Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-14
WANTS PROHIBITION.
Correspondent Calls Attention to Un
satisfactory Political Situation.

Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer:
l am glad you occasionally call the
attention of your readers to the whis-
ky traffic in South Carolina; but, am
sorry you have not gone more fully
INTO the subject. OF course, you have
good and sufficient reasons for not do
ing so.
l would like, through your columns,
to have a little talk with voters, es-
pecially the voters of York county.
have no axe to grind. 1 have never
asked for an office, and more, never
expect to ask for one. Neither have
a friend that l would like to see elect
ed to office. Therefore, l feel free TO
talk plainly, or ito talk out in meetin'."
Be ii far from me to cast any reflec-
ton upon any one who has already an
nounced himself. or any one who may
later announce himself as a candidate
for office.
l had just as we'll say in the outset
that l am for prohibition first, last and
all the time.
Some say prohibition will not be an
issue in this campaign. Others say we
are not ready for prohibition. To the
first, say, if it is not an issue, 1t
ought to be. No thinking man will
dare deny that prohibition wave is
sweeping over the country-that pro-
hibition has gained many victories
within the last few years and conSid-
ering the situation in South Carolina
today we will be recreant to duty If
we allow this campaign to pass with
out making it an issue.
A few Of the faithful have stood long
on the firing line and are ready to en-
ter the enemy's fort; but call off the
charge at this critical moment and 1t
means q defeat-Such a scattering of
our forces, that it may take years to
get back to where we stand today and
our boys-your bOy-my bOy-may be-
come so fixed in the drink habit that
you and will end our days in sorrow.
And our girls-your daughter-my
daughter-may have taken places in
(out of society where so many grey
haired and heart-brOken mothers stand
today.
AS to the second assertion-'not
ready" l say most emphatically, that
whenever we have a majority of one
O) in favor of prohibition, we are
ready | know l am considered an eX-
tremist by those who fully know my
views on the whisky question; but how
can one help being an extremist when
there is so much at stake.
But, let us come now to conditions IN
York county. York is entitled to one
senator anu lOul ltpI III liiV
state legislature. Under the rules gov
erning elections in this state man
must vote for four representatives or
his vote, / believe, is not counted.
In looking over the announcements
in The Enquirer of July 10, this ques-
ton presented itself to my mind: Can
I select from this ticket four men who
stand for nothing less than state pro-
hbition?" l mean no offence by this. /
am not personally acquainted with all
the candidates, but, If the friends OF
temperance are not sure of their tick
ct, is it not high time for an investiga-
ton, and the bringing out of men who
will do all in their power to drive the
curse as far from our borders as pos
Sible?
Remember North reimbursement
| ber Georgia. We lie between, and
with whisky in South Carolina, what
will the HARVEST be?
w. S. Garrison.