The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-23

little wine to be taken incidentally there
fore we ought to perpctuatc the State
whiskcy selling establishment Of South
Carolina. His lack Of knowledge Of the
Bible, displayed in this quotation, is dis
graceful, and his logic in the application
of it not less so.
Jesus summed up the whole moral law
in two great commandments: "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with all thy
strength and with all thy mind and thy
traffic obedience to these command
ments ? Some time ago, talked with q
young man about the habit of drink he
was forming, and pleaded with him to
give it up for his own sake, for the sake
OF his father and mother, for the sake of
tho honorable name he bears. Tears
filled his eyes rs he told me how it WAS
gaining the mastery over him and how
he knew he was bringing pain and sor-
row upon his parents and would ulti-
mately bring ruin upon himself unless
he should quit it; and yet he said that,
SO long rs he could get it, it was next to
pose should sell that young man whis.
key and put the profits in my pocket.
Would be keeping the commandment
to love God with all my soul and strength
and mind? God loves that young man :;
is trying to save him has sent His Son
into the world to save him from lust
such fate as the whiskey traffic will
bring upon him. Now, in selling him
whishey, would be co operating with
God for his salvation or co operating
with the devil for his dsmnation? Would
l be obcying the commandment to love
God with all my power, if sell him whis-
lrn I hn
Would l sell liquor to my own boy, if
he should contract a taste for it? Would
Senator Tillman sell whiskcy to his own
boy to drink as q beverage, if he had the
craving for 1t? Would he desire that
anybody should do it? Are we, then,
loving our ncighbcr as ourselves, when
we arc selling it to somebody csc's boy
or brother or husband who loves it :?
Why ask such questions Cannot any.
body sec that the whiskcy traffic is
against the whole moral law as Jesus
taught it? 1t is directly antagonistic to
both the great commandments in which
our Master summed up the whole law
| The Senator criticiscs my use Of my
text. He claims that / left out the part
which makes it harmoniZc with the dis
pcnsary. Let us see "That thou maycst
look on their nakodncss." The Senator
explains that to mean, "That you may
cheat him or bamboozle him when he is
drunk" That is not what it means.
But suppose it were. Is not the State
OF South Carolina doing that very thing?
| hold that every man who buys liquor
TO drink as q beverage is Cheated and
bamboozlod" He gives his good money
for that which not only has no value
Dut docs MN the greatest harm. If the
state is going into business, it ought to
give value received. But it doesn't dc
II IN the liquor business. But the rcal
meaning of the expression is this tina,
drunkenness tends to bring q man tc
poverty and rags and nakcdncss. Tho
writer supposcs that that must be the
purpose p wnon you furnish liquor to {
not live to sec the time when United
States Senator'S would 90 about over th,
country preaching that the liquor trafIi,
Is benevolent and moral institution
But sensible men know yet that, If nov
erty and nakedncss are not the enc
! aimed at, they certainly arc the result,