Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-04-28

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sent delegation of some hundred influ-
entail citizens to Raleigh in advocacy of
a dispensary. In that case there was
some doubt about the will of the people,
because of the fraudulent petition which
the saloon men had gotten up; so the
white voters were instructed to hold an
informal primary, and promised that the
legislature would act as the majority
voted. The dispensary majority was
overwhelming, and the law was passed.
In Charlotte, the most progressive city
of North Carolina, two ministers, two
laymen, and the writer of this article met
in conference and arranged for sending
out circulars and blank petitions to the
ministers of all the churches In the
county. The movement spread like
wildfire. Through the snow and sleet of
the great blizzard the couriers went on
horseback, from house to house, securing
signatures. In Charlotte mass meeting
was held, and more than hundred citi-
zens volunteered to go to Raleigh carry
the largest petition ever signed in a
North Carolina county, with 1920 names
of voters. The house passed the bill
unanimously, but 1t was defeated in the
senate because the senator from the
county concerned had pledged himself to
the saloon-keepers during the campaign.
But the matter has been merely post
poned, and it is only question of time
when the saloons in Charlotte and in
North Carolina generally will be super
seeded by dispensaries or closed by pro-
hibition.
In the smaller towns prohibition will
prevail. In the larger the di.pensary
will be advocated by the leaders of the
reform as preferable evento prohibition,
for under prohibition the danger of
"blind tigers" has to be taken into con.
sideration. The "blind tiger starves
under the dispensary system.
Another great advantage of the dis
pensary has not yet been named. The
dispensary has no vote. Instead of
number of saloOn-keepers, with their en-
ployees, and the business interests that
are connected with the saloon, there is
salaried officer or two, for whom the pub
lie is supposed to show little considera
ton. The saloon has vast number of
hangerson willing to do its bidding in
municipal election. The dispehsary has
no henchmen. 1t has no weapons to
fight with such as the saloon armOry
contains. 1t must stand upon its merits
as the solution of the liquor problem.
From the very moment when the hand
of law began to touch the business of
selling liquor, the saloon began its work
of cOrrupting the legislative and eXecu-
tive functions Of government in its own
defense. Even where prohibition pre-
walls, and there is chance of the rem
statement of the saloon, those financially
interested in the business are always
endeavoring to upset the established
order. The dispensary system not
only relegates the saloon henchmen to
the rear, but those politicians also who
depend for Office upon their influence
with the saloon vote. In other words,
the dispensary takes the liquor business
out of politics. Not only for sobriety of
life, but for purity in politics, the dis
pensary is an immense Improvement over
the open saloon.
Legal objections to the system are out
of date. The dispensary is not mo-
nopoly, according to the highest author
ity of American law. That law recog-
nizes the liquor traffic as the fruitful
source of disorder and crime. 1t belongs
to the state, in the exercise of its police
power, to say: Now that all restrictions
which my laws have thrown around the
traffic have proved unavailing, | shall
take the business into the strong hands
of my government and run it in the in
tcrests of decency and order.-Rev. A. j.
Mckelway of Charlotte, \. c., in Out
look.