The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-01

away the taste and the appetite for
whiskey, but he spoke with sadness
of the fact that there we're more gra-
duates from this branch Of the Keel
ey institute in Newberry county than
! there were graduates Of the South
Carolina college, which was founded
in 1901.
It had been argued, he said, that
Gods method was not to remove
temptation, but to enable his people
to ov kcome temptation. That was
true, he said, but it was also true
that Gods method in developing
Christians was to have them 60 out
and remove temptation from the
path of weaker brother.
DR.. Cromer urged high ideals for
the young men and the young women
of the country. John Hampden, wno,
though, a rich man, refused to pay
thirty shillings ship money and went
to jail, fixed in English history an
example Of high-minded, liberty
loving man, wno insisted upon JUS
tice. Governor lGulbertson had con-
vened special session Of the Texas
legislature to pass law making prize
fighting in Texas illegal. By that one
assertion Of manhood and Of patriots
ism, Notwithstanding the cry of the
economists as to expense, he had fix.
ed an example that deserved to go
down in Texan history along with
the example set by the heroes Of the
Alamo. When the law legalizing the
Louisiana lottery had been repealed,
men had offered to pay the public
debt Of Louisiana and to pay the
state annually $1,000,000 to re-enact
tae charter of the lottery. What a
temptation, he said, to reduce taxes,
but the manhood and the patriotism
and the Christian enlightenment Of
Louisiana were enough to reject with
scorn the offer that was made
What could be said Of South Car
olina, said DR.. Cromer. It was no
pleasure to him, he said, to talk abou-
the dav Of her shame. 1t had been
urged in some quarters, he said, that
there was no longer any use to fight
the dispensary, since the dispensary
law had been repealed. But now was
the time to fight, ne said, when the
dispensary forces were on the run.
Over against the example of Texas
and Louisiana he placed South Car
olina. Fifteen years ago, he said,
South Carolinians had expressed
themselves in favor Of prohibition.
What did they get? They asked for a
fish and got serpent Of the deadliest
sort. They didn't get bar rooms, but
they got what in his judgment-and
MS opinion was unshakable on that
point-what was infinitely worse,
when it came to the underlying prir-
ciple. They got the dispensary, Legal
lied bar rooms. It was urged that the
dispensary would decrease taxes and
support the schools, and the state
told its citizens by indirection, that
it was their duty to drink liquor to
put down t4xation, The state had
graded the salaries Of dispensers by
the amount Of liquor they sold-ln
this way showing the insincerity ct
the argument that the dispensary IVES
prohibition measure. He thanked
| God when the state shook herself Of
the dispensary system, and he thought
the time had now come when in all
Justice the legislature should do ore
of two things. In Laurens the dis
pensary had been voted out, but the
dispensarv had 5mained on account
of the election having been contested
on teachnicalities. In Chesterfield it
was the same, and one Of the erouno.s
urgd was that white men had been
intimidated by white women. The
legislature had put the burden on
the prohibitionists in regard to elee-
ton laws never before known. He
! thought the time had come to put the
boot on the other fellow. The legis-
lature ought to pass straight pro-
hibition law, or pass a prohibition
law with local option feature, with
! the privilege to the dispensary peo-
pie to get up petition and vote IN