Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-03-03
How Enforced Prohibition
Will Help Our Country.

Morgan IN the w. ". L. y. ColtesI.l
How will enforced prohibition help
our country! 1t will help in many
ways; First, we would think of how
it will help the. man who drinks whis-
key. 1t will put him on higher plain
morally, mentally and financially.
Many good mans morals have
been ruined by whiskey. Many good
woman and her children have suffer
ed from the lack of food and clothing
on account of a drunkard husband
and father. Many man would have
brought his, children up in Sunday
School and church if it had not been
for drink. 1t kept his family away
from church because they had no
way to go nor sufficient clothing to
wear. Prohibition is bringing about
a great change in this way.
Many bright minds have been ruin
eddy the effects of drunken father,
even extending into the third and
fourth generation, so any one can
see the depth of drunkenness. Many
big-hearted, bright boys mind has
been fired by the use of whiskey. Our
peniteniaries are full of them today,
that would have been good citizens
if we, had had prohibition twenty
years ago.
Prohibition does not make murder
ers or thieves. No doubt if we had
had prohibition in time of the Civil
iWar-as we had in the late war-the
Confederate soldiers would have
won, although they were outnumber-
ed by great majority.
Prohibition will help the old men,
middle-aged men, young men and
boys, thereby making us proud of
the future generation, that we are
striving to make 100 per cent. Chris
tian Americans.
Prohibition will help the old men.
So many of our old Confederate sol
diers were in the habit of drinking
alcoholic drinks, and doing without
whiskey in their declining years, will
help them to live better life and
prepare themselves for the Vast Be-
yond.
Prohibition will help the middle
aged men, because those that have
boys of their own, will be able to
lead them to be better men, as boys
are apt to follow in their fathers
footsteps. have seen before now a
mans daught RS ashamed of their
father in town or out at public gath
erings. Sometimes father that
drinks whiskey invites young men to
drink with him, even invites them
into his home where his daughters
are. Oftimes causes men not to have
respect for his daughters as they
should have
Prohibition will benefit the young
man, because on Sundays he will 60
to church and not off on a drunken
spree. He will be in better company
at church than lie would at card |
table OF at a pool room. 1t throws him
with the highest class of people. My |
advice to man, instead of drinking
whiskey, is to drink glass of water.
In ancient times, in drinking in hon
or of a friend, it was the custom to
take as many cups as there was let
ters in the name. The Greeks drank
first, in honor of their Gods, and then
in honor of their friends. A frequent
number was three, in honor of the
Graces, and nine, in honor of the
Muses.. My advice to the men of
Edgefeld county is to emulate their
example by drinking pure water.
An example which it will be well for
you to heed. "There is no lurking de-
mon in a glass Of pure water. Its
use brings no sorrow in premature
death. Temperance is "a bride of
gold. He who uses it rightly is more
like a god than man, moderation
is the silken string, running through
the pearl chain of all virtues"
One of the greatest ways in which
prohibition will help, is to our boys
that are growing up. We hope that
il will be enforced so that they will
never know what drink of whiskey
is. 1t will enable them to grow strong
er, morally, mentally and physically.
1t will turn them into different
channel altogether. 1t will enable
them to never fill drunkard's grave.
If we had had prohibition ever