The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-01

The war In South Carolina need sur.
prise no Intelligent man. Gov. Tillman 10
q Popuiist; . far ADLER ana more cour-
sgeous man than Gov. Waite. of Colorado,
but be has ''Popuiist" bee in his bon
net. that Is. he and his legislature enacted
laws which are impracticabis Of enforce
ment except under despotie form Of gov
eminent, and Gov. Tillman ought to have
known human nature we'll enough to un-
derstand that peremptory sumptuary laws
are most difficult to enforce at the North
and almost impossible At the South.
The difficulty that the Federal govern.
ment has always met in trying to sup
press the manufacture OF Lincolnshire"
whisky st the South ought to have warned
Gov. Tillman that the people Of South
Carolina would not take kindly to q law
which makes the state the sole dispenser
of liquors, makes il q crime to have liquor
in ones possession unless the flask bears
the state brand, and makes the employ
mens Of spies necessary to aid in the en-
forcement OF the law. In the state OF
Iowa. ooionised by New England people,
IL has been found most difficult to enforce
the prohibitory law, and the average
Southern man Is more jealous of what he
calls his personal rights" than she av-
erage Northern man. and the freedom to
buy liquor OF other than the state dis
pensary has been so long practiced in
South Carolina that IL cas- certain from
tho start that the law would be q failure.
The system Of Gov. Tiiiman is of kin to
the state monopoly of the liquor traffic in
Sweden. which proved q failure In Russia,
but Europe is not America. and IL Is
probable that smuggling and riotous re-
sistancc to the state dispenssry law will
trouble Gov. Tiliman to the end Of his
term.
Ii anybody can make this state dis
pensary law a success Tillman can, for he
is man of nerve. courage and resolution,
bat IL will be found as diticult task in a
Southern community as the endorsement
of the prohibitory law has been found at
the North. We look for more riots and
bIoodshed In = state where the PEOPLE have
been educated to so - they please so far
as the laws are concerned by nlIman him
self.
The refusal Of the militia tn do their
duty Is the mos; serious part of the affair,
and It points 90 a fatal weakness In our
system OF stats military police. OF course.
when personal sympathies with rioters
persuade militia TO refuse 10 obsy orders
and 10 dishand. the state cannot be said 20
have any legitimate soldiers, and a uni
versa habit Of this sort would drive Us 70
"a increase IN our standing army. ia
state cannot trust its soldiers every time
that the personal sympathies Of the
militia persuade them to refuse TO obey
orders OF the state government, the
militia becomes a useless and dsngerou,
burden TO the state. and peace and order
can Only be preserved by the creation Of
larger Federal army that would lie with
out personal sympaiAies With rioters
when ordered by the government, TO
answer the call Of . governor for assist
aace. In Pennsylvania in ISL, the
nts.Aarg militia refused to IRE upon the
mee; in Kansas the militia were IN
subordinate under Cor. L.we.ling. ana
now We have another ohjees lesson in
e0atA Carolina
II a earlous fact that. while Gov. TIL
man is fopglist, Pcpulisi conventions
have recently denounced the National
Guard, and trades unions aud The Fedora
tion Ct Labor are disposed to urge tie
Withdrawal Of thsir members from the
>at'oas Guard. This wAs due 10 the
seiioa Of the militia at Homestead. Pa.
and Buffalo. ;. Y, he. whea Populis;
soss'aefs are IN poser. ike Waite In
Colorado. isss.Itag IN Haasss and fill
mao IN Ssasa ssso.laa. sAsy are prompt