The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-10-04


oined circulation and influence OF botn OF
the old papsrs, and is manifestly the best
advertising medium in Sumter.
York county with a normal vote OF
between $500 and 1000 cast less than
800 in the Brice law election Tuesday
when the dispensary was voted out.
IF the remainder of the voters OF
the county are as Indifferent to the
enforcement of prohibition as they
showed themselves to the election the
bind tigers and whiskey blockade
runners from North Carolina will
have an easy time in that county.
Gaynor and Green have lost their
long fight and will now be brought to
the United States for trial. When
shey see the confederate, .ex-Capt.
sOberlin M. Carter in the full enjoy
meni of his liberty after having COM
pleted his term Of imprisonment they
may regret not having taken their
medicine at ance. They have spent
wears in exile and have spent lot OF
their ilLgotten gains to escape trial to
no good purpose, while Carter has
served his time and can now enjoy
his share Of the booty without having
TO dodge the officers of the law.
The Ministerial Association has
asked the city council question that
has been in the minds of many citi-
szens. The answer returned will be
awaited with interest
The delays Of the law have never
been more forcibly illustrated than by
the long drawn out ellis case which
has been on the Kershaw county
criminal docket for more than year.
There should be some limit set to the
postponements and continuances-
The determination Of Russia to begin
at the earliest possible date the con-
struction of a second Trans-Siberian
railway is not portent Of perma-
nent peace in the Far East. On the
contrary it is a threat that war OF re-
venge against Japan is the fixed pur-
pose Of Russia, and that all energies
are to be directed toward preparing
for that end.
The law-abiding citizens Of the Ho-
nea Path section should have the SYM
pathy and moral support of the good
citizens of the State in their struggle
against the lawless element that has
brought their community into disre-
pute. A few vicious men can give a
aaw-respecting community a reputa-
ton for lawlessness that is unde-
served. The acts Of the lawless fur
nish situations, and murder or
aynching is published throughout the
land, while the sober, decent lives of
the hundreds of good citizens of the
community. pass unncticed. The news
paper reputation Of any community
is created largely by the criminals and
q peculiarly atrocious crime in GER
NV
unthinking as an indication that the
citizenship Of that community is COM
posed Of criminals. The vast majority
OF South Carolinians are sober, decent,
law-abiding and Christian people. and
we NO more believe that the majority
OF the people Of those sections OF An
derson and Abbeyille counties in
which the Henea Path lynchers re-
side are lawless than that the people
OF Sumter county are all criminals,
because murders have occurred here
from tirae to time. The greatest fault
with the decent citizenship Of South
Carolina is their Indifference to vio-
lations of law by those. Of criminal
proclivities. There is tendency at
times to condone criminal acts, view
ing them as deplorable incidents rath-
er than crimes to be sternly punished
to the extent of the law. The law
abiding citizens owe it to themselves
to carry their consciences into the
court houses and into the jury boxes
and to punish the guilty with stern
ness. The laws, if enforced, will put
az end TO lawlessness.
TIE COLLEGE, EIASCO.