The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
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roundings or by the dispenser-ht
would be turned of if he did,

| would be turned of if he did,
| SHOULD THE STATE GET PROFIT?
1.-The Voice and others have con-
| tended that the state ought not to
| get any profit; should sell at cost. It
stands to reason that if LIQUOR is made
| cheap there will be more of it sold.
The only practical thing in the cause
| of temperance is to reduce consump-
ton and let the margin of profit go to
| the taxpayers"
CHAIRMAN DICKIE's REPLY.
Chairman Dickie came forward amid
hearty applause, handed the bottle of
| whisky to the chairman and replaced
| it by goblet of water, saying 'that'S
my BOTTLE" Then he said: IF this
were case in court and l appeared
| for the defendant, I should at once
move for a discharge. The Senator
says that South Carolina has hit upon
a new plan for controlling the liquor
traffic, apparently forgetting thai the
substantial principle Of the system
has been tried for years across the
| water and has proven dismal failure.
He says that Prohibition breeds hypo-
critics and speak-easies, and forgets
| that South Carolina, under the dispen-
sary. is in the thrOes OF disorder and
bloodshed because of speak-easies.
| THE BIBLE AND MORALITY AGAINST 1T
II have number of specific objec-
tions to the South Carolina dispen-
sary system. In the first place, am
| opposed TO the dispensary because the
Bible is against it. Wo unto him that
putteth the bottle to his neighbor's
| lips and maketh him drunken! BY
what divine right does South Carolina
declare that what the individual may
not do the state may do?
"Second-The course of South Caro-
lima is morally wrong. There are two
great systems with respect to drink
total abstinence and drunkenness.
There is no middle ground. Whatever
provides for the open sale of intoxi-
cants leads the people toward inebri-
ETY. under the sanction of law. l
could, indeed, add to all the Senator
has said about the iniquity of license
which Prohibitionists oppose. But
how much more Ubiquitous is it for
the state to be the sole proprietor
than the silent pa rtner! Third-It
CONCENTRATES TIE CONTINUED DE-
BAUCHERY OF ITS USERS.
Common drunkards do get liquor all
| over the state at dispensarieS.
Fourth-It cannot flourish without
making good men bad and bad men
worse. 1t deliberately contem plates
the ensnaring and debauching Of
| 10000 young men annually. The profit
contemplates, provides for, and eX-
poets them.
"Fifth-It panders to a depraved
appetite and undertakes to compete
with the blind tiger. Why, in a sys-
tenn parade as the best possible tenn.
| NOR chnIr1I
ment take special pains to recently
advertise that ''cocktails" have been
added to the lists of drinks? On the
18th day of June it was decided that
the dispensary from s A. NJ to p. NJ.
was not open long enough. Let me
read press patch:
'"The state board of control has con-
sented to open at $50 A. NJ. and close
at : P. NJ. Dispensers are hereby or
| dered to conform until ordered other
wise. F. M. Nixson, commissioners.
| II suppose petition was signed by
wives and mothers and the w. G. T.
D, asking that the state board of con-
troll consent to lengthen the hours
The recent cut in prices was not in
the higher but the cheaper grades.
DEBAUCHEs THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE.
"SiXth-The dispensary debauches
the public conscience. To masses of
| people the law is schoolmaster. The
| dispensary system sets the seal Of the
commonwealth upon the bad, teach
ing that whisky-selling is respectable.
''Seventh--It paves the way to a
| similar treatment of other vices.
| Omaha began with licensing the
liquor traffic and has ended with what
amounts to licenses for houses Of
| pros titution. Where is the moral dis
| tinction?
PROHIBITION EASIER OF ENFORCE
NENT.
| Eighth-Prohibitio is easier of
enforcement than the Sou tn Carolina
| system. The average citizen can not
understand why it is right for the
| state to do what is wrong for the in
| dividual Prohibition in Maine for
| fifteen years has been better enforced
than the dispensarY for a single week.
| There has been more blood shed down
there in trying to enforce than in all
| the Prohibition states com bined.
South Carolina should have been
an easy state in which to enforce the
| law, having less than half the num-
| Der of saloons that other states of the
same population have. She has one
| saloon to 1852 people, while the
country at large has A times that
| number. There are but $4,000
| whites in the state, and they control
affairs.
ENCOURAGES HOME DRINKING.
"Ninth-the dispensary encourages
home drinking.
"Tenth-As / am informed, both
Governor Evans and Senator Tillman
are on record against it. Here is
letter written by Mr.. Evans to Sallie
F. Chaplin. one of the best-known
temperance women in South Carolina,
under date of May 1854. He says for
Governor Tillman and himself in ia
vOr of the the cause Of temperance
| and ultimate prohibition. We only
differ with YOU as to the shortest
way to the IDEAL
THE DIsPENsARY A PRACTICAL
FAILURE.
"Eleventh-The dispensary is
practical failure Mrs. Chaplin writes
that the law was for time success,
but one after another the features
have proven delusive.
"Twelfth-I believe it is cowardly
makeshift on the part of the common
wealth. It is an attempt to carry wa
| ter on both shoulders-tO please the
temperance people and the whisky
folks. 1t has no logical ground to
stand on. Experience has been SO
brief that positive proof does not
come tn either side It is against