The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-11
Advance, Williams. Shore.

To the Editor:-I have given some
attention to what has been printed
in the newspapers about these places
as to the relation they sustain to the
legislature, and particularly to the
Democratic party; and although |
have attained that age that puts me
out of the activities of life, naNtAS
PASSED the four-score point. yet / re-
tain a lively interest in all things. as
they seem TO me- pertaining TO the
welfare of my fellow beings. 1t was
a great mistake to incorporate those
places. for no other apparent purpose
than for the distillation of WhlSkey'
and see the mistake, II is the dulJ
of the present legislature to correct IL
nv putting them out of business.
This is a duty incumbent on every
Democratic member. q duty he owes 10
the great host of temperance pcople
in the State who made 1t possible TOT
the present legislature to be SO large
" Democratic. They know this, and
the wishes of their constituents Soou!d
be respected.
The thing that surprises me most
is that there should be any hesitation
about the matter. Why give the enc
my so much rope and consume so
much valuable time? The thing TO
do as it seems to me. is prompt, de-
Cisiye cffeCtual action-Such as VIII
show the advocates of WhiSkey that
they have no standing before TINS
legislature. TO have fictitious towns
for the manufacture and sale OF Whis-
key is bigger farce than the fiction
of John Doe and Richard Roe in ihr
old common law writ of eJectment'
Although they played such a consplC-
uous part in legal proceedings, yet
they are gentlemen that no one ever
saw: and the towns of Advance. VIII
liamS, Shore, etc. would be haru 10
find minus the Whiskey proprietors
and their employees.
1t is a shame and an outrage 10 III
corporate such places and call them
towns just to give few people inc
SemblanCc of legal right TO nulllfy the
great principle for which large ma
jority of the best elements OF society
in the State elected the legislature.
Whiskcy pulls down, temperance
builds up. There is an Old darkey III
Petersburg, Va, who. has been q
house painter all his life. He IS VI
years old and still works at his trade,
climbing about on houses ike young
man. Some one asked him how it was
that he kept up SO well. His answer
was that no never drank any Whiskey
and never used any tobacco. 10 bulld
up is what we need. The WhiSkey
business never yet built up any one
| only for the money there is in the
business, and did not drink it them
selves.
have written more than | intended
! when | begun. Excuse me. But II
is 90 be hoped that the large majority
of the legislature will carry out the
| purpose for which the temperance
men of the State elected them. ana not
| be swayed by the behests of the few
who opposed their election. Inc
Democratic party has nothing TO loos"
but much to gain in the aggregate by
u firm. consistent and pcrSiStcn course
in upholding by law the cause OF tenn
perancc in the state. and the leglSia-
turc is the only power VIC nave 10
enact such laws as arc necessary
Having begun, no back step should
be taken. North Carolina has been
long enough practically under the
whiakey rule; now that the anti-Whis s
key element has shown its strength
and made its demands, il is expected
Of its servants. the legislature. that
those demands Will be respected.
J. !. LANSDELL
Durham, y. c.. Feb. 10.