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VOL. XIII.
prohibition and High Li
cense.
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A BXKMON BV. REV. W. A. CANDLXB, IS
THOMS.. S, <i'A., SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1884.
T.xt : ■ Neither be parbiim- of other men’,
II is due myself to say that the
primary object of my visit to Thom
son is to deliver the address at the
anniversary of the Woman’s Mission
ary Society to-night. Some days
after I had accepted the invitation to
deliver that address, I was request
ed, seeing that 1 would be in town
at this hour anyhow, to speak to
you on the subject of -Prohibition.
To this request I readily noooded,
and am now come to the perform
ance of .the service. n ,, _
, shall studiously seek to Avoid?
all 'personalties. lam here to deal
with facts and principles, and not
with persous. If you should apply
anything I may say to any person
or persons it will ariso from the mis
fortune of their position and not
from the intention of my speech.
Furthermore, I wish to say that I
am comparatively indifferent to the
result of your present agitation upon
the subject of the repeal of your
prohibitory statute. For, whatever
may be the result of the present con
troversy, lam sure you will ulti.
mately stand by prohibition. If you
repeal the law now-, sooner />r later
you will re-enact it. With this much
by way of introduction, I proceed to
the discussion of my subject:
As touching the principle set forth
in my text we are all agreed. It is
good principle. The apostle was
warning Timothy against hastily ir
dueting persons into the ministerial
office, by the danger of thereby li
censing unfit men for such holy
functions. He lays down the prin
ciple of the text that if unfit persons
became preachers through the haste
of Timothy in giving them authority,
and such persons afterwards com
mitted crimes, he would be partaker
of their “sins.” The principle is a
bVoud one and implies that he who
tosues authority by which evil is
kounht, is.accessory to the crime?
-ny first objection
THOMSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1884.
Democrats put up a jdkfn majtitam
fellow to reply to
the unpraeticod
tirade against the
theni of the toost" uftperKnuble
abuses. Restive
Hpo, “the graft _<’jomiUL>ul r ’j inter
rupted the speaker by etjuig, “I
'deny the fact*. ‘"'to' this 'iiten-up
tion came with overwhelming effect
the retort, “Fellow citizens, to you
bear him ?he denies the fach. You
can t trust a man who the
ftets” ’ Frojft that day forwiu-d Mr.
Stephens was wont to say ho never
denied the facts. Neither must our
friends who allege that prohibition
does not prohibit. The facts aro
against Hie statement The
first faaVtwhiokll inw*-dl*rve
that prohibition prohnals, is some
extracts from the testimony of the
liemoij juen themselves. .They ought
to know when and why then- busi
ness suffers. The Wivshiujtou Sen
tinel, the leading of
the United States, is exeallent au
thority on this point. Here is what
it says about prohibition in KAisaa :
■ln I'arsons last rveekß, , Jaloon
keepers were they
had promised to bars
and not roopeq tkem,,AMß’i'TC re
leased on paying the nomjmunne of
SIOO each. They liaykjj JlAdy be
gun to movo into MhtrtiunV” If
prohibition does not prohibit, wliy
do they move into Missouri? Why*
do not Missouri move to
Kansas, and thus sax'e*Tlle?J license
fees?
Again the •I’rdtliective Qixhor ,Dual
'er’S ' Assotfal Son, of
recently issued a ehooiar -Loginning:
“The enerouclmientsTjM'bt'-prohibi
tory elements eSctouding as it is from
tlie Western States to Middle
and Eastern States of ohr country,
warn us that It is high time to save
the prosperity of our own and con
necting fia.tos; that steps should be
taken to arrest its progress,” If
prohibition does not prohibit, why
should tire prosperity of their busi
nes be imperilled by its progress 1
In the fifteenth annual report of
the Brewers Association ho;Id inCin
ciwiati iu June, J. 875, a gLeai wail
WAS sebfc dpP&’tSsount oFpiJ?hibi
tory lawp.
were adopted : “Resolved, tiiutwhcre
restrictive and prohibitory eiuSpt
ments exist, every possible meas
ure be taken to oppose, resist and
license, aud
The
it is furtbar
proved a failure, and aftor one
the prohibitory law was reenacted.
Now,.after over thirty years trial,
the people of Maine in 1883 ongrat’l
ed a prohibitory amendment upon
their constitution, tho act passing the'
Legislature on Feb. 8, ‘B3, by a vote
of 104 to 37. If prohibition in
Maine has been such a failure, why
is it the people don’t find it out after
a thirty years trial ?
(3.) But again it is shown that
prohibition prohibits by its effect
upon crime. Massachusetts adopted
prohibition in 1856 and maintained
it until 1867, when by corruption
and political machination it was re
pealed. Governor Claflin in his an
nual message to the Legislature in
1860 said: “The increase of drunk
enness and crime during the last six
months as compared with that peri
od of 1857 is very marked and de
cisive as to tho operation of the law.
The Btato prisons, jails and houses
of correction are being rapidly filled.
The Hon. R. C. Pittman, Judge of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
demonstrated from official docu
ments that drunkenness decreased
37 per cent, under prohibition, while
under tho license law crime increased
68 per cent, and drunkenness 140
per cent.
In Connecticut the prohibitory
law was passed in 1854, and in 1855,
Governor Dutton said in his mos
sagototho General Assembly: “There
is scarcely an open grog-shop in
tho State ; the jails are fast becoming
tenant less, and a delightful air of
security is everywhere enjoyed.” In
1873 the law was repoaled and a li
cense law substituted, and tho offi
cial records show that in one year
crime increased 50 per cent., and
that there was a greater increase in
crime during a subsequent year un
der license than during seven years
under prohibition.
Take tho following figures from
the official statistics of crime in the
various States. Maine, a prohibition
State, has 1 convict to every 1,600
of her people, Massachusetts, a li
cense State, has 1 to every 500, and
California, a license Stato, has 1 to
every 650, that is to say Massachu
setts and California have over three
times as much crime as Maine.
Or if the comparison botweon dif
ferent States bo called unfair, take
tt’.v. feU/ywing from tho reseords of
commitments to tho penitentiary in
Kansas for the years 1880-’Bl-'B2.
The prohibitory law wont into effect
when about half tho year
and too record is
ti,,
ness.”
I stand in my place to testify to
the value of prohibition. I was
brought up in the county of Carroll,
I know its former history and con
dition. It richly merited the sou
briquet “tke old free State.” It is
now a prohibition county, crime has
decreased, county expenses have
been diminished, business has pros
pered as never before, and all is
peace and security.
But if you will not believe the
spotless Chief Justice Jackson, if
you will not believe the honest Sec
retary of the Senate, Harris, if you
will not believe nie, I know whom
you will belive, you will believe the
Atlanta Constitution. A few months
ago that enterprising journal sent
out a circular inquiring the offoct of
tho prohibitory law, tho fenco law
and the dog law in the various coun
ties. The editor says: “To this
circular 125 answers wore received,
in the groat majority of cases from
the ordinaries direct and thus of an
official character. The answers in
regard to the prohibition issue indi
cate that when prohibition has been
once tried the people havo no incli
nation to abandon it. Tho courts
nre less burdened with crime; the
people are happy; and property
rates higher.
Thore is no room left for
doubt. In the face of such an
array of facts and testimony to
doubt or deny that prohibition pro
hibits is .all but perverseness and
, stubbornness. I stop to inquire
has tho liquor interest tho right to
lay an embargo on tho happiness of
the people and ratos ;of value of
their estates? Upon what has tills
our Cfesar fed that he jias grown so
groat? He has fod upin our health,
our virtue, onr homes, lour liberties,
our children until witlii imperial de
fiance, he declaros himself superior
to law, that prohibition can not pro
hibit, unterrified by the protests 0 f
the pulpit and the courts, lXriiess
of the agonizing cries of widowtjmd
orphans, he baldly declares thatlhe
will in gilded sp*?idor drag <*ir
posterity through the V h|,rents bound
to liis chariot wheels and will build j
a monument moro horrible and infa
mous than Tamerlane's pyramid of
skulls at Bagdad. Will ho indeed ?
Nnj r , nay, as Ciesar had his Bu 1 tus
and Charlos the First his Cromwell so,
this oppressor will bo laid low, wo
will slay him,
“With a weapon thnt conics tloivn
Ah Know tiuktfH fall upon thd sod,
But oxemitoa a froonum\ will,
As lightning doen tho will of (Jod; f
And from ite force nor doors rior locks
Can shield yu ; ’tis the ballot box.’’
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NO. 24.
liquor men will take courage from
such a viotory over you to violate
any luws that might stand in their
way. Having "backed down” the
people on “prohibition” they will
defy your “high license” law.
Moreover, if you repeal this law
thereby saying you are powerless to
euforco it over tho opposition of
nine miserable jug hucksters, what
becomes of the good name of the
County of McDuffie ? Is it possible,
my friends, that you will consider
for one moment the proposition for
the entire, brave population of Mc-
Duffio to say to nine miserable, law
less, little five-cent-a-drink drarn
mongerß : “We give up the fight,
we are not able to make you obey
o.ur luws." Is it possible that you
will say by repealing this law that
though all the other counties in the
State who have tried it have made
prohibition a success, McDuffie is so
cowardly or so corrupt she can not
do it, and has to back down at the
bidding of a nest of liquor-dealers
that do not number as many as a
dozen ? No, a thousand times no.
You must not, you will not, so sully
your own fair name. Grand old
McDuffie will not retreat before
such nu enemy. Rise up then in
the might and majesty of your man
hood and say to these postiferous
outlaws that they shall respect your
statutes, that they can not drive you
to grant a license which they ha ve not
boon nblo to bribe you to soil to
them, that you will not be partaker
ol their sins. Stand with the spirit
of Jehovah upon you, for Ha is the
oldest of all prohibitionists. When
he came down upon Sinai with the
sound of the trumpet before him,
and with clouds and darkness round
about him, he came with no high
license scheme. Every command
comes in the emphatic words, “Thou
slialtnot.” So stand ye. The conflict
is not doubtful. Prohibition is God’s
side of this question, and it is no
longer without the support cf
strong mon. Jackson, Colquitt,
Pierce, Talmage, Spurgeon, Hall
and thousands more oflike mind and
might nro with you. The question
is becoming one of world wide pre
; valence. The next great victory of
right over wrong on our planet will
be the triumph of prohibition. Li
cense systems liavo been tried
through. all those years, and the
world sees the result. They are a
failure. Prohibition is not fifty
years old, and yet, under innumera
ble disadvantages imposed by
neighboring States and counties
where license laws exist, it has work-
W wonders. It has reduced crime,
wealth and saved much
The civilized world is
final vie-