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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
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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. 'I use it
in my family," writes G. J. Welch,
of Tekonsha, Mich., "and find it
perfect." Simply great for cuts
and burns. Only 25c at McMas
ter Co.'s, Obear Dr'ug Co.'s and
John H. McMaster & Co.'s drug
stores.
Ilip Tan Winkle has just been
taking A nap. Placing a hand
upon his beard, he murmured'
drowsily, "How this grows on
me." After which he fell into a
second doze, that he might sleep
out the remaining ten years.-]
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no other kind.
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Cu.red Hlemorrhages of the Lungs.
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nd my lungs are now as sudas a .
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