Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-31
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Two bills aggregating $74, 100000
for levee work and improvements 10
the Mississippi river, were introduced
i'm the house Wednesday. Represen-
tative Randell, of Louisiana, intro
duce6 one providing for an immediate
appropriation Of $11, 100000 with con-
tinuing appropriations for three sue
ceeding years, beginning with July !:
1918. OF each $11,O00,0OO, the Dill
provides that $S,000,000 should be de-
voted to levee construction and repairs
the balance being devoted to river
Improvement work. Representative
Humphreys, Of Mississippi, introduced
a similar bill, but stipulating that
SlO,OOO,O00 should be carried in the
next rivers and harbors appropriation,
and in 1914 and 1915. The army en-.
gineers have estimated that 1t will
cost $32,000,000 to complete the pro-
posed 1,400 miles of levees necessary
to protect the southern states from the
waters of the Mississippi river.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service,
has been conducting a quiet investiga-
ton in Rutherford, n. j., into an attack
on President Taft there while the pres
ident was speaking in the public square
last Saturday night. Mr.. Wilkle put
through the third degree an ltahan
who is said to have thrown a package
which hit the president in the face.
Thus far no arrest has been made.
A statement given out by Frank M.
Buckles, leader Of the Taft organiZa-
ton: regarding the Italians attack,
says: 1.-The $4,000 persons assembled
in the public square were disappointed
in not hearing the president speak be-
cause of the act Of vandal. AS the
package struck the presidents face
or came down scraping his face ne
was about to speak, but the secret ser
vice men pushed him back in his seat
and took charge Of affairs. They or.
dered the car ahead at full speed
through the crowd, not knowing What
was in the paper and got away. La
ter they informed me that the paper
had been soaked in water to make II
heavy"
Discussing the Titanic disaster in
the senate last Tuesday, Senator RAY
ner Of Maryland denounced the United
States admiralty and navigation laws
as IAN incongruous collection OF ant-
'uuated statutes, which should be re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to meet
the necessities of ocean intercourse or
the present day." Senator Rayner
dwelt at length on the "lesson Of re-
ligious faith" that the country needs
severe lessons that will strengthen
the pillars and affairs of it's faith"
On this point the senator said: I'VE
are to large extent today defying the
ordinances of God, and the sooner we
awaken to a realizing sense OF our re-
sponsibility, the better 1t will be for
the spiritual elevation Of the country:
We are running mad with the lust OF
wealth, and Of power, and OF ambi-
0nNtatv 1nIO
casts, with fabulous fortunes upon the
one side and destitution and poverty
on the other. 1t takes a terrible
warning to bring us back to our moor
ings and our senses. We are aban-
doning the devout and simple lives OF
our ancestors, and the fabric OF our
firesides is weakening at the founda-
ton. If this disaster teaches no lesson
or points no moral, then let us pass II
by with stoical Indifference, until the
next disaster comes, and in the mean
time let the carnival go on. May the
heart-rending scenes upon this night
of anguish and Of woe give us faith
and lead us back to the altar OF our
fathers. will not rehearse the agon-
les of this midnight sacrifice. / can
not afford to dwell upon them or listen
to the details that almost distract the
mind and break the heart. 1t is the
lesson and the moral that I am
searching for"
Havana, May 20: Gen. Evaristo
Estenoz, one of the leaders OF the re-
bells in the province Of Oriente in the
course Of an interview with special
correspondent Of Ell Dia on the sub
ject of the causes and progress of the
negro rebellion in Cuba, says: THE
primary cause of the uprising Is the
failure Of the government to repeal
the Moorua law, which provides that
there shall be no recognition OF. po-
litical parties or racial lines and Is
offensive to the negroes. Another
cause is that action Of the government
and the law courts in denying negroes
their civil and political rights. The
movement Is not a racial one, put
simply the action of certain Cuban
citizens to assert their rights at all
hazards. We have no hostility to the
white people and 1 have given strict
orders that no violence shall be COM
mitted on the persons of whites under
pain Of death. One of our soldiers has
been hanged for violating this order.
Gen. Estenoz continued: IF the
Americans intervene they will recog-
nize me and my followers as a po-
litical party. We are prepared to
continue fighting whatever happens.
All the responsibilities for interven-
ton must rest on the shoulders OF
President Gomez and the govern
ment." The rebel forces are reported
to have organized regiment In
Havana and the standard they are u.s.
ing is that which was displayed by
Carlos Manuel de Cesperes, who in
1868 headed an armed revolution
against the Spaniards. At the gov
ernment offices it is still declared that
no news has been received from the
front. No important military move
ments are expected to occur before
the arrival of General Jose ]. Mon
tegudo tomorrow, when he will take
chief command.
- Matthew C. D. Borden, head of the
largest cotton manufacturing business
in the world, died at his summer home
at Oceanic, N. j., this week after long
illness. Mr.. Borden, in addition to his
prominence as a power in industry
had the unique distinction of making
his immense success by what might
be called altruistic business methods
He was almost constantly at war with
rival manufacturers Of cotton goods
because of his insistence on protecting
the wage earners in the mills. In
1891, when he was just beginning to
De Known DIS the SdllCO hlllSy hS
startled the world of trade by de-
liberately buying $4,000 pieces of
cotton goods, thus clearing glutted
market and saving $4,000 mill hands
from idleness. He repeated the OPP
Grafton in February, 1897, spending
million dollars to effect his aim. He
did il for the third time in 1900. But
Il was his action in 1899. when he fore
ed all the employers of New England
to raise the wages of mill hands 10 per
cent, that made him famous. When
other employers were talking Of cut
ting scales, he raised the pay of all his
hands 10 per cent, and his rivals had
to follow. Mr. Borden was the son Of
Col Richard Borden, who established
a large cloth mandatory in Fall
River. On the death Of his father,
Matthew started in to build up anoth-
er family enterprise, the Fall River
Iron Works, and was very successful.
When he became head of the Amer
lean Printing Works, he saw that 1t
would be cheaper to manufacture his
own cotton cloth. That was the begin
ming Of the immense milling estab-
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