The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 12, 1913, Page TWO, Image 2
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Opposed to Dispensary. ,
The following clipping from the 1
Southern Christian Advocate has
been handed us with the request that
it be published:
1 will not undertake in this article
4l-? .noonne Kilt nnlv a
tc giv 6 ail lllC iccuuiig, ww j _ ,
few:
1. Because the evils of the liquor
traffic and of liquor drinking are not
dependent on the method of sale, I
but grow out of the nature of liquor.
Whisky will have the same effect,no
matter how or by whom sold.
It will produce drunkenness, incite
to crime,break up homes,entail poverty
and destroy character as quicker
if sold by a preacher as dispenser
it will if sold bv an outlaw. So long;
as the nature of alcohol is what it is, j
aiH so long as it affects for evil the
physical,mental, moral and spiritual
nature of man, if angels sold it the
results would be just what they are.
The courts of the land have spoken
in condemnation of the traffic. The
highest scientific medical authority
has pronounced alcohol a poison to
^ the human system. The large business
interests of the country have
condemned it. The moral forces and
church of God have made an uncompromising
war on it. Experience
-* Urturt* traffic is inca
snows mat tuc H4v*v?
fable of purification and is beyond
redemption. No method of regulation
has ever destroyed the evils of
it. Therefore, I cannot accept any
legal sale of it and cannot refrain
from opposing the illegal sale.
2. Because the liquor traffic has
been a corrupting power in politics
since it has legal standing. It is today
the greatest and most unprincipled
trust in existence. All are familiar
with the black record of
shame,bribery and corruption of the
eld State dispensary.
3. Because by compromising the j
right we always lose. The only thing
we gain is to derive revenue, and
we gain this at a moral loss. No
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man can trutniuuy w^'umv ??. ?.w
pensary destroys blind timers; they
are too plentiful in dispensary counties.
The dispensary is a convenient
source of supply for retail and Sunday
selling for the country tigers. Is
ot the revenue the bottom reason?
We do not take this position on carrying
concealed weapons, steali. g
and murder, all of which prevail.
4. Because I cannot reconcile to
my moral nature to try to make a
moral wrong right by getting a rev nee
from it. A government may
= *? fV,0 rommittinfir of
npuse a uuc ivi ?>v v?? ?
a crime without being a partner in
the crime,for the fine is punishment.
# But when it sells the right to commit
a moral wrong no logic can save
it from being an accessory before
Ike fact to the crime. I am addressing
those who believe it to be morally
wrong to sell liquor. When I
vote for the legal sale of liquor I
aoii mv rio-ht. dutv and opportunity
to fight this great evil. J can fight
the blind tiger with law and public
sentiment. I may even convert him
from the error of his way by the
gospel. But I cannot convert or fight
the dispensary for four long years.
During that time it may in the name
I law and respectability make a
drunkard of my boy and I have no
power to remove the temptation
from him. It is a weighty reason
with me that I have a boy. With my
vote 1 will not give a business a
chance to ruin his character, even if
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tt oners w pui a icn wuw
kead.
5. Because of my individual responsibility
as a church member. If
I endorse the dispensary, whatever
my motives may be, I have in fact
endorsed all the results of its work.
Am I obeying Jesus when He said,
"Let your light, so shine, etc;" if I
* mo mi __
vote to legalize this evn: mere is
but one question for me, that of my
individual duty.
6. Lastly, because I believe that I
follow the teaching of God's word
when 1' oppose this evil. It says,
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to do evil." Moral questions are
* not settied by majorities. All the
voters in the world can't make right
what is inherently wrong. The word
of God says, "Woe unto him that
fiveth his neighbor drink, that putteth
thy bottle to him and maketh
him dnmk also." (Habakkuk 2:15).
It would be an awful crime for me,
a total abstainer, to put in the name
of law the bottle to the lips of my
weak brother. It may be my liberty
in one sense of the word to so vote,
but Christian charity says, "Destroy
not thy weak brother for whom
Christ died." If it is a crime to put
the bottle to the lips of the drunkard,how
much more so to the lips of
boys and young men who have not
formed the habit. It says, "For it
must needs be that offenses come;
but woe to that man by whom the
offense cometh!" (Matthew 18:7).
Some say, "Liquor will be sold, and
we had just as well keep the money
at home and have the profit," So
we might say ef stealing and murder.
That is not the logic of Christ.
I must have my hands and conscience
clean, regardless of what
others do. "No drunkards shall
inherit the kingdom of God." (1
Cor 6:10). Then what about the
drunkard maker? If I vote for the
/
dispensary I will make drunkards.
I submit the above reasons to men
of reason who really are opposed to
the liquor business and yet may contemplate
voting for the dispensary as
the best solution. Weigh them and
see if I am not right in the position
I take. It has been assumed by some
that the preachers are trying to coerce
people on this question before
us, so I have heard. Let me once
for all say this is not true, and the
preachers are not the issue, but a
moral question is. The preachers
are willing for every man to exercise
the right to think and act. They
are trying to do just what they try
to do in every moral issue to persuade
their hearers and readers.
Could they do less? Are not those
who are working for the dispensary
trying to persuade their fellowmen
to adopt their views on the question
in the lay sermons they preach so of-,
ten?
Would we not have better con- J
sciences; would we not have better1
morals; would we not do more for
the real interests of our country, if
we organized to put down the illegal
sale of liquor and refuse to sanction
its legal sale? Has prohibition had
a fair showing in Calhoun county?
Have you, reader, done your duty
to make it succeed? Let us keep
this issue straight. We don't have
to have "blind tigers." The issue
is not dispensary or blind tiger, but
whiskey or no whiskey.
J M Steadman. i
St Matthews, May 24.
COLUMBIAN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Frank L Holland. Jr, Attempts to
Commit Snlclde.
Columbia, June 5:?Frank L Holland,
Jr, a prominent young business
man of Ridgewood, a suburb of Columbia,
shot himself several times
to-night, it is claimed, with the declared
intention of committing suicide.
At a late hour the young man,
although said to be badly wounded,
was still alive. No cause is assigned
for the alleged attempt at selfdestruction.
It is said that Mr Holland, just
before the Ridgewood car reached
Price avenue to-night, where he was
waiting to board it, turned an automatic
pistol Which he was holding in
his hands on himself and inflicted a
wound in the neighborhood of his
heart. Then,according to the report,
he boarded the car and fired another
shot from the automatic, which penetrated
the seat of the car and glanc
ing tore a hole through the rim of a
hat on a passenger's head, but fortunately
hit none of the occupants
of the car.
It is said that the conductor immediately
brought the car to a stop
near the residence of a physician and
requested Mr Holland to go to the
doctor, which he refused to do, saying,
so it is stated, that he wanted
to go home and die there.
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Alter descending irom me car
near his home and after having gone
a short distance, another shot was
fired. Neighbors went to Mr Holland's
assistance. At a late hour he
was reported as still alive, but desperately
wounded. Coroner Scott
on being asked about Mr Holland's
condition by The News and Courier
representative,said that while he had
heard of the shooting, no official report
had been made to him, but on
hearing the rumor he made an in
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIRING WIFE
After Four Tears of Discouraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.
Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock
writes as follows: "1 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, 1 could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. At times, 1 would have severe pains
in my left side.
The doctor was called in, and his treatment
relieved me for a while, but I was
soon confined to my bed again. After
that, nothing seemed to do me any good.
1 had gotten so weak I could not stand,
and I gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me a bottle of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I commenced
taking it. From the very first
dose, I could tell it was helping me. I
can now walk two miles without its
tiring me, and am doing my work."
If you are all run down from womanly
troubles, don't give up in despair. Try
Cardui, the woman's tonic. It nas helped
more than a million women, in its 50
years of wonderful success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
it will do. Ask him. He will recommend
it Begin taking Cardui today.
Write to: Cluttanooca Medicln? Co.. Ladles'
Advisory Dept.. Cbattanooca. Tenn.. (or Special
ftatructione on pour case and 64-pape book,' Hone
Treatment (or Women," seat la plain wrapper. E66-B
vestigation and was keeping in close
touch through the neighbors with
the situation.
Mr Holland was removed to the
Columbia hospital. It is thought
that he may have a fighting chance
for recovery. Two bullets are said
to have taken effect in his body. He
is a prominent young man and well
known.
Ulcers and Skin Troubles.
i If you are suffering with any old,
running or fever sores, ulcers, boils,
eczema or other skin troubles, get i
box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve anc
you will get relief promptly. Mri
Bruce Jones, of Birmingham, Ala
suffered from an ugly ulcer for nin<
months and Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured her in two weeks. Will heli
you. Only 25c. Recommended bj
Kingstree Drug Co and M L Allen.
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A large per cent of the expectec
profits from commercial fertilizer!
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19 IU3L Uy [A/UI pi C|/oiavivu v* v**>
soil. Fertilizers will, in some in
stances, Rive double the profit or
well prepared soils.?L C, Newman
in The Progressive Farmer.
lost Children Have forms.
Many mothers think their childrei
are suffering from indiRestion, head
ache, nervousness, weakness, costive
ness, when they are victims of thai
most common of all children's ail
ments?worms. Peevish, ill-temper
ed, fretful children, who toss anc
Rrind their teeth, with bad breatl
and colicky pains, have all the symp
toms of havinR worms and should be
Riven Kickapoo Worm Killer,a pleasant
candy lozenRe, which expelf
worms, regulates the bowels, tones
up the system, and makes childrer
well and happy. Kickapoo Worm
Killer is guaranteed. All druggist*
or by mail. Price 25c. Kickapoc
Indian Medicine Co, Philadelphia and
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The two points at which most
Southern stockmen fail in efforts to
sell their livestock are lack of proper
feeding and advertising. We are notoriously
bad feeders and have never
learned 10 advertise. You may have
something to sell which your nearest
neighbor wants to buy, but unless
you tell him in some way that you
have such an article and want to sell
it, he may never know it, no matter
how close he lives to you. Advertising
is a regular and legitimate
charge to be counted in the selling
charges of any business.?The Progresfiive
Farmer.
Take Plenty of Time to Eat.
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inere la it atiyiug uiau tapiu eating
is slow suicide." If you have
formed the habit of eating too rapidly
you are most likely suffering
from indigestion or constipation,
which will result eventually in serious
illness unless corrected. Digestion
begins in the mouth. Food should
be thoroughly masticated and insalivated.
Then when you have a fullness
of the stomach or feel dull and
efnni/1 offor oofinrr folrn Ann r\f
berlain's Tab!- s. Many severe cases
of stomach trouble and constipation
have been cured by the use of these
tablets. They are easy to take and
most agreeable in effect. Sold by
all dealers. adv
Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT faili to cure any caae of I telling.
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Pilee in S to 14 dura.
The firat application girea Emc and Reat SOc.
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to Charles
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Here are pleasures to suit t]
tne keynote to the characte
tanism. A trip to this delig
or/ to brighten the stressful
It is a center that attracts tl
1 ter once experiencing its gei
1 ally, year after year. No ?
3 . Charleston. It needs the ir
i quately sing its mighty praii
civic pride, energy and intel
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! nities.
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I C W Stoll, President
? F Rhem, Vice-President
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he taste of every comer, for i
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htful city lingers in the mem- y
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lousands of visitors, who, af- 4
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ligent enterprise. Its streets
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md nearly a total loss, but the w( '
ill is, they carried no insurance. * M
ould not happen to you if you were |fl
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n one of our reliable companies. Whe-t * '' >
'ou learn how small a sum is required
o pay the premium on a policy for one
ear,you surely ought never to take the
hance of the troubles of this poor famiy.
lingstree Insurance, Real Estate & loan Co
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FIRE!
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I am pleased to
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iimuuiict; tuiiiy uiu
patrons and th e
public at large that
After the lOth inst.
[ will be fully prepared
to carry on
the practice of
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Hie National Hoiis^
266 Meeting Street,
CHARLESTON, & C.
Rates reasonable; centrally located on
two car lines; parties wishing to go to
the Island daily find it to t^eir advantage
to go to ine National; ten mindtes
walk to the boat; special rates to paries
and families. Mrs WB Oeland,
$-29-tf Proprietress.
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plate the installation of I
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Gas Lights for their I
store buildings,churches I ,
c^Vinnl.hniisaa op dwell
ings, we will be pleased
to show our line of generators
and fixtures and
and prices for complete
installation. All work
guaranteed.
Haider-Thompson Company
Kingsfree, S. C.
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permanentlycurethat J
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compounded for that ^9
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vCVIl Worm or any other Skin
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lirect tf be hasn't it. Manufactured only by
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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Cares Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough, flfl