The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-10
DIR. BOLDRIGE ANSWERS .
LOCAL OPTIONISTS. 4.
Former Pastor of First Baptist .
Church CritiCises Adver- .
tising Matter. .
From Woodruff Record"

From Woodruff Record"
do not question the right OF The
State to put that advertisement Of
August 29th into it's columns, but I
do desire to criticise it's contents.
/. "Jeffersonian Democracy" is a
government Of the people. by the
oeople. for the peonIe;" but, the
liquor traffic aims at a government Of
the people. by liquor men. for liquor
men. In the old bar-room days, the
liquor sellers, who constituted a
small minority, governed large ma
jority, in this state.
1. That article mentions fifteen
states as having adopted prohibition
and then abandoned it. Taking the
names and dates as given there, we
find that thirteen of these states
adopted prohibition in 1855 or a
little previous to that date Some
of them repealed It In a very short
time before 1t had been fairly tested
before science had found out that
liquor is poison, before science had
pointed out that it makes a man in
efficient, before great business firms
had forbidden it's use by their en-
{ployes. before the Pharmacopia had
decided to class 1t among poisons, be-
fore IL was certainly known that It
kills in the United States 10000
each year. Note furthermore that
all these states are Northern, or
Western states, except Maryland,
and that. II the liquor business could
be conducted in those states with
safety, 1t cannot be done in the
South without great danger on ac-
count Of our peculiar social status
Liquor makes the negro a brute, de-
stroys his efficiency as laborer, and
where there is a rape there will be
lynching. The farmers in the South
are getting bitter against the liquor
traffic for these very reasons. We
have not sufficient rural police to
keep drunken negroes in proper
bounds. Maryland, that advertise
ment says, adopted prohibition in
1855 and repealed it in the same
year; we'll then, it did not have it
long enough to test it's merits. Any
body can see this
Up to this point, I have not called
in question their names, dates, and
assertions; but, now I turn on them
and point out misstatements Of facts.
The view set forth there Is that all
these states have tried prohibition
ipnd abandoned 1t for good. That is
not so. Since January 1, 1915. Iowa.
one OF the fifteen states above men
toned, has voted prohibition in. and
the law goes into effect January l,
1916. Again. three others Of the
said fifteen states, namely Nebraska,
South Dakota and Vermont will vote
on 1t in 1916 and they may vote It
out. These facts about these four
states are carefully kept out OF sight
in that wonderful document.
3. There are already 1S prohibi-
tion states. viz: Maine, West Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Georgia. Ala
bama. Tennessee. Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa,
North Dakota, Colorado, Arizona,
Idaho, Oregon, Virginia and Wash
ing. Utah would be a prohibition
state but the governor OF that state
vetoed the bill. California, Florida,
Kentucky. Vermont and Utah will
vote on the matter in 1915 Over
52,000,000 Of our population live in
prohibition territory. Considered
from the standpoint of territory,
eighty-fve per cent of the popula-
ton has adopted prohibition. One
half OF all the people now living in
license territory live In four states
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and
New Jersey. In the last eight years
wonders have taken place. Russia
with her 1sO.000,O0O. has blotted
vodka out. France in one evening