Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-10-29
EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT
What Various South Carolina News
Papera Think Of Various Things.

EDI OHIAl VI6WfOINI
What Various South Carolina News.
Papers Think Of Various Things.
We sometimes feel like lambasting
a police officer for arresting a poor
nigger' for shooting craps while he
overlooks the monied white man who
plays poker; but we are afraid-be-
cause he might quit arresting the mig
GER. '.-Newberry Observer.
Comparison
Ever notice toad? He squats COM
placently and with his ridiculous little
bowed fore legs braced apart blinks up
at you as impudently as though he
doubted your ability to step on him
and flatten him into the ground. Nasty
thing, a toad.
Ever hear a man, young or old,
boasting of what a very wicked and
dangerous character he was? Seemed
to forget that the God he def1ed could
snuff out his life as a candle Is snuff
ed. didn't he.
Nasty thing, toad.-Fountain Inn
Tribune.
A Difference.
The number Of drunk men on the
streets yesterday appeared to the
casual observer to be much smaller
than on circus day one year ago. One
year several drunks were to be seen
on almost every block, Yesterday q
drunk man was a rare sight, although
there were few who were disgusting
ly in evidence.
The gallon-a-month law has long
since demonstrated it's effectiveness
Each day, however, adds proof to the
fact that the legislators acted wisely
when they passed 1t. 1t has done more
to curtail drinking in South Carolina
than any other law that was ever
placed on the statute books.
South Carolina appears to be rapid
ly advancing in temperance. We be-
lieve the day is coming In this state and
in other states, too, for that matter
when the man who drinks will be as
much Of a rarity as the dope f1end Is
now.-Spartanburg Journal.
II Pays to Do Right.
A little more than year ago a man
was called upon to do some work fol
a woman, and he charged her Just
about three times what the work was
worth. He charged her $15, when 81
would have been a fair price. He may
have thought that, being a woman, she
would not know any better.
But she did know that she was
overcharged, and, while she paid the
bill, she did not forget about 1t. She
told her friends about it, and wher
her friends looked into the matter
and found that the woman had been
overcharged simply because she was
a woman and would not know any bet.
ter, they were indignant. They ir
turn told their friends about 1t, and
in this way the story got noised around
d BOOu many pldceS
And the mans business began fall
ing off. People who had been patron
izing him took their business else.
where, and people who had never pa
tronized him took good care not tc
do so. During the year the mans busi-
ness has dwindled to almost nothing
He has ruined himself by just one
wrong step.
The moral Is, of course that 1t pays
to do right, under all circumstances
and to all people.-Anderson Daily
Mail
SIander
Murder in the first degree severa
times magnified and intensiied-that's
slander.
The meanest devil on earth is the
slander devil, be he man or be she a
woman. One who would attempt tc
betray the reputation Of another ir
the hands and mouths Of his fellow
sinners alights himself with Ananias
Judas Iscariot and Satan himself. Nc
lower character, no more contempt
ible, scurrilous, reprehensible, incor.
rigible cur walks the earth than the
murderer Of ones good name. No words
are written, printed or "cussed" thai
are strong enough to characterize hi:
diabolism.
The chief earmark of the slanderel
Is his predisposition to the very thing
he accuses his victim Of; this Is practi-
cally the invariable rule. Be the sland.
erer professional official or private
in life, he has somewhere in the dark
closet of his own miserable existence
the very skeleton that he endeavors
to fasten upon his victim. His mind
runs that way. Things like that appea
to him more than anything else. His
activities along those channels seem
more easy and congenial; and II con-
federates in the propagation Of poison
are desired he can find them among
his former associates in similar ex-
periences.
There is nothing too mean for Sian.
derer 10 do. There are no words toe
strong to use in describing him. If q
murderer should hang seven feet, the
slanderer should drop 700-or be buried
alive, face downward, so that the more
he scratches the farther away from
decent people and the nearer to his
field Chronicle.
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