Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S ? j S?J CfQ C y ft B a ? >-* -1 r* A Chance to Uu.v Kou a Home Any party or parties desiring to purchase any of the real estate of T M Fitzpatrick <& Bro., in the town or county, can get prices and terms by calling on tho editor of The Ledger. The Messrs Kitzpatrick have so ne very dosirable farms and valuable improved town property and their being on the market gives men of moderate means a splendid opportunity to purchase a home. Bought, ami whicli has l>eeu has home the signature of las been ina<lo under his per* supervision since its in fancy, r no one to deceive you i it this* and *'Just-as-good " are hut ii and endanger the health of ricnee against Uxperiutent* ASTORIA ditute for Castor Oil, ParoSyrups. It is Pleasant. It orphino lior other Narcotic arantee. It destroys Worms euros Diarrhoea and Wind Troubles, cures Constipation ites the Food, regulates the * healthy and natural .sleep* ie Mother's Friend. "OR!A always Signature of __ 1 re Always Bought ver 30 Years. v r L A N (J A > I EK A N i ll KS ? Eh K \ 1 Lvv v 8 Si!lie>1iil?' mi "If-ntl x|iril23, 1900. ( . >;tii.y eXitopl Mluil ) .VbWl'ifulJNlt | KA^'I'h 11ND No'* J4 -111! 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Iti leaving Lancaster 4.00 p m, h Co iiertH nt Lane ?>t>-r witii S *" ?fc (4 K 1 f.oni am ten an t Marion and Southern liai'w.y No 34 at Cheater for I :i I lot I < !i i 11 imiiit ' i... r 11 / No. 1 >. leaving Chester 8.10 p m, C"im riH at * luster with southern lt.ilway X >. 01 from oluruoia autl points aouth J.\-^ M HE \TH, Gen Pass. Agt liKitOY HP KINGS. President.. ?? ?? * FOUR PAPERS A WEEK * * FOR ABOUT THE + + PRICE OF OME. + 4. + This paper and the Atlanta + + * i fr Twice-a-Week Journal for + + + + $1.75. \ Here you get the newe of } ^ tho world and all your local ? i 9 news wliile it is fresh, paying ? * very little more than one ?. ? paj>cr c ate. Either paper | * is well worth $1.00, but by ? 4 special arrangement we are * \ enabled to put in both of J J them, giving three papers a * 9 week for this low prica. You 2 5 cannot equal this anywhere J. | * ebe, and this combination is * 9 t hcbsst premium for those $ ^ who want a ({mat paper and | * a home paper. Take these e 9 and you will keep up w ith c4 the times. ? ? Besides general new#, the * ? Twice-a-Week Journal ha# ? 1 much agricultural matter ? * and other article# of special J * interest to farmers. It has a 2 regular contributions by 9am * J Jones, Mrs. W. II. Felton J * John Temple Graves, Hon. I % C. II. Jordan and other dis- * J tinguirhed writers. 5 Call at tbla offlco ana loova yaar f2 aabacrlptlona for both pa para. Yoal ?aa * 2 |?t ? aarapla copy of otthor pnpar hara ? 2 M application. i Have you forgotten t pay yo ur subscription to Ledga "SENATOR TILLMAN KNEW IT TO BE FALSE."* * CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAOI. I?> means of it their own advanU n?;e rather than the restraint of . viee. And as a corrupt political ! machine, Satan himself couldn't j improve oil it I lint thev din in our earn thai ! prohibition is impracticable. Impracticable ! Lot iu Inivo a little common sense nboot this question. It is no mom impracticable than many other laws already on our statute hook, and which no sane or civilized man would see ropralod. It is no more impracticable than the law against murder. I doubt if there would be as many violations of a prohibition la.v or as many violators of a prohibi tion law in the county of Greens ville, S (\ in a year as t lie re are violators of the murder law. And there is no sort of question that it would bo far better enforced ? if all policemen were to go to sleep the sleep of dtuth?it would lie, then, tar better enforced than the law against carryingconcealed weapons in now. Now, if we mint not have a prohibition law because some law lf-s persons would violate it, by the snipe logic we ought to repeal the laws against murder ami against pistol carrying because they are violated almost overy day in tha year, by anybody that clmoses to do it. Will the antio. I i'i oxi t o t bo | # a ? ' ? . a t. t * ? i f? in 1 wi avu I 11^ ICN peal of these laws? They dure not, and et that ir> the logic of their position. If you oughtn't to put a law 011 the statute hook because it cannot he ideally enforced, then yon ought to take off the statute hook all la'^s tlmt are not likewise enforced. ' hey advocate the retention of the law which has broken down in its \ boasted moral aims, which is : violuted every day in the year by anybody that noes lit to do it, and i which, in addition to that, is ( vicious in moral principle, but . they oppose prohibition forsooth because somebody would vioiato it, although they must admit that it is correct in moral principle. It has been openly charged that ? the preachers and barkeepers are in un alliance led by Col Hoyt to defeat the dispensary That charge is too absurdly falsa to receive a moment's credence from any human being who has the slightest lingering regard for truth left iu him. Senator Tillman, who mado that charge, knew it it) ue false when he uttered it. , The charge cannot he interpreted n* anything else hut a mean ami contemptible effort to break the force of the almost unanimous j advocacy of prohibition by the preachers, and served it* author J us u good occasion also to throw . contempt upon u class of men for which ho has in mauy other ways expressed his contempt. It may be true that some of the liijuor men are lighting the dispensary. I am not the keeper of their con- t sciences, and 1 am not in alliance with them. But I will tell you , this much is clear: The State has prohibited their selling liquor as individuals on the ground that the business is wrong and detrimental to the public welfare, and then t bo State turns around and goes into the business itself, and thereby declares that the business is right, and conducive to the public welfare. The State forbids them j to engage in that business and then the State is educating them ! and all its citizens in the idea that i liquor selling as a beverage is jus-j titiublo on economic and moral grounds. The State, in its blundering attempt to correct and restrain a bad business, i? teaching its citizens that there are good and sutlicient reasoes to engage in it. It is very certain that a man would infer that when the State forbids him to engage in a business it is wrong and hurtful, and I linn tnrnu atmnl drill nnumx in thut business itself, tlist it is an act of tyranny by tbe State, and also an act of dishonssty by the State towards its citizens. And isn't the State by that very act teaching its own citizens to dis obey its own law ? All laws have an immense educational influence. The dispensary system is radically wrong in its educational tendency. It inculcates a radically wrong idea. One of the happy features of the prohibition system is the educational influence of the law. It educates the conscience and thought of the people along right lines. It teaches that the liquor business is wrong ; wrong in prin ciple and hurtful in its effects, and tliut it cannot be justified on moral or economic grounds. So I far as laws aro educative in their effect upon tae minds of men, a prohibition law lifts them up in f noil* moral ideals, and so becomes a great civilizing and morulizing influence among men. The dispensary is the very opposite ; and that is one of mv chief charges t against it. It was to he hoped that the dispensary system would i bring homo to. the consciences of J the people the sense of their direct and immediate responsibility for ; the liquor traffic and all its attendant evils, a responsibility I which exists under any system of liquor selling and which has the approval and consent of the law. It was hoped, I sav, that the dispensarv system would bring so squarely homo to the conscience of the people direct moral rc-j aponsibility for the business that it would become intolerable to to them and they would he forced . by the piotests of their own bet tor natures to get out of the business. Ihit if the dispensary is to bo used as hii agency to teach the! people that the liquor trnflic is; justifiable, is, iu fact, so justifiable and good that they themselves, as component parts of the State can , afford to engage in it, it becomes | u means of debauching tho public conscience. That is just exactly | the use to which it is being turned tod a;. The licence system confuses the conscience of the people ; it beguiles them with the plea tlmt they are really taxing the evil business, and thus many of them fail to realize their responsibility, or think they have j discharged it in taxing a bad j business. The dispensary brushes away all that illusion. . It makes' tho responsibility direct and unquestionable, and it u bound, in tho nature of things, to have one of two effects upon ths people ; either the dispensary by bringing home to the consciences of ths people their responsibility will arouse their conscience as if it were touched with a hot iron, and ' drive them out of tho business, i and drive the State out of the, business and lead inevitably to I prohibition, or it is bound to j deaden the consciences of the poo- j pie, iuuu iney acquiesce tamely in the fuct thai the at?? all liquor j doalors and justify the business to themselves, and fall in a dreadful moral decadence. And the tendency is in that direction. Why, ! friends, it ought to burn every man's face, it ought to burn I every man's heart, it ought to J tick a knife into the centre of every man's self-respect, the idea that you and 1 tonight are liquor! dealers ! That's what* we are! And a man that will tamely ait down under that and acquiesce in it and aay it is all right, and ho likes the business, and it is a very good business, a..d it brings a very good profit, it saves him taxes and he is satisfied with it, and mil stay in the business; the man that does that has passed through the very same process of moral decadence that the barkeeper does when he first embarks in the deadly trade. A prohibition law is the State saying to its citizens and teaching thorn that the traffic in intoxicating beverages is wrong. It is the voice of the great State saying to its young that the business is bad and dishonorable and hurtful to your fellow man, and you cannot afford to go into it. It is the State, the groat State, pointing the thoughts of its children up* ward and directing their minds toward larger and juster and more humane conceptions of their moral relations to their fellow man. The average life of a people cannot go higher tliHn its laws, and we will never lift the average life of our State above the morul degradation of the liquor business and clean our hands of it until we rise up in our might and in our sense of responsibility to Almighty God and to our fellow men, and particularly to our children, and say: We will have none of it ! We will not be in the business I We will say to them, it is wrong. It is wrong ! Yes, if the evil men in our coram unities are so numerous and so powerful that they shall tie our hands so that wo cannot enforce it, at any rate ww will do this, we will write it down in the statute bootcs, that our boys an they grow up may read it there, that it is tho delib> erate judgment of the intelligence and conscience of the people of South Carolina that the liquor business is wrong, and cannot be justified economically or morally or any otherwise; and that much at any rate will bo gained. I don't want my boy to grow on to tin tuilirhl Kw tli<* 'stifn Unit ? w - >'- v T KIV kytnvv nm v thu liquor business is a good and honorable and justifiable thing. And that is what the State is now saying to every boy that ia grow ing up among us. At the coneluions of the sermon: D?* A J S Thomas, editor of the Baptist Courier, arose and said: "Brother Gardner, I cannot speak for tho church, for I am not authorized to do so, but 1 speak for myself, and 1 know I am representing a part of the church and a part of tho community when I say we feel hon orod in having u man of (rod as oar pastor who can tsko the position that you have tonight, and speak the truth as you have, and we thank y u for it." Pr Gardner replied: "1 appreciate very much Brother Thomas your words. It is a church and a community in which I have always felt tha* 1 could ntrord to speak the truth us I saw it without fear ; and that is a privilege which I always claim anywhere in the world wherever I preach." Prohibition Carried the Pay at Kershaw. Special to the State. Kershaw, July 24.?The cam* paign party left Camden at 7:30 this morning ami reached the flourishing town of Kershaw at fl. l'wo hundred people from the counties of Kershaw, Lancaster, ami Chesterfield were present to greet the campaigners on their arrival. This is not a regular campaign meeting, but none was scheduled for today. The crowd increased until it reached six or seven hundred earnest and attentive hearers. At least titty ladies were present, all of wliom favored prohibition, and waved the badge "For Hoyt and Prohibition." On tho lapel of the coats and on the hat bands of the muny men, cdd and young, was seen the same badge. Col Hoyt is clearly the favorite here, judging from tho badges worn and the eception given wheu he was presented on the stand. There wore some calls for Gov Mcbweeney. Mr Gary had his friends in the audience. Mr Patterson could he seen in I close conversation with gentlemen 1 who seemed to he listening to what he was saying. A stand had heen erected for the meeting in tho grove near the depot. At 10 o'clock ?J \V Ilumel, editor of the Kershaw Era, called the meeting to order. Prayer was odeied hy Kov Jabez Ferris. The chairman read a letter from I)r Timmarinan and then introduced Mr Jennings, who gave >i brief sketch of his life and recited his qualifications. N \V Brookei made his chargo* against J 1 Derham for neglect of duty. Mi Derham was absent. The chairman read a letter from him denying the chargos. VV D May field, B B Evans, 'I N Berry and J E Pottigrew eact made a ten minutes' speech ir which he set forth his views. Col Hoyt was introduced amid applause and spoke earnestly and effectively to an appreciative and receptive audience. He made t atrong plea for prohibition ant pave a brief account of the law> which have and do now provide for the sale of liquor in the State lie anticipated the speeches of hit opponents who were to folio* him and logically met the pointi they made against prohibition. At the close of his speech h< was roundly applauded, and th< Rev fV A Betts of the Methodisl church appeared on the stand ant in a happy speech presented him in the name of the ladies of Kershaw with a most appropriate and beautiful banner which Col Hoyt accep cd most gracefully. Mr Whitman made an earnest effort to get his hearers to believe us ho now says ho believes. Frank It Gary'made a forcible speech and was well received. lie contended that ho had always been a friend to tho dispensary i ii.. ;.i. i ^ .-a lil?V. U?? i:UII(ieillllU(| llio I'UOI'l homg in ado to produce a contrary opinion and s id Mr Patterson hud denounced newspaper statements and >cl ho us s a newspaper statoineut to show that he (Gary) is in j favor of high license. Mr Gary declared it had boon said there wero six hundred blind tigers in Charleston und the reason was because the law was not I enforced, and that there were two j hundred iti Columbia for the same reason. Chief Constable ll.itonian from the audience contradicted the statement as to Columbia. Mr Gary replied that Batcman I should bo now in Columbia ! locating blind tigers instead of j following up this campaign, and said that there had been three or four constables following the {campaign for reasons unknown to j him. Mr Patterson argued in favor of the dispensary system as it stands, pronounced prohibition a failure, said Mr Gary had failed to answer whether or not he fur ore<l high Iiccnro when in Charleston ami Georgetown, and road from the newspapers to show it. Mr Gary interrupted him, and they could not agree as to what Mr Gary did say in Charleston. G ?v. McSweeney was absent. C L Winkler, James H Tillman and Knox Livingston closed the meeting. Colo L Mease and j John T Sloan were absent. The campaign party went to Lancas* tor in the afternoon. The meeting was ev idently for Hoyt, Livingston and Mayfiehl. .1 K I>. RHEUMATISM and CATARRH CURED UY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. IN THE SHmWOF DEATH. A Whnl. Family (tartd. Mrs. C. H. Kingsbury, who keeps a millinery and fancy goods store at St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich., and who is ! well known throughout the country, says: j ' I was badly troubled with rlieumai tism, catarrh and neuralgia. I had liver complaint and was very bilious. I j was in a bad condition; every day I began to fear that 1 should never be a well woman; that I should have to , settle down into a chronic invalid, and live in the shadow of death. 1 had JOHNSTON'S 8ARSAPARIDLA reei ommended to me. I TOOK FOUR 1 KOTTLES AND IT CUUKD ME, and cured my family both. I am very glad j that I heard of it. I would cheerfully recommend it to every one. I huve taken many other kinas of medicine. > I prefer JOHN8TON'8to all of them." MICHIOAN DBCfi CO., Ddrall, Mick. < ruwiuro tiros l,!tnca.? er.S <J 8. ? . 1 J H Mauke> A ?>, aneaster Dai.lei A Hlcka Koit l.aw' 8. t? II II In-.U.. ci..? i - ? U " ii I 'm iii?niif n. 1 A negr > b.iy fifteen years old is in jail at Newberry for attempted assault upon Myrtle Farrow, a little white girl. The young coon narrowly escaped lynching. i STOItY OF A SliAVK ! To l?e hound hand and foot for years by the chains of disease . is the wot?t form of slavery. 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