Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-23
THE LIQUOR BUSH Ess.
Fayors tho Dispensary Law-High License
Opposet-Tillman 10 be Upheld.
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Because OF the restrictions which
it places around the sale OF liuuoi.
Because it sells no liquor to be
drunk on the premises.
Because it sells for cash, which
cash cond'ti is a restriction of the
sale.
Because property may not be
pledged TO. the payment of whiskey.
Because we believe the quality is
purer thar, that which was formerly
sold by bar rooms.
Because the measure of the fluid
is honest. The bottle contains the
amount a. represented.
Becaase the dispepsary is closed
at suns2, and .emains closed until
sunrise, thus giving prohibition for
that length of time, instead of the
open bar until late hour at night.
Because the dispensary is closed
on Sunday, which was not always
the case with the side doors of the
btr rooms.
Because the profits Of the liquor
business ar pat into the public
treasures instead of into the pockets
of individuals.
We oppose high license:
Because it offers no single advant-
age over the dispensary.
Because it puts the business, which
is most dangerous to the morals and
health Of the people, out of the
hands OF the government and into
the hands of rich citizen to the ex-
cluson of the poor man from COM
petition.
Because, if the government is true
to the people, it must give super
vision of the conduct of the licensed
dealers, even as it does of the dis
pensary.
Because the rich licensed dealers
must push the sales of liquor in order
to make profit on his investment,
and any increase of sale is to dlmin.
ish the happiness and comfort of the
homes.
Because high license offers the
greatest possible inducement to
fraud and eXtorton in price.
We honor and support Senator
Tillman in any effort to uphold the
dispensary law. Under his control
as Governor he sold less and we had
less liquor drinking and less drunk
enness than at any other time.
We honor him for his upright
character and temperate life.
We honor him for his clean hands
an never having taken dishonest
dollar, either in Columbia or in
Washington.
We honor him for his ability and
fearlessness in standing for the right /
as he sees it and he generally sees it
right.
But Mr.. Tillman pains us beyond
degree when he would encourage the
rabble to drink liquor.
When he says the Bible does not
discountenance the drinking Of liquor !
and that it does not set its seal of |
condemnation on the act of riotous
diving.
When he talks of the profits in
the liquor business as an excuse OF
necessity for inteniperance.
When he teaches people to enter
upon cause that wrecks annually |
perhaps million homes in the
United States, and in the same time
sends half a million drunkards to !
unhonored graves.
When he seems to forget that the
dispensary is properly retardent of
che sale of liquor and not essentially
sor chiefly money making institu-
Gion.
When he does not tell us, when
ne quotes the Bible as authority and
encouragement for liquor drinking,
chat Moses and Aaron, that Peter
and John never saw or heard of corn
Liquor.
When he does not tell us that the
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