Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-15

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from infancy to my graduation in {
! university who did not teach me tha
1t was wrong to handle, touch or taste
LIQUOR. AS soldier boy in my teens
heard the general order Of Gen. Rob.
ert E. Lee, read at dress parade, thai
liquor brought to his army should bt
sealed In packages, put In charge o.
the surgeons, and that the seal should
not be broken until the wounded were
actually on hand. 1t was sober army
that made him the most famous com.
mander in history and put his statue
in Statuary Hall by the side Of the
Father Of His Country. My Father ir
heaven was good to me to give such q
mother and such teachers and such q
commander. reverence their memory
have tried as a father, as grand
father, as teacher, as a citizen to
transmit this great lesson to those who
are to come after me. / am glad today
J as a senator of the United States, that
I have an opportunity to make q record
on this the greatest problem before the
civilized world. am not lawyer;
canno: meet the legal arguments OF
those learned lawyers on the other side
II
learning and ability; I covet today
their equipment. can say, and do
say, that II the constitution Of the
United States stands in the way Of this
great reform the constitution ought to
be changed.
i Pardon me for personal allusion.
have spent more than sixty years In a
boarding school for boys. No man can
tell what a little carrot-haired, hatchet
heeled boy will develop into. In my
boyhood at the Bingham school at the
Oaks, in remote part OF Orange coun-
ty, N. c., my roommate, twelve-year-
old lad, later became the governor OF
his state. A college friend, Walter
Clarke has been for many years and Is
now chief justice Of North Carolina.
God has allowed me to live to see my
own little student boys develop into
such q splendid manhood as to worth
lily occupy seats In this chamber and
In the house Of representatives at the
other end Of this capitol. Senator Ed
ward Ward Carmack, a former pupil,
was an honor to the senate OF the Unit
ed States. He was a genius ana
statesman and a martyr to the cause !
represent.
have seen others of these little boys
later on the supreme bench Of their
state, and many Of them learned judges
of other courts have seen them wear
ling episcopal robes and filling great
metropolitan pulpits. have seen them
great authors, presidents. deans and
professors in great colleges and uni
versities and the headmasters OF great
schools. have seen them great law
Iyers, great surgeons and physicians,
great soldiers and manufacturers and
farmers. I have seen many Of them In
| hrl siness hecOme milliOnaireS,
To see these boys make this splen-
did development is the loveliest scene
that God and angels look down upon.
Such development makes happy faith
ers and makes a bird sing in mothers
hearts. ...
o, wish / could be spared the con-
temptation Of the other side that makes
the devil and his emissaries rejoice and
feel that they have come into posses
sion Of their very own! I have ac-
Icompanied them to the madhouse for
living death while still in the flesh. !
have accompanied them to suicides
graves and have seen them entangled
in divorce suits-all love gone. have
| seen them in dishonor in convict garb.
their fathers ashamed and their moth
ers broken hearted, in each case q trag-
/ edy infinitely greater than the loss OF
/ the Titanic, that brought an investi-
CATION from this august body and also
from the parliament Of England. LII
auor did II every time. Having spent
my life in the rural districts with the
knee breeches boys about me, l. ike
/ other men, dreamed dreams; but new
er once dreamed that my name would
ever be considered for this great hon.
or; but among those little boys the
question of government may have been
UNIQUE and not dignified enough to be
even mentioned in this chamber. But
my conception of the proper function
of government agrees with Gladstone
the prime minister Of England, and the
greatest lawgiver Of the century, that
governments proper function is 70
make Il easier for people to do right.
Tennessee, in three great contests, mas
said to you that 1t Is easier for her
people to do right without than with
| saloons. No intoxicating beverage can
now be legally sold In Tennessee.
| am an optimist The world Is get
/ ting better every day. l saw In my
boyhood, liquor absolutely without re-
striction; 1t Is now restricted In
thousand ways. ! saw gambling un-
trammeled and INDUCED In everywhere
even on the public highway; 1t has peen
driven into guarded dens. l saw pup
lie betting on horse races-now thing
used the mails. Their agents were eV-
erywhere. Dueling was common. A
gentlemen allowed himself to be pune
tured by bullets into a pepperbox 10
show that he was brave and man OF
honor. Senators, America Is aroused on
the LIQUOR question. Anglo -Saxons nave
won every reform that once caught the
ear Of the people. Liquor has got 10
90. God grant that may help 1t go!
The world is stirred on this cues
ltion. Children now live who Will nave
Ito explain to their children what q
saloon vas and why their ancestors
tolerated such a deadly evil. But foI
the money invested In 1t, 1t Woulo
Ialready have been thing OF the past
Federation of the saloon puts the dol
liar above the man.
Miss Frances E. Willard, the ioVeiy
land charming queen OF womannooa
has the great honor Of statue IN
lStatuary Hall in this capitol. NO
honor has ever been bestowed more
lworthily. 1t was her work for tenn
lperance that made this bill posi-
bility. In her name and In the name
of millions Of cha ming, white-rib-
boned women all owe this great Amer
lican nation: in the anne Of the white
ribboned hosts of tennessee, under
the leadership Of Mrs. Selma Holman
La mother and grandmother Of a noble
family, who for years, with womanly
dignity and charm, has done more
THAN anybody else in cultivating pub
llic sentiment in Tennessee In favor
of lofty ideals of citizenship. and who
liz usefulness to her people Is the
Icorrect measure Of craftsmanship, Il
ITennessee's greatest statesman; IT
the name of all the schoolmasters ol
America. whose greatest ambition II
life is to train a citizenship worthy o1
this the greatest nation in history; ir
the name of all the Christian churches
OF America. who labor and sacrifice
that all the people may have a right
attitude to God and to man; In the
; name of all the boys and girls or
. whose ideals formed In youth and no.
on material prosperity, which yot
have so nobly fostered, the future
glory and usefulness of this grea'
nation depends; in the name OF O.
Father in heaven, who said that right
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