The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-05

spinning?
Is it the horny handed sons Of the
plow or the bright and ambitious
young men thai fill our colleges and
institutions Of learning? Are these
the boys or any part of them that
You insult their manhood by contln-
ually spreading upon your prohibi-
tion sheets, "Keep it away from the
boy." Any paper, it matters not by
whom published or where. that orig
mates or disseminateS such a vile
SANDER upon one Of the most noble,
sober and loyal manhood of any age
or country, deserves the same treat
ment by the community. as if it had
impugned the purity Of our young
womanhood.
Do not some fall? Of a surety al
ways did and always WILT but fol-
lows the law of nature and nature s
God.
Do any Of these journals deny what
science declares a fact, that the crav-
inc of whisey is not a habit but a
disease? Do YOU know that teachers
are compelled by law 10 teach in tleic
schools from textbooks the injury to
the human system by alcoholic drink? {?
If keeping it away from the boys was
the remedy for drunkenness, why
take up time teaching it in the
schools? They could learn all that
is required in the prohibition press
and Sunday schools. That would be
to hide from it.
Now, in closing this lesson. 7 want
the whole class. Observer, old R. F.
D., the clergy, temperance lawyer,
lecturer and all the F'keeping it away
from the boys" advocates to stop
scrouging on the bench and listen to
this last question PROFOUND (any
time will do to answer it). The first
10000 troops South Carolina sent to
the front, were nearly all compara-
lively boys, none over 35 years DID,,
the great majority under 2l. They
were differed by boys, lieutenants
and captains under 20, colonels at Is
and generals at 80 or 35. A finer,
more loyal, brave or temperate body
Of young men never offered their lives
to a cause or country. They did deeds
Of prowess, executed military strate-
gy and fought battles that in magni-
tude and results have astonished the
world. In ability, devotion and cour-
age in battle they were the peers of
the knights Of old. But they went
down in defeat. They returned to
their ruined homes, wrecked fortunes,
their lands a waste. The same indom-
liable will that sustained them in de-
feat did not desert them in their re-
cuperation Of the wasted country.
Their deeds in peace is as much
wonder as in war. Now, do you
know, or do you not, that during
the formative period Of those boys
lives and a century before liquor was
sold without let or hindrance in
every town, over the counters Of ev-
cry country store, at all the taverns,
crossroads, railroad, stations? And
the farm house, where there was not
a Jug of rum was the exception.
At every gathering, in the back
woods and under the very shadow Of
the church, all could buy that wish
ed, old men or boys Of tender age,
no law, no restriction. Now if under
such conditions, such soldiers and
men were raised, to what influence
do you attribute it? Were the boys
better then or are they worse now?
Either answer these questions salts
factorily to all fairminded men or
forever shut up this cant about the
boys. Be at least honest with your
readers if not with yourselves
and say II am in for my party'
and ''politics are my sentiments and
not temperance. do not care to
obtrude myself upon the public,
neither do I hide behind a bush. l
can easily be found by inquiring of
this paper.
I fight for truth against error, the
weak against the strong and against
all kinds of hypocrisy wherever seen,
and subscribe myself
Dow, Jr.
Newberry, S. c.