Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

precept nor preachers nor the plead.
ing of women has been able to stop
it. The dispensary is more respect
able in its surroundings than the sa-
loon. There is no gathering of roughs
and toughs at its door and women
can walk by without being insulted
or Disguised as they pass. / do not
believe that it lessons the use or
abuse of whisky. Nothing will do
that but influence and religious train
ing and public opinion. 1t takes
everything to combat it and keep 1t
in check. have before me the last
official statement of the dispensary
business in South Carolina and it is
amazing to see how it is growing. 1t
is now the largest and most impor-
tant business in the state-its aggre-
gate sales for the past fiscal year be-
ing a little over 100000, and over
100000 net profits, and of these
profits and the stock on hand the
school fund is entitled to $611,354 and
the state has on hand $640,000 of
stock. The profits pay hundreds Of
officials good salaries, besides ac-
cumulating an enormous school fund.
I have Travelled a good deal over the
state and found public opinion much
divided upon the questionable moral
ity of the system. But it pays inan-
cially and the question of educating
the negro with taxes from white peo-
pie does not raise such protest as
long as the sale of whisky pays it,
especially when the negro is the dis
pensary's very liberal customer.
What about the part that woman is
taking in this liquor businessP What
does all this mean that Bishop Cole
man, of Delaware, has recently as.
serted in a public sermon preached
in New Jersey. He says that the
whisky habit is actually decreasing
among the men of the north, but it
is rapidly increasing among the wom-
en-, not only the fashionable women,
but among the middle classes. His
assertion caused a committee to be
appointed who quietly frequented the
hotels and eating houses and ladies'
restaurants and a large majority OF
the women took wine or beer or whis'
ky or cocktails with their meals, and
very many took no meals and ordered
drinks only. The committee unani-
mously reported that the bishops as
sertion was the truth. If this be so,
God help the country. Our southern
women will be all that will save it.
When l was a student in college at
Athens in 1s45 the wonderful discov-
cry of DR.. Long and his use Of
anaesthesia was the talk of the town,
and our professor of chemistry, DR..
LeConte, made it the subject of a lee
ture to his class. In 1916 a dentist
by the name of Lombard came there
and proposed to extract teeth with.
out pain by the use of what he called
mortous lethean. He extracted jaw
tooth for me and it was a success.
But it was whispered around that
Morton had stole DR.. Longs discov-
cry and process and as he was Bos-
ton Yankee the friends of Dr. Long
were very indignant. Enough of this
for the present, only wished to say
how gratified l was that the commit
tee appointed to select our two great.
est Georgians have given DR.. Long
the first place. The medical world
has done him honor in all countries
and Morton and jackson have been
relegated to the rear, where they be-
longed. They were pirates.
But about the second place the COM
mittee had better go slow and consid-
er carefully when they meet again.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.