The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-30
From a South Carolina College
Professor for the
STATE DISPENSARY.
He Says No Student Has Been Up
ior Intoxication Since the Dispen-
ssry Began Contrast With Con.
ditions Under Barrooms.
Effect BeneficIsl.
Effect Beneticlal.

EfTect SSuS!lSLSi.
The Columbia Record says at che
time the sentiment Of RichlanG coun,
ty snd especially Coiumois was over
whelmingly against the cispensary,
but year by year there has been a
steady change until now few people
doubt that majority OF the people OF
Columois as we'll Is OF Richland coun
ty favor the dispensary. This was
evidenced by this ccunty's election OF
delegates to thes;ate Democratic con-
yention. This change OF sentiment
has been brought sbJut gradually oy
q growing conviction that conditions
In this town as far as sobriety Is con
cerned have Been greatly improved
by the operation Of the 6iSpenssry
system Not only is 1t true that those
who had already acquired the drink
habit drink less than they did in the
old bsrrocm days, but it is also true
that those who have come TO manhood
during the thirteen yeas OF the dis
psnsary's operation in this city are
remarkably free from ths drink habit.
Advocates OF the dispensary have al
ways held this out as one OF the great
est advantages and blessings Of that
institution, that it decreased the IL
ducementS to drink and that therefore
the longer it was operatsd the fewer
would be the young men OF each gen.
GRAFTON who acquired the drink hsbit.
That this has been the case in Colum-
bia it would bs idle to deny. a stead
lily increasing realization Of this fact
has been responsible for the equally
steady change OF telling here as to the
dsspenssly. It is true that the revenue
to both city and county from the dis
ssry is very large and greatly helps in
permitting large public improvements
without increase OF the tax levy, but
this fact is by no means responsible
for the change OF sentiment, though
it tas undoubtedly helped. But many
former enemies OF the dispensary have
been converted and among them are
scores whose opinions could not be
changed by mere monetary ccnsidera-
tions.
A striking instance Of the improve
ment OF conditions in Columbia as a
result Of the operation OF the dispen
ssry law was stated In conversation
Monday by one OF the protes sors OF
the South Carolina university, which
for more than hundred years has
been engaged in Columbia in the grsa:
work Of educating the young men OF
South Carolina. It Is a will. known
fact that the graduates Of that insti-
tuticn have taken remarkably pro
minent part 10 the politics and gov
eminent Of this state. Therefore it
cannot be denied that what benefits
them morally, or physically, that
tands to make them better men and
citizens, has beneficial results for
scores Of years after they lesve the
college.
The professor was discussing the al
legation that the dispenssry was 8
governmental novelty, practically
without precedent. He laughed aa
this theory and quoted numbsr Of
precedents OF governmental control Of
business, even where there was not
that chief reason for the dispenssry,
that Is a beneficial exercise Ct the po-
lice power Of the state. Continuing
he said In substance.
& remarkable tribute to the dispen-
ssry is the fact that III ten years the
faculty Of the South Carolina uaiver.
sity has not had occasional to try
student for intoxication. It's un;o
tunately true that among the more
than three hundred students at tbs
university there are some who drink
but the conditions have been 50 chang
ed by the operation Of the dispensary
thst none Of them drink so that il is
necessary TOR the faculty to take c,g
n:zancs OF their inoiscretious. Ii was
not 80 in the days prior to the 6ispen-
sary, when there we're so many temp
tations and inducements to young
nsn to drink. Then many a young
student, without intending to do so,
orsak TO the point Of insox caticn. he
would come up street for one resson
or another, meet friends, stop in 81
bsr to take drink or Two, get into
3 crowd Of good fellows. esch Of whom
insisted he must have his turn at
treating, and take half dozen OF
more drinks where he had only inten-
deo taking one. The effect Of the op-
GRAFTON OF the dispenssry upon stu
dent life IN Colunbi has been so ben
ehcial as to have made it's substiIu-
tion for the bar.ooms real blessing.
Horribly Mnsilared.
According to report that has
yeached officers at Spartanbu.g a hoc
ribie fate was meted out to e fruit
tree salesman by moonshiners in the
DIRK Corner. According to the story