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TO THINK OWN SKLK UK TR?B AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT TnEN BK F AI-SK TO ANY MAN.
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY 31, 19?O.
NEW HEH I KS, NO. 113.-VOLUME LI.-NO 22.
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i'Jhono 17
N. B.-Try one
Cake of Soap, both
Trust Tax Twenty-Five Per Cent.
Harper's Bazaar gives un interest
ing account of some ol' lin- in Illy
trusts which the people have t<>
reckon willi in the matter ol' tho in
ilalcd cost o? living. The partial
list represen ls n capital of ?719,000,
OOO, the dividends on which are ob
tained by Familiar trust methods
from consumers of the products
named. Tho sugar trust, ihr first
on;- mentioned, is capitalized ai
si '20,000,000, lind (lu- others areas
follows: Dressed licet' and Packing
Combine, ?100,000,000 : dilled
Fruit Company, ?'20,000,000 ; Celery
Trust, ?1,000,000 ; American Flour
Company, ?150,000,000; Farm and
Dairy Product Company, ?15,000,
000; Preserving Combine, ?10,000,
000 ; American loo Trust, ?00,000,
OHO ; thc .Milk Trust, ?15,000,000 ;
Coffee, Cheese and Biscuit Trusts,
?180,000,000 mort-.
The trust problem is, therefore,
tho Bazaar argues, largely ?i woman's
problem, a housekeeper's problem
also. Ii figures very largely in her
household expense account. "Of
every dollar spent on food for a
family il is estimated lhere is a net
profit of'25 cents io trests," in view
of which est?male ihe Bazaar asks
and suggests, "W hat ol' a woman's
war on trusts? Thc housewife has
a tremendous power in the boycott."
The suggestion is vain, of course.
Whatever "power" housewives have
in the matter, they will not use it in
concert. Thc trusts luve no more
10 tear from them than from the
house' hush iuds-tho submissive citi
zens of the country who permit
themselves to be systematically
robbed by the combines without lilt
ing a finger in effective protest. It
is curious state of things which is
presented, however, by ihe Bazaar's
exhibit and others of same character.
In a proposed government of the
people, by the people, for the peo
ple, n few groups of men have or
ganized openly for tho purpose of
laving the whole people arbitrarily
and heavily on the use or consump
tion Ol' all arliclcs of necessity Ol'
comfort, including articles of food
generally, and il is notorious thal
they an- carrying their conspiracy
into offool ill every part of the coun
try and in every home in il. Their
exactions arc more sean liing and un
avoidable limn the laves of govern
ment itself; innie e in escape them.
There is no appeal from them.
The (iovertnenl declares it- inabili
ty lo protect I lit* victims; makes no
effort io protect I lo ni : largely aids
the robber concerns by laws made
or maintained in their interest, and
is itself subject in large measure t"
their control ami th? condilions of
their making. The stranges! thing
about the whole nial ter, ol course, is
thal the people t hem-el v.--, who
knew well the magnitude ol' the sys
tem of extortion, and \\ bo feel its
(.Heels in I heir (I lily and holli I v Nfl ,
and w ho have the power to cud ii ai
their pleasure, will md rous? them
selves lo action and combine t" pul
au end fore*, er to I lie evils from
which they stiffer. One Congress ol
men si looted and elect ci I 11 y 1 hem
for that purpose would destroy the
iniipiitons systems, root ami br.inch
and perhaps no other agency can,
bul liiere is m> sign or suggestion ns
yet ol' ?i movement lo organize such
11 budy. Il is not "?i woman's war;"
il is liol ll politician's uar; il is not
a corporations' war : ii i< liol a capi
talists' war; il is the people's wai
and tito combines will have mullers
all their own way auld the whole
people make it their war and wage
il as such.
Something can lie accomplished,
hoWCV er, by any considerable p tri
ol' I he peuple, as I h. ol' olle Stil le
?Veil, lighting on their own behalf.
TIlC peuple ol' Soil! ll < andina, foi
e\ imple, cammi make mi} i m pres
don on tho power ot' ihe Sugar
Ti list or Si ami.n d < bl Trust, be
cause i hey have no resources t hal
an- liol controlled bj those concerns,
but they can organize an I light of
fectively against others of ihe saint
l/ANT YO
9 now offering soi
ghamsand Percales,
t 5 cents per yard.
ve just received a li]
rig one for 1900.
) of our 5-cent pack
for 5 cents.
charnel cr. There is no reason, to
t ike one plain rase, why tho "Dressed
Hoof and Packing Combine" should
be able to extort one cent from con
sumers of its products in a State
which can easily produce more of
such products than it needs. If the
people ol' tho Stale, again, arc fleeced
by the United h'ruit Company, it is
their fault, not their misfortune.
They can grow every variety of
fruit they need. They are not de
pendent on the Hour Trust, cer
tainly, or on the Corn Meal Trust,
or the Biscuit Trust, or any other
trust thal denis in grain or manu
factures of grain. They need ? >t
buy a pound of the adulterated
goods of the Preserving Combine,
when they can make pure goods of
tho same kind, in their own kitchens.
If they contribute to the dividends
of the .Milk Trust, it is not because
cows cannot be raised, fed and milked
ill South Carolina. And so of their
relations to tho iee, canned goods,
fertilizer, lisb, furniture, cotton oil,
lr v, wool, cheese, butler, box, barrel,
cordage, soap, syrup, tea, mule, book,
plough, hoe, wagon, buggy, crockery,
glass and numerous other such com
bines, lo all of which they are now
subject, simply because of their in
difference to their industrial inde
pendence.
The most effective light that can
bc made against any trust, is made
when ?i community produces for itself
what the trust has to sell. The
trust's life is in tho demand for its
goods. Cut that off and it, is
wounded in its pocket, its vital part.
Tin more the people of a State pro
duce for their own usc, the smaller
! the hold the i'Cpncious com crus have
on them, Then- hold on the neoplo
.
ol ibis State, umona others, enables
li .
them as estimated, to pocket ~f>
Cent's profit out of every dollar ex
pended for food, lt is well worth ii
light to stop such robber) as that,
both on grounds of principle and of
interest. What the spoil is worth to
the combines can be estimated from
the capital they have employed to
e..licet U-over ?700,000,000 for the
few named and nobody knows how
muc h for the evil array. If it "pays"
them so well to hold their grip on
their victims, il will pay their vic
tims as well lo break it.- News and
l 'onrier.
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i s i \ i i oi On io, t i rv or- Tor.i.no, /
bia AS ( <.| M y, j ss
Krank J. clu ney makes oath that ho is
th? senior partner of the I! ni of P.J.
i heney A VA*., doing husmos in tho City
ol Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
ami (bill said Iii III will pay Hie sum of
On? Numbed Dollars for each and
every ? ase nf Catarrh thal cannot bo
cure.I l.> the uso of Hall's Catarrh Curo,
Kit \ N K J. (J I MC N KV.
Sworn bi liefore inc and subscribed in
my presence, this lilli day of December,
A. D. i --<;.
Hall's Catarrh Core is taken internally
I and ads directly on lie blood and mu
cous surfaces of Ll.o system. Send for
tesl i mon ?als, free.
P. J. ClIKNKl iV Co., Toled.), O.
Sold >>.\ Di insists, 7-'?c.
Hall's Pa in i ly I ills arc I ho best.
Wisconsin farmers received last
year between thirl y live and forty
million dollars fol" milk, cream, bul
ler and cheese, Owing lo the seve
rity of lilli climate they are able to
pasture cattle only a few months,
Thc long remainder of tho year they
iced them with middlings and bran,
tho cheap remainder of the great,
ule-ai crops mani ill their State.
If tin s had the climate of the South
and opportunity to use codon seed
hulls and meal l hey would make, far
larger prolit.
A ciii/ n of (lonrgia who prospered
ni all his undertakings, everything he
touched seeming to turn to gobi, was
asked how it svas, Ho replied: "I make
Inti per cent attending lo my own basi
lic s and iii) ncr COllI by letting oilier poo
|ilc's alone."
The policy of th? hypocrite can uovoi
he successful lill he learns how In hood
wink and deceive Almighty lioih
A. \V. (il.KASON,
Notary Public.
Tja DURES v/nun AU list, fAUS. BJ
LJ Heat Cunnii Syrup. TAMOS Ooo?, tim Wi
UR BUSIr
ne special bargains
Ali the Yard-wid
ne of KABO OORS:
C. W. Bi
ages of Washing F
South Carolina Intcr-Statc and Wesl Indian
Exposition.
Charleston, the chief city of South
Carolina, and a place surrounded
by reminiscences, is about to enter
upon a new era. It is tired of liv
ing on past greatness and determined
to make a long, sturdy stride towards
tho head of thc procession of grow
ing and prosperous cities, and that
step is thc holding of a grand expo
sition. About three months ago the
talk of getting up a State ICXposi
tion was heard ; it became more
prominent as thc plan was dissected
and found feasible, and oil March
29 thc people of Charleston, having
secured tho endorsement of the
Governor, of the Legislature, thc
commercial bodies of Charleston and
other cities, formally announced to
tho world that there would bc held
in Charleston, beginning in 1901, a
great fair or exposition. At a mass
meeting held in thc Auditorium, tho
citizens of Charleston with one voice
said to tho men who had undertaken
tho preliminary work, "Co ahead ;
we are with you." Since that meet
ing, at the close of March, the work
of preparation for forming ail lix po
sition Company has gone on with
remarkable activity. Within less
than two months subscriptions of
$125,000 have been received to tho
capital stock and they continue to
come in at thc rate uf live to eight
thousand per week. The amount al
ready received docs not include any
thing from tho railroads or larger
corporations-the idea being to leave
these large subscribers for tho last.
This is propor, as the business men
and citizens generally should bc al
lowed first to express their financial
opinions on tho project. The result
has certainly been gratifying to the
men who have so far engineered thc
work. Hut Charleston is not alone
interested. An exposition Bitch as
planned will help every section of
South Carolina. It will bring im
migration, increase manufactures and
give cause for grouter activity in
every branch of business. South
Carolina has tens of thousands of
arabic acres now idle that might well
bo employed ; mining lands thai
have never even been prospected,
square miles of virgin timber never
touched by woodman's axe. Krom
all records of expositions it is gath
ered that cities, States and sections
have felt thc benefits accruing from
great fairs, where thc world has
been invited to come and sci? tho re
sults already accomplished and to
estimate what may bc done with in
creased capital, added enterprise, in
dustry and enthusiasm,
Tho South Carolina Inter-State
and West Indian Kxposition Com
pany will be. a chartered corpora
tion within a few weeks. Thc peo
plc of Charleston have given it
stroll!' financial and moral endorse- !
ment. The managing committee is to
include two or more representative
men from each county in South Car
olina and subscription books are
about to bc opened in thc principal
cities and towns. Thc people of
thc Slate will he invited to take
stock in tho Exposition Company
and the subscriptions will not bo
"contributions," but investments.
Musidos tho general good which must
result from tho holding of thc grand
show proposed and planned, there
will bo every reasonable chance of a
return of all or a portion of tho
money subscribed. Thc plan of
subscription is that no assessment
can bo (railed for until tho total
(bona fide) list shows $150,000,
which is a majority of the full capi
tal stock of $250,000. When thc
point of $ I fit 1,1 KMl is reached an as- J
sesMinenf of twenty per cent will be
made, and the remainder will be col
looted in equal installments of ton
per cent of the remainder in ten
months. Subscriptions will bo re
ceived in amounts from -to lip, shares
being placed al $6 each. Thc (?nal
report of thc treasurer of the re
cently held Kxpoaitioi) in Omaha
. shows thal ninety per cent was paid
back to stockholders after the clos
ing of their big fair, Chai lesion com
JESS!
in Lawns,
e Sheeting
ETS, which
rUJKNIGHT.
'owder and 5-cent
C. W. B.
tug lalor and with tho experience of
?di h .-fore lo guido Inn', should do
oven bettor than Omaha.
Thc; scope of the South Carolina
Inter-State and West Indian Expo
sition is brieity sho.vn in the follow
ing items :
1. Agriculture: cotton, tobacco,
food and its accessories.
2. Manufactures.
?I. Machinery of all kinds, includ
ing agricultural implements.
4. Transportation Exhibits : rail
way, ships, vehicles, automobiles,
bicycles and electrical appliances.
6. Liberal Arts: engineering, pub
lic works, constructivo architecture.
G. Forestry ami forest products.
7. Horticulture and floriculture
5. Phosphate rock and its pro
duets.
H. Mines: geology and initierais,
ll). Fish, fisheries, fish products
ami apparatus for fishing.
11. Live stock.
1*2. Graphie Arts: Typography,
lithography, steel and copper plato
printing, drawing, bookbinding, cte.
13. Kino Arts: painting, sculpture
and decoration.
14. Education : Special exhibits
from Clemson College, Winthrop
Normal and Industrial College and
other .Slate institutions.
15. Hygiene.
Ki. Woman's Department.
17. Children's Department.
IS. Military.
Ht. Negro Department.
'Jil. United States Government
exhibit.
'21. County exhibits.
22. Good Hoads: sections of
roads, road machinery, broad tired
vehicles.
23. Exhibits from Chiba, Dorio
Kieo and thc Philippines.
One of thc main buildings will be
a "Cotton Palace" and in this will
be shown the products of thc cotton
seed, the machinery used in its manu
facturo ami improvements of thc
century.
Is your breath bad? Then your
best friends turn their heads aside.
A bad breath means a bad liver.
Aycr's Pills arc liver pills. They cure
constipation, biliousness,dyspepsia,
sick headache. 25c. All druggists.
Want your lliutitt.'telie ir Ixvir.t H boauUXul
drown <>r rloli l- .-wk v lttoii MOO
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE tvUfcers
A Liberal Methodist.
An old gentleman came to town
recently from liatesblirg, who itt
destined to go down to posterity as
an historio character .among the
Methodists of South Carolina, lie
is Mr. .lohn II. Shulcr, who some
weeks ago at Johnston subscribed
the first thousand dollars ever given
by a Methodist in South Carolina to
the education of women under
.Methodist, auspices. His subscription
was lo thc Columbia College, and lu
(tailed on President Pice recently
and paid it. Thc friends of the Col
lege throughout tilt? State will hold
his namo in grateful remembrance
It created a scene ?j) the District
Conference when the subscription
w.'is announced. Thc whole Con.
feronco in an outburst of enthusiasm
called. Mr. Shuler to the front am
every member shook banda with him
"?oWIlt'fl Little Karly Misers are th?
li 11081 pills I ever used. - I). .1. Moore
M ililli (mk, A la. They Quickly cure al
liver and bowel denbies. .1. W. [loll,
W. ,!. Poyan made !&6d000 las
year lecturing. On that income lu
supported his family and paid hil
way ea his almost incesssant travels
Thc time will soon he here when wi
cannot even sit down without pay hi j
tribute to a 11 ust. A chair * rust is bel ii)
fol Died.
Divblfl healers hat.?nie under th
ban of the Post Office Department.
PROHIBITION CONVENTION
THE ANTI-DISPENSARY PEOPLE MET IN
COLUMBIA LAST WEEK AND NOMINATED
GOL. M. i HOYTJOB GOVERNOR.
A Strong Address and Platform Placed Bcloro
tho " Dear People"
CoLUMltlA, S. C., May 23.-Tho
Prohibitionists of the State held a
confereneo here to night at which a
large number of counties were repre
sented, and decided to make a deter
mined light against thc State's liquor
trnflic and for prohibition.
Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville,
was nominated for Governor, and
Col. James L, T ribble, of Anderson,
for Lieutenant Governor. Nomina
tions for other State officers were not
made, but thc support of thc Prohi
bitionists will bc given candidates
who como out on their platform.
Thc light is all within the Demo
cratic party, and will bc settled in
thc Democratic primary. Thora will
bc a County to County campaign, in
which the dispensary will bc sup
ported by tho present Governor,
Miles B. McSweeney, and by Frank
li. Garey, Speaker of thc House, and
A. H. Patterson, both of whom arc
dispensary candidates for Governor.
In the primary two years ago C.
C. Featherstone volunteered to cham
pion a supposedly hopeless cause,
and was beaten by Gov. Fllorbe by
but a few votes. Featherstone de
din d to enter thc race this year.
Prohibition carried thc State in
1802, and the dispensary law was
enacted as a compromise between sa
loons and an iron-clad prohibition.
The Prohibitionists claim that they
were not treated right.
Col. Hoyt, editor of Thc Green
ville Mountaineer, is a gallant Con
federate soldier, and lias served as
Chairman of thc State D?mocratie
M x ec u t i ve Com m i ttec.
THU IM.ATKOKM.
Thc following is thc Platform
adopted by thc Convention :
We, the Prohibition Democrats, of
thc State of South Carolina, in con
ference assembled, hereby declare
the following platform :
1. That competency, honesty and
sobriety arc indispensable qualifica
tions for holding office.
'2. That taxes should bo made as
low as possible, consistent with
efficiency of government.
3. That the salo of intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes is not a
function of government, but a dis
grace to Christian civilization ; a dis
honor to manhood, .. political wrong'
of unparalleled enormity ; that, it is
an awful crime agsinfl the women
and children, against tho home,
against tho church and against God.
4. That prohibition of the sale of
intoxicating liquors, for beverage
purposes, is the true, consistent
remedy, and to this end we demand
that the dispensary system be shorn
of its evils, such as selling intoxi
cants as a beverage ; and that au
thority be given by thc General As
sembly for thc State to sell alcoholic,
liquors for only medicinal, mechani
cal and sacramental purposes.
pitoiiiniTioNis rs' ADDKKSS.
The following is thc address of
thc Kxeeutive Committee of thc
Prohibitionists to the people of the
State :
The Prohibitionists of South Caro
lina, in appealing to the Democratic
voters to join them in suppressing
i thc liquor trallic in this State, deem
it propor and right that they should
clearly and unequivocally state their
position with reference to flu? busi
! ness conducted in the name of thc
Commonwealth, which thereby makes
all ils citizens responsible in ii meas
ure for the continuance of this traffic,
which we boliovo to bea crime against
humanity and a moans of degrada
' lion to thc people.
In the first placo we have chosen
to make this contest at the Demo
cratic primary because we are niom
. hers of this political organization,
> which is ?tl virtual control of till the
i affairs of the State.
We have a right to raise this issue
i within the party lines, because thc
I machinery of the Slate Government
. has been used to construct and ope
rate a system of liipior selling which
. has foi- itu chief object thc constant
1 increase of the consumption of li
quors by the citizens ol' the State,
1 mainly willi the view of making
motley out of thc business in which
the State is engaged. We would
vi?lale conscience and prove recreant
' to duty as good citizens il' we did
not. protest against this iniquitous
method of obtaining money through
0 I the sensual indulgence and debauch
lory of our citizenship, and we aro
milking this protest tn a fair, manly
and consistent way, appealing to tho
higher instincts of humanity, and
pleading for tho social, domestic,
moral, religious and political eleva
tion cf our whole people. By ban
ishing the evils now fastened upon
the State in consequence of tho sys
tem under which the sale of liquor
is conducted we would protect our
young manhood, bring rolief to
wronged and suffering women and
children, Mid inaugurate an era which
would eventually rid our homes of
the blight following the uso of liquor
as a beverage. The Stato is now en
couraging this use of liquor on tho
part of ils citizens, when it should
by every means discourage that which
wastes the resources, paralyzes tho
energies and destroys the manliness
of those who should be tho shield
ami protection of our homes. Tho
State is engaged for profit in a busi
ness that strips the home of com
forts with as much certainty as a
cyclone mows down the mighty for
ests ; a business that opens the gates
of perdition to lost souls ; a business
that the genius or hell has never
fashioned a more complete method
of recruiting its ranks ; a business
that has borne, from time imm?mo
rial, tho badge of disgrace in civilized
and Christian communities, ami that
is now exalted in the sovereign and
enlightened Commonwealth of South
Carolina to the dignity of Govern
ment service and Government pro
tection ; so th;.t our youth are taught
by the example of the Government
itself that the manufacture and sale
of liquor is an honorable and desira
ble occupation. Whence came this
usurper of governmental authority ?
Did the citizens of the State decree
its introduction as "the best solution
of tho liquor problem ?"
Hight years ago the Prohibitionists
of South Carolina asked the privi
lege bf testing public opinion as to
whether licensed saloons should be
prohibited within its borders. This
request was made of the managers
of the Democratic election machin
ery, who consented that a separate
and unoHicial box might be placed ut
each poll, where every voter could
cast a ballot for or against prohibi
tion. The opponents of thc license
system were without cflicient organi
zation, but thc voters voluntarily
went to tho polls and rolled up a de
cided majority against the saloons.
Political exigencies did not favor a
prohibitory law, and, altllOU( 'i a ma
jority of tho House of Reprcsonta?
lives passed such a law, enough
members were afterwards found to
reject the law which they had aided
in framing, and a substitute was dis
covered in I ho present dispensary
system. "Ye asked for bread and
were given ;i stone ; ye asked ior a
fish and were given fl serpent."
Prohibitionists were then placed
in an awkward position and many of
them knew not what, to do. The sa
loon had been abolished, and this
was one of the objects for which
they had struggled in the past, yet
liquor sidling wiis not stopped. On
the contrary, the State had boen
made to engage in the business under
the pretence of controlling the trafilo
and giving to consumers a commodity
that was "chemically pure" at a price
that would mil admit of profit. This
was coupled with thc declaration
that the system thus inaugurated
without tho consent of tho people
was "a step towards prohibition,"
and many acquiesced in the legisla
tion with tho belief that the State
would really undertake to minimize
tho consumption of liquor. It wat
?1 law upon tho statute books and
many ol* tho law-abiding and peace
loving citizens, though honestly op
posed to liquor selling in any shape
threw tho weight of their infltienot
in favor of the execution of the law
An armed constabulary was fur
nished with guns to shoot down eiti
zens wdio violated the liquor law, il
in the judgment of tho constables il
was necessary to enforce their au
thority, and thus began a long reigi
of violence and turbulence in tin
land, for tho law-breakers wore to
ready and anxious lo shoot as tht
men "clothed with a little brief au
thority," who acted upon tho thoorj
that their own lives were in constan
peril, and their surest defence was li
take quick and deadly aim. Tin
bloody catalogue need not be dwol
upon, for it is the most shamefu
record in the history of tho State,
with the single exception of lin
reign of the carpet-bagger and th
scala wai'. .Meanwhile the law wai
contested at every step and th
Courts were invoked to compa s it
destruction, with tho result that th
main features of the system wer
sustained by tho Courts and th
statute was unimpeded in its pro
gross towards prohibition. Dispon
Burs noglcotod to obsorvo BOIUO of
tho most salutary features of the law
and themselves bcoamo violators,
where they were expected to becomo
guardians; minors and drunkards
have found it easy enough to pro
curo liquor with or without conni
vance of thc dispenser; "chemically
pure" has becomo a by-word and to
mean tho vilest of tho vile ; the
agonts of tho State have defrauded
and defalcated in large numbers, and
few have been mndo to feel the pen
alties of their misdemeanors. The
State Board of Control 1ms more
than onco becomo an exhibition of
exceeding offence in thc nostrils of
thu good people of tho Common
wealth so that time' and again it
was necessary to make changes and
bring about reformations ; scandals
almost without number have tracked
its pathway ; charges of dishonesty
have been constant, and thc public
was made familiar with rebates ami
the snmplo room. In a word, thc
entire System has been permeated
willi suspicion, distrust And causes
of offence in Btriking contrast with
thc honorable record of South Caro
lina's glorious past.
lias tho system proven "a step to
wards prohibition ?" Not in thc
sense that originated thc phrase, but
in another and truer sense thc de
mand for actual and honest prohi
bition of thc liquor Iralbo has been
largely increased by the failures and
shortcomings of the dispensary sys
tem, which has been "weighed in tho
balances and found wanting." That
is thc indictment wc bring against it
to-day, and to the Democratic voters
wo turn for a verdict. It its stead
wc would offer them still further re
striction of the liquor traffic, destroy
ing thc profit and beverage features
of tho present system, and limiting
the sale of alchoholic liquors to strict
ly necessary purposes, such aa medici
nal, mechanical and sacramental uses.
This substitution would take away
tho odium of the State's being en
gaged in a business that is prostitut
ing thc youth of the country, wast
ing thc resources of thc poorer
classes, bringing disgrace and degra
dation upon families, impoverishing
thc homes of our citizens, and with
holding bread from the women and
children who aro cursed with thc
blight of thc drink demon. Prohi
bition offers an opportunity to work
for thc elevation of the entire peo
ple, the better instruction and train
ing of the young, the creation of in
centives to industry, and tho moral
advancement of thc State to keep
pace with its material prosperity.
The benefits of a prohibitory law
will not bc fully realized in a year or
even in five years, for the longer
such a law is in existence, with rea
sonable chances of enforcement, thc
greater will bc thc benefits derived
from its presence as a permanent
policy of the State. A generation
that shall grow up without any
knowledge of liquor saloons, whothoi
operated by individuals or tho State,
will bc a population noted for its so
briety, which will bc the rule and
not tho exception among tho you np
men. Once firmly rooted and
grounded in the minds of the peo
plc, a prohibitory measure will conn
to bc regarded as a necessity. Mort
than a generation has passed sinci
this law was enacted in Maine, am
for a long lime there was a vigor
ons fight against its continuance
but at this time both political parties
arc pledged to its maintenance a>
the settled policy of the State. Tin
cry of repeal has been frequently
raised, and not many years ago ont
of tho political parties made repon
a plank in its platform, with thc rc
suit that not more than a half do/.ci
members were elected to the llousi
of Representativos, which has ovoi
one hundred in its membership, am
tho light for repeal was an igno
minions failure.
(icu. Neal Dow, who was tin
apostle of prohibition, a man of up
right character and irreproachable
veracity, in hin testimony before ?
Canadian commission on thc liqiio
Iralbo, declared that J.ere was m
St '.tc in tho Union where more li
quor was consumed in propor ion ti
population than in Maine prior ti
thc passage of tho prohibitory law
It was theil one of the poores
States, and under prohibition it lia
become one of tho most prospcrouf
largely tho result of savings by th
people from the discontinuance o
the liquor trafilo. lld said it wa
quite within the mark to say tha
not one-twentieth as much liquor i
sohl clandestinely in that Stnto n
was sold by tho saloons before Uti
law wan passed. Portland, its chi?
city, where Cen. Dow lived and dio(
had soven distilleries and two brow<
rios, while many cargoes of nu
were brought every year fi om th
Weat Indios, and now liquor is sold
there on a very small Boalo, tho
quantity not a hundredth part of
what it was in olden timo. His esti
mate was that thero is a saving of
*24,000,000 annually, which goes to
increase thc prosperity of the maBsos,
and ho. declared that it is far within
thc truth to say that *l,000,0o0
would pay for all the liquor (smug
gled into Maine and sold in violation
of tho law. This is tho testimony
of a man who spent tho best years
of his life even down to oxtremo
old age in advocating a causo that
he knew was beneficial in a moral,
religious, industrial and financial
sense. A whole generation has
grown up there without being wit
nesses lo the effects of liquor, and
there are grown men and women ,
who have never seen adrunkeu man.
Is not such a state of affairs worth
striving for, even though the attain
ment of such a result involves sac
rifice, toil and endurance on the part
of its advocates? Christian mon
and women can well afford to make
the sacrifice and bear the toil, be
cause it is in the direct line ot obe
dience to the Master.
The contest we are entering upon
is not child's play. The Prohibition
Democrats of South Carolina aro
not responsible that the issue bas to
be made on the political hustings.
Thero is no choice left to us except
to abandon the field, wherein wo
would prove recreant to tho most
solemn obligations that rest upon a
Christian people charged with the
moral and religious elevation of those
around us. To relinquish the lieid
means the continuation of the liquor
Hallie under the aegis of our beloved
South Carolina, and perpetuates a
system that is undermining the pub
lic weal and destroying thc probity
of our public men ; a system that
sanctions, with thc broad seal of tho
State, an annulment of the divine
injunction, "Woe unto him that gives
his neighbor drink * * * and mak- (
est bim drunken also." livery day
and every hour through the da-, tho
State of South Carolina is vending
that which destroys the souls of men,
and the servants of God cannot re
main indifferent or unconcerned
while this law is contained in tho
statute books. "Righteousness ex
alteth a nation, but sin is n reproach
to any people," ami tho hideous
enormity of ?bis sin of drunkenness,
fostered by the State, must not
longer stain the proud escutcheon of
our common mother. Wc must pro
test against this anomoloilS perver
sion of governmental power by
which every citizen of tho State is
made responsible for a traflico that
is abominable, in the eyes ot God.
The moans of our protest is through
i the political agency with which wo
are in part entrusted as citizens of
South Carolina, and we come now
lo make an appeal to our fellow citi
zens that they will join us in restor
ing tho old Commonwealth to a right
relation, whereby thc liquor traffic
will he put under ban, so that our
rulers ami lawmakers will bo spared
the necessity of legislating to in
crease tho sin of drunkenness within
our borders. To do this effectually
we are compelled lo make this issue
at tho Democratic primary, and
hence to ha vi1 representatives of our
principles, who will contend for them
before tho people, ami "seek to ob
tain control of the executive and
legislative depart merits of the State
Government." This is no unworthy
aim or object and we proclaim these
purposes, which are not hid in a
corner, to our political associates,
demanding thc right to make thc
issue nt thc primary polls, and in
sisting that fairness ami justice re
quire thc recognition of mir repre
sentatives inside party lines, where
every other issue is settled for tho
maintenance of good government in
j this State. Wc (leny that, any class
of Democrats have peculiar and spe
cial privileges accorded to thom
under the constitution and laws of
tho party, and wc will maintain en
right to bc hcaxl on the hustings
and to cast a free, untrammelled
ballot af thc polls.
Thc address was received with ap
plause.
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bottle. Itecommonded many years by
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