Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-02-17
TEMPER ANCE.-The Monitor
journal, published at Seymour,

Journal, published at Seymour,
Ind, says Of the situation in that
State: 1t is now evident that the
people are more in earnest than
ever in regard to abolishing the
rum curse. But great deal of
work is yet to be done. The whole
State, every county in the State,
every township, every school dis
trict in the State must be worked
up. The howlings of the rum
fiends are becoming palmer. In
time past, temperance people
denounced liquor dealers and man
ufacturers. Now the scale is chan
gcd, the temperance people (gen-
orally speaking) are kind, but
urgent; they make their demands.
scnsibly but firmly; the ravages of
drink are plain before them, in
nearly every case Of poverty, dis
tress and crime, they find liquor
tho cause of it; they perceive that
no one is safe; that the rum
custom has grown to such an
extent that they must arise against
it or be crushed body and soul by
it. The liquor interests are alarm
cd, every advantage will be taken
by them, they will undertake to
intimidate, buy or coax our law
makers; they arc secretly raising
money with which they hope to
battle the will oftho people. We
must agitate as we never agitated
before. Scatter broadcast tracts,
temperance papers and anything
that will arouse the people and
keep them alive to their interest
and the welfare Of their children,
1t requires time, money and work
TO do this.
In the United States Senate on the 7th
instant, the following colloquy occurred
between Senators Butler and Conklipg:
Butler, of South Carolina, spoke at con-
siderable length upon the alleged census
frauds 10 South Carolina, and criticised
severely the speech made by certain stump
orator Understood to be Conkling) in New
York during tho Presidential campaign, in
which that stump orator insulted aud Wilt
fed the people of South Carolina and
accused them of conspiripg to fraudulently
increase tho census enumeration, in order to-
obtain greater political power. Tho falsty
and basencss of the accusation, Butler said,
were shown by tho result of the recent
n M, al ,,pIor fto S;root,oo of
Walker, who was Republican, aud also q.
gentleman.
At tho conclusion of Buffers remarke,.
Conkling said he inferred from the little he
had heard Of the gentleman's speech that
it was designed as an attack upon himself,
and he had only to say that the vaporings
of tho Senator from South Carolina gavo
him little concern If he had done in
ustice to the people of South Carolina no
would find seasonablo occasion to correct il.
Butler-Thc Senator has said "the va.
porngs of the Senator from South Caro-.
lima" are matters of no concern to him. He
will pardon mo for saying that tho swag-
gcring insocuce of the Senator from New
York is Of 10 concern to me.
ConkIiug-I do not need to have haard
the Senator in order to ascertain that he is
person with whom l do not choose to
handy epithcts, here or elsewhere, and
least Of all here; and, therefore, I have
nothing to add to that which I have before
said
The colioquy here ended and the sub.
jcct was dropped.
SOMETHING ABOUT CARp-The late
distribution of earn in the Sonth will Give
interest to some remarks upon the fish,