Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Vote Out tho DIspensary.

Poplar, May 31.-Editors Keowee
Courier: AS there is 80 much being
said in regard to the dispensary, the
profits going to educate the children
and 80 on, 1 would like space to give
my views.
First. A few years ago / voted for
Prohibition, but got the dispensary.
l was contented with it and tried to
uphold it as the best solution of the
liquor question from the fact that
our public schools got the benefit of
part of the profits. From July 1,
1902, to July 1, 1908, we enrolled in
Brewer School District, No. Cd, 73
children, and the profits from the
the county dispensary were $41.70,
and from the State dispensary were
$4O.88, making total of $82.58. So
you see we got $82.55, which would
pay our teacher three months, and
we still have $7.58 to buy wood and
chalk, etc. But when l 60 to Wal
halla or Seneca and see young men
and old men swarming around the
dispensary, and hear the oaths they
let roll upward, and see them get in
trouble, it makes my heart ache to
know there is a good and fond wife
waiting at home to see her husband
brought home at some midnight
hour, or come reeling in, cursing her
and driving her and the little chill
dren from their home; or maybe it
is a young man who has a fond
mother with gray locks clustering
about her neck. She waits until 8
O'Clock, and her son is not at home.
She wrings her hands and wipes
the tears from her cheeks; she goes
to the door, but no sound of her boy
can be heard. She waits in anxiety
until 10, IL, 12-then at / she hears
voices. What does this mean
Some one has brought her son home.
He went to the dispensary, took Is
cents, got half-pint of TX corn,
drank that and met up with A, B
and G, from the same neighborhood.
Like boys do, they smell whiskey on
him. A likes dram, 80 he says to
B, "Let's have quart" b has but
ten cents, 80 he puts that up. A
then goes to G, who gives Is cents,
and their neighbor boy, who is feel
ing his half-pint, puts in some, and
then A goes and gets quart of TX
corn, and they 60 around behind
some store and drink it all up, each
trying to get the worth of his money;
so the boy who bought the half-pin
is drunk. He may get put in the
guard house or he may get in fight
with his best friend before be gets
home, or may be killed.
/ think, for the protection of our
county, and the protection of our
mothers, wives and daughters, each
man ought to be willing and ready
to vote the dispensary out. We
have lot of people in the country
who will drink whiskey as long as
they live and as often as they can
get it. So it is the duty of every
true Christian of the country to try
to put whskey out of their reach.
1t is duty they owe their county,
their State and their God.
Wine is mocker, strong drink is
raging, and whosoever is deceived
ls IoO WlbCs IOV. ~ L
Be not among wine bibbers, among
riotous eaters of flesh, for the drunk
ard and the glutton shall come to
poverty and drowsiness shall clothe
a man with rags. prov. %: 20-21.)
Read the Goth, 30th, 31st and 800
verses of same chapter. Read
Romans ID: 21; also Gal. 6: 7-8.
There is lot of teaching against
whiskey, and we all know that no
individual has ever prospered by sell
ing it and the same fate will come to
a country. So let every man who
has the welfare OF the county at
heart not wait for a man to come to
his house to get him to sign a paper
that we want a chance to vote on the
dispensary, but 60 to those who have
the papers and tell them you are
anxious to sign it. c. II. W.