martin
; at midnight at the Georgia Terrace
hotel in November, 1913. A year
j 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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