The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-06
the bar in the Capital City. I
brass rail is a dead letter.
The Blind Tiger Also Cures.

Without having any positive evi
dence Of my own, there is no use to
say that blind tigers are unknown
quantities in Raleigh. They are here
somewhere and they sell stuff that
would make man choke his grand
mother and fight horse. A friend
Of mine happened in here from dry
town and the condition of his health
required a stimulant. He does not
remember where he got it; the fact is
he didn't remember anything for
forty-eight hours and he will not
drink any more corn. That is what
he got, and if it wasn't hog it was a
lower grade. The tigers, however,
are not as bold or as numerous as they
used to be in Charleston. Like the
ground hog they are frightened at
their shadow, but the wise ones know
where to drop the money.
In Greenville the other day man
whose good breeding and political
faith made him despise the dispen-
sary, told me that he had been con-
verted, that he was dispensary man
now. II can't keep my d. niggers
at work." he said. "They fill up on
the rottenest stuff on earth, which
cones from the blind tigers and they
are not worth killing. It was not so
bad as that when the state s institu-
tions were in the field"
Happiness on Wheels.
And it is that way here, in Green's
boro and Charlotte and Raleigh, in
dry towns and in towns where dispen-
saries thrive. Outside of Asheville or
Wilmington or Salisbury, the only
place where a man can buy decent
drink in North Carolina is on a Pull
man train. It comes high, but it's
worth it.
AS I said at the beginning, the local
dispensary is not so bad as that ini-
quity in South Carolina, and by this
do not mean to say that I have join
ed the enemy. Every man hates
trust until he becomes a part Of it.
IF were tax dodger (and I am not,
because I have nothing to dodge) T
might write my arm off in defence of
the system. That is human nature the
world over. A fair verdict, however,
must give the greater share Of praise
to the local grog shop, because it only
comes when majority Of the people
Of any one community vote for it.
They vote it in and they can vote it
out. Just why it should have the NOR
al support Of the God-fearing is be-
yond human understanding.
It is worse in any shape than the
high license saloon, and we have sa-
looms here. and they pay no license.
They sell nothing, of course, but they
reap harvest on the corkage and the
city does not object. They beat the
devil around the stump just as the dis
pensary beats him, for it is likewise
beyond human understanding why the
sale Of liquor is moral when the bar
is operated by the city or the state
and not by foreigner whose great
ness depends upon his ability to mix
a gin fzz. And then the children are
educated here as in South Carolina,
on the fund which comes from the
wrecks in the Potter's Field, and a
part Of it goes to the roads which are
improved, all Of them leading to the.
place of sale.
Sincere shouter for Water Wagon
Brigade.
Governor Glenn is the shouting
prohibitionist Of the Old North State.
I believe he is sincere. He is much in
demand, and he makes temperance
lectures and when a town is preparing
for an election the water wagon bri-
gade sends for him. AS a general rule
everybody gets on and the bars blink
and stagger out. But he will never
change Wilmington and Salisbury
and Asheville, and a dispensary law
doesn't hurt there, because the peo-
pie turn it down. Recently, when
talking to the farmers of Wake coun-
ty, he switched on to prohibition and
closed by urging the salt Of the earth
to keep away from the dispensary.
There was big crowd in town that
day and liquor sales were heavy,
which was a good indication that the
farmers didn't reduce the high ball