The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-01-01
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SOME. TARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THEN ICE OF 1NTEMPEnANcE.

Moral S31asion or Prohibition, Which
Shat IL 1t Be?-The Touching Mar.
rat I've That Changed the Mind of
Ono Young Man.
A young man once advised me to
advocate moral suasion. At meet
ing where this young man was pres
ent sal Id to the audience, pointing to
him: Some say we ought to adyo-
cate mo Fal suasion exclusively, Now
I will give you fact Thirteen miles
from this place there lived a woman
who was a good wife, a good mother,
a good woman" I then related her
story as she told it: 49,. Il .-
MY husband Is a drunkard; have
worked and hoped, and prayed, but I
almost gave up in despair. He went
away aInd was gone ten days. He
came back i'll with the smallpox. Two
of the children took it, and both of
them died. I nursed my husband
through his long sickness-watched
over hi}n night and day, feeling that
he cou1 d not drink again, nor ever
again abuse me. l thought he would
remember all this terrible experience.
Mr.. Leonard kept liquor shop about
three dbors from my house, and soon
after My husband was we'll enough
to get out Mr.. Leonard invited him in
and gave him some drink. He was
then W orse than ever. He now beats
and bruises me. - - I went
into MIR. Leonard's shop one day,
nerved almost to madness, and said,
'Mr. L. fonard, I wish you would not
sell my husband any more drink
Get out of this" said he, "away
with You. This is no place for a
woman; clear out"
49, But l don't want you to sell
him any more drink"
Get out, will you? If you
wasn't a woman, I'd knock you into
the middle of the street.
But, Mr.. Leonard, please don't
sell my husband any more drink.
Mind your own business,
say" :, !, L, :.
.."'' " But my husbands business is
mine I pleaded. ~ .... :.
80 Z Get out! If you don't I will
put you out. ~ e.,
II ran out and thetman was very
angry Three days after, neighbor
came FIN and said, Mrs. Tuttle, your
Ned's Just been sent out Of Leonard s.
shop $50 drunk that he can hardly
stand a.. ~ ul 81.
49, What! my child, who is only
ten years old?"
Yes" t'.@
TT The child was picked up in the
street and brought home, and it was
four days before he got out again.
/ then went into Leonard's shop and
said, You gave my boy, Ned, drink. :"
g" Get out Of this, tell!you, r. said
the man. 81
A'I said, II don't want you to give
my boy drink any more. You have
ruined my husband; for Gods sake
spare my child!" and I went down
upon my knees and tears ran down
my cheeks. He then took me by the
shoulders and kicked me out Of
doors.' :" ,..asib .2it y
Then" said I, pointing directly to
my friend, young man, you talk OF
moral suasion? Suppose that woman
was your mother, what would you, do
to the man who kicked herr" He
jumped right off his seat and said,
"I'd kill him. That's moral suasion,
is it? Yes, I'd Kill him, just'as I'd kill
a woodchuck that had eaten my
beans" .'"'%
Now, we do not go as far as that;
we do not believe in killing or perse-
cution, but we believe In prevention
and prohibition. IN National Advocate.
..F : ~. 8
The Earliest Prohibition Law.
The first civil law against the man
ufacture Of intoxicating liquor, of
which there is any record, was pro-
mulgated in China, 100 B. c. 1t
was Ian imperial edict called "The An
nouhcement Against Drunkenness, -,
and lit directed that "the people, who
drank, should be put to death. A
little of the spirit Of it abides in one
of the existing Chinese enactments,
which says, "a man, who, intoxicated
with liquor, commits outrages against
the law, shall be exiled to a desert
couhtry, there to remain In serVi-
tude.". ....r... ..5. I. SO, .sA
Among the ancient Mexicans in.
Temperance was accounted a grievous
crime, and was punished with the
severest penalties. iCharlemagne
tried by imperial edicts to stop the
drinking habits of the early Germans.
According to Lecky, one Of the safe
guards established to preserve female
purity in Rome was an enactment
forbidding women even to taste. the
juice of the grape; and this law, in
grafting itself upon early domestic
education, became, by habit Of tradi-
tioh, so incorporated with the sense
of 1.-THE people, that it's violation was
co1 1sidered monstrous. r
loot Drunk and Stole Horse.
Horse stealing is rarely heard Of |
lately in this section, but case oc-
cu4red only few miles west Of this
citt on Friday night, the, oath, when
GUY Krable took a valuable animal
frdm the stable Of j. M Foltz, near
Bridgeport, and rode him to his home
soi,th of Terre Haute. The farmers |
ware aroused and pursued the thief,
CAPTURING him after thirty-six hours
chhse. The man says he vas drunk,
and no doubt he was, or he would
halve known better than to try such
4 hopeless thing as to make away
with a horse in section where tele-
gra raph and telephone lines cross the
way every half mile. But now the
nlor fa1low must on IN the neniten-