Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-22

and divided in sentiment as to The
principle and policy Of our move
ment, and with an enemy to encouu-
te. who had all the advantageS oz
thorough and compact organ e,oa,
Limited resources and no scrupies
IS u the means for our defeat, tie
trends of prohibition have reason for
.ongratulation in the signal success
which has resulted from this test of
the strength OF their cause at the
recent elections
The effort.to secure prohibitory
Legislation has been marked by seve-
raj stages OF progress, each develop
ing some new effort to defeat it, but
each indicating clearly defined
advantage toward TIE ultimate sue
cess Of the movement. The course
OF the last Legislature on the ques-
ton made Il clear to the minds of its
friends that direct appeal to the
le on the 1sion of the cleo
olon .: a new Legislature, when pro-
hibition should be made a distinct
issue, afforded the only hope of sue
cess. Thas appeal was determined
on by the convention which met in
May, when platform and policy
were adopted and an organization
effected, the outcome OF which is
known TO You on the result Of the
first primary election.
That result has exploded several
oopular fallacies which had found
lgment in the minds of the people.
ne Of these 1anacles was 1nar 1f.e
.loon controlled elections in South
carolina. 1t has been conclusively
shown that the liquor sellers intiu-
ence in the State is 70 longer a con-
trolling one, and that the common
e1emy against whom our efforts are
directed is not SO strongly entrenched
that we may not hope, by steady,
persistent and well organized endea-
vor, to drive him beyond our bor-
ders. The white voters OF the State,
50 long as they act together, have
ample power to protect themselves
against the dcmoralizing influences
which whiskey las heretofore exerted
in elections.
To have stricken these shackles
from the hands Of the white voters;
to have liberated their minds from
the h0mHiatiag sense of this control,
and lei them realize that they are
free-sgeal tie dom;natiian Sshis
arrogant and tyrannical power is in
itself worth all the effort which has
been put forth by the Prohibitionists
OF this State, as it is the certain pre-
cursor of the complete deliverance
which is to crown the work in the
future.
Another fallacy was that prollibi-
ticn was a question in which the peo-
pie took no interest, and that no suf-
fcient vote on it should be given to
determine their position respecting
Theresult shows that the question
popular one, and that the people
are Eeeniy alive to its Importance.
4 larger popular vote has been polled
% tals case thar.on any single ques-
tioa ever before submitted to the
people of this State. In total vote
Of about $4,000 over 10000 have been
cast in the prohibition box. That
ought to be conclusive as to the inter-
est that the people feel in this cues
ton.
Another fallacy urged with great
persistency by the enemies of prohi-
bition is that where prohibition has
been tried the people soon tire of its
restraints, and quickly return tc the
old system of licensed whiskey. The
proof which the election furnishes as
an answer to this is that outside of
the cities and towns, where the law
throws wall of defence about the
traffic and encourages its work of
demoralEation, the people, after ten
years experience with the adyant-
ages and ineonyenienees of partial