The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-02-16

D2re we lO0k Tile tTutu stluale'J I'LL"
family? Shall we as weakllngs
stultify ourselves we do what's right?
When will We ever become ready for
prohibition? When will the human
! race arrive at the stage where pas
! sion is held in obeyarce? AS men,
let US not compromise with evil.
Mr.. Mauldin had been disposed to
dodge the measure. At first he was
not satisfied that this was prohi-
b;tion measure. lie is for prohibition
| straight. We should rise man to
man and WELD the sceptre of prohi-
bition in South Carolina. Start pro
hibition at home.
Mr.. Livingstone's bill! had cleared
everything out of the way and be
! was obliged to vote for the amend
ment.
Mr.. Stevenson had considered the
question with uncertainty. [ have
listened in vain for some measure to
be introduced which will give us
State control. I prefer to go into
system of free saloons rather than to
continue as it is without State con-
stables. Men had come into tie
State, as he had predicted, and were
operating with no license and prac-
tically no restrictions. As soon as
the mandate of the United States
Supreme Court is given out. South
Carolina will again be humiliated.
Why was not some bill introduced
which would get around the inevlt-
able decision Of the court.
Mr.. Wyche wanted every man to
vote for that law which will minimize
to the greatest extent that terrible
hibit. The dispensary law is inf
nitely better than the blind tigers,
which will be born with the prohi
bition law. You will never enforce
prohibition until people quit drink
ing liquor. Which is the best, pro-
hibition, high license OF the dispen-
sary? The dispensary law, hampered
and fought as no other, is still a
grand success. Shall we fly off at
tangent and follow phantom, a
theory?
Mr.. Efrd could not refrain from
giving utterance to one thought. He
is a Carolinian and he knows that the
people of Carolina will give up to no
power. Stand to your colors. When
you go down, go down standing firm.
Why is that when the liquor question
is agitated that we see ministers and
liquor men locked arms against the
law?
NIr. Childs rises to a question Of
personal privileges and Indignantly
repudiates and denies the insinuation
that prohibition men and ministersare
seen arms and arms with liquor men.
Their objects are the same, but their
reasons different.
Mr.. Eird: "The CALLED jade winces."
Mr.. Childs does not deny that they
worked together, bat does deny that
their motives were the same, which
is true. TIE ministers were sincere.
The liquor men worked against tie
dispensary because they know thatif
prohibition is carried, that the liquor
men will come out On top eventually.
Just as long as grain is raised and
appetites are in mans bosom, so long
will liquor be drank. We are here
to legislate for the best interests OF
the State.
The people had said repeatedly
they never wanted high license as 'ip.
II we adopt prohibition, we will lie
driven back to the bar rooms, against
the wishes Of the people. When
distiller is placed in the State, by
whom is it licensed, by whom sus-
tanned, to whose benefit is the reve-
nne appropriated. The United States.
Ii it is right for the nation, just SO
long is it right for the State to make
revenue of liquor. We ought to re-
peal that clause in the constitution
which devotes the dispensary profits