The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-05
a Prohibitionist Of the Oiden
Time!

- o thC idLAOu TICKLE hOu
Papers" which made a sensation in
North Carolina forty years ago, suppos
ed to be by E. G. Reade, we take the
following:
The greatest blot upon her name now
is ~1ntemperance. The m~emorialists
are determined upon its removal and
they advise a law. The committee say
they desire its removal also, and they
advise moral suasion.
The memorialists do not object to
moral suasion. 1t is a means they
have always used and expect to use.
but the committee advise it as the on
ly means; and to this they object.
Moral suasion has much but it cannot
do enough. If all the suasionists were
on the right side it might answer. But
the misfortune is that while one half
are In favor of the removal entirely,
the Others are opposed to 1t. And
those who oppose it: claim to be mere
%cautionists. Why l will venture that
YOU claim to be moral suasionists of the
straightest sect. You do not consider
your Report as a master piece of moral
suasion.-Again: If you can by NOR.
a. suasion effect every man in a county
but one, that II will bring his barrel
of whiskey and plant it and it will
spread again IKE a mustard seed; and
all the work is to do overa.ain. And
now if every man in a county, but one,
not from mere caprice on their part
but on account of the public good.
should desire that no spirits should
be brought into that county, does il
not seem that there ought to be a way
, to prevent him2 Every man may beg
him not to do it; but he will do 1T
Nor can it be SAID that this is an ex
treme case and not likely te happen
Cases like it do happen every day. /
, has not been long since in a nortl
west town, the whole town requested
a certain man not to set up a hQuo
: shop. But what cared he for publi'
t sentiment? He would set it up. AM
< public sentiment was SO outdone.
The wings have brought out a man 0
purpose to beat them, and we must bea
them this time. Who can get them
, take Mr.. ID. And then Mr.. B. an
IL Mr.. D. take the stump. Each know
:" he has 1000 certain: and the contest
for the odd 100; and it is known that h
who goes fartherest gets them. An
If you hear them on the stump 20
will suppose that the whole countl
~ are liquor men. The two parties nun
- bsring 1000 are afraid to say a worc
- lest they loose the 100. And do NJ
g the great body of the conservati,
!. people of North Carolina see that
- this way they are ruled by the hoatin
= vste2 The wing candidate knows tn
" = his brother wings will stand up to hi
although he may d%emagogue it a littl'
u and indeed that they ven desire hi
y. to do so rather than be defeated. Ar
" so it IS with the democrat. The cand
=, date says, oh. [ know Mr.. A. is t.
"a good a whig and has toe much sen
~ not to vote for me because | am stoo
ing a little to get the liquor vote
~ And so it is with the democrat. Al
it is in this way that public opinion
manufactured; and it is in this wa
- that 1000 voters are induced to put U
with representatives of whom they a
ashamed and who upon this great Que
II ton misrepresents them. But the tin
:. is near at hand when the temperan
man will be as unyielding as the liqu
man. And then the d~emagogue, c
~ off from the vote that makes him
y. spectacle, will find his proper lew
osT He shall no longer have it to say tn
+ he stoops to gets votes, but he shall
70 the peer of his only supporters"