The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-11-15


confined to the residence of Mr.. j. w
Browning.
The new Bank of Blackville, with.
$50, 900 capital, will elect directors
at the called meeting to be held this
week: @
Illegal Selling of Intoxicants.
Editor the Bamberg Herald:-ln
these days Of outrage and lynchmgs,
we hear a lot about protect our
women" which is as it should be, OF
course. But right here we would
like to ask our valiant defenders,
why they don't finish up the protect
ing business while they are about it?
Women in this country have an
enemy far more formidable than the
black horror, (while ! am not dis
counting that, for l know what it e
to live under a dread all the tmel
and that is one that is sinking the
women Of this fair land Of ours to-
the bottom Of despair. We heard
much during the last campaign about
dispensary or no dispensary. The
question was cussed and discussed
at every gathering, and yet there Is
q barroom at every corner and some
in the middle for good measure. Let.
q woman ride out even on Sunday 70
see perhaps q sick friend, and she
will have to pass one or more OF these
gates to perdition" IN full blast,
and men who love to boast Of high
family, who have had the advantage
of Christian mothers and religious.
training, staggering and wallowings
around in the broad day light on 81
lovely Sabbath morning. tits enough
to crush the heart Of any true woman,
be she high or low.
One does not have to draw much
on the imagination, (when we see the
proprietor of one Of these "contrap-
tions of the evil one" doing out his
key to perdition to his poor bloated.
red-eyed victims) to hear the swish
of the tail and see the cloven foot OF
the evil one himself, or to smell fire
and birthstone and hear his poor
drunken vict ms groans as he drops
them into the bottomless pit. =.
And now we would ask? Where
are our gallant defenders? Is the
manhood of the land at 50 low an
ebb that no one will come to our
relief. Where are the officers Of our
country? They promised great
things before they were elected. Is
it possible there is not one with msn-
hood enough to do his duty? Per.
haps some one will say. Report
these places" What good does lido
if you do. It has been done repeat
edly. IF there is any attention paid
to it at all, and that is very seldom.
they manage to find out when the
detective is coming and move their
goods to the gin house or branch or
some place till the man is gone and
then they carry it back. IF they
happen to find the stuff it is poured
out, and while the officers are at that
the proprietor is writing an order
for more. z5}s
How long, oh, how long will the,
men of Bamberg county suffer this
thing to go on? Why trim the
branches; don't you know they will
grow again? Strike at the root and
don't stop till it is entirely grubbed
out. Instead Of selling the liquor,
why not take the man? Send him 10;
the penitentiary for the first offence,
with no chance to pay OUT and for
q second offence send him there and
keep him there. We don't need him
in this part of the country. As for
the man that drinks his low down
stuff, give him the same punishment
and I will guarantee that drunken
ness and whiskey selling will stop.
Perhaps the penitentiary would have
to be enlarged, but what an Eden on
earth if there were no drunkards.
And now l would like some one to
answer these questions:
Why do those in authority allow
Eureka Kidney Cure made at all?
Don't everybody know it is no medi-
cine? It will kill a man sight
quicker than whiskey. And all these
other things sold in bottles they
claim won't make you drunk, yet we
all know they will. Why are they
allowed to be sold. A many
mothers son has been lost by drink
ing such stuff, when perhaps he
never would have tasted whiskey.
Will not some one come to stop
this thing? Save the poor old drunk
ards if you can. Some one loves the
very last one Of them. If that is
impossible, then save our boys.
COUNTRY TACKEY.
Olar, S. c., October rs, 1906.