The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-10-05


great majority of doctors use 1t very
cautiously and many will not use it
in any shape whatever.
Comparative death rate betwee
the temperance hospitals, where not
drop of whiskey is used for any
thing at all, and the hospitals where
whiskey is used are largely in favor
of the temperance hospitals, as you
all know. The experiments OF the
late Prof Newell Martin of John
Hopkins Univcl sity. Of Prof II e
Wood of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania of the celebrated investigators,
Ringer and Sainsburv, ard others,
have shown that whiskey paralyzes
and depresses the heart, rather than
acts as Il stimulant. Numbers of
eminent men could be quoted to
I
show the dangers of whiskey medi-
cation. Now, morally or socially, Is
thee one single good thing about 1t:
No. not one. An institution without
single redeeming feature about it,
what blot upon our history. Sad
day for South Carolina, sad day for
Lake City when the dispensary door
was thrown open. Has the investi-
eating committee found anything
good about it yet? All they reveal
! is from bad to worse. YOn can
scarcely travel these roads around
here on Saturdays without some
drunken crowd driving into your
vehicle and it humilates any woman
| to have to hear the language used by
people drinking around here, especl-
ally on Saturdays. Now, it was
not that way before the establish
ment of the dispensary. None of
us doubt Solomon's wisdom and
even IN his day when drink was not
looked upon as it is today, he said
then: "Wlne is mocker, strong
drink is raging and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise"
| Morally l say in the words of
another, the dispensary is curse to
any community, breeder of corrup-
tion and crime, a debaucher of moral
character and a snare of the devil.
The liquor traffic in this its wors:
| form, nndermines the work of the
church, destroys the home aid Stays
the soul, and we are compelled by
LOYALTY to conscience and duty to
oppose the traffic in intoxicating
! liquors, irrespective of the method
of distribution. | tell you the dis
pensary will make drunkards of
YOUR sons and drunkards' wives of
your daughters, and when the sad
! TACT comes home to you, as it has to
me, and some of your own dear
family have been wrecked by this
monster, then you can appreciate
the motive that prompted these
lines.
Father, as your little girl plays
around your knee, in all her in
nocence and beauty, do you ever
think how long till she will become
d.unkard's wife? Somebody's
daughters are going to marry drunk
ards, maybe it will be yours. Lets
rise up in our manhood aud Cult
making drunkardS of our boys and
Young men, the hope of our country.
Very often you hear people say
"Well, the dispensary is the best solu-
ton of the liquor question Well,l tell
YOU the dispensary is no solution of
the liquor question at all. 1t seems
bigger question today than ever
before. Doesn't it? 1t, makes me
sick and tired to hear well-informed
people, and especially men in office,
say, ''Prohibition won't tprohIbit and
the country will be filled with blind
tigers" God knows if there are
not blind tigers in South Carolina
today, there never will be. Some
of these dealers are not very blind
about handling it ethel.
You tell me great and good law,
passed by an overwhelming majority
of citizens and backed by the the
moral sentiment the country won't
be ii success. You weak kneed
things--you ought to be made to
wear frocks. I tell YOU every