davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26
A white, World and a
Black World.

The Rev. Richard Carroll, of
Columbia, South Carolina, has
been making himself very Of
fensive to some of the people of
his race by his plain speaking as
to the position which the colored
people should occupy in this
white mans country. He has
admitted frankly the superiority
of the dominant race, and has
expressed the opinion from time
to time that the welfare of the
negroes in the South depends up
on the negroes living on terms
of the closest friendship with
their white neighbors. By his
methods he has managed to ac-
complish a great deal of good for
the uplifting of his race, but now
we are told by Archibald H.
Grimke in the New York Age
that Carroll has only proved by
his course that he is "a past
grand master of the art of
'crooking' the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift may fol-
low fawning." The correspond
ent of the Age declares that any
colored man in the South like
Mr.. Carroll is "Janus-faced.
The face turned over to the white
South is the face of a slave"
but that this face is only the
black mans stage face.
"Men like Mr.. Carroll never
uncover this other face to the
white world. In the black world
this other face is seen oftener
than is seen it's mate or mask, is
known better likewise than it.
The black world knows the black
world, it knows the, white world
too, but the white world knows
only it's own world, and fatters
itself that it knows besides the
black world, but in that under
world the blacks laugh at the
baselessness of this belief of the
whites and hold their conceit and
ignorance in derision. This is
what the oppression of the white
South has brought upon itself.
This is the natural effect of it's
caste brutalities, it's cruel dis
tinctions and determinations
against a race on account of it's
color. The South is doomed ever
in these conditions to have eyes
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

political corruption; on that
subject he is entitled to be heard
with respect. But when he un-
dertakes to lecture women on
purity, morality, the sanctity of
the home, and the duty of alb
staining from all amusements
that may set a bad example or
have an injurious influence on
domestic life, then women will
be apt to tell him that in view of
his record, there are subjects on
which it is not appropriate for
him to preach to them.
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
Dunkirk, N. Y, May 6.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

in the certificate, and this could
be done in Europe as well as if
the cotton was there. 1t would
relieve the banks of the South
from the burden of carrying. The
cotton crop for the farmer, and
would relieve the farmers from.
the necessity of forefhg saes.
because he could getSfor his own
cotton guaranteedF Certificates
which would stand for a loan i,s,
New York or elsewhere than fhe'
South. -
1t would give a natural CONT
mercial means of eaualizfnp5
markets and prices, and would
make 4 our commerce with the
world in cotton vastly more satiss.
factory. "a - 8.
sd favor the development, of c0t.
nredu ction ill other parts1of
3 & posed byfi iie.
fAlences to Ca GET s asbstter1
average - il6c h 85f 9enefak
ltE9S Sc would fe dTae8 !
! ytSss "a ofs id IN seal Z
3 ag{f cottoii fMa M
q heA tied bysaii ~
& I}!ez q t6af end ored luce fh
atlofs Ia ction an
5fI0f Grf,of.pk@ ~ :, Z, g ssxx.it S S
4ael Il s s g lsst ; 4
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26
y SILENT TONGUE.
There Are Times When
it is the Part of Wisdom
Not to Talk.

The best of us talk too much.
The essence of power is re-
serve" said a man who knew.
Many a reputation has teen
built on silence. Many a one is
spoiled through rushing prema-
turely and volubly into speech.
1t is safe to be silent when
your words would wound.
Faithful are the wounds of a
trlend,' says the old proverb,
but one wants to be mighty sure
ones friend needs the wounding
and that we are qualified to ad-
minister it.
Keep still when your words
will discourage. 1t is infinitely
better to be dumb forever than
to make one fellow being less
able to cope with life.
Keep still when your words
Will lnclte to anger or discom-
fort. An incredible amount of
breath is used in the evil practice
OF trying to make our friends dis
like their friends. y
Never speak when what YOU
have to say is merely for the
purpose of exalting yourself.
Shut your lips with a key when
you are inspired to babble in
continently of yourself-your all
ments, accomplishments, rela-
tlons, loves, hatreds, hopes and
desires. 1t is only to the choice,
rare friend that one may speak
of these things without becom-
ing a fool. Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26
which cannot See. and ears ,,,h;oh

which cannot See, and ears which
cannot hear what goes on be-
ifneafh them in a world on which
th9 Foundation of their world
muSt rest. And when out Of
!si Ems neither world there emerpes
[int0 Sthe upper world of tie
|.Wnites denizen of the lower
tpne, IKE Mr.. Carroll, men like
ss{eg. s:s{{g. Heyward, Mayor Gibbes.
'Sapt;, Gonzales and the heads of,
SSQlthern banking houses will
LIS themselves. as helpless as,
Roor oilnd Isaac when his som
Jacob deceived him. TheyyywilE'
DOT be able to distinguish sthea
Iaise trcH the true,n eitherss a..
word or act. The hands SySlf
seem TO them Esau's and tke
voice Jacobs. But the tlenep-
Slon, the Sorry trick, will Sue,
seed with them every time. ilst :
as 1T succssded 80 nianyss sscenfII,,
res ago 3 With blind old father
1 3. : Z. uilI!ihe ou&hEs llndSr-
and the llsegEo charac and
&pWeyer delss he may have
WrrSonged hssR Rev. i Richard Car
ron and Ais good Intentions. it
amust be confessed that he, has
sqggesteqx view sof the se0rol
'charas stef rp Rhicil some va -
mast be}ta nv "A 6siGs 81 sff n, 81
4 = 3 q e i 3 IL se
deal Tor Their fffteffSessss AMI:
moral elevation. The idea of a )
black world and a white world
is an idea which has not been
considered by those who exercise
the mastery in this country. It
would appear from the theory
advanced by Mr.. Grimke that
there is a great gulf fixed be-
tween the races. News and
Courier.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

And the seven years of plen-
teousness that was in the land of
Egypt weresended.
And the seven years of dearth
began to come, according as
Joseph had said: and the dearth
was in all lands; but in all the
land of Egypt there was bread.
And when-all the land of Egypt
was famished the people cried
to Pharoah for bread, and Pha-
roah said unto all the Egyptians.
Go unto Joseph, what he saith to
you do. s. ~
And the famine was over all
the face of the earth. And JOS
eph opened Gall the storehouses
and said unto the Egyptians; and
the famineEwaxed sore in the
land of Egypt.
And all countries came unto
Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn:
because that the famine was so
sore in all Ands."
AS the development of manu-
factures was; the Moses to lead
the cotton farmer out of the will
derness, so&the development of
commerce amust be the Joseph
who is to Average the production
of seriess6f years and thereby
meet the worlds demands and
steady the price.
W. L. 4.AxAn
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

<epQnSanlilty Oh the local ware
mouse company. Therefore the
receipt of a local Warehouse for
cotton is not negotiable in Europe
for this reason alone. But there
is another reason still more i'm
portant, and this is that the spin
ner cannot take the risks of
grade, of weight and of many
other features of the quality of
the cotton. Therefore, in order
to bring the surplus of an excess
crop within reach of the invest
ment money of the world, all of
the conditions must be worked
out and brought to be available
at once. Part of them do not
advance the purpose to be ac-
complished. The warehouse room
necessary to carry 3, 1000, 900 bales
of cotton is not sufficient. The
cotton is too cumbersome and
unknown about to make a basis
of credit and trade except by
passing the cotton itself. To the
man who is willing to buy part
of the surplus and carry it for
future use the. cotton is too cum
bersome for him to ship it and
take charge of it. A warehouse
receipt guaranteeing the proper
storage and delivery of a bale of
cotton is not sufficient.
What is needed to make cotton
a basis of general trade and
credit is combined storage re-
ceipt and guaranteed certificate
of classification, grade, weight
and other points affecting the
working quality or value of the
cotton.
This would require a guarantee
company which would have in
it's employ corps of expert cot
ton graders. One of these would
examine and determine every
factor affecting the value or use
of a bale of cotton. He would
fill out a certificate with the
facts about a bale of cotton and
the guarantee company would
become responsible for every fea-
ture Of the cotton as specified in
the certificate, including storage,
insurance and delivery when
called for, as well as classifica-
ton, grade, weight, etc.
A certificate so filled out and
guaranteed would become a ne
gotiable commercial document.
The spinner, European or Ameri-
can, could buy these certificates
when the surplus was depressing
the market and lay them away
in his safe until the cotton was
wanted to spin. The local ware
house would be benefited because
purchasers would in most cases
prefer not to move the cotton
until wanted. There would be
no reclamations. The spinner
could buy his cotton by the figures
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26
COTTON
lis marketing end Equal
IZing Supply and Price.

iZHiS supply dnO Price.
Cotton is a subtropical plant.
In the tropics the bugs and
weevils destroy it.
In cold climates the frost de-
stroys the immature boil and the
plant; even in a temperate eli
mate, sometimes drought in
summer or an early frost will
very materially effect the pro-
cuction per acre. If the drought
and the frost are cumulative the
result is disastrous in proportion
to the square of the damage of
either.
If good seasons of rain and
sunshine in summer and fair
weather in fall and early winter
combine, the production is i'm
mense and beyond requirement.
1t In one summer there is a
damaging drought and in the
fall of the same year there is an
early frost, the crop is very short.
If in summer there are fair
seasons and the fall is open and
fair, there is big production.
1t a minimum crop, because of
weather conditions, precedes a
maximum crop, because of.other
Weath ther condi ditions,sits ms.lSe Sessa
aElSn pie year and lie.
next. - t6s
The famine year ruins the cot
ton manufacturer.
The fat year ruins the farmer.
In the years past we heard
that the cotton farmer needed a
Moses. The cotton farmer did
need a Moses. Look at the re-
cord:
In. the first decade after the
Civil War the cotton farmer
made 2,5000, 900 bales of cotton,
for which he got "a cents a
pound, which yielded $500, ,OOO,-
900.
In the second decade he made
5, 600, 900 bales, for which he got
IL cents a pound, which yielded
$500, 900, 900.
In the third decade he made
10000, 900 bales, for which he
got six cents pound, which
yielded $500, 100000
Three decades were enough to
show that he needed Moses.
The cotton factory was his Moses.
1t took labor off the farms and
turned them to spinners and
weavers.
1t took competitors and made
them patrons of the farmer.
The factory so reduced the
competition and so increased the
demand for cotton that in the
fourth decade the production has
been about the same as in the
third decade and the price IL
cents instead of 6 cents. The
result is that the crop of the
fourth decade remains the same
as that of the third instead of
double what it was in the third
instead of the crop doubling
the price doubles and the same
old 100000 bales brings not
$500, 900, 900, but $500, ZOO, 900.
Yet in this fourth decade a
10, 900, ,000-bale crop yields the
farmer $500, 900, 900, while in the
succeeding year a crop of 13, 5OO,-
OOO OOO bales yielded only $3.50, ,OOO,-
The farmers Moses has been
found. He is the cotton factory.
What the farmer now needs is a
Joseph. Listen to what Joseph
did:
"And in the seven plenteous
years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
And he gathered up all the
food of the seven years, which
were in the land of Egypt, and
laid up the food in the cities; the
food of the field which was round
about every city laid he up in the
same.
And Joseph gathered corn as
the sand Of the sea very much,
until he left numbering, for it
was without number.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26
A HOT REPLY.
CleveIdnd'S View of Club
Women Resented With
Much Spirit by Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell.

Editor Evening Post, Sir: Ex-
President Cleveland has written
an article on "Woman's Mission
and Woman's Clubs" which is
so extremely reactionary in tone
that it will make the average
,reader smile.
Mr.. Cleveland is an honest and
courageous man, but he has al
ways had a streak of narrowness,
and this shows itself especially
on the woman question. When
some Democratic women years
ago organized a club to work for
the success of that party, and
wanted to name it the Frances
Cleveland Club, Mr.. Cleveland's
wrath was almost comic, as was
his pompous announcement to
these well-meaning Democratic
ladies that he considered it most
unbe coming for a woman's name
3 To be brought before the public
xeept as an adjunct to her hus-.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

The TIMES and Metropolitan
Magazine one year for $3.50.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

City OF Union and Suburbs Has
Five Large Cotton Mills, One Knitting
and Spinning Mill with Dye Rlant, Oil
Mill, Furniture Manufacturing and
Lumber Yards, Female Seminary.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-05-26

joins even one club, She is in
danger. Membership in one
such organization induces tolera-
tion and defence of club ideas in,
general" " The club woman
should remember that "she may
be directly responsible for marred
happiness in other households
and that as an alder and abetter
of woman's clubs she must bear
her share of liability for the in
jury they may inflict upon the
domestic life of our land"
Mr.. Cleveland thinks women
join clubs largely in order to
punish their husbands for me-
glecting them, but "as agencies
for retaliation or mans punish
ment, woman's clubs are horri-
bly, misplaced and miserably
vicious.
The great majority of married
women are on good terms with
their husbands, and have no wish
to punish them. The United
States now has thousand of wom-
ems clubs, with hundreds of
thousands of members. 1t is alb
surd to suppose that any consid-
cradle portion of these women
joined the clubs for the sake of
wreaking vengeance on their hus-
bands. Women are merely learn
ing the lesson men learned long
ago, that organized effort is more
effective than isolated endeavors,
and that whatever they want,
whether it be amusement, in
struction, or the accomplishment
of charitable and benevolent
work, they can attain to it best
by getting together" Let any
unprejudiced person read the
long list of practical good works
that have been accomplished by
the women's clubs Of our country
to say nothing of the broadening
of women's own minds and the
Frightening of their lives, and
he must be convinced that the
club movement has been an enor-
nous benefit, with some incl
dental evils, and not, as Mr..
Cleveland thinks, an enormous
evil with some incidental good.
The incidental evils certainly
exist. There is no doubt that
some women join too many clubs
and devote too much time to
them. Mr.. Cleveland seems to
think this has something to do
with woman suffrage, but he Of
fers no proof to show that ex-
cessive indulgence in clubs is
more common in the equal suf-
frage States than in those where
women do not vote.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-31
KICK MAY RETURN
LIKE A BOOMERANG

One man learned today that it was
we'll to be fully Informed of his subject
when trying to do business with the
city board Of equalization. He objected
to an assessment of $3.50 against the
have 1t reduced to $97, but may have
the discontinue Of seeing it raised to
$4,000 or more. II. G.. Keppler, repre-
senting the Southern Mutual Invest
ment company, objected today because
the assessment was arbitrarily fixed at
$3.50, when tho furniture, according to
the most careful inventory, figured up
to only $97. .....
He was questioned closely as to mort
cages and other credits, but was soon
houndering and finally admitted that he
was not quite posted. He asked for
permission to confer with the district
manager, who happened to be in the
city. Permission was given, and later
Mr.. Keppler returned with the informa a.
tion that the protest would be with
drawn.
The equalizers were little inter.
ested by this time and refused permits.
sion to withdraw the protest, but in.
duce the books Of the company, intimat
ing that possibly the assessment should
properly be $4,000 OF, $4,000 or even
more. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-31
PROBATION PLAN
NET WITH FAVOR.
EXPERTS APPROVE SYSTEM USED
IN MINNEAPOLIS.
In Discussion at Portland Conference,
Rule Of Suspending Sentence in Non
Support Gases Was Most Favored
Would Put Chronics on City Work,
Locking Them In at Night.

Minneapolis courts, in the treatment
and beat their wives. have perhaps
evolved one Of the best systems In force
in any city in the country said Man.
ager E. D. Solenberger of the Associated
Charities today. cat the conference
St =. charities na and corrections held at
from many points Of view, some of the
ablest iurists in the country speaking.
The Minneapolis system is the put
ting Of husbands on probation and the
havior. This puts the men on their met
tie, and while perhaps they may de-
serve a more severe punishment, the
best results for the family come about
this way. When the husbands are in
corrigible, they can be sent to the work
house.
"The conference suggested an i'm
provement. When a man is a chronic
wife :,,beater and refuses to support his
family, it was advised to put him to
work under the city The work would
be for some municipal improvement and
would be productive. The money earned
The man Wond he 1ooTad IF the g. family lily
SO that he would have no chance to
leave town. This plan has been tried
in Cleveland and Toledo and has worked
with success.
was held, there are public whippings
tor wife heaters. There were several
when we were there. The system bru.
tallzes the husbands, and when they re.
turn to their homes they are not ant to
convicted. The men are condemned n
the eyes Of their companions and in
many cases leave town Immediately, anC
| OF course their families are left to shift
| for themselves.
-. The conference also suggested thai
such men might be put to work on 6
state farm. The state-farm system in
stead Of so many warehouses has proved
to be good. In Germany there is {
state farm for incurable inebriates, anc
shown of what advantage it is to
community to have 8 workhouse super
intendent in sympathy with the work
It is Of economic value to the com
munity, as the men when they complete
| their sentences often come out bette
men than when they go in.
''In regard to city hospitals and 9th
ers, DR.. Walter Lindley of Los Angelo
advocated dollar-a-day institution
Such hospital would probably have t.
be endowed. Many people could affor'
to pay that amount, but no more. The.
are the class who come between tn
| charity wards and the private hospitals
CAN institution for convalescent
was recommended by DR.. Lee X. Fran
kle Of New York. Many people ar
convalescent when they leave the cit
hospital, but are not fit to go to work
Thus the good work Of the hospital j
! lost. When such people are put to worl
1t is an economic loss to the community
Such men break down and are otter
sSee dava zo woud ev w0f tbe aeede
strength. Charitable societies find tina
there are great many mon and wome
in the world who look perfectly able t
cases are among those which are tn
hardest to deal with ga.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-31
DIETZ Is HAPPY
Boom Company Seems to Have Given
Up Fight for His Dam.

bOOm COlupauy OotuS W I1dVo O1SSA
Up Fight for His Dam.
The Chippewa Lumber & Boom COM
pany, which has been in a state Of war
with John Dietz Of Sawyer county,
Wis, for over year, is said to be pre-
pairing to get it's tim Der, now on Dietz s
land, by means of a steam skidder.
Dietz has control Of the situation as
far as the Thornapple dam Is con-
cerned, and is smiling1y watching the
preparations of the company.
Valentine Weisenbach, a friend of
Dietz, was in Minneapolis yesterday
and said that the lumber company had
apparently thrown up the sponge. The
plan Of getting the timber out by
means Of a steam skidder will call for
an outlay Of at least $4,000. Much
Of the timber is already damaged by
worms and weather and much Of it will
be lost on account of low water.
Dietz is said to regard the talk OF
steam skiddsr as blind and is still
to see the scheme tried, as it would
neeessitate the construction Of severa
miles Of good roads, which are needed
by the settlers, including himself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-31
The Young Peoples Societies.

"And now as to whether the State
young people s societies Of Ohristian
Endeavor were dragged in: The
writer had nothing to do with this
arrangement save making a place on
ered with b9th these 1S asso c hon eG fe
ported the heartlest response, as also
from the foreign-speaking pastors, and
the hope was expressed that this con-
ference might become an annual af-
fair in which they might have reg
.'Fnallly, the question Of the scholar
ship Of the men who have come to US
from two continents, we submit to
the public. The worldwide influence
which DR.. H.. Grattan Guinness, and
his exceptionally talented family, have
exerted, can only, be accounted for by
genius, scholarship, or saintliness.
fellowship with DR.. Bernado and Dr..
F. B. Meyer, has built up the London
college, from which 1000 missionaries
have gone forth to preach the gospel
IN fifty different countries; how many
volumes he and his family have pub
llshed, and how great a sale they have
| enjoyed; how many mission stations
they have established, as in Africa,
!
| terests Of a continent, it would seem
that perhaps he is all three, notable
Bible scholar, man of exceptional
| genius, and one upon whom God has
signally set his approval.
1.-The coming of DR.. John Urquhart
| to this country did not, occur under the
auspices Of the Northwestern Bible con.
ference. We wish we could have the
honor: He was brought, rather, by the
American Bible league, an association
of conservative Bible scholars made up
of such men as DR.. David James Bur
rell, DID,, LID, of New York; Presi.
dent Henry A. Buttz, DID,, LID, of
New Jersey; President J. w. McGarvey
ID, LID, of Lexington, KY; Presi.
dent f. Y Mullins, DID, LID, of
Louisville, KY; Professor Howard Os
good, DID, LID, Of Rochester; Presi.
dent Francis L. Patton. DID,, LID.
Princeton; Rev. J. B. Remensnyder
DID,, LID, New York, and about IF
teen or twenty other men Of eual prom
inence and position in theological semi.
naries and pulpits Of America They
brought him because Of his known abil
4 ity to cope with the prevalent skepti
cism Of the hour. It is not likely that
these men would send to Scotland tc
fetch man who is to be described by
narrowness and vagaries.
"Drs. Pratt and Grebelein are to-
, well known in the northwest to neec
any word from me- / am Informed thai
DR.. J. G. Princcll is one Of the might
est men in the entire Swedish mission
in America, while President Nyvall Of
Walden college is also man of marked
ability. DR.. Henry Ostrom. DIR. Chap