The news & observer., 1905-10-01
Spirit of the Press.
The Triumph In IWadesboro.


Monroe Journal.
"A little more than two years
aoo a local option election was
held in Wadesboro which result
ed in a victory for the opponents
of open saloons and stills py
majority of 6. Another local OPP
ton election was helu Auesu"y,
at which the following vote was
cast:
@For saloons, 16O; against sa-
looms. 1O7-majority for saloons
SO. AN
..For stills, 1877; against stills,
125-maiority for stills. IL.
Tho eboT,e is from the last week
issuc of the WadesbOro Messenger ana
Intelligencer. 1t is a great cause Lol
rejoicing. The sturdy MANHOOD OF the
good old county has asserted itsel1 ana
freedom sits again upon the mountain
heights. The preachers, the women
and other fanatics have been put to
rout. Everybody who believes in the
natural rights of man should give
whoop and go to WadesborO and take
drink. Narrow -mindedness and pro
vincidlism have been cast OH pN tulS
cosmopolitan town. and it. is now the
only place between Wilmington ana
AsheviIle where free-bOrn SaXons'
cherishing all the ancestral hatred Ior
oppression and tyranny, can walk up
to the counter and drink out OF the
same glass that has been used by
FREQ Niger short time before. Sound
tho loud timbrel DER this benlghted
section. for liberty again reigns III
Wadesboro and only few more po-
licemen will be necessary to restrain
her. Watch the good place take on
new life and vigOr and recover from
the blight that tho reign or the rama
tics has entailed. Watch the thouS-
ands of horny-handed sons of the SOIL
who will trade where they can buy
drink rush from the pharseeical
towns around and buy their goods
from the town where the bird OF no
erty has again squa tied. Not only Will
the sons Of liberty in that town have
somewhere to go and take freeman
drink when they feel |. ic it, but thelr
sons will also. The boys and youth
NAV not now sit at home or suck thelr
fingers at the starvation parties as
they were compelled to do under the
rule of the oppreSsOrs, for now they
may gather nightly ia the nice warm
bars and take a social game OF cards
and a drop of something to cheer the
heart.
Not only shall there be places where
good liquors ono Tot-gut dispensary
stuff can be mixed by a slick, rat
white man with a greasy, fat black
man to help him, and serve out to
all who can raise the price, but right
handy in the town will be the estab-
lished rum mills to make the pure and
unadulterated stuff that a man can
drink and enjoy longer without being
killed than any other animal. Think
of the pretty new still houses with
sweet-scented hogs living sumptuously
on mash! Think of the nice hogs that
can be raised. And all that fine bacon
lost under the reign of the fanatics!
But the fanatics are routed and lib
erty reignS.
Liberty and drunkards!
Liberty and more ragged and hungry
children!
Liberty and more haggard women
with the black bruised eyes!
Liberty and more hands for the chain
gang!
Liberty and more blood money!
Liberty and desolation, one and insep-
cradle!
Hamlet and Hoffman and Rocking
ham have lost their glory, but Wades-
boro has found hers. She has not
voted a graded school, but she has
voted in the rum shops and the hell
kettles!