Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-05-24

- ulpISlioi VI VIZ ASPAS
the following remarkable per cent
ages to the total:
Per cent
For Prohibition in some form 90; SO
Against Prohibition = = : l.5O
For Strict Prohibition = = $3.50
For Beer and Wine = = = ZOO
Against Volstead Law or Pres
REGULATIONS 1,25
Wants volstead Law Modified rs,
Advocates High License or
Gov Control 100
Advocates Dispensary System .25
Undecided or Noncommital = 2.75
No less remarkable is this showing
is the challenge of the Record to
those who defy, disrespect and hoot
at the prohibition law. Editor Ed
wards says:
eff the facts-not merely vague
theories-presented in these letters
as to the lessening Of accidents m
factories and on railroads, the in
crease of savings deposits even where
men have been working on short
time, the betterment of the condition
of women and children upon whom
has been spent the money that for
merly went into the SALOON, the great
lessening of drunkenness in every
part of the. country, can fbe brought
directly to the attention, as they
should be, of every man and woman
in America it will be impossible for
any patriotic or humanity-loving man
or woman even again to speak against
prohibition.
"The man who in the. light of these
facts advocates the repeal of our
prohibition laws, or the lessening of
their rigid enforcement, by that fact
becomes an advocate of increased
deaths from accidents in factories
and on railroads, an advocate OF
great poverty and misery and broken
hearts of women and children; an aa-
vocate of the criminality of those
who openly defy the law of the land,
and wherever the opportunity avails
commit murder in carrying on the
bootlegger's diabolical work.
"The man who winks at this viola
ton, or takes no definite stand against
them, or who becomes participant
in this criminality by buying of the
bootlegger, is recreant to every re-
sponsibility to his own wife and chill
dren, to all humanity, mad to civili-
cation itself. No, man can join with
the bootlegger by buying the boot
|legger's whiskey, or drinking of it,
without becoming a co-partner in the
bootlegger's crime of murder, and
law violation, and anarchy, and the
effort to destroy the things which
make for American government.
"The time has come when law abid-
ing men who love their country and
love humanity must recognize their
responsibility in definite call to join
with the forces of righteousness and
of the legal powers of the country in
fighting with all their strength and
influence the breaking of the Prohi-
bition Law. That violation stands out
as one of the menacing dangers of
the country. The man who advocates
the repeal of the Prohibition Law on
the ground that it cannot be enforc-
ed is asking the National Government
and the vast majority of the Ameri-
can people to repeal law merely be-
cause they claim that the criminal
classes are greater in power than the
government itself. The man who
takes that position violates every
sense of honor, of patriotism, and of
the respect and the position which
men of honor must take when it
comes to a question as to whether
the forces of hell or the forces of
righteousness shall prevail. He who
wants to stand on the side of hell and
give his utmost strength to the break
ing down of this government need
onlv stand idly by in the contest be-