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/ * I % \ THE LEDGER. Tjesday ana Friday, Ed. H DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Leuger is not responsible for the vi ws of correspondents. Obit mnep will be published at five cents a line. Corrcr-pendents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish t icir name, not for publication, but foi identification. All conospondence should be ad- dessed ;>• Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. We invariably ciscontlnue sending r he Ledger when a subscription runs ;ut, for we nave no way of knowing that a person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper la worth the money. We are trying month by montn to make it better and bet ter. AS TO CHEROKEE. Som*? days ago The Record made re ference to the tact that three residents of Gaffney had paid the United States revenue tax required of all dealers in liquor, anti we drew the natural, con clusion that there were three places in the prohibition city of Gaffney and county of Cherokee where the bibulous could slake their thirst for ardent spirits. The esteemed Ledger takes us rather sharply to task for making the assertion. It declares that it knows acre about this matter than we do, and called upon us to go to the re cords confident that we would see where we were wrong, though it very unjustifiably insinuates that finding ourselve- wrong we would not make amends by acknowledging the truth. We will pass over this feature of the spirit of the editorial in The Ledgei, which appears once or twice, simply remarking in passing that those who are prone unwarrantably to impute dishonest motives to others are not themselves. a> a rule, the highest ex emplar of uprightness, being too apt to judi-e others by themselves. We do not wish to befcloud this particular issue by extraneous references, how ever, and we proceed with the matter at issue. When we wrote the brief paragraph referred to we nd before 'is wha: pur ported to be a list of those in this State who bad paid such tax. This list ha i be e.i copied for a purpose and we had no reason to doubt its accur acy. To make assurance doubly sure we examined the books in the office of the collector of internal revenue, and we assert again that there are three residents of Cherokee county, who give their addresses as being at Gaffney, wao have paid this revenue tax for the current fical year, which began July 1, 1905. These men give their business as druggists, but drw r g , '- < s rtrp not re quired to pay that i r compound ing prescriptions in v, .licia alcohol forms a part. Wholesale druggists are required to pay that tax. In the city of Columbia there is one drug est.ab- lishment which pays tax for wholesale business. In the city of Charleston there is one. Now, is the wholesale trade in alcohol of such proportions in the comparatively small town of Gaff ney that three men find it necessary to pay the tax? If so, then anyway, our contemporary’s contention that prohibition is successful in Cherokee, we think, must fail because three deal ers in alcohol would surely indicate that the people of that county are con suming great qualities of the pure unadulte:-. ted alcohol, and even the most : lent n.’ohib'iionists must ad mit that that is far worse than when taken diluted with corn juice or rye or anything else. We can hardly be lieve that since prohibition went into effect citizens of Gaffney have turned themselves to scientific pursuits and must use so much alcohol in the jins secution of their researches. We can not get a satisfactory explanation on that ground. We might suppose that these revenue taxpayers and stamp collcto^s had a desire to include the yearly issue of liquor tax receipts amongst their other curios in their collection book. That supposition might he made, but we hardly think any one would do i‘ seriously. What. then, was the tax paid for? Isn’t the conclusion entirely justifiable that it was to sell liquor and steer clear of running counter to Uncle Sam? The esteemed Ledger and the pre sumably efficient chief of police have been asleep. * They have been dream ing dreams. We trust that we will succeed in arousing them from their slumber and that they will both p ceed to see to it that Gaffney is “dry” in fact as well as in name. The people voted to banish all malt, vinous and spirituous liquors from their town and county. They ought to have what they want. None of these things should be permitted to get in their midst, anatomically or otherwise. The above is from the Columbia Re cord in reply to our editorial of last Tuesday. We were perhaps a little too severe in attributing evil motives to the dispensary papers, but subse quent events prove that we were not altogether unwarranted in so doing, aaThe Record goes right along and re iterates its charge after we had direct ed its attention to its error. We are not exercised over what the Columbia Record or any other dispen sary orgaa may say. We trust that we h:.ve in a degree established a re putation for truthfulness and fair- mlndeness. If we have been so for- tunat .* as to do this we wish to main tain that reputation. With that Idea in view we append the following state ment: We. the undersigned druggists of Gaffney, hereby state for the infor mation of those interested that we have not now a United States revenue license, and have not had one since June -Oth, 1905. Cherokee Drug Cod S. B. Crawley & C., Gaffney Drug Co. The licenses do not begin with July 1, 19(>5. but end June 30, 1905. The whole truth of the matter is simply tills: The three drug stores in Gaffney were indicted by the city authorities for selling Jamaica ginger which they believed they had a right, to sell. They compromised the cases and agreed not to sell again, hut were informed that they had violated the United States revenue law and in order to escape prosecution they took out licenses for the year ending June 30, 1905. They have no licenses now, so “the esteemed Gaffney Ledger and the presumably ef ficient chief of police” have not "been dreaming dreams.” The three drug stores in Gaffney are conducted by gentlemen. They would not violate the law for any consider ation. They did not believe they were violating the law when they sold Ja maica ginger: they do not believe now that they violated the law, as every other drug store in South Carolina sells it, but rather titan he a party to an evil practice they agreed not to sell it. Neither of them have ever sold alcohol since the dispensary was clos-V ed and they did not take out the licen ses for selling alcohol. The druggists regard that they were buncoed out of the $25 by the revenue officers, but rather than Incur the expense of go ing to Greenville and occupy the un- euviable position of a defendant in the United States court they submitted to what they regarded as an outrage. Per registered mail we have for warded to The Record for its inspect ion two of the licenses which were is sued, the third having been destroyed by the parties to which it was issued., in order that it may see that we have i not been "dreaming dreams.” The Record now has the whole truth ! in this matter. We will wait and see , whether or not it will make the amen :! > honorable. CAN THESE THINGS BE? The Columbia Record says: “Unde”! the dispensary law in Cherokee, Gaff-j iiL‘V had one place where liquor could he bought. Now there are three, sell-1 ing n ght and day. There are that | ni.iny internal revenue licenses taken >ut in Gaffney.” in tin* face of Mie protestati.-ns u: the prohihitioni in Gaffney that no whiskey is soli in j taut town h is hard to believe that | these men have taken out licenses! from the United States government to | retail liquor there. But we are satis-1 fiml that the Record knows what i: is talking about, and that, notwithstand ing the many denials of blind tigerism by the press and officials of Gaffney, that one can buy all the moan whiskey he wants night or day there. The Record r o* on to say tkr one! Mo i' ■ hn* !'• ■' taken out in ■ o- : . Ihu that county is young in the prohi bition movement yet. It will he thus seen, as we have predicted, that prohi bition means the unrestricted sale of liquor in Smith Carolina. The dispen sary is bad enough, but it is better! than blind tigerism such as they have in Cherokee and Pickens counties. W<* predict that some fellow in Union will | have a government license to sell liq-1 nor in less than ten days after the dis- j pensary was voted out of that county. I And as the time goes on there will lie many retailers of liquor in all three of the counties that have voted out the I dispensary. As long as government ! 'censes to retail whiskey is held by ' '■itizer.s of Cherokee, Pickens and i'n- * 1 * * * S. ion counties it is nonsense for the prohibitionists to undertake to make; mtsiders believe that no whiskey is ' eing sold in those counties. I; is certain that the parties who pay j ;h * government twenty-five dollars for a license to retail whiskey in Chero kee. Pickens and Union did not pay this money just to help the govern- nent along. Not a bit of it. They took out the licenses to sell whiskey to any ami everybody and they are doing it. r oo. it makes no difference what the prohibitionists say about the matter. In the face of such facts as these how- can anyone claim tha* prohibition, with its blind tiger attachments, is to be preferred to the dispensary. Possibly most prohibitionists agree with the Rev, G. W. Davis, whose communica tion we publish in another column. It will be noticed that he claims that ‘Orangeburg would be better off with a dozen blind tigers than with the one two-eyed’ tiger ihat it has,” meaning the dispensary. It is needless for us to say that we do not agree with the Rev. G. \V. Davis. We believe in law and order even in handling the liquor question. If prohibitionists look at the matter as Mr. Davis does they are mititled to their opinion, the ss tv> a* •ve are ours, and we have no nuar-el with them, but they can’t claim under •uch circumstances that prohibition prohibits. The above is from the Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Why Bro. Sims would rather accept the statement of The Record, published more than one hundred miles from the scetne of act ion, rather than accept the statements of local papers, citizens and officials, is past understanding. The editor of The Times and Democrat we regard as one of the best men in South Caro lina. We believe him to be thoroughly honest. And vet he is so partisan t<» ward the dispensary that he cannot allow himself to give due credit to the : ther side. Tis a pity that such men should get ep the wrong side of a T ’at moral question. However much Bro. Sims may be satisfied That The Record knows what it is talking about we assure him that The Record speaks without a true un derstanding of the fit nation, and also ' iiat it will be a difficult matter foa him to buy even a little bit of mean valskey either day or night. But, then, what is the use of trying to convince these hard headed fellows that they are wrong? They are de termined to advocate the G. M. I., so You Know j m Uneeda iscuit go it, bullies. Some day you may re alize that von are wrong. NOTES AND CuMME MTS. have denominated this Syate for some time is fast drawing to a close and well may South Carolina hail with joy the coming of a brighter day. W« have not used the impressive luu inelegant language of The Spar- tanlmrg Journal and Cole L. Blease to ward the Columbia Record because that kind of language is not convinc- ng. We prefer to produce fat|s. * • • The second primary to nominate a candidate for the legislature takes place next Tuesday. Go to tjie polls and vote for the man of your choice, it is the duty of every citizen of legal age to exorcise the right of suffrage, buI it is also the dutv of the voter to vote for the man whom he thinks will, by his conduct in office, reflect the highest degree of honor niton this con stituents. » • • It has been suggested that. Cherokee hold a county fair. This is a proper suggestion and one that would, if car ried out, add to the social and material int ‘r ij st-; of the county. Only the otae • day we heard a good man say ii t' ere was something the matter ' h Cherokee socially. True we do t i: we enough social gatherings. Yho will take the lead in a county 'air organization? Some one suggest a too 1 live man and let us all work that end. • • • We cannot forget the good roads object. We have several thousands f dolhvs worth of good road machin ery standing idle while the farmers are driving through the mud. We have no desire to run the affairs of the comity but any man with a grain of common sense knows we will never get a dollar's worth of benefit out of the good roads machinery so long as it is allowed to stand idle. Besides, it is being eaten up by rust. We need •pi.-hI roads and we need them bad. Why can't we lie using the machinery we have? * • • We print, with no attempt at. con cealing our delight, the utterance of Mr. Niels Christensen on the sugges tion of the Greenville News and the criticism of this suggestion by other papers that Mr. Lyon and himself would be a good pair to nominate for governor and lieutenant governor. He has spoken like a man. Mr. Christen sen is a statesman and not a petty politician, and for that reason we would like to see him honored. With such men as these coming to the front the day of the little political fops that This Man Has a Proper Conc^tion. (Greenville Mowntaineer.) We saw it stated somewhere the other day that under t.h$i dispensary law Gaffney had one place where liq uor could 1)0 bought, and now has three selling night and day. We do not believe that such is the case, but if it is true it. will not be for long, as those people will not stand it. Thetv may be three persons there who have federal licenses, but that does not al ways signify that the holder thereof is selling liquor regularly, though he would like very much to be able to do so. We can’t prevent the issue of fed eral licenses, but we have it in onr power to make it so warm for those who attempt-ato sell whiskey that they will be glad to seek new fields without the border of the State. a-> did those fellows who made the effort in Marlboro. We very much doubt that there were any more federal li aises in Gaffney now than were while the dispnsary was in operation. It is always to some one's interest to paint things as black as possible. His Personal Organ. (News and Courier.) The Gaffney Ledger, which is pub* lished in the neighborhood of Grassy Pond, in Cheaohee county, says: "The Charleston News and Courier and the New York Sun have Invn having some fun at the « xpeti a of the Hon. Kimsey O. Huskey. '>f t'a -roi * ■. nd the Cnar- lotte Observer nas also added iiis name • • i..; list of c geni'e.non. the stripped t o o no red race for : which is sure •I. ith’s. Never mind, M ”. 'vimsoy o. out- 1 ns in ,i four-cor- e ,[o ;se last Tuesday, sign that he has other dualities besides that of a rail-splitter. You may well keep your eye on him. ter soune” or later he is to be reckoned wi>’/>." The Sun and tne Observer have been naving some tun at the expense of the Hon. ivimse/ O. Huskey, but not The News and Courier. Wo modestly cleim to be his personal organ. Awaiting Developments. (Charlotte Observer.)* ‘ The Gaffney, S. C., Ledger reminds us that a little more than a year ago it "prodded The Charlotte Observer i for selling space to advertise Evange list Bill Fife’s Great Western Gold Min i ing Company,” and "would now like I to know what The Observer thinks ! about the matter.” We will probably j tell our contemporary more when we ; know more, remarking in the mean- , time that not many papers v/puld at ; that time have declined that advertis- | ing. Upon the general subject of ex- : pecting something for nothing, we have often expressed ourselves in a general way. Is it Right? Is it right that a property-owner should lose $4.20 to let a dealer make 50 cents? A dealer makes 50 cents more on fourteen gallons of ready for-use paint, at $1.50 per gallon, than our agent does on eight gallons of L & M. paint and six gallons of linseed oil, which makes fourteen gallons of the best paint in the world, at $1.20 per gallon; the property-owner loses just $4.20. Is It right? It only requires 4 gallons - of L. a M. and 3 gallons linseed oil to paint a moderate sized house. Ten Thausand Churches painted with Longman & Martinez L. & M. Paint. Liberal quantity given to churches when bought from Smith Hardware Co., Gaffney; Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. CONTINUE Those who are gaining flesh and strength by regular treat ment with Scott’s Emulsion should continue the treatment In hot weather; smaller dose and a little cool milk with It will do away with any objection which Is attached to fatty pro ducts during the heated season. Send for free sample. SCOTT K BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and # 1.00; all druggists. For Bronchitis Coughs and Colds One feels the effect of this Magic Remedy after the first dose. $1.00 at the drug stores—or sample bottle free. Checkers Medicine Co Winston-Balem, N. C. Shows Our Sentiments. (Pee Dee Advocate.) Of the four candidates for the va cancy in the legislature from Cherokee county three were for prohibition. The fourth, was non-commital, tailed the ticket, receiving only ICO votes in the county. That shows how the peo ple of Cherokee like the prohibition ex periment. How’s This? We offer One H undicU Oollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that oimnot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. K. .1. CHENEY fi CO.. Toledo. O Wo. the underslK-ncd, have known F. .1 Cheney for tho last IS yours, and believe bin' perfectly honorable In all buslnss transac tions and financially a tile to curry out an> obligations made by their tirui. W kst & Tar AX, Wholesale Druggists, Tolod*. O. Wa 1.nino, Kinnan A Makvix. Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. HairaCularrh Cure Is tu'.eu Internahv actlng direct ly u non the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Drug gists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Wood's Seeds. Crimson Clover. Our Southern Fanners can save fer tilizer bills and increase their revenues MILLIONS OF DOLl ARS, by sowing Crimson Clover at the last working of their Corn and Cotton crops. It is the best time to sow and you save an extra prep aration of the land. Crimson Clover makes land rich in humus or vegetable matter and puts it in excellent condition for the crops which follow it. It also makes 1 fill «i.ifir cinr crop, Ai iicilliif (riziig crip, A good iirl| forago crip, A spliidid soil-improving crop. Plowed under early in the spring, it increases the yield of corn, to bacco, cotton or other crops which follow it, to a wonderful e? ‘ent. Onr Mies ot Crimson Clover seed are Increasing enormously every year, and we are to-day the largest dealers in this seed in the United BUtes. w rite for prices and circulars giving Information about this valuable crop. T.W. Wood & Sins, SudsMii, nuaoii, - viiiiiiA* and Garden Seeds for Pall Plant ing. Mailed (Tee on request. Opera House Thursday, Aug. 28th - THE GREAT - Clivette. Modern Magician And Illusionist Up-to-date Hagic and Exposures. BIG ^ Specialty Acts. Prices: 15,25 and 35 Gents Secure Seats Now.