Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-11-09

and while the old cabarets have beer
closed, the number of places whore
drink is to be obtained has probabl,
increased" ....... ....
Who. has not seen in South Caro-
lima these alleway and roadside gath
erings, whore dispensary TASKS arc
passed from mouth to mouth unit
omptied ? Who does not recognize
IN the rxtomporized "olubs" of oul
larger ci'ies places "where those who
bought their drink from the govern.
ment's agencies resort for it's con.
sumption " Who does not know
that our ''blind tigers" are the equiv
alents of Russia's "illicit establish.
mcnts," aud that the number of
drinking places here has increased
by the governments monopoly
"While the law forbids in sweep
ing terms the sale of liquors, oven
by restaurants, except in closed bot
ties and at fixed prices, it is provided
that the administrators of the law
may grant special dispensations from
this restraint"
"Hotel privileges''
"The character of the Russian civil
service is gener,,lly understood, and
it is easy to imigino the "richness"
OF the opportunity to exercise this
discretionary power. But such
power would corrupt any civil SER
vice. 1t is an illustration of the es-
>sential evil of despotio government,
and it may be laid down as an axiom
that wherever privileges are granted
according to the discretion of officers
of government, these officers will be
venal."
How it fits Look at our State
dispensary to-day.
"Tho spirit of the law is also yio-
lated by recent enactment author
izing the sale of drink on commission
by private establishments"
"Beer dispcnsaries !'
"Morcover, it is charged that the
spirits furnished by the government
are to I: great extent distilled from
potatoes, and contain larger pro-
portion of injurious elements than
liquors distilled from grain"
Consider our cologne spirits One x !
"Whcn it is added that the gov
ornmcnt establishes it's agencies in
communities where the sale of liquor
was formerly prohibited by "local
option," We may well conclude that
fiscal gains can be figured
out from making tho liquor business
government monopoly, the losses
IN other ways more than counter
balance"
We, too
Our thanks to the Russian Society
If Public Hygiene and to tho New
ork Evening Post for their On
tightening contributions. We take
occasion to remark to the people of
south Carolina that sIike causes pro-
luce like effects" If these are the
ruits of government liquor monopo-
in Russia it is useless to deny the
x'stcncc of similar fruits proceeding
rom similar monopoly in South
jarolina. If in land of absolute
utocracy the highest health society ,
nay dare to point out the evils flow ,
ng from an act of the Gar, surely I
&c in South Carolina may be allowed
. point out like evils flowing from
he act of an cx-Czar. The time
hen ono mans word was law
this State has happily passed.
Our people can consider tho dis
ensary question dispassionately and =
&c that institution in the light cast d
n it by its own guardians. when
'ey find that after fourteen years' G.
Experiment. in Russia, with an auto
ratio government to back it and
cople unopposed to it on principle, p
le dispcnsary is still failure in its p
legged moral mission they may well 7
SIX themselves whether it can be
adc success in South Carolina. :,
hat it is now both moral and q u
nancial failure here is unquestiona- II
@. Shall we follow Russia farther Il
I this miry road ?--The State. b