Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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You will often I gk nave the cost of a I #% years' subscrip- I I M_jk tion to the J a ENTERPRISE I J by consulting its I advertisements. ' Vol. X. B^FfSM growth Hreal thick and rou*." l Na NCY J. alow*TPA?n.t L 1 Jaly 38, 1MH. T?*k?r?,R.T. ri i 1 _ *ti-Zw ihm Swwiw?. _ f ? I rM win i?aa T?? Q>* uoa* *d tm | | \ H?lr and 5o>lp Aik hi a *?j uM- N i ^ 1 tlnn you wUh ahofct Tour hair. Too I w M vr/v^vg^ hi ^ w v y T y T W f t J Uunarruatlon made Ho^nlar and Painlece, amp PMm <a Sldoe. Hlpa and Ltmba oured Nj SHnnaons Squaw Vine vVtun or Tablet*. Founded 184a. 5SKF "Sing their own praise." . Converse College, I Spartanburg, S.C., February 2,1900. Mr. Chaa. M. Stieflf. Dear Sir?The Concert Grand Piano purchased from you has given entire satisfaction. Yours truly, B. F. WILSON. / Department of Music. Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina. Rock Hill, S. C., December 12, 1809. Mr. C. M. SteifF. Dear Sir?Tho StiefF Pianos which you recently sold to us are holding up the reputation of this make in our schools, which is saying a groat deal, for they aro the favorites of several makes in constant use here. They are all you represented them to he, what more 0^ can he said? Very truly yours, * . W. B. STRONG. A Torotd L?lv*r cause* Depression of Spirit* In<tl**Mion, Constipation and Headache Use Pf. M. A. Simmons Mrer Medicine to stitnnla to tnat ornan jywjfflto| comes ^ food. The \ IJ A I P hair has Train no life. M it is starved. It keeps / coming out, gete / t J thinner inH thin n#r I J J bald spots appetr, 4 1 then actual baldness. "J A The only good hair J F ;? * H&ir >' visor / feeds " the roots, stops ^ \ starvation, and the > >i hair grows thick and ^ ^ long. It cures dan- < drurf also. Keep a % ^ bottle of it on your \ < dressing table. < \ It always restores ^ \ color to faded or gray hair. Mind, we say * - S 44 always.'* 4 4 Ol.Mabottla. AM 4r ??' < >4 " I )i*t* found yemx Hair Vigor 4 \ to ?? ttaa boat ramadV J hara f"?r l l F fl*1 "*" lh* H?ir. My hair Nraa 4 falling out *ary bad, ao I tbatyrhl * I woald try a nottla of It. I nad ? uaed only ana WoKla, and My hair < itoppad falling out, and U la aaw f X fectly enforced and no on pretends that by any system th illegitimate sale of liquor caa fc prevented. .But that there is lef liquor consumed to the popult tion, fewer divas, greater sobric ty and more law-abiding commu nities in South Carolina than i Maine or any prohibition state i the Union any fair-minded ma must admit. Then what are th Prohibitionists?the radical ten: perance reformers?mi sin for me dreamers?working to accorc plish? They certainly canno keep liquor away from a ma who wants to buy and has th money to pay for it. They t a only make a sneak and hypocrit of him. Why cannot the Prohi tionists realize that they but hid the head of the liquor traffic, lik the ostrich, when they enact an; pruuiuuurv mw in a com mil tn r. where public sentiment does no overy whelmingly sustain it. VV can only accomplish permanen good and maintain the law w en-ct when we guage our meai ures by the public mind. Th dispensary law is fully abreaf with public sentiment in Sout Carolina and is as radical in il terms as public sentiment wi sustain. It is not, I admit, quit as good as theoretical prohib; tion, but is incomparably mor of a temperance measure, mor practical and bears better frui than any example of practici prohibition in existence. The people can elect Col. Hoy and may have the legislature pa* a bill declaring that hereafter th various .dispensaries can sel whiskey only for medicine, an then call the result of their el forts prohibition ? but 1 war them that if they do they wi plant the tares that will bnn forth a plentiful harvest of divf and (lens and blind tigers, whic in turn will bear the naturi fruit of corruption, perjury an depravity. Many of our preacl ers and misguided people believ that this would be for the bes but they know not what they d< llnnn lha rnonlf nf lha k?i .lin . ~ r. * election of a governor of th State of South Carolina hang the future policy of the State i dealing with the liquor trafli< That the defeat of Governor M( Sweeney and the election of Co Hoyt will mean the ultimate dii ruption and overflow of the dii pensary law no reasonable ma can truly deny. The issue i squarely made and the lin clearly drawn. Governor M< Sweeney stands for the con tint ance of the dispensary law?Co Hoyt stands for its repeal an for the substitution for it of an system upon which the discorc ant element that he represent can agree. lie stands pledge .N0AS THE HICK FOR GOVERNOR IT IS SAII) TO RESTB1 TWEEN HOYT AND McSWEENEY. v An Argument that the Real U sue in the State Campaign i the Dispensary or Free Liquo ? Prohibition in Maine an Iowa. Nemo In News anil Courier. To Editor of News aud Courier: The men who favor big license, and low license, too, wli are supporting Col lloyt, do 6 because they kn?>?v that prohib tion will fail miserably here, a it has tailed everywhere else i has been tried. Tney know tha even it Hie prohibition elemen proves the stronger in the anti dupensiiry combination, an secures the enactment of a la' pui porting to prohibit the man ufacture and sale of whiskey, bu a little time will intervene be r 11 1 r.i ioro me peopie or rne estate ris in their might and wipe fror their statute books every vestig of prohibition, and that we wi! settle back into the old channelto the days of the bar roomwhen the barkeeper dominate our politics and blazenedthe sal of his wares on every hand?t the days when a man's wife c daughter could not gO on th streets of the average court hous town on Saturday evening. It i true Jhat the State will no longe be in the bar room business, bu the barkeeper will be in th State, the county and the muni cipal business all over South Cai olina. Of course, no law can h? noi stefT BRMI-V* LANCASTER, S.C.,? before the people to repeal thif ( law and leave the future to briiif what it will. Personally he sup , ports prohibition, but his word it ' pledged that he will lay aside this platform until the common desire of all factions opposing the dispensary law can bo con ^ summated in its repeal. To the result no one can be in ls different. It is no obtuse theory r that is hard to understand that d is presented to the people o! South Carolina, but a question that reaches down to the homes and into the hearts of the people, There are few of us?there are no good men?who would not if h they could wipe out every dror ^ _ e l:_I ? - yj m winsKoy in existence ana toro over make impossible its manu i- facture. The evils wrought by the s drink habit are too apparent, toe it far reaching, too enormom not tc t be thoroughly realized. Most ol it ur have felt in our own lives the i- blighting curse, and have seen all d around us too much of itH hellish v fruit not to hate it in our hearts i- It is natural that good mer it should seek a way to counteract ) its evil effects. It is natural thai e men should seek every means in 11 their power to this end. Thm e most of us have at times support II ed prohibition, and at the elec - tion of 1899, with a bar room - under our nose on every corner d the state voted the bar roorr e down by a majority of 10,000 o Most of the states of the United ir States not dominated by a largt e foreign population have had t e like experience, and have sought s various remedies and have tried ir numerous experiments. It is s t matter of regret that most ol e them have failed in accomplish i- ing the end desired, but in theii -| failure there are lessons to b? I learned hy the people ?f thisstatl r- in the present emergency that wi e can ubo with profit, e It ia the desire to put certait >6 facte that Qfiay i it il tie lice our ue )b cision in the possession of th< i people that prompts this circular ) That these facts will be read ant i pondered by the patriotic anc n well meaning voter, we are as n eured. It ia their verdict thai n will be effected thereby, and nol e that of the ambitious politiciar i- who would ride into office on i d political issue which he hopes t< i- create, without real sympathy t for, or heliaf in, the principles h< n so loudly proclaims. 6 PROHIBITION IN MAINE, n e It ia well known, and has bee* ucjurf o/l ckWAetf ?v? ti [ oogi Itu KJJ C * D1 J lOili e lecturer, that prohibitiou has hac e its best opportunity to succeei y anil has met its best success ii j Maine. It has been on the stat t ute books of that state for ovei e 40 years and has seen two geDer t ations grow up under its opera 0 tions. There has been no lega sale of whisky in Maine during e that period. Are the people tem ,t perate, more thau in other places h Has it been enforced? >B That conditions in Maine ari U far worse than in South Caro e lina, or even in states where higt \. license prevails, all fair mindei e men must conclude, e A few years ago an associatioi it of 50 of the leading preachers il college professors, educators, anc literary men of the country wai t formed to investigate the succesi ,g of the efforts being made to cur 0 tail the consumption of liquor |1 Th: association sent agents to i d niiuiber of the states of the Unioi f. including Maine, South Carolina u Iowa, Massachusetts and Penn II sylvauia. Their agents spen g mouths in these and other statei ,rt and made thorough investigation h taking nothing for granted ani 4| accepting no information bu d what they could verify them j. selves. e One agent reported that in thi t, city of Portland, Maine, bavin) o. less than 40,000 inhabitants?bu g little larger than Columbia?hi e bad found 182 places where liquo :s was sold, ''not including pocke n peddlers, houses of ill fame, ex B. press companies, clubs and cer j- tain oyster restaurants." That 1. "while the present investigatioi * was in progress several new bar ? were opened." That the sherif n of the county explained the non is enforcement of the law byaskini e him: "If a landlord cannot re ; strain one tenant, how can fou j- deputies deal with four hundre< I. rum sellers?" The Portland Ex d press, in the issue of June 21 v 1894, contained the followinj 1- protest of certain liquor dealer ts of that city : "Some hqnor dealer d complain that their profits ar< * * ENTE WEEKLY. SATURDAY, JULY 88, * cut down by the competition of shops allowed to exist in the vicinity of their own places of business and that the regular collection of protection money may also be made of them. These demands are in some instances KiH-.i hiuu to oe bo excessive that the dealers say tbey swallew up the lion's share of the profits and sometimes actually make them run more disreputable places than tbey otherwise would, iu order to get m money enough to be able to respond to the perpet ual squeezing." The conditions all over Maine wore thus found to correspond with the state of affairs in Portland. Every town?the best and most orderly of them?had its dozens of places where the sale of liquor was open, notorious i .and unopposed. In Aroostook i county, with 40,587 inhabitants and no considerable towns, 65 United States revenue licenses ' for the sale of whiskey were taken out in 1805. Ellsworth, with 2,300 inhabitants, contain 14 bars and 4 other places (apothecary shops) where li* quor is sold, or one to about s 210 inhabitants. "Gambling j n J was going on in several saloons visited by the agent of the com1 mittee of fifty. In Augusta, the r Capital of the State, sixty-two places were found in operation, . or one to every 170 inhabitants. 1 Throughout the entire State 5 the same sickening array of figures come?the same account * that one dirty, filthy hell hole, where the vilest liquor is sold, 5 is maintained to every two hun dred inhabitants or less. What has been the result? Ilow has it effected the people of Maine? The published report of the committee of fifty, { compiled by a sub-committee, H consisting of the famous antin whiskey reformer, Seth Low, of - New York, President Charles . W. Elliott, of Yale University, * the greatest college in America, 1 and who cannot be accused of a ' dtsiro to oppose prohibition, * and of James C. Carter, admits the following : "The conclusion must be that j it is impossible to state from t statistics adduced just how far . they reflect greater or less public inebriety. The general imo pression is that drunkenness is s ? : I BRAVE toEN FALL r Victims to stomach, liver mid t kidney troubles as well a? women - and nil feel the result* in loan of - appetite, p<>j*ona in the bh><?d, '? backs' he, nervoiifineap, headache and tired, li'tlesa, run-down f<?eln ! ing. Hut there * no need to feci r like that. Listen to J. W. Oard ner, Ida ville, Ind. He aaya : "KlecK trie Hitters are just the thing for - a man when he is all run d??wn, r and don't care whether he live* or :1 dies. It did more to give me new strength and good anpetite than , anything I could tnka. I can now g cat, anything have a new lenae on a life." Only 50c at Crawford a Bros. I>rug St'-e. Kvery bottle n guaranteed. 3. ERPRIi 1900. .Solve the ? Ik Girl Qu by putting a Wickless Oil You can keep a girl then W the morning. No wood BB r^Try. No ashes to wor mm pans. It makes play of h Wick It Oil S1 ) ~ $s doing more to make l.o any other stove in existe Hums ordinary kerosene oil roasts, toasts?does anythir.j will do, and many things do. Sold wherever stoves a does not have it, write to STANDARD OIL COMP as prevalent now as over before the constitutional amendment went into effect if not more so. "The toleration of an open defiance of the laws and the Constitution, indicate, not merely a widespread lack of sympathy with prohibitory measures, but a callousness of public sentiment which of itself is verv grave. Citizens have become so accustomed to this defiance that iittie attention is paid to the continuance of violation of the liquor statutes, or to the contempt for law and order generally which is an inevitable consequence. A local judge, in i speaking of conditions under a prohibitory law not enforced lias j said: "The value of the oath | has been reduced 50 per cent in! this State. Perjury (for which' the maximum penalty is imprisonment for life) is so common that it 110 longer attracts attention. And it is not confined only to the liquor element; the effect of it is far-reaching and growing. People talk of it jopenly and without a blush." "Members of the SupremeI Judicial Court lias said suhstan-i tiallv tlie same thing and prosecutions for perjury committed daring the trial of liquor cases are not frequent. Closely akin j to perjury is the hvpocracy en-' gendered when people are called I upon to support a law that they do not believe in. The support; of prohibition at the polls and | |in party platforms, when it is! j so ill-enforced, can be explained; only on the ground that men j have become hypocrites. A! Judgo of the Supreme Court, as| quoted in public newspapers, referring to conditions in Cumberland County, Maine, said : 'It is a question whether the prohibitory law makes more hvpocites or more drunkards.' It would have perhaps been more just say : 'It is a question whether more men become drunkards or hypocrites under the prohibitory law.' " The United States Government in a report of the liquor traflie recently issued declared1 that in the State of Maine there; were 822 establishments en gaged in tlie liquor trattic wno paid all United States taxes. In Soutli Carolina 309 are reported, in. number only greater than Alaska and Indian Territory! Yet we aro asked to adopt prohibition of tho Main stamp! Thus are conditions in Maine, which State is held up to the people of South Carolina as their rule and guide, and whose law the Prohibitionists in 1893 sought to pass, anil which the recent prohibition conventions, which nominated Col. Hoyt, again recommend to our people. The Maine "prohihttion" law ?this parody of the wisdom of our prohibition friends, is tho South Carolina dispensary law, without the beverage feature. The State sells the liquor there, ^ -f?^ If you bjiro anything to soil ^ J advertise it 1? JLb?/ | the Enterprise KatM reanonabio. No. 34 mmmmmmwmM , Servant 1 estion || 1 Stove in the kitchen. 5 ; No fire to build in 5 i to chop. No coal to 5 ! ry alout. No soot on ^ ; ousework. The ^ ; ]T^ ~U3C z I Flame love I usckceping easy than 3 ! nee. Absolutely safe. 5 Bakes, broils, boils, 5 ? that any other stove 3 that most stoves can't ^ re sold. If your dealer ^ ANY. H j but forces the buver to say that he wants to buy the whiskey for medicine. The State is in the liquor business there, as it is here, and Col. Iloyt does not propose to take the State out of it. He admits the failure of prohibition except where the State supplies the legitimate need of stimulants. PROHIBITION IN IOWA. Iowa is another State which is held up to South Carolina as a guide on the prohibition question. What was the result of the investigation of prohibition there by the committee of fifty? The same sickening array of open violations, until the people in their wrath wiped the law practically from the statute books, in the face of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the license of whiskey. Thus is the story told: . / The prohibition experiment has probably never bad a fairer test nor a test under more favorable conditions, than in Iowa. It is sn agricultural state with no large cities ; the largest is Des Moines, which in 1890 had 50,093 inhabitants. The population is mainly T> : A 1 1 A IiL _ I. a. _ J i unian ny descent, wun mut-ruea Puritan habits and traditions. Public sentiment is, and has been from an early day, strongly opposed to intemperance. None of the surrounding states, with the possible exception of Missouri, has had so small a percentage of foreign immigrants. In consequence of the decision of the supreme court that local option under the constitution is barred, every voter has been forced to declare himself for general license or for prohibition. The prohibitiouists have, therefore, been able to swell the number of their nominal adherents by representing that opposition to prohibition meant subserviency to the saloon. The cause of prohibition has had, besides, the inestimable practical advantage of an alliance, offensive and defensive, with the political partv in power. More than that, o was for years the dominant faction in that party, dictating its platform and controlling its legislation in opposition to the liquor interests. It held this vantage ground for ten years, a period long enough to demonstrate the wisdom or folly of the attempt to restrain and govern an animal appetite by.law. The 1 i OIIU WtIS UtJIt'iU. Today, in Ihe face of the constitution, open bar rooms are in operation all over Iowa bv sane tion of the legislature. Under the constitution they are not allowed to license them, but accomplish the same purpose by levying an annual tax upon persons engaged in the business, prohibiting prosecutions of those paving the tax. To this miser?! le expedient bave the people Concluded on Fourth Page. I