Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-15
"MoRAlIsrs" DIsPENsARY VIEWS.
Dlsagrees with "ProhbltlenIst," but Wants
all to Act as Conscience Dictates.


Editors Courier: In the w. G.
II. U. column of your paper of May
25th, over the signature of ga Pro.
hibitionist," the question is asked,
"Had we better keep the dispensary p
Now, in answering that question
hope the readers of The Courier will
allow me to say, as one who never
was drunk and never has anything
to do with whiskey, who sympa-
thizes with the poor drunkard and
would do anything in his power to
arrest him in his downward course,
and as one who has studied the
whiskey question in all its phases,
that if we knew, or had any practi-
cal or logical facts to prove that pro-
hibition would prohibit the use and
sale of whiskey, or that blind tigers,
the inevitable result of no dispensary,
were better than the dispensary, |
for one, prompted by no selfish mo-
tives, but by what | honestly and
sincerely think would be for the best
interest of the people of Oconec,
would say, dispensary, begone. But
it is an incontrovertible fact that
where prohibition has been tried it
was failure, and did not prohibit
the use and sale of whiskey, and
bind tigers and the illicit sale of it
y ere the result; so much so that in
most places the people set aside
their so called prohibition and went
back to the bar-room system, even
with all of its gambling, immortality
and vices.
Now, Brother Prohibitionist, is
this not fact, and don't you believe
that when we abolish the dispensary
in Oconee the blind tiger will follow,
law or no law? If 50, would you
not rather have the dispensary than
the blind tiger that not only defies
the law, but sells its stuff on Sun
days the same as other days, indis-
criminately, to all he believes will
not give him away?
Again, Brother Prohibitionist,
you spoke about prohibition in
Maine and left the impression that
it did fully prohibit the sale of whis-
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drunkards in Maine under prohibi
tion as in South Carolina with its
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to od,,;t tbot wh;skov usad ~ - :
hv nroot ,nonv noros ~ ona of tho 20
mo-, stunandoms ou;Is of 10 ono
and 10 doinn u m;II;ons n,oro m han,, mn than S.'
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aandS ~ honaS ,hat n,ho,n,;So so 'n r,;,'h.
have baen sunrv and bannv hu 3i
inc our nr;snns amJ pffy, adpvfy' ~ ni,h @
tho,sanas nf ;ts v;n,;ma .ln,a | ho"soa
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annaIlino facts hafora ma and tbo
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ond fnoa;hIo ,n,u o., IS ,hn h;5,'"'. o".
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tnte in ito stead somatb;no thot bao
haen nront;"oiIu % fa;Inra u"horo,,"S Uh" ""s
tried pnob;h;t;on 700 na,,odI and
throw vide onen tb. door for ,ha
blind ,;oer and ;llicit sa,e Of ,vhisLnn Wv
and at The same Tina ;mnose mon
oprselves on additional hmrdon of
ahont t;ftaen bnndred dollars IN tovos
To enforce nroh;hitinn w;thon, ono
cont &C income frnm ,bo cola nna uso
Of wbiskev and be st;n cursed d. With i
the stnff Tor # il can,t be oo,ten
from Hind tioars thera !, M iow 70
prevent sendino ont Of the conntv
for it. No one need fear that he
cant oct whiskev. esnecia)lv thom
who drink It TO excess and 1prohi.
bitionist" need not buo the delnsive
hope that a prohibition law in Oco.
nee can or will be more effectually