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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1918.
COWARDICE IN AN EDITOR.
Cowardice in an editor would be an
unpardonable thing. Fact, is a coward
is held in contempt no matter what
may be his occupation. The man of
courageous heart is the man that we
respect, no matter who he is nor the
sphere in which he acts.
Of all men, the editor must be sincere,
and he must be faithful. If he
it but a trimmer, one who writes to
suit the whim of the hour and loses
sight of his higher mission?to speak
the truth, to condemn public evils, to
espouse the cause of the nublic cood
then does he drop into the cowardly
class, and he deserves but little sympathy.
This is all true, yet few realize
how exacting the situation often
becomes. It is not pleasant to clash
with others. It is not reumerative to
offend liberal patrons of the enterprise.
It is decidedely uncomfortable
to "rile" people. Yet, often that very
result obtains. This frequently happens
when the editor has least thought
of giving offense. It seldom fails to
happen when duty demands that certain
conditions must be brought to
the notice of the public. It freauentJv.
, happens wrten tfT? editor 1b unconsciously
made a cat's paw by some designing
individual, and unwittingly
brings down the wrath of an offended
soul upon his head.
.AH the above is true; yet we venture
to say that fearless man will not
be deterred by those things. He will
perform his duty, as he sees it; he
will stand for the right, as he knows
it; he will condemn the evil when he
finds it?and will do this without fear
and without apology. We feel that
an editor without convictions is either
a fool or n knave r?noeiV>l*7
WM. J. BRYAN AND THE TORONTO
INCIDENT.
What with us wan a mere guess at
the time, turns out to be the truth
eoeerning the "howling down" of Wm.
J. Bryan at Toronto, Canada, a few
weeks ago. The Toronto World states
that it was done by anti-prohibitionists.
About 2 per cent of the vast
audience of 4000 engaged in the heckling
and persisted to such an extent
that Mr. Bryan desisted in his attempts
to he heard. Thirty returned
soldiers took part in these disturbances.
Two newspapers, both friendly
to the liquor traffic, are said by Mr.
Bryan to have been the chief cause of
the opposition. In the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch of March 2 is published
an interview with Mr. Bryan from
which we quote the following:
William Jennings Bryan spent todav
in St. TJouis.
To reporters who questioned him
about, the incident nf TVi?i?e/taw
at Toronto, Canada, when. he was
hooted and prevented from speaking
to a crowd of "000 persons hy former
soldiers who cried. "Rerpember the
Lusitania," and shouted "pro-Oerman,"
Bryan gave BiblicpT quotations
to express his forbearance and explain <
the causes of the demostrptiojn.
Mr. Rrvan said that, the opposition. 1
>o him had been fostered by two 1
newspapers whose columns captained ]
liquor advertisements, but who pro- j
fessed to see other reasons than that ]
he was a prohibition speaker to op- ]
pose his coming to thejr city. 1
"The fact that the former soldiers !
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pave other reasons than their opposition
to prohibition for their demonstration
is not conclusive," he said,
'because the newspapers also Rave
other reasons, following the example
of Demetrius, the silversmith, who
appealed to his craft to oppose Paul.
The silversmiths, however, did not
shout their real reason for opposing
Paul, but shouted 'Great is Diana
of the Ephesians.'"
The Biblical reference of Mr. Bryan
was from The Acts 19:23-28, which
reads as follows:
And about that time tnere arose
a great stir concerning the Way.
"For a certain man named Demetrius,
a silversmith, who made silver
shrines to Diana, brought no Tittle
profit unto the craftsmen; whom he
gathered together with the workmen
of like occupation and said: 'Sirs, ye
know that by this business we have
wealth.
" 'And ye see and hear that this
Paul .... hath persuaded and turned
away much people, saying there are
no gods that are made by hand, and
rot only is there danger that this our
trade come into disrepute, but also
that the temple of the great goddess
Diana be made of no account.'
"And when they heard this they
were filled with wrath and cried out.
saying: 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians.'"
The Washington Herald, speaking
upon the incident, has the following
to say:
William Jennings Bryan, former
secretary of state, was hooted from
the platform in Toronto, where he had
been invited to speak on behalf of the
Anti-Saloon League.
No one with an ounce of sense will
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LlUtrKU up tins U19Kltli:i;iul |JII?\.cuuiii>;
to the Canadian people. Indeed the
same element recently hooted the
premier of Canada from the stape at
Kitchener, Ontario.
Whether one is a Bryanite or an
anti-Bryanite, no one with a sense of
proportion has ever doubted or would
ever dare to doubt his Americanism.
He is a statesman of whom this or
any country oupht to be proud.
May we say with all fairness that
much of the opposition to Mr. Bryan
comes throuph the misstatements of
our own press. Every pood and preat
man makes enemies, and the enemies
made by Mr. Bryan are neither pood
nor preat. A partisan press has misinterpreted,
misquoted and even lied
about him for twenty years, yet he
has prown in the esteem of all real
Americans since that period.
Canadians who read what some of
our papers have 3aid of Mr. Bryan
may have believed the slanders, but
hafe not of that stripe. The returned
soldier element in Canada is beinp inflamed
by a selfish press with a view
to tnakinp them a factor in Canada's
political life. That's all there is to
the disturbance. It is the mob spirit,
and mobs are made of those who do
not reason, nor inquire why.
Judge Fails to Sentence
Soldier Who Is Guilty
London, Feb. 1.?(Correspondence
of The Associated Press)?Emplovof
the "unwritten law" as a cloak behind
which soldiers may plead justification
of capital crimes resultinp
from conjuyal infidelities has apain
aroused criticism throuphout Enpland.
The action of a London judpe
in bindinp over to keep the peace a
soldier who had shot his unfaithful
wife dead has called forth the comment
from the Manchester Guardian
that "the courts are bepinninp to
treat certain offenses by soldiers in
the same spirit as the church pranted
indulpences to Crusaders."
In the most recent case, the accused
pleaded puilty to manslauphter in
killinp his wife, and the Crown, acceptinp
the plea, offered no evidence
on the charpe. In decidinp the judpe
said:
"I have to inflict punishment such
as a reasoned and instructed public
orfinion will believe fittinp to the
case, and I believe that nobody of instructed
and reasoned men would believe
that punishment in a sense of
imprisonment is fittinp to this case."
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hound over "to come up for judgment
if called upon."
Commenting on the case the Man
Chester Guardian said:
"To allow the liberty of private
vengeance is to dissolve society into
its anarchic atoms and to negate the
reasons of State which substituted the
national and royal courts for the
courts of local and personal prejuAir
Law For Central
Powers To Be Drawn Up
Amsterdam, Feb. 1.?(Correspondence
of The Associated Press)?At
Budapest a "Central European Conference
on Air Law" has been sitting
fpr several weeks. Delegates ar?
present from Germany, Austria Hungary,
Turkey and Bulgaria. A complete
code of air law for the Central
Powers is to he drawn up, to he conirmed
into law later by the rcprelentative
governments.
HISTORICAL EVENTS
OF UNION COUNTY
Papers Read Before the
Fair >rest Chapter,
D. A. R.
JONESVILLE
(By Mrs. Estelle Dittlejohn Hailc).
Jonesville our wide awake, thriving
little neighbor town, with its electric
lights and paved streets, is located
nine miles north of Union and twenty
miles south of Spartanburg and about
five miles from the nearest point of
Pacolet river.
The town's earliest history is dated
back about one hundred and fifty
years, the early settlers came very
sparingly for the first fifty to seventyfive
years.
Although there was no Indian settlement
in the immediate town, the
Catawbas were on one side and the
Cherokees on the other, close enough
to visit the vicinity often.
The first, house built there was fortified
against the attacks of the Indians,
by having an inlay of brick between
weather-boarding and the ceiling,
to ward off their shots which of
course could not easily be penetrated.
This house was called a block-house,
it was built and owned by the clerk of
the court, John Haile who at that
time owned a vast amount of land in
and around Jonesville, this house is
now owned by the Long family.
The next pioneer settler was Chas.
Jones, for whom the place took its
name. Mr. Jones built a large twostory
brick house one mile north of
the Southern depot, which is still in
a goon stare ot preservation, ne nemg
first postmaster, kept the postoffice
here at his home, it being known as
The Way-side Tnn. Thus he served the
public with mail and something to eat,
as well as being a school-master,
holding the sessions at Gilead having
a small log school-house in the church
yard, this church Gilead is a mile
east of Jonesville, this being a very
important edifice, as it was the house
of worship for denominations or a
union church, Methodist, Baptist and
Presbyterian, as well as Unitarian of
which denomination Old Uncle Tommy
Hutchinson preached for many
years. The Rev. A. A. James preached
there in the afternoon for the
Presbyterian faith equally as long.
One of Chas. Jones' daughters married
"pTac'e a fe\y yards in the rear of the
church, she in making her will, deeded
an acre near the church to the church
to have plenty of space for all church
purposes, which has grown now to be
a well-filled cemetery, some being laid
to rest there over a century ago.
Chas. Jones had another daughter,
who married Wm. T. Eison, a well
known farmer and largest slave-owner
in Union County, and who at present
has many descendants to rise up
and call her blessed.
Sergeant Jasper of Revolutionary
fame has near relatives buried here.
Also Thos. Bunker Fowler, the first
man killed in Union Dsitrict, during
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laid to rest in this cemetery, he being
killed at Manasses July 21, in the
twenty-seventh year of his age.
This well fortified first house was a
by-stander when Gen. Morgan's army
cleared the field in front of the house
on their way to Cowpens, where they
won their brilliant victory over Tarleton,
to which the British historian,
Stedman attributes the loss of America,
so of course we liberty-loving
Jonesvilleites hold this ground as sacred,
having given Gen. Morgan's
army a night's lodging just about a
month before he met Bannastre Tarleton
"Bloody Tarleton" the hated
scourge of Carolina, who was a young
tiger, swift, cruel and daring. No
wonder Cornwall is entrusted to him
the flower of his troops to dispose of
the patriot band gathered at Cowpens.
But, of course here Morgan plucked
out his plumes and destroyed his force.
After clearing the field for the neighbor,
they resumed their journey on
foot, as it was not until 18f>8 that the
building of the first railroad reached
town. It was only a few miles from
Jonesville, that on the Tommy Cohen
place, now known as the Orr place,
that the Dogwood Spring was found,
so often referred to in Horse-ShoeRobinson,
where Morgan's army camped
for three weeks, got their wateT.
^iose Dy coionei wm. Washington,
cousin of Gen. George met Gen. Tarleton,
and cut off his fingers with his
sword, just then a British officer galloped
up and was about to shoot the
Colonel when a negro servant, shot
the man and broke his arm.
The next postmaster in Jonesville
was B. D. Bearden, who moved it
down to his store in 1858, which was
the home place of Sheriff Johnson,
who moved to Union, after his election
to the sheriff's office, selling the place
to Buck Hames, he transferring it to
Bearden, who for a time dwelt, kept
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iness and the office up in town to the
Bearden stand, which stood until 1895
when it was replaced with a modern
store building, which was burned a
few years later, soon the space was
filled in with more modern stores.
Other ancient places are the Milligan
Fowler place, J. G. Long and Daniel
Wallace place, the latter being the
early home of Judge W. H. Wallace,
speaker of the famous Wallace House
of 1876, which wrested the State from
Radical rule, the place now being
owned by N. B. Eison, one of the oldest
citizens of the town.
Hezekiah Ward was one of the earliest
emigrants, he built a store and
dwelling in the block on the west side
of the depot, on Main Street, which
was burned after many years service,
then being replaced by a modern
wooden store building.
The first depot agent at this place
was W. H. Long, who served this
well-started little town for a long
time, building a long double house
with chimney at both ends, of which
the sight spoke Revolutionary times,
it being on top of noil by Everybody's
Bank, but the site of the Bank
was occupied by J. M. Ward's home,
and soon after settling here was
called to duty in the war between the
States. He being wounded in the arm,
was captured and taken prisoner,
where he remained until the wouna
caused his death.
The pioneer settlers of Jonesville
were slowly, but surely gathering as
J. E. Lindsay and B. B. Foster were
next to be considered on the map, their
homes still standing as when built So
as the settler came they soon felt the
necessity of more church and school
facilities.
The First Baptist church was organized
in the Masonic hall, soon the
new building was under way, the
ground being given by E. R. Wallace
and his sister, Miss Mary, who afterwards
became Mrs. Nott. The material
being contributed by the members,
also they cut and sawed the lumber,
then put most of the church with
their own hands. This being furnished,
John G. liandrum preached the
dedication sermon, B. B. Foster, John
Pickings, J. H. Coleman, W. W.
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was a very neat but small structure,
which lasted for service until 1917,
when the brethren and pastor, L. M.
Kice decided to honor the Lord with
a more modern church, so tore away
the old edifice, which had done so
much good, and in which so many had
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