The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-16

some other source: they dc
lor permit their admiration
for '1illman to make them
swallow e,-erything he pre-
scribes, and while this is true Of
York, similar condition exists
in other strong Tillman coun-
Greenville, Spar
tanburg, Cherokee, ,Pickens, Oar
Marion, and others, they
will vote for Tillman to go back to
the UnitedStates senate, and they
will also vote to send the State
dispensary back to the Devli
where it came from,
The State control of whiskey
was accepted as an experiment.
aud many believed it would les
sen the liquor evil, but after th'r-
teen years of experience 1t mas
ven anything else than
a t e m erance measure
and far from b e / II 6 "a
step towards prohibitions" AS a
business proposition it has prov.
en- a failure, and as a reducer OF
taxes it is a humbug. STATISTICS
show that the consumption OF
whiskey has increased IN the
past thirteen years, so has crime
and taxes. There have been
m ore murd e T in South
Carolina traceable to whis-
KEY. than for a similar per-
iod prior to the dispensary. AS
a moral help, in our opinion, it
is a grievous disappointment,
and we believe the peoplerealize
it. We claim the State dispen-
sary from a money standpoint is
a failure. If it is a success, then
what becomes Of the profits:
These were to go to the free
school fund. Everybody knows
that property has been assessed
about double what it was when
the dispensary first started, and
added to this increased assess
ment, is a three mill constitu-
tional tax for school purposes,
yet with all this money taken
out of the pockets of the people
by direct taxation, we find, that
in order for the children to OBJ
tain a primary education-to
barely learn to read and write,
notwithstanding the million or
more profits made by the dis
pensary, the people must form
themselves into special school
districts and again tax them
selves. If the dispensary money
is going elsewhere than to the
schools, it is being nlisappiled.
for there is where the leaders,
including Tillman, promised it
would go, and mighty little OF 1t
ever reaches the schools where
the poor man can be benefited.
The dispensary profits may be
applied to other county debts:
well, if they are, then why is it
our ordinary county taxes are
more than double now than they
were before the dispensary was
established? No, the truth is,
the politicians are revelling in
the wealth extorted from the
people, in the way of taxes. Lei
a taxpayer compare a tax receipt
of fifteen years ago, and he vii
see his taxes are now more thar
double, Notwithstanding the
fact that now, and for thirteer
years past the State mas beer
making big profits out of whls
key. Where does the money go:
It goes in creating more oflces:
and the salaries of politicians
the expenses of every branch o.
the government has nincreas
| ed, and although the income has
been tremendous, the leglsla
ton since the dispensary was
establish, has been a sponge te
soak up this income as fast as il
can be made, and today, with the
millions Of dollars made by the
dispensary the State has a def
cit to face, and every county is
more or. less in debt. The schools
are closing earlier than usual fo1
lack Of funds, and the people. te
keep their chilren from growing
up in ignorance: are burdenine
| themselves with additional taxes
If the dispensary is a fnancia.
success, Why is it that with ar
increase of taxable property
and a three mill constitutional
tax the people who cannot atforc
to send their children to colleges
or to employ private teachers
are driven. to the necessity te
form special school districts te
vote upon themselves more
taxes? This is a question We
should like for some politician
who goes about inventlns
schemes for selfish purposes
and who manufactures sentiment
| to mislead the masses, to answer
The profits of the dispensary
should be abouta a million dollars
a year, enough money to rur
every free school nine months
with decent salaries for teachers:
and then have enough money
left for the colleges without any