The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 23, 1906, Page SIX, Image 6
BLIND TIGERS
OF CHARLESTOR
A PROSIBTION FIED AGENT
LISTS AND CLAOSIFIES THEM
Fruits of Disponsary-Strong Presen
tation of Conditions in S. 0. Con
eQuent upon State's Under
taking Monopoly of Sales.
A staff correspondent of the asso
ciated prohibition press, who has
made an investigation of the liquor
traffic conditions in this state and a
special study of the blind tiger situa
tion in Charleston, makes an inter
esting report on "the fruitage of law
lessness and corruption in the wake of
the state saloon system.'' He says:
"There are 469 Federal tax receipts
of 'retail liquor dealers' and 'retail
dealers in malt liquors' now in force
in South Carolina.
"Including those that have been
voted out during the past year, there
are 107 regular and thrity-six beer
dispensaries in the state. This leaves
a total'of 326 'blind tigers' in the
state that hold a Federal tax receipt
for selling liquor. There are, there
fore, nearly two and a half times as
many 'blind tigers' in the state as le
gal selling establishments.
"These 143 dispensaries in the
state reprement but ninety-one towns
and citios whore liquor has been legal
ly sold during the past year. In
twenty of these places the people have
voted out the grogshops, so that there
are now but seventy-one towns and
cities where intoxicantW are legally
sold.
" A most striking fact comes to the
surface of this blind tiger situation:
Of the :126 blind tigers of the state
only twenty-nine are to be found in
prohibition districts. Thte balance of
297 are all located in dispensary towns
and cities.
The Blind Tigers
''In this connection, it is interest
ing to compare with the above, the
dispensary cities of the 'State and
1heir condition as to blind tigers.
''elow is givoln a list. of the
*owns and cities of' Sith Carolina
where there are more Federal tax
receipti in force than there are dis
piensarios, or have been dispensaries
during the past year. The nuNAber
moted as 'blind tigers' represents the
excess of tax receipts over dispen.
Dispenwai-y Cities: Blind Tigers.
Andersoi ..2............2
Aiken .. ..5.......... 5
Beaufort........... 4
Camden .. ............2
Charleston and environs.. 213
Columbia .......... 22
Darlington ..............3
Edgefleld ..2............2
Fiorence............ 3
Georgetown............1
Greenivillo...........(I
Laurens .. ........ ...1.
,Tohn's [sland .... ........18
Mtoultrieville .. .... ......3.
Mount Pleasant ..........5
Orangeburg ....... .......2
Port Rloyal.............5
Newberry ...............3
bepartaniburg .............6
Mumnter .... .... .... .....
Siummerville ..............1
nion ..................2
Total.. .... .......297
'The official records of the col
leetor of internal revenue and of the
Qtate dispensary show, therefore, that
there w4re, durhig 1904, more t,han
ta times as mnai%y blind tigers in the
ninety-onle disp4nsary towns and
cities as in all the rest of the Statc
..,mbined.
''One of the olhief reasons urged
by tSonator Tilman for the establish
mnt of the dispensary was that pro.
bibition territory was a breeding
ground for 'joints,' 'speakeasles,
blind pigs,' 'blind tigers,' and othei
oennin of like character. After twelv<
years of trial the dlispenarry provei
to have enormously distanced prohi.
bition as a breeder of illicit liquoi
selling.'
"The habitat of ihue tax receipi
Wind tiger is chiefly in the largel
eities. The rural moonshinor fights i
eut with the deputy marshals as bos
he can without giving up to tile gov
ernment the price of the tax receipt
in Columbia, the capital city, the tige:
Asilesuarogant than he was a fey
yrs ago. Thre are now twenty-twi
bind tIgers in Columbia, which pa:
~( the tax roceip)ty tost,of them boinj
~osated withipi pistol shot of the capi
&C4lbuilding Ain lying ini the territor:
~ ~jbqwon it and the main State 'dispen
b ~tin i
- harloston, he~ poin
awi'e.s,tflo correspond
business with but little striods inter
ference.
"In 1902, ia gathering vi
dence for'the Department pt JU)tep
for use in the case of South,CifoHna
vs. the United States, ivolving the
right of the 'govqrnment to tar dis
pensries, whibg as affirmatively
decided in the UOi Otates Supe06e
,Court last month, I had occasion to
prepare a blind tiger map, of Charles,.
'ton. This map shows the location of
208 'blind tigers' in the principal
part of the city.
"I have just completed a new.ai
of the city, which shows. 201 lind
tigers in the same territory as 'they
exist today. As the previous map
was made during the Charleston ex
position, there were naturally a lar
ger number of blind tigers than there
are now.
''A comparison of the two maps
shows that the greater portion of the
blind tigers of 1902 are still in
oxistence after a peiod of four
years.
' The drug stores of Charleston are
drug stores. Scarcely any of them
take out Federal tax receipts. Here
the grocery stores are the principal
Offenders. A large number of the
I cheap corner groceries and some of
the more pretentious affairs have
blind tiger dttachments and pay the
Federal tax."
What purports to be a full list of
blind tigers in Charleston, with their
locations, is given and the following
remarks made:
"The following tabulation of the
Iniumbor of blind tigers within two
blocks of various Charlpstom .institu
tion is suggestive of local dispensary
(onditions:
City Hall .........:......15
liblic Library ............14
Y. M. C. A. ................4
Dispensary No. 4.. ..........24
l)ispensary No. 3 ..........21
Dispensary No. 17 ..0.........
Dispensary No. 25 ..1........
(J. S. Custom House ........14
Aeademy of Music ..7.........7
Postofice ................17
Union 'passenger station ......22
Dispensary No. 7.............7
Charleston High School..... .1.3
St. Michael's Church ........14
Orave of Johm C. Calhoun .. .. 10
William Pitt statue ..........12
Melnorial tablet Gen. Beauregard 12
Statue of John C. Calhoun . . . . 10
The St'te and the Tgers.
The article continues. "The history
of the attitude of thestate and the
ditipensary toward the blind tiger in
dustry has been one of change. In the
early years of the institution, the
state constibulary did stirring work
and some shooting scrapes followed.
These stirred up the people against
the institution for a time.
"in 1898 the dispensary adoptedl
the policy of fighting the 'blind tiger'
,vompetition by putting on the mar
keti what they calld 'cighty proot
whiskey,' an article composed of 80h
per* eeit whiskey and 20 per cent wa
ter. A distilling p)lant was put in and
distilled water was used for watering
whiskhiskey. In this way a brand of
whiskey wais put on the market at a
ceprrate than the 'blind tiger'
could supply it. The dispensaries
would sell a whole half pint of whis
key for flfteeh cett the.price of a
simle drink in a license statet. The
result was that the stte wasq floodedI
with cheap whiskey by the dispensa
r*ies. The colored population partie
uilarly beciame accustomed to chipping
five cents each into a pool and buy
in hiky by" the bottle and ;drink
in to the atreet corners. I have
stood on -the st'mteet corners of Charles-,
tont frequeuitly j.d' seen' three and
touri parties of c*oldred men sucking
at a bottle that they had bought front
a dispenisary for the p)rice of a J.rink
in a licenefls3tate..
''Th dipenaryfollowed upl this
a t t ack on ' lind tiger' comp)etition
b)y lending its influence in the diree
tion of prosecuting liquor sellers who
were in competition; that is, those
Iwho did not purchase thoiu supplies
from the dispensaries. This they -wore
able to do becatise the dispensary
practically controlled the machinery
of the dominant p)olitical p)arty of the
state. The result was that the 'blind
tigers' found it to their interest to
l)pnrchaso their supplies from the dis
pensaries. Since tho cloAe "of the
-year 1898 until within) the last, two
e yeairs, the policy of purchasing their
supplies of liquors: from the dispense
rice lhas -been closely followed by the
b hllnd tigers.
I The agitatom i rowing out of the
Southm Carolina dispensary case In the~
Scot;rt of cIaints hos: reetited "In some'
miodifieation of is attIttee of the
dispensary' management towards the
tigeir Hiautsy, Sinceo. then, '. now
sche line been puopular4 1PeriodIoRl
ly the p)olieO Oi' dIIisariift onuQmiables
nisako. tho annmicl 6% t5m&bhd ~Iorh
altd ceine 'hit Biors 3't41e
foW#dc Tie lour ~tmtaq et
't te6ttt p4wt.*odan4
the MAtW i6k(4a l
tffge.oe whkoi s
daily so their loss fr m
small. Suh a coqrse enab
lice to kqep up a shw of
thO orop4f he JiquQr sdw
into 1he dispensary stock atY
goodly sum. The. Charle 4
now turn over to the disg
sale frNm 8,000 to 10,000
beer each year, and a prop
amount of whiskies. Gobb
supplies of liquor in thi
cheaper for the dispesary
buy it in the market.
"The 'eighty proof whiskey
of 1898 has been somewhat'A wo
ed upon in~recdnt years. T h
saries now sell at retail a. coi
key at $1.60 a gallon. This N hji
is billed to the county dipi
at $1.44 a gallon. As the gov9r
ment tax on this stuff is $1 p
gallon for proof whiW1ey., it U
seem that. there would be but thiit
four cents per gallon to go to tk"p di
tiller and the wholesaler. As a
ter of fact, this liquor is only 'sevel
ty proof,' that is, 70 per cent Vbhiki
and 30 per. cent water. '84veni
proof' whiskey at $1.44 per g loi
approximately the same as 'ofihui
dred proof' or pure whiskey,.4t,
per gallon. The wholesaleri %ther
fore, gets about ninety cents p4rga
Ion for this liquor after the tWx
paid, instead of thirty-four cnt
The dispensary doctors the wisko
with 30 per cent water as a mon(
making proposition. This Ii46r'
sold to the consumer at ten cent6 pi
half pint. The purchaser, therefor
gets a whole half pint off corn.whi
key for two-thirds the price paid
license states for a single drink."
"In the same way, the diis'Onsai
'doctors' some of its rye whiskeywil
25 per cent watei so as to mike
'seventy-flve proof.' This whiskey
billed to the dispensaries at '$1.0
gallon. The consumer pays 'fifte
cents for a half-pint, the saine as
paid for a single drink in a licen
saloon.
"This plaini of 'doctoring' or adi
terating the whiskey was first ina
gurated for the purpose of fightii
the blind tigers from which purpo
it has been diverted by the trend
events. It is now purchased by,t]
blind tigers who sell it by ,the dria
A ten cent half-pint of whiskey w
yield foikr drinks at, 10 cents eac
This ten cent whiskey is very popil
with the .egroes, two of -whop.:A
'chip in' five cents each and get .h
drinks each. The effect Of this is t:
-retailing of whiskey at two And on
half cents per drink. From a scher
to fight blind tigers this adulterat
whiskey has become a bQnd of frien
ship between the tigers and the di
pensaries.
A Plantifor The Plassa,
W. N. Craig in Garden Magazine.
F~ew plants are more useful for y
azz.a decoration than hieliot ropi
when grown in standard or tr,
forms. The rich deep mauve color,
the flowers, and their delicious fr
gance make the heliotrope a favori
with everyone. As ordinarily grow
it ia not a very conspicuous ob.ject.
given a light situation, where th
cani got a reasonable amnounit of iu
shini, and he watered carefully, thi
will flower neaLrly all summn"r. r.n
under a hea,vily-shaded piazza or in
htallwa', I ley will keep we'll for Iwo,
three weeks, after which they shoui
be latcd oihtdoors in a sunny por
tioni, pruned back a little, syring,
t'wo or three times daily, and garfuhl
watered. Within a month they) w
iagi he a mass of bloom. Four go,
crops oIf flowers can thus easily be
cured betwen May and October.
There is nothing specially dtidthe
in the growing or~ training of ti
type of heliotrope. Ini March
April secure a -few small, vigorc
plants from 'a local florist, whi~
should be potted along as requir
taking care never to 'al1ow the pia
to become matted with -roots or pl
bound. The top inustWdt be'>iiich
from the mein At)n fratjl the tieAir
height is reached,,pt all the flowi
and' side shoots shouild. -be careful
removed, anwd tlie st6indled th 'a stil
sufflciently stott Ioipilt flijn T
stem edl the run A1pIMo iny 'desir
length beforee bingstopped; the urn
bieight is bot fot& e'. nliti
of side shIoot8siWebbW stppeagihi<
when they bRgy 4a.A grpth ,of fl
pin9bing Is ho~4j~tU U ll
oartlen a hetcad ~ AsI size,
AeuI ' d 1spring i
prodned i the art
edi if te t'lllw1 w.Inga
Ina ndoitI'v .huse ae
b~ ha4 ~ oloig Jg
a 9 ardstb
In sixteen ini & 6tp nos
a of thO Z 6 legewill
d carry a pa ea I liberal
is top drees a I tiulants
o- are given a raise
ad a few.standards ea r yearjtb older
d plants. lf0vp a set, beas
a Ior bordet', e eyate -very ef
cc fective.
Dr Heliotope, ,re best grown out
Df doors om 4jtie lit tIl th*0 rtt
te frost, Teg e e 4nIej ove r in '
Ir temper(ture 'of .ftyi degrees in 'a
Is greenhouse orlight-eellr, and should
to be kept moderately dry during the
,severe winteimonthso
e Care -must' always be taken to see
that the planti are securely.. staked,
n- as otherwise strong ivinds would
break or seriousl '-injure them. A
)y compost of two-thirds tur loam,One
es third well dried cow mapure, in which
r there is a good dash of sand is ex
r cellont.
Id The one cultural fact that mAkes
for success with heliotrope, is to keep
e growing. It suffers more
t than most plants if it once gets dried
. out, and must be kept fairly moist at
OYall -times.
y There are several varieties offered
by the florista.and seedsmen, but the
best is'probably Queen of Violets.
Gardens and VegetAbles.
I- Southern'Farm Magazine.
is Irish potatoes should be planted- inl
5. all the border states in March. The
Y best early 'varieties' or at- least those'
V which have gieti the best satisfac- t
is tion, are the Triumph, Early Hebionl
3r and Early Rose, preference being
0, generally given to the first named. No
R- stable manure should be put in the
n rows when -the potatoes are planted,
as if induces scab and makes the 'po
tatoes waxy. With land well pre
h pared. and 'enriched in the preceding
it fall or winter two good Workings will
is usually m'*ke a -large yield of pota
a toes. They are 'usuAlly cut and drop
m pod in rows three and one-half feet
is apart at intervals of 10 inches in the
, rows. They are then covered by
I throwing the dirt with 'a single horse
i- plow over,,them, making a flat ridge
.1ust 'as the potato sprouts begin to
break through the oVerlying iidge, a
se barrow should be run over the land
breaking' down the ridges and destroy
le ing all the , weeds and gra,s. Two
k. weeks after this' harrowing the potd:
ill toes should be "sided ut" .with a.
. one-hbrse plow, and two weeks later,
r if the weather has been seasonable,
the dirt should be thrown to them.
Vo- This completes the culti'vation. Level
le: culture is preferred by-many growers,
e- and the cultivdtion in that case is
ae' done with double-shovel plows.
)A, Nearly all garden vegetables should
a. be planted in March, and especially
j the hardier kinds, such As peas, on
4ions, Salsify, parsnips, ehbbage, car
rots, lettnce and spinbeh. - Tomato
plants shouldl he raised in a hotbed,
but not transplanted until the warm
moist days in April. Snap beans
cannot stand cold weather, and the<
~'planting of these should be deferred'<
se until the danger from- frosts is over, t
nless protected by a canivas-coveri~ng.
a' In the extreme south 'all'- kinds of I
to. garden vegetables shiould be, in good
'headway in 'March, aind will' need nte
'tive and frequent eniltivation. -
-~ From An Address By Susan B. An
- - thony,.
At 'this timne When the-whole wvorld 1
Si muonrning 'the less of Susan B. An-' I
Sthony some of her.teasons for advoca-t
(1ting the isolitical rights of women may I
be of'-intefest to niany. In an address
ndimny :years .ago she Isaid:
'Y We recogniz,e 'that the ballot is a.
'two-edged,. nay, a moily-edged sword,
) which may be made to cut in every di
reetion. If wily politicians 'and sor
didl eppitalists ipisy wi#ld it for mere
dlt paity and personal' greed; if oppiess
'is ed wage-earners may irivoke 'it toJ
or' 'wring justice- from legislators and 'ex
us tort material advantages froin em-,
oh ploye; if the 'lowest and most de
@ graded olatsses of .men may use it to
nt Den the sluice-ways of vice .and
>me f It may be the' instrumental-I
e,by which the narrow, selfish, cor
;*tt and corrupting men and mesa
Kr 4~ rUle-it is quite as true thant no
W~e-mInnded sttatesmen, philanthropists
f&Jrfdinois may make It the *da- 1
ho iN ith Which to reverse the above
ob der of things, as soon as they can
~ tyv9 dded to their now sinll num
i'a ttshe immensely larger 'iatio of
biaynets lOve;to call 'the better 'half
4 .pteayple~ When Women 'vote,
4wilt ywl make a new balance of pow.
ii lgtmust be eighed and' m'easnred 1
d entcuated ft t effect 'ipon ev- '
~bial and m641 queitloli which1
the aWhitrapient of the ballot
rWoeani doubt that when 'the
4tlualv6 wome 69 thought and<
~ t'49Kw)9'are -today ,the moral
oI~ ~o~t,fOtnation, sit in counsel fI
tuthbest' men of the country,.
ten' l be the result?']
~ ~b~'ea~ rav questiens of muot
44
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'rom $15.00 to $100.00. Come and see our
ine of Wardrobes and Sewing Machines.
Goods have advanced 10 per cent, but we
iave not advanced the price. Come and look
ind get our prices.
ShaiIey Sununer
d, as well as of material interest in
vhich women are mostly deeply con -
erned. Depied the ballot, the legit
mate means with which to exert their What i romona?
nfluence, and, as a rule, being lovers Read the following carefully:
>f peace, they have recourse to pray- If you have consum t'
irs and tears, those -potent weapons some of the t fo of
>f women and children, and when blood P ontagious fonrs of
hey fail, must tamely submit, to dpoisoning we cannot- cure
vrong or ri#e in rebellion against You. We don't Pretend to cure you.
he powers that be. You need the individual treatment
of some skiled specialist; bt If
B. 0. Wihitney's "Isle of Spice, you are run dlown in general health
''To say, generall, that the Ameri- if you have dlyspepsia, are subject
an stage differs in no way from that to fainting spells, a victim to in-.
iany other country, would not be al- somana, biliousness, kidney or liver
ogether true,'' says dainty Leslie trouble, catch cold easily, ifyur
leigh prima donna of B. C. Whitney's system is in that condition that
iquant musical mir4ure, the ''Isle of you may become an easy pryto
pico " soon to be. seen . in this city. the diseae rmofPluonala
'luman jature is the same the world grp e gters pem i,
iver, yet custom -and tradition must ippe and th waius epieiesa
eotaken into account. .Our people, heyouaaes bofer y,t enitant.
or example, have never taken kindly ach,osofm or,gnr
o the so-called trained drama. We ly impaired i'ita'lity, we can htilp
ave delighted'in that which was up- you, and, if you :oio.w ouir dfrec
if ting and ennobling, and shunned tions, render you imzshune qtnt
hat which was salacious and degrad- sickness. Most skt inea Ub
ng. -It has been the rule that a play cured by the use of OO
hat is unfit for the 'young person' lIlA."
o see was unworthiy'for the elders to "BOM o
ritend. Foreigners have poked the NIto w A the obig the h.
lnger of derision at us on this ac- syseadtteseubn rs
~ount, but, we have stood our ground bond soap are to the dii-ty- wasti
ud upheld our 'traditions.' Of oC It aids Nature to Tesume
~ourse, plays which were beyond de- i~norma action.
~ense and, beneath contempt have en- W. E. Pelham &- Son guarantee
oyed some little p)rosperity on our that, if you will write to The Bro
tago, but these have been like angel 's monia Co., New York, givingyu
nisits, few and far between. full name ,ndrs on thgeou
"As to refornming the American poni at thean addreom of th cou
tage, I (10 not see wvhere any reform -ireev bota oful thi pack-n
s necessary. Good plays succeed and aewilthrcev anfu stze wpatk
ad 0ones fail; vicious plays are driv- ewtouenyrs.tgn ht
m from the stage, and scant support Wiever.n adra
.5-given to the trifling and inane. Wrt,aeadadegplain-.
Fhese, then, mayAmor sad tone ohalcyonr Y Be careful to address Th Di.
l1aywright and manager. What do- o. New OVerkg.
!ects there may be will find speedy FEEBOO A 0
emedy, for that which is lacking in Namle ........
~ruth, cannot long survive." City. ....* ,, . .
Washington Stubbs, the principal..-..-.. -...-..- - ,
,haracter* in ''The Maid and the Street Address .. ..~
Kunmmy"is pursued by Trixie Ever- My dise4.e L..... *',*
treen, an actress. Finally Stubbs, in
lesperation says: "I'll have.to marry ~ ~ ~ ~ it
hat woman just to be in a position to YO 1e 4,m4
ret a legal separation from her." The cotipub ot vilhsX% I~
roubles of this queer pair are onlyc1 q d It
ne of the bits that go to make "Th e cloW dra a1 l~j
hfaid andl the Mummy'' such a per- ho.e.Se
eet musical lay. This merry me- W. E. Pelam A
ainge by Rlichard Carlo and Robert whin'pl
Toed Bowers will appear at the opera,
touse1