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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1904. VOLUME XXXX-NO. 271
WHEN YOU BUY A ???
WINTER OVERCOAT
Copyright 1904 by
Hart Schaffner Marx
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fore guarantee every garment to be
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In Men's and Young Men's Over
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They overbought. Their Special Seduction Saje of
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is now in full blast. This sale spells
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&
THE FOOT PLEASMLS.
The F&rmers' Educational and
Cc-Operative Union of America.
CONDUCTED BY J. O. 8TRIBLIN0. ||
CommuicatiortB intended for this j
j department .should ba addressed to I
j J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, 8. C.
Tho motto of the organized farmers
is, "Not mad hut deliberately in ear
liest."
The present slump in the prico of
cotton from 10 cents to 71-2 couta
means a loss to tho farmer and de
pression iu business interests alike to
every business, whether merchants,
fertilizer makers, mulo and horso
traders, doctors or ministers. It means
over 812 per bale on tho 30,000 bales
produced in Anderson County, which
aggregates a loss on tho remniniug
part of this crop now in tho hands of
Anderson County men to full $200 000.
If this heavy loss to the farmer re
mained in our midst to upbuild our
home cotton mills at;d other industries
the farmer could afford to shoulder
the loss with much better grace, but as
the loss is turned into net piolita to en
rich ' tho cotton gamblers and specu
lators of the East we appeal to every
Southern man in every branch of the
different trades to unite with us in ouo
grand concentrated action with all the
cotton States to obtain a profitable
price for our cotton.
"What are the cotton growers going
to do about it?" Well, it appears that
the men now holding the remainder of
tho cotton crop are determined to bold
on to the cotton until it sets in sight
of the burning sulphuric blue blazes of
Hades before they will let it go for loss
than ten cents, ?nt as it is dangerous
to let cotton go too near fire, we would
now sound the bugle blast of distress
to call all cotton growers generally to
rally to the standard of our common,
neighborly interest and seize the cot
ion beais of the East and hold them
between us and tho fire.
These arctic white cotton bears of
the North and East cannot stand heat
like the Southern cotton grower, who
has kind of gotten used to the smell
1 of burning brimstone and the tropical
sun.
The cotton grower feels his wrongs
as never before and has begun to learn
his needs, and as he is today in better
tiuancial condition than he has been in
40 years and can stand the collision
and crisis with better prospects of win
ning than ever before, notice may ns
well now be nerved upon the cotton
speculator that the galling yoke of
price-making by the non-producing
speculator will never again be tamely
borne by the cotton growers, and as
cotton ie perhaps the best collateral ot
all the products of the soil there is no j
reason why the cotton growers cannot I
protect their interest through con- I
certed action without disturbing the ;
affairs of other legitimate tradesmen
or other branches of craftsmen by tho
simple use of common horse sense in
our methods. i
Farmers, Hold Colton, is Adviee of Col.
Orr.
In an interview with a representa
tive of The Greenville News on Wed
nesday, Col. James L. Orr, president
of the Piedmont Manufacturing Com
pany, said that it would be suicidal for
the farmers of the South to sell their
cotton at71-2 cents when they would
undoubtedly receive higher prices
later on. He believes that nine cents
will be paid if the farmers will only
agree to hold.
Col. Orr was asked.what he thought
of the cotton and goods situation. Ho
replied that it was badly mixed. There
will unquestionably be a large crop,
ho said, but not aa large aa the govern
ment estimates, and he would rather
trust the ginners' report, which to bis
mind, indicated ? crop of 11,080,000
bales rather than 12,400,000, which the
government etimate makes it, includ
ing linters. In. making the estimate,
the government seems to have lost
sight of three very important matters
which forced the ginning of cotton
much more rapidly than Usual. The
crop was fully three weeks earlier than
usual, ia many sections, on account of
the dry weather, four weekB earlier.
Not a single day were the farmers pre
vented from picking their cotton from
the first of September to the 14th of
November, and cotton waa selling
around ten cents, all of which induced
early ginning, so that instead of 80 per
cent being ginned, as the government
estimate would indicate, there was
probably 87 to.88 per cent, actually
ginned cn the 14fch of November. This
conclusion is corroborated by the
small amount of bagging apd ties sold
since the loth of November and by the
short time that the gins have been
running.
He said that he advised his friends
to sell their cotton freely as long aa
they conld get above 0 cents for it,
but it would be anioidal on the part of
the farmers and the South generally
to sell their cotton at 71-2 cents. In
stead of fighting the speculators, they
would simply be doW j that which the
bears are trying so hard to frighten
them into. The trade of the country
will be excellent for the next year,
and all the spindles will be occupied,
so that we can reasonably expect 11,
000,000 balea of American cotton to be
used in the next twelve months.
"This is the best opportunity I have
ever eeeo," he said, "to test the cour
age and good sense of the farmers
of the Sonth. My advice is to .hold,
their cotton through December and
January. .
"The goods market baa been very
seriously affected ry the slump in cot
ton, and while very few prices have
actually been lower, converters, ex
porten and jobben are all afraid to
.take hold of che market for fear of ad
ditional depression. AU of the milla
making coarse gooda have practically
their product sold through March and
many of them through May; so . there
Wiltoo very few goods of this cl asa
seeking buyers. Fine goods nave been
selling for the peat six weeks on a
baals of 81-2 cents for cotton and any
mill that agrees to f urniah gooda at
lesa price than floe gooda are now sell
ing for will not make anything, even
if the)- have no high-priced cotton al
ready bought. Thia ia a contest be
tween the spinners of the world against
the cotton producen, and the sym
pathies of the Southern spinners axe :
with the farmers, because their inter
est ia mutual in so many other re
specta, and they have bought a much
larger proportion of their cotton, being
in the midst of it than the New E?g-i
lund or Continental spinners. Cotton
ia worth 9 cents, intrinsically, and if
the farmers will hold what is left in
tboir hands they can get that price for
it."
GENERAL SEWS.
- Two legislaturemon of Mississip
pi have hoon indicted as being mem
bers of a whitecap band.
- The farmers of Scotteboro, Ala.,
propose to reduce the cotton estimates
by burning a million bales.
- The national pension roll has iu
creased until thero aro more than a
million names on it. Thero arc 4,000
more than last year.
- A New Jersey woman thinks she
is ontitled to two pensions because
she is widow of ono soldier and the
grass widow of another. . j~ ? r~J
- Tho heaviest-boy inj Georgia for
his age, perhaps, is Starke M. Cox, of
Ashburn, who is but seven years old
and weighs 140 pounds.
- It is stated in the Associated
Press dispatohes, that the President
has definitely deeded not to oall an
extra session of Congress.
- Thomas Dewey, tho defaulting
cashier of the Farmers' and Merohanta1
bank of Newborn, N. 0., for over ono
hundred thousand, has been arrested
in San Antonia, Texas.
- Eleven English fishermon were
drowned on Friday while helping to
save the passengers of a Norwegian
steamer whioh was wrecked on tho
coast of Northumberland.
- The agricultural department has
estimated tho coro crop for this year
at 2.453,030,000 bushels, which has
only been exceeded by tho crop of
1002, which was 2,523,648,312 hush
els.
- It is reported from Washington
that the postoffice department has
given postmasters overywhere to un
derstand that tho president will be
rigid io the enforcement of his polioy
against active participation in parti
san politius by federal officeholders.
- The house committee on indus
trial arts and exhibits have deoided
not to recommend to thc house to hold
an exposition at Jamostown, Va., but
some other suitable and less expen
sive mode of celebrating the tricen
tennial of the first Euglish settlement
there.
- Monroe Wells, tho 22 year-old
?on of a carpenter at North Birming
ham, Ala., while in a fit of temporary
Insanity, shot at and narrowly missed
his mother, fatally wounded an aunt
who rushed to his mother's assistance,
and then turned the weapon upon
himself and blew out his brains.
- The Alabama Commissioner of
Agriculture has issued a circular let
ter to the cotton growers of Alabama
o&ning for a mass meeting in ail the
towns on Tuesday, January 10, to dis
caoa the best way of disposing of
the present crop now on hand and
for concert of action in making a new
orop.
- A sensation hts been oreated in
Jaokson, Miss., by the indictment of
Hon? H. T. Montgomery, member of
the Legislature, and J. C. Bryant and
J. B. Willis, members of tho County
Board of Supervisors of Lincoln Coun
ty, on the ohargo of whiteoapping. A
number of indictments agaiust promi
nent oitiienB have beep returned.
- Lulu McLaughlin, who disap
Seared mysteriously from her home io
ewark, N. J., on June 15, 1903, has
been brought to that city and re
stored to her mother by a detective,
who says that he found her in the
Catskill mountains. The girl, who is
14 years old, tells a story of having
been kidnapped by a woman, taken to
Manorkill, in the Catskills, und com
pelled to do all kinds of drudgery on
a farm there.
- The organization of the one-leg
ged men of Atlanta has been com
pleted and commences with about 300
of tho bast known one-legged men in
tho city. The club has started tinder
the mutual benefit plan. Each mem
ber pays $1.59 a month for five years
into the dub and he reoeives a new
artificial leg with a guarantee that it
Will be kept in repair.
- The Daughters of the Confed
eracy will present to the State of Mis
sissippi a magnificent oil painting of
Jefferpon Davis to be plaoed in the
hall of fame at the new capitol. Dele
gates from each of the sixty local
chapters of the U. D. O. in Mississippi
will be appointed to attend the pre
sentation on January 19, 1905. The
painting is valued at $1,000.
- Houston Bond a clerk in a lead
ing hotel of Nashville, has received
a certified eheck from Evansville,
Ind., for $10,000. Four years ago an
old gentleman fell on the sidewalk in
front of the hotel and severely in
jured himself. Mr. Bond went to
his assistance, lifted bim from the
ground and oared for him. Thc
check whioh he has receive d is the
lequel.
- An Atlantic Coast Line passen
ger train from Rooky Mount; N. C.,
to Wilmington was wrecked by run- <
Ding into an open switch at Overman's
siding, about two miles north of War
saw* The engineer and his colored
fireman were instantly killed. None
of the passengers was seriously in
jured, although the entire train, with
the exception of a Pullman, was piled
up alongside the track. It is believed
toe switch ?rae tampered with.
- A reward of $1,800 and expenses
bas been offered for the oapture of
Maro 8. Potter, the defaulting and.
fugitive cashier of the bank at Davis
boro, Ga., where he is alleged to be
more than $20,000 short in his ac
counts. The reward is offered by the
officials of the bank. Potter is only
22 years old, weight 200 pounds and
bas light hair and bine eyes. He is
popular, and his friends expresa ?S7.
Triso at his action. ".
STATE NEWS. '
- Thc Legislature will meet Tues
day, January 10.
- It is said that there is need of
$200,000 additional income to savo
the State from borrowing money every
year.
- A negro man snatched a purse
from the hand of Miss Beanie Maxwell
on Main street in Spartanburg and es
caped with it. Z1'3
- Tho trustees of Winthrop Col
lege have made their report, show
ing receipts from appropriations of
$65,691.68 and expenditures of $l?l,
689.62.
- II. D. Ousts, who lives on J. S.
Langford's placo iu Newberry Coun
ty, killed ten hogs ou tbe 8th inst.,
four of which netted, after cleaning,
1,255 pounds.
- Aaron P. Prioleau, the negro con
gressional oandidate in tho 1st district,
Efts been convicted in the United
States district court in Charleston of
tampcriog with the mails.
- The citizens of Elloree, Oraogo
burg County, will appear boforo the
State Board with an overwhelming
petition askiog for the removal of the
dispensary "from their midst."
- A reward of $1,000 has been
offered for thc arrest of J. II. Adams,
of Collcton County, who walked out of
jail some time ago under death sen
t?nos aud is still believed to be in the
vioinity.
- A jury in Camden gave a woman
a verdict for $3,000 damages against
tho Seaboard Air Line road because
ono of i ts conductors treated har dis
courteously while she was a passenger
on his train.
- At a mass meeting at Salley,
Orangeburg County, attended by 350
farmers, all signed a pledgo not to
market any moro cotton under 10
cents, even if they have to hold it a
year or more.
- Smallpox is said to exist in twen
ty five counties in the State and to bo
very prevalent in some, particularly
Goorgctown. The State Board finds
that thc funds on hand are inadequate
to meet thc situation.
- L. J. Jordon, a fruit tree man,
who liv?. ' at Kershaw, shot and killed
a negro a few days ago. The account
says "tho colored man was endeavor
ing to pull his gun." A 41 pistol was
found on him after he was killed.
- Capt. Smith Griffin, of Easley,
who was in Greenville on Thursday,
whoa near the Southern depot was
struck by a street oar and sustained
sevore lojuries. Capt. Griffin had a
out in his temple and complained of
his back giving him muoh pain.
- Pope P. Hayos, who operates a
turkey raffling establishment in Co
lumbia, was arrested on a warrant
sworn out by the executive committee
of the Richland County Law and
Order League, in order to bring the
question of the legality of turkey
raffling to an issue.
- It has been announced that Dr.
J. Kugene Jarnegan. of Marica, a
member or the Legislature from that
oounty for four years, will become
a oandidate for superintendent of
the State penitentiary, opposing the
present superintendent, Capt. D. J.
Griffith, in his raoe for re-eleotion.
- The coroner's jury brought in a
verdict the Hughes family at Trenton
came to their death by the hands of
persona unknown to the jury. Thc
publio has settled down to thc convic
tion that B. B. Bughes, in a fit of
insanity, murdered his wife and two
daughters and then oommitted sui
cide.
- Several prominent capitalists
will arrivo in Charleston in a few days
from Philadelphia, coming to confer
with local parties for the organization
of the company which ir. to build a
trolley Hue to Summerville, a pine
land and health resort about twenty
two miles from Charleston. Thc char
tor has been received from the Sec
retary of State.
. - President Johnson, of Winthrop
College, has returned from a trip in
the North where he perfected all plans
and arrangements for building the
Carnegie library at Winthrop, and
obtained the money and the adoption
of plans for an elegant building, work
on whioh will be begun as soon as
tba material oan be put on the
grounds.
- County Auditor I. MoD. Hood,
of Chester, had an exoiting experi
ence a few mornings ago, from which
he has not yet reoovered. About 5
o'clock he got up and made a fire, as
is his custom, aud went baok to bed to
enjoy another nap. His foet getting
'too warm for comfort, ho awoke to
find tho bed in flames, which had
started at tho foot and were rapidly
advancing toward the head. Seeing
his serious plight, he quioker than a
16-year-old leaped from the bed and
rolled the whole outfit of covering
into the fire place, and .began pour
ing on water. Both of his hands
were badly burned and he cousinly
had a narrow escape from being burn
ed to death.
I -Mrs. Helen M. Felton, of Spring
field, Mass., will get a Christmas
{?resent from the State of South Caro
ma in the shape of aoheokfor 12,320,
whioh will be a clear pickup as it
were. The check will be sent in pay
ment, at 50 per cent, of two bonds of
the faoe value of $1,000 eaeh, and
dated 1873, with interest at 4 1-2 per
oent up to the time of the passage of
the special aot providing for the pay
ment of these kind of bonds. Mrs.
Felton wrote the Comptroller General
that she found the bonds among a lot*
of old papers and carno near throwing
them away. She will be surprised, as
she did ?bt think it worth while to
omploy an attorney.
I o
Would Stand By Farmers.
Mr. B. P. Muuldin, of Anderson,
president of tho South Carolina State
Bankers' Association, has received a
letter from Mr. W. J. Montgomery,
president of tho Farmers' and Mer
chants'Bauk, ot'Marion, advising that
thc hanks of tho South lend money to
tho merchant-' and farmers of tho
South on.cotton, willi tho and to enable
them to hold their cotton it' they so do
si io.
Mr. M auld in sends to tho News and
Courier a copy of tho lotter, which fol
lows:
MU. MONTi?OMEUY'?j LETT KU.
Marion, December '.>.-B. P. Jl/aul*
din, Esq., President State Hankers'
Association, Anderson, S. C. -Dear
Sir: lt seems to me just now is an op
portune timo for the banks, particular
ly of tho South, to ho of immense prac
tical advantage to tho agricultural
interests of tho Southern States by
loaning money to tho fanners and
merchants on cotton, and thereby pre
venting thom from being forced to
market their cotton too fast at prosent
prices.
I am aware that nothing practical
can bo accomplished, except by con
certed action, and if you will pardon
the suggestion I write to inquire if it
would not be w?Be for you, forthwith,
to tnke tho matter up with the presi
dents of tho different Bankers' Asso
ciations in tho cotton growing Stntes,
having tho obiect stated above in view.
It is not my view that the object
should bo to "bull" tho price of cotton,
but, per contra, to protect the agricul
tural interests of tho South against thc
"beni" raid that seems now to have
complete control o',' the cotton market,
I am aware, too, that there is not fl
complete system of w are houses in thc
South tor storing cottou. but each in
dividual banker cnn be left to judgt
of how the cotton shall be stored, etc.,
to satisfy him with the security. 1
might say iu passing, our bank ha*
loaned money for the past fifteeu : ^un
to its customers on Cotton, most of ii
on the farms, aud has never lost a dol
lar thereby.
I know the bankers of the South cat
but feel a keon interest in this matter
and 1 am nlso satislled cotton has gooc
friends nm oin,' tho great banks of th?
North.
In revolving this matter in my minc
the plan indicated above appeared th*
most feasible, because the bunks of th?
South are organized, the farmers ar
not; the bnuks can act promptly, th
farmers cannot.
My groat personal interest in th
agricultuinl interests of the South
which seem now to bo so serious!
threatened, is my excuse tor this let
ter.
After reading and acting upon thi
letter, if you see tit to act upon it,
have no objection to your giving it t
the press of ?the* State with BUC
views as you may think proper to ex
press.
I need not say that if you take an
action to accomplish the desired resu!
it should be taken at once.
With very kind regards, I am, vei
truly, W. J. Montgomery.
MK. MAULWN'S LETTER.
Mr. Mauldin writes the following let
ter to the News and Courier, comment
ing upon tho letter of Mr. Montgom
ery:
Anderson, December 15, 1004.
To ibo Editor of the Nows and Cou
rier: I regard tho above timely com
munication that came to me from Mr.
\V. J, Montgomery, president of tho
Farmers' and Merchants' Hank of Ma
rion, S. C., ana vico president of our
State Hankers' Association, of suffi
cient interest to tho public, and moro
especially to our farmers, to request
its publication in your paper.
Wo all recognize that tho leading
primal or basic factor in tho material
prosperity of our State, and of tho
South, is farming. It is true that cot
ton manufacturing, her twin lister, is
steadily growing, and I trust will con
tinue to grow, but wo are, to a largo
extent, an agricultural people. I uso
tho expression 'twin sister' advisedly,
believing that thee*) two should go
hand in hand, and that there Bhould be
no eontlict of interests between them.
The farmer produces a bale of cot
ton, turns it over to tho manufacturer,
and ho converts it into two bales,.ia
dollars and cents.
Tho milla aro full of operatives, they
must be fed from the poultry yards,
the orchards, the truck patches, the
granaries and the slaughter peus of
the farmer. This insures to the farm
er a good market for all produce of
thia kind.
The mills naturally desire to secure
all the local cotton that they can, for
they thus save freight and the profit
of the intermediate man from whom
they must otherwise purchase, hence
the mills must of necessity maintain
their local cotton markets.
Hanks especially have a community
of interest with the farmer, for a largo
crop and a good price means to thom
easy collections, good depoaita, enlarg
ed resources and better earnings. On
the other hand the farmer appreciates
the fact thnt the banka have placed
him upon a cash basis, thereby reliev
ing hun from the burden of credit
prices to which 25 years ago ho was
necessarily subjected.
In view of the mutuality of interests
between the banks and the farmers, it
goes without saying that the tonner
atand ready at all times to help tho
latter to the extent of their ability.
The co-operative plan auggOBted by
Mr. Montgomery can hardly oe put ia
operation to meet tho present crisis to
which he refers. In this connection
Mr. W. S. Witham, of Georgia, presi
dent of 48 banks, Juts invited tho presi
denta of the various State banking as
soci?t ions of the South to meet in At
lanta, Ga., on the iJrd of January next,
and one of the matter? to be consider
ed ia the auggestion made by Afr.
Montgomery.
In the meantime, fortunately for tho
farmers of our State, our banka, in our
opinion, are in position to give them
the necessary aid in holding their cot
ton. The bank with which I am con
nected, (and I nm sure this ia true o?
the other banka here,) baa been able
to extend all the accommodation of
this kind that has been asked for this
season. If this is true of na in a cotton
mill centre, where the mills also make
beavv demands upon us, it must be
true of the banks in other parts of those
sections of tho State where there are
fewer mills. B. F. Mauldin,
President S. C. Hankers' Association
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