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The Times-Promoter.Q. L. Darden, Publisher.SUBSCRIPTION BATES:One Year___________________________________81 x months ........................................Three months ............ 1100 0C 25cObituaries, resolutions of respect, and notices of pay entertainments will be chargedfor at two and one-half cents per line of ev-►rdsln your man-ery six words. Count the woi uscrlpt and send two and one-half cents for every six, otherwise it will not be published.NO INSULT INTENDEDBecause the capitol guards at Wash-ington asked a company of Confederate veterans from Tennessee to lower their flag and stack arms before entering the building last Tuesday many people have gotten the idea that the veterans were insulted. As a matter of fact the police were only doing their duty and enforcing the law.It will be remembered that when Coxoy'o army marched from the middle west to Washington in 1993 it was denied admission to the capitol grounds because Coxey carried a flag other than the flag of the United States. It is a law that no other flag shall be carried in the capitol and this law has been enforced several times before. Whether a law is unjust or not it is the duty of officers to enforce it. If a law is unjust and is enforced public sentiment will cause its repeal.The veterans recognized this principle and dispatches say that none were offended at the order of tffe police. During their stay the president united with the people of the city to make the occasion of their visit an enjoyable one.SHORTAGE OF LABORNECESSITATES IMMIGRATIONFrom all parts of our Southland, there comes the cry for more and for better labor, which is one of the essential factors in the production ofwealth. This is true in the cottonfields, where the negro is decreasing both in numbers and in productive efficiency, no less, than in the sawmills and productive industries.To us on the farm, it is a noticeable fact that the negroes are deserting the fields for the factories and the cities, where they can eat cocaine and shoot “craps”, while the remnant remaining is growing more expensive and less productive.We face the condition today, of having more land than tenants, consequently our rents arc lower, and we receivo less income from our investment. With three bidders for our property, we can always secure higher rents than we can when there is only one. Further, Eastern and Northern capitalists hesitate to invest their money so long as the labor question is unmet and unsettled, because they do not desire to have their capital tied up in a mill closed, or running on half force! Statistics show that the southern mills now have a force sufficient to run only 80 per cent of their capacity.Then, these premises being true, what are we going to do about it i.i order to meet this demand for industrious labor? Are wo to remain passive to the strides of progress, allowing our field and fertile valleys to be eaten up by taxes, or are we to attempt to stem the tide as our sister states are doing, by immigrating the worthy and industrious of foreign lands, rather than to sit idly by, having our industrious and commercial progress cheeked? “God forbid that that happy constellation under which we have risen to so much of greatness and renown, should be shattered to fragments and be seen sinking Btar after star into obscurity and night.”Immigration is necessary, because by assuring capital of ready labor, we will bring the cotton factories to the cotton fields, benefitting the producer, not only by raising the price of the raw products, but also by lowering the price of the finished product. This is true, for if we eliminate the costs of buying our product, the big railroad rates, the numerous hands to handle it, the manufacturer could easily afford to give us a higher price. Again we procure the benefit of having the trade of these hands from the factories.It is said that immigration will only give rise to another race question. This is not true, because in reality it will aid us in solving that problem.ANNOUNCEMENTSThe Times-Promoter is authorized to announce the following candidatesfor the offices named, subject to the action of the democratic party:For District AttorneyI). M. FEATHEROTON, of Marshall. L. J. FARLEYFor State SenatorO. L. DARDEN MIAL WALL R. L. DABNEYFor Representative.E. J. POLLARD CHARLES SHEPHERD A. M. LAUDERDALE J. II. SIMPSONFor SheriffJ. W. BARBEE J. D. HARRISON E. D. LAUDERDALE J. A. MCCARGO M. BLOCKER J. M. WEISSIXGER W. U. COUNTSFor Chancery ClerkN. E. WILKOY J. I). FOGGFor Circuit ClerkR. F. B. LOGANFor TreasurerZ. W. WIIEELERE. T. WILKINSON T. P. FLINNG. W. CONNALLYFor Superintendent of Education„ J. R. TIPTON R. E. L. MORGANFor Tax AssessorR. F. COWARD R. B. BOWK, JR. GILLEY W. KELLYFor SurveyorC. S. GARTRELLFor Supervisor—1st, District—j. c. LONG R. G. MORGAN «. B. LANGSTON J. W. MCNEF.LY J. G. DRIVER J. A. MITCTIELL—2iul. District—M. C. DICKSON JOE C. DAVIS J. D. RVSSUM—3rd. District—R. A. HUGHEYG. T. THOMAS—4th. District—Z. II. NAIL—5th. District—J. R. VAIIJENH. C. ELMORE I). E. WILSONFor Constable—2nd. District—A. 8. (811) I CAMPBELLF. R. WRIGHT-5th. District—W. L. GORE—3rd. District—BEN COWARD—4th District—J. N. RILEYFor Magistrate.—1st. District—W. L. KERR W. R. DYE—5th. District—E. B. LAUDERDALE R. A. LOGAN W. D. PHILLIPSB. F. JONEScompete with the white man, endowed by God with superior talents and powers. It is necessary because the home boys are insufficient. Since the Civil war there have emigrated from the south some two and one-ha|f millions of white boys. The greater per It is an indisputable fact that the^cent of home raised boys have gone negro is leaving the fields, knowingthat he is not a success. This being so, we can by gradually supplanting him, widely disseminate him over this vast universe. A negro can neverinto the professions, rather than into the fields. To them who raise the question of it being democratic doctrine, we will say that the Chicago platform, led by our peerless Bryanand endorsed by the largest vote in that party’s history—that too in-the face of the Palmer-Buekner ticket, had a plank denouncing any and all efforts to prevent foreign immigration, in the following language: “We condemn and denounce any and all Attempts to restrict the immigration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands.” Again in the halls of our Fast national congress, we find Senator Blackburn, the leader of the democracy in the senate, and John Sharp Williams, the leader in the house, fighting a bill introduced in the interests of the New’ England factories to prevent immigration, and they defeated it. Still these same manufacturers picture the south to the foreign lands as a modern deathtrap—parts are marked off in yellow’ lines signifying “yellow’ fever”—other portions in black, on the maps.In the south we find it advocated practica u*y four governors, and in our own state, the foremost and most prominent gubernatorial candidate is advocating it—on the same hustings we find our minority leader, John Sharp Williams, in a carefully prepared speecli at Walthall in the interest of his candidacy for the U. H. Senate using this language: “Whether w’e want to or not, we must of necessity seek somebody else to do the work the negro hitherto has done. The net increase of the negro from generation to generation can no longer keep up with the demands of the world for cotton and other products of the south from farm, mine, and factory. The right way to do is to use strenuous efforts in all of the Southern states to bring in as ‘workers in the Lord’s vineyard’ men of the pure white race. Negroes are going out and white men coming in, but we can by wise individual and state action, accelerate it by bringing into the south desirable white immigrants.”But let us see how the immigrants already brought out have succeeded. In the June issue of \he Taylor-Trot-wood magazine, we find this comment on the Germans who landed a short while ago at Charlestown, S. C.: “Some of them are farming, some are in the cotton mills. Out from Columbia, they have purchased cheap lands and are making them blossom like the(I((rose. The South Carolina movementis a success. Some will say, good for- the German and Belgian, how about the Italian? Before we answer this, it will be well to state that there is a popular mistake of calling all Italians, Dagoes. There is as much difference between the Sicilian (or the industrious Italian) and the Dago, as there is between the negro and the white man, for they do not even speak the same tongue. White men and negroes alike are Southerners, but what justice would there be to call all Southerners negroes?Now let us see about this Italian class. At the “Sunnyside” property on the Mississippi river in Arkansas, the test xfes made between the negro and the Italian for a period of live years, as shown in the World’s Work in a nicely written article by Mr. Alfred H. Stone, per table:Italian.Average No. of acre* per Land . O.:.’ ..Rounds lint per hand ..... £8L...Cash product per hand ...... S277.SS“Ol the Italian families, tho average cash balance per head was £387.35, while the negroes had a deficit of from £100 up.” Proving tho greater productive efficiency and the firmer frugality of the foreign white labor.Then we can by advocating a practical business administration, administered by a^uccessful man, by bringing into our state more capital and more labor to develop our industrial and commercial industries, in this march of nations, our ears.filled with the hum of progress, pass onward to that glorious destiny carved by the hand of God.J. H. McNeill, M. D.r:d-n:fcNegro. . hi.. 1174. $123,17.Ancient Rome.is now merely a memory of the past. Ballard’s Snow Liniment is the family liniment of the twentieth centtry. A positive cure for rheumatism, burns, cuts, sprains, neuralgia etc., Mr. C. H. Runyon, Stanberry, Mo. writes: “I have used Snow Liniment for rheumatism and all pain. I can’t say enough in its prrise.” Sold by all druggists.sc r lt;01 w is ntjinITi h u o t!qwsiutlt;pt(8lt;wpUaPclt;siNotice to Agents.This is to notify all agents, especially those for medicine and pictures, that they are forbidden to transact business on arfy of the places owned, leased or controlled by Banks Co. Anyone violating this order will be vigorously prosecuted.11-1-lyr Banks Co.
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