The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-05-14
Uncle Billy's Reioinder to White Man.

Gle. l am glad to offer the amende honorable
by removing the ground of displeasure. My
offense consists, 1t seems, in my styling him
(White Man) q bar-keeper. He says, "poor
old Uncle Billy gives us solid column OF
gas and only tells US one thing and that is, that
| 1, White Man, am 6ar-keeper.'' Now that is
! about the only thing that did not tell him.
Reference to my article will show that the term
bar-keeper does not appear in it; nor any word
| like it, as applied to "White Man"
placed him ON the side in whose interest
he wrote, and declared him, by his writings to
he an enemy to prohibition. There he put him
SELF
am persuaded that White Man is at heart
right, but his logic is oil wrong. and is leading
him astray. l am hopeful of his conversion to
our side when he considers the subject moro
thoughtfully, and shall count his coming real
gain. There is merit in White Man, and
shall regret to see it wasted in bad cause.
l call "White Mans attention to q gross in
justice he has done those of US who have been
toiling for prohibition. He says, "after four
years we have done but one thing, and that is,
deprived the Town of its bar-room revenue"
But one thing! Let us cast up the account and
see if the arithmetic of our doings agrees
with your reckless assertions, sir. Here ore
some things we have done:
l. We met the whiskey party Mt the ballot
box-the battle field of patriots--and routed it,
horse, foot and dragons.
2. We captured and fined, or sent to board
with Col. Lipscomb in Columbia, many often
ders against the law.
3. We made the town as dry as o powder
horn. Even the doctors dared not give a GER
tifcate for whiskey unless in actual attendance
on the applicant at the time, as his patient.
A. We had at one time the whole fraternity
of liquor dealers in limbo white and black,
bell-weather aud all. They were bound for
Lpscomb's hotel but on their honorable
pledge to sell no moro and snug sum in the
| town treasury we pardoned them.
5. We raised by fines for breaking the law q
revenue better than the one you suggest, viz:
| Copartnership with the dealers, by taking high
license fees as the towns share in the traffic.
6. When we saw that the strategy of the
| enemy, now defeated at the ballot box, was to
override the law, through councils that were
to be the creatures of their own making, we
procured the enactment of a law by the Legis
lature forever prohibiting the traffic in our town
That of itself is more than your zone thing
In the meantime, dealers having made til ell
| own government, saloons multiplied aud whis
key flooded the town. Drunkenness aud othe
shameful conduct became so common that yor
could see men lying in cutters and gullies O
| the town any day, while back of the saloons
they were piled FIVE or six feet deep at times a,
SOW often. Then we moved on the trafi
again.
Z. Result, CONSERVATION in enemies camp.
8. Disappearance Of drunkenness and loud aut
indecent language in the streets.
0. We have a goodly number of names wht
tested the white and red wine, whose persons
XIV saIs AAEaatA2 y oar'Gend 1a'' at tho '-"'.
Yet you say we have done nothing. Yot ar
not ot'suffciently posted, and you owe the citi,
zens of Union, who are behind us, an opolcg,
for your Misrepresentation of their efforts. Ii
addition to the above, when you are converte'
we will tell you, sub rosa, of other things don
and to be done that will enthuse you as a pre-
hibitonist, but will disgust you as q defende
| of the traffic.
You say you are supported in your lcens,
views by one religious paper South and on
North, and by the Philadelphia Times and
host of other secular papers, and thcn aEks tr
umphantly, "by whom are you supported ~
Well. sir, will crafty you, in part. 1 au
supported by the God OF the race and of tn
Z bible, and by His law forbidding license. B
the laws Of Town and State; by the ballots
our citizens, in overwhelming odds, twice e,
pressed; by majority of the best citizen,
white and colored; by our churches md Bible.
by the business interests of our town; by til
wishes and best interest of society; by our nc
BILE women; by the prayers of the widows an
orphans, and wives and mothers of men RUNE
in the saloons; by dozen religious papers 70
. every one that supports you; by q host Of sec,
lar papers, increasing fast and faster; by Ii
consciences Of almost all men; by every class Q
people, as q class save the one class Of liqut
dealers; by the consciousness that l am righ
and by IN intense desire to save our yonu
men from that door Of death and hell-tf
liquor saloon. And, finally, if there be an
other thing that is pure, or lovely, or decent,
of good report by that also, am supported.
You say prohibition has failed in Kansa.
and Spartanburg and Union. You are in erro
again. Prohibition has not done all it hope
or hopes to do yet; but il is going ON to pc
fection. In many parts Of Kansas we have ha
grand success; so grand that the whole Stat
declared for it. 1t is there to stay. In Spa,
tauburg. to my certain knowledge, it is su,
cess in many respects, in spite Of wet counoi
In Maine-well prohibition is the grandes
L in, tha Il iatn ~ M QtaIa
In Iowa and other States North it has wo
such large success that he who cannot see III
, large promise for the future is blind indeed