The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-30
ONLY ONE WOMAN
FOR SALOONS IN CITY
AndShe was Converted While
on Her Knees.
ANTI-SALO0N meetings.
Jonn PulIen Says There is No Man in Raleigt
Who Will Get Up in Public
and Speak fer the
Saloons.

One of the best of the outdoor meetings
of the dispensary campaign was held last
night in the Thir Ward near the Deaf
and Dumb and Blind Institution. Seats
had been arranged. There was quite
sprinkling of ladies present who added to
the interest of the meeting. The weather
was rather cool, but the interest IN the
cause was warm enough to make UP for
the cool weather.
Speeches were made by Messrs. John
T. Pullen, A. A. Thompson, Josephus Dan
iels and Rev. G. L. Adams, and the au-
dience gave close attention. Mr.. Pullen
was the first speaker. He is known and
respected by every man, woman and child
in the ward. He began by saying that
he had given this question serious con-
sideration and that down in his heart
he believed that dispensary is infinitely
better than the open saloons. He pointed
out the good results that had followed
in other communities and said he believed
the dispensary would be as good for Raj
eigh. He urged that it be given an honest
trial THE saloon is utterly indefensible.
There is not a single virtue in them-not
one. In this campaign opponents OF the
saloon have made open, air speeches and
appealed to the reason of the voters. The
saloon forces have not held a single
meeting and in all Raleigh you cannot
find man who will make a public speech
in favor of continuing the open saloon.
Let us be kind to the saloon keepers, let's
help the men to get into better business
to get into a decent business.
Mr. Aft A. Thompson was the next
speaker. He began by saying that when
the campaign opened he made the state
ment that the saloons cost the people of
Raleigh $172,7s5 annually and that the
dispensary would save them of that sum
at least s17S.00O every year. Nobody has
questioned those figures. There are SIX
cotton factories in Raleigh worth $780,
600 and they give employment to 900 peo-
pie. 1t would take all the wages for the
year of these nine hundred people to pay
the drink bill of Raleigh. He gave other
figures, taken from bank capital and sur
plus, earnings of carpenters and others
which emphasized the tremendous tax
which the whiskey business imposes upon
the city of Raleigh. Saloon keepers have
educated the appetite of certain num-
her of people of Raleigh A dicpensary
will give whiskey to those whose appe-
al appetite for liquor in the coming gem
grafton. 1t will stop the education of the
children of the city. Twenty-three
churches in Raleigh are open two or
three times a week Saloons are open all
the time except about four hours of
day There are 1900 children in the pub
lie schools The twenty-three saloons are
oren to learn them to drink.
Thorn M h1lcInPSS that the ga loon
helps except the county home, the insane
asylum, the penitentiary. He told about
a man, a graduate of Princeton who died
recently in the county home in Wake, the
victim of his love of drink Concluding
Mr.. Thompson declared that he did not
believe the saloon could bribe, brow beat,
bulI-doze or cajole enough of the voters
OF Raleigh to induce them to vote next
Monday for the saloons.
Rev. G.. T. Adams took up the stock
arguments against dispensary and an
swered them effectively to the great de-
light of the crowd He drew a contrast,
enumerating the classes who were for
the saloon and those who were against
them. He SAID that there was only one
woman in Raleigh who favored the dis
pensary-or rather, he said. there had
been only one. She owned a store that
she rented to saloon and she had adj
vised her son to vote against the dis
pensary. few nights ago,-for she is
a Christian woman-she thought she ought
to pray over the matter and try to find
out her duty. While on her knees pray
ing the conviction came to her that she
ought to favor the dispensary. She was
so deeply impressed that this was her
duty that she went to the telephone and
called up her son and requested him to
come 10 see her at once-she wanted to
see him about an important matter He
got cut of bed, dressed, and went to see
the mother. She told him she had been
converted on the question, and she wished
to urge him TO vote for the dispensary.
She is now one of the most ardent advo-
Gates of closing the saloon in Raleigh.
He urged all to work and predicted vic
tory.
Mr.. Josephus Daniels, who presided at
the meeting, made brief speech urging
all who are opposed to the saloon TO make
their opposition effective by voting and
working on next Monday.
1t was a god meeting and will result
in good on Monday next.
On Thursday afternoon at four O'Clock
there will be a temperance meeting OF
ali the women IN the city VINO are inter-
ested in the pending election. The good
women of all churches have been holding
meetings in the several churches and this
is to be a union service to be participated
IN by the women of all the churches.
This meeting will be held at the Presby-
terrain church.
There will be an Anti-Saloon Mass meet
ing held on Friday night at the hall OF
Olivia Raney Library. Everybody is IN
vited:
SOME DISPENSARIES THAT Sue
CEEQ
In view of the fact that few Raleigh
people have had opportunity for observing
the workings of dispensar.es. the saloon
advocates go about everywhere saying:
Dispensaries fail everywhere--look at Fay
ettevile, look at Monroe"
Well, let's accept their invitation and
look at these three towns and others. In
Greensboro the dispensary was voted out.
as stated by Hon. A. M. Scales. Chairman
of the Democratic Executive Comcmittee
for erasons that had nothing to do with