The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-05-04
The Fight Which PrOhibitioniStS are
Making Against Prohibition.

! With perfect respect for the Chester Ian
tern, we would like for that paper to give
the public fair and judicial Judgment rs
to who are thereal prohibitioniSts or friends
OF temperance.
As the law now stands We have prohihi-
ton for fourteen hours in every twenty
four hoarS. and We have prohibition from
six O'Clock on Saturday evening until eight
o'clock Monday morning.
Our much respected friend may Y;.l.ur:-
Der that the temperance peopl" several
years ago, without any effort to secure any
public Office, made united effort to have
enacted Il prohibitory law for the State
In that effort they Won 4 partial victory
and secured a law which gives absolute.
prohibition for fourteen hours III cvrry
twenty-four.
The bars were closed it is la?c,i for
ever.
Instead OF The gilded palaces and the
dingy dark hovels from which tho v;lest
stuff could be dealt out at early ;.l hours
OF the night, and which We're net ALWAYS
closed on Sunday. We have for ten hours n
day, TIE open dispensary al wEich ,irunfen
Sots may hot corgregate. The temptation
that led the feet Of so many Of our ,onr,
men into devlous wiyS no !ong". exists
Instead of no practical ciosj!i, oE the H.
quor SaloonS night, day, or Sunday, we
nave the sale of iqnor restricted to only
sixty hours in the week;
To say that the Temperance i,eopi- Won q
great victory il; the changed conditions OF
affairs will not be denied by any zeal friend
Of Temperance whose Judgment and pre-
ceptives are not warped by political conl;-
tons.
If the 'prohi;itioniSts' of the State are
really DESTROYS Of promoting temperance,
we would suggest that HEY remain with
their natural allies and friends where they
could legitimately expect to WELD an ii,fu-
ence.
Instead of throwing away what We have
gained, and Instead of qrarrellins over the
Offices, would it not be better to stand to-
getLcr and, when We can be united again,
make another Gracd rally for further re-
strict!ons against the traffic i; liulor
During life Of nearly sixty Years, this
editor has never swallowed one ounce OF
whisaey that was not prescribed in sick.
ness. in that life no opportunity was ever
lost IN glvlnga lick against whlskey.
We have lived. Sept and bad our being
on the public square Of Abbevile for more
than thirty years. During that time We
have had in Abbeville prohibition. license,
high license and the dispensary. There
can be no doubt in the mind of well in.
formed friends of temperance as to the
solution Of the question. For this reason,
this newspaper will stand for the dispen.
sary now and forever.
If friends of Temperance should max. a
campaign on the question of opening toe
dispensary for fewer hours they will have
the hearty and enthusiastic support CT this
newspaper.
But DO movement which seeks to enlarge
the sale of iiqnor, or proposes to remove a
single existing barrier to its sale, will cvel
get the support Of this paper.
We are very SORT: to part company with
our "prohib:tion" friends who are making
such vigorous fight against prohibition,
but we are still standing for temperance
and real prohibition. II the men who are
supporting our erra;;c friends are not
enough to excite question in their own
minds, then we presume that nothing we
could say would lead them to question
their course --Abbevil!e Press and Banner.