The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-16
The Dispensary Is a Fraud.

fACOLET, oPARTANBURt COUNT4, Au'
gust THE Rev. Mr.. Chrietzberg deliv-
cred lecture on the liquor question and
the dispensary at the Methodist Church
last Thursday. He spoke directly to the
point, and handled liquor selling, liquor
sellers and the dispensary without gloves.
In the course of his lecture he said:
"If the Church of God was wholly true
to itself the whiskey traffic would be
wiped out from our land in two years
from to-day. Can any consistent Church
member vote for man to handle whiskey
as beverage? say not. Would you
respect me az a minister if was running
bar room? No, you would not. Would
you respect layman in your Church who
sold liquor? Would you keep either In
their places? 1 say no. Why not? Be-
Cause 1t is wrong. Very well, If it is
wrong for Christian to sell liquor ia it
not equally wrong for Christian to vote
for licensing man to do that which you
confess that ia wrong for God-fearing
man to do7 Do you not see that by 80
doing you put this man on his way to-
committing sin that You would not be
Christ would not, If He was on earth, vote
to put man behind the counter to deal
out death and destruction to bis fellow
man? I tell you it Is not consistent with
Christian life to aid or abet in any manner
whatever the sale of into1icants as bev.
erage. By saying you would have no
confidence in minister or deacon or
Christian who sold intoxicating liquor as
q beverage, you say that q barkeeper has
no right to be Christian. One cannot be
both, and you, to that extent, prevent the
man from the saving Of his immortal
soul. Cannot you see that you are more
or less responsible in this matter?
"How In Gods name, can you consis.
tently vote to put man in place that
will debar him from the doors of the
Church? He'll is full of people to-day sent
there by the members of the Church. If
you see that right and nothing but right
clusters around thing it is your duty to
stand by that thing and push it forward
for all you are worth; 1t is, say, not
the Church. You have a duty to your
follow man along this line and you neg.
lect it at your peril.
I'VE expressed ourselves at the ballot
box. After hard fighting for many years
we were at last allowed to test the matter
ut the ballot.box. What was the result?
We asked them for water, they gave US
whiskey.
"This dispensary scheme is none Of
ours we do not want any such thing; We
want prohibition and no halfway meas
ures. We do not want to do any injustice
to anyone. They say they did the best
they could for us they may be conscien-
tious, but they have. to say the least,
sadly failed of their duty to the people,
and I think they could hsye done more.
'There are some good features con-
nected with the law, such as closing up
the bar rooms and dens of vice to entrap
the feet of the young man, and this seems
to satisfy portion of the people, even
avowed Prohibltionists, that it is step in
the right direction. But while this Is
good, aud all right as far as it goes, it does
not stop the evil of drinking. There is no
prohibition in it. Just as much whiskey
can be sold for beverage now as ever. We
asked for prohibition, and We do not ask
the State to take hold of the business and
give US dispensaries. We have heard that
there are men in Charleston who have
been going home to their wives and little
ones and spending the evening with them
since they could not get Whiskey who
were heretofore strangers to this kind OF
thing.
"Charleston Is where I had my first
fight on this question and where swore
eternal war and hatred against this thing.
The dispensary is fraud. Whiskey is
whiskey, no matter whether sold by q
dispenser or the lowest grog shop.
"What does II matter to a man in hell
whether he was sent there by the dispen-
sary whiskey or the bar room whiskeys
South Carolina has always been dealing in
whiskey by license; now she takes the
whole thing into her own hands through
her rulers, and tries to make respecta-
BILE business out of it. did not vote for
Governor Tillman, but will say that
believe he is doing what he can to enforce
the law; so are the Legislators, but [ can
not stand any compromise. I will stand
out for prohibition pure and simple If
every member Of the Church turns
against me, and If stand alone with no
one to help me will still fight for prohi.
bition. I admire a man who is out and
out for whiskey far more than any of
these dilly -dallying kind of people who
you do not know where they stand.
When man has the courage to express
his convictions he will make good friend
of the cause when be is converted over to
the right side."