Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
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Your editorial relative to a drunken
boy reeling on the streets of Atlanta
on Thanksgiving day is worthy of
the highest encomiums from the best
people of Georgia. Especially will
the mothers heart beat a "glad tune
of happy tbankfulness." We ali love
this ''land of tho free, and the home
of the brave" Every footprint made
in the war of independence, every
drop of patriotic blood that ever
stained the American soil, and the
low sacred mounds of half million
brave soldiers graves declare that
we love our fatherland. We love it's
sunny plains, fertile valleys, foliage
covered hills, and snow. clad noun
tain peaks; fiom where the lakes
lie like silvery seas on the north, to
where the Gulf of Mexico washes the
brown sands of Florida, from where
the storm tossed waves of the Allan
tic beat against the rocks of New En-
gland to where the waters of the
Pacific lap their lullabies in the
Golden Gate of California
Columbia, thy children love thee
For thy honor, glory and indepen-
dence twenty-five million brave sons
of toll would die! But if we love
our country then why do we affiict
its citizens with untold miseries i?
Why do we legalize and protect the
liquor traffic, the greatest evil known
in the history of man2 We fondly
hope that the dawning of better
day is at hand--a time when politi-
clans who truckle TO the behest of
liquor men, will be relegated to the
walks of private life, and men chosen
for all county and State and national
offices who hate sin and love their
homes, their country and their God.
The people make the political
party, the political party elect the
officers, the officers make the law, the
law authorizes and protects the
saloons, and saloons make drunkards,
crime and murder. The voters are
the cause of the parties, which are
the cause of the law which is the
cause of the saloons, which in the
language of Gladstone, els more
ruinous than war, famine and pes
thence" But says one, "lt brings us
great revenue" Judas-like, who,
for greed of money, sold his Lord
and Saviour. There are about three
hundred thousand saloons and other
places where liquor is sold in the
United States. Allowing about
twenty. five feet between each saloon
they would make string of houses
nearly two thousand miles long. A
sadder scene is ten thousand anxious
mothers standing in their doorway,
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through wells of falling tears they
gaze into the silent darkness
and say, "Where is my wander
ing boy to-night2-down in the
licensed saloon" is this all /?
No; it suborns Witnesses, nurses
perjury, dctiles the jury box,
stuifs the ballot box, and stains the
judicial ermine. 1t degrades the
citizen, debases the legislator, dis
honors the statesman, and dsarms
the patriot. 1t brings shame, OF
honor; terror, not safety despair,
not hope misery, not happiness, and
with the maevolence of fcnd, it
calmly surveys it's frightful desoa-
tion, and unsatisfed with it's havoc,
it kills peace, ruins morals, blights
confidence, slays reputation, and