The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-03-15

but We understand that the acreage
viii be considerably larger this year
than last.
H Gompsroller General Jones en-
forces the Law penalizing corporations
falling or ref Using TO make returns and
pay the license tax, there is lots of
trouble ahead for the small corpora
tions n South GaroliEa.
Ten years ago the report of one case
of ofsmallpox in the State caused more
suneasiness than the thousands Of cases
That are now scattered all over South
Carolina. # people will not be
sVaccinated the sooner all that prefer
smallpox to vaccination have the
diseass Che better Oh the community
6 viii be. Small npox will continue
prevalent until everybody have had it
cr have been successfully yaccinated.
siss
Peavine hay at Sl5 q tcn-the lowest
price for which it can now be pur-
chased is equally as profitable as cot
ION as s cents. The local demand for
peavine hay is greater than the sup
ply and carload after carload of Wes-
tern hay is being sold on this market.
The farmers Of Sumter county would
not lose monegf they we're to cut
down the cotton acreage one-half IN
stead Of one fourth, Il they planted
the land IN forage crops, peayine hay
especially.
The lasting success of the movement
se5 on foot By the Cotton Growers
Association to control the price of
cotton depends very largely upon the
erection of cotton warehouses at all
the important cotton markets
Unless the farmers are able to store
sheir cotton and obtain the money
that they need 70 harvest the crop
shey viii be forced each fall TO sell
u large part of their cotton just as
sshey have been doing for years, there
asy flooding the market and daepress
ing prices. 1t will pay the farmers to
store their cotton and market it slow
~ throughout the year. for when they
.hold the cotton on the farm they run
she risk OF losing It by FIRE OF having
it damaged By exposure to the wealth
.er. OF course il will cost money to
store cosson IN standard warehouses,
Int the benefits will more esthan coun-
sEar ahalanes the expense.
q
The Northern newspapers are be-
ginning to worry over the efforts the
Southern States are making to attract |
desirable emigranss to this section.
They realize that the coming into the
South Of thrifty. industrious and
reliable white ,aboriDg class in large
numbers will eventually displace the
negro and that hordes of the displaced
negroes will migrate north9srd to
seek work. This is Just the thing the
neUo-losing philaathropists least de-
sire and they are growing fearful that
the South will suffer an irremediable
ininry if foreigners are introduced
and the negroes forced to seek new
homes IN the North. Long range
uhilanthropy is the strong point OF
the olisionist Species. If the
South can be populated by Scotch,
Irish, Sweeds, Germans, and French
and Italians of the better class and
thereby made prosperous, We shall
view with equanimity and satisfaction
the imigration Of the negroes who are
displaced. The South can stand the
loss Of negro laborers, If their places
are taken by white emig,ants who
will themselves and their children
help to build up and make stronger
this country of ours
The conviction of two white men in
Darlington for the n0rder of negro
Ss an event in the criminal records of
this state which may mark the turn
ing of public sentiment towards a
steiner and more certain administra-
tion of justice to white criminals
Their crime was peculiarly atrocious.
unprovcked and without shadow of
cause deed of bloody Tantonness
and cruel savagsry which might nave
been expected from Comanche Indians
or the bloody trails Of the far west,
Fifty years ago, but would seem inn
possible il civilized community at
shis day. With evidence to convict,
an acquittal would have been an act
OF barbarisn almost on a parallel with
the daeanable murder of which the