The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-28
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.

personally, 1 nave Seeu sO muCu
of the evils Of the liquor traf1c in
the last four years, so much of its
economic waste, SO much Of its phys
ical ruin, so much Of its mental
blight, so much Of its tears and
heartache, that I have come to re-
gard the business as one that must
be held and controlled by strong and
effective laws.
bear no malice toward those en-
gagged in the business, but I hate the
traffic.
1 hate its every phase.
I hate it for its intolerance.
hate it for it's arrogance. :
! hate it for its hypocrisy.
I hate it for it's cant and craft and
false p%retense. i.
hate it for it's commercialism.
I hate it for its greed and avarice.
hate it for it's sordid love Of gain
at any price.
I hate it for it's corrupting infu-
ence in civic affairs.
I hate it for it's incessant effort
to debauch the suffrage Of the coun-
try; for the towards it makes Of pub
lie men.
I hate it for it's utter disregard of
law.
I hate it for its ruthless trampling
of the solemn compactS of State con-
stitutions.
I hate it for the load its straps to
labor's back, for the palsied hands
it gives to toll, for it's wounds to
genius, for the tragedies OF its
might-have-beens.
I hate it for the human wrecks
it has caused.
I hate it for the almshouses 1t peo-
pies, for the prisons it fills, for the
insanity it begets, for its countless
graves in potters' fields.
I hate it for the mental ruin 1t
imposes upon it's victims, for its spir-
.itual blight. for its moral degreda-
ton.
hate it for the crimes it has COM
mitted.
hate it for the homes it has de-
stroyed.
I hate it for the malice it has
planted in the hearts Of men-foT
its poison, for it's bitterness-for the
dead sea fruit with which 1t starves
their souls.
I hate it for the grief it causes
womanhood-the scalding tears, the
hopes deferred, the strangled aspir-
atoms, it's burdens Of want and care.
I hate it for it's heartless cruelty
to the aged, the infirm and the help
less, for the shadow it throws upon
the lives of children, for its mon
strous injustice to blameless little
ones.
I hate it as virtue hates vice, as
truth hates error, as righteousness
hates sin, as justice hates wrong. as
liberty hates tyranny, as freedom
hates oppression.
I hate 1t as Abraham Lincoln
hated slavery. And as he sometimes
saw in prophetic vision the end OF
slavery and the coming of the time
when the u should shine and the
rain should fall upon no slave in all
the Republic, so I sometimes seem
to see the end of this unholy traffic,
the coming of the time when, II 1t
does not wholly cease to be, it shall
find no safe habitation anywhere be-
meath "Old Glory's" stainless stars.
One Way.
A young man in company with sew
eral other gentlemen called upon a
young lady. Her father was also
| present to assist in entertaining the
guests. He did not share his daugh-
ter's scruples against the use Of spir-
ltuous drinks, for he had wine to
offer. This was poured out, and
would have been drunk, but the
young lady asked, did you call upon
me or upon papa?"
Gallantry, If nothing else, com
PEELED them to answer, I'VE called
upon you"
Then you will please not drink
wine. I have lemonade for my Wis
itors."
The father urged the guests to
drink, and they were undecided. The
young lady added: Remember, II
you called on me, then you drink lem
onade; but if upon papa, WHY in that
case, 1 have nothing to say"
The wine glasses were set down
with their contents untasted. After
leaving the house, one Of the party
exclaimed: "That was the most ef-
fectual temperance lecture I have
ever heard" The young man from
whom these facts were obtained,
broke off at once from the use of
strong drink, and holds a grateful
remembrance of the lady who grace
fully and resolute1y gave him to un-
derstand that her guests should not
drink wine.-Home Herald.