Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-08-09

as whole, but in parts Of the state;
one is the license system, the old bar
room system, the second is the us
pensary system under which we are
now working, and the third is prohi-
bition. The ingenuity Of man never
devised any more than those three
ssystcms for the. liquor control. Which
orcSof these is the best? You have
heard eloquent and strong arguments,
facts and figures as they we're pre-
sente in favor of prohibition.
7 confess to YOU as bet"ten prohl-
bition$1and the barrooms. saloons or
t:onnists. But will prohibition prohibit?
Lionists. But will prohibition prohlbt.
say no. These other genetlemcn
say yes. Let's give the facts.
Here Senator Til!man gave statis-
lies from Maine and Kansas to show
that more spirits arc sold and drunk
and more arrests arc made for drttnk-
cnness in prohibition territory than
in South Carolina, iii proportion to
prohibition.
My objection to prohibition is, we
arc not yet angels, more the pity;
do not sec any wings sprouting on any
body's shoulders; VIC are sinful hu-
man beings, made by God Almighty IN
His wisdom with shortcomings and
the weakness Of man; we have our
apnetites, and it is, IN the nature OF
the beast to crafty that appetite for
stimuIants. and if he cannot get IT,
lawfully he is going to get it some
4hcr way. There has always been anu
always will be demand for liquor
as a beverage, simply because man
likes the taste and its effect, not be-
as q beverage. simply be-
cause man like The taste and
its effect, not because he
needs it as a medicine, but simply Tor
his stomach's sake as Paul said to
Timothy, and somebody will always
be ready to supply it for the r,oney.
That being the case, I have tried 10
deal with this question as true man
and from a common-sanse standpoint,
to treat men as | find them ana not as
would have them to nc, but to try
al. teach them to minimize and re-
duce the evil of whlskey drinking
have not indulged in liquor myself,
but have seen it, some of my family
have suffered from It, have seen It's
misery, the misery 1t causes; nave
seen too much not to l.no" that II we
could destroy the formula OF alcohol
either from fermentation CT anything
else it would injurc the medical pro-
fession in their business. deprive men
of Their valuable stinula1ts i'll certain
diseases, but the sum of human misery
would be reduced. But the best thing
in my judgment as q practical man is
to treat men as they are and try to
teach them to RESTRAIN their appetltes
as far as practical and minimize the
evil Of liquor drinking. Ycu have heard
a good deal about blood money.
Sometimes l ge awfully sick in the
Senate when l hear a fellow get up
and twaddle about what he knows
nothing Of; when hear preachers
talking about the drinking of whiskey
being blood money. lock back 70
the history of the world, find that no
man, no preacher, priest or states
man ever dreamed CT attempting to
prohibit the use of liquor until about
Is or 100 years ago, have not under
took until the last so years TO say
that man should not drink or tnat IL
was a sin. do net hasil;e to scy
can find in the Dio.c Go1ca cEz1wo
dozen texts recognizing the ne OF
=Ilnuor TO where vol, can find cn2 "iict
,!acouragcs it CT denouncc3 il. l,i:G'e
dGas tl,a sin ccDc ia.
.Ec s-n does not reg! upon tho Dsb:e
authority. it rests urcn the preacher; ::
authority. and ! object TO any preach.
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