The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-02-13
BILL ARP AND THE ARDENT,
1t Is Difficult to Keep People
From Drinking He Quotes
Scripture
Atlanta Constitution.

: Scripture
, Atlanta Constitution.
e. L was ruminatlng about this it'll,
unpleasantncss that is going on
amongst our ncighbors at Rome. Nj,
comfort Is that it is not as big a thins
= as they think it is and will soon pass
away. After the election is over the
leaders will apologize all round and
make friends and the dear people have
time to reflect and wonder what fools
The leaders made of them. a friend
writes nc that there is nothing in il
out ring polilics-wllO shall run the
machine, who shall have the offices.
Whisky Is the background, but the
maln thing is Office. AS LeOnatd Nor
row once sad at a public speaking,
Boys, don't let 'cm fool you. They
arc just side wipin' round huntin' the
orthography OF a little olicc.' Carlis lc
said, England has population of
10000 ,OOO-mostly foOls,n and tut so
there arc enough fools IN every county
or community t. elect man if he can
get them all. He is pretty safe if he
can get majority of them.
" "Dispcnsary or no dspcrsa,y,"
that is the question that is Row stiminu
Rome and Floyd County. Wen, we
know all about it here in Gainesville.
for We ulcd saloons for years and they
did so much harm we abolished them
and they will never come back here
| agaln--ncvcr. Now we are trying the
dlspensary; III fact, we have two OF
them, enc i'll Rome and The other in
Atlanta. We wouldn't have one in our
town or county for anything. The
farther of the better. The easier
whisky is to get the more will be drank.
Dawson, i'll Terrell County, has had a
dlspensary for nearly four years. The
sales FOR the first year were $2G 600.
me second year were $50 900, the
third year 500 900 and the present year
viii probably run to SO 900. You sec,
IL takes the boys some time to find out
how easy it Is to get il, but the con-
sumption goes on aud on, increasing
and the people take comfort in that the
profits increase their school fund and
lessen their taxes. No matter if it i'm
provcrlshcs the poor and makes drunk
ards OF their young men. That is Of
no consequences.
Now, our dlspcnsarics are most too
near. l wish that the consumers had
to get their supplies from Cinc;n-
natl or Baltimore. That would Gu, the
jug business down onc-halr at least.
The common people couldn't wait 80
long and so nobody but uncommon
people would get any hardly. 1t would
be long time bctwcea drinks, as the
Governor Of North Carolina said to the
Governor Of South Carolina. There is
bound to be some drinking going on if
they knew that The world was going to
be burned up tomorrow. Gail we can
dO," said a good man to me Yesterday.
"is to make 1t hard to get and regulate
lis sale and consumption" This man
had had experience with young men
who drank on the sly. lie used to
drink habitually himself, but found the
habit was growing on him. lie wanted
il oftcncr and more Of it and SO he quit
short Off two years ago. He said "lhat
there was but little difference between
open bar rooms ard the dspensary,
so far as the better class of young men
room with three or four friends was
about as bad as the dollar spent for
drinks in bar ROOM"
But the bar rooms arc 4 nuisance in
any town and a disgrace to its refine
mcnt. If they arc allowed at all they
| should hc on some side street where
ladies do not frequent or have to pass.
Keep them out of sight and out of
smell. OF course, the drinking habit
cannot be stopped by law, nor can the
| sale of whisky be stopped as long as
| the government allows its manufacture.
| Our people can drive over to Cherokee
| and buy what they want from the gov
ernment dlstillcry. There is no such
thing as prohibition and never will be
until the dawn Of the millennium
| This thing began with old Noah and
had its ups and downs all through the
Bible history. 1t never was sanction
cd. 1t never was prohibited except to
The priests in the tabernacle. "Drink
not in the tabernacle lest yc die" SAITH
Moses. All Of those old time people
kept some Oh the sidcboard. Joseph
and his brethren drank together and
were merry. David speaks of wine
that makcth glad the heart of man,
Solomon says, Gave strong drink tc
him that is ready topcrish and wine to
those that be heavy of heart" But
when he was sobcring up from spree
he said, 9 Wine is mockcr, strong
drink is raging, for at the last it bitctl
like serpent and stingeth like an adj
der" ! heard a judge Of our circui
say that the wind up Of a spree wa:
the mos. wretchcd and Gorlorn mcnta
condition that could bcfall a man. Sai'
he, "Away in the dead of night | have
T. gotten up and gone to the well in my
night shirt and drank and drank OF tht
cooling water until | could hold ne
more. l wanted to bite branch il
two and swallow the upper end"
Nabal got drunk and became as {
stone, and Bcnhadad and thirty-twt
kings all got drunk together after
battle. jeremiah, the prophet, tric'
to make the Rcchabites drink wine witt
him, but they would not, for 80 thci
father had cnjoincd them, and Jcrc
miah blessed them for obcying thci
father, and said, "Thus saith the Lor
the House of Jonadab, the son O
Rcchab, shall not want for man {
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