The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-02
THE DISpENSARY.

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the campaign, but a large majority o1
the prohibltion!sts were my Illenos'
and as the issue promised - MAKE
things very complicated, it was nnsAy
agreed that a box should be provided
at each democratic club in wnlcn Iae
question Ct prohibition OF hcease
should be voted cn.
Prohibition won by a majority CT
ten thousand, the vote standing 20
600 against ard $4,000 f2r pcohlol'
tion. But there were mere than So
600 voters wco did not express them
selves on tie question, therefore,
prohibition di1 It receive MAJ 'r'ty
in the State. mention this bee iuse
7 have been repeatedly Charged with
cheating the prchbition'Sis cut O.
their victory and Of forcing the dis
oeDsary law On the people. Wf:en the
| LEGISLATURE met the Rouse OF Repre-
sentatives felt constrain d to pass
prchib;tica law and they did pass
such till, but l sugg s-ed to the
Senate tbe adpisabili5y Of substitute
ing the DspenSary law f; r the proll-
bition bill and the House accept-d the
camprom Sc. The word 'DispenSary"
was in the prohibition bill. All Of
the frame work Of the prt sent d'Spen-
sary law was in the prohib ti"n bill, l
only changed the title, struck cut
some provisions and put il Ctners and
provided for the dispensary system,
having liquor sold by the State
through its bonded Officers with the
croft going to the people rather than
having it sold by an individual with
the profit going into his own private
pocket.
think did my duty. So far kno"
YOU have voted On this issue i've
times and the Dispensary always won
and until you see ii to change it am
willing to let it stand, and still say
it is the best control OF liquor ever
devised by human haods, and you
have to deal with men and matters as
they are rather tran as you would
like them to be. Now the particular
law eiver and man who deals with
conditions as they are and knows
these conditions clearly Is the man
who is best qualified to determine
What shall te done in governments.
The man vino ho dS his head high and
looks at beautiful star and moves
forward, with bis eyes on the ideal,
.,oes not see the pitfalls which are
about bis feet. I try to live up TO my
IDEAL, but I keep ny eyes on the
ground so that | can see where tne
pitfalls are. I am rot here 10 say
ANYTHING about the prohibition idea.
II I felt that it was possible, l would
vote the Dispansary Law out, out l
know the prohibition idea can not be
ur.ied out. The question is, how
will you handle this dcmon OF whis-
keyo The DiSpensary system is sale
in the way that teaches the people
now to use it instead Of abus ng it..
There are people who hold it isa criue
to sell LIQUOR except for medicinal pur'
poses. There are some who 80 so far
as to say, it is crime TO drink wals-
key. never saw it that way. | had
it out with the preachers IN 1900.
The Bishop down he at Spartanburg
called me a liar right out IN Confer
ence, and another high muckimuck
from the Baptist Church in Greenville
preached a sermon and fayed me
alive almost, so 1 went to the Bible,
which / had cot studied over much,
but 10 where could l fad any where
that 1t was a sin to drink Wnlskey or
to sell it. There was one text, don't
care to quote it, giving that view
whereas, there are a dozen or more
where men are told to drink, and in
stances are told in the lives OF pro-
phe is where they drank.
I Rev. Mr.. Hickson: They didn't
have any LIQUOR in that time.
Senator Tillman: Well they had
something that made them drunk, for
old man Noah was made drunk. They
did not know how to diStill whiSkey
cut they used the juice Of the grape
and it made people drunk.
Rev. Mr.. Hickson: Does the Bible
justify old Noah fol getting drunk?
Senator Tillman: l didn't say the
Bible justified it. A good many
things are done which the Bible
doesn't justify. Come up here, I want
to shake your hand.
Rev. Mr.. Hickson comes up on TIE
rostram shakes hands with the Sena-
tor and sits down.
Well, as invited joint discussion
when got up here, I supposed if any
thing Of the sort was to come of there
would have been an understanding to
that effect, but invite the advocates
Of those fighting the Dispensary to
ctme on up. II my friend here makes
any holes in my stocking, I simply
want two or three minutes to pick up
the stitches. Taking my view OF pro-
hibition, I think l have made it clear
enough that it is a little too high for
US. The old bar room idea is simply
an i'm apostolic thing now, and / can't
conceive Of the people Of South Car
olina wanting it back again. / can't
conceive OF how the people Of South
Carolina will ever 60 back to the old
scheme OF selling. The bar loom With
it's fnelmirrows and cut glass which
would draw your boys in through the
back door on Sunday.
In 1900 when this issue was last
voted on, I asserted what appeared
to me to be plain fact, that the
preachers and tarkeeperS were allied
together, the angels Of light and the
sons OF darkness, fighting side BY sids,
the one to have bar rooms and the
other to have prohibition. Are they
together in this fight: I don't know
whether these men who used to make
money in the liquor business are now
the head lights in the prohibition