The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-17

of liquor have increased Al per cent"
TO show what large increase Al per
cent means / will make a comparison.
IL the dispensary was a national
institution, and n the annual drink
bill of this nation was increased Al
per cent it would be larger by $780,
OOO, 900.
In Senator Tillman the dispensary
finds its chief advocate and defender.
This is enough to condemn 1t. We
are acquainted with the disgraceful
record of this 'pitchfork proposition"
who has defended cold blooded MUIR
der i'm the U. S. Senate. He has a
special interest i'm the dispensary as,
in measure, he is responsible for
its existence i'm his state. In 1892
the people of South Carolina by their
votes declared for prohibition of the
liquor traffic; but Senator Tillman
who was then governor defeated the
will of the people and secured the
enactment of the dispensary law.
A year ago last March he made
speech at n. Y. i'm defense of the dis
pensary. Prof A. A. Hopkins of that
city in review of the Senator's address
says:
"More than once he asserted that
the dispensary system "has reduced
drunkenness by fifty per cent?" but
i'm the face of this he said-"NOw
every man i'm the state carries cork
screw in his pocket" This would
mean that every man carries also a
bottle in his pocket, or keeps one at
constant command to satisfy his
thirst. If this condition would not
increase drunkenness, what would?
The Senator also urged that under
the dispensary system better quality
of whisky is provided; in proof of
which he told of one man who had
been in the habit of going to town
regularly and buying a quart of
whisky and stopping on the way
home to share it with couple Of
cronies, and reaching home straight
as line with not drop left in the
BOTTLE" When the dispensary law
went into effect, this man went to
town, got a quart of whisky, found IL
bigger quart than he had ever
bought before, and better quart, STOP
ped and chad few drinks with his
cronies, and knew nothing afterward
until O'Clock in the morning, when
he woke up in a cornfield, and found
that the bottle was only half empty!'
If less liquor, under the dispensary
law, would thus make a man drunk
sooner, and if every man in the state
carries corkscrew i'm his own pocket"
how could drunkenness be much
decreased? The Senator urged, as a
chief recommendation of his dis
pensary law, that sit has destroyed
treating;" but treating may be other
than drinking with another man
before a bar. The man who buys a
quart of whisky at the dispensary,
stops with it on the way home, and
shares it with a couple of cronies, Is
treating them as much as II he drank
with them at the bar; and if he carries
the bottle in his pocket and the dis
pensary corkscrew also, he is pretty
sure to treat his cronies more often
under the dispensary system than
ever he did before"
Last winter a bill was introduced
in the legislature Of Georgia to
establish the dispensary. Governor
Chandler who had observed the opera
tions of the dispensary. at Athens,
and in the neighboring state Of
South Carolina, opposed the bill for
the reason that it would 'set back the
cause Of temperance a generation"
TO the argument that the bill If en-
acted into law would be source OF
large revenue the governor replied:
Granted that it is true; can
Georgia afford to sanction a law max
ing every county and town in the
state proprietor of liquor shop tC
debauch the morals Of the youthi
Can she afford to put upon hei
statute book law to coin the tears
and blood Of the wives and children
of weak men into dollars?