Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22
ARP ANDTHE ARDENT
Bill Says 1t Is Difficult to Keep
People from Drinking.
Alludes to Row at Rome Over
Question of the Liquor Tranic-
Scripture Quoted by Arp
in His Letter.

that 1t is not as big thing 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 will have
time to reflect and wonder what fools
the leaders made of them. A friend
writes me that there is nothing in it but
ring politics-who shall run the ma
chine, who shall have the offices.
Whisky is in the background, but the
main thing is office. AS Leonard Nor
row once said at a public speaking:
"Boys, don't let 'em fool you. They are
Just side wipin' round huntin' the or
biography of little Office" Carlisle
said: England has a population of
100000 0O0-mostly FOOLS" and just so
there are enough fools in every county
or community to elect man if he can
get them all. He is pretty safe if he can
get majority of them. "Dispensary
or no dispensary," that is the question
that is now stirring Rome and Floyd
counties. Well, we know all about it
here in Gainesville, for we tried the sa-
looms for years and they did so much
harm we abolished them and they will
never come back here again-never
Now we are trying the dispensary; in
fact, we have two of them, one in Rome
and the other in Atlanta. We wouldn't
have one in our town or county for
anything. The farther off the better.
The easier whisky is to get the more
will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell coun-
ty, had dispensary for nearly four
years. The sales for the first year were
$4,000. The second year were $780, 900,
the third year $4,000 and the present
year will probably run to $4,000. You
see, it takes the boys some time to find
out how easy it is to get, but the con-
sumption goes on and on increasing,
and the people take comfort in that
the profits increase their school fund
and lessen their taxes. No matter il it
impoverishes the poor and makes
drunKards of their young men. That
is of no consequence.
Now, our dispensaries are most too
near. / wish that the consumers had
to get their supplies from Cincinnati
or Baltimore. That would cut the Jug
business down one-half at least. The
common people couldn't wait so long
and so nobody but uncommon people
would get any hardly. 1t would be a
long time between drinks, as the gov
ernor of North Carolina said to the gov
ernor 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 you can
do" said a good man to me yesterday,
sis to make it hard to get and regulate
its sale and consumption" This man
had an experience with young men who
drank on the sly. He used to drink hab-
itually himself, but found the habit was
growing on him. He wanted it oftener
and more of it, and so he quit short off
two years ago. He said "that there
was but little difference between the
open bar rooms and the dispensary, so
far as the better class of young men
were concerned. A dollar bottle in a
room with three or four friends was
about as bad as the dollar spent for
drinks in a bar room"
But the bar rooms are nuisance in
any town and a disgrace to its refine
ment If they are allowed at all they
should be on side streets 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 gov
eminent allows its manufacture. Our
people can drive over to Cherokee and
buy what they want from the govern
ment distillery. 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 his.
tory. 1t never was sanctioned. 1t never
was prohibited except to the priests in
the tabernacle. "Drink not in the tab
ernacle, lest We die" saith Moses. All
of these old-time people kept some on
the sideboard. Joseph and his breth.
rem drank together and were merry
David speaks of wine that maketh glad
the heart of man. Solomon says: "GivC
strong drink to him that is ready tt
perish and wine to those that be Of
heavy heart" But whe nhe was sober
! jig up from spree he said: "Wine i.
| a mocker, strong drink is raging, for a
last it biteth like a serpent and sting
eth like an adder" l heard a judge o
) our circuit say that the wind up off
spree was the most wretched and for
) lorn mental condition that could befal
a man. Said he: "Awayin the dead o
; night have gotten up and gone to thu
we'll in my night shirt and drank ant
drank of the cooling water until coult
hold no more. 1 wanted to bite
) branch in two and swallow the uppe
end" Nabal got drunk and became
stone, and Benhadad and thirty-tw
kings all got drunk together after
, battle. jeremiah, the prophet, triet
to make the Rechabites drink win
with him, but they would not, for s.
their father had enjoined them, an
jeremiah blessed them for obeyinj
their father and said: "Thus saith tn
Lord the house of Jonadab, the son o
Rechab, shall not want for a man t
stand before me forever" Zacharia,
|, seems to have winked at the indulgence
for he said: "Corn shall make tn
young men cheerful and new wine tn
maids" wonder if that was not sur
enough corn liquor. The aged wome
were enjoined not to drink niue
wine, wherein is excess. Kin
Ashashuerne got drunk and ordere
/ Queen Vashti to come before him an