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! HOI j i ? i | UNIC ! SAME IX* PRICE j * I I H I We are runni I night to sup] UNI PHON THE WHY AM) WHY NOT OF I THE BOOZE BUSINESS | i The scripture pronounces a "Woe" J upon the man who puts a bottle to his neighbor's lips, or tfives him a 1 drink. (See Hab. 2:15.) This law ! will not only apply to the individual ( but to the Nation, State, or County, ' Who is it that is putting the bottle to ,! the lips of Union county, Newberry, | Fairfield, Chester, Cherokee, Spartan- ' burg, Hendersonville, Asheville am 1 many other places? The answer is short but pointed: The voters of Union county who voted for the oispensary. Hence the "woe" of the scripture is upon each voter who voted for the lis;, m >a?y. ! o say t!:;.i j liquor would be sold anyway does not remove the le >.?sibility. If it ban been sold anyhow it would have been an illegal sale. But the <|uqcstion is: "Ought the dispensary be retained or voted out?" 1 FIRST, WHY SHOULD IT BE 1 RETAINED? Let its advocates answer: 1. On account of personal liberty. A man has a right to drink if he wants 1 to. What about rights of wife and children at home? Have they no right to the bread and meat that ought to be bought with the same money spent for liquor. Have sober people lio right to be shielded from the drunkard. 'vho stagger along the streets with ever ready pistol? What tne booze advocates wants is not LIBERTY but LICENSE to do as he pleases. The speed fiend, the man who carries concealed weapons, the man with ; small-pox must be restricted for the sake of others and for the safety of the public; so with the man who tak >s booze. He has LIBERTY to do right He cannot ha?e LICENSE to do wrong. 2. It helps to reduce taxes. In 1013 the income from booze was $ '>.">0,000,000. The same year it costs the working men $2,000,000,000; the cost of maintaing the courts the same year was $1,000,000,000. There went out for booze $2,8.">0,000,000 more than came in. Add to this $0,t00,000,000 for maintaing paupers, orphans, idiots and criminals caused by booze and you ! have the immense sura of .A'SaO niio - I 000 more paid out ths.u cam j iii. In one county the cry was made that it helped to maintain the public schools. So it did. You had to spend SJ'J foi booze to tret one dollar for 'ho scnools. That is drinkintr a lot to tret a littleThe figures is not at hand nut we feel sure that if the ten thousand dollars spent each month by the people of Union for booze (this leaves out 'he money spent from the outside) were properly invested the taxes would be much less than they are now w?th the aid of the Imo/.e business. So much money invested in booze business- -can't afford to lose it. There about $771,000,000 invested j in this country. From the figures above it will be seen that the Government could pay the amount invested every year anil then save to the people over eiirht billion dollars. 4. In 19115 2per cent of the corn crop of the country was made up into o ? fSEKI ...A- L CO "PEE Is Pure, It is ] it: ng day and ply demand ON E 26 booze. A valuation of about 35 cents per capita. That is helping the farmer some5. It helps business. Yes, it does but the principal part >f it goes to the dispensary. The dry ?oods, groceries, and shoe stores lon't get much. If the dispensary :an take in $478 per day for thirty lays, Sur^-'ay included, what is there left for tne other stores? The dispensary sales represent one member r?f the family, the others the needs of the whole family. What a contrast! SECOND, WHY SHOULD THE BOOZE BUSINESS BE VOTED OUT? 1. Because of its destructive influence. 75 per cent of the idiots of the country are from intemperate parents. 80 per cent of our paupers a? e ma le soby booze. 82 per cent of the crime in the roun try committed by men upder influence j di nooze. 5)0 per cent of adult criminals an made so hv booze. 75 per cent of social crimes are due to booze. 2. Because it costs too much in dollars and cents. Twenty five dollars are paid out for support of booze and its destructive influences for every dollar paid in by booze for taxes. The statement is made that the nation drinks up its entire wealth every twentyfive years. 3. It costs too much in human lives. It costs 2,000,000 boys ever" generation to maintain it. On Jan. 1st each year 500,000 young men go into the booze dens and the following December 105,000 of them come out confirmed drunkards. Three hundred men die drunk each day. A funerai procession '>,000 miles long composed of 110,000 hearses each containing the body of a drunkard passes through the land each year. There are 250,000 saloons in the country and 5,000,000 go in daily to drink. It costs too much of human life. Will your boy be one of the number? Will you sell your boy or your neighbor's for taxes, liberty, business, or anything else? 1. Its effects for evil are so far reaching. Farmer brings a bushel of corn and sells it for one dollar. The distiller gets from it .2(5 pints of booze. Ex-(iov. Ilanle.v of Indiana has followed three of these pints and shows how they cause drunkenness and resulted in the death of seven people. What about fhe other thirty- three pints? "?. Because of its character. 1. It is a thief. It takes food and raiment from hungry wives and children. robs the poor and undefiled of virtue, it sacrifices honor for the price of a drink, it steals coal from the cellar and leaves the home cold and deathly, it steals character and reputation, it takes away ones position, and turns him and his family into the streets homeless and penniless. It is a thief and ought to go. 2. It is a liar. It promises good and sends only sorrow, it promises health and sends disease, it promises prosperity and sends adversity, it ;epei ITTLE S UNTY RLES Wholeso Healthful Has an ?' Good ROL it promises happiness pnd. sends, misery. It sends the husband home penniless to his wife with a lie on his lips, it puts a rope in the hands of the mob to do violence, it resorts to everv sort of device to do its deadly work and to evade the law in so doing. It is the concoctor of the most diabolical schemes this side of eternity. 3. It is an infidel. It would tear down every church, silence every preacher, kill religion, eiose every school, fill prisons, jails, asylums, ciphan homes, widow's homes, it despises love, hates heaven and tempts the ungovernable passions of man. Surely sensible men will not allo.v such a menace to remain in our midst. 6. Its absence orings prosperity Prohibition be.ame effective in Kansas in 1905. Tn Kansas Ci*y with a population of 100,000 there were 250 saloons, 200 gambling dens, (50 place; of ill fame. A president of a bank who was opposed to prohibition, declared at the end of the first year that his denosits had Increased $1,700,000 and 72 per cent of this amount was from men who had never saved a cent before. Building operations increased 200 per cent the costs of the courts was reduced $25,000 and (500 boys and girls from 12 to 16 were sent to school who had never been put to school before. third, can it be put out? I. ? 1 ,.,:n All *u:. ,..,11 I anu 11/ Win uc. r\ii Vino wciirv about prohibition not prohibiting amounts to nothing. If it doesn't prohibit why does the booze interests try so hard to stop the prohibition business? Every true citizen must co to iho Dolls and vote for this business to ten and then he must stand by his vote with his interest, his prayers and his sympathy. If you say it is not nine to you and refuse to vote then. 1, You are a coward. 2. You are indirectly putting the bottle' to your neighbor's lips. You are untrue to God and your fellow man. 4. You will find later that it does concern you very seriously when the "woes" of God are pronounced upo vou. G. P. W. VOU It MOTHER No one else may ever care if you have a broken heart. No one else may. if you err, be inclined to take your oart; When fair weather friends forget and when fortune smiles no more, She will think you worthy yet, and be faithful as before. N'o one else may know, but she will perceive llll'in every unc, Others may belittle you, but, with gladness in her breast, She will win her triumphs thru thos* by which you may be blessed. No one else may be inclined to forgive you if you fall, , If your hopes must be resigned no oih else may weep at all; But if all else trned away and you? soul with sin were black, She would never fail to pray, every dav, to win you back. ?S. E. Kiser. I IS, RE ??? ERMON HOUS S" FL< >me and I and Satis verlasting Taste .LER 1 HOW TO LIVE LONG | Dr. William Brady, the editor ol* ^ The Raleigh, (N. C.) Times health column, in a recent issue gave some rules, which if followed, he says, will cause a man to live a longtime. The doctor in his article says: e. "A man is as old as his arteries, lJ runs a familiar axim. His arteries are as old as his ductless glands. And his c ductless glands are as old as his mode T of living makes them. ti "Senility begins somewhere between the ages of th irty and seventy, de- i jj pending on how fast you live. It is r( simply a question of temperament, ^ habit, food drink and exercise. Optimism, good nature, faith in a here- 1 after and obedience to the laws of na- v tore are essential ingredients of 1* Noah, for instance; he got along quite b comfortably for some six hundred u years, notwithstanding heavy tribulation; then he took to drink and his days were soon numbered. "Feeling what we fear may be the " first faint pangs of senility approaching, we have made an interested invacHcrotinti /. f 1 lw? /licnnoo V.. ? ?' jj ered in the form of ten command- . ments the consensus of authoritative ' opinion upon the vital question of pre, vention. Of course, these precepts are necessarily tinctured with our own 11 personal views?for we have a con- P ceitfed way of preferring our own op- Ii inion about some things to the opinion of\authority. b Here is the decalogue: p i 1. Don't coddle; don't let the house* a hold temperature go above (18 de- s grees, and spend some time in the j 1 open air daily. " 2. Eat little meat, but plenty of vegetables, eerals, fruits and nuts; * drink much milk and water, but no { alcoholic berovages. 3. Take a tepid bath each day . j Show vour body to the sun. ( 4. Wear light weight. knitted wool or silk and wool underwear , nine months in the year. Wear what- (| ever i else you need, but no more than ^ tn Lrn \;ah ?Kl/? j " " v [' J v/u willlVi WUIQt K g. Slei n as much or as little as you ' please, but sleep in a porch bedroom * or a room with open windows 3')4 " nights a year. '[ 6. Walk at least a mile a da- " chest out. chin drawn in, stomach 11 . held back, keep you mouth closed, hreq^he heavily and toe in. 11 I 7. Be a cheerful idiot throughout li your walkintr hours. t j 8. Put vour trust in (iod and despise no man's religion. 9. Marry early, and if necessary of- f 1 ten, and always Dick a winner. 10. Tak e as little medicine as your i doctor will allow, and have just one goo4 doctor, but have one whether you need him or not.?Spartanburg ^ .Journal. _ ^ NOTICE OF ELECTION J There will be an election in ll.aik H : Uock, Special School District No. :'.l, y Sept. 14, for the purpose of voting 3 mills levy for school purposes. J. H. Hope. ' - v M. R. Sams. J Davis Jefferies. Co. Board Ed. fl t, J f '48}y \ i -rwBr- > APT TO... EKEEF OURl datable sfying ly Sold by Leacl Demand "P MIL UNION, > CAPITAL PUNISHMENT abolished by Tennessee, According to M Ruling. Under the construction of Clianellor Hal H. Huynes, of the gov- 1J' rnor's veto power, the bill passed by m ae recent legislature abolishing cap- cl ;al punishment, except in certain uses, is now n law in Tennessee. (> 'his view is contrary to one recently ?> akeu by Circuit Judge Xen I licks. In The bill was passed just before a <'( tilrty-day recess. Subsequent to the b? ecess (InVei'iior Itye vetoed the bill. Cl Tot counting the recess, the veto was lu i time to be effective. Otherwise it th ras not. The chancellor was not assing directly on the capital pun- in diluent hill, but on another vetoed ci nder the same circumstances. Ill M IRON-CLAD EMBARGO. en or Dead Line" Established On Mexican pt Border. The United States plans to estab- T< Ish a "dead line" along the Mex- el ;an border. Practically the entire ol orce that has been massed at Texas ta !ity, with the exception of one regi- at aent. which is to go to the Philipines. will be distributed along the lio Grande. They will he directed to put down M rigandage wit it an iron hand. Mexsan bandits who try to cross with rms in their hands will he killed on ic ight. In addition, a.n iron-clad em- ta argo will he placed 011 all exporta- h< ions to Mexico of munitions from P? he United States. vi U. S. COTTON CROP. ei . Si iovernment Estimate, Placing Total el at 11,800,000 Bales. The department of agriculture pre- B licted that the next cotton crop would ot >e approximately 11.SOO.OOO bales of ju 00 pounds grosr weight. This pre- vv letlon was made after the condition in f cotton 011 August 25 was estimated ni iy the bureau of crop estimates to be Hi i0.2 and is based on 121,150,000 nl cres. The 1014 cotton crop was 10,124, 20 bales, or more than 5,000,000 iales above the ofllelal estimate of OI he present crop, p( The report had a marked bullish rp] ffeet on the market, but the rise was jj ollowed by a slump at the close. jp (1] Noted Playwright tiles, ut Paul Armstrong, the plnywrlght, 0| lied suddenly at his home in New fork of heart disease. He was 40 'ears old. Mr. Armstrong had been t prominent figure of the American tage for the lust ten years. He tti vrote a number of popular plays and tl "ollahorated In other productions. He vi *as born in Missouri and for five b< rears before he began writing plays t le was a captain of great lake rt learners. tt HIS! >ERS HIGHEST I IN QUALITY ling Grocers EERLESS" -LS = !i , VILLA'S VENGEANCE. lexlcan General Executes Thlrty-twt Prisoners. General Francisco Villa, uceompaled by lils stuff and a guard of HOC en. has arrived al Durango on a apeal train from Torreon, Accompanying the ViiIh party was eorge C. Carol hers, confidential tent of the state department, who id held a meeting with Villa. Acirdlng to private messages received / Villa agents on the border, tin nrranzistas who evacuated Durango 1V*? irnnp Oiint 1? vvu* /! +/? r/.o/iof?w?.?o ip base of General Obregou. The dispatches say that on enterg Durango Villa ordered the exeitiou of thirty-two .Mexicans "for poticail reasons." Eleven of these exicaus, it is said, were shot bemse they were C'arranzu sympathizes, though they liad taken no active irt in the war. General Villa expected to return to orreon to complete his somewhat aborate preparations for the defense ' the town against the probable atick of the Carranzaista army now lvancing northward. REVOLT CHECLED. iexicans Plotted For Trouble at San Antonio. With the arrest of twenty-six ^fex ?ii?, nvcuij'-uuw oi wnom wore tielined, police and federal authorities jlieve a plan to inelte the Mexican >pulutlon of San Antonio to deeds ol iolence has been nipped. According1 to the police, the prison's are all adherents to the Plan of in Diego, a manifesto which proaims Texas a republic for Mexicans. Since the disturbances in the rownsville territory special agents ' the United States department of istlce and police here have kept a atch to prevent a possible uprising i San Antonio. It was learned that embers of two organizations of innmmatory nature are in San Autolo in numbers. Thirty Fatalitieg July A. According to ligures compiled by e American Medical association, lly thirty persons were killed in >urtli of July .celebrations this year, lie statistics show 1,130 were vie nis of accident. Chicago heads the it of cities for marked deduction In ic total number of Injuries, contrlbing only eight to the nutlon's roll ' casualties. ^ Pirst Bale Brings $750. B. \V. Rosenthal has been advised lat the first hale of Georgia cotton of le present season received at 8atnnah and shipped to Liverpool has N?n sold there for $750 at auction, he money went to Kngland's war 'lief fund. Mr. Rosenthal donated le cotton to be sold for this hud. # A _ >. Nn^tH'^akaMiDML 1