The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-02-24
Proceedings of legislature.
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and a. 1t provides for 2 vote on the dis
pensary pan. He most ably e~xpounded
the various good features he had cnuEer-
ated and showed their value.
CONTINUING he declared that there were
only two objections that he had heard
OF, the first of these was concerning the
necessity vote. If the whole matter was
left to the State he did not fear this.
but IN some counties, liquor ridden, no
rellef could be had if a vote was tak,n.
lie neld mat a campaign in any county
would divide up the people. cause bic!5er-
lhg ana strife and give the liquor mnr
a chance TO use liquor. He said too that
1t might be impossible to tell what would
happen TO the registration books. He said:
III IS net q local measure but is CT
State wide interest. If il is left to the
Vote OIL separate counties it would fail to
give relief where il was worse needed
In 1898 and 1900 there was a crv from
us for help from the west. now tho west
calls upon US TO aid it by Kidding it of
It's country stills, and we should answer
as We had been answered.
ana last OF all they tell me it will
hurt my party. Not so, / do not believe
mat 1t VIII. | was born and reared a
Scutherner and a Democrat, and to me
1t has always been that the Democratic
party has at it's heart the best interests
OF the State. The Democratic party
means morality in public and private
llfe. n victories Of the party have
been on moral lines and when the people
feel that a moral issue is ct stake the
people will rally to it. This is a great
moral highland the people will stand
10 inc nro - Ut ~.
movement is the lovely womanhood and
the noble manhood that means success
for the Democratic party yet passes this
law.
SENATOR LAMB SPEAKS.
Senator Lamb, of Cumberland, began
bis address with the statement that he
was for the London bill, that it put the
State on a basis of temperance and lifted
1t from that of liquor.
He said that as to the claim t.at the
London bill would hurt the Democratic
party he denied it, ard cited Cumberland
county. where prohibition had strength
ened the Democratic party. and where
men had voted for him not because he
was a Democrat but because of his pro-
hlbltlon. Seven years ago no man in
Fayetteville could be elected to office
without the consent of the liquor inter
ests. He had seen the terrible condition
in Fayetteville with its sixteen bar
rooms and he had promised not to rest
till they were closed. And they are
closed now he said.
Here Senator Lamb described the forces
behind the London bill, some of which he
thus deScrihed:
w have the Episcopal Artillery in
their uniform, singing Rock of Ages;
II. Drachu@o;.~ vol, r;-,;,~ gII1u-
Firm a Foundation; the Baptist Navy,
SINGING Sweet Fields Beyond the Swell
ing Flood; the Methodist Infantry, sing
ing Come Ye That Love the Lord This
great army are behind this movement,
and if we attempt to stop it we shall be
swept out of public life. l am for the
London bill all the time"
SENATOR TRAVIS SPEAKS.
Senator Travis spoke for the substitute
and regretted that the opponents of it
had ridiculed it and denominated it a
subterfuge. He praised Senators Nann
and Warren as wise and thoughtful men,
who in drawing the substitute did so
con%scientiously and for the best Of the
State.
The question, which he declared was
dividing the legislators, was not a moral
oIC, " w 10 lboI dLiO liilil
short of it meets the moral question.
When the prohibition people introduced
the London bill it was a compromise of
prohibition, but in doing so they felt that
no further advance was possible at this
time, and that expediency must be con-
sidered. Thus it is simply a question Of
what is now eXpedient, the best
method of controlling the present issue,
that alone divides us.
Here MI. Travis contrasted the Lon
don and Substitute bill. The latter he
said measured up to the other in many
of it's features. but hat it was fairer
than the London bill in that it did not
discriminate between small towns and
large ones, neither between town and
country, as did the London bill, for it
gave a vote to these to settle the mat
ter.
The discrimination as to small towns,
Mr.. Travis held, would hurt them com
mercially and arouse jealousy of town
to town. He stated that on Saturdays in
the east, when the negroes went to town
they wanted some liquor, and would go
to the town that had it. This, he said,
would not be just and would center the
trade of many counties in the big towns
at the expense Of the little towns.
All the petitions that have come from
Halifax are from towns that could man
ufacture and sell under the London bill.
which could vote on it. He declared
too that he wanted to give the eight small
towns of his county the right to vote on the
question as we'll as the four large owns.
Only one petition had come from a small
tow in his county for the London bill.
Mr.. Travis said that there had been
doubt as to whether or not one section
of the substitute meant one or two e'ec-
lions to obtain the relief promised in the
first ten sections. To clear up this an
amendment would be presented to the
substitute, and this would be that the
first vote would determine whether or not
the first ten sections shall apply IN the
county, and whether or not this vote is
taken any own or city is to be allowed
to vote as to the conditions they want
in their communities. In the matter of
taking a vote on the question, he de-
clared that a minority usually felt it was
a ma iOrity until convinced it was not.