The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-12
4wHAT TO DO WITH WHISKY"
GILMAN AND STRONG TALK To
CHEERING THOUSANDS IN
JERSEY.

,layor strOng's Prophecy That in
one Years Time no sunday Liquor
NIL he Sold in New YOrIx-GON.
TfIIman says Strong Has Mighty
Zig Contract on Ills Hands-TiII-
man Takes no Stock in Prohibition.
..You Can't Make Men VirtuOus by
Legislative Enactment"
Asbury Park, n. J., Aug. 1.-THE most
enthusiastic audience that has gathered
I'm the Asbury Park auditorium this year
attended the National service at o'clock
this afternoon. The attraction was dou-
Die one, the speakers being Mayor Strong
OF New York and ex-Gov. Tillman of
south Carolina, the author of the famous
state dispensary law. now in existence
there.
Rev J. p. Dawson. who has charge of
the auditorium. presided. When he intro
duced Mayor Strong the applause was
deafening. The latter said that. he was
engaged in the work of trying to enforce
the plain law, which has been on the
statute books for some time. 1--WE have
had a corrupted police force and a cor
rupted judiciary, but have come to the
conclusion that the law must be en-
forced" This remark was applauded to
the echo. Continuing he said that those
who deal in liquor shall not sell on Sun
day. We are having some trouble, to be
sure, and my friends have said that l
would injure my party. 1 want to say
that the municipality of New York knows
=. Ngez
expect to be in Asbury Park, and Iwin tell
you that the law is being rigidly enforced
that you can't get a drink on Sunday
in New York. See if my prediction is not
fulfilled"
The applause that followed lasted
minute.
Senator Tillman spoke on What to DO
With Whisky" In the preface to his
speech he said he was a plain, South
Carolina farmer and not much given to
rhetoric and Oratory. Then turning TO
Mayor Strong, he said:
You have big contract on your hands
"a dozen big contracts-if you come here
and predict that in a year from now
there viii be no whisky sold in New York
on Sundays. 1 shall wish you to come
and shall pray for yOut. success, but you
viii scratch that old head of yours many
a time during the year thinking the prob
lem over. ! put in TWO years bucking
against the rum sellers and had mon
key and parrot time of it. l am frank TO
confess that L don't believe there is virtue
enough in Mayor Strong's Sodom to stop
Sunday liquor selling.
Senator Tillman spent an hour explain
ing the workings of his famous liquor
dispensary law. THE democrats of my
state" he said, land when l say demo-
Gratis, 1 mean the white people Of South
Carolina, declared for prohibition two
years ago. l don't believe in prohibition
because ii is impossible and Impractical
BILE. 1 cannot find any warrant in the
Bible for saying that man shall not
drink if he wants to. l convinced my pro-
hibition friends that they were wrong
and had enacted my dispensary law, which
even the prohibitionists of my state de-
clare comes nearer to solving the liquor
problem than any other means enacted.
The liquor dealers, of course, fought the
law, the supreme court of the United
States, in reviewing, knocked holes
through ii that allows whisky to ooze in
from other states This supreme body
has done many things. You remember
the 8 to of '76 decision and the reversal
of the income tax. That decision did not
effect me, for l would not have to pay any
tax, but that law will be re-enacted before
long. Nearly every state in the union,
owing to the peculiar liquor laws, is in
partnership with the liquor dealers, but
in South Carolina we have dissolved part
nership with the rascals, and have said
to our citizens, drink if you will, but
come and drink state liquors, which is
pure stuff, and in doing so help reduce
your taxes.
You can't make a man vrtuous by leg
islative enactment. You have got to edu-
cate them through their reason. We can't
have prohibition, but we can minimize the
evils attendant upon the liquor traffic by
adopting a law similar to the one in South
Carolina and other states would do well
to follow our example. We are fighting the
devil with fire and whisky with whisky.
The aristocracy of my state fought the
law and formed a combination with the
liquor dealers and rabId prohibitionists.
The fight became SO warm between the
Tillmanites and the anti-Tillmantes that
the members of the two factions could be
designated by their drinking. for, every
time an "antr' purchased liquor from
the state he declared that 1t was the viii
est stuff he ever tasted, while my ad-
herents when they smiled remarked that
the liquor was the purest and best ever
distilled"
For nearly an hour the prohibitionists
in the audience fired question after ques-
ton at the senator. One question asked
was if the Maine liquor law did not pro-
hibit
Perhaps it does" returned Mr.. Tillman,
but l am inclined to believe it does not,
because in Maine there are hundreds
OF citizens who are paying the government
for permission to sell liquor.
SENSATIONAL sERMONIZING.