The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-08-09

I and then got the house to accep
that. That is the straight, plain his
+ tory of how L enacted the dispcn
| Sary.
5 | had u conference with Methods
minister in the conference who hat
charge of the prohibition affairs. w.
l made several alterations in the bill
) amendments, etc. When he talked
to me he said this fight in South Car.
ollna was against the saloons. l be.
: iieve it is an iniquity and l will go
us far as any man to eXpell them
, from the State and destroy tI.ut
} class OF liquor selling.
When Colonel lloyt says it is q
) bastard law and | had disowncd nv
} baby want to call his attention and
your assertion to the absurtlity of his
reinark. Here is my version Of the
story. Old Prohibition, who had
been the pet Of South Carolina, and
an old maid named Fanaticism. He
wanted to marry that old maid. lie
thought he had her. lie actually had
the preacher ready when found Il
good looking young girl called Com
mon Sense. | said you want that old
maid but you can't have her. But |
Will marry you to this girl here. Az
Ter pcrsuading he agreed to marry
Common Sense. The dSpcnsary law
is the offspring of Prohibition and
Common Sense. Now, the old man
rrpudiatcs the marriage and says
that he had nothing to do with it.,
and says his Off spring, the diSpcn-
Sary, is Il bastard and he ask you
people to help him TO get Il divorce
so he can go to his first love, fannt-
icism. Is this Il bastard? No, YOU
know it is not. 1t is the result OF "A
legal marriage. | am the Godfather
or this baby and | propose to make
this old man stand up to his con-
tract
| come now to another OF the at
tacks against me. \ man who goes
into the pulpit to make Il political
speech and who - - - CHEERS for
| Gardncr).
Tiliman-I would have thought as
few as you are you would have the
dcccncy to keep your mouths shut.
(Chccrs). Keep it up, the more you
blow that bellows the hotter the fire
grows. In this sermon or political
speech which this reverend gentle
man put forth from his pulpit he
takes positions OH the several phases
of this subject, which | will read to
you and discuss us briefly as | cam
and explain them to you.
| will say that if he had not taken
the liberty among other things to
mention me by name in an insulting
and outrageous manner, | would al
low him to preach what he plcascs
and pass it without Il word. Here
is one clause in his sermon:
"Nothing can alter the fact that in
selling liquor as Il beverage to it's
citizens for profit, the State is do
ing an immoral act, and no sort of
logical quibbling, and no sort of dem
agOgic appeal to the prejudice or the
cupidity of the people can cover up
that fact
lie has no authority to ask ne
that. If it, is immoral to sell whiSlicy
as Il beverage through State officers
then it is equally immoral for the
State to have whislicy sold under
license through these agents who pay
for the privilege. There is not tn,
scintila of difference between the
conditions the ground Of this tigh
is that it is Il sinful and immora
use Of whiSkcy is derived from Il pas
sage in the Bible upon which | never
heard any sermon preached but I;
prohibition sermon, in my life.
"Woc unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink" and right ther,
to dispute with II min: ccdibiSErAlC
they stop; they don't go on ant
give you the whole OF it. The!
take the liberty with this tex
as they do with others. Nobod!
likes TO dispute with IL min
lister about his sermons, | dom
like it. But as | say they stop righ
there, but what is the balance Of til
, and makcst him drunk" and ais
that thou mayest look upon hi
nakcdncsS." That , ~ may chca
l him or bamboozle him when yo
;. make him drunk. ] am going to civ
+ you another text. Here is what So
: omon says. Here is what the wise:
g man that ever lived said, (rcad it.
! SO if the people can quote scriptul
T. l can quote them too. There is al
t other text | happened to stumb
t over, fell on it, and l added it to III
0 are doing, if nothing else, they NJ
making me study my Bible. l wi
, show you where the prohibitionist
couple their text and leave off tn
tail, the essential sense. They prcac
: immortality to drink and sell it as
beverage. ! contend, l take it ther
: is nothing in the Bible which forbid
the use of whisl<cy. We, believing
you had the right to if you had tn
| DlOIcy W pay loI IL anu loI ubuH
it, but to control it the dispcnsar.
law was enacted. / did not ,"nnt Ill.
: fellow citizens forced in order to &c
whinskey, because they lowed it. t.
, lie and play the hyprocritc, to &c
, sick every time they came to tow
: to get n Doctors certificate, so | sub
, stitutcd the dispensary system.
!. stood by the law in Columbia for
= year and n half at almost the risk o
. my life. The prohibitionists harp OF
l. the fact that hey had Il majority;
1 would say they did not have ma .ior
:, ity. | will point to the fact that u
0 '04 they went dispcnsary with an ov
erwhclming majority.
= The House and the Senate in 180
Y were in favor OF it. In '0G il
4 favor Of it, '98 in favor of j
h., except few friends Of pro
| hibition, and now they come to II
, | in this year of 1900 and swear the,
= were cheated. They expect you t.
l right them, to take the scorpion an
= brllise his head and give them a mic
loaf Of bread. Well, gentlemen, yo
| recollcct in '94 under the suprem