Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-25
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Before answering this auestion. Il
would be we'll so consider it carefnlly.
A writer, who signs sitneslf eMora.
list" in the Courier OF last week.
says: eff no dispensary win elimi.
nate the evil of whiskey in our county.
he is in favor of voting for no dis.
densary."
Well, we cannot promise that il
will eliminate the evil of il imme-
diately, for the Bible says that God
viii visit "the iniquity Of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and
fourth generations" but it will elimi.
nate the whiskey itself, if Oconee is
a law abiding county, and we do not
see why it should not be.
He goes on to say that il il will
not do this he is in favor of the dis.
pensary, where a man who will, or
will not use wbiskey properly, can
get it without slipping around like a
thief when he wants it for sickness or
for GLORIOUS (?) drunk" Why
shouldn't o man "slip about like q
thief" when he is going to buy
whiskeyp Doesn't he always bear
about with him the consciousness
that he is selfishly spending money
on himself to crafty an evil APPETITE
that belongs somewhere else y Take
the man with family for instance
When he leaves home in the morn
ing he carries in his pocket care.
fully made out list of things to be
bought for the children.
A little dress, perbaps, for one
child, pair of shoes for another,
and cap for his little boy, How
impatiently those children will wal,
for him to come home to see the
pretty things papa has brought them
but, instead of buying them, he stops
at the dispensary and spends his
money for whiskey with which to
get on "glorious drunk" Isn't he
robbing the children of what right
fully belongs to them, and is he not
therefore indirectly a thiefP And il
he is young man, without family,
he robs himself, if no one else, of his
best INTERCHANGEABLE heart, mind,
soul and body-for these are all saori.
feed to strong drink by the drunkard
We may be mistaken, but we do
not believe that there ia man in
America who has been brought
up properly who can buy bottle OF
whiskey in dispensary or any where
else without having sneaking feel
ing that he is doing wrong, and is
glad that his mother does not see
him. Ii he can, why does he always
want to 60 behind a screen to buy
itp
In the article referred to, the writer
says that elf it is blind tigers or the
old bar-room system we want, we
should vote for the dispensary." As
to the blind tigers every one knows
they flourish better with the dispen-
sary than they could without, as they
buy up dispensary bottles and use
them and make it harder in that way
to detect them.
Columbia and Charleston are not
suffering for blind tigers. We dc
not see why he should have men
toned the "opeD bar-room SYSTEM
as that is entirely out of the question
1t is simply choice between prohibi.
tion and the dispensary. He admits
that prohibition would be best, bu,
says, "We never will, nor can get it,
That is a very gloomy view TO take
of the subject. All in the world tha,
is necessary to get it is for the men
who want it to vote for it in the com.
ing election. The thing is, do you
want it enough to do that? We dc
not see why it should not be at
"genuine" in South Carolina as in
Maine or any othec prohibition State
"Moralist" then says "let us vote
for the dispensary, where a sober
man can get what he may actually
need any day in the year, and
where drunkard may do likewise.' >
A sober man does not use whiskey
at all. If he did he would be nc
longer sober man. Letting whiskey
alone is what constitutes sobriety
The drunkard would be better off if
he could not get strong drink.
"Moralist" says that the "money
spent by the drunkard at the dispen-
sary for whiskey is not lost to- him
self and family, as his children get a
portion of it back in the way of edu-
cation" Dear me! that precious
"school fund" is always bobbing up
in the sea of whiskey that is delug-
ing South Carolina at present. The
old gentleman from the warm coun-
try knew what he was about when
he managed to get the dispensary
money, or small part of it, spent on
the schools. Any one would think,
to hear dispensaryite talk, that we
could not possibly have public schools
without selling whiskey to meet the
expenses. The other States all have
free schools without doing that, and
we do not see why our State cannot,
too. Selling whiskey is either right
or wrong. If it is right, there should
be no restrictions placed on the SELL
ing of it, and if it is wrong, the State
has no right to do it, and it cannot ex-
pect to prosper or to have Gods
blessing. Except the Lord build
the house, they labor in vain who
build it, A Prohibitionist.
Summer Colds.