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P 'W COMPANIES' DOINAVE FIELD JHeLAl KIN REPORTS ON SEW YORK CONFERENCES. Says Insurance Leaders Stand By I -Principle That Sate Should f Sot Interfere. John L. McLaurin. State warehouse commissioner, made public on returning ':rom a ivisit to New York city, a I statement, addressed "To the People of South Carolina," regarding the in surance situation in this State arising out of the enactment of the Laney. - Odom anti-compact law. Mr. McLau- j HBk rin's statement follows: I have just been North in an endeavor to reach some adjustment of tne insurance trouble in this State. 1 am w making a detailed report to Gov. Man > ning, containing some specmc conclusions. I feel that I owe it to the peopie of the -State to let them understand the situation as I view it. ? nnmnoniec Tl-hPthPr " board'' or IU\^ *. "non-board/" were informed by certain people of this State that an extra ses- ; sion of the legislature would be convened on account of the $100,000 appropriation to the asylum. They were also led to believe that the insurance legislation was intended to punish the : i ? insurance companies and to arbitrarily fix the rates. I did what I could to re- j 7 lieve this impression and think that I , 1 succeeded to some extent. i | Big Companies Dominant. I cound, However^ tnat uie siiuuuuu was completely dominated by three or four big companies, and that there was no common ground upon which 1 could treat with them. While they are doing busines in New York, New Jersey and other States where the rates ^ are supervised by the State, they said that they were fighting for a principle + V? /\rr A/\ntnn/^ A/1 fAr? f riO'ht auu mac iucj wiH^uuvu ivi tiiv * A94?w to go into any State and fix the rate of insurance and that the authorities in such State had no right to question these rates. I explained to them that *>.11 i? On r A! in O TTLT O O Ctlx c dil icu 1u U til VCtl viiua t? uq to insure that there should be competition; that under presnt conditions there was competition between the agents for business, but none at all ^ between the companies in fixing the rates. I expressed my perfect willingness to have the matter of fixing the onmnii'Vio* nn th a lino n. f fb o Vow lACCd OVUiC" liat v/n v.ixv imv v/x - >v ?? * York law with a representative of both ?' the companies and the State acting jointly, "but th-^y were absolutely determined in their position. These men are so far off from the people a*td get their in- ormation from sources that are so antagonistic to popular thought that I concluded it was best to say uotaing more to them at the present time. In my report to Gov. Manning 1 a, % , snail discuss wnat is pracucai ior us to do. Some of the companies to whom 1 talked?the younger and more progressive?are not in svmDathv with the views of the old companies, but do not care to antagonize them, it is W hard to make great financiers in New L York understand the situation from % this end of the line. We know that *? ? there is a great invisible power bearing down upon the producers and crushing them into the earth. It exists as an inexorable tendency in the rvf oA/-o'ntv It L- n-jrt nf ^C4. VI CVViVtJ . J U X & c w * the structure of the status quo of totality. It has grown with the country's growth and strengthened with the country's strength. No one man is responsible for it, nor is any class of [ QUALITY SE r For AH Ai , , Preserve your upl from hot, penetrating, cr; damaging soakings when from grease off your own I i T _ "\T me garage man. iou car advantage, after two yea upholstering is in nne sfo I STOP THAT LE. I manufacture new covering Just slip new covering ov< u/pitf rn iff 1\A A JLu A Vy M. I. Med RACINE men; it is our heritage .rorn the past, it is tne wool of our commercial traditions and web of our long time industrial customs. Whatever may nave been its use in the past in stimulating constructive toil and inventive "nl.iiJ'.Iinn nniror. LllUUgUl, ILS u^/uuiiuni^ 'w V4vr?. v ! ed wnen it destroyed i.ree competition between man and man. This is uie 'uabis of progress, calling forth the intellectual resources of tne individ- i ual, making him self-reliant and ibold. thnc In vino- hroari and deer) the foun -?? dations for our modern civilization. i Altitude of Insurers. The heads o. these big insurance companies have ability and I concede them patriotism equal to mine. They 1 thii;k they are righting for a principle, and they are?a princVle which, if carried to its ultimate conclusion in all business, means the destruction ot tur country 1 did not realize the nature of the contest until I heard them ta.k. It makes the puny efforts, from certain sources in South Carolina, to keep the companies out by thrusting " 3 4- r\At+*r -O n.H IOrwa.ru Ictist; laaucs, luu w 1 ujr uiim temptible to talk about. It is the principle which, in our stable govern- j ment, causes all property to gravitate steadily towards the possessors of j wealth. Toilers increase, while laborsaving machinery and political power pass under the control of concentrated i. -1 ^ V ? tVlA ! weauu, UliLIX tue Wlixfcuoauvju Vi. ?~ . producer is just enough to enable him J to do his work, and reproduced himself j Right here is the genesis o> farmers' | organizations and labor unions. It is these hardhanded creators of the I wealth of today, whose willing toil gives the sole value to all the garnered j wealth of yesterday. It is our way of j saying that, '*We are discontent "with: I present conditions, for an equitable r portion of the wealth that we create j does not remain with us to 'bless our-! I selves ar.d our families. We only ask I a righteous adjustment of present con- j ditions. Will you meet us half way?! Wp demand naught of your stored-up ; wealthy and ask not how you came toy \ it; we look not to the past, but to the! future, and want merely a chance to i 'live and let live.'" If these who control political par- ; ties, who own the newspapers and dominate industrial and financial sys- ! terns, think they can juggle God Al- i mightly out of the progress he nas decreed for man, then they will haive a rude awakening in the attempt to block the wheels of evolution with their puny plausibilities. If, drunken ', with the pride of power and gold there is no appeal to your di'viner natures.! tnen as a matter of self-interest, you would do well to heed the cry, "i^et my people go free." Discontent Dangerous. The danger to this country is not . from large standing armies, but the ballot in the hands of discontented citizens^ who blindly use it not to bet- . ter conditions, but to revenge tnem-: i selves for either real or i.ancied , wiongs. Tins ming can not ue conimed to Souui Carolina. The conditions ? are the same in every State, and after | lo years in public life, i do not hesi- j tate to say .that if the spirit exhibited by these ioig insurance companies is 1 ? -a- r*/-\oH rvf 10 control, uiai uie mjiiVis wc i tau \jl in Europe will within the next 25 years I repeat themselves in industrial (lis- J tuuauces in this country. Democratic republics find their su- | preme peril right there. When a commanding public opinion declares itseif on the side o-. justice and patriot- J ically insists on righteous measures j Viator 11-rmi aht infn law thPn it is SUre I ",-1 "S , - - ~ . that injustice must be put away, or some agency must arise powerful enough to crush by physical force millions of men seeking to express AT COVERS itomobiles > i - - i i_. loistering ana protect it acking sun rays. From it rains, cats and dogs, hands, or the hands of ! sell your car to better rs service, because the ipe. AK in your top. We 5s for tops for all cars, sr old bows. p ppipfq A 1\1VJU)J lVOY CO. ? wis I ? J I their thought in action. What then? Why, then, matters must move in the way they wish them to, or i-.omei.nn , will break, or they themselves must .e crushed and annihilated. Jus.ice as an Ideal. I know the people in otner St ;tes are t-./i: ?< mivnnced in Diirno.se as In South Carolina, but they have their eyes fixed on the same shining iJeai i away on yonder, and all their vnrie'l i paths converge towarls it. Soon they shall be marching on the same highway, and the tramping o. their feet shall wake the slumbering nation. it ,v- rh(? srif,rv of ?.iar. that .it sjC.:s, 11be: iv a.id justice, not merely for its mate:-:!! jenehts. but because ii is so desirable that nothing can console him I for its loss, while its possession compensates him for all material afflictions. 1 know that the domesticated wolf, ! bearing the marks of h;s master's col- I lar. is better cared for toan his brother j of the wild, but every noble instinct of j my nature prompts me to take my i p..:c-e \vi;h tne one of the wild, the j l-.rt AKltoir mv* I mazier ui my icttc. mc vt. sou!. The lundamental theory of a <3emociacy is the greatest good to the greatest number, not merely for governJ - ? - ^ 1 /NA TTino- fha mem to act as umpue, icauuj strong and crafty to fight on their own ground with their own weapons. Woodrow Wilson has taken thie position, through the administration oil the new currency law, that government must take consideration of mercy, justice and the eternal moralities; that it is duty of a republican government to have a kindly concern for the prosperity and wrellbeing of all the people, j .Vaaqiio/Ji ! Here is my nope ol iue iuuic ucvausy 1 I know republican freedom and triumphant plutocracy can not coexist in the same nation. They are in irreconcilable antagonism, and an irrepressible conflict will wage between them until one or the other is destroyed. God grant that those of us who know the truth as it is and see conditions as they are can "by our influence make the inevitable contes: a moral one, that eha!l be righteously determined without the shedding of one drop o blood nr thp falling of a single tear. The saddest thing to nic i?, to :3e| men of great ability and pure patriot- j, ism, so well equipped to be leaders of ; popular thought, regard every innovation as an abuse, fie consciousnes.- )f 5 their own moral'ty making them the stroneest opponent6; ?f in *cpirin<r n-i_j manity, Their stolid inertia "bars tie v ... . diiii ;) q?fl propitiatory onflow of God's mighty evolutionary forces. t:i\t *>. j if iv s,k'u-!t p no's cooperation j in his own uplifting, tout -which if opposed at last crush .iown a.iu ile .. -y j in exact measure with the resistance offered. -asSZSs? " * " * ? a. A TV. UA?il The Quinine Ttist noes itoi rnitci me nc.su . Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAX A- ! riVE BROMO QUININE is betterthan ordinary ( Quinine and does not cai?se nervousness n<-r ringrine in head. Remember the full name and in ok 'or the denature n< E. W. GVl VE. 25c | r# \ ! Yours, { | for those light, j \ brown breads and 3 r I pastries, with the 5 j | tantalizing o d o r J ^ and delicious fla- f |vor, j i Rising Sun j | Flour itaf I A I Hkaskvilie. Tpoc= i 5 i Self-Rising and | Ready Prepared I_ ! I First aid to tedi- g 4 ous baking and lag- 3 J ging appetites. | I Yrtiii* firnrw I K * VM4 V* I Knows a 1 L. .JL| - ": vs :"v,,. ' '?wfeassS^ -K . ^ . V 't .i V . ... . AV ;: -'i'Nv 5^' X. v\ " I ll f 4 I jfL Tg" ' J ^ Ob (&e rerem side of (Lis tidy i yon will ?ad: "Process Patent* 30th, 1907," which has made thre Doke pipes where onm smoked b SOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that all persons holding claims against the estate jf Mrs. Mary E. Counts, deceased, will present the same duly attested o he y\*s (yC/ /oo 4 jfsfrK /5S - ? ~v>? In 1500 each farm in the In 190 SOTTH Atlantic States NORTH produced $484 worth of- produce products. product ! ADbd I i "$500 More a Yea I HERE ABE SOB DISCUSS, EACH 1. We Must Inquire Why We Mai Ivess Than the Northern or Weste Farmer. 2. We Must Make Cur Own I>an< (Richer. 3. We Must Diversify So As to Mai the South Feed Itself. 4. We Must Use More Horse Pow and Machinery. 5. We Must Learn Fertilizer Valu and Kuv Fertilizers More Wisely. 6. We Must Improve Our Metho> of Cultivation. 7. We Must Make Bigger Co Yields. S. We Must Make Cheaper Pork a: More of It. 9. We Must Have More Humus a; Fewer Gullies. 10. We Must Have All-the-yea round Gardens. 11. We Must Tjeam Principles Plowing and Moisture Control. 12. We Must Make Our Own H; and Some to Sell. 13. We Must Put the Stubble Lan to Work. 14. We Must Learn Better Methoi of i^aying-by Crops. ? i t >? if I A11 a i roi. ivxa&suv & gressive Farmer famous a it suits every member help, but also providing tl | People's page. Order The Progress!? j Year" (The importance of: later seri< I iir *-1 BlifcMH i tfi - ? j Try it ^ if you want persoi mation as to how < } really is, smoked in a f the best makin's cigai J For, Prince Albert h ^ of pipe-peace and n man Tt will revolll and ideals. The that?and cuts 01 k ^ opyrlght Jj M Iff 1916 by R.J. leynoldi *7 ^ ^aJ cne nun is so friendly to yoi it is mighty easy t You'll like every pip than the last bee fragrant and long-t back and ponder wl from such joy'us sm< Men, we tell you Prii for it. Youll undei our patented proces quick as you smoke Bay Prince Albert eot toppy red bags, 5c ; t /*n// hrtlf crystal-glass humidor that keep the tobacco U. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBAC 1 July >e men ?foreI undersigned on or before the lOth day - ** * * 1 A 1 !_ ? ? J A n r\y r* r\-n _ in /I . UI April, -L3J.O. <H1U clil pciouug iuuwved to said estate will make payment to the undersigned, as executor of said j? & J>_ I The Yankee 1 KTIC J a year than ? as he is and 0 each farm in th? 1 A^"trS t extra $500, t< !' iRsnsaw PA 'GMnu^ftBiw M am i M m \ 9 Will carry every week f months notable articles Massey, "the- Grand Ok Agriculture'' on r for the Southern Farm IE OF THE SUBJECTS PRO! C ARTICLE TELLING HOW 1 ke ( ige is only one of fifty features s '' The Farm Paper with the P of the family?not only giving le best farm woman's page in A re Farmer now and make your raising more livestock will be d js of articles by Dr. Tait Butlei ? x ' ? - t r~ 1 gjo jurseir? ial and positive inforielightful Prince Albert jimmy pipe or rolled into rette vou ever set-fire-to! ^ ' - - as a wonderful message lakin's peace for every tionize your smoke ideas patented process fixes it bite and parch I utvw DJhtISl ? \onal joy smoke it tongne and taste that :o get acquainted with, >eful or cigarette better :ause it is so cool and >uming. you'll just sit zy you have kept away akings for so long a time! ice Albert is all we claim stand just how different ss makes Prince Albert it! tryichere tobacco io sold: in idy red tint, 10c; handaomm ! tin humidors and in poand 9 with sponge-moistener top* in such prime condition. !C0 CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. I deceased. U. n. tuuMs, Executor, Mrs. Mary E. (Counts, deceased. 3-10-4tltaw. I. AjL 'armer makes $500 more ' re do. We are as smart must learn to make this :: : : u HMER for the next six < Kxr T^-r/vP W7 IT' 5 UJ ? i Ul . T T J- . I Maa of Southern en How to Get It" \ MASSEY WILL '0 DO THAT JOB: 15. We Must Keep Learning as Long is We Live. 16. We Must Raise Abundant Winter Poods?Potatoes, Fruit, Peas, Beans, f rurnips, Etc. 17. We Must Make Boys and Girls Partners in Farm Work. 18. We Must Learn Greater Economics in Farm and Home Management. 19. We Must Learn Better Business n Buying:, Selling, and Keeping Accounts. 20. We Must Give More Attention to Pastures and Meadows. 21. We Must Grow More Winter rover Crops, 22. We Must Drain Our Lands Better. 23. We Must Grow More Wheat, < Dats. and Rye. 24. We Must Study Plant Breeding i.nd Seed Selection. 25. We Must P'arm So as to Keep Exind, Teams and Hands Busy Twelve Months a Year. 26. We Must Adopt Wiser Methods >f Renting Land. that have made The ProuncL7' the farmer himself the best merica and a superb Young start toward "$500 More a Liscussed in a o