The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-11-08
The whiskey and Cocaine Trade.


der the head of "The Whiskey and
Cocain Trade" you say "Re.pris come
from all ever the county th.t IT," &c
groes are using Cocaine, and in fact,
some say it is actually taking the
place Of whiskey." Now those who
have watched the liquor question, and
the methods of the enemies of teni-
perance or of prohibitiye or restric-
tive measures, for a long series of
years, are at no trouble to see that
you are mislead by the element that is
trying to make you think that the drug
habit is as bad as liquor. | have made
inquiry of country doctors who tell
me that they know of no alarming use
nor increased use of cocaine since dis
pensary days. Who, that has studied
this question of the liquor and drug
habit that does not know that they
are retractlve, that the use of the one
will bring about the use of the other.
III the use of cocaine has grown of
late, then with the open sale of liuuor
it would increase ten times faster.
Now. let no one think that | would for
a moment minimize the evil of the
drug habit. Nor say one word that
would lessen the effort to enforce the
law respecting the sale of deadly
drugs, nor fail to warn the young
against the ter"ors Of becoming n vic
tim to their use, but let not the un
u iNn
-w!lfully misleading argument that
cocaine is taking the place of liquor,
and that the drug habit is making as
much crime as liquor caused in the
DAYS of its public sale.
Every one that has watched things
at the maSis tratc's court. tho mavor's
court in this city (where on every
Monday morning, and OH MORNINGS
Following public occasions, the poor
victims of drink were hauled up and
compelled to nut up the hard-earned
money th&t ought to have gone to
wife and c!ildrem and the docket OF
the court of sessions. know too well
th&t all manner of crime. not only
breaches of the peace. assault and
battery and murder. but those infa
@ous crimes, burglary. arson, larceny
nave since closing the disponsarv
been reduced beyond all expectation
NO IT is not only on Fair days, but on
all days that law and order reigns in
Laurens. In the city? Yes, and to the
utmost borders!
Apropos of the question. | GO back
10 the comments of the Columbia
state, to illustrate with what avidity
the enemies of temperance, or of re-
restrictive measures, against liquor
VIII seize on everything of mislead-
ing character in vain effort to prove
true the old thread-bare falsehood that
prohibition does not prohibit"
They who say such things mean
hat prohibitorv measures fail to bet
ter things or fail to lessen the use of
drink. Those who have lived long
enough to see the difference between
a community, or town, where liuuor
is sold and where the sale is forbid
den by law, simply know that this is
not true, or else his reasoning facul-
ties are so utterly dull or stupid as to
render them incapable, or unfit to
judge what is or is not safe or best
for their country.
lf The State" hasn't a good object
lesson showing the beauties of the
closed saloon. don't know the reason.
rake the police, magistrate and ses-
slonS court records of the city of Co
lumbia and county, and those of Aiken
with North Augusta and Horse Greek
Valley. CWOuld it be a bad break to call
these two the banner counties for
crime and disorder0 and street and
highway scenes, and compare them
with Spartanburg, Laurcns and other
counties and then answer
If Maine has gone wrong YOU don't
haNc to so far to get the reasons why.
have been ponderng them some of
late. Among the lethargy of the church
of moral and Christian forces as con
trastod with the zeal of the forces
OF sin and evil whose activity is never
ceasing and without end Greed of
gain in those who trimc in liquor, the
influence Of the cities where crime and
immortality congregates. Saloon poll
ties, wickedncss in high places those
i'm authority conniving at the traffic
for political or mercenary PURPOSES
the hydra-headcd monster, the liquor