Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-25
PROFITS Will Be Big.
TALKS ABOUT
THE DISPENSARY.
4 HALF MILLION WILL BE CLEARED
THE FIRST YEAR.
ONLY PURL LIQUORS WILL Be SOLD.
Some Observations on the Pre-
yalence of Adulteration-Rules
and Regulations Promulgated
Some Information About the
Blanks and Forms.

Some Information About the
Blanks and Forms.
Columbia Register May az.
Governor Tillman last night
gave the newspaper men the most
important interview relating to the
dispensary ever given cut. 1t is
chock full of interesting informa-
tion. It shows that the Governor
has posted himself Thoroughly.
and that he is satisfied that the
dispensary will be a big thing for
the State. 1t further shows a de-
termination to enforce the law at
all hazards and to teach the peo-
pie of the world that the laws Of
South C orolins are not to be
laughed at.
Governor Tillman said, when
asked as to the price which the
liquor would be sold under the dis
pensary system, that the cheapest
whiskey would be retailed to the
consumer at So a gallon, IS cents
quart, 40 cents pint, and 20
cents a half pint, the difference in
the smaller packages being the
cost of the packing and glass. This
price will apply to both rye and
corn, and the liquors sold at SO
will cost $3.50 at the distilleries
and will be of the best quality OBJ
tainable at that price. He went on
to say that since he has been
investigating liquor; he has dis
covered two things: First, that
very little honest liquor is sold in
this State, nearly all of it being
compounded liquor; and second,
through his dealing with glass
manufacturers of bottles and
TASKS that the dealers in this State
have been using vessels from two
TO eight ounces below the require
ments. Qaorts have run twenty
six to twenty-eight ounces, when
they should have been thirty-two
ounces, and smaller TASKS show
the same proportion.
He had further discovered, he
said, that nine-tenths of the
liquor sold in this State was
from so to 80 per cent proof when
it should have been 100. 1t has
been watered as we'll as doctored
and colored and sugared. Practi-
/ fa4laaEs feHa4a Esrats eepf fas efth fah over the so per
cent proof. The whiskey that will
be sold by the dispensary will be
from 20 to 80 per cont stronger
than that now sold, and there will
be an absolutely honest measure
and an absolutely pure article.
"I have had collected" he said,
''about twenty-five samples of
liquors from di ferent parts of
the State, which will be turned
over to DR.. Brurney for chemical
analysis as soon as be has the
time, and we will show the peo-
pie what kind of stuff they have
been drinking"
From the talks he has had with
the men who sell liquor to dealers
in this State, he said, he was con-
vnced that nine-tenths of the
whiskey sold in South Carroll ma is
not over two or three months old
and has not time to get mellow or
lose its injurious properties.
When asked what he thought
about the opposition to the es-
tablishment of dispensaries, he
replied that "the July sun would
evaporate all that and
that before long dispensaries
would be established in ncarly
all of the counties and, before
January, even in those counties
where there is now absolute
prohibition,
AS to the profit to be derived
from the system he said: "From
the best information l have been
able to get from a variety of
sources there is now over million
gallons of whiskey sold in this
State, possibly a million and a
half. We estimate that there will
be falling off of about one-third
in the consumption, certainly not
over half. We will get a net
profit of one dollar out of every
gallon of whiskey we sell, and in
addition considerable revenue
from beers, btandis, etc.
1t won't cost more than 100000
to dict r;b,,to fbo oooJo onJ -