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

repuldUle physician aL MS odch,
could get all the stuff he wanted and
who hasn't a 'reputable physician"
pray? Remember anything about
getting liquor on Sundays on "repu-
table physician 50 order, from drug
stores, people having pains. cramps
and aches mostly on that holy day
years ago? Forgot it, Or just slip
ped up? Now inaSmuch as The OBJ
server quotes old Rural, it is presum-
ed he endorses it, so We will ask him
a few questions and old Rural and
all other fighting mad prohibition
papers can sit in the class and take
notice. Do you know that of all in
sidious, treacherous, subtle and death
dealing, soul-destroying enemies of
man the drug habit is the worst I?
That once its fangs pierce the flesh
it never loosens its hold till the very
heartstrings are severed. That it de-
stroys health, manhood, every ennob-
ling impulse, degrading a mar in his
own estimation so that he becomes an
outcast from society and a pariah to
all. That in comparison to the drink
habit it is as hell to an Eden. Know
ing all this, do you know that opium,
morphine and all kindred drugs are
old over the counter Of every drug
store in this place with one posi-
bic exeeption) indiscriminately to
reputable and disreputable persons,
and without prescriptions from "rep-
utable physicians' by others than
'licensed pharmacists?" Did you
know this; if not, why? Or do you
:. deny the facts? Better not, just
take Dow's word for it and let it
go at that. No doubt every dry
town in the State is the same. If
one town, why not another? Police7
Perhaps. Did you know that the sale
Of the drug has increased more than
an hundredfold since prohibition; that
there are more drug fiends in this
town today than confirmed drunk
ards in 10 years past; that the habit
is spreading daily even among the ne
groes, an unheard of thing before9
some towns making it misdemeanor
to even have the drug upon the Der
: son.
Couldn't the guardians Of the law
do little in this direction, if they
could be prevailed on, to let up on
booze for ever so short time!
While the Observer and old R. F.
D. are hunting up answers for ques-
J. ton No. !, I will ask another: Did
you or any of the towns guardians
know that there is an ordinance in
this city (and every self-respecting
city I expected in the State) against
splitting upon the sidewalk or in
houses of public gathering? That IN
this good town I think the fine 81.
: Didn't know that? WE'LL Dow says
it's So. Ever hear of the great white
plague? Well, to the police I will
tell it's F'consumption" so-called.
They haven't time to read, and are
not expected to know. It is one of
the most deadly Of all ills to the hu-
man race. No person, no place is
immune from its ravages, that it is
spreading like forest fire and feeds
upon what it breeds. Do you know
what the great doctors and scientists
said in their congressg There is no
cure for it. Any preventive? Yes.
How? Kill the germs in their breed
ing grounds. Where are those
grounds? In the highways, in the
streets, il public places, where peo-
pie congregate and spit. Do people
spit upon the sidewalk, in the court
house, the opera house or postofice,
where innocent childhood trip along
or young womanhood unguarded
tread? Do the police arrest themg
IF not, why? This is where Chinky
John feels aggrieved. Equality to
all, special privileges to none.''
While the police and council are
looking through their ordinances
about '|spit'' and the prohibition
press are getting sleepy in their class,
I will shoot question No. 3 about this
whiskey drinking and "keeping it
away from the boys,'' "stopping it
at the border" and "reputable ply
sieian's prescriptions" and all "kin-
dred questions. "People are begin
ming to realize that whiskey is a pois-
on" R. F. D. Since when pray?
That's news to the scientist at last.
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