The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-03-27

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Charleston.s 5nuititudinous blind
tigers have not been responsive to the
appeals and arguments of the News
and Courier to turn over new leaf
and become law-abiding and law-re-
specting under the benefcent and
profitable operation of the Carey
.Cothran law. The tigers are fully as
numerous and just as active as ever
and Chicco is doing a rushing busi-
ness at the same old stand.
When Ben Tillman and John Kilgo
meet to discuss the ethical question
o. who ana what Tillman represents,
there Will be some tolerably plain
speaking, and if the management of
the State fair want a record-breaking
crowd, no efforts should be spared to
pull off the event during fair week
this year.
Thomas W. Lawson says that the
New York stock exchange panic last
week was merely a make believe af-
fair, created and manipulated by high
hnanciers of tie Standard Oil system
for the purpose of fleeing the pub
lie The statement if true, is inter
esting only in that it confirms the
soften-repeated warning to the public
to beware of gambling with black
legs who play with marked cards.
The food on the. Ohio river last
eBeek that caused loss Of ten million
dollars in Pittsburg alone and many
times that amount in other parts Of
the Ohio valley should convert the
people Of that section Of the country
into active advocates of the Appa-
Eachian forest reserve.
There is nothing wrong in the di-
version Of the dispensay funds from
the Columbia hanks to the banks il
which members of the commission are
personally interested, but actions no
less innocent have been violently at
lacked and denounced as a species of
graft in the not distant past.
Now that the precedent has been
established of distributing the dispen-
sary funds outside Of Columbia, why
not give the banks. of Charleston,
sumter, Florence, Cheraw, Camden
and other dispensary towns a share
of the good thing? The dispensary
commission should not play favor
ties.
If the property owners Of Pittsburg
and other manufacturing districts Of
the Ohio valley become convinced that
the Appalachian forest reserve is nee
essary to protect them, they will ex-
ert their we'll known influence on
congress in favor of the reserve.
When this comes to pass we may ex-
pect to see Speaker Cannon expert
ence a change of heart.
TIE man who invests his money in
Sumter county land is putting it
where it Will do him and his children
most good. It is enhancing in value
steadily and as the population in
creases the enhancement will be
greater each year.
Former Senator Burton, Of Kansas,
who has just completed a term Of i'm
prisonment, has issued statement in
which he alleges that his prosecution
and conviction was due to the ini-
eiatiye of President Roosevelt. He is
extremely bitter against the presi-
dent, and says that he expects to de-
vote his time and talents to exposing
him The more enemies of this sort
President Roosevelt makes the high
er will he be in the esteem Of honest
people
Senator Cullom's suggestion that
Hartman, the railroad speculator,
Snould be put in jail. is said to bave
made the latter laugh. There may
not be the remotest possibility Of
putting stripes or Hartman, but one
never knows what turn things may
take. Big grafters have laughed too
soon before this.