Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-02

Way of Faith. !


South, there is an article by w. f.
Tillett on the liquor question, under
the above heading, which welearn-
estly wish we had space to give to
our readers in full. 1t is far and
away the best putting of the case
that we have seen in long time.
1t is clear, brief, comprehensive,
definite and strong. We have space
only to give the following selection:
"This, then, is the bill of indict-
ment that we have to present against
the liquor traffic: D A billion and
quarter dollars wasted every year
in drink +; (2) it is the chief cause of
pauperism (3O it makes more crimi-
malls than all other causes combiped !;
(4) 1t increases immensely the cost
of civil government; (5) it reduces
the prodnctiveness of labor on the
part of nearly all who use it; {6) it
blights utterly the prospects of sue
cess in life for all young men who
are given to drink, and destroys the
professional standing and influence
of every mature man who drinks to
excess; (7) it ruins the happiness of
myriads of homes; (S) it costs wo-
manhood, the wives and mothers of
our land, untold trouble and anguish
of both body and soul (9) it robs
children of their most sacred rights
to be we'll born and well reared
and we'll educated--the drunkard
must have his drink, come what will
and may to wife and children; QO
it Injuries the bodies of men and
makes physical wrecks of all who
persist in using it to excess; Ql) it
Injuries the minds of those who use
it continually, not only turning
drunkards into irresponsible and
dangerous madmen while under
it's influence, but robbing them
even in their sober intervals of
their best powers of mind and
thought; (12) it robs the drinker of
his will power and self.respect, and
tends to blunt his moral sense and
lead him into habits of deception and
acts of dishonesty and immortality
Q3) it offers the greatest obstacle to
the work of the Christian religion in
its efforts to save men at home and
to evangelize the heather in other
lands-the rumseller making haste,
as he ever does, to follow the Chris
tian missionary with his rum and
opium, thereby degrading and drag
ging down to lower depths the
heathen whom Christianity seeks to
lift up ennoble, and save; G4) it is
the most corrupting and pernicious
influence in American politics, and
is everywhere associated with bribery
and lawlessness, seeking first TO have
laws enacted that are favorable to
the liquor interests, but, if failing in
this, conniving at and encouraging
the violation of any and all laws as
far as may be to the interests of those
who manufacture, sell, and sc intoxi-
eating liquors, such thing as
moral, high. minded, law-abiding,
and law-respecting liquor dealer be-
ing the exception and not the rule;
Q5) it is the unfailing ally of gamb.
ling and social impurity, and what
soever else ministers to the degreda-
tion of the physical, intellectual and
moral man. These are but some of
the many evils that can be charged
against this monster iniquity, this
'man of SIM that is the sworn enemy
of whatever is working for the moral
and social elevation of the race.
"This liquor traffic has 80 fastened
itself upon our civil, commercial, in.
dustrial and social life that it has
become perhaps the greatest obstacle
to progress in our Anglo Saxon
civilization. There is no depart.
ment of our manifold national life
that is not impeded by its presence.
and power. Recognizing liquor
dealers and whiskey drinkers every
where "a uujted aoainst anv and all