The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1907-02-15

The State dispensary is dead and
buried. Let us hope that the "whiskey
question will never again be the spar
amount issue" in South Cafolina.
NJ X
1t is reported that trouble is brew
ing in South America. Nicarauga,
Honduras and no telling what else, arc
seeking trouble. Uncle Sans big
ditch will likely get mixed up in it be-
fore it is over. But, then, South Amer
lean States would be unlike themselves
II they behaved for six months.
What the public needs is not so much
reduction OF fare as an increased
safety. 1t is a horrible catalogue of
tragic deaths that is being made up
each year. No doubt the railroads are
somewhat to blame. The chief blame.
however, rests upon the people The
crazy haste OF the present day is
largely to blame. Let us hope that
the roads in South Carolina will make
N'of' " r'~-,.i c roads in bet
ter shape, and that thcy viii give ~
improved rolling stock.
X X X
The Shah OF Persia has given for
NAL recognition to constitutional gov
ernmcnt. He did it because, perhaDs.
he had to do it. 1t is coming, the
rights OF the people to govern them
selves Democracy is growing, and
as advances are made in education
ana civilization the tendency will be-
come even more marked than it is to-
day. 1t has been about two thou
sand years since the individual was
discovered, but he is making himself
fe!t in these latter days.
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1t is regrctable that our county is
TO be put into an upheaval in the mat
ter OF voting on the whiskcy question.
but such is the case The local option
Dill which passed the house anI SEN
ate provides that no election be held
In counties that have voted out the
dlspensary under the Brce law. But
there are some counties excepted. and
Union is one OF them. We regret
that Our whiSkey friends refuse to al
low us the blessings OF our victory. but
II they must have it so, we will give
them new battle. This paper wants
1t understood by everybody in Union
county that it opposes the sale OF whis
Key as beverage anywhere and all the !
ulhe. Revenue or no revenue is one
OF the minor matters With us if is = |
question OF morals. We believe whis- .
Key drinking debauchcs men. We shall
do all that honest people can to fight
tor our principles in the coming con-
test. 1t is provided in the bill reccntlv
passed that Union county may have
an election in 1907. Let every man
who loves his fellow men, everv man
who despses the temptation to profit
IN the blood OF his fellows, line up with |
us Perhaps we can give the whiskev
people. lesson in war. Anyway this
paper will be found trying along that
line.
Silently, softly, constantly, the DAYS
are coming and going. Life is won
derfully short, even when it reaches
out to, and beyond, the three score
and ten limit. No man can afford TO
tritie with thing so precious and so
easily wasted. But how is a man to
use the few days allotted him upon the
earth?
There are many souls fired by the
ambition to be famous. Almost every
man, at some time in his life, has had
his dream OF earthly greatness. 1t was
not altogether unworthy, but it was
not sufficiently worthy There is moth
ng left as residuum when such a life
passes through the fiery test OF the
lges. How poor a thing is human
ame! Every mean-spirited knave in !
he community may stand over the |
'raves OF earth's great ones and speak (
ontemptuously of the dead. 1t is a t
rice that human greatnes has to paw.
his scorn and contempt OF the ignoble +
nd depraved. Even those who have s
1emselves obtained many OF the hon c
rable prizes of lie stare with envious c
yes upon his neighbOr who has also \
tained his ambition At best the h