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I on the grading over and abo^ cotton. The South has it in her pc credit incident to handling th self the dominant power in fi called a dreamer, and I wish to starve to death, not becau the table is loaded with food' if we make a crop it is ruin, trine, "You can and you can damned if you do, and you what the cotton planters are marketing period. We marke ever. Beginning in the Sout most Limit of the cotton belt, competitors one with the ot] sret: debts and rent liens a: shoving the weak and the hel] permit such destruction of vali people. I would not see our a predatory combination, but the trust is the devil of moc fight the devil is with fire. I our State Governments behini to secure a fair return for ( vestments, and we are less th; erty, if we do not assert our whole scheme of national go-* around protection by the gove uals. Tariff, money and trani mercial life. The tariff laws Dingley Act, in its very title, American industries." fWher< of this? He is compelled to consumes, and he sells in the lie get out of the money monoj Banking Act since 1863, excep rates? What has he got exc roads built out of the profit + tlia Antorinal KlinHoro VVOUU5 V/ll^iUAi vuuuvig must pay dividends on the t Certainly legislation conferrin of every great swollen fortui contributed every time he bouj great trusts fix the price of the farm. Is tiie farmer to : sells? Our monopoly, ho we legislation. God gave it to u climate and by soil. Let th< follow the lead of South Car wnrlH tihat frAm HAW hl>nrpfnr TTV**U VMM v a*V IT uv?vv*v* 2 monopoly price for a mon< ?'' position to make this no idle What chance have unorgar States, in a contest witla exp limited capital? What the pec ually is within the province a for them. The government h< is not socialism; it is patriot paternalism or not. Better i erishment. Better that cotto than the shackles of a slave. one brave blow fofr a righteou* the South continue to cringe '< tyrant? Our lands are an u but the product of our land, c at a moment's notice. The r negotiable security. The Stat form of credit, and when they part an artificial value to eve South rich in the next twenty-; Contraction of Crt We ask no favor of the gov fight. iWie expect nothing es but we do deny the right of z create to destroy our market mi. 1.11. .1 iuwfcsis. xatv utitt. tu us a Cotton sold in my town on th is now bringing twice as muc lies in the extension of credit, It is not so often ovei tion of credits and faulty prices. Statistics prove t mot kept pace with the cc for it each year. It h silk. It leads in tte great in to bring a fair return to those our feet to the hats on our he cotton. There are one hundn today, and if they were able i would each use ten dollars wo consume the entire crop of tfr the balance of the world. Th to the situation. Wall Street please, but the mills can no Street sells. You can't cloth have the actual cotton, and it is king. All that the South ha to hold the crop and demand these millions of future conti cotton exchanges of New Yor must come to us for tie spot < soutft iarom The population of the wor people. About 500,000.000 re partially clad, and 250,000,000 that to clothe the entire popul ent rate of pounds per capita ton of 500 pounds each. It i of cotton will go on extendini with the product of our fields, clothing "known to man. It is world, but if she is to do so th land owner and the laborer. In the past, is leading this g] in* the price of cotton. Mr. W. Board, in an address last Feb: tute, said that out of the agitj only thing worth while was tl State/' Later he gave me let York City, In which he stated t of anything which had been System was a model for the eafi assure him tlbat South < little State has a glorious his every great national crisis, ultimatum to the Convention from that time to the day wh war her voice fhas been peter apeed the day when, forgettii I ber statesmanship will again r tiie South not only political I the longest line of railroad i re the price that he pays you for the Dreams. >wer, by utilizing tbe vast commercial is great monopoly crop, to make her[nance and civilization. I have been that I were worthy to take my place se I have nothing to eat, but because ? If we make no crop it is ruin, and too. It is the old predestination c c.'t; you will and you wcn't; you are damned if you don't." That is just face to face with every year at the st our crop without any system whathwest, and running to the northern there is a mad rust:, to sen. w e are tier?sell, sell for whatever you can nd crop mortgages all pressing and pless. The laws of any country which ie are unjust and unworthy a Christian farmers organize a piratical trust or I do say that, as all seem agreed that lern commerce, that the best way to do advocate a self-defence trust with 3 it. We have tried every other plan >ur products and interest on our inan men, and deserve the sting of povselves in defence of our rights. Our rernment for fifty years has revolved rnment to certain classes and individsportation are the foundation of comunder which we live?one of them the "an Act to encourage and to protect ; does the farmer get anything out buy in the home market all that he open market of the world. What does >oly that has existed under the National t the privilege of paying high interest ept high freight rate3 from the rails of selling: the public lands, really nothing? The products of the farm ratered stock and over-capitalization. ig special privileges is the foundation ite in this country. The farmer has ?ht a plow, hoe or trace chain. These every single tking that is bought on have no voice in pricing what he ver, does not depend on special 3. ?ie saieguaraea. its pusses&iuu uj } Legislatures of every cotton State olina and say to the balance of the th and forever we, too, intend to have opely product. Place ourselves in a threat, and the victory is won. lized millions, scattered over~tMrteen ert financial strategy backed by un>ple can not do' for themselves individ.nd the duty of the government to do Jlps the citizen to help himself. This ism, I care not whether you call it jaternalism t!':an agricultural lmpovn should wear the crown of a l:ing Shall -aro ihavp thp onnrae-e to strike 5 system of political economy, or shall md cower to an ever-invading money nwieldy, impossible sort of security, otton, is always convertible into gold emedy is to transform cotton into a e Warehouse certificates are an ideal come into general use they will imry acre of cotton land and make the five years beyond our wildest dream. niits, Not Overproduction. -ernment except a free field and a fair :cept wLat we earn by honest toil, my class to use the credits which we and to delirer us oyer to antagonistic bout the law of supply and demand. ie streets in October at five cents. It h, and this difference of 100 per cent, not in the demand for cotton. .'production of cotton, as contracdistribution that make for lower hat the production of cotton has i msumption. New uses are found Las almost supplanted wool and dustrial advance, and it can be made ) who produce it. From t'be socks on ads, from undershirt to overcoat, it is >d million people in the United States ,t is not extravagant to say ma- xaey rth of cotton every year. Thi.s would e United States and leave nothing for :e farmers of the South hold the key ; can sell all the future cotton they t spin the kind of cotton that Wall e people with paper contracts. We is spot cotton, not paper cotton, which s to do is to pat iherself in a situation a fair price for it. Sooner or later "acts that are now being sold in the k will fall du<* and then speculators cotton. aa Always a Leader. Id is estimated at about 1,500,000,000 guarly wear clotJ'aes; 750,000,000 are go naked, and it fcas been estimated Nation of the entire world at the pree would require o0,U00,UU0 bales or cots therefore plain that the production % until the inhabited earth is clothed for cotton at 25 cents is the cheapest the mission of the South to clothe tfre ere must be a reasonable profit for the South Carolina, true to her traditions :eat industrial movement for stabilizP. G. Harding, of the Federal Reserve ruary to the American Bankers' Instiition which we liad last fall "that the le excellent warehouse system In this ,ters to the leading financiers of New hat South Carolina was far In advance attempted and her State Warehouse other States to follow. I feel that I Carolina will do her full duty. Our tory, and has played her part well In In 1787 John Rutledge delivered his wMM* tfio fVinattrition *nd en her civilization was overturned by it in the councils of this nation. God lg petty jealousies and small polities, shape national policies. She once led y, but industrially. In 1835 ahe had n th* world, and when tue war came was preparing for the Blue Ridg when the Colonies were consider Carolina led the way by declaring the real beginning of the Revo Federal Constitution under which first to take this bold step, and ti iorm a cuusumuunai guvciumcu declares that South Carolina fori the Revolution was shed upon S British lhad captured Boston, N among the great dreamers of this to pierce the 'veil of doubt and 1 I only stumble and falter in dai ttettt, so far as I am concerned, I t do in ttMs great work, and that otb It forward to success. Herbert tects of fact." If that be true th "What matters sneer* and cy "This world is made up for th< never give, sharing in all, but sp; bat grudge a cheer. "Wherefore the patiis of pri dropped from the broken hearts \Makers of empires, they ha^ empires, and higher scats than tl ''Grief has only streaked their greyed their hopes. "Dreamers are argonauts, the Truth? "Through all the ages the vol unbroken vasts. "They dare uncharted seas, be chart. "With only cloth of courage ? their dreams, they sail away unda "Their brains have wrought al their spires stab the skies, and tt "A great ship a few months ag shivers, trembles, and groans, i wireless, flashes hundreds of mile dreamed. "Wings of canvas now beat th eagle to tlie human paths. "One man drew lightning wit] sitting by the fire sees the eteadj The dreams of Franklin, Watts, ft girdled the globe with bands of s "The phonograph, a disc of wj needle, and a throat of brass?a < whole, clear and sweet, to last for to the dust whence he came, and "What would this world be ol | with which men had to build? "Your very homes are set up-( pictures on its walls are visions f "They are the blazers of the wa bandaged on their eyes. Men Trh "Cowardice and lack of faith c goal. "If our hearts be strong and hard enough, we can tread the p; never gone before. "Walls crumble and empires f tears a fortress from the rocks, time's boughs and only things dre "They are the eternal conquerors. m pnSBHBHIHnHBBBnnSMH tOt a/t? <a/t?^ut pMtftyb&fazd /#/rl ! Mimfyfadddfa I GILDER &1 j THE RIGHT I I Paint; " 17 ? dl . ull line < jj varnish, all c( , lO cc I ca MAYES'BOOK AN! The House of a e Railroad to tfce West. In 1765, ing what course to pursue, South * for Continental unity. This w&s lution and the foundation of the we are today living. She was the ' ae first of the thirteen colonies to it. Bancroft, the great historian, ned the Union. The last blood of !outh Carolina soil, and after the rtn? V A rlr o r? TDV? J 1 r\ 1 rvVi 4 o f r Am c n i \ji jl emu i. nil<au.^uiaf nviu i world. But the gift is not mine ook into the face of unborn time, -kness, see but dimly, and I feel :ave done about all that I can ever ers must soon take it up and carry [aufman says, "Dreams are archlen nicism? e most part of those w'.:o take but aring naught, who cheer a grudge igress have been sobs of blood of dreamers. re fought for higher things than irones. heads with silver, bat has never seekers of the priceless fleece of ce of destiny calls them from the ;cause they are tf--e makers of the it the mast and no compass save unted for the far blind shores. 1 human miracles; in lace of stone teir golden crosses kiss the sun o. stricken to death by an iceberg, cry for help, that mystery the s across the seas, because. Marconi e air and add the highways of tlbe 1 a kite from the clouds, another r escape of steam from the kettle, [orse and faundreds of others have teei and annihilated space, ix, a square box, a few springs, a 3od-hewn voice swells out, caught ages after the singer has returned all because Edison dreamed. * ! fancy or of fact, were hands all >n the land a dreamer found, tihe rom a dreamer s soui. j, tfae men who never wear doubts o hold to courage and to hope. an alone keep us from the chosen if we dream enough, and dream itii whereon the foot of man hath all; the tidal wave sweeps in and The rotting nations drop from off amers make live on. their vassals are the years." . WEEKS CO. )RUG STORE. s and I11S11 )f paints and )lors at ?nts a in. D VARIETY STORE Thousand Things DependabilityMORE than 75 Concerns nov manufacture Tires. x T "* We believe that everyon< of these makes as good Tires as h< knows how, at the lowest Cost his Kx perience, Equipment and Methods mak< possible. We believe that the average Tin Manufacturer is fair in his treatment o Adjustments, and that few deliberately misrepresent their product, either ver bally or in Print. We believe that no Tire Manufact urer can afford to make statements ii print alx>ut his product, which state ments cannot be l>orne out by the per formance of his Tires, in actual use. We believe that the Tire has neve: been made which will not "Rim-Cut' if run "flat" for any considerable dis : tance, and that many makers, including ourselves, n.ive (utruys proauceu 1 ire that would not oikencise "Riin-Cut'J Only 5% Plus for this Best Non-Skid ?? / Note following comparative prices. "A. "33," "C" and "D" represent four Widely-Sol Non-Skid Tires: l-~? I'll . . ? j uocxjricaj U i IVlAiS.JC-3 Size Safety | | Tre-d j **A" "B" "C" "P1 20x3 .$ 9.45 ($10.55 $10.95 $16.35 $18.1 39x3>. 12.20 13.35 14.20 21.70 23i 32x3'. 14.00 15.40 16.30 22.85 25.34x4 20.35 22.3) 23.80 31.15 33.5 35x43. 28.70 32.15 33.60 41.85 41.4 37x5 33.90 39.80 41.80 49.85 52.( Made as always,?the same reliable Cor struction, the same dependable Service?witi out anything whatever taken out of Quality no matter - i reductions in List-Price ar ever made ^ Goodrich i NOW HER FRIENDS UADmy VNflW UPR llftiiULi miuvv aiL.ii But This Does Not Bother Mrs. Burton, Under the Circumstances. _______ * Houston, Texas.?In an interesting letter from this city, Mrs. S. C. Burton writes as follows: "i think it is my duty to tell you what your medicine, Cardui, the woman's tonic, has done for me. I was down sick with womanly trouble, and my mother advised several different treatments, but they didn't seem to do me any good. I lingered along for three or four months, and for three weeks, J was in bed, so sick I couldn't bear for any one to walk across the floor. - - - - " J i- A />_ J.. My husoana aavisea me to try v^iruui, the woman's tonic. J have taken twc bottles of Cardui, am feeling fine, gained 15 pounds and do all of my housework. Friends hardly know me, I am so well."i, If you suffer from any of the ailments so common to women, don't allow the trouble to become chronic. Begin taking Cardui to-day. It is purely vegetable, its ingredients acting in a gentle, natural wa> on the weakened womanly constitution. You run no risk in trying Cardui. It has been helping weak women back to health and strength for more than 50 j years. It will help you. At all dealers. Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions on your case and 64-page book. "Home Treatment for Women." sent in plain wrapper. ?69-8 (exit calomel No More Nasty, Disagreeable Effects LIV-VER-LAX is now rapidly tak-1 ing the place of calomel everywhere. It is just as effective, cleansing the system thoroughly of bile, toning up the liver and making that sluggish feeling disappear like magic. Yet it io in take, and has none of the disagreeable after effects that make us dread calomel so much. Feel fine all the time. Take LIYiVEE-LAX regularly, and health becomes a habit. Guarantee.. Every genuine bottle bears the name of L. K. Grigsby, and if it does not give satisfaction your money will be returned. For sale in the big 50c and $1 bottles at Gilder & Weeks. Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days 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 first application g-vei Base and Rest. 50c. versus 2 -Ingenious Claims < t We believe that many more Tires "Break-at-the-Bead" than i Cut at the Rim. . O O i x x rE believe that the RubY/Y/ bcr Riveting System i * * of attaching the Tread f to the Carcass (by means of a loosely woven fabric, which per mits the raw Rubber to percolate through its meshes and then Vulcanize to Carcass and Tread) prex vents, to a large extent, TreadSeparation. We have long used this in "Goodrich" Tires, as a cominonr place part of our Precision policy, ' but without laying any particular stress upon it. X We believe that the ' 'Doubles Cure" process, common with a great many Tire Manufacturers under different names, adds un- |i necessary expense, to Tire Cost, . ? which expense e Methods of the Goodrich Factory eliminate through its Precision "SingleCure." ? IWe believe that the cutting -j out of needless expenses like this i (which our Precision Methods ' save) constitutes one of the ;< strongest reasons why the largest j Rubber Factory in the World (Ours) produces the greatest Mileage?per Dollar of Cost?in j its Tires. And? ! x ? ?"The PROOF of the Tire is in the Mileage thereof." ' o o WE believe that the House which sticks : to the Truth in its j d Advertising, is reasonably sure to f stick to the Facts in its Selling. ; You have never yet found ? anything in Goodrich Advertising ! __ which was not in the Goods it ad- j [0 vertised. ;0 Hence you may pin your faith (0 to the following statement: ;5 ? Goodrich Safety - Tread ! 10 Tires give, with most UNI15 FORMITY, the greatest MILE AGE, and Resilience, at the fair- |i ' eat Cost, per MILE, to Tire Users. l~ Test them and see! THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. _J Akron, Ohio AIR-LISTED Tires QiimmAoIan/1 A1}A(TA UUUAIIIWI 1U1AU WllVgV For the higher education of young wotaeo Healthful location Every modern convenience A competent, working faculty For catalogue or other information write to P. E. Monroe, Leesville, S. C. ir r nri'C r?nA/kr ntui, kj rnuvi A Newberry Citizen Tells of H*9 Experience. You b<tve a right to doubt statements of people living far away but can you doubt Newberry endorsement? J. J. Eargle, prop, machine stop, 935 ;Friend St., Newberry says: "I caught cold about a year ago and. it settled in my kidneys, causing backache. I had dull pains across my i ^r. n n ^ -woo f n Vi 1 ci H mrvstlv IVI HO AU.U ? U.O UVUWI^U .. _ working or standing a great deal. The kidney secretions passed too frequently and were scanty and painful. I also had dizzy spells and almost toppled over. Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at W. G. Mayes' Drug store, brought me relief right away and three boxes fixed me up in fine shape." Price 50c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?tfoe same that Mr. Eargle had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, X. Y. >VI>STO>-SALEM 3IA>* SAVED FROM DEATH J. E. Erwin Says Wonderful Remedy Brought Him Astonishing Relief. J. E. Erwin, of Winston-Salem, X. C-, was for a long time the victim of serious disorders of the stomach. He - 1 "* -3? IwAftfmint OT*/1 "h Q r} tried <ili K.inUi5 Ui U cairn:!'!, U.11U uuu many doctors. One day he took a dose of Mayrs /Wonderful Remedy and was astonished at the results. The fcelp he sought fcad come. He wrote: i "I am satisfied through personal use of the life-saving powers of your Wonderful Remedy. You hare saved my life. I could have lived but a few iweeks more had it not been for your remedy. I am enclosing a list of friend sufferers who ougbt to have some of your remedy." Mayr's Wonderful Remedy gives permanent results for stomach, liver and intestinal ailments. Eat as much and whenever you liKe. ino more ai?i,re?? after eating, pressure of gas in the stomach and around the heart. Get one bottl-e of your druggist now and try It on an absolute guarantee?It not satisfactory money will be returned. ?SUIT