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LIQUOR IN CHEROKEE.
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NEW YORK, March 4th, 1905.
Mess. J. R. Tolleson & Co.,
GafTney, S. C.
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at the beginning of the season, we wish to impress upon you that we will satisfy
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front of our coats will not break. Should, however, an exceptional garment lose its
shape do not hesitate to return the garment to us and we will put it back in proper
shape, and if this cannot be done we will make new ones for you, no matter how
long during the season the customer has worn same. The same applies to the lin
ings. We guarantee our linings to wear, and if any linings do not give entire satis
faction we will reline garment free of charge. Trusting that you will redouble
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“J. L. S.” Challenged in Regard to His
Sentiments on the Subject.
Editor Ledger: —We saw in your
last issue in the correspondence of
The Ledger from Wilkinsville, over
the initials, “J. L. S.,” a sentim.ent
that nnfst not go unchallenged. He
says: "The majority of the people
are willing to do their duty, if they
only know it. But they don’t propose
to he made a laughing stock of for
the world.” Again, he pitches into
the legislature, and says: "When the
people voted the linuor out of the
county they expected the legislature
to fix the necessary law, but in this
they were disappointed .and they think
it useless to protest further.” ,
If the "Sage of Etta Jane” had sug
gested in the same space what the
duty of our people is it would have
been better. Does not “J. L. S.” know
that eternal vigilance is the price of
law and order? To nass laws, to vote
out liquor, etc., is one thing, but to
enforce them is another. The shout
ing crowd is always in the majority,
but when it comes to self sacrifice
and efforts to enforce laws there are
far less good citizens. There are
many who can criticize; many who
say, “Go ahead, I am with you, but
I have not time. We have sheriffs and
J constables to enforce laws. It is not
! my business. I may lose a customer,
! or a client.” Or some of the politt-
I clans fear that they wdll lose a vote.
. But the best officers are powerless
I without the aid of the best pf our citl-
j zenship, and we wish to enter a pro-
1 test against such half-heartedness.
• W<> do not want to think such are the
! purposes of “J. L. S.”
He next crops the legislature. Well,
i 1 shall not take up the cudgels for
. those gentlemen. They are able to
| and doubtlessly will take care of
themselves when the time comes.
Hut we may say in passing that there
1 is hut one simon pure “prohibitionist’
in the delegation from this county.
(We hope that the vacancy to he filled
! will give us two at the next session.)
• Yet in the face of that, the dispensary
j majority was wiped out in the house.
No dispensary legislation was drafted.
Why? Because the senate killed the
prohibition hills passed by the house;
and the house as promptly killed the
dispensary hills from the senate.
Hut the cause of prohibition made
progress. The* hostile majority of two
years ago was changed to a decided
1 majority for prohibition, and if
i “J. L. S.” read the reports of the pro-
i coodings, he must have seen where
Cherokee always had one vote and
one voice for prohibition, and on the
final test in the senate the liquor
forces only had a majority by three
votes.
Why is “J. L. S.” disheartened, and
throwing cold water on an attemnt
to rid th’ • count'. " ’ nly of the sale,
hut also i f the making of liquor? We
do not think we should have been
forced to petition, hut taking the cue
from the letter of Hon. H. H. Evans,
chairman of the State hoard, there is
nothing else to do. He intimates that
the “booze board” may he moved by
a petition.
Is there anything wrong in doing
the best we can under the circum
stances? Suppose the city authori
ties at Gaffney had sat suninely down,
simply because the United States
court, has decided that they can’t in
terfere with interstate commerce.
Would Gaffney be a dry town? Sup
pose all our citizenship in every com
munity in this county sit down on the
stool of do-nothing, simply because
now and then some poor devil gets
drunk on “poruna, ginger ale,” or
hitters. Shame on such a policy.
Wipe out the law of murder, because
some jury failed to do their sworn
duty. I hope that letter, as we read
it, does not reflect the sentiments of
“J. L. S.” We do not want to think
it does. Let law and order remember
that vigilance must he our watch
word. We know that some of our
people are going to keep up the fi-zht
In fighting liquor, and it hacked by the
dispensary forces, we cannot nick our
ground. Wo are not dealing with ideal
conditions, hut. with rugged facts of
life. “J. L. S.” was too good a soldier
to refuse to fight because conditions
did not suit him. He did not refuse
to march because the Confederacy
failed to pay his salary, or he was
disappointed in not getting as much
or the kind of food he wanted.
No one expected another attempt to
establish a distillery in this county,
after the closing of the distillery at
AnMoch two years ago. But shall de
cency, law and order sit down in its
tent and sulk because the State board
of control has refused to do its plaip
duty? No, a thousand times no!
As good citizens we must uphold
our constables, magistrates, sheriffs,
etc. The records show not only a de
crease in drunkenness by seventy-five
per cent, but the mayor’s court, the
criminal courts, magisterial and cir
cuit courts all admit it is easier to
put down “blind tigers” than while
we had a dispensary. There were
three to our “blind tigers” in this
county when we had a dispensary to
what we have with prohibition.
Come out, Bro. “J. L. S.;” sign that
petition; urge your neighbors to do
it and let us show to all the world
that Cherokee not only voted prohibi
tion but intends to have it. That if
the State board lays down terms that
we don’t like, if the legislature does
not do all we think it should, that
we propose to fight it out. And every
time we get a chance we intend to in
crease our majority in the house and
change the senate until we have a
majority there, too.
One (if the Old Guard.
REDUCED RATES
To Spartanburg Account .of South
Atlantic Music Festival.
On account of the South Atlantic
States Music Festival at Spartan
burg, S. C., May 3rd-5th, 1905, the
Southern Railway announces the
very low rate of one first-class fare
plus 25 cents for the round trip (min
imum rate 50 cents).
Rates to apply from all stations
Atlanta, Athens and Elberton, Ga., to
and from Charleston and Savannah to
Asheville, N. C., inclusive. Tickets
to he sold 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of
May from all points in the above ter
ritory; also on May 5th from stations.
Greenwood and Greenville to Char
lotte. N. C., and Asheville to Colum
bia, inclusive. Final limit of all
tickets May (1th, 1905.
For further information as to rates,
etc., address any agent of the South
ern Railway, or,
Brooks Morgan.
A. G. P. A. Sou. Ry.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Conviction Follows Trial
When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens
to hare in his bin, how do you know what you are
getting ? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk,
could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), oared to
speak out
Gould any amount of mere talk hay# persuaded millions of
housekeepers to use
Lion Coffee,
the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter
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PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST.
Former pupil of the celebra
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Notice!
If you need anything in the line of
meats, call and see us. We have the
largest cold storage room in the city and
while it is a nice piece of furniture, it is
for use and not for ornament. It is al
ways well supplied with the best of beef,
as we do not carry to the slaughter pen
any hut the fattest of cattle. We also
handle a special line of pork and sugar-
cured hams. In fact, we carry in stock
anythig that an up-to-date market hand
les. For best goods, fairest prices and
up-to-date treatment in every respect call
and see or phone
Dempsy & Ballengen
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The Beautiful Melo-Drama
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Saturday afternoon to see “Little Red Riding
Saturday Matinee, April 22
The Beautiful Fairy Tale
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Saturday Night, April 22
The Greatest Play Ever Written
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