The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-08-08

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will always be ready to supply it for
the money.
That being the case, have tried to
deal with this question as a true man
and from a cOmmon-sense standpoint
to treat men as I find them and not
as I would have them to be, but to
try and teach them to minimize and
reduce the evil Of whiskey drinking
I have not indulged in liquor myself,
but have seen it. some of my family
have suffered from it, | have seen its
misery, the misery it causes: I have
seen too muct, not to know that if
we could destroy the formula Of al
cohol either from fermentation or
anything else it would injure the med
ical profession in their business, de-
prive men of their valuable stirnu-
lants in certain diseases. but the sum
of human misery would be reduced.
But the best thing in my judgment
as practical man is to treat men as
ttey are and to try to teach them to
restrain their appetites as far as prac-
tical and minimize the evil of liquor
drinking. You have heard a good
deal about blood money.
Sometimes I get awflllly sick in the
senate when I hear fellow get up
and twaddle about what he knows
nothing Of; when I hear preachers
talking about the drinking OF whiskey
being blood money. I look back to
the history of the world, I find that
no man, no preacher, priest or states
man ever dreaaned of attempting to
prohibit the use of liquor until about
Is or 100 years ago, have not under
took until the last 50 years to say that
man should not drink or that it was,
a. sin. I do NOT hesitate to say l can
find in the Bible a dozen or two
dozen texts recognizing the use of
liquor to where you can find one
which denounces it. Where does the
sin come in?
The sin does not rest upon Bible
authority, it rests upon the preachers
auth ority, and | object to any preach
er changing the scripture to suit his
fanaticism and to make me swallow
his religion. daughter and cheers.)
You cannot show me in the scriptures
except in one or two isolated cases
where the Use of wine is denounced
as sin, and I can show you dozen
passages where it is spoken Of other
wise. When any man talks to me
about blood money put him down as
an abominable ass. do not intend
anything personal. cannot see any
possible excuse for any one to make
such charge.
AS To Blood Money.
| saw the other day where some
man said that rather than see his
children educated on blood money he
would prefer to see them grow UP in
illiteracy. l do not blame him for
saying that if he believed il was blood
money. But it is not blood money.
Where do you get the authority for
saying it is sin to use liquor: There
is no doctrine of that sort in the Bible
You can find plenty of texts as to the
abuse OF liquor, getting drunk and
doing things that a man will do when
drunk which are sinful. I agree to
that The dispensary is intended to
! minimize the abuse of liquor, while
| prohibition is supposed to prohibit its
use absolutely because it is sinful.
l always like to back up my asser-
tions with facts. Some people draw
on their imagination for their facts
I may have done so at times, but did
not do 50 Intentionally. I have de-
clared and do now so declare that
prohibition does not prohibit any
where. A few days ago received
the last printed report of the COM
missioner of internal revenue al
Washington. and I find these figures