The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-01-01


than the other two, but the COOK VINO
uses nutmegs to any great extent Ii
appreciation this 1905 design, winch Is
a marked improvement on its pre'.e'
cessors and very simple to manlpu-
late.
are born into the world in great
numbers only a small comparative
percentage get beyond infancy and
of those who grow up but few live
to old age. At the Prospect camp
meeting, which the speaker visited
last fall, where 1000 negroes were
gathered together there were but
few to be seen who we're over SO
years of age and of these all without
an exception were old time slaves.
The larger portion Of any gathering
of negroes to be seen in the State are
under 80 years Of age and the cause
for this is found in the death rate
which is abnormally high, owing to
unsanitary living and inherited dis
ease which saps the vital powers.
The speaker boarded while in the
! South with a doctor and he was told
that the death rate among the ne
groes from pneumonia during the
winter and spring months was
something great. They take no
care of themselves or Of each other
when sick ard pneumonia patient
is almost sure to die.
Consumption which was unknown
in the old slavery days, now claims
its victims by the thousands among
the negroes.
This condition of the negroes may
be something to be deplored but it
looks to the speaker like survival
of the fttest and as being the way
that nature takes to carry out its
inevitable laws.
In speaking Of the wave Of Drohihi-
ton that is sweeping over the State
it can be said that the negro or rath.
,er the presence among the people of
the negro is responsible for what is
being done all through the South.
While the negro in the rural COM
munities of the South is tractable
and docile when sober, there is no
telling what he will 10 when drunk
and the fear Of what might happen
in communities where the negro out
numbers the whites three or four to
one, as he does in many places in
the South, that is making the white
man pass laws that will make it as
hard as possible for the black man
to get liquor. The white man Of the
South is much like his white broth
er Of the North. While there is no
longer the sideboard in every home
with an invitation to drink extended
to every visitor any more than the
same thing exists in the North, yet
the white man By means of clubs
and kindred organizations will get
what he needs to drink even in pro-
hioition States like Georgia and Ala
bama.
The speaker thinks that the coun-
ty dispensary law of South Carolina
with local option comes as near solv-
ing the drink evil as any method
that has come under his observation.
With the business handled in the
way that it is and with good men in
the county dispensaries VINO will not
sell to men who are drunk or drunk
ards and with the law asst is, so that
it must be sold only between sun up
and sun down and the places closed
on special occasions, it seems to
meet the situation as well as any
law of human contrivance can, 1t is
the opinion Of the speaker that near
ly all the counties except Richland
and Charleston in the State will go
dry at the next general election. It
is also his opinion that the law as it
stands is pretty we'll observed in
every county in the State except
Charleston, where practically every
restaurant in the city is blind tiger
for the sale Of liquor.
The people of South Carolina are a
religious people so far as outward
forms go and in the little village
which has been the home Of the
speaker for the last year practically
every man, woman and child is a
Methodist, which church fairly d.
vides the honors for membership
among the people Of the State.
In noticing obituary notices as
printed in The State the speaker has
observed that practically every one
written about who is a man of ma
ture years recites the fact that he
was distinguished member of such
and such reglmentin the late war
and ne was an active member of
uch and such church.
The speaker believes that the peo-
pie of South Carolina are as good
and no better morally and spiritually
than the native born population Of
Come icut. Of course they do rot
have the foreign element with their
loose way Of observing Sunday to
deal with as does Connecticut. The
speaker is satisfied that the proud
old State of South ca Dina which
stood with Connecticut shoulder to
shoulder in fighting IN war Of In
dependence has a splendid future
before her. The war and the Recon-
struction days put back her develop
ment half a century but the people
have taken hold to place her in the
front rank Of States and already
their efforts are bearing fruit to a
degree that one not acquainted with
the State Of affairs would hardly be
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