CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4690, 9 April 1894, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Liquor .Riots.

(To the Editor of the Waiiurafa Daily Times.) , Sib,—May I trouble you with a > word or two in reply to youc article on • the" Liquor Riots" in South Oaro« Una and the assumejl failure of prohibition there. It appears that you have gathered your information about the alleged failure of prohibition from some of your contemporaries whom you designate the" Wellington liquor trade organs." These trade organs have discovered a " mare's nest" I Carolina ie not and never was a Prohibition State. Tho Governor of

, Carolina is not a prohibitionist | but a " regnlationist." The Gover- | nor and his party have tridjjjj ; curry into effect the ; j\q%^>4HH ( preached by tbo Biahon of ObUM i The Bishop urgeß that municipalities t should run the public li'oubbs, Bell " good liquor/'and pookettho profits, I The' Governor of Carolina enlarged the Bishop's sohemp, He and his pnrtygota lawpassed that nationalised the public houses and made the drink traffic part of the civil service. On the SOllt of. June last year Governor Tillman became the biggest publican | in the world. A correspondent writ- \ in? from Columbia S.O. on the above | date,says: "The.State of Carolina "goes into the liquor business at , "midnight to-night. The absolute " boss, of tho State, Governor Till—- " man, expeota to turn the great "commonwealth into one enormous i " drinking saloon such as might carry "a signboard reaching from sea to " mountains announcing Benjamin ! " Ryan Tillman, Monopolist of Grog f In the February number of the North kinsman Review this worthy praoti> J cal exponent of the Bishop (if Chester's policy elaborates his scheme of curing the drink evil by State grig selling! The telegrams voir have published prove that this sdfl«ytf not proved ut succeesi' "OiireßflHHß proves not the failure of prob'ibifufl but tho failure of another well-l meant scheme of regulation. It is to be regretted that the Wellington' Journals you have trusted hava proved themselves ill informed about the facts of this somewhat peculiar departure in the Amerioan liquor trallio. I am etc, Robert Wood, Manse, April sth, 1894. PS. Tho Melbourne Argus of March 24th, has the following Bum. Mary of Governor 'iillmans article in the February Review referred to in foregoing letter:-." The Governor of South Carolina explains, in the North American Review, the way in which that state has dealt with the liquor question. Last year a Dispensary Law was brought iuto force, after several months of preparation, and overy bar in the state closed its doors. All the liquor now onnsumed by (he people passes through the hands of the Government,, which guarantees a pure article; gives honest measure;sells only For cash and only in the day time, prohibits the sale of liquor in gaining dens, pool-rooms, and lewd houses ; and has broken up the whisky rings, which were the curse of every municipality in the state. The Governor declares the experiment to hive )>roved a grand success, and predicts that never "gain will a barkeeper in South Carolina retail liquor under license from the state,"