The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-26

the city autnorltleS ana Manager Cra'
mer. At midnight the Convention ad.
jourped after a harmonious and pleas
ant session.
-. PROHIBITION REASONING.
Professor Judson Discusses the Dispensary
Question Logically and Demon
-. strstes his Propr sitfons.
The following communication is from
Prof. e. II. Judson, of Furman Universi-
ty. He did not intend it to appear over
his own signature, but the editor Of The
Greenville News felt that the name
would add to the value Of the article.
''THE ETHICS OF THE LIQUOR CUES
TON"
The following postulates will be ad'
mitted by every right thinking man:
l. Excessive drinking-drinkin to
intoxication-is moral and civil
wrong. 1t is wrong to the individual
and a wrong to every form of organized
society, whether it be the family, the
church or the State, since its tendency
is the destruction Of each.
|. 2. Every days observation proves to
US that habitual drinking tends to
immoderate and excessive drinking.
Hence, so-called moderate drinking is
wrong 80 soon as it becomes hatitual.
1t then threatens The destruction of
the individual and Of society.
+ 8. It is we'll settled principle Of law
that it is moral and civil wrong to
encourage, aid or abet the commission
of a wrong act. Hence it demonstrably
follows "That the traffic in intoxicating
liquors as a beverage is dishonor to
Christian civilization, is inimical to
the best interest of society, is. a political
wrong of unequaled enormity, and is
subversial of all true objects as gov
ernments." No prospective, proba bic
or possible financial advantages can
compensate for this wrong or change
its character. It may sometimes hap
pen in a republic like ours that the
alternative of one of two Objectionable
measures or of one of two objectionable
men invites our suffrage, and "we have
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cause to throw away our vote on 8
mere abstraction may bring about the
''greater evil"
This issue now before the people OF
South Carolina is a very simple one.
We have to decide whether it is better
that liquors shall be sold under restraint
aud regulation of law or that they shall
not be lawfully sold at all. The duty
of all right minded citizens would seem
to be very plain were it not that false
issue is made, to wit: that liquors will
be sold anyway ard We must elect the
lesser evil of having it sold under regu-
lation of law. Now it is not better to
choose the right and be defeated than
timidly to choose tie wrong?
No one will contend that more liquor
will probably be sold in violation OF
law than would be sold under the law.
If the illegal sales should be reduced
to one-fourth Of what they would be
under the laws, would not that be j
material gain? Is not even that worth
striving for? Moreover, is there not
real, a substantial gain on the side OF
principle on the side Of right? Is there
no satisfaction in being on the right
side of a great moral question? Then
further, this business is school master
to educate public sentiment. If on the
one hand we pronounce against the
wrong, if we do all We can to suppress
the wrong, then we contribute oul
part towards building up right pub
lie sentiment. If on the other hand
we timidly submit, or still worse, if we
aid and encourage the State in pursu'
ing the wrong, then we are responsible
for our influence in an endeavor tc
make respectable business which the
civilized world has condemned as de-
grading.
II can not conceive" says Judge
Martin, of Kansas, "of any business OF
occupation more thoroughly demoral'
izing in its tendency and effects OF
more destructive of public morals
public order and public decency than
the business of selling Intoxicating
liquors."
1T brings moral and social death tc
those who engage in it and sustain it."
Hitherto in South Carolina liquor SELL
ing has been a legal though not re.
spectacle business. Whiskey selling
never commended any man to public
esteem or to public comic ance. Now,
in endorsing any man &c a dispenser Of
whiskey do we not thereby give our
sanction to the traffic? Do we not ex-
press our approval of his engaging in
a business which is degrading and de-
moralizing to himself, is destructive to
the best interests of society and which
threatens his eternal ruin? Christian
fellow citizens, consider well your re-
sponsibiIity in the matter and think
twice before you let your names remain
on a paper giving your sanction and
approval to this greatest curse of our
country, the whiskey traffic.
or Course You Read
The testimonials frequently published
in this paper relating to Hoods Sarsa'
parilla. They are from reliable people,
state simple facts, and show beyond a
doubt that HOOPS CURES Why don't