The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-15

boys than a sawmill without logs or a
grist mill without corn. Gentlemen, pro-
| tect these boys. You protect partridges
and fish and oysters, will you not pro-
tect also the boys? for boy is Of more
value than many oysters
2. The Saloon as Related to Progress.
| 1t opposes all progress that gets in its
path. 1t hates Christianity, despises pa
triotism, denounces decent politics. and
arrays itself against the advance of civ
| ilization. A travelling man reports the
attitude of a bar-keeper towards the
free rural delivery system thus: why,
when men came into town every day for
| their mail they were sure to drop into
my place while they waited; everybody
drank, and everybody treated everybody
| else, and it made trade lively Now the
farmers come into town but two or three
| times a week and more often but once
and the worst of it is they don't happen
to come in together, for they only come
| in for groceries or some other supplies
| and no two mems supplies are apt to
| give out at exactly the same time. This,
| you see, does away with the matter of
| treating and reduces trade tremendously
| It's running business, / tell you" Thus
the selfish spirit that animated the Ii
quor men is of the earth earthly and
of hell belly.
| 3. The Saloon as Related to Politics:
| The rum traffic is cancer on the body
| polite. / quote from a circular sent out
to it's members by the North Carolina
Retail Liquor Dealers Association with
| reference to the present Legislature:
| The membership of our association is
! promptly responding TO this matter, and
we trust, as you are deeply interested
as We in the result, you will forward
your check for S. at once, as we must
put ourselves In position to meet this
vital issue before: nominations are made
! for the Legislators and continue our Wig
! ilance until it shall meet and adjourn. ="
Hero is deliberate attempt on the part
Of the liquor forbes to bride our law
makers. and corrupt our laws. But free
men will not submit to such base
| tyranny; and the saloon must go, or the
party that sustanR it.
| 4. The Saloon as Related to Morals
! 1t is Satan's own work, and is the pro-
life source of taxation. paupersIn, in
! sanity, disease, crime. and death. The
United States Supreme Court says: The
statistics of everN State show a greater
amount of crime and misery attributable
| to the use of ardent spirits obtained at
| these retail liquoF saloons than TO any
| other source" Tho records of every court
| house is blackened with its shame. 1t
| its various manifestations the saloon is
connected with the brothel, the gambling
tden, murder. anarchy and hell. 1t is
out of place in this State and out of
date in this age. It's principles might
have been recognized in its reign of Nero,
curing the French Revolution. or in the
| land of cannibals but it has no lcgiti-
mate home in a civilized country. Some
| tell us of more suasion, but moral sua-
sion can't act whore there are no morals
| to act on.
| Our people will not be satisfied with
| compromise. We want the London bill
pure and simple. The Watts bill is re-
garded as a saloon measure, and is an
affront to the better element of the land.
| Failure to meet tie demands of the best
citizens of the State. may mean more
| in the coming years than our lawmakers
dream of for people are thinking. Yer
! tum sat.
| C. A. JENKINS.
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