The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 08, 1909, Image 2
IS PROHIBITION
A FAILURE?
!
DDK THE EXPERIMENT WORKED IN NEW I
EMGUND-ARGUMENT ADDUCED
AGAINST NO LICENSE SYSTEM.
Editor County Record:-iQaotnuch
as there will be an i
election held iii this county on Au j
gust 1? next, the result of which,
may involve a radical change in oui
governmental policy aud launch us j
infrt au crncri merit which 11121V be '
impractical in its operation and [
detrimental to the moral, material
and general weltare of the county,,
I think it will be well to look care- J
fully into the issues involved in the ,
campaign now goiug on with a view
to reaching the wisest conclusion.
During the colonial days nearly 1
all of the colouies, from Maine to
Georgia, enacted, at differeut times^
Iawr nrnhihitinir. in various wavs.
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the manufacture and sale of liquor,
and in some uistauces of tobacco also.
The3e laws were uniformly disregarded
and were productive of
numerous evil consequences. So
impossible wa3 it to enforce them
and so great were th? abuses growing
out of them that they rarely remained
upon the statute books more
than a few years. Such experi
nients were repeated from time to
always with like results, until
the Revolution, when Cfaey
w "011 lip.
Th'p colonial experience with
prohibitory laws so impressed the
people that during the first seventy
years of independence little or r.o
effort was made in the direction of
prohibition.
Between 1 -50 and 18(50, however,
there was a revival of prohibitory
efforts and laws were enacted in
various States forbidding tue man
ufacturc and sale of intoxicating
liquors.
Maine adopted prohibition in
iu lB.'jl, and still has it on her
books, but it has never been en
forced, and in towns and c ties of
that Slate the open saloon i3 as fa
miliar and public as iu any State of j
the Union.
Vermont followed Maine m l^Ovi
by the adoption of prohibitory laws, j
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ana Kepi ineui cuuuu iuusiy uu uer
statute bocks for halt a century.
In the effort to enforce these laws
severe and. unusual punishments,
search without warrant aud denial j
of trial by jury were resorted to, the |
accused was forced to testify against j
himself and a process of injuuction
was adopted ruinous to innocent
parties. Three convictions were al
lowe.l for a single offence and informers
were stimulated by fees aud
shares of fiaes?and all to no pur
purpose. Intemperance and ecu
tempt of law steadily increased. In
1902, at the end of tifty years, the
report of the United States Commissioner
cf Internal Reveuue
showed that one United States li
oense to sell liquor was issued for
every 120 voters in the State. Cn
the fall of 1902 a movement was
inaugurated looking to the adoption
of a license system. The cam
paigu which terminated iu the over
throw of prohibition was in many
respects remarkable. Arrayed oa
the side of license were the pro ^
gressivc elements of the State, sup '
ported by men in al! walks of life,'
of the best thought and highest!
morals?men profoundly impressed
with the futility and bad results of
the law. Arrayed with the prohi
bitionisls were the illicit liquor
sellers, who preferred the unrestricted
sale under prohibition to a
regulative trade uuder an7 other
fivstem.
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On four separate occasions during
the campaign the voters of the
State show ed their disapproval of
prohibition?in the caucases. in the
Legislature, in the election when
they voted 011 the question direct,
?and fiualiy when the towns voted
011 license March 3, 1903. On the
last occasion eighty seven towns?all
in the State of any size?declared
for license.
New Hampshire adopted statutory
prohibition in 1855. For thirtyfour
years every effort was made to
enforce it, with results so far from
satisfactory and so injurious that at <
a popular election for the adoption
of a prohibitory amendment to the
State constitution held April 12,
1889, the amendment was defeated
by an enormous majority. Two
counties only in the entire State
gave it majorities. Oa March 18,
1903, the lower house of the Legislature
passed a license bill by a
vote of 214 to 107. A few days
later the bill passed the Senate by a
vote of three to one, and on March
27, received executive approval and
license became the law of the
State. The cities of the State stood
overwhelmingly for license, their j
vote in the Legislature being 121 j
to 8 in its favor. More noteworthy ;
is the fact that the rural members,
taken separately, voted for license;
in the proportion of 97 to 70.
Representatives of both political j
parties were also in favor of license.
Massachusetts tried prohibition
from 1855 to 1870. She found the
law vain and injurious aud upon!
the testimony of her Governor and
best citizens, fatally hurtful to the
cause of temperance. After fifteen
years ot earnest trial she also repudiated
the law, and when in
April, 188d, a strenuous effort was
made to again engruft prohibition
upon the constitution of the State,
it failed. The farmiug population
threw its weight with that of the
cities against the amendment. One
town only in the Commonwealth
gave it a majority.
The campaign was one of excep
tioual interest. The terms and time
of the tight were dictated by the
prohibitionists. They were ably led
and their cause was advocated by
hundreds of speakers. They deluged
the State with literature and brought
into action an army of workers recur
liable tor its numbers. No method
known to the politician was left
untried in the efforts to carry prohibition.
As elsewhere, the prohibitionists
tried to make it appear that all morality
was on their side, all immoral'
lty opposed to them. This assumption
failed of its purpose.
The influential journals of the
State, almost to a unit against the
amendment, exposed the fallacy and
threw their influence in behalf of
license. Profiting bv uast experience.
the? fought with a vigor bom of'
conviction. The religious papers
joined hands with the powerful dailies.
and, making conscience of the
fight, the Christian Union, the Congiegationalist
and the Christian Register
hurled their thunder against the
adoption of the amendment.
Nor was the press unsupported by
the church. Many scores of the most
end-lent clergymeu of the Commonwealth,
comprising the brain, the
diguity and the worth of the ministry
of the State, united in remonstrances
against the adoption of prohibition.
Among the ministers so remonstrating
were Rev Dr Phillips
Brooks, Rev Dr Savage, Rev Dr
Brooks Hereford,Rev Dr Cyrus Bartol,
Rev Dr Peabody and the Rev
Father Conrty, the President of the
Catholio National Total Abstinence
Society cf America, and many others
of celebrity?men revered for character
and purity of motive. Mauy of
these great divines preached from
their pulpits against the fauaticism.
United with them in the crusade
against prohibition were live of the
3eveu colleges of the State. President
Eliot of Harvard iu an open letter
condemned the effort to make men
good by law.
The opposition to the ameudment
was none the less remarkable among
the lawyers, either iu vigor or in
character of those opposed. A protest
signed by nearly five hundred of
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eluding such names of natioual reputation
as E R Hoar, ex-Governor
Russell, Charles Theodore Russell,
er-Governor Gardiner, Patrick Collins
and others equally known, was
sent broadcast throughout the Commonwealth.
Following the protest of the lawyers
came one of the physicians,
headed by Oliver Wendell Holmes
and subscribed to by nearly all the
eminent doctors of the State.
Merchants and business men, appreciating
the disaster that would
follow prohibition, also united in a
remonstrance to which were appended
nearly six thousand names.
Labor united with capital in hoa
| tilitj to prohibition. The labor lead-1
J ers declaring it their belief that the,
adoption of the ameudment would
' seriously affect the interests of laboring
men. urged its defeat.
, The remonstrances, supported by
I the great names signed to them, corincided
with the experience of the
! people who had tried prohibition
'and knew by its fruits what it was.
[ Statistics were not wanting to show
its evil effects when it was formerly
the law of the State. These statistics
were above suspicion, as they
were prepared under the order of the
Governor and Legislature by the Hon
Carroll D Wright, one of the most
eminent and reliable statisticians of
America. They show the alarming
extent of intemperance under prohibition,
aud the rapid decrease of
drunkenness when the prohibitory
statute was replaced by a license law.
The tax question cut a considerable
figure in the campaign. The
enormous loss of revenue from licenses
and the consequent heavy increase
in taxes were so obvious that
the prohibitionists did not attempt to
argue on this question.
Concluded next week.)
A PERENNIAL IANDIOATEV
Cole L Blease Advises the Public That
He Is Still RunningNewberry,
July 3:?While iu
Lauaens several days ago, the Hon
Cole L Blease, of this city was
quoted by the Laureusville Herald,
in au interview, as stating that he
would be a candidate for Governor
in the campaign next summer, with
practically the same platf -m he had
last summer. Queried larther on
his views as to Clemson and compulsory
education, says the Laurens paper,
he said: "Let C'.emson alone
and no compulsory education."
When seen by The Sunday News
correspondent, Mr Blease stated that
the interview with him iu the Laurens
paper was correct, and that he
would be a candidate for Governor
next summer upon the same platform
upon which he made the race
in 1908, aud practically upon tne
same issues as then. He said thai
he was opposed to any interference
with Clenison College at this time,
lie thought, however, that the life
trustees had leeu, and were now,
making a mistake in tilling vacancies
on the board by the election of
politicians as members thereof, aud
thereby creating dissensions which
would otherwise not be, for sometimes
the opposition to the life board
was more on account of its membership
or individuality than to the
principle involved.
"My record as to compulsory education
in the House of Representatives
and the Senate is well known,
and I have been credited with the
defeat of a bill along that line while
- ? n. . n i 1 T
a member or tne state senate, ana i
am still opposed to the system,'' he
said.
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Prohibition leads to prosperity.
Before the days of prohibition
there were liceused saloons, breweries
and distilleries throughout Maine.
These .have all been bauished.
Under license, Maiue was a poor
State. Under prohibition. Maine ha9
become very prosperous.
Maine is the only State with more
savings bank depositors than voters.
One-third of its people, including
women and children, have money in
the savings batiks.
Maine has an excellent public
school system. Not a dollar of revenue
is needed or received to_support
the schools of Maiue.
Maine is a great pleasure rt.
About tifteeu million dolla' ach
year are left in the State by mer
visitors and tourists; peopL o do
not depend on the saloon for.enter-1
tainment. \ V
Maine takes care of its
instead of taking care of the saloc
Of the 3,000,000 child laborers
the United States, Maine's proportion
would be 35,000. It has but!
14,000.
Prohibition reduces crime. rp
were in the United States h
0,300 murders and homiciuu.
Maine had but three.
Prohibition hurts the liquor business
by reducing the amount of liquor
manufactured, sold and consumed.
This is why the liquor people
are always opposed to prohibition.
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