The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-02-27
ALI, EDITOR.
). s. G., Feb. 81, 1884.


er the Court may decide the
Try law, it cannot be enforced.
with banners cannot enforce
mary law in South Carolina.
,ople are willing and will submit
sonable restraints upon their per-
rights and liberties, but you can
tackle their reasonable tastes and
petites and they will put obstacles in
eway Of enforcing laws that they
I'D as invading and encroaching
them.
may be immoral to use whiskey or
co, but the masses of mankind do
INK so; 1t cannot be legislated
m. Those who think SO, think
,ere an md. You must deal
as you find them, if you mean
+ legislation be regarded. If
'estraints upon men that you
tic sentiment is not educated
; you are doing a foolish
, tell the plain people of this
~ any other State hat there shall be
'no more cakes and ale" is to do an
immoral thing, because it tempts
them to resist the injunction. In Ger
many, France, Italy and Spain and in
other parts of the world fifty millions of
poor people subsist on the cultivation
of the grape and it's juices. As many
more in Europe and America largely
cultivate the cereals for brown stout
md beers. They and their sons and
daughters are scattering over the
srth and claim the privilege Of graf
ling their tastes and dealing and
ding in these Industrious callings.
nall a monop0tE be set up by the
State andl these people Spld that they
cannot chew, smoke or drink, unless
the article ofconsumption is dealt out
by a man selected and at a price fixed
which they mnst pay or go without?
R3tson tble and proper restraints can
only safely be pnt upon the appetites
and tIstes of men. 1t is weak, foolish
resistance.
~
Governor Tillman furnishes for pub
LEGATION q letter from Lexington
which he says was written by one of
he best citizens in that county. II
Informs him that u murder has been
committed and begs the Governor to
Ook into the matter.
This is a pretty pass we have come
when the people of a neighborhood
TO hunt down u murder. The Gov
ernor a do but little in such q case.
We thought the State was to be re-
formed.
In a Congressional election up in the
Keystone State the Republicans won by
&lnajority of one hundred and seven
five thousand. When the Demo-
Gratis tackle them next they should
remember the Davy Crockett and
RaccoOn incident:
Coon-(on a lofty limb) Who is
that?
Davy-(with his rifle in handy Davy
Crockett.
Coon-You need not shoot, I'll come
down.
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The chameleon, the all-the-rage lit
~tle varmint Of the day, was for some
time thought a myth. Postmaster
Mowry at Charleston got his appoint
ment under Cleveland, held somehow
the four years Of Harrison and holds
the fort under Cleveland for the ensu-
ing four years. Wherefore -.
The Columbia State is three years
old. It's record is it's monuments: u
very noble work, doughtily and bravely
done; fit exponent of the splendid ele-
inent it speaks day by day for. Oh,
the pity they do not more generously
support their friend!
**
Robert M. Stokes, Esq, of the Union
Times, the Nestor of the Press in South
Carolina, resigns the gray goose quill.
He has been faithful and true and
earned a right to rest. May peace and
plenty and "troops of friends" wait
upon him to cheer a "frosty but kindly"
old age.
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If the people of Charleston do their
duty they will have a worthy successor
to BraWley. Ella has three oualifca-
tons: he is honest; he is capable; he is
q democrat.
The "hub" of the world is in danger.
Two thousand of the unemployed in
vaded the State House in Boston ter
rifying the Governor and the Legisla-
ture.
President Cleveland has appointed
John p. Hunter, of Lancaster, District
SO