The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-16
THE EVILS OF WHISKEY.
The Results of Intemperance
Cateaorlcally Considered.

at the OutSet,l WISH 10 SIdle lilaI Iile
writer is not a teetotaler but does
believe in certain restrictions as to
the sale of this evil. | am able to
prove tc the reading public that the
use of whiskey to an excess does
produce illiteracy, ignorance and
crime in every neighborhood where
it is sold and drunk to an excess.
Now, I will endeavor to show to
your readers from six distinct stand
points the evils of this accursed and
blended bait of the devil. Now, evil
No l, the little bright-eyed boys
and girls of the drunken father are
totally deprived of an education and
90 out into the world as hewers OF
wood and drawers of water for those
who are more fortunate. The father
has spent their intelligence and fu-
ture happiness for a bottle of the
sin-cursed whiskey. Think of this,
fathers, drink the birth-right of your
dear children and see them grope
their way in ignorance through life.
Evil No 2, the suffering and an
guish of the fond wife of the drunk
en- husband and father. See the dear
wife and belovedmother going around
the whiskey-stricken home with a
black eye from the burly fist OF an
ignoble drunk man. This same wife
with blood-shot eyes was the pride
and apple of the eye of this husband
before the accursed rum ever crossed
the lips of It's husband and father.
Cleave to rum and forsake the wife
and little loved ones-can man be
human and do this?
Evil No 8, the thought and pangs
of a grsy-headed father and mother
who are brought in the years of their
dotage to face the evils of a drink
ing son. Those old forms of human
ity have been caused to pray God
that you had never been born, while
in some cases these gray hairs are
caused to repent;for it is known that
some fathers held the first glass to
the sons lips. When this son has
been degraded by drink and crime
until this father is finally brought
face to face with this son on the
gallows then the words are heard:
Father, l never would have been
brought to this if you had not put
this evil to my lips" Will God hold
the father guiltless?
Evil No 4, the evil of your drink
ing influence in your community.
See the evil influence of dril king. If
YOU were to find a young man hun
cry on the streets you would think it
hard to give him 10 cents, but if the
drunkard could get him to drink a
$3.50 hottie of whiskey with him.
this would please this drunkard, be-
cause it is sowing the seed of the
devil. Watch those seed germinate.
Evil No 5, the one who sells this
cursed, home-destroying, love-sap-
ping evil. Woe be unto him in the
last day. He who holds this bait of
the devil says: Come, all you who
cannot resist the temptation. | will
furnish you with the evil, the am
munitior to kill your loved ones; |
will assist you in destroying your
home, your wife's and your chill
dren's + appiness and if necessary |
will put the means in your reach to
take your own life" Then this seller
of rum will scar his own conscience
by saying, Il did not make him buy
the rum" Mr. Whiskey Seller, did
you know that whiskey is the only
thing on earth that an honest drunk
ard will steal? God alone knows a
drunkard's weakness. Some of them
will sell their last morsel to eat from
their family to get money for rum.
Still those men love their families.
This is the kind of drunkards who
rob the community of intelligence
and happiness.