The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-16

" 1885,. 4S9. 1911.
A well known member of Congress
writing to the Statesville Landmark
declares that Congressional Distric
1.-THE Sixth pays $50, 600 IN gold eyer,
month IN the gear" This, we suppose.
refers TO the salaries of the Revenue
officials, who superintend the hauling
Of the liquor. The same writer con
tinues as follows against Prohibition
You Danish with one fell swooI
$40, 900 per month, $24O, 900 per year
and had prohibition gone into effect
ten years ago this amount would have
accumulated to the vast sum of of S24..
600, 900.
There were produced in this (the
tine sixth district) alone last year 357,
: gallons OF spirits, which was sold
outside the State at about $I.40 per
gallon, which brought a revenue into
your district, your State, especially the
western portion thereof, of $5Ol, O92 %,
which, had it been expended in a rail
road, would have built one $50 miles
long--52 miles longer than the North
Carolina Central Railroad from Colds
bore to Charlotte. Yet Eastern Caro-
Ina clamors and wants the west to
vote this amount away because she OBJ
Jects to wbiskey.
But some one will say that 9Oc. out
of every dollar of this money went to
the Ievenue department but stop good
fellow! Who got the money that bought
the corn that produced this whiskey !
Did not the farmers of Western Caro-
lima Unt ~Elf. tn Gel IN wee L,-Iol &.
their corn Did this amount 90 to the
general government or the revenue de-
partment ! No, sir some if not all of
1t is hanging in old stockings around
the tireplices and between the LOGS OF
All old farm house IN Western
Carolina, in soak for II rainy dav. No
revenue can get that. The people out
the State paid the 9Uc. "a gallon
yet the people of the east want
land owners Of Western Carolina
give up the whiskey business be-
cause a few kid gloved gentry drink
90 much tea $40, 900 swept away:
SOL, O92 g swept away corn down to
'Oc. per bushel; lands selling at about
present value no drunkard
aved, no good accomplished,
Look at it morally, or from a moral
landpolDt. One will say that the best
n.erests of humanity demand It; chill
rem are starving for bread while
thousands Of poor deluded drunkards
.to untimely graves "unwept, Union
red and unsung." calling up all the
etter feelings of humanity for the poor
runkard and sot! This is all RIGHT
ut 1t is merely done to blind the ewes
} the true interests. This lii which r,
presented to your suffrage is not one .
lat Will prohibit the sale of LIQUOR: F.;
dare say there will be more lIquor i,
rank IN North Carolina after than be- :
re Its adoption, because no acts of ;
save a soul" No moral law
IN convert a sinner, or else the Ten !.
Commandments had never been broken :.
This prohibition fever as we'll as ali :
le o:her fanatical movements have =
9ept over other portions of the Union :
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine =
ID other New England States have :
ZEN SICK and nearly died with it. The =
Court OF the United States '
'clded 1t to be constitutional to bro y
blt its sale in Massachusetts in ls45 I,
I what co we see IN 1922 Massa- :
usetts e%mptying Sc, 800. OO6. AT into =
e lap of the United States treasury IL
ashihgton for tax on whiskey bro. '
ICED in that State in that wear,
aine's got a p%rohibitory law and has
still.
IF thus bill should 60 in effect it will e. :
use all those who desire spirits, no 4
for what purpose, either for I
.dical or other purposes, to find a =
Der doctor in The first place, and if q
otctor happens to be drunk, sur IL
by thirty gallons of mean
nor, as he will be, then YOU will :,
We to ride perhaps ten miles. if in y
country, to another physician who =,
so0er and get your 'prescrtpttoa." ~