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WHAT PROHIBITION
DID FOR KANSAS
Can Be Done in South Carolina,
Says Hon. John S. Dawson,
Attorney General of
Kansas, in an Address.
?
THE LAW IS ENFORCED
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Vir rorillf-fit,.1
^nepui.>u9iicu vijwv.'..,
Hod, John S. Dawson, Attorney
General of Kansas, delivered an address
at Chicago Ap'il 1912, on "What
Prohibition Has Done for Kansas."
The constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale in
the State of intoxicating lienor except
for medical, scientific and mechanical
purposes was the effects of
State-wide prohibition. Mr Dawson
acknowledges that lor quite a number
of years the law was openly defied in
many of the larger towns and cities.
It took a long and bitter fight for the
people of Kansas to convince the law
defying liquor interest that they were
really in earnest about banishing the
infamous traffic from their state. But
they are convinced at last and for j
- some time the prohibition laws of the I
nC c.AnoJefontlr PT1- i
JSiaiy nave uccii as
forced as those against other common
forms of criminal conduct. In estimating
the results of prohibition,
however, allowance must be made for
the delay occasioned by this protracted
battle against anarchy, and yet, in
spite of this, these results, as summed
up by the attorney general, are convincing.
Here are a few of the more
important of them:
1. Illiteracy has been reduced from
49 per cent to less than 2 per cent and
this is confined almost entirely to the
oicmonf in the southeastern !
IIVJ.Vlgu v
portion of the State. ,
2. Eighty-seven of the one hundred
and five counties of the State have no
insane, fifty-four have no feeble-mind!*
ed, and ninety-six have no inebriates.
There is only one pauper in every
three thousand population. Thirtyeight
poor farms have no inmates. In
July, 1911, fifty-three county jails
were empty and sixty-five counties
had no prisoners- serving sentence,
some counties have not called a jury to
try a criminal case in ten years, and a
grand jury is so uncommon that half
the people would not know what it is.
3. In 1880 the bank savings deposits
in Kansas were S30.000.000; today they
? ...
are $200,000,000. The State is now
the richest per capita in the Union,
the average wealth being $1,700,
whereas the average for the nation is j
only $1,200. Missouri, which adjoins
Kansas and is rich in nature resources,
has an average of les9 than $300. During
the paDic of 1907 Kansas sent
$50,000,000 to New York to relieve the j
money market, while Missouri sent
nothing. 4.
In 1880 the death rate in Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas was
practically the same, seventeen to
the thousand. Since then the death
rate of Kansas has gradually fallen till
it is now only seven and one-half, ?
while that of the other States has
slightly increased.
5. The per capita cost of intoxicating
liquors in Missouri is $24; in Kan- ;
sas it is $1.48.
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. 6. It has been demonstrated that j
the saloon is not a business but a parasite
on business.
7. It has taken politics ont of the
saloons and the saloons out of politics.
Every political party in Kansas now
stands for prohibition, and keeping i
joints, dives, brothels oat of cities is as j
much the business policy of the average
city as keeping the street clean,
water pure, and the public parks attractive.
In answer to the question as to the
relative value of prohibition and high
license as a means of abolishing the
liquors, Mr. Dawson says: There is
no relative value. High license is
not a means of abolishing the evils of
intoxicating liqnors. The only solution
of the liquor problem is its total
suppression. High license is first of
all a confession that the liquor business
is a bad business. It i9 a bad
business; and a tax upon a bad busi- 1
neea, a cruel, vicious and wicked business,
means that State says to rum
-sellers: "You are corrupting the i
morals of my people, you are under- :
mining the manhood of my young
men, you are robbing the cheeks of
my young women of their bloom, yon
are poisoning the blood of my babies,
yotr*'are wrecking my homes, filling
my jails, and furnishing a spawn for
the brothel. You are at the back of
aH the villianies- of the age, and are j
turning my people into drunkards,
lunatics and suicides, and you make a
very large amount of money out of j
this infamous business, and I shall re?
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quire you to stana ana aenvcr iu me a i
ery considerable portion of this dirty *
money which you are making in this
Yillianous fashion.19
Does prohibition prohibit? Of course
not,'' answers Mr. Dawson. Neither s
does a gun shoot nor a ship 9ail nor a *
piano make music of its accord. It 1
takes a man behind the gun to make ^
it shoot, a sailor to sail the ship, and ^
an artist to play the piano, so, too,
with the prohibition law. It will
sleep away the years in the musty
tombs of a law book and never prohibit
anything unless there are faithfal
executives behind it. "It has
been known in Kansas," he declares,
"that it can be enforced even in a
community whsre popular sentiment
i9 against it." "It takes just three
men," he says, "to do it, a judge, a
cheriff and a prosecuting attorney."
These three ami no more, who fear
God and no one else, and determine
to enforce the law?not all the
salcon keepers and brewers and all
their followers and sympathizers can
prevail agsinst them. Most important
of these three is the judge, and that
is tne officer to whom the liquor interests
give the most attention and the
temperance people the least. You
must have a judge, cr your law enJo
hnnnrl fcn hn inefficient.
1U1V/CUICMU AO K/VV4? vV
HELPFUL WORDS
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From a Lexington Citizen.
Is your back lame and painful?
Does it ache especially after exertion?
Is there a soreness in the kidneyregion?
These symptoms suggest weak kidneys.
If so there is danger in delay.
Weak kidneys get fast weaker.
Give your trouble prompt attention.
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kidneys
Your neighbors use and recommend
them.
4-V.Jc? T.e-*r?r?cf.\r? focjt?mmil
IVCdU UJIO .
Mrs. Ella V. Corley, R. F. D. 8, Lex>
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and that time I gave a public state
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I got my supply of Doan's Kidnej
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The]Harmon Drug Co., successors anc
was relieved of pains across the sinal!
of my back and distressing troubh
with the kidney secretions."
For sale by all dealers. Price 5(
rents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name?Doan's?anc
take no other. 41 adv.
Passes Bogus Checks.
Greenville, Aug. 3?H. P. Matthews,
the dapper young man held at the
county jail on the charge of passing
bogus checks, has admitted his guilt
to interviewers, though be says he is
not the only 'man involved in these
transactions. "There are other fellows
working the same game around
here now," he declared, "and one of
them was here with me; but it seems
they have left me with the bag to
hold. It may be later I shall decide
to tell the whole story." The man
admits that his name is not Matthews,
refusing to divulge his real identity.
Each day brings information to the
list of cities in this section which are
to be added to the list of the stung.
Sheriff Recror has received a letter
from Columbia giving the information
that Matthews answers the description
of a man who passed worthless checks
in Columbia under the name of H. P.
Douglas. A telegram from Sheriff
Martin of Charleston declares that a
number of checks, of large amounts,
were passed in that city on the same
bank which Matthews is known to
have used in Greenville.
Inquiries have also been received
from Charlotte asking for a description
of Matthews.
Local police declare the man is but
one of a gang who have been operating
in this part of the South for
ofttTArol Anf V?o
OCVCAai iilv Li L JLAO*
Remarkable Cure of Dysentery.
"I was attacked with dysentery
about July 15th, and used the doctor's
medicine and other remedies with no
relief, only getting worse all the time.
I was unable to do anything and my
weight dropped from 145 to 125 pounds.
I suffered for about two months when
I was advised to use Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
I used two bottles of it and it gave me
permanent relief," writes B. W. Hill
of Snow Hill, N. C. For sale by All
Dealers. adv.
Gin House Burned.
The gin house of Mr. Jno. A. Dreher,
who resides in the Selwcod vicinity,
was struck by lightning last Friday
and was burned. Mr. Dreher first
noticed the blaze while he was re
turning from the Little Mountain reunion
but did not ascertain that it was
tiis house till he had almost reached
lis home.
The building was valued at about
?1,000 with no insurance.
How the Trouble Starts.
Constipation is the cause of many
tilments and disorders that make life
niserable. Take Chamberlain's Tab
ei9, Keep your Doweis regular ana you
rill avoid these diseases. For sale by
Ml Dealers. adv.
Powell?-Sox,
The home of Mr. Sidney Steel wa9
the scene of the marriage of Mis9 Iva
May Sox to Mr. Lee Powell last Sunday
afternoon, August 3rd. Rev. J.
A. Cromer performed the ceremony.
Miss Sox is the attractive dangh- <ter
of Mr and Mr9. Eli Sox of our city
and ha9 a large acquaintance. Mr.
Powell is the son cf Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Powell, who reside near the Lexington
Mfg. Co., and is a young man
of sterling worth and is very popular.
They will make their future home
here.
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Bucklen's Arnica Salve when applied c
to a cut, bruise, sprain, burn or scald, 3
or other injury of the skin will im- 1
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berlin, of Clinton, Me., says: "It 4
robs cuts and other injuries of their k
terrors. As a healing remedy its c
equal don't fxist." Will do good for
you. Only 25c at Harmon Drug Co.
No7@6? ":
This is a prescription prepared especially I r
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Five or 6ix doses will break any case, and j j
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not !
return. It acts on the liver better than ! .
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c j :
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used, try Mustang Liniment |J ]
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I or burn the flesh but seethes ^ :
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1 Rheumatism, Scalds, '
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If you want ft sewing machine,'write tof *
zr latest catalogue before you purchase. ^
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I and are now ready to serve our Lei
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FORT AND SERVICE. We will on
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ggj (Farmers'Medium and Wo
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TutfsPills
This pcpular remedy never falls to
? effectually cure
Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick
Headache, Biliousness
And ALL DISEASES arising from a
Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion
The natural result Is ?rood appetite
and solid flesh. Dose smaii; eieganily
sugar coated and easy to swallow*
Take No Substitute.
Barbecue at Steedman.
We will furnish a first class Barbe:ue
at SteedmaD, Saturday, August
[6, 1913. There will be speakers on
rand to address the crowd. Every)ody
is cordially invited to attend.
Special attention given to ladies and
;hildren.
W. P. Qnattlebaum.
41 T. R. Quattlebaum.
rHE LEXINGTON COUNTY
DENTIST.
ro My Friends:
This will inform von that I am again
n my office and wish to say that I will
n n v n n r
naan^and
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so yon will
clow just what you will have to pay.
; do 110 Denial Work for NOTHING
md war.t the cash when it i* delivered,
work on STRICTLY ethical princiiles
and guarantee satisfaction, as I
lave always done, jf niv work coe9
lot do as rerjcaimcndta and if you
Ion't come to see me about it, it is
rour fault.
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{404 Main Street, Columbia, S. C.
Ridgevrood cars pass the cffice every
L5 minutes.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE May 25,1913
Arrivals and departures Lexington,
South Carolina.
(N. B. The>e schedule figures shown
is information only and are not guaranteed.
:07 No. 19, daily, local Columbia to
Augusta.
:5S A. M.?No.131 daily, the "South
ern's Southea^ern Limited" from
New York to Augusta
1:21 A. M.?No. 8, daily from Augusta
to Columbia, connecting
with "Carolina Special" for Spartanburg,
Asheville, Knoxviiie,
Cincinnati, etc.
:40 P. M.?No. 7, daily, from Columbia
to Augusta. Connecting from
Carolina Special from Cincinnati,
Knoxvilie Abbeville, Spartanburg
and intermediate points.
:02 P. M.? No. 132, daily, the "Southern's
Southeastern Limited" from
Augusta to New York; arrives
Washington 8:53 a. m., Baltimore
10:02 a. m., Philadelphia 12:23
noon, New York 2:31 p. m.
:48 No. 20, daily, local from Augusta
to Columbia.
Pullman car service on all through
rains; dining car service for meals.
For further information, call on
icket agent or
1. H. Hardwick,P. T. M.,Washington,
). C.; H. F. Gary, G. P. A., Wasningon,
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we Have |
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ng this stock: STYLE, COMiy
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