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THE GREENVILLE DAILY NEJVS villi Publishing Co Published every afternoon except duiwv - JAS. Lr. MAiU, eecxeuiry oc wbbs Inc J. CONRAD LANIER, President; Entered at the Post Officeat Greenville, X. Oas econdlass Matter June 15, 1917, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. : Subscription Rates: (Delivered by Carrier within specified sections of the city or by Mail) j Year ; $4.00 3 Months . , . ...... ............ . .$1.00 t Months : $2.00 . 1 Month . . . . ,35c (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) ; ' Subscribers desiring the Daily News discontinued will ' please notifly office, otherwise paper will be continued at regular subscription rate To insure efficient delivery, complaints should be made promptly to the Circulation Do partment, No. 315 Evans Street Telephone No. 7f. . Saturday Afternoon, September 22, 1917. SUSPICION such reasoning. have laws against, murder, arson, rape; and many, other crimes, ould any dare arise'their yoiceagainst obedience to these laws? How longwould such a person" remain a- larere? - But these, ,you may say, are vitally -necessary, Granted, but we win, go ruruier. ; j Taxes are levied, and all are required to pay. Have you the right to counsel resistence to the tax collector or throw obstacles in; hisiway? You may not app've bf the particular law under which the rnvps arfi levied and collected. You have a nprfAot riWht to seek to have that law repealed, but NO night to seek to nullify it It is the will of fVio TYimhntv and as such must stand until repeaj fid hva maioritv. . '." . . V- While the selective draft law was pending m American citizen hud a right to raise his voice against if if he felt so inclined. But AFTER its passage No person has the right to counsel or practice resistence to it. The rule is absolute. Its enforcement has not always been strict; but this, as we .have stated, was due to undue leniency when the urge of public safety DEMANDS IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE; to the laws of the land, and every loyal citizen will throw the whole weight of his influence in" the scale on the side of law and public security. To do otherwise is to betray the government that harbors and protects you. -o The people of this country will have to place a close watch on their feelings in the days that are before us. We are a complex people, made jp ot a mixture of many races. Across the waters our kinsmen are engaged in deadly conflict, and we have ranged ourselves on the side of one group and against another. But the blood of those others flows largely in the national veins. It is this fact should cause us to watch carefully that there grow not up in our hearts a suspicion of those of alien blood enemy blood, if you so term There are and will be spies many of them. There are and will be traitors let us hope but few of these. But if we are always watching for spies and traitors we will create an atmosphere that will work more injury to our national life than all of the machinations of all of the spies and traitors combined could possibly accomplish. The good old rule that every man is a gentle- men until he is proven otherwise snouia govern 1 our nation now. When by his actions he proves ItlaiOr otaHett-lellS himself otherwise, tnen win oe ume enoun tu; tta(A AnLA pAiHlfl condemn him. More ot the Umps It is a noteworthy fact that the man who is al-j by geo. martin) ways looking for faults in others can find them, j oYict arH pnntant siis- Washington. Major wa. star i mi .... j j. j i. 4. rett- (,hl "pert adMsor in the build-, picion can ana win Lena to uisturt peiectiy imiu- lilMl J.1MEIRY g I .. ' ' and 11 The fellow who will repudiate his obligation to his country in this supreme crisis of its history will repudiate any other obligation, it matters hot how sacred. If he will evade his duty to his gov ernment, he will evade any other duty. If he permits "conscientious scruples" to stand between him and a performance of his duty, his conscience will work likewise on any other occasion as well. He will bear watching. I jert intelligently will know that the middle man there was necessary and j that he earned his profit. . Generally $leaking however, we have dealt with I all manufacturers direct. i "To jiive some idea of the enormity : (United Press Staff Correspondent) of the task Major Slarrett said: "Wei 1 spent $15O.0UO.0O0 in three mouths. , "We provided uOO cubic feet of air j 1. ...1 ..-:t. Ready -to- Wear Tuesday, SepL 25 The Seasons Latest and Prettiest Styles Our lAnes are Complete and Rrices Pleasing 1112 Cent actlOnS mtO grave OltenSeS,. camps for the draft armies, today offl- Our best course is to leave to government of-, Vlr wages were ficials the work of bringing spies and traitors to justice. Our individual interference might have a tendency to muddy the waters. o 3G0 feet for each man in European cantonments. There are 2.000 buildings can ton men t, or &!,000 in all. in each They arc paid laborers on th? work. "Statements have been made" it was sueeested "that abnormal and hieh ! 80 b,,i,t fr .re protection that only oue j took t.are of s.(MM) to 10,HH) workmen i t s... u'.. . . . that wti.r iwv fnP i van wui n i i iuic. t each camp every uay. oome tumps in some FREE SPEECH wages were paid : instances receipted $5 a day places. "Perfectly absurd" said Major Star rett. Look at the sitnatiou and see for yourself. Here are the largest contrae tractors in the country. Their margin of profit is very small, averaging aiout Also they luiltiiiK theiu the tw- stories camps by instead - tf There is at the base of most of the disloyalty evidenced in this country, one of the basic prin-1 three and a half per cent ciples upon which this government was founded deirV wuutry- -, , ri , ii i i: "Take a certain company rrr-afciuni ui speecii. jliic uuuuic, nuwcvci, nco!anipie. livered from fifty to one hundred and I fifty carloads of materials to each ! camp every day. There were alxmt : 8,000 carloads of material in all. "We building in progress or contemplation. "We used four billion feet of lumber from 1(1 mills thn illirhollt t lio f-iillli- y as an ex- " " " If th?y were out to pay big11-'" "c "UM- not With thp nri'ncinlP itself SO mUCh aS With its!"""" are to hw,d 1 the government 1 r,wU approacing tne not witn tne principle itseii so mucn ab witn i ydmvn on the camps win d,i another few hundred erroneous application. ijust w.u as not wh,n the terni nf mi. - ui xn mites of piping First we must realize, which many of our mal- the contract were violated i,y the wto?t ,,w;va,l,r tsvsU'' tnnfoovnf fV,offV.OT.o ran Vo Tir cnrVi fVn'no eminent. But they didn't. -Not only ""' of drainage and sewerage pi ih-s. contents nave not, tnat tnere can oe no sucn tnmg , that but the head of (h? col -vrn niul ; -it took a carload of tacks to PUt the AS nhsnlllf p frPP SnPPfh. TVlPOriPS and honest ,i.. u n.iiii.m ,i,nar. f hi i tar-paper on the roofs. "Railroads de- views as to the expediency or justice of proposed :wony iut ,he ib to kfv eiUB for laws are perfectly proper before the enactment ipteW that going to pay of such laws. The undisputed right of the ma- water boys a day? jority to rule imposes upon the minority, after its ZZTZ enactment, the duty of absolute obedience. Any ollicers, reserve corp men. men who other view of the matter tends to the destruction j m out of th(1 M nnS i i i i ' cems. Were they likely to pay $5? of the very fabric of free government. its absurd. In times of peace and quietness this view of the ! "Here middle men used in buying citizens' duty to government has always been!.,,,,,... wM Major liberally construed, and much really treasonable j stanett. -we dealt with a middle criticism has been passed over and condoned. man, h: ,buyi?! umM 7,,plips- " . . . . 7. , . . . , I we had lought them direct we would From this leniency mere has arisen m the minos have had to buy from twenty-live dif- of many unthinking persons an idea that the right ! fert-nt manufacturers, one pan from to express one's "thoughts, no matter how trea-jn.washt'r8' pipes' nlckeI p,a,e an1 SOnable thOSe thOUghtS may be, iS One Of the ! "We made one company the assembling iriolTioKI 4rrV-i-o -Pv- rvinn I agent, the middle man and the goveru- a... . i 1 II - 1 1 . j o&l dvans &ireei " .- " 'T f 1 1 v x 1 f I ' ! : ,SE1II1M1IM 1 M! 1 liiMiigM rvvf U H li II 11(1 1) 1 m m had a weekly payroll of $150,000. The government had ulout 150 represeuta. one. "fcacU cautonment occupies two tives in each camp. On one' job the square mile of territory, roughly. In coutracturs wit a foreman meeting) addition to the gipintic :. cantonment ( (,verv morniug, SOO to 1500 foremen construction work there is still under : gari,om t discuss plans. "We had direction $.'J5O,OtK).0tH worth more of ...,- ...... j;re protection svstcni. Also a corps of tire watchers, a police force j to put out the fires." Of All Kinds PRINTING not the cheap kind but the good kind done here. elzx abaki 415 Evans Street (Next Door to 10c Store) A little sober reflection will show the fallacy of inent allowed them tive per cent on the cost. Anybody approaching this sub- Denler in Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Eet To Mv Friends and the Public: T will be pleased to have you call and insnect mv line of new Goods and Low Prices. You will find here "Better Goods for Less Money." ALL KINDS. WE do all kinds of ROOFING work in SLATE, TILE, TIN NING. Sheet Metal Work. See. us for an estimate before placing your job. So To Hicks Plumbing, Heating, Roofing- and Electri cal Work. PHONE 60 TMIFiT WHEN IN AlEN visit my store in the Hotel Building. Here you will find a clean, sanitary, soda fountain, news stand, cigars, cameras, candies and oilier articles iisu ally ofuud in a store of this kind. Ym patronage will be appreciated. THE FOUNTAIN. Martha J. Latta. Proprietor. 8 24 tfc, miiiuiiiiiiii tn TT5) mt' .diuiiJ -i- The sales have been heavy this week but there have been no block sales. , Gorman's sold 706,070 pounds this week and a better satisfied lot of customers never left a warehouse. Prices on the better grades of Cutters and Tips have advanced from three to five dollars a hundred The market has been open just one month and Gorman's has sold 2,634,900 pounds n this time. This is a Record. Gorman's is the leader both in pounds and prices. tYT1 du WG led Pds-and prices." They dp not lead n pounds and everybody on the max net ivnuwb it, nowever earner always said that a nerson whn wnnlH mcoa m fv,,. 4. i -j. j. fli. .i J . - iniuivwu iu unc wung wuuiu iiut iitJsiLfciLti iU inisieau m anouner i T) 1 i i -l , . . . . : - m.m.sv 11VU1VUUV W ill tllV LllVX ; Kemember we publish facts and never try to mislead and pur customers all go. home satisfied, advising their friends to sell at Gorman's. f I 1 I m l I I r T .FOR: nilll l mi H IIHIIIIIIIIIIII TTTTTTTTTTTTTT 1 1 TiiTTTTi I MOM m "Iti" ""","'l'"'illHllllllIIIHI iiiiiiiiiiiiiilitiiiii iWlI Uliullill
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