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mm vm Standard. VOL. XXXI. T'’ WALTHRBORO, S. C, Aft.rST u. igoy. NO. 51 A GRAND RALLY EVERY PERSONIINTERESTED IIN THE I.PROHIBITION MOVEMENT URGED TO BE PRESENT AUG. 16.. A grand prohibition rally will be held at the court house here Monday \ug. 16, to which every’prohibition- iat in the county is urged to be pres- ent. Distinguished speakers have been invited, to address the audience. The Executive committee and town ship chairmen will hold an important meeting. Let everyone ,who can come. “PROHIBITION WONT PROHIBIT We are glad to have lived to see this day. Christians of every name and order are rising up in their might to stamp out one of the great est evils that has ever menaced the human race since the days|of Adam- whiskey. Not only the Christians, but business men of all grades, from the seller of whiskey to tin highest standard of the professions, will 4 have no other but sober men to handle their business, ana still some weak-kneed Christians will cry out that there is no use to try to put down whiskey, as prohibition will not prohibit. But let us see how every prohibition law has been at- taked. and about the same argument, 1 presume, was used. Go back with me to the garden of Eden, if you please, when Adam and Eve were placed in it, in all of their purity of dress. Take care and eat of alt the fruit* except one, with positive pro hibition that they should not eat the fruit of the tree that was in the midst of the Garden. I can imagine Satan, that same old serpent which the whiskey still represents striking: ly calling his council together for a special hearing, and making a state ment something like this; “Our job in Heaven is just about up, but God baa a man and his wife in the Gar den of Eden with a positive prohibi tion, but it won’t prohibit, so let us go down and see Eve about it, and if we can get her to disobey why the man will follow sure.” The test was made and Adam and Eve fell under the temptation, and had it not been that Christ stands as a lamb slain from the foundation of the world, there would have been no salvation for the human race. We thank God that the prohibi tion laws have prohibited, to a cer tain degree, in all ages, and that the best men of all these ages have com batted the evils of their day and have come out conquerors, and we too shall conquer, in the name of God, if we are faithful to the trust which He has committed to us, that is, of establishing peace on earth. We hear some men saying that prohibition will hurt the business of our country. This reminds of the cry of the Gaderenes, Luke 8th etc., when the devils were cast out of the poor crazy men, they went into the hogs, causing their owners to lose a good deal of money, no doubt there fore they asked Christ to depart from them. The inference is that they had rather have their hogs and poor side crazy people than to have the blessings that Christ would give them. The testimony from those who have tried prohibition is in favor of prohibition in a business way. No sane man will admit that the men who handle whiskey are the very best and cleanest in the world, for there is no man or set of men, who handle the vile stuff, but who will become contaminated sooner or later in one way or another. Just look at some of our noble young naen,*rwho nave been connected with the dispen sary, how tney have fallen victims to fraud and graft, enriching them selves with earnings of the poorest people of our state, therefore we say, try it-save the boys of our land. M. R. Stone. Islandton, Aug. 7.*. 1 • " - — , A vote next Tuesday for prohibi- taan may sava YOUR boy from a I's grata. Will you cart it? "VOTE] WIT fw m SARI!!'” *> HIME! It is up to the voters of Colleton County to choose between these two A«»srust 17th. YOUR choice? PROHIBITION DEPARTMENT EDITED DT JAS. E. PEUSIFOr AND W. W. SMOAK. JR. ARE YOU FOR SAIE? There are th(»se who favor the dispensary because of the revenue it pays, the money for helping’ to run the schools and for county expenses. We find that the revenue received for the schools from this source is $5,180.-r the same amount going to the county. Now the last enrollment for the schools of the county, both races, is 6,200 pupils *' This will give, there fore, 83 cents per pupil. The Hand book of South Carolina by E J Wat son, 1907, gives the population of Colleton county in 1906 as 36,662, therefore the amount saved by the dispensary fund per capita—that is to every man. woman and child is is 11 cents three and one half miles. Now this is revenue with a ven geance, isn’t it? Is there a voter in Colleton county who will sell his vote for 11 cents? God pity our men if a bribe of 83 cents per scholar and 11 cents per capita will buy their votee. Reduced to its last analysis this is what it means. Mr. Voter, are you for sale? If you are, for Heaven's sake sell out to something clean and decent- not to the dirty whiskey traffic. - But then if you figure this is net revenue, there you are mistaken. Deduct court expenses of dispensary —caused crime and you have noth ing left—two cases we have in mind each have taken at least a year’s revenue, so there is nothing to the credit in the way of revenue. Another thing. Mr Voter, this revenue for your schools is paid t>y poor men whose children never see inside a school house; it is paid by rags, poverty, mother’s and widow’s tears, and the hopeless misery of little ones. • If the price of your vote could be paid by the wealthy it would not be so bad, but shame on you if you take your bribe from the innocent, ignor ant and helpless. ARE YOU FOR SALE? In this prohibition campaign in Colleton county we have not heard WILL PROHIBITION PROHIBIT? Prohibition will not prohibit, we are told. Th<m the records of the courts, of towns, cities and states where it prevails count for little. We have yet to find an authentic record from a prohibition town county or State where prohibirion has not diminished the sale and con sumption of liquor, in many cases 75 per cent. Another thing, that —- means a lot is that where a com munity or State is once prohibition, it is alwgys prohibition. Mayor Ross of Gaffney, (S. C.) says: “1 find that from the 1st day of June, 1903, to the 1st day of June, 1904, that 133 cases were tried before the Mayor for being drunk, besides a number of other cases more or less attributable to liquor, and from June 1st 1908, to June- 1st 1909, we have had only 30 cases up for drunkenness, or about 25 per cent, as many cases as we had dur ing the last year of the dispensary. From the above facts the most ardent supporters of the dispensary , with good, REV J. P. GRAHAMS SERMON. The sermon Sunday morning at the Baptist church by Rev .1 P Gar- ham was listened to with rapt atten tion by a large congregation. The services were expected to be attend- ed by all the congregations of the town, but some misunderstanding prevented the Presbyterian church being closed, so the congregation was from the other churches. Rev Graham preached a practical sermon which deeply impressed the congregation. His text was; Be not overcome with evil but overcome evil with good. He took the position that alcohol ism is an evil and must be overcome with good.' Winning the fight at the polls on the 17th will not win the battle. The real work of prohibi tion will then just have begun. Every man must feel that he is a policeman and a detective to see that the traffic is put down. There is also very much to be done in the homes— this is the place where men who do things, right things are taught. Referring to the revenue. Rev Graham quoted from Habakkuk: Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth a city by iniquity. We need officers to en force the law who are pure and true men. Then to overcome the evil there must be places must conclude that prohibition does established to take the place of the prohibit and does decrease drunken- dispensary such as reading rooms, lyceum courses, musicales etc. “TVs,” said the speaker, ”is a work for your Civic League.” The music was very appropriate and effective. Mrs N .G Morrall had charge of this part of the Mayor Ross continues: ’’Some people argued if we voted out the dispensary .that our taxes would be doubled but 1 find on examination that such is not the case, but on the other hand our taxes are less for the year 1909 than than they were for 1904, nothwjthstanding a number of extra levies for special purposes, ’ such as special school tax, bridges and roads etc.” Spartanburg, with 25,000 inhabi tants, receives by express only an average of 27 gallons a day which gives only .003 of a gill per capita. The revenue received by the United States goverment from the liquor dealers is $16,000,000 less in 1908 than in 1907. Liquor dealers are everywhere fighting the prohibition qiovement because it decreases their sales. Duriiig 1908 the revenue tax re- THE WHISKEY CURSE. Viewing the question of prohibi tion from a common sense stand point, I fail to understand how any God fearing, liberty loving man can be anything but a prohibitionist. Whiskey is a great evil, yes, the greatest evil blotting the fair page of our irreat civilization. 1 say this be cause whiskey if not the cause of it, it is for the most part associated with every evil with which we are cursed. Whiskey influences the mind and nerves the hand of the murderer for his deeds of death and ruin. t A man may be a bad man and not drink whiskey, but it is certain that every man who habitually drinks is bad in almost every morel sense. Then if whiskey be an evil, can it be right to make the traffic in whiskey a legal traffic? 1 know that the whiskey men are crying for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but liberty that makes crime is false liberty, it is no liberty at all for I only have a right to exercise my native powers in the gratification of my desires so long as I do not inter fere with the liberty of another. When we legalize the sale of whiskey we are interfering with the rights of others by placing temptation in the way of the man who is too weak to resist it Can this be right? Oh but there will be blind tigers, whis key men will have ik Yes. and the hog trill wallow in the mud but are we under any obligation to furnish the mud. Then if men made in the mortal likeness of the Maker will be hoggish as to drink whiskey ought good, sensible people furnish whis- ARCHITECT SELECTED F. LEITNER OF WILMINGTON, ARCHITECT EOR A. C. 1. RAIL ROAD CO. The Building Committee met Sat urday to consider plans of architects for the new school building for Wat- terboro. There were eight firms pre senting plans, and after carefully considering all the plans presented, the committee awarded the contract to J. F. Leitner, of Wilmington, N. C. The other architectural firms hav ing representatives present were: E. A W. K. Dunne, Sumter; ShandA LaFaye, Columbia; Sayre A Baldwin, Anderson; Johnson A Platt, Sumter; Preacher A Holman, Augusta; Todd A Benson, Charleston; Wilson, Som ? payrec A Urquhart. Columbia. Mr. Leitner, the winner is an ex perienced architect. He is president of the North Carolina Architecture association, and is also architect for the A. C. L. railroad company. The plan selected gives ten large rooms with a capacity of 450 pupils several smaller rooms. The auditori um is on the 1st floor and will seat 600 persons. The building will be of brick and stone, and will be up-to- date in every particular. The con tract for building will be awarded in about two weeks. service. “Where is my .Wandering key for them to drink Boy Tonight?” was beautifully ren dered at the cloSe of the sermon. of a man who proudly champions ceipts show that there was a decrease the cause of the dispensary. A few there are who will admit, if pressed for an answer, that they will vole for it. Now, honor bright, if tbe presence of the dispensary is a bles sing why are not its friends profd at it. and why do thaf ■* boldlir Kt -Jer in the amount of liquor produced of over 30,000,000 gallons. Yet they say prohibition does not prohibit! Next Tuesday it will bf the privi lege of our people to decide whet e •* '«■*>*{ •* , REV CAUTHEN AT BETHLEHEM The services Sunday morning at Bethlehem were in the interest of prohibition. The sermon being preached by Rev H J Cauthen of Walterboro. Mr Cauthen was at his best and held the closest attention of his large congregation. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, the prohibition address to have been given last Sunday at Wil liams by Capt. H. D. Padgett was postponed till next Sunday. / Mrs. W. A. black leaves this after- noon for New York and Baltimore, where she will be gone till the first of September purchasing her fell stock of millinery. Mias Queenie Parker., of Ford, Cal, is in town viriti Mte of Mr wd Mr, E D Every man is a party to the whiskey business in those counties where it is legally sold. We are putting the bottle to our brothers mouth. Prohibition won’t prohibit if we could have prohibition but can not now, that is not true. We Can have it if we will. We can come ms near enforcing this law as can any other prohibitory measure. We can certainly make the man who is so low and mean as to be low enough as to be willing to engage in the whiskey business skulk and hide to sell it. 1 remember reading some time since a statement made by a traveling salesman who tested the law in a town in the state of Blaine, noted for its blind tigers. He said in substance that be tramped ax miles through snow nearly knee deep trying to get some whiskey and when be did finally find it, he had to tok am of meet sqIwhi oaths he DELIGHTFUL DANCE The young ladies of the town gave a very enjoyable dance Friday eve ning from 9:30 to 2:00 o’clock. This dance was given in honor of the young men of the town and their visisiting friends. Music was fur nished by a local band, and fruit punch served as refreshment. The evening was enjoyed by all present. The young men will return the compliment Thursday evening of this week. Metz’ band of Charleston will furnish the music, and a swell effair is promised. Ur and fifty cents for a half pint of whiskey. He said he belonged to the Masonic and several other secret fraternities, but had never taken such a solemn oath before. Now, if prohibition can make whiskey that hard to get we are morally bound to have prohibition. The doctrine of prohibition was surely concieved in tne mind of God for His word as we have it is decidedly against the sale and use of whiskey. Read Proverds 20:1:1—23; 20:1-23- 31:1—31: 4 5. Isa. 5: 22: 1-28: 1:1. Hoses 4:11: 1. Habak kuk 2: 15. Pauls epistle the Romans 14: 21, and a host of other pareages which comdenins the use and sale of whiskey. God’s words strikes at the “very foundation of theJ^ingdom of moral evil and everything evil is inconsistent with the teaching of His word. I am a prokibitinist, because God and all good people are on this side. If on the seventeenth of August we vote whiskey out of this county, God, the holy Angels and all good people will rejoice, but the devil his angels, the whiskey makers and sel lers will only be sad. The whiskey makers and sellers are all enemies of God and all that is holy, good and noble. Then like true God fearing, liberty loving men let us put than out of business, A man cannot be intereeted in the moral development of his country and love the purity of the home and be anything else but a prohibitionist. If this whiskey dis pensary the most damnable institu tion with which a people has ever been cursed is retained in the county it will be largely by the efforts of those who profess to be followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose Gospel stands opposed to all manner of evil. Let every church member do his duty and the damnable whiskey dis pensary is gone. Yours for morel purify. Rev. C. W. Burgess. MEETING GLASED. Theprotractod meeting at Car ter’s Ford closed last Friday p m. Aug. 6th with a result of something like fifty candidates for bsptiwn.ths m m *4 "\ €