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

That the Watts bill was not all that
could be desired. he would not deny
But after a labo-Ious and careful con
lsideratfon Of all the questions involved
the on Propositions and
Grievances. had reported this bill.
There were two principal objections 70
the bill. one was that i took away local
seif-sovernu.ent. and me other was 2
III Disseminated against the people q
the country. but these people themselves
were the ones that were crying out for
this very discrimination. They were
begging for a law that would let the!I
cl:ldren so 10 school without eclhs
disturbed by drunken men on the road
The people had sent us up here 10
make this discrimination against them
His people had sent him up here 10 do
this very thing.
when he was Solicitor for his Dis
trict, he prosecuted 60 homicides, and
nearly all were due 10 whiskcy, anc
country whiskey at that.
The gentleman from Hyde had struck
the keynote. as he always did. when 10
said that the thing for the members L
do was to>ask themselves which WAS tbs
right thing 10 do.
But he disagreed with him when he
had said tina the gentleman from New
Hanover, had not a heart or soul big
enough to get into this thing with him
That gentleman was a b~ig-souled, big
hearted gentleman. and that he was
courageous as well was evidenced by the
fact of his standing up here and OPP
posing this measure. But he thought he
was wrong.
AS TO the question of submitting it
to the vote of the people. many things
| yroro 1pna without hpipu submitted n
a vote of the people. The gentleman
from Allegheny had just introduced
a bill calling for a bond issue. ani yet
not a man in this House had suggested
that that question be submitted to a
vote of the people. You can take the
peoples money, but you cannot deprive
them of their morning nip Moreover,
we had just elected a United States
Senator, and that was not submitted TO
a vote of the people.
Mr.. Smith said that was provided by
the Constitution adopted by the people
themselves.
Mr.. Newland replied that this very
Constitution had been recently changed.
even so as to disfranchise some of the
people.
Mr.. Newland asked Mr.. Smith if he
had not voted to gerrymander the town
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and aldermen in power.
Mr., Smith referred Mr.. Newland to
the Journal, and then said that if he
had voted for it he had done so in order
to give the white people what they
wanted.
Mr.. Newland: Eyes, and stand now
for the wishes of a large part Of the
white people of the State, and the good
women of the State. (Applause.) i
would not give the thrip of my finger for
any movement that the good women of
the State We're not back of" (ApplauSe).
Mr.. Newland then replied to the gen
tleman from Yadkin by saying he did not
believe, if the manufacture of liquor
should be forbidden the diStillers, they
would consume the liquor in their own
families, but would stop making it.
AS to politics, MIR. Newland hoped
that no member of the House WOULD
vote from d political standpoint, but ac-
cording to what he believed to be right.
1t was not a political question at all. The
people were not going to go back on a
party that relieved them of 4 burden OF
which they wore intolerably weary.
Mr.. Newland closed with a powerfully
eloquent plea for the passage of the bill
MIR. MURPHEY'S SUBSTITUTE.
" AAuil i'y ttth OthC y NdIu JlIS
substitute bill, and stated that he would
discuss it at length in the Committee of
the Whole. He merely said thai his
substitute preserved TO the people their
sacred and i~ndisputable rights.
GENERAL BRYAN.
General Bryan sent forward IN amend
ment to the Watts bill. to insert the
word "monopolize'' instead of 'rrgu- !
late"
He said he wanted to speak on that |
section of the Constitution which said ]
that perpctuities and m~onopolics were |
contrary to the sense Of a government by |
the people. The title of the bill was a
misnomer. 1t did not regulate the traf- !
fic in liquor, but monopolizcd it.
He declared that the bill was not pro |
hibition at all, and that no one need |
think he was voting for prohibition |
when he was voting for this bill.
AS to Wilkes, there were IS whiskcy |
distiilerics. 10 of which were conducted |
by Democrats. Ee was here to repre-
sent these men who had been branded in |
the committee as perjurors.
The ex-chairman of the Democratic |
Executive Committee, W. w. Barber, had
told him there were 800 men who made
brandy, This bill would completely
ruin all these people.
He spoke of the fact that Wilkes made
q great deal of liquor, but drank very
Ettle OF 1t, selling it to the prohibition |
counties. This raised a laugh.
Another big laugh was raised When |
General Bryan got to talking about the
churches and said they had good preach
ing in the country still; while in Tho
towns and cities thcy .worshippcd God
scientifically"
He recalled the fact that Mr.. Watts
had said that the bill was drawn up by
Aycock and Senator Simmons.
What do they know about making wbis-
Key: They might start up a still here
N Raleigh under this bill, and if thev
did. one of them ought to be made guager
and the other storekecpor.'
General Bryan then talked about tenn
peTance, and said it was the drinking
and not the making or tho selling or
liquor that did all the harm. In this
connection he quoted Scripture several
He paid his rcSocCtG IN tho dicro,..