The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-01
From a South Carolina College
Professor for the
STATE DISPENSARY.
lie Says No Student Has Been Up
for I%ntoxication Since the Dlspen-
sary Began Contrast With Cons
dltlons Under Barrooms.
Effect. Beneficial.

The Columbia Record says at one
time the sentiment Of Rtchland coun.
ty and especially Columbia was over
whelmingly against the %dispensary,
but year by year there has been q
steady change until nov few people
doubt that a majority of the people OF
Columbia as we'll as Of Rlohland coun.
ty favor the ~dispensary. This was
evidenced by this countY's election Of
delegates to the state Democratic con-
vention. This change Of sentiment
has been brought about gradually by
o growing conviction that conditions
In this town rs far as sobriety Is con.
: oernsd have been greatly improved
by the operation Of the dispensary
system Not only Ia 1t true that those
who had already acquired the drink
habit drink less than they did In the
old barroom days, but it is also true
that those who have come to manhood
during the thirteen years OF the dis.
pensary'S operation in this CITY are
remarkably free from tbs drink habit.
Advocates Of the %diSpensary have al
ways hold this out as one of the great
est advantages and blessings of that
institution, that it decreased the in.
duoaments to drink and that therefore
the longer 1t was operated the fewer
would be the young men Of each gen.
Grafton who acquired the drink habit.
That this has been the case in Column
D1a IT would be 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
dispensary. 1t Is true that the re venue
to both City and county from the dis
sary Is very large and greatly helps In
permitting large public improvements
Without increase OF the tax levy, but
This faot Is Ky no means responsible
Tor the change Of sentiment, though
1t has undoubtedly helped. But many
former enemies Of the d%ispensary have
been converted and among them are
scores whose opinions could not be
changed by mere monetary ccnsidera-
lions.
"A striking instance Of the improve.
ment Of conditions In Columbia as a
result OF The operation Of the dispen
sary law was stated in conversation
Monday by one Of the profet sors OF
the South Carolina university, which
for more than a hundred a has
5eca engaged In Columbia In the great
work Of educating the young men of
South Carolina. 1t Is a w5ll. known
a 9 that the graduates Of that insti-
Gution have taken a remarkably pro
minent part In the politics and gov.
eminent OF this state. Therefore 1t
cannot be denied that what benefits
them morally, or physically, that
lends to make them better men and
citizens, has bent icial results for
scores OF years after they leave the
college.
The professor was discussing the al
legation that the dlspensary was q
governmental novelty, practically
without precedent. He laughed at
this theory and quoted a number OF
precedents Of governmental control OF
business, even where there was not
THAT chief reason for the dispensary,
that is a beneficial exercise Ct the po-
lice power Of the state. Continuing
he said in substance.
a remarkable tribute to the dispen-
sary Is the fact that in ten years the
FACULTY Of the South Carolina univer.
slty has noe had occasional to try q
student for i~ntOxication. 1t la un!or-
tunately true that among the more
than three hundred students at the
university there are some who drink
U che conditions have been 80 chang.
Cd by the operation Of the dispensary
that none OF them drink 80 that it ia
necessary for the faculty to take cog
nlzance OF their indisoretions. 1t was
not 80 In the days prior to the dispen-
sary, when there were 80 many temp.
tattona and Inducements to young
men to drink. Then many a young
student, without intending to do so,
TO the point Of ntcxication. He
come up street for one reason
another, meet friends, stop In q
bar to take q drink or two, get into
0 crowd OF good fellows. each OF whom
ipslsfed he must have his turn at
treating, and take a half dozen or
more drinks where he had only inten.
ded taking one. The effect Of Gle CD.
Grafton Of the %dispensary upon stu
rent life In Columbia has been so bsn
eHcial as to have made its substitu-
zion for the barrooms a real blessing.
Horribly MHtilated.
According to a report that has
reached Officers at Spartanburg a hor
flble tate was melted out to a fruit
6ree salesman by moonshiners In the
Dark Corner. According to the story
the unfortunate man, who was selling
Grees In that territory, was suspected
)f being o revenue OH ser In disguise,
and one night last week no was entic.
fiom O. house whore he boarded and
taken into the woods by a party Of 6
dozen or more mountaineers. After