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I «*- 'I if 0 SUPPORT SCOTT'S EMULSION hrkN|e to corry th* starved system along until K firm support in ordinary fond. Send tor free SCOTT * BOWNE, errwa He*fi Street, }«C aadSi4»i iUt at a Net* York. PUBLIC MORALS. Editor’s Responsibility—Not Only Editor in Is, but Pictures end Ads., Should Be Scrutinized. By J. W. WHITE Editor end Proprietor of the Florida Fraternal Record, Jack* •onville. [From an address delivered before the k Florida Pi ess ahsociation at Ocala, May -’y.) To those of us—and we are still a nifthty army—-whobelieve in the Jar ger thought of God and the powerful iurcet of his uni verse, who seek the freer step, the fuller breath, the greater faith and the stronger hope, there is a desire to • promote and to secure purity, higher, nobler, health ier living, public spirit, true piety, honest business methods and pa triotism m the hearts of men. Our readers are entitled to the thought that will make them better and hap pier as well as more intelligent. ] I Hr lie ve in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the salvation of the race by character and the prog ress of mankind upward and onward forever, and 1 preach it. 1 know that the editor of today whoj se^kstolead men in the right di-1 reeiion must deal with facts. He must be. practical and in earnest. He mutt keep in touch with the world. His heart as well as his head must be right and his spirit in tone with the infinite. The editor who realizes his responsibility in the matter of public morals will exercise the greatest care in the selection of every picture, ad vertisement or editorial that finds place in his publication. / What a poor world this woujd be withont pictures! I refer'to your mfehi- ory and mine when I ask if your knowledge of ihe Holy Scriptures has not been enlarged by the woodcuts or engiavings in the old family Bible out of which father and mother read and laid on the table in the old home stead when you were boys and girls. The Bible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not got by reau mg the Bible, bnt from the Bible pic tures. What is true of the Bible pic tures is true ol the pictures in that old spelling book of my boyhood, and what is true of the lasting impres sions made by the pictures in these two books is true in a large measure of the newsjiaper cut* of tne present day First paiuters pencil for the favored few, tken engravers plate for the thousands, and now the beautiful half tone cuts for the millions. Let no book or paper in America contain a single pictnre that will deprave. Have nothing that will familiarize the young with scenes of crueity or intemperance. Have those pictures j that eievate and refine and none of 1 those scenes that seem the product | of artistic delirium tremens or ihe poorlv paid advertisements of some cheap whisky house. One engraving may decide an eternal destiny." I did not select thissubj et of “Kdi tonal Responsibility lu tne Matter of Public Moral,” and so 1 am going to tell you right here tonight, in a spirit of truth, what I honestly conceive to be one of the greatest evils of the age, and in this connection let me implore my brother Mlitors to give me credit for honesty of purpose rather th*n criticism for criticism’s sake. The oresent day immorality is largely due to the spread of intemper ance. The dealer in rum is hard pressed by all classes of society. I he church of the living God has loug ago excluded him. Our great fra ternal societies have barred their doors aguinsi him. He is crowded out ot business and society circles arid left to roam as an outcast, the better ORANGEBURG “Institute) a J^AKKNIS EDUCATE YOL^K CHILDREN. YOCR BOYS ^ AND GIRLS. \4 l Healthful Locatioil Conservatory of Music, u Strong Faculty, Art—Five Courses, Full English Branches, Military Discipline, Stenography and Typewriting, Ancient Languages, ]jatin and Greek, Sewing and Cooking Classes, Modem l-anguageg, French and German. Expenses Moderate. M PARENTS kEND YOUR ADDRESS FOR ( ATALOGUE. J W. S. PETERSON, Pre*., Orangeburg, S. C XXXSXXA & A A A A A A A A A A A t— * WALTERBORO HOTEL • * <3. A. eiGKAFUDT, Prop. . Centrally located. Good Fare. Clean beds. % Hacks meftts all trains. Livery stable in yard ad joining. Rates, transients, $2.00 per clay. * Single meals, 50 cents. Dinner served 1.30 to 3.00 p. m. Special rates by tne week or month. > ************************** ^ * Jones Carbonating Co., $ W. E. JONES, Proprietor. WALTERBORO, . - - , - Half a block from Depot. S. C. Bottling Works and Ice Cream Parlor. All soft drinks manufactured and sold by retail and whole- sale. Shipped to all parts of County. element everywhere disowning him, and still 6ur ij*nv t papers ^ture filled with advertisements of his liquid damnation. The saloon is a relic of ^barbarism, and but for the greed that many have for money it would l»e sent back to the pit from whence it came If a thief or burglar enters my home by night and steals my property and if I should call for help, the city marshal and the jK>lice force would be at my command. My neighbors would rally to assist in bringing that theif to insiice. This is right A saloon may be opened in my town, enter the sacred precincts of the home take its brightest and best son a id daughter, make them drunkards or a drunkard’s wife. The police power of the state is asked to protect that home, but they say the * saloon must run to get revenue to pave our streets and to light our cities. In order that the saloon may run somebody’s boy must become a drunkard and some body’s daughter must become a drunkards wife. Will not the peop’e of Florida, aided by the press, pat upon the statute'books some law by whi^'i a man's family may be protect ed from the ravages of the taloon, equally strong with that which says that we shall have protection from thieves and burglars? .1 am not lik* my good friend, Past President McBeath, who so eloquent ly portrayed the evils of the times and told in a tone of despair of the in-1 crease of crime in a very able paper rsad at our last annual session. 1 believe that we are living under very bright skies. „Of all the centu ries this is the best century, and of all the years of the century this is the best year. Although 1 may sjieak ol griefs and wrongs, it is with a full be lief that there is a jiower in the news papers of America that can cure any thing and everything. The world is very much what we make it. 'i he most of the things of this life may be set to music, but the editor sometimes gets the wrong tune and sings “Wind ham” when he ought to set things to the glorious music of “Coronation.” Happy is ihe man that even under leaden skies looks for the blossoming bouquet; helping and inspiring the editor who fills his editorial columns with the thought that in a world where there §re v so much beauty and order we should no»; complain, but j rees on to higher uud better things, j x>th m iterial ami spiritual. i We must not be too harsh iu our 1 criticism of others. With live hundred | faults of our own we ought to let the ! other fellow have at least one I am ! afraid that the imperfections of other ieople will kill one or two of our good ’dorida editors >et. How much better, like the sun, to distribute light and cheer wherever we look. How much more helpful to teach love for human ity, faith in the power, wisdom and goodness ot the all wise Father,hope for a life immortal and a belief in unseen forces which must ire cultivates and strengthened if man would come into possession of the rral life. As editors we must let our lights shine “that others may see our good works and glorify onr Father which is in heaven.” Let us note iu our editorials the encouraging fact that the world is growing better.* Why, less than eighty years ago the governor of New York state had to disband the legis lature because of its utter corruption! Think of Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States; think of leaders like Dean Swift and Sterne; think of the corn huskings and the dances when everybody got drank and never went home until morning! Then I want you to note the fact that the world is coming under the domination ot the intelligent radts; that men have a greater love for liberty, law and progress. Among the encouraging signs of our time are the unparalleled develop menta*of the earth material resources. Year by year the world’s harvests in crease, the cornfields are more golden and the granaries more crowded. Wherever we go we see the progress of civil and religious liberty. We be hold the printing presses without censorship, and the Bible/ God’s lest gift td'nwtti, without Arbitrary inter pretation by some good old orthodox brother who believes in a God of moods, who is mad one day and pleased the next, and a hell that is several degrees too hot to be comfor table. And we must not forget m this feast of good things the great institutions of learning, the powerful churches, the great fratenial and charitable organisations and the millions of lo^d men with the qmck brain, the brawny arm and the hope ful heart who are ever striving for the best In dosing permit me to My that, in my judgment, the great demand of today is for the strong; vigorous, posi tive editor who has opinions and a r Special Clubbing Rates The Press and Standard and jNews and Courier (twice a week) $1.50. The Press and Standard and Southern Cultivator $1.50. The Press and Standard News and Courier and Southern Cultivator $2.00 Subscribe Now. will, the editor who has the courage to lead and the grit to stand by his convictions. This age of commercialism, with its tremendous pressure upon every one; this day of fierce excitement in onr great financial centers, this hour of brilliant achievements that lure us on to still greater victories, calls tor editors who are true to the core, editors who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, editors in whom the current of life runs deep and strong, editors who neither brag nor run, editors who are not for sale and hate greed and“graft as the devil is said^to hatewholy water. If we keep Lowell’s beautiful thought always in mind that Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of ue may write His word or two, and then comes night. we shall seek to educate the world to a higher standard of living, we shall stimulate men to seek wisdom and goodness rather than gold and we shall learn the lesson taught so many centuries ago that he is the greatest who serves the best Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatso ever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be anv praise, think upon these thmgF,—The American 1’ress. WOFFORD COLLEGE. Established in 1794. Oldest Firm in Amc-ie D. A. WALKER a CO numALU u i i 1_; J i *447 '• 44"* ^ 'rH‘V'7 - ^ t •*- - ; l**..*. f 32 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON, SC MARBLE AND CRANITE WORKS 352CMPIF and Henry 5 Snyder, LL. D., President. Two degrees, A B and A M. 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