The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-08

walters are instructed not to approach
men who sit at the tables until they
are called. A man is not urged to
drink. This seems to me a point
that deserves to be mentioned. I do
not know how many other places
where liquor is sold may be able to
say the same, but I have the impress
sion that it is quite common tor men
who visit such places to be made to
feel some compulsion to drink.
I asked him about the proper
ton of beer to stronger drink in this
as compared with a saloon.
"No difference" said he. "We sell
what they want. In the winter, OF
course, they bought more whlskey
than they do now. Now We get rid
of an awful lot Of beer
"How much beer?" I asked.
Well, counting it in hall barrels,
though some come in other pack
ages, he thought from five to SIX
half barrels day.
do you allow treating?" l asked.
"Why, if four or five men come in
here and one buys for the crowd and
then the rest buy, do you suppose I'm
going to let them go somewhere else
and spend that money!" he asked.
How many times might a man
drink?" I asked, ''before you would
refuse to sell him more?"
1T all depends" said he. Some
men can't stand more than five glass
es, and some men can stand 50.
But as soon as man gets noisy and
shows he's had too much, we tell
him we're very sorry, we can't sell
him no more. That's the way we
lose a lot of trade. They go and
don't come back"
For myself I doubted it, if what I
had seen was a sample; but If there
had been any profit on the business
done during my three visits, it was
certainly not on the soda or the res
taurant, but on the saloon.
The young man talked very freely,
and with emphasis, wiping his
glasses the while and stopping once
or twice to serve a. customer who
came in. He also stopped now and
then to spit on the floor, but the floor
looked little the worse for II.
have now related all that was es~
sentia! in my three visits to the
Subway Tavern. My prejudices and
convictions are all against move
1nent of this sort, yet I went with L
candid mind, and if I had seen any
other thing good about the place. |
certainly would tell it. And | said
to myself as I came away, that the
devil must have laughed when he
persuaded good men to attempt to
help the cause of temperance in that
wav. I have heard much Of fighting
fire with fire. I suppose the express
sion originated on the prairies, where
an immigrants wagon, threatened BY
prairie fire. finds safety in setting
a fire a mile in advance OF the on
rushing sheet of flame and following
over burnt ground out of reach or
the main fire. Under such eNcep-
tional circumstances it may be we'll
to know how to fight fire with fire.
But one hears the expression so often
that he might suppose fire to be the
usual and accredited foe of fire. AS
general proposition, however, it is
better to fight fire with water. I
have little faith in the similia simili-
bus cure OF the liquor traffic; but if
I had possessed much more faith
than I did possess in fighting
whiskey with whiskcy, that faith
would have received a very serious
! sc.. back on lie occasion OF my
:,.rccctrl1 VI: 70 the Subway Tavern.
"Whoso : deceived thereby $ not
| WISE" The drunkard is not the
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