The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-02-13

were cnjoincd not to drink much wine,
wherein is excess. King Ahasucrus
got drunk and ordered Queen Vashti
TO come before hun and she refused,
and did right and the old rascal de-
posed her. Hosea saith chat wine
takes away the heart. Isaiah was hard
against it, and says, "Their tables arc
full OF vomit and lilthincss and there
is no place clean upon them" IIabak-
kuk says, Woe unto hlm that glvcth
his ncighbor drink AMI puttcth the
| bottle to him."
But this is enough Scripture. From
that day to this the excessive use of
spirtuous liquors has gone on in all ma
tlons, carrying ruin in its train, de-
grading kings and disgracing presidents
and neither law nor prcccpt nor preach
crs nor the pleading OF women has
been able to stop it. The dispcnsary
is more respectable in its surroundings
than the saloon. There is no gather
ing of roughs and toughs at its door
anu women can walk by without being
lnsul'cd or disgustcd as they pass.
do not believe that it lessons the use
or abuse. of whisky. Nothing will do
that but home influence and religious
training and public opinion. 1t takes
everything to combat il and keep il in
check. | have before me the last Of
licial statement Of the dispcnsary bust.
ness in South Carolina and it ls amaz-
lng to sec how it is growing. 1t is now
the largest and most important busi-
ness III the Statc-its aggregate sales
| for the past fiscal year being little
over - 900, 900, and over $500 600 net
profits, and of these profits and the
stock on hand The school fund is en-
titled to SCI ,354 and the State has on
hand $G4O, 900 Of stock. The profits
pay hundreds Of officials good salaries,
besides accumulating an enormous
school fund. l have travelled good
deal over the State and found public
opinion much divided upon the qucs-
tionablc morality of the system. But
it pays financially and the question Of
white people does not raise such pro-
test as long as the sale Of whisky pays
it, especially when the negro is the
Gispcnsary's very liberal customer.
What about the part that woman is
taking in this liquor business? What
does all this mean that Bishop Cole.
man, Of Delaware, has recently assert
ell in II public sermon preached in New
Jersey. lie says that the whiskey
habit IS actually decreasing among the
men of the North, but 1t is rapidly IN
creasing among the women, not only
the fashionable women, but among the
| ,lo Il
a committee to be appointed who quiet,
ly frcqucntcd the hotels and eating
, houses and ladies' restaurants and q
large majority Of women took VINE OF
beer or whisky or cocktails with thcil
, meals, and very many took no meals
, and ordered drinks only. The com
mittcc unanimously reported that tho
bishops assertion was the truth. II
[ this be so, God help the country. On
; Southern women will be all that vii
| save it.
When was student in college a
, Athens in 1915 the wonderful dis
Y covcry Cf DR.. Long and his use Of an
. acsthcsia was the talk IF the town, ant
} our professor of chemistry, DR.. l.c
C0ntc, made il the subject Of lecture
TO his class. In 1916 dentist by The
4 name Of Lombard came there and pro
0 posed to extract teeth without pain by
A the use Of what he called mortous lcth
4 can. lie extracted jaw tooth for mi
b and it was a success. But it wa
I Whisper, d around that Morton ha'
stole DR.. Longs discovery and pro
! cess, and as he was a Boston Yankc
Il the friends Of DR.. Long were very in
# dignant. Enough of this for the pres
0 ent. only wished to say how gratif
h ! ed was that the committee appolntc
l. to select our two greatest Georgian
G have given DR.. Long the first place
@ The medical world has done him hone
c in all countries, and Morton and Jacl
n son have been relocated to the real