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

lVf wiiiskey fky certain localtty' or
! isection OF cUUiltry. It is my purpose
to briefly show that the system is
wrong so long as the interstate COM
merce Law remains as II Is, The pro.
hibitionist or the past and present
has been working along the wrong
lines. &, s =
This little city has had a prohibi.
lion Law Tor years. It Is as well en-
town. with the law we'll en- Forced.
| and the better element In fts fs.yor
/ Il does not prohibit. Men are still
able to send their souls to- hell ana
bring SORROW and sproach upon
those whom they should cherish and
protect. With the great wave of re-
form that ts sweeping the country,
and the various laws that are daily
being passed prohibiting the whislxey
evil, the object isanot being attained.
|itsseems strange that during all these
Years OF dghting the sale OF whiskey
the leaders S0f the temperance move
ment have been lighting the tail Of
the monster pndg allowing the head
to outgrow all previous records. Lit
tie by little they have been chopping
away at the tail Of the thing, while
Its head has surely increased In size,
eAssAA AZ Aioo JuS6iOWh lIS6lI 6uu
stands to-day the greatest monument
OF sir in the worlds history. No man
ever killed a snake by cutting Of Its
tail. 1t is even said that II a snakes
head Is cut of the tail will live until
sundowns pSo 1t is with the whiskey
serpent. We will never have prohi-
bihon 'las long as we simply prevent
the sale Of whiskey and allow It's
unlimited manufacture. Even then,
if we succeed in chopping off the
head of the whiskey serpent, its tail
will continue to live until the sun
down of Its iniquity has come, and
the shade OF public reproach shall
have forever crushed It.
The Christian voter will 60 to the
polls and vote to make certain
community dry and turn right
around and cast another ballot in
the same box to legalize the manu-
facture OF whiskey In every othersec- :
tion of the United States. He casts
one vote for God and one for, the
devil and clears his conscience with
the delusion that the manufacture Of
whiskey is a national issue, and that.
individually, he has nothing to do
ZIONIST and not be a Christian, but
no man can sbe Christian and vote
to legalize the manufacture OF whis-
key For every such vote he casts
he assumes added responsibility for
the thousands of human souls that
are being damned every year, The
churches OF the country raise ann,i-
ally millions of dolls 3 for foreign
missions and sit idly by and see the
whiskey Juggernaut crush Its thou
sands. 1t Is also deplorable fact
that wherever Christian civilization
sends her missionaries this whiskey
devil has followed close upon the
trail. * s8 ~ e y y8 2
Further evidence that prohibition,
o. taught and pTaotiJei to-day, is not
prohibitory, Is to be obtained from
the statement Of the internal revenue
June 30th, 1907 Statistics are dull,
dry facts that rarely interest the or
dfnary mind. We read them and
think no more about them. They
are cold facts just the same.
! The fiscal year Just closed has
broken all previous records in the
amount of LIQUOR and beer copsumed.
The receipts Of internal revenue for
the fiscal year" closed June 30th
amounted to $2S9, 9,664i022. .00,against
$249, ,102,738.00 for the preceding
year., or over twenty million dollars
Increase. These figures do not in
clude receipts from fernichted spirits,
which also show larg. increase. The
mind Is astounded when 1t Is consid-
erede what quantities of whiskey aid
beer were consumed during the pc
Rod. The amount OF beer with
drawn for consumption, on which
revenue was paid, was 58,546,11 bar
rels, or 3,894,474 barrels more than
the preceding year In gallons the
increase was 116, 6,S33,22O. The coun-
try consumed the enormous amount
of one billion eight hundred and
fourteen millions nine hundred and
twenty-nine thousand and forty-one