The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, July 30, 1913, Image 2
PROHIBITIONISTS
WORK EARNESTLY
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Preachers, Teachers, Doctors,
Lawyers, Bankers, Faimers,
Merchants, Are Taking an
Active Part.
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DEGRADES TEE PEOPLE
To the people of Lexington county:
On Monday, July 14, 1913, a meeting
of rare interest and importance
was held at Lexington. Every section
of the county, except one or two,
Was represented by men of as high
Character and intelligence as the county
affords. Preachers, teachers, doctors,
Lawyers, bankers, merchants,
farmers and others turned from their
claily toil and at their own personal
expense came to the county seat to
confer about matters of the first importance
to eyery man, woman and
p ; child in Lexington county. They
were not there as politicians or partizans,
but as the friends of humanity.
It is doubtful if our temple of justice
ever witnessed such a meeting as that
held in it on July 14. It began with
prayer, it progressed in prayer, it ended
in prayer and singing a hymn of
praise to a holy God. A large majority
of those present were men of prayer.
Daring the four hoars of constant
deliberation the very atmosphere of
the place seemed charged with a spirit
of solemn purpose and enthusiastic
earnestness. Those were serious men
with a serious purpose for imperative
work. That meeting instructed the
undersigned to prepare and publish an
address to all the people of the county,
especially to the voters.
It is well known that an effort i9
being made to reestablish the Dispen
. a mi _
sary m oar couuiy. xae success ux
that .effort spells calamity to all oar
people and to the moral standards of
oar county. It will be a long step
backward and downward. No fact is
more patent than that the liqnor traffic
degrades the people engaged in it.
The supreme need of oar country is a
higher type of manhood. Intoxicating
liquor, in its 6ale and use, mutilates
manhood in its maturity or destroys
it in its making. We, in South
Carolina and in Lexington county,
are not without painful experience as
to the baneful, blighting effect of the
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church of God down, the life of our
people has felt and shown the wreck
and rain, of mm. Knowing all this,
the oner purpose of the meeting mentione&
aboye was to raise a standard
against it* We'are convinced that all
thatneeds to be is to get the people to
think. When that is done the battle
is won. What is to be done? What
r .. . ...
do yon think ought to be done? The
issn8 is before ns and its decision is in
our bands. "'What shall the answer
be? A case as solemn, e?en more
solemn than life and death i3 on trial
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and we are the jury. What shall the
verdict be? We are fully aware of
what Qiany. are saying; liquor is a
bad thing, the Dispensary is bad, but?
And then we hear a lot about blind
tigers and profits, and men haye visions
of good roads, paved streets,
more and better schools, lower taxes, ]
etc., etc. If there were no blind tigers
in Dispensary connties there might be
some force in the argument, bnt as
is well known blind tigers in their Mrs
and clubs are just as numerous where
Dispensaries are as where they are
not. The idea in all this is that as
much, or even more liquor, is consumed
in drv counties than in others.
Many good men, loyal citizens, firmly
believe it. Why? Simply because
they have heard it so often. Do you
know that this matter has tie en tested
by a thorough investigation in two
counties in this State? Well, it has
and here is the result. In Chester
county it was shown that under prohibition
the quantity of liquor consumed
was about one-fifth or onefourth
of what it was under the Dispensary.
In Sumter county, where
the investigation was made jointly by
the friends and foes of the Dispensary,
it was found that about one-fourth as
much liquor was consumed under prohibition
as under the Dispensary.
Please bear in mind that this was
?u?
as a Mine wucu Lucre was uu xeouiotion
on liquor shipments from outside
the State. In that respect conditions
more favorable for prohibition than
they have ever been.
It is simply impossible in an addres*
like this to 9av even a small part of
what might easily be said of the blessings
of prohibition and the blight of
th9 liquor traffic. AVe would be delighted
to call attention especially to
-what prohibition has done for Kansas
and North Carolina. In North Carolina
there has been decided improvement
and in Kansas it has amounted
to a revolution. Wnat was possible in
those States is possible in South Carolina.
Manhood did it there; manhood
can do it here. Are we men?
Everybody admits that sobriety is a
blessing. Nobody contends that liquor
is or can be. Its work is as
deadly when done by the Dispensary
as it is by others. It it the monster
f
\
evil which is doing more for the ho
of onr homes and nation than is ai
other thing. It is an evil itself and
gives being to a legion of other evil
It is a business without a redeemii
feature; a thing for which a go<
word can not be said. Men of Le
ington, we call you to witness. A
these things true? Is the above a li
ment or a fact? Lay your hand <
your heart, look up towards God ai
then make reply. Tnere is but o:
answer. You know, as all men kno'
that what we say is solemn trut
Y/e are face to face with a conditi<
from which there i9 no escape. Eve
man of us must needs be on one si
or the other. There is no neuti
zone. The next 39 days holds in i
hands, in large measure, the well!
ing of Lexington county for years
come. We come to you as your fi
low citizens, - as your neighbors,
your brothers, in a common cau?
We appeal to your manhood, to yo
chivalry, your patriotism, your love
humanity. We make our plea to yo
conscience, to the best that is in yo
If it be necessary we plead that y<
do not allow yourselves to be contro
ed by considerations which are simp
sordid and selfish. It is true that t
Dispensary will be a source of reven
to the county and some of the towr
But alongside of that will be an i
crease of lawlessness which to poli
o r\miiaVi txtiII nnnoiimo o lovrrn
auu jf" ||*P" TVlli UVU o UUiU o loigo C
if not all the profit. But granti]
that all the profit will be clear are y
willing to accept it? You are a mi
of property. You know that a ve
large part of the money spent at D
pensaries i9 by negroes and poor whi
men. Don't yon know it? These a
the weak ones who need the prote
tion of the strong. The Dispensary
their worst enemy. Are you willii
to profit in a small way financially 1
that which degrades and begga
them, are you? Good roads, pavi
streets, better schools, etc., are i
very desirable and they mean ma
indeed. Bat in order to have go*
roads and paved streets are we willii
to mix the clay and sand or the c
ment and sand with the life blood
weak men and the tear* of helple
women and dependent children? 1
we want and will we have improv
schools at the price of men's bodi
and sonls. That is costly edncatio
isn't it? After all, if yon refuse to
convinced, if you are determined th
your influence and your ballot shall
for the Dispensary we want to make
request, which is that you read tl
address to your boy and then tell hi
why you favor the sale of liquor. Sa
will you do it? N. N. Burton
A. E. Driggers,
J. A. Cromer,
W. E. Black,
P. J. Minis,
Committee.
A Recall Days of Long Ago.
Mr. Editor.?I remember sixty yea
ago when the fertile fields in this se
tion of Lexington county was a dent
forest and deer, turkeys and othi
game were plentiful. The people wei
not so thickly settled. They we]
neighborly and kindhearfced. Whe
one needed help his neighbors woul
go to his assistance. Axes, maul
wedges, wagons, teams and whatevt
was needed in tools was kept in reac
iness to repair or replace fences an
save the crops and they were willing
ly lent to the neighbors. If sicknee
was in the home the farm work wee
ji ? " - ?
i un ana was not allowed to suffer fc
I want of work; his \theat was reaped
threshed and even carried to the mil]
and the neighbors were on the alert t
! render each other assistance.
! But Now.
In those days they went to churc
and behaved like ladies and gentle
men. It was a disgrace to get drun
or to act ugly at church. You coul
not tell saint from sinner by their cor
duct. But Now.
Monday morning work began an
went on five or six days. People live
at home, had plenty and to span
The watch word in dry weather wai
"crowd boys, crowd," now is the tim
to kill the grass, and in wet weathe
it was, "crowd boys, crowd," or tb
grass will take us. But Now.
The Good Book says by reason (
the cold the sluggard will not plo1
and shall come to want, but naw t
soon as work time, as they call i
comes, they open up their lien and g
in debt for the very things they shoul
have for sale to city folks. In thos
days, sixty years ago, beef was foi
or five cents a pound. But Now.
Commercial fertilizer was unknow
and canned goods of every descriptic
were unknown, very few raised co
ton for market but grew corn, pea
pjtatoes, rice, wheat, oats, rye. iDdig
and live stock of all kinds. Isobod
was in debt. A man's note was i
good as money. His word then w;
better than his bond now. Peop
had confidence in each other thei
but now?do away with the homi
stead law and confidence will be r<
stored. Let everybody know he mu
pay his debts or work for the count:
Sixty years ago men were more can
ful about going in debt. But Xov.
V. W. J.
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;; FAVORS RETURN
* OF DISPENSARY
Dd Senator Sharpe Says Greal
x- Moral Institution is Remedy
re For Illegal Sale of Liquor ir
gn Lexington County.
^ NO PROFIT FROM ITS SALI
oe
To my fellow citizens of Lexingtoi
on coonty:
Permit me to say that for a quarte
^ of a century, off and on, yon havi
honored me with your suffrage, an<
. no one appreciates it more than I do
I haye endeavored to do my full dut;
in the public service without fear o
j reward or hope of reward. It no*
becomes necessary for U9 calmly am
<e dispassionately to reason together.
. In consideration of the high manlnr
^ stand that 0. E. Corley, supervisor
ur ha9 taken in performing an officia
duty required of him under the law
ou we now have the privilege to vote o:
the 19th day of August for the e9tab
ily lishment of county Dispensaries ii
T.PTiriorfenn nrmnfcv.
B
Qe We now have illegal sales going oi
all over Lexington county under thi
n[ so-called prohibition law, which ha
ce been an ignoble failure in the count;
irt for four jears; we have had all of thi
evils with none of the good. We hav
oa had drunkeness, confusion, bloodshei
an and crime with no profits from thi
rv sale of liquor to protect our peopl
jg. from the effects of it. We have los
te at least $80,000 in revenue from thi
re source in the past four years alone
!C_ This revenue has mainly gone to Rich
is land and Aiken counties and some o
Qg it to other points, thereby empoverish
by ing Lexington county and its taxpay
,rH ere. If we are to have the evil?an<
have it, we will under any systemill
let us have the profits as well.
Ch Think, my fellow citizens, of tb<
0d condition of your county now badl;
Qg in debt, with the certainty of havinj
e. to pay its past indebtedness and it
0f public losses in bank failures, etc.
>88 think of the condition of your road
Do and think of putting your hands ii
ed your pockets to pay the expenses o
es the county government, its past in
11, debtedness and building your roade
be think how much $20,000 a year Dis
at pensnry profits would help,
be Our prohibition friends hold out th<
i a argument that we are to get rid o
d8 liquor. 1 ask candidly and in all sin
m cent}', wui tney get rid of it r Hav
y, fcbey gotten rid of it in the past fou
years? If it were possible to get ri<
of it without national legislation ther<
would be some force to their argu
ment. I stand for sobriety and tern
perance in all things, but each indi
vidual must control this for himself
Hear me my, fellow citizens, huni
up your tax receipts, go to the pollf
on the 19th day of August, vote foi
rg the Dispensary and establish a system
c- of the legal sale and control of liquoi
3e instead of the present system of abso0r
lutely no control and illegal dealing
G with it, and let our county have the
re profits that rightly belong to it.
,n This is no question of sentiment. It
^ is vote for the Dispensary and have
s the liquor and the profits therefrom,
' or. vote for prohibition and have the
3r liquor and no profits. It is a cold1
blooded proposition of adopting a sys3
tem of dealing with an evil that is
here with us and here with us to stay.
*' I am your obiedient servant,
W. H. Sharpe,
[t Sen. Lexington Co.
ir July 21st, 1913.
[' There is more Catarrh in this section
'* of the country than all other diseases
o put together, and until the last few
years wa9 supposed to be incurable.
For a great many veais doctors pronounced
it a local disease and prescrib"
ed local remedies, and by constantly
J- failing to cure with local treatment,
k pronounced it incurable. Science has
j proven Catarrh to be a constitutional
disease, and therefore requires coni
stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
D_ . J- rvu i.i i /-"i
3 oe co., xoieao, cnio, is me onjy constitutional
cure on the market. It is
d taken internally in doses from 10 drops
J. to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
5> the blood and mucous surfaces of the
' system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send
}r for circulars and testimonials,
te Address: F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
lake Hall's Family Pills for cou9tiw
pation. adv.
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l' Can You Do All This?
>0
3 Here are some things you can't do.
;e Or, if you can, you are different from
lr 99 per cent of mankind. Can you repeat
from memory (don't look!) the
u wording on a two-cent stamp? (Jan
in you copp out from memory the exact
t_ figures as they appear on the dial cf
5 your watch? Can you copy from
rQ memory the exact wording on a onev
cint piece or say which way the head
l9 on the coin is facing? Can you say
ls from memory whether the heads on a
le cent, a nickel, a dime and a quarter
t all face the same wav? All these are
things you have seen and handled
p. since boyhood. They should be far
more familiar to you than the alpha
ym bet. Vet it is ten to one you can't
give correct answers to one of the
foregoing questions. Why can't you"?
Try them on your friends.
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Grand Changes Hands.
j ' The Grand Theatre, recenty managed
by E. E. Edwards and owned by
S. A. Lynch, of Asbeville, N. C., was
k recently purchased by Mr. H. B.
Shultz, of Atlanta, and is now being
managed by Joe Spiegelberg, a theat
ncal man of many years experience.
Mr. Spiegelberg took charge on July
1st and already a decided improve2
ment has been shown in the class and
attractions and in the treatment the
3 public is getting. la an interview
with the writer, Mr. Spiegelberg
r stated that he was very much impresse
ed with Columbia and the few acd
quaintances he had made since here,
> he felt that there was a great future
Y for the Grand and an amusement
r place of refinement, and cater especi?
ally to the ladies and children. Tabd
loid musical comedies and high class
vaudeville with two reels of Mutual
y pictures changed daily will be the
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1 be offered in every branch of the program
mentioned. A standard and
Q popular price of admission has been
adopted, 2o cents for adults and lo
" cents for children, and the public can
a always rest assured of a clean, high
class show and their money's worth at
Q the Grand in Columbia.
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e You can change fretful, ill-tempered
e children into healthy, happy youngj
sters, by aiding them of worms.
e Tossing, rolling, grinding of teeth,
e crying out while asleep, accompanied
t with intense thirst, pains in the stom9
ach and bowel9, feverishness and bad
breath, are symptoms that indicate
- worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer, a
f pleasant candy lozenge, expels the
. worms, regulates the bowels, restores 1
your children to health and happiness,
i Mrs. J. A. Brisbin, of Elgin, 111., says:
_ "I have used Kickapoo Worm Killer
for years, and entirely rid my children
e of worms. I would not be without it."
Y Guaranteed. All druggists, or by mail.
^ Price 25c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine
8 Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis. The
Harmon Drug Co. adv.
a It is no profit to us to know that
f malaria is only transmitted to man by
a certain kind of mosquito, if we make
no effort to protect ourselves from the
>t attacks of this carrier of disease
i- which works only at night. Screens
on the doors and windows areof 1 ittle
value while we are sitting on an unB
screened porch offering ourselves as
* victims to this carrier of malaria
" germs. He steals quitely up to his
6 victim in the dark, as many another
r evil-doer does, and if we are wise we ]
* will screen the porches or not sit on
3 them after dark when mosquitoes are
your bui .<
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THE LEXINGTON COUNTY
DENTIST.
To My Friends:
This will inform von that I am again
in my office and wish to say that I will
^ a^o ^ y our
* r ' ^r^HI charges
for what
you want
done, I
von what
'^EKm. S it will cost
so you will
know jast what you will have to pay.
I do no Dental Work for NOTHING
and want the cash when it is delivered.
I work on STRICTLY ethical princiEles
and guarantee satisfaction, as I
ave alwavs done, if my work does
not do as recommended and if you
don't come to see me about it, it is
your fault.
DR. 6. R. HARDING
3404 Main Street, Columbia, S. C.
Ridge wood cars pass the office every
15 minutes.
rare ii outjbi
,rry Fire Insurance?and why P
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te it protects you against this uncer
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a protect them against decay?agains
le dead certainty of depreciation resul
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Insurance is worth even more to y
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as information only and are not guar- ?
ranteed.
7:07 No. 19, daily, local Columbia to
Augusta.
8:53 A M.?No. 131 daily, the "South
em's Southeastern Limited" from
New York to Augusta.
11:21 A. M.?No. 8, daily from Augusta
to Columbia, connecting
with "Carolina Special" for Spartanburg,
Asheville, Knoxville,
Cincinnati, etc. '
5:40 P. M. ?No. 7, daily, from Columbia
to Augusta. Connecting from
Carolina Special from Cincinnati,
Knoxville Asheville, Spartanburg
and intermediate points.
6:02 P. M.?No. 132,daily, the "Southern's
Southeas-eni Limited" from
Augusta to New York; arrives
Washington 8:53 a. m., Baltimore
10:02 a. m.f Philadelphia 12:23
noon, New York 2:31 p. m.
R?4S No. 20. dailv. luCil from Ancnata
to Colombia. ^
Pullman car service ?>n all through
trains; dining car service for meals.
For further information, call on ^
ticket agent or
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D. C.; H. F. Cary, G. P A., Washington,
D. C.; E. H. Coapman, V. P. &
G. M., Washington, D. (J.; W. E. MoGee.
A. G. P. A., Columbia, S. C.; A.
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