The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-19
What Others Say
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thing in Columbia as open violationl
OF law.-Charleston Post.
What are we coming to? Is the
last Vestage of our personal liberty
to be striped from us?
Juries and courts in South Caro-
lima are becoming perniciously active
In cu-tailing tie rights OF citizens.
This mornings paper tells of poor
cuss who was sentenced to 6 months
confinement merely because he ex-
ercised his divine right of free moral
agency and split another citizens
head open with an axe. The case is
not exceptional.
Frequently Q man who has done
no more than assault his grand
mother, burn his children and poison
his wife. is compelled to pay q heavy
fne-$37.10, or something ike that.
lmpudent and meddling sheriffs will
even go so far as to arrest q respect
able white man for killing a niger
OF course he always apologies later,
but the thing is annoying.
It's getting to where one must
up his bank account to see IL there
is enough to salve the palm of some
thieving lawyer before daring to go
out and kill 1eighbor.
II It's going to cost us forty-fve
or fifty dollars every time we kill
man, we'll have to become civilized
during these hard times-and that
would never do, for the dear old
State must live up to her reputation.
-Tribune-Fountain Inn.
Our rural mall delivery system is
undoubtedly the best we ever had,
and the threat OF the postmaster-gen-
oral to return to the contract system,
1t fs hoped, will never materialize.
II Mr.. BurIeson can offer something
better than the present system, we'll
and good. but it is not progressiveness
to return to system that has proven
unsatisfactory. Let the rural route
plan stand until We have discovered
something not "iust as good" but
something better.--Pickens Sentinel.
Thirty Thousand dollars worth of
liquor sold through the dispensaries
OF Orsngeburg county In October All
went out of the county. Every drop
Of It was curse to the person who
used It Yet people cry hard times
Progress. Easley,
AS 1t happens sometimes In courts
of law individuals ere tried for a.
wrong. The jury considers the i'm
mediate act and It's immediate causes.
II does not concern itself with the
great distruatful past between the two
men. AS It is.with men so 1t Is with
Eatipns. When Stvo couAtrias go to
war the world stands aside and passes
Judgment upon the. e.issues at hand, for
getful of the mast and aes the lack OF
faith. teiac.; q 3 s7..,lE III .g,
!, AS there is q, Judgment which over
rules the vesdjct OF iuries so is there
q verdict which decides when nations
clash II a==.sssss. Thiafi. greater iudg-
sT3 lou -9sed eql aou sl9SIoJ 3ueru
many faults of man. It knows the
human. Temptations, sc considers the.
faults of all. It knows the selfish
distrusts of nations, their failures and
their greed.-Times and Democrat,
orangeburg. - r.:z,i
We are publishing In another coll
umn this week q short article under,
the caption OF 'tNew Farming in the
South" which we present to our read,
ers az one Of the best planse to- do
away with or get ahead OF the cotteni
situation that we have seen lately. Of.
course this will not apply to the smalli
farmer, but will help him wonderfully;
as regards the renting OF land and
the diversification OF crops; 1t is in
tended for the land owners who rent
many acres Of land during the plant
Ing seas1n. The matter OF paying his,
rent Will SO many bales ls cotton has
been deae away with. &C this plan.
goes. and In its stead the payinf Of
rent with meat ana grain crops. also
potatoes Will be suhstituted. In our
minds this is q yeEys good pien snd
It Will serve to do aRayw1tha the idea
Of planting cotton too ebund ndantlE--
Calhoun Advance, ST. Matthew'S. IS cs
.=sggs5.ss ;fss.s, - lssts. ~
Itsia good one. The merchant halls
It with glee and so would, we. all OF
us who are holding the bag. The Day
q bill idea deserves not only your
moral sanction but your real action.
if YOU cannot, pay your merehants all,
pay him part. He must have stlle-
business unless somebody pays 2hsn
something. Don't keep iisssl IN such
d severe atrain so long Ae has done
his part. Spread the P<y q Bill move
mont. Its good thilse pnals Il along.
Greenwood. /.
we direct, attention to the call Of
president Stackhonse 90 the. farmers
and business. men OF South Car0lipe
Ito meet In county Ions IN every
feounty ia the State On Saturday Of
this week. November a Is NP. Stack
lhuse urges attsntir To- Imp bFfatit mat
tiers at these neefin tiis eHruring
iof small grain se6a and the getting
ot the seed into the eteand
,hiDE sooa fro esesy poiat 81 Il SssW.