The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-05-29
On the Run.


Greenyille on Wednesday last, adver-
tistd with great flourish OF drums and
'rumpetS was delivered before very
mixed audience. a white quail, a black
swan or an albino raven is classed 40 a
freak--a cage of parrots, monkey and
other birds and rare animals sometimes
make happy family. The inimitable
ana nondescript regiment Jack Fal-
stan raised for young Prince Hal was
motley col ection indeed. SIR Jack
says himself Of his collection of worth.
les motley Is the only ware" So all
shades of opinion and all avocations
were represented In this AUDIENCE
Foremost were the Republican Office
holders, Websteritcs (of old) died-in-
the wool, especially the wool-died,
Lilly White ms and outs, prospective
Republican oiiice-hOlders. watchers and
walters, manufacturers, bankers, plu.
tocratS, lawyers, teachers, preachers,
INGREDIENTS, farmers, doctors, McKin-
ley democrats, gold democrats, silver
democrats, Cleveland democrats, fell
lows without politics, al made into a
pie: Truly "motlcy Is the only ware I"
BLACK spirits and white, red spirits
ana gray, mingle, mlngle, mingle, you
that mlnRle may 1t was as mixed as
the witch's cauldron and we can't re
frain from reference to the weird dance
OF the sisters when round and round
they kept time to their charmed re-
frain and poured into the enchanted
vessel:
Il witch Round about the cIuldron 90
la the poisoned ontrals throw,
Toad, That under the coolest stone,
Days and nights hast thirty one
Swelter'd venom, sleeping got,
l5O.l thou first In tho n charmed >,,t
But to McLaurin's speech. They saw
that Brevity is the soul of wit. But
THIS address covers as much ground as
the DuilS hide of Dido was made to
| take in under the trade with the IA
theirs OF Carthage. We cannot give
space to an analysis of the world
| talk. 1t has been said that McLaurin' S
speech at Charlotte has not been an.
| swered. The Greenvlle speech Is a
re-hash and and enlarged edition of the
charlotte speech. 1t Is neat'y enough
done with touch Of tho literary cast
and in the closing paragraphs smacks
of the pathetic and the appeal. Nc
Laurin favors expansion, a large army,
an imposing navy, imperial domain,
| like the old fellow who wanted all the
land that "jined" him) ship subsidies,
territory around the globe, that the
| "'H my hNNSi SCdoC W Sllnc upon IL,
the Yankee drum-beat following his
imperial round from the rising to his
going down-a dominion, upon which
there is co such down-going. The ar
gument for all this is specious and
plausible and will tickle the Col.
lege Sophomore and the proverbial in
nocent, the impecunious or "unscrupul-
Gus" hopeful aspirant to Office, The
omnibus position Of McLaurin may be
answered as all Republican platforms
have been answered for century. Nc
Laurin favors high tariff, tariir for
Protection-hlgh duties on imports. A
hlRh tariif with I6 million OF people,
buying literally from abroad of
Everything that a woman can mt
from the crown of her head to the sole
OF her foo:"
ara man too, must pile up millions
upon millions OF money that can ONLY
serve as corruption fund or fund for
tyrany and oppression. Tariff, extrava-
gance, standing armies and waste are
corrclative.
But lIlE ADVERTISER has already
| over ana over again said that the South
IS buying section and while we make
at Richmond and Atlanta our cooking
stoves and plow shares, it will be a
| --N'' W'Gu we can
muster before we become otherwise
than consumers of the thousand pro-
ducts OF daily use among us from a pin
to an engine. Until then we are as
crazy as looms to adopt or listen to ar
gument suggesting tariff And it
must be noted tn It the genius of the
American people rebels at the sugges-
tlon OF all direct taxation for any Drr-
pose. Yankees travel South for three
quarters of century and go home and
write books about the land being a
land of gullies and this will be the case
as long as cotton production and high
tarilf legislation go hand in hand. Ana
all this is as old as the hills and the
strange part al out it Is that the reitcr-
alton of the doctrine :, > still ncce ssarv
at the South. The speech is pretty
much all parrying with little striking
out from the shoulder.
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South Carolina Weather Bureau, May
| 21.
/ Wheat continues to do well, and has
large we'll filled heads, but in places
| n N nnt