The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-12-20
MARCH OF NEMESIS.
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Battle Been Bloody

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But Now the Trend is Toward I'm.
fosced Abstinence and tho Whis-
key Demon Mnst Go.
In 1911, nearly one hundred years
ago, there was at The present site Of
Brookville, Indiana, a curious COM
plnation in the way of a man, says
the American Farmer. He was
preacher, farmer, distlller and bar
keeper all rolled in one. He had
come into the then territory in 1897.
and was the first Methodist minister
among the early settlers on the
Whitewater. The town Of Brook
vile, In Franklin county, near the
Ohio border. was laid out in 1907.
JUST q century ago, and this preach
ing Wniskey seller was a main actor
IN starting the place. On Sunday he
preached regularly to his congrega-
ton OF surrounding settlers, mostly
small farmers, and after services
set up the liquor" to the "sin.sick
souls" Everybody drank in those
days, what they called ''drams," the
white and water clear product Of
the old-fashioned copper. still. In
TACT, the first industry in every pio.
neer community was a distillery, be-
ing, regarded as equally important
with the mill that ground the grain.
The preachers were all tipplers and
many of them drank to excess and
the very first of all the temperance
reform movements in this country
was organized for the express bene-
fit of the clergy.
Times have changed. We want
our readers. especially the farming
class, to take note of the contrast
presented between 1907 and 1907 and
the eyentfuf century intervening.
Take note Of Parson Manwaring,
mixing his sermons and whiskey in
the same log cabin, where entertain
ment was furnished "for man and
beast then look around in the ru-
raj community where you live and
count up the farmers who drink liu-
uor to excess or even in moderation.
A drinking preacher, of course,
would no longer be tolerated. He is
as extinct as the dodo. No liquor is
served on the sideboards as it was in
loO7 in every home. Drinking has be-
come unpopular and questionable.
NO farmer thinks of serving w iskey
IN the harvest field, as was universal
q hundred and even fifty years ago.
The churches are now all standing
in solid column behind the TEMPER
ance movement. The w. c.. r. u.
the Y. M. C. A.. the Endeavorers
and other Christian associations are
all working heroically against the
universal curse The advance has
been great and no class has benefit
ed more from the reform than the
tlllers of. the soil. There is not a
strictly farming community in the
United States where the saloon has
a particle of show in a standup vote.
The farmer has become sober. He
finds better use for his corn than to
run it through a still; better use for
: his fruit than to convert it into the
brain-maddening apple jack"
Nemesis is marching on! This
goddess, sacred in the old Greek cal.
enear to revenge, is coming into her
own: The fight has been long, the
battles have been bloody, the cen.
turies r strewn with millions OF
men dead from drink, with countless
homes wrecked and ruined. with
blasted regulations, with scared cor.
sciences, with that hope deferred
which makcth the heart sick. Johr
Barleycarn, generalissimo of the
hosts of evil, the beasts of prey, the
legions of devils, the fends incarnate
is being driven to the wall. The scor.
plon is being surrounded with fire
The bounds of the hunted tiger grow
less and less. The hosts of hunters
press on, remorselessly, m~ercilessly
armed With argument, business rea.
sons, moral suasion, decency, self.
preservation, the hopes Of civiliza.
ton. At this beginning of the eighth
year OF the twentieth century, we
are able to report progress. The tenn
perance movement is sweeping the
country in an irresistible wave and
soon, 1T is asserted, no whiskey will
be sold in the United States EXCEPT
IN the larger cities, into which the
CRIMINAL elements of the country will
flock. The trend is toward enforced
abstinence and the makers of liquor
are plainly alarmed. Nearly 40, 0O0,-
600 people, about half the popula.
ton of the country, now live in tenn
perance territory. All the eleven
Southern States have not as MANY
saloons as the n city of New York.
Georgia has full prohibition; Ala.
bama, majority of the counties al
ready dry; Arkansas, two.thirds of
the counties dry; Florida, thirty-sev-
en- out of forty.fivr counties div.
Kentucky, n%inety-one out of liz
counties dry; Louisiana, seven-eiph-
tbs of the country districts dry. Miss
lsslppll, seventy out of scventy-fivc
counties dry; Texas, two-thirds drv.
and so it goes all along the line. The
North is falling into line rapidly and
the great red dragon is on the run
everywhere. Whoever you are.
whether you call yourself Reason,
Justice, Morality. Sanity. Patriot.
ism, Decency, Civilization. hasten to
enroll yourself in the great army of
freedom SO as to be in at the death
OF the Blastant Beast.
ROOSEVELT will go down in history
as the freak president of the United
States. His latest order that army.
officers ride thirty miles q dav for.