The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-07
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a never ending 100 to satls1y
lawyer as we'll as an endless
task to dispute with a woman"
OF course. Lawyer Davis will be
permitted to use these columns
to .samend his complaint" 1t is
the rule of The Times to take
cosnizance of those worthy Of
notice, that they may have free
use of It's space, even tho it is
only to regale themselves.
Without undertaking to say
ssyou're another" in detail to
every utterance our correspon
dent makes, we shall confne
ourseff to his main points. Re
gardless Of his opinion of what
is law, we insist that all law
upon the statute books is Law
until a proper tribunal DEGREES
to the contrary: the amendment
80 the legal advertisement stat
ute is LAW, so far as Sat least
three banks of this county" is
concerned taking a different
view, has nothing TO do with the
proposition, but We might call
attention, the s'three banks" he
refers to, have as their execu
tive heads. two persons, former
law partners who are notorious
" known to be unfriendly to
The Times, and it is presumed
that financial interest and poll
tics has more or less to do with
their unfriendiiness.
Lawyer Davis says ''In my
former letter I set ont my rea-
sons" for the unconstitutionality
OF the Act, his opinion however,
does not make it so. if it did
there would be no need for a
Z supreme court, therefore we
take the liberty of saying with
equal confidence. that we also
set out our reasons for believing
the law to be CONSTITUTIONAL
Z in. the constitution, Section 81
provides what Acts are prohib-
tied, and in this Inhibition the
Act referred to is not prohibited
bnt on the contrary, the constitu
lion IN section 81 subdivision K
s reads 1.-The General Assembly
shall forthwith enact general
laws concerning said subjects
for said purposes, which shall
De uniform in their operations:
Provided, That nothing contain
ed in this section shall prohibit
the General Assembly from en-
acting special provisions in gen
eral laws. !" The Act IN contro-
yersy is a Special Provision IN A
GENERAL LAW.
There was at one time a sub
division to the same section
known as subdivision TX which
reads as follows, SIN all cases,
where a general law can be
made applicable, no special law
shall be enacted" but the law
{ making power regarded this
provision unwise and injurious
and it was repealed. The same
action Eas taken With regard TO
subdivision II relating to incor-
poration OF cities and towns
changing and amending charters
etc. Therefore we say the
amendment to the GENERAL LAW
relating to legal advertisements
is good law, and until an author
isative tribunal says to the re-
verse, we shall always believe
that we are right, notwithstand-
ing the fact that we are not pos
sessed of a license to practice
Law.
It is boastfnl and folcde-rol to
suggest that we carry this con-
troversy to the courts for de.
cision. The State in it's wisdom
has assumed controlling super
vision over chartered banks, en-
acted laws for their guidance
and for the protection of the
public, it has also provided Off
GERS to see after the enforce
ment of the law, and whether it
is our "way of fighting: or not,
if it was our duty to enforce the
law, We should not have any
hesitency in doing so without
waiting for a bombastic chal-
lenge from anybody,
The matter under controversy,
in the first place, is Insignificant
the game is not worth the
candle, but in the second place,
it is no more part of our busi-