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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL g.---NO. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. PROHIBITiON BLX KUANNa. LOOAL OPflON NOT IN FAVOR. The House Has a strong Dlspensary Leaning--The Opposition is Not Welded Together. The House considered the liquor question by taking up the various bills relating to prohibitionr, high licenee and the dispensary. McCullough's prohibition bifl and Mauldin's local I option bill became the centre of attack from thq dispensary ad vocates, and the fight was fast and furious on all sides. Mr. DeBruhl moved to strike out the e enacting words of Mr. Mauldin's local I option bill. - Mr. W. L. Mauldin, who introduced i this bill, was the first to' begin on the defensive.- He said that the liquor I problem is a vexed question. All over the State, and especially in the last election, it was and has been the domi nant question. The State has not f passed upon this question which so re lates to their internal affairs, to the peace, the ord i and sobriety of the E people. There is a law on the statute 8 ook which is offensive to the man- I hood of the State. This bill only pro- o poses to let the people decide for themselves what is best for ther. This bill goes directly to the base of the re. publican form of government. Where b can there be any objection tG it. He b wanted the bill discussed free from q any feeling or political bias. L Mr. Means said that the bill was, in t - part, h good-one. He would favor it if c the high license option were stricken h .out, and If it were provided that there o bo-one commiseioner to make inspec- v 4ion of the county dispensary. t1 Mr. 'V. J.; Johnson said that there fl was so much diversity of opinion that tj nothing will give perfect satisfaction. , The prohibitionists, local option and v dispensary advocates each claim that a its solution is the best, The history of o prohibition is an ignominious failure. c He visited Maine not long ago and t] found that whiskey was being sold A there as openly as in the South Caro- u lina dispensaries. He would necessarily - have an enormous profit to make who A would run a' nigh license establish- l( -rent, and that price would come out u of the pockets of the people. Then b too there would b- much violation of p the law. The dispensary law has en countered moi e legal obstructions than b -any law ever placed on the statute 1i books of South Carolina. But it has p run" ., gauntlet of the court of last a resort and has been declared constitu- o tional. t If there is necessity for an increased _G appropriation for any cause in South n Carolina it is education. The enor- 81 mous profits ol the dispensary are w devoted to that purpose. rhere are w those who say that they will not ac- v, cept revenue money for education That is ridiculous. For the United n States government is getting enormous C revenues from the same source. He t, spoke of the good moral effects ac complished by the dispensary. It has i1 stopped midnight gambols and gamb- p ling. Local option and high license u would meau a rturn no oe5u barroopns , with all its horrors. This bill is unnecessary. The peo- I ple are heartily sick of elections. If t they want-an expression from the peo- b p tL..have had it time after time. From tie rillman-Butler campaign it I has been discus-ed in overy campaign il and the dispensary has come out p victorious. But for the vacillating r policy and extreme unpopularity of the il dispensary candidate for governor, he c woula have been elected by a -20,000 majority. -i Mr. 0. E. Robinson had a substitute b which he wanted read. The house has n under consideration about ten bills, h and he offered his substitute not to be t thrown into the waste basket, but be cause he thought it the best solution - of the liquor problem. He said that * v Mr. Johnson claimed that the views of - the people had been expressed before. -He denied that, and said in refutationC * hat personality had a great deal to do with the choice of candidates at the cgst of issues. The dispensary law w as * .e dacted against the will of the people. C Before 1892 his county, Plckens, had * prohibition, and was dry, except for a few blockade dispensaries. In 1894 his - county was compelled.,.to. have a die - pensarv. He was p lodged to vote for *.no chane in the'dispensary law, but - hd was not pledgod against submitting the matter to the people. He thought - there should be equal rights to all * .; ounties, and that the people should be allowed to go to the poills and express I their wishes. -Reference has been - made to barrooms. There can be no - - barrooms tinder the provisions of the constitution. Additional restrictions - gian be thrown around the high license tan. The peep le are disgusted with' -- liquor andI would have either prohibi-1 tion or dispensary. * Mr-. Magill spoke against Mr. Maul * *.din's bill. He desired to sound the note of warning to the advocates of the dispensary. Each and every bill on -the question . is directed against the dispensary law, as may be seen by look ing.at the names of the respective athors, not one of whom is a friend of the dtspensary. He said that the -- prohibition election in 1890 " was net - , a proper sounding of the sentiments of - the. people. If such an electiod were -held in ao '" off year " there would be -- - -seen to be qu te a change in the senti - -- - -menits of the p~eople, anprejudiced from the stump. - . This question was practically settled -at the last election when all the voters -, rped .out, when all three of these - *(~ ns were brought before them. 1T W.gh license went to the w all on 1~ thefrqt ballot. Even if the dispon .pary candidate was unpopular, he was el0Oted. . The pobionbill of Mr. McCul -the other .factions. To enact that bill into law will be to open drug stores which practically will be blind tigers. Should it become a law, it provides that to purchase liquor a physician's . certliacate, Is necessary. 1For ether uses there are no requirements except - ,. to sign an application. He submitted - that that was not prohibition. He recited an instance of a prohibition - -town-inGeorgin where men obtained - - . iquor through physicians' certificates,i nthes& 4.cortificates nearly alwaya iledto spoolfy for what kind : com-I e~osfuff was needed. / The same 11 obtain in South 10arolina if IVr. McCullough's bill passes. Not a Irop of liquor is allowed to be sold in bis county, Greenwood, but with all 'hat prohibition the court roster showed that ninq-teonths of criminal prosecution there was for the violation )f the dispensary law. If the bill passes it will take a cordon of officers ill vround the borders of the State. Ele concluded by again warning the lispensary advocates. Mr. Sharpe of LexingtoD said that 2e was here to defend a law which had )utlived the assaults of the news. )apers and the enmity of the courts. We had as well meet these questions iquarely. Every one of these substi intes is directed at that law, which ias done more for South Carolina than my other law. " Did you ever see the time when iquor did rot enter into politics," he aid in reply to the charges that dis )ensary had entered into politics. The dispensary law has done more or the morals, for the education of the >ople, than any other. He claimed that the cleanest politics south Carolina had ever seen hod come ince the enaction of the dispensary aw. He appealed that, the law just ut of the courts be given a fair show. Mr. McCullough, the author of the rohibition bill, succeeded Mr. Sharpe. [e said that one patent fact in favor of is bill nad developea in support of his ill, and that was the evidence of dis uietude all over the State. Years ago he liquor monster was driven from he rural districts into the towns and ities. Then came the local option igh license system. The people cried ut against the evil and cast their otes against it. And yet the Legisla are enacted the dispensary law. The lct is evident that the people feel bat the dispensary is not the proper lution. The people of South Carolina ,ill never be satisfied until theylthave chance to try prohibition. He spoke f one great compromise which had aused the deathof the gallant boys of tie blue and gray, and saw that in Lmerica a question was never settled ut-il it was settled right. The saloon started contemporaneous lithi the school and church. The sa )un has grown more and more unpop. lar, while the school and church have ecome entrenched in the hearts of the eople. The real issue should be "what shall e the attitude of the State toward the quor trallic?" Not "will prohibition rohibit?" For there is no law which ill prohibit. . He could imagine some the political wiseacres standing at le foot of Sinai, protesting with the reat Lawgiver that his laws would ot prohibit, the t the injuuction, "Thou ,ialt have no other Gods before me" 'as being even then violated by those orshiping the golden calf down in the alley. rie said if the dispensary was such a loral institution why did not the hristian people teach their children ) pray for it. The high license man says that "if quor must be sold, let us make a rofit." The dispensary man says let a got this money to support our 3hools. Where does the money come from? t is like the man who applies the leech : his arm and then abstracts his own lood from the leech to enrich his body. Where does that money come from? t represents the suffering of the poor, represents crime. It comes from the ockets of those to whom it is in part aturned. Snpply creates demand, and you increase the supply, then you in rease the demand. Judge of the effects of the sale of lquor in the home, in society. The ome is the foundation of tho govern ient and the boy is the centre of the ome. Let us draw around every home he protecting cirole of the law. Mr. Prince of Anderson said that his elegation stood in a peculiar position. last spring the county convention do ianded that their representatives arry out their will. The people of a~ndersen voted for prohibition, for rohibition pure and simple, not a farce. [e'was at variance with the majority f the people of his cqunky on the ques ion. He came here in' 'accor~ anos ~ith their will and askedfor a prb hibi ion pure and str ai ;ht, not a drug store rohibition. He had a substitute prohibition bill, ronclad in its provisions, which he. cad to the house.' There it is, he said, 'pure and simple."' His bill did not at empt to inter'efere with the interstate ommerce law, and thei'e would be no Iquor in the State except what was im >Orted. If they wanted prohibition et them take that bill. If they are m~fter political -manoeu~v.oring drive ,bem to say so. Mr. McCullough's bill was too engthy. It pescribed for* as many rimes and. misdemeanors as the dis ensary law. Mr. Blythe, of Greenville, said that f Messrs Robinson and Prince had had ~he courage of their convictions, why 2ad they not introduce d their bills at ahe right stage of the game? Mr. Blythe said that he had heard ~he discuesion of the original dispon ary law, and that he would have voted ~gainst it had he been a. member of ~he general assembly,.for ho was inher 3ntly opposed ',o forcing the State into the liquor b'.isiness. But every bill in troduced this session provided for the state to go into the lig tier business. I~ven the prohibition bill copies the good features of the dispensary law, and even it provides for a State board nf control. He quoted from Mr. Mc Cullough's bill and saidl that the only difference between it and the dispon. sary law was'the profit foature:.of the~ dispensary. Hie said that Mr.TIirfnce had introduced a bill under whip and spur, and he 'had made 'a p~owerful argument against his own prop~osition The proh'bition law does away witli the constablos. Ilow are they going t( enforce the law? They provide for nl( fund from which to sustain vlilance It requnires the cotinty peace officers t< be spies and makes them enforce th< law on the infamous sharo plan. in regard to Mr. 1R. 1B. A. Robinson'i bill, he said that it merely providel that instead of one State dispensar' there should be forty county dispensa rices. It provides for profits. He submitted that the bill of Mr W. L. Mauldin was not a local optioi measure, for it did not provide for al option between dispensary, high 1i cence or prohibition, bunt between thi dispensary system." It did not pro vide for a vote including the St'ite dis pensary system. .Mr. Patterson, of Barnwell, said that he was opposed to any bill which was opposed to the dispensary law. He thought it had never had a fair trial. After the recent primary he was sur prised at the number of bills against the dispensary. He said that the out come of the enaction of any of them would be a seies of troubles. In the House of Representatives, Mr. McCullough called up his prohibi tion bill. Mr. DeBruhl moved to inde finitely postpone the bill, but with drew his motion to allow Mr. Prince to introduce an amendment. When the amendment was read Mr. McCullough accepted It. Mr. Simkins moved to adjourn the debate. "This is no time to be talk ing about prohibition," he said. Mr. Sturkey wanted the discussion postponed and the amendment printed. Mr. Patton said that he thought this useless. The bill had been on the cal endar a long time. There was no trouble to understand the amendment, it was prohibition, pure and simple. He was not going to vote for the bill, but he did want it disposed of. Mr. Stevenson agreed with him in 1 wanting it disposed of. Mr. DeBruhl renewed the motion to indefinitely postpone. The vote was then taken, and the House, by a vote of 83 to 23, agreed to I indefinitely postpone the bill, which I mcant its death, of course. The vote was afterwards clinched as follows, the nays favoring the bill : Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bacot, Bailey, J. B. Black, W. D. Black, Blease, Blythe, Bolts, Browning, Caughman, i Colcock, Cosgrove, Dean, DeBruhl, i Dondy, Dowling, *Dukes, Efird, Epps, I H. H. Evans, N. G. Evans, Fairey, t Floyd, Gantt, Graham, Hill, HolTmeyer, Hollis, Hydrick, Jenkins, H. E. John- I son, W. J. Johnson, Jones, Lockwood, Lyles, Magill, Manning, Marion, La ban Mauldin, W. L. Mauldin, McCraw, I McDill, McDow, McLauchlin, Mc Laurio, Mehrtens, Miley, Mobley, t Moss, Moses, Nettles, Patton, Pyatt, E. B. Ragsdale, J. W. Ragsdae, i Richards, Henry B. Richardson, C. E. I Robinson, Rogers, E. L. Sanders, 1 Sawyer, Simkins, Sinklor, G. P. Smith, i Stevenson, Strom, Sturkir, Suber, ( Theus, W. H. Thomas, W. J. Thomas, I Thriatt, Timmerman, Varn, Verdier, I Wes , Weston, Wharton, Winkler, H. c H. Woodward, M. B. Woodward, t Wyche-83. Nays-Ashley, Davis, Henderson, Jackson, Lofton, Mann, McCoy, McCul lough. Prince, George W. Richardson, I R. B. A. Robinson, C. P. Sanders, Sea- ( brook, Jeremiah Smith, Stackhouse I Whisonart, Williams, Wimberly, I Wingo, Young.!-20. The local option bill introduced by % Mr, R. B. A. Robinsoh, of Anderson, f was next under consideration. Mr. 5 Robinson urged the passage of his bill, c which provided for counties voting ' upon prohibition or dispensary, and t quite a lengthy discussion ensued. I Mr. Bleaae, of Newberry, said that I he was leader in the light against the Childs prohibition bill in 1892. The prohibition people forced the dispen sary on the people of the State. The prohibition leader of the House, Mr. Nettles, after a hard struggle for a stringent prohibition law, accepted the dispensary law as substituted in the Senate by ex-Gov. Evans. Had it not been for the prohibitionists, there would have been no dispensary law, and now that they've'got the coon they want to turn him loose. There are good mer behind the prohibition law, but there are Rome who care only for self. He asked what meant the admission of the prohibition candidate for Gov ernor that the dispensary had done more than anything elso to make the liquor trafil respectable. What means that admission coming from a man who, on the stump, had fought the dis pensary ? We also see that defeated candidate striking the one who had do feated him while his hands were tied and he was also lying upon what was] supposed to be his death bed and was unable to lift his hand or voice in his own behalf, after having gone uponi the stump throughout the State, sidei by side with him, pretending to have th'd kindest feelIngs for him. Strik ing chim now is considered about as consistent as the -sudden reversal of his ,riews upon the dispensary question. Then it is that we find a newspaper in this city,'a newspapei which has al ways consistently opposed the dispen sary, patting him on the back, praising his position and saying, " Now, alto gether for a citarge upon a common foe." Who altogether ? Why, high license and prohibition. Against what common foe ? The dispensary. "The 'common foe' is the reform party, and to it we must stick" he said.' Hie then wont on to state his posi tion. He had all along favored sub mitting the question to tihe peoplo. The Newberry convention last spring passed a resolution trarhed by him asking that the question be submitted to the people. Hie camo to the State convention and f'ought for the adoption of those resolutoras, but though there was none to oppose them the conven tion, by a large majority, voted against them. In 1892 he supported a resolu tion of the same toer offered by Mr. Perry, of Greenville, resolutions which were killed upon motion of Mr . Nettles, the prohibitIon leader, and this was the same year that the dispensary was established. He continued, " They tell us that the last race for Governor was be tween dispersary and prohibition. The eloquent Schumpert and the brainy Tillman went down as the advocates of high license. There was no first class dispensary speech made in the cam paign. While the dispensary was oc casiornally mentioned, its merits were never fully shown. Hundreds of the dispensary's best friends were making a personalhl tight on the Governor; there were d iepensary a] vocates on both sides, while others were sitting on the fence, hoping that IEllerbe would by. heaten and that a dispensary Legisla ture would be-elected. HIe sp)oke of the prohibition move ment and said that Mr. McCullough was " far too honoranle a gentleman Ito trail its barners in the dust, and 2had made his light honorably." -He wanted to wait until next spring to submit the question to the people. U e was in favor of the people being given a chance to express their viows,. but thought it wrong to entail the cost Af an election in an off year. Mr. Stevenson, of Chesterfield, said bhat he was in favor of submisting the luestion to the people, but diil red with Mr. Blease in that he thought it should be done at once. The gentle man from Newbdrry shed his tears and ilmost his blood in 1892 and wasted his ,trength in 1894 over this question, but iow just at the time when a vote is to )e taken he is opposed to letting the people, vote upon it. The prohibi AIonists are ar a class an honorable ?eople but they resort to strange me ihode. Apropos of this is the recent fymnastio performances of the late )rohibition candidate for governor. ['he people of his county wanted no iuch prohibition. He had not voted or the prohibition candidate, and was rlad that he bad not. The bed rock )roposition of Democrauy is that there hail be no government without the sonsent of the governed. The gentleman from Kershaw, Mr. Ninkler, doesn't want the people to rot a whack at this question at all. L'ho speaker said that he did want the )cople to express themselves, but not on the high licenso question. This )ill does not provide for a high icense bill for this reason. You an't have two systems of selling iquor side by side, because they would intall unfair competition. His post ,ion was dispensary or nothing. He ind never been hide bound in his views in the liquor question, and was not a wohibitionist. He had the highest espect for those ministers of the ,ospel who in sincerity preached the loctrine of prohibition, but he differed vith them in regard to paying " blood noney for education." He referred to 4r. McCullough's argument in regard o letting the leech suck the b ood, .nd then obtaining part of the same elood from the leech for sustenance. [he State of South Carolina is com ielled to have some blood let by the eech of liquor. Mr. Simkins: "Go ahead, you are alking sense." Mr. Stevenson resuming: " Would t not be better for the State instead of utfng this money in the pockets of lood sucking whiskey dealers, to turn t over to the State for the maintenance if the schools?" Is that blood money? s it not better to take strong, healthy >lood from a healthy artery and Ltlfuse it into the impoverished arteries ban to let the weak keep getting reaker ? The people of Chesterfield do not vant prohibition. It voted for high icense in 1800. With the present law nforced, the offenders of the law ieing sent to the chaingang, he had no ear of the issue. His county was atislied. But some were not and it ias not right to keep other counties rom saying what they want. " Do ou want to take the question of liquor ut of the politics of State ?" he asked. 'Do you want the elections of Gover or and United States Senators freed rom this tuestion?" The men who 6re backing the dispensary do not want his (uestion submitted to the people. .et it go to the people now and keep t out of State elections hereafter. He -aid that when Mr. Childs objected to he enaction of Mr. Livingstone's iron ,lad prohibition bill last year, a bill which was prohibition in re, a light dawned upon him and he saw that somebody wanted to be Governor of South Carolina. If you want to make a law which the people will 4upport, then mrhke a good law. The bill which he would support was-that of Mr. Robinson, which would let the people eay what they wanted. In regard to tne State board of control, he said that there had been many rumors which had gone abroad, which were..unfounded, but some were given 3olor by the actions of some who per misted in forcing themselves upon the public notice. The present adminis ~ration is the best the dispensary has 3ver had. The gentleman who is now 3ommissioner has had more to contend vith than any other executive, and ias made the dispensary more success ul. He has had the original package louses to compete with. Against the nanagement of thme State dispensary 1c had nothing to say. The constitution nullifies its own ac ,ion in disfranchising the negro on ac zount of ignorance, by adding to the saxation for the purp1ose of educating abe negro so that he could vote. The peop~le do not want any more taxation, and he submitted that Mr. Robinson's proposition would relieve the State of the enormous expense of munning the State dispensary. The profits of the dispensary are ibout $150,000 net annually. The ex pense, outside of the cost of liquor, is ver $170,000. Over $100,000 Is spent ror rebottling the whiskey. The people demand two things, that the burden of taxation be raised and that the offensive constabulary be re Liuced. If this traffic Is p)ut under the imnmedilate control of the county, with the pro'fits to'be kept there, each tax paying citizen will he vigilant for the snforcement of the law. With the suspicion wvhich surrounds the State board of control on account r~f its unlimi',ed power to speud money, and on account of the political power exerted by it as seen on the lloor of House recently when one of the rrem hors had to he removed from the floor by the resolution of the gentleman from Chester, Mr. Means, with sums picion surrounding the hoard of control and with bickering and dissension in the board, the people will soon demand some change in the law. Mr. Winkler, of Kershaw, said that like the others, he would not condine himself closely to theonubje-ct for this dliscussion. THe disclaimed any en dorsement of Mr. Blease's bringing face tionalism into the debate. All partisan differences should be, and, he thought, are relegated to the rear. Hie had thought that theoliquor ques tion had been settled for the year, hut now there are referendums proposed. The people have b~een heard. TJho mmatter has heen before them In 1891 1b6;0 and 1898. if th0 present (Gover nor was not elected ulon the liqjuor issue, then on what issue was he elected. The edict has gone forth from the masses of thn people that barrooms must go out of the State. Trhere can be no barrooms with dispensary regu lations. High license would be but a sten backwards, and barrooms would scon be again in operation. As to the prohibitionists, he had no doubt of their sincerity. He had known the prohibitionists in the Iouse for years, and thoy woro honorable gentlemen. l'rohibition has been tried elsewhero and is a hopeless failure! Why should wo have it now , He said that Mr. Stevenson had con tended for " the consent of the gov erned " and still would refuse to lot them have a vote on high license. Why if a voto of the people is to be had, why let them not vote on that, too? In defenso of the State dispensary, he said that he thought the members of the State board perfectly honest and I ino way derelict in their duties. The dispensary had been reviled as a most inI(uitious law. Is it of recent origin, or is it the old law of Norway and Sweden Americanized ? Mr. Sinkler asked him if the dispen sary didn't aim to make money. Mr. Winkler s-iid yes, that it didn't care to lose money. Mr. Winkler continued that the South Carolina dispensary system is very similir to the (ottenburg system in Norway and Swodon. Ie read from a report of an American economist who went over there to study the system. lo caie back a convert, and framed a bill which was introduced into the Massachusetts ILegislature, and which passed one branch of the Assembly. He1 claimed that Gladstone was an advocate of the dispensary, and said that South Carolina could well follow his advico. There has boon frequent investigations of the South Carolina dispensary system. The special cor respondent of the New York Sun, an imptartial critic, nas made a very con plimentary recommendation of the present system. It Is being adopted elsewhere. The law is not a perfect one. There are many places where it could be remedied. If the people would get together and stop their bickering and amend the present law, they could do no greater service to the State. The lato proh'bition candidate for the Presidency has unqualiflodly endorsed the South Carolina law. le called upon the gentlemen of the House to get together like true Carolinians on this subject and ialio the law a great success. Mr. Dargan said that he, too, had wanted the members to act upon the question like true Carolinians. le had heard men say, "What's the use of speaking, not a voto can be changed ?" He thought there was something strange when the views of intelligent men failed to have any Inliuence. He had heard men say that the dis pensary was a solution of the ilquor problem. He asked if a single man in outh Carolina had been cured of the liquor habit by the dispensary ? A man who loves liquor will buy it in the day time; the night timo restriction of the dispensary law and the sale in original packages do not sto) drin king. The consumption of liquor overywhere In recent years has decicased very much, as shown by the statistics at Washington. He quoted from a num ber of newspapers and speeccos that the use of liquor was deeruaieg all over the world. lie thought that edu cation was the solution of the liquor question, and the world Is being more enlightened. Ho referred to the fact that some of the members of the House were always trying to increase meagre appropriations, and at the same time, they stand by and leave the stable door open and let thousands of dollars be handled by irresponsible men. In large cities in large business on tcrprises, the men of experience were always sought for to put in charge of the business. He could say nothing against the character of the managers, but he said that the State of South Carolina was doing something which no private business would attempt putting inexperienced men to run a gigantic business. Hie said that it had been contended that high lIcense would imbue politie with the liquor question. He asked i the dispensary was not now mixing up with polities. The dispensary has been in every election since its establish mont, and has entered into the electi )1 of the State oflicere. Trhe Governor has the power to use it in his favor, but he thought Gov. Ellerbe guiltess of any such abuse of his advantages. He wanted to know how a State of. ficial could withstand liquor any more than anybody else. Simply because they were working for the State, would that keep #hemn from being untram meled ? It is almobt axiomatie that liqluor corrup~ts those who fool with it. In regard to the local option prop~o sitlon, he said that lie had soon on the hloor of the Hlouse mnon asking for- their counties to 1be exempted from this law and that law, becauso they were not suited to their constituency. 'rho met ropolitan people of Charleston are dif ferent from the people of seome of the remoter counties. Tne same cond itions do not suit all, and ho appealed for the people of the entire State to b3 given a chance to settle this matter aut the Mr. W. L. Mauldin said that his opinions at this hour of the debate mIght make no change upon the minds of any, but, occup~ying a very peculiar position, he desired to express his vIews. All laws tend to conform to the habits, conditions and temp Ieramoent of the peCople. Laws are made for peo plo0, not people for laws. This dis pensary law is a Procrustean bed. it says to Greenville "take your position on that bed and if you are too long I will 101) you off,'' and the same to other counties. The people of South Care lina are a liberty-loving people1, and they want no law which Is against their traditions and conditions. Those who propose remedial agencies arc criticised as enemies of thme law. ieo did not approach the question from any spirit of enmity, lie did not care a snapping of his finger as to the result to himself, he was for what he con sidered the people's interests. Those who oppose0 a law are in a pobition to] make buggestions which the friends could not undertake. The Ulnitedl States sui premoe court was the bet friend of the law, when it dis aipated the enmity of those who were not concerned in the economic and political (questions, but only upon hay tng the right to obtain whiskey foi personal use. ills county was at one time an ardent supporter of the dis pensary law. if the argument thal the people had expressed themsolvol was of avail, he would staten that in tihr Nst election Greenville went two to one against the dispensary's candidate for Governor. While he had doubted the expediency of the State dispensary he was now sure that the proper remedy was to lot each county control its own business. He said that the rea son that the Georgia dispensary was so successful was that it was under local management. He was informed by Mr. Gantt that there were now a dozon dispensarles in Georgia. He said that unter the present law there wore no convictions against violation of the law except against a few trilling people. ie thought that if the mat ter were submitted it would eliminate the question from politics and that the Stato dispensary would be done away with. In regard to inviting the negro vote, he said that the dispensary advocates in Groeenvillo hail dragged the negroes into "heir plan to obtain a dispensary, but he thought that now oven the negroos were ashamod of it. This nogro business is a "bogey man" which is always being dragged up before the General Assembly. The State had no inherent right to sell liquor. It lias come to this that the Stato sells liquor for education. Why not teach the childron to pray for their fathers to drink more liquor in order that they could got more educa tion ? lie said that South Carolina owed it to the gallant soldiers who died on many battlefillds to provide public schools for their children, but the anomalous position of the aispen sary is "drink all the liquor you car. and keep sober." Or that it was half for prohibItion and half for revenue. lit referred to the "combination" in Columbia to elect Governor EIllerbe,and said that this showed that all the poo plo did not think him a dispengary candidate. He appealed for no man to vote through prejudice, but for all to look at the matter as rational men. The prov lous question was then.called by Mr. E. B. Ragsdale. The enacting words of Mr. Robin son's bill were stricken out by a vote of 72 to 31), Messrs. McCullough and Moss, Montgomery and Wharton being vaired. Yeas-Speaker Gary, Bailey, Boll, J B Black, W D Black, Blease, Blythe, Browning, Caughman, Cross, Crum, DoBruhl, Dowling, Dukes, Epps, H H 1Evans, N G Evans, L'airey, Gamble, Gantt, Graham, Hill, HolTmoyer, Hol Ils, U 1' Johnson, W D Johnson, Jones, by les, Magill, Manning, Marion, Laban Mauldin, _McCoy, McCraw, MeDili, Mcl)ow, McLauchlin, McLaurin, Means. Miley, Mobley, Nottles, Patter son, 1' B Ragsdale, J W Ragsdale, Richards. U 13 Richardson, C 1-1 Robin son, Rogers, i' L Sanders, Sawyer, Sharpe, 0 1' Smith, N, 1) Smith, Stack house, Strom, Sturkey, Thous,. W J Thomas, Threatt, Timmerman, Varn, Verd ior,.West, Westmnoreland, Wil llams, Wilson, Winkler, M B Wood ward, Wycho, Young-72. Nays -Ashley, Bacot, Bolts, Colcock, Cosgrove, Dargan. Davis, Dean, Dondy, 10stridge, Floyd, Henderson, Hydrick, Jackson, Jenkins, Lovorett, Lockwood, Lfton, Mn, W L Muldin, Mhrtenu, Moses. 'atton, Prince, Pyatt, G W Rtichardson, It , A RLobinon, C P San dors, Scabrook, Sinkler, Jeremiah Smith, J L Smith, Stevenson, Suber, w it rhomias. Wimberly, Wingo. H U Woodward-30. The vote on Mr. Robinson's bill was clinched, and Mr. W. L. Mauldin's was taken up. This, too, was killed by a vote of 80 to 31. Messrs. McCullough, Robinson, l'rince, C P Sanders and others who had favored Mr. Robinson's bill voted against Mr. Mauldin's. Mr. ,Whairt.on ,LnJ Mr. Monlgtgmnry we" paired. Yeas-Speaker Gary, Balley, Bell, J B 1Black, W D) Black, Blease, Blythe, BrownIng. Caughman, Cross, Crum, D~eiHruh I, Dow ling, Dukes, 10fird, 10pj~s, Estridge, Hi H E0vans, N G Evans, 1"airoy, Gamble, (Gantt, Graham, Hill, Hlogtmeyeir, ilollis, Hlydrielk, U E John son, W .J Jiohnrson, Jonos, Lyles, Magili, Manning, Marion, Laban Mauldin, Mc Coy, Meciraw, McCullough, McDill, Mclow, McLauchlin, McLaurin, Means, Milley, Mobley, Nettlea, Patter son, Prince, J W Ragsdalo, Richards U W Richardson, H 13 RIchardson, C E Robinson, RL B A Robinson, Rogers C P Sanders, E L Sanders, Sawyer Sharpo, G P Smith, E D Smith, Stack house, Stevenson, Strom, Sturkoy Suber, Theus, W J Thomas, Threatt Timmerman, Verdier, West, Whiso. nant, Williams, Wilson, Wingo, Wink. ier, M B Woodward, Wyehe, Young -80. Nays--Ashley, Bacot, Bolts, Colcock, Cosgrovo, Darga~n, Davis, Dean,Dondy, lFloyd, Henderson, Jackson, Jenkins, boevett, Lockwood, Lofton, Mann, W L Mauldin, Mehrtens, Moses, Patton, P'yatt, Seabrook, Sinklor, Jeremiah Smith, S L~ Smith, W LI Thomas, Vain, Weston, Wimberly, U U Woodward This is how a Bartlett, Texas, re porter recently began an account of a local marriage: Not a cloud flocked the blue sky and the sun placed a mantle of gold on the earth. It was a winter (lay by the cycles of the earth; it was a summer day by the temper of the air, the pul'iation of hearts ar d the smile of radiant faces. While unseen angels sang the marriage anthem, visible forms whispered o'er anid o'er the old, old1 song of love that the heart fosters through the valleys overgrown with shadowy trees." -With the thermomater at 20 de grees below zero at 9 o'clock Friday night one0 woman and two men were baptized by Reov. Mr. Wharton, of the Christian Church, at Coal Run, on thc Muskingum River, Ohio. A hole war cut in the ice on the river and the can. didates for baptism immersed. -The Florida orange crop was killet by the blizzard, and reports from th< orange growers are to the effect tha1 the crop has been destroyed almosi without excep~tion. The snow and icc was unprecedented in Florida, and the temperature was four degrees lower than any previous record. it's a pleasant fceling and gives univer sal con Idonce in Alligat or 14inmenlt am a curative agent the fact of its being sold nndler a positdve guarantlee of its bemng sat isfactory or Money Back. It cures Rhmeu Imatism, Neuralgia, pains and achmes of all kInds. He sure you got Alligator JAni WHEN JOBSON SWORE OFFE. He Had Wasted Too Much Time, Money and Opportunity on To bacco. Jobson took his swear off smoke shortly before midnight on New Year's U1ve. He hadn't told Mrs. Jobson that he was going to quit smoking forever, nor did she suspect it until he threw the butt of his swear oil cigar into the firaplace, with a good dehl of tboatrical offect, and announced : " My last smoke. Not for a year only, but for good. I'm through with tobacc') forever, Mrs. Jobson. I wish you'd take all of my pipes out of my sight and store them away in the store room. I don't want to see 'em around. Not thas they would tempt me, but I'm sick of having them about. I've wasted too much time, money and opportunity during my life on tobacco. i've been thinking it all over lately, and that's why I've drawn my last whiff of tobac co. I don't want to see any smoking gear around this house after to-night." " But," put in Mrs. Jooson, " don't you .hink you'll find it rather hard to give the habit up so suddenly ? You've always smoked, you know. And, then; I've got so usou to the smell of tobacco around the house that I'd really miss it-I like the smoke from your cigars. Don't you think it would be -etter just to limit yourself in your smoking ? I have never heard you complain that it was hurting you." " Just you give me credit for know ing what I want to do, Mrs. Jobson, if you'll be so kind," salu Mr. Jobson. " I've ros'lved to abandon the use of tobacco, now and forever, and Nild horses are not going to change my determination in that respect. I'm just a few more than seven years of ago, you'll remember." Mr. Jobson was pretty nervous after breakfast on New Year's morning. ile was accustomed to lighting a pipe immediately after breakfast, and on Now Year's morning his breakfast of buckwheat cakes and three cups of coffe formed an especially suitable foundation for a good long, comfortable suoko over abo morning papers. He was on record with reference to the smoking question, howevar, and so he did not take the smoke. He fidgeted around in his chair at the papers, and then looked out of the window, leaving the news of the day mostly unread. His next door neighbor, a man em ployed in the same ollico as Jobson, came in an hour or so after breakfast for a little talk. The next door neigh bor was smoking a fine cigar when he entered, and the cigar's fragrance filled the house. Jobson gazed long ingly at the cigar and inhaled its grate ful perfume greedily. After his next door neighbor had left, JohHon put on his hat and took a short walk. When he returned he mooned around the house aimlessly, likb a man that didn't know what he wanted nor where to find it. Mrs. Jobson watched him furtively from the tail of her eye, but said nothing. Job son couldn't sit still and read his pa pers, so he went up to the attic and be gaa overhiuling all of the old chests of drawers, and scattered everything all over the floor. Then he came down stairs again and tried to read some more. He fidgeted again, and when Mrs. Jobson addressed casual remarks to him he snapped at her. " I do wish the man would light his pipe and smoke like he's been doing since we were married, eighteen years ago," muttered Mrs. Jobson to herself, but she didn't dare say anything of the sort aloud. Jobson didn't have any praite for the New Yea-': dinner. Tho dinner, in fact, didn't appear to suit him at all. He was grumpy and sullen throughout the meal. " If he'd only saturate himself with nicotine now," said Mrs. Jobson to her self, "perhaps there would be some living with the man. Of all the crazy notions, his giving up smoking, that's such a comfort to him, is just about the craziest !" Two or three men friends came in to see Jobson after the New Year's dinner. They threw away their cigare upon entering the house, but af ter they had been seated for a while, one of them said : " I say, Jobson, give us a puff of one of those nicely~ seasoned p)ipes of yours, will you ? 1 ye been smoking cigars all day, and I'm hankering for a pipe." 8o Mrs. Jobson went up to the store room and brought the pipe tray down. Jobson's friends each chose a pipe, and soon the sitting~ room was clouded with rich, opaline tobacco smoke. Jobson rattled around in his chair like a small boy in church, and appeared to be mighty ill at ease. " By the way, Jobson," said one of his friends, " why aren't you hitting the pipe yourself ?" " I'm not feeling just right to-day," replied Jobson. " Oh, I guess there's some hope," said Mrs. Jobson to herself. "lHe dloesn't want to go on record with these men friends that he's actually sworn off." Jobson didn't smoke once on New Year's Day, nor did he take a smoke before leaving the house for a walk down town on Monday. When he re turned from his walk about noon ho took a pound box of expensive tobacco out of his overcoat pocket, two new briar wood pipes, and he carried a box of good cigars in his hand, lie spread them all out on the table. " I want you distinctly to understand, .Mrs. Jobson," said he, addressing his wife In a voice of authority, " that this is my shack and that I'm a-going to smoke around here until I'm black .in the face if I want to, and I'm not going to be called down for it, either. I don' t care whether the smoke gets into the lace curtains or not, ['m going to smoke anyhow. And the next time you try to bulldoze me into stoppIng smoking for any such a cheap reason as that you want to stand up for trouble, and a whole lot of it, and you hear me a-talking I"- Wash ington Star. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Ohildren. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the