Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-13

States because of recalled invita-
ton, the creator of the dispensary
had better be in South Carolina to
weep over his dirty, despicable,
damnable brat.
Dirty deals! When the senator
had helped in the United States SEN
ate to kill the railroad subsidy bill,
he found later that his pockets were
literally lined with passes.
With exceeding warmth, the sena-
tor from York reiterated that there
was no trickery in the Brice law.
He had stated that the intent was to
destroy the system-a system which
like a black lake of pitch defiles all
who come In contact with 1t. Dis
franchisement! Bah!
He did not propose to deal with
the Warren bill, because after read
ing 1t he was satisfied that not even
the author himself would vote for
It, He was sure that it had only. been
introduced to find out how many
towards there are.
The advocates Of the system say 1t
is all right but that the opponents
have placed crooked men in charge.
Is this so? The dispensary system
has been under fire since 1904 and 1t
Is known fact that the present gov
ernor has been less allied with 1t
than any other since its institution.
The further the investigating COM
mittee lifts the veil, the more black
ness they have found. One witness
testified that whisky was retailed In
the state dispensary and the money
were now sealed and this Is the pol
icy Of the system.
It is not the men, but the system!
The dispensary was pet with every
Judge in the state at It's feet. And
who can say 1t has not had a chance?
The senator from York wanted the
investigation to. go further and get
detective to go over the admins
trations Of Cows. McSweeney, Eller-
be, Evans and Tillman. All honor
to Mr.. Christensen and Mr.. Lyon, but
they will not do their duty until, this
is done. Senator Brice declared with
emphasis that he had put the clause
In the investigation act which allow
ed the committee to employ detec-
tives.
He then picked up the "purifica-
ton" bill and asked its source.
Whence did 1t come? From the mas
sive. combined brains Of the dispen-
sary committee? From Washington,
or from Louisville, Baltimore, Pitts
burg Cincinnati? Or from the liquor
dea'ers' association? He did not
know whence 1t came, but the one
who drew 1t was friendly to the sy3-
tenn. Picking the bill to pieces, the
speaker cited that the men who open
the bids would not see the ,pur-
chases when they came in and that
they could not know what was done
in their absence. No one will know
save the state liquor commissioner
and thus the bill gives a chance to
get rich from the graft factory. An
other point was the rectifiers' IL
cense.
"Ah, that sweet-scented Richland
Distilling company has that too"
He called this establishment, "the
incarnation of all that is damnable"
and said that with all its political and
business ramifications 1t had protect
ed itself Either 1t Is the child of
the dispensary or the dispensary Is
its child. Any kind Of whisky can be
made there In any time-and. all
from corn.
The bill provides purchase In bulk
so that the commissioner can al
ter this to suit and get his reward.
No case goods could be bought, but
the whisky drinkers wish case goods.
Nobody wants the stuff the dispen-
sary will sell In bulk under this bill.
This plan will breed tigers and in
crease the number of social clubs;
and beside, the dispensary will sell
nothing. This Is no sort Of finan-
cial proposition.
It is a bad law now and 1t has al
ways been a bad law: Whenever tne
legislature touches 1t, 1t Is made
worse. 1t is wrong to put one man
In power. No man is strong enough
to resist the temptation. Thus the
state, and through her the people,
keep up this temptation. factory"
Even the dispensary people see the
need of a change. and Senator Brice
commented that the financial exami-
nations authorized are almost all In
the counties which have had large
dispensary profits. TT is gangren-
ing your county government. Green
wood and Marlboro have never had
these troubles"
AS to the Blease bill, he could see
no virtue In letting the county otti-
GERS settle a question which the peo-
ple wanted to settle by themselves.
Anyway, the Warren and Rlease
bills sink into insignificance beside
the Raysor Manning substitute and
the Morgan bill, this latter being AN
attempt not to cause a revolution In
the LIQUOR business Of the state"
The speaker then used the argu-
ment that all the states which nave
tried to settle the liquor question
have made mistakes and those that
have since changed and given local
option to counties have had the graf
ifcation Of seeing prohibition. In
the south nine-tenths Of the counties
under local option are dry. The ar
gument against local option Is that
the county boards Of control will be
so corrupt. This Is an admission
that the system is corrupt: Can the
county boards, as shown by the IN
vestigation, be more corrupt tnan
they are now?
away with the foul and hellish
blackbird that fiutters its wings and
hovers above the state capitol" 1t
will alway be a dirty bird. Local
option gives close control and II a
county board is corrupt the people
will rise up and unseat them. Ev-
eryone can't be corrupt. Self-goV-
ernment is the principle OF democ-
racy.
Senator Brice said he would rather
see high license under the present sys,
tenn, because then one man Would
own the liquor business instead OF
every man, woman and child taxing
u.
guard their own interests.
A sow will return to the mire and
even though you wash her clean to-
day the dispensary will return to ner
mire before tomorrow night. The
Morgan bill Is practically the same
law as Is now used in three-fourths
of the Union and 1t Is not a revolu-
tion, but a quiet merging, The
change is sure to come: whether or
not the senate does its duty now, for
the minds of the people are fixed
and they are sure that the dispensary
is rotten TO the core. "You who love
the dollar, under the county system
you get more than under the state
system" There Is no rottenness IN
Georgia or in North Carolina.
LOCAL LAcoNIcS.
Death of Dr.. e. F. Darby.
DR. r Frank Darby, son OF the late