Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-17
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Verl Able A dress Delivered
by P.os Burns Refore Re-
cert Meeting Of Edge
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If you ladies could have seen the
&C TIT G glee and ursrvs, ,rained g,oat
ing. and o..-m ee.i ~ isIide with
..4.;.n iG,iowett t:ie proceedings oil
G.ie 1Sil@a;iia i1saislatute when |
,;eas IT hu,,s '.,,-.>uinn'er, you d
nrvsf G,ssbt tise s,lcsIi-y II my
illI...t..us:e s>.sst :rae:|t 1 am
.s,.::.;.i,.e, by-l.is f.tan and Us
), ,t.dtl.alion, All AK. III il lever l.,
,..:p :,eraticc AS a n,us;ti ISSUE ansi
{, l,u,-ileaest. .cspca:so o Pro!,lb-
.tlolt isS 4 i,ci.O'r;lE aesisilrr. IN f.ic5.
gu t4,s tolyard ;.eiag an ex iesn.st.
..iih.s $. ain wiling lo De ,Stl,,as
S il aI. RENE measures ;tie teiaifesi.
IF tiie d5yt.r can tx IN. ~ si,4 ,'r-
dinary treatment Very go q arc.
well, but if h. says herJ.c ran. !.
d;es must be used and ill o;,:ra5i.,n
performed i tIinS ! d e.Ml.ia.g i.,
sag, Doctor, get me a eicsete;e tkt,
hospital, and pack my grip for a.
long trip as is necessary ]
should not like to b. considered
: hystericA but [ don't mind being
called radical; for when that impu-
tatien is put on ME / can laughing
~ fling at the accuser those words
of Josh Billings: Il figure it, that
if you're right you can't be too
radical; and if you're wrong you
can't be too conservative" The
knowledge that was right made
me get keen enjoyment out of the
situation that came up in the meet
ing of the temperance committee of
our Legislature when speaker Car
michael disregarding and cutting
short the expostulation of thetAnti-
Prohibitioaists uttered the ringing
exultant sentence: You may.as we'll
shut up, gentlemen, we have got the
cloth and we are going to cut it to
suit ourselves. "
] confidently believe that not cnly
viii Alabama cut the cloth to suit
itselfn but the Prohibitionists of
South Carolina and Florida and
Louisiana and every state in the
entire south will do the same. If
however our temperance laws are to
be operative ii the future the pres
ent campaign Of education is to be
made more extensive and more In
tensiye. The laws can only safe
guard in a passive way our moral
interests. We must all be inclined
toward morality if the greatest
good is to be effected. Carpers are
assuring us. that we must secure
total abstinence not by legislation
but by education. We are taking
them at their word so far as the
education goes and we are merely
proving orr faith by our works
when we enact such legal measures
! as shall best present the undoing of
What. we teach. We realize that all
effective laws are the out growth OF
sentiment though laws themselves
NAV in tarn do much toward di-
recting a proper sentiment and we
realize too that the most effective
education is that which we give the
children. There is beyond any
a,nest;on as law makers and all other
risbt.thinking. people understand, AN
;;mnerat;ve need for the instruction
af @ Children in the matter Of alcohol.
loo and narcoties Theoretically. the
task sough6 not. to be a hard one, and
certainly is not an impossible one.
Ifit he possible to impress on a
child's mind ind ellible, ineradicable
religious convictions why should it
not be ouite as feasible to imprint
the proper convictions concerning
alcohol and tobacco?
Now what shall they be taught
in the GRADED school? MY answer
NAV at FIRST blush strike YOU, as pure.
IL ;nsn for am goi, g,t) saw teach
,be nun,,s the f,cts' In some ! ma.
s;enre I Won saw ssOf course the
fants ), Int don,f Lot vonr .iim,natience
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