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

| HtIluIcu year. IC was beneficial
work that was being done, TO take
away the taste and the appetite for
whiskey, but he spoke with sadness
of the fact that there were more gra-
duates from this branch Of the Keel
cy institute in Ncwbcrry county than
i there were graduates Of the South
| Carolina college, which was founded
in 1901.
1t had been argued, he said, that
| Gods method was not to remove
temptation, but to enable his people
to ov hcome temptation. That was
true, he said, but it was also true
that Gods method in developing
Christians was to have them 90 out
and remove temptation from the
path of a weaker brother.
DIR. Cromcr urged high ideals for
the young men and the young women
of the country. John Hampden, VINO,
| though, rich man, refused to pay
thirty shillings ship muney and went
to Jail, fixed in English history an
example Of high-mindcd, liberty
loving man, VINO insisted upon JUS
tice. Governor ICulbertson 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 patriot-'
ism, notwithstanding the cry of the
economists as to expense, he had fix
cd 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Louisiana lottery had been repealed,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 tho
state annually $1,000,00O to re-enact
tae charter of the lottery. What
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 dispcnsary, since the dispensary
law had been repealed. But now was
the time to fight, he 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 dcadlicst
sort. They didn't get bar rooms, but
they got what in his iudement-and
MS opinion was unshakablc on that
point-what was infinitely worse,
when it came to the underlying prin-
ciplc. They got the dispcnsary, legal
lied bar rooms. Tt 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 taxation. The state had
graded the salaries Of dispensers by
the amount Of liquor they sold-in
this way showing the insincerity of
the argument that the dispensary was
a 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 thc legislature should do one
Of two things. Tn I.anr2ns the dis
pcnSary had been voted ont. but the
di*pcnSary had remained on account
of the election having been contested
on tcachnicalitics. In Chesterfield it
was thc same. and one Of the grounds
nrgd was thai white men had been
! inundated by white women. Tho
/ legislature had put The burden on
| the prohibitioniSts in regard to clcc-
! ton laws never before known. IIo
thought the time had come to put the
boot on the other fellow. The lcgis-
| lature ought to pass straight pro-
hlbltion law, or pass a prohibition
/ law with local option feature, with
the privilege to the dispcnsary pco-
! pie to get up petition and vote in
dispcnsarics, if they could, in the