Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Big Picnic Septemb 1 A Word 01 THE Prohibition forces have this place on the 2d day of Si and child in the county w the subject of temperance; who from the awful liquor curse; wh< the deadly poison, are expected to The day will be spent in picni bi have a good time and enjoy 'ng a basket and have a picnic rees at the court house. Prominent speakers have been church and Sunday school in the resented. Let them all come. I superintendent are expected to ur Let the Prohibition forces sho everyone should be glad to enlist ".lose at the ballot box September I Hof temperance which will take ye: We expect five thousand pee them gladly. KEEP THE ISSUE CLEAR I Cannot Afford to Legalize the Sale of Liquor. There are many otherwise good men who intend to vote 1 against prohibition on the 14th i of September because they think the dispensary is the best way to regulate the traffic. In other words they think this course is the expedient one. Let me say first of all that II am convinced t this ii not the case, but. am sure that a return to the old dis9pene 1 sary-system which has been tried and found wanting would be but t multiplying our troubles. We have our blind tigers now, but if I we went back to th a old dispen sary system our own experience t tells us and the experiench of those living in the dispensary counties confirm it. that we would but be adding the dispen sary to the blind tiger. 1 can see - howv a man who never had any experience with the dispensary system with all of its attendant rottenness. could vote for it- but I am at a loss to understand how we who endured its noisome stench for years (ou ld d(eliber- r ately vote to fasten it, upon our selves again. But the question we are to de cidle when we come to cast onr' ballots is not one of eKpediency, even if it could be proven that l the re-establishment of the dis. pensary were' the most .expedi- t It ent course. ?; a moral ques tion, one 1etween right and wrong. cannot afford to temporize ith evil or make a f truce with t "edlevil. We retard ! our civilizat on and stultify our manhood e '"Iry time we gain the coInseInt of (br conscience to do t * so. The xyb"skey traffic is wrong 4 and it c -be made right, tho the law, mjay make it respectable by thr( m~,ng its protecting arm ab~out2 ',. True, whiskey is now bel:sold by blind rigers, but /h' Q the only way g. self-re pealing people sh)old; permit it to be sold-mn the back alley a nd. down in the cellars, in the dark -] and on the sly-by negroes and lawless whites. That is ju st the; (difference between the dispen sary andl the blind tiger. One drives its trade ini the (dark and under cover, a recognized law breaker. But a dispensary oc cupies a building on the princi- ( pal str'eet"of the town and is t madeO respectable b~y the loving t arm of the law thrown about it. t No consideration can ever make it right to (10 wrong, and the!< whiskey traffic is an unmiti iiated wrong, though it tries to bribe us arnd thus soothe ouri consciences by the paltry revenue 1 which it pays. I like the ring~ of the wvordls of a certain state offi- e cer in prohibition Kansas. HeI I said that Kansas wvould be for a prohibition even if it could be proved that it entailedl a finan- ( cial loss on the state (and it'I doesn't), for Kansas sets a high er value on m an hoodI th uan money A Christian and a church< member cannot afford to votet Greeting planned for an all-day rally at ptenber. Every man, woman ho are in any way interested in vant to see our fair state freed want to hear the truth about be present. c style. Everybody is expected themselves. All are asked to inner under the beautiful shade invited and will be here. Every county are expected to be rep very pastor and Sunday school e their people to come. w their colors. This is a cause in. The fight is on and if we 4 it will be a blow to the cause irs to recover from. ple that day, and we welcome 3. R. HENDRICKS, Mayor. or the re-establishment of the lispensary, for he would thus )e riving his approval to one of he greatest curses of the race. le can't afford to temporize vith such an evil. When it Lsks him to give it the respecta )ility and protection of the law here is only one thing that he an do, even though he were' onvinced that the present num- I >er of blind tigers would in rease a hundred fold; a follow r of him who was manifested hat he might destroy the works f the devil is false to his Lord mnless he casts the whole weight f his influence to annihilate his masterpiece of the devil. Nor can any true citizen af ord to cast his vote in favor of he dispensary, for it nas been ried in South Carolina and it ias polluted everything and verypody it touched and cast eproach oti the fair name of ur great state. We do not vant to degrade her to the level if a common saloon keeper. I would be glad indeed if very member of the church vho has made up his mind to ote for the dispensary would ead the following story which uet my eye the other day: A certain young man who ad a weakness for strong rink ived in a certain town w itre; _ ampaign was being conducted or the establishment of a sa. 30n. The voung man, k n'w ng his weakness, worked hard o defeat the saloon, but the )ajority said that it must be stablished. The temptation vas too much for him and he ell and became a confirmed runkard. At last he was dy g of delrium tremens and sent or his pastor. He said to him hat he had one request to make f him, that he w"ould get for im the names of the members f his church who voted for the stablishment of- the saloon that ad causedl his dlownfall and fter he had (lied that these anmes should be Pinned to his ireast as he lay in his casket hat he might lelad them at the ndgment seat of Christ as one eason wvhy he wvas lost. L. E. WIOGiNs. Put It'h Your Program Make your plans to coime to ~ickens September 2. What ver else you may haye planned head, be0 sure that you put Sep ember 2 in your program to at end the prIohibition) rally and lcnic at Pickens. It will be0 a lay well spent and vou will Iever' miss the time. Thlis day v'ill be the biggest day of all the lays this year at Pickens. Plans iave been madle to entertain a arge crowdl. No expenise is being pared to make all who come iave a good time. So lay aside rouru home duties for one (lay mud .joini in the festivities of t}1e iccasion. 1King Alcohol dlemands our iomes,our wives, our husbands, >ur children. our sil vern, our gold, )nr soul; and we yioel them up. THE BIG DAYl THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 SPEAKERS: Lieut.-Gov. A. J. Bethea Colonel W. D. Upshaw Mr. Colie Seaborn Come,_Hear Them! PROGRAM All the Sunday schools and citizens will assemble at the depot at 9.30 and march to the court house. Assembled in the court house at 10 o'clock. Music by the Band Call to order, Rev. D. W. Hiot ,presidin Song Prayer, - - - - Rev. J C. Bailey Song Address, - - - Mr. C lie Seaborn Song Address, - Lieut. Gov. A. J. Bethea Song Address, - - - Col. W. D. Upshaw Music by the Band Benediction, - - Rev. L. E. Wiggins Dinner * The afternoon will be spent in social intercourse. The Great Destroyer "Had I ten million tougues and a throat for each tongue, I would say to every man, woman and child here tonight: Throw strong drink aside as you would an ounce of liquid hell. It sears the conscience. it destroys everythin; it touches. It;i reaches into the family circle and takes the wife you had sworn f to protect and drags her down from her purity into that house from which no decent woman ever goes alive. It induces the t father to take the furniture from his house, exchange it for money at the pawnshop, and spend the proceeds in rumm. I have seen it in every city east of the Mississippi river, and I know that the most damning curse to the laborer is that which gurgles from the neck of the bottle. I had rather be at thei head of an organization having rIoo,Ooo temperate, honest, earnest men than at the head of an organization of twelve million drinkers, wvhether moderate or any other kindl.-.--Speech of T. V. Powvderly. Drunkenness Mr. Gladstone, that eminent English statesman, thus de fines drunkenness: Drunken ness expels reasoni. Drowns mnemory. D~eiaces becauty. Diminishes strength. Inflames the blood. Causes internal, external and incurable wvoundls. It's a wvitch to the senses. A devil to the soul. A thief to the purse. A begga r' s comp ian ion. A wife's woe and children's so.rrow. It makes man a beast and a murderer. 1HI diriniks to others' good health And robs himself of his owvn. Facts Abo FEW days ago, when the whole conntry was wor rving about the unprece tented heat and drought in the West, the governor of Kansas ssued a public statement say ng he hoped no one would waste >ity on the people of his Stale. " 'With over $200,000,000 on leposit in our State and nation A1 banks, we could weather a worse storm than this without hardship.' This money, equal ly divided among the men, women, children, and babies of Kansas, would give each of them $118 in cash, not to men bion the tidy sum of $1084 each is credited with as his or her share of the State's assessed wealth. Kans:;a' last year pro Iuced $032i,000,000 worth of Farm products. "In eighty-seven of her one imndred and five counties there ire no insane. In lifty-four of rhis number there are no feeble mn inded. Ninety-six counties have no inebriates, and in the )ther nine they're as scarce as lens' teeth. Thirty-eight coun Ky poorhouses are as empty as last year's locust-shell, and most of these have been so for the past decade. \"''he pauper population of the Stat; falls a little short of 000. That i:: one pauper for each ;3000 of the kind making a living, and a good one--the kind that now own $255,000,000 worth of live stock and in the last twelve months have added more than $45,000,000 to their taxable personal property. Her own people this year hold muore than $67,000,000 in this form of wealth, an incr'ease of over 50( per cent in five years. At one time not long ago th( jails in fifty-three counties were empty and sixty-five counties were oin the roll as having no prisoners serving sentences in the penitentiary. Instead of being hampered by a large mass of illiterates-thir tv Years ago 49 per cent of her po:uinlation camne n(der this head -her present ratio of 2 per cent is next to the lowest in the land ind two-thirds lower than Mas achussetts. including Boston. "It is the combination of tense and solid muscle that has Cept her growing stronger and 'icher through extremes of cli nate which soon would deci nate a less fit lot. "These people have made good n a. zone once declared to be un inestionably Ilnpro(lctive. In he last twenty years they've nade this 'unproductive' soil rield corn and wv'heat worth '"So something w~ould seenm to >e the mnatter' with Kansas. "Somethinig th' nmatter wvith m'. Tlhat some~t hing$4, we be ieve, can lbe boiled downm inlto hese fourteen word5 ('0ns1tiut-I nig ani amm~vendment made to1 Wr 'onlstit~ntlin in 1881: 'The manufacture andl sale of n toxicat inn liqulor shall be for ver prohlibited1 ini this State.' '"it is this fundamntal pr-ovi sion,. fought and1 evaded in some ocalities as it was for a (quarter' :entury, and( str1ic'tly enflored1 in ill parts of the State onily with na the last five yea rs. that has 'lipedl Kansas to flaunt a two )tIudred million bank ac'count ni the face of a part ial rop) fail ire; that relieves' her of spend ng muc1(h timie, st renigth, and1 nIoney on1 pauprs c~'.(rim inals, nsane and feeble-mined; that gi ves hier peopil' the best of thances for liv-ingi amii the few st eXcuses for (lying. "For even while the liquor' inl .(orests suc('(ceded in) (vadinig the awV iln manyl inJstanC(s andh i(oasted( Ihbat pro'hibitioni was a 'ailmi'e in Kanisas, gov\erinmtent statistics show-ed that the annu. 1l conum~iiptioni of initoxi(nting ignlors5 in that State was $1.48 ser capita, while in the neigh iorimrg Sta te of Missouri, wher, ut Kansas the whiskey ring ruled, it was $24 per capita. "In other' words, the average Kansan had just $22.52 more to spend on food, clothing, educa tion, and entrtainment than his' neighbor across the Kaw. "It is this defiance of what other States have legalized as a neccessary evil that has helped to make her citizens the richest per capita in the country and the richest of all agricultural folks in the world; that has giv en her a permanent school fund of $10,000,000 and has reduced her illiteracy to almost nothing. Ninety-eight per cent of her 400,000 school children have never seen a saloon. "-Editorial in the North American, a lead inr Philadelphia daily. Can Evil Come of Good? To the Editor of The Sentinel: Dr. Silas Swallow, in his prohi bition presidential campaign. told this story: "Two drunic men at midnight stopped near an arc light. One swore that it was sun-up, but the other declared that it was, the moon. After a maudlin dis pute they agreed to be governed' by the judgement of the next man that came along. The. next man that came along was drunker than either of them, and when they referred the question to him he leaned up against the fence and, after he had meditated between hie coughs, looked at the arc light and said, " : entlemeni I can't make up make up my mind; you'll have to excuse mie: I'm (hic) a stranger in this comnmli;. ity." So it seems very strange to me, and should to any intelli gent person, that so mlany V peo ple can't make u) their ,minds that prohibition is hetter than liqlor. The great, evils of pro hibition, growing out of blind tigers and loss of reVenue, are seen only by those who are pleading for the liquor traffic. It seems to me that the prosper ity of Maine, Kansas, and other prohibition states is conclusive proof that prohibition is better than the license law. Maine is called the "Park State." Every home shows where the drink dollar of license states go. The fences are kept up, and the gar dens are filled with flowers, and thrift is apparent every where. But just go over the Hampshire line and the slums are the usual rum slums. We can see the same thing in our own beloved st ate. 'l'he man that spends his m1oIney for dirink mullst go shabi bily dlressedl and often live ini a renltedl house wvhile his wife and children (do not have sufficIent to eat, andi~ very of t4en do not hav ci lothes to) wear to school ando chnreh. Biut the man who is sobler anid induistrious can wvear good clothes and~ have 1)lent.y for his wife and children. But sonie say that prohibition does not prohibit. It seems that it has worked well in the above mentioned states, andI why not in South Carolina? 1 hope that the people of Pick ens county will go out to the prohibition rally that is to be held at Pickens Sept. 2. And 1 also urge every voter to go to the polls Sent. 14 and vote for prohibition. (Rey.) L. W. JOHNSON. Wine At first it is the wino of pleas ant fellowship; at the last it is the wrath of the Almighty God pour'ed out wvithout m ixtuire. A t the first it is the agreeable excitement of ani eveninga e last it~ is the long-drawn1 agony of an endless plerd ition.' At the first it is the grateful stimulus of an hour; at the last it is the fire that never (lies and the fire that never shall be (Inenehed.