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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16
DOESN'T NOW ADVISE TO HOLD
President E. D. Smith is Confident
Cotton Will not Sell Below Ten or
Ten and Quarter, bus Can
not Express an Opinion
About Holding

Columbia. Aug. 11.-President E. D.
Smith, of the South Carolina Cotton
Growers Association has issued an
open letter to the merchants and far
mers, in which he says:
There are invitations in this Office
for us to be present at rally meetings
in nearly every county in the state.
I hope that every county will adopt
the plan adopted in Sparranburg
County, which has worked so admir-
ably here. Tie following is the plan :
The president has secured local
speakers, and has made appointments
at every immediate point and in every
township, and then at his county
seat; and has made complete can
vass Of his entire county, holding
these meetings and having the people
addressed by those enthusiastically in
sympathy with the Association. Then
t after having covered the entire county
has held rally meeting at the county
seat, in which all those townships
are invited to be present; and in this
way has gotten his county we'll in
line.
Again I wish 20 suggest that it is
a good idea for the president of each
county to select some bank at the
county seat, where dues and contri-
buttons may be paid at any time, and
thus avoid confusion.
"a great many are asking me the
question whether or not it will be
wise for them to contract now to sell
their cotton for fall delivery at 10
and 1014 cents. | would not advise
any one to held cotton this season
until the meeting of the executive
committee at Asheville OF September
6. I will say, however, that the con-
ditions throughout the ctuntry do
not warrant any doubt AS to the price
being less than the figures above men-
toned. I have been compelled to
abandon tie work Of the organization
on account of the quarantine regula-
tloDs and yesterday cancelled all ap-
pointents. This is a great disappoint-
menu to me, as we had meetings call
ed for every county IL toe State dur
ing the months of August and Sep
tember
"The meetings we have heen hold
ing recently lave been very well at
tended and there is great enthusiasm
among our members. The State will
Go ter full part along the line of or
ganization and will hold cotton to any
point that the executive committee
may advise.
4 hope that the proper officials in
| the several counties will see to it that
dues and fees are collected at once
and promptly sent to this Office, as
both State and centra1 organizations
are in need Of funds. Let every coun-
ty do its utm ost to provide ample ware
| house room at the earliest date posi-
'ble Organization and ware houses
are the solution of tie probem ct
/ the permanent success of the Southern
Cotton Association.
81 am trying my best to reach every
county and hope to be able to do SO
during the months of August and
September.
E D. Smith.
President Southern Cotton Associa-
ton.
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IL the Magistrates Court.

Ada Robertson, of chain gang fame,
was up again before Magistrate Hardy
Teursday, and Oh this occasion was
charged with entry after notice She
had been notified hy Mr.. s.
Cherry not to return to house from
which he had recently removed ber.
She persisted in going back and was
accordingly arrested. She plead
guilty to the charge, and was SEN
fenced to pay a fine Of 5000 CT to
serve on the gang for 20 days. She
went to the gang.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Portsmouth. ~ H, August Is
ing there is high authority for the
statement that three articles of the
japanese demands were agreed to
yesterday by the peace plenipoten-
tiaries. They We're: l. Recognition
by Russia Of Japanese preponderat-
ing influence in Korea, politically and
commercially; Russian subjects in
Korea to be given equal rights with
other foreigners. 2. Russian evacu-
alton of Manchuria. 3. Mutual
agreement to respect territorial in
tegrity of Chinese empire.
Considerable secrecy is still main
tanned as to proceedings in the peace
conference. owing TO the agreement
between Russian and japanese en-
voys that no official statement re-
garding terms should be made public
until later. Sufficient, however has
leaked from sources close to the prin-
cipais, to make it reasonably certain
that the points indicated above are
ones that have been disposed of. In
Korea the agreement points to the
establishment practically of Japa-
nese protectorate similar to that exer-
ciSed in EsYpt hY England.
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Growing Towns.

IF there is a dispensary town in the
state growing faster than Bennetts-
Vile we would thank the Abbeville
Medium to show it to us.-Pee Dee
Advocate.
An easy thing has been asked of us
for there can be no question that the
following towns are growing faster
than Bennettsvlle Anderson, Green
Vile, Spartanbure, Union. Columbia
and Sumter.--Ab Medium.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

Saw Mills f the following makes ngines Liddel and Wa
tertown (Boers) Lombard Nagle, Erie City Iron Works
aud also B e1s manu ctred by The Sumter Iron Works
The Chattanooga Machinery Co. Improved Drag Saw
The Case Traction Ell gne and Treshing Machines and
all other machinery necessary fer the wants OF the people kept
in stock at al times.
We also make specially of repairing engines and boilers
from 100 horse power also machine shop work and mould
shop work gs made from 5000 lbs such ss,
columns gratings ventilatos androns fire backs etc
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SUMTER LOSES TO CAMDEN.
\ Close and Exciting Game of Ball
on the Camden Diamond.

Camden. August H.-Good game
of ball played this afternoon be-
tween Sumter and Camden, with a
final score of , to in favor of Cam
den. Battery for Camden, Mabry
and Cunningham, for Sumter, Dwyer
Moore and Miller. Base hits, Sum
ter 8; Camden /. Errors, Camden,
l, Sumter, /. Struck out by Dwyer,
5; by Cunningham, 5.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

The fast approaching when every cotton pro-
ducer will be looking around for the cheapest place which to
buy the whereNh it, AS usual we'll supplied
this line having made the early Spring and
large percentage of our purchase has been warehouse
the first Of June Our purchases made direct from
those who manufacture and produce the material and such
quantities as entitle us to
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works contract also makes one wonder

works contract also makes one wonder
what the Sumter water works system
for which we have paid s116, 500,
really cost. IF s153, 900 will put in
a system adequate to the present and
future needs Of Columbia, Were the
work must necessarily be far more
expensive, by reason Of the character
of the soil and topography of the city,
than in Sumter, the system here coudI
not have cost more than a fourth Of
what the Columbia system will. Be-
sides the Sumter system was con-
structed twelve or thirteen years ago
when labor was fifty Per cent cheaper
than now. We are paying high
price for the franchise which we gave
away. and the worst of it is that We
can't help ourselves and it is cheaper
to pay an exorbitant price for the wa
ter system than not to obtain control
of it.
If the farmers rush their cotton
crop to market during the next ninety
days as they have been accustomed to
do for many years they will kill the
Southern Cotton Growers Association
SO dead that it can never be resurrect-
cd and will undo all the good that Or
ganization has accomplished. The
way to maintain the price of cotton is
to keep the consumers on the hunt for
it all the year round.
The Russian peace ENJOYS are put
ting up big bluff at Portsmouth in
the effort to save their face, but the
Japanese have largly blocked that
game by insisting that the proceedings
be kept secret. A bluff without an
audience is like an egg without salt.
The Hon. Cole L. Blease says be
will be candidate for Governor On
the dispensary platform. A worse
combination might be devised-per-
haps.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

1t is said that not little of the
pure linsced OIL that goes into paint
is made from cotton seed Cotton seed
oil is wonderfully adaptable product
and masquerades equally as well as
olive oil or linseed oil.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

The general acceptance of the mosqui-
to theory of yellow fever infection has
served to prevent the unreasoning fear
that always attended an epidemic of
the disease in former years. People do
not fear the disease as they once did.
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Score by Inning.

sumter - 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 90
Camden-0 / o . 0 o 0 %
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We also handle The Deering
Harvesting Machine, including
Reapers and Binders, Corn
Harvesters and Threshers,
Mowers and Rakes, Peg Tooth
and Disk Harrows, Hay Balers.
The above machinery being
the best sold, the only ball bear
ing machines on the market.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

We are also position offer the public the 70 lowing
wagons The Weber Four heel Broad Tire and The Coum
bus And to the Mill men offer the Hatesbg Lindsay
eight wheel wagon.
Come and U.s. Corner of Washington St and Oakland
One block north of the Southern Railroad Depot SUMTER
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FLOUR, FLOUR, FLOUR.

There has been sharp decline III -four owing the milling
of wheat and while have hand that cost
than buy at today, we base price
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

Washington, Aug. 15.-The weekly
crop report of the weather bureau
SAWS.
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at is late IN the season to undertake
80 lease fire Opera House, and the Citg
Council sid well To change the time
for executine the lease from Septem-
Der to January.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

Senator Tillman takes great pride
In the fact that two clean and re-
putable men as Senator Manning of
Sumter and Senator Raysor Of Orange
surg, although conservatives, give
their endorsement to some features OF
she dispensary law.
Columbia is getting her new water
works system at a cost far below the
original estimates of the engineers, II
We remember correctly, and our recol-
esstion must be approximately so
alse why would the City of Columbia
vote to issue s4oo, 600 in bonds to build
system that will cost only sl53, :
0oos The bids for the Columbia water
Montana news., 1905-01-25

mental principle the common owner
ship of all the instruments of pro-
duction and distribution and so elect
that party to power. is there any
possibility of relieving the producing
classes of the burdens under which
they are suffering at the present.
When the toilers of field, workshop
and office shall unite upon this plat
form and work together to this end
it will be the beginning of the end of
all economic oppression, exploita-
ton and class tyranny.
This is the program of the Social
ist. This is what he means when he
SAYS "Laborers of the world unite;
you have nothing to lose but your
chains, you have world to gain.
Already in response to this cry and
in obedience to the reasoning here
set forth millions of workers in other
lands have gathered in compact
ranks beneath the flag of Socialism
for the final battle against the COM
men enemy. At first the laborers of
the factories and the mines stood
alone. Their toiling brothers of the
field refused to unite with them.
The farmers listened to the stories
told them by their masters and
fought for the capitalist against the
workers. But in the last few years
the agricultural workers of Germany
and Belgium have been rallying by
thousands to the Socialist standard,
and marching side by side with their
fellow sufferers of the workshop and
the mines in the struggle for a com
mon freedom, and striking terror to
the hearts of the common masters
who see at last their slaves refusing
to quarrel among themselves that
their slavery may be perpetuated.
What will the farmers and wage
workers in America do under these
same circumstances Will they show
Montana news., 1905-01-25

homes by an aggravated form of this
same oppression, and have finally at
all essential points been reduced to
the same economic class as the city
wage worker. They have attempted
to free themselves through the inde-
pendent political action of the farmer
class alone and found themselves
helpless. They have been forced to
recognize that the problems they
sought to solve and the evils they
aimed to abolish had their roots in
the economic conditions that go to
make up the worldwide industrial
system of today.
They are beginning to see that
problems so rooted cannot be solved
by any action that may take place
within the confines of single state
or even of single nation. The So
luton, like the problem it attempts
and the evils it seeks to abolish,
must be international and world
wide in its ramilications. Most inn
portant of all, since il is a problem
that affects all producers, it is use
less for any one division to attempt
its solution unaided. The farmers
cannot do it. The wage workers
are equally helpless, Neither have
the requisite majority to abolish
present conditions. and neither alone
has within itself all the essential ele-
ments for the organization of the
new society.
Now the only party and the only
philosophy that embraces at the
same time the worldwide develop
ment of industry and allies itself
with all producers is the Socialist
party and the philosophy of Social
ism. Therefore il is around that
party and in accordance with that
philosophy that the farmer must seek
relief The length of time that his
present suiferings will continue de-
pends wholly on the length of time
it will take him to learn this lesson.
(The End)
Montana news., 1905-01-25

economic conditions it is rapidly be-
coming more efficient and more
thoroughly organized in every res
pect.
The need of a well organized,
thoroughly equipped, uncompromis-
ing political movement of the work
ing class is too apparent to be discus
sed here.
Socialist party members are often
asked by those who are outside of
the party membership, Why do
you organizer" 1t is the duty of
every member of the Socialist party
to answer this question fairly and in
telligently. for, when once under
stood, the questioner cannot help
but become an active worker in the
Socialist movement
WHY SOCIALISTS ORGANIZE.
1. Because they know that by
compact organization on the politi-
cal field the working class can sue
cessfully battle against the capitalist
parties.
2. Because the capitalists have
proved conclusively by their orga-
nization of industry on the economic
field and their political organizations
on the political field, that organized
effort is the bulwark of the present
capitalist system and that no indivi-
dual effort can be successful in over
throwing the same.
Z. In order that the party may
be self sustaining financially, and
therefore independent of the influ-
ence Of any person, or persons, or
other political parties the dues sys-
TEN which allows each member to
contribute a small amount each
month goes 60 support the local,
state and national organization,
!. BY means of the organization
the propaganda of Socialist princi-
pies is more effective and far reach
Continued on page 4
Montana news., 1905-01-25

status of the Socialist movement. 1t
is as follows:
Wichata, Kansas, Jan. 7, 'o5.
Dear Comrades The Socialist
movement here is going through a
very interesting development.
1t was quite natural that at its be
ginning, it should attract adyentur-
ers, who failed to get recognition in
the pop" movement. After the
pop" movement collapsed, grad
ually but nevertheless surely, all
kinds of additional freaks and job
hunters flocked en- mass into the So
cialist movement.
Among the riff-raff that came to us
about two years ago as a result OF
the capitalist storm, was small of
flee holder under a pop" admins
tration by the name of Thomas T..
Will.
This man for some reason or other
received recognition in the capitalist
world and is entitled to call himself
professor
Prof. +. +. Will seeing Social
ist colleges we're in style Cbefor he
even knew what Socialism was)
started the now famous American
Socialist College"
Things are so shaping themselves
that one is forced to conclude. that
the only kind of Socialist freaks like
Will can be is a bourgeois Socialist.
Along with the rih-rad came
some working men. These working
men gradually but surely, realized
that the movement was theirs, and
they naturally wanted proletarian
class conscious Socialism taught.
In the course of the class strug
gle" in the party, Will and his fol
lowers, consisting of retired farmers
and pension drawers, along with
their populistic whiskers, repeatedly
crossed and fought, the revolutionary
MARKHAM policy of the wage worker.
Montana news., 1905-01-25
Socialist News From
State Headquarters.

The fundamental principle of the
Socialist party is perfect organiza-
ton. 1t aims to perfect the orga-
nization of both industry and gov
eminent upon a scientific basis, the
control to rest with the people
through the initiative and referen-
dunn.
The Socialist party is not yet an
ideal organization by any means, but
through experience and the force of
Montana news., 1905-01-25

an equal wisdom2 They must or
remain in slavery. Neither class
can possibly free itself unaided by
the other. In land where majori-
ties must rule this fact must be be-
yond dispute. They are natural al
lies. This is more especially true
of the farmer of the great west. His
situation is more nearly like that of
the wage worker than of any other
class in our present society.
They have been driven west by
economic conditions arising from
this same capitalistic system. They
have been followed into their new
Montana news., 1905-01-25
for what they really are.

for what they really are.
First, Prof. Will, who carefully
combs his beard in the center, OBJ
jects to the ragged and sometimes
dirty clothes of wage slaves like my
self.
Second, he does not want, and
even says so, a revolutionary, but
an evolutionary Socialist movement.
At last Sunday meeting of the
Peoples Church." prayers we're
duly said by viii. These prayers
are good:
"Oh, God aid us in our work of
spreading Socialism. Help us, oh,
Heavenly Father to reach the hearts
of all men, so that they will know
the truth of Socialism. God aid us
in opening the hearts of the rich and
poor alike, so they can have thy
kingdom on earth as III is in heaven.
After this prayer he made an elab-
crate attack upon the proletarian
revolutionary Socialists. His text
was; "Radicalism and Socialism. its
Danger; Our duty is clear"
In spite of the speech we wage
slaves are still on deck and although
they have managed to postpone our
city convention until February 'I5as
they feared we working men might
place a working man and wor,tng
mans municipal ticket iu n, deld
for wage slave support.
We will be heard from. as the fu-
ture is ours. Let ms whip the clpi-
talists ours who are planning To- sur.
render the cause of Socialism to the
enemy,
II YOU need a Moses to lead you
out OF bondage the silk stocking tei-
lows are anxious for the job.
fraternally Yours,
G. ". STIMSON.
I7s5 Gold ST., Wichata. haus.
Montana news., 1905-01-25
ODE Farmer
And Socialism

featuring, are sufficiently intelligent
and sufficiently conscious of their
class interests to unite in a political
party having for its first and funda-
Montana news., 1905-01-25

Reprinted by permission from a
copyrighted pamphlet entitled So
cialism and Farmers, by A. M.
Simons, copies of which may be had
at S cents each from Charles H.
Kerr & Co., publishers, SO Fifth
avenue, Chicago.
Montana news., 1905-01-25
Now Pleading
To Almighty

Prof. Will with his autocratic dis
position, along with his silk stocking
brigade, have now come out in the
lime light, and you can size them up
Montana news., 1905-01-25

The following letter is copied from
the Referendum and fully explains
itself; your closest attention is called
to it as it surely sounds the present
Montana news., 1905-01-25

Ii is about time chat the Montana
Socialists were waking up and getting
in line for the city elections.
Montana news., 1905-01-25

Continued on page ~
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-04-14

and III some portions of California.
The Department of Agriculture has
experimental with ramie in the
vicinity of Houston and Galveston
and a magnificent yield has been
obtained, Conditions in this sec
ton are even more favorable.
Soil.-Ramie requires for its best
development a rich, moist soil, we'll
drained, but not subject to severe
drouth. 1t yields good crops on al
luvial bottom lands, but it will not
grow well on stiff clay or light
sandy soils.
Propagation .-Ramie is propa-
gated either from root cuttings or
from seeds. The plants can be
multiplied more rapidly from seeds
but with greater certainty from
transplanted roots. Seed must be
sown on the surface of the ground
in a well prepared seed bed cover
ed with cloth to retain a moist at
moSphere until the seedlings begin
to take root. When they are six or
ten weeks old and six to ten inches
high they are transplanted to the
field where they are to grow and
are set out i'll rows eighteen to
twenty four inches apart and twelve
TO twenty inches apart III the row.
IF roots are used, they are set in
rows like the seedlings III either
case the ground between the rows
must be cultivated until the plants
are large enough to keep down
weeds by their shade.
Harvest. The first crop of stalks
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Continued From Page Second

has once been established to the
soil is inconsequential.
With a view of answering to our
own personal satisfaction, the ques-
ton OF the production of ramie in
Our territory, which the facts set
forth above suggest I have obtain
ed for planting purposes a few roots
from the United States Department
of Agriculture. I am sending some
of these to your address today and
I would be glad if you would give
them a thorough trial by planting
them and watching results.
For your information and guild
ance in the important matters of
planting and culture, 1 hand you
herewith a few facts concerning
the ramie plant:
The plant. The ramie plant is
a perennial belonging to the nettle
family and is a native in eastern
Asia.
Cultivation. -RaInie is cultivat-
ed commercially in southern Japan,
Formosa, Korea, and in many
Chinese provinces. It has never
been cultivated on a commercial
basis in this country, but expert
ments conducted by private parties,
state experiment stations and the
United States Department of Agri-
culture have demonstrated that It
can be grown successfully on suit
able soils from Maryland 10 Texas