The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-12-01
DIR, cRoMER ON PROHIBITION.
Delivers Address at Lutheran Church
1t Is The Boys he Wants to
Save--No Boys No Traffic.

Taking as his theme the decision OF
the supreme court Of South Carolina,
which, in upholding the constitution
ality of the dispensary law, laid down
the principle that liquor in its ma
ture is dangerous to the morals, good
order, health and safety Of the people,
and urging that an argument for pro-
| hibition was not an argument against
the liquor seller, but an argument Tor
the boys, DR.. Geo. B. Cromer deliver
| ed a scholarly and forceful address IN
the Lutheran Church Of the Redeemer
:: on Sunday evening, before an audience
which taxed the seating capacity OF
the church auditorium and Sunday
school room, which had been thrown
together for the occasion.
The program for the evening had
been arranged by the local chapter OF
the W. C. T. u, under whose auspices
the exercises were held, and all the
other city churches were closed IN Or
der to join in this union service. TAX
ing part in the exercises we're the ReV.
Edward Fulenwider, pastor OF the
lutheran Church Of the Redeemer;
the Rev. D. G. Phillips, pastor of the
A. R. P. church; the Rev. J. E. James,
pastor of Aveleigh Presbyterian
church; the Rev. George A. Wright,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
and the Rev. A. J. Bowers.
After the reading Of the Scripture
lesson by DR.. Phillips and prayer by
DR.. Bowers, solo appropriate to the
occasion was beautifully and effective
ly rendered by Mrs. R. q. Thomas.
DR.. Cromer, in beginning his re-
marks, said that recently he had made
three prohibition speeches in Laurens
on one day, and there were some
things which he had said in those
speeches which he would probably re-
peat on this occasion. He was going
to say the things that he wanted to
say, and he was not going to keep any
thing back because some one had pos
sibly heard it before. IAere were
some things he would repeat, he said,
as often as he talked prohibition III
South Carolina.
If there were no boys, what would
become Of the liquor traffic? he ask
ed. Your answer to that, he said,
makes the fight not against selling
liquor, but fight for the boys, be-
cause, unless they can get your boys,
they have to 60 out Of business.
Temperance, said DR.. Cromer, was
not the same as prohibition. A prohi-
bitionist might be teetotaler, mod
crate drinker, or dl:unkard. He had
known drunkards who were prohlbl-
tionists in self-defence, wanting the
temptation removed as far as possible
from them. Temperance was not neg
ative, he said, it was not abstinence,
though the teetotaler is temperate
man. Temperance was positive; tenn
perance was restrained indulgence.
DR.. Cromer spoke Of the remarkable
growth Of the temperance sentiment
throughout the country in recent
wears. It had been said by some that
the race question was responsible tor
! its growth in the South. But it was
about to sweep Massachusetts, and Hi
! nois. Two-thirds of this country was
under prohibition now and probably
80, 100000 of it's population. Ken
tuckv, with its distilleries worth
500. 100000, was almost prohlbl-
ton State, and there was strong pro-
| liability that it would be entirely pro-
hibition within a year or two. How
do. you explain it? asked DR.. Cromer'
| It would be a sad commentary on our
Christian civilization, he said, IT as
mass we we're no better than our an
cestors.
In looking up some matters con-
nected with the old Newberry Aea-
i denny, DR.. Cromer said that ne was
surprised to find that 1o1 years ago
the legislature authorized the trus-
tees of the Newberry academy to con-
duet a lottery to raise $4,000 for the
academy, and in the same Act the
legislature had authorized a church
at Beaufort to run a lottery to get
$4,000 to complete the church. And
~et the time came when the great
Louisiana lottery was abolished as
result of the sentiment Of the people.