The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-12-27
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, December 27, 1905.
Dots from Wits Mill.

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Why should the farmers join an
association to reduce the acreage OF
cotton and tonnage of fertilizers. Dtnt
all men know our production OF any
kind of crops will lower the price of
that commodity. Why not every one
see for himself and be governed ac-
cordingly? Last spring the cry was
cut the acreage and fertilizers. We
have no club in our section OF county,
but some of our farmers reduced the
acreage and fertilizers. Mr.. W. z.
Jackson, for one, cut acreage from
one hundred and eighty acres to one
hundred and ten acres, and from
twenty seven tons 10 fourteen tons of
fertilizers; last year he made one
hundred bales, and sold from 6 cents
to 10 cents per pound, this year he
made seventy-two bales and sold at
from 81 to III cents per pound, max
ing gain of several dollars by the
saving of labor, in cultivation of land
and hauling of fertilizer, and in the
price of thirteen tons. Let the little
farmers get their lands in high
state of cultivation, plant little and
tend we'll, and they will have corn to
keep and cotton to sell
Do more and say less, don't be all
talk and no do.
Now, as to voting out the dispen-
sary. My friends all know that l am
opposed TO the excessive use of whis-
key and ever have been. think OF
all the curses that the great creator
ever allowed on the earth, and among
men, it is whiskey. I don't think
any State, email or great, should
engage in any enterprise that is too
low down and degrading for any
citizen in the State to engage in.
The State says no citizen shall mai u.
facture and sell any alcoholic liquors
under pain of certain penalty, and
in the face of all this manufactures
and sells or legalizes the same. But
the whiskey is here, and like the negro
that swallowed the bee in his sleep
and thought a bat had run down bis
throat, on awaking, said, "what both
ers me, how is the bat going to get
out" My experience is that prohibi-
tion will not prohibit, but instead the
blind tiger will run rampant. The
towns will have the police protection
and the country will have no protec-
tion. To vote out the dispensary
will be banana for the old tiger,
even now We can't have social
gathering and hardly church meet
ings without the evidence of the
curse, whlskey, and with no restric-
tions it will be worse. If We would
have prohibition, let our Legislature
pass law giving us mounted patrol
in the magistrates districts whose
duty it should be to inquire into and
Investigate into all criminal causes,
get up the evidence in cases of blind
tIgerlsm and report to the grand Jury
before each term Of court, and let the
punishment be great enough to
cause the tigers to fear and tremble.
It will never do to leave the matter
to the good citizens, they are work
ing people and dread fire. I believe
with the diepensaries and the mount.
ed patrol We would have better times.
The constables ia but little help to
the country people, except seizing a
jug now and then at some station. If
the rnillet would fail to seed and the
cane raise no scum, then the tiger
would go in his den. I think if
patrol was put in esch township or
magisterial district not only to see
after the tigers but all other lawless-
ness, il would be of great good. I
don't like the dispensary and pro-
hibition WON'T prohibit. o. W.