Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-23


and they are here to stay.
They had them In Greece and
Rome and a kind Of a Sherman anti
trust law, which provided for banish-
lment, instead Of the will you be good
boys under our supreme court decis-
ions. The greatest trust ever formed
Is recorded in the Bible about Joseph;
he was the gentleman you know who
Launched himself into high finance with
no capital except a lost coat.
| in Federal administration circles,
they are seriously considering a law
regulating the price at which trust
made articles reckoned as necessaries
of. life shall be sold. Instead Of this
leave more of the profit for labor and
its fruits and the question settles IT..
self.
Begin at the ground among. the pro-
ducers without whom the world would
go hungry and naked. What Is there
to keep the energetic, ambitious boy
on the farm? The cry back to the
farm is a mockery. The city calls,
and the lights Of the great white way
blinds his eyes to the beauties of
country lanes and blooming fields. He
hastens to find fortune in the market
place, where traffic makes gold by It's
very touch. The farm Is abandoned as
the last resort, and fixed fate Of the
dullard and incompetent. History
teaches us that nations draw their
true wisdom, unselfsh patriotism and
untainted. virtues from the deep wells
Of contented agriculture, from those
who live in the quiet country places OF
the land, who have time to think sob
erly, who live temperately and COM
mune with God in the temple Of his
untarnished skies. These are nation
builders and nation savers.
| How can we maintain this mighty
fortress in the soul Of the people, II we
destroy the comfort and poise Of mind
so dependent upon a fair reward for
toll?
IN the old days the south gave the
nation its presidents and shaped Its
policies. Washington gave 1t freedom:
Jefferson gave 1t the policy Of expan-
sion; Monroe is the father Of our for
eign policy, the Monroe doctrine;
Madison was introducing tariff bill
in the house at the very hour when the
senate was counting the votes which
made George Washington its first pres
ident. For waging an unsuccessful
war, she lost her wealth, station and
power. Now, when she has come to
some degree Of her former estate, she
faces another disaster, a longer SER
vitude that living may be made easier
for those who prosper through her ef-
forts. / pray God that South Carolina
may write her name large by Louis
lana, and that every southern state
will join In this new confederacy
whose object Is peace and prosperity
and the restoration In some part Of
that old-time civilization, the worthi-
est and sweetest that the world ever.
saw.
What Does q Protest Vote Mean7
During the month Of December the
South Carolina Methodist conference
held its annual session in Benefits
vile. Among the many fine addresses
which / heard was sermon from
the most finished pulpit orator,
think, in the state. Speaking Of the
growth Of socialism, he said that in
vestigation had convinced him that
OF the people Of South Carolina so
per cent were socialists but did not
know 1t. The socialist Of today Is
merely a protest against the existing
order of things. that men went to
the polls not to vote their convictions
but to register their protest against
some man, institution or policy, When
public officials are the product OF
1 protest, then public policies represent
the destructive, not the constructive
forces Of society.
| Woodrow Wilson tells a story Of
how on his long campaign trip he
came to a western city with a Social
list mayor. Governor Wilson was walk
ing up and down the depot platform,
stretching himself while the train
waited on q connection.
THE mayor came up and introduced
himself.
Gov. Wilson said: I see you have
Socialist city here?
"'Oh, no. said the mayor.
How is that?' said Wilson. Were
you not a recognized Socialist?
Yes replied the mayor. Twenty
per cent of my votes were Socialist
and 80 per cent protest
I'm a popular government where
there are no standing armies, moth
ing Is more dangerous than discon-
tented citizens. Armed with the ballot.
oppressed. burning with a sense OF
injustice, they cannot put into words,
/ the bitterness in their hearts finds
expression in revenge at the ballot
box
'aThe young men Of today are not
like their fathers. They are like the
age In which they live. Wireless cleo
tricity and flying machines; rapid
thought and quick action is the order
Of the day.
| ls u to Be Hevolutiohf
| "All the omens indicate that human
civilization Is at a climax with tre-
mendous changes right upon us. The
old age has rounded out Its course
and filled its purpose.
| Sages and philosophers are asking
themselves the question, Has 1t pre-
pared mankind for nobler tasks and
truer life?' The next generation
shall make answer.
MANY thinkers are agreed that the
present order Of society inhabits
structure worn by time and so weak
ened by decay that 1t no longer serves
its full purpose to protect It's occu-
pants from the fierce storm now beat
ing upon 1t.
| "I am no sensationalist or ringer of
alarm bells but my contact with pub
lie affairs and private business for the
past twenty-five years leads me ire
sistibly to the conclusion that unless
present tendencies are checked distress
and violence in this century will work
a ruin, to which the wreck left by war
the last century will seem paltry.
Mob Law.
| "The old-time reverence for law and
order and regard for the sanctity or hu-
man life can not be subverted by MOB
/ law and the spirit Oh VloleHce "ilhout
disastrous consequences.
Think not that it is confined to
South Carolina-it Is everywhere. The
McNamara bomb in California an
swers the shout Of our mob, and they
unite in a deep menacing war. that
rises night and day, swelling higher
and ever higher.
| 1T Is foolish to look on the surfaces
for causes whose effects are so wide
spread.
"A few years ago John Mitchell, the
labor leader, was called to Washing
ton by President Roosevelt to settle a
strike which threatened the country
with the horrors Of q coal famine. He
met the great captains Of industry and
the president Of the United States sat
as arbitrator.
1T did not resolve itself into petty
haggling over dollars and cents. Mitch
ell calmly demanded recognition by
the coal trust or the labor trust, and
the question Of wages settled itself. 1t
was a treaty between rival powers,
and said then, and I say now. that
this conference marked a new era In