The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-09

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which the Golfers Of the town aud
State are enriched would be done away
with; and, Thirdly, because believed
less liquor would be drunk. But the
South Carolina dispcnsarics demon
stratc that liquor is in politics worse
IN South Carolina than any State in
the union. And Secondly, that the
taxpayers are getting more money out
of 1t. And, Thirdly, that there is
more liquor druak out of the dispcn-
sarics Of South Carolina, per capita, in
my candid judgment, than out Of the
full-flcdgcd bar rooms in other States
1t will take South Carolina u hundred
years to recover from the effects Of the
dlspcnsary; for dispcnsary liquor not
only debauchcs tie poor devils that
drink 1t, but the dispcnsary will de-
bauch the whole State in it's politics
and morals. l am as much against
the open saloon as I ever was. am
as much against the dispensary as
am against the saloon, and for the
same reasons.
And keep saying that if wh' skey
is q good thing, then turn it loose,
and let it flow ankle deep, and Dip
per on the limb Of every tree and give
the world all the good there is in it.
If it is bad thing, then down with
and out with the whole business in
extenso.
Greenwood, S. c., has never had C
dispensary. For frst-class citizen
ship, intelligence, morality and d.
cency she stands without peer in
that State. Clinton, S. c., l believe,
is another Of the same stripe. But
whenever you find dispensary you
will find debaunchcd sentiment, and
a growing greed on the part of the tax
payers to push its business, and to in
crease its profits.
The best elements Of South Carolina
are against the dispensary, the worst
elements Of South Carolina are again st
the dispensary; and these two classes
together do not mako majority in
that State. 1t is an anomalous state
of things if the best and worst ele-
ments of society be together agains,
anything.
| l do not remember that have met
q single minister in South Carolina,
or devout Christian man who WASH,
against the dispensary; and the wors,
feature of the dispensary system is, i,
has fastened itself like O leech, and
has come to stay. rather undertake
to vote the saloons out of Macon, At
lanta or Savannah, than to undertake
to vote tho dispensary out of Athens
OF Rome. I have not only got to figh,
the liquor, butI have got to fight the
profits OF liquor that comes to eaol
taxpayer of the county, and when you
touch the average fellow pocket, you
have hit vital spot.
If any town in Georgia or other
States contemplates inaugarating a
dispensary, let them send commit
tee OF three honest men to Charleston
or Columbia, and take in also some OF
the smaller towns, and see the thing
as 1T is. That committee will come
back and report unfavorably. Keer
your saloons until you can vote them
out, but don't ever compromise by
swapping your saloons for the dispen.
sary. A saloon is the smallpox, q dis.
pensary is the measles. I, for one,
had rather have the smallpox and ge,
we'll than have the measles. forever,
am frequently asked, which would
you choose saloons or dispensary OF
blind tigers?61 l reply, why don't you
ask me which 7 had rather have small.
pox, yellow fever or measles? By the
grace of God, I don't want either one
OF the three in mine, and am not 20.
ing to have them if I can help it.
{ Georgia's and Texas's local option
law, and Tennessee four mile law is
handling the whiskey business about
as wisely and judiciously as sec it
handled anywhere by prohibition or
any other method. AS long as corn
grows, and hogs are rnised, hogs and
corn are going to NIX up. The Only
Tay: 20 keen sham from n,;x;nr &c . ~
quit raising corn, or kill your hogs.
| VITA all due respect to wise and
perhaps good men who differ on how
to handle aud hamper and control the
liquor business, I have studied the
question, looked at the facts and seen
the working of the various methods,
until have come deliberately to the
conclusion that the only prohibition