The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-20

to save them loss on individual invest
naents. but at the same time they op-
pose other people receiving benefits
from liquor money. Some of the pro-
hibition leaders prohted by this loan,
because another mortgage holder had
his representative and his attorney
here ready to foreclose against this
same oil mill, when this blood CD
liquor money was resorted to to save
the day.
Another fact: Some one has said,
"Oh, but somebody is stealing in the
management of the dispensary." Well,
haven't you had sheriffs who were de-
faulters? Haven't you had treasurers
who were defaulters? Haven't you
had other public officials who were
defaulters? Did you abolish the Of
ice? No. but you put out those who
were doing wrong and got other men.
II the dispensary is badly managed,
that should not damn the system.
Turn out those who are doing the bad
management and pu: good men in
the Offices. who will properly enforce
the law, and it is the best system ever
devised by man for the management
of the whiskev question.
Another fact: We pay 3-milis tax
levy in every county of this state ST
educational purposes. The negro re-
ceives a large amount of this money.
If you will make an examination you
will find that the negro buys by far
the largest proportion of the whiskey
from the dispensary and pays the
least part of the taxes, and in this way
only we receive back in part the
school money used by his children.
We notice now that all killings are
laid at the doors OF the dispensary
whether they be about land, money
or woman; it is said that the dis
pensary did it. What about the old
bar-roons? Did any of those ause
killings? Do you all remember any
who were killed in the bar-rooms Of
Newberry and Prosperity? Do you
remember the good men who were
killed in the bar-rooms j.. those days?
Why not call them W and lay them
at the doors of the dispensary?
Some say that they are voting
against the disrensary to get rid of
the clubs. If the dispensary is voted
out the vote does not affect the clubs.
They remain just the same, because
they are chartered institutions by the
state. and are now in violation of the
dispensary law. So if the dispensary
goes there remain with you the clubs,
the blind tiger and other ways of IL
licit liquor selling, with no revenue.
and if there were, as under the bar
room system, the town would receive
the license and the county nothing,
as under the old system the town
here received $500 from each bar and
the county SIoo, while now each re-
ceives it's one-half.
Local option fights have every
where been attended by strife and
wrangling; have done no good, but
infinite harm, and the upshot of
every prohibition fight anywhere in
this country has been high license.
The prohibitionist may not see it
that way, and be unconscious Of the
harm he does, but the harm is there.
Under high license it is inevitable
that the towns will again pass into
the control OF the liquor element and
the experience Of the past be revived.
People who shout blind tigers now
apparently forget that they hourished
under high license and always will
The w'liskey dealer is sure to have
his fences to handling goods after
hours and in places Of unquestioned
bad repute, thus bringing about the
worst alliance on earth. that Of dives
with bar-rooms. As Jefferson Davis
pointed out. high license is in its cs-