The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-03-29
LIQUOR STATISTICS.

Tenn, has gone 57y. The majority was
about 1000. This is decided victory in a
city so large. 124 out Of the 146 ,ounti s in Ga
are prohibition counties, and out of the few
I not prohibition seven or eight are dispensary
counties. We are Informed that there are
only five places in Miss, where the saloon Is
licensed. Avery large slice of Tenn, is
dry. Kentuckey has 90 dry counties out OF
few over hundred. Alabama has many
! dry counties and large palt Vi ti,e us.ie'l.su
Is prohibition. South Carolina is temporar-
I lily dry until the people can decide whether
they want local dispensarieS or prohibition.
Maine has the prohibition fixed in her chart
J er, and has been dty for about fifty years.
Texas has very large part Of its territory
where 1t is Illegal to open a barroOm, and
after short while the dispensary is going out.
Jackson, Tenn, went dry 987 to 3. 1t looks
like the sale Of whiskey as beverage is
doomed. Given free vote on the question,
the whole state of Ca, 1t seems would go
the same way. as every county now where
the foreign element or the negro does not
hold the balance of power is already dry.
There is one question we wish to ask in all
fairness. If it takes 81. 10 to pay the
revenue to the U. s., Government on the ma
Ied whiskey, how is it that the distillers can
afford to make it, barrel it, advertise it and
/ pay drummerS to travel, all expenses Of
lwarehouseing It and shipment, and then sell
Fit for 81 10 gallon, like much Of it is sold.
| OF course you can understand it when you
are up to the fact that the U. s. charges 81 )
10 on proof gallons showing hundred pgoof,
Enow let the whiskey be aduIterated to 90 and
even 40 proof as some wild cats sell it; add
title chemicals that will kill man to make
the drunk six come, and yol have whiskey
that it will take about two gallons to make
! one proof gallon This allows the retailers
: and the dlspensaries to make that big profit
! on whskey, but you Mr.. Drinker are the
sufferer, if you buy it for i:&neess, it is more
liable to kill. If YOU drin' it for pleasure
you are liable to kill yourself.
Here is why our dispensary is proving a
failure. It is selling mean impure whiskey
at the expense of the peoples health simply
to make money. 1t is proving nuisance
and ladies have quit that side Of the street
when crowd is in town. If our dispensary
;was run on the lines it was intended when
{ it was put in to protect the, people, there
would not be so IN lch objection to it,, but as
it stands now it has nothing whatever oyera
mixed white AMI Niger bar Of the Decatur
Street brand.
Still It might be we'll to have some place
under strict Government regulations where
nothing but absolutely pure whiskey could
1 be bought or sold, and the necessities Of
sickness attended to.
This would cut off the extra large sales,
because absolutely pure whiskey can't be
sold for nothing, there would be less murders
to try and we would gain all around. AS It
stands we have a HI HOLE, murder
mill, selling the people the cheapest most
murderous liquors in existence, and we are
filling up the chaingangs and prisons with the
people It makes crazy enought to commit
crime.
This dispensary was founded for good
purpose, to get rid of the domination Of three
bars, It's rules we're made strict (about all Of
(which are not obeyed in violation Of law a
few short weeks ago, minor. young COL
ored boy was fined for being drunk on the
street. The writer has seen young boys that
were evidently not over 10 invited into the
little adjunct to the dispensary for the pur-
nose of drinking, Now gentlemen Of fine