The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-11-08
Drink and be Merry, 'and Pay Your
Taxes with Red Liquor.
Ne1pberTv Observer,

"Dispensaries will be discontinued
where they are not profitable to the
State"
So says Governor Tillman, who is head
of the board of control, az well as about
everything else in the State.
If there is yet man who believes the
dispensary is intended to diminish liquor
drinking, 1t may be said of him that great
is his faith. :.
But this raises very interesting ques-
tiOn. How are the dispensaries TO be
made .profitable to the Slater Ofcolrse,
no good citizen will withhold his help. IL
he only knows what to do to make them
profitable.
Only think; II sufficiently profitable
they can largely augment the funds In
the State Treasury, and thus help to re-
duce State taxes-a consummatlon most
devoutly to be wished.
Not only that, but they are capable OF
being still further developed, and with
proper effort can be made 70 pay the en-
tire State and county taxes.
But how is this to be accomplished7
Easily enough, if the friends OF the ad-
ministration will rally to its support In
this its hour of need.
Take this county, for Instance, and for
illustration. The administration had q
majority of the white voters on its side
in the last general primary, and in the
special primary it had nearly hslf-say
1000 voters-men over twenty.oue
years. It is simply a question how
much these 1000 can drink the
profit is very easily calculated in ageneral
way.
a gallon of ordinary liquor costs the
State $l.50 and is sold for $3.O0-a profit
of 81 so a gallon. Deducting Is cents for
expenses, there Is left net profit Of Sl.25
on every gallon sold.
We once knew man who had drank
between thirty and forty gallons of corn
whiskey a year for forty years-and be-
was perfectly sober. man. He drank
about q gill before each meal in order to
aid digestion.
A gill before each meal is three-fourtbs
of pint day; 237 pints, or thirty-four
gallons year.
Who could not do that? Who is
there that would not do it in the high
and holy cause of reform-and retrench-
ment?
Now, Just suppose the 1000 supporters
of the administration in Newberry conn-
ty should each adopt this quantity as
their portion to contribute to the help Of
the cause. Thirty -four times 1000 is
$4,000 gallons-this for the Reformers,
for reforms sake, not counting what
they might drink for the pure love Of
the stuff, nor what the wicked
Conservatives and the negroes would
drink.
Thirty-four thousand gallons at net
profit of LISA gallon would amount to the
snug little sum of S45, 900.
The county and State taxes Of the
county Of Newberry amount to between
$4,000 and 100000. So there would
be left only somewhere about 5000
of taxes to be raised by assessment on
property.
This is not allowing anything at all for
the drinking that the negroes and the
Conservatives would do; and, consider
ing the negro population Is more than
double that of the whites, and considering
their love for the "creature," aud also
considering that the Conservatives are
about 1000 strong and are more or less
addicted to the habit of taking ething
it is quite probable the additional Sis, 900
or thereabouts would be raised by the
dispensary also; and then we would
have no taxes at all to pay for State and
county purposes-and everybody would
be happy,
We feel quite sure the people do not re-.
alize fully the great blessing they have
in the dispensary law. if they will only
develop it along the lines laid down in the
above speculations.
And let it be most distinctly understood
once for all, that "Dispensaries will be
discontinued where they are not profita-
BILE to the State" This is fair warning to
all concerned that they must either in
crease their potations, or the dispensary
will have 10 60.
"a word to the wise is sufficient" The
word is: Drink early and often.
Lest we might incur the blame of en-
couraging people to drink too much H.
quor, we advise that instead OF drinking
the three gills every man pour that much
out en- the ground each day. The i'm
portant point is that he buy 1t. He could
accomplish the same purpose, 80 far as
the revenue and the consequent diminu-
tion of taxes are concerned, If he did not
buy any liquor at ali but simply deposit
in the dispensary every day the price
of three gills. But he will accomplish
the additional good purpose If he
will take the three gills and throw it
away.
The little kingdom of Monaco levies
no taxes at all upon its citizens for any
purpose. The gambling saloons OF
Monte Carlo are under the direction
and control of the government, and from
them the kingdom derives revenue suf-
ficient for all purposes, and there is an
annual excess of Sl,o00,0OO over all ex-
penditures.
IfMonaco can run its government by
gambling, why may not South Carr ina
by whiskey selling?