Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-05-17
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o"iJ euuJeot. auhor hquOr OF Che
use of it SO much that would like
to tell the public just what / think
OF the user. The subject is too
large for me to handle, but / will
throw out a few thoughts anyway,
Whiskey is good in its place, if l
know where its place is. You who
use it know its place; know where
1T goes and where it stays. You
know there is not pure, clean
Christian on the face of the earth
that uses it as beverage. He will
go to dives where gentlemen are not
found therefore l say no gentleman
will drink it as beverage.
Probably the husband is a mem
Der of the church tries to stand up
in society, or he may be a Sunday
school teacher or superintendent, or
leader of the choir or he may be a
deacon. What does the Bible say
about what deacon should do, or
rather should not do? He will come
home from town with his breath 80
strong of whiskey that his wife can
not get good breath without that
awful scent of whiskey, although he
has tried TO take a little of every
thing he could think of to kill the
scent. Ithink the best thing to do
would be to put him outdoors and
let him cool off. Has any one ever
been along this line?
Probably you have family prayer.
What does the wife think when he
mixes things up SO badly? He prob
ably thinks the wife never suspi-
cions anything wrong, but, neverthe-
less, the wife knows more and dis
covers trouble quicker than any one
else. She has right; she under
stands her husband better than any
body else.
The husband may hold different
Offices or positions, or, perhaps, he
may be school teacher. Then 1
wonder why the trustees do not en-
ploy him? They have good rea-
son for not employing him. They
do not want whiskey- -drinker to
teach the children. 1 think church
members and school teachers should
be strict prohibitionists.
But there is no need to worry
about this ,evil because the people
will have the dispensary if there is
no determination to stop it. Some
counties have voted out the dispen.
sary. Why couldn't Oconee? The
whiskey traffic is bad enough at it's
best, but ! believe it would be far
better for the country people to
abolish the dispensary. Its sale,
under police regulations, is better for
the town people than dispensing it
through blind tigers. The blind
tigers would be easily suppressed by
the vigilance of the police; there
fore you would have very little trou-
BILE and it would be far better for the
country people. If you abolish the
dispensary you should see that it is
not transferred to the hands of the
low, drunken class of people.
Speaking of the allotment of the
dispensary school funds: The money
is divided among the counties of the
State according to enrolment after
the deficiency money is distributed.
Is it not a shame and sin to educate
our children Oh the money these
poor drunken people have spent for
liquor
You may not agree with me in
calling every one drunkard who
takes dram or two, but he is Just
that much drunk.
see the State Board has fixed the
price at which bottles will be bougb,
by the wholesale dispensary. sup.
pose those that drink will try to sci
bottles in order to get back some oI
their money. | will drop this sub.
ject, as the public probably knows
more about the dispensary law and
affairs than do 80 l will pass on te
what | want to bring to everybody,