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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04
The Benefit of the Doubt.

The Saloon is strongly entrenched in Raleigh 1t has
caused the ruin of many bright young this city who
would have become drunkards except for the brilliant
lights the mixed drinks and the social features of the Bar
Room. The establishment of Dspensary ends a.! these
things at and cuts off the peculiar temptation to which
too many young men fail easy victims
Suppose the Dispensary not the perfect solution? What
them DO you wish perfect plan of remedyng the saloon
evil before you will strike blow at the deadies enemy Of
mankind?
The vote the 9th of October is NOT whether the Dis
pensary the best method of reducing the saloon evil The
vote this Shall close up the twenty open Saloons
in Raegh That is The question and nobody can dodge it.
The question addressed the conscience of every voter
Raleigh and the who says he wants to shut up the
Saloons and votes against shutting them up when the oppor
tunty presents ltseha voting directly the Whs
key sellers wish him to vote and not in the interest of tenn
perance.
But suppose he says: doubt whether the Dispensary
will promote temperance. what is the to him? Here
it is, plain and straight You KNOW that the tweny-four
Bar Rooms in Raleigh promote inemps You say you
have doubts about the Dspensary Well then give the Dis
pensay the benefit of the doubt and vote for it, If does
not promote temperance BE- voted out the end of
trial of two years.
Is there any reason why any good man should vote with
the liquor dealers to pepeuae their control because he has
doubts about the good results of DIspensary9 If he is
in doubt then he wants to put end to the evil influences
of the saloon he should give the benefit of the doubt to the
official every Sunday School teacher and the best and
women in the city.
The who gives the benefit OF the doubt to keeping
twenty four Saloons open nineteen hours day for the next
years, that the responsibility put upon him. may
nj wish keep the city of Raleigh the clutches OF tine
liquor interests but he doing it just effectively the
men who get rich selling Whskey.
The benefit of the doubt Are you doubtful about the
Dspensay Give it, and not the Saloon the benefit of your
honest doubt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04
VOTE EARLY.

The whiskey men boast that they
will cast 600 votes before noon. 1t
is their plan to rush them to the
polls early in the day, have it an
nounced that they are in the lead,
and then to deter weak men from
voting by saying whats the use ?
The dispensary is defeated"
The way for the anti-sa1oon
forces to do is to VOTE EARLY,
and work to bring out the full
vote early in the day. Every man
who is against the saloon should
go to the polls early in the day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04
BUSINESS IN SMITKFIELT
DOUBLED UNDER THE
DISPENSARY.
CIV. M. Sanders.)

On my way to the cotton mill
daily see some two hundred we'll
dressed and happy children en-
route to a splendid school, which
is sustained by the dispensary.
Could the profits arising from the
whiskey business be possibly put
to a better use? / am sure that
many a little child has a fuller
stomach at breakfast on Sunday
mornings. Those opposed to the
dispensary system warned us that
the commercial interest of the town
would be crippled, but instead
thereof, our population has in
creased so per cent, in the last
three years, and the business of
the town has more than doubled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

Every man owes it to every other
man to make it as easy as possible
to live a sober upright, Cody life.
Every vote cast for the open sa-
loon will help to perpetuate an in
stitution which has for it's object
the destruction Of manhood, the
making of paupers and criminals
and the peop1ing Of hell with it's
victims.-Rev. G. T. Adams.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

Is there vacant lot in your
neighborhood? If so, if the whis-
key forces win you need not be
surprised to wake up some morn
ing and find a whiskey distiIlery
on it. IF the saloon forces win,
"hell-kettles" will do business In
this city. Will you permit it?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

Tho saloon forces care nothing
FOR the moral question, the prohi-
bition question: nor anything else
save the twenty-four saloons in
Raleigh. Do you propose to let
them continue in our city? To-
morrow is your opportunity. Will
YOU embrace it?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

The money that will be used to-
morrow by the saloon forces to buy
votes, is the profit in excess of the
license tax paid by the saloon
keepers that should go into the
school fund, and under the dis
pensary system will go to this fund
instead of being used to buy votes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

The difference between license
saloons and the dispensary, so fs
as the profits are concerned is: ii
saloons use part of the profits (
saloons to carry elections, and Il
profits of the dispensary go to edr
cate the rising generation an
make better citizens instead I
corrupting them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

The fact that every saloon man
In Raleigh is against the dispen-
sary is the strongest argument in
favor of it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04
HOW BAR ROOMS INCREASE
CITY TAXES.

There is much complaint in Raj
eigh because of the high taxes. A
vote for the Dispensary is a vote
both for lower taxes and temper
ance. The Marion News shows
that the towns having saloons have
a higher tax rate than towns that
have no salons. Here are the
figures it gives, first Of the towns
having no saloons:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

The open saloon is the avowed
enemy of God, the church, the
home, the individual and to every
thing that tends to elevate, refine
and ennob1c humanity. It was
born of the devil and to the devil
1t should go.-Rev. G. T. Adams.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
GIBBONS DENIES REPORT
Sans He Has Not Told the POpes
Plans as to Cardinals.

Some reported statements 81 Cardinal Gibbons
have caused comment among Catholics Many
messages have been received from various points
ASKING for more definite information regarding the
additional cardinals said have been promised %
America Members of the Polish Catholic Church
are wondering why their plea f0r three bishops
ha. been rejected Among other things. II was
said the Cardinal admitted that Austria did eXe--
else the veto concession at the cOucIave Last
evening Cardinal Gibbons emphaticalIy denied that
he had any Of the positive statements accred-
ited 70 him. said anything that could be easily
so construed.
The Cardinal was tired from the many social
Eagements OF the day and retired early last even
ing. He consequently refused to give personal in
terviews to reporters but consented to answer n
quiries BY an authoritative statement through his
friend. Joseph T. Kelley. After showing the re-
ported interviews to the Cardinal. Mr. Kelley said.
Cardinal Gibbons authorizes ne TO STATE that
he has ma ie no positive statements to reporters,
beyond some general comments on the health OF
the Pope his health and the Pope's general
feeling of-rood will toward America These. with
soms general comments on his trip. constitute the
most OF what ne said TO the reporters re abso-
lutely denies making any % the positive state
nents reported. and declares that al the points
touched upon are Of so confidential a nature that
It is absurd 20 supposed that he would make any
statements at all about them. Wneu he was asked
II we would have a second cardinal he says ne
answered. Very probably and that Is all BY u
he meant nothing more than the conjecture any
one might make As 90 the action % Austria
at the conclave and the purpose o. the Pope IN
regard to the Polish bishops. he declares that ne
made no statements com unents. The rest Of the
report he prOuounces equally absurd and false.
cardinal Gibbons + not here for any official
purpose continued Mr.. Kelley. He IL simply
making a few purely social calls and taxing a
little rest I his morning he called on Bishop Nc
D0nneU OF BrookIyn. In the afternoon he tined
with Archbishop Farley OF Nev-Tork. IN company
with his secretary. Father Gavan, Father Lays-Ie'
DIT Fletcher MousiEuor Edwards and our FAMILY
There was no significance 10 the visit win Arcn-
6ishop Farley. and nothing Of public importance
discussed
Cardinal GIBBONS will 60 TO Baltimore this morn
ing at 10 O'Clock on the Baltimore and ohio Kali
road He will Do accompanied BY Father tIdVan.
Father W 4 Fletcher. Of Baltimore. Father w
p RusseI and Mr.. Ford, a relative from NeV-Or-
leans. A. Baltimore he will have puoLlo Fecep-
ton By the Mayor and city ofhciais-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24

cnies preferential advantages when he clapped
on retaliatorv duties against the United States
and Germany.
Certainly Mr. Balfour has chosen the line OF
least possible resistance in opening the case for
hscal reform and heading revolt against free
trade. does not menace the country with
taxation Of food supplies and increased cost
of living. He does rot ask working people to
make sacrifices for the benefit Of colonial COM
munites whose burdens are lighter than their
own. He invites them to support a policy which
viii enable them 10 defend themselves against
foreign aggression and 10 enforce equitable
principles o. fair trade. He asks them to sacri-
ice. not their own earnings. but the traditions
Of an impractcable altruism which have been
handed down from Mr.. Cobden's time: and he
makes closely reasoned appeal on business
principles for re- liberation Of fiscal ques-
uons. This appeal is reinforced by a blue
book well ST. zed with commercial statistics
disclosing the declining fortunes of British in
dustries under the destructive force Of foreign
competition l. y. r.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
TANMANY HALL.

CReirz q slight Traves-v OF ''Locksley Hall"
Ia Touche Hancock. In The Independent
Comrades. leave re here a Itue. for I'm in a
Leave ne here. ana. TIL I call you. let ne calmly
This &c siaes. and all around It. as Of old. the
seela1E ta,ors and positions that would b
Ta.1naay. tzat in the distance overlooks the City
whine he crying need Of Office now and then begins
,-auE = f.eht I've seen the Pleads. when I've
rraidea ~ IN such a raugle that all liquor I'd
Here a6clt the rooms I've wandered. nourishing
with 15e f1irv tales o. Office. which will surely
when / d.1t into the future. far as human eye
saw .te vision or the graft. and al the profit
In tn IAN d fuller color comes upon the Tigers
In tHe III reform viii surely take well deserved
IN The fan with great hravado. we Will cut a
IN the fsu H. young braves fancy instantly will
His sssursHce then vas boundless-Aow he got 1t.
While IN S-Ties @. peers and princes he magnta-
And we 81 ii An tell Us Croker. speak and speak
--,~- rs g-aiestasr. let US share 1t, and We viii
Then Se tarne5. lis bosom shaken-wen you know
w. c- 81 rerurn from Europe he brings rene
s-,,-t II have hi5 the secret. viii hide il stu
s-,,-g ..559-e sufficient for you IS the Doodle OF
oh, 5-- Grocer shallow hearted, Or. our Croker.
m. .ts rl-S eretuhIe SO crowded. never now as
c-.lsr tla1 tae ioudest trumpet. harsh as harsh
shan our ai.. ,re4;lo-s reach you smiling on the
e f. ue- 70 wish you happy? Having known you
.,,i5es -Cf..tv We leave you ia your glory 10 re-
-r,ey Win hold you. when your presence shall have
%.
? ...- 's-tar tiaa an exert OF champion dog. or
--at q tha.. lie IS reIenting7 Don't believe IT,
49, 51-es5v saia his farewell very many months
II. An answer 10 the purpose. living n another
49, re were building diaries than the leader %
ps,,e- We sr8oId have a Shepard. or a Devery for
p,.,e- er9rt. Two spot. and Jokei Yes. better
~-.s5 - IN ~ social wants that win away TIRE
~---f E, Sc 1oulps aluring: Cursed y tn a-isto-
~--ss5 r. the rnalseies that made you take
-..-tF y. rs ensient uaoat and cursed Be the
T-ouldy Grange
M. ..ls Wi that We should bluster-nuch we're
- like 10 make q that -. -. ,.,,-,--
sal, = -1r 81 scorn Tor Us TO harp on such
We sre shaHee through all our nature for our
~. i,-.-e ~ tl vroth with weakness Party
v-..i. -ess. There's the rub -.,
Cr ~ +a-t another Croker and for just another
No. 49,. lesser men, We know 81: all his influence
10 a. ne rfi-a Tas defy.nr all the other mighty
rooll' eEain the futile fancy. and We know our
~, wo.onn 49, hi November viii not be on Ossa
~,,... --s' varrinz DER the ocean-we have heard
r-rr- tones q old 49,.
Ara 80 the very marrow Of our shaking
s.s, \. f,Ils upon the wigwam-"Figureheads may
-, con, com cF.e. although at present an merely
slrfns las'r'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
TRANsrAC1FIc MAILS


Hawai-, Japan. China specially aadress.d mar Tor
Philippians Ialands Fr1lcsca.
caly ~ s3o H. - - se9t-flos- ga i1clusiFe. for
dispatch Per .. I. China
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az so up O. September s-o. inclusive. FOR AZ
patch per Z e -ransp1rt
CHINA ant Japan seattle daily a 20 D
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Hawaii Japan. CHINA ana Phrippins islands.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
MCCORMICK A GUEST.
ambassador Calls on President Be
fore Sailing for Russia.

Oyster Bay. N Y. Sept 23.-Lats this after
noon Robert S. Mccormick. Ambassador OF the
United States 10 Russia. called on President
Roosevelt Though the visit was made simply
TO pay his respects TO the President before he
returns to his post at St Petersburg. the Chief
Executive and Mr.. Mccormick discussed thor
oughIy Russian affairs so far as they OF in
terest 10 the United States. Ambassador Nc
COrrnick sails from New-York tomorrow.
owen Wister. the novelist. and c. Grant Ia
Fargo, OF New-York. are overnight guests at
Sycamore HILL
Already the President has begun work on his
annual message TO Congress. This work Is
simply preparatory. The message to be pre-
sented TO the extra ordinary session viii be COM
paratively brief. The call for the extraordinary
session win not be issued until about the middle
OF October perhaps a little later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
DR.. EcsERT oUERNsEVs FUNERAL

The funeral of DR.. Egbert Guernsey was held
yesterday afternoon at the Church OF the Trans
fsr.rari1G IN East Twenty rirth-st. The service
was conducted by the Rev. Or. Houghton, assisted
hy the Rev. Dr Hugh p. Hooson. OF Bridgeport,
Conn. The regular choir OF the church sang.
There many well known men in the congrega-
ton and the list % paIlbcarers included num-
lar Of prominent hornoe0pat hsts who represented
various institutions. including the metropolitan
Hospital on Blackwelrs Island. the Hahnemann
Hospital the County Medical Society, the Clinical
Club and other Institutions
The paIlbearers included DR.. Alfred X. Hills and
Tr NJ O. Terry Of Utica. Or. v illiam II Watson.
Dr James Robbie Wood DT. Clinton L Bagg. Dr.
Hamilton Rickaby. Dr. George Tayror Stewart. Or.
William Francis Holman. Harrison Grey Fiske,
Benjanen Lee Wilson. DIT ID - stevens. Dr. Eg-
bert Guernsey Rankin. Ut. arthur L. Root and
Ilr Julius Edgar Moth Il EIshkiu Landing, who
had attended DR.. Guernsey. The interment was IN
Greenwood Cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
THE WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterdays Record and To-day's Forecast.

Washington. Sept 23-The disturbance noted wednss-
dsy the South Atlantic gives indication ap
preaching the North Carolina coast but Yet there
have been neither high winds There also
other disturbances over Valley and tie
British Northwest There has precpI-
OF ught local showers
plateau Temperatures decidedly lower the middle
slope. The Upper Mississippi Valley. TIE
E1ons the middle Dateaa and portions % the Northern
Pacific States.
lowed by rapidly rising temperature IN Montana
There viii De showers Thursday along Middle and
SoItE Atlantic Coast and Thursday night Friday
the NeW-EnE gland coast There viii also be showers
Thursday Western Texas. the southern plateau
Northern Montana. and showers Friday North Dakota
viii cooler Thursday the ohio Valley
region interior Of Middle Atlantic states and
greater portion a Nev-Eng4and and Montana Will
Be Thursday the middle and northern
and middle Mississippi! valleys lake region.
II EIu be cooler Friday in the Northwest.
the New-Eng.and Winds resht 10
brisk southwest % uoTthwest the middle Atlantic
variable becoming north and probably increasing.
tde South Atlantic Coast. fresh north high
north. the upper iakes fresh
becoming Friday. the lower lakes.
brisk northwest to north
Steamers depar- ne Thursday for European ports will
increasing. with partly cloudy weather the Grand
Banks
Special forecast: Storm warnings displayed
Atlantic Coast from Fort Monroe Hatteras. at
warnings relative thereto have been the
remaining Atlantic ports.
Frost warnings have Issued the Northwestern
States upper Blchlssn. Nebraska. Western Missouri.
Northern Kansas and Eastern Colorado
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
OLD LAWYER 4 SUICIDE.
Er-1$semJigmGH Alien, Of Red
Bank, Dead from Bullet.

Red Bank. y. J.. sept. 23-Robert Allen. one OF
the oldest lawyers ia New-Jersey. was found dead
this afternoon n the wagon house hack Of his home
in Broad-st There was bullet wound in his
head. on the door beside the body lay a revolver
and all the cirCUmst--Ces point 10 suicide.
IIr Allen was about town this morning. al
though for long time he had been in rather feeble
health he was over seventy years old II IS
generally believed that his failing health and his
inability 60 attend 10 his business caused him 20
take his life. He was formerly Prosecutor OF the
Pleas OF Monmouth County. He was a member OF
the lower house % the state Legislature in lS3
and -a5a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24
THE REV. HENRY r. PERcVAL.

Philadelphia. Sept 23-The Rev. Henry R Per
cval. well known Episcopal minister, died last
night at his country home Devon. a suburb
Of this city He was forty-riue years old DIT.
Percival studied theology at the General Theolog-
icaI Seminary. New-York was ordained deacon in
1872 and was advanced 20 the priesthood IN the fol-
lowing year BY Bishop Horado Potter.
He extensive writer on theology. many
Of HIS books being used as standard works in
nearly all Episcopal theological seniraries OF this
country. Among the most important are The Doc
trine Of the Episcopal Church The GlOries OF
the Episcopal Church." Digest OF Theology In
vocation OF Saints and The Seven General Coun-
ellis" One Of MS last essays was his defence OF
the Of incense. which read before the
court Of the Archbishop Of Canterbury in London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-24

Charles Benjamin Farwell. former United States
Senator from Illinois a native OF this state.
having been born near Painted Post. Stsuben
County. July J. 1s3. His earliest American ances-
tors to this country about I64J His early ed
ucation was received IN the district school and at
the Emira Academy. At the age OF fifteen he
companied his parents 70 Osle County. III. where
he Joined a land surveying party and for four
years gave three months OF each year 70 this
work. laoOrinG a farm the rest OF the time IN
1874 he went 70 Chicago where he hlled clerkshiD
IN the County Clerks Office and later teller in
bank until 1s55. when he elected County Clerk.
filing the Office for eight years. He then embarked
in mercantile life becoming a member OF the firm
OF John V. FarweH d Co. Of which his brother
the head, and when the concern was incorpOr-
ated in 1881. he vas elected president. becoming
Of the most successful business men OF Chicago
Mr.. FarwelI was member OF the State Board OF
Equalization of Illinois in 1867, chairman Of the
Cook County Board OF Supervisors IN ISIS. National
Bank Examiner in 1893 and in 1870 was elected 10
Congress over Long" John Wentworth. Democrat.
He served successfully in the XLIId. XLIIId and
NLINth Congresses. and again in the NLVIIth
congress being on the committees OF Banking and
currency and Manufactures. Introducing some
important financial legislation and aiding in the
resumption OF specie payments In 1851 ne
-
dtO1 SERVING 4nlll MI Wnen tle DrIlOcLAlS Atd
control of the Illinois LEGISLATURE and chose his
TO insure permanency OF the national banking sys-
TEN and for the abolition OF the government Sub
Treasury system. which he regarded as necessary
10 secure perfection IN the hnaucla system OF the
country. Senator Farweu was devoted TO literature
and art and had choice collection az rare works.
classical literature OF The sixteenth century
He and his brother built the Texas state Capitol
at Austin, receiving as compensation three million
acres of land in the Lone Star State. and their
ranch was stocked with I50o00 cattle. There is
fence 10 miles long on one side Of the great prop