The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-03-19
MONEY In LIQUOR.
PUSHING THE STATES BUSINESS
In WMSKEY.
Plain Drinks for "Plain Peoplc"-
Fancy Stuff for Yankee Dudes.
Other Columbia Com.
ment.
COLUMBIA, S. G., March le, 'e5.

uOf. L calculate Unat Gn1S amount al
lows to each and every man, woman
and child, N fourth of a drink u day
or n good drink every four days, lad
uniting for the arguments sake that
dispensary whiskey can make a good
drink. Ii the whiskey was actually
imbibed according to this schedule 1
guess it would do no great harm even
to the children and yonng women but
the difficulty is that too many people
do not get their rightful share. Be-
sides, floods of "blind tiger, fluids are
absorbed in all parts of the state. The
~dispensary officers say that blind tigers
are no longer common in South Caro-
lima but foxes and squirrels are not the
only beasts which have holes and in
dark spots where the eagle eye of the
drives O thriving business in the con-
traband.
But the state ~dispensary packs into
seventeen thousand bottles and Johns
twenty-five hundred gallons q day and
in Pickens and Oconec which have al
ways been dry counties e d~ispensar-
les are to be opened. Two more max
ing eight in all are to begin business in
Charleston in a few days and since the
first Of January about a dozen have
been established. A hot fight is in pro-
gress in Yorkville and of course the
dispensary crowd will ~win-even as
they won in Laurens, if necessary. The
administration could very we'll spare q
peck of dirt which divided carefully
would be sufficient to create enough
real estate owners to place dispensaries
wherever q street corner or cross roads
is without one. The people of Laurens
ought to know that the whiskey bust
ness is being run for all that there is in
it and that it is the evident determina-
tion of those in charge to make it pay
the State handsomely. Arrangements
are in progress by which beer will be
sold in this city from u brewery and of
course its consumption will be greatly
increased. Many of the fancy hotels
now nave dispensary privileges and can
sell to their guests, not only straight
whiskcy and beer in bottles, but man.
haitian cocktails. The common peo-
pie" can't buy cocktails, they must be
satisfied with the plain and pure stuff
but the Northern tourists who come
south with carloads of Doodle are cat
cred too and furnished q chance to con-
tribute to the e~Xchequer. Which is
another strong illustration of the faith
of the administration in the doctrine
of equal rights to all" and special
drinks to none ave those who are able
and willing to pay handsomely for
thom,-a theory Of sparkling and pcllu-
cid beauty. However,, it is doubtless
the intention Of the administration TO
make all tho people rich so that they
a afford to lodge ut tourists hotels
and sip the marvellous mixtures af-
fected by dude soakers. Meanwhile,
the prohibition sentiment, once so lusty
in South Carolina, appears to be in u
drunken stupor,-else why doesn't it
arise and kick high and nightly.
'wHAT ARE I'll WILD WAVES SAY
ING.'
Or what arc the Forty going to do
about tiff that is the proper form of
the question. In most of the counties
meetings are being held and it is fair
to presume that the Forty have some
knowledge of what they are about: but
they l. profoundly mute. Yet, in
them there is hope and they show signs
of energy. Governor Tillman has
spoken Of them in chilling terms and
If they had not been brave they would
have died. Senator lrby is r%cfraining
frol bestowing his blessing upon them
they have not buried themselves.
1t is truly wonderful.
When the Forty holds it's convention
on the 9th of March it may be that an
explosion will occur and that fragments
and mangled remains OF factions and
cliques will be scattered to the four
winds of the earth. Let the Forty pro-
coed. If its wisdom is in proportion to
the pluck it is showing it will do some
thing for the State and the people.
NEXT YEAR.
Eighteen hundred and Ninty-six is
a presidential year and promises to
give us rapid scenic changes on the
political stage. Perhaps four parties
will be in action. The Republicans OF
course. The Eastern Democrats who
believe in sound money, free trade or
Silver Democrats with q %smattering of
populism and the populists, the latter
including most of the sheer idiots and
asses. South Carolina will have few
pops, and a considerable crowd of the
silverites. OF course there will be q
Democratic party Of the Cleveland
stamp,-''coo coos' the scotfers call
us,-and the Republican party may be
incomparably stronger and healthier
thar 1t has ever been before in South
Carolina. 1t all hangs largely on what
the Constitutional Convention succeeds
in doing with the negro vote. If the
negro is eliminated, many young men
who believe in the protection theory.
especially in the rapidly growing man
ufacturing districts, will vote for Tom
Reed or whoever the Republicans nom
mate. A disposition is present already
in some quarters to join the Republi-
cans. With the colOred citizen out of
the question q Republican party would
be q blessing to the South. 1t would
result in purging the Northern Repub-
licans OF prejudice towards our section
and unite us more closely with the
North commercially. Thousands and
millions Of the Northern Republicans
are men who would help the South but
for the manacles which partisan teach
ing for several generations has put
upon them. But honest money and
free trade ought to be good enough for
the South.
MAKING AMENDS.
Once in the long ago THE ADvER-
TISER copied q IN published in
some other sheet that tho Georgia,
Carolina and Northern railroad shops
we're to be moved from Abbeville to
Greenwood. SO did u number of pa
pcrs. When anything derogatory to
A~bbcville is said or written the Able
vile Press n Banner very properly
becomes incensed and resents 1t i'm u
spirited manner. Parenthetically, any
newspaper that asserts that Laurens.
5. o., is not the pearl Of the Pied
mont" "Quecn City of the Hills"
soundcst town in the state financially,
an exceptionally moral place, posscssor
of the finest school facilities etc, &c, ct
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