The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-02
At Raney Hall to Prepare for
Mondays Election.
LADIES LEND THEIR AID
The Best Womanhood Of Raleigh Will Quietly
and Pfayerfully Use Their Influence
10 Aid in Driving Out
Saloons.


Raney Library Hall.
1t is to begin at s o'clock and it will be
meeting for short talqs and the arrange
ment of the final plans for the election
which decides the present contest on Mon
day 1t is to be meeting open to both
men and women and its importance is
such that the people who want to see the
open saloon become the closed saloon in
Raleigh should attend it.
More than this. Attend the meeting
yourself and take a friend with you. If
he is hesitating as to how he will vote
then be certain to take him, so that he
may see that it is the purpose OF good
men and good women to rid this city of
terrible blot upon it, and to close up the
places of temptation to the young.
The full details of all the plans for
work at the polls on Monday will be out
lined and every worker for the cause OF
better Raleigh should be present so thas
he may learn how best to make his work
effective.
THE LADIES IN EARNEST.
An enthusiastic and largely attended
meeting of the ladies of Raleigh was held
yesterday afternoon in the Sunday school
room of the Presbyterian church.
There were over hundred of the rep
Iesentatlve women of the city present and
there was evidenced deep interest in the
purpose of the Anti-Saloon League to close
up the bar-rooms of the city.
The meeting was presided over by Mr..
N. b. Broughton, and there was also
present to give counsel and advice Rev.
G.. T. Adams and Mr.. George Allen. The
meeting had been called by the leaders
of the Anti-Saloon League and the result
is that these will be greatly aided by the
work of the ledies of the city.
Mr.. N. B. Broughton asked the assist
ance of the ladies in the campaign and
urged that each try to do something to
aid in the cause. The different divisions
of the city were called and as ladies from
each division arose they were asked to
consider themselves as a committee in
their section.
The plan presented to the ladies was
that each one interview any voter whom
they considered doubtful and urge upon
him that he vote for the. dispensary as
against the saloons he ladies unanimous
ly agreed TO do this and in every possible
womanly way to aid in the fight to close
up the saloons in Raleigh.
he meeting was intense in its earnest
ness and in this fight for better Raj
eigh it was thoroughly demonstrated yes
terday that the good women are heart and
soul in the movement to close up the sa-
looms.
SPECIAL SERMONS PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
On next Sunday morning DR.. Moment
will give a special sermon on Moses and
Paul on Parental Responsibility. AT
night the subject will be The Wine Cup
of all Nations. These are timely subjects
and will no doubt be listened to with
attention.
WHICH SHALL 1T BE?
Under existing conditions we are forced
TO choose between the dispensary and the
open saloons. To vote against dispen-
sary is necessarily to vote for the saloons.
Between the two l am bound to vote for
the dispensary, because:
/. One dispensary ought to sell less than
twenty Jour bars.
2. The bar-keeper's business requires
him to tempt men to drink, while the dis
nensary man, being paid salary is under
no such temptation.
3. The saloon is made inviting as so
cial resort. The dispensary is wholly un-
attractive.
4. Loafing in the saloon tempts men to
repeat their drinks. In the dispensary
Ioafing is forbidden by law, and both
loafer and dispensary keeper are indict-
able for such an offense
5. The life of saloon depends on social
drinking and treating, which is the parent
of drunkenness. This is impossible in
the dispensary.
6. The bar does its most thriving bust
ness and is the scene of most crimes after
dark. The dispensary must not open be-
fore sunrise nor stay open after sunset
Z. The victim of the liquor habit who is
seeking to reform, is tempted by the many
saloons in his path to continue in his
habits. The one dispensary offers him far
less temptation.
8. In all legalized liquor selling the State
is necessarily partner 1t is better that
the State should control the business IN
dispensary than to leave it in the hands
of bar-keepers who are in the business
for the dollars they can get out OF 1T.
9. Many men drink in saloon who
would not think of taking liquor home and
drinking in their families. And there are
scores of them that would rejoice to have
the saloon taken out of their path.
10. Green blinds and darkness tempt
many to drink in the saloon who would
shun the open door and daylight of the
dispensary.
IL. The bar-keeper shields our boys
while they secretly form the drinking
habit. The dispensary cannot sell to min
ors at all. and every purchasers name
must be kept in an open register.
IL. BY compact organization and I'M
scrupulous methods the saloons own and
control vote that is utterly subversive
of good government. The dispensary
overthrows the saloon power and can have
no such power of its own.
Ia. The saloon is the natural home of
gambling. row dyism and debauchery.
None of these are possible in the dispen-
sar.'.
Is. self-interest requires the bar-keeper