The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-12-11
A Communication.
To THE ADVERTISER:

TO THE ADVERTISERS:
In the Greenville Daily News of the
18th of November we see, in regard to
the present court in that place, a state
ment thus:
"A member of the local bar said this
had been the most disastrous court for
plaintiffs in damage suits that he had
ever seen in his many years of practice
at the barr
10 my mind this is speaking a great
deal in favor of the intelligence, or
awakening, of the juror We sympa-
thize with the bereaved and manned of
these many railroad accidents, but we
think when a person takes a job of
work on railroad train, or any other
place of work attended with never
ceasing danger Of accident, that he
simply takes his life in his own hands,
and no concern should be held respon :
sible for accidents unless there is evi =
dence of criminal negligence or care
lessness on the part of such railroad, or
concern.
lt may be recalled that we expressed
an opinion, a few months since, lust
along this line of unwarrantei abuse Of
corporations, railroads, ETC. We be-
lieve there are some lawyers who help
to institute or urge on legal proceed
ings in many accident cases that would
not be done were they not after the
bounty per cent.
We also noticed, not mlny weeks
since, that the Hon. M. f. Ansel our
able governor, was delibaratiny on the
idea of Running for the Uaitei States
Senate. W. do not Object to seeing
him attain great heights, bat we think
he has not whipped the ligat to finish
that he m lsterel his armies to tn /,
front for Wnan he was clocta1 almost a
term ago. In other words, to be plain,
the Colonel made race on the pDh bi-
ton platform, and while h, has sea-
things brighten little. there are long
strides yeS to b, mlE eco ii, g,ll is
reached, and it is very essential that he
remain at the helm AMI SEQ that the
enemy is entirely varlushe1.
In this waek's is,l, Of TdG AOyAt.
User we SEE a step taken W. have
anxously looke1 fo;, By the ministry Of
Laurens AMI sevetal prominent man of
town and county, in reglrl to meet
ing at Llurens on De;enb er.l2, for the
purpose of agitating AMI laying de-
| cided plans for voting oIt the "Ofens
i've Fountain" at Lluran3. The vary
dirty thing is feeling disturbance AMI
ruin to ab)Jt four to six sdrroIn ling
counties. / was at Lluren5 oae dly
this week, AMI nogro man came to
| the livery stable, where [ chancel to
be, with two one-gallon brown jugs of
Laurens whisky Fountain. He put
those two brown jugs into bury,
(presum ably his), hitched up his mile
and drove out. Now, caa it appear to
any sano- thinking man that he was
anything. but a travelling dspensary?
Just to think that any class Of people =
as the negro, for instance, who, with
but few exceptions, never provides a
weeks rations ahead is allowed to 90
to the Fountain Of Ajax" AMI carry
off in broad daytime as many gallon,
of "Jersy Lightning" az he can tote or
haul is enough to make anyone shuider.
When the daddy" of thing gets
sick and disgdstod and for5akes his
child, as the renowned 3. r. Tillmln
has. done, way is not everyone else
ready to slap it out Of existence? And
we do believe the people Of Laucons
county are only waiting and wishing for
an opportunity. And the laws of the
| State should he 40 a1iultnJ that the
stuff could not be shipped in. Now,
this is very important item, AMI the
lawmakers should take steps imm,-
diately to carry out such
| w. M. NASH.
| Merna. s. c.. Novenoher 20th