The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-14
Wniskey's Wicked Works.

tions cannot but feel grateful afte,
reading ir your last weeks issue your
editorial on The Whiskey Devil. As
to your personal sentiments, they are
too widely and appreciably known
for us to allude to them. But to tie
Manning TINES is extended our warm
est congratulations, upon being un-
Ger the management of one who will
lend its columns toward the suppress
ing of local vices. We are glad to
see you "give vent to your pent up
thoughts" when they tend to elimi-
nate evils, and promote the moral
welfare of the public. We 'join you
in the cause" and take this opportun-
ity of ventilating our sentiments.
which have long heer struggling and
smouldering under pressure Of pub
lie reconciliation. We agree with
you that the whiskey evil is the worst
of all curses upon man. 1t is start
ling to the sense Of virtue to realize
the many infamous habits that are
being daily practiced in our own
town the men that are being ruined
and sent down to drunkard's graves,
and the bright young futures that are
being blasted. What a scar up"n
tie society of our county that Man.
ming, its largest town, and that With
less than one thousand inhabitants,
should be detiled by the existence OF
two fuli-fedsed balrooms, with all
their degrading attachments. How
bad it is, that there should be placed
so near the daily walks of men an en-
ticing snare, which when once fallen
into, it is almost impossible for one
to eAtricate himself that there should
be placed so near a mans bands that
which eventually deadens his brain,
uproots his every power of resolution,
weakens his sense Of honor, propriety,
and honesty, and makes his appetite
so irresistible, that for its qualification,
he will pretend going on some legitl-
mate errand, while he will go through
some well known gate, or crack where
board has been ripped off the fence.
Yet, sit makes him feel ,ieh.' So it
does, in many ways Makes him dis
gustingly friendly and petite, so much
so that be will laugh heartily without
a Joke, or make him exultiugly conf
dent in his own imaginary strength
and Importance 1t bridges all i'm
possibilities, and makes him feel as if
he were q lord, while he really is
we'll
And what is it's influence upon the
youth? It puts them on the road to
worthlessness and shame. 1t kills
the vigor of youth, stimulates those
passions which should, in youth, be
curbed and cultivated, makes a lad
distribute his vitality, ambition, and
energy to habits OF slovenliness and
wrecklessness, and he realizes that
ere nature has made him a man,
whiskey has made him a wreck. On
ly a few days ago the writer chanced
70 pass the door Of a barroorn III
which there was music, dancing, and
apparent great mirth !; and who was
to be seen at the door? About a hall
dozen boys, under twelve years old,
looking in, perfectly enchanted, just
ready to enter and take part i'll the
sfun," and thus make the first step
on road to worldly disgrace and
shame. Then tell US that the ex-
istence of whiskey OF bacrooms, in
any community, is calculated to pro
mote any cause, other than wicked
ness in its vilest form, and we say
that society and public opinion are at
q low ebb. Imagine the poor unfor-
tunate when he has imbibed so freely
of the vile stuff that be has exhausted
bis last cent, and every other means
to obtain it, and then hear the Won
derfuny eliuching preventative, He
can't get another drop Or see him
when he has been stepped in its veno-
nous influence until be is beastly
drunk, his mirth and money gone,
and his care becomes burden, then
hear the retaliatory, "Why don't you
carry him home? What are you
bringing him in my bar for?" But, as
said before, that orce man falls ln-
to it's seductive and envelopiDs iaau-
ence he is almost irrecoverable, then
what is the remedy? Let an arm OF
sympathy be lent to the poor unfor-
tunates, rid ourselves of the now ex-
isting evil, frcwn down upon its pro-
moters as long as they shall advocate
its existence, and hope for the day
when honesty, morality, and temper
ance shall reign supreme. Let the
ladies, the young ladies, learn to scorn
its use, and LEI them have sense OF
propriety so delicate as to be disgust
ed at its toleration on the part Of any
man.
These are some Of the truths that
now exist in our own immediate town.
Then, fathers, open your eyes to the
duty which you owe to your sons, as
well as yourselves, and your daugh-
ters will be cared for by kind and