The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-03-17

oaE1ter.
The ex-Presidents are both busy.
Ben has discarded his grandpas hat
and is fully occupied with No | OF
Los q Harrison edition. while. Grover
is shooting ducks.
Senator Earle is pledged to play
second fiddle TO Tiilman's liable eff
forts, in the Senate Such a fate
for such man Sometimes we have
recollections of the speeches made
in the campaign of go, aud these
suggest comparisons between the
now and the-then.
Blind tigers flourish in Charleston
nnder the noses of q special anti
blind tiger police force and large
constahnlary In other places the
tiger has grown lean OF is now ex-
sinct Sumter is fair example OF
the gradual extinction of the blind
tiger sp,eies At one time there
was no difficulty in purchasing con-
straband but now nothing is heard
Of the tiger, and unless there is a
chosen circle whose members keep
vel the secret Of the tigers lair,
the tigers vocation is gone.
New journalism appears to be
Synonymous with colossal and shame.
less lying. Exposure one day, in
stead of producing shame and con-
fusion, calls for more circumstantial
and deceptive lie the .4ext.
a detailed report of the work done
on the public roads by the chain
gang during the last fiscal year
would make interesting reading, and
we should take pleasure in publishing
Ii. Such report may have been
been made TO the County Boald of
Commissioners, but, if so we have
not been so informed.
/. ff.s,s
Tie enforcement of the rule requir-
iDg The bo.el d;speDsaries 10 Charleston
to close promptly at 8 o'clock. locks
iitsie like the moral side of the iosti,
tutipn is to have some showing against
the money making side.
Secretary Carlisle is we'll taken care
Of by the money power 'shicb be served
so faithfully and sealously while in the
Cabinet. He is nov dra~ing regu-
lar salary Ct $25. 900 per year from
one ccrporstioo. aud has been engaged
as special COUNSEL in several important
suits by other corporate monopOlies.
Ispays TO make frieods with the money
powers for they bestow handsome re-
wards.
Some of the Northern papers are
antagonisiDg the appropriations for im-
proyements on Southern rivers and
harbors and cite as reason for their
opposition the small and Insignificant
custom receipts Of the beneficiary ports.
The aptagonism comes with an ill-grace
from the section that has been the bsu-
e6ciary of the government to the ex. ent
of hundreds of millions. 1t is Tor .be
purpose of increasing the business OF TIE
ports that the harbor Improvements we're
projected, and if the drift Of the export
and import trade continues southwark
at the ssme rate that has prevailed dur.
ing the pas. few gears. it will be bat a
brief period before the volume Of Gus
tom receipts will be in proportion to the
sums expended ioI making the needed
improvement, We have more than q
suspicion that great increase in the
business Of the ports Of Baltimore.
Galveston, New Orleans. Mobile. Nor
folk, Port Royal and other Southern
seaporss and the corresponding decrease
10 the trade of New York. Boston and
other Northern por's has more to do
with the antsgonism TO appropria-
tions for harbor Improvement than
a disin,eres.ed spirit of economy
The development of trade through
Southern ports is what the North feats