The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-06-17
HOGS AND MEN
(By Rev. c. G. Browne.) }

of whom no money can be mace, Is
not to be set up along side Of hog
that produces revenue. If the poor
fool wants to dash around among
the rocks let him do so; but we
/ don't want a man among us who
kills our hogs and cuts off our rev.
enue.
The healed man went home. To
those who loved him, his coming was
better than the coming of a dozen
droves OF grunting hogs. 1t was the
happiest day that home ever saw.
The wife asked, rs the great Teach
er going on with his healing and
helping?" NO." the healed man re-
piled. ''The masters cared more for
the hogs than for the men in dis
tress; so they asked him to go
away"
So some say in this day that the
preachers and the churches are ven
turing too far; we are asked to stand
aside and let the politicians look
after the liquor business; if we get
| into the discussion, we are apt to
interfere with the business, and cut
off revenue. The result is as we see
it. Every man in the State Of South
Carolina has been compelled to be-
come a partner in the whiskey sell
ing business by the men known as
politicians. Now they tell US we
must depart out of their coasts; they
don't want us to get mixed up in
politics; that politics is bad busi-
ness anyhow, and If the churches get
into it, they will surely reap corrup-
tion. For long time, We kept 81
lent. We have been living under the
burden of. a legalized sale Of whis-
key through the dispensary. With a
majority of senators and representa-
tives voting for it, we were helpless.
/ But, after long years, help has come.
The great commercial world has
been aroused to recognize the fact
that the use of whiskey paralyzes
trade, units men for business, and
entails curse and only curse. The
railroads shut out the drinker, he
finds no place in the marts of COM
merce, and all the great corporations
have voted for soberness. But men
cannot be sober if whiskey is made
too easy to get and the sale Of it le-
galized and given semi-respecta.
bility. Hence the commercial world
at this late day, has taken up the
ancient cry Of the churches, and the
combination is playing havoc with
whiskey as a source Of revenue. We
are going around with a little warm
water and soap trying if perchance
we can wash out the eyes of ou1
great senators and Representatives sc
that they may be enabled to see the
condition of things. They must con.
sent to be washed out or be washed
away. Almost half of the States In
the Union have voted whiskey out
and very nearly half Of the counties
in the State. In the other half, it Il
kept in place by men who seem tc
think we are such fools we don,
know what is best for US, and hence
they feel it their high duty to ad'
minister to our needs by voting tt
maintain whiskey sinks all over the
country.
There is but a single argument fol
the maintenance of the dispensary
The use of whiskey is denounced by
everybody. Even those curse 1t who
use it. The poor fellow who is {
slave to it, prays to God against 1t
and wishes there was not drop IL
the whole world. Then why main
tain it? Why do men who profess
to be wise and righteous vote for the
sale Of whiskey? Simply because ou
of the sale of it there comes reve
nue., and money is placed into tht
treasures of our towns and counties
And a double revenue at that. W.
get part of the money the drinkel
pays for the liquor, and when he gets
drunk on liquor legally bought, We
get another revenue out Of the fine
he has to pay for getting drunk. Thi!
is our law in the glowing light o.
this twentieth century-our schools
must be helped and our streets paved
with the income from the sorest vice
the age has to contend against. L
the revenue from whiskey were GU
off, and it were made impossible fol
a man to get an income from hand
ling it, we could not find men who
would keep it in their stores to be
| given away. The fact that it breeds
vice and filth and death is condonet
by the other fact that there Is none,
in it.
But some say, 1T will be drunk
and therefore it will be sold. Prchi
bition will not prohibit This /.
true. There is no law which totally
prohibits the evil at which 1t Ii
aimed. If we can respect only a Law
which prohibits, the Ten Command
ments are the greatest farce Of the
world. If we propose to abolish
every law which is failure, we must
wipe the statute books clean. Muir
der, theft and arson are all unlaw.
full; but the law against them does
not prohibit them. Suppose mar
should arise and say, "Since the Law
against murder does not prevent
murder, I move that we abolish it!'
How would it do to set up law like
this: Chicken stealing shall be
legalized, provided a man is willing
to pay for the privilege of indulgine
in the fine art and will pay a good
fee in case he is overtaken in the
theft. This is the dispensary law ir
anut-shell. You are allowed to buy Ii.
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