The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-10-09
Interviewed.

DIR. I, Il. Earle, of Greenville, has
been to Baltimore and there he fell a
victim to q reporter and talked about
affairs att home and the Baltimore
News prfats what he had to say. He
Is described in that paper as a brother
OF ex-Attorney-Genera Earle, who
vaulted for the Governorship against
Gov. Tillman in the recent past.
The doctor describes the opposition
to Gov. Tillman as the "Aristocracy,"
utterly ignoring Fagin Martin, q CO.
patriot OF the doctor in the Paris
Mountain latitude, the chief and head
center OF the Piedmont opposition
kicking coterie.
The doctor lays all the blame of out
side impressions Of our State on the OPP
position press and seems to forget that
the Administration itself has o press
Of Its own, reputed to be stall-fed to
the throat and ought to have a little
credit abroad and correct false i'm
p%ressions. The doctor excuses n
little apparent harshness on the part
% u Governor for the reason that
has been "ostracised," faith, and
otherwise ignored and illtreated by
the defeated coterie. Just so; the
thieves hung up the honest men once
upon a time. The doctor places him
self also in describing "us Of the oppo-
sition" and suggests that it would be
better for all concerned If the oppo-
sition were more "gracefully" to sub
NIT. 1t is also suggested in the inter-
view that in Charleston and other
places there are those who refuse to
speak to him, Gov. Tillman, etc. This
will be lev to most of us and the
wfiskey gentry must be meant, for it
will hardly 60 down in this latitude
that a Charlestonian could be con-
victed Of a discourtesy to the humblest
citizen, much less the wearer of the
purple of the chief magistracy of the
State. The feet is, the Charlestonian
always behaves decently and hospita-
bly, and without Charleston Gov. Till
mans road would have been found
more stumpy than he has experienced.
After describing Gen. Butler as as
much tainted with populism as Gov.
Tillman, a very innocentlike implica-
tion, by the way, the interview closes.
*%
The depressed price of cotton is
really a serious calamity to the South.
All classes, the cotton producer, the
merchant, the professional man, the
mechanic, the school teacher, feel the
grin OF the resultant times. The wheat
producer seems to be in the same box,
while the corn and bacon people are
realizing fair prices for their products.
The small farmer who happens to be
in debt and cannot devote his energies
to food crops particularly suffers. The
: capitalist who raises two hundred bales
of cotton can pull through as the large
interest realizing as low as ten per
cent. will allow o living chance. But
this low per cent. on an investment Of
a few thousand, involving the personal
attention and labor of an intelligent
farmer makes indeed hard conditions.
There would seem to be no way
ht0uS hO olilSulUlCo DuU Ill illOoU
pinching economy and the cultivation
to a large degree of food crops to be
consumed at home. The acreage in
cotton continues to increase from year
to year limited only by the capital at
the South seeking investment. There
GEMS to be no way to limit the devel-
pment of this crop. In some cases
nth Of us thousands OF acres are
gv"nted and some planters raise as
much as three thousand bales. This
is the competition the small farmer
must nj vet. His only hope is to raise
food crops and make cotton severely a
surplus crop. Where there are debts
to meet, the problem is a difficult one.
The solace lies in the fact hat all
classes at the South are affected and
stand in the same boat?
**
Judge Christie Benet of the new re-
yglme is presiding over the court for
Richland county at Columbia. His adj
dress to the the Grand Jury on the Or
~ganization of the court, though inno-
SohIiy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was unique. Ills
comments on constitutional liberty and
constitutional limitations we're char
acteristic of q northern British "sub-
ject" and must have been amusing to
the sons OF sires who appreciate what
is meant by constitutional liberty. He
had for his theme the dispensary law.
The judge clearly is constituted for a
good su~bservient Subject" He evil
dences his "raising" He should have
been an "Englisher" or should have
had q strain of ''ould Oirland" in his
makeup to be appreciated and fairly
understood by his unsophisticated au.
ditory. An infantile acquaintance
with Judge Marshall, a federal of fed.
eralists, and a Hamiltonian of the first
water, would have given him some
practical notion OF citizenship" as op
posed to ''subjection." Again a slight
acquaintance with Lord ChesterGeld's
letters would have given him some no.
tion of manners in contrast with the
-mannerism INDUCED in this servile
diatribe from o late "subject" clothed
with ia litt1e brief authority ~ If fo,