The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 10, 1897, Image 7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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