The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-04
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Gaurens AdVertiser.l

Our esteemed contemporary, The Abbeville
Press and Banner, continues TO talk ABOUT
the combination ofpreachers, 6llnd Tigers anu
others in the cause of prohibition. Our con-
temporary IL entirely mistaken in the facts
and we do not believe that 1t wishes TO Ignore
the factR. Here Is evidence:
The Rich land distilling company ls oWntu
and run, not by rrohibitionisis, but by twen-
ty men. The Influences which proceed from
this company are among the main bulWarks
OF the disl ensary and the company mas SOLO
the dispensary as much as mllllon dolIars
worth Of whiskey In year.
The Press and Banner Will hno tDat IN
Charleston where the blind tigers are most
numerous, the dispensary is IN % close dea d0acn
that the blind tigers of Charleston are az q
rule ad vocates OF the dispensary system, THIS
NAV seem queer bnt 1t is true. In Charleston
the dispensary is Mary and the tigers are her
The Press and Banner will also find that at
least one OF the last State board OF control
was in the whiskey business before ne was
elected TO the board. IL VIII nnu also tnat
one member OF the present board was IN Inc
Whiskey business before his election.
We are entirely willing 10 admit that IN the
carly days nf the dispenRary 1t was opposed
by most OF the former bar keepers oat s Ina' If
pensers, others are whiskey drumm ers
and practically all Of them who are not dead
or have left the state are earning myeifnood oes
bis song sing, 80 they are now dispensary
ad vocates.
The advocacy of the dispenksry is the ad;
yocacy of the whiskey men who live beyond
south CaroIina'r borders, Of the Richland
Distilling Company and OF the Charieston
blind tigers and old bar-room element" or
what's left ofit
sary this year are simply pulling chestnuts
out of the fire for Blumenthal & Rickert, Sam
Lanahan, Berpheimer, Farnum, the Rlchiano
Dlstilling Company and other liquor dealers.
These firms and men have simply come into
south Carolina and have taken charge OF the
South c. rolina dlspensary.
Now let us ask the Press and Banner this
question. Why is 1t not willing 10 have In
Abbeville county a dispensary system In
dependent of count ties, dong its oWn ouyine Ga =
Senator Tillmsn got his idea from Athens.
There's no graft In the Athens dispensary.
II makes more money proportloDatelv, 30 we
are informed. than DO the Sonth Saroina
Does not the Press and Banner believe that
the Abbeville dispensary would De conoucleu
Just as we'll If 1t had nothing to 90 Win con.
Germ In Columbia? And has Abbeville any
object lon TO Anderson having prohibition all
the time If Anderson votes II and wants ~?
With the Athens, Ga. system IN Appevllle
the whisky would still be sold only In day
light hours as now, only In original packages
of q half pint or over and no drinking would
be allowed on the premises .,
The only change that THE ADVERTISER
is urging Ia that the State whisky Store In
CoIum bia be abolished-What is the necess-
ily for the store You get no liquor from IL.
Prof w. b. Burney, the state chemist, testi'
fes that the certificates with his signature
on case goods are forged.
The ipht is not against the dspepsary but
against the Stale liquor store. THE ADVER.
TISER for one, is more than willing that
desiring dspensaries shall have
Them But does Abbevile favor Hub"
against Frazer Lyon? That is the issue.