Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-17
STAND BY YOUR oUNsf
Appeal to People Who Would Save the
State From psbauohsry.

Editor Yorkville Enquirer:
Primary election day is rapidly ap-
preaching and the real issue before the
people is whether or not this proud
old state will submit to the dlctation
OF corrcpt dispensary liquor ring
with its state and county ramifications,
or rise up In her might and glory and
overthrown this liquor ring once and
forever. The issue is between honesty
and dishonesty, purity and impurity,
civic righteousness and civic debauch-
cry.
'The evil that men do lives after
them" and let voter before casting
his ballot for corrupt and corrupting
liquor system ponder and consider well
the effect Of this system for the next
generation on his family. his neIghbor-
hood. his county and his state. Let
him remember that the only promise
and hope held out to him is that the
Legislature will purify It. Let him re-
member that the law has been changed
at least dozen times for the purpose
OF purifying It and every time It has
been touched Il has been made worse.
And these changes have not been made
by the enemies of the system. The
dyed -the-wool dispensaryites voted
for every change with the hope Of
purifying 1t. But "who can can make
an unciean thing, cleanT How can
a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit?
This thief-producing. society -degrad-
lns' heh-ending dispensary system has
peen corrupt from the day It opened It's
ooors' as witness the unanswered ques-
uohs ABOUT tne repates on the nrst H.
quor ever Dousnt TOT tnis system
WHness tne sworn testimony OF gen.
'ieliian iroin SpartanDurs VINO SAID ne
resigned as member OF the state
poaru away Dack some tweive years
ago because ne saw liquor sold at the
s'a'e olspensary 10 piind tigers. and
ne could not tell what became OF the
money. Wlness tne iurtner facf that
....,. I W. ~ Ae'nD.s J, Inc seven consul
's 'ne inses''satins committee ap-
p1reh.iy mace any nonest enort 10 ex-
pose 'he rottenness ana corruption OF
.he system. Inc investigating COM
iiit.ee oniy toucned iisntiy on one re-
esht administration' while the whole
Diack sea OF graft and debauchery re-
iiiains yer unsupported.
= kno" OF no greater hypocrite on
the race Oh the earth than dispen-
sary advocate talking about the evils
OF Diind tigers and barrooms and then
advocating something that will do So
ciety more real harm than these evils,
already under the ban OF the law and
moral sentiment. combined Will do.
1t Is the pot calling the kettle black.
II is Satan reproving sin. 1t is the
devil himself telling the people to
trust him and not have anything to
90 with his agents.
Does any one happen to know any
dispensary advocate who has lifted
his little finger to suppress blind IT,
gers? On the contrary is It not the
simple truth that they have encour-
aged blind ligers In n-asountfes that
voted out dispensaries? The dispen-
saryites make war on the tigers for
what purpose? Simply In order that
they may monopolize the liquor busi-
ness.
The blind tiger reaches only the low
and the depraved element OF society.
The barroom reaches the same ele-
ment and few more; but when the
devil saw he could not reach all the
people with barrooms and blind IL
gers ne had his agents here in South
Carolina to frame the dispensary law
"a liquor system that Is intended and
designed to reach every man, wo-
man ana child In South Carolina.
YES utterly destroy the influence Of
the cnurch on earth by having church
members act on state and county
boards OF control and have church
members act as barkeenera undar Sha
a,nho,,a,
eupiiohious hahe "a county oispen-
sers? Yes, teach the people to enter
dispensaries with the Same ravaranca
tta,, o,.o
dig, monopoiz1ng, whitewashed,
money-loving, liquor-trafic-de
ing devil. who talks In favor of tan.
,,a,. - .,-,-
i' hpiohs tne cause
OF education OF poor children, attends
church, sings In the choir, and asso-
o,atas With the chr,,,,a v,,u,...,
can eVluentIy exert greater inf1u-
ence and do more harm to humanity
In general rban a common avayv aay
.o,o, ao,,,, ,,..,. -, 80,
Vi h''ie wiz pnhd u
ger
To those who think the dispensary
"a no mora corrunt thar Other insti,
-, 'an o'e.
tiohs' we ask tnat Iney reao ana study
the following from the Newberry OBJ
server ona, NJ tba leading nawsnanar
.x -,
oi TINS state
Those who argue for the retention
Of the dispensary admit that there is
great deal Of rottenness In the adj
ministration of the system; but they
say there Is occasional rottenness in a
treasurer's office, or some other office.
Then they argue that the right course
In the case OF the dispensary system
Is to turn the rascals out and purify
the system.
THAT might be sound argument IL
II were not that the dispensary system