Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

about ninety miles and II was covered
in about thirty hours by the corps.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The authorities of Richland and
Kershaw counties are preparing plans
to build first-class roadway between
Camden and Columbia.
The first annual convention Of the
Palmetto State Stenographers' asso-
citation will be held at the Atlantic
Beach hotel, Sullivan's Island, August
6 and 7.
Columbia correspondence Char
lotte Observer: The dispensary COM
mission will probably not meet again
until September. Chairman Murray,
of the commission, states that the
members have not yet finished read
ing over the testimony and that the
meeting cannot, therefore; be called
for August as was at first thought
could be done. There was quite a
mass of testimony taken ct the last
two sittings Of the commission and
after 1t was transcribed the same
was handed out among the members
Of the commission.
= Columbia correspondent Charlotte
Observer, Saturday: Commissioner
Watson received an encouraging note
from the White House today regard
ing the request he recently presented
to the president from the State and
National Farmers Unions asking that
an expert cotton man from the south
be sent to Europe to look after the in
terests Of the cotton producers: The
note said that the request had been
referred to Secretary Of Agriculture
Wilson for his action. Mr.. Wilson
has indicated that he favors the
proposition, and he Is particularly
friendly to this state. Recently, Mr..
Wilson made the comment that the
little state Of South Carolina was
making more rapid progress in i'm
provement in agricultural methods
and interest than any other state in
the Union. The experts his depart
ment has had working in this state
for the past several years have re-
ceived fine encouragement. South
Carolina farmers generally being anx-
ious to learn the new ways.
- Columbia State, Saturday: There
is a shortage OF nearly $1,000 in the
accounts Of the treasurer OF George
town county. This has been suspect
ed for some time by the comptroller
generals office and a close checking
up of the books has been going on.
However, the treasurer insists that he
is not short and that the checking up
is at fault The Georgetown Times Of
yesterday gave publicity to the follow
ing statement: "Our whole commu-
nifty Is terribly shaken over the condi-
ton Of the county treasurers ofice,
caused, as we have no doubt, by bad
bookkeeping on the part of Mr.. Defy
ems, the incumbent. The report has 1t
that he Is about $4,000 short, and,
from what we can gather, there seems
to be no doubt about It, Where has
the money gone? Not into his two
houses; not into his farm, certainly,
because all this property is under
mortgage, all is incumbered. He new
er lived a fast life; he never gambled,
or wasted his money on fast women.
II he ever did these things, his friends
and constituents would know Of 1t, for
this is a small community and every
one knows each others business to a
greater or less extent. 1t is but JUS
tice to say Mr.. Detyens disputes the
correctness Of the figures put down by
Gen. Jones and Mr.. Wilson, and
claims that he has more vouchers In
his Office, which, when deducted from
the balance found against him, will
materially decrease the amount Of the
apparent shortage. We hope so from
our heart. We understand that 1t is
the intention of the treasurer to have
an expert go over his accounts. The
expert officers checked up the vouch-
ers and accounts of the superintend-
ent of education as to schools and thel
same as to the supervisor"
News and Courier, Monday: First
putting himself squarely on record as
being in heartiest sympathy with the
- .xyt,n ~ fx,or ~
the prohibition Of the liquor traffic, the
Rev. Howard Lee Jones, D. D., pastor
of the Citadel Square Baptist church, |
declared, nevertheless, In q sermon
preached in that church last night that
he knew that prohibitory law In |
Charleston at this time would prove q |
screaming farce, and declared his in
tention Of voting for the dispensary on
the 18th Of next August urging the
members Of his congregation to do
likewise, for reasons which he gave. |
In part DR.. Jones said: May God give
us the intelligence, the earnestness, to
understand that 1t Is waste OF
splendid endeavor to enact laws un- |
less we organize ourselves to enforce
them. II law Is not enforced 1t Is |
worse than farce; 1t Is step toward
anarchy, q threat to every other law, |
and he who proposes 1t Is no more a |
friend to temperance than the general
Is a friend to his cause who allows |
himself to be taunted into fighting q
battle with the enemy under adverse
If I consider that a
law In Charleston will
make it more lawless, I would regard
myself as traitorous to my creed and to
all hold dear If allowed myself, for
the sake of appearances, to be forced
into voting for It." After pointing to
the battle Of Atlanta as an Illustration
Of his meaning here, DR.. Jones pro-
ceeded to a discussion Of the local
conditions as they affect prohibition.
'Ts prohibition for Charleston a force
or a farce?" he asked. II believe that
1t will be force, that the
time will come when we shall regard
1t as shame that any man In this
fair city shall put the bottle to his
neighbor's lips. But Is 1t at present as
a method to this splendid end likely
to prove a force or a farce? / reply
that 1t will be a screaming farce, and
not a force. I think 1t will be very
much the same thing as II man S.
300 in debt would announce that he
was going to get out Of debt by bor-
rowing $4,000. It Is like man strug-
Cling for very existence to support
five children proposing to adopt an or
phanage, with all the responsible
ties that went with it. I want to
ask: Will it be enforced? And we can
answer that question by asking anoth-
er: What has been done? Have we
the laws Of limitation which
have been upon our statute books?
You know, just as I know, that the
mayor of this city ha: said publicly
again and again that he is enforcing
the laws at present just as well as the
people want them enforced. I don't
believe that is true, but yet that chal-
enge has not been taken up, and you
and I know that the present law Is a
'arce in Charleston"
MERE.
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