The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-13
LAW AND ORDER.
4 League Eas Been Organized and
Field Agent Appointed.
AN ACTIVE STATE CAMPAIGN
To be Commenced at Once and
Pushed Until League is
Organized in f a c h
County.

County.
The South Carolina Temperance.
Law and Order league is getting ready
for an active cempaign. Rev. Vernon
rAnson, an earnest and forcefu
speaker and a tirelesS worker, has been
engaged as field worker and genera
organizer. The State says Mr.. IAN.
sons ability is shown in the wonder
full manner in which ne has organized
welded together and built Up the
large congregation of the Southside
Baptist church in Columbia. His ex.
perience as correspondent of Washing
ton papers and in doing other newspa'
per work has given him an insight
into human nature inaddition to that
which the successful preacher acquires
Mr.. rAnson is thoroughly aroused il
this cause and will not stop at any.
thing short OF success. He has the
hearty cooperation of the executive
committee, Capt. J. ". Hamel 0.
kershaw.!Mr. P. L. Sturkey of Green
wood. Mr.. Howell Morrell of Horrell
Hill, Col. T. J. LaNotte of Columbia.
Mr.. Geo. Bates of Barnwell. Mr.. w
C. Thomson of Lancaster, Mr. H. II
Newton of Bennettsyille, Mr.. Simeo1
Hyde of Charleston and Mr.. Joel E.
RrunsOn of Sumter.
At the time of the organization II
Columbia fair week the following reso
luton offered by Capt. Hamel wa:
adopted: Resolved, That the execu
tive committee memorable the legisla
ture to enact such legislation as vii
give the voters of a municipality the
right to vote dispensary out Of theil
community Mr.. Hanson STATED
Thursday that this is the only mat
ter of legislation upon which the
league is working and that every effort
will be put forward to obtain this
right from the lawmaking body. The
population of a town changes fire.
ouently, and often there is a reversal
of sentiment. The law is so consti-
tuted that once a dispensary is fas
tened upon a community there can bf
no removal. no matter how many ap
peals are made. no matter how strong
has grown the sentiment against the
rum shop.
In order to accomplish this and
other reforms. the executive commit
tee has decided to form a league in
each county that the movement may
have more force.
COUNTY LEAGUES.
The bylaws provide the following
regulations for the county leagues:
l. 4 county league shall be formed
at each county seat and may maintain
branch leagues at such points in the
county as may best subserye its inter,
est, and shall adopt such simple rules
for its government as may be neces,
sary to carry out the objects Of the
organization.
,. The officers of the county leagues
shall consist of chairman, secretary
and treasurer. and an executive com.
mittee in such number as the league
may decide upon. They shall be
elected annually and hold office until
their successors are chosen.
3. The chairman of each county
league shall be ex-otficio member Of
the State executive committee.
+. Each county league shall elect
annually at their meeting in Septem'
Der delegates to the annual conven'
tion in Columbia, in the ratio Of one
for each member of the general as,
sembly from their county.
Following is the address to the peo-
pie which was issued some time age
by the executive committe Of the
State Temperance, Law and Order
league:
To the People of South Carolina:
The executive committee of the
State Temperance, Law and Order
league, in the discharge of the duty
imposed on them, would address tc
their fellow citizens few consldera'
tions and conclusions as to the deplor'
able condition of lawlessness existing
in the State, a condition well calcu'
lated to humiliate US in the estima,
tion Of the civilized world.
1t is sufficient to call attention tC
the fact that $50 homicides are re.
ported in the daily papers as commit
ted in this State for the nine months
ending September 80 Of the current
year. to show that terrible state Oh
lawlessness exists, and to justify the
most earnest and strenuous efforts on
the part of law-respecting citizens tc
correct ie.
Besides this record of bloodguilti
ness. crimes of all lesser grades which
result from a lawless spirit are on the
increase, while efforts to repress them
BY the ordinary process OF law seem
to be singularly Ineffective.
THE DISREsPECT FOR LAW.
1t is scarcely necessary to recite the
catalogue of these crimes against
morality and good order. They are
known and read of ali men. The laws
of God and man are violated with
impunity. as witnessed by the desecra.
tion of the Sabbath, the PROCLAMATION
of the sanctuary of God by scenes OF
drunkenness. disorder and bloodshed,
the violations of the criminal law.
and the shameful violation of the
law in all its restrictive
and prohibitire provisions.
Under these conditions 1t becomes
a proper inquiry for thoughtful men.
what is the cause of this disordered
condition OF society. and to seek to
discover a remedy therefor.
The most painful feature OF the
situation is to be found in the general
indifference on the part of the better
to assume element their part in the
enforcement of law. and their refusal
or neglect to support those appointed
agents who are charged with its en-
forcement.
THE DUTY OF CITIZENS.