Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, August 25, 1900, Image 2
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BY
The Enterprise Publishing Company
A. J. CLARK Bdttor.
One Year $1.00
8ik Months 50 eti
Three Months 25 eti
In Advance.
Saturday, August 25, 1000.
We acknowledge the receipt
of a copy of the Annual Catalogue
of the Winthrop Normal
and Indestrial College, of Rock
Hill, S. C., for the fiscal year
1899-1900.
What has become of Neill,
anyhow? It is about the time
of the year that we usually hear
from him.' He ought to come
forward now in the interest "f
his British friends with an estimate
of a 10 or 11 million bale
crop. They are in dire need of
his help He surely has not gone
off to the Chinese war and got
mixed up with the Boxers.?
Peoples Advocate. [If he has
he should stay there.
At one time Rock Hill was
disposed to poke fun at Lancas
ter for backwardness and lack
of energy. Now it is a noticeable
fact that there is not a
vacant house in town and, real
estate, when offered for sale,
brings a fair price. However
this is not the case with Rock
Hill now. A real estate dealer
advertises 26 houses and lots
for sale. This looks liko the
tables are turning and those
who laugh last laughs best.
PAYING FOR IMPERIALISM.
Here is another evidence and
effoct of imperialism. Every
charter issued by the secretary
of state must have internal revenue
stamps on it; the United
States commissioner of internal
revenue has so decided.
The decision has a retroactive
effect, and the secretary of state
notifies all who have received
charters within the past year to
send those charters, with the
necessary stamps, to Collector
Webster .and have them audited.
?Greenville News.
PROHIBITIONISTS FIGHT THE DISPENSARY.
BUT THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY
CAREFUL NOT
TO INTERFERE WITH
BLIND TIGERS.
Governor McSweeney tn bis address to ib?
people of South Carolina.
liow different ia the blind ti
ger, the progeny of prohibition,
whose only ambition ia to make
dollars for himself and drunk
ards for the State and whose
only claim to citizenship is bused
on his brazen effrontery as a
lawbreaker. Hut it ia contended
there are tigers under the
Dispensary system. Certainly,
but the Dispensary law does not
make tigers. Do you suppose
people patronize tigers because
there is a Dispensary Jaw, or
because they want liquor to
drink?
It is the patronage that makes
tigers, and is it not natural to
conclude that if you abolish the
Dispensary that the patronage
heretofore going to the Disfensary
will go to the blind tigers,
therefore increasing them ten
fold:
men, wnen the dispensary
goes the special officer must go,
and with onlv the civil officer
must go, and with only the civil
officers, who are now unable to
cope with the few tigera.
The chaotic condition that
must follow, ia enough toatagger
every citizen who lovea hia home
Under a prohibition law a
heavy tax must be levied upon
every one to enforce the law
whether he favora prohibition or
not. But under the Diapenaary
law every triflling negro who
buya hia flaak of liquor contributes
a tax to the town and
county to aee that he keeps the
peace, to work the road and to
educate the children.
BEAUTIFUL BENTIMENT?MISERABLE
FAILURE JN PRACTICE.
pr?fojb)Map i? * aan.
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timeut, but a miserable failure
iu practice. The prohibition!*!
rati use no stronger argumeui
' than to cite the States that have
tried prohibition. Let us set
t the result of such argument
Maine, Iowa and Kansas havt
prohibition under their consti
tntlon. Now compare these
( States with South Carolina be
, the report ol the United Statei
Commissioner of Internal Keve
nue for the year ending June 30
1899.
Maine ? Number of retail liquoi
dealer? 1125 Iowa?Number o!
retail liquor dealers 3730. Kan
pas?Number of retail liquoi
dealers 2581.
South Carolina?Number of
retail liquor dealers 324.
P08ITIVK PROOF THAT TllK DISPEN
SARY IS BETTER THAN PRollI
BITION.
The 324 credited to S-uth Car
olina includes every liqour dis
penser in the State. Thus it is
seen the prohibition State ol
Kansas with one and one h?.lf
million population has over ten
times as many ilegal liquor licenses
as South Carolina. That
Iowa with a fraction over two
million population hag sixteen
times as many and that the State
of Maine with about seven hundred
thousand population, about
one-half the population of South
Carolina, has five times as
many.
Bear with me while I call your
attention to more unprejudiced
and incontrovertible evidence ol
the fallacy ot prohibition. A
committee of fifty of the most
prominet citizens of the United
States including such men ni
Seth Low, President of the Co
lumbian University, and Charlei
V. Elliott, President of Yalf
University, and other men ol
equal prominenc, not identified
with politios, were appointed tc
investigate the opperations ol
the liquor laws in several of the
various States. They repori
having found one hundred and
eighty two places where Jiquoi
was sold in the city of Portland
Me, not including pocket pod
dlers, houses of ill fame, expresi
companies, elubs, and certair
oyster restaurants. That whiW
the investigation was in progresi
. several new bars were opened
The Portlaud Express, in the is
sue of .June 21st, 1894, contained
the following protest of certair
1 ) 1 L L A _ _ -
liquor dealers proamnion rown
of that city : "Some liquor deal
ers complain that their profih
are cut down by the competitior
i of shopR allowed to exist in th<
vicinity of their own places ol
business and that the regul&i
collection of protection monej
i may also be made of them
These demands are in some in
stances said to be so excessive
that the dealers say they swallow
up tht lion's -hare of the
profits and sometimes actually
make them run more disraputa
hie placeti than they otherwise
would in order to pet in inouey
enouph to be able to respond t<
the perpetual squeezing."
In Augusta, Me., the capital of
the State, sixty two places were
found in operation, or one to
every 117 inhabitants.
Ellsworth, with 2,3000 inhabi
i
i uii ih contain* luurircu unrn hiki
four other places, apothecarry
shops where liquor is sold.
Throughout the entire State the
sickening array of figures comes.
The same account that one
dirty, filthy, he!l hole, where the
vilest liquor is sold, i<? maintained
to every two hundred inhabitants,
or less. The committee
report.
"The conclusion must be that
it is impossible to Btate from the
statistics adduced just how tar
they reflect greater or lessinebri
ety. The general impression is
that drunkenness is as prevalent
now as ever before the constitu
tional amendment went into
effect, if not more so.
"The toleration of an open de
fiance of the laws ami the consti
t nt ion indicate not merely a
widespread lacK of sympathy
with prohibitory measures, but a
carelessness of public sentiment
which of itself is grave. Citizens
have become so accustomed to
this defiance that little attention
in n;iid tn thtt rnntinnanr.n of vin
lations of the liquor statute or to
the contempt for law and order
generally which is an inevitable
consequence.
A local judge in speaking ot
conditions under a prohibitory
law not, enforced has said: "The
value ot the oath has been reduced
.r?0 per cent, in this state. Per
jury (for which the maximum
penalty is imprisonment for life)
is so common that it no longer
attracts attention. And it is not
pply to the liquor ele
j ment; t?je effect of it in far reacht
ing and growing. People talk of
1 it openly and without a blush."
'Members of the supreme ju'
uicial court have said substantia
J ally the same thing and proseeu
lions for perjury during the trial
, of liquor cases are not frequent.
, Closely akin to perjury is the
? hypocrisy engendered when peo
pie are called upon to support a
, law that they do not believe in
The support of prohibition at the
T pol18 and in party platforms
when in party platforms when it
| is so ill enforced can be explained
only on the ground that men
have become hypocrites. A judge
of the supreme court as quoted
in public newspapers, referring
ty conditionf in Cumberland
county Maine, said: "It is a
question whether the prohibitory
law makes nore hypocrites or
more drunkards." It would have
1 perhaps been mor? just to say:
, "It is a question whether more
men become drunkards or hypocrites
under the prohibitory law."
This, gentlemen, is but a like
( report made of every other prohibitory
state by this committee.
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THE KNOKOUT ARGUMENT OF MAINE
DEMOCRATS.
Hear me again, you men, who
believe that democracy has a
?i?:? ?i?
nil uilf^ri Ulrtllll II | 'I III VUU IIIMII
prohibition, and hoar the arraign
: ment of prohibition, Col. iloyt's
pet theory, by the democracy of
' Maine. On July 11, 1900, the
' Democratic party adopted the
1 following as a part of its platform:
$ "For nearly half a century we
f have had a statutory law prohibI
iting the manufacture, sale and
> use of intoxicating liquors. For
f neaily half that time it has been
> ombodied in the state constitu
t tion. Since it was first enacted
' scores of amendments, each more
r stringent and the penalties more
' severe than those preceding it,
* have been passed.
"For nearly 20 years the al?
eged enforcement, or the prohibi
j iorv law has been growing more
. and more lax until today in near
ly every city in the state and
I many of the larger towns there
1 ate reguiariy established bars and
? saloons where liquors are sold in
open, flagrant violation of the
' cons!itution and sta!utorv law.
^ Nearly every hotel, many restan
f rants, hundreds of so called drug
, stores and unnumbered and seernt
i saloons and bar rooms in the
cities sell withoutrestriction save
an occasional seizure and fine for
* political purposes.
"For years the prohibitory law
5 has been a political football. Its
hypocritical enforcement has
( been used to control the liquor
, vote to increase the income of
, prejudiced officials and to swell
the corruption fund for campaign
purposes. Through its instrui
mentality the party in power has
? influenced juries, corrupted offi
cials sworn to onforce the law;
debauched voters, deceived the
advocates of temperance, betrayed
the cause it professed to support,
creating a contempt and a
disregard for all laws and has
made the good name of the State
a byword and reproach wherever
it is known."
LIQUOR MKH IN MAINK, I.IKK LIQUOR
>!KN IN SOUTH CAROLINA, FAVOR
PROHIBITION
Then you ask the question, if
I Loan it ml i i Li t in n ululuu urn in
inch a deplorable condition, why
do they not change? The answer
is evident. The liquor men are in
the saddle and they, like the
liquor meu of South Carolina,
are perfectly satisfied with prohi
hition. Think of the condition of
Maine. The prohibitionists cannot
change. The liquor men cannot
be disenthralled. Do you desire
such a condition of affairs
here? Ilave you any reason why
South Carolina would not be in
as deplorable condition as any of
these states? If so what is it?
And if none, why chunge a set
tied law for a disastrous experiment?
PROHIBITIONISTd DO NOT KNFOKCK
u^uun IJAVV .
Some of my competitors in
their frenzied desire for office
have made the unwarranted
charge (hat I have not enforced
the law. Try mv record before a I
tribunal over which neither I nor
my competitors have any control.
The reports of ths attorney-gen
efal'a office ahow for tha year
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JOIN THE
THRIFT
THERE IS MONE
C-P Stc
ing
rid
There eve
hnn
1889, the only year reported to
that office during which 1 was
responsible for the enforcement
of that law that 32 more were
charged with the violation of the
dispeusary law than for the year
1898. Ninety-one more than for
1897; 213 more than for 1895.
The years 1893 94, are not considered
as the enforcement of the
law practically stopped by the
courts. My record has been ex
ceeded by only one year and during
that year the constables were
allowed to seize all inter state
liquor as well as to arrest any
man transporting contraband inter
state liquor which privileges
has since been denied by the
court. During the past six
months of my administration 107
cases have betn sent to the circuit
court for trial and 106 men
have been convicted in the various
courts of the state. Does this
savor of a non enforcement of the
law?
After many Intricate experiment*, scientist;*
h.11-1. il4a<?nv?r?d f*>- Ahtolni^- nllTftw.
natural digrstants. These have boen combined
in the proportion found in the human body and
united with unbalances that build up the
digestive organs, making a compound called
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you
cat and allows all dyspeptics to eat plenty of
nourishing food while the stomach troubles
are being radically cured by the medicinal
agents it contains. It is ploasent to take and
will give quick relief. Crawford Bros d- ?s
The Lancaster .
Graded Scbool.
The annual session of the Lancaster
Graded School will begin on Monday,
September 17,1900, atK45 a. m.
The superintendent will be at the
choolhouse on 13 and 14, from 10 to
12 a. m., to enroll new pupils and
transact other school business. The
teachers are rsquested to meet on the
13 of September at 9 a. m.
Pupils must come prepared for regular
work on the rtrst day. Reasonable
tuition fees will be charged pupils
who reside beyond the limits of tha
cnlwwvl I>.,n{|a aKsw.m 1 #? www* ...
9uiauwi uinn iuv. a u|iun oiiuuiu iiui unc
text books until furnished witbhy
list by teachers.
Hoys and girls from a distance desiring
to attend this school can readily
secure cheap rates of board her?
in pritate families. For further information
address B. F. Mii.i.kr.
Chi'm. Board Trustees,
or Ciias. T. Connort,
Sec'y and Treas.
T.ncaster, S. C., Aug 21, 11K)0.
W. D. Matjfield,
COLUMBIA. 8. C.
Cand date for Railroad Commissioner.
POSITION.
The Comralsloncrs should he paid by the
state Instead of by the railroads, and the tern:
of office should be reduced from sit to twc
years.
STOP DISCRIMINATIONS.
Freight rates should be so regulated as to:
Encourage fruit growers, truck farmers am
canners, and enable 'them to offer their pro
ducts on the market on equal terms with any
state.
Induce manufacturers of all kinds to loeatt
In this state and enable them to offer theli
products oil the market on equal terms will
ans sta'c.
Enable cotton mills In tbl? slate to buy on
any market In th s state.
Give eotion mills the best rates for shipping
their products.
Knabl. wholesale merchants In'thls state t?
compete with wholesale merchants In adjoin
lng states.
Make Charleston. Port Royal, and George
town import and export cities on an equal foot
lng with Wllmlngtod and Savannah.
Us.d during Eipectanoy. Rimmons Squaw
Vlne^Wineor Tablets cheer and Strengthen
mv?u?i., a..?n?vii iMntir nan nuu toimnfm^ni
of Its T?rror?.
Notice.
If you have an ol<l Sowing
Machine that runs heavy or in
out of repair in any way, bring
it to R. J. COATES & GO'S,
store. We have an export on
repairing machines, who will
remedy all defects and replace
any broken parts. We can make
your old machine run as good
as new.
Clock's, Too.
If you want your Clock repaired,
hring it along with your
machine. We do both kinds of
work, right, too. Our charges
will he reasonable, and satisfaction
is guaranteed, or money
refunded.
v? t /1A a rnnn m s t
iv. j. i <x i;u.
D. P. Hardin,
Mar tcr Mechanic and Knineer,
Is now prepared to do all kinds
of REPAIR WORK on Engines,
Gins, Saw Mills, Sewing Machines,
Bicycles, Etc.
I Jt^pectfully 8olicityour patronage
and guarantee satisfaction.
Will go anywhere in the
country on short notice. Am
prepared to bore cylinders,
place power heads and rings,
valve seats, etc. Will be found
nkar the factory. July 28
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Furniture, st<?
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Are going l. "
To stop !"
That now. du(
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THRONG OF.
Y Buyers!
T HERE FOR YOU.
*
>ck-taking time is drawnear,
and we must be ^
of all broken lots and
rything that shows
idling. We mention
few?what they have
i for and .what ridicusly
low prices you can
v-buy them for. See
difference between our
:es and the prices of
er stores : 10,000 yards
/ard-wide Percale Reinits
that sold fast at 6c.;
price now is 5c yard. ^
IY BEST 12 /-2c
ALES,
vest styles, fast colors,
st go at 8c yard. All
8c fancy Dimities are
US iOi" 5c. it iS time
shirt waist were gone,
eve will give them a big
?p?all our fine $i Shirt
ii$t for 50c, and our 50c
st slashed to 25 c. Our $
endid collection of Las
Skirts must follow *
t. Compare our prices
1 goods with any store,
I you will see the wisII
of spending your cash
h us.
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profit and throw on our
inters i.ooo men's dolStraw
Hats at 25c, and
> cloth hats, bargains at
:, for 5 cents.
E IS GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. V
ey have been charging
1 fancy prices for furni*
lately, but we will
p that now. At a big
i we bought three solid
loads?Lion nieres nfl
niture?at a great region.
Our two store
ms are filled to the ceil,
and we are going to
the life out of prices,
me and see.
). & Mer, Co.