The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-02
a az Business in View.

From a Washington dispatch published
in the MORNING News it APP
pears that the state authorities of South
Carolina intended to go into the liquor
business on much larger scale than any
body outside of those in the confidence
of the governor and his advisers had any
idea of. The trade mark on the bottles
containing the intoxicants the state pro-
posed to sell to the dispensaries that
have been established under the law en-
acted by the last legislature of South
Carolina is palmetto" The state,
through its agents, undertook to have
this trade mark registered. In the appli-
cation for registration it was stated that
the state officers intended to sell intoxi-
cants outside of the states limits.
The commissioner held that state
might engage in business, but that the
general government could not encourage
the building up of a liquor business
throughout this and other countries. The
application of the agents of the state Off
GERS Of South Carolina must have been a
great surprise to the commissioner. He
knew, of course, that the sale of liquor
was prohibited by law in South Carolina
except in the dispensaries established by
the state, and he had concluded that the
purpose of the dispensaries was to assist
the cause of temperance; but the
idea that it was the purpose
of the state to go into
a general liquor business had never en-
tered his head His surprise, therefore.
s., l..
to assist in selling South Cardinals
stock of whisky was made was
great. And that of the citi-
zens of South Carolina must be great
Many of them have condemned the dis
pensary law and they will feel like CON
demning it much more strongly now that
they know that it was the purpose of the
state officers to put the state in the posi-
tion of doing a general liquor business for
profit
Assuming that it is true that Gov. Till
man intended that the dispensary act
should be money making one, instead
of one for the promotion of temperance,
it is difficult to see how the prohibition
lists of South Carolina can sustain either
the governor or the act. The giving of
the state the monopoly of the liquor
business would not help the cause of
temperance in the least, and it would
| likely bring the state into disreputo.
If the wholesale liquo, business scheme
is Gov Tillman's he has oyerdone the
matter in this instance. The liquor bust
ness is a reputable one but it is hardly
one for a state to engage in, admitting
that it is advisable for state to engage
in any business. 1t would make proud
old South Carolinians vince to know that
liquors were being sold in this and other
| countries by their state in bottles with
labels stamped with the Palmetto as a
trade mark together with the state arms.
In connection with the cyclone and the
havoc 1t played with Geographic com
munication, q story comes from Washing
/ ton illustrating the possibilities of this
wonderful age IN which we live. The
storm, upon its departure hence, went
north by way of the national capital
tearing down all the Washington wires as
it went When the Washington rep
resentative of a Chicago paper got ready
to send the story of the days con
gressional proceedings to his paper he
found that not solitary telegraph wire
remained AS a last resort he tried the
long distance telephone to New York and
happily, found it intact. But there was
no Geographic communication between
New York and Chicago. Again the long
distance telephone was appealed to, and
again good fortune attended the appeal
The Washington man, thereupon, talked
his dispatches to New York where they
were relayed by vocal power to Chicago.
This is probably the first instance of tele-
phoning newspaper matter over so great a
stretch of wire.