The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-02-22
He Gives Plain Facts on the
Subject.
THE DRINKER HAS HIS SYMPATHY
But He Jumps On Our "Educational
Promoter" With Both Feet
Good Reasons, Too,

again De III 1ull DlasC, and f1lends
of the dispensary say that business
will "plck up" Probably it will IN
police circles, but wo doubt if any
fair minded person will seriously
claim that it is Of any bnneit to
the GUINNESS interests Of the town.
b The State Of South Carolina may
feel 80 of the monopoly it has
on the Whisky business, and now
if it. would monopolize the fertilizer
Interests, it might make it a big
paying concetn, for one is rotten
enough to furnish material for the
other, and taken together it would
be a sweet scented affair.
The way the press Of the State is
pitching into the thing there must
be something dead up tho branch"
and no one can doubt it, for it is
a ''stench in the nostrils Of decen-
cy, and smells to Heaven. O."
Some one has said that whiskey
is all right in it's place, but its
place is in hell.
That is pretty tough on the devil,
for If all reports are true he has
plenty of trouble now, but if dis.
pensary was started in the internal
regions, and all the imps OF satan
should get a jag op at the same
time, it would sure be hell of a
place.
Oh, but this dispensary business
Is great scheme. A regular old
conscience greaser.
TO fill man up on liquid dam
nation and then ease the con-
science, by devoting a portion Of
the profits to pay the school master.
Educate the boy at the expense
of his fathers manhood, and when
the boy arrives at the age of ma
turity, he will respect his State for
it, maybe.
Now, citizens of Pickens county,
aint you proud Of it2' You can't
have compulsory education, but
your State allows You to run a whis
key dive to help educate the young.
Aint that pretty near whipping
the devil around the stump?"
There he go"s-a tattered old
soak-walking on his uppers, Il
rum blossom Oh his nose, he stag
gers up to tho hole in the wall and
calls for a pint Of. The liquid educa.
tor. It's u pretty spectacle, nin't
itf Nothing wrong about it, good
Christian people, ho is only paying
his proportion Of the tax to edu-
cate your children, and you have
no right TO Kick if some night your
boy comes home "three shoots in
TIE wlndS' with pint bottle in his
pocket. You favored the thing.
But fof God q sake don't be a
hypoorite and go down on your
knees andIpray that a safeguard be
thrown around your son, while
you are upholding the cause Of his
ruin. ! ''. p
We are not kicking against the
man addicted to the use Of liquor.
He has our sympathies and we are
sorry for him, and wish it were in
our power to help hin break away
from &he habit, and in the majoriy
of cases fully believe that he is
more to be pitied than blamed.
But h ow professed Christian can
ease his conscience on the subject
and still claim to be consistent
"EindGr" gets away with us. Don't
try to grease your conscience by
olaimihg it is the better way to
CONTROL 1t. You have to admit that
the tradlic is right, or 1T is wrong.
There is no half way ground. Now,
if it is right, why not allow the
citiz ems to engage in it tho same as
othe business? If it is wrong, why
does $he State engage in it? Why
does lPickens engage in it2 Bless
usl Picking pockets Is wrong, and
no doubR profitable to the crook, if
he don get caught at 1T, but the
State DON'T engage IN it, neither
does Pickens. Why not have q
monopolyEof all these things that
are @rcnG but profitable.