Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-03-15
SAYS WHAT HE THINKS.

AS a rule, the county officers have
dispensary fight in Yorkville. Sheriff
Logan signed the dispensary petition
and voted for the dispensary because
he believed it an improvement on the
present situation. All the other offic-
ials, who were able to vote, kept their
own counsel, and, rather than other
wise, held 1t back from the public as
| to how they stood. Not so with Super
visor Gordon, however. He does not
i've in town and Is unable to vote here;
but from the beginning he has been
outspoken in his views, and 1t is not
necessary now to ask him twice to find
out where he stands. He thinks the
dispensary will be an abomination and
curse. Speaking Of the great moral
institution to the reporter few days
ago, he said:
1T is true that was unable to vote
in this election; but in that particular
think I was denied just privilege.
The unrestricted sale Of whisky in
Yorkville will affect the country people
more seriously than it will the town
people, and think that every man liv-
ing within ten miles Of the town should
have had sayso. The law that does
not allow them this sayso is, in my
opinion, unjust"
"You do not think the dispensary law
good thing?"
Most emphatically I do not. 1t
would be a good thing maybe, If 1t
were reversed in many Of its more I'M
portant provisions. For instance, the
law prohibits the sale Of whisky to hab-
itual drunkards. do not think that 1t
should be legal to sell to anybody else.
These poor fellows are lost anyway,
and being consumed by their thirst, 1t
Is cruel to attempt to deny them. In
stead Of this, however, the law, from
the manner in which it is framed,
seems to prefer to make habitual
drunkards Of sober men.
II seriously object also to the provis-
liquor shall be sold between sunset and
sunrise. I think that Is the proper
time to sell whisky If there is proper
time, and so also with the prohibition
against drinking on the premises.
That is all wrong. We do not want
people to either go home drunk, or get
drunk after they get home, and think
the law should require that no liquor be
drank except on the premises where
sold and that no man should be allow
ed to leave within six hours after he
has taken his last drink.
Then again, hear a great deal Of
talk about the desirability Of putting
good men on the county board Of con-
troll and in the dispensaries as dispen-
sers. BY good men are meant sober,
conscientious men-men of undoubted
integrity, etc. I am not in favor Of
this. Let them put in men Of just the
opposite character, for if they do not
start that way their connection with
the dispensary is liable to bring them
~ ~ ooOiASi ol illSis Noi yO0 Ola
exception"
"Oh, yes" the reporter interjected,
there are exceptions to all rules. I
have known good men on the board of
control"
Name one''
Mr.. T. NJ. Allen, of Harmony"
"Oh, yes" replied Mr.. Gordon, that
is true; but 1t does not contradict what
/ have to say. Mr.. Allen was selected
as member of the state board Of con-
troll because he was a sober citizen of
high character. He accepted in good
faith; but he was not long in seeing
through the whole thing, and he gave
proof of his real fitness by drawing out
at the very beginning. I am glad to
acknowledge Mr.. Allen as an honorable
and neither would I be un-
derstood as rejecting upon any indi-