The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-11-08
OUR LIBERTIES MENACED.

OUR LIBERTIES MENACED.
The whiskey machine has
again failed in the effort to en-.
ioin the people from expressing
their will upon the liquor ques-
tioa. Judge Klugh declined to
issue an injunction to prevent
the holding of the election at
Spartanburg. It has not been
so long since we heard the hue
and cry against government by
Injunction, by the very same
brood OF politicians nowinterested
in preserving the Dispensary, and
now that their interests are at
stake, they are quick to seek the
courts with technicalities to pre-
vent the people from exercising
the rights of citizenship. Is it
any wonder that honest dispen
saryites are ready to join with
the Prohibitionists to wipe the
LIQUOR institution out Of exist
ence?: The greatest boon to an
American citizen is liberty: and
when his liberty is infringed up
on. or if he is thwarted in the
exercise of it, his blood boils
within him and he strikes hard
and furious for its maintspance.
In this democratic government
of ours the people voice their
will at the ballot box: They do
this in the-selection Of their pub
lie servants, and they also do
this upon vital public questions.
The legislature, through the
>Brice Act" gave the people
the opportunity to express their
wishes on the liquor question;
county after county recorded
against the dispensary. then
cones the liquor element through
hired lawyers and with all kinds
of technical tricks and go into the
courts to invoke the legal mach
inery to coerce the people, and
stay their hands from destroying
the machine which is the manu-
facturer of their clients poliSical
fortunes.
Are the people willing to have
IN Sonth Carolina government
BY iniunction?:" Is it not time
for them then to rise up against
those who would seek the courts
to have government by injunc-
tion?:"
The political grafters who are
trying to crush the peoples will
by the achin cry of the
courts, are not satisfied to rest
decision with our own State
courts and judges, but they go
into the very courts. the Federal
courts. which when seeking
votes they so fearfully denounc-
ed, and at Richmond on the Goth
they will ask a Federal judge
to enjoin the people of South
Carolina from the privilege of
exercising a right given to them
by a State Statute, enacted by
Representatives of the peoples
own choosing. Such condition
has not been attempted since the
days when Federal bayonets
were here to enforce the acts Of
q negro-scalawag government.
There are times when submls-
sion ceases to be a virtue, and if
that time has not arrived yet, in
the name Of decency how much
longer are the people going to
submit to being buncoed and sand
bagged by a gang Of political
hoodlums who have become so
emboldened by the meek submis-
sion of the people that they i'm
pudentiy, defantly and taunt-
ingly continue to show their con-
tempt for those who put them
into position, and, with a daring
unprecedented except in Russia,
endeavor to trample the peoples
wishes under foot. Men of Caro-
lima, to longer submit to this car
nival of coercion and corruption
makes US unworthy of the rights
of citizenship. 1t is nc longer a
question OF Dispensary or No Dis
pensary: it is a question Of the
preservation Of rights-whether
we shall surrender what we have
to political looters, Or rise up like
men and drive these money-chan-
gers from the temple.