The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-05-01

| Game Cock en- a strut Tomorrow.
Speaker Crisp is about right when
be says the people waus free silver.
Why don't Atlanta, With her usual
grasping enterprise, make a bid for
the Corbett Fitzsimmons prize fight!
The talk. of giving President Cleve.
land a third term is idle. Washington
vas too great to accept a third term.
and no other man has been great
enough to obtain it from the people.
The crop Of frui. is so large that it
will be wise in those who " orchards
to thin ont the fruit. Otherwise the
trees will mature very little fruit of the
first quality.
Kentucky is in for q hot campaign
over the silver issue. Senator Black
burn and Proctor Knott will make it
interesting for Secretary Carlisle who,
it is said. will take the stump against
free silver. FIX Governor Proctor
Knott is a whole team himself
Great Britain is said to have designs
On the NicaraguasCsu and is said to
be more anxious to gain a foothold in
that vicinity than to collect the $780,
900 demanded. This is the story the
canal promoters are whispering rather
loudly into the public ear.
The State yesterday contained an
editorial favoring the establishing a
variety of Industrial enterprises in Co.
lumbia instead Of a single industry
with a large capital stock. The argu-
mens is we'll put, and we commend the
editorial to the consideration of the
stockholders in the Sumter Manufac-
turing Company.
w have received a marked copy Of
the Woman Suffrage LeoRet, contain
ing an article, "A Solution of the
Southern Question" by Henry B.
Blackwell. The solution proposed is,
of course. the granting of suffrage to
women. In support Of the proposition
an array of statistics from all the
Southern States is given. The figures
for South Carolina are as follows
white males over 81 who q write,
1876 white males over 81 who can
not write. 1894; total white males
over 81, $4,000; negro males over 81
Who can write, $3.50 negro males
over FL who cannot write, 93,O10;
total negro males over 81. 1889;
total legal voters. 205, 7S9; white
women over 81 who can write, 75,207;
negro women over 81 who can write.
1887; total women who a write.
1884; Negro voting majority on
present basis, 1899; white voting
majority with women added. 25,o31;
illissrate voting majority on present
basis, 8,079 educated voting majority
With women added, 85,315.
The article from the Atlanta Consti-
tuition showing how values dave de-
creased in the United States within the
last twelve months, makes. interesting
reading. and at the same time a very
plausible argument against the present
financial policy Of the government 1t
shows that the money Ct the country
has been forced to the financial centers
and IS there congested TO sucn an e1-
tent that money is there a drug on the
market, while the greater part of the
country has been drained of money
and the values of all classes of property
has decreased to a distressing extent.
This is the result of the characterization
Of silver and the consequent contraction
of the currency, claims the Comstltu-
ton, and we are forced to concede that a
strong case is made out for the claim.
South Carolina is credited with a slight
increase 10 values, but we believe that
this increase cannot be substaotlated.
for the market values of all classes of
property iu this State are much less
than it was one year ago, and this is
notably true in respect to real estate.
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