The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-06-18

r 28th July, and Jonesboro, Franklir
4 Nashville, Kin, ton and Bentonvillt
t besides many other of the smalle
. fights.
When he had entered Congress i
3 1886, the district having been repre-
sented by negroes, there was a tOtt
, neglect of the interests Of the people
! His first work was to make persons
examination of the navigable rivers
with view to have them improved b
. the government. River and harbo
improvements are of great benefit I
farmers, as 1T enables them to get thei
produce to market quickly and cheaply
as river transportation is cheape
than railroad. Winyah bay was sool
opened up, and the benefit was fel
over half the State. The improve
ment has extended higher and higher
and the good work is being felt every
where. If he was sent TO the Senate
he would devote especial attention Il
liver improvements, of which he hat
L. .de special study and TO which hi
had given years of work, and give his
best efforts towards doing for the State
what he had been doing for his dis
trict.
The forest reserve bill in the House
of Representatives he had supported
because he thought it would be of vital
benefit to the people in preventing
freshets, regulating rainfall and pre-
vent the cutting and washing away OF
land. Much of the most valuable land
/ in tho Sfatn No ,lontaI hnnanoo
the freshets rendered it impossible,
and the freshets had increased to an
alarming extent since the mountain
forests had been cut away. He said
this was the most important measure
and should be strongly taken up.
Mr.. j. j. Hemphill, the next speak
er, SAID he liked promising man of
some kind. But the candidates who
had preceded him had promised every
thing and had claimed to have ac-
coinplished all the rest, and it left him
nothing to do. He devoted himself to
the topic of expansion. The Demo-
Gratis are expansionists, but the Re-
publicans go too far in that direction.
The Democrats believe in expansion
OF commerce and manufactures.
He told a number of bright jokes to
illustrate Yankee ingenuity and inven-
tive genius and declared that all they
want the Philippines for is to make
money out of them. Is it to Christianlze
these people that Gen. Jacob Smith is
sending to their death all males over
ten years of age in one of the pro.
vinces? We have country enough
now; we have far more land than we
can comfortably take care of, and yet
they wantus TO murder people In order
that we may get their territory.
The reason why German and other
nations must expand is because the
population there is so dense. They
have 400 persons TO the square mile
while we have but 81.
In regard to the ship subsidy he ex-
pressed himself very unequivocally.
He denounced this system of giving
money to Tom Jones and prefaclng the
bill with whereas the farmers are
poor" etc. Where does it benefit the
farmer
How are we going TO remedy these
matters? BY more general turning
out OF the voters on election day. He
has always been member of the pre-
cinct club at Chester, he attends his
precinct meetings and attends the meet
ings of the convention when he is sent
there. The people ought to take the
time to go to the polls. Go to the polls
and vote for the man you think best
fitted to represent you. Mr.. Hemphill
made decided impression.
A splendid oratorical exhibition was
the speech of Col. Geo. Johnstone, of
Newberry, who had been saved to the
last in order to hold the crowd. He
told how the government had bought
from the effete kingdom of Spain the
Philippine islands, 1000 of whose peo-
pie worship our God. They say we are
trying to Christianize them. Can a
corpse be Chrlstianized Herod gave
orders for all under two years of age
to be killed, and Gen. Jacob Smith
issued orders for all over ten years to
be killed. With biting sarcasm Col
Johnstone denounced this kind of
method for spreading Christianity. He
denounced the proposed ship subsidy
as an effort to direct attention from
the proposed Isthmian canal. He de-
clared that if ship subsidy is granted
it will not help single south Atlantic
port, while the Isthmian canal would
build up all ports from New Orleans to
Norfolk.
He deplored the fact that the trend
of affairs is toward monarchy and
away from government of the people,
as shown by Roosevelt's Inauguration
as compared with Jefferson's Demo
cratic procedure.
He painted a glowing picture of the
progress of the South in the past
twenty-five years and called this the
future seat of power in the United
States.
He closed amid cheers and thus closed
a peaceful and pleasant meeting.
AN OLD MONEY ORDER.-Tht
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