The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
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so"ns ensit'ed 70 them? 1t is because the,
want their old barrooms back again.
The writer was in attend, nee on the legis
lature when the prohibition bill was under
discussion. The same parties that fought the
. Roper bill fought the amendment establish
Ing dispensaries. 1t now appears that some
prohibitionists are joining these enemies in
ths night against themselves. 1t amounts Ia
thls, when they refuse to sign petitions for
good men to be appointed dispensers.
me enemy wants TO make prohibition
odtous by making it we'll nigh impossible to
get stimulants for medical and sacramental
purposes. The enemies of prohibition offer
Ell ana suggested bills in the last legislature
OF this character. They said "The people
nave demanded prohibition and we will give
1t to them in such doses 80 that thew win
repudiate their own demands and disgoroe
the thing after they have gotten it," These
same enemies are working along the same
nne when they encourage the prohibitionis,s
In their purpose to keep down dispensaries.
These friends Of the barrooms also know
that blind tigers would flourish under
absolute prohibition, and that there would
be more whiskey sold by them than will he
h'sfeasca &c tha State with dispensary in
every county, and that they (some of them)
would get the profits.
The prohibitionists should lend their in
a.Shco 20 inc establishment Of dispensaries
under the law as it is, and when thew have
been established they can use their ;n6uence
10 have them confined sales for medical and
sacramental purposes, We viii then have
exactly what the real prohibitionists fouubt
Tor III the last election and labored to
nave enacted by the last legislature. They
Will not thus endaDger the whole cause of |
prohibition, as they are now doing by ref,s. |
ing to estab ish dispansArian |
IL. -. 81
Talk about 1t beng wrong for christians
to petition for dispensaries, when inc n:a
pensers are not allO we'd to sell to those who
abuse intoxicaus by getting drunk when
those who are not u years of nge are not
allOwel 10 buy; when the liquors sold are
required to be chemically pure. This is try
ing to be better than the God that inspired
the Bible. Talk about God did not make
alcohol, when his hand instituted the law of |
chemical action by which alcohol is projuc-
ed The vegetable kingdom grows in obedi
ence TO laws Instituted by the Divine Hand,
regulating vegetable growth snI ardent
spirits are produced by Jaws epaoating from |
the same haod, regulating chemical action.
II the stimulating properties brought out by |
chemical action were not intended for bene |
fceat purposes, why was the law engrafted |
as o part of the economy Of nature They |
have their uses rs medicines they have |
their uses at the sacramental board; they !!
have their uses in weak conditions of the |
system. not amounting to disease. The only |
attempt that should be made, and the only
one tina. will permanently succeed, is regu-
ygnoh- eliminating the abuses, and in this |
respect South Carolina is ahead of every |
State in the Union, every country in the !
world, AMI will stay ahead, if the people do |
not persist in opposing the establishment If |
dispeDsaries. Respectfully
u, WALLoN W.;irv,x !