The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-06
SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS.
Excerpts From the Trenchant Pens of Our
Brother Editors.


Brother Editors.
Unless the constables are
really needed it would be better
for the prohibition counties to
dispense with their service, for
their presence in the county is
regarded by many a standing re-
futation of the wisdom of voting
out the dispensary;; they are
pointed to as evidence that pro
hibition is a failure. AS long as
constables are detailed to keep
down blind tigers in a prohibi-
ton county the task will be left
entirely to them, whereas if they
were not present the people of
the county and the regularly con-
stituted officers would take the
matter in hand, and public senti-
ment would sustain the law
Newberry Observer.
It is an offense against civiliza-
ton and a stencil in the nostrels
of the world for the Turks to
kill a few hundred Christians oc-
casionally, then where would
the massacre of tens Of thousands
of Russian Jews be classed in
the catalogue of national crimes?
One man is as good as another
and it is as wrong for an Ortho-
dox Russian to kill a Jew as for
a true believer Of the Turks to
an American Christian. Why
don't the powers protest and de.
monstrate against Russia?-
Sumter Item.
The great public heart would
applaud the preaching of tenn
perance by anybody in or out Of
the pulpit. But the preaching of
temperance and the instilling Of
the temperance principle or the
encouragement of the habit alb
staining from the use of intoxi-
cants as a beverage is quite
another thing from fighting the
dispensary. The temperance peo-
pie who have joined the license
people in their fight against the
dispensary seem to be utterly
oblivious to the fact that the
great mass of those who have
arrayed themselves against the
dispensary have never promised
prohibition, but have frankly
and honestly said that they favor
high license. When good tenn
perance men join the liquor
forces in fighting for high Ii
ceuse we are scarcely able to be-
lieve our senses. There is rea-
son to believe that high license
is the most Objectionable of all
the legal forms of dealings with
the liquor traffic. It gives to a
few a monopoly. The holder of
a high license has the greatest
Inducements for fraud and ex-
ortion.-Abbeville Press and
Banner.
The idea of an advance agree
ment between the producers and
the spinners as to the price of
cotton is, we think, a good one.
If the spinners had been willing
last summer at Asheville there
would have been butlittle trouble
about such an agreement. The
fact that there was no such
agreement was more the fault
Of the spinners than of the pro-
ducers. Now the producers:
through their president, are try
ing to give the spinners a well
deserved lesson and it is hoped
that they will succeed.
1t is quite possible that fifteen
cents cotton may demoralize the
cotton growers and result in the
planting of the largest acreage,
and the largest crop that has
ever been known; but the result
ing conditions cannot be any
worse than those than with which
the present generation is thor
oughly familiar, and justas those
conditions once regulated them.
selves, they can, if they come
about, do so again. The imme-
oiate question of the greatest
concern, as we see it, is not what
effect Is cents will have on the
future; but can we get Is cents
for the balance of the crop. If we