The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-04-07

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are formed. By this law the old
batchelor with nc children but plenty
of property, railroads, banks and
other property, must help educate the
children Of his neighbor. These
schools are not what they ought to
be. In every school the boys should
be taught manual training, the ele-
ments of agriculture, orcharding,
dairying, carpentry, while in mill vii
laces there should he a course OF
study and training SO shaped as to
prepare th estudent to leave school
and so into the mill already trained
as expert laborers, able to COM
mand the highest price for work.
It is thus would build. not tear down
nor antagonist, but educate to higher
proficiency every man, woman and
child throughout this district, so as
to be able to earn and receive more
| pav for his labor. for his products
To do this I would ask for and work
to turn some of the millions of dol
lars from the Overfiowing treasury
at Washington to our use. 10
defect a portion of the stream which
has flowed so steadily westward. Are
we not a part Of the nation? Why
then have we not received part OF
this aid? If selected I will do my
best for you nor man nor angle can
do more"
The Trusts.
! There are certain kinds of devils
which can be gotten out only by fast
ing and prayer: there are others which
can be legislated out. If we pass
law in this state against trusts al
once paid representatives cry, the
law is in the face Of the Interstate
! Commerce clause" drew a bill
against trusts and combines and the
general assembly passed it. 1t was
not put into operation. The OBJ
! iect was to prevent the combination
of cotton oil and fertilizer plants. II
! this law had been invoked earlier the
combinations which have distressed
the farmers would not have taken
place. The law recently has
been held by our courts to be
constitutional and effective. If l
am selected by you I promise that l
will work not only to throttle but to
destroy every trust throughout the
; land See how the trusts are doing
business. The new born baby is
laid in a cradle made by a trust, is
given trust milk, sweetened with
! trust sugar, spiked with trust
spirits(?), clothed in print cloth con-
trolled by the trusts; later shod with
shoes made with trust leather, sent
| to school and studies books made by
! the trust; if a farmer plows with
plow which the steel trust has charg-
ed rs per cent. more for this year.
drives his best girl to church in trust
made buggy, pulling trust made lines,
wearing trust made gloves, marrles
his "darling," most beautifully en-
robed in a trust made costume, car
ries her to house made OF trust
nails and trust prices for lumber.
Then the happy couple begin life as
servants for the trusts, when prices
are F5n Iuey laugh q. Vhe
when low and tongue and buckler
won't meet they-howl. So through
life they 20, and when the aged man
who has served the trusts well, lies /
lpon his last bed, the anguish !
stricken family watch the dissolution
administering trust medicine, and the
last nights vigil is kept while the
trust oil gives light to the deatn
chamber. At last a tremor, shudder, !
a gasp, the poor fellow is gathered
unto his fathers. His friends per :
form the last acts Of love and ne IS
laid to rest in the bosom Of Mother
earth in a trust made coffin. FROM !
the cradle to the grave we are slaves
of the trusts. Neither the rlch nor
the Door escape its exactions. CLAIM
ing to do wonderful favors, the trusts
sap your life blood
Like the bat of Indian brakes
Her pinions tanning the WOUNDS
she makes,
Soothing thus the dreamers pains
She sucks the life blood from MS
veins.
Strong Navy.
Rut in spite of all this we have pros
pered as a people, because you can
not keep a working man down. Down
TODAY. on his feet tomorrow. But
though we as a Southern people nave
heen Numbered and robbed by tarln
exactions and pension steals, yet Dy
dint of perseverance have kept on our
feet, The great conflict in the Far
East is momentous to us. emma Will
her 100000, 900 people is ready 10
awaken from an 5000 year sleep'
ready to be civilized, ready to ac-
cent modern civilization. And Win
This comes a new problem. II she is
absorbed by Russia then the CossacK
dictates terms to Europe, drives out
foreign trade and closes her ports 10
MS. if united to and formed into the
japanese Empire then the yellow peril
become an actuality and the terror
Of Ghengis Kahn may be repeated. IL
such a union is made, then:
Gallant Saxon hold thine own
IT'S no fair ladys arm around tnee
thrown,
Such grasp as this thou mlghtst
feel
Through triple bars Of brass or
STEEL"
Let the conflict rage, it may snake
civilization to it's center. From the
islands of the seas the teemlng
thousands are pouring into the ice
o,oa so1dc of Acia They may, by an