The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-08
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The Indignation of the people through

The Indignation of the people through
out the State at the failure of the Legs'
lature to pass law prohibiting the car
rying of concealed weapons, is finding
expression in all of the public prints,
and re expect that if the vote had not
been recorded so that the position Of each
member can be asceftained, 1t would be
difficult to find out who the members were
that voted against the law. The failure
to enact such statute, however, is an ac-
complished fact, and the people of tic
State will Lave to endure the abomina-
BILE evil until another Legislature is Sc
lected with sufficient courage to enact
the law. In our towns and cities, how
ever we are not so badly off, for Town
Councils can pass ordinances prohibiting
the carrying Of concealed weapons within
the corporate limits, and thus set the
Legislature an example that may be fol-
lowed next session. Some weeks ago
such an ordinance WAS adopted in the
town of Rock Hill, and the Herald, pub
lished at that place, says that it is work
ing admirably, and that the amount of
rowdyism and Of violence has beet greatly
decreased. The Town Council Of Barn.
we'll has also adopted such an ordinance,
and the practice has to stop in that town.
We would like to see the example fol-
lowed in every town aud village
in the State, and suggest the sub
iect to the consideration of the Town
Councils of Anderson, Belton, Honea
Path, Williamson and Pendleton. 1t
would also be a good thing for Seneca
City. If every person was prohibited
from bringing concealed weapons into
our towns, or carrying them while there,
the practice would be decidedly checked,
and would grow less all over the country.
There is no uae to carry pistols in this
country. It is dangerous to those who
carry them and to those who come around
them, and should bestopped.. This is civ
ilized community, in which law and order
prevail, and any practice intended as
preparation for violation of the peace
ought to be stopped. The towns have
the right to stop it. They should do IT..
and then it will be prohibited by legis-
latiye enactment over the whole State
Even if it should not be stopped else
where, It's prohibition in towns would
greatly abate the evil. 1t is generally
the conjunction of mean whiskey and
pistols that does the damage, and great
portion of the whiskey is consumed in the
towns. Persons come to them armed, get
drunk, become factious and quarrelsome,
start row, draw out their pistols, shoot
some one, and in cooler moments when
sober regret the occurrence. Or lift does
not bring on the row in the town, the
whiskey is procured, used on the way
home, and then the difficulty occurs. If
men could not bring concealed weapons
to towns, all of the difficulties under the
above heads would be avoided; or if not
avoided would be confined to the old
fashioned fist and skull fights, where the
damage is confined to bruises and gouges,
which little salve and few days will
repair. These latter fights, by the way,
are not so lightly and inconsiderately en-
tered into as the pistol-puling rows. We
should like to see the experiment tried
in the towns indicated, and believe that it
will prove highly salutary to the commu-
nifty at lagre.