The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-15

gaaion OF human beings which builds cities
and forms great societies. and that man, as
he sometimes tries to do, cannot live by rum
alone. The good people Of Shoshong might
nevertheless they were finally forced to em.:
igrate to the bright and sparkling waters Of
the Limpopo. Herald. s
ELI PERKINS ON KANSAS TEMPERANCE. l..
Editor Union Signal.-I send you good
news. I have just completed tour OF Kan.
sas, and have just time to tell you that
Kansas has full and complete temperance.
The cry for re-submission is the last dying
wall Of the whisky, poorhouse and jail IN. :
terest. 1t will not succeed. st2
Still there is vast amount Of lying about
Kansas. I often hear the old worn-out blast
from throats hoarse with rum:
"They's drinkin' mUre whisky In Kansas
than ever beforem ;
Ihear this cry all over Missouri where ins
temperance prevails. Not all over Missouri,
for Missouri is growing in temperance, and
two-thirds Of the State, like Norway County,
is for temperance. The same is true of Ken
lucky. Temperance is growing there. At Z
Petersburg, KY, three distillers were on the
lecture committee. When asked them il T.:
could say few words for temperance in my
lecture, they said:
"Yes, do so by all means"
"But you are distillers," said. @
"Yes," they sa:., I'VE are distillers, butwe
are for tenperanc. in Kentucky" ~
"a distiller, and for Temperament ex-
claimed.
"Yes, sir. We want you to understands
that we don't make this whisky for our KEN
lucky boys; we make it to poison the YAM
KEGS and the Irish!'
But about the man who lies about Kansas.
At Nevada, Mo-, they had eight big sa-3
looms, 5000 people, seven policemen, full
poorhouss, and an overfowing jail
Call this selling wi whisky" sky they said,
crossed the line to Pittsburg, Kan, a new
mining town with 10000 people-a wonder
full town only two years old. What did 1.
see? Not a saloon in town. Not sign.
Everybody temperate. Miners paying for;
their homes. Real estate advancing, and
taxes next to nothing. To govern this 10000
people, was only one little policeman with
nothing to do. Not a pauper in the poor
house: not one criminal in the jail.
Still here the few wicked whisky men who
wanted to introduce poison in Pittsburg cried
olt:
'"They's sellin' more whisky in Kansas than
ever beforem
Everywhere I've been in Kansas-Topeka,
Lawrence, Independence, Yates Center FIRE.
donia, Sedan, Cherryvale, Ellsworth and
Emporia, I find no signs of bars and no signs
of drinking. The good people all tell me they
have practical temperance.
A whisky soaked dude screamed the old
falsehood recently on the Topeka train, abouf
more whisky being drunk in Kansas than
ever before. He was a commercial ira, eIer
for cigar house. You never see whisky
;o1 in, nnw9dQvE
When I got to Topeka, said:
Now show us a saloon-show us a bar;
show me one man drinking"
But can get you drink"
Can get me drinkm said, $50 you can
get men to steal chickens and horses. Laws.
against drinking are lived up to as well as
laws against stealing"
Come up to my room at 3 o'clock" h3
said. land Pll show you some beer"
Well, 1 went to his room at o'clock. When
I got there he called porter, whispered to
utes the porter returned with bottle OF beer
How much did you pay the porter:" !
asked -
twenty-five cents"
"How much did you give for the beer"
TWENTY-FIVE cents more"
"Fifty cents in all for two small glasses OF
beer"
YES" -
"Why that would buy champagne in New
York, said. Can you afford such prices
fifty cents for two glasses of beer%
''Oh, no i! / did not buy it to drink, got 1t
to show you it could be DONE"
Then this is a dime museum you've
brought me to-" said. "Why, this is not
only practical prohibition, but it is high
license, toon'-Ei Perkins.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES: ~
The United States consumed about 4, ,700.-
GOO gallons of imported wines in 1883. "
Fifty-four saloons it is stated, have been
opened in Johnstown, Penn, since the HOOD.
A Pittsburg distiller writes: ''There is
large increase in the consumption OF our ryes
in the West"
A st. Louis saloon keeper angered at
man who had ordered and drank and refused
to pay for several glasses Of beer, killed him.
A Boston paper is responsible for the state,
ment that there were 3545 women arrested
for drunkenness during the past year IN that
city.
Senator Plumb said recently: ''It will be
long cold day in Kansas when the people OF
that State go back OH the policy of prohibi-
tion."
Inc fOllCS SOul!HlSSlOuels VI Ono Sicy W
Washington propose to limit the number OF
drinking saloons Of the city to four in
block
A Russian physician, named Portugaloh,
declares that strychnine is an infallible cure
for drunkenness administered in subcuta.
neous injections
Lady Henry Somerset, who is an ardent
temperance reformer, has given notice tina.
as the leases of her public house property In
Reigate fall in, the premises will not be let
again for similar purposes.
Joseph Cook says: "Alcohol is not only a
poison with special local affinity for the
brain, but it is a poison with fish-hook
barb-it can only 60 in, it cannot be pulled
out without tearing the flesh"
A temperance society has been formed at
Berlin under the patronage Of members Of
the Imperial family and the city aristocracy1 II
Members are described as knights of the
Blue Cross The President is Colonel Won
Knobelsdorf
The price Of whisky has been reduced ten
and fifteen cents a gallon during the past
year. This is due to the Whisky Trust, and
makes the poison even more accessible to
those who have already nearly reached tho
bottom Of their fortunes.