The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-11-29
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday. November 29. 1905.
IN Greenvilla.
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Columbia Record, Nov. Goth.
Greenville has but recently voted
out the disr=usary under the Brlce
law and the III pensaries have not
yet been cire~d IN that county. Never
theless We iud the sheriff declaring
that when the dsspensaries are closed
conditions will be in.oerable if the
constables are taken away. Already
blind tiger dealers are opening up
and the highest executive Cfticer OF
the county declares that be cannot
properly handle the situation without
the aid of the corstabies. In this he
is supported by the sentiment Of tax
payers Of all degrees of fpaocial
ability, who, 1t is reported, wall glad
ly submit to .he imposition OF the
extra tax in o,der to rid themselves
of the food of illicit liquor which
they feel sure will sweep over the
county.
Snerjf Gilreath says Greepville
will be the worst blind tiger ridden
county in tie State. It may he so
in proportion to the population, but
there is little doubt that Conditions
are equally az bad now in other
counties rs they will be in G:een7llle,
although the cfhciuls in them are not
80 honest and candid as the Green.
vile sheriff in acknowledging the
true situation. Constables have been
sent back to Ptckens, Ooonee and
Uoiop, an open admission that an
lmpracticable and Inefficient method
of restricting the sale and consump-
tion of liquor has been resorted to
In NJ srion as much liquor is being
sold as before the dispensafies were
abolished, ard in other counties
where prohibition has been voted
macs me etings have been called in
,he endea7or to arouse public sentl-
ment 80 that TIE law will be enforced.
If any of these have succeeded IN
accomplishing the purpose We have
not heard of it.
These things show what we have
all along contended that prohibition
is fraud. As restrictive measure 1t
is worthless and cannot be compared
as such with the dispensary, with all
It's faults. In Greenvllle there ste
no doubt those to whom the dlspen-
sary is iutolerable; there are people to
whom the sale and consumption of
whiskey is intolerable in any and all
circumstances, but previous condi-
tions in Greenville evidently are i'm
measurably preferred by the majority
to what they will have to endure un-
der the prohibition regime. The fact
is candidly recognized and the peo-
pie are asking that they be taxed so
that the Illicit sale of liquor may be
restricted at least to the extent it was
under the dispensary system. They
might have had a continuance OF
those conditione without costing them
cent extra had they not permitted
small portion of the electors, led on
by the will-o'-the-wisp of prohibition
or partisan opposition to the dispen-
sary, to foist upon them a system
which means the indiscriminate sale
of liquor.
The question "After the dispen-
sary, what?" seems to have been very
forcibly answered in Greenville.
Blind tigers have sprung up every
where like mushrooms, making con.
ditions twice as difficult to handle
even with constables aiding the local
authorities. That is the answer in
Greenville, and that it is in other
counties even though it has not been
made in quite 30 loud a voice.