TIHM MANN1G TIMES. 1 LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, December 19, 1S94. Pe-ce Without Sacrifice. The Columbia State of the 17th instart will have it that "The Man ning Tines, which may be consid ered the best reflector of Congress man McLaurin's views," is afraid to come out and name the "pie-hunters and place-grabbers" it referred to in its last issue. We desire to inform the State that the editor of this paper does not wait to learn the views of Congressman McLaurin or anybody else, but should his views meet with the approval of Congressman Mc Laurio, it is a source of gratification to know it. In our editorial of last week we ex pressed the hope that the people would come together and we are sin cere in that hope. We do not pro pose to go back to find who is re sponsible for the division among the people, but we are going to make our tight to restore peace in the ranks of the white Democracy in this State, and we will succeed if not thwarted in our purpose by extremists who - will see no good in the Reform movement, and who stand up in the Senate chamber and hurl "war to the knife" into the teeth of Reformers that offer the olive branch of peace. The Manning Times did "repel with indignation the intimation that McLaurin had betrayed the Reform movement," as such papers as the Headlight endeavored to make it ap pear. McLaurin wrote a letter ad dressed to the editor of the Times, and in it he gave expression to his views on certain matters of public concern, which every man has the right to do. There was nothing in the letter that showed betrayal, but on the other hand there was a.-great deal in it that showed McLaurin was on the watch tower--oking out for danger.,. Whie we first read the let terwe did not approve of some of the exoressions he used, but when we learned that his references to "squedunks" meant men, who to catch popular applause, were trying to imitate Governor Tillman, we agreed with him that instead of the people taking up imitators they should seek men with merit of their own. But the last campaign is a thing of the past, and there is no use in sifting old ashes. What the peo ple are interested in now is the fu ture, and instead of those newspap ers that formerly opposed everything suggested by the Reformers continu ing such a policy, we hope they will come with us and join in to bring about a better state of feeling than now exists. The Manning Times is a strong be liever in the principles of the Reform movement, because it believes those principles are founded on right, and while we are anxious to see the white people of this State a unit in senti ment, we do not want to see the Re formers sacrificing those principles for the sake of peace. Peace can be obtained without the least sacrifice of principle, and it must be. The cause of our differences is not that our principles are wrong, but becaflse a few politicians in and out of officei find it to their personal interests to keep the people as wide apart as pos sible with turmoil and strife, just as a scandal-monger goes from one to another in a community spreading discontent. The time is at hand for people to know' who are true Reformers, or Re formers-for-revenue-only, and if they2 will sift out the Reformers from the others, the war that has been on us for the past four years will be at an end. Father will again meet son ini loving embrace, brother will greeti brother with a warm grasp of the< hand, and neighbors will again meet at the cross-road store to swap lies and tobacco. Those members of the legislature that opposed the resolution yester day.inviting President Cleveland and his party wvho are now visiting the State to visit the General Assembly during his stay among us simply mnadt asses of themselves, but fortu nately for the decency of South Caro 'lina, only two or three opposed the resolution of common politeness. A Complimentary Letter. Manning, S. C., Dec. 1'7, 1894. Editor The Manning Times:- i I have read with pride, pleasure, interest and gratitude, your timely, eloquent and peaceful editorial, which gives such wholesome advice to the people of South Carolina. My dear sir, though we differ on some points which admit of argument and opinion, we have ever met together and voted alike at the polls, neverthe less. It is often the case that men differ on public polity, yet they work in the same cause, because unity is demanded for the public welfare. * Appreciating such an end, you have wisely and patriotically held out to t'2e gaze of all concerned in the pros pErity and happiness of our distractedC State, "the olive branch," as the basis of brotherly patriotism, love and union. What can be a more nobler spirit than the peacemaker? Not only does he merit the thanks of the patriot, but he can also lay claim to the blessing of his God. The constitutional conventibn just ahead of us, ought, as you advise, be composed of patriots, rather than of partisans. If only our patriotic citi zans compose that August assem blage who are to meet in our capitol a: our seat of government, all will be welil. But otherwise, new differences of opinion may arise, which may be s >adverse to our future union, that a-iother constitutional conventioni may be the result of some other party iai the distance. We should remem-i ber that our present one-sided con stitution is the sole cause of our call-2 ing a constitutional convention. If 1 Carolinians will be wise and prudent, the v will follow strictly v-onr most ex c ellent and patriotic a - -y If a consituton be adopted -.i.. .. willi orce the- white people into unity, ;uch clapping of hands and shouting .or joy will be heard all over our now livided State, as that we will be re minded of the grand and glorious Washingtonion Revolution, and its most happy termination. My dear ir, you are right in position and in opinion, and unanswerable as to ar gument. Though you respect and contend for the present good of South Carolina, yet you have not been unmindful of her future, and other generations which must suc ceed each other. Senator B. R. Till man, on a memorable occasion, pro phetically said: "We cannot afford to divide." No man ever uttered a more statesmanlike sentiment than that one of his. No one can doubt the statesmanlike ability of our new U. S. Senator. He can now afford to lay aside the politician, as he must henceforth wear the robe and the dignity of the sage. We must unite as a people if we would have our old ship of State ever manned by our own fellow-citizens, who can then proudly announce to the world that South Carolina shall ever be their own dear inheritance in the present and the future as she has been in the past. Our fathers left her to their own natural children by a deed of in heritance, though those who by con quest have presumed to blacken her fair face forever if they can. God forbid that they should succeed in their unholy crime against their own race. Harmony and union alone as you have advised so wisely, can save us from the most damnable State government of which the human mind can possibly conceive of. Let our contemplated constitution then be of such a statesmanlike character as that it will admit of no changes or amendments in future time, Let us take heed by the warnings of your polished pen if we would be wise. This is no time for quarrelling or threats, taunts or ridiculing. Such nonsense may answer the ends of heartless partisans, but could serve no good purpose in a constitutional convention. It has now become both a matter of necessity and patriotism with us. We should vote like free men. Every citizen should knock any man down who would dare so grossly insult him as to electioneer him for his vote. Let the people do the voting thenselves without any outside assistance, and we then will have a constitutional convention com posed of men who will have their own political snuff-boxes at hand. That is the way to do this business if we would wish to see the people of South Carolina united and free as were our fathers who deeded our State and country to white men in letters of blood, written with pen f libertv. I thank you, my dear sir, for bay ing dared to discharge your duty in this solemn hour of our division, o independently of party proclivities. Gon in the good work, and may God both bless and speed you in our creditable efforts. Your friend and fellow-citizen, Joiis L. E.WrERLING. N. B.-My congratulations to the Eon. J. L. McLaurin. Sam Jones on the D~ispenisary. The good people of Georgia, Tennessee mud other States are now demanding of :heir legislatures such laws as, in their udgement, will conduce the restriction or extermination of the whiskey traffic within :he borders of these States. The legislature or Georgia has under dis :ussion a new bill to turn the liquor traffic >ver to dispensaries, Land it seems to be ianging fire a little. It has always astonished mue that when egislation against this, the worst enemy of sod and man, is proposed how some men il stand up in respectable audiences and sk for time to deliberate, and time to ~onder, and timec to discuss a question that ny man with sense enough to go in out of shower of rain could settle by walking he streets of Atlanta, Ga., or Nashville, enn., from T'oelock in the morning till 0O o'clock at night and watch the ingress ~gress of saloons and determine in a mo nent's time that the open saloon is the open ~ateway to hell.. I have no patience with the "ws states nen" and ".conserv~ative Politicians" who rant to mature their thought and act in the est interest of humanity whenever tem erance legislation is suggested by their :ompeers. I have just returned from a hurried trip brough South Carolina. I spent one day nd a night in Sumter. In company with one of the pastors in :he city I visited a dispensary. I went ;hrough it. I saw it. The dispinsary of Sumter is a nice store oom in the centre of the city, with all the >ottles and demijohns labeled an d sealed iitting up on the shelves. At the front door of the dispensary there s a place cut off with pickets, something hke an insurance or real estate office, about en feet square. This is the only part of the ~uilding the publbe can enter. Liquor is old by the dispensary keeper, from a half int bottle to four gallons and three quarts o any individual. It opens at seven in norning and closes at six in the evening. ?here is no loafing, or drinking, or treat ng within the dispensary. As bad as this may be, it is a thousand >er cent. better than the open saloon with ts hangers on, with it., young men going . destruction and the old bums making it heir rendezous. I am no advocate of the ispensary. I have fougLt whiskey in all ts forms for fifteen years. I fight under black flag. I show no quarters to, nor ak any quarters of, the whiskey traffic. :t has left its scar on nie. It has invaded the precincts of the homes >f my loved ones and made some of them ear the stripes. I am conscious of the power of the whis :ey traffic. I know how parties and poli icians tremble when the whiskey traffic hakes its fist, I know its power to lobby, know its power to buy. Whenever and rherever any State in this Union shall have n unpurchasable and unbulldozable legis 3ture, then we shall have laws for the >rotection of home and we will get such egislation as will retire the whiskey traffic, 'r exterminate it. I know itis asource of revenue to the tates, cities and towns, but it is a most olemn fact that whiskey has never paid its ray anywhere. It takes more to police it, to control it so called), to punish its offences and its riminals than it ever paid in revenues to my State or to any conmmunitv. I know that the closing of the saloon dii esary does not shut off the whiskey traf ic. It is an infernal species of lawless iess and the crowd who traffic in liquor ill sell liquor until they are in hell a-fry ng, but we must acknowledge the fact that nherver blind tigers live they are a re lection upon every sworn officer and a dir race to the prosecuting attorneys, grand urors and judges whose duty it is to ar -ign and punish them. Whenever you find blind tigers you will id that perjury camps all around them, md I verily believe that any man who will >uy and drink blind tiger liquor will swear Slie in any court as black as perdition tself. We may talk of election laws and fair lections and all that sort of thing, but mine-tenths of the debauchery of the ballot oxes can be traced to liquor. There is no fact clearer to my mind than bat nine-tenths of the corruption in poli-I ics and social life. against~which moralists: roclaim and which newspapers denounce traffic as its prime cause. Why men can't see this and why they don't know this is a myster" I can't solve. I have lived in a dry town for were than ten years, There is no such things in Cartersville, nor has there been for years, such a thing as a local blind tiger. Oc casionally a I -w down negro or ower down white man will peddle it arovad the out skirts of the town out of a jug, but nine tenths of them are caught and punished, as the records of our courts will show. A local blind tiger that you can scent or see is as unknown and unheard of in Cartersville, Ga., as n ice factory in Greenland. We have adjusted ourselves to all the conditions of a dry town. A few old bums still get their jugs by express, but, poor fel low, they will soon be dead and gone. We are not raising a young crop to per petuate the jug trade, I trust. after our old bums are dead. Gentlemen of the jury, do your duty; don't listen to the whines and cries and hypocrisy of the gang who will cry: "What will we do if we cut off this reve nue?" "If we don't have saloons we will have blind tigers." "Mor(' whiskey is sold in dry towns than wet towns." Every where it has ever been tried it has proven a failure." Do your duty before God. and the good people of the State wi'l stay by .you, arl the mothers and wives of the country mill call you blessed. -SAM P. Jo.NE in Augusta Chronicle. A Farmer's Views. REHOBOTH. Dec. 8.-Once there were two brothers, tillers of the soil. Jack most every year had corn to sell and seemed to be gradually climbing the financial ladder. Bill was a corn buyer about the plant ing season. Jack goes to see his brother Bill, and as was usually the case asked his brother if he was through planting, upon which he in formed him that he was. Jack seeing a good piece of land that was not planted says-to Bill, "Why don't you plant that field in corn?" "Oh," says he, "I can't tend it." "Well," says Jack, "you plant it and I will try and befp vou." Upon this en couragement Bill plants the field. When the busy time came on and the grass began growing Bill calls on Brother Jack for help. "By Jove," says Jack, ". am so pushed up now I can't, but you just go ahead and do all you can, and I will help you as ,soon as I ean." So Bill kept pushing on. After a while lie calls on Jack again, only to hear the same song. So Bill tended the crop without Jack's help. and the next year Bill did not have any corn to buy. Now, brother farmers, let's plant more corn and other grain and less cotton and not have any corn to buy. We have often heard it said, "Show me a inan with a barn full of corn, and i'll show you a man with plenty of everything else necessary fora liv ing," and we believe it true. Where there is plenty of grain there is plen ty of inilk, butter, and bacon. On the other hand, show me a man that plants his entire farm in cotton and has his barn and smoke house in the West and I will show you a man liv ing on a mortgaged home or a rented one. Almost every farmer readily says that "planting cotton puts him in-debt, but I am so far in debt I cant quit planting it till I get nearer out, then I am going to cut my cot ton crop down." Well now it 'does not look very logical to us that if planting cotton is what put him in debt that continuing to plant it will bring him oat of debt. But some will say, "Well, it is not worth while for me to reduce my cotton erop un less everybody else will do like wise." Well, now, woald it not be better to do so, if it