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

abolish the traffic in liquor. If it is an
evil it is wrong, and whatever is wrong
should be suppressed, and every evil
that needs regula tiOn needs death. What
would be thought OF law regulating
burglary or adultery, or arson or lar
ceny? Such an evil may be abolished
but not regulated. You cannot regulate
the traffic in intoxicants, but you ought
to treat it as crime and punish it as
crime 1t should be strangled without
the benefit of the clergy, with the stake
of public opinion thrust through its foul
body
We should be ashamed to write
the dollar and cent aspect of the traffic
with the black shadows of the misery it
inflicts hanging over US. One hundred
and fifty million dollars annually are ex-
pended for liquor in the United States!
What an infinitesmal figure the license
tax cuts compared with this colossal
pile of blood money, What is the cost
OF your jails. aims houses, reformatories,
criminal courts insane asylums, charged
in the account
The licensed bar-room is whore the
smut of the world is retailed, where the
gambling hells, prize fighting are most
securely enhenched. There is rotten ard
rotting humanity under it's gas light
there is a difference between tn
saloon and the tipping St.,
corporated towns, it is s4Llp
ferences between broadcloth and
both hold a mortgage upon the d, T.
stomach.
The drunkard must go and will 6
/ the sooner the better, but for the
OF our young men shield the unsusl
ing from the warmth, the glitter.
| light of the saloon.
High license has never killed the traf
! fic in this liquid hell and never will II
/ it drops money in the public treasury
with one hand, it takes it out with the
! other in increased misery and more
/ shameless raids upon the attenuated
| purse of the poor victim 1t does not
stop the internal raid upon humanity,
! which is filling jailS and lunatic asylums
and feeding the gallows. 1t leaves the
| constituencies dealers in strong drink to
| pursue their devilish trade, initiating the
young into the vices of which it is the
centre and inspiration: it invents new
and strange devices for 'perpetuating it's
! reign, and oc~-~r:S~++-~ its power; it
or the naked. hungry child; it leaves the
|
/ lunatics, paupers and assassins
The wall of the broken hearted wife in
her rags and the starved child goes UP
TO Heaven. but no answer comes but
that melted by human faulty, I'VE have
) regulated the traffic in immortal souls
! by high license" High license with a
, vengeance.
Do you want to take a census of your
"a i
child is mine and that one belongs to the
rum seller? If the ruri power owns the
State, in Gods name stop tantalizing the
people with your deceptive bills and Pc
titiOns. Let it have its reign of vice il
peace, But if humanity has anv rights
if the family claim can be considered
let the law assert itself and stamp it out
1t IS regulated in Ohio and Ohio is giver
| over to rum and beer: it is prohibited
destroyed in Maine, New Hampshire
Kansas and Iowa. Let us save the com
ing generation. Boys and men will no
drink until they have been learned tC
drink: man was ever born with al
appetite for liquor save those born o
drunken parents No natural stomach
ever craVcd it: it is purely a matter 0
education and the rum seller is the teach
er. The drunkard is made-not born
Regulation by high license ought not t.
be thought of by the Legislature if th'
liquor traffic is wrong. When you ad
nit the necessity for regulation you ad
nit the necessity for prohibition. If i
calls for any interference, it calls fer bu
one kind, and that is destruction.
good thing that is abused may be regu
lated but a bad thing, never, The starv
ing wife does not want high license lie
the saloon go, with its beautiful light
and pictures, warm in the winter am
cool IN the summer; with its allurement
| that are made the moro attractive by tn
protection of the law. If no other rene
dy appears available, let the applicant 70
| license be required to file with the coun
ty board of commissions an applica tio
signed by three fourths, of the pualife
I voters OF the township who shall Sa
above their signatures that they are il
favor of the traffic in liquor and do rec
commend the applicant as proper per
son to be licensed, and let copy o
this application be posted for four week
at the court house door before the Ii
cense is granted.
All honor to Senator London for tn
btll.'
| d WORTHINGTON