The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-06-07
A PROHIBITION APPEAL.
MRS. CHAPLIN WRITES 70 COVER
NOR TlLlMAN.

3Rys that the Bar. room Element 10 Again
Taking Charge of AHairs-Tho Law
Ought to bs Euforced-U Uarolina's Mon
Also Called On.
COLUMBIA, S. G., May 30.-Tho
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has made an appeal to Governor Tlllman
to do what ho can to aid in tho enforce
meut Of the prohibition law and alao ap-
peals to the mon Of the Slate to do like.
wise. The appeal is rs follows aud
speaks for itself:
CHARLESTON, S. g., May %.
"Governor Tlllmap:
1.-THE members Of the Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance Union Of Charleston
do most earnestly entreat you not to re-
lax your eflorts for the protection OF our
homes and dear ones from the destruc-
ton that now seems to threaten them in
tho return to license and the restoration
to power of the rum Gends. Newspa.
pers which few months ago preached
Prohibition 40 eloquently that many
really believed they meant what they
preached are now advocating license,
"High license with restrictions" as
though the restrictions they propose
have not been dead letter on cur stat.
ute books for yoars, scefled at aud delied
by the lawless crowd which they propose
to restore to office. "South Carolina,
the Palmetto State, in the liquor
traffic." has been rallying cry
tor the anti -Dlspensary host, and
and now, no sooner have the Dispense.
ries been closed than these very people
advocate forming new p partnerehip with
Tho Palmetto State,' which they had
taught us 10 believe they hold so sacred,
as chief partner in the firm Of Van fucket
shop IL Co.
"When tho Evans bill was passed in
1892 We wished 1t had been prohibition
and felt dreadfully over it, but when we
read the bill and found it proposed to
close every open barroom in the State
and allow LIQUOR sold only by responsi :
BILE persons, whose characters hud 10 be
endorsed by majority of persons in
their ward OF town, as the case might
be, and who were pledged under oa,n not
to sell to minors, drunkards, or ary ono
under the influence ofliqu VI and to Ke ep
q record Of all sales made, which would
at all tiDen be open 70 inspections; the IL
quor sold in the Dispensaries was to
be aualyzed by The State Chemist to i'll
sure it's purity, and the places IN which
| II was sold were to be closed at 6 ,'c,Ock
AMI kept closed on the Sabbath; tho New
York Tribune pronounced it "Ir'nclac
prohibition" aud we fell that II was
! only one step fiOm it. SO we cave il
our encournt ement and support and des.
pite Of threats from barkeepers, and onl y
discourayemeut from those whom we
bad right to expect would have stood
by us, we have held the tort, working
aud praying for prohibition. Some are
rejoicing that 1t has come, not in our
CITY, however, where the dens OF inlquitV
are all open, even on SIndays. We
are still hoping, PRAYING, waiting. When
the Supreme Court decided that the Dis
pensary bill was unconstitutional. many
were inclined to think as jacob did, IAN
these things are against me-; but we
know better. The Dlspeuary had done
the work God intended it to do. This
d9ht ls battle between the Devil and
Ills allies and our great King and His fol-
lowers, aud unless we provo traitors We
must win with the victory, for
'Our God is within tho shadows
Keeping watch above Ills own
The Dis pensary proved that with a
man Of courage at the head of aifairs,
liquor laws could be enforced, If not ab.
solutelY at first, fully as we'll as laws
against burglary, murder or any other
crime. Puolic barrooms were m ost Ger.
tainly closed and that in despite of the
combined Efforts Of all classes Of people
who gave encouraQ ement and actually
brought into prominence the lowest class
Of people because they dared to defy the
law. You have shown what an immense
revenue accrues from the sale Of whiskey
but you have told us your "ohject is not
revenue,' and we believe you arc too
true man to sell the right Of way into
our homes and barter our boys TO the
| foreign rum seller for revenue.
| "When for our cause all hope was lost,
And every heart was tempest tossed,
When homes In ashes round uS lay
| And O'or us bcanled no cheering ray,
| When cen our bravost were unnamed,
| And waves OF woo waved O'or tho land
| Your Southern women checked each teal
And offered nothing but words of cheer
And now we como TO the men o.
| Shl OIllhs phl IlCuihllY w bhOSO wiz inuht
and enforce our laws, and entreat you tt
protect the homes wa took care of dur
ing the war. 'IIome is our kingdom :,
you sav, but we are poweress to defen'
| it. You put into the hands Of the vlles
of securing Of creation weapon "Fr
mer act than bullets or than bayonet,
with which to attack our homes and dies
troy our dearest ones. Your protectio
you say ID all sufficient. God grant
may be 80 in thla case, for we arc stan(
ing ballotless, utterly unable to defen
our homes aud we appeal to tho mrn {
our State for help in this time of threa
: ened destruction. Ii you DO not help Il
now and the destro, crS Of nur homes &c
into po yer again, the wives and motl
ers OF our State will have again to &C
as thev have gone in tho past, lnto tn
rum shops at night and on their knee
plead with brutal barkeepers, who, wi.
curses, haye thurst them Into the street
, I'VE want prohibition, absolute prohi
bition, without any clauses eXomptin:
VINE, beer Or any liquor as n beverage