The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-14

legislate for our boys and young men.
In Two generations our State will be
ready Tor total prohibition, aud We shall
have is. The young men now growing
up will not know the taste of whiskey.
the social feature having been destroyed
there will no longer dwell charm
within the cup. and our country will
boom with prosperity.
Nioety-seven per cent. Of the people
of South Carolina are in favor of this
law and ye, our daily papers are hound
ing it and trying to prod. the impress
siou on the outside world til. the Gov
ernor cannot enforce it, and th people
are against it. They are sweets uted
set. these anti dailies They cuss I'd
fume because the dispensary made, as
they say, 90 money for the first quarter,
and they cussed and fumed louder. be-
cause it did make little the second
quarter. It has paid expenses from the
start. and is now paying the State a
handsome income. We do not care, how
ever, for the money. 1t is the bappi-
ness and protection of the people tor
which We are atruggliog.
Drunkenness in our State has been
decreased over IS per cent, and many
home now radiases with the sunshine
of sobriety aud Christianity which here
tofore was dark with crime and poverty.
We are being watched by the civil
lized world, and in less than four years
this Law will be enacted by majority
of the States of our Union. Already
Massachusetts is following US, and our
National Alliance has made it an issue
for the Union.
Who are the men that are fighting it?
The saloon keepers and scum of the
earth, who live on the bowerys OF
Charleston and Columbia, aided by
such patriots as eudeavor to bankrupt
the State. advise insurrectiou, and con-
nive at fraud for the purpose OF making
little political capital against our
movement.
regret to say that few extreme
prohibitionists are with them, but | do
not impugn their motives. shall
throw the mantle Of charity around
them, and ask you to forgive them for
they know not what they do.
Prohibition is as sure to come as we
are here, but we must first prepare the
i way for it. When a mau has dellrlum
tremens, we do not take his whlskey
abruptly away from him. We mix a
little in his medicine and 6ually get him
iu shape to take it from him entirely.
So we must treat the State, for State
is but collection of individuals and
has the same symptoms and diseases as
its compound parts.
We have been invited to make this
law IN issue in this campaign aud We
have taken up the glove. Let the enc
nv meet us face to face and We shall
ask no quarter. Suffering humanity
has already arisen to call US bless
ed and the true and good must be with
us
The attempt 10 place me before the
people as the candidate Of any one man
or faction is simply an effort OF the op-
position TO create the impression that a
split exists iu our ranks. am the can
dida,e of no man or faction aud those
who think that split exists in the
ranks of the Reformers are in the posi-
ton Of the little animal, who saw the
king of beasts asleep. Thinking him
dead, the little skunk offered the
monarch an insult characterized by his
offensive odor. The lion awakening
crashed him with one slap aud all that
remained was small grease spot and
little offensive odor.
So iu August next when the Reform
lion awakeDs all that will be left of the
opposition will be small grease spot
aud I. little offensive odor in the Office
of the Columbia State.