The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-11-05

whisky. If I can't stop it that way, I
am going to Atlanta, and, if necessary,
to New York, to get detective to keep
this thing out. Two or three men in a
town can see to it that it stays out, and
there will be no more trouble. You can
go to Gainesville and get fine suit of
Clothes any morning if you can get o
drink of whisky there. am so glad /
got whisky out. I am raising my boys
there. 1 said to whisky man there :
"I am going to give you till the first of
January 10 sell out. We will put you
and your demijohns both out then, if you
are not ready. If my little Paul comes
to your place for whisky, take him out
into the backyard and chop his head off.
I would rather you would do that than to
give him q drink of whisky. If you
chop his head off he goes to God, but if
you give him whisky you ruin him for.
ever" In all the love and kindness of
my soul, 1 believe that every citizen of
this country has the right to say whether
he wants whisky or not. If every man
will take this question fairly before his
mind, there is not father that will not
put this stuff out of the reach of his
boys.
Out they march, $4,000 of them year,
into drunkards' graves. st. Louis has
1900 bar.rooms; Chicago and Cincin-
natti, with its 5000 bar-rooms, can alone
make the $4,000 drunkards-that would
be only twenty to the bar-room. The
old died drunk, but they say he died Of
apoplexy, heart. disease, or something of
the sort. They always lie about it. No:
body can say he died drunk. They will
hatch up "sunstroke" if they can't find
anything moro plausible-that is, if be
has family. You can tell absolutely
nothing from the statistics. But you
know what that bar.room is. 1t is the
recording Office of hell And is sustained
by the voice of the community! Sixty
thousand go down into drunkards' graves
this year. They go into your family for
recruits to keep the ranks of this army
of drunkards full. Your John, William
or Henry they inveigle into the road to
hell.
These boys are filling up the ranks,
taking the places of those fellows that
have gone. Who drums up these re-
cruits? That is the business of the
whisky men; the only business they
have in the world is to keep the ranks
recruited.
You may go to the city council of
Chattanooga, of Nashville, Of Atlanta.
We will suppose they are all married
men and have twenty boys. A rum-seller
thrusts himself into their presence and
says: ri will give you 5000 for license
to make drunkards of those boys of
yours" They would draw back their
sticks on him and kick him out But
these same men will sell him license to
make some other mans son drunkard.
If men will make and sell and drink
whisky, let them hide and skulk in the
mountains, and let it be known that every
man involved in the Infamous business is
criminal. Applause You say, eve
will defend you-our laws defend you
and sustain you in all you say" Now,
this is the very question. Your laws in
Tennessee forbid whisky men selling
liquor to minors. This is q lick at the
whisky business. Your license laws
in Tennessee forbid selling liquor on
election days. This is al abridgement of
the business. There is snake. 1t is
biting the race. You believe in hitting
it on the tail or body. don't. | think
you ought to cut its head off. I don't
cars anything about its tail. If have a
right to strike its tail, I will strike it
hard, and I will strike to kill. l want to
locate its head andgcut it of forever.
Applause. If we could just put it
all out of America at once!
IT would vote for it, but don't believe
in prohibiting it in one place and selling
it in another" You say if your wife
were to start to make you a coat and
should say, II can't sew up all the sleeves
at once" she would talk just as you are
talking now. The old man is out there
shivering in the cold. he says, "Wife,
sit down there and take it q stitch at a
time.n Let US take district, county,
q State at time, until we roll every
barrel out into the Atlantic Ocean, and
then say, "Thank God, we are free now"
We are going to put every drop of whisky
out of Georgia, and we don't want you to
unload on US down there.
YOU never saw q man of whom you
can command more of his blood and
muscle than you can command OF me to
the temperance cause, but I am not in
the political procession. | would not
touch, taste nor handle the old wench Of
politics to save her life. 1t is q mighty
indecent name to call her in public. If
being against whisky is to 60 into poll
tics, then God was the first politician, for
he told US tc "look not on it when it is
red" and "woe unto him that putteth
the bottle to his neighbor's mouth" !"
God was the first politician of that sort
that was ever heard of in this country
If this is politics, then God is politician.
This is the first time looking over some
memoranda which he held in his HANDY
I ever had notes, and now | don't know
how to use them.
Now, my fellow citizens, let me say IN
conclusion (for 1 have already talked
aboutan hour), ifyou ever looked into the
face of q man that has right to speak
out on this evil, it is this man talking
right here. I want to say to you mode
rate dram. drinkers, my father was what
YOU call and what all men call "a mode
rate dram -drinker." never approach
his memory or name without taking OFT
nv shoes. I never saw my father drunk.
He drank as gentleman until a few
wears before his death. His sons follow.
cd right in his tracks, and my father had
three first. t.class drunkards before they
we're twenty-on one years old. 1 would no
more walk into the pulpit to preach with
whisky on my breath than [ would with
small. pox on my body. Smallpox kills
the body, but not the soul.
The reason We drink is that we can
not control ourselves. Go TO the hog, pen
and pour out corn. Say to one hog,
"You take six grains of this corn aud no
more" TO another hog, "You take ten
grains" That is Temperance and
temperance with vengeance. I might
say, "You take three drinks day." aud
SOON you will be taking ton before break:
fast, ten before dinner, and lie drunk all
night. You will have drunkards as long
as you have these young dram drinking
bucks growing up here. [ am against
whisky every time the issue comes up.
| am in favor of every measure that is
opposed to it. I don't care how imper.
CT tI,o ,,oibod ord tho letter NAV be