The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-01

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ever. I can buy my sugar at 5 cents
but the sugar planter gets . cents 4
pound more. This plan would stimu-
late farming and beat the subtreasury
scheme. The manufacturers have had
that much or more for fifty years
through the protective tariff-why not
the farmers?"
but Uncle Jake,' said I, "where
will the government get the money to
pay these bounties?" "Oh, 1 don't
know" said he, "where there's will
there's way. There's the income tax
that they could make as heavy as they
please, and they could put some More
on whisky-whisky will stand sight.
1t pays $50, 100000 now, and could just
as easy pay $3.50, 100000"
"But suppose" said I, "the tempe
rance movement abolishes whisky
what then?n "Why, then," said Uncle
Jake, smiling, 1--WE would have such a
millennium we wouldent want any
bounties-we wouldent need any. If
whisky was abolished it would save a
thousand millions a year to the country.
Without whisky we would all get rich.
Whisky runs poverty and poorhouses
and lunatic asylums and orphans
homes and jails and chaingangs and
prisons Of all kinds. Whisky runs the
courts and the taxes and pretty much
the lawyers and doctors, to say nothing
of broken VOWS and broken hearts. We
could afford to swap every bounty and
pension and protection to get rid of
whisky, out we won't talk about that
now, for it's not in sight. It's only a
hope, dream. The devil will give up
everything before he will whisky"
A PERSONAL DEVIL.
"Uncle jake" said I, lido you be-
lieve in real personal devil?" The old
man looked surprised. "Why not?" said
he, "why not? Don't the Bible tell
US about him and all his officers Satan
and Beelzebuban Apolyon and Moloch
and Belial and all those fellows? Why,
the old scoundrel came here first. He
had possession when Adam was created
and he began right straight to work on
him, and he's been a-Workin' on his
posterity ever since. Don't 1 feel it?
Don't I know it? He's been working
on me all my life, and I have to fight
him every day. What makes me have
wicked thoughts-thoughts of passion,
revenge, envy, covetousness. When
that mean old rascal, Jim Wilkins,
was tore all to pieces by the cy,'clone,
what made me glad of it? Don't l
know that all such thoughts are unbe-
coming to gentleman? What makes
me love to hear Sam Jones scarify the
people, what makes little child show
passions and selfishness before it can
talk? The Lord dident make us that
way, not at the start. He dideAt. The
devil is at the bottom of every bad
thing, and we have Just got to fight
him, that's all. If he whips the fight
here, then we become bis subjects, and
go straight to his kingdom, fire or nc
fire. That's what I believe. If tell
my boy not to go in a-washing this
evening, be is perfectly free and able to
mind me or not mind me, and just so
the Lord has made me a free agent, to
do right or do wrong. The good spirit
works Oh me and The devil works on
me, and I can take my choce-that's
what l believe.n
Sam Jones and Sam Small have got
together again, and they make a power
full team. 1t doesent matter what some
folks or some papers say about them
they are shaking up the people. I don't
know what would become of US if it
were not for the preachers. I saw a
man shedding tears last night while
Sam Small was talking who hasent had
tender thought or pure onein years,
they say. May be he will come to
himself yet, and like the poor prodigal,
go back to his fathers house. | hope
so. Everybody hopes so. Some folks
don't like the spasmodical, emotional
religion, but it is better than none. 1t
puts man to thinking, and is sign
that he is not clean gone. Our ta;jer-
nacle is an institution and a comfort
1t is crowded every day and every
night, and all its influence is for good.
Hundreds 60 there that won't go to the
churches, and some of them are gath
cred in.
There are but two great highways in
this world and one of them leads to the
churches and the other to the jails.
Not that so many reach the prisons,
but you can see thejail away off at the
end Of the avenue they are on. Their
tent is in that direction. And you can
see the spires of the churches away off
at the end of the other. The churches
are the freest houses on earth, and the
best. They have no secrets, and the
doors are wide open, and you pay what
you please, and everything that is done
or said there is for peace; nobody quar-
rels or fights. You can't say that much
of any political meeting or any secret
society or grand jury or alliance meet
ing. I never heard of a young man
being made worse by going TO church.
There is a sad song that says "Where
Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?' that
a poor mother was singing. Well, if I
was to step In and say He's at church,
madame" wouldent she be happy?
Parents are not afraid of the church.
They may not belong to it, nor go to it,,