Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-05-26
GOV. GLENN,s ADDRESS.
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Blind tigers are easily disco%essd.
Its. only necessary to watch where
the 3old soaks" go when they seek
their haunts. Catch the drunken
men and make them tell where they
got it.
Prohibition prohibits where the
officials do their duty. That is how
it was made effective in North Car
olina.
With relation to the taxes, Gov.
Glenn said that last year we. spent
So, ,644,214 in payment of our liquor
bin-a per capita tax Of 1914; ard
we made 1884, 900 profit out OF it
which amounted to a per capita re-
duction in taxes of 81 cents. The
speaker then asked if any person
were willing to barter the risk Of
his boys or his daughters future
against few cents of tax.
In Chicago the tax on the traffic
produced revenue of $50, O00,oOo:
but to take care ofthe results Of the
traffic in the crime produced the
cost $52, 100000. And this does not
consider the misery brought and the
destruction of bodies and souls LOT
victims.
The figures quoted by the govern
or were appalling as they relate to
the conditions growing out of the
traffic in this country.
The vice mill is the only kind of
mill that destorys what goes though
it. Why not destroy this mill?
Fifty per cent. of all the fallen wo-
men started on the downward road
by strong drink: 80 per cent OF the
ruined men started through vice pro-
NOTED by liquor.
This curse breeds insanity, power
ty, cruelty, death. The drunka:d is
i'unkind to those who love him. Then
how can you, by your vote, by Jour
influence, ask your citizens to keep
this curse here. This is the capital of
the greatest State in the Union and
in Augustlit will rid itself of the
curse.
They say it helps business. 9ou
drink up 81 and there goes a meal;
YOU drink up 81 and there goes a
cost; you drink up $3.50 and there
goes a pair of pants, but am GO
ing no further. Iaughter.) You
can't put whiskey into your stom-
ach and attend to business. You
can't put whiskey into your stomach
and, make your wife and children
happy.
When district attorney of North
Carolina in 1893 to 1897, Castor
county had been an eye-sore to him.
There were 3B distilleries, many
blockade distilleries, innumerable
Iblind tigers and saloons and only
1.-TWO cotton mills and scarcely n de
cent school house. The people got
together, voted out liquor and Today
they have good. schools, 4a large
mills, employing 10000 people, and
] a county filed with good roads,
Good schools. churches, peace and
4 good will.
/. Eight years ago Mecklenberg
county had declared her indepen-
dence, greater than the declaration
of l775, and today this is one OF
1. the grandest counties in the State.
Is it opportune? That's the ques,
tion to be met. God only requires
!. us to do our duty. The Legislature
says you must vote. Then vote
right. God will take care Of the
" consequences. The wettest dry
town is 100 times drier than 8. wide
open town.
Is it opportune? Would the >peo.
I pie of Columbia weigh matter OF
a small per capita tax against the
lhonor and purity of their women,
the manhood of their boys? You
got $l3l, 900 in Richland, but that
is offset by the added cost of crime,
| the loss time, the loss of virtue, the
: loss of manhood.
His class peroration was a oeautl
I full piece Of oratory and it may be
said conservatively that the ex-gov
ernor received quite All ovation.
Z The meeting was presided ovel
by DR.. E. G. Quattlebaum, who il
! introducing Gov. Glenn, declared
that he is sure of victory in August
> The inspiring singing was led b.
!. Mr.. f. +. Whildren. Il
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