Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-04

already said, a small group of men
own most Of the land, most Of the
legislation has been in their favor, and
they have been enabled to fleece un-
mercifully the renters Of this densely
crowded island. Taxation heretofore
has been based chiefly on rents, and
the renter paid the tax, so that II was
possible for man to hold undeveloped
land on the edge Of a city until the
houses grew dense around it without
paying taxes on anything except its
farming value. But Mr.. Lloyd-George's
1909 Budget revolutioniZes this state of
affairs by introducing the doctrine of
'unearned increment in incomes and
city land. Suppose, for example, here
Is man who buys a lot worth S10,-
600. He does nothing whatever to i'm
prove the value Of the land, but sim
ply through the growth of the town
and the development Of the country 1t
becomes worth 100000. The 100000
increase from $4,000 to 100000 not
being due in any measure to the own
er's labor is called in England 'unearn-
ed increment and a tax of 20 per cent
is laid upon it. In other words, the
state says, Because of the develop
ment Of the country and the protec-
tion Of the government you have made
$4,000; 1t Is only fair, therefore, that
for each 500 you should pay back $40
for the further development of the
country and the people, to which you
owe the whole hundred"
New York, October 3: J. Fierpont
Morgan told the senate campaign con-
tributions committee today that while
he had contributed $1S0,0OO to the last
two Republican presidential campaign
funds, the gifts were made without
expectation Of return" After saying
he had contributed $150,000 to the
fund Of 1904 and $4,000 to the fund
Of 1908, Mr.. Morgan turned to the
committee and exclaimed, earnestly:
II want 1t distinctly understood that
]. P. Morgan & Co., never made a sin
gle subscription to any election, with
any promise, or expectation Of any
thing or return in any way. shape or
manner and we never made 1t without
We deemed it advantageous for the
government and the people. We nev-
er had a communication from any
candidate. We never had an applica-
ton from any candidate for money
and anything we did, or that was done
under my suggestion-and we were all
in harmony-was that it was neces-
sary for the good Of the country and
the business Of the people. There was
never a commitment Of any expecta-
any return, either, from anybody. This
statement followed series Of ques-
tions by Senator Pomerene as to
whether New York financierS- had con-
ferred and ascertained the attitude Of
various candidates toward business be-
fore making contributions. Mr.. Nor
gan repeatedly denied that there was
any concerted action" among New
York business interests in support of
. b. IL n s1&
Morgan said that after making his
original contribution of 100000 in
1904 he was importuned to give an
other $4,000 which he did. This. he
said, he understood was part of the
so-called Hartman fund and was
turned over to B. B. O'Dell, Jr., for
use by the New York state committee.
Rawlings, Wyoming, October 2:
The details of the lynching Of Frank
Wigfall, the negro assailant of Mrs.
Esther Higgins, known as the Prison
er's Friend" by the convicts of the
state penitentiary here today, while
the wardens were holding off a party
of would-be lynchers, may never be
known. The sinister threats "The first
man squeals is the next man hung"
silenced all the convicts and prison
guards examined by a coroner's jury
today. The jury gave up the task late
this afternoon without learning any
thing. On the way to breakfast this
morning Wigfall jested about his at
tack upon Mrs. Higgins. Wigfall was
brought here for safe-keeping late yes
terday, after his capture at Fort Steele.
During the early morning today the
citizens had surrounded the jail and at
breakfast time were parleying for his
surrender. The warden had telephon-
ed Gov. Carey and preparations were
under way to transfer the man to the
state prison. At breakfast the other
prisoners, many of whom remembered
acts of kindness by Granny" Higgins,
organized by signals. When they were
started back to work and Wigfall re-
turned, under guard to the cell house
about a hundred of the prisoners broke
loose and followed the negro, catching
him before his cell guard could lock
him up. The cell guard was showed
into the cell and the key turned on
him. One of the convicts produced a
rope and while the others held the ne
gro he tossed a half hitch over the
negro's head and made the other end
fast to the balcony rail of the cell
house. The negro was tossed over the
rail and the convicts marched back to
their work. Not until the cries of the
imprisoned guard in Wigfalps cell
brought other guards was the lynch
ing known in the institution except to
those who took part in it, Wigfall had
received two sentences for assault in
this state. Sunday night he broke into
Mrs. Higgins house. About dawn Mon
day he left her in a pitiful condition.
Posses searched the hills all Monday
night for the aged woman's assailant
Late last night he was captured in an
exhausted condition by justice of the
peace at Fort Steele.
Indianapolis, October /: That war
is necessary to develop the highest
physical and moral qualities of the
race Is denied by Mrs. Elmer Black.
chairman of the propaganda COM
mittee, American Peace and Arbitra-
ton league, and president Of the Wo-
mans Progressive Economic league,
in an address delivered today at the
Fourth National Conservation con-
gress on THE Relation Of Peace to
the Conservation of Human Resour-
ceS." She said in part: Although
the theory has been very generally
held, owing largely to the active pro-
paganda of interested parties, it so
completely exploded when subjected
to either the test of experience as
shown by history, or by the laws Of
modern science as demonstrated in
w
nations have invariably become de-
generate, and been overthrown by
more primitive races, whose vitality
had not been sapped by the continual
slaughter of its strongest men. Peace
is the only condition that can main
tain a high state of civilization and
lead to the permanent improvement
of man physically and morally. The
distribution of victories at the recent
Olympic games at Stockholm was
more than mere accident. The over
whelming number of contests won by
Americans is strong evidence of the
advantage of cultivating the arts of
peace rather than of war. The equiv
alent of what we lost in physical
manhood in our civil war so years ago
we have regained many times in the
physical vigor that has come to US
from foreign shores, largely to escape
military service. England, that has
boaSted itself the most powerful ma
ton of the world, as a result of long
history of conquests, came out sec
ond to little Sweden in these games,