The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-14
What DO You Sign?
Editor Daily Item:

question for or against the sale of al
coholic liquors and beverages by sum
ter County, and this means me, yes
every citizen is "a liquor seller when
the county sells and this is the plain
English of it.
But Why shall we sell liquor. There
is only one reason. There is money
In IL. The same reason that makes
men rob banks, plumber houses, pick
pockets, and rob "a traveller on the
highway. The same reason why the
white SLAYER plies his hellish trade,
there Is money i'm it. Now to my
mind liquor selling is the worst of all
OF these evils. The thief gets your
money and YOU may make more. The
poor girl may be forced into a life of
shame and mcrciful God may not
judge her. But the man who de-
stroys his brother for whom Christ
died." what does God say. "And he
said. what hast thou done? The
voice of thy brothers blood crieth
unto me from the ground and now
art thou cursed from the earth.
which hath opened her mouth to re-
ceive thy brothers blood from thy
hand" At whose hand? Is il simplv
at the hands of the drunken brute
who while drunk on Sumter county
liquor slays his wife and children or
the youth while under the influence
OF Sumter County liquor says his best
friend, or the black fiend who, half
crazed on Sumter County liquor en-
ters home, slays the aged father
and the young husband and Laws his
foul hands on the pure young wife.
and after accomplishing. his hellish
purpose. cuts her throat, as has al
ready been done in Sumter County.
and IL we allow this vile stuff TO he
sold, may be done again. Can any
reasonable man hope to escape the
responsibility for the wreck and ruin
that liquor brings if he in any man.
ner consents to or aids it's sale. The
most certain thing in this life is death.
You must stand before your Judge
and give an account Of the deeds
done in the body and when called to
answer, will you tell him that men
would get liquor any way and you
thought the city and county lust as
we'll have the money as for the blind
tigers and liquor houses beyond the
state to get it. Do you think your
maker will take such am, excuse for
you voting for and aidingland abetting
this den of iniquity inDour midst.
L have lived in Sumter near three
score years and ten and.my past life
and experience assures me- beyond
shadow OF a doubt that the Bible is
Gods message to man and is true,
and that when it says in Psalms 34-7
The angel Of the Lord sencampcth
round about them that fear him and
delivereth them" L believe il is lust
as true in Sumter today as I'm the days
of old. | believe that Gsds angels
walk the streets of sumter and every
road and by-way in all this broad
land. following and PROTECTING them
who shall be heirs of salvation Heb
l-14 and methinks this may have
happened. One of these angels of
light who had been guarding his
charge all day and having turned him
over the one whose duty it was to
watch all night takes his flight
swifter than light itself, to that bright
and beautiful world which Eye hath
not seen nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the head of man tho
things which God hath prepared for
them that love him. Cor. 20 "and
after few moments flight he comes
I'm sight of the bright and shining
shore where stand a multitude of the
heavenly host, and among them many
OF our friends. who i'm years gone by
walked the streets of sumter and as
he comes in their midst they inquire
OF him for their loved ones and
friends and of the affairs Of our little
city and County and this might truly
be his report. CAS- / was walking un-
seen by my charge a man came up
ana said To him: Mr.. \. | have q pc
tltion for you to sign, and with one
hand he presented the petition and
with the other ne flashes piece of
gold and blinds Mr.. AS eyes so that
his sight is dim and he only sees a
part that is written. For when the
pe'ltlon was being drawn by man the
recording angel also wrote on it with
MS pen dipped i'm the blood of mur-
u'reu men women and children. The