The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-19
dow, JR.,' COMES BACK.
Renews Discussion of Prohibition
With the Editor of the New
berry Observer.
To the Editor Of The State:

To the Editor Of The State:
The "short, patent sermon" de-
livered through the columns Of your
paper of Sunday last by Dow, Jr.,
was done more in a spirit Of mis-
chief, as a sort Of a guy at the old
soldier, and my comrade in arms
mishap, than anything else. However,
as Ben Tillman would say in his
rambling mood, got after injus-
tice and "cussedness in general -
and had fling at the town authori-
ties and the prohibition press. In
this way it came about that Dow ask
ed the Newberry Observer few
questions. The council Of this city
is as fine body Of young men, pro-
gressive, sober and competent, as
any. that has ever held the reins of
government in my 40 years Of exper-
ience.
No disreSpect or discourtesy was
intended As TO Mr.. ". H. Wallace,
editor Of the Observer, he is, as I
said before, my close personal friend
and hope will always remain 50. I
have often spoken, with pride, of his
nigh order of intellect, his ability as
an editor and was sorry indeed when
i'll health forced him from a higher
field of usefulness. He knows me
too we'll to think, had I enmity at
any one, [ would resort to the col
umns Of a newspaper to fight him.
There would be other ways found to
meet him. And furthermore Mr..
Wallace is too old an editor to pre-
tend to believe, I had allusion to
him, personally. He knew full we'll
it was at the tone and attitude Of his
paper, upon which structures were
made. The whole article Of 'Dow,
Jr..'' was more in a. spirit Of Christ
mas fun than sincerity. But as Mr..
Wallace seems to take it all in earn
est. we will look through his article
and see what we can see. Now be-
fore I begin we drop my friend, Mr..
Wallace. entirely out Of the contro-
'versy and speak of the Observer
This IS proE bition newspaper, said
to be in the interest Of temperance,
good morals and pure politics. That
is all good. But there is some one
in that office who is freahsh It
times or a joker Of dangerous
type, all of which I hope to point out
as we go along down the columns in
seply to "Dow, Jr." Tat was a
good piece, too, that reply to "Dow.
-Jr.," the Observer is no slouch, if he
is. generally wrong in his ideas and
policies, and furthermore I have no
objection to its being read in the
Sunday schools.
We will skip the "Smith'' and
1'Richard." no use lug any more in
this trouble. The Observer and his
ally. the Anderson Mail, are enough.
We can't drop oM "Rural' yet and,
by the way. I wonder if he ever
dreams of what fun we are having
with him down here. But then he
started this racket or helped it on
by bis sage deliberations, that men
ought not to drink liquor without
they wanted it or needed it and then
90 and hire doctor to tell him when
he should want it. The idea, No
wonder the Observer sticks to him
and so often quotes the enlightened
remarks OF old "Rural." Yes. let
him stay in while longer. at least
during this set-to.
We will drop out the drug habit.
The Observer says all Is lovely III
that direction land the goose hangs
high. - That 5 good. too. We will al
50 skip the great white plague that 5
no issue, no politics and Of course no
pay. no use running after a jack-o ,
lantern. when so much is at stake
with "boys and booze.' No objec-
tion can be found to that either. We
will drop everything now but the
question Of booze and "taking care
of the boys
Lest I be misunderstood, allow me
just at this point to set myself
straight before the public and the
Observer on my stand and attitude to
the liquor question. If, by a scratch
of a pen, I could empty every drop
in the sea and keep it forever out Of
human reach. I would scratch it If
my life paid the forfeit the next
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