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'rr~ -v' I I. .~4;- 't\ .-; rws aad ______ an C PUBLISHED WEEKLY. WINNSBORQ, S. C., WEDNESDA -4 1905. ESTABLISHED 1844. An Appeal to the Voters ol Faif eld County. The dispensay law has long passed the experimiental stage. After a trial of thirteen years, it has utterly failed as a sofution of the whiskey question. As a great moral institution, it has not im proved the morals of our people, but has greatly corrupted them. It has not lessened drunkenness and crime; it has not reduced the sale and consumption of liquor, but has increased them. It has gone steadily on from bad to worse, until it has become a very stench in the nostrils of our peo ple, so that many' of its best friends are ashamed of i: and have turned from it in disgust. Recent invest-g .tions h a v e opened the eyes of our people and have disclosed the base corruptions of the system. Much of its rottenness, no nmatter how rigid the investigation, the State will never see or know. I dare say that nearly every dispensary in the State, in one or more points, is bein-g run in open vio lation of the law, and is, there fore as munch a 'aw-breaker as the "blind tiger' that lurks in his hiiding place. In the year 1902 the people of South Caroliua at the ballot box, . a fair and intelligent vote, and eby a large najority, asked for r prohibition. But our law-makers, I presumivg to know better than 'tbe people what was needed, en .Ateed thi dispensary' law and tjrust it upon the State iu.tead.: of giving what the people asked for. And thy have songbt to bind it upon the State with fet ters of iron that could not be broken. But the time han come when a! :'.eat host in the State have be ..one utterly sick and tired of its ..iptions, and along with them raa*of the dispensory's stauoch .es idiends, and they are rising - np agdst it and are saying with .r.phasie, "It's enough!" They *hve givea it an honest, fair trial .through many long years. But -it has failed., and doom is written ppon it. -It has become so offen si :e to the public eye that, eioin ing by the courts, no amount cf vhi1wS1-shilg will ever commend it to t'-e people again and make it appear d-cent. It must go. Wc' con,ratulate aud honor the W) esantipr, Greenwood and Malboro, v~hich have never al lowed the 413pesary to be fast tened .pon thee:., and hav- never staine . their i .ir 1eia w t this corrupt institutioi'. The i pee are pa~rar aind better by imeatrn of it;snd thegare as iien in matexr d things, have a; muchl prosperity., as good schooAk as their sister. eounties which han .been grasp iing after and feeding epou the poisonouis revenue of the dieu eary. T bree other en1rnties, Che.1 okee, ?iekens and Unioc, by goveir whening ma jorities,, have recenlt ly vote~d our. the disp ar and have joined hands with thaa t~w ar sisters. A dozen or. or Atler counties aro marshalling ir~ forces, getting ready to atra t be same crushing blow tha-t will break the shackles an3d .rid themnselves of this insti ttfon -thai corrupts and de bauches .oar clizenship Fair field, whos~e boutifal and pictu resque bilis are temix~ with a nopulation as pure and' ob~le as ~r great Stata dzrds, has ac .netly joined this herowe struge ifor .moral freedom and purity. -Tbe jght is on in this conoty, :and iii v win, our forces must irally and rome together and pre pare f or baidCe. Now there am some in this county, no doubi, who have .enough of the dispensay, and would be willing to vote to A* move it; but they know, accord ing to the State canfitution and ,pistinlg laws, that wah the dis gesr gone- it wouid give us gem.ibition, and they are ao et pyhibition. B3ut why mjege we be afraid of a prohibitioni law? *WVe can scarcely conceive of lmat tecs bein'z much worse than they Snow tin;d*r the tii mpensary runig righf alonz by the si le ci -the agap~ensary, and the~ dig pensary itsd? is a great indttu :gi of .corruptie sud :awless mess So, I do not iiyr there -,is any ground to fear thj:A caz .h - dious wiut be worse anier probt bition -than diLev are now. Take c;he counties oak fireenwood and Marlboro and theyi have never bLaa disp<-osaries. Tfhey' '1ba prohibitjin for mnoro than uJ teen years: ;and it has not b~eeni a failure in these counties. They na.e.not been onerrnn with "blind tigers." I believe they have had fewer "blind tigers" than those counties where the dispensary is in operation. After ia trial of thirteen years, prohibi tion has not proved a failure in these counties, but has worked satisfactorily and successfully. If successful in these counties, why not in Fairfield? It goes without proof that prohibition is a just and righteous law. And we know that the God whom we serve sanctions a just and righteous law. In contrast with it, we know the dispensary is an evil law, that it corrupts and de bauches our citizenship. Of conrse God docs not and cannot s:nction such a law; and we should tremble before any law that does not meet with divine approval. -Now iaw is a great educational force in the State. It moulds public opinion, creates standards (If thought whether right or wrong. Therefore, in view of its educational nature, it is bound to be true, that a good iaw (and prohibition in its principles is a good law) that seeks to build up trong character, and to elevate and ennoble the manhood of our State, though it be repeatedly violated, is f r better than an evi Jlaw, the whole tendency of which is to corrupt the public con science, blight the character of en, debauch our cit-zenship, make druukards, criminals, pau pers and lunatics of our boys and yourg men. The good law is the b.tter because it constantly teaches the public mind that right is right, that it is a lways better to do the r'ght, though many will not respect the law and in sist on doiug the wrong. Goy. Hoch, of Kansas, spoke eloua,-ntly for the educational side of prohibition when he said; "We are rearing a new Civiliatio, in the State of ansas. There aie more than a quarter of a mil-I lion young people in the State who have never seen a saloon. I Prohibition is the only logical attitude of ths law towards the liquor traffic. And the whole conutry will some day come to realize it." 3i3ut I did not start out to dis CaSS the merits of prohibition. Prohibition is not the question I befai the people uow. But the great question that is stirring and eg'ging the minds of the peopl#. all over the State is that of vot ing out the dispensary. Now, thle chief argument used by those who are in favor of re tiing the dispensary is, that it furnishes a large revenue to the reagty and the public schools. iu a:ar stp this argument, I wish to say that a great host of the best people in mei S~ate have? ever looked upon the ree;. f om thme dispensary as the slitne in the trail of the serpent, as ias mon ey, as the wages of iniqug. They have never asked for it. hiave ja-e~ wanted it. The vv*rv thought of 'a it for the education of the children la.h state is repulsive to them in the etre'a. 'hey have only ac ee~td it beead*e the~v were forced to do go or else quit pbrnising. th publie a~ehools- They 44 tend 'and will ever contend that it is a wrong of far-reaching con-e? 1unce to license an evil traflic tmat pauperizes and debauches our citizens, makes drunkards ind criminals of our young men, n order to g.-t revenue to educate tge 7youh of our land. To sell hy'cor bo;; ~t a boy and then: ,fore ha ; g;yca4y grown, sell! his manhood, blight his eagerr tion, disorganiz~e all his mental powrs and send him out into the world a moral and physical wreck, is nothing short of madness and insanity. It is building up in sd i c at down and destroy The two LSep g.re incompatible and cannot staiU' pogeh Dr. Geo. B. Cromer c4 ge berry uttered a great truth when g sid: "Money for the schools is go4, but there are better hgs they moogev for the schools. he blih .c ~d'd curse falls unfn the people.. giu4 yert to umethods t1a t dull the puibbe -~n science and lower the tone of public morals." This ought to become a proverb). It is a spark! ii'g gem of truth. And I sub mit to my readers, that when we se the r'evenue that comes to us as he dispensary to educate he edidse of opr State, it is esortng to megind; thg.j 4pil h~ public conscieu.e amnd Loyed te toe of public morals. And e uiiht of God's curse will fall 'u~p~ ;;r State. Now, i sztan that we can h..ave an od and crmsnero schools without this revenue from the dispensary as with it. And without this wages of inquity the public pulse will beat with a firmer throb and will send out a purer and healthier stream of blood, to feed the .public morals of the people and to nourish the educational institutions of our State. Now, Fairfield county spends between $50,000 and $60,000 a year for intoxicating liquors. Is it the part of wisdom, is it prac tical economy, is it a wise busi ness method to take $60,000 a year out of the pockets of the poor people of the county, which might be turned into legitimate channels of trade, to buy food and clothing for the needy, to better improve and equip our homes, to pay off mortgages and debts, and send it out of the county and out of the State in order to get $4,500 of revenue for the public schools which when apportioned out is not more than 40 or 50 cents per scholar? No suc cessful business man would send fifty or sixty thousand dollars out of his busin..s and out of the State, never to come back again, in order to get a few thousand dollars' revenue. It would be a disastrous business transaction. And yet our county is doing this every year, sending fifty or sixty thousand dollars of the hard. earned money of the people out i of the county and out of the i Stale, never to come back again, i., order to get a few thousand dollars' revenue. It is a sure road to poverty, to say nothing I of the sorrow, misery and crime I that follow in its wake. And so our State is guilty of a t gigantic evil when she thrusts a I dispensary upon a community, and places a man in charge at a good salary to sell liquor and nahe drankards, paupers, crimi- t als and lunatics of the people, n order to get reyenne to keep t up the county and run the schpols. The revenue is the rank poison ] of the whole dispensary system. 1 It is a loss we can well afford to r take, for out of the loss will come forth a greater and richer gain. t It should be enough to reflect ( that when it comes to the settle- t ment of a great moral question, that whether a man or a itate f should engage in a traffic that a pauperizes and , debauches our citizenship, that perpetrates sor- ( row and crime, the question of a proft or loss should have nothing to do with it. No good, honest a man will lie or steal for tle veve ue there may be in it. Then I hy should a man or a state be ( llowed to sell liquor as a bever- I ae which works to the detriment ( f the whole citizenship of the c State for the revenue that comes t rom it? Ol the revenue is the bane of I he dispensary syst? the wages t f iniquity, the hush rgoney tq I hloroform the public conscienpe a ad keep us quiet while this mon- t str evil sows down the land with a orr >w and crime, debauchery t og4 shame. NE>' to 4igensary has been a tried and found wetng. The e time has come for it to go.~ She t pEfple will not tolerate it longer. C j rak this gag appeal to c serv voter in $?air~eld cionnty. a n the namro of sobriety, in the t ame of truth and righteousness, n the name and for the sake of ; our homes, your sons and daugh- a ters, in the name of God and our a great country, rally to the call. ] Come out to the help of the J ord, to the help of the Lord I mainst the mighty." t ?or there j.. Gyea wh~l at jj9 rp t ork, brothrM, work, let's wm A better day than's been; We will; we will true heroes be I n this thbe lordliest chivalry." J. L. Freeman. ( TI-1REE JURORS CU~1ua t f Cholera Mtg~bS 4,~j %j aelpr Bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Chol- t era and Diarrhwa Remedy. t Mr. Gl. W. Fowler, of Hightbwe', I Ala., relates an experience he hvii t while servin~g on a petit jury in a muir 1 4r gp a E4w'irdsville, cc 1!ity seat mys UWl)r ft4[. .Alr I44i Iy iuet and somie souise mea~t am) ii. ga nn. 'holera 1ZorbJUs aI u very 90vVr tor. I was~ never more hlek mn my life and sent to the drug store for a ces ta cholera mixture, but the druggist sent mec a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoa Remedy instead, saving that he had what I sent for, I br that this medicine was so mnud et~ y pld rgg~r senq it to me n scod dose chred %ue entirel'. '1 wo fellow jnrors were afflicted in the sin'e manner and one small bottle cured the three of us." For sale by Obear Drug rISTORY OF MT. ZION SOCIETY, And Tie CoNege Established Under It Auspices In Winnsboro, S. C. (Zy D. . .MCreight, Published i; The News and Herald in 1867.) XIII. THE COLLEGE LANDS. 1783. On the elevetth o October a committee was ap pointed "to run out the Moun Zion Land," the following gen. tlemen composing it: Gen. Richard Winn, Col. Henry Hamp. ton and William Boyd. It would be a matter of in terest in this connection to know by what means and when the Society cane :into possession of its lands. There is a discrepancy between the record and tradition in regard to this matter. It is said by some now living, who received what they think to be ;he true version of it from those who were contemporary with the ime in question, that although he titles were made to the So :iety by Gen. 'Richard Winn, yet he land was really a donation rom Col. John Vanderhorst. It S difficult to reconcile this dis repancy as there are no records >f the real facts ir .he case. There were evidently donations ade twice to the Society. It nay be that Gen. Wine and Col. Tanderhorst, each, made a dona ion of land, the latter making he first, and the former, the econd. Eleven days after the com ittee was appointed to run out he land they reported "that they ad run out the land, but that he plat was misplaced, so that hey could not make a full re ort at the time," therefo:re re uested further time-which.was ranted. Seventeen days afterwards, on he 8th of November, the same ommittee reported the plat of he land, which had been run out nd on the 6th of December Messrs semp trother snd Fracis ?ringle were appointed a com ittee "to draw up the deeds of [ount Zion land;" there is no ing to show by whom this tract if land was given, if given at all o the Society. There c-. be no oubt that it was a small tract ronting on Congrss (or Main) treet; just where the the stores f Mr. J. P. Matthews, Jr., and )apt. Thos. Jordan now stand, nd ran back as far as the resi Lence of the latter gentleman tands. No other action seems to have eeg tseen in rejersnes to th~e ollege lan~ds, until tije fall of 787, when the attention of the ommittee in Winnsboro was alled by the Society to the fact hat parties had committed great waste on the Society's nd." But there had been in e mean time a donation of one ggaged spres made the Sogiety, gd this is the gift a.bovut which e difference of opinion exists to who is entitled to be called e benefactor. But, while there iay be a digerepancy as to who ave the first tract of land of the ~ociety, there can be none as to ae ag~s crs for the rigialdee4 of covyac has >ge down to the pre-sent day, n4 forras a part of the roords of be Society which have been ireserved. It is recorded upon arhment, dated July 20th, 1.785, d is signed by "Richard Winn," ttested by Jfosiah Smith, D. )eSassure and Geo. H. Smith, r., and examined and recorded~ y D. Mazyck, Register M. C, bough this last was not done nutil the 27th September 1786. Bt there is further proof that *. Ng Jh Rogie~y is d te4 for thi generos dqua ion. On the 4th of February, 788, the Conmittee of Corres ondence of the Society in harleston, addressed a letter of ome length to the Committee at his place, in which, among other hings, they again call attention t14s dp ref14ion pog~nitted ipon the C iege leadS- I seergs hat froln some cause the'Society ad failed to receive information bat the Committee acted prompt y upon the instruction given the ~revios fall in regard to taking Le this greba ng4ence viu appear n full in another part of this iistory, only so much of the re dv of the Committee to the So iety will be given as will suffice a etablish the point now at issue. Ehe following is the extract: "A cojttp Wq8 apgigtpd oeieaga to ?ii rogad and nark the Society's lands, but the )lat could not be found," (This s the plat reported in the pro meeding of November 8th. 1783:' for although two donations oJ land had very probably beer made to the Society, yet only one survey had been made. The com , mittee here alluded to was ap pointed November 10th, 1787.) The letter continued-"Gen. Winn now informs us that he has the plat, and as soon as the weather permits he will run out the land and plat the additional one hundred acres adjoining the former which he gives the Society, and will execute titles thereof with a plat annexed, and trans mit them to town as soon as pos sible." "One hundred acres adjoining the former." Who gave that "former" tract, or, whether the Society bought it, it is impossi ble to tell. The College land at this time was composed (1)of a part of a tract of two hundred acres orig inally granted to Robert Wilson in april, 1768; and (2) of a part of anothertract of five hundred acres granted to Archibald Mc Neil in 1772. The tract of Wil son's grant embraced what .is now the northern (inhabited) half oi Winnsboro. When the committee appoint-] ed for that purpose-who were Col. John Winn, Mr. McCaule (the first president of the College after the war), J. Milling and Gen. Winn-made the second plat of the College tract, the lands bounding it on the north ern side belonged to Kemp Strother, and those on the south ern side, to Col. John Vander horst. Since the Society has been re moved from Charleston to Winns boro, several parcels have been cut off and sold from the College lands until the amount has been reduced to about twenty acres. Note to No. 6.-The author's attention has been called by two gentlemen to an apparent error in the sketch given of capt. Thos. Woodward,-that it was on Lit tle Dutchman's Creek instead of Cedar, that the Captain was kill ed. There is no discrepancy in the case, since the fork of Big Dutchman's Creek, where this event occurred, was at that time called "Cedar Fork", and was so denominated and marked upon the map of the State. Attacked by a Mob and beaten, in a labor riot, until covered with sores, a Chicago street car conductor applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and was soon soun4 and well. 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