The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-21

hood and womanhood resulting from
young men gazing at foul and filthy
scenes, talking profanely to show
girls, midnight drives with poor de-
luded girls who have lost all sense
OF shame and modesty and are will
ing to sell themselves to public gaze,
Good men who are reliable, have
driven little boys from gazing at
windows where the braZen and
shameless scenes are carelessly por-
trayed! Will our city authorities
pemit this blighting nuisance to con-
tinue. Will they stand idly by and
allow the women to fight for the
home and the son and daughter!
Will the citizens of Anderson smile
and make sensual remarks and go
on and allow the pure minds CT the
children to be poisoned and forever
polluted? Let us make home
where no business can thrive whose
chief stock Is to appeal to the low
and the :.,e! We believe in enter
tainment but let 1t be wholesome or
not at all. Tho world is full of good
things to read and to see and let us
encourage our people to leave the
foul and the tainted while we have
access to that which is safe and good
and when we can not find this kind.
let Us cease amusement.
C.-The Liquor Traffic.
When we think Of Anderson and
the evils that threaten her life, we
are constrained to say: Thank Cad
for G. Cullen Sullivan and his work
for civic righteousness and law en-
forcement." II ever call should be
responded to, the cal. Of our city at
torney for league OF men 10 save
the criminal and To- save, as well.
the public, from the worl: of tn criIr-
inal. should be. Non. could escape
the delight of feeling in tnesc last
days that Anderson was being made
a better place to dwell. a safer place
for life and character. Many dan
gerous places have been cleaned up
and the offenders punished. And this
work has revealed what we usually
find to be true, namely, that about
the place OF the sale of whiskey there
is a regular den of kindred evils.
Profanity, impnrity, gambling and
drinking, regular devils quartette.
Anderson has not been an execution
to this rule. This demon ~
blind tiger" Is Of all beasts not ld,
but even In the dark, hidden behind
barred doors he can see how to wreck
homes. and ruin lives. He Is willing
to feed on the very hearts blood Of
innocent mothers and wives. Our
police, mayor, city council, city at
torney and many good citizens, and
thank God, our press, especially The
Intelligencer, all these agencies have
realized this foe In, our midst and
with O determination to drive MIN
out have been busy. 1t seems we
have some men who have come to
town for such a time as this" to
stand for all that Is good and true.
We can build a. town. permanent and
beautiful. ohsy whom the influences
and the atmosphere are wholesome.
1t has been splendid to see juries
who were able to see the truth and
not be swayed by any effort to free
the guilty, but tyIsegto their oath de-
eide according. to the "law and the
a-r.ta,7Tl5.". ssIIssw ;.svS55 this means &c
put down evil! It JAS been good to
see more OF our best people attending
the trials. visiting the Court Of jas
tice, and taking interest. The ques-
tion has been asked, why these peo-
pie are there? Welljlet Us try to ans
wer why we believe they go. They
go without money and Without price"
to rejoice in the conviction of the
guilty and to rejoice In the freeing OF
the innocent, and tasstand by the con-
victed man. who is willing to repent
aYti quit his bad business, to stand
by him with money and love, even
after ''his paid" friend iiEs departed.
This it seems to me is the reason
some good men go to tie court room
and more should 60 to encourage
those officers who favor clean town
and who will be sure to have as visi-
tors those who are willing to stand
by their guilty "pais,Reyen to threat
ening the lives Of those who would
expose and, convict, IS was done in
the recent clean up.., Men who are
willing to traffic In the life of the in
nocent, sSreak up homes, engage in a
work that means the undermining of
the mind and the destruction OF the
immortal soul, for God has said, "No
drunkard can inherik the kingdom of
God" Men who persist In such work
must have the law, with love, admin
Iistered without fear or favor!
A wave of law and order IS sweep
ing over the world, driving out the
lie,ior traffic, which is perhaps civil
lization's greatest foe, Rpssia even
has recently become prohibition and
ss q result the depOsitss In savings
banks increased during September
under the new law s11 100000 over
last September under the drinking
regime. England and France are
waking up and passing se-ere laws
against this traffic. Our own United
States now numbers fourteen OF, her
children dry and most of the others