The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-14
TEMPERANCE TOPICS
The Forces Formins
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akine-"Cold Tca."
peak 81 .ra"-"tot. "-t,r>
Fctotai, c'nfnund the term,
Coucor. Register stA.r.....
luor dealers III the North A..
ing money 10 carry tie Sta. ..
Carolina salns prohibition H.
i've Thousand Ioia va, ,....
New York IN one day.
The Statesyil.e .lara.,.
that Prohibition has already s-
the price of corn; owla- T.. ,L.
chat the stoppage OF the >...>u
of a market Thu, Is co,I
poor folks: though not SO good .-.
merS.
Some OF our Prohibit. t
carry Temperance Il little too ..r H..
make even their speeches Dr.. "lr.-
"as dry as toast - and he a...s.e
tener. aftergettinE downa cual#r atE...
of this kind of Toast, bcs.n- II. T.
watering of the mouth tar thea.
Kind, the Toast which preceac>
of something cool, and not So ar.
Charlotte had a very large n-
ing ut tho opera House To nom.r..
Prohibition ticket Tor the city e.e...-
The ticket was withheld for the prr.,
tut the meeting fired up a gaol a..
If enthusiasm. Rev. DIR. Nat,o-.,f
The Negro College,, Col. JOHN
Thomas, (of the military col eye. IRA
as Y. McAdrn, and o'brr,. a4..
-%peeches; Thomas attacking >ea,.a.
Bayards position as to sumptuar, ..u
| col. VIM. Johnston, II mCmasr .fn.
State Board of Internal improvement,
was called u 10y The crowd. Iut ..
nounced himself opposed to The pr.n
bition Bill.
The Prohibition Election come-
, bad time. 1t ought To have ay.a 81.
for the 2nd day Of January. wDH.a i.
Everybody knows, is the date a.-
verybody buys a Diary. and car.toa
notes his ''InvioIabIe Resolution -as.
70 touch. tast" o handle tor twelve
months to come.
August, it Is true, has some aiy4a-
tages. 1t will come at The close of Tie
long dull summer season. when mas,.
will b. AS scarce as ice-cream oua s...
,ank, and when The combined effected
heat and dust will cause even lhc o.jn.
Ole Topper 10 recognise tho tl-.t O.,
wa;er,"-the pure juice from Nature.
grand Dis,illery.
A young physician Of Wc,se-
'ar,hna, who knows the dark side "
liquor drinking, writes 10 the f,rupr
md Ucch1ntc: 40 your best for i'g..
Inhibition and you can DO much. !
am exerting all the influence have r
ITS favor: and [ am ready to al,
''swer any man who asserts that Alec.
''hol is Indispensable in therapeutic.
The physicians who opposes Probau..
''tion from scientific standpoin,- b,
neither patheIogist, thcrapoutl-J. aog
.'philanthropistu' Here is strJug as
seItion! But we like to see men Who
know their minds. and dare maiutaIg.
Those who study the Temperance
Agitation now in progress will find m4ug
singular phenomena For instance. q,
will be found that some countlc, are
almost unanimously for PROM bltI0u.
while others are equally set against
We could name two or three oil each
kind but will mere ~particularizr Chat
ham as being largely AMI warmly for
Prohibition. At least half = tt.zrr
gentlemen of pro nenence, from dIticrer
sections of that county, have assured
US on the most positive terms tina; 4
the Democrats permit the Republicans
to champion the measure, the latter
would carry off thousands Of DEM
cratic votes. But will not THOUSANDS 9,
Republicans abandon their party fit
Prohibition ?"-we asked
None of any consequence, wa the
reply-'for you know the Republican.
can poll their full vote for nay ticket,
no matter how unpopular; and as there
are not bat a few thousands difference
between the parties in the State, you
may look for ii Republican victory m
Carolina if the Prohibition fails.
appears, therefore the Republicans
nave the best of the situation IN any
event. Because if they 90 for it they
will not loose and ifagainot it will gam.
And if it be adopted, the Democratic
party, being the majority, Will receive
Ill the unpopularity aud if it be dc.ra
ed will be held accountable for The
Oss.
Moreover, if the Bill passes, there
will be an annual struggle for K-pea.
f it doesn't pass, the battle will a ga~e
'egin for a new Legislature tina, "i.
Prohibition out and out.
From all Of which it will he seen thai.
'rohltltlon in a political sense Isa.t
o resemble the Trojan Horse "aHh
ooked like a horse, and was tak.u '1r.
horse, but turned out very differently.