A nation cannot afford to waste time experimenting with schemes which have proved usolcss clsewliere. The Liquof Trade of New Ken land suggests that State Control (Sinto pnrchaso and operation) /should l»o fried. South Carolina abolished the License system and substituted a system of Government dispensaries with Local Option. Year by year the number of counties. toleratiiifr even tjie Government store decreased, till in 1916 only sixteen comities remained "wet." Now State-wide Prohibition prevails, and ilio present Governor, writing nndijr date of June'2o, 1918, says: "I believe anyone with an open mind can (lony that tho li((n.or situation is. better now in South Carolina than it has ever been, and there hns also,been a. marked and gratifyine improvement in moral conditions 'and in tlio suppression of vice." The only State that tried Government operations now enjoys Prohibition. —Advt. ; A. Wellinston merchant says-.—"After t.hreo years' suffering from neuritis a few do'ses of VRIL pave me complete rest, and. T was almost free from no in before finisliinß the first: bot.Ho. VRTL' for all nerve, oases, shell-shork eases, etc. At nil chemists- Young's Chemical Co., Distributors.—Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 9
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184Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 9
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