The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-05
sourp cARoLlNA.s LIQUOR SYSTEM.

current number OF Frank Lesies Monthly Sena-
Tman has paper concerning the dispensary laws of
that state in which he it with the license laws
of other states 1t is shown that prohibition Kansas.
population very nearly South Carolina there
727 government licenses retailing liquor, or one to
5e5 population. South Carolina there are 1191 Ii
censes or one SIS Of population. In South Carolina
there are licenses or one zoos people Govern
ment licenses authority sell liquor They are
merely evidence that the retailers has been paid But
of course it is legitimate inference that the possession
license means its Senator Tillman remarks
that he thinks it anomalous that the government should
licenses states where the sale OF liquor is pro
hbted by state law OF 446 persons who have paid
the government license in South Carolina only nnetyfour
are under the law The other $50 illicit dealers
q majority of whom in the city of Charleston
The dispensary system South Carolina restricts the
right manufacture sale of liquor TO the state which,
through directors purchases the liquor under
competitive bids liquor is analysed by the state
chemist that is pure There is central depot
at Columbia the liquor is bottled The largest
quantity put up is four gallons the smallest half
pint. The bulk is in pnts and quarts. Everything Is
kept in stock for which is demand and all the
liquors are labeled South Carolina Dspensary There
nneyour dispensers appointed by county boards OF
control they be not addicted to the use OF
liquor beverage Counties have local option and there
dispensaries but it is noted that IN
dry counties there is as much drunkenness as IN
the other counties.
In the dispensares the price list is conspicuously
posted The place of sale is plain with counter
The purchasers must i'll slip giving his age and
residence this is kept file the purpose being TO
account for every drop of liquor that the dspensary ham
dies No one is allowed to drink on the premises There
no credit system The profit of the dispensary goes half
to the county half TO the town the state getting
its pronts on the prices charged to the local dispenser
The net profits state county and town for eleven
months ending with December 1900, we're S523,54-
states profits go the common school fund
Senator Tillman sums up what he thinks are the ad
vantages of the system % That liquor is the only artl
Gle of commerce in general that is consumed at the
time and place of its purchase 1t is safe to say he thinks
that threefourths the liquor is thus consumed The
dspensary will allow nothing of this purchaser
after buying it must go elsewhere consume it 90 The
element personal profit which is at the root OF the saloon
evil is destroyed by the dspensary system as the dis
pensers receive salaries and have interest in fostering
the trade S) Treating destroyed, which is great help
towards sobriey ( The dispensary is only from
O'Clock in the morning shutdown The testimony OF I'M
biased judges is South Carolina drunkenness has
been reduced per &c cent since the dspen-
sary went into effect The law. Senator Tlman says
has been subjected series of bitter contests but it
has always trunphed he thinks is safe to that
it is fixture in South Carolina