Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-02-25


SarsapariIla a Is ss's By 81,
six for S.. Prepared only by C. I. Hood s. Co,
Lowell, Mass. Get Hoods and only Hoods.
HOODS pills taken after dinner aid digestion.
system in 1898. gand the highest
revenue derived from the dis
pensary, $4,OO0-:s exactly $14-,
900. This is for one town alone.
Spartanburg, S. Co. IN. Is, 1897
The city receives now from
the dispensary about $1,000 per
annum.
We receive under the license
system about S11, 900.
ARCH B. CALVART, Mayor.
The luss in the revenues from
the town of Spartanburg, S. c.,
shows a greater percentage, the
difference being SO, 600.
Anderson, S. c., Jan. %, 1897.
Yours of the 18th inst. to hand.
Would have replied earlier. but
have been sick; am sick still with
grippe. I do not like the dispen-
sary law myself. and very few of
Four town people like it, although
they are eating a little more
reconcled to it since the decis-
ion of the United States Supreme
Court where a man can order his
own liquor, and the constables
can't confiscate it. AS far as the
revenue is concerned, it has not
been half DIS much here as we
used to get from license system.
[ hope you won't be troubled
with it as we n
Yours truly,
G. F. FOLLY, Mayor.
Here is another town which
has lost about half it's revenue
from the imposition upon it Of
the dispensary system.
Greenville and Spartanburg
show a net loss in revenue Of
about $27, O00-to say nothing of
Anderson. These towns are typi-
cal towns, in the most prosperous
sections in Sonth Carolina. If the
dispensary is not a success in
them, it cannot bein less progress
i've communities. We have,
therefore, from the point of view
of cold dollars and cents, a loss
to the State of over $34, OOO-
and the towns of over $17 ,0O0-
But these have not been the
only losses. The stocks of liq-
uors are assessed for taxation the
houses used by the bars lose
their rentals to their owners as
a result,of the dispensary system
and stand idle and unoccupied.
Does the dispensary decrease
drunkenness?
Let not the imagination take
the stand, but call a witness OF
experience and intelligence. 1t is
Mayor Sloan, of TIE capital city
of the Palmetto State. What does
he say?
"Gov. Evans asked me to ge'
up a statement as to drunkenness
in Columbia for the last tive
years under the license system
and the first two years under the
dispensary system. The record:
were open to the Governor ane
his expert as to the increase Oh
decrease of drunkenness during
the two periods named.
What did he report? Tha'
drunkenness increased under
the dispensary system thirty ont
per cent.
This information was sought by
Gov. Evans to be used in hi
message to the Legislature; but
did he use it? Not one word O.
syllable of it,"
Mayor Sloan further says that
at least fifty persons in Columbi;
have made a living under tht
dispensary system by buying
quart Of liquor in the morning
from the dispensary, land will
the bottle in one pocket and
glass in the other, going abou
town peddling it out in drinks t,
persons who could not buy
half pint. Thus Columbia ha.
substituted for a bonded licens,
system over fifty perambulatins
bar>rooms moving about it,
streets, absolutely above and be-
yond the law and responsible tt
no one for any of the consequen.
ces the sale of their vile liquo.
may cause. Moreover, the Mayo,
adds: "They cannot be suppress
ed. We have done our best, ye
they increase and flourish"
1t is a matter of common re.
port that liquors are publicly
sold in most Of the large town!
and cities of South Carolina. ant
that in Charleston, the metro,
polls of the State, there are a
least 300 places where liquor cal
be obtained without any trouble
and with very little pretence o
concealment.
The last Site administration
in South Carolina, acknowled.
ged that there were over 100 q
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