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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-25

business struggles OF the firm employing
them. and at the time when the firm are
doing their best to meet an important con-
tract aud need all hands busy to accomplish
it, at such q time to have his employees make
a strike and put their employersinto extreme
perplexity and severe loss-then Labor be-
comes a Pharaoh Of the worst oppression,
and must look for the judgments of God.
Let all opprsssors whether in homes, in
churches, in stores, in Offices, in factories, in
social life or political ife In private life or
nnblic life know that God hates oppressors,
and they will all come to grief here or here
after. Pharaoh thought he did af1ne thing,
a cunning thing, q decisive thing when Tor
the complete extinction OF the Hebrews IN
Egypt he ordered all the Hebrew boys mas
sacred. but he did not find it so fine a thing
when his own first born that night of the de-
stroying angel dropped dead on the mosaic
floor at the foot Of the porphyry pillar Of the
palace. Let all the Pharaohs take warning.
Some Of the worst Of them are on q small
scale in households, as when a man, because
his arm is strong and his voice loud, dom
mates his door wife into q domestic slavery.
There are thousands Of such cases where
the wife is a lifetime serf. her opinion disre-
0arded. her tastes insulted, and her existence
q wretchedness, though the world may not
know it. 1t is a Pharaoh that sits at the
head of tina table,, ana B Inaraon tna1 W
~rapnizes that home. There Is no more alb
horrent Pharaoh than a domestic Pharaoh.
But it rolls over on me with great power
the Thought that we have all been slaves
down in Egypt, and sin has been our task
master. and again and again we have feltits
lash. But Christ has been our Moses to lead
us out Of bondage. and we are forever free.
The Red sea of q Saviour S sacrifice rolls deep
and wide between US and u aforetime
bondage, and though there may be deserts
vet for us to cross We are on the way to the
Promised Land. Thanks be unto God for
this emancipating Gospel.
Come up out of Egypt all ye who are yet
ensIaved. What Christ did for US He will
do for you. "ExodusT is the word. Exc
dust Instead of the brick kilns Of Egypt
come into the empurpled vineyards of God,
where one cluster of grapes is bigger than
the one that the spies brought to the Israel
ties by the Brook Eshcol, though that cluster
was so large that it was borne between two
upon q staff"
Welcome all by sin oppressed,
Welcome to HIS sacred rest;
Nothing brought Him from above.
Nothing but rcdeemlnz love.
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The American Indians, especially those
Of the lake regions of Southern Canada
relate acurious tradition to account Tor
the fact that all lower animals are dumb.
In very, very early times, they say, ihs
father of all tribes lived 10 8 beautiful
country over against the rising sun. His
form was perfect and his face handsome
in the extreme, his descendants being all
superb specimens of humanity. Know
ing of their accomplishments, and being
much given to fattering each other they
became very naughty and arrogant. Az
a punishment for their bigotry The Great
Father warned the father Of the tribes iR
a dream that a deluge would be sent to
drown them from of the face OF tho
earth. In the dream which forewarned
the father CT tribes of the great calann.
ity impending, there was presented to
his visionary view the form and outlines
of a raft, which was to be used nssaying
a remnant of this bigoted people. In
those days all animals talked as men doss
and when the father of the tribes in-
formed the beasts of the field of his
dream, and of his intentions concerning
the building Of the great raft, they pros
tested, declaring their unwillingness to
accompany him on any such expedition.
But the mans superior intelligence pre-
vailed. He built the raft, and 10! had
hardly finished when the great flood
came. The mans family and pairs OF
every beast took passage and ioated for
many months on the surface Of the de-
luge. The clouds cleared away On tha
second day after the embarkation and.
for seventeen successive moons the man
used the sun as o guide, continually
steering toward its place of setting. But
the animals, every one Of them (whoi IS
will be remembered had the power Of
SPECIFY, protested against sailing to the
west, declaring in one voice that they
preferred steering towards the suns
r~ising-place. These murmurs had been
going on for some days when, to the i'm
finite joy of the man, who had been hold
ing the fort against this horde Of
creatures who had the voices Of menand
tbs reason Of beasts, great spots OF dry
land began to appear. Finally this rudeiy
constructed ark grounded, aud the man,
and his family and the beasts were again,
permitted to press the face Of the earth
with their feet. But a great and lasting
calamity had overtaken the animals. For
their murmurs against the man while ION
the water they were deprived Of their
power of speech, and have remained
dumb from that day.-a. Louis Rspnb
Er
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LADY MAcDoSALD's TEEToTAL1sM.

Lady Macdonald, the wife Of the late
Prime Minister OF Canada, is a staunch total
~abstainer. The story Of how she became so
has been told by herself. She says, after
some reflection, she was led to give up wine
drinking suddenly at last on Christmas Day,
1867. She had thought a good deal on the
subject, but never made any decided resolu-
ton until that day. Conversation at dinner
turned on total abstinence, and q guest e
strictly temperance man, who held high
office IN the dominion, said that practically
total abstinence was impossible for any one
lin society" Lady Macdonald combated
this and, as a result OF further discussion,
she was challenged as to whether she would
herself '.give up her glass OF sherry at lin
ner." She at once decided to try, saying,
..Henceforth I enter the ranks OF total al,
s~tainers, and drink to our success In water"
Her ladyship's testimony Is that since
then, thank God, I have never found any
necessity for wine. In health l can DO my
life's work without any aid from dangerous
stimulants; in sickness I have invariably
and positively refused to touch it,
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Smallest Locomotive in the World.

Henry Case, of Gloversville, N. y,
has, after spending his spare time for
fifteen years on the task. completed the
smallest locomotive in existence. It Is
made of gold, silver, steel and brass,
contains 1915 separate pieces exclu-
sive of 66S screws and bolts and
35S rivets. 1t runs on a track with a
gauge of Il inches. The locomotive is
81 inches in height and weighs II
pounds, and with the tender two pounds
81 ounces. 1t is 8! inches long or
twelve with the tender. The diameter
Of the cylinder is SIG of an inch, aud its
stroke of piston IS ] inch. No. ~
cotton thread is used i'll the cab lamp
and head light, which burns after being
lighted about twenty minutes. The
whole is a beautiful and perfect working
model of the modern iron horse Wash
ln0ton Star.
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aExIco HoSoRs WASHINGTON,

An American, who runs a drinking saloon
In Monterey, recently exposed the portrait
of George Washington as a sign in front of
his saloon. General Reyes, the Governor Of
Nuevo Leon, more mindful Of the honor due
to the Father Of His Country" than the
American himself, ordered the portrait re-
moved, asserting that Washington was too
great and good q man to nave his portrait
used as a sign for a drinking house. It is
said that the publican claims damages and
has appealed to Secretary Blaine; but, how
ever the Administration may look at it, the
overwhelming sentiment Of the country will
be with the Mexican Governor. -Neu Or.
leans Pcauune.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE DEAREST NAME.

If Jesus from our faith today
We're stricken, and we knew
A Goddess creed must meet our need,
That nothing else were true;
II Jesus from our heart were cast,
From pages to be read,
What word, in all the realms of thought,
Would answer us Instead?
II Jesus, midst the mists oftime,
Were lost, and we could know
He never died, our crucifed,
What could the new Creed show
To take His place, to vibrate through
The PROSTATE human mind,
To give the race q standing place,
A hope for human kind?
If Jesus from our Creed today
Were stricken, who could trace
Another word the world hath heard
To ever take its place;
Could ever frame o sound so sweet?
In all the realm of art,
Who yet hath shone q single tone
So priceless to the hearth
-[Geo. Klingle.
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AN exchange says: Frances Will
lard denounces tight lacing in no
measured terms. She calls the tight
corset the death line" Miss VIII
lard is opposed to tights Of all kinds;
most emphatically those in the liquor
line.
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THE easiest thing in the world TO
do-giving advice-is the thing thai
ought to be the most religiously avoid
ed. If the advice turns out to De
good, you get no thanks; if it turns
out to be bad. YOU get cursea
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AT a recent wedding, as the newly
married pair we're marchihg down the
aisle, the organist played 'Onward
Christian soldier. marching to the
war;
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IT has been stated that Q. Z. Hunt
ington will give 500, 900 to the man
who will manage the Southern Pacific
Railroad without injury to the prop
erty. There are probably $1,000 men
in the field pointing lightning rods IN
Nh. Huntington's direction.
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Crickets are bought and sold in various
parts of Africa.
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les WIN are SpeuuinS GueL" lives LII coulOaClnS
it.
But before I forget it 1 must put more
emphasis upon the fact that the last outrage
that resulted in the liberation Of the He
brews was their being compelled to make
bricks without straw. That was the last
straw that broke the cancels back. God
would allow the despotism against mis- peo-
pie to 60 no farther. Making bricks without
straw!
That oppression still goes on. Demand Of
your wife appropriate wardrobe and
bountiful table without providing the means
necessary-bricks without straw. Cities de-
handing in the public school faithful and
successful instruction without giving tn.
teachers competent Observation-Disclosures with
out straw. United States government de-
~nanding of senators and congressman at
Washington full attendance to the interests
of the people, but on compensation which
may lave done we'll enough when twenty
five cents went as far as a dollar now, but
in these times not sufficient to preserve their
influence and respectability-bricks without
straw.
In many parts Of the land Churches de-
manding Of pastors vigorous sermons and
sympathetic service on starvation salary;
sancti1ed CiceroS on four hundred dollars
a year. Bricks without straw. That is one
reason why there are SO many poor bricks.
In all departments. bricks not even or
bricks that crumble or bricks that are not
bricks at all. Work adequately paid for Is
worth more than work not paid for. More
straw and then better bricks.
But in all departments there are Pharaohs;
sometimes Capital a Pharaoh and sometimes
Labor a Pharaoh. When Capital prospers,
and makes a large percentage on its invest
ment, and declines to consider the needs OF
the operatives, and treats them as so many
human machines-their nerves no more than
the bands on tie factory wheel-then Capt.
tai is a Pharaoh. On the other hand, when
workmeu, not regarding the anxieties and
The Iola register., 1891-06-19
WRONG EVERY WAY.

The Alliance sub-treasury scheme
proposes that the Government shall
construct warehouses and receive on
deposit non-perishable farm products
on which it shall loan to the depositor
so per cent of cash value. This scheme
is so preposterous and contradicts so
fatty every principle of sound finance
and honest government that it can be
attacked from every point of the COM
pass. The REGISTER has already as
saulted it from a great many sides,
but we find in the Kansas City Gazette
a demonstration of the unfair advant-
age it wodd give to wealth, that seems
TO US to be unanswerable. The Ga
sette supposes John Smith TO have
100000 in cash and to 60 in for spec
ulation under the operation of the sub
treasury. Smith buys 500, 900 worth
of cotton, puts in the subtreasury, gets
$4,000 dollars on it from the Govern
ment, invests again and so on until he
stands as follows:
The Iola register., 1891-06-19
WORKING CAPITAL AND NOT EvI.
DENCE OF DISTRESS.


X. c. Gazette.
An investigation of the mortgage in
debtedness of the people will show
that the mortgage is not an evidence
of distress and sorrow, but that it is
the poor mans capital. This is GER
tainly true in the development of a
new country, which is usually settled
by poor men who are compelled to
borrow with which to start. Who
does not remember the early days, be-
fore the Republican party began to
give the public land free to the settler,
when the loan agent stood around the
land office taking mortgages upon the
land Immediately upon its entry, for
the purchase money at from two to
five per cent month? So it has been
ever since, except when 40 many got
their land under the homestead law
they mortgaged for improvements or
for fraud-get the money on the land
and then leave the loan company to
hold the bag, at much lower rate,
however, than in the good Democratic
days of land sales. We gave the fig
ures the other day for Nebraska
county showing that IS per cent of the
Indebtedness of the people represented
purchase money for land, per cent
improvements or stock, and 20 per
cent investments in mercantile busi-
ness, leaving only 15 per cent for sick
ness, poor crops and other misfortunes
Now comes the census bureau with
the figures for county in Iowa. 1t
has some difficulty in getting these
figures, but il will soon be able to fur
nish reliable data. Already the re-
tnrns from many counties ofthe West
The Iola register., 1891-06-19
KANSAS LOSS, NEBRAsKA's GAIN.

Prof. James H. Garfield has been Of
fered aud has accepted, the chancellor
ship of the University of Nebraska.
The REGISTER makes this announ-
cement with a feeling of personal loss
that is hard to express. Prof. CAN
field entered the University of Kansas
as a teacher the same year that the
writer of this entered it as a student,
and the acquaintance then begun soon
ripened into friendship that the pas
sage of years has but strengthened.
1t will seem strange for awhile to visit
Lawrence and miss his CHEEKY greet
ing, his strong, masterful face, his
magnetic presence, his infinite good
TALK
The REGISTER never regretted that
it stood by Prof. Garfield during the
persistent and acrimonious warfare
that was made upon him year or two
ago, and defended him with what
force it had against the most bitter,
uIlluSt anu uuM dIIdHVCu ASSAULTS thhO
were ever made upon any man in Kan
sas. 1t is especially glad now that it
took this course, for events have more
than justified every word that was
then said. There is no need to apollo
gize for having stood by a man who
has so magnificently vindicated him
self. 1t Is doubtful il there is man
in the State to-day who will say that
Kansas is better off for Canfield's de-
parture, or that Nebraska is to be COM
miserated for placing him at the head
of her University at salary of 5000
year.
Two years ago certain papers in the
State kept the line standing, 'Cantield
must CO." He has gone now,-up
higher. And every man who knew
him personally, or who had any
knowledge of the splendid work he
was doing in our University will de-
plore the loss to Kansas of all inspiring
teacher, wise counsellor, tireless
worker, an original thinker, a brilliant
orator, a brave, pure, unselfish, patri-
Otic man.
The Iola register., 1891-06-19
COL. JONES GREAT SCHEME.

Our distinguished townsman, Col.
VIC. Jones, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee has a big head
and it is full of big schemes. The
latest one is designed to bring the
Peoples party to the support of the
Democrats in 1892. In order to do
this Col. Jones thinks it is necessary
to convince that party that it cannot
win in Kansas without the help of
the Democracy, and he proposes to
demonstrate this great truth by rum
ming q regular Democratic ticket in
every county in the State this fall.
The far-reachingness of this big
scheme as it is mapped out in Col.
Jones' big head, is fully set forth in
the following remarks which the Col
onel unwarily made TO Kansas City
Journal reporter few days ago. Af-
ter outlining the plan, as above given,
the Colonel said:
"We can thus defeat the Republi-
can party which has so long kept us
out of our birthright. 1 am not afraid
of the rising power of the new party,
as it cannot last very long. We can
afford to surrender to it offices that
we can never hope to fill ourselves
without such adventitious aid.
Through that party will come all our
recruits. Only those will not come
who never find resting place in any
party, the element that constituted
the Greenback party. BY itself that
element is dangerous to no one, and
just now its aid is very material. We
do not advocate nor do we indorse any
of the principles of the new party.
1t is solely a matter of votes with us
in 1872. 1 may say to you," becoming
earnest in his tone and manner, 1--WE
have no more use for our new allies
than your party has. 1t is, however,
our good fortune that we can use them,
swelling the grand total of the army
determined upon the destruction of
Republicanism in Kansas. This ac-
complished, we will be i'm a position
to maintain Democratic supremacy
in state that was stolen from us by
the abolition hordes from the New
England states before the war. Truth
and right must at last prevail, and
the old doctrines will once more be
supreme. True, we use tools that
might seem Objectionable, but the far
mer will manure plants, the products
of which are highly priced by all peo-
pie. So with us. Democracy is the
plant; we are the farmers; the delud-
ed Greenbackers form the nucleus of
the enriching powers which will
eventually give us the wholesome,
much priced fruit.
p. S. After the above was in type
we read it to Col. Jones and it is only
fair to him to state that he denies hav-
ing said it. He thought that the fellow
that did say it, besides knowing how
to sling English has a pretty level
head and pretty steady grasp OH the
situation. He especially endorses the
sentiment that the issue with the
Democracy in 1892 is "solely n matter
of votes"
The Iola register., 1891-06-19

without their efforts, their would be
neither opportunity nor necessity for
much purely manual labor.
Another error of ultra.socialisnl is
the denial of individual or personal
property rights. All human effort,
in addition to that required to simply
subsist and exist--to secure food and
raiment and shelter, all civilization,
especially our magnificent Anglo-Sax-
OH type of it, is based upon, made
possible and maintained only by a
recognition Of the right of every per-
son to own and hold in his own per-
sonal right whatever property he may
acquire by the legitimate exercise of
his faculties and the proper use of his
opportunities. Without this right,
"home," which is the foundation
idea of our civilization is an impos-
sibility. Take away from the citizen
his right to hold property in his own
name and for his individual and ex-
elusive use, and you have at one and
the same time taken away from him
his one incentive to labor, his noblest
ambition to wise industry, and you
have destroyed the very rock upon
which the best civilization rests. There
can be 10 civilization in the best sense
where the right to hold property is de-
MED. A community which has sur
rendered all its individual property
rights and which agrees that every
thing shall be owned and held in COM
mon is simply an association which
will ultimately, by the paralysis of in
dividual ambition and effort, defeat
its own ends.
Another error of ultra-socialism is
the assumption that all our economic
troubles are wholly industrial. They
are not. One of the principal factors
of the great social problem of our time
is the moral factor. That is to say, if
the morals, the character, the conduct
of all the wOrkingmen and working
women of our country and world were
what they ought to be, if they were
sober, prudent and economical; if they
totally abstained from the use of strong
drink, from gambling and all other
vices, the wages they can earn, even
in the existing defective social condi-
ton, would amply supply the neces-
saries of life, and would, in large
measure, solve most of the perllex-
ing social problems of the day.
The Iola register., 1891-06-19
THE ERRORS OF SOCIALISM.

<itcnlsOn champion.
There are some things that may be
said in justification of certain forms of
socialism, but there are likewise a
number of grave errors mixed up with
the modern socialistic demands.
One of these errors is the assertion
that "the state owes every man a liv-
ing" This claim is based upon the
assumption that the state is an entity
apart and by itself, and that it has
resources which it can dispose of as
it pleases without injustice to any one.
The fact, however is, that it is not an
entity at all. 1t is not impersonal.
The state is simply an aggregation of
individual citizens. 1t is composed
of yourself and all your neighbors.
1t is a union of individual men and
women under certain constitutional
forms. To say, then, as ultra social
lists do, that the state owes every man
a living is equivalent 10 saying that
you and your neighbors, who are the
state, owe every man living. And
if every man thus owes every other a
living then only one-half of the state
must do all the work to secure the
means of sustenance for the other
half, is both an injustice and an alb
surdity, and rests upon no foundation
in truth
The state, as matter of fact, only
owes that which it obligates itself to
pay, aud, in the very nature of things,
it cannot and does not obligate itself
to furnish a living to any one who
does not earn it, or, in other words
does not render an equivalent.
Another error of ultra socialism is
the claim that all men are equal, and,
therefore, are entitled to an equal
share of everything with every other
man. This is not true. All men are
not equal. They are not equal either
physically or mentally. No two men
on the globe are equal. Each and
every man differs, by the Creative
fat, from his fellows in every natural
respect, and neither the Almighty
nor nature ever intended that every
man should be the equal of every 9TH
er man. All men are, or should be
equal before the law; they are entitled
to and should be permitted to enjoy
equal civil, political and moral rights,
equal opportunities and such equality
as an equitably administered govern
ment may justly confer, but in no
other sense are men or were they ever
designed to be equal. All the equal
ity men have or may have is conferred
by society, not by nature.
Another error of ultra socialism is
the association that "he who does not
work shall not eat.n And this error
springs from the fact that work, in
the socialistic sense, is only manual
labor, when, the truth is, the most
work of our world, the |
work which makes all manual labor
of value, the work which is funda-
mental TO all civilization, is purely |
In this category of lab
or may be included all inventors, all |
all philosophers, all who
incite and inspire thought, all literary
toilers, all who labor with their brains
and never with their hands. All
these work in the true sense, In the
highest sense; and to say that, be-
cause they do no manual labor they
shall not eat, is sheer lunacy, for