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WmSZ7rZf^L~ ^LANCASTER, S. C , J U 1, V 28. 19o<) ' fr sT aBI.I- EC tnvt~~
- BIG
THE Til
Tha
Everything mus
H ROVUN UPON THE Mil
All kinds of choice dress fabi
Percales, Piques, Crashes, Fancy 1
Sold all tho seasons at 8, 10, 12J t
marked down to Hvo cents. This i
want to bo at the grabbing.
PiCKEO UP AT A BIG BJ
Two lots of men's line Negli?r<
r
Democratic Primary Election.
Tiuiwlay, August ISHtli, ItKKt
[CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED IN THE
I.KDOEH ]
For Solicitor?Sixth Circuit.
Thou. K MoDow,
W C H ugn
J K Hemy
For House of ltepr&a> n'atlvei
Oac.nr W Potts,
T Y Williams,
J W Hanoi.
J N EMtridge.
J Harr? F?*?ter,
U L H ickliti.
For l.lcrk of Court.
Jos F Gregory,
W H For er.
For Sheriff.
J( hi) P Hunter,
JatueH -a Wilson.
For County Supt. Education.
rt l IVIWHI1,
J E Bltt'-kinon,
Krne*t Bta-ikinon,
R Baxter Biarkmon.
For County Auditor.
J A Cook,
' Ii J Perr.T,
E C t'roxton.
For County Treasurer.
W C Cauthen.
For Cou'tv Supervisor.
M C Gardner,
W U laskny,
R H Mapp.
For Coroner.
R Young,
I) N Mat-key,
J a Htrwman,
(' I ' UnMAn
For Magistrate for llufonl
To*vn*Mp.
J B Fuiulerburk,
For Magistrate for Gills Cretk
and Cane Creek Township*
W P ' 'iHkey.
A PKOI?08Al/"TO AfAKRIKU
LADIES.
Editch of The Ledof.k.
Please announce that we are
sending, postpaid and free of
charge, an elegant sterling silver - .
plated sugar shell, such as we
sell regularly at 40c each, to every i
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
only, as this is too valuable a gift
to send to persons who don't ask
for it themselves. We give choice ;
of any of Dur 40c designs, and
will seed illustrations from which j
selections may be made. Our object
is to advertise Quaker Valley
silverware. We believe that the
most effective way of doing this
is to get samples into the homes
of the people, l^adies, please
write to day. State that it is
your first request for one of our
souvenir gifts. Quaker Valley
Mfg. Co., Morgan and Harrison
Sts., Chicago. 6t.
CUT PR*
ME' HAS
it Means
t go in its season
is while
DDLE COUNTERS. '
ics, such us Organdies, Dimities,
Ducks and fine dross Ginghams,
ind 15 cents. And the entire lot
is u grab lot. Come quick it' you j
\
mm,
ae Shirts, with two collars and
Yi
rur r t\
L niL UM
'SENATOR TILLMAN KNEW
IT TO BE FALSE."
When He Made the Charge of
Unholy Alliance.
SERMON BY- REV. CHARLES
-S. GARDNER.
Tillman'H Language Cannot ho
Interpreted as Anything But ft
Mean and Contemptible
Effort.
Special to The State.
Greenville, July 24?Dr. C S
Gardner, pastor of the First Baptist
church of this city, preached
n strong sermon Sunday night on
prohibition, in which he denounced
as false Senator Tillman's charge
that t:the preachers and liquor
men are in unholy alliance led by
Col Hoyt." He said: 4'Senator
Tillman who made Ihe charge,
knew it to be false when he uttered
it. The charge cannot be in
terpreted as anything else but a
moan and contemptible effort to
break the force of the almost
unanimous advocacy of prohibibition
by the preachers and served
- i 1 ~
up outiiui mn n ^uuu uliiiwumi Kinu
to throw contempt upon h class or
men for which he has in many
other ways expressed hit con~
tempt."
I)r. Charles S Gardner in considered
about the ablest preacher
in the Baptist denomination in
South Carolinuand he is immensely
popular not only in Greenville
brt throughout the State. He is
well qualified to represent his denomination
on this or any other
subject. His name should not be
confounded with that of Dr. Geo.
W Gardner, editor of the South
Carolina Bapt'st, whose home in
at Greenwood.
Dr. C S Gardner's sermon is as
follows:
TUV Q r UtlAU
"Woe unto him that giveth hia
neighbor drink, that pattest thy
hettle to him, and niakeHt 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
vitals of State life than that of
the sale of intoxicating beverages. |
It ia a question which involves the
very fundamentals of personal an- ,
civic righteousness. The question
before us is a specific alternad
tive; the dispensary or prohibit
tioo. The question is this: Shall
CE SALE
COME 1
Loss To
m.T i
i^o summer
tliey are in dei
>uir of cuffs. Gotal value at 75c,
RUNNING OFF MILLINER'
\\ huts left will sell very cheu|
ibout prices. Misses Sailors five c
mlf price. Trimmed huts from 2?
?vill l>e more thun pleased.
SHOES AN!) SLIPPERS G
Everybody buys from us becai
ours for the biers
iNSON
tho Stuto sell intoxicating bever..
ages to its citizens, or shall it
not? That is to say, Khali yon
and I and all the rest of the people
together sell to our fellow
citizens as a (leverage intoxicating
liquors for the pecuniarv protit
there is in it ? Shall there he a
State liquor selling establishment,
set up for the purpose of gratifying
the depraved appetitea for
alcoholic beveratre, of whieh you
und I shall be joint proptietore
and jointly reap the profits?
Yonder is a poor fellow who is
cursed with an abominable appetite
for drink. His family needs
all the money he can earn and the
poor man himself needs to eultiL-UI
* tf 4t r* U?? U??.l b ?
vniu omuiuiy HM inn IIUUJ ft ftttKC,
and for hie soul's sake. Now, the
question is, shall you and 1, joined
together in thin great combine
called the State, agree to sell that
man the whiskey which he craves,
which we know will injure his
body and his soul and impoverish
his family, and put the profits of
it in our pockets? I don't know
how you all feel about it, but, as
far a? 1 am concerned, I answer
that question with a negative in
which is c n cent rated ull the emphasis
of my soul. I don't want
to do it, and 1 am not going m do
u omens 1 am uragge<l into it,
despite my protest, by a majority
of my fellow citizens. I hate?I
shudder at the very thought of
being a joint proprietor of a State
saloon. The dis|>cnHary advocates
may try as much as they please
to sugar-coat this proposition.
They may say this is not a fair
statement of the caRe. But it is
an exact statement of the naked
facts. They may say that the
'iquor drinker? will get the whi?key
and drink it anyway. But I
remember that there is One who
says: "Be not ye a partaker of
their evil deeds." Will tbey get
it and drink it any way ? I am
very sorry if that is so, but there
ia one thing certain, if I can help
it, they shall not get it from me;
and they ahall not drink it with
my approval, and 1 want none of
the profits of the cursed business
in my pocket.
The morel principle of the dis-.
pensary and the licensed saloon is
the same. In the one case we sell
to a man the privilege of selling
the liquor to his fellow citizens.
In the other we sell the beverage
to him ourselves; and I cannot see
that there is any great distinction
between the moral quality of the
two acts. There is but one way
to solve the liquor problem. It
never will be solved until it is
solved that way, and that is by a
law prohibiting its sale, and the
of sum:
ro SLMJ
Us But g
goods will be car
maud, and that
our price only 50. | t?
1 STOCK CHEAP, |
>. VV e me no longer contrary i r
ents and up. Ladies Sailors at
> cents up. (iivo us a call, you
o
OING FAST.
use wo save them from 25 cents t
4 L 2 -A ^
imrgitiiis OI I
CASH
; enforcement of that law.
Here is a traflic which is evil, J
and only evil; for which not one
good tiling can he said, or ever \
was said; which dishonors God, 1
which curses society, which de- j
stroys men body and soul, which
corrupts all who have anything to
do with it in any shape or form
whatever; the evils of which have
been declared by the geat States |
man,Gladstone,to be greater than;
those of war, famine and pestilence 1
(combined. President Krugor
said at tho beginning of the South
African war, that for the acquisN
tion of those republics Great j
Britain would pay a price which'
would stagger humanity, but the
horror* of the South African war
are utterly insignificant comparotf
with the horrors wrought every
your of our lives by the liquor
trnftic. He is a very phenome- (
nallv hold man wt o will stand up
and claim for it any present or
ulterior lienefits to humanity and
civilization. It has been denounced
as no other bueines* 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. But de
spite all this denunciation, there
never has been a man that could
tuimi up uii(i give even u lame ucfen??e
of it.
Now the question is this: What
is the right attitude ?f law, it
government, of civilization, to
wards a business like that ? Manffestly
there is but one right attitude;
and that is, to prohibit and
proscribe it. And yet here we
are in the State of South Carolina,
debating among ourselves the
question whether we will continue
in the business or not ? We ought
to answer that question in the
negative by a unanimous majority
for several reasons. In the tirst
place, as I have just intimated,
the sale of liquor as a beverage
is morally wrong, and the State
cannot make a wrong act right by
doing it. The moral sentiment
of the people condemns it in an
individual. How, then, in the
name of sense, can it justify it in
the State i Nothing can alter the
is . i a I M 9 ii? a*
Tftct milt in telling liquor as a
beverage to its 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
a
MER GOC
GHTER
ain To Y<
Tied over. S'he
is now.
0 $1.00 un every pair. We are th
vorything elso.
1 WORD TO THE WISE IS
Hear in mind these significant fac
ndersell all competition. At all tim
11 r prices are lower than the lowest,
hoes. This cut price sale means t
ery greatly reduced. Wc trust our
his slaughter sale.
lie season.
STORE
government, above legal statute* | e
is the verlaatim? moral law. It h
cannot !>e set aside l>v Stat? legis- a
lators; it cannot be nu'lified by o
dispensary acts; it cannot be sneer- ti
ed out of court by a United States v
senator, even. The moral law p
stands, whether we vote for it or tl
not, and if the people vote against fi
the moral law, the worse it is for a
that people, that's all ! I ti
In the next place the dispensary a
corrupts the official life of the ; t
State. Of course it does. It is i
an immoral act, and whenever i
anybody, man or State, does an
immoral act, he is corrupted by t
it. Why, in recent years we have o
had demonsti ations of this fact t
ad nauseum. The fact is that the t
State cannot engage in the liquor c
business without being corrupted *
by it. t
I he dispensary inevitably be- 1
comes a corrupt political machine, 11
a festering wore in tho heart of the 8
body politic. It ia impossible to ?
prevent-it. It is the very nature 8
of the thing. It is as certain and e
inevitable as gravitation. There kis
positively no way to organize
and conduct the business of selling 8
IT>
liquor as a beverage that will save
it from corruption. I can easily ^
understand why certain politicians 8
should be anxious to perpetuate *
the thing; it is a political machine ('
ready-made to their hand, and *
ideally adapted to do the dirty work J
for the people who control it. Let
11 h be done with it, for the bake H
of purity and morality and decency
in the oflicial life of iue State.
In the next place; the dispensary
makes ite appeal to the people
ai a moral institution, as a 1
restraint upon the vice of drink- j
ing, and the crimes resulting
therefrom. Hut in the very teeth
of these moral protensions it makes j
its appeal also to the cupidity of
the people. Its profit feature 1
makes it to the pecuniary interest
ef the State and county and city
to have the dispensary do just as
large a business as possible.
In one part it proposes to restrain
vice, and in the other part
it proposes to encourage it. It
poses both as a moral and a finan- j
cial enterprise, but in so far as
one of these purposes is promoted
the other is necessarily defeated.
And it is perfectly patent that the
financial end sought will inevitaI.It/
Krinnr In nonrrhf llu m/iral
?" T ??B? "w ,
aims. In other words, whatever
good 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 itself 1
to the vicious tendencies of the
>DS. PRICES.
>u.
time to unload
o people for shoes as well as
SUFFICIENT. :
ts It is our chiefest aim to
ics ami under all circumstances
Now we are underselling our
hat our usually low prices are
friends will reap the henctit of
vil elements of society. It n )
mger makes an aggressive fight
gainst "blind tigers," and in
rder to compete with the "blind
igora" which spring up under its
ery shadow it farms out "beer
rivilegcs," and thus brings back
lie old licensed saloon under a
alsc pretense. And in order to
nve the dispensary proper from
teing swamped by the "tigers"
nd "beerhouses," the restrictions
hrown around the sale of liquor ?
n the dispensary gradually pass
nto "innocuous desuetude."
The people only have to accept
he dispensary aw a final solution
?f the liquor problem and turn
neir attention away from it to see
he whole thing sink into the most
onlemptible sham, which it has
1 ready done to a very large cxnnt;
and to see all the evil* of
ho old saloon system brought
n under the cloak of a moral intitution,
a process which iR going
n before our very ayes; and to
ee a political whiskey machine
ntrenched in the capital of the
Itoto 11 oK to itu nncnaul; u .
W* m ii vu umuo t\/ no uuo|?vmi*%
ile corruption the unspeakable
haue of hypocrisy.
The only argument against prolihition
which the dispensary
ponsors can logically bring is
hat it it impracticable, that it
annot be and will not be enforced.
shall say in reply that the dis>ensury,
so far as its moral aims
,re concerned, is not now enforced
.s time goes by.
And again I say that if it could
>e certified that with prohibition
here would be just as much liquor
Irunk to a pill as without it, 1
hould favor it, for the very reason
hat it placea the business under
he ban of law, and places the
5tate in the ripht moral attitude
owards the traffic.
And, again, consider this: that
prohibition would have this de~
:ided advantape over the dispen^
?ary in the matter of enforcement,
n that it would have behind it the
individed support of all those
people whose consciences are op>
posed to the traffic; and that I
;hink is a matter worthy of grave
:onsideration. These forces aro
lot behind the dispensary today,
lot even so much as they were at
)Df time. Wo can see very clearly
that if wo do not advance to prohibition
we shall have pained no
point in moral principle, and that
we shall find ourselves in a posi-,
lion of moral disaster on this li
quor queation, having on otir
bands a vast political liquor-pell tng
machine manipulated by unscrupulous
politicians who aecure
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