The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
Raleigh, N. c.:

| he would help burn the house III
which he was born and had been rear
ed and for the first time, did it dawn
| upon her what a dangerous influence
| moonshine distilleries We're capable oil
| exerting upon the boys.
Yes it is we'll known that a man
| who reports a distillery is sure to suf-
| fer. The moonshiners Will cut off a
horses tail, cut up a buggy, burn a
| dwelling or way lay and shoot a man
And if one of them gets into trouble
| others will swear to almost anything
to get him out. as has been shown
many q time. on trials.
We are bound to conclude that
none but the most depraved men
would engage i'm Q business of that
| character. But, strange to tell, soIue
church members are to be found in it,
I've been told.
OF my own knowledge, [ cannOt SAY
! tfat / ever saw a moonshiner; but.
have seen men whom report said we're
engaged in that business, on the front
seats at church, and, during experience
meetings, ! have seen them stand up
and, while great streams or
down their cheeks. have
heard them warning sinners to
| fee the wrath to come. And [ have
been told that, in less than an i1our af-
ter the meeting closed, those
men would be at their distilleries.
The serpent surely must have bitten
filing up with whiskey and playing
cards with the very sinners they had
been warning to flee from the wrath
pitied that has a moonshiner iii il,
Leprosy is bad thing. but no worse
than moonshine distillery.
In prohibition towns there are blind
tigers, kept of course by bad men.
None but bad men would run blind
| long as there are bad men we may OK
pect violations of law in town, city and
country. And bad men will resort to
and cloak their sins. A barrel of
all kinds of eXpedients to evade law
| sweet cider is made to cover multi
| tude of other drinks. A fellow just
wants to sell a little sweet cider: SO.
| he sets a barrel up in a conspicuous
| Mace. as much as to say: This is an
honest DEAL But is it? 1T frequently
| happens that. behind barrel of cider.
| is coiled. down in a corner. the SER
pent that ,biteth. Men go in and come
out like bees and soon they are drunk.
and the honest cider seller swears he
don't keep a thing in his house but
| "sweet cider" There is not ten year
old boy in the town, perhaps. that does
not know there is plenty of whiskey
there.
Jack Mitchell used to say, man
who drinks will lie; and. | am inclined
| to think, that, the man who makes
people drunk on "sweet cider" strains
the truth in saying his cider is sweet.
when it makes men drunk enough 10
fight or drown themselves, as two
cider drinkers recently did in john
ston county. Sweet cider is not sup
posed to contain enough alcohol to
produce drunkenness; but, from what
hear about it this summer it's about
as bad as moonshine whiskey, as
disturber of the peace. Something
must be the matter with the apples.
and poisoned all the trees. Knowing
how the cider is doing, / don't think.
as a Christian man, 1 could, conscien-
| tiously deal in the stuff.
A church member who had jug
Of cider-"sweet cider"-was telling
me how much good it was doing him.
I asked him to give me tablespoon
! full of it. I tasted it and, according
| to my belief. there was more alcohol
i'm that spoonful than ought to be
found in a pint of sweet cider. So,
taking that as test of the average
"sWeet cider" which is sold, I don't