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Oldest Newspaper^^ ^ - - y0L 74s EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, A?GUST 4th, 1909. - _ N0-21 . Second Annual ter?st pf Good tendance. } Splendid Encouraged by the. phen success of the meeting th; held at Harmony last year interest of temperance anc citizenship, and realizing hov " andlasting have ' been the I derived from that meeting, by common consent been ag make this picnic an animal oc< I And much to the gratifican' the promoters of the under Jthe meeting of last week easi passed from every standpoii initial meeting of a year ago attendance was a third larger, conservatively estimated at up of 4,000. Bearden's brass barn better suited to outdoor pei ' ance than the orchestra of last The addresses were made by of the ablest men that' the co " affords. The deportment/ c great throng was nothing shi tbs ideal. Not a word was ul nor an-act committed by ai that marred even in the slig degree the harmony and pleasi the day. As was referred to by the s " ers, one should need no more vincing evidence of the val probibitio?i, or of the wisdom v^played by the people of this cc in voting out liquor, than thc ". feet order that prevailed at Ila ny last Thursday. Instead of d der existing, a spirit of coi ffife-rgood fellowship seemed to peru i the atmosphere. The tone and s v of the meeting were exceedi beautiful. Rev. B. J. Guess'acted as c ruan.-of the meeting, and callee on Rev. T. >P. Burgess tO'op?ii exercises with prayer. At th jSf?.' quest of the chairman, Judge J. DeVore introduced Dr. S. C. Mi ell, president of the South Caro University, as the first speaker. ^ VT: S. C. mitchelL Dr. Mitchells subject was "C Spirit." In the outset he than everyman and woman who h: part in making such a meeting sible. He said, that South Caro, is more thoroughly alive than c before. As he travels up and dc the state he sees unmistakable dence of progress, not ephenn but permanent progress. The pee are back of the good roads mc ment that will ultimately x carr good road to every farmer's dc rural telephones are forming a 1 work over the state; rural free livery mail service is being extei ed; interurban railway lines being built; the rural schools ; being improved, and demonstrat farms are giving, a new iinpe to agricultural pursuits. Said "God speed the things that are foot to help the farmer, the bai bone of the country." Concerning education, Dr. Mitt ell said that the man or woman w si loyal to the neighborhood schoo! '. the best friend of education. Next loyalty must cone the hi< school, and that if they are loyal these they will likewise be loyal the higher institutions. He realiz what it is for a youth to strugg for an education. His father was Confederate soldier from Mississi pi, and owing to the ravages > I war Dr. Mitchell was out of scho ? between the years of 10 and 1 He'was inspired as a young ma H by being presented with a book c a train by a gentleman, the title ( I which was, "Friend, Go up higher. These words had been ringing i Eg his ears all down through the year ? Dr. Mitchell said concerning th "Civic Spirit," whether it be ten R perance, improved schools, bette roads, better mail facilities, mor I rapid means of communication, in I proved "agricultural conditions, al ? mean "Go up higher." Bj Here in the South we have thre H great institutions: 1st the Home K and to these "sweet homes noted f o their purity and out of which mer I and women . who rule tin B country have come," Dr. ^Mitchel H * paid a very beautiful tribute. Th< H second is the church, and the speak I er said it is the churches perchec M upon the hills that have led in civil life. They are free from politics anc H beckon the people up higher. Th< SB third institution is the state. Dr H Mitchell said "I want to labor tc Ul strengthen these great institutions.' SK He next ??poke at length of thc H community life. Whereas before the war"there were large planta" Bj lions-he himself having been I reared on one containing 4,500 DH ? PICNIC. ting Held in The In zenship. Large At Able Addresses, er Prevailed. acres -these have been cut up and sold to smaller farmers, i-nd pros perous communities now e::ist good schools, churches, good roads, etc. Dr. Mitchell stated that eight yokes of oxen could not draw him in politics, but whenever it becomes necessary for him to spej\k upon moral questions he asks that he bo given the privilege to do so. Dr. H. M. Du?ose. The second speaker, Dr. H. M. DuBose, of Nashville, was intro duced in a most happy manner by Rev. L. D. Gillespie. Dr. D iBose is a minister, author, and editor of Epworth Era* He has been invited to deliver several addresses in .South Carolina. On this occasion Dr. DuBose said among other things: The call for my personal service in the prohibition campaign in ?South Carolina has been to me a pleasing preference. The holiest traditions of my family are con nected with the soil of the Palmet to state. Upon my own cradle shone a distant star, and the crown of manhood came to me upon tr. far away shore; but South .Carolina is the birthplace of my sires, and the memories of my childhood were taught tb inshrine it as 'the land of evervjand the best.' Zealous Co-operation. "And now the movement to free South Carolina from the cune of the liquor traffic shall have not only my prayerful sympathy, but my most zealous and industrious, co operation. . "The subject assigned me for discussion to-day-'prohibition and good citizenship'-is a happy com bination of high and endearing ideals. It is that marriage of vise and purposeful thoughts in our civilization destined to issue in the liberation and crowning of ir an kind. "There is a widespread and will ful ignorance concerning the pur poses and ends of prohibition as an instrument of government, and, as suredly, the great ignorance abroad as to the true standards and du) ies of citizenship. "I may very profitably divide my discourse into two principal parts. In the first of these I shall consider the claims of prohibition as a prrne doctrine of government. In the sec ond I shall^show how it is incum bent upon all good citizens to sup port and defend prohibition as a mat ter of private conscience and of public fealty. / Great Fundamental. "In the present state of hunun government the prohibition hi \ rapacity, vice and social evil js a fundamental in the making of Both constitution and statutes. I "The true liberty of mankind is , not that which is expressed in/writ ! ter laws, but that which is ?bpve and beyond laws. Laws are enacted I not to create liberty, but to protect and to preserv e liberty. TJe body of our statute;; is, thereforeyprohihi ? tive-a sword "against evil-/oers and the combinations of evil lien. This stay of the sword is to /create op. Dr. S. C. portunity and to protect the heri tage of freedom. Prohibition thus becomes the hand-maid of authority, and the protectress of liberty. Against true liberty law has, and can have, no function. "The history of human liberty effectually establishes this claim of prohibition to be a fundamental. From Runnymede to Liberty Hall the history of human liberation has been a story of the inhibitions placed on the agressions of power, the" abuses of privilege and the evils of license. The voice of those sterri old barons at Runnymede was 'King John shall not!' The Declara tion of Independence was the voice of a new born nation against the license and usurpations of George III. Liberty and Freedom? "The article of confederation of 1777 and the constitution of 1787 are the eloquence of those age long restrictions by means of which liberty and freedom expect to main tain themselves in a triumphant Mitchell. / reign. ' If a more transcendent, proof of the claims of prohibition as a fun damental of government is demand ed, it will be found in the deca logue-the law of the ancient king dom of God. Its diapason is one loud 'Thou shalt not'-not the spirit only, but the very voice and form of prohibition. Curse of Rum , The modern Christian crusade against the curse of rum, and the effort to destroy its reign by stat utes of prohibition, is not only in the line of the advance of secular freedom, but is also in line with the. advance of the kingdom of God. As the fierce inhibitions of Sinai were finally succeeded by the octave harmonies of the se rmon on the Mount, so we may hope that some day the stern statutes of pro hibition against the liquor traffic may pass into that happy unity of public opinion which will make in MILIT THE El Will ? c on Tl And also a d Hoi Music on both o Or Burbecue dim the publie is The Confederate _to be pr< h ib hive statutes unnecessary. Prohibition ;JZet ised. "Prohibition's that principle of law which has opera??^r.'to:develop the sense of individuality in men. It is a false belief that -license, which many have, mistaken . for liberty is friendly,, even .necessary, to the development of ' the sense Dr. H. and power of ?erson?liiry in men. On the contrary^ it is license that arrests the march of mindaud soul on the way to their crowning, and that sinks them to the . level of slavery and inertia in the sodden mass of weaklings and incompe tents. "It is only by discipline^ draw out their strongea^j approve their higuest se the truest form of disci self-denial and self-r come of the inhibitions er law. ''There, can be no h standard of manhood ship except as meri' awake; with in themselves to the sense of. individ uality and personal responsibility in all matters of private ^iflp? action. This awakening .ea^n^ome only as the individual is rjj^^Hgfc by both his own and the"' ; inhibition of what i&'eviffijBW "Prohibition, is therefore,'srnih discipline and Restriction i tlie public upon itself us the.mdi vidual /man...should .1 .self:;PriiM|K^Sffll but the extension "'of rprh science and discipline to the body of society, that is to the' state, to the'public. maintains Order. "The principle of prohibition has created, and still maintains,' the or" der of human society. "Not license-not false liberty but restriction and repression have made a social fabric possible. Not the states in which men have been least restricted in following their own inclinations or appetites have longest survived, but those whose people have been held and compelled by their own laws to follow an ideal set above the debaucheries of the herd. "Herbert Spencer and other mas ters of sociology have shown how society inevitably rests upon those laws which restrain the selfish; the lawless and rapacious elements of j society from infringing or destroy ing the rights of the other! elements of the body. And this is. precisely the ground upon which the statutes prohibiting the liquor traffic come in. There is no longer patience to hear an argument denying the evils of the traffic. Only fools, sodden ARY P f ?, )GEFIELD ] give a pier ENTRE SPRINI hursday, Augus lance in the Ed: < ise Thursday ni ccasions will be furn chestra, of Augusta, ( 1er will be served at ( ; cordially inyil Veterans and Newspape Bsent as guests of the i inebriates and sordidly selfish'men either make or listen to these argu mente. The only q?estiorf now ' worthy the thought *of sane and honest men is how best to repress and'destroy the curse. Society de ? mauds its extirpation and demands it as a measure in which its life and ita soundness are involved. "The principle of prohibition has made possible a strong and healthy public opinion. Public Opinion. "in that remarkable book by Am bassador James Bryce, 'The Ameri can Commonwealth,' much is made of American public opinion. The author discovers that the most American thing in America is pub lic opinion. It is bold, authoritative and is trusted and feared by rulers ? and law-makers. And what is most worthy of note here is that this virile public opinion is treated as the off spring of that constitution which bristles throughout its momentous provisions with terms of limitation and prohibition. Practical Claim. 'And here perhaps ;at last is grounded the strongest practical claim of the cause of statutory pro hibition-namely in the fact that public opinion needs to be rescued I from the degradation of the. drink trafile. The brewer and the distiller in national politics, and the saloon keeper in local politics, mean a dabauched public opinion and an enslaved suffrage. The gin maker and. the gin seller must be abated in order to save the nation from a a gin-bought ballot. The trafile is lawless, corrupting, and the society which has commenced with it must become inevitably corrupted. So long as a liquor license is issued in any commonwealth, the type of pub lic thought in that commonwealth must reflect the degradation of the public act. Good Citizenship. "I am now to consider the prohi bition of the liquor trafile in its re lations to good citizenship. But> first, mays.I not briefly sketch the .portrait of a good citizen of an en iiglif-?iScr-sf?t??- A very ancient pic ture of such a citizen was this: 'A Hon. M. U Smith. man who feared God and eschewed evil.' That can hardly be improved, though I venture to add this touch: 'A good citizen is one who in serv ing the state, offers worship to God and service to his fellowmen--one who carries into his every action a RIFLES dc at Ul I ll 119th, gefield Opera ght. ished by Beaden's Ja. I Centre Spring. Led to attend. )Y Men are invited Company. BEAVER I I _ ; New Company Cap dred Thousand E Ordered. Cott( larged, Open love of the truth and a reverence for his conscience, as for his God.1 "From such citizens the cause o? prohibition can'expect only support. It is from the selfish, the unthink ing, the lawless and the degraded that it expects opposition. "It must follow from all this that the good citizen espouses the cause of prohibition as an answer to his own sense of honor. Carmack's Courage. "Every true man, every worthy citizen of the south has an immor tal example of honor in the courage of the martyred Carmack. Tennes see has given no greater boon to this nation, to civilization, than the example of this nation-mourned man, who gave up even life to fol low his honor as ^ man against men. "Assuredly the good citizen, must espouse the cause of prohibition as a means of service to his fellowmen. "To those who count national greai less or private fortune in ton nage and bank clearances and whose ideal of personal' good is the right to indulge their appetite unrestrain ed, this sentiment of brotherhood obligation counts for little. But to those who think of the nation as a family and the social body as in stinct with the sensibilities of a brotherhood, the thought is an over mastering one. Whoever he be who has lost the word, 'I am my brother's keeper,' is unworthy the namtof citizen, and has forfeited the right to invoke, or use the power of the ballot. The man who cari get his consent to vote for tjie rum traffic has parted with his sense of loyalty, He is an Ishmaelite. "Every good citizen must give in his allegiance against license in any form as his response to the highest appeal of patriotism. True Patriots. "No man is a true patriot who does not wish for his country the best-deliverance from every evil and the laygest guarantee of repose and prosperity. Surely the record in many states and in multitudes of cities in this land is sufficient to convince every unbiased citizen of South Carolina that 'the highest moral, political, social and financial well-being of his state demands that the course of the dispensary-the devil's own substitute for the sa loon-be swept from the soil. Tennessee's Example. "The state of Tennessee particu larly sends greetings to her sister state of South Carolina and chal lenges her to join the new Con federacy of Prohibition. Twenty four days under its benign infiu ence and restraints have exhibited wonders in the volunteer state. The national holiday-which came four days after the application of the state-wide law-and which witness es an : orgy of drunkenness and crime, was all but barren of police experiences. Sixteen days after pro hibition the city station house of Nashville was without a prisoner a thing which has not happened bji fore in the history of the city. Crimes traceable to drunkenness have fallen off in this town 75 per cent. Houses 'heretofore disgraced as saloons are. now being occupied by legitimate business and trades. The most notorious whiskey house in the state has become a savings bank-a pean of economic triumph over the despoiler. But the history has but begun to be written. The glory of the south is its primacy in this greatest moral reform of the ages. What does South Carolina say?" Hon. IK. L. Smith. The first speaker of the afternoon was a distinguished young South Carolinian, Hon. Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, who was introduced by Mr. A. S. Tompkins in his inimita ble manner. Mr. Smith esteemed it a great privilege to appear before so largejand so representative* body of citizens of Edgefield county, a county that has not only furnished gallant soldiers and illustrious statesmen but votes-in 1876. Mr. Smith in the outset called attention to the fact that not an artist, musi cian, sculptor, poet, or author of very great renown has been pro duced within the past twenty-five years. Everything, said he, that is now produced is for the marget. The speaker said that the two great evils of the day are intemper ance and divorce. He thanked God that South Carolina has no divorec )AM MILLS italized at Two Hun lollars. New Gins \ )n Mill to be EIH ation Oct, 15th The cotton mill village is already i beginning to take on new life. Mr. ? B. F. Zimmerman, who is' to have entire charge as manager, arrived yesterday to remain permanently. He will bring his family about the first of jSeptember. Mr. Zimmerman told The Ad Advertiser's representative that an order has been placed for six im proved Pratt gins to take the place of the old ones in the ginnery. He says that there is no doubt about the new plant being ready when the season opens. If there is any delay in filling the order, Mr. Zimmerman will have the gins shipped by ex press. The superintendent of the oil mill, Mr, Arthur Childers, will arrive next week, and Mr. L. .L. Clippard, the cotton mill superin tendent, will reach Edgefield within a few days. Mr. Zimmerman stated that it is the purpose of the management to ; have the cotton mill in full opera tion by October the 15th. An addi- ^ tion of 100 feet will be made to the present cotton .mill building, ex tending toward the street. Orders have been placed for 5,000 addi tional spindles, which with the spindles that are already in the mill, will supply sufficient yarn dur ing the day run for the looms. Mr. Zimmerman says operating a cot- , ton mill at night is unprofitable.Not , a single mill an the entire Piedmont section runs' a single spindle at night. Probably the running at night has had something to do with _ the failure of the Edgefield mill. \ ? The new company that purchased the mill, headed . by Mr. Lewis : parker, of - Greenville, Tl?s^een capitalized at ?S'00,000" and' wili -' - be known as the Beaver Dam Mills. The petitioners in the application for a charter are L. W. Parker, E. A. Smyth, W. E. Beattie, of Green ville; B. f. Zimmerman and W. L. Marchant, of Greer; B. F. Taylor, of Columbia, and W. W. Adams, J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford 7 ano B. E. Nicholson of Edgefield. law. The people cast their, ballots for prohibition in |l892 in order to rid themselves of the evils of liquor but the state dispensary was given them as a substitute, and as soon as the corruption of the dispensary was brought to the attention of the peo ple they killed^ it. The dispensary system is a mistake in human gov ernment. To the saloon . there at tached an odium that the stamp of the state could not wipe out. The state could not/elevate the liquor business, consequently honest men could not be secured to manage its affairs. We now have a system-the county dispensaries-that is subject to all of the weakness and every in firmity of the old mother dispensa ry. Experience has shown that we were unwise in adopting the dis^ pensary as a solution of the whis key question. Then, let's away with . the proprietorship of the liquor business. Mr.Smith showed very conclusively how farm labor has been demoraliz ed by liquor, citing instances of greatly improved agricultural con ditions resulting from the removal of the dispensary. He next referred with telling effect to the dishonesty and crime that is abroad in the state. In South Carolina there were 240 homicides in 1908, while in prohibition Maine there were only three. This should cause the people of the Palmetto state to hang their heads in shame. The speaker urged every citizen to be the centre of a wholesome in fluence that will go out for the bet terment of conditions, the elevation of our citizenship. Mr. Smith easily ranks among the ablest men of the younger genera tion in public life in the state, and > this visit has made for fhim many friends among our people. Gapt. Claude E. Sawyer. Rev. B. J. Guess next intreduced Capt. Claude E. Sawyer, of Aiken, who had accepted ans invitation to address this meeting, along with the other distinguished speakers. Capt. Sawyer said he is endeavoring to have Aiken follow the example of the old mother county in voting out liquor. He was greatly pleased with the very respectful attention and with the splendid order that prevailed throughout the day. This of itself was one of the fruits of prohibition and showed that the '\ (Continued on the Fourth Page.)