The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-11-04


that 1t has the advantage over any
other scheme Of handling whiskey.:
The greed OF humanity and the desire
to make money without regard to con-
sequences, or OF the women and chill.
dren who are made miserable by
the sale OF the stuff, encourages
them to sell to minors and after
dark. They talk today about the State
being disgraced and that the
dlspensary money is hood money.
When the State permitted license to
be Issued and to receive money there
for. when your town got its bar room
licenses, 1t was as much an immortality
as 1T is to have the Dispensary. There
Is no difference In the morals of the
DispansBry and the license system.
There is one feature which the dis
pensary system has which the bar
room has not. 1t has absolutely des-
tloyed the habit Of treating, man
say ing come on Bill or John and get
a drink. And they would all get a
drink at one mans expense, and they
would sit around and talk about crops
and one man would say, we have
drank that mans whiskey, let have
another, and all would take another
drink and before they left the larger
| plrt Of them would be drunk. Treat
ing has been done away with by the
Dispensary law and the man now who
| wants t. give his friend a drink has
to 60 around back of the stable aud IL
doesn't taste as good aS IL would in
one Of those little cut glass tum biers
But say what you please, treating has
been killed practically by the Dispen
slry system. When the law is honest
ly administered, there Is no incentive
to sell after nightfall as there was for
barkeeper to do. These three are
enough.
i recognize the right OF newspapers
TO -itic ze me don't set myself UP as
being above it, but l do object to
people putting words in my mouth
which never said and whaling me
over the head for having said them.
About two months ago, 1 happened
TO be goirg from Clemson College to
Washington to get an officer detailed
to Clemson, newspaper man ran up
to me at Spartanburg and asked me
what about the Bryce Bill. I have
never beenafraid to say my say about
nybody's bill or anybody. said it
seemed to me to be an attempt to as
sassinate thedispensary law. 1 did say,
did not see how any honest man
could Vote for the Bryce bill. For thi.
have been severely clitic'zed. II 1
can make myself understood, do not
think anybody can accuse me Of hav-
ing insulted large lot Of people who
believed in it. l have been taught
that dishonesty is getting something
fer nothing, to take something that
doesn't belong to you. What did the
original Bryce Bill provide? Simply
that the DiSpenSary may be voted out
apd no way is provided for enforcing
the Dlspensary law 10 that county out
Of that county'S funds. 1 will tell you
the truth straight and from the
shoulder say when county wants
DiSpcnsary kicked out it Is their
ri.ht. but still when the dispensaris
In the other untieS that have dis.
pensaries, have to sen1 co1stables into
that county and make the other coun-
ty defray the expenses Of enforcing
the law, said it was dishonest and ]
believe it was dishonest and stick to
it, .,
Well, l have very briefly given you
an outline Of some of the fundamental
principles involved and have also
endeavored to POINT out the reason
why the Dispensary law is the b:st
system for handling whiskey.
The Senator then made some re,
ference to the fact that he was often
misquoted to which one of the editors
present said that he never misrepre-
sented the Senator but would print
his exact words.
Senator Tillman: You tell me you
are going to print what l say just
pain aud fair. l have a gentleman
there VINO will furnish you with an
exact copy and l almost agree to set
up the type or pay some one else for
doing it, as L want everybody to see
how much there is to your great blow
ing on this subject.
Senator Tll'm IN then said he had
asked the city clerk for figures and
had been advised that the city re-
ccived s3, $50 from dispensary profits,
and in reply 10 his inquiry as to the
tax levy he was advised, See tax or
dinance," and as to the city s expendi-
tures he was told, "See supply BILL"
Senator 1illman was bit sarcastic
saying the clerk had not given him
any supply bill or statement He said
he had asked for information which
should be accessible to any citizen and
that is what he got, and therefore he
C. I'D not say anything as to what
will be result If the city Of Gatfney
lave this SO, $50 in revenue cut Off.
A Voice: l can tell you what the
receipts are from the dispensary. 1t
is $5 0GO
S nator Tillman: 1 have got that.
You don't get but $3, $50 from the
dispensarios according to this state
ment, from October 1st 1908 to Octo-
b;r lst 1904. l got it from your
county treasurer. He was good
enough to prepare for me a clear
statement In RI lrd to the county.
tried to get information from your
city OIL %ials as to the total amount OF
expenditures and taxes paid, ETC., but
this is what l got: In effect nothing,
but a reference to the supply bill"
and the city statement.
The county treasureIs stat ement
show that the taxable property OF the
county is 50, 533, 495, AMI that the
county profits amounted to So, or
one and haif mills OH all the taxable
property. Gatfaey received So $50 in
year. Blacksburg 81 369, the county