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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Question of Liquor Traffic Is a
Hard Problem to Solve.
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SCRIPTIRE IS LIBERALLY QUOTED
From the Beginning of the Ages the
Brink Proposition Hss Faced
Mankind—Dispensaries are
Discussed. >
I was ruminating about this little
unpleasantness that is going on
amongst our neighbors at Rome. My
comfort is that it is not as big a thing
as they think it is and will soon pass
away. After the electou is over the
leaders will apologize all round and
make friends and the dear people will
have time to reflect and wonder what
fools the leaders made of them. A
friend writes me that there is nothing
ir it but ring politics—who shall run
the machine, who shall have the of¬
fices. Whisky is in the background,
but the main thing is office. As Leon¬
ard Morrow once said at a public
speaking: “Boys, don’t let ’em fool
you. They are just side wipin’ round
huntin’ the orthography of a little of¬
fice.” Carlisle said, “England has a
population of 30,000,000—mof/.ly
> fools.” and just so there are enough
fools in every county or community
to elect a man if he can get them all.
He is pretty safe if he can get a ma¬
jority of them. “Dispensary or no dis¬
pensary,” that is the question that is
now stirring Rome and Floyd county.
Well, we know all about it here in Car
tersville, for we tried the saloons for
years and they did so much harm we
abolished them and they will never
come back here again—never. Now
we are trying the dispensary; in fact,
we have two of them, one in Rome and
the other in Atlanta. We wouldn’t
have one 19 our town or county for
anything. The farther off the better.
The easier whisky is to get the more
will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell
county, ly.four has had a dispensary for near¬ first
years. The sales for the
yc-ac were $2G,000. The second year
and wei^ the $39,000, present the third it will year probably $56,000,
year
run to $75,000. You see it takes the
boys some time to find out how easy
it is to get it, but the consumption
gods on, increasing and the
take comfort in that the profits in
crease their school fund and lessen
their taxes. No matter if it impover
Isb'es the poor and makes drunkards
of their young men, that is of no con¬
sequence.
Now, our dispensaries are most too
near. I wish that the consumers had
to get their supnlies from Cincinnati
•or Baltimore, That would cut the jug °
business down one-half at least. The
oommon people -couldn’t wait so long
and nobody but common people would
get.any hardly. It would be a long
time between drinks-, as the gov.crnoi
o( Forth Carolina said to the sbrernor
ot South Carolina. There Is bound
to be some drinking going, on if they
knew.that the world was going to be
buhiieff'' up tomorrow. “Ail we can
do,” said a good man to me yesterday,
“is to-make it hard to get and regulate
its sale and consumption.” This man
had had experience with young men
who drank on the sly. He used to
drink habitually himself, hut found
the habit was growing on him. He
wanted it oftener and more of it, so
he,,quit short off two years ago. He
said “that there was.but little differ
ea.ee between open bar rooms and the
«f4oung 44ST>fmsai , yV t 'SO far as the better class
men were concerned. A del
la.r^bottle in a room with three or four
friends was about as bad the the dol
lar for drinks in a bar room.”
But the barrooms are a nuisance in
any town and a disgrace to its refine¬
ment. If they are allowed at all they
should be on some side street where
le/lies do not frequent or have to pass.
Keep them out "of sight and out of
smell. Cf course, the drinking habit
cannot he stopped by law, nor can
t'hp sale cf whiskey be stopped as
lokg as the government allows its
m’anufacture. Our people can drive
o&m to Cherokee and buy what they
want from the government distillery,
There is no such thing as prohibition
and never will be until the dawn ot
the millennium. This thing began with
old Noah and had its ups and downs
ail through the Bible history. It never
was sanctioned. It never was prohib
Red except to the priests in the tab
ernncle. “Drink not in the tabernacle
lest ye die,” saith Moses. All of those
old-time peopli* kept some on the
sideboard. Joseph and his brethren
drank'together and were merry.
vid speaks of wine that maketh glad
the heart of man. Solomon says, “Give
strong drink to him that is ready tc
perish and wine to those that be
heavy of heart.” But when he was
sobering up from a spree he said:
“Winp is a mocker, strong drink is
raging for at the last it biteth like
a serpent and atingeth like afl ad
der.” i heard a judge of our circuit
say that the wind up of a spreo was
the most'wretched and forlorn menta
condition that could befall a man
Said he, “Away in the dead of night
I have gotten up and gone to the well
in my night shirt and drank and drank
the cooling water until I could hold nc
more. I wanted to bite a branch
to two and swallow the upper end.’
Nabal got drunk and became as a
stone-; Benhadad and thirty-two kings
all got drunk together after a battle
Jeremiah the prophet, tried to malu
the Rechabiles drink wine with him
but they would not, for their fathers
had enjoined them, and Jeremiah
blessed them for obeying their father
and said, “Thus saith the Loixi the
house of Jonadab, the sou of Reelin'
shall not. want for a man to stand ho
fore me forever.” Zachariah seems tc
have winked at the ’ indulgence, foi
he said, “Corn shall make the young
men cheerful and new wine th«
maids.” ] wonder if that was surf
enough corn liquor. The aged womer
were enjoined not to drink much
wine wherein is excess. King Ahas
uerus & wt drunk and ordered Queen
Vashti to come before him and she
refused, and did right and the old raa
cal deposed her. Ilosea saith that
wine takes away the heart. Isaiah was
, hard against , , it, , L and . says. ■' Their ta
bles ,, are full , „ of vomit . and , ...... filthiness
and there is no place clean upon
upon them.” Habakkuk *says, “Woe un
to him that giveth his neighbor drink
and putteth the bottle to him.”
But this is enough of scripture
~ r rom mat tv, t uay to tins • 'tne i, txce.siva ,
use of spirituous liquors lias gone on
in all Soorariin’o- nations carrying ruin its its
train ira a „raau v-ino-- Kin.,,-, ana a'n,v uugiaung
, o
presidents and neither law nor pro
ccpt, nor preachers nor the pleading it’
o*’ women has been able to step
x ne disnenkarv aispensarv is is more more resnertuble rebpcctaoiv
in its surroundings than the saloon,
There is no eathprin^ of ronahs ■mil
toughs iu-uku^ at at its ne, door uuui and otu women wrouieu,. can can
walk by without being insuTted or ais
gusted as they pass. I do not believe
that it lessens the use or abuse of
whiskey. Nothing will -do that but
home influence and religious training
and public opinion. It takes every¬
thing to combat it and keep it in
check, 1 have before rae the last of¬
ficial statement cf the dispensary bus¬
iness in South Carolina, and it is
amazing to see how it is growing. It
is now the largest and most important
business in the state its aggregate
saies for tlie P ast fiscal year being a
llttle oy er $ 2 ,000,444 and over $o°q,000
^ et P rof | ts . aa(1 of these profits and
the stock on hand the school fund is
entitled to $611,354 and the state has
on hand $640,000 cf stock. The prof
its pay hundreds of officials good sala
ries, besides accumulating an enor
mous school fund. I have traveled a
good deal over the state and found
P ubbc opinion much divided upon the
questionable morality of the system,
But it pays financially and the ques
tion of ^ucating the negro with taxes
^ lom ''kite people does not raise such
a pretest as long as the sale of whis¬
key pays it, especially when the negro
[ 8 “ ,e d!spM , ' ary ' s vcr? ! ll,eA1 cus '
m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ „
in tllis 1lic i |1Cl ' business? »'»aat
does all this mean that Bishop Cole
man, of Delaware, has recently assert
ed in a public sermon preached in
New Jersey. He says that the whis¬
key habit is actually decreasing among
the men of the north, but it is rapidly
increasing among the- women, not only
the fashionable women, but among the
middle classes-. His assertion caused
a committee to bo appointed who
euietly frequented the hotels'and
ing houses and ladies’ restaurants and
a * ar S& majority ci the women -took
*** ™ beer or whiskey or cocktails
with their meals, and very many took
ne rn,?als and ordered drinks only,
The committee unanimously reported
that the bishop’s assertion waa the
truth. If this be so, God help the
country. Our southern women will be
ail that will save it.
When I was a student in college at
Athens in 1845, the wonderful discov
ei Y of nr - Long and his use of anaes
thesia was the talk of the town, and
our professor of chemistry, Dr. Le
Conte, made it the subject of a lecture
to his class. In 1846 a dentist by the
name of Lombard came there and pro
posed to 'extract teeth without pain
by the use of what he called mortous
lethean. He extracted a jaw tooth for
me and it was a success. But it was
whispered around that Morton had
stole Dr. Long’s discovery and pro
cess, and as he was a Boston yankee.
the friends cf Dr. Long were very in
dignar.t. Enough cf this for the pres
ent. I only wished to say how grati
flea I was that the committee appoint
e dto select our two greatest Geor
gians have given Dr. Long the
place. The medical world has done
him honor in all'countries and Morton
and Jackson have been relegated to
the rear, where they belonged. They
were pirates.
But about the second place the com
mittee had better go slow and consul
er carefully when they meet again.
They had better consult tne om men
and especially the veterans of the civ¬
il war. Some things are forgiven, but
not forgotten, The veterans would
not presume to say who should be so
lected, but ouly who should not.—BM
Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. .
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THE LOST ARE FOUND.
Missing: Tlarincs in Samar U»s
cued in Delirious and Fain¬
ished Condition.
According to a Manila special Cap
lain Porter’s marines, who became
lost while on an expedition in the is¬
land of Samar, and were thought to
have been murdered by tiie rebels,
have been rescued by a relief expedi¬
tion in the face of torrential rain
storms which Hooded the rivers.
The condition of the men is much
worse than previously .-.escribed. They
suffered fearful hardships and were
without food for several days.
The natives who accompanied the
marines claimed they were unable to
distinguish ,. ,. . ... the edible .... roots, . which . . , the
. did ....... not believe. The anger „„„
marines
of the marines against the natives
is intense. None of the latter return
e 1 e marines.
.
maunes suireiea so a t >
from starvation that they ate the raw
’ “ . ^ w0 ^ 0 „ s ”
When Captain ( . I orter tne nrst
ana
three of his men staggered into camp
‘ v wmo rteHrions. ummout. auu anU diffirnltv uiuiluh) was VVtt
-
experienced in ascertaining the where
abouts of their companions.
The relief party succeeded in reach
. . wno wouiu
ln ” remaining men, (
otherwise certainly have perished. All
of them were delirious. Two of the
-
were discovered in the branches ,
trees harking like dogs. Some of
the marines are so ill that they are
not likely to recover.
General Chaffee has endeavored to
obtain full details of the trip of the
marines, but Captain Porter is not yet
able to lucidly explain matters.
ON TRACK OF KOiiBfkS.
Safe Taken In Hold-Up Is Found at
bottom of Liver,
a Columbia, S. C., special says: At
(]aylig ^ t Tuesday morning
McSweeney telegraphed the sheriffs
of Dorchester, Orangeburg, Colleton
and Charleston gounties to organize
posses and begin search for the rob
bers who held up the Charleston-Cp
lumbia Southern railway train near
Branchville Monday night. At the
same time express officials left Colum¬
bia with two noted man-running
bloodhounds kept at the Orangeburg
and Dorchester jails. Sheriff Dukes,
of Orangeburg, was on the scene af
ter the robber with a posse and the
chase began.
The d'ogs picked up the trail of the
robbers a ml went 0 It rapidly. Mm
ral dday tho potto believed they were
pressing the outlaws. The .dogs came
to the Edisto river and it was evident
* be wagon had been bar ked up to
the bank. Search ifnder the water re
vealed the safe stolen from the cx
press' * A rope was attached to it
car.
an( l R had not been opened.
The governor will publish-a prqcla
mation offering $400 for the capture of
each of the men. The seven men are
staying together, and struck into the
Edisto river swamp. All are armed
with winchesters.
Among the passengers on the train
held up were several members cf tne
state legislature who had been some
to spend Sunday. Mr. SeabrOOk, of
Charleston, had a considerable sum of
money in his pocket, and he took re
fuge under a seat in the car.
Captain J. W. Hill, of Colleton, a
venerable legislator, is the hero of
the hold-up. He drew his pocket knife
and went out among the robbers, but
they drove him hack at the poiut of a
winchester. Later Captain Hill went
through the car seeking a pistol. The
only weapon he could find was a 22
calibre pistol, which he borrowed
from a news butcher. With this Cap
tain Hill stood guard at tho door.
SEW ARMY Y. EASE RE,
(arries Approximately the hum of
Ninety-One Million Dollars.
The military appropriation bill has
been practically completed by the
house committee on military affairs,
and Chairman Hull will report it a3
goon as he returns from a trip to Iowa
which he is about to take. The bill
carries approximately
.which is about $f0,000,000 below the
estimates and about $21,000 000 below
tile appropriation last year.
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