The Bamberg Herald, 1899-10-12

QJiVO KCpii iiUB rciiUi u vi uulov kuau^vohis has been in practice during Mr. outhit's administration. They put up rover's whiskey Saturday morning ith Wilson's labels, but the name rilson was struck off." C. H. Charles, assistant bookkeeper, ates "thatGrover's whiskey is classed | X corn whiskey, and the difference the price of X and XXX corn to conmers is $1 per gallon." We conceive it to be our duty to re>rt the facts to the board as they ally appear, but in our finding the nclusion cannot be escaped that thio heme of changing' the labels on liskey shipped out could have been vised for no other purpose than to eate a way for collecting more money r the goods sent out to the local disnsers than the same were invoiced to the commissioner ; and, further, create the impression on the memrs of the board that certain brands ire becoming more popular, they ing hard to keep in stock." We finds that this practice of chang* labels is not only done for the reads stated, .but it is absolutely indexible from any standpoint, and conivenes the spirit and letter of the w, aDd candor compels us to aud it ,s unquestionably worked a fraud on e people of South Carolina. We suggest immediate action in this itter, and if this practice is now ing carried on that it te forthwith >pped. We further find that the practice of ostitution of orders has been iu vogue der Mr. Douthit's administration? tiers have been substituted when reived from the city of Charleston and >ewhtre in the State. We find that, on the order of the mmissioner, without authority from e board, or without the commissionever having reported his action to e board, sixty-nine cases of wines jre transferred from Dispenser Sto art to Dispenser Stelling, in Charston, on July 11th. The price was reiced to one dollar per case when ibe insfer was made. And exclusive of is, by order of the commissioner, a rther unauthorized reduction was ide to the extent of $287.15 in sales R?wr?Lr Hill unri Minora wines. These

be returned, yet when your committee tn requested a statement from the com- les missioner as to the amount of contra- du * band goods actually return d, it shows tr! only tae &um of $168 90 worth returncu ?a difference of $151.30 between fu: Watts' books and Commissioner Dou- m) thit's books. So that, we find that of this difference of $151.30 should be m' charged back to the commissioner. St Addmg the $262 95 to the $15130 makes $414 25, p.us tne sum of $741.57 cb mskearthe sum of $1,155.92 which veri- on I lies the Harris statement. itj Your committee was unable to find ev . any stat- meet on the books showing fo: the amount of contraband goods ac- in tually turned over to Commissioner ce Douthit when he succeeded Commissioner Vance, consequently Mr. Douthit is not charged with "any goods turned over to him by Mr. Vance. We noticed from the records that the following contraband goods have ac been reported as seized, and turned in: M 248 glasses, 4 waiters, 12 ice tubs, 14 so crates. 4 refrigerators, 25 bottles, 3 ar glass boxes, basket and beer glasses, 2 a< stills, 60 gallon capacity each, 2 copper still , one lot of still fixtures, 5 mules a; and one horse, 2 wagons and harness, D 1 basket, 1 faucet at $12. We have as not been able to thoroughly look into b< the disposition of such articles as above hi enumerated, on account of pressure of le many other matters, but we direct tr , your attention to an unauthorized pri- re vate sale made by Commissioner Dou- fc this to Constable LaFar of a horse. 2 We refer you to LaFar's testimony on this subject. it We call your special attention to the si loose way of doing business in regard fcr to the disposition of empties. We learn, frojn the testimony of Superin pi tendent Bryant, that at least two d hundred and fifty kegs, fifty jugs and h demijohns were sold by him during <m Mr.' Douthitfs administration, and he ii states in his affidavit that this does w not include sales made by other officials c<

V UIUUJVUU Ut^glUg 1U wv v? ^ world has almost ceased since the < ith African mines entered the field, the result is, as stated above, that y now supply over 98 per cent, of diamonds ol oommerce. qttally wonderful and equally promg are the great Witwatersrand i fields of South Africa, located in South African republic, better wn as the Johannesburg mines. 5 Dutch word "Witwatersrand" ins literally "White Water Range," the strip of territory afewbuni miles long and in width to which : applied was but a few years ago aidered a nearly worthless ridge,, ful only for the pasturage of cattle sheep, and for even this compara ily valueless. In 1883, however, 1 was discovered, ard in 188-1 the le of the gold production was about 000. It increased with startling iditv, the production in 1888 being ut $5,000,000: that of 1890. $1,000,; 1892, over $30,000,000; 1895, over 000.000, and 1397 and 1898, about 000,000 in each year, his wonderful development his at;ted great attention to South Africa drawn thither thousands of peril in the hope ol realizing quick for23. Development, howeved, showed t the mines could be successfully ked only by the use of costly ihinery, and while they hav9 been reme'y productive where muchiy has been used, they were not of a character as to make hand or jer mining profitable as was the } in California. The gold prodaci in the "Rand" since 1884 has been r $300,000,000, and careful surveys the field Dy the use of drills and er processes of experts show beyond stion tbat tbe " in sight" probabiy )unts to $3,500,000,000, while the je n mber of mines which have n located in adjacent territory, ticularly in parts of Rhodesia, give mise of additional supplies, so that leems probable that South Africa t for many years continue to be, as ( 'a 1 o (?nM.nrnH nnitiff

the interests, the wishes and the wei- J fare of tne American people. Day by < lay they are demonstrating their com- f piete surrender and servility to trusts, < imperialism, militarism and the single 1 gold standard?the inexorable Moloch i jf the nineteenth century. They are t growing rapidiy not in grace ana good i works, but in aisgrace anu bad works, < " The process of ramming tne single fold standard down the throat ol the i Republican party goes merrily on, with c dyrnan J. Gage, secretary of the troas- ? lry, who ratted to the Republicans for ? i cabinet portfolio, in the roil of ram- I ner-in-cnief. One virtue doth Lym^D c >ossess?he is a candid, out-and-out * joldbug. In his pnilosophy, might f nakes right, and having the power to t istaoiish tne goid standard, ne pro- * >oses to do it without doiay, without c )aiaver and without mercy, in the end t -.yinan and his coadjutors will have s heir way, and w.li play ruwinessiy and C leartiessiy the part ol Juggernaut lor e uea timorous souls as benatorJohn c d. Thurston, ol Nebraska, wuo go aban- C ml moaning piteousiy aoout that ab- t ndbned plank of 1896 in lavor of in- c ernationai bimetallism. t "if tney do whip iu ail their men g .ndcarry the Atlantic City bill througn a )ongr6ss, 1 make bold to predict that s motQer Republican Congress will i( icver sit in tne capitol at Washington, E or the bulk ol tne American people a >re opposed to "more thoroughly estab 1 ishlng the gold standard, opposed to w etiring the greenbacks, opposed to a a lew issue of luterest bearing bonds and c lualterabiy opposed to larming out the 5 taramount and dangerous power of ex- e landing and contracting tne volume oi E urrency to any private person whsth S :r natural or artificial. Upon tais broad- P 1 - ' * - ' ?. iMit thii </A\7? f C

loiorea enurcn in a boutnern city, sou vhere the elegant and scholarly and )reacher dropped into a strain of old- the ime fervor and stirred every man and the voman in the house to an intense ex- E litement.' Attempting in vain to calm i6in he storm he had raised the preacher go]< at down in utter disgust. Mr. St. the 31air heard a half dozen sermons from kno iducated colored preachers and not The ince was the word " heil " mentioned, mes )ne minister explained to him that and his was due partly to a change in the- dre< logical views, but also to the fact that it ip ' we cannot restrain our people if we coni :o on talking to them about hell. We use) , re now trying to teach our people to rea- and on and think." In Mr. St. Clair'sopin- tive on, the self-consciousness of the new g0ic legro has brought with itself-restraint, Vah ,nd that not more than 5 per cent, of $50, he negroes are guilty of the outrages rap fhich have caused the lynchings. He abo ,dds that " in private the " severest 000 ritic of these brutes is the negro him- $40, eif." OwiDg to the race feeling, how- $55 ver, the negroes are not able to de- t ounce these outrages in public. Mr. trac ?t. Clair adds that " when a negro and treacher 's able to declare from his soni tulpit, 'Your race will outlaw you if t,un( ou commit this crime,' then the crime tha nil no longer be committed." WOr Mr. St. Clair say3 that the colored ma( nan, keenly conscious of his hard lot, ext] s rushing into the towns and cities, rjer yhere he is crowded into the foulest suc] [uarters, entailing effects the most ap- p[a< ?aliing, especially developing consumpion and insanity, whose ravages have t,ioc titherto not been great among the ne- ove 'roes. He thinks that the negro is a 0f 1

COUlCt gO 10 LUC UUUUwrjr i?uuoj uu vuv very same platform that we had in ' 1896, and have do other issue pre- ] sented, I believe that we could win our J fight; but Providence hss been good i to us, and in the last two years issues < have been presented to us in addition 1 to those we had in 1896. We have ' not only grown on the old issues, but we have grown on the new ones. The I Republican party today stands for a J large army. In 1896 we had 25,000 J soldiers in the regular army,* and in December, 1898, a Republican Presi- * dent asked for 100,000 soldiers in the * standing army, making four times as 1 great as that of 1896, a.- asked for by a t President in 1896, and if any Rspubi - * can tells you that the President wanted c these soldiers to beat down an up- i rising in the Philippine islands, you f tell him that a Republican asked for 1 100,000 soldiers two months before t there W88 any uprising in the Philip- t pine islands. At the time the Presi- a dent sent his message to Congress in J the early part of December, there was t no uprising anywhere. The treaty a with Spain was practically agreed t upon, and there was no evidence of any necessity for a large army, except as a a permanent policy of this govern- C ment; so that when Mr. McKinley a asked for the army it was not for an o emergency, but it was for the p'-rma i nent, continued policy of the United a States. In other words we are to 1 choose between an army of 25,000 and r an army of 100,000. I will venture the e assertion that in any of the nations u that have gone to militarism you can- p not find an instance %vhere such a large i increase was demanded. Consider a c moment. Grant an increase of 300 per e cent at the very first step. How easy e it wiil be to give them 100 per cent e o?/s ii. and then one hundred ii

Kj* v. xiivy uau luquc up biiQir f nicds that the South was their adopted lome and they would fight for it. fUler remaining in service several i nonths Mr Bomar, feeling that he :ouid uot run the mill without the aid < )f these experts, applied to the Government and had them released from i lervice in order that they might do 1 nore good fo>* the Confedei acy at home i&an they couid do in the field. Thus , ,he old Bivingtville factory during the our years of war supplied hundreds md thousands of families with yarn to , nake cloth for people at home and in he field. After the war '*as over the D. E. Converse Company was formed and a iew brick building took the -place of .he wooden one, and improved machi- 1 lery took the place of the old, and ,hus the first well equipped cotton iiill of the up-country was built. From 1 ,bat event dates all the fine mills of ' ihe Piedmont, and it was in a great neasure owing to the success of Mr. 1 Converse that mill building increased i io rapidly in the State. Aoout 1880 Mr Converse formed a < jompany, bought the old Hurricane ' shoals, or Rolling Mill property, on j Pacolet, and built Clifton Mill No J. I rben 2 followed, and No 3 was finished ibout two years ago. Mr. Converse was )resident of all these mills. They ; jave an aggregate of 3,768 looms and . .18,072 spinules.. He is also interested , n other mills, and a stockholder and , lirector of the three banks at this jlace. j When a female school was talked of- p several years ago Mr. Converse was , merested and was a iargestockholder , n the first organization; Since that ' ae has given large sums to Converse College, and took:.great pleasure in ; ihe success of the' institution. With>ut his aid it would not be the impor- ' 1 (a *kn a/ln/lfltiftB r?f oirla

ir na&ociajL ibouc ui whu^ ^v* irnment shall retain the function of J ssuing money or shall aodicate in favor v if the National Ban* Association, nousanas of hone&t and patriotic men ? rho fought us in 1896 will raily under ? iur banner, and, with Thurston's dis- v [runtied free siiver McKtnley Kepub- 9 icans, give us the victory* ? "The plain, unvarnished truth is that } he R?publican party resembles a hill ? if potatoes more than anything else, ? or the best part of it is under grouod. c The new-fangled and un-American c loctrine of Asiatic inperiaiism has led ? he Republican party into repudiating . :very idea lor which Lincoln stood. 1 'How are the mighty fallen. The ^ >arly Republicaus deluged the contin- r mt in blood to emancipate four brother j n black latter day" Republicans pur- ? ue a policy which reintroduces human t ilavery in the Sulu and Hawaiian is- t ands under the protection of the t American flag, hitherto fondly called g the banner of the free.' r ' James Buchanan, the last Demoera- r ic president, sent an army to thrash j 3righam Young, the great Utah poly- L ?ami8t; William McKinley, the latest ind, let us hope, the last Republican president, pays tribute to the Sulu poygamist. "Imperialism has led us into tolerat- j eg a press censorship, into scoffing at ihe declaration of independence, into spitting upon the constitution, into a practical abandonment of the Monroe :oc trine. j "Under Republican maladministra- ] ;ion we are to sacrifice every principle ' which we have cherished, every princi- J pie which has tended to make us great V.mnwarl ja q r?or?nl? in nrdfir that ^