Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-01-15

gallons OF beer during the year, or an
average Of smore Than twenty RaaJcns
for every man, woman and child IN
| the United States. This averaAda
may ssem high, and yet the revenue
Isofhctals say It. was a bad, year for
beer drinking owing to fhe cold,
wet spring There was consumed
tlS4,142.674 gallons of whiskey, an
increase OF eleven million four
dred and fffty-two gallons ever tho
preceding fiscal year. There was an
increase in the consumption OF spirits
made from apples of over 200, 900
gallons, the consumption being L.
993,688 against 1881, ,66z gallons
for the preceding year, These HK-
ures cannot be disputed, and any who
may desire can obtain them from the
internal revenue bureau in Washing-
ton. They show that present move
ments Of reform and p rohibition are
lfailins In their pprpose.
Christian Ainerica? Il afss,
| There Is but one remedy united
organisation- cafnpaignS of educa-
tioh samong the Voters, educating
them to feel their individual and per-
sona1 responsibility;s the election OF
men to Congress, regardless of party,
pledged to vote for national prohibfr,
ltion of both manufacture and sale OF
Iwhiskies OF all kinds as a beverage.
lt WIFE take time and hard fight,
but 1t can be done. There are cold
blooded business men who will ask,
where will we raise the money to on
set the two hundred and sixty-nine
millions of revenue the government
will lose. ] answer, In the words OF
England's greatest modern states
man, Give me a sober citizenship
and will get the money"
Just make small mathematical
calculation: Allowing an average OF
three dollars per gallon for the whis-
key consumed. which Is below the
average, and there is saved to the
American ,people over four hundred
million dollars annually, not count
Ing the beer, which can be figured at
the low average of Ave dollars per
barrel, and then we have nearly
three hundred million dollars more
saved at wholesale price. The con-
sumer paid very much more. Do
this, and this fair land OF ours will
blossom like the rose. Her valleys
will flow with milk and honey; men
will stand up with honest faces, clear
eyes, and the future generations will
be spared the effect of the curse that
Is upon fus.
Where do you stand, We slothful,
Ilopsided, hypocrltical so-called Chris
tians? Where are you, we sainted
women Of the white badge Of purity,
who meet IN great conventions and
Itwrangle over the nicities of patia-
mentary law, and allow this increase
OF the devil? Has the axiom that
"the hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world" slipped from your grasp,
OIL. are you too busy with your CLUBS
to be about the Masters business2
81 Wake up! Stop your fruItless eff
forts In killing the serpent's tail:
i bring forth from among you some
mighty leader who will dare cut Off
the serpent's head. The right is with
you, and right will prevail now, as
it has forever, in all ages past.
The man across the street Is dead.
AS IL from shame or fear his trem-
bling, bleeding soul took its flight in
the dead hours of the night. sfIis
mortal body Will be tenderly laid
away in mother earth. SorrowinE.
loving hands will place sweet flowers
upon his grave. The wall OF sthe
widow and orphan Is heard; there is
sadness iny heaven and rejoicing In
hell. Another soul has been offerd
up-a sacriflce--and the great Re
t.cording Angel has placed another
dark blot on the Book of Life against
the Christian voters of America.
Guy I. Grove.