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WAYCROSS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1892.
NO. 44.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J^l. JAB. C. HIPPAKII.
Physician and Surgeon,
(It.
•on Mock, op stair*.
April l«-tf.
WALLACE MATHEWS, V. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND HITROEOV.
WAYCROHri, : : : : OEORQIA.
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TAR. P. C. POLKS, Phjridan and Sur-
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Ofllr* hours frr*m 9 to 10 a. m. GwJ» found
•t my mklrmv, corner Pmdlaton »ti»rt
tml Rninxwh k avenue, ;wlirn not pnilri-
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DR. J. E. W. SMITH,
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Fair, Now ami Throat.
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IIOBOkEN, GEORGIA.
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J, W. oTRICKLAND,For a nr case of rheumatism which can-
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HOTEL PHOENIX, *
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A Cuie far Twenty Cento.
Any remedy sold at one dollar a bot
tle which claim* to cure rheumatism, is
, simply an imposition, for when all ex
penses are deducted it leaves not more
Paonunn*. { ning Remedy." The proprietor* do not than twenty cent* to represent the medi-
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•C. NMtTER MEMCWt C0^ tL UnSe
Ladies are Unfoiinnate.
Rct'ause the higher they ri*e in society the
weaker they find themselves Iwdily. llislcy’s
Philatoken controls the nerves, aids nature
in various functions, and thus combats
with the many Ub of womankind success
fully. If your druggfct has not got it be
will order it fiir you lor $1 a bottle, from
Chas. F. Ri*Iey, Wholesale Druggist, €8
Cortland Su. New York. Send for a des
cribee pamphlet, with directions ami cer
tificates from many ladies who have used it
and can’t say enough in Civorof Risley’s
Philntoken. - ! mrl2-ly
-1 hide this offer, but priut it in bold type no
. i ail ik.:. i
1 >r. lTrummood’a lightning Rem-
inifm, pnnlrf <-ly, which U twrfonning Mich wonder,
it column* nf new*- fill curt* that'it is bcilg prcscrilml bjr
ill work won- i the mnlical Scully ererrwhtre, is
Ton j all their circular*,
""" *** j matter and through the
nert, teerr | poonJcJ stpmitMptmc^om
true ./eac h new *me appearing each week, i <***• If *he druggist has not gn( it, he i awl cannot be sold for less than Five
from the Dr. Harter Medicine Go. Tl»i* I will onler it, or it will be sent to anr ! Dollar* a bottle. But it always cures. „„
I&fesSH®s! i SW ! sjc'isssaftac«! ^
return you Book. lWuiifal Utbognplis or S oO.Maidcu Lane, New Yock. Agents! .50 Maklen I*ane, New York. Agents swn - . . , ,, , ,, , . n ,
° *- JouSt-ly .wanted. j wanted. j fictitious energy and an appearance of been able to gather them. In Glynn
And as he reasoned of righteousness,
temperance and judgment come, Fe
lix trembled.—Acts xxivt^4|: -
In the show window of a wholesale
liquor home In- Cliicago, stootl a decan
ter filled with alcohol. Coiled about the
decanter was a serpent with it* head
drawn back in striking posture, while
jnst above it were written the words:
“Don’t touch me! Don't touch me!! ”
As the sign was in a wholesale whis
key house it could not have been in
tended as a warning against alcohol. It
could only have been designed a* a
warning against all effort to interrupt
alcohol in -its chosen mission, in which
case it was fitly represented by the ser
pent in striking attitude. VYe believe
that many of our fellow citizens on the
other side of this prohibition contest are
honestly ignorant of the character and
influence of the policy they seek to re
store to our society. “It is 1 letter,” they
sav, “to allow whiskey access to the peo
ple, to permit it in decanters on counters^
than to antagonize or oppose its coining.”
I can see how honest men, looking at
matters from different standpoints, and
accustomed to different lines of thought,
can differ even upon a question like this.
This we must retneinlter, because some
who now are standing squarely upon the
side of prohibition, were once upon tiie
opjiosite side, and we accorded to them
business, and intellectual honesty then
as now. We must further remember
that even upon the great question of sal
vation and the truth of the gospel, God
speaks of those who differ witlr Him as
“unlearned,” and says unto them in that
condition, “come let ns reason together,”
which He would not have said had
they been intellectually dishonest. We
are confident that this question can liest
be discussed upon the highest plane, and j
without that expansion of predjudice
whicli heat engenders; and we feel sure
that the still small voice of such reason
ing may find its way to confuse*! and
troubled mind*, which the rush of a rap
id recital of facts, the mighty lieavings
of unutterable anxiety on the part of
advocates, and the fire of blazing elo
quence may nlike^fail- to affect. All
these are good and of great (tower,
but let us to-day invoke the presence of
God’s Spirit that the subject may be so
presented as to make us each to gather
the robes of his accountability about him
and to stand at the opening of the cave
to hear what God would say to us njton
this question.
Since the matter has been oj»ened
among us, I have not lieen calm. My
already fully charged nerves have been
disturbed. It is like the electrical dis
turbance before an earth quake, when
the oppression of an impending agony
enforces a hush, which birds ami ani
mals, and men—old and young—feel
alike—a nameless dread, and a desire to
lay hold upon some help, which is not
seen, but which, it is felt, mn*t exist. I
feel to-day that I have firnnd that help
in the mighty truth which has come to
me from God’s word and from elsewhere,
and which is embodied in this sermon.
The text pitches temperance upon the
same key with a righteous character and
the judgment to come, and says, In ef
fect, that here is where we must consider
it. Not only is this onler and associa
tion of the subject scriptural, but it is
further endorsed by the tact that under
this presentment of it, “Felix trembled.”
We will seek to present the subject
briefly, not forgetting, like the apostle,
to “reason” upon points where men hon
estly differ. As we therefore candidly
consider the muon* for not fa coring prohi
bition, we would invoke the help of
Him without whom we cannot but
err, and with whom we cannot go
wrong.
The first alleged reason for not favor
ing prohibition is, it hurt* businet* to pro
hibit the sale of whiskey. There seems
to abide a strange idea that whiskey ha*
some mystic and magic power to bless,
making it important to placate^ uTtnlist
ita power npon our side, if we would
jwosper.
I suppose it is never known quite how
whisker brings prosperity to a town,!
quite how its removal, or exclu-
real life, which, like fever, are only at the
coat of true energy, and means, if con
tinued, only the end of life; while an
other and leas forced state of excitement
mean* health, substantial growth, and
ready resources of energy. It may be
that men claim that whiskey benefits the
business of a town because they mistake
the fever and the excitement mt its pres
ence for prosperity, for normal and real
enlargement. We believe that this i* true
and that men are honest when they say
they see it. Like a former in a southern
state who told a friend of a crisis pres
sing upon him because of big debts and
bad luck and a poor -crop, and forcing
him to a decision to sell out and move
to Texas; but who after taking several
drinks saw things so differently that he
told his friend that he had changed liis
mind, ami that with his big crop he was
going to wipe out hi* debts and buy hi*
neighbor’s farm besides: so it i* with the
change of vision in a town, and cspec-
pccially in an individual, which whiskey
makes. The men are honest, but there
is an influence nt work which affect* their
judgment.
Why is it, let me a*k in passing, that
nearly every drinking man i* in favor of
bringing whiskey hack, anti secs big
prosperity in it ? Some who don’t drink
are going to vote for its return, but is it
not corroborative of the above that
drinking men, who have suffered from it (
all see prosperous times in its wake?
Having honestly tried to look at, and
account for, the estimate by honest men
as to how whiskey brings prosperity, and
prohibition brings injury to business,
we| now assume to say that that esti
mate is utterly, absolutely—we had al
most said blasphemously—false. We
address ourselves earnestly to this ques
tion, because, as we shall see, there is a
great deal more in refuting this claim
than the settlement of this issue. Ah
we can all see, business success is made
up at gain*, taring*, and what we'adran-
tagrouxhj expend. And it can be shown
in respect to each of these that the ad
vantage is all upon the side of prohibi
tion.
Take the gain* in his business
hich a man lias from whiskey,
is only one. man who may
he said to make any, and that
is the man who expects to sell it, and we
know he dots not expect to give equiva
lent in value for that which he recieves.
There is no man upon eartli that believes
that whiskey, as it it is sold and drunk
in bar-rooms, is the equivalent to *any
man for the money he s|»ends tor it.
There can therefore be no honed gain in
it There is no increased energy or
skill, or industry, or virtue, from its use,
and these are the ingredients of success
and true gain everywhere. Sam Jones
puts it tersely, but knowingly, when he
says the prosperity of a town is not built
upon the red noses, the enfeebled frame,
the blurred or becloud**d intellect, which
are the product of whiskey.
Consider next, that which after all is a
more important matter than the gain*
of a man or people, and that i* hi* tar
ing*. It is here that fortunes are made.
It would be harder to believe that in
this important matter of saving, whiskey
was any help than in the matter of gain
ing. Whiskey dont help that way. The
very best that men can claim is on the
ljope that money will be brought in by
it, and that they will be t< o wise to let it
rob them, while they know it will rob,
impoverish others. There will be inen,
and many of them, that it will bring to
rags and want, but they don’t expect to
be of them. Now this very claim admits
the fact that the general prosperity will
not be heightened ; besides putting upon
the brow of every man, that makes the
claim, the mark of Cain, who confessed
his guilt in the question, “am I my
briber's keeper? But upon the subject
of savings we can talk from proof*, which
in our own county are at hand:
There are four way* in whicli these
savings can be studied:
1st. As to total savings in the couuty
for the ten years.
2d. As to the security of the savings,
as shown by mortgage incumbrance* and
number of business failures.
3d. As to how these savings are shared
in by the jtoorest.
4th. How do the savings in all these
raqiect* in a dry county compare with
the savings in counties having the “help”
of whiskey. We invite examination.
1. In the ten years of prohibition
Ware county ha* in taxable property
advanced from $9^3.046 to $2,547,IKS.
2. The number of mortgages recorded
moo, from a town ran indict Mich » 1 during the l»rt fire crar. are ooly 7S4.
blight as Is threatened. But like the ex- ; 3. The property of the negroes hither-
citement that always exist* in the pres- j to all of them belonging to the poorest
eace of known danger, giving vivid im- ! class, has increased pOO per cent, daring
pressioa of eveiything: and revealing ; the reign of prohibition,
all through a looming or magnifying Now what of the comparison of other
medium: so the presence of the excite-j counties under the help which it is
meat and uncertainty that this sale and : claimed that whiskey brings. Our op-
of intoxicants give to everything, is i ponents claim that our prosperity and well
of the dim and large impres- . being are independent or in spite of prohi-
There is a hitiou. Let u* see thefocts a* for as I have
county, with its county site at Bruns
wick, there have been recorded during
five yean, 1,233 mortgages against our
■’24, while, as to the number of business
failures, we have the statement of Judge
Sweat, whose circuit takes in Brunswick,
that there are now several large firms in
the hand* of receivers. The whole
number of failures for five yean we have
been unable to get
In Lowdne* county, with its capital
site at Valdosta, there have been re
corded during five yean, 2,134 mort
gages, against our 724 ; and against our
absence of any real business failure
they record ton failures for the pa»»t five
yean. The rate of increase of the prop
erty of the negroes is two hundred per
cent, against the five hundred per cent.
our county.
In other words. Ware, a dry county,
from record* official and attestc*l, in
comparison with Glynn and Lowdnes,
contiguous, but “wet,” counties, reports
fewer mortgage* by nearly one to two in
Glynn, and by less than one to three in
Lowdnes. No business failures, against
ten in Valdosta and quite a number in
Brunswick; and a rate of gain in negro
property of five hundred per cent-
against two hundred per cent, in Ixiwdnes*
The gain by the negroes means much
for them, but it means more for us. Lift
up the poorer classes or lowest stratum
and you lift up those strata* that are
above. We best see there how a ft have
prospered, by the way in which the-
poorest have prospered. A connected
fact here is brought out by the question,
trhere does this earliest prosperity show
itself? The answer is always the same:
In the homes and the furniture of the
home, just wiiere domestic happiness is
measured, and just where intemperance
laysits impoverishing hand ! We see the
falsity of the claim that prohibition in
jures business! We said that there was
more involved in the disproof of that
claim than the settlement of this issue.
The truth of God’s word and the contin
uance of every preacher's calling are in
volved in the truth or falsity of the
claim that prohibition hurts busi
ness. That word says, “seek first the
kingdom of God and his righteous
ness; and all these things shall be
added untojou.” “Godliness is profita
ble unto all things, having the prom
ise of the life that no»r i* and of that
which is to come.” And many such
promises. The claim that business is
injured is not only false, but infidel l*e-
siifes.
A second alleged reason for not favor
ing prohibition is that it hinder* the
building up of a town in point of popu
lation. Surely, an alleged reason never
met prompter or fuller answer! The
statistical and relative gain of our city
is not cnly remarkable and without par
allel, but it seems Providential against
this effort to bring in the order of things
existing in other towns.
Tjie actual gain of ten years—of pro
hibition—was 423 per cent., while the rel
ative gain was 220 per cent, greater than
any other town in the state. This
positively marvelous, and cannot be fully
taken in at one effort of the mind. Way-
cross, under prohibition, teithont a par
allel for growth! It is further true that
Way cross is building up on capital com
ing to us from contiguous and bnr-rooir
towns. Count the stores along oui
streets that came to us from these towns.
I know of no Waycross capital that is
seeking elsewhere better investment than
it can find at home. But even if this
claim were true, it is met by One who
seems to sometimes let men have their
way for a little while, but Whose
trill lie heard in time as well as eternity:
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with
blood, and established a city with in
iquity.” “Woe to him that coreteth an
evil covetousness to his hourse, that he
may set his nest on high.” It is thus
that God speaks to ns on this point also!
Another reason for not favoring pro-
liibitidft is a disregard of the moral and
spiritual effects of intemperance. Now
we know that against this it la claimed,
to break its force, that “prohibition don’t
prohibit.” There is a single answer to
this, and we might base the whole matter
upon that. If “prohibition don’t pro
hibit,” why is it that teholemle whiskey
houses ring the changes on the words,
and why is it they are so ready and
eager to supply money to other towns to
defeat prohibition. They are not phil
anthropists in this; and it is not because
they want to reduce the use of whiskey,
that committees go np clandestinely to
the wholesale hqnses to get campaign
money with which to defeat prohibition!
They talk to us about the number of
jugs coming to oar express office. In
the “wet” town of Albany daring my
pastorate there, one whiskey drum
mer, between the hours of 3p. m,
and supper, of a single day, sold
($13,000) eighteen thousand dollars
worth of whiskey. No wonder the
wholesale whiskey houses raise the lying
cry that “prohibition don’t prohibit! ”
We have not time to consider the
tnond effects of whiskey. I wish’ the anx
ious faced women of the country, who
are begging their husband* to *t.*n<l for
God and home in this matter could preach
for me on this point 1 As a preacher of
the gospel I am concerned more with
that deeper interest, the effects of intem
perance on the soul. Listen, “more
souls are destroyed by intemperance
thauby war, famine and pestilence.” Ml*
Gladstone says lire* but we say *otth on the
authority of God’s word which declare*
drunkard shall inherit the kingdom
of heaven.” Listen! “tramp! tramp!!
the boys are marching sixty thousand
strong, annually, down to drunkard*’
graves and a drunkard* hell! But why.
should we reason when God speaks ? Oh
may every soul hear! “Wine is a mocker
strong drink is raging, and whosoever is
deceived thereby i* not wise.” “Be not
drunk with wine, wherein is excess, hut
be filled with the spirit.” Wine is in
everlasting antithesis with the spirit of
God. God in hi* eagerness to deliver u*
from this ruin of souls, shows us a ladder
leading up to heaven with “temperance”
as its topmost round, ami waminglv
points us to another leading down to hell
with “drunkenness, revelling* and such
like” as its bottom round. (See Epli. v
19-23) Our text places temperance in
the only place where as Christian*or be
lievers we can wisely consider it, in con
nection with the “judgment to come!”
W«*Vannot dislocate or transplant it to
another arena of discussion. Wo must
look at it in the light of the “judgment
to come!” God who lias a word for
every crisis in our life has this ti aay to
us now: “woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle
to him and makest him drunken also,”
and in view of the “judgment to come,”
may I not add “directly or indirectly.”
I<et Christians of every name consider
these statistics: “for every young man
that is Haved at the church altar, at least
re destroyed by the saloon. For
every $3.00 given to evangelizing work,
are spent for strong drink. For
every missionary rent to Africa with the
gospel. 30,000 gallons of New En
gland rum are shipped over there to de
moralize and debauch the heathen.” Is
not every Christian called upon of God
to pray find trorh against this omnijiotent
evil which in able to “destroy iiotli body
and soul in hell.” In our time of |*ril
is it not a Safe prayer for every man to
pray: “God stand by inejn the dyiug
hour, as I stand by the cause of temper
ance, the interest of immortal soul*, and
by the cross of Christ, in all my dealings
with this monster evil.”
A Few Paragraph! tram M. Mary*.
A large baptism occured at .St. Mary’s
river Sunday evening among the colored
people.
Some young ladies from the Wesleyan
College have been riding up and down
our quiet streets recently in that delight
ful ^carriage. ’Ti* a pleasant sight to
those who are seated on their piazzas
and porches to see the ladies out riding.
Mr. J. S. Russell and daughter, Mis*
Gussie, from Tompkins, Ga., Camden,
county, were in town last week. This
young lady lias been to charming St.
Simons several time*.
Rain has fallen here plentifully for
the last few days.
The mosquitoes sing merrily all the
day long, we have no brass band to play
“Listen to the Mocking Bird” or “Dixie,”
the mosquitoes make up for this.
Mr. Jno. Bachlott received his fall
stock of goods the other »Iay.
Some of the St Marys people enjoy
salt water bathing.
Miss Carrie Hardee, a charming belle
from Jacksonville, is the guest of Dr. A.
F. and Mr*. Bernard.
Mrs. Rena Jenkins and husuaml are
in the city from Virginia.
The grape crop has been abundant
both in the town and country. Maj. E.
A. McWhorter’s arbor has yielded well,
and the Maj. has been generous in sup- __
plying his friends with grapes.
The mansion known as “Orange Hall”
was once the home of your correspondent,
now the Spencer House, Mr. D. J. tang,
proprietor. Thia hotel is beautifully
situated, ’tin pleasant to look upon by
daylight, but presents a more picturesque
appearance by moonlight. Few travel
lers sojourning here at this season. Tha
writer saw one stranger in town this a. m.
Mi*s M. Bessent has opened her school.
Mr. and Mrs. HuBose were in town
last week.
Plenty of nice, new hats at Mrs. Jef
fords’ and Miss Kndolph’s shop.
F. M. A.
WH or Dry.
Democrats, Republican*, Third Par-
tyitea are ail invited to the great $3.00
pants sale which begin* Sept. 14th.
Five hundred pair, some worth $5.00 to
be sold at $3.00. All kinds, all *i»a.
Come early aud take your choice.
Owens, The Leading Clothier.
Trr a pair of Palmer’s $1.00 school