The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-30

Il discount of their society. The trouble
is that the girls of to-day have marry
ing craze. They are so afraid of be-
ing old maids. I'd rather be an old
maid until every tooth in my head
dropped out than to be the wife of Il
despised. beastly drunkard. I'd rather
be an old maid any day than to be a
boarding house keeper with lazy, good
for-nothing husband hanging around
eating up the profit. Oh there are many
things worse than being an old maid.
"The battle-ground of the future is III
the home. 1t is not colleges. schools or
scminarieS of learning. 1t is not even
in the church. 1t is around the fireslde.
God give us men and women who are
fathers and mothers to their children III
reality as we'll as in name. Do you love
your child? Then train him Alright. he
will be mighty apt to follow in your
footsteps.
when Plate got that note what dld
he do? He put it aside. He disregarded
his wife and listened to the mob. why !:
Because he was politician. That mob
was made mp of his constituents. They
were the folks who had elected him. lie
no doubt told them he believed in pub
lie man listening to his constituents.
More than likely he told them the voice
of the people is the voice of God, or
words TO that effect. And ! want TO
say right here that never a greater lie
than that crawlcd out Of hell. NoX
populi vox del ought TO be in hell to-
night
Take member of the Legislature.
An anti-whiskey bill of some sort or
other comes up. He says I'm Demo-
crat or n Pop. or something of that sort;
nv folks don't want this law. And so
he votes against it. l don't care If he's
deacon of 10000 Baptist churches,
he's Pontius Plate.
Here's an alderman of Raleigh. a
man comes up an asks for license to
sell whiskey. The law says he shall
be man of good character. He pre-
sents petition showing this. Mind you,
though don't believe n man who sells
liquor can be a man of good character.
But the signers to the petition say he
is. You grant the license. You are a
pontius Plate. Oh you say, the law
saws | shall do So No it doesn't. 1t
says you shall do so or get out.
And l must tell you you've got the
rottenest town, so far as the whiskey
traffic is concerned, that I've ever seen.
You've got $4,000 inhabitants and 80
bar-rooms. Atlanta with her 125,0OO
people has only about 100 saloons.
Not content with debauching the
manhood OF the city on week days you
allow whiskey sold on Sunday. Oh
YES YOU do. A man told me that only
last Sunday he saw a fellow coming out
of . bar-room here with bottle Of
nax nj ms -
name can give it. I suppose he'll stand
up to his statement. If he backs down
he'll have me TO lick. On last Sunday
out of large number of telephone mes
sages two-thrds were for or about
whiskey. More whskey is consumed
here by the young men than in any other
town of the size that have ever known.
"Now somebody will go out and cry,
Sensational Preaching. Well, let them
cry it if they want to. What I'm say
ing is so and they know it. And for the
life of me, with as many good men in
Raleigh as there are, | can't see why
it is you can't have good clean. decent
city government. Why you can't have
a mayor and board Of aldermen that
will administer the city affairs righteous
~ and in the fear of the Lord
Not only is the city rotten and reek-
ing with whiskey, but gambling dens are
openly run.
''What you need is independence. Oh
for Henry Grady in Raleigh to stem
and stay the tide of corruption.
"'Oh,' You say, but Atlanta is pref
ty bad off, too No it is not. The
whiskey traffic there is better regulated
than in any town I've ever seen
IL. \ II.
Bars are opened at o'clock and clost d
at 10. They have in them no screens.
There are no side doors. No free lunch
counters are set, no sort of gaming is
allowed in them. The license is $1,000
And then the drug stores are not IL
lowed 70 sell whiskey, either"