The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-14

South CarOllla enjoy every du'dI'dSe
in freight and transportation facilities
that arc now enjoyed by the citizens
. Of adjoining sta:es. | favor encour-
! aging emigration and the investment
~ capitalists from outside the state
bv guaranteeing to them equal rights
| before the law. | favor encouraging
| our W people to organize small
banks: to supply them with money
Tor promoting local enterprises and
! the cultivation OF their farms, as a
better plan than the present credit
system in the state. | favor a liberal
support OF the public schools and
such appropriations as may be neces-
| sarv to increase the usefulness Of the
| COLLEGES of the state. | favor Chris
tian education. and heartily endorse
the work which has been accomplish
| ed and is now being done by our
denominational colleges. To them,
! and the Christian men and women
who have been educated by them,
are due much for the foundation upon
which we have erected Il present
common school education system. |
| favor a state board Of arbitration to
settle all differences that may arse
between labor and capital. that the
rights OF each may be respected and
protected. l am opposed to class leg
| i~slation and the enactment OF any
laws that are not for the general good
of the people and the party. am op-
posed to collecting a dollar OF taxes
from The people that is not necessary
to paw the actual expenses OF the gov
eminent economically administered.
/ am opposed to allowing lobbyists
the privileges OF the floor in the SEN
ate and house during the sessions OF
! The general assembly. I am opposed
to the ~dispensary law, because 1t IS
undemocratic in principle, and has
done more to injure temperance and
to corrupt the morals OF the people
| Of the state than all other influences
| combined. The leaders OF the & 10
cratic party in 1892 promised the 20
hibition democrats of the state that
if a majority voting in that election.
voted for prohibition, they would pass
a law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. The people voting on this
| question carried the state by over ten
thousand majority, and the party fall
ed to keep the pledge they had made;
| but instead gave them the dlspensary
as a step towards prohibition, which
began it's reign by practically con-
fiscating the property of individuals;
and under the guise of hypocricv, en-
tered upon a business, which they had
declared by their actions, it was
wrong for the individual to continue;
and which has resulted in sowing dis
cord and strife and>causing bloodshed
throughout the state; and in this bus1-
ness they have encouraged the saie
of liquors and taken from the pockets
of the people millions OF dollars
(more than three million dollars last
vear), and given them worse than
nothing in return; in fact, the money
thus taken should have gone to buy
bread for the children to eat and
clothes for them to wear, and 1t still
continues to blight everything that is
good that it touches. Personally, |
am opposed to the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors as a bev-
erage in any form, but as a democrat
recognizing the right OF the demo-
cratic voters of the state to decide all
questions for themselves, | would ask
that the matter be referred back to
the state and let them decide, after
reviewing its history and the injury
it has done. whether it shall continue
or not. I would like to see every dis
pensarv in the state closed before the
next election, and the Christian peo-
ME nj the state controlling the politics
of the state, instead of the ~dispensary
,oI;+;c,1 machine which now attempts