The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-07
TIE DRINK QUESTION.

TO say a few words in regard 10 the
perplcxing liquor question A few
years ago Il law was passed abolishing
the individual barrooms and establish :
ing the State dispcnsary Men would
have fought for the establishment Of
the dispcnsary, but now hundreds Of
these same men are very much dissat-
isfcd with the dispcnsary system and
would give anything to establish
something better
Now, only state this because it is
the truth and to show how utterly i'm :
possible it is for men to be satisfied
with anything that gives 80 little sat
isfaction and comfort as the "world's s
curse liquor. Men may work and
wrigglc around and preach and teach,
and change one liquor institution for
another, thinking to- better condition
OF things from now till they die, and
they will still be dissatisfied. Every
body knows that whiskcy does not
satisfy. Even those who drink it are
Obliged IL admit hat the more they
drink the more they want 1t is only
by beginning to drink that men 5 ap-
pctitcs are given to liquor. One
drink calls for another. And so one
institution that di.pcnscs whiskcy to
men Of the perverted appetite when
they want it is no better than an
other doing the very same thing, and
Will give no more satisfaction.
Now, we don't want to be under
stood as mcrcl. upholding Il political
faction, but as promulgating the etcr-
nal truth Of the eternal God, because
in the very nature Of things it is alb
soiutcly right. 1t is hard to find a
man that will tell ou plainly that it
is right to drink whiskey, but there
are thousands Of them who do not hes
itate to say that it is wrong, but still
continue to drink. They seem power
less to resist SO long as the stuff is
where they can get SO easily.
Gods word says: "Wine is a mock
er: strong drink is raging, and whose
ever is deceived thereby is not wise.
If individuals who are deceived by
strong drink are not wise, neither is
State nor nation which is deceived
thereby.
Men who are not wise are foolish,
and so is nation or State. In for
getting right one forgcts God, for God
is right, and the Word tells us that a
nation that forgcts God shall be "turn-
ed into hell It is self evident that
the use Of whiskey is not right. 1t is
not food, Cat least, it is not food that
builds the system of perfect manhood, }
but is detrimental to health aud good
morals. Even if it was a food, men
are not very economic in buying it in
that form, because it is so expensive.
And it cant be Of any medicinal val
uc, because it is vitality poisonous to
life in any form. Very little of it is
assimilated, therefore the already
ovcrworked organs Of excretion and
respiration are more heavily taxed in
carrying the poisonous matters from
the system, and in their failure to do
so the blood is poisoned and conse-
quent!y The person is diseased. We
arc only stating the absolute truth OF
the case. Experiments for many
years prove these things to be so. The
State, in selling liquor to men, sells
that which causes disease and every
evil contained in the catalogue Of
crime. There is nothing too mean for
a drunk man to do. After being be-
reft of sense aud reason, "a thing that
liquor accomplishcs), the man is left
entirely to the leading Of the beastly,
satanic nature.
Something that would not only over
throw individuals but even nations by
the use of it, is thing that VIC should
certainly not countcnancc, but should
guard against it as against any other
deadly enemy. This, whiskey has
done, and no one can deny it. But it
cannot be said that the use of it ever
established nation.
Let me quote few words from
speech of prominent lawyer of New
York, which was made in behalf Of
"Intemperance cuts down
youth in it's vigor, manhood in it's
strength, and age in its weakness. It
breaks the fathers heart, bercaves tho
doting mother, extinguishes natural
affection, crazes conjugal love, blots
out filial attachments, blights parent
al hope, and brings down mourning
age in sorrow to the grave. 1t pro-