The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-11-05

.: IS the dispensaty. Ben Tillman
,u1 .ad the devil saddled the thing on
Snuth Can Carolina and the politicians
- ND the devil are running it with the
sa ~ of fools and rascals who buy the
,;nuor. r Whiskey Is sold from the
a d;sneusary from sun up till sun down
nd nd the prices range from 10 cents for
h.lf s mint bottles to s1.00 for pint bot
los los. from popskill to ''good likir."
n,ummers and gentlemen" buy the
n.ood ticker" and negroes and poor
wb;tes buy the 10 cents pint stuff.
All the dispensaries Of the State are
furnished their liquor from the Colum-
h;a wholesale shop. The State takes
rs profits at headquarters before the
town a : county dispensaries get
hold of it. Then the town and coun-
~ divide the profits equally. And
the work Of drunkard making goes
steadily on. I find in mipgling with
the people Il mean the good people)
for 90 with no other sort, are all
opposed to the dispensary. They say
It's better than the saloon. Just as
they prefer measles to smallpox.
They say it's death to morals and
manhood, whether it's furnished by
saloon, blind tiger or dispensary.
The dispensary is es much in poll
tics in South Carolina as the saloons
of Chicago or Atlanta are in politics.
Therefore both gangs know that when
they 60 out of politics they must go
out Of business. And so it goes, and
it looks like as long as the Internal
greed OF whiskey dealers and the in
fernal appetite for drink shall rossess
men that the traffic will go on, but
l am still at my old game fighting the
gangs on both sides. They tell me- I
cant stop it, but I tell them that I
am like the boy who grabbed the calf
By the tail and the calf took off down
the road at break neck speed, and the
boy keeping up with the procession,
and by and by gentleman said to the
boy: "Tom, what are you doing with
that calf?" 81 am trying to stop
him. "You can't stop him that
way" said the gentleman. II know
I cant" said the boy, "but I'm slow
ing him up some."
So say, gentlemen, while I may
never be able to stop the gang, I have
them by the tail and hope to slow
them up somewhat. I asked the hotel
man in one Of the South Carolina
towns if the drummers bought much
dispensary liquor, he replied not
much. A few Of them still drink,
but as rule when q drummer gets
drunk at my hotel, he don't come
back any more. l inquire Of him,
and learn his house had fred him.
He said find that drinking or gamb-
ling drummers are growing soarcer
and scarccr every year. Their houses
fire them soon as they get on to them.
Liquor was never under bond like
it is today, the fellows who drink it
as the low down white folks, and me-
groes, who have nothing to loose, or
the wellto do fellows, who can afford
to be vagabonds for they have money
and money not only makes the FLY
go, but it makes dog respectable. /
keep saying that the last man of us
vas born half dog and half man,
and many men have fed the dog in
them and starved the man, until the
man in them is dead and the dog full
grown, and there are thousands of fell
lows, who if they had little more
|halr and tail they could go to run
ping rabbits for a negro. ALI dog,
Ps tor nothing but bologna sausage.
whiskey is splendid dog food. and
|nan poison.
And the Georgia Legislature is in
PPesslon again. l have not had time
70 look up the pedigree Of it's members,
pc into their habits. / will look into
snOss things later along-msybe. IF
|ts worth while. I wonder what they
Tlil DC with the depot matter. Jos
aill Hall 10 on top at these writings.
Poe Is the only fellow who can say,
told you so.' But the roads will
fll soon be under one general mango
s3ent, and then the thing will be too
pig to tackle. This is your last chance
< or never. If you
|spon't build they will. and 1 don't
%EnoE s. but both Of you had better build.
|ine etate and the railroads. We will
want depot for the poor little w. &
=. /, bye and bye. But dom. let any,
,tQlNu hn HNno Al am.