The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-26
WITHIN The LAW
A Reply to I" The Jug Train"
Article.
W. J. Mcdonald Declares That His Course is
in ric. Conformity 10 The

TO the Editor: Your article headed
"The jug Train" from your special cor
respondent in Sundays edition. does me
sc marked an injustice, that | ask you
to give equal publicity to this statement
from myself.
| notice that your correspondent never
writes, except to mention some incident
that he thinks will bolster up the pres
ent unsatisfactory condition that marks
Fayetteville as place to be avoided by
every one who is not imbued with the
cid time, Fanatical Blue Law spirit of
the Eighteenth century.
The jug Train is also not by any means
a Fayetteville institution, but is equally
as popular in all of the other sections,
where similar conditions exist.
Your special correspondent in his arti-
Gle goes so far as to say, that | have
hen indicted for selling whiskey without
a license and that took advantage of
the laws delay to avoid backing up my
contentious" thus trying to convey the
Impression that ! am wilful violator of
the law.
In order that my friends and the pub
lie generally throughout the State may
know the truth let me say that for sew
eral years / have had a branch estab
lishment at Benson, N. c., where / do
business under license from the Uni
ted State, the State. the county Of John
ston and the town of Benson, and furth-
err that before ever taking an order for
liquor of any description to be delivered
10 m
one in Fayetteville, |, in my desire to be
a law-abiding citizen, consulted two of
the ablest lawyers in North Carolina,
the Hon. Geo. NJ Rose and Col. G. w.
Broadfoot, as to the law and that | was
and am assured by them, that my course
in this matter is in strict conformity to
law, and that the courts will certainly
so decide the case your special CORE
spondent to the contrary notwithstand
iEg.
Together with every good citizen who
believes in the voice of the people being
the law, l await with pleasure and con-
fldence the next election, when thanks to
the patriotic efforts of two of our rep
resentatives, this vexed question will be
settled by the vote of the people.
1t is pity that the people of the
ether, counties who are in the same de-
plorable condition of fanatical ostracism
have not also been allowed the same
privilege but are compelled, contrary to
the spirit of our system Of government,
to be governed without their consent, as
the question of prohibition was never
submitted to the vote the people, but
was put upon them by the votes of mem
bers of the Legislature, many of whom
rolled in ,whiskey in their own coun-
ties.
AS to the statement that l signed the
petition for prohibition in this county,
let me say that I certainly did and was
sincere in it, as l felt that any system
would be preferable to the dispensary
with all Of it's attendant evils, especially
when by having prohibition, even such
as we have, it would enable our people
to have a vote upon the question at the
next election.
To show the utter lack of honor or
principle governing those who were fight
ing fer Temperance" before the last
Legislature, it is only necessary to state,
that with one lone though highly honor
able exception, all of the temperance
prohibtionists fought prohibition to the
last, for Cumberland county, and all OF
the credit for it if any must be given to
those who positively believe that 'voX
populi is vox Del"
w j. MCDONALD.