Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-28
Heritaae of the Dispensary.

If people will look at the whole mat
ter with reasonable frankness. they
will not be able to find great deal of
ground for real surprise on account OF
any of the troubles we are in, because
of present conditions.
The Greeks called it Nemesis, 9TH
ers call it fate, and still others more
or less hesitatingly say it is God; but
whatever it is to be called, there is no
question of the fact that sooner or Ia
ter the wrongdoing Of individuals as
we'll as nations must meet with prop
er retribution.
This truth is borne out by the his
tory Of all nations that figure In the
annals of the past, and it has been
experienced by almost every rational
individual adult who has ever existed.
To be sure the misfortunes OF nations
as we'll as individuals are generally
attributed, by those who undertake to
attribute at all, to things other than
Justice meted out for sins, crimes and
mistakes; but no matter how we seek
to explain, there is no escaping from
the fact that retribution never fails.
There were all kinds Of arguments
against the original establishment of
the South Carolina dispensary. Some
were based on political grounds, some
on constitutional grounds, and some on
grounds of decency and morality. All
of these were received with more or
less respect and consideration at the
hands of matter of fact, every day peo-
pie. But the strongest objection that
was urged generally from the pulpit
and from a portion Of the press-that
because the business was evil, the
state would certainly and surely event.
ually reap as 1t had sown, was the
one that was most lightly dismissed.
OF course, there are those who say
there Is no harm in the liquor busi-
ness, just as there are those who
preach and act as If there was no
harm or crime in anything that they
desire to do. There are those VINO
can see wrong only in the things that
other people do, and who have not the
slightest objection even to that wrong
so long as they themselves experience
no personal inconvenience or suffering
from it. 1t has always been so, and
will always be so; but this does not In
the least alter the fact that wrong is
wrong, and that the men who do
wrong as we'll as the people who per-
NIT and acquiesce in it, will certainly
and surely be called to account and
made to pay whether they will permit
themselves to consider and acknowl-
edge the Justice of the debt or not.
When South Carolina went into the
liquor business, professedly to regu-
late it, she really, and truly took her
future moral life in her hands. The
real idea of the people in going into
that business was to regulate and con-
troll the traffic; but the purpose Of
their disloyal and designing leaders
was to build up machine for the
control of the people, and for the pur-
pose of making money for themselves.
The result has been the inevitable.
We are not at all hopeless of the
future. We know that the state has
got to pay the price for the evil for
which it has been responsible and that
it is going to increase its debt before
the old account has been wiped out;
but still we have an abiding faith in
the good, hard sense and righteous
motives of the large majority. and we
feel that when really capable, patriotic
and unselfish leaders step in and un-
dertake to straighten out the tangle.
dawn will begin to break.