The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-02-21
Question Of Liquor Traffic Is q
Hard Problem to Solve.
SCRIPTURE IS LITERALLY QUOTED
From the Beginning Of the Ages the
Drink Proposition Has Faced
acknowledgements are
Discussed.

"APieelHa an mess mat is going on /
amongst our neighbors at Rome. My |
comfort is that it 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 1t but ring politics-who shall run
the machine, who shall have the of.
fees. Whisky is in the background,
but the main thing is office. As Leon
ard Morrow once said at a public
speaking: Boys, don't let EN- fool
you. They are just side wipin round
huntin' the photography of a little Of
flee" Carlisle said, England has
population Of 10000, 000-moaly
fools" and just so there are enough
fools in every county or community
to elect a man if he can get them all
He is pretty safe If he can get ma
jority of them. "Dispensary no dis
pensary," that is the question that is
now stirring Rome and Floyd county.
Well, we know all about it here in Car
tersville, for we tried the saloons 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 cCsnty for
anything The farther off the better.
The easier whisky is to get the more
will be drank Dawson, in Terrell
county, has had dispensary for near
" four years. The sales for the first
year were $4,000, The second year
were $4,000, the +hird year $56O0O
and the present year it will probably
run 20 $4,000 You see it takes the
boys some time to find out how easy
it is to get it, but the consumption
goes on, increasing and the people
take comfort in that the profits in.
crease their school fund and lessen
their taxes No matter if it impover-
ishes the poor and makes drunkards
of their young men, that is of no con-
sequence.
Now, our dispensaries are most too
near wish that the consumers had
to get heir supplies from Cincinnati
or Baltimore. That would cut the jug
business down one-balf at least The
common people couldn't wait so long
and nobody but common people would
get any hardly. 1t would be long
time between 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. CAL we car
do" said a good man to me yesterday
sis to make it hard to get and regulate
its sale and consumption" This mar
had had experience with young mer
who drank on the sly. He used tt
drink habitually himself, but found
the habit was growing on him. HI
wanted it oftener and more Of it, 81
he quit short off two years ago. Al
said that there was but little differ
ence between open bar rooms and thu
dispensary, so far as the better class
OF young men were concerned. A dol
lar bottle in a room with three or fou
friends was about as bad the the dol
lar for drinks in bar room"
But the barrooms are a nuisance il
any town and disgrace to its refine
ment. If they are allowed at all the,
should be on some side street wher
ladies do not frequent or have to pass
Keep them out of sight and out o
smell. Of course, the drinking habi
cannot be stopped by law, nor ca
the sale of whiskey be stopped a
long as the government allows it
manufacture. Our people can driv
over to Cherokee and buy what the
want from the government distillery
There is no such thing as prohibition
and never will be until the dawn @
the millennium. This thing began wit
old Noah and had its ups and down
all through the Bible history. 1t neve
was sanctioned. 1t never was prohil
tied except to the priests in the tai
ernacle. Drink not in the tabernacl
lest We die saith Moses. All of thos
old-time people kept some on tn
sideboard. Joseph and his brethre
drank together and were merry. D;
vid speaks of wine that maketh gla
the heart of man, Solomon says, Civ
strong drink to him that is ready
perish and wine to those that
heavy of heart" But when he wa
eoherlng np from a spree he said