The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-17
An Eccentric Congressman.

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presumably to advance the industrial
Interests of Greenville County, without
regard to the character Of q mans poll.
tics or the color Of his skin. All that
Col. Aiken said about agriculture was
appropriate; much that he said about
other matters was reckless and crude.
He strongly opposed the Lien law As II
curse to the farmer, and denounced the
change recently made in the Csury law
as "a great evil" He criticised the
management of the Penitentiary, and
denounced the policy Of leasing convicts
TO Northern capitalists to make shoes
and stockings within tue prison walls,
because at the expiration Of their term
of service they would be turned out Of
prison rs expert mechanic. 10 compete
with honest laGorers. He favored the
hiring of convicts TO railroads, or their
employment at cracking stones to build
public roads. The speaker next criti-
cised the law exempting manufactures
from taxation for a term Of years as un-
just, unequal and inexpedient He did
not think it "as righ. that farmers
should pay taxes and that manufacturers
should be exempted Such distinction
was opposed to the spirit Of the Consti.
tuition, and did not encourage manufac.
lures. To cap the climax Col Aiken
denounced the public se,0ol system Of
the State as grand humbug lie de-
clared that the fluids were wasted,
squandered, thrown away" that the
negroes got most benefit from the schools;
and finally, that he believed the negroes
should be educated, but that they should
have white teachers.
Such was the address with which Col.
Aiken endeavored to interest the intelli-
gent and progressive people Of Green
vile. Many will endorse his views upon
the Lien and Csury laws, and there may
be some who will agree with him as to
the exemption of manufactures from
taxation but his notions as to the treat.
ment of convicts and his structures upon
| generally rcpudisted as reckless and er-
| EUneous.
The wonderful growth of manufactures
in South Carolina since the passage
Of the Act Of 1879 is the best evidence
| as to the practical wisdom of that meas
ure. Every dollar added to our manu-.
| featuring industries will in the end add
| to the taxable values of the State, and
the exemption Of manufactures from
taxation is an indirect benefit to every
| man, woman and child in the State.
The idea of Col. Aiken that convicts
| should not be employed at making shoes
in the Penilentiary because they will
become competitors with honest outside
mechanics Is ridiculous, and his argu-
ment that, because certain negro teach
| er on his place turned out to be forger
all negro teachers are lacking in morals
is rs absurd rs it is monstrous AS we'll
| say that because Oakes Ames was pub.
| lie P!underer all other congressman are
| also thieves and unworthy to be trusted,
| and that because the New York peuten-
tiaries are crowded with white convicts
all the other white people of New York
are criminals. Such All argument is as
unworthy of Col Aiken az it is disheart.
ening to those who would like to admire
him. Col. Aiken has a great deal to
learn yet. He will find out after
while, perhaps, that nothing be can do
or say will retard the growth Of generous
sentiment or stay the progress of the
State.-Ne,os and Courier.
= The last reports from the storm in
South Georgia show that it went over
the track travelled by the cyclones of the
past decade. The killed in Georgia are
estimated at As, and the injured at 100.
Tho damage done is estimated at $780,
600. On the little creek in Coweta
County, (Shakes's Creek $4,000 worth
of dams were destroyed. Carp and
other fish are floating about in the fields
by the thousand, and negroes with senes
are making rich catches.
Middle measures are often but
middiing measures" There are ne
"middlings" about Kidney.Wort. 1t is
the most thoroughly refined flower" Of
| medicine. 1t knows no halfway meas
ures, but radically uproots all diseases of
the kidneys, liver and bowels. 1t over
throws piles, abolishes constipation and
treats the system 80 gently and soothing
ly as to prove its true kinship to nature
IN all its praises. 1t is prepared in both
liquid and dry form.
~ A little 12-year.old girl in Knox
vile, Iowa, was frightened to death BY
severe thunder storm few nights ago.
She had been quite we'll the day before,
but awoke during the estorm and besought
her mother to take her to her bed, "for She
vas afraid of thunder" Her supplica.
tions were UNDECIDED, ard soon the moth
or was aroused by the child's difficult
breathing. Approaching the bed with
a light she found her in dying condi-
ton, and in few minutes she breathed
her last
= The line of breastworks which in
1864 was thrown up around Rsleigh, N.
O., is now nearly obiterated. But in
some places, for hundreds of yards, the
the nearly perfect line yet stands. Grass
grows luxuriantly and keeps the earth in
shape. In one or two places cannon
lie rusting in the grass and ooze. Much
of the line, which was continuous, runs
through cultivated land, and can only
be discovered by q red band on the
lighter soil. Yearly the plough is put
ting in it's work, and ere man yyears not
single sign OF Raleigh's only defences
will remain.
= Some of the independent republi-
can papere are complaining bitterly of
the preliminary "blundero" of the civil
service commission. The only "blunder"
that has thus far been committed ia the
fact that the independent papers have
persistently INDUCED In the belief that
there could be such thing as civil SER
vice reform under Republican auspices.
The commission has made no "blunder."
It was organized in the interest of the
Republican machine, and it will be run
| In that interest to the end. Meantime.
the Independent papers will continue To
regard it as non.partisan affair, and
thousands of really honest Republicans
will be none the wiser.
- Laurensville Herald: We are graf.
fed to learn that the grading Of the