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jHHpppppnnmam ' 4 v j Hauraatrr Nrtus (8KMl-WUEKIiY.) CHAS. T. CONNORS?" Editor R. E. WYLIE. . .Acting Editor L C. BOYER Manager PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: Published Wednesdays and Saturdays at Lancaster, S. C., by The' "Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Lodger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878; The dently wants the people to read his inaugural address, a thing "which has noi been done generally, heretofore. The general assembly vvy wisely passed the bill tra 15"erring the property of the Charleston Medical College to ! the state and establishing a state medical callege. We are' at a loss to understand why. The Columbia State, which is generally found advocating! those things which make for ! the good of the state, should have so strenuously opposed this measure. There have been many kaleidoscopic changes in Mexico recently. General Mariero not long ago stirred up a revolu-! tion, drove into exile President Diaz, head of the government, and had himself installed as President. Now along comes General Felix Diaz, nephew of the deposed President, who has Madero cornered in the capital. "What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander." We agree with The Ander son Mail that instead of taxing the development of water power, as is proposed in the bill now pending before the legislature, it would be better to enact a law regulating the charges for current and power. While these water power developments are great assets in the state, and should not be crippled by unwise legislation, yet there is no reason why they should not be regulated as to their rates just as railroads are. Being practically a mo ropoly, the Southern Powei Company should not, be left free to fix its own charges foi current and power. \ . Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postoffice at Lancaster, S. O., under Act of Congress of Match 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION* PRICE: (In Advnnce.) One Year 1.50 Six Months 75c SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1018. The Webb bill will be an eye opener for many a blind tiger. The Charleston News and Courier says it looks as if the prohibitionists have made Congress take water. There are a round half dozen candidates for Congress for the seat of the late Congressman George S. Legare, with others to hear from. The Greensboro News wants to know what has become of "the old-fashioned cornfield lawyer." Senator Tillman used j to claim that he was one of that kind. Joseph R. Wilson, younger brother of the President-elect will in nil nrnli'ihililv ho pIxj, 1 1 secretary of the senate when the Democrats come into pow er. If he is anything like Irs brother, we hope he will. The genreal assembly v wise in making the appr^ ru tion for South Carolina to be represented at the Panama, < position. The amount of money spent is infinitesimal compared with the good resulting to tNstate from such advertising Just think of it, Presidentelect Wilson has promised to make his inaugural address 2,000 words, just about two columns in a newspaper. He evi wzy* ^ 1 NO LIQUOR INTO DRY STATES' The Webb bill which has recently passed both houses of Congress, and will in all probability be signed by the President, is a law that should have been passed long ago. A hue and cry has gone up that it is unconstitutional, because it in fringes upon the natural rights of the people. It does nothing of the kind. It simply gives the local state authorities the power to seize shipments of liquor from a wet state into a dry state and to confiscate them if they were shipped into the dry state to be used contrary to the laws of that state. And this is as it should be. When a state has gone dry it certainly should have the right to protect itself from outside liquor houses in conspiracy with resident blind tigers and violators of the law. and this is the extent to which the Webb bill goes and 110 farther. Of course a wail of anguish will go up all over the country against .the law, but in the main it will be from those who have a fondness for the stuff. If whiskey can be banished from South Carolina it will be a blessing. It has caused enough suffering and bloodshed already. A few days since we heard a gentleman say that he had consumed lots of liquor himself, but that it was a curse; that it would make you think wrong, speak wrong, act wrong, and that when under the influence of it even if you sat down and kept your mouth shut, you would look like a darned fool, and we believe the gentleman was ricrht The House of Representatives acted wisely in killing the Rembert bill, having for its object the muzzling of the press of the state. The full text of the proposed bill is published elsewhere in this issue with pertinent comments thereon by The Pee Dee Advocate. The bill was clearly in conflict with both the state and federal constitutions guaranteeing freedom of the press. There is besides no good reason for such a law. The demand for it comes from designing demagogues, who want to pull the wool over the eyes of the people. Thomas Jefferson, the great first friend of the people, insisted on the absolute freedom of the press, as the great palladium of the people's liberties. There may be abuses of the privilege at times, but this is no reason that the voice of the press of the entire state should be silenced because designing politicians do not want their methods and vices shown in true colors to the people. Contrast the position of Representative Moore of Abbeville, who opposed the "local option" compulsory education bill on the ground that he did not believe in "forcing people to do what they don't want to do." with that of Repreentative MeCravey, who declared that "no man has a right to take his child, put him into a cotton mill or a corn field and thus deprive him of his talent. Ignorance is the greatest cause of crime," J continued Mr. McCravey. "There is a remedy and it is in your hands and mine." Whose | welfare should be considered ! first, that of an ignorant parent or that of the child and the state of which it later on is to 1 become a citizen. Unfortunately such ideas as those enter tained by Mr. Moore are all too prevalent in South Carolina. I i Congratulations to Sparter burg on voting by such a laree majority to have a commiss' n t form of government. Greensville will have to do likewise or J take a back seat. . I ? .v. ?\ THE LANCASTER NEWS, ! COMPULSORY EDUCATION. All honor to Representative E. P. McCravey of Pickens county, the author of the local option compulsory education bill that passed the House of Representatives by the decisive vote of 91 to 19. It provides for an election to be held when one-third of the qualified electors in any school district petitions for it. The trustees of the school district have charge of the enforcement of the law. Parents or guardians who do not put the children in school are subject to a fine of between $2 and $10 for each offense. The measure carries no appropriation. The election is to be ordered by the county board of education if the majority of the votes cast are in favor of compulsory school attendance, the McCrarey bill goes into effect in that school district and all children between the ages of 8 and 13 years, not mentally or physically disabled and whose labor is not necessary for their support, must attend the public school for the period of at least three months in each year if the session be that long, provided they do not attend a private school. This law, although not giving all that might be desired, is yet a long step in the right direction. W e are glad to note that Representatives Massey and Sapp 6f this county voted with the majority in favor of the bill. The total enrollment of pupils in South Carolina schools during the past year was 156,280 whites and 175,307 negroes. In the face of such a showing, how 11 can any sane white man oppose ^ compulsory education?. It is ^ squarely up to us. Are the c white people going to quietly * sit down and allow the negroes ^ to become more enlightened ? than they? There are very few I1 of the younger generation of negroes who cannot read and -u write, but the number of illiter- -u ates among the superior race of L 7 1 equal age is much larger. ^ "My dear Appelt." the sena- ? tor from Clarendon county, is still considering the matter as rj to whether he will enter the ^ race for Congress from the first congressional district. As there are six others who have already considered and are in the race, the senator had better let well enough alone, unless he ^ "holds on to the one office like |< the devil and runs like fury for c the other," as the late John J. ^ Hemphill used to say. s We don't propose to let up until that chamber of commerce (j is organized and at work. If ? some enterprising citizen is (1 not bent too much upon his own affairs and will send in a call lor a, mass-meeting ol our v citizens for such an org-aniza- v tion, we shall be glad to publish it and back it up with a leaded [~ column editorial. The House of Representatives has parsed a bill to prevent r hazing, providing for each of- 1 tense a penalty of $50 or 30 | (lays, in tnis enngntenea age the barbarous practice of humiliating a homesick freshman, * or "rat" should be ended and ] I we believe such a law, if enact- ! ed, will do the work. i Another indication of the obliteration ol sectional lines is the passage by the national House of Representatives of a bill prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and negroes, Chinese, Japanese or Malays in the District of Columbia. It is about time for somebody to get up something to advance the interests of Lancaster. Now gentlemen, don't all speak at once. FEBRUARY 15, 1913. f Fractional Pa Legal-tender r Capital stock i Surplus fund Undivided Pre National Hank Due to other 1 Dividends unp Individual dep Time certiIleal STATIC OF Si County ol f*9 rCV\ l> E- M /v v\ solemnly swea /jj of my knowle< |'A Subscribed ? yy ruary, 1913. /} Correct?Attes // Wylie, Dlrec If the inauguration cere- 1? 1 AO l 1 ii It /\%?i 4 1A . k 4l M/A4- I I iv/ui^a u^uci uiK A11 tuc IIIM )emocratic President in 17 ears, are a failure it will be beause his August Highness, the Ion. Coleman Livingstone (lease, governor of South Carlina, would not lend his mighty resence to the occasion. The annual report of Superntendent of Education Swearngen, recently issued, shows hat there are 4,403 white eachers in the state, of which ver 3,000 are women. We hope that the editors of "he Charlotte Observer and: 'he Louisville Courier-Journal. I espectively, will join in the ihooping up crt' Woodrow Wilon on March 4. Mf ivon'' 1 aoII A oVilotr Uoo i * VIVCVII wuou x\oiiiv^j iiao in | roduced a bill in the house to; :?galize lynching in certain ases. Of course his bill will be illed, as all such fool measu! m hould be. The Mexican General Blanket, has been keeping things ?retty warm this wintry weathr. "There's always lots of folks 'on kin feel sorry for \stid" of rourself."?Mrs. Wiggs. FROM OTHER PAPERS It's easy at this time to avoid i touch. If your impecunious riend says. "Lend me ten," low natural to reply, "It's al eady Lent."?The State. Naturally Castro is worried ? >y being caged up in New York ]( when s<? many interesting rows f( ire going on in the rest of the (; world.?Atlanta Journal. With no inaugural ball, no reception, and no South Caro- K lina troops in line, March 4th at ^ Washington will indeed be con-11 servative.?Charleston Post. 1 n ? !r The Congressman. ^ He cannot get them all a job 1; So he proceeds To try to square the howling mot) I r With garden seeds. r ?^-Louisville Courier-Journal. ( t A Charlotte, N. 0., man i claims that a newspaper mis- 1 quoted him. If he lived in 1 ! South Carolina he would doubt- 1 ' <11 ????i I No. 7858. J PORT OP THE CONDITION OP FIRST NATIONAL BANK n the State of South Carolina, at the close of ruary 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. Bcounts $227,762.01 icured and unsecured 3,779.77 ) secure circulation 26,000.00 U. S. Bonds m 126.00 Lies, etc 13,400.00 ?e. Furniture and Fixtures 3,000.00 tional Banks (not res) $21,473.27 f iroved Resfjrve Agents . 12,726.96 her Cash Items 471.17 r National Banks . . . . 3,320.00 per Currency, Nickels, 110.62 . . . . . . 11,175^95 I lotes 500.00 und with U. S. Treas- \ cent of circulation) 500.00 50,277.87 $323,344.65 LIABILITIES. paid in ' $ 50,000.00 /. . . 25,000.00 fits, loss Expenses and Taxo* paid 3,221.80 Notes outstanding . . . . (. ... 21,700.00 National Banks $ ^097.13 md Private Banks and / / 1,013.46 aid / 66.00 losits subject to checK 164,376.66 .es of deposit 1 54,899.61 ks outstanding .. ./ 980.00 223,422.85 J $323,344.66 J duth Carolina/ r Lancaster, ss: j >xton, Cashier of the above-named bank, do r that the abofo statement is true to the best lge and belief/ I / E. M. CROXTON, Cashier, md sworn ty before me this 7th day of FebV. E. CRAIG, Notary Public, t: John A. Cook, John D. Wylie, R. E. I tors. ^ p| d Q > u d2 P H w 50 |f Q d ? it W* Z. 5, - w "5 !? p O WhitePlym? 2f S. ? I H ff w W f SggJp ^ *- Om i ? -ail if O* O s-c. white: gftn? I 1 11 SO ? r5 jj a. r? ^ -: x S. g3 .*i3C$%|5S P -? O ^ s. C. Rhode I; i ss take that as a good excuse public office i running for governor.? state.?CharU reenville Piedmont. . ~ The high Col.- Blea.se. inaugurated ^,'f ovemor of South Garphna for Th is second term the other day, v,? l- ^ xpressed his contempt for the " t ewspapers As the newspa- f? >ers ieei tne same way auoui tv. -Ir. Blease, all concerned should ';n V happy- SparU Ishmaelite. ^'h fo? thi We join The Wilmington Dis- am' >atch and The Newbern Jour- ,or **" f uil in commending the author toot hpicks./-( >f a recent work on pronuncia- nr/liiXvi ion when he lays the axe to the SoothoB ifi-in *oot of the eyether and neye- ?topn chronic a :her business. We feel certain J*0*08 "^*'lnp hat no man who used any such U"P(| " "uuy' p anguage could be elected to maoy and Stan A r <<i in>iaiwi^B> purl If Your VIOMEY WHERE IT WILL \ BE Save - i IT WILL COME IN ' HANDY SOME DAY J i fedp igw ^ u - ?uth Rocks jUL Leghorns sland Reds 1 n this grand old >tte Observer. cost of living is aching the point ig will be gratis, say that in New le must purchase the theater and ^ bread in the resle yext thing .they ing the price of a yuse of a finger 1 put in a dentist's ustomers who use (freenville News. i New I>l?roverjr. iter! throat and lungs, lid hnrklne much r<x ; throat, taste3 nice. N ; once used, always at Lancaster Phar- H r,.