The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1904-05-25
,BROrHER BoBo ON DIspENsARY.
He Rejoices That Light Has Broken
Upon His Friend, Sam Jcnes.
FOUNTAIN INN, May 2lst.

see That Rev. Sam Il. Jones has come
squarely TO his senses on the dispen-
sary question at last. You will send
Brother Sam n copy of this issue as he
will be delighted to know that he has
become enlightened and reformed and
fully civilized. Brother Sam is a splen-
did fellow, full of fun and fury and q
veri'able cyclooo when ho turns loose
on men and things, and more so when
he gets his head turned in the wrong
direction. Being quick on trigger he
often goes off 'half-cocked, doing i'm
mense damage by such discharges.
Some years ago af.er stamping Lsu-
rens county as a "probi" candidate
against a halt dozen dispensary boast
ers, having fought End bled and died In
what L conceived to be a good cause,
f~esthering unmerc' fully everything In
sight that smell OF whiskey, [ felt all
but like q martyr who had accom-
plished great things. In fact | was told
by some OF the high-strung Johnathon-
twist-me dispensarites that my sches
had done good,
About that time Brother Sam came
to Laurens and lectured. OF cour;e |
went down to hear him, expecting
great help and comfort and high en-
dorsement, AT the proper time in his
speech he lit onto the bar-keepers and
bunged them Up decent'y. After hGv-
ing annihilated them to a nicely he
turned to the men that had been fight
ing the dispensary and put them in
the same boat. was actually ashamed
for the man and wanted to enlighten
h~im-because L had studied the slb-
Ject and KIN ew something about it,, and
knew fcom the tn his di scouSe had
taken, he didn't. But you see | was in
a hole and couldn't, i. z. I was in the
audience and he had the stump. am
glad that Brother Sam is a good stu
dent and can learn by experience and
that he has the experience. He has
chan yed his mind and he has the man
lin ,ss to confess it, Hear HIM: 1.-The
first thing / a to do is to publicly
apologize to Mrs. w. p. Lovejoy and
say emphatically she was right, aud
Sam Jones and all the preachers and
churches of Rome wer, wrong on that
issue in Floyd County two yeas ago.
That dispensary issue was like the
Trojan horse. 1t brought IN some
things that were not In sight, and had
[ been as thoroughly coavers ant with
all the issues aud questions involved in
that dispensary then as [ am now, l
should have been squarsly on the other
side"
Exactly. | knew il all the time but
was not in a post on to see Brother
Sam. That was all. | should be
pleased he would se.d me a nicely
written aud folded a; ology for the same
offence six years ago.
Further on he says: "And tie effort
being made by the dispensary people
to take this traffic of evil out of the
hands of bar-keepers and pu. it into
the hands OF church people to buy it
and sell, is not lifting the liquor traffic
up one iota. BIT it is dragging the
church down"
Il ICCISCIy SVs GHcu It's L tOlu wv p-O-
pie Of my county six years ago. It's a
pity Brother Sam hadn't attended my
lectures before he d ,livered his s)ul at
Laureus and afterwa-d carried home
to G eorgia a conviction that helped to
establish for his dear State one of the
most pernicious liqlor schemes aud
machines that ever cursed a
wealth. But better late than never.
You have hit the track f.ontward this
time, Brother Sam So go it with a
hump on you; never say die.
Again: "If its wrong for a saloon
keeper to stand beh'nl his counter and
dish out to his fellowmao at ten cents
a drink for the money there is in 1T,
then, in the name of all tina. God ap-
proves, how in the name of sense can
four members of the church In Floyd or
Clarke counties tax, CHI ,rge Of the
business as commit :sioaers and receive
q salary of 5000. a m ,nth to buy and
sell to the poor devi 5 who %patroniZe
the tank, \ be anything more or
less in the sight Of Col aud good peo-
pie than the poor devil called a saloon
keeper who dishes 1t out at tn cents a
drink"
This question [ had answered to the
good people that made up Bother
Sums audience Oh the night afore-
slid, previous to his coming. But nov
| can say with gladness and hope, hur-
rah for the hind horse! he's coming in
a cauter. But again: 81 once fond'ed
the thought that the d%ispensary was a
stepping stone to prohibition, but it is
the biggest IN amy and the most terrific
bulwark that ever prohibition ran up
against"
To be sure you did, and that is what
L wanted to tell you so bad aud
couldn't. You had me In a hole then,
and was 81 footing In on me buckshot
out of O double barre,ed gun made,
loaded and provided (unawares on
your part) by whiskey vendors. Wasn't
1t awful9
Filthy: 81 repeati' instead of be-
ing q stepping stone to p ohibition, the
~dispensary, like George Washington,
has become embalmed In the hearts CT
its countrymen and IL is the greatest