The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-03
P'ints from PinAtoo.

Ii Is always sOmetnlnS IN FlnetOp.
This time it is prohibition, prohibition.
Now am no prohibitionist-that is, no
intemperate prohibitionist.
That is to say, that while opposed to
the excessive use Of whiskey, 1 am not
fanatical on the subject.
BE ye temperate in all things"
How can one be temperate and not
drink little? ...
A man can be Incorporate in his pro-
hibitionism as well as In his alcoholism.
If every body was temperate In every
thing eating, drinking, talking and 50
on-what glorious world we'd have.
Not to be misunderstood, Will state
that I Go not drink.
But because one man cannot drink
temperately, it is no reason why ten men
should be debarred the privilege of en-
ioying a moderate indulgence In stimu-
lants.
If prohibition worked satisfactorily and
was universal, that would be a different
thing.
But dry towns viii have liquor.
Men who want it will have it and do
get it. prohibition or no prohibition.
And when they get gallon they drink
more than when they get pint, as mat
ter of course.
Whiskey is good thing in its place
and h-ll is not the only place either.
"Give the devil bis due"
This is free country-you can do
your own thinking.
As for me I think one man has as much
right to sell whiskey as another has to
sell tobacco-or anything else.
I would not deal in it myselt-on the
| same principle that would not deal In
many other things not to my taste or in
clination-but that is a matter of ones
own conscience.
If people who don't drink-as well as
those who do-would quit magnifying
their own virtues and their neighbors
faults, this would be q better country
with all its liquor.
Prohibition is not the only thing that
will take you to heaven, my friend, not by
a jug full.
If people who live in "glass houses
would quit throwing stones, there would
not be so many broken "pains" in this
world-if some poor unfortunate devils
frequently do take too much.
But stand to your colors-if you are a
prohibitionist, say SO.
] But don't be prohibitio in crowd
| Of prohibitionists and an anti in a crowd
Of ant;-prohibiionists.
# you are an anti IN town be one when
you move to the country.
And il you are not an anti in the coun-
try, for goodness sake don't become an
anti when you move to town.
Be a man-whatever you are-haye
backbone.
| If you want q drink OF whiskey, go In
at the front door.
I read the various newspapers and see
80 4any little insinuating fings and mean
and spiteful inuendoes.
That is despicable.
If man hasn't the courage of his con-
! victions and is afraid to tell who or what
he means, he shouldn't say anything at
all.
a writer sometimes insinuates very
| plainly, and when the aggueved party
resents it he is tod that mo names were
mentioned" when everyone knows whom
it was intended to strike.
| Come out like a man when you have
anything to say.
| II you are too big q coward to do so,
then act the coward in silence, and
Don't blow and bluster SO much as to
make some people believe you are really
very courageous, until they find you out.
The length Of a mans legs and the
strength of his voice are not everything
| it takes brain and sand to make man.
Not to change the subject too suddenly
or abruptly, but
Don't imagine that because person
doesn't go regularly to church, he or she
is bigger sinner than You.
Some who go every Sunday don't re-
member a solitary thing about the SER
mon-but
They can tell everything everybody had
on and more news () than some OF Us
care to hear In whole week.
DO you call that religion?
!; I don't
When your head is bowed at the com.
munion table, do you glance out the
corner of your eye through your fingers
to see who that is pressing against you,
in your anxiety to find out If the clothes
are as fine as yours?
Many ragged Lazarus viii be brilliant
in glory while the fine communicate Will
keep company with Dives.
NEEDLE.