Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-10-13

kEoWn DenVef JuriSt, Is IN u falr
way to make himself unpopular
with the class of Americans he
refers to as "the substantially
well-to-do.' In the Denver court
over which he presides, Judge
Lindsay u few days ago, in re-
fuslng to sentence two youths
convicted of giving liquor to girls,
rakcd fore and aft wealthy citi-
zens for Keeping well stocked
cellars, while some poor devil
Is sentenced for drinking blind
tiger whiskey. ''Our high soci-
ety-our substantially well-to-do
people-are making mockery
of the law, said Judge Lindsay.
They are the ones responsible
for this business and they furnish
the temptation to the unemployed
and the ignorant to engage in
II. There is some truth in what
Judge Lindsay says, but the ef-
fort to excuse the man without
work or the "ignorant" (no one
III lh!s country is ignorant of the
liquor laws) for engaging in the
lqnor business because the exam
pie may have been set by some
one OF better standing in the com
mlnty is reasoning too far fetch
ed 10 be mdorsed generally. Lack
OF employment justifies no one
IN selling liquor. There ought to
be excuse for the man who finds
II necessary to take bread that
does not belong to him to ward
OH starvation, but different
proposition is presented in the
ease OF the man who breaks the
law of the land for profit, rs is
always the incentive for liquor
selling. The injustice of the Ell
forcemcnt. or lack of enforce
mcnt, of the liquor laws is found
IN this-that the well-to-do and
influential are not mOlested for
having liquor in their possession,
while the poor white man and ne
gro are hailed into court for the
same offense. This is the fault
o: the officers whose duty it is to
apprchend law violators and not
OF the law itself.
Nevcr!' eXclaims the New
berry Observer in commenting on
the suggestion that Governor Cox
again be nominated by the Dem
ocratic party for the presidency.
Perhaps it would be poor politics
to again put up Governor Cox.
but there was nothing in his cam
palgn last year for the country
10 be ashamed of. He was beat
en-, just as any other Democrat
would have been beaten. but it is
doubtful whether any man the
party might have put forward as
ITS leaders would have done bet
ter. One thing Governor Cox 3
campaign proved was that he was
big enough to be president. In
tellcctually, he outranked Hard
ing. For proof of the assertion
one needs but to read the cam
palgn speeches of the two men.
One of the chief factors in the
defeat of GOvcrnOr.COX was that
too many men and newspapers
which should have helped him
lay down on the job" Perhaps
they scented Republican success
and wanted to be in position to
say that they did nothing against
the Republican nominee.
In his final report to the war
department, dated September | .
1919, Gen. Pershimg in recounting
the part taken by the American
army in winning the World war
gave the credit for breaking the
Hmdenburg line to the Both di-
vision, composed of troops from
the Carollnas and Tennessee. But
now steps forward Weeks, secre-
fry OF war, TO say that the 9th
division (New York National
GuardD did as much to breach the
German Notifications as the boys
from the South and that credit
for the achievement belonos in