The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-12

bottle to him."
But this is enough Scripture. From
that day TO this the excessive use OF
spirltuous liquors has gone on in all ma.
tions, carrying ruin in its train, de.
grading kings and disgracing presidents
and neither law nor precept nor preach
ers nor the pleading OF women has
been able to stop it. The dispensary
is more respectable in its surrounding
than the saloon. There is no gather
ing of roughs and toughs at its door
and women ca1 walk by without being
INSURED or disgusted as they pass. l
do not believe that it lessons the use
or abuse of whisky. Nothing will do
that but home influence and religi us
training and public opinion. 1t takes
everything to combat it and keep it in
check. / have before me the last Of.
ficial statement of the dispensary busi
ness in South Carolina and it Is amaz-
ing to see how it is growing. 1t is now
the largest and most important bust
ness IN the State-its aggregate sales
for the past fiscal year being D little
over ~ 900 900, and over $500 900 net
profits, and of these profits and the
stock on hand the school fund is en-.
titled to SCI 1854 and the State has on
hand $640,000 of stock. The profits
pay hundreds of officials good salaries,
besides accumulating an enormou-
school fund. / have travelled good
deal over the State and found public
opinion much divided upon the ques-
tionable morality of the system. But
it pays financially and the question OF
educating the negro with taxes from
white people does not raise such pro-
test as long as the sale of whisky pays
it, especially when the negro is the
dispensary'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
ed in public sermon preached in New
Jersey. He 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
middle classes. His assertion caused
committee to be appointed who quiet
ly frequented the hotels and eating
houses and ladies' restaurants and a
large majority Of women took VINE or
beer or whisky or cocktails with their
meals, and very many took no meals
and ordered drinks only. The COM
mittee unanimously reported that the
bishops assertion was the truth. If
this be so, God help the country. Our
Southern women will be all that will
save it.
When L was student in college at
Athens in 1916 the wonderful dis
cOvery Of DR.. Long and his uso of an
aesthesia was the talk of the town, and
our professor of chemistry, DIR. Le-
Conte, made it the subject of lecture
to his class. In 1876 dentist by the
name of Lombard came there and pro-
posed to extract teeth without pain by
the use of what he called mortous leth-
can. He extracted jaw tooth for me
and it was success. but il was
whispered around that Morton hal
stole DIR. Longs discovery and pro-
cess, and as he was Boston Yankee
the friends of DIR. Long were very in
dignant. Enough of this for the pres.
ent. / only wished to say how gratifi-
ed was that the committee appointed
to select our two greatest Georgians
have given DIR. Long the first place.
The medical world has done him honor
in all countries, and Morton and Jack
son have been relegated to the rear
where they belonged. They were
pirates.
But about the second place The com.
mittee had better go slow and consider
carefully when they meet again. They
had better consult the old men and
especially the veterans of the civil war.
Some things are forgiven, but not for.
gotten. The veterans would not pre-.
sumo to say who should be selected
but only who should not.
BILL ARP.