The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-18

who got the half pint, and then got
drunk after he left town before he got
home. Talk about the dispcnsary
lcsscning the consumption Of liquor as
beverage. Then why does the State
Board have to meet every month to
lay in increased stocks of liquor
Surely the bottle maker has had bo-
nanza. Well might he cxclaim, "Let
me make bottles for the South Caro-
lima dispcnsary and care not who
makes her laws
But true prohibitionists are not 60
ing to be fooled by all this scare crow
business; not while the present consti-
tuition remains in force. Most Of
them know that Section II, Article
VIII, stands in the way. 1t has a
little previous clause which reads as
follows: provided that no license
shall be granted to sell alcoholic bev-
cragcs in less quantities than one half
pint, or sell them between sun down
and sunrise; or sell them to be drunk
on the premises. And provided fur
thcr that the General Assembly shall
not delegate to any municipal corpora
ton the power to issue license to sell
the same Upon this the prohibi-
tionists stand and the man who as
srrts to the contrary simply misrcprc-
scnts them, and does so from selfish
and mcrcenary spirit.
Again. one man says the people will
have liquor. IF they will then let
some one else furnish it. | must de-
cline by my vote to be party to the
sale, and the man who sells it shall
not be my agent. Only murdcrcrs are
supposed /" ask the questions: cam
| my brothers kccpcr?''
Every honest man should feel his
responsibility to his ncighbor. a
poor dissipatcd man comes to me and
says: 81 am bound to have liquor,
sell me some. say to myself.
We'll, ;his man says he is bound to
have it, if don let him have it and
get the profit out Of it some one else
will, and my conscience is clear be-
cause lie says he just will buy it,"
NO your dispcnsary man says, II
would scorn to do that Your man is
bound to have it, and so Ill just let
the State sell it to him. 0, no, I
could not think Of taking that mans
money for liquor, but | II let the State
take it and use part of the profits to
educate the children. l am moral
man nrysclf. -
Ah! these self same righteous Phari-
sees! They will strain at cnat anI
swallow camel. They look for
"motcs in the eyes of the prohibi
tionists but never consider the great
beam that is in their own eye. He
justl6es the sale Of liquor by his State
because the man said he was bound to
have liquor, and his State could get
the profits of the trade. He was too
clean and holy to do it himself, but he
would make the Government do the
evil business. We may grant that
some will buy liquor, and that there
are many men who can use it with
moderation, but to every one who can
thus control his own appetite, there
are hundreds that are helpless. Such
men need help and restriction. o. Then
how can any moral upright man vote
to continue his Government in bust
ness admitted to be an evil,-a bust
ness the voter would not think of do
ing himself for a moment; business
that increases degradation, degenera-
tion, want: misery and crime?
Every man who votes to perpetuate
the dispensary law says by that act to
the thousands who arc addicted to the
liquor habit: "buy all the liquor you
want. You are free born American.
1t is your privilege to make hog Of
yourself if you want .o,--go in and
take your fill. You can shoot and kill
while drunk. Our juries are men of
like passions, and will make apology
to the world for you, because you were
drunk" Now, I insist If the StSte ia
to be placed into this liquor business
for oil time, the profits should be used
deny the right Of the Government to
make her citizens drunka,ds and pan
pers, and then when they have no
money to buy bread and meat to force
the tax payers to maintain them.
No man need tell US he is prohibi-
ZIONIST and yet refuse to vote for pro-
hibition. There is one eternal and
divine law by which we are authorized
to judge men. "Do men gather grapes
or thorns, or figs from thistles?" HE
that is not for us is against us" "By
their fruits ye shall know them" The
tree is known byi fruit. The fruits
Of the dispensary law have been bitter
and bloody. It has been honey COM
bed with frauds and perjuries, deceit
and lying. (Thc public has hardly
forgotten the disclosures in the Dou-
thit case, but it was all hushed whom
the Legislature oouv5ned.l This be-
lug iiay case, this iispeusary irye inai
aourishoth so, and like the deadly
Upas fatal to all who come under it's
shade, should be dug up root and
branch. The prohibitionists have laid
the axe to the root, and let all who
will come to our help. Col. Hoyt will