Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-05-26
.EX-GOV. GLENN MADE
PROHIBITION ADDRESS.
Unanswerable Argument Against The Sale
of Liquor in Every Form.
From MondaY,s Columbia State.

FernapS Ine uloSG pow ol VI opo'SoA-t pS''c :
ever made in Columbia in advocacy
of the abolition of the sale of intoxi-
icating liquors was the address yes
terday afternoon by ex-Gov. h.. b.
Glenn of North Carolina, to an au-
dience that filled the Columbia thea
tire auditorium.
The governor has been travelling
over many states speaking under
the auspices of the prohibition or
ganizations and was brought here by
the local .Anti-Saloon League.
The speaker in beginning his dis
course, assumed that some might
wonder why he left his own State
and come to South Carolina, and
what was he doing here interfering"
in our affairs. He said: Il am at
tending to my. business" the busi-
ness of telling men the folly and
wickedness of permitting the contin-
ued existence of the evil of the traf-
fc in intoxicants. He came here
by invitation.
'sYour brothers have driven strong
drink out of North Carolina, and
now are helping to drive it out of
Virginia and South Carolina"
In his travels the governor had
seen strong men laid low by this de-
mon destruction. He has seen them
in the iails, in the asylums and in
| the poorhouses, wherever drink is
sold, men who had been the strong
est, the bravest and the best.
Wherever he has spoken on this
subject the speaker has made two
challenges. One is to dare any per
son to say that strong drink has
been a blessing to him; and that it
has proved blessing to society.
Mr.. Glenn then proceeded to show
that the traffic and indulgence in
strong drink havenever proved any:
thing but the reverse Of blessing:
i'll have spoken the truth, and
this unholy traffic brings only evil
and no good to a people, then how
dare you who are apologists for the
drink evil insult South Carolina by
taxoHrzyote fol, this crime? How car
'you ca yotfseii e "a Ghfisg and
vote for. this curse on society be
continued" y 50
The speaker made an impassloned
appeal for the support Of the prohi-
bition cause, declaring that when
the time to vote comes the dispen-
sary system and the drink evil should
be voted out,of existence. 1t does
not matter in what form the traffic
in intoxicants presents itself, whether
as the dispensary under the imme-
diate direction of the State or the
saloon>in which the sale ofliquors is
sanctioned by the state, the evil is
the same.
The Snake OF Strong Drink.
Here the governor told the story
of the farmer who,went toi the cir
Gus, and seeing boa constructor ex
hibited proceeded to pound its head
to fragments with a club. When re
monstrated with and told that he
had killed snake worth 100000, he
replied that to him snake was q
snake: and that he was obeying the
injunction of Scripture, that the
| seed of the woman should bruise the
head of the snake lest it sting hin
in the heel, and that a baseball bal
was more effective in bruising thar
any other thing he knew. And tha
a snake was,a snake whether he saw
it in his cornfeld or in the circus
The governor was here to swat ths
serpent"
To illustrate the effects of alco
; holic drink on the individual he alst
told story about the snake charm
er who for long time was accus
, toned to let snake coil about hi
> body; as long as gave it his undivi
ded attention he was its master; bu
5 one day when his body was enveloI
ed in its coils his attention was di
verted for an instant, and the serpen
crushed him in it's deadly coils. S
; with the man who plays with drink
1t is but a question of time unit
, the habit becomes his master.
The speaker described the att
J. tude and arguments of the whiske
r people as being like that of th
f boastful young man who was to d.
bate the question, and when tn
d time came to speak for his side, i
o favor of the traffic, he could not fin
:, anything to say. His argument
: were gone.
u u The Opposition.
g The three arguments usually p,
up by the defenders of the traffic al