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and am only actuated by a sense o public duty in taking tihe position I have occupied in the past and whicF I shall continue to occupy. I have always believed in the rul< of the majority. But I want it to bF the majority of all the democrats it the state. Yours truly, - B. R. Tillman. THE DISPENSARY SIDE. Another Card From State Senatoi Cole. L. Blease Discussing The Dispensary Question. To the Voters of Newberry County: After the dispensary, then what: That is the question that is now agi tating the minds of many good mer in Newberry county, and I appeal tc you to stand by what you have unti you are shown something better. I did not intend to say anything else in the newspapers. nor do I now in. tend to take notice of some things Neither do I 'intend to be personal although some people may think tha things of that kind are argument, an< while they themselves may be in position to be thoroughly criticised vet I feel that the endorsement whicl the people of my county have givez to me are of such a nature that I nee< not defend my personal reputatioi or that of any one to whom I am re lated by blood or marriage, living o: dead, and other people might be call ed upon so to do if I condescended t< go into personal records. I hav< said and still maintain that the dis pensary is the best solution of thi whiskey question, and I do not thin] that it is as bad to open the door an< say, byy if you will, as it is to send ou drummers for trade. Neither is it a bad to receive money spent--v.oluntari ly for liquor as it is to get a fellow ii your store and encourage him unti he spends his last cent and gets drunl and then kick him out. They sa: that this is educating children oz "blood money." - How many prett: girls and handsome boys are in New berry today who were educated on Ii quor money? How many good mei and Christian mothers are here wh< were educated on liquor money. Hov many men are here who themselve< or their fathers made all that the' have selling liquor? Oh: but w< must not build our school houses on of it! What abou: building parson ages and churches with money give by those connected with the dispen sarv? Is it v:orse to educate oni in school house built by~ it than t< worship God in churches built by it Is it a sin to wear hats in yo ur dail' missions presemed by dispenar mnonev-but I mu:st' frbear to~ Z further, vet we' all sh'uld rememtbe to de ovethey wo): r . tit ig t Agaet sk you :to oo tthe' lead asC reves the c ; qusin h does t;c itmean? U A ter dispensary thenQ what? They claim~ L29nm Agn peits.kI you il look a e( aske youslesn the usion na on more than one petition. You wil find the names of men on them whc are no qualified voters. So don't be deceived by their big figures. I hav< been told by Treasurer Epps tha1 from September 1st, 1903, to Septem her ist, 19o4, he received $4,554-37 that since then he has received onc check $1,821.87, another check $2, 4.24.33, making a total of $8,800.57 as our part of the school fund. The state report, as published, shows New berry's share to be $13,514.85. I usec what I considered to be the official record. In addition to that Mr. EppI says that the county and town receiv ed about $6,ooo each last year fromr t!he dispensary. I am not pleading for the disensary simnly because of its money making, but I believe con scientiously that it is the best solu- I tion Of the whiskey question. and I have been id that if I continued this i nght that it would ruin me politically. A coward believing that he is right, thinking the majority against him. 1 turns from his position and goes over to the majority, surrendering his principle for public applause. I tbe lieve that I am right, and I shall stand by it. regardless of how small may be the vote in ti' dispensary's favur. and if it is voted out by the combination which is now fighting it I believe that a bitter warfare will start among that combination, to wit, between the high license people and the prohibitionists, wit-h the blind tigers in the back-ground, and that the dispensary people will be called upon by the prohibitionists in their desperation to come over "into Mae. donia and help us." . i' with their strong po.a magistrates and their speci. ci.... bles the towns may be able in some degree to make a pretence of entorc ing rroihibition. which past events have shown can not be done, for the alreasoin that you can not legislate mor als into men, but what about the rural districts. where the blind tigers will leave his lair and walk among the farm hands of your country. 1 My fellow-citizens. I am making I this fight for you. I believe that I am i right and I s'hall fight it to the finish, - regardless of my future promotion. r If you decide against me I shall bow - to the will of the majority, fully be ) lieving in the providence of God that the time will come when you will - say that 'we placed him as our senator upon the watch-tower, and when we c said, "Watchman, what of the night?" I the answer came, "All is not well." When we asked him why he answer 5 ed us, and we heeded him not. I be - lieve, however, that the majority of 1 the people of Newberry county will 1 vote to sustain the dispensary. I c shall not believe to tihe contrary until the vote is taken and shows diffen ently. What higher endorsement could a man have who is at the head - of the state dispensary than the elec - tion by the best farmers of his county 1 of him to head an institution for them. If he is corrupt in one, why put him at the head of the other? H as your dispensary at Newberry been run right, being run as it is by a man who for four times received your end.ci rsement as a judicial officer. and whoi up to this day had never taken ,: dirp oi lignor? Then I will ask : everyx hing is run and handled well m Nwbrry, whyv not continue. W m. n: rsponile for wvhat is done n 1the part" 4i the state. We wvill he respoih! ~be to man and t. G ,4, to -h'nw.men and t, the chtildren. it. ;n hel namte of prohibition. we substi rute drug-store bar rooms, blind ti :~r h pr.mtion of any defeated ef Se- ieeke ~~r, iupon a new platform. but or the best interest of yourself and voo'r fellow man. Cole. L. Blease. Of Two Systems, Which? The Christian Appeal. IExforts to bring the question "Dis pensary or No Dispensary" to a popu lar vote are being taken in one or two counties. Th.e thoughtful individual1 will inquire: "Why this issue; will it settle the liquor question in -South Carolina or even the counties where the majority may be against the Dis pensary?" By the hiighest l'aw of the land we are a liquor selling people. However < humiliating it may be; deplore it as t we may it is nevertheless a fact. Un- t der that law two systems of sales are I provided for. One is known as the Dispensary system; it is now in op- I eration. 'lihe other is known 'as the License system; in its present formt if the Dispensary is voted out by he people will that act secure for us )rohibi:ion? We contend that it will iot. therefore we have insisted from he very beginning of the discussion f this matter that the vote should )e taken on the broader and truer inestion. "Liquor or no Liquor." Lf a vote should be taken on that juc;ion and the majority should vote igainst liquor that would exclude li :uor under either system and give us )rohibition : but a majority vo:e igainst the Dispensary does not affect :he question of license at all. The :wo systems are separate and distinct. The provisi,-ns of the Constitution ,t'hich provide for a license system are as follows: The General Assem by may license persons or corpora :ions to manufacture and sell and re :ail alcoholic liquors or beverages ~ithin the State under such rules and restrictions as it deems proper. Pro ided: That no license shall be grant d to sell alcoholic beverages in less :uantities than one half pint, or to cll them between sundown and sun 7ise, or to sell them to be drunk on the premises. Thi: license system .ands in tact aft,r the Dispensary ias been voted out. The great and chici objection here :oiore advanced against the Dispen ;arv was that the State was engaged n the business. Bu: supposing the Dispensary is voted out and the li :ense system is fallen back upon, which will certainly ae tihe case, will :he relation of the State to the traffic :e changed? Will it leave the traffic >n a higher moral plane and the coun :ry in better condition? We do not :hink so; under the Dispensary sys :em the State sells thro' tihe dispenser. Under the license system the State 3uthorizes the individual to sell-in ne the State retains the management d control; in the other the State arms out the privilege to the indi cidual for gain. The State is still a >arty to t'he traffic. The relation of the State to the :raffic is the same under either sys :em; the moral questi-on is the same. Let us crompare the two systems: t. The State retains the manage mnent and control under the Dispen arv system, under tl-e License sys :em the State parts with it; the State ,vill not and does not sell after sun .own and before sun rise; the indi cidual may do it: the State does not fter inducements to buy. the indi ~idual will do it: the State will not sell n less quantities than the law pre ecribes. the individual may: the State sili no t allow pool and billiard rooms a co):mlection w i: h dispensaries, the n Jividutal can and probably will. the Matet respect 5 and enfo'rces the law. h-: indliv: inal wvil 1evade it. Every .iecti'na:le ieatu:re f the old har -. n can and( will probably be grafted. I mt hie License system. \'xTat pow er '.a:evn a pott:! r om t hilir -'- oftheold tre tin tc u tm. S ice the R:t is ? pa rty to thei rai: uder cither sys~tm and voting tt the Dispensary wxill not giv e us rohibition it appears to us that all eason and every sound argument are n avour of government control. The return to the license system is ul of danger. Not one bar keeper in me hundred has ever obeyed the re uirements of the license law in the >ast. and they will not do it under he system provided in our Constitu ion but they will open the old sources rom which so much evil came in the >ast. Surely we cannot thave forgot soon the curse of the old system. The Law and Order league of the tate is composed of intelligent and rood men and they never contemplat d substituting the License system for he Dispensary. In their -address to he people of the State we find the ollowing language: "Especially to ecure a full and satisfactory enforce nent of the dispensary law, both Lgainst those engaged in prohibited raffic in intoxicants and tihose who acting as sworn officers of the law. p By endeavoring to secure such leg- s islation in the future as will ultimately n 1)ro'hibit the traffic in intoxic.'ts for li beverage purpose in South Carolina. F \We are agreed with the Law and rr Order league in this particular, and if a their suggesti_n were followed wise la and uncompromising efforts would secure the legislation needed to give us prohibition. n What Would You Do? {t An interesting discussion is going 1, the rounds of the press as to "what I would do if I had Rockefeller's mon- b ey." Dr. Washington Gladden tells a what he would do with it for one, and o:her popular writers join in. d "Oldest Subscriber" and "Veritas" h have also taken a hand in the game. But the frankest statement we have seen yet is the following communica ion of a subscriber to a western paper I He says: t, 'I would try first to invest every p dollar of it at 15 per cent profit. In a h year. 1 woul' foreclose all mortgages v and invest all my millions at i8 per n cent profit. In two years I ought to be able to get 20 per cent protit. This could be done by pressing all my debtors to the limit, securing I n special privileges under the laws and 0 throttling competition mercilessly. n If I got at all remorseful over ruining I small concer::s, creating widows and t orphans. rr aking workmen live like s dogs, or hogging public rights, I p could placate my conscience by trying k to buy off God by building churches d and founding colleges and libraries. f "I would live in a palace ten times r as big as I needed. I would drink t: champagne as long as my kidneys t would work; I would put the finest t delicacies into my stomach as long as s it would retain them; I would wear I the very best clothes, foreign made g preferred; I would ihave a private c yacht, fine automobiles and a private ii railroad car; I would smoke $t ci- c gars; I would live in the south in win- a ter and in the north in summer. t "My children would never have to r work or become at all useful. They n would. be taught to make 25 per cent g profit where I made 20. t; "In doing all these things I would il do just what nine men out of ten t really would do if they had Rocke- i1 feller's money." I It is not a very high ambition which I is disclosed by this correspondent, but i there .is probably a great deal of truth c in his remark that "in dloing thesea things I would do just what nine meng out of ten really would do."1 Wec ahvays think that if we weree the other fello:w, and had the other fellows opportunities, we would( make n molre of a success of t>he :thler fel-1 w '5 life than the other fellow14 ?0 I we were only the ruler ovc r ten !L- w' ni.&lit we rule wisel?Inh .e:. v~ ut in the menczime. what Polygamy Dying Out in Africa. Capetown~' correspG;adence London Exp re(ss. c Some interesting reasons why po- o lygamy among the native races of South Africa is dying out, are 'given in the report of tihe native affairs com mission. The chief who formerly glorified in the possession of 200 or 300 wives is now content with score or less. The reason for the decline of polyg - amous habits is economic. Rinder- h pest has decimated the cattle herds, and chiefs have no stock to sell or ex- c change for wives. cl 'Ilhe native headmen from King William's Town explained to the t< commissioners that a native had toe devote so much time to making a living nowadays that he had none to spare for looking after wives. Hiss large family, too, ate up all his land produced, and debarred him from making progress. Sir Marshall Clarke, resident com-y missioner of Rhodesia, took the ex- k ceptional view that the government h shm.ta -eeng tihe polygamy that revails. It is a social system, he tid. the result of which is that "every 'oman has a protector." and its abo tion would introduce pauperism. requently it is a family arrange ent; "a man does not always collect number of young wives, as is popui Lrly supposed. He inherits very iten, a number of old women." The Na:al Zulus have not an old raid among them. Every woman ecomes a wie. But even in Natal polygamy is on ie wane. There have been few po rgamous marriages since the rinder est. The man who would have ought a wife must now buy a cow :hen he has any money to spare. The chief clerk of the native affairs epartment of Cape Colony, said that i the Transkeian territories there :ere 95,222 monogamists and 27,019 olygamists. In that district, however, the native ays a tax of 1os for one wife, 205 for wo. 305 for three, and so on. He ays the first 1os dheerfully. When e thinks of the others he asks: "fs it :orth it?" and his answer is an em hatic "No!" August Designer. In evident anticipation of the ther iometer uprising. which is certain to ccur about this time o' the year, the iiscellaneous matter in the August )esigner has been kept at as low a emperature as possible. Ice is in trong demand during August, but robably not one ice consumer in ten nows the links of the chain whiclr raws the blocks of frozen water rom river or lake to the household efrigerator. It is all made clear in he August Designer. A floating oarding-house was a successful ac ality which delighted a host of self upporting women a few months ago:. t was crowded from the moment its". ang-plank was thrown out until lack f docking space forced it out of bus, ess. The scheme was too good a ne to abandon, hence the Designer ffers it for consideration to philan hropists and -others who live near ivers, lakes or bays. 'The Transfor aation of a Farm-House" gives sug estions to owners of such real es a:e, and Mary Kilsyth supplements with an interesting article on in erior furnishing. In "Domestic Life i Holland" some quaint and artistic )utch pottery and silver-ware are ertha Hasbrook writes of "The Vis ,ing Lady's Maid." and describes lu dly the accomplishments which such oung woman must hav'e at her fin 'er-tips if she would win a lucrative reli'Tood. Harriet Whitney Durbin ontributes a short story, 'Pa's pers." and T. Jenkins Hains, that (ted writer of strenuous sea stories, i"The Temptation of Tommy," tts himself in touch with the feelings ia little child. "A Vaeation Epi de," hy L. 0. Lennart. is a pastoral m ywherein fig~ure o'ne man and \''t!'"--t.c nmbination :nvariabiy 3. shouder knnts and rosettes. and Fr Princ~e and Princess B3abikins" w ateitest contriv'ances tor tne mfort of these important members f the household. Pointed Paragraphs. Time naturally fles in fly-time. Art is the mirror in which Dame ature beholds her faults. You will never do much 'good un tss y.ou begin by 'doing~ a little. At the age of forty the average man as his conscience chioroformed. Girls w$ho eag onions durin-g their urtship are taking desperate tiances. Perhaps a woman wears tight shoes enable her to forget her other mis Surly the 'eagle stamped on an mercan coin is emblematic of its grift flight. You've got to be pretty noisy about our religion to make people believe ou mean it. It is usually what a man doeste now about a woman that induces m to give the parson a job.