Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-05-26


the business of r11nping the railroads
not advertise that jobswill only be
given to those who are patrons OF
the saloons? Whythen do you not
call in the old soak of a doctor who
is known to drink ,whiskey to per-
form the delicate operation on
which your own life or the life OF
loved one depends, instead of the
surgeon who is known to be sober
and abstemious? If whiskey helps.
business why do not merchants EN-
ploy those who are known to drink
whiskey, drunkards and dissipated
boys and women to stand behind
their counters and keep their ac-
counts?
He cited that the owners OF sa-
looms in Washington formed an as.
sociation and agreed that none OF
them would employ a man who
drinks, because it is injurious to
the business"
a Contrast.
Here the speaker drew a vivid
word picture of the drunken man
who wastes his money under the in
fiuence of liquor, and described the
home-going of this man and the pow
erty and misery of his family: and
then he drew another picture of the I,
sober man and his happy family, 40
a contrast, to show how the sober
man who lets drink alone does help
business by buying witt his money 7
the kind of commodities whose man
ufacture includes the useful, produc- y
tive-industries of the state and ma
ton.
Gov. Glenn said that his own
State was an exelnpIiication OF the
good effects of prohibition, and he
cited statistics to prove his point.
He declared that his State would not !
return to the saloon system by l5o,- &
600 maj jority. is
To prove that prohibition does
prohibir the governor described the /
experience of some men In his own Y Y
party on "a trip through Name
where for long prohib ibitien has been
|in eject, i,ne ii1 pzrt left os sSyS|A & 4
|a Ton Il some one 's;i said IL that lpla
[ins the party s felt the need OF having
some iquo long they had better
get it before leaving, as Maine ~ e vas
"dry." 'lisS y
tsis6 Does 1t Prohibit 8
Two Of the party said they drank
"a little,'' and on this statement two !
half pint bottles were bought. The
contentYwere consumed before the
State lihe was crossed, and for ten
days those two "spat cotton," and
begged to be allowed to get out OF
the State. They simply couldn't
buy whiskey in Maine. x
In Maine, barren and rocky, with
prohibition in effect, the per capita
of wealth is S29.52: in Illinois with
all its industries and rich lands the
per capita is only $14.sS, and in
Ohio only $19.7l, in these. States
there is the open saloon.
Kansas, a prohibition State, has
"a counties in which there is not
county home for INDECENT: "a coun-
ties in which there is not an inmate
of the jails. Numerous statistical
facts were given showing how supe-
rior are the social and economic
conditions in the State where pro-
Inhibition obtains over those where
it does not.
ga dry town is 100 times better
than the best wet town in the UNI
ted States; the best wet town is 100
times worse than the worst dry
town in this country
eff prohibition fails to prohibit,
why do the whiskey people spend
S5,000,000 year to keep States
from going dry?"
Here the speaker cited the ten
"prohibitory' commandments, and
alluded to the law making functions
of the State and nation, and the en-
forcement of the laws. If ''prohibi-
tion does not prohibit why not
abolish all the restrictive. laws, the
legislatures, the court houses and
iails? If the enforcement of. civil
, laws in other directions to pro
! hibit acts hurtful to the individual
and to society, then the enforcement
: of laws prohibiting the sale of drink
is possible. Said the governor: If
| you vote the dispensary out and
5 want prohibition in Columbia and
your officers wink at the violations
of the law, I am open to job.
Send for me and make me mayor of
/. your city for two years and will
= break up the blind tigers even if
it is necessary to put every man, wo-
man and child in Columbia in jail
and On the chaingang." He told Of
a sheriff in North Carolina who had