The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-28
Campaign Personals.

Campaign Personals.
Charles McKesson, of Morganton,
after ten months tribulation as a con-
vert to Republicanism, is cooling oil as
a for cold water He ought
to make an effective lecture, drawn
from personal experience. Still, 1t Is a
remarkable circumstance that among
the most active Prohibitionists are scores
of men whose love of liquor Is almost
second nature. We hear of four men
10 an adjoining county who are rarely
sober when they can get liquor, yet are
loud spoken for Prohibition. We do
not know whether Gov. Jarvis now
talks for the Bill, but drinks at Traps
earlier stages of the campaign, and alter
his message endorsing the Prohibition
movement. He no doubt felt that his
public voice should be Dry, even
though his private walk and CONVEX
Sation' leaned toward "Dampness.
Judge Alphonso G. Avery comes OF
"a stock famed for hospitality and
conviviality, and the day has BEEN
when many persons predicted tor
him a fate not far removed from
that of the gifted, but snake-bitten
Mark Erwin. Happily. the Judge has
gained by the cool atmosphere OF the
Bench, and he is now doing his best for
the Temperance cause. There are many
men in less public positions, who love
a glass" now and then, yet feel 1t TO be
their CONSCIENTIOUS duty to support a
measure which may work for the welfare
of the State and country. Even If nine
chances were against such a result, the
possibility that the tenth might succeed,
would make it binding upon Us to try
that tenth chance because there can be
no possibility of doing worse than we
are now doing.
In this connection and for the good
it may do, we mention an oft-repeated
remark Of Lieutenant-General ID. d..
Hill, an ironside- Scotch Irish Presbyte-
rian elder, famed for intensity of will,
and correctness of life. Said he Il love
liquor both the taste and the effect.
And | am afraid of it. Were | to take
a glass a day for a few days | should be
almost incapable Of resisting its insldi-
Gus allurements." 1t is because of such
things that we support the Prohibition
Bill. We care nothing for the Bill.
We have printed 1t, nor read two
lines of it, and we have no doubt that
it is more or less defective. But as it
is the only thing offered, we support it
as far the lesser of two ills.--Ioung
Josephus Daniels of the Wilson ID
uance has been speaking for Prohibition
at county meetings. 1t is rare that the
ready tongue seconds a ready pencil.
Col. John n. Staples, Attorney for the
Richmond & Danville Railroad, writes
a letter opposing prohibition for various
reasons, chiefly because ''our grand
fathers got along without it, and we
can do the same" If the nimble- witted
Colonel were retained by the Prohibi-
tlonists he could upset his W argu-
ments by showing that our forefathers
had purer and safer liquors to drink,
and that one-hundred years ago there
were not fifty drunkards in an hundred
families, whereas now there are 100
habitual tipplers in almost fifty families,
1t is susceptible of proof that love Of
liquor passes father to son just as in
sanity, or epilepsy, or apoplexy. Now
there is living in Granville an aged and
respected lady who has $50 descendants
children, grand children, and great
grand-children,) all born during her
90 years of life. One hundred years
hence her direct lineal progeny will
number 1000 souls. Suppose she and
her husband had been Incorporate and
communicated the love of liquor to all
her descendants Suppose that instead
of one old lady there are in North Car
DINA to-day one hundred thousand pa
rents who are habitual drinkers, and
pass the love of liquor to their decen-
dants! is it not plain that within the
next hundred years one half of our peo-
Pile will have In their veins a natural
fondness for stimulants ?-Col. Ike
Young was billed to make some anti
Prohibition speeches at Wilmington
but Isaac is not so young as not to
comprehend the difference between sac
rificing in theory, and being sacrificed"
in practice. Father Abraham has re-
ceived great credit for being willing to
offer up little Ike in lieu of a lacking
sheep: but lsaac's opinions on the sub
iect have not been recorded. Anyway,
it all very nice to oblige ones friend,
but Garfield may live, and its a good
deal wiser to sacrifice one feelings than
sacrifice oneself out of office. Hon.
John Manning has been making Prohi
ton speeches in Chatham: though he
declined to vote for the bill on its pas
sage, if we remember Alright. He also
advertises the University Law school to
begin, Aug. 25.