The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-07-07
THE IDLER


Did you see where the supreme court
has knocked out that decision of Judge
MeEnminger abou1 storing liquor, or
rather keeping liquor in your house.
Why under that decision it would have
been unawful to haze kept little on
hand for the "stomach's sake,'' and
YOU know there is high authority Tor
that. It is easy to figure cut the dlf-
ference in the opinions of these learn
ed Judges. Judge Memminger held it
unlawful to have whiskey in your
house for personal use in prohibition
counties, but all right in dispensary
Well, now, argue or reason
his out with me- Judge Memminger's
ne is in Charleston, a dispensary
Anty and this decision didn't strike
personal rights or privileges. The
preme court reverses Judge Mem
4 Eninger, and properly. They all i've
l$ in prohibition counties and it would
III have been an invasion of their person
II al liberty to have sustained him.
These prohibitionists in prohibition
/ counties have got to have a little
r+i,nu1an+ and of course it would have
. been outrageous to have permitted any
such decision to be the law. 1t was
am absurd decision anync|. fnis with
apologies to Judge Memninger.
am obliged to repeat that this IS
bu+ another evidence of trying to reg
Mate everything by statute law. 1t
used to be the boast of the American
neon1e that a mans house was MS
castle and that he had some sacred
and inviolate rights therein. guaran-
+eed under Magma Charta, whatever
that is. I have heard orators talk
abo,t it. That seems now to be in Old
and exploded theory. You have no
p,aranteed rights. The law must say
what YOU shall eat and what you snail
drink, and I reckon wi3l soon Say
what you shall wear.
It is all tending to social
ism which is beautlful tne-
orv. T grant you, but is not practl-
cal for the government OF man ana
would eventually lead to anarchy.
read a good many years ago BOOK
by Edward Belloning, called Looking
Backward" which outlined this con-
dition beautifully. It pictured the time
when everybody should serve the gov
ernment and after brief service all
eitiz.rs should be exempt from LABOR.
Everybody was fed and clothed from
the public Glib and public WARDROBE
It was an ideal situation as he pic
tured it, but It seems to me while tue
tendency in some respects is in tnat
direction, yet We are a long way
from the ideal which he outlined.
The summer has been so dry and
hot it has been almost impossible to
have any pretty lawns unless you had
free access to spigot. am told that
in many places the wells have dried
I'D and the running streams have
ceased to run. l have great faith in
Nature ard Natures God and know
He is doing right and everything Will
work out right in the end. Justice
and right will prevail because it is
right. Men may go On and do wrong
and oppress their fellows, but in the
end they will suffer for it.
If it were not for faith and hope this
would be a dreary and gloomy old
world. Frank Stanton says: 'There's
always one more river to cross, and
when we think we've reached the last,
the ferry-boat's leaking and the ferry
mans asleep"
"It frequently happens that when
we reach the high Hill of Celebration
we shout so loud that old Satan knows
just where to find US, and the jigs up
in a hurry
"Hope keeps us whistling on
the road to STribulation Town,
and when we reach that lonesome
place Hope makes US believe that
we're half way to Heaven
And so it goes, but as long as we
have faith We can remove mountains.
I grant you it is awfully hard some