The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-17

making; fourth, it discoulages the treat
ing habit, the social drinking; fifth, you
would be no more in the liquor business
with the dispensary than you are now.
DR.. Moment then spoke of the conditions
in South Carolina. Where he had lived
in that State, the people would not have
anything else now but the dispensary.
They all said the improvement was won
Gerful, that the nights, formerly full OF
revelry were now quiet Ravens of rest
| It's a testament to the fact that II you
have a dispensary kept by man who IS
not a saloon-keeper, a good man, 1t is
success, it's miles high above the sa-
Icon system. Cont Jed applause).
REV. G. T. ADAMS.
Then Mr.. Adams was introduced and
greeted with applause.
| He said his heart was in the move
n1ent, and he had had right to feel in
that way for twenty years. He then told
| of his first experience as a boy with the
effect of liquor, and how he had then re
istered vow to his mother that he
would not only never erter a saloon
again, but that as long as God gave him
strength to speak he would always raise
his voice against the open saloon.
There was not, he said, a single argu-
ment that could be made in favor of the
saloon, but there were thousand that
could be made against it. The reports
from 14O of our leading cities showed
that enough people had been arrested in
the past year for drunkenness in those
cities to take a week to pass a given
spot on Fayetteville street, ten abreast.
We must stop raising up drunkards,
l l.
that we must do away with the inssitu-
tons whose business it is to make drunk
ards. He did not hate the saloon men,
His message to them tonight was that he
loved their souls; he would go down on
his knees at any time to pray with one
of them; but he hated their Internal
business.
The worst enemy to the homes of the
city of Raleigh was the open saloons of
the city of Raleigh, the worst enemy
to the boys of the city of Raleigh. #
we could realize the misery and desola-
ton in some of the homes of Raleigh
caused by the open saloon, there would
not be man in Raleigh who would ia
vor the open saloon.
The saloon is doing more to destroy
sweet homes, crush good lives, than all
poor house and you will find so per cent
were sent there by the open saloon. Go
to the Central Hospital, and you will find
more than that percentage of insane peo
pie sent there by the open saloon. In
quiry at the pehitentiarv revealed the
fact that SO per cent of the c2nvicts
traced their condition to the open sa-
Icon. 1t is the greatest cause of all pow
erty. The money spent in saloons is
money diverted from the legitimate chan
rels of trade. There is no institution be-
tween heaven and hell that is greater
enemy to good homes and good citizen
ship than the open saloon.
Mr.. Adams was loudly applauded as he
concluded.
MR.. N. B. BROUGHTON.
The next speaker was Mr.. N. B. Brough-
ton. He began by saying that at the last
meeting his remark that he did not see
many of the city officials present had been
criticized as a reflection upon the city
administration. He had not meant his
remark in that way at all. He bad been
considered to stand in with the city ad-
minstraton. But he had always been
against the saloon, and if the administra-
ron had gone over to the Saloons they
had been the ones to make the move. He
stood now just where he always stood. If
the administration had gone over to the
So looms the people would find it out very
soon, and if it was fact the people
wanted to know it. cloud applause)
Mr.. Broughton said the dispensary had
been decided as the best solution
OF the problem for the present. AS for
him, he was first, last and all the time
for clean cut prohibition loud applause
but ne was for dispensary against % sa-
Icons. (Applause).
Next Mr.. Broughton spoke of the argu-
ments against the dispensary, and de-
clGred that he challenged anyone to bring
any bona fide resident OF any town IN
South Carolina or anywhere else who
wou.u say that his place was worse off
with dlspensary than with the open sa-
loon. He spoke of the printed arguments
going around that emanatcd from the sa-
looms. He could always recognize them
at once. He could almost, like the Irish
man, "shmell them.l
Does any business man think that the
saloons help his business. Commercially
they are like great leeches sucking at the
legitimate businesses. Some one says they
rent % houses. Why not think of the
homes they wreck as well as the houses
they rent. Some one says they employ a
hundred men; but think of the hundreds
of husbands and sons they are sending
down to rum and degrade tion cloud ap-
rlause).
Commercially the saloon stands for
corruption and degradation. Was there
one solitary thing morally that the sa-
loon stood for? VIVA docs If stand for
socially? Anything good? 1 wish l had
the power of the great Stuart to tell YOU
tonight what the saloon stands for so.
cially. 1t stands for the rendezvous of
the thief the libertine, the gambler the
harlot, and what-not And vet the good
people of Raleigh are called on to mtain-
tain these Institutions
The saloon is against every church in
this town, against every SUNDAY schoo,
every Sunday School scho ar aoainst
every school. every teacher. What kind
of society does saloon send out into the
city?
Some man says that he has heard the
| dispensary was worse than tho saloon
That man might at least give the disnon-