Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-04-08
Scraps and fatts.


be 3,4S4,s49 bales, against S,605,05S the
previous week and 4,030,236 last year.
or this the total Of American cotton Is
2,32S,849, against 2,395,05S last week
and 2,929,236 last year; and Of all other
kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, india
etc., 1,156,000, against 100000 last
year. OF the worlds visible supply Of
cotton there is now afioat and held In
Great Britain and Continental Europe,
2,O66,0OO bales, against 2,165,OO0 last
year; in Egypt $4,000, against 2l4,ooo
last year; in India $4,000, against $685.
600 last year; and in the United States
$1,000, against 1,O62,000 last year.
&C. Hallman Sims, collection clerk
for the Capital City National bank OF
Atlanta, on a salary Of $40 week Is
a defaulter to the tune Of $4,000. The
young man is prominently connected
in Atlanta and has been working -:
the bank eight years. National Bank
Inspector DeSaussure caught up with
the shortage. He found that Sims had
been using the banks money, and rails
ing notes so as to make his books bal
ance. He had committed many for
geries. Sims made a clean concession
and showed by his books the exact
amount Of the shortage. The bank au-
thorities state that depositors will lose
nothing as the capital Of the bank has
not been impaired. Sims will be pros
ecuted by the Federal government.
United States Senator James p.
Clarke and Representative Brundige'
of Arkansas, had personal encounter
on the streets Of Little Rock, last
Thursday. When the two men met,
Brundige greeted Clarke with: How
do YOU do, senator?" holding out his
hand at the same time. "Pll not shake
hands with you," the senator replied.
"All right" remarked Mr.. Brundige In
differently. What is this you have
been doing?" demanded Mr.. Clarke
Being interviewed by the newspapers
and meddling with things that don't
concern YOU" Il am your friend, sir"
responded Mr.. Brundige, "and I have
not said anything that would not
have said to you. I said thought you
had made mistake, and say so now
to you." Epithets were exchanged,
Senator Clarke struck Mr.. Brundige,
and q general mix-up took place. The
cause Of the trouble was the publica-
ton of an interview in which Mr..
Brundige criticised the senator for not
accepting Senator Berry's offer to act
as his escort when he was sworn In as
Senator J. K Jones's successor.
Extensive covering by the shorts
sent the price of May cotton up 20
points to 1920 last Saturday. This was
the highest figure reached in the pres
ent movement, exceeding by three
points the record price for May cotton,
touched during the Sully-Price contest
a few weeks ago. From the top figure
May declined 10 points and then made
a partial rally. From outward indi-
cations the bull element seemed to op-
pose rather than encourage the ad-
vance, which was due primarily to
realization by the shorts Of the diff
Guilty Of meeting contracts. All ordi-
nary market conditions were ignored,
however, in the wild scramble to COW
er. July cotton was a good second In
the excitement that attended the open
ing, selling up to 9.73, and there was
talk of a possible corner in that option.
The market steadied soon after the
opening, but continued more or less
irregular. A continuance Of short
covering kept prices pretty near the
top and the closing was strong and
steady.
In a speech at Minneapolis, Minn.,
last Saturday, President Roosevelt ar
gued against the Democratic idea OF
removing the tariff protection from
trust made goods He said: Certain
great trusts or great corporations are
wholly unaffected by the tariff. Prac-
tically all the others that are OF any
Importance have as a matter OF fact
numbers Of smaller American competi-
tors; and Of course a change In the
tariff which would work injury to the
large corporation would work not
merely injury but destruction to its
smaller competitors; and equally OF
course, such change would mean dis
aster to all the wage-workers connect
ed with either the large or the small
corporations. In the case Of some OF
our greatest trusts such a change
might confer upon them a positive
benefit. Speaking broadly, it is evil
dent that the changes in the tariff will
affect the trusts for veal or for woe
simply as they affect the whole coun-
try. The tariff affects trusts only as 1t
affects all other interests. To sum up,
then, we must as a people approach a
matter Of such prime economic i'm
portance as the tariff from the stand
point of our business needs. We can
not afford to become fossilized or to fail
to recognize the fact that as the needs
Of the country change it may be neces-
sary to meet these new needs by
changing certain features of our tar
if laws. Still less can we afford to fail
to recognize the further fact that these
changes must not be made until the
need for them outweighs the disadvan-
tage which may result"
-Asheville, N. c., special Of Satur-
day to the Charlotte Observer: The
fact was disclosed in police circles to-
day that number Of Asheville min
listers who are endeavoring to reform
the social evil, in conjunction with the
Anti-Saloon league campaign, had
adopted Parkhurst methods of obtain
ing data by going Summing. Pastor
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