The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-03-09

| pcnsary Is promoting sobricty and hon
csty in this State? Does the constant
increase in the sale Of liquor by the
State tcnd to improve the morals Of tho
people? Is the Dispcnsary law itself
enforced? Arc blind tigers unknown
In Ncwbcrry?"
| Tho above questions are prOpOundcd
by the Grccnvillc Mountainccr, brought
forth by an observation in one Of my
recent letters, that prohibition by
statutory enactment would be imprac-
ticable and result in failure. have al
ways held, and still hold, that temper.
ancc and sobriety arc good things, but
1T does not necessarily follow that you
hibiting the sale OF liquor. On the
contrary, do not believe that you can
secure them in that way or that you
| will promote in the least the cause OF
temperance and sobricty by prohibitory
| legislation. AS | understand the pro-
hibitionists they do not pretend to
! claim or hold that the manufacture
and sale Of liquor is in itself wrong, but
the evil comes in the excessive or In
temperate use Of 1t. They undertake
to correct the evil by prohibiting 1t
| rather than in an effort to make men
strong to resist the temptation to its
excessive use. You can't mako men
good or holy by removing temptation
from their paths. That is not tho
Scripture doctrine. Now, as to tho
| questions of the Mountainccr. | do
| believe that tho Disponsary has pro-
| NOTED the cause OF sobricty. Now, We
have only one place in Ncwbcrry Coun-
ty where liquor is legally sold, and at
| this place 1t is not sold after dark nor
| Is it sold by the drink, and when YOU
get 1t you have to put down tho cash.
Before tho Dispensary law came wo
had eight barrooms in tho town of New
berry, regularly and legally authorized
to sell liquor and you could get it from
daylight until the late hours OF tho
night, and you could buy it in any
quantity from a ten cent drink up.
You could take your friend in and "sct
EN- up,' and this social drinking led
more people into the drink habit than
any other feature. Then, too, You could
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it. 1t is true that the Dispensary law
is not rigidly and completely enforced
bat | would like for the Mountainous
TO tell me how prohibition law would
be enforced when the Dispcnsary is not
and thirty or forty men are kcpt con-
stantly at work watching for violators.
Under prohibition you would have no
provision by which to employ anyone
to enforce it unless you levied an extra
tax for the purpose. believe that
much OF the prejudice that has hereto.
fore existed against the Dispensary is
gone and that it is being constantly bet
ter enforced. AS to "blind tigers" in
Newberry If there are any they arc
very scarce and no more than existed
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