The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-24

ed Collector. He has been confirmed,
but has not yet received his commission.
j. MATT COOLEY.
| Wet and Dry.
North Carolina has recently been
stirred up on the prohibition question
and in some of the towns an intense
interest on both sides was manifested.
Of course there are prophets of evil and
evil prophets on both sides. The whiskey
men claim that prohibition, in any shape,
and the temperance movement, in gener-
al, is dead failure and that ten years
from to-day no man, unless he is a crank
or fanatic, will oppose the making and
unrestrained sale of whiskey and all
sorts of alcoholic drinks. They also
claim that the STOOL women" will soon
abandon the craze and fall in with some
thing else equally absurd and unwomanly.
They say that the free American citizen
is bound to have his wh;skey where and
when he pleases, and they intend to per-
form the funeral rites over the temper.
ance corpse before 1895, so as to be ready
to start in the twentieth century with
this motto: ga saloon for every man
and every man for a saloon" On the
other hand, unwise temperance workers
have denounced the men who make and
sell whiskey as desperately wicked above
all others and some of them believe that
all of temperance work consists in carry
ing an election for prohibition. In push
ing their desired schemes they commit
errors which injure the cause and when
they fail, they become disheartened and
think the whole country is in bad way
and there is no hope or remedy. Such
erratic, faint.hearted workers, however
good their intentions, are not the best in
working out a great reform which will
require years to show up the result. In
the lower plane of human efforts results
may be summed up at the close of the
week or year. The daily laborer gets his
wages at the close of the day. He can
then and there determine the result of
his work. The seller Of alcoholic bever.
ages can balance his accounts atthe end
of the year and see exactly how much
money he has made out of his business.
To a certain extent he can calculate, with
an approximation to accuracy, how many
men he has helped to make drunkards of
themselves and how many homes he has
helped to make miserable. His gains in
money and the influence on the character
of men he eau estimate with some degree
of accuracy. But,in the moral plane of
human action results may not be imme.
diate anda there is no balance sheet on
this side of the dark valley that will show
the actual results of good deeds. You
cannot count such in dollars and cents.
DR.. Arnold, of Rugby, schoolmaster
though he was, has done more to mould
and influence England's youth for good,
than the millions of pounds of some of
the entitled nobility. Moody, an humble
layman, has exerted wider influence for
good in the last fifteen years than all the
bankers of Chicago, from which city he
started out on his evangelical work. If
he had stopped to calculate the good be
was doing at the end of each month he
would have given up in despair long ago.
The temperance workers, whether men
or women, whether fanatics" or imprac-
ticable failures, must learn to labor and
to wait. They must bear in mind that
all great reforms are of slow growth and
the final result is far different from the
aims and objects of the originators. If
it is good work, each apparent failure
will bring them one days march nearer
to the inal triumph. Success must not
be expected in day or generation. The
work must be handed down from gener.
alton to generation with the injunction,
OCCUPY till I come" If the temper
ance reform is wholly wrong and contrary
to the spirit of true progress and the
genius of civil liberty in America as is
claimed by the whiskey men, it will soon
come to naught and manufacturers of
whiskey will be set up as the apostles of
our civilization and keepers Of saloons
as the great moral reformers of the age.
-Spartanburg Spartan.
| A curious suit for breach of promise
will be tried at the next term of The Bur.
lington county IN. J.) superior court.
Miss Ella Wilcox, young woman we'll
known in the society of Mount Holly,
became engaged to be married to John
Cook, of the same place. Mr.. Cook went
through all the regular formalities, and
asked Mr.. Wilcox's consent to marry his
daughter. The Wedding was to have
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