Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-09-22
Carolina for her law.-Brattleboro


Every one that understands South
Carolina politics knows that the cam
paign inaugurated by Ex.Sen. McLauren
to unite the liquor sellers and the ex-
IRENE temperance advocates in a cam
paign against the present Dispensary
system of South Carolina is entirely, SO
far as he is concerned, a matter of per-
sonal politics, that is an effort on his
part to regain his seat in the United
States Senate which he lost upon
charges made by Sen. Tillman that he
had allowed personal considerations to
influence his votes upon public questions.
Whether these charges were true or not
they were evidently believed by the
people of South Carolina who dropped
Mr.. McLauren and put in another man,
since which Mr.. McLauren has been out
side the walls, watching for an oppor-
tunity to get in.
We do not believe that the voters of
South Carolina will be hoodwinked with
this unnatural alliance of liquor sellers
and extreme temperance advocates; but
that Ex-senator McLauren will find
himself when he gets through with this
campaign, where he was before, outside
the walls.
Whether or not there may have been
some dishonesty in the management of
the very large business connected with
the dispensary system in South Carolina
we do not know. 1t is quite possible
that there has been some; although the
little careful inquiry which we were able
to make whilst in the beautiful city of
Columbia last spring did not show such
at the present time. Butcertainly SO far
as the amount of money lost by such dis
honesty is concerned we cannot help but
feel as Lincoln did when told that Gen.
Grant drank whisky. "Do you know" he
asked "where the General gets it for
would like to get some for my other
generals"
The state of South Carolina received a
net revenue last year of seven hundred
seventy-five thousand three hundred
seventyfive dollars and ninety-fvt
cents. These figures are from the off
eial report of the State Board of Direct
ors of the South Carolina Dispensary
for the fiscal year 1904. AS is wei
known the profits from the sale O
liquors are always very large; in thu
license system the larger part of thes
goes to the liquor sellers, and in the dis
pensary system they accrue equally t,
all the citizens of the State for the re
duction Of taxes or extra improvements
This cannot be too strongly stated, ant
we want every tax payer to realize tina
such system will very materially LESSEE
every year his personal tax.
Sen. Beverage of Indiana in the Unite
States Senate at about the beginning G
) the Observation-Disclosures war made tn
statement that the profits from the sal
of liquors in Russia would pay all of thei
expenses of the war. The Register
few months since had occasion to quot
J from the New York Sun letter from
government official at Raleigh, Mort
Carolina, relative to the Dispenser
system which has been adopted in thi
and other counties of North Carolina, il
which, after speaking of the operation G
the system favorably, he states that tn
, profits are six hundred per cent create
than they were under license. He rs
peats as follows: II do not want any on
to suppose that this is mistake of tn
printers. I mean what l say, six hur
dred per cent"
In reference to the practical working
; of this system in South Carolina asid
from the profits we have never see
the sale of liquor under better contr'
. than in Columbia one of the largest cite
4 of the State, There are a number {