The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-08-11
Ger The Dispensary Problem in
the Pulpit of a Church
AT A UNION MEETING.
and Dement'S Of the Question Dis.
cussed IN the Historic Red Hill
Baptist Church. one Speaker
Predicts that Prohibl, IN
Means BarrO0ms.
Means Barrooms.

A dispatch to The State a y Hon.
w. Jasper Talbert and For,nsr Solioi.
tor j. w. Thurjnond locked horns In
a ~dispensary discussion Saturday at q
Baptist Union Meeting at the his.
torical Red Hill Baptist Church neal
Parksville in Edgefield County.
The assembly was large and the
speakers stood in the pulpit. At the
close Of an address by DR.. Bell, MI.
Thurmond advanced and delivered q
very earnest speech, advocating the
dispensary. He declared that II 1T
was rightly conducted it is Che best
solution Of the liquor evil and that
there would be open barrooms In South
Carolina within two years IL the pro:
nlolGlon1sts should win their fight.
In his speech Col. Talbert declared
that the welfare of the nation de.
ponds moro upon the character of It's
citizens than the strength of It's army
u navy; that total abstinence is the
only logical and safe practice for a
religious man. Some men remain
moderate drinkers without ruin, but
their example Is deleterious to others
who are not strong enough to keep
from excess.
There Is no improperly In speak.
Ing Of the ~dispensary In the church.
l believe In fighting the devil any
where. l shall attack the d%ispensary
anywhere and everywhere. 1 am
against it in any form. If a man
thinks he can reform an ancient egg,
leu him reform the d%ispensary. 1
never saw rotten eRg made fresh.
10 say prohibition does not pro.
hibit IL silly. The law against steal.
ing, murder, arson and rape do not
prohibit, but they restrain. So will
prohibition restrain. / do not think
there can be more blind tigers under
prohibition than under the dispen.
sary as now conducted.n
The prohibition movement is not
a failure; tc 1t is due the credit for
the present activity. L love every
inch OF my State and / am honest In
my readiness to fight whiskey. When.
ever the church membership Of this
country quit drinking liquor, deter
mine to wash heir hands Of com.
plaisance wilt ose who deal In 1t
for selfish gain and go to work against
Whfskey, we will have the prohibition
which we need in South Carolina
Hon. J.. w. Thurmond came to the
platform and made an address. He
said that he recognized the grnetevil
In whiskey, but that mon miga. ION
estly differ as to the best meaIN IRE,
ducing the evil. Does the ,nt
mode OF selling liquor " >dr-E ire
evil than other VI, .H SonIo evils
must be prohibited outright; others
are best prohibited by controlling
them. This Is the case with wills
key.
Prohibition in Edgefeld county
formerly was a complete failure. One
of the worst things q State can do IL
to put a law upon the statute BOOKS
which cannot be enforced; and the
prohibition Of liquor cannot be en-
forced. You teach people perjury by
bringing them up before grand Jurics
under circumstances which expert
ence has shown will make them lie.
II you will take your present law
and enforce it, 1T will be q good solu
tlon Of the question. II you vote pro
hibition you will not have it but a
year or two. The leaders Of this anti
dispensary movement in Columbia are
working toward high license and pro
hibitiOn Is but q step on their way to
that end.
Today this county gets from the
diopensary about SO, 900 for education.
The county also gets SO, 800 for roads
and the towns SO, 800. The speaker
advocated educating the rising gen
eration on money secured from Wits
key taxation. He said to kill the dis.
pensary Is to take third from the
schools of the county, and practically
pull down the school houses.
Mr.. Thurmund went on to show the
union meeting attendants how it
would touch their pocketbooks, If
they voted out whiskey. His Views
are unique In deli Verances before
South Carolina religious assemblies.
But In Mr.. Thurmund's address there
was the ring Of conviction.
Col. Talbert asked the speaker If It
was possible for the legislature to vote
open barrooms, and he unquali6edly
affirmed that it could do SC.
Col. Talbert-'Do you believe that
1t will do it?"
Mr.. Thurmund-"I believe they
will do 1t within two years time"
Col. Talbert Then, God have
mercy upon their souls"
"A Isioh Farmer.