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E. H. AULL. EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New 4erry. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, August 2, 1907. NEXT DISPENSARY ELECTION. A subscriber, referring to the vary ing statements in the two local news papers relative to another election on the dispensary issue, asks, "When doetors differ who shall decide?" The Herald and News says: "Unless the law is changed, New berry county must refiain dry until the general election of 1910. The Observer says: "As the petition fails and there is to be no election this year, another petition may be gotten up next year -or any year until an election is or dered and held." We think The Observer is right this time; or nearer right than our cotemporary.-Observer. We are not so sure about this. Sup pose we look at the act itself and see what it says. The first part of See tion 2 is as follows: "The question whether the liquors and beverages mentioned in Section 1 of this act may be sold in any coun tv in this state shall be determined at a special election to be held in such county on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November of any year in which the general election for state and county offices is appointed by law to be held." Then in the same section the fol lowing sentence appears: "Successive elections under this section are permitted, but they shall not'be held in any one county upon the same question oftener than once in four years." Further on in the same section is the following proviso: "Provided further, That in coun ties, which have heretofore voted up on the question of dispensary or no dispensary, under existing laws, such elections shall not be held prior to the first general election held after four years from the date said coun ties vote upon said question." Of course there are several coun ties in this section excepted from the provisions of the aet and amnong them Newberry, providig that an elee tion may~ be h'eld in 1907, but the election was not held and will not be held, and, therefore, it sreems to us that we stand Sust as if the exception had not been made as to Newberry county, and stand in the column with those counties, which have had an * election "under existing laws" and do not eome under the general irovi sion of this act w'hieh permits the general election in 1908 in those counties which have not held an elec tion "under existing laws." This position is borne out by an addition al proviso to this same section, which gives to Laurens and Edgefield the right to vote on t'he question at the general election in 1908 and which counties heretofore held elections "under existing laws." We are still of the opinion that our interpretation of the act is correct, and so far as Newberry county is concerned now, we cannot have an other election until the general elee tion succeding four years from the date of the election, which was had in * this ,county, by which the dispensary was voted out, and that will post 'pone the election to the general slee tion of 1910. Of course the legisla ture might change or amend the law between now and that time just as it gave us the right to vote this year when the agreement was that we should not vote for four years on the . question from 1905. WISDOM IN THE FARMERS' UN ION. . When the -State Farmers' UTnion at * Greenwood passed the resolution obli gating its members not to employ farm hanids already in the employ 'of members of the Union, it took the wisest, most necessary and most prae tical step possible for the immediate improvement of labor conditions in the state. Whatever difficulties embarrass the employing farmers in the manage ment of their labor a.re largely attri butable to the short-sighted selfish mness of some of their own class. Wherever a community is composed of employers who are upright men, willing to deal fairly with their neigh bors- and to respect their neighbors' rights, labor troubles are relatively few. It is the ocmmunity containing one or two Or more farmers who dis regard the interests of their associates that soon becomes demoralized and in which disorders arise, eventually re su!ting in the discontent of the lah ar.ers anid causin2 them to seek other field. The evi! of~ enticine away laborers mider contract may he partly reme i heb the eantment of new statutes. F'eathers!tol"e diat labior vM11%let" be IT"le l l l a- vale. ])II1,11Cth evil willI nio be finlally and fully cured except thr0n.il the ( o't a Spirit of courteous and fair dealing betNween the employers. No employer who has self-respect, who observes the rules that obtain among gentlemen in their mutual relations, could bring himself to abet. a laborer in breaking a con tract existing with another person, and the purpose of the Farmers' Un ion is to educate its entire member ship to this obviously sound and right standard of conduct. The farmer, whether a member of the Union or not, who is unwil-ling to observe a rule so wise is not only a source of injury to the farming industry, but in the end injures himself. When the labor question is proper ly and fairly settled, for the time at least, through the establishment of the habit of every farmer to observe and remember the duties which he owes to his fellows, the benefit will, of course, inure to all. The Farmers' Union can concen trate its powers for usefulness on nothing that promises greater good to the agricultural people of the state than in urging them to obey the reso lution which has been adopted at the meeting in Greenwood.-News and Courier. The Herald and News took occas ion in Tuesday's paper to eommend the action of the Farmers' Union on this labor question, and we take pleas ure in printing in this connection the editorial endorsement of the Charles ton News and Courier. There is little donbt that if the far mers would they could very largely settle this vF.ed question among themselves without the aid of legis lation, and, in fact, unless they do, all the legislation which may be adopted, will be more or less impotent. RAILWAY "PASSES." There is a general misconception as to what is and what is not a railway pass, or "free pass" as it is fre quently called. It seems that the pub lic, which has not the time to investi gate such things, and has little in terest in them-until it supposes that somebody is riding on "free pases" who is qot justly entitled to this pri vilege-takes it for granted that ev ery sort of paper or card presented to the conductor in lieu of a ticket or cash fare is a"ps. Under the new order of things, this is ain entirely false notion. It was .largey false-under the old order, but it is nearly always false under the new. Very few actual "free passes" are now issued, outside of the class of railway emnployes. What is issued is a sort of ticket, which is generally paid for at a much higher rate than the' regular tickets. In explainig this, The Editor and Publisher of New York quotes the following from a Nebraska paper: "The June pass list of the Union Pacific railroad shows many newspaper men who have transportation on .an advertising basis.'' It then comments as follows: " There is a bull in this item and it has not the savi'ng quality that made Sir Boyle Roche famous. "Webster 's International diction-: ary gives this: "Pass--A ticket per mitting' free transit or admission, as a railroad of theatre pass.'' In speak ing aloud the definition our idioma-. ti instinct strongly accents the word "free." "Here is the Standard dictionary''s definition of "free:'' "Without re striction; especially, without charge or cost; open; gratuitous: as, free seats; tuition free.'' "Common sense gives to words their orinary significance and common sense is the genius of mankind. When the UTnion Pacific railroad, or any -rairoad, uses t.he heading "pass list' to describe a list of newspaper pulishers with whom it has entered into contraets for .advertising the railway, upon either a cash basis or an exehange basis, its officials are lacking in common sense, or they are deficent in English language train ing, or they are liars. "Overwhemling public sentiment of the United States.has condemned the "pass'' system of railroads. Newspa per men have led this sentiment Publishers do not want "passes'' from railroads.'' Probably every so-called "pass'' issued by a railway to a newspaper is more than paid for. As amatter of fact it is not in any sense a "free pass,'' Ibut a ticket given in exehange for advertising space ink the paper, and generally the difference or balance is heavily against the newspaper. The raways have, happily, abandoned the policy of promiscuous pass-giving, and the people generally prefer to pay their way and rest under obliga tion to no man or corporation. It is a 'ood change in public sentiment and in railway policy. and one that makes mor open, fair, and nat ural the rela t!'!ns 1,en wiu the railwvays and the pulie.-The State. 'passe.' as. appli ed t ' newspapers. Tliere is i no dib)t that t1he newspa per publishIer ives the railro-mads more in advertising than he receives in tralisportatioln. and havin. purehased such transportation in a legitimate way, and with the only merchandise which the publisher has for sale, he feels just as free to criticise the rail roads when it becomes necessary or to commend them if it is deserved, as if he did not make this exchange at all. That being the case, we have never been able. to understand the reasonablenes or the justice or the legal view which the framers and in terpreters of the rate law have made -that contract could not be made with a publisher to exchange adver tising space for transportation. It has always occurred to us as limiting the right to contract and be contract ed with in a legitimate transaction. Under the rulings of the railroad com mission a publisher might go to a railroad official and accept from him $25 in money for that amount of ad vertising space and immediately turn it back to him'for a $25 mileage book, but he could not make a contract without the actual exchange of the money. We say we do not see the rea sonableness of any such law or the righteousness of the interpretation I placed upon it by the interstate com mission. We desire to cal attention to an article from the Confederate Veteran in which appears a very thrilling de scription written from the battlefield in 1S62 by a Newberrian. The letter is an exact copy, so the Confederate Veteran says, of the letter which Mr. J. Wood Davidson wrote from the battlefield to his young lady friend in Columbia, and we have no doubt that it will be read with interest. We are pleased to present on the first page of this paper a sketch of the life and services of Gen. E. A. Garlington, written by Mr. J. R. McKissick. Through the courtesy of the Colum bia State we are also permitted to print in connection with this article a cut of Gen. Garlington, the artiele together with the cut having appear ed in the Columbia State of last -Sun day. Gen. Garlington is a Newberrian and has many friends and relativ.es in Newberry, who have wateh.eg h'is course with much interest, and .3hj have been gratified with the success which he-bas attained. SHOULD EEFLECT ON TIS. The Atlantic Coast Line should re member, in connection with the peti tion of the South Carolina public in asking for parlor car service between Greenville and Charleston, that it was on the promise of the railroads of the state that they would greatIy improve passenger service that the last legislature refused to consider any act seeking a reduction of the maximum rate for passenger fare. The people of South Carolina con sider f;hat the request for the improv ed passenger service between this city and Charleston is a perfectly legiti mate and reasonable one. Will thie railroad ignore it ?-Greenville News. Have the petitions been sent in and where did they originate? We are on ly askings for imformation. We agree with the News that if the railroads desire to avoid drastic legislation they should deal frankly and considerate ly with the public. This.request for a parlor car between Greenville and Charleston is reasonable and just. There is no other line in 'the state that has a heavier passenger traffic, andwe believe if the request is placed properly before the authorities for this service it will be granted. A peti tion may have gone up from New berry afong with the others but if one has been gotten up here we have not seen it. The Hon. 0. B. Martin, state sup erintendent of education, does not seem to be pleased that Gov. Anse] should exercise the right wvhich is given him under the law of appoint ing members of the state board of education. Mr. Martin is rather severe in his criticism of the governor in this parti elar. and, as it seems to us, without just cause. As we recall the law, it does not require that all members on the state board of education should be school teachers, and in fact, in that particular we rather thing the law is wise. It is to our mind probably better that all of the members of the board should not be school men, and cer tainly Mr. Martin is not justifiable in his eriticism. wvhich he has made of the action of Gov. Ansel. Rails and Horses. iWn the late Georze Franeis Tran ws iving evidence before the Metropolitan b)oar]d of Al dermn of jonon, in favo(r of hi- schieme fe' ayi. a trmway up Ludgate hill. a nole)lla lor( a Ilis interlocutors suddenly fixed the old pioneer with his monoele and said.: "Alav I--ah-ask a question. Mr. ah-Train -?' "Tliat is what I am here f"r, my lLord,'' he replied. " You know, of course, how very narrow is Ludgate hill. Suppose that when I go down to the Mansion house in my carriage one of my horses should slip on your-rails and break his leg, would you pay for the horse'? The reply -came like a flash. "My lord, if you could convince me that your-horse would not have fallen if the rails had not been t'here I cer tainly should pay.' '-Harper's Week ly. Where He Went Wrong. Louisville Courier-Journal. Frederick Seymour Barrington is to be hanged. He is a well-witted Britisher, who thought there was more money in being a bogus lord and murderer than in being a politi cal grafter or a frenized financier. Our Powerful Allies. Milwaukee Sentinel. The profound Berlin Tageblatt stlates thatin the event of war between the United States and Japan, Mexico' and hor navy will at once -upport the United Stat-es. Yes, and Panama and her army, too. It looks 'bad for Japan. FOR SALE-A fine Saluda County farm 180 acres; seventy five clear ed. balance woods. Will cut 150.000 feet lumber.Good five room dwell ing. 3 tenant and necessary out houses. .For particulars write S. B. Holley, Leesville, S. C. Itaw-3w-fridays. 8-2 WANTED OLD PIANOS AND ORGANS for which we will allow the highest prices towards now Instruments. No Club rates to offer, but we Pledge better Instruments for he same or less money, than those at club rate offers. Write Maloies Music House, Co lumbia, S. C., for special prices -and terms. FOR SALE OR RENT. 185 acres of lan drying partly in 8alada' and partly in Lexington counity and on Saluda river will sell or rent.echeap-has about fifty acres of well'tiiber-takd. For other infor maation' apply to JAL D. F. . Nichols, Route 4,. Leesville, S. C. R.esidence 2, miles from Simpson ferry. ~ 2t-pa WAGOl -Just received, 2 1-2 and 2 3.4\ we will sell thes It's the strongesi Wagon on the rr Buggi We carry but ( ufactured by The ville, Ga. 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