Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-05-31

quantity not a hundrcdth part of
what it was in olden time. His esti-
mate was that there is a saving of
s24, 100000 annually, which goes to
increase the prosperity of the masses,
and he declared that it is far within
the truth to say that $1,000,0O0
would pay for all the liquor snug
glcd into Maine and sold in violation
of the law. This is the testimony
of y man who spent the best years
of his life even down to extreme
old age in advocating cause that
he knew was beneficial in q moral,
religious, industrial and financial
sense. y whole generation has
grown up there without being wit
nesses to the effects of liquor, and
there are grown men and women
who have never seen drunken man.
Is not such state of affairs worth
striving for, even though the attain
mcnt of such result involves sac
rifcc, toll and endurance on the part
of its advocates Christian men
and women can well afford to make
the sacrifice and bear the toll, be-
cause it is in the direct line of obe-
dience to the Master.
The contest we are entering upon
is not child's play. The Prohibition
Democrats of South Carolina are
not responsible that the issue has to
be made on the political hustings.
There is no choice left TO us except
to abandon the field, wherein we
would prove rccreant to the most
solemn obligations that rest upon a
Christian people charged with the
moral and religious elevation of those
around us. TO reIinquisA the field
means the continuation of the liquor
traffic under the acgis of our beloved
South Carolina, and perpetuatcs
system that is undermining the pub.
lie veal and destroying the probity
of our public men; system that
sanctions, with the broad seal OF the
State, an annulmcnt of the divine
injunction, "Woe unto him that gives
his neighbor drink and maxi
est him drunken also" Every day
and every hour through the dar, the
State of South Carolina is vending
that which destroys the souls of men,
and the servants of God cannot re-
main Indifferent or unconcerned
while this law is contained in the
statute books. "Righteousness ex-
altcth nation, but sin is q reproaoh
to any people," and the hidcous
cnormity of this sin of drunkenness,
fostcred by the State, must not
longer stain the proud escutchcon of
our common mother. We must pro-
test against this anomalous perver-
sion of governmental power by
which every citizen of the State is
made responsible for traflicc that
is abominable in the eyes OF God.
The means of our protest is through
the political agency with which we
are in part entrusted as citizens of
South Carolina, and we come now
to make an appeal to our fellow citi-
zens that they will join us in rcstor-
ing the old Commonwealth to right
relation, whereby the liquor traffic
will be put under ban, 80 that our
rulers and lawmakers will be spared
the necessity of legisIating to in
crease the sin of drunkenness within
our borders. 70 do this cffcctually
we are compelled to make this issue
at the Democratic primary, and
hence to have representatives of our
principles, who will contend for them
before the people, and "scek to OBJ.
tain control of the executive and
Legislative departments of the State
Government" This is no unworthy
aim or object and we proclaim these
purposes, which are not hid in
corner, to our political associates,
demanding The right to make the
issue at the primary polls, and in
sisting that fairness and Justice re-
quirc the recognition of our repre-
scntatlvcs inside party lines, where
every other issue is settled for the
maintenance Of good government in
this State. We deny that any class
of Democrats have peculiar and spc-
clal privileges accorded to them
under the constitution and laws of
the party, and we will maintain our
right TO be heard on the hustipps
and to cast free, untrammclled
ballot at the polls.
The address was received with ap-
plause.
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