Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 Stic Uniraster Hedges *HXTIUA)W a. OABTEB, J A jyVwpapw : Fbr the F>rrmu>tio? nf the PoliUeal, Soe*al, Affricuiturul and Oommnmrrial Intern**. { TKBMft- $3 40 i Vm+x. Eorros abb Mua?. I r r { Pmuu u* Awama &E 11 WEEKLY L A N U A 8 T E K, S. 0, .1 U L V 28 19fl? K?TA Kl> FT) l*:>2 - BIG THE TI] Tha Everything iiius H ROWN UPON THE M! All .kinds of choice dross fahi Percales, Piques, Crashes, Fancy Sold all tho seasons at 8, 10, 12jV i marked down to five cents. This want-to he at tho grabbing. DlPlfCn IID AT A DIP Dl I IUI\UU U[ HI H LMU UJ Two lots of men's tino Noglig r Democratic Primary Election; Tuesday, August M>0<> f CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED IN THK I.KDOKH ] , For Sotiottor?Staoth Circuit. Thou, K McDow, W C H ugh J K Hpih y For Home of Reprwn'ative*. Oeear W Potto, T Y Williams, J W Hutnel. J N Estridge, J Hnrr Foster, 11 L Hlcklln. For i Icrk of Court. Jos F Gregory, W H Por er. For Sheriff. J< hn P Hunter, James s Wilson For Countt/ Supt. FUlucatlon. A 4 RoWell, J K Blm-kmon, Ernest Hiaukmon, K Baxter IJun kinou. For Count// Auditor. J A < 'ook, I < J Perr.*, E C Croxton. For County Treasurer. W c Cauthen. For Con'ti/ Supervisor. M <'Gur?ln^r, \V Q fiiMkcy, H 1-1 Sitpp. For Coroner. It Vonnif I) N Mat-key, J rj Ht?-winan, C <' Morton. for Moglntrate for lluford Town*/ilp. J B Fumierburk, for Magistrate. for Gills Cretk and Cane Creek Tou>ittihipn W |? ?Nnkey A 1'ltOPOHAIi TO MAKKIKD LABIK8, Editor or Thk Ledokr. Please announce that we are sending, postpaid and free of charge, an elegant sterling silverplated sugar shell, such as we sell regularly at 40c each, to every married lady in the United States who writes for it. There is nothing to pay. The gift is absolute. Each lady will send her own name I ? iL!-^ X. ^ ?- I I I. - ? oniy, oh inis in ioo vhiiuwmo a glTC to send to persona who don't ask for it themselves. We give choice of any of Dur 40c designs, and will setd illustrations from which selections may be made. Our ohject is to advertise Quaker Valley ailverware. We tielieve that the most effective way of doing this is to get samples into the homes of the people. Ladies, please write to day. 8tate that it is your first request for one of our souvenir gifts. Quaker Valley Mfg. Co., Morgan and Harrison Sts., Chicago. fit. CUT PRI4 ME HAS it Means ' t go in its season, is while t DOLE COUNTERS, ?ries, such as Organdies, Dimities, Ducks and line dross (iinglmms. ind 15 cents. And the entire lot is a grab lot. Como <jiiick if you |(, w URGAIN, S eo Shirts, with two collars and rHE Gfl l.CUUI TAD TITIUAU l/UT?tlJ il ODnrtivm iiLLjrmn rvnij? IT TO BE FALSE." > a: When He Made the Charge of Unholy Alliance. [; ' S SERMON BY REV. CilARLES w S. GARDNER. ii u Tillman's Language Cannot be H Interpreted as Anything; But a ^ Mean and Contcnin+ihle - I * Effort. t R j Special to The State. I1 Greenville, July 24?Dr. C S * Gardner, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, preached t a strong sermon Sunday night on prohibition, in which he denounced a* false Senator Tillman's charge i that "the preachers and liquor j | men are in unholy alliance led by j] I Col Hoyt." He said: "Senator j j Tdlman who made the charge, i knew it to be false when he uttered f it. The charge cannot bo in ^ terpreted as anything else but a v mean and contemptible effort to break the force of the almost t unanimous advocacy of prohibi- j ; bition by the preachers and served (| its author as a good occasion also ( to throw contempt upon a class or ^ men for which he has in many j , other ways oxpressed his con? s | tempt." Dr. Charl#* S Gardner is con- ( sidered al>out the ablest preacher -j in the Baptist denomination in h South Carolina and he is immense- }| ly popular not only in Greenville ^ bi t throughout tho State. He is , well qualified to represent his tie- ^ nomination on this or any other subject. His name should not be confounded with that of Dr. Geo. t VV Gardner, editor of the South j Carolina Bapt;st, whose home is ^ at Greenwood. : Dr. C S Gardner's sermon is as j follows: | TIIK SF.KMON. I 41 Woe unto him that giveth his t neighbor drink, that puttcst thy i bettlo to him, and makest him drunken also."?Habakkuk, 2-15. The people of South Carolina are face to face with a great moral issue. There is no problem which more directly involves the very vitala of State life than that of the aale of intoxicating beverage*. It is a question which involves tbo . very fundamentals of personal an. civio righteousness. The qucs^ J tion before ue is a specific alternad (tive; the dispensary or prohibit tion. The queetion is this: Shall r1. /A N - va * COMF, 1 Loss To 11wiw?MMammmmmmm in,?i ii?ni T^tiiiniiw Xo Summer licy are in dei iir of cud's. (jrooil value at 75c, UNNIN; OFF M1LLIMER1 Whatsieft will soli very chea| x?ut prices. Misses S-iilors live < ilf price. Trimmed hats from 2.* ill he more than pleased. HOES AN 3 SLIPPERS G Kveryhody Imys from us hecai airs for the bigg AT P A AT n o u_n_ 10 StHto soil intoxicating hover.. l'os to its citizens, or shall it ?)i I That is to say, shall you lal I and all the rest of the peole together sell to our follow ilizeus a hcvorago intoxicating (jitors for the pecuniar\ profit tiere is in it ? Shall there he a tato liquor selling establishment, id up for the purpose of gratifyur I lin /lflnrnra/l atooil *e> "I'l'fl.l" ?"l Icobolic beverage, of which you nd I shall he joint propiietora n<i jointly reap the profits ? fonder is a poor fellow who is ursed with an abominable appeite for drink. I lis family needs II tho money he ean earn ami the mor man himself needs to cultiate sobriety for his hotl y'a sake, nd for his soul's sake. Now, the uestion is, shall you and 1, joined ngether in this great combine ailed tho State, agree to sell that inn tho whiskey which he craves, rhich we know will injure his iody and his soul and impoverish lis family, and put the profits of L m our pockets? I don't know iow you all feci about it, but, as ar as 1 am concerned, I answer hut question with a negative in rhieh is c neentrated nil tho emihaain <?f my soul. I don't want o do it, and I am not going to do t unless 1 am dragged into it, lespite my protest, hy a majority if my fellow citizens. I hate?I hudder at the very thought of icing a joint proprietor of a State ulooti. The dispensary advocates nay try as much as they please o sugar-coat this proposition. Phey may say this is not ft fair tntement of the case. But it is n exact statement of the naked acts. They may my that the iquor drinkers will get the whiskey and drink it unywav. But I ememlier that there is One who ays: <4Bo not y? a partaker of heir evil deeds." Will they get t and drink it any way ? I am rery sorry if that is so, hut there s one thing certain, if I can help t, they shall not get it from me; ind they shall not drink it with riy approval, and 1 want none of he profits of the cursed business In my pocket. The moral principle of the dis 1 4 I if a a pensary and inn licensed saloon 11 [he samo. In the one case we sell to a man the privilege of selling [he liquor to his fellow citizens. In the other we still the beveragt to him ourselves; and I cannot set that there is any great distinctior between the moral quality of th< two acta. There is but one waj to solve the liquor problem. II never will be solved until it ii t u..t tu.i i- ? . buiiuii nun nny, niiu ib?i ib ujr ? law prohibiting its ssle, and th< OF SUM] ro SLMJ 1I?B 1^n+- 0?! 'RV .ftf O' t&U V j?| t goods will be car ihaihI. and that our price only 50. I to If STOCK CHEAP, j" >. We uro no longer contrary ? ents and up. Ladies Sailors at I t ceLts up. (iive us a call, you j |J( 01 DING FAST use we savo them from 25 cents tl ;er>t bargains ot tl CASH ??a?kiwiii i ? ?ji ? enforcement of that law. j Here, is a traffic which is evil, ' iiim oniy evil; Tor wind) not one good thing can lie said, or ever 1 was said; which dishonors God, ! 1 which cm sen society, which do- 1 stroys men body and soul, which corrupts all who have anything to do with it in any shape or form whatover; the evils of which have hcen declared by the geat States uiav ,l>lndstono.to be greater than those of war, famine sad pestilence 1 combined. President Krugor said at the beginning of the South African war, that for the acquisition of those republics Great i Britain would pay a price which would stagger humanity, hut the horrors of the South African war are utterly insigniticant compared with the horrors wrought every year of our lives by the liquor traffic. Ho is a very phcnonie- , nallv bold man wi o will stand up and claim for it any present or nlfi'i'i.ii* lu>nnlitn (m liiimuriiti' und civilization. It has been denounced an no other business in the world has been denounced; and there never has been a man yet who could put into language the utter detestation which every rightminded man feels for it. Hut de spite all this denunciation, there never has been a man that could stand up and givo even a lame defense of it. Now the question is this: What is tho right attitude of law, >f government, of civilization, to wards a business like that ? Manifestly there is but one right atti4 ii. I a * * w I I l\ .t t 10 4 /t r\i*/\ Y? I k ti t a iiiiir;, mm iiini if?, iu |>i tMiiini (iini proscribe it. And yet here we are in the Stato of South Carolina, debuting among ourselves the question whether we will continue in the business or not ? Wo ought to answer that question in the negative by a unanimous majority for several reaaons. In the first place, as I have just intimated, the sale of liquor us a beverage is morally wrong, and the State cannot make a wrong act right by 1 doing it. The moral sentiment i of the people condemns it in an individual. How, then, in the , name of sense, can it justify it in , the State ? Nothing can alter the I Tact mat in toning liquor as a t beverage to it* citizens for a protit, the State ia doing an immoral act; and no sort of logical quibbling, and no sort of demagogic appeal to the prejudice or the cupidity of the people can cover up that simple fact. The State of South Carolina cannot afford to defy moral laws and trample the clearest moral principles under its feet. Above the people, above NLER GQ< GHTER ain To IT rifd over. The is now. *1.00 ?.?n every pair. We are t 'erytliing else. WORD TO Til? WISE I! Bear in mind these signilieant fa idorsoll all competition. At all ti ir prices are lower than the lowest, loos. This cot price sale means n*y greatly reduced. We trust 0111 lis slaughter sale. tie season. STflR F JL. H fl?J government, above legal statute* J is the everlasting moral law. It cannot be set a>ido by State legislators; it cannot be nu'litied by lisponsary acts: itcaunot lie sneered out of court by a United States senator, even. The moral law stands, whether we vote for it or not, and if the people vote against the moral law. the worse it is for that people, that's all ! In the next place the dispensary corrupts the official life of the State. Of course it does. It is an immoral act, and whenever anybody, man or State, does an immoral act, ho is corrupted by it. Why, in recent years we have had deuionstiations of this fact ad nauseum. The fact is that the State cannot engage in the iiquor business without being corrupted by it. Tho dispensary inevitably boconies si corrupt political machine, a fostering sore in tho heart of the body politic. It it impossible to prevent it. It iw the very nature of the thing. It is us certain ami inevitable as gravitation. There is positively no way to organize and conduct the business of selling liquor as a beverage that will sure it from corruption. 1 can easily understand why certain politicians should bo anxious to perpetuate the thing; it is a political machine ready-made to their hand, and ideally adapted todo tho dirty work for the people who control it. Let us bo done with it, for the bake of purity and morality and decency in the official life of the State. Jn the next place; the dispensary makes its appeal to the people as a moral institution, aw a restraint upon tho vice of drink ing, sou me cnmns returning therefrom. But in the very teeth of thene moral pretensions it makes its appeal also to the cupidity of the people. Its profit feature make* it to the pecuniary interest f the State and county and city to have the dispensary do just as large a business as possible. In one part it proposes to re* j strain vice, and in the other part it proposes to encourage it. It poses both as a moral and a financial enterprise, but in so far as one of these purposes is promoted the other is necessarily defeated. And it is perfectly patent that the tinancial end sought will inevitas ? a a . Li 1 oiy oring 10 nuugin. aim muuti aims. In other words, whatever pood there may he in the institution is inevitably submerged by the evil there is in it. As certainly as a stone falls to the earth the dispensary accommodates ilaell to the vicious tendencies of th< 3DS. PRICES. on. ! time to uinfoad he people for shoes as well as i SUFFICIENT, lets. It is our chiefest aim t^? men and under all circumstances Now we are underselling our that our usually low prices are r friends will reap the hcnolit of I evil elements of society. It n > longer makes an aggr*ssive tight against "blind tigers," and in order to compete with the "blind tigers" which spring up under its very shadow it farms out "beer nrivilofos." and thus brings back i ~r; ~~f o the old licensed saloon under a false pretense. And in order to save the dispensary proper from hoing swamped l>y the "tigers" and "beer houses," the restrictions thrown around the sale of liquor in the dispensary gradually pass : into "innocuous desuetude." The people ouly have to accept the dispensary us a tinal solution of the liquor problem and turn tnoir attention away from it to see the whole thing sink into the most contemptible sham, which it has already done to a very large extent; and to see all the evils of the old saloon system brought in under the cloak of a moral institution, a process which is going on before our very eyes; and to see a political whiskey machine entrenched in the capital of the I Ctnfo t?lt oK n<l/lu /? i f wi nncnon)/ n . u mtuf *> 11 v>ii a\ jvtn ww ico miioim (? > ? l)le corruption the unspeakable aba tie of hypocrisy. The only argument against prohibition which the dispensary sponsors can logically bring is that it is impracticable, that it cannot be and will not be enforced. : 1 shall say in reply that the dis' pensary, so far as its moral aims are concerned, is not now enforced # 1 as time goes by. And again I say that if it could be certified that with prohibition there would be just as much liquor drunk to a gill as without it, I ' should favor it, for the very reason i that it places the business under the ban of law, and places the State in the right moral attitudo ! towards the traffic. And, again, consider this: that I prohibition would have this de? . cided advantage over the dispensary in the matter of enforcement, in that it would have behind it the j undivided support of all those I people whose consciences are opposed to the traffic; and that 1 think i? a matter worthy of grave | consideration. These forces are not behind the dispensary today, ! not even so much as they wore at I one time. Wo can see very clearly that if wo do not advance to' prohibition we shall have gained no point in moral principle, and thut I we shall find ourselves in a position of moral disaster on this li, quor question, having on our hands a vast political liquor-sellk ing machine manipulated by unf scrupulous politicians who secure ? CONTINUED OK FOURTH PACK.