The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-11-03
3ETHUNE TO HIS DEFAMERS,
.SLANDEROUS FALSIFERS," HP
CALLS THEM,


tons and Gives Reasons Why ae Fa-
vors Dispensaries. a Warm
Number.
Misery delights to trace its sembIanc q
IN another's face. Bethune's motives
some say, are selfish in his adv ocacv Of
the dispensary plan as the proper sou
aoDOf the whiskey problem, which has 40
itated this country since the Pennsv!ya-
MA whiskey muss of 1894 and the world
from the dawn of history. Emmisaries
of few wholesale beer and whiskey
houses, Judging others by themselves are
seeking TO make much needed vote or
swo by SANDER without the least foup-
dation upon which to base it
shades of Cervantes What did
Won say of the pot calling the kettln
black?
Since 1890 (record. for five previous
years lost in fire., not counting the pres
e0t year, my sales have amounted to one
hundred and one thousand, four hundred
and eight dollars (S101, 408), and | have
always been considered dealer satisfied
with small profits. Could expect anv
set Of men TO allow me anything like |
would make? Should | ever run a dis
peusaTy for Terrell county it will not be
from my begging. Other fields lust as
ilyltng would be open, and | would not
fear BanquO's ghost after getting there,
When we get the dispensaTy (t is sure to
Gomez my heart will beat with " if
some good man is selected as manager
who has never sold an ounce of whiskev
| will voluntarily give him any informa-
ton in my power if he wishes it, and he
will have my very best wishes for its
success. Beat about and get some other
motive to educate your cohorts to sing.
If | have trait it is to follow
NY convictions, let come what will. Nv
position was taken in letter to an anti
dispensary party when every one cOns;d-
cred dispensary fOrlOrn hope. | be-
ieled it would come in the course of
time; and in taking a position for the
dispenSary Terrell county was a small
item, for my desire was to help the cause
and bring about dispeDoarie8 in every
county in Georgia as speedily as possible.
OiSpensaries are theories no longer
Practical certainty of their being the
best solution of the whi3key question is
settled fact. Not only is the moral
and financial success Of every dispenSary
in Georgia an indication of this, but the
system has proved so in foreign coun-
Jges. Sweden, one among the largest
Countries of Europe, has adopted the
dIspenSary system, and a dispensary
IS found there in every town of
any size. SO well pleased are the
people there with the workings
Of the dispensaries{that Stockholm, Swe-
denis capitol, with population OF Two
hundred thousand, has adopted the sys-
lem. Il was forced into stockholm de-
spite the fact that saloon men were hold
ing life licenses, and here we blow of the
interference with the business and rights
Of men who will not be robbed of a sin
gle days license. Mr.. M. L. Tau
bin, one of our own citizens who
mas just returned from a visit to
Russia, says they are controlling the sale
OF whtskey there by means of dispense
'Ies, The wave is on, and the years are
not many before it will spread over this
country from the Atlantic to the Pacific
oceans. In little while wherever you
see a bicycle you will also find dispen-
Sary, if any liquor is sold at all.
Every man who helps get the dispense
RES will bequeath not only,an Inheritance
q his own kin and blood but to every
one who ever puts foot in this county
10r all time to come, for whenever it is
adopted on the plan proposed for Ter
rell county it will be as durable as the
rock of Gibraltar. Prohibition will not
upset it, because it will be seen to be in
the interest of temperance and morality.
Makers of standard goods will never as
sail 1t, because they will have territory
enough to consume the output. But,
on, the lamentations of all spurious
Stutfs. Their days will be short; they
viii 20 without any hopes of hereaf-
Ger
But what say the ants against dis
penSaries? With appraised hands in holy
horror they cry Monopoly! Liberty. But
.ue worst thing some of them try to do
is TO create sectional feeling in the coun-
Try against the town by saying the town
VIII appropriate the whole profits and
rum the dispensary to further political
e.Jques.
= 5 to monopoly, let's see. AS every
one knows, it requires one poison to Kill
another. | think | can demonstrate the
Tact that ours is the least poisonous,
and poison we can save the whole
I@muy with. 1T is known by some OF