The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-07-22
J,a:sI.I.Ixu.I .IXIAI>xAI,
v. G. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Does II Pay.

which lessons the demand 1Of the
helpful things OF life, which In
creases their cost and diminishes the
ability to pay for them:
Does it pay to license traffic
which makes men less skillful, less
steady, less reliable: which lessons
endurance, lessons self respect, and
the respect of others, lessons conf
dence. lessons credit, lessons the de-
mand fer food, clothing, shelter and
tools with which to work:
, Does 1t pay to license traffic
which breeds idiots, paupers, Grim
inals, lunatIcs and epileptics and
casts them upon society to be sup
ported by decent, honest, industri-
Gus people:
Does it pay to license traffic
which increases taxes by creating
necessity for jails, penitentiaries,
asylums, hospitals, almshouses, or
phanases, reformatories, police and
criminal courts:
! Does it pay to license thing
which decreases mans industrial
efficiency SO that the government
reports show that - per cent of
agriculturists discriminate against
him for using it, and that 70 per
cent of manufacturers, IS per cent
of tradesmen and 80 per cent of
railroad officials do the sape thing!
Does it pay to maintain national
quarantine against criminal and de-
pendent classes from abroad and IL
cense 250,000 saloon keepers to
manufacture such products at home:
Does it pay to support the fam
! lilies of saloon keepers and BAR tend
ers aud pay their rent, taxes aud
insurance, and buy luxuries for
them in order to get a few pennies
in revenue and license ont of the
many dollars which they filch from
the pockets of industry?
Does it pay to employ teachers to
teach children the evil effects of
alcohol upon the human system and
license men to sell thing which
infames the stomach, hardens the
brain tissue, softens and weakens
the blood vessels. impovershes the
blood, over works the heart, retards
the elimination of effete matter,
dims the eye, dulls the hearing, dis
eases the throat, lungs, kidneys,
liver, nerves and muscles; the de-
mand for which is wholly artificial
and when supplied serves no good
purpose.
Does il pay to call ministers to
preach the gospel of love, charity,
honesty, purity, forgiveness and re-
demption, and license other men to
engage in traffic which fosters
hate, engenders strife, breeds dis
honesty, impurity and destruction?
Does it pay to send missionaries to
the heather to point out the way of
salvation, and from the same port
and often in the same vessel send
s'liquid damnation''::
Does 1t pay to build palace for
the brewer, hire servants and buy
silks for his wife, and dress your
own wife in rags, make her take in
washing to support the family and
finally send her to the poorhouse
and bury her in the potter's field:
Does it pay to levy tax to sup
port orphans and widows and license
the murder of husbands and fathers!
Does it pay to license thing which
is always and everywhere known to
be the enemy of everything sacred to
God and man?
Does it pay to maintain on our
coasts 275 life saving stations at a
cost of little more than million
and a half, and out of the same
pockets and under the same flag
maintain 25O,OOO ife-destroying
ototionc Of two billions and q halfS