The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-02-21

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i their father and said: "Thus saith the
Lord the house of Jonadab, the son Of
! Rechab, shall not want for a man to
4 stand before me forever" Zachariah
seems to have winked at the indulgence.
for he said: "Corn shall make the
| young men cheerful and new wine the
maids" | wonder if that was not sure
enough corn liquor. The aged women
were enjoined not to drink much
wine, wherein is excess. King
Ashashuerne got drunk and ordered
| Queen Vashti to come before him and
she refused, and did right, and the old
rascal deposed her. Hosea saith that
! wine takes away the heart. Isaiah was
hard against it and says: Their
tables are full of vomit and fi,thiness
and there is no place clean upon them
Habakuk says: "Woe unto him that
giyeth his neighbor drink and putteth
the bot tie TO him"
But this is enough of scripture.
From that day to this the excessive
use of spirituous liquors has gone on
in all nations, carrying ruin in its
train, degrading kings and disgracing
presidents, and neither law nor
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 it
in check. l have before me the last
official statement of the dispensary
business in South Carolina and it is
amazing to see how it is growing. It
is now the largest and most impor-
tant business in the state-its aggre-
gate sales for the past fiscal year be-
ing little over $2,00O,O0O, and over
100000 net profits, and of these
profits and the stock on hand the
school fund is entitled to $611 1854 and
the state has on hand $640.00O of
stock. The profits pay hundreds of
officials good salaries, besides ac-
cumulating an enormous school fund.
| 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 finan-
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 business? 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 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 | was student in college at
Athens in 1915 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 lee
ture to his class. In 1916 a dentist
by the name of Lombard came there
and proposed to extract teeth with
put pain by the use of what he called
lethean. He extracted jaw
tooth for me and it was success.
But it was whispered around that
Morton had stole DR.. Longs discov-
Try and process and as he was Bos-
on Yankee the friends of DR.. Long
we're very indignant. Enough of this
or the present. L only wished to say
low gratifed l was that the commit
ee appointed to select our two great
st Georgians have given DIR. Long
he first place. The medical world
las done him honor in all countries
md Morton and Jackson have been
elegated to the rear, where they be-
onged. They were pirates.
But about the second place the COM
nittee had better go slow and consid-