The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-11
ANOTHER DANIEL.
Disoe1sary, Prohibition and Compulsory
Education.
Special TO The Manning Times.


Pardon me for obtruding my views
upon you and the readers of The TINES,
for do 50 because I desire TO clearly
define the paramount issues to be de-
cided in the approaching campaign.
Inevitably the Dispensary will re-
ceive the most attention OF account of
Senator Tillman's efforts to save it.
If the Dispensary is wrong in theory
as well as in practice it ought to be
abolished. regardless of Senator Till
man.
AS careful observer and close stu
dent of public affairs incline to the
theory upon which the institution was
established.
have good reasons: u Men will
drink whiskev: = 1t is not the prov
lnce OF government to prohibit the
consumption of any article unless that
article be such as to offend public de-
cency: 81 1t is well known that unless
drunk before the public. or used for
purposes OF intoXication and debauch-
cry, whiskey is not offensive to ma
jority of people. a Since men will
drink it the State ought to regulate
and control its sale, ard the schools
should share in the profits.
The over-righteous cry out. ''Oh that
is blood money" and we can't Use it.
To an unbiased mind it appears to do
good since it divertS funds from inlq-
uitv and applies them where they can
do good. The great obstacle in the
way of representative government is
ignorance. Men will not think for
themselves, but depend TOO much upon
others for their guidance.
We find ministers indulging in IL
rades against the dispensary, but offer
ing no solution worthy the considera-
tiou of q true statesman.
AS ambassadors of God it is the duty
Of the clergy to denounce sin, and they
cannot be too severe in their denuncia-
tion OF drunkenness, but they should
not ask the State to enact a law which
it cannot enforce.
Ny observation hasbeep that Prohi-
bition cannot be enforced in South Car
olina at the present time. Suppose we
had Prohibition. would the consump-
ton OF liquor decrease: Not likely.
There is 10 dispensary in Rock hill,
but twhiskey can be had without trouble.
In fact. am informed, reliably. that
the Southern Express Co., brought
from North Carolina to Rock Hill last
year. more than fifteen thousand gal
Ions of liquor. 1t is the same at Fort
Mill The dlspensary did not supply
those places, and hence its abolition in
York county has not diminished its
consumption | went TO Greenwood
the city famed for anti-dispensaryites--
and there the whiskey comes in freely
| IL IS so I'D SaluUa county.
Why not prohibit the railroads from
carrying it? Because that would be re-
pugnant to the Interstate Commerce
law and would conflict with the powers
of the Federal government. 1t is TOO
much to expect that people can be
legislated into purity and virtue.
Let US retain the dispensary. but
purify it, Can it be purified: Yes,
unless it be true that there lives not az
honest man in our State.
AS to compulsory education, have
this to say, that if the State must pro-
vide for the education of children, then
the children must attend school to re-
ceieve the education. If man is will
ling to impose that burden on the
State he has no voice in the matter =
it is the duty of the State. then. TO
compel him TO send his child to school.
The talk about its being destructive
of democracy is the cry of ignorance.
OBSERVER.