The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-06

MN, Tue UOtlS 10 IL, duO uS WusL pay
for help to Jove aud bis father Nept' le.
They then leave the cave, and Ulysses
and his men escape by his shrewd lie.
The giant gropes to find them, comes
to the door, removes the stone and sets
in the mids. with extended arms to
seize them as they 60 out.
Here Ulysses wisdom is again called
into service. He binds the sheep in
threes with strips from the giants bed;
the midmost carries 4 man, and the
blind Cyclop feeling only of the out
side ones suffered them to escape, and
Ulysses succeeds by the aid of his favor
ite ram.
The joyful meD drive the giants
aocks to their ship, take them aboard
and leave the shore. When at dis
tance Ulysses calls to the giant, re-
proaches him for his cruelty, tells him
his real name, and taunts him with the
loss of his eye. The enraged Cyclop
not only hurls rocks by which he al
most sinks their ship. but, expresses
great regret that he (Ulysses) had thus
ruined him, mot by strength, but by
wine"
The marvellous history of wise Ulys-
ses 7 will follow no farther, but will
callthe attention of the readers Of "The
Herald and News to the above story
as an illustration of the direful results
of drunkenness, not stopping at the
ruin of eyes, it daily causes murders, as
the papers abundantly show, while the
indescribable sufterings Of wives and
children are borne mainly in solitude
and silence. Their blood cries as
from the ground" but is unheeded by
the two great political parties who
krave!y tell US that we cannot reform
men by law, so we ought to rely upon
moral suasion. True, we cannot reform
but we can restrain. When we build
sheep folds we do not expect to reform
the wolf but to save the sheep. The
man who deliberately weighs human
life and happiness against gold and
makes gold preponderste, is about as
unreachabie by ",noral suasion" as the
wolf or the tiger; so restrictive laws
only can govern him. He claims the
privilege of liquor making and selling
as a right of personal liberty (Which
prohibitionists never ciain!), urmind-
full of the fact that personal liberty''
as viewed by all moralists, permits no
man to follow calling detrimental to
his fellows. Like Moloch, the liquor
power must have it's human victims or
sacrifices, but worse than that blood
stained god (that brought immediate
death to his victims), it destroys the
most of them by long continuous tor
ture. Giving he liquor maker ard ven
dor the full benefit Of their argument
that ''men aud women arc not COM
PEELED to driuk,n they shall not escape
the force of the fact that the wives and
children Of their patrons are often COM
PEELED to endure.woes and sorrows in
describable; leaving out its demoraliza-
ton, its destruction of labor, and costs
to the State in a greatly enlarged po-
lice. in trials for crimes resulting from
drunkenness, in the furnishing Of aims
to its unhappy victims, etc. This vast
and uzscrupulous power, like the horse
!eech's daughters, is continually crying
give, give, it is not enough" 1t
recognizes no law, human or divine,
that opposes it, but by compulsion. 1t
demands both the night and the Sab
bath for its nefarious business; it de-
mands high position in the govern
ment and at the worlds fair; it assas-
sinates editors and ministers who use
all their strength to stop its progress;
it mas the temerity to establish presses
iustifying its course; it caioles the
States and nation by the money it puts
in their treasures, when the fact is ap-
parent to every competent investigator
that is contributions are like those of the
hvpocrite as described by Pollok:
"With one hand he put,
A penny in the urn Of poverty,
And with the other took shilling out"
It is well known that the rum power
will not follow an Improbable business,
and such its vast wealth testifies. That
power expresses neither joy nor regret
at the alternating success Of the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties. Having
them by the throat, they dare not Of
fend it for fear of losing its yet divided
support. They virtually say to it,
PAY US pasture rent and you may
turn loose the OK that is wont to push
with his horns" leaving it to US TO
look after his gored victims upon the
highways. Though Moses in his law
commanded that such oxen and their
owners should be stoned; your money
shalt secure you immunity from US.
l have given the rumseller the
strength of his argument, that liquor
drinkiugis voluntary; Consequently be
is not responsible for it. Let stry the
strength of this argument. The Bible
(which l trust the readers of your paper
believe) says, "Cursed is he who put
teth the bottle to his neighbor's mouth,
and n.aketh him drunken" Now
what is ''putting the bottle" &c, but
placing the temptation in his way.
Can the siided saloon with all its at
fractions escape this curse. If so,
where can it be placed. Poor inebri-
ates, who wanted to reform, have told
me that they wished no such places
existed, that their love of the bowl was
so great that they could scarcely see
such places without eeiug overcome.
Such are to be pitied, and every friend