The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-04
For the TINES
Clean hn,v.rs aud Asks Questions.

by your cOrrespo" dent "outsiuer Az 9
last weeks issue; which wish to answer
and few positions taken by yourself from
which l W sh to dislodee you.
Outsider wants 10 know if there Is not
more drinking now than there was before
barrooms were opened, and why the need OF
two pol cemcn instead OF one
Formerly our town extended from given
eeatsr vith radius. .sS ahelfea1
HAS 4 - 1ips ;c{ ass 11!lLel =
- ~ VV!lg fhesl. There is need of
more 4o ( on streets, sidew ,iks, etc. The
service Il one policeman are seldom called
into rc9uistion. The average number of
arrests las am informed by Chief of Police)
for al cans $, is about one q week. The
last arrest made was n couatry-mdn for drunk
enne.s. His fine was 81. To my certain
knowledge this same country man was ar
re.tcd for the same cause during Drug
Store days and fined S.. Who has not
heard of the 'hlind tigers with which
every dry town is infested, and which is al
most synonym for "dry town." Not to
mention drug stores.
Who has not heard Of these very same
"well-meaning bat weak-knecd country
folks" when put on the stand to testify in
behalf Of the State, swearing that he did
not buy whiskcy, but paid ten cents for q
cracker, or paid ten cents to sec the "striped
pig" and drink of whiskcy was "hung
in?' Who has ever heard of one of those
"wcak-knced courtry-mcn" who really
wanted whiskcy in dry town that they did
not get it ? unless rcrchancc, his knees were
too ,cedk to carry him into a drug store or
blind tiger.
will say that the drug stcres and blind
tigers at Gaffney City and at Union were not
built that way.
L said did not drink, simply to define
my position, as not being interested in the
sale of whiskey from that standpoint. do
not expect single bar to Put single cent
in my pocket etiil | do not hesitate to go
where my business demands me TO go.
If there is not enough whiskcy drank in
these bars to intoNicate people sufficiently
to enable close, may, even casual ob-
server to form an opinion or estimate, as to
how much is drank, then it is far better than
the days of our so-called d,y town. for
drunk men were then frequently seen on
the streets. My opinions were based on
correct information. .ubstantiatcl by my own
observation.
1 am glad, Mr.. Editor, that you traced four
ffths of the crimes committed to the effects
of liquor, and / nm sure the fair sex will
crown you as their champion though rather
old ~ for having controverted that o.d saying
of chores woman at the bottom of every
thing
But without Jest, how wds it ut Union.
md how rs it now. If my memory serves
me alright, and my information is not incor-
rect, there was time, to which The memory
of man runncth not to the contrary, in
Union, when all the necessary requisite TO OBJ
tain the 'liquid damnation, ~ was to ask Cor 8
drink of cred wine" or "whitc wine. -
The laws of the State stood open to you.
We're these public violatcrs Of the law pun
ishcd? Was there "cvil TO be found at
Union ?" If so, did you eight il? do
not ask the question with any other object
than to show the impracticability of msking
town "dry.'
Our town council was not gifted with
dictatoriai power, and when n petition Was
presented To them with lG5 signatures to il,
which is probably 20 names more than half,
| do not consider that it was an optional
matter with them to grant liquor license
The petition is now in my possession, and on
"it are tho names of . ::joc;.y of ;,,o mcr-
chants, n majority of the property owners,
%0l, %aj9Gity. at the. citizens -Qf the. t9Nn.
petition can speak for itself The portion
of c0untry taken in by the extension Of the
incorporation embraced Limestone Springs
Cooper Limestone Ipstitutc-a school of which
we are justly prOund,-Rev. |. ". Wingo
Capt. W. II. Richardson and many other
good people, than whom our town boasts of
no better, rs citizens. But the roics of all
these Ind nothing to 90 with it, as there was
no ''wct or "dry' election. 4 majority Of
the citizens of '.Gatincy proper favored The
granting OF license. CLEAN.