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2 forcemnt of the law. The chairman of the meeting then asked that names be suggested for the township committees. Mr. J. C. Neel suggested as the committee from number one, Messrs. Geo. B. Cromer, Arthu- Kibler, E. Y. Morris, E. H. Aull, and E. R. Hipp. Dr. Cromer said that it would be better to take a recess, and let those present from the different townships, come together and name the commit tees, from their respective townships. and the motion was carried. Just prior to the recess, the follow ing petition was adopted, as the peti tions to be circulated among the vot ters of the county: To the Hon. J. Monroe Wicker, Su pervisor Newberry County: The petition of the undersigned would respctfully show that they are citizens and qualified voters of the county of Newberry, in the state of South Carolina, and respectfully pe tition that you will order an election under the act of the general assembly, approved Feb. 25, 1904, submitting the question of "dispensary" or "no dispensary" to the qualified voters of .said county-said election to be or dered by you as soon as the requisite number of petitioners shall be filed with you. And your petitioners will ever pray, etc. During the recess about fifty of those present signed the petition, and additional signatures were secured afterwards. When the meeting was called to or der again, the following committees were named. Township number one-W. 0. Wilson, G. R Long, Geo. B. Cromer, T. S. Hudson, E. Y. Morris. Township No. 2-J. A. Cromer, W. H. Wendt, B. F. Cannon. Township No. 3-J. H. Smith, W. D. Hardy, W. C. Whitney. Township No. 4--John W. Scott, Clayton Abrams, M. A. Ramage. Township No. 5-W. C. Sligh, Geo. C. Glasgow, T. Hayne Chalmers. Township No. 6-H. P. Hendrix, J. B. Smith, J. W. Smith. Township No. 7-H. M. Booze!. W. H. Sanders, J. S. Dominick. Township No. 8-W. C. Herbert, Joe Alewine, Walter Buzhardt. Township No. g-R. T. C. Hunter, W. W. Shealy, J. B. Stockman, S. T. Kohn, S. W. Young. 'Township No. 10--L. L. Epting, T. J. Wilson, J. A. C. Kibler. Township No. 11-Perry Halfacre, E. 0. Hentz, Rev. J. 3. Long. Dr. Cromer moved that the commit tees bie authorized to name executive committeemen, one from each of their respective townships, the selection of this committeeman not to be confined to the members of the committees. The motion was carried. Mr. WV. H. Wallace movd that the committees be requested to take action -with all possible dispatch looking to ward securing the requisite number of signatures to the petitions. Mr. R. T. C. Hunter thought that it would be best to appoint some day for the committees to get together, and for the executive committee to get matters in shape. He did not think that the election ought to be held before August. Mr. XV. H. Wallace said that it was his idea to strike while the iron was . hot, he broughit out the idea that the matter of the election could be left in the hands of the executive committee, but said that the securing of the re quisite number of signaturs would not necessarilyprecipitatethe election. He wanted thle committees to go to work to secure the signatures immediately. Mr. Arthur Kibler said that the people .were anxious right now to vote out the dispensary. and he want ed to go ahead and have the election in July. Mr. J. C. Neel thought that another important matter was to get not only the requisite number of signatures to the petition, but to get just as many as possible. Mr. Wallace' motio. tha: the com mittees be reauested to move with al possible dispatch in getting the re quisite number aof signatures. was carried4. only a small number of those present votog. Mr. A. H. K>hn, the scretary. ex pressed surprise the~ there was not more enthusiasm. Dr. Cromer suggsted that all raat ters preliminary to the filing of the petition with the supervisor be left to the executive committee. Dr. McClintock thought it the sense of the meetin tat the election be held as soon as practicable. The suggestions of both Dr. Crom er and Dr. McClintock were put in the shape of amendments to the motion by "Ir. \Vallace. and were adopted. The chairman stated that he would like for the committees which had been appointed to meet immediately after adjournment of the meeting. Dr. Cromer in explanation of the meeting and its purpose, then spoke in part as follows: "I think we all ought to go away with a clear understanding of the sig niicance of this meeting; it is not to fight for prohibition. i: is not to fight for high license, it is not a political movement projected in the interest of any candidate present or prospective. It is simply a question whether one fourth of the qualified voters of this county want to submit to all the quali fied voteis of this county, the ques tion of "dispensary" or "no dispen sary." That means, of course, that the dispensary is on trial, that it has raeen on trial, and the test is to be made now vhethe~ it has won the ap proval of the voters of the county, so that it shall remain fixed in the coun ties that have adopted it. It was pro posed awhile ago that all the clergy men of the county be made mem bers ex-officio of the excutive commit tee. It just struck me then to ask the question, whether the preachers should be put on this committee as members ex-officio. We have the right to assume that the preachers of the county are opposed to the dis pensary. Why not go further than that and say that all christians shall be made members ex-officio of that executive committee. Somebody in Newberry said in the old barroom days--he was a liquor keeper-that if he had the custom of all the church members of the town, all the other barrooms would have to go out of business. There is no reason why the preachers should .be put on as members ex-officio of this committee, any more than that other church members should be put on. "There are good men here and good men elsewhere who are in favor of the dispensary, and that means that this campaign must be conducted irn a dignified and serious way, simply for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the county, without bitter ness, without crimination, without re crimination,and without abuse of any one, the simple question whether we shall keep the dispensary or vote it out. Those who are in favor of the dispensary are entitled to their opin ions, as well as those who are in favor of voting it out. There is this about it: I have alvays been opposed to it on principle. I have often thought of wha: Gladstone said to a delega tion of Scotch brewers, when they waited on him and protested against the abolishment of breweries, on the ground that that took away a large revenue from the kingdom. Glad stone answered, "If you will give me a sober people, opposed to the selling of liquor, I will take care of the reve nue of the kingdom." You will find plenty of people who say, that if you vote out the dispensary you will have to pay high taxes, more taxes to sup port your schools; that you will have to levy a half mill tax whether you use it or not, that the governor can use to enforce the law in your coun ty. You will find people taking that view who will say, that on that ac count the dispensary ought to be al lowed to stand. If we have come to the pass here in the morning ot the 2oth century when a confessedly and professedly c.hristian state can not run its government and support its schools, without supporting a bar room, zher lets keep the dispensary in order to kee~p ourselves from hig~h er taxes. If on the other had, we beliieve that a chritsian state can sup port its government, and can run its schools wi:hout getting a revenue rom a barroom, supported by the state, then we should vot it out. That is the question to be submitted Ito the voeers.'' Dr. Cromer spoke at further length along this line saying that the argu ment whnich he had just referred to. wa one of the most pow: rful argu mens which would be advanced by those op pcsed to the dispensary. Everybody konws," he said. "that ISenator Tillman is regarded as the ifather of the dispensary. Last year when they were going to have an election ir Cherokee county, those in favor of the dispensary invited him the puropse of giving tone and moral support to those advocating the dis pensary. He said in that speech thai the dispensary as at present conduct ed. and as it had been conducted in this state, cannot live, and while he did not say it in so many words, he said by inference, at least, that he believed it was a mistake to have a profit feature attached to the dispen sarv. Dr. Cromer. at this point referred :o this as being the position taken in the beginning by the late poor Hugh Farley. "What has the dispensary done? Senator Tillman in an interview after his speech at Gaffney, publisl9ed, I think, in the News and Courier, ad mitted that :he dispensary as it has been managed and conducted in this state cannot live." When asked the qustion what was to take its place he said he did not know. That matter he was in doubt ab_iut. but he did not believe that the dispensary, as it had been managed in this state. could live. - --It is not a ques.tion of selling liquor or not selling liquor; it is not a question of the mor ality or immorality of engaging in the liquor traffic: it is not a queston of "Prohibition" or "No Prohibition" this morning. It is a question wheth er, with the experience of ten years before us, Newberry county is willing to say that the dispensary shall con tinue in operation in Newberry coun ty. "Going back to the principle under lying the whole thing, I never did believe that the dispensary would stay. I did not see how it could stay in a Christian government. They say that the Paul Maul Gazette once offered a reward of five hundred pounds, which is practically $2,500, to the one who would cite a single in stance in which a fortune made by selling liquor had ever descended to the third generation in a family. No body took it up. It just struck me, s:anding on that same principle that if there is such a thing as retributive justice. if God holds states to account as he holds individuals, if the state must be held to reckoning for the manner in which it conducts the gov ernment, then there is a terrible reck oning in store for South Carolina, for having managed the liquor traffic for the purpose of making money out of it. I state that as a fact, with the ten years'history of it before us, and I don't see how any one can gainsay the statement that the..dispensary has been conducted for the revenue that is in it, and not' for th'e prupose of 'decreasing immorality andi drunken ness. I hare been informed that in different places the salaries of dis pensers have been graded by the amount of their sales, meaning that thE more you sell, the bigger salary yoi get. That means that the state government has not taken control of 2For i1 SCut Glass, Bowh SSilver Warn Knives and Forks, Vases, Chafing Di: TI' 2 GilDER. n session for more than an hour. Fol owing Mr. Jones' remarks there were ;hort addresses by others. Among :hose present at the meeting were hose who are opposed to voting the lispensary out, rbut who object not to the agitation, in order that the vishes of the people. as formed after he discussion, may be expressed. There seems to be n. doubt that the equisite number of names to the pe ti:ion will be secured, and that the lection will be ordered. The fight is on, and it is earnestly oped and it is believed that the question will be fought out on its merits purely and simply, as it ought to be. COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL. The county summer school will open in the Boundary street school at Newberry on June 19th at 9 o'clock a. m. and continue for four weeks. Prof. E. B. Setzler, Ph. D., of Newberry College, will teach English grammar and composition and history or civil government. Prof. G. T. Pugh, Ph. D., Vanderbilt University, will teach arithmetic, algebra and history or civil government. Miss Elizabeth Dominick will teach geography and drawing. A special course in English and literature will be given to all who desire to take it. All teachers are urged to attend this summer school, because the branches taught here will be the branches taught in the schools of the county. The school will be under the control of abl teachers, and their thorough work will no doubt be of great value to the teacher pupils. J. S. Wheeler, .Co. Supt. Education. TEACHER WANTED. The patrons of Vaughnville school will meet on the 1st Saturday of July, go5, to elect a teacher for our next school term. All applications must be sent to the undersigned trustees. . C. A. Brooks, W. S. Atchison. June 7, 1905. Stop it. Success. Boasting of what you can do in stead of doing it. Thinking that life is a grind and not worth living. Exaggerating and making moun tains out of molebills. Talking continually about yourself and your affairs. Saying unkind things about ac quaintances and friends. Thinking that all the good chances and opportunities are gone by. Thinking of yourself to the exclu sion of everything and every one else. Speculating as to what you would do in some one else's place and do your best in your own. Gazing idly into the future and dreaming about it instead of- going to work and earning them for yourself. ddings! re Dishes, etc.4 iters, Pitchers, etc.4 >re. lITER. the traffic in liquor, under the police >ower of the state, for the purpose of l :ontrolling the traffic in liquor in the interest of public morals, but, as a matter of fact it has conducted the business for the purpose of making money out of it. And that brings us down to the question whether, as a Christian people, as a God-fearing people, professing to maintain a gov ernment and a civilization for our state and our posterity, whether we are going to admit, ourselves, the proposition that we are too poor to support a civilized government, too poor to support the public schools, without money derived by going into the bar-room business" Mr. A. C. Jones wanted to put his position clear in regard to his mo tion as to placing the ministers on the committee to circulate the peti tions. "I knew," he said, "that the minis ters were opposed to the sale of whis key, and for that reason I made the motion that the ministers of the county be made ex-officio members of the committee. My motion was in tended to relieve the ministers of this responsibility and to put the laymen as members of the committee from each township, knowing that the min isters would act with the members of the commi ..e. We don't want it understood that this is a ministers' movement, for it is not a ministers' movement. We do want it under stood that every man, woman and child in Newberry county who stands for the home, the right and the good, is opposed to the state continuing in the liquor business. the liquor business. The foudation upon which the dispensary was built was wrong. The state has no right to be engaged in the liquor business. If the individual is doing a wrong when he conducts a liquor business, it is a much greater wrong for the state to confiscate the property of that individual." Mr. Jones at some length discussed the profit feature of the business, clearly defining his posi tion, which is well known. "I say now what -I said at the beginning, when the law waspassed,thatthe dis pensary law was never intended to be a temperance measure, but a political measure, and that it was intended to be used to make a profit out of it. Look at the spectacle of the state of South Carolina engaged in the worst business that any individual can en gage in! If the state is going into business, why not take up some other business, and not make a profit out of a business that is ruining the home? The state is now engaged in a business' that is taking bread from her people, and that is ruining the young men of South Carolina. If vo believe the dispensary is right, go to the polls and vote for it to con tinue. If you believe i: is not right, ~o to the polls and vote for it to be removed." The meeting adjourned after being Lle We Tumblers, Olia Spoons, Servers of All Kinds, Wa shes, Clocks, at le Right Drug Stc WEEKS&'I