Its Evil Influence

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

Its Evil Influence

Its Evil Influence.—About eight years ago South Carolina voters expressed themselves in favor of prohibition by about 8,000 majority. The Legislature betrayed their trust and gave the people the State dispensary; in other words, putting the whole liquor-selling business in the hands of the State, the profits going to the support of education. By this law the liquor business has been forced upon towns that repudiated it. Two years ago the dispensary had in round numbers 4,000 majority, but in the last campaign the majority against prohibition was tremendous. The educational bribe has blinded the minds of the people.