Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-11-17
TWO GREAT WORKERS.

wish more had taken advantage of
that was presented to our people last
Friday night when Rev. DR.. Morrow
and Hon. John G. Woolley leCtured
at the High School Auditorium on
the great theme Of "Temperance
Both Of these gentlemen are classed
among national figures, their work
taking them into every State OF the
Union, and unQueStionably their
splendid influence is being felt. Tn
fortunately for the meeting at Wal
halla, the weathher became very
threatening just before the time for
the meeting, and many We're kept
away.
Rev. Mr.. Morrow devoted his time
| largely to detailed statement Of
the general character of the work in
which he and Mr.. Wolley are en-
gagged, and to the giving Of statistics
to show that when a State or a COM
| munity prohibis the sale or manu-
facture Of alcoholic liquors, that
State or that community has but be-
gun its fight against the great evil
| II IS useless, he said, (and there is
abundant evidence to support his
| statcment,) to enact prOhibitOry
! law and then sit idly by and expect
! prohibition to become effective. Be-
| sides the cumulative strength neCes-
| sary to carry the elections there must
| be continual fight waged not only
to retain the strength, but to create
| such, solid temperance sentiment as to
| make prohibition an unquestioned
| fact as well as plausible theory
| His lecture, we feel sure. bore fruit,
| for he brought home to many the
fact that inactivity on the part of
those who favor prohibition will
prove the total undoing Of the good
work that has been accomplished
Many went away realizing that they
have assumed heavy responsibility
in placing South Carolina in the pro-
| hibition column, and determined to
do their full part in endeavorors to
prove that 'prohibition can prohibit
Rev. DR.. Morrow comes from De-
troit. Mich., and represents the Ma
tional Anti-Saloon League, which is
now actively in the field for national
prohibition. In reporting the pro"
gress OF the movement he said that
there are now - States that have
voted Statewide prohihition-Maine,
| West Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
ncssee, Mississippi, Georgia, Oklaho-
ma, Kansas, North Dakota, Virginia,
! Washington, Arkansas, Arizona,
! Colorado, Oregon. Albania, Iowa. Ida
no and South Carolina; that there
are some seven or eight States more
than half dry: that 81 per cent OF
| the square miles Of the United States
are legally dry, and 54,000,000 Of
! the people are now living in dry ter
| ritOry; that One-half OF the people
| now living in saloon territory are
! living in the four States Of New
! York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
! Illinois,; that one-fourth Of the peO-
| pie now living in saloon territory are
! living in six cities-New York. Phil
adelphia, st. Louis, Chicago, Cleve-
| land and Boston; and that the Ma
| tional Congress gave a majority vote
! in favor OF the national prohibition
amendment last December. He con-
graduated South Carolina that every
one Of her seven Representatives in
| Congress voted in favor of the
| amendment and he congratulated the
| people further that they had re-elect-
ed every one Of the seven to go back
to help finish the work.
Hon. John G. Wool!ey is an un-
| questioned orator. His lecture was
| far and away the most eloquent ap-
peal for higher standards of life and
| purity in politics, and the most scath-
| ing denunciatiOn of liquor and the
| liquor traffic that has ever been pro-
nounced before Walhalla audience.
There is nothing of the bombastic.
''eXplosive" ranter in the nature of
the man. Eloquent, persuasive, mild
| of manner and soft Of voice, he i'm
! presses upon his hearers every sylla-
bic, and his every word is so choice
Of selection, so simple, as to convey
| in the most forceful manner the
| truths he SO 'aptly puts. His tribute
to the church and her great work, at
the close of his address, was a gem
| that we wish we were able to pro-
duce here in cold type, that every one
| of the readers OF The Courier might
not only get the beauty OF it, but
| memOriZe it and let it burn into the
very conscience. II was so beauti-
| fully couched as to inspire thought in
| the thoughtless and deeper, purer
| thought in the minds Of those who
| think deeply.
Mr.. Woolley's ability in expressing
his loathing Of liquor and the liquor
business is no whit less than his
strength of expression in apprecia-
ton Of the work OF the church and
those other agencies that work for
the betterment and uplifting Of hui
manity. He characterized liquor as
the cOckrOach of human industry,
the louise of human liberty, the San
Jose scale of the orange grove of
youthful ambition; the cut-worm, the
canker-worm, the caterpillar, the
Hessian fly, the chinch-bug. the
grasshopper, the locust OF the grow
ing crops OF character; the cOddling