The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 15, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. (
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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
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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
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>f a recent work on pronuncia- nr/liiXvi
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*oot of the eyether and neye- ?topn chronic a
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