Prohibition in South Carolina.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 285, 11 April 1894, Page 3

Prohibition in South Carolina.

The North American Review for this month contains an article by Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, in which he says of the peculiar temperance law of his State: "The moderate Prohibitionists are delighted with it," and declare that " the liquor dealers are more bitter in their opposition to it than they have ever been toward Prohibition." Of the law itself he says that it was hurriedly prepared and rushed through the Legislature in its closing hours. Of its effect he says that it has closed every saloon in the State outside of Charleston, and in order to reach Charleston the law needs to be amended. In place of 600 saloons and 400 drug stores where liquors were sold under the old system there are now about fifty State dispensaries, and not more tban 125 will be sufficient to supply the demand for drink to be drunk off the premises. He assures the temperance people of the country that his law is so heartily approved by three-f >urths of the citizens of South Carolina that it is safe to pro phesy that never again will a barkeeper in the State sell liquor by " the drink " under a license from the State. _____ _^__