The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-09

sary constables will invite the violation
Of the law, and the violation Of the law
will excuse the enforcement of the
metropolitan police law. Its a great
head ohm Gary has ou him
The men who complain Of being
land poor should try the experiment of
planting an acre or two 10 pecans. ln
ten to fifteen years the pecan acres will
be worth ten times as much. acre for
acre, as any other land that they own.
Georgia is sending a train load of
provisions to the starving Nebraska
farmers. The response to Ex Govern
or Northen's appeal has beer prompt
and hearty, and We venture to suggest
that this is a cause in which Ex Gov
ernor Tillman could worthily exert his
influence.
The fact that Robert Louis Steven
son earned 5000, 900 with his pen dur
ing the past six or seven years should
not encourage all those whc imagine
themselves great novelists, 10 embryo,
to quit their trades aud 60 to writing
regularly.
Several Of the Western papers have
tried the experiment Of allowing the
women to have the entire supervision of
one issue. Women did all the work,
from that of editor-io chief to Office boy;
aud it is said that they got out excellent
papers.
The volume of business in the South
during the past year compared very
favoTably with the west, aud the whole
sale dealers are turning their eyes
Southwark for the new years trade. 1t
is trre that business has been dull
throughout the. South. but there has
beer nothing like the distress and disas-
ter that has prevailed in entire sections
Of the west. TAere have been no labor
troubles, strikes or riots to cripple bust
ness and destroy confidence in the South
as in ths west. In this section times
are hard. money scarce, and the outlook
for the cotton crop gloomy, yet the peo-
pie have taken up their labors for the
year with energy and hope. They are
determined to make living if labor
and industry counts for anything, and
we know and the world knows that this
is section that guarantees at least
living to all who work. In the West the
year began amid starvation aud suffer
log, in the North amid strikes and
,hreateniags Of greater labor troubles
than ever before No won der inves-
tors and business men are looking
Southwark with hope. If the South is
able to produce as large provision
crop in 1895 as in 1894 the faith of the
country will prove we'll founded. With
propisions seasons We believe that
South Carolina will produce at least
fifth more grain this year thar last and
other provisions in proportion and if
the harvest is as bountiful as We trust
it will be, then will We begin to look
backward to the hard times with graft
tude that we have passed beyond them,
and not fearfully toward the future.
hoping against hope, that times will
grow 10 worse.
The Constitutional Convention was
devised and majority in favor of Ii
fraudulensly forced for purpose. II
was not for the good of the State as
whole that the dominant element made
such extraordinary exertions and COM
mitted such brazen frauds in forcing the
This elemen: does not work for any
such general motive. When they
Constitutional convention upon the State.
work it is for personal interest or to
wreak partisan spleen upon the op-
posite faction. There was purpose
in calling the convention at this time,
and there is every evidence that the pur-
pose was to cou;rol it and enact such
schemes as we'll perpetuate in power the
men who are now living at the public
expense. Outrageous and unblushing
frauds we're perpetrated in the lass cleo