The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-12
He wanted another

vote for him. He wanted another
candidate to represent the State, News
and Courier and Greenville News. on
the high license ticket. Then. there
must be one for the blind tigers; some
OF them are clever fellows, too. Four
blind tigers have already nominated
! a gentleman from Marlboro Pro-
hibitionists. high license believers. and
tigers have all some clever people in
their trains, but. oh. amt it a nor
rible combination, all crying. Down
with the damnable dispensary!"
The effort OF speaking was showing
some on him. He breathed deeply.
His shoulders dropped some, and the
corners of his mouth curved down.
ward. But his bulldog jaws brought
his teeth square together like vise
and his single eye had that CLEAN in it
that puts the people beside themselves
When he made point and turned to
! look at Brice in challenge or at Grist,
a Yorkville newspaper man, they
whooped him up in South Carolina
style.
"Ah., my countrymen," he said, feel
ingly, "whiskey is indeed devil!
Whoever takes its problem in hand
to solve and tries to minimize the
evil has tackled the hardest task
that ever confronted a public man.
l did not seek it. 1t was thrust on
me- They have gone and changed
the law, taken it out of the hands of
the governor whom you elect and
gave it to three little bob-tailed men
that work for $500 a year. What
else could they expect than corrup-
ton. When the law first started,
nobody knew where the whiskev was
bought. 1t came marked "X," AX,"
XXX" and so on. But now they
buy case goods, labeled with the
names of the dealers, and so put it
in the power of the dealers to de-
bauch every dispenser in South Caro-
lima who is debauchable."
He said he could talk three hours
about it; it is so blamed big and has
so many sides to it. The law fur
nishes six weeks additional school
to the sunburned children Of the farm,
and is the only scheme which has ever
been devised to give back to the
country people some of the money
which they spend for whiskey. ~
have no doubt you are going to vote
the dispensary out Of York county.
! What will you do about your school
term?"
"Cut it down." replied somebody.
eyes. I'll gamble that you will cut
it down, but God forbid that you
shou1dw
There is no way to stop the sale
of whiskey: that was his theme. 1t
is going to be sold, one way or an
other. Therefore minimize the evil
and let the revenue from it go to the
state, not to tigers and bar-keepers.
It is not blood money. Uncle Sam is
in the business, and nobody thinks of
calling his revenue blood money. Pro-
hibition is a breeder Of immortality.
It teaches the doctor, the patient, and
the druggist to lie and practice hypoc-
risy. We have whiskey with us and
always have had it. Until 1850 it
was as free as water, and it had never
occurred to any mans mind in the
ages before that time 70 attempt the
restraint of the traffic.
Il find nothing in the Bible to sup
port prohibition,' he said. And I
don't want any preacher to cram his
new tangled religion down my
throat"
He said he has never pretended TO
be other than an honest old sinner,
conscious Of his own weakness and
inability to size up his ideas, and
trying to do as little harm in this
world as he can. The Bible does not