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The Abbeville Press and Banner
BY W. W. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, 8. C.t WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1909. ESTABLISHED 1844 J
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TO PROMOTE TEMPERANCE.
Worthy of the Thought and Efforts of the
Best and Wisest Men.
At the request of our fr leDd, the Rev. A. H
B-st of McCo'mick, t >r Information, we copy
tbe following edltoral Ircm the Augusta Herald
of last Thursday. Tbe Augusta Herald i?
a reputable newspaper published in the dry
State of Georgia.
Why is It that prohibition does not prohibit?
This IB a notorious trultm. Before we
bad practical RDowitoge 01 u .u uuurgiu we
had rtad of tb>- b'inil tiger* la Mtlut, tbe
original pr< b!b!tioD Btste, and of use saloon
8 nbShlnn by Carile Nation lu Kaunas, lb
next pr-hlbnIon s'aie.
Wby uo >n't I ?
B cause the legislators wbo make the prcb*i
1 'ten law, nor those who stand b'h'uo
them and dil^e them lot-Dact st>ch lawn, are
tbeair?elve? teetotaler* or exp'Ct to btcono
Bticb. ' They do not vote f >r such |laws t > k|>
ply to tlietuBelvf c, but to I he other fellow."
This In Dot reasoning Irom u "wet stand
p.)lbt."but Irom ihe 8'andpolrit of clear r?->.
bod and truth. Piobl>'l?l?>n do?? not pr h
bit 'or the reason thn? the so-c?lUd prohibition
lau* are (III <1ratal with u view of opylphitj to
Uit other (cltoiv, atia not to the il.hu wh"
uiHkex or eluifors (or the law. If prohibition
was really desired, to upp y 10 aP, khItir
and sidner, rich mid poor alike, it could he
very nearly secured t.y parsing a law putting
on tbe rbHngt ne nery fellow wbo bncd'td.
touch?d < r lasted the lorbl Id n drink This
Is not do e. li>l?ad laws atepas'-ed which
are designed to make It Impo-sible or dlffi
cult for tbe poor man to gn It, whla leaving
abundant avenues open ;>or tne rich man to
supply bis wants In tbls line.
There Isn't a truth sluted In tbe Bible more
true tban tbls.
8uct?B >o m'rtme law could not be passed.
It would be de^p-vlc. unconst ituu?>n?l,
wrong. Then, If that be true, It proves that
so-called prohibition Is wrouy I' Is not ptoblbltlon,
but regulation, and the attempted
regulation Is to keep the other fellow from
gelling It, while leaving tbe avenues of access
to ll open to the m?n who makes tbe
law and to.tbe man who<lumnrs for It.
As tbe Herald Mated, there are sincere prcblbltlon'sts,
tneu who do not taste liquor and
would. If they cou'd, prevent anyb ><Jy ard
everybody el?e !rom getting f; but the??*
COD?t|tu'?-s but a small cl-txs. The yrait bodu
of the prohibitionists arc men who limply derire
to prevent the other fellow from getting it.
iht be ait- tn%- facts, and trtcis Minuld nlwavs
bereconlzed. This l* tbe sens b:e i>'an. Because
one rrcon'z^s facts this does not prove
that he app;oves thern. Intemperance Is a
great evil 'J he drink vice Is a blighting
cureip. How to prornotp ternpr-rance i? a problem
wcrtt y i f ibe thought and edorts of
tbe best hpOI wisest men.
But It Is not promoted by absurd so-culled
prohibitum laws which are made with a
I view of r*-HChli!g only the other fellow, nor
by such rabid and ze? -hllndfd prohibition
advocate* hh our esteemed contemporary,
Tbe.O:laudo Star.
"I'd Itxthcr Dio, Doctor,
than have my feet cut of!'," paid M. L.
Bingham, of Priueeville, III.; "but
you'll die from gangrene (which had
eaten aw ay eight lots) if you don't,"
said all doctors'. Instead, he used
v (ill n hrillv
JDUl'nicu p? miiivu n.* .. uv,.^
cured. Its cures of Eczema, Fever
Sores, Boils, Burnn and Files astound
the world. 2?c at Speed's drug store.
Mr. F. G. Frltte, Oneonta, N. Y? writes:
"My little girl was k*'?tiy beDefltted by taking
Foley's Oi'lno L*x .live, and I tbiuk It Ittbe
bent remedy lor constipation and live
trouble." Foley's Orlno Laxative is best for
women nod children, as It is ml.d, pleasant
aud effective, aud is a splendid spring medicine,
as it cleanses Ibe system and clears tbe
complexion. C. A. Mllford <& Co.
The Abbeville Insurance
and T'r-ust Co. are prepared to
handle your real estate. If
you have any real estate to
sell, or if you wish to buy
call or phone us. Office over
Cobb's shoe store. Phone 118
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Analysis of Ou
Samples of three brands of
drawn by a State inspector (
by the Clemson College au
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Our 8-3-3 ammoniated goods
Our 8.75-2-2 ammoniated goc
Our 16 per cent, acid analyze
You will make no mistake
We are running on quality,
they are much above our gi
Several of our customer
on the good, dry, mechanic
this year.
Anderson Phospl
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This is Goo
"Geutle Spring" has come once mi
tilizern, Seed Corn, Potatoes, Garden
butors, Cotton Planters of which the
the onliest. When you get hold of (
Hoes you can chop more cotton thai
down Guano with our one-horee "JBt
tributor. Plows, Sweeps, Horse Coll
can show more kinds of Hame S'rir
you think this is all we have to shov
f I. ! o n fAtir <-> I liny ii r t
Hi net cvnj uuug aiiu ? icn vuivi ui i,
and then corue and see for yourself,
to our place just to see bow glad we
Just try it.
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State, County and
President: Vice-Pres
F. E. HARRISON. P. B. SF
Hoard of Directors:
Vifcanska, J. H. DuPre, R. M. Haddon,
Clinkscales, C. C. Gambrell.
He solid your IhihIiichh an
It (*al'elj and c
We are in posivion to make you loa
when placed in
Our Savings
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: Suits!
tiey're the sort of Suits
m'll always see when
>od dressers get tother.
veil enough for neat
essers and modest
ough for business
9ar. They're right in
irmony with what
shion calls for in fab-;
is, what style demands
cut, and what quality
sists upon in good tailing.
lese Suits come at
10, $12.50, $15
AND UP.
these prices
rou with
leese.
ir Fertilizers.
our fertilizers have been
)f fertilizers and analyzed
thorities with the followQ
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)ds analyzes 10.43-2.02-2.11.
:s 16.87 Per centin
buying our fertilizers.
The analyzes shows that
larantee.
s have complimented us
:al condition of our goods
hate & Oil Co.,
N, S. C.
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ore and so have we with our FerPIowp,
Cultivators, Guano Distriold
"Wilson" or "Pot Planter" is
>ne of our "Scovil" or Goose Neck
q the next man. It is fun to put
nton" or Blue Wh?el Barrow Dislars
and Backs?lots of 'em and we
lgs thau any house in town. If
r, you miss it badly. We have alicles.
Just atk Bill if this isn't so
Why it is worth a walk around
are to see and wait on you.
Horse Go.
[-ABBEVILLE
City Depository.
ident: Cashier:
'EED. J. H. DuPRE.
F. E. Harrison, P. B, Speed, G. A.
W. B. Moore, W. P. Greene, J. F.
d are prepared to liftmlle
ouservsttively.
ns, and to pay interest on deposits,
Department.
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REJOINDER OF REV. A. H. BEST.
Mr. Editor?Notwithstanding your unfair
method in writing of our temperance
meeting at McCormiek, and treatment of
my reply, I must ask space for a further
word. For the information of the public, I
wish to say that it is the editor of the Press
and Banner and his co-workers, and not ?
the people of McCormick, who are responsible
for this agitation on the dispensary in
Abbeville County springing up at McCormick
just at this time. There has been a
Chapter of temperance workers here at
McCormick for some time. At the February
meeting we were speaking of some ?
plans looking to the organization of the
prohibitionists for the fight against the sale
of whiskey in Abbeville County, in order t
that we might get the people ready for the i.
election in August, a report of this meeting
reaching the editor of the Press and
Banner; (I wish he would tell the people
how he got his information) and ne, as
seems to have been his custom, felt called
upon to strike a blow at what he seems to
regard the budding of the fight for voting ?
out the dispensary in Abbeville County,
and the bringing in of prohibition. In order
to accomplish his purpose, he adopts I
the method of ridicule and fun making of I
honest, respectable Christian people, working1
for the suppression of what they know
to be one of the greatest evils of our day.
Then when I find it necessary to use plain
language to answer this uncalled for attack
upon us, the editor begins to write ?
about manifesting a gentlemanly spirit v
when writing for his paper in order to get
gentlemanly treatment from him. I am ?.
perfectly willing for the public after carefully
reading the editor'6 first article "McCormick's
Mutual Admiration Society,"
ATnrrb 17t.h. and mv renlv to that, and nis
to me March Slst, to say who failed to
manifest a gentlemanly spirit. You speak
of lowering- the dignity and high calling of
the pulpit by methods that you do not
approve. I suppose some of the people ?
around about Jerusalem thought when the
Master said, "You scribes; Pharisees, hypocrites,"
that he was lowering the dignity of
his calling. Those who are opposed to prohibition
legislation or the enactment of any
laws looking to the betterment of the mor
als of the people, are constantly volunteer- IS
ing advice as to what the ministry should
or should not do. I wish to say that we
did not receive our call from them, neither
do we look to them for our commission. ?
Bishop Morrison, when presiding over the
session of our'conference at (iaffney, in
speaking to the report of the committee
on temperance said, that if you call working
for prohibition going into politics then
I want all the preachers to go into politics
and work until prohibition wins.
As to the success of prohibition in this
State and Georgia: I gave the names of
parties vouching for the improved conditions
under prohibition and the success of
the law. And now I call upon those saying _
that prohibition is a failure to give the
facts and the names of the parties vouching
for the facts. If I had the space I
could give the facts from the very best authority
as to the success of prohibition in
Knoxville, Tenn., where over one hundred 0!
barrooms were closed.
Now, as to the failure of prohibition in tt
Abbeville: In one sentence you say that a J
prohibition law is enforced better when It
fs first passed. And then you say that in
less than a year after the law was passed,
rvr/ihi hi finer fVio haIa nf whinlrfiv in ahha
ville, a Presbyterian elder was going
around with a petition to get the law repealed.
Now a veiy pertinent question is,
what support did the press or Abbeville
give to the enforcement of the law? Again
you must remember that it must have been
over twenty years ago since Abbeville tried
the experiment with prohibition. I suppose
there is no question upon which public
sentiment has changed more in South
Carolina in that length of time than the
question of the possibility of prohibiting
the sale of whiskey. About twenty years
ago I heard a Metnodist minister of the S.
C. Conference say, "Does prohibition prohibit?"
And then tauntingly answered,
"No." Where is the preacher In the Methodist
Church In South Carolina who would
dare to repeat that in one of our pulpits today?
Again: You speak of the time when the
Courts held up the dispensary and of the ?
fearful conditions which threatened Abbeville
at that time. You must know that the
political conditions were such then as to
make that no fair test of prohibition.
Then, with the great majority of our people?a
Tillmanite?was a dispensaryite,
while an anti-Tillmanite was against the
dispensary. I understand that Abbeville
County has always been very strong in the
Tillman column, and therefore, they would
resist any interference witn tne dispensary
system by the Courts. But time has taught
our people some things, and one of the
things our best and most thoughtful people
are learning is, however much we may
differ on some questions, we must agree
when it comes to the suppression of the
monster evil, the whiskey traffic. If the
people of Abbeville County are behind the
rest of the State in this respect then I must
believe it is because the press of Abbeville
has been all on one side, and have failed to
give the people the light as to conditions
in other places. For I believe the people
of Abbeville are as ready to do the right
thing when they see it as any people of
our State. You, Mr. Editor, speak of me
as a "traducer" of the good people of Abbeville,
You hold up the failure of the people
of more than twenty years ago to enforce
prohibition as a proof of what the
people of today would do. You say that
the Town Council of sixteen or seventeen
years ago granted indulgences to a few
white men in order to surpress a dozen or
more negro blind tigers in the shape of
restaurants, and that the people winked at
it. And the inference is that you would
have the world believe that the people of
Abbeville of today, If prohibition was to
win and the dispensary was closed up,
would sit down and let a few negro blind
tigers, backed as they often are by unscrupulous
white men, violate with impunity
the law prohibiting the sale of whiskey.
I have a better opinion of the people of
Abbeville of today. Therefore, I contend
that it is you, Mr. Editor, not I who must
stand convicted as a "traducer" of the people
of Abbeville. You say, "If Abbeville is
the only place on the Seaboard Air Line
Railway from New Orleans to Richmond
where whiskey is legally sold, then it is
not true that Abbeville is the only city between
the points mentioned, where liquor
is not illegally sold." No, I can not sty
that liquor is not illegally sold In Abbeville.
But I can say that I am reliably informed
that the dispensary at Abbeville is
furnishing the whiskey of the blind tigers,
who are operating in the adjoining counties
in this State and across the line in
Georgia. It is a noted fact that the dispensary
is the mother of blind tigers..
And just as the dispensary of North Augusta
is contributing largely to making
prohibition ineffective in Augusta, so it is
I that the Abbeville dispensary is selling a
great deal of the whiskey that is giving
trouble to the surrounding territory.
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AS W WIIHL yuu btty ui i/iic uuttru ui ujiosions
of the A'. 11. P. Church, I will say that
I suppose that church is perfectly competent
to take caro of itself. My knowledge
of the men that constitute such a board
compels me to say that you will have to
get up better evidence before you convince
me what you say of them is true.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I want to ask
you when you see lit to cut out any part of
my communications, that you do me the
kindness not to write of the portion left
out, or the spirit of it, when the people do
not know what I write. You are trying
very hard to make the people believe that _
I have been disrespectful and acted ungen- ?
tlemanly when I know that my record will n
contradict any such inference. U
A. H. Best, 0
April 10,1909. McCormick, 8. C. {J
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BELLEV8E.
Mrs. 8. P. Morrah came home Satrday,
after a week pleasantly spent
fith relative" at Cleni9on and Iva.
Mr. A. B. Kennedy and sister, Miss
teorgla, have moved to the Parker
lace.
Mrs. Addle Robinson and children
f Troy, spent last week with relatives
a this community.
The trustees of the DeLa Howe esate
met at Lethe on the first Friday
a April.
Mr. C. J. Britt went to Augusta Friay
of last week and was present at
be burial of Mr. Durem.
Mr. J.E. Britt of McCormick was in
inaerson oaiuraay on business.
Mr. Harvey Robinson waa in Bell?ue
last Sabbath afternoon.
Mrs. W. H. Britt and Miss Ouie
Kennedy are in Augusta for a few
ays.
Mrs. W. H. Kennedy spent Wednesay
in McCormick the guest of Mre.
. E. Britt
Master John Kennedy was in Belle'ue
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Morrah spent
Thursday with Mrs. .S. L. Wilson of
Jrainridge.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wardlaw were
McCormick Saturday afternoon.
On account of several cases of
aumpa in Sandover the K. of P. pictic
bas been postponed.
Mr. B. F. Maulain of Anderson was
n McCormick Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Steadman of Troy wbo was se'erely
burned sometime ajio was
hought to be some better a few days
go.
Mr. W. H. Britt was in McCormick
iVedneeday on businees.
We had a nice rain on yesterday;
tut not enough to stop our farmers
rom plowing.
We are in McCormick this week the
;uest of Mrs. _J. E. Britt, and failed
o get off the Bellevue news last batiraay.
The school children of McCormick
lad an egg hunt Friday.
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