The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-06-21


not escape paying the price demand
ed by the South unless the cotton Is
thrown on the market, early in the
season, thereby bringing about con-
dition of ruinous competition amongst
the cotton growers themselves. The
merchants and bankers are in a po-
sition to assist the farmers to hold
their cotton back and market it
slowly and the money made by this
course will remain in the South to
strengthen the banks and increase the
trade of the merchants.
There is no doubt but that the
North and West is i'll socially, moral
ly and industrially as result Of its
unassimilated foregn population;
quite as i'll as the South has been in
consequence of its negro question.
There is a difference between the con-
ditions North and South, however.
The conditions in the North appear to
be growing worse each year and ev-
ery ship lead of undesi,able foreign
crs adds to the gravity OF the situa-
ton. while in the South the condi-
tons are gra dually imorov.ng and the
negro problem is not such thing OIL
horror as it was a decade ago, al
though it is not by any means any less
a problem of the most serious pro-
portions. It is now racial and in
dustrial problem, the negro havlng
been eliminated from politics for the
time being, and there is the hope that
these phases Of the negro question
may yet be satisfactorily settled by
the influx of desirable white settlers
from the other sections of the United
States and Europe. We do not be-
lieve the South is in any Immediate
danger from congestion Of foreign
immigrants and in the south there is
a better opportunity for people OF
foreign birth to become American
lied than anywhere else in the coun-
try, for the reason that there is now
no large foreign population in the
South.
The prohibitionists will knock
down many political fences il they
put out a full state ticket next year.
The people of Union are going for
the ice combine with the antitrust
law club and the fight will be watched
with interest by everybody in the
state. If the ice manufacturers have
combined to regulate prices in viola
ton Of the law every man, woman
and child who has felt the oppres-
sion of the ice combine will approve
of any punishment that the courts may
impose upon it.
The attitude of the State Board OF
Control in reference to closing the
Pickens dispensary indicates that this
board considers itself superior to the
law.
Sumter must have sewerage within
the next three years or the growth
and progress Of the city will be re-
tarded. It will cost money to put in
the sewerage system, but no better
investment could be made, for the
health of the town is dependent up
on it's sanitary condition, which must
inevitably become bad if we continue
to try to set along without sewerage.
The multiplication Of dry wells and
cesspools cannot continue much long
er without affecting the general
health OF the community and this
evil should be eradicated without
further delay. It may be necessary to
apply to the legislature for an amend
nent to the constitution permitting
the city to issue bonds for sewerage
and for this reason the matter should
be taken up for consideration al once.
Sewerage is an absolute necessity and
We may as we'll face the issue at once
BETTER LIGHTS.
From The Daily Item, June Is.
The ternls suggested by the sumter