The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-01-14
ACOSMOpOLITAN.

ACOsMOPOLITAN.
Col. w. T. Manning. the Great
Traveller, Visits Everett.
That eminent citizen of the world,
Colonel W. 7. Manning, glided into
the Neus Office Sunday. Mr.. Manning
needs a personal introduction to fewer
people in America than any living man.
His circle of acquaintance is as broad
| as the continent, and all his acquaint-
| ances are his friends. He has lived in
| every State and Territory in the Union,
| and engaged in many vocations. though
| the newspaper business was his first
| and oft returned to love.
| For the past three years the colonel
has beeu in the wilds of Alaska. serv-
ing the United States government as a
marshal. He relates many interesting
experiences, but says the absence of
danger makes such a life monotonous.
The Indians are easily cowed, and Ire
rarely encountered himself with fire.
arms. The principal work Of the mar
shall is to look after white renegades
who sell whisky to the Indians, and
gather in the Indians after they haye
soaked their hides with the mean
liquor.
Mr.. Manning has with him many
curios from that far Off land, consisting
of jewelry manufactured by the natives
from the native precious metals, bot
| ties of gold dust from distant Forty
Mile diggings in the Yukon country, a
gold brick mot for sale, and positively
unattended by any suspicious circum-
stances) from the famous Treadwell
mine.
After spending a couple of months
in the East, visiting, as he says, 1.-The
boys in Chicago, Philadelphia, Wash
ington and his old North Carolina
home," he will return to Puget Sound
to settle permanently and to establish
here-what do you suppose ?-the big
gest chicken ranch in the world. This
will indeed be Transformation for this
man Of wild adventure, to settle down
to raising chickens and marketing eggs!
We take the above from the Neus,
published at Everett, the new city just
started on Puget Sound, Washington,
which is the most recent news we have
had of the whereabouts of this peripa-
tetic gentleman. His many friends in
North Carolina will be pleased to well
come him back to his native State from
whence he has been absent eleven
years. The GOLD LEAF presumes he
is heading this way and We expect
him to be in our midst about the 25th
instant. The new enterprise in which
the News says "W. To- may embark
is of course hugo joke.
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The Commissioners of Vance County
and the Liquor License.
Speaking Of the action of the Board
of County Commissioners in refusing
to grant license, the Warrenton Gazette
says this:
On Monday last the Commissioners
Of Vance only three of five being present
refused to renew any liquor license,
and the result is Henderson and the
county is ''dry" No matter how
desirable prohibition may be the ques-
ton is, did the Commissioners comply
with the law? The law, the acts of
the Legislature says that the Commits
sioners shall grant license upon proof
of good moral character. The word
"shall' is mandatory and cannot be
evaded. It is the law of the State and
should and must be complied with. In
the last Legislature an effort was made
and warm discussion occurred over it,
to subst tute the word "may" for
= shall' and it was defeated. So then
it would seem that the law making
power of the State did not propose that
the question of issuing license should
be left with the Commissioners, but
says they shall issue the license. The
Supreme Court, our highest authority,
has been called upon to interpret the
meaning of the law and the power of
the Commissioners III this matter and
as we understand the Courts mandate
there is no doubt of the fact that under
the law the proper county authorities
are compelled to grant liquor license
that is enough for neighborhood pur-
poses as we understand it they have
large power-hut these pewers are not
autocratic. They have no right to
suspend the law, but they are called
upon to execute the law in reason.
This is matter not definitely settled,
but as we understand it, it is this, a
bar in Macon would be sufficient for
neighborhood purposes and the Commits
sioners might well refuse to license ono
in several miles thereof. Two bars
in Warrenton might be sufficient but
| if only one were allowed it would create
a monopoly. No matter how much
people object to the liquor traffic, it is
the law Of the land and must be obeyed
until repealed and it seems to us the
way to suppress the liquor traffic Is
by the Legislature and not through five
men in each county.