The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-07-06
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and in an editorial it undertakes
to make the impression that the
candidates for Governor who ad-
vocate local option are endeav
oring TO frighten the rest Of the
people of the State by arguing,
| if the State passes a Statewide
! law, the six wet counties will do
something terrible. Our good
friend knows better than this:
for he is aware there are many
strong Prohibitionists and tee
totalers who are firm in their be-
lief that temperance will fare
better under laws that have
a good, strong, healthy senti
ment behind them than if those
laws were forced upon people
against their will, and the cause
of temperance, the uplifting Of
the masses is one of the n I
arguments for temperance: this
cause must be advanced gradu-
ally, and not with one blow.
Grant that the legislature at its
next session enactS State wide
law, and in the counties upon
,, which tits forced upon become in.
different about the enforcement
of the law, will our Lake City
friend not admit the cause of
Temperance will be injured?
Would it not be- far better to let
those people who favor pronibl-
ton in the six counties work
with their brethren, and by per
suasion win them over TO their
way OF thinking, by this means
create a sentiment IN favor of
doing away with the sale Of
liquor:
1t is fol.de.rol to say these
six counties are spewing their
filth over thirty-seven counties
in the State. The sale Of liquor
is practically local; those l,v
| ing in other counties do not have
to go to the dispensary coun-
ties, they use the express Offices
and get a better quality for less
money. Let the News editor
ask some Of his Lake City
friends to ascertain how much
booze is shipped into that town
by express, and then ask how
much is gone after to Florence,
and he will see that ninety-nine
per cent gets into his town from
without the State. So it will
not do to say the county dispen.
saries in the wet counties ARE
spewing their fifth over thirty.
seven counties. :"
The great trouble with some,
they become extreme and do not
stop to reason If they are not
agreed with; they at once jump
to the conclusion that those who
fail to see things as they do are
enemies. a Local Optionist is
cot necessarily a liquor man, no
more so than Prohibitionist is
a temperance man. There are
many who voted for prohibition
! who buy and drink liquor, and
there are many who favor local
option who are total abstainerS,
hence we say, the Local Option
lists are not always liquor men.
But they sincerely believe more
good can be accomplished by the
laws as they now stand than 70
go of on q tangent, which will
probably be the case. because
there are extremists. and these
are always dangerous as was
demonstrated recently in Ala
bama, where the temperance
cause was set back for years.
Grant, for argument sake the
ProhibitionistS win their candi-
date for Governor and TIE legiS
lature was to let the local option
law remain on the books as it is.
would the Governor oe able to
help himself? And suppose
Local Option Governor is cleo
ted, does the News editor be-
iicve he would veto q prohibl
ton Act: 1t really matters not
who is elected Governor, he will
carry out the laws enacted by
the Legislature and Will ve''
none unless he is convinced they
are unconstitutional, and even
! then the legislature can pass
them over his veto.
What we wish to stress is that
cur friend IS making the same
mistake as other extremists are
making when he classes all Lo-
cal Option men as liquor men,
and when he attempts to mlSlead
his hearers by intimating that
the liquor drinkers from ali
over the State buy their stuff
from the six wet counties, and,
too, when he undertakes TO class
liquor selling and drinking with
miSdemeanorS regarded as helm
Gus crimes. There is Z great
difference between man drink