Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY WINNSBORO, S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1905. ESTABLISHED1844. An Appeal to the Voters of Fairfield County. For more than twelve years the sale of liquor through dispensaries C ed and operated by the State has been the law of the land in th Carolina. By a vote of the people in 1892, it was declared that they desired the prohibition of the liquor traffic, except for medicinal, scientific and sacramental- purposes. Instead of prohibi tion, as the people asked for, the Legislature enacted the dispensary law. It was given to the people ostensibly as a temperance measure, designed to curtail the consumption of liquor, and lessen the evils thereof, and we are told that it was to be "a step towards prohibition." For more than twelve years this has been the policy of the State in d~aling with this great subject. It has, therefore, had time, ample tih, to demonstrate the good or ill effect of the policy. The old sgiptural way is a good way in determining the good or ill of any potidy, and that way is, "By their fruits shall ye know them." ?t us see what has been the fruits of the dispensary, as judged by These standards. These years have demonstrated the fact that it is not a temperance measure, but that its real design is to sell all the liquor possible, and thus make a large revenue for the use of the State. Instead of decreasing the consumption of liquor, and lessening the evils of intemperance, it has increased both, and the effort of the dispensary authorities has been to sell all the liquor possible, thus raising a larger revenue. For years the State Board of Control, in its annual report to the Legislature, has congratulated itself on the increased sale and the larger volume of revenue realized on the busi ness. Every effort has been made to place dispensaries wheverer possible, and to sell all the liquor possible. The restrictive features of the law, such as signing application blanks, selling to habitual drunkards and minors, have been utterly disregarded by a large majority of the local dispensaries, and thus as a breaker of law, the dispensary has a black record. As to crime and its responsibility therefor, its record is blacker still. The records of crime during these years in murders, man slaughters and assaults, a large majority of which are directly trace able to the dispensary, is the blackest in the history of our State. Thoughtful citizens have been shocked and horrified by this fruitage of the dispensary. There are homes all over our State to-day, darkened over with shame and grief, caused by the State's dispensaries. We maintain that the State has no right to debauch its citizens to raise revenue for itself. The dispensary has been the fruitful breeder of crime and lawlessness: The investigating committee, appointed by the last Legislature, has brought to light, what has long been believed, that for political corruption, bribery and stealinag, it has a record scarcely surpassed by the dark days of Radicalism prior to 1876. It has itself violated the law, is a breeder of crime, and is an engine of political corruption and the seat of bribe-giving and bribe-takig. Ahother of its evil fruits is that it has lowered the moral tone of the citizenship of our State. It has elevated the liquor traffic, which was under the ban of public opinion, and has attempted to give respectablitiy to that upon which God has set his curse. It is a festering sore on the body politic, a moral cancer on the conscience of the people and an awful ulcer on the home. It stands discredited before the people, and the time is ripe for its overthrow. Since, then, it serves no good purpose in the moral, civil, social and indus trial sphere, why keep the corrupt and corrupting thing ? For years it has not been possible for the people to rid themselv.es~ of a dispensary, when once it was placed amongst them. The Brice law, enacted by the last Legislature, gives the people an opportunity to vote out the dispensary, if they so desire. The requirements of the lawv have been complied with in this county, and on the 12th day of December next, the opportunity will be given the citizens of good "Old Fairfield" to express their wishes on this subject. Fellow-citizens, we appeal to you to cast your ballots on that day against this monster evil. The issue on that day will not be, as some may have you believe, that this is an effort to rid the county of the dispensaries, in order that the towns may have high license, and thus deprive the county of any profits arising from the dispensaries, and the towns be enriched by license froh1 saloons. That is contrary to the law and is foreign the sure ois clear cut and sharp, "Dispensary" or "No Dispen sary" and the result from voting out the dispensaries will be the prohibition of the liquor traffic in Fairfield County. It is said that we will be overrun with blind tigers under prohibition, and our con dition will be worse than with the dispensaries. Blind tigers are evils, indeed, but wve had them under the saloons; ~vehave had them under the dispensary, and we will have them under wpohibition; but they will be no more than now or heretofore, and the evils from them will not compare with the awful evils of te dispensary system, and under prohibition we will raise up a genera tion of men wvho wvill shoot the blind tiger and uplift the State.th WXe have chosen this time. when no other issues are before the people, that they may consider this one question, and, unbied olow other issue may express their will on this quesin hehoe Pickens, in, couwbry Mario'n, York. Lancaster, Darlington, Horry, Ocnee, Sprtanburg nd iGreenile sa tnd G reewo fathe tartebor Shave never had dispenais hsabu n-hr f the sen-a fed itself from the corrupt and the corrupting reign of h ipn * ---~t~i ~Shall "Old Fairfield" not join with these others and wip thi digaefrom her borders? Thus, fellow-citizens, the ise is jondisgandeveymnms take his stand and vote for what issaes o en eryimamus h~V oeli ly and earnestly believe that we are right in appeaing vteagisth dspenary Asa moral issue, itate;ofor thedisensry s a enmy of each and all. As a political issue, it should 1 apea 1ol who love their country, for it i taiydbuh shoudiapeantoia and lowvering the tone of public morality and all ing, ogaites igodgp rnet Confident in the righteousness of that cause, and belevntat this is the opportune time to meet the i~ie:a~i'4at good results will follow from the voting out of th1e diseliari weclluo the voters of the county to go to the polls onrth .2t ofD eeber and cast their ballots against the monster C. E. McDoNAW, J.RBTSN WV. R. RABB, .B PIE 0. A. WVHITE, 'r. L.JOHNSON~ W. W. WILLIAMS, S. C.BYRDJ. FRANK FoOsHE, C. P. \R~x", * xcdutiVC Cornmitte. NEWS AND HERALD P UBLISHED WEEKLY, -BY WINNSBORO PRINTING CO. J.FRA.NK FOOSHE, - - - EDIToR TERMS, IN ADVANCE: Ono Year,.........................1$. W Six Months........................... .75 WINNqBORO. S. C. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1905. It will be killing the goose that laid the golden egg for the South ern farmers to go anothe year and plant too heavily of cotton. The result could only be the sell ing it at a much less price than. they are now getting for~ it and paying much higher prices for the feed stuffs, which they should raise at home. The sensible thing is for the them to make more sure of all their home supplies so. that they may not only have their cotton as a surplus crop, but that, at prices that will mean a con siderable item on the right side >f the ledger. An exchange contains a note ;o the effect that the school in ne of the best of South Carolina's smaller towns was closed one lay the past week because there vas no wood on hand and be use several of the glass were >roken from the windows of the >uilding. Teachers and trustees hould see to it that the pupils iave to suffer no discomforts for )ither of these reasons. Com ortable school rooms are a great tem in the sehooling of children. Lf not possible to have the rooms ttractive, at least let them be warm during these cold days of winter. By their fruits ye shall know hem is the scriptural test for en and measures and the only >ne that is worth while. There s already a big hue and ery about ;he failure of prohibition in the :ounties, which have recently roted out the dispensaries, and hese counties are cited to show hat prohibiton is neither practi :able, ror advisable. Eevn the nost hopeful prohibibonists will ot go so far as to say that whis key is not being shipped into fhese counties and even being old by blind tigers. But this oes not argue that prohibition is a failure, for it has not been given a full enough trial in these ountier for it to have accomnplis d its good results. This con tining demand at present for hiskey in these counties is the Fruitage of the dispensary system ather than of prohibition, under which this appetite for drink has been encourgaed by the State selling whiskey for the elevation of its youth. If the real fruits of prohibition are to be seen, then o to a county, whare the sale f whiskey has been restricted for a reasonable number of years. It is not necessary to go out of the state to make this study. Greenwood and Marlboro are both good illustrations of what as been accomplished under prohibition. There are, none who can gainsay the statement that n those counties there is less whiskey sold per capita than in any other counties in South Caroliina and that blind tigers are not to be stumbled upon here and there and yonder. But sayis the ardent dispensaryite Green wood has not had the legalized sale of whiskey for quite a num ber of years and that Marlboro has never had it in any form So the very argument that is advanceai to show that these coun ties are the exception rather than the rule is the very best argu~ment posible that prohibition is not an entire failure right here in South Carolina. It is worth all it has cost Greenwood or Bennetts ville to enjoy the distinction, "the hardest town that I was ever in to get something to drink." So let no one who would be favorably disposed to prohibition be turned asidie by these herculean efforts of those, who would prop the Great Moral Institution up in its downfall, to show that a county is necessarily doomed forever to the illegal sale of whis key, when it votes the dispensary out. Rather let them take re newed courage in this great moral ight by turning to those counties, where the non-selling of whiskey has been tried for a sufficient period to prove that if the old not be stopped from their whis key drinking, that at least the young can be brought up under a temperance influence that lessens the drink habit. Apply the fruitage test and prohibition wil: win. Erskine Boys Have Fun. (Due Wcst Correspondence to Th Statc, -a'. 13.) The college boys have beer having a little fun at the expensi of the ministers. A wasp wa! I caught and placed in the bed of f Columbia pastor one night. 1i the dead hours of the night th< miscreants listening at the doo3 heard evidences of combat withir and knew that the preacher was sleeping the horrid slumber ol nigbtmare. The boys of the college home have a swing. The following sign was hung on the tree the day before the delegates began to arrive: "All visitors are cor diallY invited to swing in this swing except Rev. C. E, McDonald Hon. Geo. S. Mower and Rev. G. G. Parkinson." The two first named tip the scales at some thing under 300 and the latter is the genial little professor in the Theological seminary and weighs about 90 pounds. A Common Sense View of It. Many men think that news paper men are persistent dunners. By way of commparison, let us suppose a farmer :aises one thousand bushels of wheat a year and sells this to one thousand persons in all parts of the country. A greater portion of -hem say, "I will hand you a d.ollar in a short time." The farmer does not want to be small and says, "All right." Soon the one thous and bushels are gone, but he has nothing to show for it, and he then realizes that he has fooled away his whole crop, and its value is due him in a thousand little driblets; conseguently, he is seriously embarrassed in his business because his. debtors, eack owing him one dollar, treat it as a small matter and think it would not help much. Continu ing this kind of business year in and year out as the publisher does, how long would he stand it? A moments thoughat will con vince any one that a publisher has cause for dunning sometime. -The friends of Miss Maggie Neil were charmingly entertained at her beautiful home on Friday evening by a progrefssive "Set Back" party, given in honor of Miss Seymoura Hadden. Miss Mary Pagan and Mr. "Louis Bye tied for the first, but Mr. Bye gallantly withdrew and it was presented to Miss Pagan by Mr. Jesse Doty. Several contested for the "Booby." Afte ethe prizes were delivered, delightful ref resh ments were served. -Mrs. Eunice Bacot and Miss Maggie Aiken have returned from Charleston where they attended the Caldwell-Bacot wedding. --That's what a prominent druggist said of Scott's Emulsion a s h ort time ago. As a rule we don't use or refer to testimonials in addressing the public, but the above remark and s imil1a r expressions are made so often in connec tion with Scott's Emulsion that they are worthy of occsional n o t e . From infancy to old age Scott's Emulsion offers a reliable means of remedying im proper and weak develop ment, restoring lost flesh and vitality, and repairing waste. The acet i on of Scott's Emulsion is no more of a secret than the composition of the Emul sion itself. What it does it does through nourish ment-the kind of nourish ment that cannot be ob tained in ordinary food. No system is too weak or delicate to retain Scott's Emulsion and gather good from it. We will send you a sample free. Be sure tha~t this picture in the buy. 21Y* 4SCOTT &BOW1% ~ F Chemists 72409 Pearl St., N.Y. --=====REMEMBER W. C. BE A T SELL The Mitchell Wagons and The Tyson & J WHICH ADVERTISE AND SELL THE The Stdr Brdnd Bay5 Which Are Bettei GROCERIES=Staple ai In this department we wish to call special atte able goods, such as Chocolate's, Fruits, &c., fi erel, Buckwheat, New Orleans Molasses, guara Maple Syrup, in one gallon cans, best quality. In Canned Goods we have a large variety of bot bles. Try a 5-lb. can of our Roasted Coffee for $1,00; and you will say so when you try it. Candies, Pruits, Nuts, Cigars, &c. We have in our store three young men who a every customer who comes in; and if given an -op Send us your orders, and if we.are temporarily want, we will get it if it can be found. WE DELIVER4 GOODS TO TOWN' Store will be closed Thanksg Your Money Back if You Want It A. W. Kluttz Chester's Largest Store Chester, S. C. SPECIAL VALUES IN BLANKI3TS A Broad and Inviting array of warm and serviceable Blankets, in qualities and prices that illustrate this store's usefulness to Chester and the surrounding counties' discerning buyers and emphasize its supremacy in this city's mercantile world. KLUTTZ==His standard always the Highest. KLUTTZ==His prices absolutely the Lowest. KLUTTZ=-His stocks always the Largest. KLUTTZ==The Mercantile Heart of Chester. Our guarantee insures you absolutely against any risk in ordering by mail. We prepay express on all goods amounting to five dollars and over. If goods ordered from us are not entirely satisfactory in every respect, may be returned to us at our expense and your money will be at once refunded. This guaran= tee places you in the same independent position'as tho you were here in Chester yourself selecting Blankets etc., in person. Y co. ones Buggies, I MSELVES. tate Shoes id Fancy. ntion to a few season >r cakes, Fresh Mack nteed pure and fine; h Meats and Vegeta best on the market, re anxious to please portunity will do so. out of anything you rRADE. iving Day. Wedding Presents Birthday Presents Our line of Hand-Painted China has always been noted for its exquisite de signs, both in color and ape We have just opened a new shpment, which in beauty, taste and ~variet surpasses our previous efforta. No bride could ask for a anore beautiful gift than one of these handsomely decorated pieces., Cake Plates ranging in price from $2.50 to $7.50. Bowls, Pitchers, Vases, Chocolate Pots, and even to the smallest BoN Bon and Olive Dishes and Pin Trays are beau ties to be seen in onr store. Prices reasonable. Cut Glass. A new and large stock of Cut Glass has just axived. Our line is always admired for its elaborate cuts and rea sonable prices. Vases, Desanters. Water Pitchers, Berry Bowls, Celery Dishes; also Bon Bon and Olive Dishes and smaller pieces. A nice assortment to ehoose from. . Silver. If you prefer Silver for your preset we are (Luite sure we san please you. Sterling bilver Berry Bowls, Water Pitchers, Tea Sets end many other large pieces are to be found here. .If you wish some odd piece we have it. Just come and see. If yon ean't come wvite for our Illusrated Cata.logue of staple goods Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Cut Glass, etc. P. H. LACHICOTTE & CO. 1424 flaini Street, columbia, S. C. Trespass Notice. All persons are warned not to hunt, fih, cut timber, or permit their live stock to come on any part of the laud owned or controlled by the under si.rned, or to trespass in any way. All trspaSers will be prosecuted. W. P. BL AIR. - ..D. LYLES. 11-8-4t S. F. CASTLES. FOR SALE-A good s'ond hand buggy and harness. Apply to J. M. Harden.