The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-01
CONTINUE TO FIGHT
WHILE ENEMY FLEES
DIR. CROMER SAYS TIME Is RIPE
FOR STATS PROHIBITION.
Wants Boot on Other Fellows Foot
Let Those Who Want Liquor
Sold Get Up Petition.

before the twenty-fourth annual con-
vention Of the South Carolina Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union,
in the Lutheran Church Of the. Re-
deemer, Sunday morning, DR.. George
B. Cromer, Of this city, reviewed the
history Of the temperance movement,
and, referring to conditions in South
Carolina, said that now was the time
to fight, that the enemy was on the
run, and that the temperance work
ers should see to it that no advantage
which had been gained should be
lost. In speaking Of political condi-
tions in South Carolina in connec-
ton with the dispensary law, he said
that where elections had been held in
the counties of Laurens and Chester
6eld, the dispensary had been voted
out, but the elections were contested
on the ground Of irregularities in the
elections, and in these counties the
dispensaries remained. He said that
the prohibitionists were required to
provide more safeguards for elec-
tions Of this kind than had ever been
known before, and. ne thought it was
time the boot was put on the other
fellow. He thought the time had
come when in all fairness the legls-
lature should do one Of two things;
either pass a general prohibition law
for the entire state, \or general pro-
hibition law for the entire state with
the local option feature, allowing the
counties which wanted dispensaries to
vote in dispensaries, putting the bur-
zen upon them.
DR.. Cromer has been a lifelong
worker in the temperance cause. and
is recognized as one Of the proh1bl-
ton leaders in South Carolina He
is an earnest and eloquent speaker
and his address Sunday morning was
characteristic Of the speaker.
The Lutheran Church cf the Re-
deemer, where the meeting was held,
was crowded with delegates from
every part Of the state to the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union,
and the people Of the city and lty.
The exercises were conducted by
the Rev. D. G.. Phillips, pastor Of the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church, who read the scripture les
sons and offered prayer. A special
choir composed of members Of the
various choirs from the city churhces,
rendered music, Mrs. j. ". Haiti
wanger presiding at the organ. Dur
ing the collection a solo was beautl-
fully rendered by Miss Pauline Gild-
er, of this city.
In opening his address DR.. Cromer
said that twenty years ago he had de-
livered an address Of welcome to the
Woman's Christian Temperance Un-
ion, in the opera house, in Newberry.
That address, he said, was an address
of welcome delivered by the dry may
or of a wet town. Newberry had cross
ed over since tnen, he said, and he
was glad to deliver an address as the
representative Of a town which had
gone in the prohibition ranks. Since
the days of Noah, he said, the drink
evil had caused devastation and woe,
and the tears Of widows, the cry OF
orphans. and the wreck Of character
had followed in its wake. No man
was strong enough to trlfle with
whiskey. He spoke Of Henry ".
Grady's letter to Clark Howell, on
the occasion of his twenty-frst birth
day, when ne presented him with a
, gold pen because he was to be an
editor. "Never drink,' said Grady to
Howell. II love liquor and love the
fellowship that attends the drinking
of liquor. My safety has been that [
never drink it at ALL" It was not on
" true. said DIR. Cromer, that no man
as an individual could trifle with it
in his own life, but it was also true
that it was all-pervading in its in
fluence for wrong, and in its teaching.
You not only can not afford to tam
Der with it yourself. he said. but yop
\are not beyond the Influence Of il