The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-27

and certain in their results. This
special privileged traffic must be,
confined to towns and cities, thus de-.
barring nine-tenths of the people from
entering this business, and at the same
time increasing the burden of their.
taxes to support the poverty, litiga-
ton, police forces, and guard houses,
resulting from the traffic, while the
town or city enjoys the revenue, builds:
fine school houses, and profits BY the.
Especial privilege generally. The:
outsider has only the right to endure
and suffer, and when poisoned to death
by ''pop skull" whiskey, his family
no appeal, but must be silent in power
ty and disgrace. It is said that whis-
key is a necessary evil of civilization
and it is expedient or polite to ccnfne
its sale to certain places where there is
q sufficient police force to keepits vic
TINS from lying in the gutter or cut
ting each others throats expedient to
confine its sale as close to guard houses
and jails as possible so that the victim
when 80 "fulp as to becomea disgrace
to even the bar room, can be showed
into cell to sober up, and pay fise
dollars for enjoying privilege that the
whiskey trade has been licensed to
grant. Follow this victim of fexpedi-
ency after be has sobered ~ and paid
his last nickel for drink and revenue,
as he enters his home and finds his
wife and children without fuel, food or
raiment-withont hope love OF protee-
ton, expecting curses and blows, and
sinking under helplessness darker
than despair. Shades:of Washington!
What Find of a policy is this that
creates a degree Of poverty that God
never contemplated in the creation OF
man, or man ever dreamed of his
primitive state! Thatgives the profits
of q traffic to ne one class and the
evils to another! Which protects she
vender. while it Furnishes the victim
and his family which robs labor of
its rewards, and love of its fruition
which soWs discord, idieness and vice,
and which strikes at the very founda-
ton of the government itself. IF the
evils of alcoholism were confined to-
the victim, it wonld be bad enough,
and appeal to the heart OF every Chris
tian. But it is not so confined, for
there is law running through nature
which declares that the offspring shall
suffer for the sins and evil habits of the
parents, and the results of this law are
visible everywhere to the close oo-
server. The habits, tastes and inc,ina-
ton, and to a certain extent conforina-
tons, are transmitted from sireto son,
even TO the fourth generation. Keeping
this law in view, is it not suieidal,
criminal to.legaiize a traffic that will.
sooner or later destroy the fundamen-
tai principles of the very power that
grants the license, and will cause this
nation like Greece and Rome to sink
from the very weight of its own cor
ruption? The history of past ages
warns Us whatto expect from the atti-
tude we now hold in regard to this
traffic, and the present indications OF
decay and rottenness in official circles,
and tie poverty vice and infdelity
in almost the entire body polite is
alarming, and indicates plainly how
rapidly we are approaching the period
of our national existence, when liberty
and patriotism have almost ceased to
be valued above self-gratifcation and
revenue. Who is to blame for this
state of afalrse From strictly busi-
ness point of view you cannot blame
the whiskey dealer, for it is a matter
Of business with him, and he is .dili-
gent in business" Every man over
twenty-one years of fage issa unit.of the
government, and his ballot, with
majority Of others decides the kind Of
government, and the policy it is ex-
pected to pursue, and in so far,as the
power of the ballot goes, he is sresponsi-
BILE for the action of the men or meas
ures he voted for; and in ninety-nine
cases out of s. hundred he knows
what to expect from the habits and
general make up of the candidates he
supported. So anaiyzed to its finest
point we are all more orless response
BILE for 'licensed whisky traffic. and
will be 80 until more prudence is exer-z
cised in voting and closer examina-
ton given to the men voted for.
There are three conditions nec-
essary before prohibition can be
accomplished. 1st. A judicious home
discipline based on lpreeept and
example, which makes no compromise
with evil, nor substitutes policy for
principle or expediency for right. End.
A rigid applications of Church disci-
pline, irrespective of the social or fnanS-
cial status, or political influence of its
members. Sd. a systematic organiza-
ton of all forces within the power or
reach of the friends Of prohibition.
o. B. EVANS.
Kinards, S. e.
He Knew sardines.