The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-02-17
RALEIGH. N. C.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY II, 1902

pended i'll treats to the boys now will
return in dollars to your tills after the
appetite is formed. Above all things
create appetite. This species Of devil
try is equallcd only in the heather myth
of Tantalus, who in hell was tortured
by having boughs of fruit swung before
his lips to create appetite, and as he
reached out his hands to pluck the fruit
the boughs receded. The methods of
Hades and the saloons are wonderfully
alike.
The saloon can no more run without
boys than a sawmill without logs or a
srist mill without corn. Gentlemen pro-
tect these boys. You protect partridg6s
and fish and oysters, will you not pro-
tect also the boys? for a boy is OF more
value than many oysters
2. The Saloon as Related to Progress:
1t opposes all progress that gets in its
path. It hates Christianity, despises pa
| triotism, denounces decent politics, and
arrays itself against the advance of civ
| ilization. travelling man reports the
| attitude of a bar keeper towards the
| free rural delivery system thus: "Why,
when men came into town every day for
| their mail they were sure to drop into
my place while they waited; everybody
! dra nix, and everybody treated everybody
else, and it made trade lively. Now the
armers come into town but two or three
times a week and more often but once.
and the worst of it is they don't happen
o come in together for they only come
for groceries or some other supplies
md no two mems supplies are apt to
We out at exactly the same time. This,
W see, does away with the matter OF
aating and reduces trade tremendously
running business, l tell you" Thus
selfish spirit that animated the Ii
men is of the earth earthly and
,ell belly.
The Saloon as Related to Politics:
+! h rum traffic is a cancer on the body
| polite / quote from circular sent out
! to it's members by the North Carolina
! Retail Liquor Dealers Association with
! reference to the present Legislature
| "'The membership of our association is
promptly responding to this matter, ant
we trust, as you are deeply interested
as VIC in the result, you will forward
your check for IS at once, as we must
put ourselves in position to meet this
vital issue before nominations are mad,
for the Legislature and continue our Wig
ilance until it shall meet and adjourn.
Here is deliberate attempt on the par
of the liquor forces to bribe our law.
| makers, and ccrrufe SCR laws. but free
men viii not submit TO such base
tyranny; and the saloon must SC, or tn,
Iarty that sustains it.
4. The Saloon as Related to Morals
1t is Satan's own work, and is the pro
life source CT taxation paurcrisln, in
sanity, disease. crime. and death. TIL
United states Supreme Court says: "Th
statistics of every State show a grcatc
amount of crime and misery ATTRIBUTABLE
to the use Of ardent spirits obtained a
these retail liquor saloons than TO an.
other source" The records of every cour
| house is blackcned with its shame. |
its various r&mificationS the saloon i
connected with the brothel the gamblin;
den, murder, anarchy, and hell 1t i
out of place in this State and out 0
date in this age. Its principles Nigh
have been recognized in its reign of Nero
curing the French Revolution, or in tn
land of cannibals, but it has lcgiti
mate homo in civilized country. Som
tell us of more suasion, but moral sua
sion can't act where there arc no moral
, | to act
Our people will not be satisfied Wit
a compromise. We want the London bi
pure and simple. The Watts bill is re
| garded as 4 saloon measure, and is a
| affront TO the better clement of tho land
Failure to meet the demands of the bcs
citizens of the State, may mean NOR
in the coming wears than our law maker
dream of, for people are thinking. Yer
| bum sat.
c. A. JENKINS.
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