The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-26
PROHIBITION Department.
ARTHUR klBLER, County Chairman.
a. Z. JONES, Member State Prohibition Ex-
ccutive Commit Ce, Newborry County.
Extract From Sermon Preached by Rov.
q. w. Creighton, or tho Methodist
Church, August 21st, 1903.
"Dslirer us from e,ilr-Ma; vi. 10.

Df'fHl us from et II '~- HSu. VI 10.
This prayer assumes the brother.
hood OF Christiaus--a common iuter-
est and common peril. Many acts
OF kindness do not necessarily in
volve any great degree of interest IN
another, but to be touched with a
feeling Of his iniirmitie7, realizo his
danger, aud pray for bis deliyeranco,
is Cbrjstlike. Lot us ask, is ibis not
time when this prayer is peculiarly
appropriate? Is tbero not a great
aud growing evil in our midst from
which individual', society, and our
land must be dei;vered2 Without
goiug into details aud pursuing the
many phases Of the question, docs
not tho liquor traffic in our State to-
day threaten the destruction of do
nestle peace and happiness, tho un-
d"rmlolng of society and the demor-
alizetion Of the State? Tbep, it must
be an evil! We stated the propo@;-
ton u few Sabbaths since that tho
great battle Of Christ:srs aul the
Chuicb, is against the temptation to
PROSTITUTE the human heart 49d de-
base humen nature TO what does
this traffic appeal? The human
beart--an uunatural and vicious ap
petite. Upon what does it ra,t9 A
per,crtei taste, Il prostitutcd nature.
What are the commodities IN which
it dealsY Human happiness, human
character, human souls, human blood,
huunn life! There is no other traffic,
no otEer business, that deals in hu
7~lnanlty--no o,bec That depends for
snccess upon The destruction Of the
element. source aud body from which
1t draws it's succe.s-in tbs case the
body social, humanity. 1T g"ows by
destroying hat upon which it feeds,
sappipg its substance, consuming its
life. For this reason it is written
"woe unto him that giveth his neigh
Dor drink, that pu,toth the bottle to
him and make.h him drunk also that
thou mayest look on their naLed-
ness" Again it is writteo, "woo un-
to him that bnildeth town with
blood money and that establisheth a
city by iniqu;ty." Are We not bring
ing up generation and generations
on the bottle? Are wo not trying to
build not only towns but citizenship
upon iniquity-blood money! Is not
tho cost Of intelligence 10 be the
price Of iniquity9 Is not tho educa.
tional system Of this State founded
upon the debauch and ruin Of socie
ty?-tho tutoring Of our children to
be paid for with the blood OF their
fathers. Does not the State offer an
inducement to d"unkerness? The
more liquor you consume the moro
money for your schools! Is there an
instance on record where any sane
government sought to build up aud
I. perpetuate itself upon the ruin Of it's
&subjocts? Did any sane government
II ever before introduce and maintain
8S8sin.q"ity among it's citizens for its own
fsaeggraudisemeut and escape ruin9
"a Can any people prosper hose laws
defy Almighty God? H.. OF tho
SS{dispensary been offensive to good
.$SpeopleP Has not almost overy man
5$that touched it boon moro or less de
filed?
Today the liquor traffic sits like al
sisilnn unsuitable vampire upon tho indus
SE8trIa', social, moral and spiritual life
#of tho State. In 1892 the consump.
ion OF Intoxicating liquors yiolded
IN income of 81 ,0G0, O,0OO-at the
Saassse nse OF $l5.2S for overy person in
8 United States. Add to this tho
sss8saV C ct cost, losses, otc., and it foots
Np $l00,000,OO0 more. To feed,
clothe hnd shoe the American people
for tho same length Of time cost
81 ,G0O,OOO,OO0. So then the cost of
this one item, drink, is nearly equal
to the cost of feeding, shoelng aud
clothing the nation. But mark this
fact, then tho government had placed
tho band of discrimination upon the
y business and fought it back What
d then shnll the result be whon the
q government itsclf monopolizcs the
S Abusiness, throws off all restraint and