The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-03

he force these people to have negro
teacher or close the school? What say
you. Mr.. President7
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The United States revenue officials Of
North Carolina are not at all pleased
with the Watts law. recently passed by
the Legislature, which forbids the manu-
facture Of whiskey anywhere except in
towns. One Of these off,
GERS, who has been interviewed by the
Asheville Citizen, says: MANY Of the
dIstillerles cannot afford to move to town.
Most of them are small affairs and only
exist because they have wood and grain
and cheap labor right at hand, and such
cannot afford to move to town where
material and labor are higher and where
they must pay town taxes. But the stills
Will keep right on working, not openly in
their present loca tons, but as blockade
stills in the obscure coyes of the noun
tains, and wherever one OF these stills
does close a monnshine still will spring
up In its place."
These officers further complain that
under the operations Of the law the IN
tcrnal revenue men will be worked to
death trying to suppress the moonshiners.
They say, and truly say, that the State
and county officers have never troubled
themselves to put down moonshlning,
although 1t is as much p violation OF
State law as 1t Is Of the Federal statutes,
but have always left this work entirely
to the United States marshals and rev.
e1iue agents. This the State officers will
continue to do, although there will now
be double the number OF Illicit stills In
the mountains es heretofore. 4 The up
shot OF the whole business Will DO that
the United States will pay the bills for
the enforcement Of State law. Tho tenn
perance folks are pleased at this pros
pect, for they argue that inasmuch as
the Watts law was made by q Democratic
Legislature, tho government officials, who
are Republicans, will, In order to make
1t odious to the mount tain people, do their
utmost to enforce It. Thus the temper
ance contingent will see the law. given,
fair and vigorous trial, and at little
or no expense to the State. Truly Watts
Duilded PETER! Lllan no htloWs sis, tf3F9ItEs
Kansas Is again bleeding. She Is now
being bled by a superiority Of small Of
nceholdors. The Legislature now is ees-
sion Ia composed OF one hundred and
sixty-nve members. and they require
moro waiting on than any sovcreigns
that ever assembled In any American
State. This Legislature has hired three
hundred officers to hang around and see
that tho august body Is properly looked
after. Among those are thirty door
keepers to watch four doors, twenty scr
geants at arms, dozen or more super
intendents OF ventilation. moro than
score of pages and other officers,
enough 10 keep the treasury we'll de-
pleted as long as the Legislature remains
In session. Evidently the present admin
stration in Kansas believes In the doc
trine that to the victors belong all the
cash In sight.
re ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
A movement has been started In I'LL
nos to induce the Legislature to prohibit
free lunch counters in the saloons Of that
state. The bill. which 1t is proposed to
intrOQu co t|lS Week, CO'|Lh1HS bectlOH
making It an unlawful act for any per-
son to set before any other person. In a
public place. a lunch OF any kind for
which compensation has not been fixed
In advance, while another section makes
1t an unlawful act for any person TO par
take in public place, OF n lunch In the
nature OF premium gift. Inasmuch as
the frae lunch counter had !ts birth In
Virginia. panvile being tho place OF Its
nativity, this bill Is beloved by some to
be intended as direct blow at Virginia
institutions,
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The Baltimore Sun. commenting on
Congressman Lacey's suggestion that
Virginia should send to Washington a
statue. not Of Lee. hut Of Monroe, says
Mcnroe should have q statue IN iphe Ma
tional Capital and that It should be
erected by the United States. In this
connection 1t notes that few statues OF
Presidents there are In Washington city
The Sun suggests that Congress shall
set apart a f,ne e4se IS ca capi,o, build,
iry, il which mis- S. ceu statues Of
all the Pixopt who (o9ltlW'assh'nston Is
Roosevelt laFt space to meet
t future Ssslase,
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