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THE LEDGER: GAFFNET, S. C., DECEMBER », 1897.
SOME PROHIBITION POINTS
ENFORCEMENT OK THE LAW IN
MAINE.
Drinking Diminished, Very Strong Tes
timony to This Effect Cited by
a South Carolina Pro
hibitionist.
To the Editor of The Register:
My attention has been called to
your editorial of October 29 criticis
ing the enforcement of the prohibi
tory law of Blaine, basing your com
ments on the case of the small town
ot Calais, on the St. Croix river,
which is the boundary line between
Muiuo and New Cruuawick, and
would naturally seem to be a very
suitable place for the whiskey dealers
to select from which to conduct their
lawless assults upon the laws of
Maine. It is alleged that tlicre are
jluiei of illicit truftiic in this small
town, which tlie efforts of the lea
guers (prohibitionists) are being put
forth to suppress,-and this is your
text from which to proclaim that
‘•prohibition doesn’t prohibit.”
Admitting, for the time, the truth
of the statement respecting this town
of Calais, let us see how it affects
the real question at issue, which is:
Does the prohibition of the liquor
traffic in Maine diminish drinking,
and increase the prosperity and hap
piness of the people who live under
its operation?
No intelligent advocate of prohibi
tion would contend that it ever did
or ever can annihilate the traffic and
the results flowing from it, for as
long as there are men bent on the in
dulgence of their appetites, there
will be found men who will assume
the risk of violating the law which
prohibits these indulgencies. All
that should be reasonably claimed
for such laws is that they diminish
crime and wrong, improve the mor
als and promote the prosperity and
happiness of the people to a degree
winch proves liiat they aie uesiiab'e
as a part of the system as laws of
every community which seeks to
make progress in civilization.
That prohibition really effects this
result is beyond question if the testi
mony of those who are in the best
position to know, is to be received,
and it is to some pointed testimony
of this character that I wish to refer
you and your readers. The difficulty
I experience is in condensing from
the vast volume of testimony on thia
Mibject, without transcending the
limits of an article like this.
SOME STRONG TESTIMONY.
First, the governors of Maine, for
more than a quarter of a. century,
have, without exception, borne wit
ness to the decrease in the consump
tion of liquor and the diminution of
crime anu other evils flowing from
drink, as well as to the material im
provement of t he people of that state
under prohibition.
Governor Chamberlain (1872) says:
“The (prohibition) law is as weli ex
ecuted in the state as any oilier crim
inal law.”
Governor Perham (1872) says: ‘‘I
think it safe to say that the volume
of the liquor trade is very much Jess
than before the enactment of the
law, probably not more than one-
tenth as large.”
Governor Dingley (1874) says: ‘‘In
more than three-fourths of the state,
particularly in the rural sections,
open dram shops are almost unknown
and secret sales are comparatively
rare.”
Governor Conner (187(») says:
“Maine has a fixed conclusion on
this subject.
Governor Robie (1K8.”>) says : “Crim
inal statistics show that the law has
been beneficial in restraining crime.”
Governor ftodvrell (1887) says:
“In from three-fourths to four-fifths
of the towns of the state the law is
weli enforced and has practically
abolished the sale of spirituous and
malt liquors as beverages.
Governor Marble (1888) says:
“Prohibition has closed every distil
lery and brewery in Maine. The law
has greatly diminished the sale and
use of intoxicating liquors.”
Hon. Jas. G. Bluiuo whose testi
mony as that of an astute politi
cian shouid have great weight, satd
in (1882: “Intemperance has stead
ily decreased in Maine since the first
enactment of the prohibitory law,
until now it can he said witn truth,
that there is no equal number of
people in the unglo-saxon world,
among whom so smalt an amount of
intoxicating liquor is consumed as
among the inhabitants of Maine.”
Senator Win. P. Fry (189U) says:
“Today the country portions of the
state are absolutely free from the
sales of liquor. Proverty is compara
tively unknown, and in some of the
counties the jails have been without
occupants for years at a time. The
law is not a failure, it has been on
the other hand a wonderful success.”
Senator Hale (1890) says: “The
Maine people believe in prohibition
because they are every day witnesses
to Its good effects.”
President William W. Hyde of
Bowuoin college says: "We believe
in It (prohibition ) for ourselves, and
wo wisii that wherever conditions
similar to those in our own state
exists, those states may experience
its benefits.”
Hannibal Hamlin ex-vlee president
of the United States, says: “In the
great good produced by tho prohibi
tory liquor law of Maine, no man can
donbt who has seen the results. It
has been of immense value.”
And the late Gen. Neal Dow,
father of the prohibition movement
und author of the Maine l»w In n re
port made to the royal commission
on the liquor traffic in Montreal,
boro this testimony to the conditions
past and existing in Maine:
“I suppose there was no state in
the Union where more liquor was
consumed in proportion to the pop
ulation than in Maine. That arose
very largely from the fact of two
great industries being carried on
there—one being the lumber trade,
and the other the fisheries. The
lumbermen were employed in the
woods during winter cutting down
the trees, and drink formed a regu
lar part of their rations, and fisher
men had it as n regular part of their
rations. The results were that pov
erty and pauperism were with the
people of Maine. There were a groat
manv distilleries in the state, seven
of them were in Portland, and two
breweries Now there is not a dis
tillery or brewery in Maine, and there
lias not been one for a good many
years. The result of the change bus
been this, that while Maine was un
doubtedly one of the poorest states in
the Union in the oldest time, it is now
one of the most prosperous. The
volume cf the liquor traffic is greatly
reduced. The savings of the people
from that traffic are such that the
slate lias become very flourishing.
It is quite safe to say that the quan
tity of liquor sold in Maine now is
not one twentieth as mueh as it was
before the law was passed. Portland
is the largest city in the state, and it
is within the truth to say that the
quantity ot liquor sold there now is
not one hundredth of what it was be
fore. The liquor traffic is not entire
ly exclude! from Maine, but it is s-fe
to say that in more that three-fourths
of the territory, containing more
than three-fourths of the population.
Use liquor traffic is practically extin
guished.”
THE OFFICIAL RECORDS.
These facts and conclusions, stated
by witnesses so eminently qualified,
are confirmed by the records, so far
as they are accessible.
The United States nternal revenue
reports for Maine from 18651 to 1887,
show that there was a decrease from
$ol4.G.‘l6,28 to $50,286.45 revenue
or. liquors and tobacco. Since that
time the revenue distaict of Maine
has been consolidated with New
Hampshire and separate statements
of revenue for Maine have been drop
ped from the reports.
Dy reference to the same official
statement, it will be seen that the
total receipts of internal revenue
from the whole United States for the
same period, have increased from $41,-
006.03 to $118,837,(X). This siiows
that the falling off in Maine was due
to prohibition and that the enormous
increase in all other parts of the
country was because there was no
general prohibition operating to ef
fect sucli decrease.
EFFECTS ON MATERIAL INTERESTS.
If we examine the effects of prohi
bition on tiie material inteie?tsuf the
people, we find the following facts
recorded.
Hon. James G. Blaine says: In
reviewing the situation for twenty-
five years that, “in 1857 Maine had
eleven saving banks with 5,000 de
positors and an aggregate of over
$900,(XX) in deposits. In 1882 these
had increased to 55 saving banks,
nearly 90,000 depositors and about
$530,000,000 deposits. The popula
tion of the state for that period had
increased at the rate of 81-2 per
cent, while the savings deposits had
increased at the rate of more
than 2,700 percent., and the number
of depositors at more than 1,700 per
cent.
Compare this statement of finan
cial prosperity with the conditions of
Ohio, one of the most progressive of
the liccnso states, and what a show
ing makes it in favjor of prohibition.
The population of Maine in 1896
was 661,086, that of Ohio was
8,672,816, nr 5 1-2 as many as that of
Maine, while the savings deposits of
Maine are $53,397,590 and of Ohio
$5Jl,506,2l3, showing that though
less 1-5 in number, the people of
Maine have more than half as much
more laid up in savings banks than
the people of Ohio. In this connec
tion, take one more fact into consid
eration; that while twenty-nine
states have more population than
Maine, only seven surpass her in the
aggregate of savings banks deposits;
and then say whether liquor selling
is the friend or foe of the financial
prosperity of those who work for a
living.
So much for the effects of prohibi
tion on the general prosperity of the
people. What as to its effects on
crime?
EFFECTS ON ( RIME.
From reports of wardens.of state
prisons, it appears that during the
years 1855-56, under prohibition in
Maine, there was a total of 65 com
mitments for crime; during 1857-58,
two years of license, there were 121
commitments, and during 1859-60.
when prohibition was restored, the
number fell to 89, showing the posi
tive and direct induece of prohibi
tion in the diminution of crime.
As to crime in Maine, compared
with other states, in 1882 Governor
Dingley made the following state
ment: “Of high crime, California
has one criminal to every 1,000 of
population, Connecticut. 1 to 8,500;
New Jersey, 1 to 3,200; New York, 1
to 2,800, and Maine, 1 to 7.540.” He
also showed that Maine had a less
number ol convicts, proportionally,
of all classes, and a less number of
high criminals than any state in the
Union.
Take the more recent facts relating
to crims, and it Is shown by the offi
cial report of the attorney general
made to the legislature of Honth Car
olina in 1896, that during 1894, ten
homicides occured in the whole state
nf Maine, while in BoiUh CeroMns.
with about the same white popula
tion, the report shows that 207 homi
cides in fourteen months wa* the
dreadful record. What constitutes
thoreasonfor ibis wide difference?
Every reflecting man must bo con
vinced that it is in the fact that In
Maine the prohibition of the great
producing source of crime has re
duced the results to a minimum,
while in South Carolina the absence
of prohibition has failed to check the
stream of crime, for the cumulative
testimony gathered from all sources
has established beyond successful
controversy ’that three-fourths of all
crime among us has its source in
strong drink, and the result is reach
ed irrespective of the system by
which it is dispensed,
MAINE 1’EOIT.E SATISFIED.
Are the people of Maine satisfied
that prohibition prohibits? This
can only he answered by the people
as expressed in their votes on the
question.
The first vote on the question was
taken in 1854, when the people by a
vote of 28,864 to 5,912, adopted pro
hibition. Thirty years after, in 1895,
on the question of making prohibi
tion an amendment to the constitu
tion of Maine, the people again de
clared in its favor by a vote of 70,-
788 to 23,801, a majority of nearly
47,000.
Let these facts bo the sufficient
answer to all that class of objectors
to prohibition, who, in the absence
of reasons, proclaim so glibly that
“Prohibition don’t prohibit,” and
that “morn liquor is drunk and is
easier to get in Maine than in license
states.”
If prohibition does not injure the
liquor traffic, why is it that the li
quor men fight it so bitterly?
Tut* conclusion of the whole mat
ter, then, with those who are sincerely
seeking truth, is this: Prohibition
diminishes crime, pauperism and suf
fering and increases the prosperity
and happiness of the people, to what
ever extent it does this, it is more
desirable than any system which
fails to do it, and is therefore more
worthy of acceptance.
As some one has said : “If prohi
bition docs not succeed, drunkard
making mnj be lawfully endorsed.
If law breakers defy and violate the
law, then to prevent the violation,
the law should he set aside and the
crime legalized, then the amount of
violation is to determine the life of
the law. A premium is thus set for
a greater degree of violation.”
L. D. Childs.
Miss Allie Huffhes, Norfolk, Va.,
was frightfully burned on the face
and neck. Pain was instantly re
lieved by Dn Witt’s Witch Haze!
Salve, which healed the Injury
without leaving a scar. It is the fa
mous pile remedy. Cherokee Drug
Company, Gaffney, and Macon
Thornton’s Pharmacy. Blacksburg.-
As the evening grows longer the oil
bill grows stronger.
LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX
TILE WORKERS
North and South Carolina Mills, Their
Improvements and Their Ad
vancements—Opera
tive Personals.
Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa.,
says: “My child is worth millions
to me; yet I would have lost her by
croup had I not invested twenty-five
cents in a bottle of One Minute
Cough Cure.” It cures coughs,
colds and all throat and lung
troubles. Cherokee Drug Company,
Gaffney, and Macon Thorntou’s
Pharmacy. Blacksburg.
“The tooth of time,” is the one ex
tracted on credit.
It is easy to catch a cold and just
as easy to get rid of it if you com
mence early to use One Minute
Cough Cure. It cures, coughs, colds,
bronchitis, pneumonia and all throat
and lung troubles. It is pleasant ic
take, safe to use and sure to cure.
Cherokee Drug Company. Gaffney,
and Maccn Thornton’s Pharmacy,
Blacksburg.
If ignorance is bliss, more igno
rance is hllstir.
Prosperity comes quickest to the
man whose liver is In good condition.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers arc fa
mous little pills for constipation,
biliousness, indigestion and all stom
ach and liver troubles. Oh«»mk<'e
Drug Company, and Macon Thorn-
ion’s Pharmacy, Blacksburg.
Many young ladies have students
instead of pupils in their eyes.
One Minute Cough Cure cures
quickly. That’s what you want!
Cherokee Drug Company, Gaffney,
und Macon Thornton’s Pharmacy,
Blacksburg.
Lawsuits are too expensive for most
people to pa courting in.
Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O.,
says, “After two doctors gave up my
hoy to die. I saved him from croup,
by using One Minute Cough Cure.”
It is 'the quickest and most certain
remedy for coughs, colds and all
throat and lung troubles. Cherokee
Drug Company, Gaffney, and Macon
Thornton’s Pharmacy. Blacksburg.
fL. 1
Advice to old bachelors who dye
their hair—“Keep it dark.”
J. A. Perkins, of Antiquity, O., was
for thirty years needlessly tortured
by physicians for the cure of eczema.
He was quickly cured by using De
Witt’s Witch Hazel Silvejtho fa
mous healing salve for piles sad
skin diseases. Cherokee Drug Com
pany. Gaffney, and Macon Thorn ton’*
Pharmacy, Blacksburg.
Southern and Western Textile Excelsior.
James L. Turner has move from
Statesville, N. C., to Salisbury, N.
C.
The Proximity cotton mills. Greens-
befro, N. C., are storing away 1,500
bales of cotton.
The Patterson cotton mills. China
Grove, N. O., have finished a large
cotton warehouse are now crowding
the staple in it.
The Gastonia N. C., cotton mill
company has stopped 50 of their
looms, so that they can card and spin
yarns for the market.
Wm. Ownes, recently superintend
ent of the Harden,N. O., cotton mills,
has accepted the overseership of the
weaving in the Magnolia Back Band
ing Mill, Charlotte.
The Edna Cotton Mfg. Co.,’Reids-
ville, N. C., has secured the services
of James H. Pearce as their engineer.
Mr. Pearce can always be depended
upon, he is always at his post.
The Aiken Mfg. Co., of Bath, S. C.,
havo placed a repeat order for Hu
midifiers with the U. S. Aerophor Air
Moistening Co., of Providence, R. 1..
adopting the American “Voxtex”
Humidifier.
President Cone, of the Proximity
Mills, Greensboro, N. C., has a hand
some modern mansion near the
factory. It is surrounded by about 20
acres, which are now being laid out
artistically by a landscape gardener.
The new Coleman cotton mills,
Concord, N. C., are up the first story,
hut they seem to be waiting either
for brick or more funds. The win
dows we observe are too small, and
will not make sufficient light for this
negro mill, especially us it is located
right in the lee of a hill.
The Mills Cotton Mills, Greenville,
S. C., arc running along nicely, by
reason of having plenty of good help
at their command. The mills contain
on or about 10,000 spindles and 250
looms, all picking away, weaving fine
drills, which are guarded by tape sel
vages, warp yarn, same as weft yarn
39s.
The Hope Mills N. C., Mfg. Co.,
will put in 54 more looms in mill No.
1. The new annex mentioned before
by the Exofslsior is completed and
will be used as a beaming room, and
other machinery will be rearranged
to give place for the additional looms.
The mills, No. 1 2 are making
superior shirtings and fancy dress
goods of beautiful designs.
The deferred marriage of Win. H.
Williamson, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. of
the Pilot Cotton Mills, Raleigh, N. C.,
to the beautiful Miss Sadie Tucker,
took place Wednesday in Christ
Church, Raleigh. The ceremony was
witnessed by guests from all over
North Carolina, and other states, and
the presents were many and valuable.
The honeymoon is being spent in Hot
Spring, Va., and New York.
A. M. Crowder, formerly superin
tendent. of the Ada Cotton Mills,
Charlotte, and more recently superin-
tendentof the Henderson,N.C..cotton
mill, has left Charlotte to start up
the Cawthon Cotton Mill Selma, Ala.
It gives us pleasure to say that Mr.
Crowder is looked upon by all men as
o'no of Charlotte’s most respected citi
zens, and has been one of the loading
cotton mil! men in the South from
away back. We sincerely wish him
every success in his new undertaking.
The Edna cotton mills, of Reidsville,
N. C., were lust week havihg their
125 feet smokestack repainted by a
young man named Cole, a profession
al stuck painter from Greensboro.
While engaged in this work near the
top of the stack, Cole lost his hold
and fell a distance of 105 feet to their
boPerroof; remarkable to lelate he
will complete the work within a week.
These mills are now running in good
shape with all their tnachinerv eoing.
and got off last week the largest pro
duction in their history.
The McAdens Mfg. Co.. McAdens-
ville, N. C., has recently surrounded
their mills with 15 hydrants, enjoined
with which are large up-to-date lines
of piping,wherein will flow.when nec
essary, a sufficient supply of water,
it is calculated, to drown out any
fire that may take place within the
walls of the McAden Mfg. Co.’s
mills. The total cost to put in the
plant was $51,000, and through which
the McAden mill insurance has been
reduced $1,700 per year, so it will bo
seen the plant is more than paid for
iu two years.
The Mills Cotton Mills, Greenville,
8. C. are situated in one of the health
iest localities in the Piedmont region,
where good water abounds, close to a
good market, and the operatives
report that they are well satisfied with
the houses that they live in. To this,
we would observe that the cotton
manufacturing companies are finding
it every day more necessary to keep
them. The following are the names
of the leading men in the Mills:
William Hmith, carder; Ben Adams,
second hand; E. J. Gossett, spinner;
Erastus Fletcher, second hand;
V. M. Johnson, weaver, and W. F.
Hodge, J, H. Hill, loom fixers.
To Caro Coaottpotlon Vorovov.
TnVsriiHfurots OSndy Catbirtlc 10c or So.
It C C. C. fall to sure, druggists refund noasg.
A Temperance Rally.
A Temporrn-e next Sundry
afternoon at the Baptist church 3:30 !
o’clock. We wish to see the building
packed; men, wrtns", hops rni pirh
all must be present to show their in
terest in the absorbing question of
the State. Let ns pray God for pro
hibition, and demand of Governor
Ellorbe nothing tut prohibition.
With Gaffney’s mighty lever we must
overthrow the grand distillery of
South Carolina. Have human life,
lift up the fallen, and restore peace
and plenty to crushed hearts and pov
erty stricken homes.
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Granted Boil.
Col. T. B. Butler appeared before
Associate Justice Pope of the Su
preme Court last Thursday night at
chambers in Columbia, and secured
bail in the sum of $2,(XK) for George
Bird, of Rutherfordton county. N.
C., who killed Charles Hmith In this
county on Nov. 2nd. Wo understand
bail will soon be furnished and Bird
released from jail.
A Happy Woman.
A happy woman must necessarily Lave a
healthy liver, therefore to Ik* happy keep the
liver healthy. Prickly Am: ojttkks will
tone up the system, imi'ifv lie: lioweis joal
put the liver rijrht whenever there is any de
viation from healthy regularity, it is a val
uable remedy to keep on hand tor immediate
use when occasion requires It. Sold by Cher
okee Drug Co.
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Ko-To-Bac lor Fifty CentB.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
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Don’t be persuaded into buying
liuia*£ul4 without tcputaaoil or
merit—Chamberlain’s Pain Ilalin
costs no more, and its merits Lave
he.M. frown by u let tf mao; >4^.s.
Such letters us the following from L.
G. Bagley, Hueneme, Cal., are con
stantly being received: “The best
r-medy for pain I have ever used is
Ciiamherlniu’s i’ain Balm, and i say
so after having used it in my family
for several years.” Itcures rheuma
tism, lame back, sprains and swell
ings. For sale by the Du Pre Drug
Co.
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—Don’t fail to go to the great cost
sale of clothing at. the Bee Hive.
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1 f Rice Goose Grease don’tcurc your aches
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pay you money hack.
Dl’I hu Dkuu Co.
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"5e. If C. C. C. fail, druKCisis refund money.
10c
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Gaffney, S. C.
Save Your Money
by tr.ading where you can buy your goods the cheapest!
You will find my store the place you are looking for if you
want to make your dollars, quarters and dimes reach the
full limit of their purchasing power.
Yours truly,
J. I. Sarratt.
A Man flurdered
himself by smoking poor cigars. lie would have been alive
now if he had traded with me. I keep (lie best 5c cigars in
town. Ladies if you are looking for an Xmas present for
your husband come down and see my holiday package of
fine cigars. They will please him. Yours truly,
W. BAKER.
Opposite new Postoffice.
'Trjv fcfc I3»ker‘’« ;;e
ids in
In order to close them out we
will give you a bargain.
1 No. 7 Cook Stove - $ 8.00
1 No. 7 “ “ - - 8.50
2 No, 7 “ “ - - 9.00
1 No. 8 “ “ - - 1 1.00
1 Coal Stove - - 3.00
2 doz Coal Buckets 20c each.
1 doz Pans and Lids cheap.
Mens’s Shoes 50c and up.
Remember the Galloway stock must be closed out by Christmas
day. Goods well bought are half sold. We cut prices half in
two in buying, hence can sell you goods away under what others
pay for them.
A lot of brand new clothing go
ing at cost. If you need a suit
now is the time to buy it cheap.
GROCERIES.
181bs Granulated Sugar $1.
91bs Arbuckles Coffee $!.
Soda 5c per lb. Good Tea 30c
lb. Starch 5c lb. Salmons, tall
can, 10c. Meat5 I-2cts.
HARDWARE.
Nails, Breast Chains and Trace,
Chains at cost. \
For bargains go to
J. A. ELLIS it C
tand