The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-02-10


The friction between Gov. Manning
and Attorney General Peoples over
the appointment OF Assistant Attorney
General Is regretable. since IL is to
be preferred that there should be
complete harmony and cordial COOP
Grafton between all departments Of
the State government: but IL is not
likely TO result In any material inter-
ference with the progressive construc-
tive and law enforcing policies. Gen.
Peoples talked too fast and promised
too much and his failure to live up to
the promises voluntarily made to Gov.
Manning resulted in the controversy.
II Is possible that Gen. Peoples is
more to be pitied than condemned I'm
this matter. for he may have made
the promise in good faith. intending
to make good his pledge. but later
found that unpaid political debts
rendered hiIo helpless to do as he had
promised. 1t Is clearly to be seen
that the purpose OF the controversy is
to inject factional politics into the
administration and block the plans Of
Gov. Manning to allay partisan feeling
and have a business administration.
Attorney General Peoples will cut a
sorry figure IL he persists in permit
ting himself to be used as the puppet
Of the expiring Blease faction.
When German submarines begin
sinking neutral merchant ships car
rying passengers and non-contraband
eargoes the neutral nations will be
forced to take a hand In the trouble.
The legislature appears to be
jockeying with the compulsory edu-
cation bill and no one can foretell
what the result will be.
The Graydon land purchase bill Is
good In purpose but 1t goes at the
thing in the wrong way. What is
needed is a rural credit system or land
hank that will lend money at low
rate OF interest on long time and easy
payments for the purchase of land or
To finance farming operations. not q
State real estate agency to buy and
sell land. Why should the beneficiary
OF State land loan system be requir-
N hNI TWa1kr Oh n
land. worth not moro than s12 an
acre. when II might be TO his interest
to buy improved land at a higher
price?
The arrival OF q large Turkish army
l on the banks OF the Suez canal Is a re-
( markablc achievement in view OF the
fact that his army had TO march
across one OF the most inhospitable
kdeserts In the world. carrying not only
kall the provisions and ammunition for
the campaign. but the water for the
sustenance OF the soldiers and trans
port animals. The suez campaign
undertaken by the Turks Is one OF the
desperate enterprises In the history OF
warfare. and IL they succeed I'm de-
feating the British and seizing the
canal they will have accomplished u
thing considered impossible.
The Dutch government Is taking a
khazza rdoua rial u,to,, A. -, =,
many for an explanation OF the edict
declaring n blockade OF the North
Sea, English Channel and part OF the
Atlantic Ocean. IL the Kaiser should
regard the request for an explanation
as an affront TO German kultur ne
might proceed to Belgianize Holland
and the Dutch are not strong enough
to help themselves.
Y Philanthroplsts John D. Rockefelle,
and Andrew Carnegie testified before
the federal commission on industria
relations that their chief object In
life Is TO do as much good as pos
sible for their fellow men. The short
est road TO the attainment of thi
praiseworthy end Is TO quit exactini
big dividends on hundreds OF million
OF watered stock that they hold in
multitude OF corporations. If all tn
water could squeezed out of the bi
corporations that levy toll on the pub
lie. the people. whom the philanthropy
lists say they want to help. would b
relieved OF so burdensome a tax tha
they would not need help from tn