The age-herald., 1899-01-12
SENATOR MOODY'S
 DISPENSARY BILL He Mill Explain It to a Birmingham
 Audience. DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS
Docs Not Make the State Wholesale
 Dealer,
NOR THE COUNTY A RETAIL AGENT
Hits More at the Diminution of the Treating Habit Allowing a Man to Make But One Pur chase
 in Every 24 Hours.

State Senator Moody, of Tucaloosa, will be the principal speaker at a meeting at Seals hall tonight.
 Senator Moody will discuss his dispensary bill introduced at the last session of the legislature and which is on the calendar for the day after reconvening.
 Senator Moody's bill differs very mater ially from the dispensary law now in vogue in South Carolina, or on the statute books of any other state. It neither makes the state the wholesale dealer, nor the coun- ties the retail agents.
 The Wholesale Dealer
 In South Carolina the state is the sole wholesale liquor dealer, supplying the coun- ty dispensaries, which are the retail shops of the state. They are strictly shops, for they do not contains bars any other n- viting adjuncts or surroundings. Liquor can only be bought at them in quantities exceeding one-half pint, between sunrise and sundown, and none of it can be drank on the premises.
 Senator Moody's bill does not put the state in the liquor business It does not put the system upon even a comity. It does not apply to strictly rural districts at all. It is a city or town measure. It's first section plainly sets forth the scope of the bill, and it is printed in full:
 Section 1. Each incorporated town or city which is a county seat, and in which the sale of liquor is not now prohibited by law, shall have authority, and it shall be it's duty, to conduct and carry on in it's corporate name, in it's corporate capacity, and through its legislative body, the busi- ness of buying and selling spirituous, vim ous and malt liquors, subject to the condi- tions and restrictions hereinafter mention- ed. The place at which said business is carried on shall be called a dispensary. In each of said towns or cities which has population of ten thousand or less, there shall be one dispensary and only one. In towns or cities having a population greater than ten thousand, and not exceeding twen- ty thousand, there may be two dispensaries. In general, there may be in each city dis pensary for every ten thousand of it's pop ulation. Cities whose population is over twenty thousand, and between multiples of ten thousand, may have a dispensary for every ten thousand, and an additional dis pensary for the excess of it's population over the lower one of the said multiples. The population of towns and cities shall be determined by the last preceding cen- sus. These dispensaries shall be carried on only within the corporate limits of such towns or cities. Each of said municipai- ties shall invest in said business a sum of money not less than three hundred dollars, nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars, for each dspensary it may carry on. The liauors bought and sold as herein provided shall be of the purest and best quality. The bill as it stands is compulsory in county seats, be they large or small. It has no reference whatever to districts out of the sound of the court house bells. The bill provides for the payment of licenses to both county and state, and its codes of penalties is confined to fines, and none of them being very heavy. It strikes at the habit of treating even more effectually, it is said, than does the South Carolina plan, for it proves that a man can make only one purchase a day. The theory of the bill rests upon a diminution in the habit of treating, and decrease in temptation, and to that end all dispensers are paid fixed salaries.
 The pastors of the city have interested themselves in the meeting tonight, and it is thought that a large crowd will be present. The address begins at o'clock