The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-26

caused him to delay, and the delay
defeated the Bill. Every Bill Of pro.
hibitory nature which WAS considered by
the house became law yet you will insist
that my action and private opinion killed
tho Bill, upon this. let me state more
fully, we did not believe that the petition
signed by one thousand citizens tif that
be the number) from the rank aud file
Of our people did it give such an expires.
SIGN as would authorize your Represen.
tative to favor the Bill and more especi.
ally when il was known 10 "Mr. Cllnk.
scales" for some weeks before the meet
ing OF the Legislature, printed petitions
had been struck by the scores, put into
the hands of the friends of the measure,
each township carefully canvassed. LEFT
in the Stores of the leading merchants
Of the county and offered AT many, if not
all Of the churches in the county and
such other steps taken that advertised
every man woman and child in the c0un-
~ and afforded TO them an opportunity
to sign the same had they wished 10 have
done 80 aud only one thousand (if that
be the numberl out of about thirty five
thousand signed the petition Such an
expression of opinion would not warrant
q Representative man to favor the Bill.
ii the present Local option law is good
one then its existence is endangered by
the present move, for i: has come to our
knowledge since the agitation OF this
question that many OF the citizens OF
Anderson County who live out of incor.
porated towns, are Of the opinion if this
law be changed 80 as TO allow the citi.
zens To vote upon the question ''wet or
dry" that the effects Of that vote would
carry the amended law into the town
ships rs well as the cities and towns
That is if the We: ticket should carry,
the county commissioners should be re-
quired to grant license to citizens of the
townships under reasonable rates and
proper restrictions
II the Editor suppuses there is no force
in this he would perhapse stand amazed
At the number of citizens in the county
who are ready to sign and would sign q
petition as follows, We the citiZens of
Anderson County petition the Legisla
ture of s. G.. ut it's next session to so
amend the law known as the Local Op
ton Law as to extend the right of the
electors of said County to vote upon the
subject of wet and dry" and that if the
"ck tlCkcI luC Couuty COItiIItDIl-
toner's shall issue license to the citizena
of the townships and the incorporated
towns and cities under such reasonable
regulations and conditions and license
fees US would be proper for dealers in
the country, towns and cities, aud that
such license fees should be paid into the
hands OF the county commissioners and
the same be used TO defray the public
| expenses Of the County. We happen to
live in the country, and, notwithstanding
the inequality of the Local option Law
we prefer it to the moon Sinners law
| Heretofore the people OF the country
have not complained. Yet If they
should complain, as thoy now do and
put their complaint into form as above
etated you would stand amazed at the
number who desire less legal rights con.
fered upon them than their fellow citizens
who happen to live in incorporated towns
and cities Then if this question result.
disastrous to the desires of the petition
ers, surely that INJUSTICE csunot be at.
trihutable to ourselves
No man has a higher appreciation o
temperance than have If I could
make every man woman and child in the
world TO day temperate would certainly
do 80 but Cannot. neither can the State
by Legislation make her people tempe
perate, moral. or religious. Every effor
to make the State aud more especially 6
county u kind of religious and mora
training school is an effort in the wrong
direction and the people will sooner Of
later find it out. What was the resul. o
the dry ticket in the city of Anderson
two or three years ago. What is the re
suit in Iowa to day. I will quote frou
the Wa.hisgton Post "The prohibition,
liquor law in iowa ia evidently failure
The mayor of Davenport reports an in
crease in the number OF saloons" "Sim
liar reports come from all the leading
cities in the State" "No license beinl
granted the revenue suffers as q matte
of course and no attempt being made t
enforce the law, the number Of drinking
places is correapondingly greater Tht
! result can readily DO foreseen. It il
leading 10 political revolution in which
the Republican party-which is response
BILE for this unsatisfactory condition o
things-must 60 to the wall''
Can less be expected in South Carolin,
where the white population is SO uearl,
equally divided ON this subject. Barn
well County has a prohibitory law, ye
she sent up petition, largely signed
petitioning the Legislature at the las
Session to repeal the law So did Oconee
This very question was made the leading
political question in that county at thu
last County and State election, and wha
was the result. And what does Mr. Muir
ray mean when he says that there mus
be a ticket from the Senate down. |.
that not foreseating his intentions to boil
the party il he cant carry things hi.
way. Surely it does not take much "a
garity or fore.hought to see that thi,
proposition, if insisted upon, will become
one Of the leading ii not the very lead
ing political questions of the State-s
thing that by all means should DO avoid
ed. hope am understood upon thit
aubject. But about the squirming
did not have in view the Local option
Law, but it seema to US that the Editor
WAS not with the friends Of prohibition
when there were several thousand o.
them petitioning the Legislature to pas:
a prohibitory law for the Stale but when
he saw that something was going to be
done the Editor put apprs 10 his pony
| and run in the Local Option law which