The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
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/ If there is any legitimate reason te
present to the people of Raleigh why
they should again have a score and
more of open saloons to aftiict them
it has not come to light.
| The agitation with the For Saloons
petition is an agitation begun, fostered
and paid for by the liquor interests
which is making in this way a des-
perate attempt to again come into
control in Raleigh and for indl-
vduals to again engage in the whiskey
traffic for the benefit of their bank
accounts. That is all there is in It,
and the project has in it no good for
Raleigh in any way.
That the sentiment of the voters
of this city is by a large majority
| flooding of every section of Raleigh
with bar-rooms is a patent fact to
any who will look into the matter
fairly and squarely. The people have
suffered too long the control of the
whiskey interest in city politics, and
too long the temptations held out to
/ it's youth in the glittering persuasions
of the bar-rooms which far into the
night kept wide-open doors that all
who sought might enter, to again give
these a lease on life.
There is no need for an election on
the question of saloons to be held III
Raleigh for it is doomed to defeat
Many people have been OVer-per-
suaded to put their names on the
petition for an election, while others
believed that they were to obtain the
| right to vote for prohibition. Ihese
latter were deceived and the former
were too obliging. The thing now for
them to do is to take their names on
the petition and thus in it's incip1ency
DESTROY the effort that otherwise Will
be with certainty defeated at the poiis
Raleigh is regarded by the whiskey
| interests in and out of the State as
pivotal point, and beginning at the
Capital they hope to gain influence
| in other places from which the bar
rooms have been driven. Let the good
people of this city see that these plans
fail and that Raleigh sets it's face
against the open saloons.
AS an evidence of the fact that in
other places the whiskey interests are
| following the plan of the For
Saloons" minority in Raleigh, the fol-
| lowing is taken from the GoldsborC
Argus. which shows that the attempt
| is to be made there. In the article
the Argus strikes a blow for gooo
morals and utterly routs the fallacy
of saloon advocates and heelers. Its
article is this:
THE promoters of the bar-room
cause are circulating petitions through
the city soliciting the signatures OF
voters asking for an election to be
called on the question of restoring
open bars to Goldsboro.
ut requires one-third of the quail
fled voters, and when the petitions
are submitted to the lawful authorl-
| ties the Argus will publish the names
of the signers in order that the pub
| lie may scan the list and have the op'
portunity of challenging all names
! thereon that are not qualified.
"Goldsboro does not need the oper
bar again. Our city has been most
prosperous under prohibition. The
volume of trade has been greater
than ever before in the city's history
and the prohibition vote in the cleo
| ton two years ago was so over
whelming that it is matter OF sur
prise that the nti-prohibition con
| tingent in the communit- should have
the hardihood to try to come again.
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