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IS PROHIBITION A FAILURE? ! DDK THE EXPERIMENT WORKED IN NEW I EMGUND-ARGUMENT ADDUCED AGAINST NO LICENSE SYSTEM. Editor County Record:-iQaotnuch as there will be an i election held iii this county on Au j gust 1? next, the result of which, may involve a radical change in oui governmental policy aud launch us j infrt au crncri merit which 11121V be ' impractical in its operation and [ detrimental to the moral, material and general weltare of the county,, I think it will be well to look care- J fully into the issues involved in the , campaign now goiug on with a view to reaching the wisest conclusion. During the colonial days nearly 1 all of the colouies, from Maine to Georgia, enacted, at differeut times^ Iawr nrnhihitinir. in various wavs. " I " or ' * the manufacture and sale of liquor, and in some uistauces of tobacco also. The3e laws were uniformly disregarded and were productive of numerous evil consequences. So impossible wa3 it to enforce them and so great were th? abuses growing out of them that they rarely remained upon the statute books more than a few years. Such experi nients were repeated from time to always with like results, until the Revolution, when Cfaey w "011 lip. Th'p colonial experience with prohibitory laws so impressed the people that during the first seventy years of independence little or r.o effort was made in the direction of prohibition. Between 1 -50 and 18(50, however, there was a revival of prohibitory efforts and laws were enacted in various States forbidding tue man ufacturc and sale of intoxicating liquors. Maine adopted prohibition in iu lB.'jl, and still has it on her books, but it has never been en forced, and in towns and c ties of that Slate the open saloon i3 as fa miliar and public as iu any State of j the Union. Vermont followed Maine m l^Ovi by the adoption of prohibitory laws, j - i i i u *. ~ ?- _i : ana Kepi ineui cuuuu iuusiy uu uer statute bocks for halt a century. In the effort to enforce these laws severe and. unusual punishments, search without warrant aud denial j of trial by jury were resorted to, the | accused was forced to testify against j himself and a process of injuuction was adopted ruinous to innocent parties. Three convictions were al lowe.l for a single offence and informers were stimulated by fees aud shares of fiaes?and all to no pur purpose. Intemperance and ecu tempt of law steadily increased. In 1902, at the end of tifty years, the report of the United States Commissioner cf Internal Reveuue showed that one United States li oense to sell liquor was issued for every 120 voters in the State. Cn the fall of 1902 a movement was inaugurated looking to the adoption of a license system. The cam paigu which terminated iu the over throw of prohibition was in many respects remarkable. Arrayed oa the side of license were the pro ^ gressivc elements of the State, sup ' ported by men in al! walks of life,' of the best thought and highest! morals?men profoundly impressed with the futility and bad results of the law. Arrayed with the prohi bitionisls were the illicit liquor sellers, who preferred the unrestricted sale under prohibition to a regulative trade uuder an7 other fivstem. "J On four separate occasions during the campaign the voters of the State show ed their disapproval of prohibition?in the caucases. in the Legislature, in the election when they voted 011 the question direct, ?and fiualiy when the towns voted 011 license March 3, 1903. On the last occasion eighty seven towns?all in the State of any size?declared for license. New Hampshire adopted statutory prohibition in 1855. For thirtyfour years every effort was made to enforce it, with results so far from satisfactory and so injurious that at < a popular election for the adoption of a prohibitory amendment to the State constitution held April 12, 1889, the amendment was defeated by an enormous majority. Two counties only in the entire State gave it majorities. Oa March 18, 1903, the lower house of the Legislature passed a license bill by a vote of 214 to 107. A few days later the bill passed the Senate by a vote of three to one, and on March 27, received executive approval and license became the law of the State. The cities of the State stood overwhelmingly for license, their j vote in the Legislature being 121 j to 8 in its favor. More noteworthy ; is the fact that the rural members, taken separately, voted for license; in the proportion of 97 to 70. Representatives of both political j parties were also in favor of license. Massachusetts tried prohibition from 1855 to 1870. She found the law vain and injurious aud upon! the testimony of her Governor and best citizens, fatally hurtful to the cause of temperance. After fifteen years ot earnest trial she also repudiated the law, and when in April, 188d, a strenuous effort was made to again engruft prohibition upon the constitution of the State, it failed. The farmiug population threw its weight with that of the cities against the amendment. One town only in the Commonwealth gave it a majority. The campaign was one of excep tioual interest. The terms and time of the tight were dictated by the prohibitionists. They were ably led and their cause was advocated by hundreds of speakers. They deluged the State with literature and brought into action an army of workers recur liable tor its numbers. No method known to the politician was left untried in the efforts to carry prohibition. As elsewhere, the prohibitionists tried to make it appear that all morality was on their side, all immoral' lty opposed to them. This assumption failed of its purpose. The influential journals of the State, almost to a unit against the amendment, exposed the fallacy and threw their influence in behalf of license. Profiting bv uast experience. the? fought with a vigor bom of' conviction. The religious papers joined hands with the powerful dailies. and, making conscience of the fight, the Christian Union, the Congiegationalist and the Christian Register hurled their thunder against the adoption of the amendment. Nor was the press unsupported by the church. Many scores of the most end-lent clergymeu of the Commonwealth, comprising the brain, the diguity and the worth of the ministry of the State, united in remonstrances against the adoption of prohibition. Among the ministers so remonstrating were Rev Dr Phillips Brooks, Rev Dr Savage, Rev Dr Brooks Hereford,Rev Dr Cyrus Bartol, Rev Dr Peabody and the Rev Father Conrty, the President of the Catholio National Total Abstinence Society cf America, and many others of celebrity?men revered for character and purity of motive. Mauy of these great divines preached from their pulpits against the fauaticism. United with them in the crusade against prohibition were live of the 3eveu colleges of the State. President Eliot of Harvard iu an open letter condemned the effort to make men good by law. The opposition to the ameudment was none the less remarkable among the lawyers, either iu vigor or in character of those opposed. A protest signed by nearly five hundred of l-Uw .rtlvlrvnt mamhara r\f f Kn Ko r* in WUC vkUJCCW UJU11A V/Vl O V/4. IUV. vui) tU" eluding such names of natioual reputation as E R Hoar, ex-Governor Russell, Charles Theodore Russell, er-Governor Gardiner, Patrick Collins and others equally known, was sent broadcast throughout the Commonwealth. Following the protest of the lawyers came one of the physicians, headed by Oliver Wendell Holmes and subscribed to by nearly all the eminent doctors of the State. Merchants and business men, appreciating the disaster that would follow prohibition, also united in a remonstrance to which were appended nearly six thousand names. Labor united with capital in hoa | tilitj to prohibition. The labor lead-1 J ers declaring it their belief that the, adoption of the ameudment would ' seriously affect the interests of laboring men. urged its defeat. , The remonstrances, supported by I the great names signed to them, corincided with the experience of the ! people who had tried prohibition 'and knew by its fruits what it was. [ Statistics were not wanting to show its evil effects when it was formerly the law of the State. These statistics were above suspicion, as they were prepared under the order of the Governor and Legislature by the Hon Carroll D Wright, one of the most eminent and reliable statisticians of America. They show the alarming extent of intemperance under prohibition, aud the rapid decrease of drunkenness when the prohibitory statute was replaced by a license law. The tax question cut a considerable figure in the campaign. The enormous loss of revenue from licenses and the consequent heavy increase in taxes were so obvious that the prohibitionists did not attempt to argue on this question. Concluded next week.) A PERENNIAL IANDIOATEV Cole L Blease Advises the Public That He Is Still RunningNewberry, July 3:?While iu Lauaens several days ago, the Hon Cole L Blease, of this city was quoted by the Laureusville Herald, in au interview, as stating that he would be a candidate for Governor in the campaign next summer, with practically the same platf -m he had last summer. Queried larther on his views as to Clemson and compulsory education, says the Laurens paper, he said: "Let C'.emson alone and no compulsory education." When seen by The Sunday News correspondent, Mr Blease stated that the interview with him iu the Laurens paper was correct, and that he would be a candidate for Governor next summer upon the same platform upon which he made the race in 1908, aud practically upon tne same issues as then. He said thai he was opposed to any interference with Clenison College at this time, lie thought, however, that the life trustees had leeu, and were now, making a mistake in tilling vacancies on the board by the election of politicians as members thereof, aud thereby creating dissensions which would otherwise not be, for sometimes the opposition to the life board was more on account of its membership or individuality than to the principle involved. "My record as to compulsory education in the House of Representatives and the Senate is well known, and I have been credited with the defeat of a bill along that line while - ? n. . n i 1 T a member or tne state senate, ana i am still opposed to the system,'' he said. Card of Thanks. 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P P P made the cure and proved itself as in thousands of other cases, the best blood purifier in the world, and superior to all Sarsaparillas and the so-called Rheumetic Springs. Sold by W L Wallace. Bring Your Tobacco to KINQSTREE, the New To. bacco riarket. 4 W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. . 'n / WN / /WwlN - Ts / f\ /W\ / \7T-^ (Contributed.) Wbicb Will You Protect, the Saloon or | the Boy? Prohibition leads to prosperity. Before the days of prohibition there were liceused saloons, breweries and distilleries throughout Maine. These .have all been bauished. Under license, Maiue was a poor State. Under prohibition. Maine ha9 become very prosperous. Maine is the only State with more savings bank depositors than voters. One-third of its people, including women and children, have money in the savings batiks. Maine has an excellent public school system. Not a dollar of revenue is needed or received to_support the schools of Maiue. Maine is a great pleasure rt. About tifteeu million dolla' ach year are left in the State by mer visitors and tourists; peopL o do not depend on the saloon for.enter-1 tainment. \ V Maine takes care of its instead of taking care of the saloc Of the 3,000,000 child laborers the United States, Maine's proportion would be 35,000. It has but! 14,000. Prohibition reduces crime. rp were in the United States h 0,300 murders and homiciuu. Maine had but three. Prohibition hurts the liquor business by reducing the amount of liquor manufactured, sold and consumed. This is why the liquor people are always opposed to prohibition. Life 100,000 Years Ago. Scientists have found in a cave in ^ i i l . f ?1? 12 1 owuzeriauo oones 01 men wuo nveu 100,000 years ago, when life was in constant danger from wild beasts. 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