The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-01-01
Tuesday January l 1918
NATIONWIDE PROHIBITION.

make the n2tlOn proA1p1'ioN
liquor traffic.
The amendment passed the congress
by avery large majority. A great many
ef the States already have State pro-
bihition and the sentiment has been
very rapidly growing in favor OF the
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
There are two things that are coming
very fast in this country. One OF them
IS nrohibition of liquor, and the other
;s woman suffrage. We are not in favor
Of either, but one one who runs may
read the signs, and they are thai this
country is going to have them both.
You lust as well get on the wagon and
ride with the boys, and the girls, too'
or the car will smash you under lis
heavy wheels.
Talk about your old principles on
which the government was founded, and
al, that. and it is fine and beautiful and
right, but these are parlous times ana
Won inst as we'll get in line or drop be-
hind IF the constitution is in the way,
why we will just amend that Old lnstfu-
ment for which we have fought and died
and bled and suffered, or we will just
90 on in spite of the constitution. THIS
is a great transition period in winch
we live. and the old foundations are be-
ipc shaken from their bases and new
order of things is being set up.
Now, Fred Dominick stands alone
again among the members from South
carolina in his vote against amending
the constitution so as to give the right
to prohibit to the federal government
and take it away from the States to reg
nlate and control, and he is right IN the
view in which we were all brought up
down in this country, to be careful and
iealous of the infringement Of the rights
Of the States by the federal government,
hut this is new era and new age and
transition is going on and changes are
being wrung very fast, and the old order
of things is passing, pity be it, but it is
true, and we just as well recognize the
fact.
And after all, while we are not pro-
hibitionist either in principle or prac-
tice, though virtually so in practice, we
are about to the conclusion that it is just
as we'll to have prohibition, and to have
the real thing.
And the only way to have the real
thing is to have the nation adopt it, so
far as the States Rights is concerned
that is o thing of the past. 1t is now
a centralized government and it is get
ting to be more so every day. Every
thing will soon be regulated and run
from Washington and State lines will
be virtually wiped out. We think it was
Thomas Jefferson who said that when
the government undertook to regulate
the whole affair from Washington, when
to plant and when to reap, and all that,
then the people would beg bread, or
words to that effect. Well, we have al
most come to that point. The tendency
for several years has been toward q
great centralized government and the
virtual wiping out of State lines, and
this country engaging IN the great Worid
war has hastened The movement. If old
man Tom Jefferson lived in this age
maybe he would change his mind anl
get on the wagon and ride with the boys
and the girls.
Fred Dominick is right in the Theory
and the principle. He is standing by
the principles for which Calhoun argued
and fer which Lee and JACKSON fought,
but these are different times and the
people do not care for those great prin-
eiples, and do not argue and fight for
them as the statesmen and warriors did
in the days that are gone. Pity is that
we have not more men who will bark
back to those orpa+ rr;ncip1oc o,l l.