Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-03
s1s8 1920 s45,2O7.O1 2Ss,ss4.21

The above amounts of profits only
show the money received by the coun-
ties. An equal amount went into the
town treasures, so that instead Of be-
ing $188,000, it is double that or $685.
900 and the grand total would be $.2l.-
900 for these fourteen counties. This
sum represents profit alone. A great
deal more than this is being sent out
Of the state to pay for liquor now com
evils OF liquor drinking and none OF
the benefits. but IL the people are sat
isfied, that is their business.
Dispensary Against the Field.
Having studied these two tables, /
desire to direct attention to these
points: The elections under the Brice
act and under which the people are
now living, have in no sense settled
the question in those counties. Unless
our people have lost all capacity TOT
self government and are no longer able
to think and act for themselves, they
will see to 1t that strong, honest, relia-
BILE men are nominated In each county
for the legislature and that each can
didate that does not pledge himself
to carry out the will Of the majority
of the people in regard to whisky shall
be defeated. The blind tigers, the bar
room element and prohibitionists VIII
doubtless all combine and support an
ii ti-dispensary candidates as they have
hitherto done for they Will hardly put
up candidates pledged to their several
policies It is therefore the dispensary
against the field and the only compli-
cation likely to cause trouble Is the
division among the dispensary advo-
Gates of those who want each county
to buy liquor for itself and Of those
who think 1t can be more cheaply and
honestly done through the state dis
pensary. There Is therefore danger OF
the dispensary forces being divided In
to two factions and Of the advocates OF
the county dispensary system aligning
themselves with the other three ele-
ments.
State VS.. County Dispensary.
Let us consider for a moment the
relative advantages and disadvantages
of county dispensaries, and the state
dispensary. declare most en-
phatically my belief that by prop
er changes in the law along the
lines suggested in the Raysor- Manning
bill that all possibility Of stealing and
bribery in the purchase Of whisky for
the state can be prevented and II
stands to reason that II liquor is pur-
chased at wholesale by one board,
shipped by the car load, and bottled
at one lndl VIII Dc
great saving In the expense. The
county dispensaries would have no fa-
cilities for handling the whisky, but
leaving all of this out Of consideration
the one crucial test of the relative
merits Of the two systems, state dis
pensary or county dispensaries, Is
simply this: If we cannot by laws so
hedge about and control one state
board as to prevent stealing, how In
the name Of common sense will we
be able to watch and prevent thirty or
forty boards from doing It?
Because the retiring state board and
its predecessors have engaged In ques-
tionable practices and was guilty OF
such mismanagement and malfeas-
ance In office, is no argument to show
that the law cannot be changed so as
to destroy all opportunity for such
practices No law will execute itself
and when those charged with the exc
cution of the law fail utterly and