The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-08-08
Hon, F.B. Cary s Speech
His Clear and Unn1istakable Ut
teranceS.
At Orangeburg He Stood Flatooted the Dispensary
Plank -Square1y Against License in Behalf Of
Old Sodiers-In the Race in His Own Interest.

system regardless of what shall replace 1t.
Honest prohibitionlsts, does this kind o
prohibition com mend itself to you? Yor
who profess to be working In the interest O
morality, are you willing TO license corpora
tions and individuals to sell whiskey In thit
State, fit Is necessary to do 80 to uproot the
diapensary law? o..
you had better be on your guard when local
optionists and prohibitionists talk about
I forming coalitions. Then Is the time for men
who are willing for the dispensary law q
stand until something better is given us, tc
| stand together. -
A few words more and shall pass from the
dispepsary question. / was member OF the
member Of each succeeding legislature.
WOULD REMOVE OBJECTIONABLE FEATUsEs
AND ENFORCE THE LAW.
My honest desire has been TO remove the
Objectionable features. and to enforce II In
the interests OF the morals of the country;
Not being myself drinking man, l could
have no other aim in view than to promote
the welfare of the country. ...
/ 1t seems to me,to be an:unwise and short
sighted policy 70 so reduce the con %Goastabniary
flourish as they do. And when this ls AT
tempted to pc excused on the ground that II
saves money, 1t seems to me that the inten-
used as a means Of making money.
lSs am told my friends, that in some OF the
counties since the constables are removed,
d ssvs up SO 'hoky
Inmy' own county the law has been enforc-
ed IN . business.like way. and today there
can be found but few to oppose It, When II
1s 30 conducted elsewhere It will be regarded
as 1t is there as the best means OF preparing
for ultimate and real prohibition.
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
Another matter which Is of vital impor-
L. 4,
ment OF our educational Institutions, includ
Ing of course the common schools. In my
judgment we cannot devote too much atten-
tlon to the improvement OF them. They
should be 80 fostered by the State as to make
the step from the common school to the COL
leges easy and natural. The common schools
and the colleges ought TO form one harmon
ious whole. They should 60 hand In hand,
@ receiving its part part Of 9 the the STATES bounty.
South Carolina has need for both the com.
mon schools and the colleges, and II we would
take our proper place In the grand march Of
States we must foster both.
WE NEED TRAINED INTELLIGENCE.
Now, as never before, ls there q demand in
South Carolina for educated In telligence, and
II we are unable TO furnish 1t 1t must OF ne
cessity be imported from elsewhere. We are
fast becoming manufacturing people, and
we must prepare to meet the new conditions.
This, II nothing else. !s a sufficient Justidea-
tion for the establishment OF Clemson college
and the Winthrop Normal and Industrial
college. Says our senior senator: These two
words Normal and Industrial" are the two
lodestars which must guide our people out OF
the bog OF poverty, ignorance and stagnation
which surrounds Us. Within their meaning
lies our only hope-the one says educate, the
other means work. I repeat that there is
demand for trained intelligence and In order
that our people work to advantage they must
be educated.
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TRIBUTE TO THEIR PATRIOTISM.
Another matter which in my judgment
demands our earnest and best attention
is the pension to disabled soldiers. The con-
stltutlou requires that liberal appropriation
shall each year be made for pensioning In
digent Confederate soldiers and their INDECENT
widows.
The Confederate army was made up largely
Of poor people, men who left their wives and
children without bread and without protec.
tion, but ommending them to the keeping OF
a mercful God. they shouldered their muskets
and went forth TO answer duy's call. They
had no negroes whose emancipation they
might prevent-they had not the stimulus OF
on lit made no difference to them whether
Missouri was slave State or not. They went
where duty called.
In hunger, barefooted and in rags the Con,
tederate soldier has laid debt upon us which
we can never repay.
Will we be parsimonious In our settlement
with him Shame upon US II we are. Only
a few more reunions-oniy a few more roll
calls-and the existence OF those gallant heroes
will have passed Into history.
Each year the number grows frightfully
smaller, and 10 few more years there will be
none TO tell the tale. 1t Is the duty OF the
State TO see TO 1t that the few remaining years
which are allotted to these heroes shall not
be spent In suffering and In want. l favor
q more liberal appropriation for, and a more
equitable division OF the pension fund.
Uuder the present law a man may be utterly
helpless with age and IL minmdrmity If and yet not
because forsooth his condition does not m eet
the requirements of Glass A or Glass B. Such
men must either be charge upon their neigh.
bors or else must knock for admittance at the
door of the poor house. believe that the
appropriation should be large enough TO give
every soldier who is without means, an amount
sufficient to relieve his necessary wants.
FAIR TREATMENT ALL THAT MIR. GARY
WANTS.
It has been persistently urged that shoul d
not enter this race for the reason that my
brothers have held and are holding oflce In
South Carolina.
Ny friends, l entered this race as an indi-
vidual and not on account OF my relationship
to any one am asking no special privileges
be measured by the same yard STICK that
others are, aud that be not denied privileges
which are accorded every American citizen.
have always attempted TO do my full tuty TO
my State. l have tried to do my duty as an
individual and have not hidden behind the
fact that other members OF the family had
gone before me. In the war between the
States, when my father and five brothers had
country, there was then no one 10 rise up and
protest that the seventh and last should not
90 because forsooth his brothers had already
gone. He would have scorned suoh sng,
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