The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-12-19
Sam lanes ON the DiSnensary,

| lhe SOOd people OF georgia, tennessee
and other States are now demanding OF
their legislatures such laws us, in their
| judgement, will conduce the restriction or
determination of the whiskey traffic within
the borders of these States.
The legislature OF Georgia has under dis
cussion new bill to tnrn the liquor traffic
over to dispensaries, land it seems to be
hanging fire little.
1t has always astonished me that when
Legislation against this. the worst enemy OF
God and man, is proposed how some men
will stand up in respectable audiences and
ask for time to deliberate, and time to
ponder and time to discuss a question that
any man with sense enough to go IN out OF
q shower OF rain could settle by walking
the streets of Atlanta, Ga., or Nashville,
Tenn, from 7'oclock in the morning till
10 O'Clock at night and watch the lngress
epress of saloons and determine in mo-
ment's time that the open saloon is the open
gateway to hell. -,
I have no patience with the wise states.
men" and conservative Politicians" who
want to mature their thought anl act in the
best interest of humanity whenever tenn
perance legislation is suggested by their
compeers.
have just returned from hurried trip
through South Carolina. I spent one day
and night in Sumter.
In company with one Of the pastors in
1.-The city 1 visited dispensary. I went
through it, I saw it.
The dispensary of Sumter is nice store
room in the centre of the city. with all the
bottles and demjohns labeled and sealed
sitting up on the shelves.
At the front door of the dispensary there
is place cut off with pickets, something
ike an insurance or real estate Office, about
ten feet square. This is the only part of the
building the public can enter. Liquor is
sold by the dispensary keeper, from q half
pint bottle to four gallons and three quarts
to any individual. 1t opens at seven in
morning and closes at six in the evening.
There is no loaing, or drinking, or treat
ing within the dispensary.
AS bad as this may be, it is thousand
per cent better than the open saloon with
its hangers on, with its young men going
to destruction and the old buns making it
their rendeZous. am no advocate of the
dispensary. have fought whsSey in all
its forms for fifteen years. I fight under
black flag. I show no quarters to, nor
ask any quarters of, the whiskey traffic.
1t has left its scar on me.
1t has invaded the precincts of the homes
of my loved ones and made soIue Of them
wear the stripes.
I am conscious of the power of the whs-
key traffic. I know how parties and poll
ticians tremble when the whiskey traffic
shakes its fist, know its power to lobby,
know its power to buy. Whenever and
wherever any State in this Union shall have
an unpurchasable and unbulldozable legs-
lature then we shall have laws for the
protection of home and We will get such
legislation as will retire the whiskey traffic,
or extermiaate it.
: I know it is source Of revenue to the
States, cities and towns, but it is most
solemn fact that whiskey has never paid its
way anywhere.
1t takes more to police it, to control it
$50 called), to punish its offences and its
criminals than it ever paid in revenues to
any State or to any community.
know that the closing of the saloon dis
pensary does not shut off the whiskey traf-
&c. 1t is an Internal species of lawless-
ness and the crowd who traffic in liouor
will sell liquor until they are in hell airy
wherever blind tigers live they are q re-
fection upon every sworn officer and o dis
grace to the prosecuting attorneys, grand
Jurors and judges whose duty it is to ar
raign and punish them.
Whenever you find blind tigers you will
find that perjury camps all around them,
and verify believe that any man who will
buy and drink blind tiger liquor will swear
a lie in any court as black as perditiou
itself.
We may talk of election laws and fair
elections and ali that sort of thing. but
nine-tenths of the debauchery of the ballot
boxes can be traced to liquor.
There is no fact clearer to my mind than
that nine-tenths of the corruption in poll
ties and social life. against which moralists
proclaim and which newspapers denounce
day after day, can be traced to the liquor