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THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
TILLMAN AND M'LAURIN PAY THEIR Rl:SPECTS
TO EACH OTHER.
"When Greek Meets Greek, fJ lien Conies the Tug
of Wur."
TUK SENIOR ON THH JUNIOR
Tillman Makes Charges ot Din
honesty ? Declares McLaurin
Without Conscience.
Replying to a request for Iiis opinion
on Senator McLaurin's speech at Char
lotte, Senator Tillman spoke as follows
in an interview at Ins Ionic in Tren
ton :
"It is contradictory, full of para
doxes and seems intended to pave the
way for the Senator's passage into the
Republican camp. It may excite sur
prise outside of the .State, but the only
thing which astonishes us here ? his
continued effort to pose as a Democrat.
Democracy has a broad or general
meaning and a Bp< local mean
ing an applied to one i . the great nn
tional parties. M> i ulleague says, 'My
definition of Democracy is liberty for
man formulated into .-i theory of gov
ernment; it menus man's inalienable
ownership of himself. It inean? free
thought and free Speech. This is not
the definition given In any dictionary,
nor is it the definition given by Jeffer
son, and It is only intended to justify
the .Senator's desertion of his party,
his treachery to its principles and bis
betrayal of the people of South Caro
lina who have trusted him. The Kan
sas City platform is the only embodi
ment of Democratic principles that
can now be recognized and no man
can be considered a Democrat who
ignores the principles and policies laid
down in that platform and persistently
votes with the Republican administra
tion in both its foreign and domestic
policies.
"Senator McLaurin iterates and re
iterates the charge thai the 'new De
mocracy' is a sectional party and then
truthfully claims that the South which
in the last campaign was alone Demo
cratic, 'is the American end of Ameri
ca.' Strange that because of this fact
and our veneration and love for the
principles upon which, our government
rests that this 'broad American states
man1 and new born Democrat of a
hitherto unknown type should coun
cil our people to 'accopt conditions as
they arc and make the most of them.'
"Senator McLaurin declared in '98
that McKinley should be reuominated
by acclamation,' and if bis speech
means anything it means that the De
mocratic party ought to surrender all
of its traditions which he claims are
'long since dead,' become an echo lo
the Republican party, endorse its
foreign policy as well as its domestic
policy, ship-subsidy, large standing
army and everything, and subside ab
solutely as a Democratic party.
"If the administration policy in every
respect is right, what need is there for
the Democratic patty as a political fac
tor? I have never believed that my
colleague would dare face the people of
South Carolina in any political cam
paign again, knowing what 1 do about
him, but as be indicat ? bis purpose to
still masquerade as s_, ?moerat and
while attacking me e h thc ' as one of
the 'leaders' Of the < d new De
mocracy, it is Iiis put c to lend our
people into thc Republican camp, duty
compels me to speak out and tell cer
tain things.
"Mr. McLaurin made in the Senate,
January, 1899, a speech which was as
ultra and as pronounced in its denun
ciation of the acquisition of thc Phil
ippines, and portrayed the many dan
gers which threatened our country in
consequence, as an}- ever delivered in
that body. Up to Saturday night be
fore we voted on the treaty with Spain
on Monday, February, 7, 18!?U. be re
peatedly told me and other Senators
he was billetly opposed to the ratifica
tion aud would not voto for it. Be
tween adjournment Saturday evening |
and the vote on Monday the mantle of i
?broad American statesmanship' de
scended upon him and a few minutes
before the Senate went into executive
session to consider the trenty and lake
a voto as agreed, lie gave a baiting
aud lame explanation of his intended
change of front. His vote secured the
rat ili cat ion bscause. on the first roll
call Mr. Jones, of Nevada, who had
also told us he would vote against the
treaty, 'passed' when bis name was
called, and I feel certain if Senator
McLaurin had stood by his parly and
by himself, Mr. Jones would not at I
the end have voted for tbo ratification.
"Conscious as ho is that ins vote
v/as the governing factor in the train
of momentous consequences so far
reaching mid terrible and involving
the war of subjugation in the Philip
pines, thc expenditure of hundreds of
millions of dollars, the loss of thou
sands of lives and other dire results
which no ma* can foresee, it is natu
?ral for Senator McLaurin to make a
despcrato effort to vindicate thc Presi
dent's policy and his own action. The
declaration of independence of course
has become obsolete, and an abandon
ment 0* dead tradition i? the policy
o/a man who behaves aa he has done.
"Such a man has Do conscience or
principles. Thc eloquent speech which
ho delivered in the Scniilo was largely
stolen from a H( rmon delivered by the
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, on Thanks
giving day, November, 1898, in the
Ilrick Church of New York city, two
months before Senator McLaurin de
livered it in the Senate.
"I have uot only had to blush be
cause. MoLauHn had descried bis party
in a great crisis under suspicious cir
cumstances and contrary to his avowed
purpose but have had the mortification
of having other Senators, Northern
gentlemen, speak of thc degradation to
which South Carolina had como in
being represented by a man who would
boldly steal tho brain work of anothor
by wholo sentences and paragraphs
and have the effrontery to deliver it in
the Sonato.
I "The people <>f South Carolina cau?
, not he further deceived or misled hy
this man and 1 speak now in order
that they may fully inform themselves
I on all of these matters and stand ready
to turnish the proof of everything 1
! say and if necessary will meet Mr.
I Mol auritl face to face in any forum
I he may choose. 11 his proposed scheme
of broad statesmanship is Demoor ,
then i am not and have never been a
Democrat, and us '.he people of South
Carolina have recently re-elected me as
a Democrat without opposition, I feel
warranted in letting the people outdde
of the State as well as those inside
know just what manner of man this
is. I have kept silent heretofore, be- '
cause I was ashamed to let the world
know now our people had been de
ceived in him."
THE JUNIOR TO THE SENIOR.
Explains Vote on the Paris Treaty
and the Charge of Plagiarism.
Senator McLaurin was in Charleston
when bo read the interview with his
colleague, .Senator Tillman, and on
being asked by a reporter for the
ISvonlng Post if lie would make any
reply, he said :
44 1 have only this to say in reference
to Senator Tillman's interview. So
far as bis personal attack on mo is
concerned, tbo public prints are not
the place to reply. I neither court nor
desire bis friendship or good opinion.
Nor do 1 propose for the benefit of some
one else to be drawn into a controversy
with him, I am ready to do my own
lighting and want other people to do
the same.''
The reference in this is doubtless to
Representative Latimor, who is a can
didate to succeed Senator McLaurin
and is generally supposed to he Till
man's protege.
Concerning his vote on thi Paris
treaty Senator McLaurin said :
44 I did intend to vote with the ma
jority of the Democrats against the
ratification of the treaty, for reasons
purely of parly consideration. I never
said anything to Senator Tillman or
any one else to give bun the right to
truthfully say that I was " bitterly op
posed tc its ratification. It is and has
been intensely unpleasant for mo to
differ from so many of my party asso
ciates. 1 bad just been through a
campaign full of bitterness and desired
if possible to avoid further differences.
The appeal was made to me to defeat
the treaty and secure the tactical ad
vantage of defeating the administration
and forcing them to call an extra ses
sion. It is a pretty low plane of action,
but for the sake of peace and to avoid
just what has occurred since, I conclud
ed to vote for the rejection of the ti caty.
It was with this idea that 1 went home
Saturday night. Sunday afternoon,
sitting in my dining room, I heard a
newsboy calling extras and sent, out
und got one. 1 saw that thc natives
had opened lire on our troops and when
1 read the account made up my rnind
at once that the treaty should be rati
fied so as to fix the status of the United
States in a foreign war already on. It
made the people tiring on our troops
rebels, and not in intruders. The
thirty days lacking before an extra ses
sion could be called might be produc
tive of untold harm. I have never
seen the day since when I was not glad
that I did havo the strength to vote as
I thought right. 1 did so freely and
with no promise or pledge from any
man.
" Immediately it was published to
the world that I had been promised
Judge Simouton's place. A more in
famously false and cruel slander was
never perpetrated.
? There hasn't been a time in five
years when I haven't wished that I
could decently and honorably get out
of public life. When President Mc
Kinley offered me the place intended
for a Democrat 00 the Philippine com
mission I declined and told him that I
never wanted anything for myself nt
bis bands, but that if through me he
could help South Carolina I wanted
hini to do it. This is all I ever desire
or expect, and if L did not feel that I
was helping and could help my Slate
I nothing on earth could induce me to
submit one hour longer to such vituper
ation aud abuse.
44 It is no new role," continued the
Scuator, 44 for Senator Tillman. He
began his career by abusing and slan
dering better men. I have naught but
contempt for an intellectual bully and
shameless pretender masquerading as
a statesinau, a moral pigmy posing as
the champion of honesty."
Concerning the charge of plagiarism
McLaurin said :
** So far as plagiarizing Dr. Van
Dyke's sermon is concerned, it was
largely due to accident. I wan much
struck with its beauty of thought and
diction. I had a bot rowed copy and
dictated from it three or four sentences
to my stonographor, and in the original,
which any ono cnn ace, aro the words
' paraphrasing the recent utterances of
a distinguished divine,' olc. These
were left out in the copy. After mak
ing the speech I went .South on thc
I next train und never saw thc speech |
again until it was in print. My secre
tary did not notice it, and had dis*
tributed several thousand before my
attention was called te it."
In conclusion Senator McLaurin
niado this caustic comment:
I sincerely regret the mortification
to tho sensitive, dolicate and reficed
nature of my colleague. Honors are
easy, howover, for I can assure him
that I bavo oxporioncod similar pangs
at some of the ' pitchfork tunes' which
he plays to the disgust of the Senate
and tho delectation of the gallory
loafers."
?SENATOR M'I,AURIN
FIRES FIRST GUN
; A Defence of His Political Course -
Hie Conception of the South s
Duty
Thc Manufacturer's Club of Char*
lotto, N. C, had uu eventful day in its
history when the Chinese minister,
Mr. Wu Ting Fang, was the guest of
honor, aud next in rank among the
prominent men present was Senator
John L. McLaurin, of South Carolina,
who read a declaration of bis position
iu politics, and while the address was
entitled "Our Present Condition in
the South and Our Duty for thc Fu
ture/' it was in reality the first gun in
I his campaign for re-oloctiou to the
Senate. Ho indicate! the hues along
which he will light. He has left the
"ruts," he says, aud for so doing de
; fends himself, and indicates the line in
politic! he thinks the South should fob
j low. Mr. McLaurin spoke as follows:
Mr. Toastmaker and Gentlemen:
I desire to make a statement of
somewhn' a personal nature huforc
proceeding with this speech, which I
intend to deliver tonight. A certain
newspaper correspondent in the city
of Washington has persistently spre
the report that I was coming to Char
lotte to make a speech which would
launch a new parly In the South. The
report is absolutely false. If I had
any such intention good taste would
prevent me from taking advantage of
an opportunity of this kind. 1 am con
tent to advocate within Democratic
lines the policies which 1 believe to he
best for the South, and when I cm no
longer do this I am ready to retire to
private life.
In the South we are today realizing
some of the dreams of its far-reaching
statesmen and business tuen of fifty
years ago. With prophetic eve. they
saw the industrial and commercial pos
sibilities of our highly favored south
land.
With an advance of thought that is
really surprising, they suggested en
terprises of wonderful magnitude for
its upbuilding and commercial domi
nance. From IS.'IS to 18(10, conven
tions were held to voice the demands
of a deepseated public sentiment for
industrial progress. The story of these
movements is chronicled in a South
Carolina publication, which, under the
name of Debow'8 Keview, did for the
old South what the Manufacturer's Rec
ord is doing for the South today.
The same spirit which enabled our
fathers to leave the held of defeat with
nothing but their coun.go aud their
characters loft, still lives in the South,
and inspires you today in your great
undertaking.
The plans of thc great Southern
business men and statesmen of fifty
years ago are no longer idle dreams.
Postponed by a cruel war which de
stroyed our social and industrial sys
tem, and which for years reached co
operation in national undertakings al
most impossible, such men as I meet
bore tonight are making these dreams
actual living realities.
Talk about the "New South/' the
name is a misnomer. It is the same
old spirit revived which sixty years ago
made the South the dominant power
in this nation, a position of which
nothing but war could have robbed
her. What wo need now to again at
tain that proud eminence is the same
broad conception and the same com*
prebensivc grasp of the true situation.
The last twenty years have wrought an
industrial revolution in the South,
which must find expression in our so
cial am' political life.
The time is past for the discussion
as to whether this government is to be
one consolidated in its structure or a
loose aggregation of (so-called) sover
eign States. The civil war settled
that. It is useless to discuss tho ques
tion of whether this is to be a purely
theoretical Democratic government or
an expanding and giant Republic. The
Spanish war settled that. Why not
then accept conditions as they are and
make the most of them?
Tho agitation of such issues only
servos to sidetrack broad American
doctrines and should not be made party
questions because they grow out of
actual political and economic condi
tions, which it is beyond the power of
either party to change. I care not of
what political faith the occupant of the
White House might have been; for, if
a true American, mindful of the hotior
and dignity of tho nation, the results
of the Spanish war could not be widely
different from what they are. today.
Why should our people be the only
ones to close their eyes to what is
going on? Why should wc move
along in the same old ruts nnd insist
that political policies aud old traditions,
long since dead, are vital living issues,
und depend upon them for the salva
tion of the South.
The triumphant re-olcction of Mr.
McKinley in the last campaign is full
of significance. It is a stubborn fact
confronting tho Democratic party to
day, suggestive of reproachful remem
brances and fearful menaces. What a
rtllection that this new Democracy
did not carry a Stale where tho issues
wero discussed and judgment passed
by the people upon them on their
merits. Of course with us it hns been
impossible lo decide elections upon
issues. It liau boon simply a question
of white supremacy. In the North
and tho West, dissolved .nto factions,
tainted by the errors of Republicanism
und the follies of Populism, the party
could not withstand the tido of popu
lar opposition excited by unreasonable
criticism of tho conduct of a foreign
war, and by tho vicious and incendiary
appeals made during tho last month of
the campaign to class haired and pro
judico.
Fundamental principles woro lost
sight of, and in an insane effort to se
cure party success at any cost, the at
tempt was mado to combioo socialism,
populism and sociionalism, with noth
ing but tbo sentiment and traditions of
Democracy. Tho real Democratic
lcadors of the Sonato for the past three
years have been Allen, Tellor, and
Pettigrew, all of them able me.., but
one a Populist, one a high-tariff Re
publican, and the othor, I do not know
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banks of issue with proper safeguards,
and most other things we need in the
South. This was called the ?? New
Democracy " in contradistinction from
the old, and some of its leaders stated
that its creeds were revolutionary and
were so designed to bo.
To sow discontent with industrial
conditions and distrust of the govern
ing power; to array class against class,
in the hope of securing fancied social
and industrial equality, is to my mind
the first step in revolution. The South
is the American end of America. In
no section is there so small a foreign
element, s> much conservatism, and
so pure a patiotism. What a political
paradox then it is for our people to be
the allies of professed revolutionists
elsewhere.
It wiik not the pure type of Southern
Democracy that the balance of the
country feared in the last Presidential
election. They knew that properly in- !
tcrp-eted this was conservative and
safe. It was well understood, bow
ever, what Influences dominated, and
that, therefore, the South in national
affairs was still poweiless. One doubt
ful Northern Slato had then and has
now more Influence than thc entire
South combined. One party says,
Why should I consult jou, L can hope
for nothing. The other says, l'vo got
you any way, and I will do as I please;
help y ourself if you can. What a posi
tion for n brave, high-spirited people
bound band aud fool, the miserable
slaves of one party and a football for
the other.
I, fo -lie, do not believe that the
people ol the South are ready to trust
this government Into the hands of any
party to begin th< leveling process
through the exercise of the taxing
power; and yet this is exactly what this
new propaganda means, and outside of
the South it is proclaimed by the very
same clues who preach and practice
social equality between the races. The
two dogmas are inseparably inter
woven. Go inlo tho West, attend one
of their campaign meetings, Bcratch
beneath the skin and you will find the
same old social equality dogma, to the
tune of which the soul of John BrOWQ
ia still " marching on."
Taxation for the purpose, of equaliz
ing or redistributing property is rank
socialism, not Democracy. Let it take
hold in the South and with it will go
those barriers vdiicli we have erected
(0 maintain the purity of our race and
the integrity of our civilisation.
Another th ng?to my mind it is
folly to oppos i expansion under tho
name of imperialism. It deceives no
man of intelligence. lie understands
that there is no analogy between this
oouatry and the Roman Empire, and
that those who talk of imperialism do
not take into account that power which
is born of our free institutions, a fort-.
rcBB in tho hearts of our people strong
er than any ever built of Stone. As
long as this is thcro iboy can never bo
como slaves; and when it is dead it
matters not whether under republic or
empire, they become an cosy prey. It
depends upon tho people, not tho
government, whether they be bIuvcb
or freemen. It is the people that make
the government, not tho government
the people. With a bravo, strong, in
telligent people, with a free press and
popular education, there can bo no
imperialism. Why should we bo afraid
to truat ourselves? The Whole ten
dency 01 the times and tho spliit of
the age is toward Democratic instead
of imperialistic ideas of government.
The throno of tho "Great Whlto C?ar"
trembles today at the roar of the De
niocni?c Mot), anil the echoes resound
' oven from tho far off Orient.
Our people understand that it is not
i actual territory or dominion over peo
ple that we seek, hut the expansion of
I American thought, ideas of govern
ment, commorce and civilization.
Political loaders might well learn that
the law of progress will sweep awry as
chaff those who would place harriers
agalnsl this mighty tide which is des
tined to spread the Democratic idea of
government to the uttermost bounds
of the earth. My definition ol Democ
racy is liberty for man, formulated
into a theory of government. It
means man's inalienable ownership of
himself, it means free thought and free
speech.
In concluding his remarks, Senator
McLaurin said :
The South must play an important
part in our country's future l'or a
third of a century she has been ham
pered by a struggle for mere existence,
forced to devote all her energy and
statesmanship to tho maintenance of
white supremacy. Thank God, this is
permanent and assured beyond per
adventure of doubt. At last she has
emerged from her forlorn and prostrate
condition; freed from herenthrallment,
she can put herself in touch with the
bent thought of tho age, and again ex
ercise an influeuce in national life. I
bcliove the time will eomo when the
South will be tho hope and salvation
of this nation. Her marvelous growth
in manufacturing enterprises, her de
velopment of natural resources and her
rapid advance in pr< grossive thought
and action, is making bar again tho
leading section in this country. The
center of manufacturing in tho United
States has been '.ransforred from Fall
River, Mass., to Columbia, S. C. Mut
if wo would make the most of our op
portunities we must renounce sectional
prejudices and support broad national
policies, looking to tho creation of for
eign markets, the expansion of trade
and the upbuilding of a common coun
try. We must demand and have for
the South a full share of the bencllts
aa well as the burdens of national life.
The South is vitally interested in the
Asinlic markets. Her manufacturers
aro studying the needs of those people
in an intelligent effort to turn out pro
ducts suited to the markets.
" Tho administration is doing a great
deal toward improving our commercial
opportunities in the east by showing
somo regard for the inalienable rights
of China, while protecting the lekfiti
I mate demands of foreign interests.
I Dewey's victory first established Amor.
lean prestige along tho Asiatic coast.
It was then that 800,000,000 yellow,
brown and black people lcarnud respect
for the United States and saluted us
as a first class power. Tho attitude of
the United Statos sinco in the field of
diplomacy in China has given confi
dence and increased that respect. The
United Stales from thc first took the
lead, and even thc wnrliko emperor of
Germany lias had to yield to Uncle
Sam's friendly admonitions. We now
occupy tho vantage grou.vl, because
on friendly terms with all the powers.
1 make the assertion that thc Soutli |
I has more to gain than any other sec-1
tion from the foreign policy now pur
sued by tho administration, particularly
when the isthmian canal is constructed,
as it will bo. I havo road extracts
from tho speech of my amiable and
distinguished friend his excellency,
OABTOIllA.
BMrttii* A *'"d Vgjj Haw Alwijrt Bought
Minister Wu, recently mode in Chi
cago. Jt is replete with wisdom ami
trootl sense. We cannot hope ami wo
should not wish to break down the
civilization of China upon which is
based a polity, society and religion the
slow growth of 4,000 years. To do so
is to destroy the inpiro in the attempt
to suddenly thrust upon hcrj a western
civilization for which her people are
not pre oared. All we can hope to do
is to vitalize this old civilization with
western ideas, science and inventive
genius, thus making it more potential
in material achievements. 'J his coun
try has lone well to use every ef
fort by the benign influence of its
political and commercial power to pre
serve the identity of the empire nd
tho integrity of its civilization. Under
this policy, iL is rensonuhle to expect I
China lo become tho constantly ex
panding market for our products and
as gradually her interior is fully de
veloped by a network of railroads and
all of her cities opened up to foreign
commerce, the opportunities arc almost
without limit. The South now con
trols most of this trade, and with such
development in the near future it
should increase tenfold.
" We are no longer a purely agricul
tural section, but mining, and manu
facturing and kindred interests have
sprung into prominence and demand
governmental policies to protect and
develop (hem, A statesmanship so
parti an in its character as to adhere
to old political doctrines, either settled
by the arbitrament of Ihe sword or
firmly nx< d as governmental policies,
cannot solve the political and economic
problems now confronting the South
ern people. Such a statesmanship can
not properly interpret present econo
mic movements, nor provide by aggrcs
I sivo and progressive thought for the
radically changed conditions now con
fronting us."
THE NEGRO IN COTTON MII,I,S
A SentlMe View of the Condition
of Things In the South.
The following article was recently
contributed to Tin Independent by Col.
James L. Orr, of Greenville, and the
editor introduces the article by say
ing that " Mr. Orr iu president of
one of tiie largest cotton manufactur
ing plants iu the work), and well
known throughout the South as one
of the best authorities on negro labor."
This contribution of Col. Orr will be
recognized as the common sense view
of .Southerners generally, but which
seems to strike our Northern friends
as new and original :
I cannot say definitely, perhaps,
why the negro will never make a suc
cessful operative in the cotton mills,
for I have seen most excellent band
weavers, laundresses, seamstresses
among the women of that race, and
carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths
and mechanics among the men, both
during slavery and alter ; but iu order
to get work out of the negro it is neces
sary for them to he on the alert, doing
something which requires action, for
if they are allowed to he quiet they
will go to sleep actually or metaphori
cally iu a very few minutes after they
are allowed to stop, hence they have
never been worked to any advantage
in the COttOll mills. It ifl not a lack of
capacity, nor is it laziness ; it is the
faculty of concentrating their atten
tion while quiet that they do not
possess.
Before emancipation I knew of
small yarn mills being run entirely by
negroes on the plantations. The ex
periment was tried more or loss suc
ccssstilly near Columbia, S. ('., on a
large, scale, and since emancipation a
good many of them have been used in
tho factories in the South for doing the
heavier and unskilled work. In some
placeB the machinery, including the
pickers, has been run entirely by ne
groes, but wherever it has been tried
failure has quickly followed. A cotton
mill in Concord, N. C, one in Colum
bia, S. C, aro ouci that I recall in
connection with the Vesta Mill in
Charlestion. This enterprise has been
abandoned in the city mentioned and
moved to Gainesville, Ga., with the
determination to discontinue negro
labor in the mill, as it is a failure.
There will never be a better oppor
tunity to test negro ability ..nder moro
favorable ciicuinslatice. A plant woilb
8000,000 was bought for if 100,000, lo
cated in Charleston, where they bad
a large number of the most intelligent
negroes in the South. With plenty of
capital behind it, as competent a selling
agent as there is in New York hand*
ling their goods and the best manufac
turer in the South in charge of the
actual operation, still afier a yoar's
patient labor it lias proved a fniluro?
not because tho nogro could not do the
work properly, hut simply becnuso be
would not work regularly. The no
gioes had no ambition, were satislied
to make half wager., if they were ul
lowed to only half work, were not will
ing to como regularly, hut missed from
two to three days out of every week,
went off to every burial, excursion,
picnic, and never could be aroused to
take any interest in the work.
Tho relative value of the mixed
blood lins given me ft great deal of
thought, and I have observed it for
years. As a goneral rule, I would say
that the mulatto is more intelligent and
less reliable, and the bluek negro less
intelligent and more trustworthy. The
best class of negroes, however, that 1
have ever seen for rcliablo'iess and in
telligence combined are the copper col
ored negroes.
I am changing my mind very much
as to the value of educating tho negro,
starting out with tho belief that an
educated man or won.tin is far superior
I to ono with equal capacity uneducated;
I have about concluded, so far as the
negro is concerned that a lady ex
pressed the truo philosophy in speak
ing of educating the negro when she
said that every one of them that you
cducato beyond tho point of boing able
to read thoir Bibles and to write their
accounts you utterly unfit for their
mission in this world, and cbango a
OASTORIA.
tl M
tftlf
satisfied und helpful citizen into a
worthless h<< frequently criminal en
cumbrance
The mo \\ ? )ws want that the South
will feel in tin ue.i I Uor lifteen years,
if cotton manufacturing Micreases tlie
world over as it is doing at the present
time, will he hands to cultivate the
crops. In the last ten yeais the cot
ton crop has incrca-^d probably nO per
cent., and we are maldtiQ now an aver
age of about ten million bales per year,
and the world is consuming fully that
much cotton. Our population has not
reused in that period more than vh)
per cent. We are now cultivating all
ihe land in cotton that the South has
labor for, and altho we have sufficient
area to produce one hundred million
bales of cotton, we cannot do it until
we. get more labor that is willing to
work hard and live verv economteallv.
I -J ?
Von can see, therefore, why it is not
to the interest of the South, or any
01her people depending on the South's
cotton, for Ihe negro to be taken from
the cotton dolds and put into the mills.
Another reason why I do not think
the negro should be put in the mills is
that this industry furnishes almost the
only refuge for the laboring white peo
ple of the South from the strong com
petition of cheap legro labor ; on the
farms, in the cotton gins and oil mills
the negro (ills practically every place
except the boss's. The poor white man
in the South with a family dependent
on him finds it very hard to pay rent
on land and buy supplies on credit and
compete with the negro in raising cot
ton. That was one of the greatest
hardships during slavery, for the white
man either owned or controlled negro
slaves, or came in direct competition
with them in labor. One can readily
understand, therefore, that tins class
of people have found great relief by
going into the cotton mills, where the)
not only receive better wages than
they could make on the. form?, hut se
cure better school and church focili.
ties, and are freed from the hateful
competition. There is 0 very strong
antipathy between tin and the
negro, which is natural, i i tho it
may he only a prejudice it is iiucon
querable. A man maybe poorenouyh
to be forced to work ins family in the
fields alongside of the negro, but noth
ing but dire necessity makes him doit;
and he would resent most bitterly any
intrusion of the negro in thocotton mill
work, which he now regards as his
own. It is all right vheie men alone
work, in the mines, at masonry and
all kinds of hard labor, to mix the
races, but it is wrong to work negroes
in association with white women and
children.
SENATOR TIIvI/MAN
IN BUFFALO.
Hb; Talk on the Dispensary Was
Heard With Interest and Curios
ity.
Upeeial to the News and Courier.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 12-?Re
cently Senator Hen Tillman, of South
Carolina, delivered an address on the
dispensary law of his State before the
Independent Club of Buffalo. The
occasion was one of rare brilliance, at
the club has in' its membership re
presentatives from the cultivated busi
ness and professional cUisscb of the city.
The great dining room, in BUiCOlt
square, was lillod with handsomely
dressed guests. With wine glasses on
their tables and cigars in their mouths
the festive company were ready for
Mr. Tillman.
Mr. Tillman gave an historical
sketch of the law. He. described Ihc
situation of politics in South Carolina
when the law was enacted, stilting that
the question of liquor or no liquor bad
been voted upon by the people, with a
considerable showing in favor of the
latter. He went on to say that when
tho Legislature of the State met it
was not possible for the law-makers to
ignore the issue. Something must be
done. Ho said that he got together
tho laws of Stales like Maine and Iowa
and Kansns, and carefully looked over
the matter of prohibition. After giv
ing the subject much careful thought,
he was thoroughly convinced that pro
hibition would not woik in South Caro
lina?the people were not ready for it.
With tho dispensary law in Sweden
before him he sketched a hare skeleton
Of the dispensary law, which proved to
he the thing that struck the Legisla
ture with favor. It was. indeed, in
teresting to hear Mr. Tillman set this
law forth as a thing of his own crea
tion while Governor of the State, as
we commonly associate the execution
of the laws with the Governor, rather
than their making. Still this was not
done as an autocrat might have done
it.
Mr. Tillman had nothing but good
words for the law. Its results are
fully justifying its passage. Drunken
ness has been reduced in South Caro
lina from 40 to AO per cent. The open
saloon is not to be seen. The State
controls its liquor stores, pays men
salaries for taking care of them, thus
removing the temptation of such men
to defraud the Stale. The business is
put upon an entirely new basis in
South Carolina. Treating and night
drinking have about disappeared, as
the dispensary stores aro not the scene
uf drinking, closing at buuuci.
He did not regard the law aa remov
ing all other drinking places troni the
State? There are a good many secret
places where liquor is sold in South
Carolina.
Mr Tillman went on to say that he
attributed much of the success of the
dispensary law to the fact that South
Carolina bat its population mainly in
I rural sections rather than in large
I cities. It is tlio great city that is hard
to handle in the liquor business.
It was claimed that prohibition would
have failed in South Carolina just at
in some other parts of the country.
Men will have liquor, be stated, and if
they cannoi get it lawfully they will
get it some other way.
Mr. Tillman claims that so long as
men have appetites they will seek to
gratify them. " Men are not angels."
If the dispensary law holds on In South
Carolina a new generation practically
free from a vitiated nppctite may make
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OKRMAN K VI.I WoKKs, 93 N.i u>au St., N. Y.
la better law, but till that Inno? come*
the dispensary ltw i? an good as the
State can stand, Me said that some
people objected to the State'? drawing
an income from tbe business; to tbe
Stale's going' into the business. lie
replied tu this by saying the State was
already in tho business when the law
was passed, and was it not better for
the State to get the unscrupulous bar
keeper out of the way: give the people
pure liquor, and get all tin; money the
business yielded when properly and
economically managed?
The Senator referred, in passing, to
the hard time the State constabulary
had in Charleston when tbe law went
into force, and rather felt that Charles
ton wanted to be a sort of State by
itself.
Various questions were asked the
speaker. One that caused greatest
laughter in the reply it got was : "Do
you think I lie dispensary law could be
worked here in New York ?" "No;"
Mr. Tillmau replied, "I do not think
you have civic virtue and patriotic
spirit enough to adopt the law in New
York."
In the course of bin remarks Mr.
Tillmau said: " IV o have in South
Carolina about ISO dispensaries, fl
do not know that 1 quite give the nutn
bei) and they supply the whole State.
Here in Buffalo you have a city of
350,OUO, with about '2,000 saloons."
The contrast was telling, indeed; for
Buffalo has one saloon to every 196
persons in the city.
Mr. Tillman made two mistakes,
which he could ill afford to make in
bis address, holding as he does the
high position of trust from South Caro
lina. He spoke disparagingly of the
Christian ministers in South Carolina.
He felt that their attitude toward the
dispensary law, which is working un
told benefit for the State, was open to
reprimand. He appeared to speak in
a slut ring way of the preachers in gen
eral I think Mr. Tillman err?o at
this point; for my observation of
Northern people is that, while they
may not all recognize the claims of re
igion, they seldom speak disparaging
ly of preachers in public address??,
.should Mr. Tillman see this article 1
trust it may put him on his guard
against the repetition of bis mistake.
Another mi.-takc of Sonnt'ir Till man's
was his unnecessary acknowledgment
that be is himself a moderate drinkor.
That did barm. He said: " When I
1 want a drink of liquor I go straight
into a sa'oon and get it ; that has al
ways been my way." But only a few
minutes before be bad been running
the saloon-keeper down, in bis dirty
business, and speaking of the open
saloon as a menace. Now for him as a
Senator of the United Slates to say in
the presence of a great gathering of
men, many of them young men, that
be visited bar rooms and drank liquor
was a mistake. Better keep that a
secret if be must do such a thing.
F.very possible courtesy was necorded
Senator Tillman, and much admiration
was cxpiessed for him as a man of
great force of character aud a
??fighter." Buffalonian.
Booker T. Washington says that
the colored giaduatee of Tuskeegec,
Ala., have raised over '2?0 bushels of
sweet potatoes from au acre of ground
in the same locality whero the un
educated colored man raises less than
50 bushels to the aero.
Mr. Washington attributes the great
differenc : in the crops to the know
ledge of the chemistry < f the soil
which the educated negro has acquired,
lie says that the while farmer* in the
neighborhood respect the colored gra
duates, because of their superior know
ledge and skill, and that the conic to
them for progressive ideas in regard
U) farming, building and all sorts of
things.
There are about 1,000 (lowing wells
in South Dakota, about forty of which
furnish over 1,000 gallons per minute,
and one eight inches in diameter fur
nishes over four times that amount,
The great majority are two inches or
less in diameter. Of such some town
ships have over thirty. The larger
ones outside of towns are intended for
irrigation and have produced excellent
lesulls. Physicians remark the fact
that sickness has greatly diminished
wherever Artesian waters bavo come
into use. Tbc Wutcrs contain ingre
dients valuable for enriching the soil.
Phenomenal crops have been 'cpeatod
ly obtained by tfieir use.
The total agricultural exports for the
eight months of the fiscal \o?ir ended
March 1, 1001 were 9660,000 against
$400,000,000 for the corresponding
months of 1000. This increase is
found in cattie, hogs, provisions, but
most largely in cotton, tho exports of
which were ?711,000,000 groater than
in 1000.
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