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West Tennessee Courier, established 1897 I
UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1913
VOL. 23, NO. -27
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Start A BANIL ACCOIJNT Today
'HEIR earnings have been sufficient, but their savings
have not. A bank account insures perfect inde- '
pendence in mature years.
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Old National Bank
Union City, Ttnntiwe
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"C TO LOAN
.iLii ON FARM LANDS.
I am authorized to take applications for loans on ,land in Obion and
Weakley Counties, Tennessee, and Fulton County, Kentucky. The terms and
conditions upon which this money will be loaned are most favorable to the
borrower. All or any part of a loan may be paid after one year, interest
being stopped on payments made. Loans are Made at 5 per cent.
Interest on ten years' time, or for shorter period if desired.
If you are considering a loan, it would be well to make application AT
ONCE. ,
O. SPRAOLS
Attorney At Ltxw Union City, Tenn.
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Clover, Timothy, Alfalfa, Red Top
and all kinds of Field Seeds.
.Gar&iiiL Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Grain, Hay and Field Seeds
Union City, Tenn.
Telephone No. 51
Ask for Our prices before selling
Your Grain and Hay.
on improved farm lands, drawing interest at
. ' 31 ; pEIfm'' CENT .
for term of five years. Will loan any amount from
one thousand dollars up.
V7. E. H U BG 0 N S
" Attorney At Law
Phones 143 and 589 UNION CITY, TENN.
HARRISON. MISS., RIOT.
Death List Thirteen Following Dis
turbance of Sunday.
Harrison, Miss., Sept. 29. Another
victim of the Sunday riot died here to
day, bringing the death list up to 13,
three . white men and ten negroes.
Homer Aiken, a negro, succumbed to
wounds he had received at the hands of
the two Jone9 brothers, who began
the riot which ended when they were
lynched. . ; ,
Officers here, in trying to find the real
cause of the riots, to-day worked on the
theory that the Jones brothers were ad
vised to begin their reign of murder and
in their drugged condition readily acqui
esced. It has been predicted that if the
mother of the boys should be brought
back to her home, from which she fled
when the shooting began, she might be
summarily dealt with. She was cap
tured at Port Gibson, Miss., early to
night. It has not been decided whether
to bring her back here at once.
Detectives also are investigating John
Prophet, a negro of Champaign, 111.,
who recently came here and was seen
with the JoDes boys a great deal. He,
with Robert Patterson, another negro,
is in jail. It is said Prophet organized
negro lodges and wielded some in flu
ence among the more ignorant negroes
here.
CALMNESS FOLLOWS RIOTS.
Calmness to-day followed the riotous
scenes that were enacted here yesterday,
when Will Jones and Walter Jones, two
cocaine-crazed negroes, killed three
white men and five negroes, wounded
17 others and were afterwards lynched
bv a crowd of enraged citizens. No
disorders occurred last night and to
day business was resumed as usual.
Groups of citizens stood on the streets
this morning and discussed the excit
ing events of yesterday, but at no time
was any disposition shown to wreak
vengeance on, the negroes.
The citizens here took the view that
it was not a conflict between the races,
and the best element of the whites
stood ready to protect all negroes who
were not implicated with Will Jones
and Walter Jones in their murderous
raid on the town. Gov. Brewer spent
last night at Fayette, the county seat,
and returned to Harrison this morning.
Finding the situation quiet, Gov. Brew
er decided that bis presence here1 was
not needed and he proceeded to Jack
son. Before leaving for Jackson, the
Governor said:
"The citizens of Harrison are to be
congratulated on their display of good,
sound sense. They have shown won
derful fortitude and forbearance in
handling the situation here. Not an
innocent negro was molested or harmed
by the white citizens. The negroes who
were killed or wounded were shot by
the two cocaine-crazed blacks who ran
amuck. In some communities an af
fair of this kind wou'd have precipitat
ed a race riot. The citizens of Harri
son cannot be praised too highly for
the manner in which they conducted
themselves in this trying emergency."
VICTIMS ARE BURIED,
The funerals of Sheriff Groves Ham
mett, Claud Freeman and Frank Kints
ley, who were killed by the Jones broth
ers yesterday, were held shis afternoon
at Fayette. Business was suspended at
Harrison and Fayette while the cere
monies were in progress. Sheriff Ham
mett was one of the most popular men
in Jefferson County. His father was
to-day appointed acting Bheriff by Gov.
Brewer.
A grewsome sight met the gaze of
the early risers around the depot when
daylight broke this morning. A sup
ply of coffins, in whicb the seven ne
groes who were killed or lynched yes
terday were to be buried, were scattered
around the railroad yards. The bodies
of the two Jone,s brothers, who were
lynched, were cut down during the
night and placed in two of the coffins.
Curiosity seekers opened the coffins in
the darkness before daylight, cut off
the ears of the two men -and carried
them away as sauvenirs. The bodies
of the Jones brothers were buried in
the potter's field.
Neuralgia of the face, shoulder, hands
or feet requires a powerful remedy that
will penetrate tho flesh.. BALLARD'S
SNOW LINIMENT possesses that
power. Rubbed in where the pain is
felt is all that is necessary to relieve suf
fering and restore normal conditions.
Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold
by Oliver's Bed Cross Drug Store, advt
MAY DROP COTTON TAX.
May Be Revived as Separate Meas
ure at Regular Session.
Washington, Sept. 29. The Demo
cratic , tariff revision bill, first on the
programme of reforms mapped out
when President Wilson came into office,
advanced to its last congressional stage
to day when it was brought back to the
House from the joint conference com
mittee with the unanimous indorsement
of the Democratic conferees. ,
Leaders iu both houses of Congress
were confident to-night that the bill,
now practically complete, would be
signed by President Wilson before the
end of this week. It scarcely will leave
the center of the stage before the-cur-rency
bill will be forced to the front,
and coincident with its consideration
will begin the administration work on
the anti-trust and railroad control pro
grammes which are to be brought for
ward when the December session opens.
President Wilson is satisfied that with
the tariff bill out of the way, Congress
will take up the currency question, pre
pared to dispose of it before adjourn
ment. The course to be followed in the
Senate has not been mapped out, but
there is a growing belief among support
ers of the administration bill that the
Senate will take up the currency ques
tion at ah early date, even though its
banking and currency committee has
not settled the details of the bill.
The cotton futures tax is still in dis
pute, the House refusing to accept the so-
called Clarke amendment adopted by
the Senate. Expressions from the
White House and from congressional
leaders to-day, however, indicated that
in the final conference over this feature
the whole plan might be dropped from
the tariff bill and taken upas a separate
measure next winter.
1 " ESTIMATE OF REVENUE.
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
Senate finance committee, gave out to
night the first complete estimates on
federal revenues and expenditures under
the new tariff bill, as computed by ex
perts of the Treasury Department, who
have been working with the joint tariff
conference committee.
The total estimates are as follows:
For the year ending July 1, 1914:
Receipts, $1,029,000,000; expenditures,
$1,013,000; surplus, $16,000,000.
For the year ending July 1, 1915:
Receipts, $1,026,000,000; expenditures,
$1,008,000,000; surplus, $18,000,000.
The estimated receipts under the cus
toms tariff, the income tax and the cor
poration tax, embraced in the new tariff,
are given as follows:
For 1914 Customs revenues, $270,-
000,000; income tax (10 months), $66,
000,000; corporation tax, $38,000,000.
For 3915 Customs revenues, $249,-
000.000; incorne tax,. $83,000,000; cor
poration tax, $39,000,000. ,
INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS.
"The customs revenues will be larger
for the current fiscal year 1914," said
Senator Simmons, because the rates of
the Payne-AIdrich law have been in
force for the first quarter and will con
tinue in force on woo! and woolen goods
until Jan. 1, and on sugar until March
"When the next fiscal year beginsj
July 1, 1914, all the rates of the new
law will be in operation, and the tariff
duties collected will be smaller.
"The income tax, which is collected
for the calendar year, can vbe collected
for only ten months of the present year,
as the law specifies that collection shall
not go back of March 1, 1913. The
estimated decrease in fhe total expendi
tures of the government for 1915,
$5,000,000, is based on the fact that
smaller expenditures are expected for
the army and navy establishments."
The balance of the total income of
the government as given in the treas
ury estimates is made up of postal re
ceipts, internal revenue receipts, the
profits from public land sales and other
sources of federal income.
Notice.
The West Tennessee Synod of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church will
meet in annual session with the congre
gation at Union City Tuesday evening,
October 21, 1913. We want the min
isters and delegates who will attend this
meeting to notify us by October 15, so
that the arrangements for entertain
ment can be made. This applies also
to the Ladies Missionary Society officers
nd representatives.
J. W. Bcrxky, Sec.
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THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS
ALSO HAVE
CRIMSON CLOVER and
HAIRY VETCH
AH for Winter Pasture. See us before you buy
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UNION CITY, TENN.
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WE W I L L B U Y
&AR CORN
In Car Load Lot at any station in
Obion County
Ask us for prices before selling.
Taylor Grain Co.
UNION CITY, TENN.
Telephone 182,
Will buy corn, any amount
at Union City.
END OF CAPITALISM.
Tom Mann Says Class System Will
Be Wiped Out Soon.
"Within a comparatively few years
class distinctions will have been wiped
out and the world's industrial system
will be controlled by workers and con
ducted on the basis of production for
consumption and not for profit.
"There will be no capitalists or ex
ploiters and working hours will be re
duced sufficiently to take care of all
the unemployed. The concerted action
of every industrial workman, who will
receive his share of the products of bis
labor aud refuse to work under any oth
er conditions, will bring this about."
This was the statement of Tom Mann,
English labor leader, who engineered
the noted dock strike and who is her
alded as the world's greatest living
Syndicalist, upon his arrival in St.
Louis upon a lecture yesterday. He
will speak at a mass weeting at Sub
urban garden to-night.
Discussing his trip through the Unit
ed States in the interest of the move
ment he defied syndicalism as "work
ing for the economic emancipation of
the working class Jhrough industrial
organization as distinct from legisla
tive action."
SYNDICALISM FORM OF UNIONISM.
"It is a form of unionism," be said,
"and its chief characteristic is that it
seeks to avoid sectional organization
and unite all industries into one organ
ization regardless of whether they be
skilled or unskilled workers.
"The idea is as old as Robert Owen,
English social reformer, and has been
growing in France for fifteen years and
in England about two years. It is com
paratively new in America.
"The Industrial Syndicalist Educa
tion League, of which I am president,
was organized in England two years
ago with the following object:
" 'To carry on among trade union
ists and workers generally a campaign
of education in the principles of syndi
calism, which may be described as revo
lutionary trade unionism since its im
mediate purpose is to conduct a scien
tific class war against capitalism such
war having for its objective or ultimate
aim the capture of the industrial sys
tem and its management by the work
ers themselves for the benefit of the
whole community.' "
SUCCESS OF THEORY DEMONSTRATED. -
Mr. Mann declared that two-thirds of
the trade unionists of France had ap
plied the principles of syndicalism and
formed a General Confederation of La
bor, while the bucccss of the theory
has repeatedly been demonstrated in
England, most notably in - the recent
dock strike which stopped every wheel
of industry in all the ports.
He was agreeably surprised, he said,
at the high standard reached by organ
ization in the United States as he dis
covered on this, his first visit to Amer
ica, in twenty years.
He spent ten days at Pittsburg, Pa.,
recently, in the heart of the steel indus
try, he said, and found that practically
all workers in these plants are- unor
ganized. Forces favoring organization
should put themselves out to change
this immediately, be declared.
As a result of his activity, Mr. Mann
has been expelled from Germany twice
and from France and Belgium, while
he was imprisoned in Australia and in
his native country on various occasions.
FAVORS VIOLENCE 80METIME9.
He favors violence and destruction of
property under certain conditions as ft
means of bringing syndicalism about,
he says, though this would depend
largely on the altitude of those arrayed
on the opposite side. j .
"Such a universal organization as we
believe possible would be superior to
government, army and navies, "he said,
"and iu pt ir JJ are anarchistic in so
f' is we propose to disregard govern
ments in accomplishing our aims. It is
the socialistic ideal we are seeking to
achieve the difference . lies . in the
method of bringing it about."
A delegation headed by M. C. Walsh
of the local branch of the Industrial
Workers of the World, uiei Mr. Mann
M hs alighted from a car at the McKin
ley Station. While not favoring all
principles of the I, W. W., the Syndi
calist says that organization's theories
come nearer coinciding with his own
than do those of any other body. St.
Louis Republic.