The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-11-29


and rlnshed by fine and Imprisonment, you
, VIII Mt once release the property and return
IL to our agent; If do not hear by ten o'clock
! tomorrow, A. NJ. that sou have returned the
property TO our agent will certainly take
, steps to have you brought before the Judge.
",,Slsned)' JAS. 8. CoTHRAN."
Here VIC have not the recaIver, but the re.
ceivers servant. a corporation counsel, who
40 vel knows his honors mind, or at least. ia
SO well assured that whatever he is told to do
he WI obey, that he threatens imprisonment
under the State and Federal laws, and with a
, warrant at that. Yet we are told the receiver
, Is the servant Of the Court!
And what are We to do? Are we to tamelv
submit To these indignities and leave This
T Interference
the clutches of this par Mobile fratruu, Cham.
oelain and SimOnton, for four years, and
there is no Knowing how much longer IL is TO
slo has just been flied, but that sort of hocus.
pocus has been going on for over q year. The
Richmond and Danville Railroad, corpor.
alton unknown to our laws, but which has
chartered by the State han recently gone into
The hands of another judicial syndicate, Of
which Judge Simonton ts o member. II moth.
j the receivers, are likely to retain
POSSESSION OF THAT FAT CARCASS
for many years. and we may Judge the future
by the past as TO the intolerable Condition 10
which we shat be subjected by these judicial
usurpatlons. These creatures these corpor.
a!ions, holding their exist ence from the
States bounty and under its laws. like the
monster Frankelnsfein, have grown greater
than their creator. They already owe in the
neighborhood OF two hundred thousand dol.
n! lars TO ihe different tax funds OF the State.
Ihey are In open, rebellion against the Dis:
pensary Law and Railroad Comm ission, and
are pending every energy to aid those who
wouid smungle Whissey TITO the State, and
/ &c tnif nnIa
the State, under the circumstances, since the
decision OF the Supreme Court, but to repeal
the charters Of every railroad In the hand of
q receiver and destroy these creatures, which
have grown so insolent that they trampIe our
laws under foot under the protection Of this
Federal Judge. and laugh to scorn the restric-
tlons must obey: It isa harsh and drastic
measure, whlch:would be wholly unwarrant-
ed under any other circumstances, but II Is
the last desperate remedy. The
UNHoLLY MARRIAGE
between the "dignity" OF the Federal Court
and these hlrlot corporations must be an.
nalled, and the owners Of the bonds made TO
ahdeTstand nh1ei, y, that there is point beyond
NIT them to go. The Federal Court will, OF
course, claim that the property is In its pos.
session and attempt TO- administer It; butt
VIII force the property to sale and wind up
the existence Of these roads as at present or
ganiZed and owned. liter that ig accom-.
pilshed, or while 1t Is being accomplished, pro-
vision can be made for giving them new
life upon such conditions as the Legislature
may determine. Care should be taken In
granting III future charters u prevent the
absorption OF competing lines by any railroad
syndicate In or outside Of the Stats. A Law
should be passed limiting the life OF receiver
lips In the State. and memorial addressed
10 The United States Congress setting forth
the conditions which exist here calling at.
tentlon to the abuses which have arisen, and
asking legislation to restore TO the State the
has robbed IT. aud the enactment OF such laws
as Will throw the necessary restrictions
around recei verships in future. Since thelast
decision OF the Court the situation has become
intOlerable.
The Dispensary Law.
The agitation last year on the subject Of
prohibition resulted In the enactment OF
what WI Is known as the Dispensary Law: The
House, after numberless amendments. was
withdrawn and q substitute incorporating
most OF these amendments, with others, was
changes. passed the House and was sent to
the Senate. That body using the Nettles Bill
In Its entirety almost as basis with few
alterations and amendments made necessary
on account of the change OF purpose returned
the Dlspensary Act as substitute for the
Prohibition Bill and the House concurred In
the same without amendment, as the time
hurriealy prepared became a law, as conn
promise between the Prohibitionists and the
temperance people. who were skeptical as to
hurry in It's preparation and enactment isfs
the law with many crudities and omissions
which will point out somewhat in detail
Considering the change made in the pur-
bate and digest It's various provisions, 1t 10
wonderful that Il has thus far stood TIC s1Si
Of the
TEMPEST OF LITIGATION ir
which It has occasIoned. It has been In the
United States Court. In our Supreme Court,
and: before nearly every Circuit Judge on the
far having been made on Its Constitutionality.
Perhaps no measure passed by any Legisla-
ture of any State within the memory Of man
has excited such widespread comment and
owing TO the fact that 1t is an entirely new
Idea, from an American standpoint, and deals
with the question OF controlling the liquor
sary Law has been and still is the ono absorb
Ing, ver.ending topic OF discussion. and It
has produced some
CoMICAL ALIGNMENTs AND ALLIANCES
in the efforts to obstruot and defeat II. News
papers which have always fought prohibition
key ring have suddenly become stroug advo-
Gates OF prohibition. Prohibitionists who are
so radical In their Views that the uncharttable
er to shoulder with barkeepers and whiskey
dealers in opposing IL; and while many emil
nent divines have lent 1t their aid and endors-
The more moderate prohibitionists atede-
lighted with 1t. The whiskey men are more
bitter In their opposition TO 1t than they have
ever been toward prohibition.
The law went into effect July 1st. and on the
night of the S0th OF June every bar In the
State closed its doors. The work OF preparac
Lion. organization and arrangements for the
going on for several months. The Illness or
Com ptroller.General Elerbee and the heavy
burden OF litigation which the AttorneyGen.
Board of Control), together With the long con.
tlnued illness OF the State issioner Mr,
D. H. Traxler devolved most OF this WORK on
my shoulders; and this. together with the or:
Canization and direction Of the State Consta-
bulary provided TO enforce the law, has more
than doubled the lubors Of the Executive OF.
fee. 1t Ia safe to say that no member OF tno
General Assembly. and very few otners-ce,t
tude of the Undertaking; and yet, after 1t has
been in operation four months, the ramlnca.
tions. complications and ultimate CROWN OF
the business are Still subjects OF conjecture
and wonder.
turned into one chan mel, flowing TO Columbia
Ihs Ha gbudins WEE eeilar
thus making three stories !67 feet by - leet,
has been turned into bottling works. It is
only question OF time when the erection OF =
much larger quarters on the railroad will be
necessary. Fiity.four employees, working ten
hours every day, are kept busy bottllng, and
we find it almost impossible 10 Keep the local
Dlspensaries IN stoGk, ana tnaI. to1, Nv wasmt nna
half of the liquor being drunk IN the state az
this time has passed through the Dlspensary:,
al, fion af fha yH OIL