The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-09-03
THE PROHIBITION ELECTION.
Newberry County Faces Situation OF
Very Vital Importance.

issue where the general assembly has
submitted to the people; it is couched
in parliamentary language, and it is
paid for at space rates which were
quoted to those inserting It.
There has been considerable criti-
cism of newspapers taking this anti
Statewide prohibition advertising. AS
as matter of fact, this criticism is un-
justified. Here is matter submitted
to the people of the State by their
representatives in the general assem-
bN. If those on one side or the other
want to submit their argument to the
people of Newberry county, and will
do so in such manner that We feel no
hesitancy in placing their statement in
the homes which this newspaper
reaches, The Herald and News will
take their advertising. If the State
wide prohibitionists want space in this
newspaper at the rates which are be-
ing paid for other advertising they can
have it.
Nor is there an apology for this ad-
Gertisement. The Herald and News is
against the Statewide movement, and
desires in this connection to state the
reasons which seem logical to it upon
which it's position is baseG:
Taking up the matter in local way:
/. Newberry is now prohibition
county, the dispensaries having been
voted out Overwhelmingly by the
qualified electors Of the county.
,. Most of the counties of the State
are now prohibition counties, by the
will of their qualified electors.
3. If Statewide prohibition is voted
in an "off election" year, the liquor
question will again be paramount in
the next State campaign.
4. The counties which now have pro.
hibition are satisfied with it. If they
are not, they would vote the dispen-
sary back in. as Newberry would have
done last year if she had wanted the
dispensary system.
). The counties which have dispen-
saries, numbering about one-third OF
the counties of the State, want the dis
pensany system, in the interest of tenn
perance, or otherwise they would vote
out the dispensaries, as they have the
right to do under the present local op-
ton law. 1t is fanatical to charge that
the majority of the voters of those
counties are Influenced by the liquor
interests. The people of South Caro-
lima can not be bought.
6. If Newberry, Saluda and other
"dry" counties, would vote Statewide
prohibition upon Richland and Char
lesion, these two counties and the 9TH
er dispensary counties are not going
to be satisfied. We will have another
liquor campaign next summer. By the
vote of the prohibition counties the
movement will have been made State
wide, and the dissatisfaction with a
Statewide prohibition regime will
force liquor on Newberry and Saluda
and other counties which now have
prohibition
I. Newberry county now has what
she wants; what her people have vot-
ed for-and why try to force other
counties to her way of thinking,
thereby giving the other counties,
when the turning point comes, as it
surely will, the right to force her to
their way of thinking?
The Herald and News is friend OF
temperance Even from the standpoint
of the Incorporate prohibitionist, the
question is settling itself. The coun-
ties are gradually, of their own voli-
ton, voting out whiskey. This move
ment to force them is going to react,
and react heavily.
Self-goyernment is dear to the heart
of Southerners. That was what the
people of the South fought for from
1861 to 1865. We now have self-gov-
ernment and local option on the abom-
inable liquor question. BY making it
Statewide We will upset that principle,
and we have to abide the consequences.
The State Of Georgia is good ex-
ample. The biggest illegal liquor
shipment which has been seized in
South Carolina since the first Of jan
uary was shipment in Charleston Of
sloop which came from the "dry1,