Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-06
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grafton agent, who has several times
narrowly escaped lynching in Georgia
and the Carolinas because Of his eff
forts to send Negroes from the planta-
tions to the West, is about to come in
to his own. In Georgia now the Ne
groes have become a nuisance in the
cities because of their avoidance of
work and their proneness to crime, and
Williams calls the attention Of the pub
lie to the fact that this business Of
transplanting the blacks holds out the
only remedy for existing conditions.
He will therefore undertake to engi-
neer a big exodus of them from that
state to the Mississippi valley"
Russell H. Conwell, a star course
lecturer for the Y. M. G. A. in Gin
cinnati, surprised his hearers by say
ing: 1T is a disgrace to be poor. The
rich people are the most honest. There
are few exceptions. The poor people
waste their time and what little money
they have. If they didn't they'd be
rich. The most honest, honorable men
in this country are the millionaires.
It's disgrace for us to look down on
the rich as we do! Success is a duty
failure a sin. The rich have become
rich by taking enough interest in peo-
pie to supply what they need, and the
riches that have resulted have been
nothing but the legitimate, Biblical re-
ward of being benefit to Others"
General Macarthur cabled from
Manila last Tuesday that Aguinaldo
had taken the oath Of allegiance to the
United States as follows: II, Emilio
Aguinaldo, hereby renounce all allegi-
ance to any and all so-called revolu-
tionary governments in the Philippine
islands and recognize and accept the
supreme authority Of the United States
of America there. do solemnly swear
that I will bear true faith and allegi-
.ance to that government; that 1 Will
at all times conduct myself as faith
full and law-abiding citizen Of the said
islands, and will not, either directly or
indirectly, hold correspondence with or
give intelligence to an enemy Of the
United States, nor will I abet, harbor
or protect such enemy; that I impose
upon myself these voluntary obl1ga-
tions without any mental reservations
or purposes of evasion, so help me
God!" Four asterisks in the cable
gram mark passage withheld from
publication, about which the officials
will say nothing now.
Said Booker T. Washington, in a
speech in New York, last Wednesday:
I'm dealing with the Negro race we
must bear in mind that it came from a
land where there was no need for la
Dor. Then for 250 years it was forced
to labor in the way little calculated to
give it love for work. I believe that
in slavery the solution Of the problem
was really laid and I believe if we
could have taken it up just where it
was left off when slavery ended, it
would have been better for our people.
They felt that to hold office was the
highest thing they could attain and
they put more emphasis on the politi-
cal than the industrial side of life.
They thought the object of education
was to put them in a position where
they would not have to work. Eighty
per cent. of the people in the South
depend on agriculture for living and
we began with that as basis. I have
tried to make our farm an object lesson
to those around us"
The weather bureau, on April 1, is
sued the following summary Of crop
conditions: From the Central Missis-
sippi valley eastward to the Middle
Atlantic coast the weather conditions
of March were generally favorable for
farm work. but in the states Of the
Missouri valley and upper lake region
they were not so favorable. Com
plants of drought are received from
central and western Texas, while
heavy rains in the South Atlantic and
East Gulf states, during the latter
part of the month, interfered with
farm work and caused injury by wash
ing prepared land. Preparations for
planting corn are in progress as far
north as Kansas. Missouri, Kentucky
and Virginia, some having been plant
ed in the southern portions of the first
two named states. Farther south a
larger part of the crop has been plant
ed. "Some cotton has been planted in
Alabama and Southern Texas and
prepare tions for planting in other por-
tions of the cotton belt are we'll ad-
vanced."
While it is too early to properly es
innate the effect of Aguinaldo's cap
ture and his submission to the Ameri
can authority upon the insurgents
still in the field, says a Washington
dispatch, the hope is entertained bv
the war department officials that it
will result in the cessation of hostili-
ties throughout the archipelago. In
anticipation of this there is already
talk about the possibility Of reducing
the number OF American troops in the
islands. There are now about 10000
United States troops there, and it is
thought it will soon be possible to re-
duce this number to about 10000. 1t
is also probable that the president will
decide that it is unnecessary to re-