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V;" v iffllfloim An Able Review of a Masterljf Argument, COL J. P. THOMAS REVIEWS. A Speech Made by Dr. S. S. Laws F Fifteen Years Ago?Worthy of the Deepest Study. p , f J. P. Thomas, in the Columbia State. ] In 1882 Dr. S. S. Laws, of Columbia, f was president of the State University of Missouri, at Columbia, Mo. On May 10, 1882, he delivered before the Missouri Press association what I pi consider a remarkable speech. I am not surprised to find from the contemporaneous comments that it produced a I" political sensation in tne maie 01 .ui?souri. It is called "Sovereignty, as realized in our American system of government." '' It will be found upon examination to w' a learned, bold, original exposition . of that question of questions with us ? in the political world?State sovereignly v The Seeretary of State, acting for the ; historical commission recently obtained (iv- from Dr. Laws a copy of this address f and placed it among tne records of the r Secretary of State's office. I have been J; permitted to inspect the address and have been invited to call public atten(. tion thereto. It is a matter of regret P that a paper so valuable is in newspaper form. Some method should be dev vised to put it in pamphlet form so that jl it might be distributed for the instruc1 . tion of the public and at the same time be more conveniently read and studWith these preliminary remarks, I ' 1 ' i?-~e?nftlia proceed to UlUlkU tk unci nuiuj 010 v* vmv views of Dr. Laws upon the subject of ft sovereignty in general and then of its jtigT application to our American system of . government ; - Starting out with the proposition that r all government implies sovereignty V Dr. Laws first considers the identificaJ tion and location of sovereignty, and thus of necessity goes down to what he SI ' calls the bed rock of fundamental and \ universal principles. Inasmuch as our system of general s . government is a anion of States, he f logically and of necessity inquires, first * of all, as to the true nature of a State, seoond as to the nature of that union of States formulated in thrf44'Constitution *. -of the United States of America." 1. The doctor asked what is a State ? He answers it is an organized sovereign V political tojiety. Defining nejt the origin of society and its function and showing how 4'political" qualifies society and imports the purpose of associa tion, he concludes that as to sovereignty " in this connection it is that which by its j . indwelling in any political society concnoiofv Q RtatA * '.SOVAT- I IU? owv-vj ? ? jj_ .eignty," he avers, "is to the State as ^ the sou! is to the body." Dr. Lavs is clear and his statement! *Dtf. ^explicit as to 4 what constitutes a State." i 20 He goes far deei>er down than Sir Wil; Iiam Jones in his famous lines. It is not "men, high-minded men, men who ; v know their rights, and knowing dare . " maintain"?not this only. This may do for poetry and declamation. Eut tl*o philosophy of the subject is deeper * and more comprehensive and more accurate. Dr. Laws well f says that sovereignty is "the attribute which differentiates political society as States from other political societies, which, from lack of it, are by common consent and treatment not j States." "All States are political societies, but all political societies are not States." To illustrate his meaning, he suggest that Canada, for instance, and Algiers, and Liberia and Cuba, '4 being subject, respectively, to England, B France Kussia and Spain, are not K States, because of the absence of sovB ereignty. The doctor's idea is that to 1 K make a mere political community a ft State, there must be breathed into the community the soul of sovereignty. * Thus he is led here to give his concep.jf* tion of the genisis of State sovereignty a in this "indestructible union of imper" V ishable States." I quote the learned ^ 9ffi doctor's exact words in this important |P declaration. He says: "The thirteen American oolonies, before the deciara jj* tion of 177P, were distinct political com?aH.' munities, possessing language, religf ion. literature and traditions, interests [' and blood in common; while politically independent of each other, they b were all alike dependent on the crown, y. Hence none of them were States, betf ' cause they were not themselves sover' eign but subject to England. The severance of that bond of subordinate 1 tion invested each colony with the diff . ferentiative attribute of sovereignty. Rv The dormant spark of sovereignty in jf the bosom of each was at once kindled, P and thirteen sovereign States sprang 1 into active being." jfe' Dr. Laws thus argues that in every &. political community there are the germs of sovereignty, which, through the ac* i tion of the community, and in the exer4* cise of God-given rights, may yield the r ' flowering and the fruitage of State sovy / ereignty. Surely, this is a thought at once hisrh and DhilosoDhical and funda mental 7; Having shown the distinction between de facto and de jure sovereignty, and how though the power of sovereignty is simple, yet its functions are complex, the acute speaker, in his scientific method of treating his subject next discusses the locus of sovereignty in the State. This he shows to ' be an important question, since in every * organized State there are two entirely * distinct parts, viz: The people consti tuting the society and the government. Referring to the fallacious theory oI such men as Hobbes, Bent ham and others that sovereignty has its seat in v the government, a theory held by monarchists and imperialists. Dr. Laws well says that our American theory is that sovereignty dwells in the people? that our whole government facric rests on the view that all the original power of the State rests on the people as expressed in their Constitutions or in the laws enacted in accordance therewith. 5. The only original and inherent sovereignty known in our system being that of eacn individual State it follows that the real sovereignty to which the Constitution of the United States gives expression is not singular but plural. ! E Pluribus Unurn. i 6. On the basis thus laid down, we i find the only true and philosophical in- j terpretation of our union, and the only effective guaranty of its preservation and perputuity. These are the six propositions discussed by Dr. Laws in his masterly way with robust * language and virile | thought and with rich precedents, augmenting his own force with the views of acknowledged authority on government and Constitutional law. Nor, he argues, does it follow that, because nullification has been abandoned as an incident of State sovereignty, and the right of secession destroyed by the result of the war between the States, the great principle of State sovereignty has been lost though shorn of its locks of Nullification and Secession. I add, State sovereignty- is a Sampson otill noopssnrv to uohold. not to pull | J down, the pillars of our great American I Union. In closing his discussion Dr. Laws I most significantly observes how in avoiding the ScylJaof disintegration we must avoid the Charbj'dis of consolidation. This hydra of consolidation is what the modern Hercules must stay il its miscreated front should rise to vex the Kepublic. Says Dr. Laws: "The opponents of the doctrine ol State sovereignty, our only political hope, have but a small store of misread history out of which to weave their fallacious and pernicious subtleties. These States, freighted with the diverse and precious treaturies of a Christian civilization, though moving each in its assigned orbit, are united in a sacred and indissoluble union which promises untold blessings to unnumbered generations. Onward they severally and collectively move in their appointed paths of administration: ' /.tioAdlilA crushed and bruised; But like the world harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, al] agree.' " Thus Dr. Laws closes. It is an imperial theme, discussed ably, accurately, conclusively, in an imperial way. 1 feel indebted to the author of what is not properly a speech, as it is called in my copy, but a thorough disquisition on sovereignty, for the light, the white light of truth, with which he has illucinated and educated his subject. 11. Having now shown what a State is, Dr. Laws proceeds next to the inquiry. What is the nature of that union of States formulated in ouf United States Constitution? Certainly this is a pregnant question, one that has elicited the highest argumentation from 1776 to 1897 at the hands of the country's master spirits in statesmanship. I have not the space at my command here to enter fully into the argument ot Dr. Laws on this branch of his theme. He clearly establishes through the instrumentality of his keen logic and his wealth of erudition these propositions: 1. The theory of our American system is that of popular sovereignty. 2. The vindication of the Declaration of Independence established thirteen sovereign States. 3. The States remained sovereign under the Thirteen Articles and did not change their individual characters in substituting therefore the Constitution. 4. The people, in whom sovereignty in our system is located, is not the general or aggregate mass, but in particular the people of each individual State. I have but one criticism to make, and slight as it is, I make it with some hesitancy, so much am I impressed with the superior attainments, grasp and ability of Dr. Laws. In speaking, in the beginning of his argument, about the literature of the subject and the sources of information to which the student should resort, the Doctor mentions Eliot's Debates on the Federal Constitution, in five volumes, whioh embrace the Madison papers, the Kentucky and the Virginia resolutions and the debate between Webster and Hayne. He mentions also '"The Federalist," the joint work of Hamilton, Madison and Jaj'. Further, he quotes fro*n such authors as Guizot, Montesquieu, Maine, Cocley, Curtis, Webster and others. This is well. They aae all ' 'honorable men," all eminent authorities. But we no where find any reference to Calhoun, whose works on Government and Discourse on the Government and Constitution of the United States sound the very deeps of his suq- I jecl, malting mm use Ariswue m m? philosophical tone, as he was like Cato in his firmness, and like Burke and Chatham in the forum of his country. | fcDirest Calhoun of his nullification and his secession theories and he remains the great American exponent of State sovereignty. To augment yet more the muniments of the great principle for which Dr. Laws nobly and boldly stood fifteen years ago in Missouri, breasting like a brave man the tide of adverse thought, and defying popular clamor, he oould invoke no greater name than that of John Caldwell Calhoun. When the argument is made for State sovereignty, not forgotten should be two arguments?that of Jefferson Davis in the ''Rise and Fall of the Confederacy" and above all, which?is my point now?Calhoun's Works. Nor forgotten should be how Calhoun lived and died in the harness of State-Rights. Divest him of his nullification and secession garb and the body of his contention remains. His sum is obscured by the mists of the present, but it will continue to shine. What a spectacle does his life and death suggest! He was one of Plutarch's men. Solon, exhausting his powers to deonit/ hor laws; De iCUU lilO WUUVl T uuvr MV* ? J mosthens laboring with fiery eloquence to save the liberties of Greece. Cicero pleading in the forum for the freedom of the better days of Rome. These give sublime pictures of heroes struggling for the right. But not less grand is the spectacle.of intense patriotism, presented by the sage of Fort Hill, when to the last he combatted with unequalled logic the consolidation of our government, and, in unanswered and unanswerable arguments, vindicated the scheme as it came with its coronet of State-rights fresh from the hands of the august Fathers of the Republic. With this word for Calhoun, I close this review of the masterful paper of Dr. Laws, and repeat that so valuable ! a contribution to the literature of State 1 sovereignty ought not to remain dorI mant in the archives of the department I of the Secretary of State, but ought to < be prepared for circulation especially among the rising generation, so that f < the cause in wliic'u their fathers fought or died may be duly magnified, and further the end that one of the great canons of the creed of our people should be revived in the minds, not only of South Carolina, but of the whole Union. Since, be it remembered, State sovereignty is not local in its healing properties, but is a sovereign remedy for the case of the whole body politic. SENATORIAL. CANDIDATES. Some of the "Starters" Considered in the Forthcoming Race. It is hardly probable that Mr. MoLaurin will be allowed to enjoy an uncontested right to the vacant seat in the vunuu uiav^o ucuat-c. UIA VI names have been mentioned already, and there are others. It may be that several of the expected aspirants are feeling their way at present, and some of them will dohbtlees fail to pnt in an appearance when the start is made. But the s gns of the times point very strongly to the entrance of John Gary Evans into the arena, and he will almost certainly seek a "vindication" at the hands of the people, whether or not he has a- pocket full of rocks to throw at other candidates. Then, too, there are faint glimmerings that John L. M. Irby wants to shy his castor into the ring, with the expectation Of retrieving the ground that he thinks was unnecessarily deserted Last veer. Hon. M. L. Donaldson has said that he will not be guided again by friends who underrated his Strength before, and he has assured us that he favors a primary in which to test the matter. It would be well also to keep a weather eye on W. Jasper Talbert, of Edgefield, who would be a formidable competitor in case he took a notion to file his pie Igo. There are a couple of young men, if not more, who i would Tike lor liim to cause a vacancy in the Second Congressional District, and his elevation to the Senate would please them amazmglv. Don't bet any thoroughbred animals that Mr. McLuurin will get there without a contest.?Greenville Mountaineer. OF GENU mm. ? What President Keitt Says of the Alliance and Its Conditions. THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING. You're Not a Member Unless Your Name Is Enrolled on tbe State Secretary's Book. Since the last meeting of the State Alliance last summer very littls has been heard of the organization. The time is rapidly approaching^or the annual meeting this year. It will be held in Columbia in July and no doubt there will be a full attendance of the members representing all the counties of the State. At the last meeting the Al liance perfected its State exchange and it is said that the members have been greatly benefited through the operations of the exchange. They also took action in regard to the fight agair st the flat cotton tie trust, with the result that this year all the flat ties desired can be had cheaper than ever before. In a card to The Cotton Plan t, the organ of the Alliance, which is now edited by Mr. W. T. Crews, President Keitt has this to say about the Alliance, its oonditions and so on; after referring to and endorsing a recent editoral in The Cotton Plant: "Unfortunately too many do not discriminate between non-political and non-partisan. No one is authorized to say that the Alliance is non-political, for its first declaration of its organic law is the purpose to teach the science of economical government. How farreaching the educational work has been is apparent to the close observer. The j)olitical conflict projected by the Alliance has for the most part been transferred to political parties. The Alliance organization has suffered much from division of political sentiment respecting parties. This should not have been. A proper appreciation and observance of its non-partisan character should have prevented it. Those who have withdrawn from the organization for this reason are culpable? not the Alliance. "While it is gratifying for me to note that some of the counties have increased their membership this year, too many are apparently indifferent. The names of many heretofore prominent in the organization are not enrolled on the DOOK 01 me orate secretary. "As an organization to protect and advance the agricnltural interests, the Alliance is a9 necessary now as it has ever been, and to promote these interests, should appeal as strongly as ever to the patriotic sentiments of every farmer. It is a great mistake to suppose that the operations of the Alliance are confined to political discussions or political actions. Its scope is almost unlimited. The Alliance of Newberry countv combined this year and purchased fertilizer to a larger extent than ever before. Combinations in other business matters have proven verj* beneficial in this county. Under the auspiI ces of the Alliance we will have a farmers' institute in Augm t. There is no reason why the Alliance cannot be as efiective in other counties of the State. There are many good . ..iancemen in the State whose names do not appear ui>on the roll. I wish to appeal to them to enroll and renew their interest in the organization. Make the Alliance what it should be. If its pBst has been meritorious whv should we not go forward? We must be progressive or retrogressive. Which shall it be? I will ask the last county officers in the counties not enrdlled to take the initiative in reorganization. Where it is not done, I will ask the officers of subs and individuals who wish to preserve their membership, to communicate with the State secretary. No one is a member of the Alliance unless his name is enrolled on the book of the State secretary?" Little Boreham (relating his Alpine adventures)?There I stood, the terrible abyss yawning at my feet That brute Brown?Was it yawning when you got there, or did it start after you arrived??London Punch. ... .*-> - -w / : ' ' v : i *1. . iHIBHK'nillllf! Elections for New Counties of V/?l- ! liamston and Honea Path. SPARTANBRUG'S NEW MILLS. First Original Package Agency. Walks 52 Miles on Sundays?Higher Than Asheville. ? For the State Teachers' Association meeting, at Hotel Altamont, on Paris mountain which is to take pljce from June 30th to July 5th, all railroads in the State have granted a one fare round trip rate. The committee of the citi' ^ *n --i i- 4. zens 01 urcenviue exi>?ci kj meet mo teachers at ths station and tender them free transportation to the hotel, seven miles distant, in carriages. On the Fourth of July there will be a patriotic celebration on the top of the mountain. The hotel which has accommodations for 800 guests, will be given over to the ladies of the party, and the gentlemen will be quartered in cottages and tents. An auditorium for the sessions is now nearing completion and it will have a roof garden. Bands of music, cornet band and orchestra will also be provided for the teachers. The association at the meeting will consider the question of building a permanent house in some suitable locality for its annual meetings and the general opinion is that Paris mountain will be selected. The total attendance at the approaching meeting is expected to rech seven or eight hundred. 4,^. . Senator McLaurin's full name is John Lowndes McLaurin. A great many people, and especially Mary landers, have asked him where the Lowndes in his name cams from. The story is interesting. W hen his mother w ent to school at the Patapsco Institute in Maryland, her dearest chum was Mies Bessie Lowndes, and so when her boy was born, she called him Lowndes in hofior of her schoolmate. Time passed and Miss Lowndes married a promising banker and politician in Cumberland named Lloyd Lowndes. Last March Mrs. McLnurin occupied a seat in the Senate Chamber and saw her 6on participating in the exercises as a member of Congress, while near him sat the husband of Bessie Lowndes, the Governor of the State of Maryland.?Washington Post Elections have been ordered to be held for HoneaPath and "Williamston counties on the 2Gth inst. These two new county schemes will be left to the decision of the ballot box. The territory which these counties desire has already been stated. Both wish* cerain territory and there Las been a prol: minary skirmish to prevent either from getting an election ahead of the other. To put them on an equal footing Governor Ellerbe ordered the electionu on the same day. Only one of the proposed counties can be establised. We understand that ex-Governor Evans will defend Mr. Gaston when his case comes up next month. It it right and proper that he should do so. Governor Evans appointed Gaston, and he will not only have an opportunity of vindicating his position, but of ventilating the dispensary management and clearing his own name of those charges brought by John Duncan. We predict that when the Scruggs and Gaston cases come up there will be a terrible rattling among the dry bones around that Agricultural Hall. ?Piedmont Headlight Joseph Cainarata, an Italian frnit vender of Spartanburg, kept all his money in a tin box. He bail accumulated about $200 in bills and ?3? in fold. His little 6-year-old boy, Joe, new where the money was secreted and threw the box in the stove. Several hours af;:ei the box being missed the boy confessed to the act. The box was found in the ashe3 of the stove. The bills were all burned. The gold is all right, however, although somewhat defaced by the heat, several five-dollar coins being nearly melted. F. M. Simmons, of Greenville, advertises, so says the Atlanta Constitution, that he has been appointed agent of one of the big brewing establishments outside of this State, saying that "prompt delivery of fine beers will follow. " It is the first original package agency established in the State since the Simonton decision was filed, so far as is known. Simmons, prior to the dispensary reign, was a saloonkeeper. The last work is being completed on the two mill enterprises of Spartanburg. One is the Arkwright mills, the other the Spartan mills No. 2. These plants cost $500,000. The Spartan mill is already running and the machinery at the Arkwright mills is practically laid. These enterprises will bring about 3,000 more people to that city. E. B. Burroughs, formerly a prominent negro preacher of Greenville and now practicing law at Cheraw, is charged with fraudulently obtaining a signature 1:0 a real estate deed in the above city from Henry Fnllenweider. Burroughs is alleged to have represented to Fullonweider that the paper w as a mortgage. ? L ?.;n oeneca t.as a peueDuiau sue nm against any other-w alker. He is a Mormon elder and -walks twenty-six miles every Sunday morning by 10 o'clock, conducts Sunday school and preaches, and then walks twenty-six miles back home in tb e evening, covering fifty-two miles in a day. ? The editors of the Press Association and their friends who attended the Nashville Exposition in a body, have returned. Everyone gives glowing accounts of their trip to Nashville and their stop overs on the route. Charleston is making great orepara- j tions for the reception of the new electric system of street railroads which ' will be in active operation within the j next two cr three weeks. The war on Greek letter societies at Furman University is being pushed. 1 ' - . . w.W-.. . V. : * . : - : - : ? # HELPING TILLMAN. Simonton's Decision Has Aroused the Cold Water Element. A special from Washington says: "The temperance elements all over the country are coming to the support of 1 Senator Tillman in his desire to have light thrown on the question as to what legislation, if agy, is necessary to give full efl^ot of the law which accords to each State the right to regulate the liquor t-affio within its fcordao. ' 'People who have been disposed to criticise the dispensary system and its author are with him in the fight which comes as the result of Judge Sim on ton's reoent decision. Senator Hoar is one of the strong supporters of the Tillman ixjsition and most of the members of the Senate believe with him that Judge OIUIUU l*JU ft UOUintUU ID 1U IUO KClll U1 the Wilson law which was made to fit the Iowa case some years ago and under the operations of which the Maine law is made effective. "That law was passed in 1890 and gives, in as ploiu language as a law can to each Stale, the same power to regulate the sale of liquors that are brought into that Sif.te, as the State has over liquors produced in the State, and the law ad3s that they 'shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.' "Judge Simonton bases his decision, as it is understood here, on the contention that the South Carolina law is not an exercise of the police power of the State. "That it is the intention of Congress to give absolute control of the liquor traffic to the individual States there can be no doubt and if further legislation is necessary to perfect existing law on t^at point it will enacted. LIQUOR DEALMWHOLD BACK. They Have Placed Orders, JUuc nave Not Received Goo<U Yet. A special from Charleston to the Atlanta Constitution says: The wholesale grocerymen and the ex-liquor dealers in Charleston seems to be holding back somewhat in ordering liquors for sale in the original packages, as allowed under Judge Simon ton's decision. They have plaoed orders but the stuff, is not to be shipped until some definite steps are taken by the State administration. Before the dispensary law went into effect every other store in the city sold whiskey and beer, and a large majority of these men are now counting on selling again. One wholesale dealer has secured a warehouse and has it to appear that he is to act as the agent of some outside company that will ship the goods to the city to be warehoused and sold to individuals. Since the decision was rendered the State constables, who have been idle for weeks, have started out on wholesale raids once more and have succeeded in capturing a great deal of contraband liquor. The reason seems to be that the blind tigers are putting tqo much faith in the injunction and are selling in the original drink more freely than usuai. Charleston is expecting a big revival in business relations when the dispensary is driven out of the field. An enormous amount of whiskey is sold and while the money leaves the average man poorer, it appears.to put more money in circulation. MOVE3IENT FOR GOOD ROADS. South Carolinians Putting Roads in Better Condition. The progressive press of Sonth Carolsna has been agitating the question of good roads for a long time, but, in the middle and low country, with very in- I different results. In several counties I in the Piedmont belt the people have realized the importance of good highways, and in several counties, notably iu Pickens, Anderson and Greenville, considerable improvements have been made, considerable expense being incurred for road machines, mules, etc., and civil engineers being employed in the scientific part of the work. However Richmond, of which Columbia is the county seat, has made the first move in the State to macadamize a highway. , The beginning is on a very small scale, as a section of road just beyond the city | limits, and only 170 yards in length, will be operated on. It is one of the worst places .in the countyLand bears a great amount of traiBo. Granite screenings will be used and the macadam will be nine inches thick. The progress of the experiment will be watched with great interest, because if it is successful, as to cost estimates and endurance, it is likely bonds will be issued to macadamize the roads of the township and all other county seats will take similar action. In the hilly country there is a quantity of the necessary rook. With thech&ingangs, which are worked in this county, the estimate cost is , about $1,100 a mile. WRIT OP INJUNCTION FILED. Judge Slmonton's Decision Is In Full Force. In the United States circuit court at Charleston Judge Simonton ha. filed a writ of injunction against Liquor Com- ! missioner Vance and members of the 3onstabulary, defendants in the Vaniercock case, restraining them from seizing or in terfering with liquors shipped into South Carolina for sale to individuals in the original unbroken package. This is the order carrying out the text of his decision but it deals only with the Vandercock Company. The court enjoins the defendants from seizing or attempting to seize in transit or after arrival or otherwise ear-ring away or confisticatin? any of the wines and liquors brought into this State for sale and bearing the stamp of the Vandercocks. They are further ordered not to interfere with liquors 6ent here to be warehoused and sold in original packages. The defendants are also enjoined from interfering with or hindering and preventing the complainants or agents in any way whatsoever from carj rying on interstate commerce and intercourse in such liquois as may be imported to South Carolina by citizens, the right to which is seoured to them by the Constitution of the j United States, or in preventing in any way any person from engaging in suoh trade with the Vandercocks or from holding, using of consuming wines ai d liquors sent here from California o:r imported and sold in orig| inal packages in this State bv the complainants to the citizens of South Carolina. ffisWiKm | Simonion's Decision Practically Kills the Dispensary. REJOICING NEAR DARLINGTON. J No Special Session of the Leg-. < islature? Constabulary Should Bm Modified to Some Extent. The following interview between a j representative of the Atlanta Constit?* tion and Col. McSweensy, of the -AM Hampton Guardian, along with others ^2 taken place in Atlanta last Thursday, T yi'Iiilo flm mnrnKora tlio HfotA Pi*AM nunc wuv iuuiuuviu v* iuu k/w??v * *?w Association were stopping over in thai ' JgH city on their return from the Nashvilte Exposition and other places en route: "The decision of Judge Simonton ' 5 practically kills the dispensary system as it now exists," said Colonel MeSweney. "I have always been in favor ^ of the dispensary, and believe it to be u the best solution of the liquor question, .'r^a but I would have the constabulary of South Carolina modified to some extent. . There is a phase of this which is objectionable. "There will be no special session of --'fZ the Legislature, I here. It will be next March before the Legislature meets again, and it seems to me that the question will be settled before that 2S "One thing is sure, the saloon system will never be introduced in South Carolina again. It is practically dead, and all elements of the State are against iL vif' "It seems to me that the only thing that remains right now is for the State in t*n infn iliahiininAAJinf nftllinc wbinkv. 8 ancl underbid all competitors. 4 'The high tax question will come up wj also, and I believe that this will be tha means by which the State can control ^5 the traffic. "The peculiar feature of the decision ' ! of Jude Simon ton has struck me, and that is that there can be nothing life? ' local option in South Carolina. He declares that the present system is in di- (jcSSk rect violation of interstate commerce laws, and says that whisky can be sold in any part of the State in original ( y packages. Suppose a county should ' ^gjg declare againit the sale of whisky, tho ?A law could uot be enforced, for the do- wj cision of Judge Simonton makes the sale of original packages legal any- / "' where. ; ''There is no other solution but thai ofhigntax." WILL OIVB THSM H?U tfjSL' 'Correct, correctyou are," said kia .. honor, CoL H. H. Evans, the mayor ad i : NeVberry, who was in the ckowd about <j53 j Col. McSweeney. ' 'This decision will give those oonafca- ' bles hell. * 4 4I want your to put that in," he said, turning to the representative of tha Constitution. 4 'Yea, sir; it will give these scalawags > 'i. >;M hell, and I am d?n glad of it '"*1 "That's good South Carolina talk," ; he continued. "We don't do anything or say anything in a milk-and-water . j&R way over there. "I believe the present system is dead, ' ,/JA and it might as well be ^omitted. I was 1 opposed lO lue lUBpvuomrj m ium mu ^ was a strong conservative, but I will never, and the people of South Carolina will never consent to the saloons coming in again. It is a vicious system? : these saloons. ' 'Looks like to me the only way to do 1 is to raise the tax just as Col. Modween- 'A ey says." "rejoicing near darlington. " ) <?? "There will be greatJoy in my neok 3 of woods," said T. J. Brew, of Hartf , J ville. "I live near Darlington, the i.' scene of the great riot, and I'D venture vt? to say that the people there are rejoie- ? ing over the fall of the dispensary tn- igj teml 9 "They have no love for the con- '9 stables, you know, and this decision>oi Simonton will almost treak Up (be :;M methods of these ofBoers."' L A'fm Colonel Elbert A. Aull, editor of the Xewberty Herald, and president oi the vVj State Press Association, thought that . /. the high lieense was the enly method *?! open to the present administration. Thus the editors talked of the dispensary question, and their decision will soon be put into effect through the .: J force of their papers. Trusts are destroying themselves. -wW They are engaged In every line In a > 'jrtSjj systematic suicide. Nature abhors monopoly as 11 aouors a vacuum, lucre r.>.? Is something in human nature and boman conditions which prevents the for- VI mation or the continuance if partial formation is had of a combination in restraint of trade. Some one will break away from the imperfect union and ; war will result. On every hand is evidence of the truth of this assertion. ' Grapling each other, trusts are everywhere destroying themselves. The rV? latest felo do se is the United States -Ki Rubber Company, which has been endeavoring to rid itself of its rival, the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, and in , ' ? the war which has succeeded is wellnigh at death's door itself. Its stock Is ' rapidly declining, and before the war ends the price will probably be next to nothing. Man's Bitteresi 'Enemy. # "Sin is always man's bitterest enemy." writes Dwight L. Moody, in ; *? "Mr. Moody's Bible Class," In the Ladles' Home Journal. "It separates him from his Maker. It separates him }*9 from liis fellow-beings. No position is to ohigh for sin to debase; no place so " hallowed but it seeks to corrupt; no - -3* home so sacred but it seeks to destroy. 'Sin, like holiness, is a mighty ieveler.' says a distinguished divine. And what may be the cause of the thousands of suicides which have occurred during the past year if it is not a loathing of self? It is sin then which makes a man loathe himself. It is sin which makes man's life become a 1 urden from which he so often seeks to free himself "J by his own hand." f She?Oh. yes! The predictions are in this column headed 'Weather Probabilities." lie?That's right. If they called it "Weather Possibilities" it wouldn't be so bad.?Puck. ' % ?