The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-19


which, when used in lawful manner,
are subjects of property and Of com
mcrcc, and yet may be used SO az to
be injurious or dangerous to the life,
the health or the morals Of the people.
Gunpowder, for instance, is subject
Of commerce and Of lawful use, yet,
because of its explosive and dan
gcrous qualities, all admit that the
State may regulate its keeping and
sale. And there is no article, the
right of the State TO control or to pro-
hibit the sale or manufacture of which
within its limits is better established
than intoxicating liquors
There is profit to State in any
form of licenses, yet license has been
held to be police regulation even
when protecting license holders in
monopoly Of sale, until Judge Simon
tons lent decision, above quoted,
allowed liquors sc "or;siuai packagey"
to entor State $50 long" as their
manufacture, purchase or sale, or
their use as beverage in any form or
by any person are recognized ~ In
ter-State commerce has, according to
Judge Simonton, destroyed the police
power unless State declares the use
Of liquor as beverage to be contrary
to good morals aud against the health
of the people. No license system
doeH this. We cannot, therefore, get
protection from "free liquor" by such
enactment. We can, however, get re-
lief by doing away with the profit
feature, as the following quotation
from the Vandercook decision shows
"The decision Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States must control all
Circuit Courts. By this decision it
is clear that so long as the State her
self engages in the business of import
ing and selling alcoholic liquors for
the purpose of profit so long as she
recognizes that the use of alcoholic
liquors as beverage is lawful and
can be encouraged so long as she
seeks monopoly in supplying these
liquors for that use, and in this way
looks to an increase Of her revenue,
she cannot, under her Constitutional
obligations to the other States OF this
Union, control, hinder and burden
commerce in such articles between
their citizens and her own" Here is
the law and we must obey it until
Judge Simonton is overruled by the
Supreme Court or By Congress. I'm
der Licensees system, inasmuch as the
State would receive money, these
"original packages would continue
to come in, and Judge Simonton would
continue to "enjoin" the State officers
from interfering with them. Let US,
therefore, DO what Is left us. and
wait for action at Washington. The
money used in conducting the
dispensaries and in enforcing the law
could not be regarded as profit, but as
expended as purely and solely for
maintaining the morals and health Of
the people. Judge Simonton might
deelsFc this not 20 bs an szessiza .,e
the police power; but we will have to
riak it, aud depend for our security
on wks. he himself has written il
various decisions.
THE STATES EDUCATION SYSTEM.
The Constitutional three-mills tax
for school purposes yields on the pres
ent assessed value Of property some
thing over 100000. This is a large
sum to collect from tax-burdened
people, aud this money should be so
expended as to secure the best posi-
bic results. With this increased cx-
penditure Of money on the public
schools the people have the right to
expect better results than have hereto
fore been secured. In the cities and
in majority Of the towns the schools
are. we'll sustained and meet the de-
mands upon them; but in the country
tho results are generally, very unsatis-
factory. With better school houses
aud better equipment and better
teachers. boys aud girls could be pre-
pared pared se- celleese At the common
schoelsin the country without need
j ing &c :=ae course in ntting schools
preparatory to entering college. The
States educational systom, including
all schools, high and low, primary,
secondary and collegiate, looks.t 70 one
end aud ain,-to correct illiteracy, 20
dispel ignorance, to train intelligent
aud patriotic citizens. Il is sustain
ed by public appropriations, gathered
bytaxation from every class Of citi-3
zens. Il exists for tho benefit Of all
the people Of the Commonwealth. aud