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E. H. AULL. EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., -ts second class matter. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. The Brice Bill. Citizens" of Prosperty gave notice in the last issue of The Herald and News that the candidates for the leg islature would be called upon to ex press themselves at the meeting at Prosperity today on the "Brice Bill" -the original "Brice Bill". No doubt a great many pt.ple do not know just what the provisions of the original Brice Bill were, while they have a general idea of what its purpose was. WVe have not a copy of the original bill. but from an exami nation of the senate journal and the proposed amendments we would con clude that the following Section 7 is the original Brice Bill, down to the priviso fixing a tax of one-half mill on all c6unties voting out dispensar ies. The bill passed the house as it left the senate in all material points. The proviso or amendment levying the tax was affixed by Sena tor Raysor, of Orangeburg, and was adopted by a vote of 14 to 21. From this it appears that six senators were absent and not voting. The only roll call vote in the house on the bill which might be construed as a test vote resulted 48 to 66 in favor of the bill as amended by tb senate and as passed by both houses. The following is a copy of the Act as it was passed by the last legisla ture: "Sestion 7. There may be one or more county dispensers appointed for each county, the place of busi ness, of each of whom shall be desig nated -by the county board of con trol, but the state board of control must give consent before more than one dispenser can bt appointed in any county. and when the county board desginates a locality for a dis pensary, twenty da#s' public notice oi which shall be given, it shall be comnpetent for a majority of the qual inied voters of the township in which such dispensary is to be located to prevent its location in such township, by signing a petition or petitions ad: dressed to the county board, request ing that no dispensary be established in that township. A dispensary may be located elsewhere than in an in corporated town in the counties of Beaufort and H-orry and no others except such as are authorized by spec ial Act of the general assembly. Any county may secure the establishment of a dispensary or dispensaries, or the removal of a dispensary or dlis pensaries wvithin its limits, in the fol kowing manner: Upon the petition of one-fourth of the qualified voters of each county upon either the ques tion of the establishment or the re moval of dispensaries therein being filed with the county supervis or each county, he shall orde'r an elec ion submitting the question of "dis pensary" or "no dispensary" to the qualifled voters of such county. which shall be condu:cted as other special elections. and if a majo'rityv of the ballots cast be for a dispenusary. then a dispensary may' b estalihe in said county, but if a majority Of the ballots cat h e found and( (I clared to be agaeist the dispenary. law in said county, under and by di rection of the governor. said tax to be collected as other county taxes and fi,rwarded t- the state treasurer, t be expended. ir so much thereof as nmay be neces,ary. an nt%w prvideil by- law. fo.r i uchi uro, An., balance remaining uiexpended at ihc end of the yLar to be return-d by the st;te treasurer tc the c(unty treas tr ofich couity for g'eneral C.un Zy purpoSeS. and that the value of al c -IsCatonS Io c, ilntraband g ?< seized in such countv. as dterminec hX tile State board of directors, shal be pal to the state treasurer to bc credite(l to the fund raised by sai' levy for the enforcement of) the law as above provided. And any amoun1 expended in said county fo1(r the en f,rcement (f the dispensary law. shal' he refunded to the state treasury im on the collection of the tax abov( levied. Any county voting out dispensary. shall not thereafter rc ceive any part of the surplus that may remain -f the dispensary school funds. after the deniciencies in the various county school funds have been made up. as provided by law." We had supposed that the dispen sarv. so far as Newberrv is concern ed, is not an issue or that it was set tled. and we can see no especial good in airing it. We have no objection to a discussion. however. The Brice Bill as now on the statute books strikes as as a wise measure and we cannot see any reasonable objection to it. It provides that if a county wants to be rid of the dispensary an election shall be ordered on petition .t one-fourth of the qualified voters >t the cotinty and a majority vote can :arry ti county for prohibition. There seems to be nothing unreason able in that. The county is inter eted in the matter as much as the owns and should have a voice in he question of prohibition or dispen ary for the county. If the county i really in earnest in the matter of )rohibitioni there can be no objection o putting up a fund to have the law .nforced because if is really means to ave prohibition the money will not e tised and will go back to the coun y. Then if it will not sell whiskey it should not care to share in the ronts made in other counties. The Herald and News has never >elieved in statutory prohibition. W\e >eliev'e it is a theoretical dream, and hat the evils of intemperance will e .greater where you undertake to >rohibit the sale of wvhiskey than here .you regulate it. In other ords, there will be ,less intemper mene under the dispensary system han there would be in an attempt to ave prohibition. The dispensary ystem in its operations has its de fects, but we have come to the con lusion that it is the lesser of the vils so far tried, and, therefore, we ow stand for the dispensary. There. are those who hold that the tate should be the unit in matters a this kind and that if we have dis nnsarv itshould be for the state. and otn the other hand, if we have pro ibition. it must be for the entire ate. We are willing to g'o tur her in the matter of local self-gov riment and say the county shoald be the unit and if a county gcam s pro ibition let it have it but wec would .t reduce the unit below the ec: V. F'or that reason we favor the * SpeciallIr 4 Wefindthe 4 more in this we wish--rn we care to our inventor, We theret special induc all who wish Summer Milli $ Ihe departme petent hands, * sure that we car We have a fin( ing Hats, Hats fc $ the perquisites t * Prices away d and see for your i Our lines of White 4 Light Woolen Dress C 4 evening wear, Hosiery, Sall right. Nice lines of . Come and see us. MOW Not All Shoes!l I don't want our friends to for getan idea because we have just put in stock seventy-one cases of The Hamilton Brown of Shoe Cornpany's Good Shoes for Men, Boys, Women and Children for fall that our stock W is all Shoes. F It is true we have the best' stockof Shoes in Newberry, and when we get our new fall line of Banister's Fine Shoes for Men we' will have the finest line in town, still we have just as good a line of Men's Fur nishing Goods, Hats and Pants, Be Underwear and Umbrellas, etc , as we have Shoes, and we' want to sell you everything you needi in all these lines. Every N tie yiou spendi a dollar at ourSh store you get more for that dol say that should not be considered In the di;cussion of a miral question. And yet when you believe. and the . ) per iI CeS oI prohibition ComInlhit1 tie= leach that the morai ie w' iiii be improved. it is wi(rth con.i-ldcr m. TH H eral and News believ-,s in tperiance in ai thin:gs tbut we do, ' t believe vult can legi-lat e it.. it. peiple, nir can Vl! make peoIple miirial by prohibitory statutes. It is at price- of educati"n. The CIounty campaigl 4i1pe!Is again t Ily. Three weeks more and we hiave the election. The campaign so far has been pleasant and harnmon iils and it is hoped it will be so to the end. The Gaffnev Ledger. usually care ful and correct. has an editorial on "Only Two Issues which is so full of errors that we must call ou friend's attentio,in tii them. One of the issues m1eiltioneld is the Brice hill. aniid the -ther bienenial sessions. If inr friend will read the bill in qiestion. which he will find at pages --7 to: the Acts of 1904. he will :ee how badly he is mistaken. In, stead of a two-thirds vote only a ma .iority vote Is necessary to remove a dispensary from the county but there must be a petition signed by one fourth of the qjualified voters of the. county to order the election. Instead if a tax of two mills to pay consta bles. one-half of one Mill is levied to be at the disposal of the governor in paying expenses oi entorcing the law. In the matter of biennial sessions, it is tip to the voters of the state to say whether they want them or not. The editor of this paper voted in the legislature to submit the question to the people and it was carried by th<. exact number of votes necessary. One vote less would have defeated the resolution. We do not believe there will be as great saving as some people think but we want the people to say what they want. Big Pi.cnic Today. The anntual picnic by the three Sun day Schools oi WVest End and the two Sunday Schools of Mollohon will b)e held today at Ebenezer. Com plete arrangements have been made to give the children a big day, and they are looking forwvard to the oc casion with unmixed pleasure. The grown people will go along, too, but they will be there for the special pur. pose of seeing that the children enjoy themselves. Some idea of the size of the un dertaking may be gained from the fact that fourteen wagons have been secu1redl for the three WVest End Sun dlay Schools, not including the con vevances for the Mollahon schools. nor buggies and other vehicles. The variious committees. which were ptubiisned some time ago. have been active in making all arrange mnents. aud they are now complete. Both mills are now closed for the annual vacation and everybody may have the opportunity to att end! There wvill be nob addresses or any: thing of that kind. It is a children'> picnic and cveryt hinug simply l'ook norv:ard1 to their pleasure. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT AND DISCHARGE. ieru Sale. t we have, line than: ore than: enter on, ore offer: ements to their late i nery now., nt is in com and we feel + i please. lot of walk-+ >r Dress and, herefor. own. Come + selves. Goods, Muslins, 'oods, Goods for Corsets, etc, are Neckwear. ER'.S + All Ready the grand and only EXCURSION the season to the Sky Land, A~SHEVILLE, adnesday Augustl10. A RE $2.00 ONLY. eave Newberry 7.30 a. m. ain will stop at all points be n Prosperity and Hodges. 3r information. etc., see or L P. F. BAXTER. J. MARION DAVIS. or M. L. SPEARMAN. st Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CA NNON, arGO., N. & L. Depot. igles! Shingles! Shingles! 0.000 Shingles just asivd, FOR ALE