The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-17

or they arc at once admitted and any
amount can be procured in direct vio-
lation of positive law. Whose fault
Is this? Let those in authority answer.
The town pnys monthly for SMen whose
business it is to tako notice Of all vio-
ations of law occurring in the corpo-
rate limits. They cannot say it has
never come to their knowledge, for it
is d"Ee without tho least pretencc to
sccr"s!; even the council kiioW that
this is tho case. We will not pre-
tend to say by what idccs Of duty
this honorable body of men arc i'm
'pcl!cd, that they stand and wink day
after day ut gross violations of the law S
of the town and State. We leave
them to the tribunal Of public opinion.
Again, do you not have some recol-
lection of how much stir was made
about gaming few year go2 think
! it was during tho last term Of M,>
JAS. n. Bricc as intcn.lant. What ifhs
bccoln" of all this? Why, saws Some
one, no games OF cards are nl;yctl cx
ccpt whist. No doubt there urc n great
many laboring under this (lelusjon.
and among them may bo very Safely
numbered the conscript fathers OF our
town. We know that the members of
the counril never handle the pastc-
boards or read rule in lIoylc and
this is no dohbt the reason why this
lucrative business is still carried on
night after night in our vcrx midst.
and Will be carried on as loir as the
hnr-rooms arc allowed to be kept open.
we assert Il hat every law and every
provision Of law made in regard to the
sale OF Intoxicating beverages arc vio-
'atcu as certain as dav after tlnv the
doors OF these disgusting snamblcs Of
lnhmornlitv and crime are thrown wide
open to the puolic. They are the SEED
'orlns from which the germs Of every
species ot crime arc scnt broadcast
over our land. We make no cxccp.
ton, for if the matter be investigated.
too free Indulgence in ardent spirits
will be found always to be tic source
rom which crime dates its origin, Be-
sides being the source and priucil,nl
promoter of crime it is in itself such.
tor they arc Il public nuisance. who
is there that has over lived in the
neighborhoOd of one Of these D!acrs.
or had occasion to pass the door OF
one Of them at night, that was not
Shockcd by the obscenity Of language
heard in the pcnctralia of tn. !on,pics
oi Hell where men arc made offerings
10 the selfish desire of gain with as
iillie 'ccllhg OF rcmorse Us was felt hv
| the Aztec priest when he seized the vet
pa! plating heart cf his haplcss victim
and dashed il, still quivcri,i2 will, the
rnIsAtions Of life, into the face Of the
human sacrifice. Their gods are some
what similar, but civilizations is Il m.
tie the larslcr OF the two. lie entails
living death, while the scmi-hurbar-
onS Mexican was satisfied il the vic
tim died.
Now, sirs, the supporters Of tl.is
| measure lay great stress upon two
facts, to wit, that the town is in debt.
and that it will not stop drinking.
This question Of debt is wrongly nj.
dcrstona by many. True we hear II
great hca' about Il bugbcar known rs
the debt of the town from those whose
standing in the community gives them
some crcdcncc, but whether it is from
ignorance OF the true condition Of
affairs. or because they wish to use it
as capital in the fight of right against
wrong, or because they feel II they
go against this present move they will
lecu some straw to fall back upou.
it is hard to say, but one thing is Ger
tain, that this plea is altogether tielu-
SION and has been misSlntcd by those
who arc lukewarm. They wonid have
you believe that this "drbt" is an euor-
nous sum, which all the wealth Of
indies could not pay of, when in fact
| A.
sum OF 5000 annually, with the inter-
est thereon. True this debt IN the
aggregate amounts TO I2,60n, bui oniv
onc-iourth Of this has to bc provided
Tor at time, as the company from
whom the engine was bough; took
TOM notes. Now il appears this snvors
very much OF the Quarrel of thc non
dulnm with the clock. There IS also
note of 81 900, given by some pri-
'atc citizens to the Bank of Chester.
to secure a loan that was necessary ty
procure the requisite funds for con
S'ructlng inc new road. ifut this
must bc paid, says those who have
made a mountain ont Of lnolc-hill.
lrS, We say SD too; but why2 Not
because the town IS Responsible.
we mean legal rcsponsibility--for this
ueOf, but because it is moral oblira-
ton that hey should use every endcny-
orS to discharge. If the town assumes
the legal responsibility it is only from
the fact that the moral sense of the
community demands that few should
not suffer for The benefit Of the many.
Now if this be true, which we dcfv
amy one to contradict suctcssiul!y.
how much more strongly must tie
argument work in favor OF "prohibi-
tion'? In the one few suffer for tho
good OF many, in the other many suf-
fer for few. Is rot the stopping of
whiskey also Il stronger moral debt
owed by each and every individual Of
this town to each other? Thus, sirs.
You see that after all this debt is only
chmrrA which vanishcs on being an
preached. What is this for n town tie
size. of ours? Hardly enough, | would
venture to say, to keep the town from
paying $500 for the privilege of hnv-
ing little sport with Il miIl-tlam stu
ated somewhere on it's suburbs, from
which the prevailing brccxcs of sum-
mer come laden with the deadly
miasma pcrmeating the atmosphere of
our town, making it hospital for tho
| dreadful a4uc Thpv n,nv norb,,,.