The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-05

say.
notice Alderman Earhardt writes :
communication to the Observer in re
ply to its question or invitation to dis
cuss the enforcement or violation: O.
the law against selling liquor. Ant
incidentally he touches on the dnan.
cial condition Of the town. Now,
don't know whether any liquor is solo
in Newberry or not If I did know ID
and wanted to See it stopped, I would
go before an officer of the law and fur
nish him with the evidence. That's
the way to do the thing But what
was thinking about is why so much
interested in the liquor law. For the
last twenty years and more we have
| heard in South Carolina more fabout
| the liquor law than any other and the
sale of liquor goes right on and peo-
pie continue to drink it. / think if we
would all give more time and energy
to teaching and practicing temper
ance, and spend less of our time and
energy in trying to do the thing by
law, we would accomplish results more
rapidly. That is the way I see it.
know that + am sort of an old fogy,
but I am Judging other people by my
self, which may be a false Or incorrect
standard, but when you say to me I
shall not take my glass of beer, and
say it by statute law, then begin n to
want it and have a sort of feeling that
you are Invading my personal rights.
You have no right to regulate my con-
duct by statute, so long as do not in
terfere with your property or your
happiness or invade your rights. That
is the way I feel about it. OF course,
I may be all out of tune with modern
notions Of morals and right, and the
functions of government,l and all that
sort of thing. That was the way we
did in the old days, and know from
my limited experiences that a mans
word went much further then than it
does now when every; thing has TO be
regulated by law, and men regarded
their honor more jealousy then than
they do now. Butaas I say, may be
out of harmony with modern notions
and ideas.
But I didn't intend to write all this. !
I simply wanted to suggest that these
fellows gentlemen l should say-who
know the law against selling liquor in
Newberry is being violated and want
to see it stopped, as all good citizens
do, should give their information to
the officers and then if the officers fail
to act should know the reason why.
That is all.
As I understand Mr.. Earhardt's
statement the town is spending some
thing like $4,000 q year for current
expenses cutting weeds, filing gull
Ieys and cleaning out gulleys, with
now and then a little piece Of perma-
1ent work. 1t seems to me that read
n the papers that about two years
ago some gentlemen came to Newber-'
y and offered to pave the public
square and Main street from the depot
% Wilson street and all the streets
crossing Main up as far as Boundary,
md Boyce street to the CrotWell hotel,
or something like ten thousand dol
ars. Now the question that [ have
,een trying to impress, would it not
AVE been better to have taken half
his money that we have wasted each
ear and put it on this permanent
york, and had that much done, even {
f a few weeds did grow in some
laces. Seems to me that it would t
ave been economy to have done this. t
hat would not have needed any more q
york. And it would have been an Or S
ament to the town. The next year {