The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-22
SOME PLAIN FACI1S
aROUT THE WHISkEY QUE sTION
PnaINLy STATED.
a P1ohibitiorists Whom the Eigh
Licen SO or Farroom advocates
can't Fool.
Editor Columbia Record:

E11COl OO1uuUld IL -SoAo'
To hear soma people talk and to
read the comments Of the different
editors about over the STATE upon the
dispenssry, one would naturally con
clude that South Carolina had bean,
prior to the enactment OF the dispen-
ssrY law, inhabited by pure, sWest
angelic people ord not by mortal,
mean wicked men. That these anti
dispensary fellows were the soul OF
honor and the embodiment OF every
virtue: that in them was no guile OF
graft and, Ike George WASHINGTON,
nad never tod a lie. That vice, ras
cality and crime were unknown In the
land until a big devil came up some
where cut Of the woods, with the DIS
oensary in his pocket, and turned 1t
loose among these lambs.
But all this editori&ling and preach,
ing and speech making about the VII
:ue and Goodness OF South Carolina
before Ben Tillnan ard the dispen'
sary appeared upon the scene, fools
nobody. No, indeed, South Carolina
las never been an unspoiled Eden,
snd fear it will be the last place the
millennium will strike. Reverse your
think bcx for few moments and
take a retrospective view and you Will
be reminded that South Carolina has
bsen dead drunk and full Of 1ascsls
!or two centuries. Every one knoWs.
or should know, that very high per
cent OF her people, Of all classes, we're
irunka1ds, murderers, liars, grafters
and robbers from the very start. The
first bcst that landed here brought
the germs of all thess villainies with
chem from Europe. And 1t seems to
ne to be diSingenious and unworthy
to write and talk and try to make
people believe the dlspensary created
5he germs, and hatched out the first
brood of these villains ever seen here
abouts. No, sires, some OF US know
better.
Under the old barroom system the
state was as much in the Whlsksy
business as she is today. Yes, she
legalized the trsfc and famed Gu.
the in:quity Of selling Whiskey to her
citizens, and put the money in her
treasury apd used it for all purposes.
Cha plain, who offered prayers to
heaven escl morning for divine wis
dom to guide and direct cur general
assembly, were paid with this same
tearsoaked money. And yet We hear
people insisting that the state was
never In the rum business before ano
that the blowing Of PALMETTO tree
in glass bottle put ber in this nefar.-
Gus b lsiness, disgraced her fair and
spotless name and made liars aud
rogues Of her citizens. Nay the fool
killer spare thess idiots and hFpo-
critics.
South Carolina was not only In this
hell. born trs as a state but man,
Of her honored anG respected citizens.
starding high In the community aDd
church, were silent money partners
in illtclu distilleries and barroom-hells.
Under the dispensary regime many OF
this same class have made the rural
districts drunk and dis ,rderly by
furnishing dirsy, lazy, worthless mig
gers whiskey to sell, thereby leopard
zing the lives and property OF the
community. Rspid-fre talking-tuoes
Of every caliber and press batteries OF
all s zes have been trained upon the
iispensary, and for what feasol !?
How many VI them ever took a shot
at MI. Barroon? Certainly he was q
pad man. Yes, he was bold, wick
I'd man, who murdered more honor
and killed more men and undermined
their character and destroyed the pro
spects OF more boys, and heart b:oke
more women, in one year than the
dispensary has since 1t was establish
ed. Mr.. High License is the same
old Mr.. Barroom dressed in new suit
OF co o1stitutioDals, and would certain.
~ prove ju2t as bad.
Did you ever think how funny it
sounds to hear people damning the
lispenssry and cusstng the labes and
Ks on the bottles and swearing at
Hub E sans' beaver hat, who never In
Ill their pious and righteous lives
syer raised their voices against the
Rh!skey demon? Funny, isn't 1t?
You must please excuse me II I get
mixed as to whether they are fight
ng Whiskey as an evil or the dispen-
sary for the same OTHER reason.
Were drunks and crime Of the bar
room brand any better than those
Of the dispensary label? We've heart
oroken widows and poor orphan chill.
dren Of barroom manufacture less
helpless and pitible than those OF the
dispersary stamp? Some people think
50. Now let US be honest and con-
sistent and 60 to fighting whiskey as
the great enemy OF pure manhood and
somanhood, and stop this hypocriti-
cal scolding and railing at the dispen-
sary simply to crafty some selfish
prejudice. Whiskey has been one OF
jhe great crime breeders and man de-
stro7ers from the beginning and its
manufacture and sale should not be
tolerated under any arrangement
Rhatsoevar, and would not be II We
aere just one quarter as God serving
and neighbor loving as we pretend to
be. II those who control the trend OF
vents had fought half as hard to ban
sh whiskey from the state as one halt
i them have fought to destroy the
!ispensary and the other half to pre-
serve that institution, there would not
90 enough Thiskey in South Carolina
,oday to make mint julep.
Admit the dispensary management
20 be corrupt and then ask yourself is
there any other management OF busl
ness OF system or anything in South
Carolina OF anywhere else In these
United States today clean OF graft, in
justice and rascality, and not more OF
ssss corrupt? II, IS many honest, fair
and unpr JUDGED minds believe, the