Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

in advocating cause that he knew
was beneficial in q moral, religious,
industrial and financial sense. A
whole generation has grown up there
without being witnesses 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 attainment of such result involves
sacrifice, toll and endurance on the
part of its advocates? Christian men
and women can we'll afford to make
the sacrifice and bear the toll, because
it is in a direct line of obedience to
their 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 aban-
don the field, wherein we would prove
recreant to the most solemn obligations
that rest upon Christian people
charged with the moral and religious
elevation of those around us. To re-
linquish the field means the continual
ton of the liquor trade under the
aegis of our beloved South Carolina,
and perpetuates system that is un-
dermining the public veal and Destroy
ing the probity of our public men; a
system that sanctions, with the broad
seal of the state, an annulment of the
Divine injunction, "Woe unto him that
gives his neighbor drink and
maketh him drunken also." Every
day, and every hour through the day,
the state of South Carolina is vending
that which destroys the souls of men, !.
and the servants of God cannot remain
Indifferent or unconcerned while this
law is contained in the statute books.
Righteousness exalteth nation but
sin is a reproach to any people," and
the hideous enormity of this sin Of
drunkenness, fostered by the state,
must no longer stain the proud escut-
cheon of our common mother. We
must protest against this anomalous
perversion of governmental power by
which every citizen of the state is
made responsible for traffic 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 now come to make
an appeal to our fellow citizens that
they will join US in restoring the old
commonwealth to a right relation,
whereby the liquor traffic will be put
under ban, so that our rulers and law
makers will be spared the necessity of
legislating to increase the sin of drunk
enuess within our borders. To do this
efectually 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 "seek to
obtain 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 cor
ner, to our political associates, de-
manding the right to make the issue
at the primary polls, and insisting that
fairness and justice require the recog-
milton of our representatives inside the
party lines, where every other issue
is settled for the maintainance of good
government in this state. We deny
that any class of Democrats have pecu-
liar and special privileges accorded
to them under the constitution and
laws of the party, and we will main
tain our rights to be heard on the
hustings and to cast free, untrammell-
ed ballot at the polls.