Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. fuMday and Friday, DeCamp, Editor and Publlahar, J. Brian Ball, Nawa Editor. Hereaft«r no advarllaemOnta will ba accepted at this office after 9.30 o'clock on Mondaya and Thuredaya. Watch vour label anj the date. And renew before ’Mb too late; If there be an error, don’t Ket mad, Report tr us—we’ll make you alad. J^rnt mber, ’Ms our aim to please, But errors are like peskv fleas— Thev will creep in in spite of fate. Therefore, watch your label and the date. —Original. PREACHING AND PRACTICING. A abort time ago The ledger print ed whit is intended to be a very In nocent little paragraph in which it was suggested that the Orangeburg Times and Democrat and other pro- dispensarv papers be forgiven for their advocacy of the dispensary on the ground that they knew not what they were doing. The article seems to have raised the Ire of the Times and Democrat, if we are to judge from the following which appeared in a recent issue of that paper: The editor of the Gaffney Ledger, swelling with self-righteousness for having opposed the dispensary in the late primary, promulgates a general amnesty to all newspapers in the State that favored the dispens: ry. .tml j says he. freely forgives them for they , knew not what the were doing. A s !-e names The Times and Democrat witn two other papers as the ciO'f sinners, a A w w'ails in i‘ - ply from us M in not 1 e a niss. It has h'>en our desire for .some time to preach a short lav sermon to a certain class of so- f.dled i' tor i',. r-. of '\ln>ni the editor (,! The 1 edge;- is a flue type, and we shall embrace this opportunity to do so. When Christ, the Croat Teacher, was on earth He called the self righto OUS Pharises hypocrites and liars be cause they delighted to stand on the street corners and in the chief places in the synagogue and proclaimed their virtues and looked with scorn upon the poor trembling Publican while in secret they practiced all manner of sin and wickedness. In other words, they did not practice what they preached. Like a great many so-call ed reformers of today these self rigid eons Pharises pointed out the way for other people to go, hut they fail* <1 to follow their own advice, and hence the Savior spurned them from Hun and called them hypocrites and liars. If we mistake not. the editor of The Ledger is a prohibitionist who pre scribes prohibition for everybdv ox- cenJ himself. Like the Pharisees, he does not oractice what he preaches tT may be a vary moderate user ■' intoxicating liqour?. au<l ma ^ " . drink enough of the vile stun VO __ come intoxicated, hut still he does not do the thing that he says bv his vote he wants all other men to do. He is evidently one of those kind of reformers who want people to do as he tells them to do, while he does as he pleases, it makes us tired to he lectured bv that kind of a refoimer. He should get the mote out of ms own eye before he undertabes to re^ move the bean from the eyes of others. Before undertaking to reform oth ers a man should reform himself. If the editor of The Ledger thinks that whiskey is such a had thing that lie feels called upon to vote it out of the reach of the people generally he should quit using it himself. He should oe willing to make that much of a sacrifice for the public good, about which he pretends to be so much concerned. Such a reformer ae that would be entitled to great respect and consideration, but the so- called reformer who stands at the street corners and In the chief places in the synagogue and preach prohi bition and then dodge behind the door and drinks whiskey is not. We would rather be a Publican than that sort of a reformer. Like the Publican of old. we believe that a man before attempting to reform oth ers should reform himself. There fore. we have prescribed prohibition for ourself, and. what is more, we practice it both at home and abroad. W e believe it is Just about as leasable to require a man to get religion by legislation once or twice a year as it is to require a man to stop using whiskey by legislation. One is as practical as the other. We believe that all great reforms must he brought about by moral suasion and not by legislation. Therefore, we practice personal prohibition, and by all the influence that we can exert we urge all men to do as we do. let the vile stuff alone. If the editor of the Times and De mocrat will take down his Webster’s Unabridged, dust off the dirt and study the word prohibition he will And that there is absolutely nothing inconsistent in our opposition to the dispensary and our conduct both at home and abroad. We quote from Mr. Webster: “Prohibition—The act of prohibi ting; a declaration or Injunction pro hibiting some action; interdict. Spe cifically, the forbjdding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as bever ages. "Prohibitionists—One who favors the prohibition (or the sale and manu facture) of alcoholic liquors as bever ages.’’ Now this is quite different from a teetotaler. Concerning a teetotaler the same authority says: “Teetotaler—One pledged to entire ahstlnance from all intoxicating drink*.” Any man who knows anything about the English language will at once note the difference, and we are utterly aurprlied at the ignorance dis played by the editor of the Times and Democrat The Ledger has always Aeen In favor of prohibiting the State >f South Carolina from engaging in the whiskey business. The Times and Democrat gets hot In the collar, grows red in the face and throws a fit because The Ledger advocates prohibition and does not practice teetotalism. For the benefit of all concerned we will say that the Insinuation that the editor of The Ledger dodges behind the door to drink whiskey is wholly untrue and without foundation. We might say that in effect we abstain from indulging in whiskey at all, but the assertion would not be literally true. We do not practice whiskey drinking. We would not mention this hut for the fact that The Times and Democrat would attempt to create the impression that the editor of The ledger is a tippler. Of course the people of Gaffney and Cherokee coun- t • know that we do not practice whis key drinking hut the people of the State who have read this article do not and we merely mention this so that they may not he misinformed. So much for our whiskey drinking. The editor of The Times and De mocrat is a good man—a Godly man J we believe, hut let us remind him | •Vt we disclaim any self-righteous- j i.'-.s. We art a vile sinner, but vyhen 1 it comes to :i question of religion we will go to the Mercy Seat, and not ap- i' 1 to any human being. Let us see who is ineonsist-nt in j this matte!-. We advocate prohibition j and would attempt to Influence our | law mal ers to abo ish the sale of ; whisk \ and thus make teetotalers of our citizens. That is our position in 1 a nutshell. The editor of The Times and Democrat is a teetotaler, yet lie would attempt to influence our law makers to continue the sale of whis key. He advocates a system that would make drunkards and murderers of his fellow man, and which, if per sisted in, would land them in hell \V e advocate a system that would nnke men respect aide. Now isn’t the argument of The Times and Democrat a forceful one in behalf of its cause? When it nets to the point where we have to attempt to drag down a man s charac ter in order to make a point we will lay aside the pen and take up a call- in^ that is more becoming a man. The Times and Democrat admonish es Us to practice what we preach. Why don’t the editor of The Times -od Democrat preach what he prac tices’? ^ ls ^ lsl as inconsistant as u ii navo *he public believe we he w'ould have * are because he practices teetotalism and advocates the debauching of humanity. We would rather lend what little influence we possess toward the up- . ., .... , ,i*y "U'l bo a sinner buildir-> "i • ; a than to u vn measure tuai “• to predition. We would have treated this article with silent contempt, as we have treated other articles that have emk nated from the Pen ° f the e(litor ° The Times and Democrat that were aimed at us and which, like this, were untrue, but silence would have meant that we plead guilty to this dirty accusation, ^e brand it as untrue. Of course if The Times and Demo crat does not desire to be forgiven for its attempt to make drunkards of the people of South Carolina we can’t help it. Still we are like Mr. Bryan s storv of the fellow who had courted a girl for twelve months and finally K ot up enough courage to propose. The girl accepted, telling him how much she had loved him all these long months. The fellow went out into the open air, drew in a full breath, lifted his eyes toward heaven, and said: “Oh, Ix>rd I haint got nothin’ agin nobody.” If The Times and Democrat can’t nut up a better argument in behalf of its cause we “haint got nothin’ agin It." If it can’t forgive us we’ll for i-'ive it anyway. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Tisn't no use trying to please every' body, anyway. Some folks are idiots because they can’t help themselves, ot hers through cussed ness. • • * The Orangeburg Times and Demo crat calls us a reformer. Wrong again. We have never made any pre tense of affiliating with that faction. « * * What's going to happen? Boss Ben and The Ledger are agreed. We are both agin Mr. Bryan’s scheme of government ownership of railroad. • • • The trouble with the editor of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat is that the people have spoken against hia boss’ pet scherae, and he is sore over the result. • • • There la nothing to be gained by croaking. Better hav- a good word for your town or move to some other town that you cap have it good word fm. • • • We would rather be a dog standing r- top of a mountain barking at the moon than to be a man who would ad vocate a scheme to make beast of our fellowman. • » • The echoes of the doing of Cassie Chadwick with the Republican mil lionaires of Pittsburg are reaching the public through evidence In pend ing litigation in that city. • • * Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, does not seem to care much for father-in-law, if the report Is true that he refused to allow son-in-law Longworth to he a delegate to the Ohio Republican State convention. * • • Honestly, wo regret that our op position to the dispensary should of fend any one. We try to conduct this newspaper on a high plane. We in dulge in a little fun at the expense of the other fellow but wo don’t mean to be offensive. * * * Here is a trade for the Orangeburg Times and Democrat: If you will advocate the abolition of the dispen sary we’ll take an oath never to use another drop of “mouthwash” as long as we live. Have you got the courage to accept? * * * A Lexington county jury lias been scorched for accepting the hospitality of a claim agent of a defendant rail road and returning verdicts for dam ages that were insufficient. This isn’t the first Lexington county Jury that has been scorched for a miscarriage of justice. * * * The great reduction of the Repub lican majority in Vermont at the late election to L r >,G7G has only once been equaled and that was in 1890 when the majority was 11.1G3 and in that year tin- Democrats elected the larg est majority in Congress that any party lias had since >880. This looks promising for a Democratic Congress this fall. * * * The Washington Post, is autnority for the statement that "it is estimated that the two candidates for governor in Vermont expended half a million dollars” hut as the Republican ma jority was less than in any election since 1880, save one, the Republican investment does not seem to have been profitable. From another source it is claimed that the trusts and com bines protected by the tariff and oili er corporations expended $250,000 to elect Littlefield, the Republican can didate for Congress in Maine. This corruption and political debauching of the voters by special interest pro tected by Republican legislation does not even bring forth a protest from our reform President. * * * Former employes and patrons of the venerable Amos Owens, ot Cherry Tree fame, will regret to learn of his death at his home in North Carolina. They would probably have wished it could have occurred within the walis of the penitentiary.—Anderson Intel ligencer. Our contemporary does the memory of Amos Owens an unintentional in justice. Amos didn’t have a thing to do with the cherry tree swindle, ex cept to allow the use of his name, which had become famous for his habitual violation of the internal re venue law. A gang of thieves start ed the thing, sold out to another gang of thieves, and all the while Amos got the cussing. Amos owned a small tract of land and at first sold cherry tree sprouts to the concern hut his supply soon became exhausted. The old man was a great sinner ip some respect, hut he was mything else but a thief. He didn’t have sense enough to start a swindle like that. ■ v ■. t . ■■ ■ Pass It Around. (Bamberg Herald.) In t ie State Senate the candidates for clerk are Gen. R. It Hemphill, of Abbeville, and Ed. H. DeCamp of Gaffney, botn newspaper men. We like the General fine, but he ought to pass the thing around among the newspaper hoys. Rotation in office one of the foundations of the “re form" movement and the General is a true blue “reformer.” Win Hereafter Call It Mouth Wash. (Carolina Citizen.) Rut McGhee made the motion Cherokee (DeCamp) seconded it, and so far as we know the vote un animously sustains it. and we shall hereafter call it the “mouth wash" shop instead of the G. M. I. Always Original. (Newberry Observer.) The Gaffney Ledger, always origi nal, has adopted a new word—at least it is new to us. In describing a mar rlige it says It took place “at th.e pas- torium of the First Baptist church.” Thinks We Have Great Influence. (Sumter Herald.) We are sorry for Mr. W. Jennings Bryan. Altho he is a very great man Senator Latimer and the Gaffney Led- r er are not shouting for him. • And It A* Hot A«, Weill (Clarendon Sentinal.) At last the back bone of summer 1 s broken; but It took a lot of work and sweat to do it THINGS THEATRICAL. ^lUlUlUlUiUiUiUiUUUUlUj The Denver Express. The Denver Express, an attraction well known In this city, appeared at the theatre on Saturday evening. A good audience greeted the rise of the curtain and was keenly appreciative of a fairly good show. The company is a good one and well balanced. R. J. Ravencroft and Clark Ravencroft made a good impression, while Tom Rolfe, as the funny old sheriff, and in a good specialty, made a go d hit. The rush of the “Denver Express” across' the stage entranced the audience. Donnelly and Hatfield Minstrels. Of the Donnelly and Hatfield min strels the New York Dally Press has the following: ‘‘The Donnelly and Hatfield min strels, the first minstrel show of the season here, pleased large audiences at the Academy yesterday afternoon and last night. In spite of the chilly, drizzly weather, the matinee atten dance was away above the average and at night the best audience of lie season turned out. “The show is a good one through out : that part of the performance known as the “first part” furnishing the first handsome setting seen in a minstrel show in these parts for some time. The program calis for “A stupendous spectacle. The evolu tlon if minstrelsy, or minstrelsy’s tribute to the Twentieth century, etc.” and the "first part’ about tills the bill. Tommy Donnelly, who for several years w:is one of Al. G. Field’s chief funmakers. heads the bunch of laugh creators with this show and Solod de Miller, with a splendid lyric tenor voice, leads the singers. Features of the “second part” are “Teddy’s Bear Hunt,” with Tommy Donnelly as President Roosevelt, and ‘The Independent Order of Pos sums.” a burlesque on modern lodge methods. The act. ot Frink Laypon, a clever acrobat, and other feaures of Uu* program are worthy of mention.” The Clansman. The return to the South of the most extraordinary plu;v that lias everibeen presented on the American stage is an event of national interest. This nliy. The Clansman," has just completed a sensational tour of the Northern cit i s despite predictions that it would he hissed off the boards, its actors tared and feathered, and the piece of fieially suppressed by State and mu nicipal authorities. I’lic fault of “The Clansman”—in the eyes of Northern critics—is that, it dares to tell the story of reconstruct* ion from the Southern noint of view. In so doing it upsets the ideas of po- litcal and civil equality for the negro to which the Northern people are com mitted. It had heretofore been anticipated that. “The Clansman” would he as hotly resented at the North as a pre sentation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” would in the South: but instead a strange thing happened. The Northern people took “The Clansman” to their hearts. Notwitstanding newspaper protests, pulpit fulminatlons and shrieking pamphleteers, they accepted it as the true gospel of the South. In a sense the Northern appearance of “The Clansman” marked the reversal of the Northern attitude on the race problem. In Brooklyn, N. Y„ the home of the late Henry Ward Beecher, whose sis ter wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’’ "The Clansman” broke all records of the Broadway theatre, playing to $12,792. In Philadelphia it ran for four weeks to crowded houses. In Pittsburg two, in Chicago all summer, while In the northwest and in St. Louis and other towns of the so-called Border States, it has established new records. The best proof of its success is that its route for the coming season covers practically the same teritorv as last >ear. and it is believed that it will go on playing these same cities and towns indefinitely.” The frothy opposition of colored preachers helped “The Clansman” in the North more than any other one tiling. As a typical Yankee expressed it. "If that is the play the negroes oppose, then I want to see it!” Con ditions in the North are different from those in the South in that the vanity of the negro is tickled by let ting him balk and pc-.e in polltlcSj and allowng colored lawyers and preach ers to partcipate in mixed assemb lies. AH this gives him a false idea of his own importance. Thus It came about that the Northern ne groes imagined they could get “The Clansman” suppressed by protesting to the local authorities in each town. Their real lack of influence and stand ing was shown by the farcial failure of all these attempts. Talking “Horse Sense.” (Johnson News-Moniter.) Let’s stop talking politics for a while, put or heads together, spit on our hands and all make a strong pull together for the upbuilding of our common country.—Gaffney Ledger. Now you are balking “horse sense,” brother. The people are sick and tired of politics and want a rest. Dis pensary, whiskey, graft, corruption, etc., have become a stench In the nos trils of those who favor as well as those who oppose the d pensary. Let the people turn their thoughts to other matters of Interest to the coun try and help those who have been elected to the offices make and admin ister the laws fearlessly and consci- enclously. Sonth Carolina needs a rural police system. The rape fiend Is abroad In the land and no one can tell when he win attack a defenseless woman or girl. There Is no time to lose in tak ing some steps looking to the protec tion of our women, anj no better scheme can be devised that will ac ''ompllsh this purpose than a vigilant and efficient rural police system. Suffering and patience, obedience and application help the lowly born to honor.—From the Danish. 4t -THE- 5) vyj The world over is the dJvL&f res ult of Savings. Spec ulative wealth often takes wings and is gone. Our Savings Bank stimulates. -— = Systematic Savings. ~ ^ It’s “OWL wise” advice when we advise'you to open an account with us. Lo matter how prosperous vou may be, it will be a ‘‘nest egg” that will come in handy when least expected. Do it and you won’t regret it. The Gaffney Savings Bank Pavs FOUR per cent, interest on ALL DEPOSITS compounded FOUR times a year. Office in The National Bank of Gaffney. D. C. Ross, Brest. J. A. Carrou., V.-Brest. Maynard Smyth, Cashier. Coal! Coal! Coal! - and — Cold Weather Coming! I am delivering first-class Jellico Black Lump, Red Ash and Blue Gem Coal direct to your house, at very low prices for this month; prices will be higher next month. No loss in weight; no dust. Leave orders at my store. re. a. . j o iv rc ^. 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