Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-04-03
A Word From The Organized
Mother Love" of Edgefield
County.

but in this day and generation when
they are among the most prominent
figures in the educational world, in
concert halls, on lyceum bureaus;
when their pictures are the chief at
fractions in our high class maga-
zines as exponents of art, literature,
education, impersonation, oratory
and philanthropy in all its forms.
When the public do not object to
seeing their pictures at the head of
society columns of sensational daily
newspapers, as reigning bellies OF
fashion and leaders of worldly
amusements; when she writes and
talks on every subject under the
sun, and is not censured, but COM
mended-it will not be amiss for
one humble scribe to afix her name
to the discussion of a subject which
touches more closely than any other
one thing the happiness and welfare
of the place where her heart and
hopes lie-the home.
1t has been evident for some
weeks that the dispensary question
would be brought up, as we judged
from several articles in the Edge
field Chronicle, which have appear
ed from time to time recently, and
whose columns have been watched
with an eagle eye as one thing after
another both cartoons and articles,
have led up gradually and persist
emily to the conclusion which we
knew would finally be the climax of
the whole matter, and that is the
advocacy of the establishment of
the dispensary in Edgefeld.
AS little as many think it, the
women of our country have been
the pioneers in the intelligent edu-
cational campaign against alcohol
in all its forms, because they have
been the greatest victims not per
sonally but relatively of its evil
consequences. And SO they have
been studying this question and
working on foundation principles
for many years. They have studied
it in its relation to every other
moral, business and health question,
and they have of recent years be-
come well acquainted with the tao
tics of the promoters of the liquor
business. So much so that our wo-
men have been looking on in our
own state, and have been interested
to see that in as many counties as it
was possible for petitions to be cir
culated by law, they are being pushed
and all of them have proceeded in
the same quiet manner to carry out
their designs--and from the stand
point of the dispensary advocate
this was wise, for many might have
been taken unawares, and the tenn
perance forces found in disorgan-
lied condition and unable to act be-
fore the petition was circulated.
In Edgefeld county our interest
ed temperance people have been
warned some days ago of the COM
ing of the petition, for the plans
for active work had already been
laid, as soon as the battle was an
nounced as on.
Peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war;" aud there are
those who can not participate in the
heat of actual battle, nor the battle
of the ballot, who may be of great
service in other departments of war
fare. 1t is said that the British fear
ed DR.. Richard Furman the preach
er-patriot of the Revolution more
than they did regiment of soldiers,
and he never fought in a skirmish,
nor entered a battlefield as SOL
dier. They feared his pen and his
oratory.
To-day it is said that there is no
organization so greatly feared by
the liquor business in America or
the world as that peaceful army who
wear over their heart the bow of
white ribbon, the largest organized
body of women on the round globe.
The women of Edgefeld county
have been gradually joining this ar
my for several years, and they have
not enlisted for one battle, but for
the war. They will never know re.
treat, nor get an honorable dis
charge until victory is perched upon
their banners. These are interested
in this new situation, of placing in
the way of their children a dis
pensary.
So that there is now a new ele-
ment to Withstand in the coming
struggle, not encountered in the
former conflict, when the dispense