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ate ^■'EiUklishM'Jily lltfc, Destrsyed kr Fin Deceaker Re-EstoklUk«4 Fakrury lltk, 1891. W. D. Y(DODS, Editor. One Dollar a Year. DARLINGTON. S. 0. Wednesday, Deo. 7, 1892. w’tlani at- pa froand that a moral question oan’t and the man who will not rapport a I P rett y strong proof of the strength be aided by law, and that the tempt to make people good by legal enactment is contrary to the te#eh- friends, has a very small amount of ings of Christianiij; which if it the peculiar qualities that are ueces teaches anything,^t is that wa must sary to make a good citizen, depend on the dissemination of its precepts to bring about the moral reformation of the World. -* * * The future railroad commission. A great big magnificent three tailed Biishaw. * * * We do not know that any may heed, but we will warn the people against the dangerous tendency of a great deal of the legislation that is now being proposed. * * * We suggest that an act be passed requiring Mr. Pullman to fit up three palace cars for those three un crowned monarchs, the future rail road commissioners. Moral erils must be met by moral influences, and not by statute law. No moral reformation has ever been b ought about by force. Those who u : e swords must take the conse quences of swords. ★ If the present Legislature passes the proposed prohibition bill, the fate of the Republican Party, in the last election, will assuredly be theirs; a political disaster that will be equivalent to utter oblivion. According to the provisions of the prohibition bill, it .will be impossible for those people who have been ac customed to make their own vinegar to do so any more, as the bill prohi bits the manufacture of anything that will produce intoxication. * * * If we deny the power of Christian ity to work its way into the hearts of men, and to lift up and purify their moral nature, without the assistance of force, then we make it nothing more than an Eastern legend, and as such unworthy of our belief. * * * If the Legislature is wise it will do well to remember that the ma jority of the people of South Caro- ina have not decided in favor of pro hibition. The majority that voted at the Primary so expressed tbem- selues, hut that was not the voice of the whole people. • * * If we are to have civil'and religi ous liberty, and a true republican form of government; let ut see to it that we have them not only in name bnt also in fact. Bettor a thousand times the tyranny of one than the tyranny of the multitude under the ‘guise of paternalism. * * * It is only the consciousness that he must succeed by his own efforts, that gives a man the self reliance that is so essential to success; hut if he is taught to look to the State for guid- i.nce in his business he becomes, to all intents and purposes a child, that needs constant care and supervision. * * * The men who are introducing so many absurd bills into the Legisla ture are seemingly oblivious of the fact that the Asylum is located in Colombia, and the possibility that it might occur to some one that they were fit subjects for it; or perhaps they feel safe in the knowledge that the Institution'is very much crowd ed. * * * Any species of legislation that has a tenuency, as would be the inevita ble effect of a prohibition law, to make a large number of people play the part of spies and informers, is vicious sn its tendencies, distinctly depraving to the morals of those whom it proposes to benefit, and practical resurrection of the dark ages. * * * The multiplication of laws, and the use of ambiguous language in placing them on the Statute book, u a good thing for the lawyers; yet, al most without exception the memben of this profession, that is those who are good and patriotic citizens, an always fonnd among those who wish the laws simplified and made so that they cannot be well misunderstood. * * * If, as our prohibition friends in sist. people can he made moral by force or by law, which practically mean the same thing, why should w< not, instead of sending missionariei to the heathen, imitate the fanatical zeal of the middle ages and propro- gato the precepts of Christianity at the point of the sword? Instead ol missionaries we should send soldiers with the Bible in one hand and a sword in the other. * « * There is not a prohibition leadei in the State who has thfe courage to discuss this question in, all its bear ing; for they are being bronght face to face with the fact that they can- npt meet thoae who oppose it on the If the railroads are to be managed by a commission, why not have one to protect the people from the tyran ny of banks and capitalists by fixing their rates of interest and otherwise managing them in the interests of the people. Why should they be al lowed to make money out of our poor ignorant and helpless people? Of course the members of this commis sion would be inreligible if they own ed any property. This would be generally accepted as a conclusive proof of their ability as financiers and their knowledge of banking. • * * Ever since the appearance of the Savior on Earth, every moral and social reform owes its origin alone to the better understanding and wider dissemination of the precepts that he tangbt, and those divine truths have as much powej and application as when they first fell from his lips, and when we attempt to make peo ple moral by law, we practically de part from the teachings of Him whose gospel was one of love, and substitute for it that of Mohammed who enforced his doctrines, not by persansion, bnt at the point of the sword. * * * If the iron-clad prohibition bill becomes a law, the minister who wishes to administer the communion to his people, must first go before a civil officer and take an oath that he wishes to procure wine for that pur pose and then send his application to the State agent There is something, in the every thought, that is repng nant to the feelings of a trne Chris tian, that he is only enabled to com memorate the sufferings and death of the Savior, by the gracious permis sion of the State Legislature. Fan- ticism could scarcely go any further than this. * * * The exultation of the Columbia Register over the prospect of Charleston being placed in the so- called black District, is not a matter of surprise to any one who watched its course during the recent cam paign, but is none the less contempti ble on this account To hare had the effrontery and imprudence to defeat that patriot and statesman, Dr. Stokes, is in the eyes of the Register an. unpardonable sin, and one that calls for the severest punishment This prejudice of one section of the State against another has been the work of such papers as the Register, whose highest aim is to pander to passion and prejudice. * * * The Bill requiring outside insur ance companies to deposit State bonds to the amount of $25,000 with the State Treasurer, before they can do any business within the State, will have the effect of making a good many of them withdraw their busi ness entirely, which would mean very great inconvenience to our peo ple and he sure to increase the rates of insurance. Most of the large . in- snrance companies could do this without any special inconveneince, bnt they will regard it as an act of injustice and govern themselves ac cordingly. We are not rich enough to organize and sustain purely local companies, and this being the case we should not drive the foreign ones ont of the State. * ■+ * We are most unequivocably op posed to a Constitutional Convention, for the simple reason that it will do more harm than good, saddle th< people with a great many vexation' and paternal laws, drive capital from the State and paralize the industries that we already have in our midst. Any necessary change in the laws of the State can be made withont re sort to the expensive, cumber some and, to some extent, dangerous plan of holding a Convention. We are confronted too with the fact thal as things stand, just now, the Con vention would be made up, to large extent, of men who, however honest in intention, would be pain folly lacking in the experience and knowledge that would be needed for such an important and responsi ble work. * * * The Edgefield Advertiser in refer ring to Federal offices says: “Turn the rascals out and let us saints come in.” ; . While the Enterprise does not be lieve that all Republicans are rascals, or that all Democrats are saints, it does believe in the doctrine, “To the victor belongs the spoils.”—Lancas ter Enterprise. The administration of the affair; of the Nation will never be what it ought as long as this^entimeut pre vails. Of course it is nothing but right that the headc of departsments and other prominent officials should be of the same politica 1 fpith as that of the party in power, but for places that are non political and subordin ate merit should be considered rty without the hope of sharing in' ©"r position. We challenge the e spoils of office, for himself or advocates of prohibition to slow a single instance wherein any moral re form has been advanced ky law. Also will they please prove that enforcing morality, at the point of the .sword, is in accord with the precepts of Christianity, the essence of whose teachings is the gospel of love and not of force. Now this is a plain square issue, puts the discus sion on moral grounds, and we stand ready to meet the advocates of pro hibition and maintain onr position; from the logic of which there is no escape. The Legislature appointed a com mittee, consisting of one from each county, to whom all prohibition bills must be refered. This committee has been holding secret sessions, from which everyone was excluded except Mr. Childs, who is not a member of ths Legislature, and Mr. Nettles, a membej from Clarendon. We fail to see any reaeon for these exceptions, and insist that the opponents of the measure shonld have been represen ted also, that is if they so desired, and their exclusion is unfair in the highest degree. It would be just as well Tor the members of the com mittee to bear in mind that a great many of the opponents of prohibi tion s re just as conscientious, iutelli gent and of as high character as Messrs. Childs and Nettles, and have the same right to present their side of the case. Some legislative Solon has intro duced a bill to limit the hours of labor in factories. This simply means a reduction in their wages. People are not compelled to work in factories and those who do so stay from choice. They are able to take care of themselves, and those that we know are too self respecting to want the State to look after them. They are perfectly capable of managing their own affairs, and very much pre fer doing so. A man has a right to work just as many hours in a day as he pleases, or just as few, and no law can prevent him from following his own interest or inclinations in this respect. The man who iutrodneed this resolution may need a guardian, but he has no right to presume that other folks are lacking in self reli ance and common sense. In writing the above we do not wish, by any means, to make the im pression that we are not in thorough sympathy with those whose necessi ties render it necessary for them to make their children work; but me/e- ly to show that the remedy for this is not in legislation, but in arbitra tion. It woo Id be belter, in many respects, if the hours of labor, in factories, were reduced to ten, but then this would necessitate a corres ponding reduction of wages, and it it very probable that the operatives would prefer the present arrange ment and the present pay, rather than reduced hours and reduced pay. It is very certain that our fac tories could not hold their own if they were to reduce time, and pay the same wages rs they now do. It might he well if there was a general understanding on the part of mill owners that tea hours should be the limit, but if the attempt is made to force them to reduce time, it is the operatives that will suffer loss. The prohibition question is now the general topic of discussion. Near ly all the opnonents of the measure are those who live in the towns and cities and whose pocket nerve is touched. In discussing the matter, they do so from a money standpoint only, losing sight, apparently, of the great moral principle involved which underlies the whole question.—Sum ter Herald. We have fought the prohibition movement, from its very inception, and hare not hesitated to give our reasons therefor, and up to the pres ent time, despite onr repeated offers to publish their articles, none of the advocates of the movement have seen fit to meet us and have a fair disens- sion in regard to the measure. A number of gentlemen, cultivated educated men, have said that onr po sition was wrong and our arguments fallacious, hut on being offered the opportunity to show that they were, have invariably declined to do so, We have never considered or dis cussed it as a commercial question, believing it to be purely a moral one and that it should be so presented. If a prohibition law was right and wonld do any good, we would sustain it no matter at what cost to the busi ness interest? of the town; I pt as we have already said, the question is a moral one and its commercial aspect should not be considered at all. The Editor of our contemporary is per fectly sincere and conscientious in his fight for prohibition, and we claim for ourselves equal purity of motive in opposing it _ If the advo cates of this measure are so sure that they have all the anrumeuts on their side, why do they decline to meet those who oppose it from conscien tious motives and who do not hesitate to give the reasom of their opposi tion? *Mr. Nettles, if he looks over his exchanges, must have seen our articles on this subject, and if he has, why did he not join issue with us? We have sent several copies of the Herald to Mr. Childs, the leader of the prohibition movement, and have in every possible way given publicity to our views on this important ques tion. We know that we are sustain ed by a gooil many of the best peo ple, and a g >od many of the most prominent ministers in the State, and this, coupled with the fact that onr arguments hare mt been met, is Mr Pearman introduced a enrions and notorious measure. He calls it a joint resolution, and wants to have South Carolina’s Representatives in Congress to vote for free coinage. The resolution reads: Whereas, in the opinion of the General Assembly of South Carolina now in session that financial reform is now indispensable to the welfare oi: the people of the United States and whereas more money is reqnired by the people of the United States, and should be placed in circulation by the General Government, and where as the free and unlimited coinage of silver existed for eighty-tifcqonsec 1 tive years in the Government of the United States, proving itself a bless ing jo the people thereof, and where as the demonetization of silver in 1873 haa proved disastrous to the American people, and is one of the causes of the present financial dis tress that so heavily oppresses the people Therefore, be it resolved, by the Senate and Honse of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, that we demand at the hands of Con gress, at the earliest day possible, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and that it be made receivable for all pnblic and private uses. Resolved, That we urge the Sena tors and members of Congress from South Carolina to use all proper and legitimate means to secure the bless ings here sought for onr State and nation; that they he furnished copies thereof, and that they urge Congress the immediate relief here sought The adove resolution we publish in full jnst to show the lack of knowl edge on the part of Mr Pearman The man who attributes the financial panic of 1873 to the demonetization of silver, simply publishes his niter ignorance of all matters connected with National finance. It would be well for Mr Pearman to post himself np a little in regard to these matters, and when he does his eyes will he opened to the fact, that at the time of the passage of this act, there was not a particle of coin in circulation either gold or silver, and this being the case there was not a single dollar withdrawn from circulation. It may be, at times, difficult to account for financial panics, but they are general ly the result of over speculation and a subsequent lack of confidence. Some of the most prosperons years that the South has had 78-79 and 80, have been since the passage of this act; which shows pretty conclusively that it has nothing whatever to do with onr present depression. If Con gress, about the beginning of the present century, had passed an act forbidding the use of railroads or steamboats, it might just as well have been claimed that it had paralyzed the transportation facilities of the country, notwithstanding the fact that there were no railroads or steam boats in those days. *■£711 DISTRICT CONTEST. We have heretofore refrained from expressing auy opinion at to the con test, over the congressional vote, in this District, and have no means ol’ knowing as to which one of the can didates shonld he given tie place; but we do know and do not hesitate to say, that a great many of the best people in the State hold the opinion that no Democrat ‘ought ever have been nominated in the 7th District When the State was redistricted the general understanding was that the Republicans shonld control this Dis trict,. and the attempt to wrest from them has not been acting in good faith. The whole business of nominating a Democrat in this Dis. trict is a piece of political stupidity for which there is very little exense. We wonld be truly glad to have man of Col. Moise’s ability in Con gress, bnt it wonld be better to have him go from another District. He may be technically elected, but de spite this the District by common consent should go to the Republi cans, unless they see fit to nominate and elect a Democrat by preference, a thing they will hardly do just now. THE RAILROAD DILL. That railroads, like other corpora tions, and individuals too when they have the power, often discriminate and are injust in their rates is very trne, bnt the existence of this fact is not sufficient reason for the passage of a law that practically puts the control of them in the hands of State officials, and makes their managers and officers mere figure heads; and the men whose enterprise and money have built these roads are to hare no voice in the managemenhof their own property. It is well to have a rail road commission, hut to clothe it with such absolute power, is notonly nnjnst and tyranical, hut amounts to practical confiscation, and will put an absolute stop to railroad bmld ing in the State, for no sane man will invest his money in an enterprise that is to be managed by the State in the person of itp officials. The officials of these roads are to be held accountable for damages to per son or property, that will oftentimes come the rnlings and orders of three ignorant politicians. The books let ters and papers of the roads are to be always at the command of this prac tically irresponsible and all powerful commission, and they can be safely trusted to annoy and hamper the of ficers of them in every possible way. Even if this commission was com posed of men thoroughly acquainted with the intricate working of the different railroad systems, and with ont any political considerations, it would be in the highest degree dan gerous to place snch absolute power in the hands of any one man or a set of men, and if done is a standing menace to our republican institu tions. The State cannot clothe these commissioners with such absolute power without bad faith, for in granting the charters to these roads it was certainly understood that the men who built them were to he al lowed to manage their own property. The railroads should he made to keep their part of the contract, but this can be bronght about by a - re sort to the Courts, which stand ready to see that justice is done. As the Bill proposes to give the commission ers such absolute power, it will, ol 1 course, be in their power to prevent the owners from getting any return from their investments, for the same sentiment that demands such unjust and tyranical legislation will not hesitate to insist that the roads must be run, in the interests of the people, at actual cost. No system of laws has* or will ever be devised that will give eqnal and exact justice to every man, and it is infinitely better, in every way, to submit to a wrong, than, in attempting to right this wrong, perpetuate another that is in. finitely worse. This measure is, in all essential respects, carrying out, under their disguise, one of the demands of the Third Party; which demand is for the Government control of railroads. It would be decidedly less dangerous and infinitely more honest for the State to seize upon every mile ol railroad within her borders, pay tht owners a fair price, and then put them into the bauds of commissien era to be rnn for the benefit of the people. If anything can be worse than an exhibition of bad faith, then it might be safely asserted that the dangerous tendency of this kind or legislation is worse than the injustice of it; for it simply opens the door other legislation of a like natnre; the inevitable ontcome of which will that most vexations, debasing and paralizing of all forms of govern ment, the tyranny of paternalism. TO THE POBLIC. When you are in the city don’t fail to call at the Enterprise Hotel Barber Shop. It is the only first class shop in the city. Fashionable hair cuts, first class shaves and the Great Arabian Egg Shampoo. Four polite barbers always on hand i wait on you. MIXON & HARLEE, Proprietors. 9-5-3m. HENRY M. 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