Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1900-07-28

ports prohibition, but his word is
pledged that he will lay aside
this platform until the common
desire of all factions opposing
the dispensary law can be con
summated in it's repeal.
To the result no one can be in.
different. 1t is no obtuse theory
that is hard TO understand that
is presented to the people Of
South Carolina, but a question
that reaches down to the homes
and into the hearts of the people.
There are few of us-there are
no good men-who would not if |
they could wipe out every drop
of whiskey in existence and for
ever make impossible it's manu-.
facture. The evils wrought by the
drink habit are too apparent, too
far reaching, too enormous not to
be thoroughly realized. Most of
us have felt in our own lives the
blighting curse, and have seen all
around us too much Of its hellish
fruit not to hate 1t in our hearts.
1t is natural that good mon
should seek a way to counteract
it's evil effects. 1t is natural that
men should seek every means in
their power to this end. Thus
most Of us have at times support.
ed prohibition, and at the cleo
ton of 1899, with q bar room
under our nose on every corner,
the state voted the bar room
down by a majority of 10000.
Most of the states of the United
States not dominated by large
foreign population have had a
like experience, and have sought
various remedies and have tried
numerous experiments. 1t is
matter of regret that most of
them have failed In accomplish
ing the end desired, but in their
failure there are lessons to be
learned by the people nf this state
IN the present emergency that we
can use with profit.
1t is the desire to put certain
facts that may influence our de
cision in the possession of the
people that prompts this circular.
That these facts will be read and
pondered by the patriotic and
we'll meaning voter, we are as.
sured. 1t is their verdict that
will be effected thereby, and not
that of the ambitious politician
who wonld ride into office on a
political issue which he hopes to
create, without real sympathy
for, or belief in, the principles he
so loudly proclalms.
PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
1t is we'll known, and has been
asserted by every temperance
lecturer, that prohibition has had
it's best opportunity to succeed
and has met it's best success in
Maine. 1t has been on the stat
ute books of that qtate for over
40 years and has seen two geper-
ations grow up under its opera
tions. There has been no legal
sale of whisky in Maine during
that period. Are the people tenn
perate, more than in other places 2
Has it been enforced2
That conditions in Maine are
far worse than In South Caro-
lima, or even in states where high
license prevails, all fair. minded
men must conclude.
A few years ago an association
of so of the leading preachers,
college professors, educators, and
literary men of the country was
formed to investigate the success
of the efforts being made to cur
tail the consumption of liquor.
T!' association sent agents to a
nuuIber of the states Of the Union
including Name, South Carolina,
Iowa, Massachusetts, and Penn
sylvauia. Their agents spent
months in these and other states
and made thorough investigation,
taking nothing for granted and
accepting no information but
what they could verify them-
selves.
One agent reported that in the
city of Portland, Maine, having
less than 10000 Inhabitants-but
little larger than Columbia--he
had found 1872 places where liquor
was sold, mot including pocket
peddlers, houses of i'll fame, ex-
press companies, clubs and GER
tain oyster restaurants" That,
while the present investigation
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