The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 14, 1916, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Entered at the Postcffice at New- j
mTTjt c., as 2na ciass matter.
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
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Talking about that $50,000 the legis- j
iature is going to appropriate and j
place at the discretion of the governor 1
for the enforcement of law, it suggests
to us to ask, why is a sheriff and
why rural policemen and magistrates
and magistrates constables? If they
are not for the enforcement of law and
order, why are they? So far as Xewberry
county is concerned we believe
the local officers in the county and
towns can and will enforce the prohibition
law and all others, and do it
better and with less friction than to
have a lot a state constables around.
In fact if we are not mistaken, the
grand jury of this county at the re- j
cent term of the court commendedj
Sheriff Blea^e and his dep-uties on their i
"work in the matter of law enforcement, j
If we believe in local self- government;
why not practice it and put it up to 1
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the local officers to have law and law !
enforcement.
The report of State Warehouse Com- j
missioner Jno. L. McLaurin is a very j
valuable paper and the pity is that all |
the people can not read it. It contains
a lot of valuable information
which the people should have, and if
they had, we do not believe there
would be any opposition to the work
be is doing in behalf of the cotton
producer. In fact, we might say has
already done.
In his work he has the endorsement
of the federal reserve board and also
the endorsement of prominent New
York bankers, anu there can be little
doubt that it was through his efforts
and the state warehouse plan that the
farmer, and the small farmer, has
been able to get 6 per cent money on
his warehouse receipt on a fair valuai
tion for his cotton.
And then 'ne lias reduced the insur- ^
ance on the cotton, and especially on
cotton stored in the country.
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We hope to print in our next issue ^
a good synopsis of this report.
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From what the reporter lias to say of 1
the power of the eloquence of Mr. Eugene
S. Blease one would about con- *
elude that he has missed his calling, *
though a mighty good lawyer, but he
might have accomplished a whole lot
fr\y t Vin t"qoq if Vin Via/1 /Ipvrttpfl 'hie tal- ^
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ents to the calling of sinners to re- *
pentance. ,
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Mr. liicLaurin in his report as ware- J
house commissioner to the legislature 1
commends the assistance given him by
a number of bankers in this state in
his efforts to help the farmers finance
their cotton, and among the number he
mentions Mr. B. C. Matthews of the
National Bank of Newberry. It is a
proper recognition because it will be
recalled that Mr. Matthews of the National
bank was the first banker in (
this section to oome out and offer *
money to the farmer on his ware- 4
liouse receipt at 6 per cent interest. '
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We notice that the wa/s and means
committee of the house has passed a ]
resolution not to let the appropriation
bill exceed two million dollars at this {
session. Well, if they had done that 1
at the last seeeion and lived up to it J
the task would have been much easier
this year. Your new departments are ]
now going and you will have to keep ;
them morriag, and they all require <
more money the second year than the
first. The bill this year will be nearer "
three million than, twa
Fifty thousand dollars it is proposed
d give Governor Manning to use in
fiia discretion in the enforcement of *
the whisker law. (That's a nretty nice '
little sum, and should give him considerable
power. !We have never un- '
derstood why there should be Buch
terrible effort to enforce one law and
let others be observed more in the
breach than in the observance. The
prohibition law should be much easier
of enforcement now than it would have '
been, or was, some years ago. The
sentiment against the nee of whiskey
lias grown rery rapidly in the last few
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K.*:irs, and you will not find near as .
:nanv people now who care for a drink ;
us voa i'id a few years ago. As public j
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saHMieni grows in favor of a law and;
in tynipa'tliv with it the easier it is to
enforce it. But we suppose it will (
be necessary to ha>ve some extra help i
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in some oi' the counties, and that extra
help wiil cos! money, and it is just as
we'i to make uie appropriation for.it.;
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The roads have been fine and all;
that is needed now is to use the split!
log drag, and drag the roads, and fill
the holes after this rain and they will
continue gobd.
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A CORRECTION.
We regret to make errors, but when
we do we are always pleased to make
the correction. It is a little difficult
for one man to do the proof reading
and all the other things about a coun-;
| try printing office that fall to the lot1
j of an editor without occasionally mak- j
' ing an error. In an editorial comment I
on licenses by citi-es in our last issue (
we intended to write, as to the license !
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ordinance of the city, that the city at-;
tornev had told a member of the coun- j
cil that it was not necessary in his
opinion to publish the license ordi- j
nance. In some way the "not" was
omitted from the copy and we failed.
to catch it in reading the proof, though !
any one who read the article could see
from the context that the "not" was
intended to be there. We had no in- j
tention to make the article read as it.
was printed or to misquote the city j
attorney, and we take pleasure in cor- I
recting it.
We think the city attorney is mis- j
taken, but as lie is the legal adviser)
of the city council they "will of course I
take his opinion. Especially as he is j
in accord with their ideas and wishes. I
We did not intend to say or be under- j
stood as saying that the city attorney;
had been formally requested by the j
council to render an opinion. And we j
do not know that he has been asked
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for an opinion, or that he has looked (
carefully into the question. Tne charter
says they "shall publish, for at
least thirty days in each year, a notice
showing the methods of taxation adopted
by them, Laying down the rate of ,
taxation in such notice, and also pre
scribing the time when the same shall
>e payable." Now, it may he that a
license tax is not a "method of taxa-|
ion." If not, there was 110 occasion
'or council to have published the little i
lotice giving the time. There ie just <
is much law to give the rate as the jT
;ime. But what council says goes, and |c
ill we tax payers can do ie to pay.
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There was another little error in the
local column that was annoying. We
made the reporter speak of the "new' j
I'lerk at the Savoy as the "near" clerk.
Errors are always annoying, but they
will get in, however caretful you
may be.
That is a 'very interestingg statement
which The Herald and News j
prints today from ex-Sheriff J. G. Long
yt Union. And yet Mr. Manning proclaimed
the fact that it would his
effort to do away with factionalism in
Lhis state.
Well, we knew long ago that that
was all talk and buncombe, and that
tie was out Heroding Blease in factionalism,
though he did not have the auiacity
or the courage to come out and
proclaim it from the housetop as
Bleas-e did. fWlhen lie blacklists Sheriff
Long he is making a blacklist that "will
make a mark. Sheriff Long says he
accepts the challenge and vi$l 'try to
entertain him as best I can.'*
Sheriff Long is one of the strongest
men in his county, and is veil known
throughout the state, and it does seem
that the governor after asking the
Union bar to recommend a man for
magistrate and then getting that recommendation
and also the endorsement
oi 11. Dj me union county delegation,
would not have let partisan politics
control him in so small a matter as
the appointment of a magistrate, especially
when his slogan has been
"away with partisan politics." Sheriff
Long has his war paint on evidently,
and has taken up the challenge thrown
down by the governor and he will likely
meet the governor Piiilippi.
In looking over the list of goveraora ji
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of South Carolina it will be seen that '
two Mannings have filled the position,
and then we think one of the Governcrs
Richardson was an ancestor of the
] resent governor, and non^ of them
held the office longer than one term.
It may be that th?y were not candidates,
but it seems to be a family
fashion to retire after one term.
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MADE I P WITH HANDSHAKES i
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L.?>vrer E. S. HIease Makes Eloquent
aud Earnest Plea for Peace and !
Ends Possible Feud.
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! Monday afternon and extending into
j the night, Magistrate Player's court
! was crowded to its capacity. The spec- !
j tators listened with wide eyes and J
| open mouths as the witnesses were ex-1
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I ? ~ A 4-Vi 1 n iTM'Arf nl 4 V? /-\ i -y?
cVJiU Liic ianjuio pia; cu intii I
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highly interesting legal game. Two
well-to-do and highly respected citizens
of the county, whose sons had
gotten into trouble with each other
during the Christmas holidays, sat in
the room. Damaging charges and
counter charges were made as the trial
progressed. On the magistrate's desk i
lay a large blue steel ^revolver whose
ugly looking and frowning muzzle
se med to point at the reporter no
matter where he stood in the room.
The all-fired thing looked capable of I
reducing a fort by itself apd seemed j
to grow larger every time the reporter
looked in its direction.
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The smoke of battle was in the room
?some might have thought it was
cigar smoke?and an uneasy feeling
was apparent on almost every face.
Finally, after all t'ne witnesses were
examined the lawyer for one side made
a strong plea in defense of the rights
of his client. Then preacher Eugene
S. Blease, counsel for the other side,
took the floor. He declared in eloquent
and ringing flights that tihe parties to^
this controversy ought to be asliamed
of themselves for allowing their passions
and prejudices to so far lead
them from the sacred paths of friend
ship and neighborly feeling for the
other. He warned the fathers against
the manner in which they were rearing
their sons, and if tiiey did not get together
and stop it that some day one j
of those sons would be brought home
wounded and bleeding unto death and
the other would find his son in a prisoner's
dock charged with murder. He
pleaded with them to make peace with
each other then and there, and as he
held up his hand the warring factions
grabbed each other other in friendly
oand clasp and promised to forget the
animosities of the past and to dwell
in peace and neighborly relation with
?ach other in the future. fi
To tihe profound relief of. the reporter,
the big, ugly revolver which by 1
his time had taken on the proportions ]
>f a big Krupp seemed to shrink to its 1
lormal size and disappeared from the
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center of the stage. It had been in- '
:roduced by one of the parties as evi- ]
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President.
UNITED STATES
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dence in the testimony.
While Blease was conducting the
aand shaking and calling others to repentance,
Magistrate Player, "with "big
ters in his eyes, offered up the atonement
by committing the warrants to
:'ne sacrificial flames.
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THE CURRENCY
JSINESS DEC. 31, 1915
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