The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20


must not misrepresent us. You need
not worry yourself about our wounded
feelings" for we have no such disease
that we are aware of. Neither are we
'mad" at you, Mr.. Duncan. We have no
hope of convincing you of the truth Of
what we did say, and have gone to this
trouble to answer you only that the pub
lie may know the truth. A man who can
see in that editorial only what you claim
to have seen observes the sympathy in
stead OF the censure Of mankind.''
THE EDITORIAL IN QUESTION.
The following is the editorial that
the Hon. John T. Duncan criticised in
his speech at Slighs, and which The
Herald and News claims he misrepre-
sented. We are unable to see anything
in it which sympathizes with law
breaking, or which encourages a DISC
bedience to the law:
THIS LOOKS BAD.
The States spies have broke loose in
Charleston, and On Saturday the first
arrest was made by them Of man for
selling whiskey after the dispensary
law had gone into effect. The party
hauled in is q man named Chicco. No
doubt the accounts of the affair in the
newspap pers are overdrawn, bat the fol-
lowing is taken from the Sunday News
and seems to be statement of Chicco
himself: =
Chicco called at the News and Cou-
rier Office last night and requested that
the following statement should be
published so that the Christian COM
munity of Charleston may see how
outrageously he has been treated by
the officers of the law:
"About 1880 in the morning, said he,
some seventeen men came into my
store, rapsacked the bar, but found
nothing but rice beer. I took them
up stairs and showed them all the
rooms except my bed room, 10 which
my wife was lying in bed at the time
in delicate condition, when any dis
turbance would be dangerous to her.
The door was locked. The constables
demanded that the door be opened,
and threatened that if it were not
opened they would break it down and
drag her and all other women On the
premises to the guard house. They
ransacked the bed room and found
nothing.
SIN the next room were SOME liquors
and wine and beer that had been sold
before the first of July to N. Fontana
and Gardla. The constables took it all
away, and then took all the cigars and
maccaroni, breaking opea the cigar
boxes and filling their pockets. L
missed q gold watch and chain that
was behind the bar also.
"My wife is very sick, and DR.. ST.
mons and q midwife will give certif-
Gates to that effect. The fright occa-
stoned by the rough entrance of seven
teen men in her bed room and the
threat to drag her to the guard house
made her worse"
Now this looks bad. This man
should not have violated the law, but
because he did, and did sell little
beer, we see no reason why his family
should be outraged and treated in this
way by those whose duty it is to see
that the law is enforced.
These same spies who arrested him
had gone to his place and induced him
to sell them the beer for the purpose
of entrapping him. He should not
have been caught, but when once
caught, such treatment as here de-
scribed does not sound nice to free
and liberty loving people, to people
who have been taught that mans
house is his castle, and all that sort.
We do not believe the people ought
to violate this or any other law, but we
have an inexpressible contempt for any
such system of spies as has been inau-
gurated to capture violators Of the law,
ana any law which makes it necessary
to have such system Of espionage is un-
worthy to have place on the Statute
books of a free and liberty loving peo-
pie. We do not believe the people of
South Carolina will long tolerate such
system. II the law cannot be en-
forced without such system, it should
he blotted from the books and the page
turned down forever. It will not be
proud heritage to leave our children.
We do not know what to think Of
any man who will hire himself for
few paltry dollars to act as spy. He
must feel himself scarcely a freeman.
We are not advising the violation Of
law. We believe in respecting all law,
but when law has to be enforced by
such system, it is poor recommen-
dation for the law to say the least.