The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
A LITTLE SAP.

gress tackle the liquor problem?
There is need for federal legisla
tion which will give to the States
limited power to control and po-
lice liquor when it is shipped in
to the State, we mean a power
which would permit sane legisla-
tion for the proper control. Of
spurious liquors, if however.
congress was to give the States
absolute power, the zealots would
soon have such drastic laws made,
the people would cry out against
themand drive them from the stat
ute books, but reasonable laws
which will give protection from
the viciousness now existing un-
aersocalled prohibition is actu-
ally needed.
We believe the reign Of law
lessness now prevailing is large
ly due to the prohi0itive laws, the
laxity Of enforcement is the re
suit Of public disapproval, and all
because these laws are not suited
to American ideas of liberty. The
average American citizen resents
interference with his personal
affairs, and, when g set OF people
undertake to assume moral mon
itorship over him, especially
when that sponsorship is large.
ly hypocrltical he erects a bull
wark OF opposition, and even if
he does not openly fight, he gives
his assent to the opposition by
an inert Indifference to the en-.
forcement of such legislation.
There is only one way to rem
edy the present condition, and
that way is not by a superior vir-
tue over others, the public is not
easy deceived, but frame such
laws as will give States power to
grant licenses under municipal
direction, that will curtail the
consumption, at the same time
not prohibit; laws providing for
strict regulations under forfeit
ure penalties, and make drunk
enness a misdemeanor. We be-
lieve legislation along these lines
will further the cause of temper
ance more rapidly than all the
prohibitlve measures that can or
have been devised by long hair
ed men, and the shrieking and
trapsing women, who go about
the country correcting the homes
of strangers while their own
homes suffer neglect.
It is now proposed by some
member of congress to enact
laws that would make liquors
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trate,s court much more a federal
court where the judges are sup
posed to have atleast an elemen-
tary knowledge Of law, but if it
could be made good law, then it
simply amounts to the govern
ment lending it's aid to putting
the sale Of liquor on a cash basis,
as is now practically the case
with the mail order houses, since
the legal sale Of the stuff is pro-
hibited in the several States. II
by the proposed legislation the
shipper Of liquor extends credit
to the consignee, be takes the
risk Of being paid with the full
knowledge of no redress in the
courts, hence, the shipper rather
than take such risk will demand
cash with order. So, where the
prohibitionists can find any COM
fort from such a law we fail to
observe it, will it have the
effect of dimishlng the shipment
into dry territory? There are
men in congress from prohibition
sections who would throw a tub
to the whale.