The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-08
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fy system, we, Cne Undersigned, call
upon our fellow citizens Of like op-
inion to unite for the purpose Of or
ganizing the opposition to the dispen-
sary system. ... =.
$50 nearly of one mind concerning
the dispensary system are the people
of the State that it is only by their
failure to unite for action that the
dispensary can be preserved. It is
only by default that the dispensary
can win another victory, before the
electors or in the legislature, and it
will be foolhardy for those who desire
its overthrow to sit supinely by and
see the pernicious system again en-
throned in power in our common
wealth.
"Every sincere, patriotic citizen
must regret that this issue should be
again the paramount question in Il
South Carolina campaign. But us long
as the dispensary remains just so long
will it continue to be the paramount
issue, and it should therefore be the
desire OF every thoughtful citizen to
sec this fostering sore removed and
healthier condition secured. To
this end we invite tho cooperation Of
all those who believe the State dis
pensary system to be IN evil and pro-
pose that, other differing policies for
the time being laid aside, the demand,
first, now, be made that the State
dlSpensary system shall be destroyed.
"On trial now for 13 years, for
tilted all the time by strong support
and as truly protected by unccasing
criticism and watchtulncss. there is
no need to point out the evils which
the State monopoly Of the whiskey
traffic has bred. Corruption at the
fountain head and in it's branches,
drunkenness and murder, woe and mis-
cry have been its products. A per-
nicious political machine of gigantic
proportions with bcavered lobby in
Columbia and Il willing ring in every
county, the monster has waXed fat,
lnsolcnt and defiant. The will OF the
people has been perverted and SUD-
pressed, and when finally demanding
expression that demand has been
thwarted and circumvented by ap-
peals to the trivial technicalilies of
the law.
"ln Is counties the people have
spoken and in all these save two their
voice has III thunder tones rcpudiatcd
the system. In other counties thew
are now ready to give expression to
their will, awaiting the summer pri-
mary. In this primary, where tho
life or death Of the dispcnsary will be
and should be decided, it is vitality nec-
essary that the opposition to the dis
pensary shall be active and united.
1T is only by action and union that
the dispensaly has been voted out Of
is counties under the Bricc law and
by no other means than action and
union can the system be uprootcd
from the State.
"The people are decided. 1t mere
ly remains for them to make their
decision effective. They must choose
representatives who will repeal such
laws as they desire to have repealed
and who will enact such laws as they
desire enacted. Then they must put
in office men who, in full sympathy,
will enforce justly and vigorously
whatever laws are upon the statute
books. The people have shown, by
their eager acceptance of the only OPP
portunity accorded them, that they
believe in the principle Of local self
government, and now, lest they
have this inalicnablc right again
wrcsted from them, the free citizens
of South Carolina must make their
sovereign power felt. There must be
elected a legislature which will not
rcnounce this principle, which will
not yield to the dispcnsary machine;
there must be elected executive and
prosecuting officials who will not per-
nit the law to be made mockcry
for its lmdoing.
'We suggest consultation and co.
operation in every county and
throughout the State that these on is
may be aitainGd.'
j. S. Bricc,
j. c. Otis,
ID. r. Cokcr,
James A. Hoyt,