The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-11-27
says in the August Fornm:
"sThe habit of drinking is dying

out. Temptation being removed
from the young and infrm, they
have been fortified and redeemed.
The liquor, seller being an outlaw, is
prescribed, and his vocation Is dis
reputable. Drinking, being stigma-
tized, is out of fashion, and the con.
sumption of intoxicants has enor
mously decreased. Intelligent and
conservative observers estimate the
reduction at 80 per cent 1t cannot
be less than rs Der cent.
"a. As long as the saloon is q le-
galized institution, it is impossible 10
educate the community against it.
The trouble with our saloon eepers
now is that they are too respectable,
have too much money, are too well
dressed, too good business mem
hence it is hard to get them pun.
ished for the most fragrant breaches
of the law, The saloonskeeper com-
plains that Prohibition makes his
business mean and low. That's just
what want, The meaner d man is
the better qualified he is for that bus
intss. | want to make it crawl. /
want to make il bite the du.t. /
want to drive it into back allie, aud
cellars, aud down to the hell nhers it
belongs. T.. sss@ #&ssai4 2 4S
ave are asked if we can enforce
Prohibition. Yes; the action Of the
courts is the most tremendous educa-
tional power. al a Eal ost5
TO re.er to Raleigh again. Twas
at orney to prosecute tue liquor
dealers who violated our law. We
presented to the Grand Jury 50 cases,
aud out of them all secured only IL
indictments. When these were
brought to trial We secured just one
convection, and that on the mans
own testimony that he had bought
FIVE gallonss Of whiskey and drank
two quarts and q half Of il, when he
vas seized with delirium lremens and
could hot finish the remainder. The
liury was out three hours, but at
length brought him in guilty-just
one out of5O! But mark, that was
the thin end OF the wedge. Weasked
the Court 10 suspend Judgment on
th 1t man and put him ON his good
behavior. The next time we secured
six cynvictions and the next six or
eight more. Inc same man who had
5sen first convicted became an Of
lender again. lie was a genteel fel.
iow, in plce clothes and q billed shirt,
Is il is called down there. We put
hin in the criminals box. We
skinned him alive; We peppered and
sa.ted and CHARTERED hun and hung
him up till lie wished be was in the
dry-gOods business. AS soon as he
Was free he lett town, and You can't
tihd uIm ur bis tracks there since"
g. The temptation of the weak is
increased by The open saloon-the
very class We should protect / an
tod any man can get drunk
under Prohibition; well, any fool
knows that. WHAT / complain OF is
that under license thousands get
dunk who don't want 10. Almost
every evening as | 90 toward my
home pass q saloon fitted up with
plate glass and every elegance, and
within one Of the very best bands dis.
ceursiDg music to draw in the young
men anu lead them to ruin. | would
make that ailurement less.
But, finally, can we succeed in
closing the saloons? A young mau
asked me the other day ii l thought
it was possible. said TO him, You,
a young man, and talk about posi-.
b.! IL will be done a. sure a. God
Almighty livesr expect that in
70 years from this hour there will not
b. All open sllo0n from sea TO sea,
aud FROM Alaska TO Florida.
"YUu tell the VI the saloon victories
in Massachusetts, pennsylvania and
Rhode Island. ] answer, every 50.
loon victory lie simply one more layer
laid on tJp II the dan that keeps
fTOnbitIou fom breaking over. It
is simply toe DAY Ut wrath postponed
that tie destruction may be mole
sudden and more terrific. The wa.
tiers VI public opinion, sad and indig
nSDt, are siienIiy. gathering from all
the hills Of the pure cSuntry.sids, the
hydraulic pressure hourly increasing.
Aud that dam Is made vi materials
that wont stand a strain. It's been
stufsd with glass bottles and green
backs. It's been plGstered al oyer
WITH newspaper again and again, and
now they have put another layer on
top OF the rotten structure " raise
the Obstructed waters Of temperance
higher till they sweep it away. Every
saloon is built right yellow that dam,
aid whtn the HV.d cJmes and the
natefs break over, the last Vie viii
be swept away forever =
MRS. ". II. ROGERS,
stunt. Pies dppArtnnpn.