The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 26, 1905, Image 4
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KINGSTREE, S. C. i|
C. W. WOLFE, *
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THURSDAY, &CT. 26, 1905
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Our Shifty Contemporary.
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The Mail's lame and impotent rejoinder
to The Record's last arti^iV-'
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cle indicates that the dispensary organ's
opiuion foundry is running low
in material. Vanquished utterly in
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argument trie Man covers iu? luxurious
rout by firing off a lot stale
[\ questions involving the same old arV
gnment that we have answered time
and time again.
I In his desperate and ineffectual
efforts to maintain his contention the
individual who graces the editorial
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tripod of the Mail resorts to the
shallow subterfuge of repeating over
and over again his argumeut, presenting
it this time in an interrogate
' , tive forui?the same old straw that
1 it has threshed out week after week,
$ trying to fool his readers when the
< only person deceived is the poor, selff'
deluded editor.
j?L Like the ostrich in the desert that
when run to earth pokes his head in
rr the sand and chuckles over the clever
& ruse by which he has outwitted the
? i ii i ..i _i
hunter, our shirty rneuu tmnKsmai
* he has illuded us by his transparent
? artifice. But we've got him ou the
run and all his stratagems avail him
naught.
The impudence of the dispensary
organ in accusing us of dodging is j
truly amazing. The Mail knows j
/ that dodging is peculiarly its own
"* *"* "long suit" and we do not care to
Hj
practice its tactics even by imputation.
As an artful dodger our
r friend ecu Id give points to a didap
per.
The interrogatories propounded by
the Mail are really not worth considering
and we hate to subject our
readers to the repetition of our re
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plies to these same questions, every
one of which we have met not once .
but several times since the discussion
was begun. Of course we do not
expect the Mail to admit our refutation
of its "logic." That would
be an acknowledgement of defeat
and few have the moral courage to
admit themselves worsted even when
they recognize the fact. The Mail,
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lie corn when it seeks to wtricatc j
:selt from its confusion worse con- \
bunded by trying to reason in a '
ircle. Unless our contemporary can
ntrodnce some new ai Aliment we I
ee no good in prolonging die con-! *
roversy, which on the part of the {
Jail, besides its rehash, lias degen- i 1
rated into cheap insinuations and i
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ittenipts at sarcasm aimed at the
ditorofTHE Rkcokd. which we
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i rem lunu'iun \j l iiwhu,
1 lor*' art* tlu* Mail's (piestions:
1st. If the people of South Caroina
wanted prohibition and were
betrayed by the Legislature when
:hey were given the dispensary, why!
>ave they kept the dispensary for;
thirteen years?
2nd. If the majority of the people j
)f Williamsburg are prohibitionists,
(rhy was no effort made to rid the!
jounty of the dispensary during all |
the years ir has been established? i
3rd. Why has The Record all
these years remained silent, wh<^
such a monster as it sees in the dispensary
was at the homes of the innocent
and raised not its voice in
protestation against the betrayal of
the people?
4th. The Record admits that
public sentiment only can enforce a
la*. The dispensary law is prohibitory
in some features and restrictive ,
in all,vet it was not properly enforced
That it was not enforced is proor
that the people were indifferent to
prohibition. Will a people who
would not enforce a restrictive law,,
enforce a prohibitory law?
5th. The ballot in the pending:
election will read "dispensary" and
"no dispensary. '* Will The Kecord ;
prove that the man who votes a "no
dispensary'' ticket is for prohibition
and not for blind tigers, high licens#
or something other than prohibiti
on?
Gth. A large majority of the people
driuk whiskey. Will voting out
the dispensary remove their appetites i
or make it impossible for them to
buy whiskey?
7th. Williamsburg county will be ,
surrounded with dispensaries, aacli !
of her neighboring counties having
a! J . L ? f m
tnem, uuu n um uc uiucku xivui,
other Suites. Will it be impossible
or eveu hard to get whiskey?
8th. There are blind-tigers in
Williamsburg county now and are
not suppressed. With no dispensary
there would tye greater opportunity
for them. Will The Record tell j
how this illicit selling of whiskey,;
will be preveuted? If there are
blind-tigers now would there not be
more under prohibition?
9th. The question of prohibition
is a moral one. The ballot box canWhe
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lot regulate morals. All moral rebi
ms must begin in the heart of men,
-las a crusade beeu made against inemperance
and are the people ready
or prohibition? Do a majority of j
he people practice prohibition?
As to question No. 1, see |
V..xTi,\r l.'vnnoM 1 *?: I
->ii ivr^vni't vvw/>.
When the legislature betrayed
the prohibitionists by giving
them the dispensary, two years
passed before they again got a
chance at the ballot box, and
when election year came around
they listened to the promises
held out by the trainers of the
law, and rather than have it
changed without a fair trial the j
prohibitionists submitted, and j
still beguiled by specious promises
of the apologists for the
law?the same old bait you are
trying to catch them with even
now ?they patiently bided their
time, hoping against hope for
the things that never came.
As to No. We have never
claimed that a majority of the
people of Williamsburg county
are prohibitionists. That remains
to be proved. The last
vote on.the question showed the
reverse, but we hope that the
election next month will demonstrate
that there has been such
a revolution of public sentiment
as to bury the dispensary beneath
an avalanche of ballots.
As to No. 3: The present
editor of The Record took
charge of the paper when the
dispensary was on trial. Heeding
the specious pleas of the
sponsors for the law we were
disposed to accept, it as the
"best solution." J^iKe many
others we did not then know
much about the system as we
have since found out. bike an
individual in office who goes
wrong", an institution found permeated
with corruption should
not be tolerated.
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AS to i\0. -?; inrj ivrj^uuu
has alread}', in its issue of September
28, answered this question.
as follows: "The Mail
coolly asks why the prohibitionists
did not enforce the dispensary
law. To put mildly such
a question displays collossal
nerve even even for a dispensaryite.
After the legislature
betrayed the prohibitionists by
: giving them the dispensary in
| place of wha. they voted for
and expected to get, when the,
substitute law proves a disastrous
failure, the attempt is
made to saddle the blame on the
prohibitionists; And this is in
! the face of the fact that the law
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within itselt nas a ciause iui
Iself-enforcement providing for
I an armed constabulary that
costs the State SCO,000 a year.
What these men failed to do the
prohibitionists oujrht to hava
done! And why did they fail?
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>y all Druggists
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That We Buy In Larger Qi
J.NE OF HUGS.
FANCY BASKETS JUST RECE
OUR STOCK IS ALWAYS
N/AIL 5,
)V TI^ LOWEST PRICES.
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Main]ys,because the dispensary
itself is \a vast incubator of|
blind timers," Certainly we believe
that public sentiment only
can enforce a law. And if the
people of Williamsburg are so
much in earnest in this matter as
to r id themselves cf the dispensary
and lose the resulting rev
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cnutf Hit" v. uuiu uc \ ci \ luuuoii i
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to let tl v.- s;;me amount of liquor!
he sold anil <ret 110 revenue at
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all.
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AS to No. j:. The Hix'oim)
certainly v. ill not be so foolish j
as to undertake to prove that <
a man who votes a ,;no dispen-'
sary" ticket is for prohibition, j
jandnotfor blind timers, hijjh,
I license or something other than j
j prohibition. The Mail asserts!
J that such a man would vote for;
j something else, therefore upon
.
: our friend rests the burden of
I pro >f. Our esteemed contem!
pdrary might just as well de|
clare the moon to- be made of j
?reen cheese and challenge us to
prove that it is not, if we ven
[tured to express a different ;
I opinion. This is a fair illustra
jtionof the Mail's inane "logic.''
As to No. 6: V.Te confess that
we do not know what proportion
of the people drink whiskey.
However, we will take the
Mail's word that "a large majority
drink whiskey," and
with dispensaries conveniently
catering" to their appetites it is
not strange if such be the case.
Voting out the rum shops will,
we think, restrict the consumption
of liquor by making it,
harder to get.
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As to No. 7: Certainly tins |
question is so far-fetched as to'
be non-sensical. The Mail
' knows, or should know, that dispensaries
are not allowed t >
ship whiskey into d *y counties,
and the men who would go to
Florence, Georgetown or Man-'
ning solely to buy liquor would
I be so few in number as not to
affect the result of a prohibition
law. As to whether or not it
would be harder to get liquor if
the dispensaries arc voted out, i
we would most emphatically;
answer yes.
As to No. 8 See answer to |
No. 4.
As to No. 9: The ballot box or
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j tne legislature may uwt nui?v
power to make people moral,
but it certainly sheuh: not encourage
immorality. Suppose i
a law was enacted to half hung
a man for murder. Wouldn't it,
j be the height of folly ? We can-i
, not afford to compromise with i
i wrong doing and every code of
morality teaches the un.visdom
of doing evil that good may re- j
suit therefrom.
Now, as to our alleged mis-1
quoting our friend, vide TtiEj
j Record, October 12th: "The
Mail makes much ado overj
i our stating that its estimate of j
the probable vote in the ensuing-1
election would be three-sixths I
when it claims it guessed three
| fifths. We quoted the fraction
j from memory and the Mail is i
welcome to all the capital that
can be made of the hair-breadth 1
ofydifference.*' So much for the
alleged misquoting that The
Mail clamors so vociferously i
about.
Our advice The Mail to "go
'way back and sit down" till the,
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election is over was perverted
by partially quoting what we
said. Half a truth is sometimes
more misleading than a false
statement. Here are our words
"If The Mail does not favoi
either (dispensary or prohibi
tion), it should go 'way back
etc." So far as its influence is
concerned we have no objectior
to The Mail's writing on this
subject until doom's day, foi
we do not believe it has con
verted a single voter to its waj
of thinking. All we ask is thai
our friend confine himself to the
subject under dispute. When i1
advocates an ideal, impractical
substitute law its argument if
irrelevant, having no bearing
whatever on the question oi
dispensary or prohibition.
In his article published elsewhere
?ii this issue, Mr. S. B,
Gordon refers to an editorial para
giaph that appeared in this cnluun
last August. lie cites figures t<
show that the revenue from taxabli
property is greater and the schooli
fewer iu Greenwood county than in
Williamsburg. Just what Mr. Gor
don seeks to establish by this com
parison we fail to peiceive. Witl
no local dispensaries in Greenwood
county certainly the taxable property
has to be more than in Williams
burg in order for the average schoo
term in the former county to be a
long or longer than in the latter,'fa
for the teachers to receive more pa;
am! f??i ibe taxes to oe no highe
iiiun ours. The point we wished t(
make was that dispensaries are no
necessary to the prosperity of i
county, and Mr. Gordon's figure:
contrasting the financial conditioi
l of Williamsburg and Greenwood, ar
proof conclusive of our contention
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Nine out of ten counties in whicl
elections have been held have hat
the manhood to cast oat from thei
midst the dispensary with its ccr
rupting influence?a festering sort
on the body politic. Within thi
next month the people of Williams
burg will1 have the opportunity ti
vote out tli? iniquitous institution
In our opinion the dispeusary sys
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leill can never ue puiiucu. n. u?w
egg cannot be reformed, Remenrbei
that ir selling liquor be wrong, whet
you vote to legalize the traffic yoi
become a partner in the business.
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