The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-10

unanimously voted out absinthe; it
has also been outlawed in Belgium,
Holland, and Switzerland. Norway
and Iceland have followed in the
same track. David Lloyd George,
while chancellor of the exchequer
said: 1--WE are fighting Germany
Austria, and drink; and, so far as
can see. the greatest OF these three
deadly foes is drink" In the last ten
years only four states have gone
back on prohibition. King Alcohol
is having a hard time; the whole
world Is rising up against him.
Science, business and religion are all
united in opposition to him. Great
firms like the International Harves-
ter Company, Sherwin- Williams
Company. Sheffield Car Works, Unit
cd States Steel Corporation. Western
Electric Company, Pullman Com
pany. Edison Company. Standard
Oil Company and many others will
promptly dismiss any drinking man.
4. That document says: Voters,
Do you want the same condition in
South Carolina that prevails in Ten
nessee and West Virginia?" am so
glad they have asked this question.
Truly the Lord hath delivered these
men into our hands. have before
me recent report, as to West Vir-
ginia, by Mr.. Fred o. Blue. state
commissioner OF prohibition for that
state, in which he says: 1--WE have
received reports from fifty-four mum
icipalities throughout the state,
which show the following results
Total arrests for the year ending
June 80, 1914, 15,267; total arrests
for the year ending June 80, 1915.
7.731. For the year ending June 80,
1914, there were arrested for drunk
enness 1925, and for the year end
ing June 80, 1915, there were arrest
ed for drunkenness, 2,772."
"You will note there is a decrease
in crime in the state as shown by
these reports of practically fifty per
cent, and a decrease in drunkenness
Of practically seventy-fve per cent.
/ regard this showing as wonderful
For the first year of prohibition. ="
his is his exact language and he
adds: "These figures I have given
YOU are absolutely correct, and are
the reports of the different mayors
throughout the state" Now as to
Tennessee, the prohibitionists carried
the state, and when the Democrats
agreed to stand by prohibition, in
good faith, they were put into power
again. That is all there is to it.
Conditions there are fine.
5. That document says: vote
against prohibition and save your
state" Save it for what? For liquor
men, for poverty, for CRIME, for rape,
for ignorance, for government by a
corrupt minority, for everything that
is degrading. That is what voting
for selling liquor means-always and
everywhere.
6. Local option" Some ques-
tions may be submitted to local op-
tion, such as raising money for
school purposes, or for street i'm
provement, or for water works, or
other local public improvements: but
not moral questions. We do no.
locally vote as to whether we Shall
be permitted to lie, to steal, to COM
NIT forgery, to get a divorce. to rob
bank, aid things Of that sort. But
selling liquor leads to all these
things and to all kinds of wicked
ness and does not pertain simply to
limited locality but to the whole COM
monwealth. Therefore the whole
state ought to be heard on it. Moth
ing less than this is just and right.
Z. But it is said: "You can't
legislate morality into people" Note
this carefully. First, no prohibition
ist ever said this could be done. No
friend of temperance ever dreamed
OF such a thing. Second, this is an
old liquor gag. 1t is used by liquor