The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-02-15
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be was elected.
The prohibition bill Of Mr.. MeCul-
Tough is retroactive obnoxious to
both the other factions. To enact
that bill into law will be TO open
drug stores which practically will be
blind tigers. Should it become a
law, it provides that to purchase
liquor a physicians certificate is
necessary. For other uses there are
no requirements except to sign an
application. Why is it he could not
walk down the streets Of Columbia
and buy a drink Of whisky at 10
o'clock at night? Because OF the
prohibition features of the dispen-
sary, and he wanted more prohibit
= ton.
Yesterday the state board Of con-
troll bought roo barrels Of whiskey,
or s,4OO a year. That is boodwink-
ing the people of South Carolina who
voted for prohibition. Selling 100
gallons of liquor every day in the
interests of prohibition. If it takes
8 majority of 10000 to take one step
toward prohibition, how much Of q
majority would it take to get there.
The liquor trait: is the greatest
octopus in the country and South
Carolina is the centre. drawing in all
kinds Of damning ilh fences. xvi
; dences of it were seen here on the
floor recently.
Mr. Efrd asked if Mr. Smith
could prove that foreign whisky con-
Germs Influenced South Clrolina
elections.
Mr.. Smith said that it was un-
necessary to prove self evident facts
to the intelligent gentlemen.
Mr.. Sharpe of Lexington said that
be was here to defend a law which
had outlived the assaults of the news
papers and the enmity of the courts.
We had as we'll meet these questions
s~quarely. Every one of these sub
stitutes is directed atthstlaw, which
has done more for South CAROLINA
than any other law.
Did you ever see the time when
liquor did not enter into politics." be
said in reply to the charges that dis
pensary had entered into politics.
The dispensary law has done more
for the morals, for the education of
the people, than any other.
He claimed that the cleanest poll
tics South C4rolina had ever seen
had come since the enaction Of the
dispensary law. Such a moral insti-
tuition why did not the Christian
people teach their children to pray
for it.
The high license nan says that "if
liquor must be sold, let US make a
profit" The dispensary man says
let US get this money to support u
schools.
Where does the money come from?
1t is like the man who applies the
leech to his arm and then abstracts
his own blood from the ]eech to en-
rich his body.
Where does that money come from?
1t represents the suffering Of the
poor, it represents crime. 1t comes
from the pockets Of those to whom it
is in part returned. Supply creates
demand, and if you increase the sup.
ply, then you increase the demand.
Judge of the eff let's of the sale OF
liquor in the home, in society. The
home is the foundation of the govern
ment and the boy is the centre OF the
home. Let US draw around every
home the protecting circle CT the
law.
Mr.. Prince Of Anderson said that
his delegation stood in a peculia: posi-
ton. Last spring the county con.
vention demanded that their repre-
sentives carry out their will. The
people of Anderson voted for prohi-
bition, pure and simple, not a farce.
He was at variance with the majority
of the people of his county on the
question. He came here in accord
ance with their bill and asked for
prohibition pure and straight, not a
drug store prohibition.
Mr.. Blythe said that be had heard
the discussion of the original dispen-