The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-01
Mills.

Logs are the raw material lumber is
the product, and houses and fences
etc., are among the results. All Is
gain and everybody blesses the saw
mill and him who invented this engine
of wrath and comfort. =,
Here is a paper mill. Steam is the
power again. Old thrown away rags
the material. Paper is the product,
and books and letters, creating ana
transmitting thought, disseminating
light, and thereby lifting humanity
by creating and consuming the best
within it. Everybody blesses the old
rag mill, for all is gain.
Here is cotton mill. Water or
steam is the power: Cotton is the raw
material. Thread is the product,
clothing for body, and beds, comfort,
life are results. Again everybody
blesses the man who made the mill.
Here is q corn mill. Water or steam
ia the power, corn is the raw material.
Meal or -four is the product, while
food, musk, good blood, life, are results.
Everybody halls him as benefactor
who invented the grist mill. All is
gain. =,
Here Is q steel plant or iron mill.
Steam again is the power. Ore is the
raw material, Iron-Bessimer steel is
the product. All that steel enters into
from razors to railroads are among the
results, bringing the world under trib-
ute to him who invented this great
mill.
But here is an old dirt mill. Steam
or 8 mule is the power.
Dirt is the material. Bricks are the
product, while, buttresses and build
fngs, pillars and pavements the results.
Welcome the man who gives US the
dirt mill.
But what is this? Why it is gin
mill.
It runs by different sort of force:
License is the power here. Listen
Men and boys are the raw material.
How it does grind! Drunkards are
its product.
Observation-Disclosures desert
ed homes-abandoned wives-Orphans
widows - blighted hopes - blasted
manhood-death and damnation are
some of the results. All Is loss y
loss loss
Well, somebody stop the mill.
o, not now, says the democrat, we
want the revenue. Revenue! How
much do you get? "Well, I-I-I--.
we'll, to be candid, I don't know"
Can't somebody tell me how much
revenue this mill puts back into the
treasury. "S cts on the dollar.
Then this gin mill is a dead money
loss of 81 cts on the dollar, to say moth
ing of the bankruptcy of mind and
mOrals-home and Heaven.
Again I cry, shut down that mill !!
Wait, says the politician ; am de-
pending on the saloon for reelection
to congress. Pray what will you do 10
stop this mill, if you get back What
have you done?
You interfere with my rights, says
the owner of the mill.
No I don't, your rights end when
those of these women and children be-
gin. Your rights ended the minute
YOU began to detract from. the happi-
ness or welfare of any human being.
Your rights ended sir, the day you
started that mill.
NV fellow countrymen, do you hear
that mill cry? Give logs, says the
mill, or I must stop. BY common
consent, the logs are furnished.
Give me corn says the grist mill or
stop. BY common consent every
bin In the land contributes.
The same honest cry comes from every
other mill which must grind in order
to bless the world.
But what is that louder, fiercer, long
er, more demanding cry hear? Why
that Is the cry of the gin mill. Its
voice browns the hum of every indus
try and the entreaty of every worthy
enterprise.
Listen Bring on your boys-give
me your best. must have them or l
can't grind.
join my protest to that of every
woman in this country and say stop that
mill. In the name of every living boy
and girl-in the interest of every child
unborn, I say stop that mill. know
the democratic and republican parties
by the license power, say grind on. /
know they say we must have revenue,
if wives and mothers have to furnish
the material out of which to grind it.
know the mill is in good running or.
der I know that every 5 minutes a
human body and soul is ground out to
keep it a going. But in the name of
God that mill can, shall be stopped.
Preach, pray, live, cry, vote against
everybody who, directly or indirectly
takes interest in this mill.-J. B. Cul-
pepper in Georgia Evangelist.