Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-05-01
AGAINST DIsPENSARY.
Mr.. B. D. Kitchings of Plum
Branch Gives Substantial
Arguments Against
Dispensary.

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fishing the dispensary. 1t is being
sold anyway, and we are not get
ting any benefit. When did anyone
desire any benefit from such an
evil? What little revenue that is de-
rived from it is robbing some moth
er and children of the actual neces-
sites of life. Can you not hear
their cries for help? Yes, and we
are going to help them by placing
the liquor where it will be sold
in nice, decent and legal form,
so that our leading church men,
bers can act as dispenser and sell it
to the other brethren with the dig
nifty and grace of saint, without
thinking that he has done anything
wrong. Why? Because the people
of grand old historic Edgefeld
county have said shat ne could do
so.
Then again they say Prohibition
does not prohibit. Z" What have
you done my brother to help the
cause2 why, 1 voted in the last
election for a.locsl option man. "How
do you expect to have the law en-
forced if every time 4 good man
comes out in favor Of prohibition
you will leave him at home, and
send msn in his place that's in ia
vor of local option. No law strict
ly prohibits. If you will always
send men to Office that are in favor
of prohibition froa's President to
coroner, it would be only a short
time before You would see quite
change in the liquor traffic.
Permit me to say this, that in my
judgment, a hypocrite is the most
depraved creature on earth. God
despises him because he pretends to
follow him and does not; Satan
despises him because he follows him
and will not own it. In my judg-
ment, when we, as church members
vote for the dispensary we do not
only act the hypocrite, but commit
almost the objectionable sin.
Now brethren of Edgefeld coun-
ty, suppose we take this subject
home to ourselves, and ask the ques-
ton. What right have I to vote
such n evil on the good people of
the town of Edgefeld when they
do not want it. How many men
are there in the county that would
be willing for dispensary to be
opened at his door. But few, and
1 will venture to say that there is
not one poor mother that would be
willing for one to be opened at her
home.
Now brother, when you vote for
the dispensary, remember this, that
it will be opened under the nose OF
some poor mothers son.
Professors from many of the
leading colleges of England, France
and the United States have made a
careful study of the effect, and find
that alcohol is classed as depres-
ant or narcotic. Shall we as civil
lied men vote for such an evil as
this to be sold legally to the young
er generation.
Careful observers all agree that
the drinking problem is essentially
problem of the youth. DR.. AL
exander Lambert says: Out of 259
cases at Bellevue Hospital Z per
cent begin before the age of IL, 80
per cent before Jhe age l6, 6S per
cent before the sge of 81. In view
of this fact it is safe to say that if
every moderate drinker could be re-
moved from our land, the temper
ance question would be solved. In
the name of God, brother, with this
in view, is it not our duty to do all
we can to remove the tempta-
ton?
Intemperance has no room for
any distinction. 1t seeks all. 1t
dooms alike all who yield to its
deadly dominion. The Danish gov
ernment states that every 4th death
is caused by alcohol. What are
you going to do brother? Vote for
such an evil? 5000 B. G. we find
command. my son, do not linger
in the wine shop. Thou fallest on
the ground, thy limbs become weak
as that of child" Brother, shall
we open one legally for our boys to
linger around? No, a thousand times
no! Man differs from other ami
mails mainly in his nervous system.
In his struggle for existence, the
brute depends on his claws, teeth
and muscle. Civilized man de-
oends on his nerve and brain. 1t