The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-03-03
THE SCRANTON DISPENsARY.
A Correspondent Thinks That the Doors
of Hell Have Been Unlocked.

The following communication was
received from Scranton last Wednes-
day with the request that it be pub
lishcd, "e,ery word of it," in last
weeks issue. On account Its bella
ted arrival it was impractlcable to
publish it last week, but we give it
in full this week, unchanged and
unabridged.
SCRANTON, February 25:-On Sat-
urday, February the 20th, the dis
pcnsary here at Scranton was opened
by authority of the Board of Con-
troll vested in the power of three
men. One of the number came .in
person and unlocked the doors of
hell, where a swarm of human mag
gots groped all day long, and at eve
ming trailed themselves out in diff
ferent directions, throwing the
stencil of their odiousness into The
nostrils of all who were forced to
come il contact with them. These
were at last sisters, wives, children
and mothers. Were they not often
ded? Weak ones, who trusted their
welfare to those who took away the
frugal savings from the family and
brought back abuses on their
drunken tongues? Yes, they were
all hurt by these offenses; "but woe
unto him through whom they come.
1t were better for him that a mill
stone were hanged about his neck and
be cast into the sea, than that he
should offend one of these little
ones" Who are the little ones?
Not only the little children looking
to parents for admonition, but those
boys and mind "a great percentage
of whom cannot write or read their
names) looking to the better Informed
class for example, who set a decoy to
to undermine their true manhood.
Instead of instructing them to lc-
tain supremacy of the white race on
the soil earned by the blood of our
patriotic fore-fathers. they put in
their hands the poison that sends
them rceling arm III arm with a
thievish, unprincipled negro. Is 1t
much wonder that the negro i'll turn
tries to embrace the white mans
daughter?
Would it not be wiser for us to
use our town tax money and surplus
TO educate our white children, rather
than hire lawyers to plead for dis
pensary? Everything has two sides.
Let us hear the argument of those
who advocate a dispensary. They say
'it will keep away blind-tigers."
Past experience shows that where
one "blind tiger" existed without a
dispensary, three thrive where dis
pensary is established, for this real
son: some few will boldly sign their
names upon the dispensary register,
get the stuff and deal it out to boys
under age and sneaks who are de-
ceiving themselves that "no one
knows. When one is bereft of rea-
son, is disorderly, doing damage,
committing crime, the tiger dressed
in the blood -bedabbled Joseph's coat
of State, gets the credit Of doing
such clever tricks. Yes, it throws
shadow dark enough to conceal as
dangerous things as "blind-tigers".
But the State does it. After all,
what is the State? Only Il body of
men past the age of twenty-one,
whose form and being have been
brought to this manhood by the
watch-care of woman. Three times
a day she tolls over the steaming
cook-pots, raising mighty "temple
not made with hands," which she
dedicates ten to the commonwealth,
asking for this great labor of over
two decades, only protection and in
this case gets humiliation. Another
plea is that "the town will be
lighted and other improvements
a, ,, Ubo oon1d opioy tho bril-