The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 03, 1915, Page 8, Image 8
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The scripture pronounces a "Woe" J
upon the man who puts a bottle to
his neighbor's lips, or tfives him a 1
drink. (See Hab. 2:15.) This law !
will not only apply to the individual (
but to the Nation, State, or County, '
Who is it that is putting the bottle to ,!
the lips of Union county, Newberry, |
Fairfield, Chester, Cherokee, Spartan- '
burg, Hendersonville, Asheville am 1
many other places? The answer is
short but pointed: The voters of
Union county who voted for the oispensary.
Hence the "woe" of the
scripture is upon each voter who voted
for the lis;, m >a?y. ! o say t!:;.i j
liquor would be sold anyway does not
remove the le >.?sibility. If it ban
been sold anyhow it would have been
an illegal sale.
But the <|uqcstion is: "Ought the
dispensary be retained or voted out?" 1
FIRST, WHY SHOULD IT BE 1
RETAINED? Let its advocates answer:
1. On account of personal liberty.
A man has a right to drink if he wants 1
to. What about rights of wife and
children at home? Have they no
right to the bread and meat that ought
to be bought with the same money
spent for liquor. Have sober people
lio right to be shielded from the drunkard.
'vho stagger along the streets
with ever ready pistol? What tne
booze advocates wants is not LIBERTY
but LICENSE to do as he pleases.
The speed fiend, the man who carries
concealed weapons, the man with ;
small-pox must be restricted for the
sake of others and for the safety of
the public; so with the man who tak >s
booze. He has LIBERTY to do right
He cannot ha?e LICENSE to do
wrong.
2. It helps to reduce taxes.
In 1013 the income from booze was
$ '>.">0,000,000. The same year it costs
the working men $2,000,000,000; the
cost of maintaing the courts the same
year was $1,000,000,000. There went
out for booze $2,8.">0,000,000 more than
came in. Add to this $0,t00,000,000
for maintaing paupers, orphans, idiots
and criminals caused by booze and you !
have the immense sura of .A'SaO niio - I
000 more paid out ths.u cam j iii. In
one county the cry was made that it
helped to maintain the public schools.
So it did. You had to spend SJ'J foi
booze to tret one dollar for 'ho scnools.
That is drinkintr a lot to tret a littleThe
figures is not at hand nut we
feel sure that if the ten thousand dollars
spent each month by the people of
Union for booze (this leaves out 'he
money spent from the outside) were
properly invested the taxes would be
much less than they are now w?th the
aid of the Imo/.e business.
So much money invested in
booze business- -can't afford to lose it.
There about $771,000,000 invested j
in this country. From the figures
above it will be seen that the Government
could pay the amount invested
every year anil then save to the people
over eiirht billion dollars.
4. In 19115 2per cent of the corn
crop of the country was made up into
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booze. A valuation of about 35 cents
per capita. That is helping the farmer
some5.
It helps business.
Yes, it does but the principal part
>f it goes to the dispensary. The dry
?oods, groceries, and shoe stores
lon't get much. If the dispensary
:an take in $478 per day for thirty
lays, Sur^-'ay included, what is there
left for tne other stores? The dispensary
sales represent one member
r?f the family, the others the needs of
the whole family. What a contrast!
SECOND, WHY SHOULD THE
BOOZE BUSINESS BE VOTED
OUT?
1. Because of its destructive influence.
75 per cent of the idiots of the country
are from intemperate parents.
80 per cent of our paupers a? e ma le
soby booze.
82 per cent of the crime in the roun
try committed by men upder influence j
di nooze.
5)0 per cent of adult criminals an
made so hv booze.
75 per cent of social crimes are due
to booze.
2. Because it costs too much in dollars
and cents.
Twenty five dollars are paid out
for support of booze and its destructive
influences for every dollar paid
in by booze for taxes. The statement
is made that the nation drinks
up its entire wealth every twentyfive
years.
3. It costs too much in human lives.
It costs 2,000,000 boys ever" generation
to maintain it. On Jan. 1st each
year 500,000 young men go into the
booze dens and the following December
105,000 of them come out confirmed
drunkards. Three hundred
men die drunk each day. A funerai
procession '>,000 miles long composed
of 110,000 hearses each containing the
body of a drunkard passes through
the land each year. There are 250,000
saloons in the country and 5,000,000
go in daily to drink. It costs too
much of human life. Will your boy
be one of the number? Will you sell
your boy or your neighbor's for taxes,
liberty, business, or anything else?
1. Its effects for evil are so far
reaching.
Farmer brings a bushel of corn
and sells it for one dollar. The distiller
gets from it .2(5 pints of booze.
Ex-(iov. Ilanle.v of Indiana has followed
three of these pints and shows
how they cause drunkenness and resulted
in the death of seven people.
What about fhe other thirty- three
pints?
"?. Because of its character.
1. It is a thief. It takes food and
raiment from hungry wives and children.
robs the poor and undefiled
of virtue, it sacrifices honor for the
price of a drink, it steals coal from the
cellar and leaves the home cold and
deathly, it steals character and reputation,
it takes away ones position, and
turns him and his family into the
streets homeless and penniless. It
is a thief and ought to go.
2. It is a liar. It promises good
and sends only sorrow, it promises
health and sends disease, it promises
prosperity and sends adversity, it
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it promises happiness pnd. sends,
misery. It sends the husband home
penniless to his wife with a lie on his
lips, it puts a rope in the hands of the
mob to do violence, it resorts to everv
sort of device to do its deadly work
and to evade the law in so doing. It
is the concoctor of the most diabolical
schemes this side of eternity.
3. It is an infidel. It would tear
down every church, silence every
preacher, kill religion, eiose every
school, fill prisons, jails, asylums, ciphan
homes, widow's homes, it despises
love, hates heaven and tempts
the ungovernable passions of man.
Surely sensible men will not allo.v
such a menace to remain in our midst.
6. Its absence orings prosperity
Prohibition be.ame effective in Kansas
in 1905. Tn Kansas Ci*y with a
population of 100,000 there were 250
saloons, 200 gambling dens, (50 place;
of ill fame.
A president of a bank who was opposed
to prohibition, declared at the
end of the first year that his denosits
had Increased $1,700,000 and 72 per
cent of this amount was from men
who had never saved a cent before.
Building operations increased 200 per
cent the costs of the courts was reduced
$25,000 and (500 boys and girls
from 12 to 16 were sent to school who
had never been put to school before.
third, can it be put out?
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I anu 11/ Win uc. r\ii Vino wciirv
about prohibition not prohibiting
amounts to nothing. If it doesn't
prohibit why does the booze interests
try so hard to stop the prohibition
business?
Every true citizen must co to iho
Dolls and vote for this business to ten
and then he must stand by his vote
with his interest, his prayers and his
sympathy. If you say it is not nine
to you and refuse to vote then.
1, You are a coward.
2. You are indirectly putting the
bottle' to your neighbor's lips.
You are untrue to God and your
fellow man.
4. You will find later that it does
concern you very seriously when the
"woes" of God are pronounced upo
vou.
G. P. W.
VOU It MOTHER
No one else may ever care if you have
a broken heart.
No one else may. if you err, be inclined
to take your oart;
When fair weather friends forget and
when fortune smiles no more,
She will think you worthy yet, and
be faithful as before.
N'o one else may know, but she will
perceive llll'in every unc,
Others may belittle you, but, with
gladness in her breast,
She will win her triumphs thru thos*
by which you may be blessed.
No one else may be inclined to forgive
you if you fall, ,
If your hopes must be resigned no oih
else may weep at all;
But if all else trned away and you?
soul with sin were black,
She would never fail to pray, every
dav, to win you back.
?S. E. Kiser.
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HOW TO LIVE LONG |
Dr. William Brady, the editor ol* ^
The Raleigh, (N. C.) Times health
column, in a recent issue gave some
rules, which if followed, he says, will
cause a man to live a longtime. The
doctor in his article says: e.
"A man is as old as his arteries, lJ
runs a familiar axim. His arteries are
as old as his ductless glands. And his c
ductless glands are as old as his mode T
of living makes them. ti
"Senility begins somewhere between
the ages of th irty and seventy, de- i jj
pending on how fast you live. It is r(
simply a question of temperament, ^
habit, food drink and exercise. Optimism,
good nature, faith in a here- 1
after and obedience to the laws of na- v
tore are essential ingredients of 1*
Noah, for instance; he got along quite b
comfortably for some six hundred u
years, notwithstanding heavy tribulation;
then he took to drink and his
days were soon numbered.
"Feeling what we fear may be the "
first faint pangs of senility approaching,
we have made an interested invacHcrotinti
/. f 1 lw? /licnnoo
V.. ? ?' jj
ered in the form of ten command- .
ments the consensus of authoritative '
opinion upon the vital question of pre,
vention. Of course, these precepts are
necessarily tinctured with our own 11
personal views?for we have a con- P
ceitfed way of preferring our own op- Ii
inion about some things to the opinion
of\authority. b
Here is the decalogue: p
i 1. Don't coddle; don't let the house* a
hold temperature go above (18 de- s
grees, and spend some time in the j
1 open air daily. "
2. Eat little meat, but plenty of
vegetables, eerals, fruits and nuts; *
drink much milk and water, but no
{ alcoholic berovages.
3. Take a tepid bath each day
. j Show vour body to the sun. (
4. Wear light weight. knitted
wool or silk and wool underwear
, nine months in the year. Wear what- (|
ever i else you need, but no more than ^
tn Lrn \;ah ?Kl/?
j " " v [' J v/u willlVi WUIQt K
g. Slei n as much or as little as you '
please, but sleep in a porch bedroom *
or a room with open windows 3')4 "
nights a year. '[
6. Walk at least a mile a da- "
chest out. chin drawn in, stomach 11
. held back, keep you mouth closed,
hreq^he heavily and toe in. 11
I 7. Be a cheerful idiot throughout li
your walkintr hours. t
j 8. Put vour trust in (iod and despise
no man's religion.
9. Marry early, and if necessary of- f
1 ten, and always Dick a winner.
10. Tak e as little medicine as your
i doctor will allow, and have just one
goo4 doctor, but have one whether
you need him or not.?Spartanburg ^
.Journal. _ ^
NOTICE OF ELECTION J
There will be an election in ll.aik H
: Uock, Special School District No. :'.l, y
Sept. 14, for the purpose of voting 3
mills levy for school purposes.
J. H. Hope.
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Davis Jefferies.
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
abolished by Tennessee, According to M
Ruling.
Under the construction of Clianellor
Hal H. Huynes, of the gov- 1J'
rnor's veto power, the bill passed by m
ae recent legislature abolishing cap- cl
;al punishment, except in certain
uses, is now n law in Tennessee. (>
'his view is contrary to one recently ?>
akeu by Circuit Judge Xen I licks. In
The bill was passed just before a <'(
tilrty-day recess. Subsequent to the b?
ecess (InVei'iior Itye vetoed the bill. Cl
Tot counting the recess, the veto was lu
i time to be effective. Otherwise it th
ras not. The chancellor was not
assing directly on the capital pun- in
diluent hill, but on another vetoed ci
nder the same circumstances. Ill
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IRON-CLAD EMBARGO. en
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Dead Line" Established On Mexican pt
Border.
The United States plans to estab- T<
Ish a "dead line" along the Mex- el
;an border. Practically the entire ol
orce that has been massed at Texas ta
!ity, with the exception of one regi- at
aent. which is to go to the Philipines.
will be distributed along the
lio Grande.
They will he directed to put down M
rigandage wit it an iron hand. Mexsan
bandits who try to cross with
rms in their hands will he killed on ic
ight. In addition, a.n iron-clad em- ta
argo will he placed 011 all exporta- h<
ions to Mexico of munitions from P?
he United States. vi
U. S. COTTON CROP. ei
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iovernment Estimate, Placing Total el
at 11,800,000 Bales.
The department of agriculture pre- B
licted that the next cotton crop would ot
>e approximately 11.SOO.OOO bales of ju
00 pounds grosr weight. This pre- vv
letlon was made after the condition in
f cotton 011 August 25 was estimated ni
iy the bureau of crop estimates to be Hi
i0.2 and is based on 121,150,000 nl
cres.
The 1014 cotton crop was 10,124, 20
bales, or more than 5,000,000
iales above the ofllelal estimate of OI
he present crop, p(
The report had a marked bullish rp]
ffeet on the market, but the rise was jj
ollowed by a slump at the close. jp
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Noted Playwright tiles, ut
Paul Armstrong, the plnywrlght, 0|
lied suddenly at his home in New
fork of heart disease. He was 40
'ears old. Mr. Armstrong had been
t prominent figure of the American
tage for the lust ten years. He tti
vrote a number of popular plays and tl
"ollahorated In other productions. He vi
*as born in Missouri and for five b<
rears before he began writing plays t
le was a captain of great lake rt
learners. tt
HIS!
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HIGHEST I
IN QUALITY
ling Grocers
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, VILLA'S VENGEANCE.
lexlcan General Executes Thlrty-twt
Prisoners.
General Francisco Villa, uceompaled
by lils stuff and a guard of HOC
en. has arrived al Durango on a apeal
train from Torreon,
Accompanying the ViiIh party was
eorge C. Carol hers, confidential
tent of the state department, who
id held a meeting with Villa. Acirdlng
to private messages received
/ Villa agents on the border, tin
nrranzistas who evacuated Durango
1V*? irnnp Oiint 1? vvu* /! +/? r/.o/iof?w?.?o
ip base of General Obregou.
The dispatches say that on enterg
Durango Villa ordered the exeitiou
of thirty-two .Mexicans "for poticail
reasons." Eleven of these
exicaus, it is said, were shot bemse
they were C'arranzu sympathizes,
though they liad taken no active
irt in the war.
General Villa expected to return to
orreon to complete his somewhat
aborate preparations for the defense
' the town against the probable atick
of the Carranzaista army now
lvancing northward.
REVOLT CHECLED.
iexicans Plotted For Trouble at San
Antonio.
With the arrest of twenty-six ^fex
?ii?, nvcuij'-uuw oi wnom wore tielined,
police and federal authorities
jlieve a plan to inelte the Mexican
>pulutlon of San Antonio to deeds ol
iolence has been nipped.
According1 to the police, the prison's
are all adherents to the Plan of
in Diego, a manifesto which proaims
Texas a republic for Mexicans.
Since the disturbances in the
rownsville territory special agents
' the United States department of
istlce and police here have kept a
atch to prevent a possible uprising
i San Antonio. It was learned that
embers of two organizations of innmmatory
nature are in San Autolo
in numbers.
Thirty Fatalitieg July A.
According to ligures compiled by
e American Medical association,
lly thirty persons were killed in
>urtli of July .celebrations this year,
lie statistics show 1,130 were vie
nis of accident. Chicago heads the
it of cities for marked deduction In
ic total number of Injuries, contrlbing
only eight to the nutlon's roll
' casualties. ^
Pirst Bale Brings $750.
B. \V. Rosenthal has been advised
lat the first hale of Georgia cotton of
le present season received at 8atnnah
and shipped to Liverpool has
N?n sold there for $750 at auction,
he money went to Kngland's war
'lief fund. Mr. Rosenthal donated
le cotton to be sold for this hud.
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