The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-12

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have become so intolerable from the:
frequency OF outrageous crimes that
the families OF farmers are not safe
II their homes when unprotected by
men. lit is necessary to maintain q
strong police force TO protect the
women and children from the roaming
criminals, the matter of expense viii
nos be considered, We are sure. for the
safety Of the women and children is
Of first importances
Gov. Heyward and his brigade OF
Colonels had the time OF their lives
ii Anderson last week. The Anderson
hospitality viii convince the Colonels
that te be Colonel is not such an
empty honor after al.
President Roosevelt is being criti-
cised for refusing to permit the Pick
sninny Brass Band from the jenkins
s0rphanage Of Charleston TO serenade
him al Sycamore Hill The Presi-
dents door OF hope is not in the
North and he is consistent in refusing
20 permit the august precincts OF
Sycamore Hill to be invaded by q
coon band. He doubtless entertains a
strenuous opinion that the Piekaniany
Band should be keptia Charleston.
The cotton mill interests of the
North are clamoring for Congress to
enact laws to prevent the manipula-
sion Of cotton prices by spectators
wao advance prices so greatly that the
mills cannot manufacture cotton
goods at 3 profit. They say nothing
about preventing the manipulation of
prices by spectators who rob the
farmers of all profit. In fact, if we
recollect Alright, it was these same mill
magnates who were most outspoken
IN RECOMMENDATION OF the farmers Al.
siance anarchists when they de-
znanded few years ago that Congress
enact laws to forbid speculative trad
ing IN cotton futures Then it was
the producers of cotton who felt the
injury resulting from cotton specuia-
ton, while at the present time the
MIL rnagnates are the ones squeezed.
Senator Money, who lives IN Wash
ington, but represents Mississippi in
the Senate, has been re-nominated for
another term, defeating Gov. Longino,
who was credited with being the
strongest and most popular man IN
the State.
There can be no valid objection to
the establishment of second dispens-
ary in this city except on the ground
Of unnecessary expense. It is fact
that no one will dispute that all who
want liquor wiz find time and means
to procure it at the dispensary we now
have ard the establishment of q second
dispensary cannot be urged or demand
ed on the score OF necessity. All who
need liquor can and do now procure it
at the dispensary, therefore another
dispensary is not needed. 1t is not the
wish nor the purpose of anyone to en-
courage the drinking habit, nor to IN
crease the sale of liquor in this COM
nunity, consequently it cannot be
argced that the second dispensary will
be a profitable enterprise and will so
largely increase the consumption OF
Iiouor-and increase the number of
drunkards-that the additional ex-
pense of operating another liquor joint
will not diminish the profit derived
from the system by the city and county
at all. If the establishment of the
second dispensary is to increase the
consumption Of liquor and augment
the evils of drunkenness and de-
banchery it is not to be desired for
moment, and no good citizens would
for a moment countenance its estab-
lishment. Il. on the other hand, it
merely divides the business now done
by the other dispensary what do we
want with it at als Another dispens-
ary will assuredly increase the cost OF
operating the system in the city by at
least $500 to $1,000 year and this
must come out Of the profits which
now go to the city and county. Why
then establish another gin mill which
must do either one of the two things
encourage the increase Of drunkenness
or needlessly custail the income OF the
city and county. Just think how many
drunks $500 or $1,000 represents, o.
how many miles of good roads. If the
people want another dispensary ane
are willing to tax themselves $500 OF