The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-08-19
immense BENEFITS.
Resulting from the Passing Of the Saloon.
The Great Temperance Reform Marches On and
Brings Unprecedented Prosperity.

The Great Temperance Reform Marches Un' ana
Brings Unprecedented Prosperity.
Those of our good friends have heard that South
Carolina years ago herself of the saloon barroo are CIR
cuang little thumb documents to show that ctsn
of North Carolina prospered under prohibition
sorry that these gentlemen did not apply TO MIN
for testimony subjects South Caona prosperity
sence gainay word that is contained their
paper prosperity the towns to which reference IS had
could respected friends and neghbo had asked nave
given favorable to the abolition of the saloon In
Carolina than which they have reproduced we could
have produced good that has South Carolina
in absence the saloon than they have borrowed from North
Carolina.
The fact of the advantages gained by the saloon
in South informed denied by none
When the dspensar effect 999 saloons closed In
the Five thousand by that act were
transferred destructive side to the productive side OF the
public economy.
The iuring tempting places where weak vic
tins liquor and where immature youth educed tomhe
sobrey the places where brilliant lights las
cvous pictures and the aggregation of all sorts of men
might assemble drinking gambling closed forever
From the day of the closing saloons South Carolina
began her wonderful growth morals and financial prosperity
And since saloons closed, the schools and the
colleges have grown would astonh the world Since
then Clemson Students established Winthrop,
with girls its classes had to turn 400 others last year.
Converse spacious halls its learned professors and its
surpassed advantages has been given South Carolina since the
abolition of the saloon.
And this not ALL Every denomnationa religious college
has usefulness that their capacity in
instances is UNEQUAL to the requirements.
today calling upon its friends and phantrop to build for it
magnificent dormitory its increased hundreds of students
Again The Due West Female College has just finished
nifcent dormitory costing with equipment, 100000
Erskne not long built splendid domory for the
accommodation of girls
The demand upon Ekne great that
authorities that Institution contemplating plan the build
ing of other splendid dormtores
Due West built railroad from Donads to its business
tre railroad has evived and put into every
heart of trade and that splendid
awakened All the to learning to culture and
Christian development have been bodened heightened and made
more glorious and more attractive than ever before
And all this there foot of land within all the
porate Due West that has not increased value from
five hundred cent since abolition of the saloon in
South Carolina.
The little shacks, which courtesy
called store rooms today giving place magnificent brick uc
with beautiful plate glass fronts Merchants preparing to
go business scale which in the days of the saloon in South
Carolina would have been and suicidal for at
Due West
AS to Abbeve the storm centre all this agitation in Abbe-
vile County:
We are sorry the highly respected gentlemen
ming anoon platform have not learned that the saloon
was banished South Carolina than ago.
would therefore, kindness these good men, good
man would inform them that the saloon banhed years
ago. that the Constitution of the State forever prohibits the
the saloon Taking the line of their statements
North Carolina where such blessings to that state from
the the aloon would speak situation
exists in Abbevie today.
The town. since its foundation has had such decade of
uninterrupted prosperity.
Without grown decade than
it grew in the previous hundred years.
We have put in splendid telephone system.
In that time we have put in sewerage
We have lighted the city with electricity
We have put in water mains throughout the city.
We have built of the finest city halls in the state
The county has built magnificent new court house.
The county has paid off a large debt.
Every the city hundred
anywhere up thousand per according
lands that could hardly be sold at from So
worth Sl5 to $50 Other lands still higher
Within decade and since the abolition saloon
majority of the costly and elegant dwelling houses have been built
Within the decade which had saloons number
comfortable and unpeenOus houses have been than doubled
Within the decade in which had saloon three times
many poor formerly their homes and happy under
their vine and fig tree
During decade without saloons built $00OOO
MILL giving employment to great numbers of honest oer
Our little onehorse oil mill has been wonderfully developed and
enlarged
During saloon two ginneres with many
gins the latest and best make the little
ginnery in the days of the saloon.
the departure of the saoon have built
splendid warehouse SYSTEM where farmers keep and their
cotton until it their pleasure to sell.
the departure of he saloon, have built in town two
banks
the departure of the saloon of which fact beloved
friends running the anloon ticket have not heard