Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-03-16
AUNTY JUG ALIAS A ZEN
Sky SOBOR IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
s3Tar Heel'' Writes Some Inter-
esting d Humorous Views

O1 InlnS~ WiiiCli Ai"Ve
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Posi-.
70 the Editor of The Post: Lo! the
sessions of our Zemsky Sober have
expired by limitation of pay; and
while the poll tax has not been re-
duced, We all should feel thankful
that the tax on boarding houses and
pianos has not been increased.
Even if one brainy man in the house
did make several great speeches
every day not SO much bad was ac-
compilshed as the circumstances
seemed to require.
1t was from the startto the finish an
ambulance legislature, to be in the
ousness of making wounds for fur
Their employment as we'll as treating
old wounds. The man who sells sill
yer mines, %coIlards, and fights chick
ms, had no show down for his
money; but the magnetic storm OF
temperance, while fish and politics
prevailed, has left ~wreckage enough
20 supply the male part of the next
generation with something to do.
If the d~ispenaary receipts at Raj
elgh really did increase theig thou
sand dollars during this January ana
February over the same months in
1904, it is to the benefit of God-fear-
ing temperance people, because they
get the money whence they asked
hat it be put. of course the pres
ence of the legislature had nothing
todo with this increase, and possibly
this X sslve liquor OUTPUT was
drunk by non-temperance people?
The writer heard a remarkably
unveritable statement made in the
house by an ex-revenue doodler, who,
in upnolding the Ward bill, sald
that although he had seen many
legislatures, and had been here now
nearly sixty days, he had not e d
single legislator under the influence
of liquor. Such lofty blindness emit.
ties a g. | man to the admiration i
not the commiseration of the com.
pany he keeps, Blind people SHOULD
not ''play cards."
And a member of the same house.
introduced a bill to regulate the
rates in hotels-where there is Ut
competition by the county com
m~issioners! Can anybody wonder
that our insane asylums constantly
need more room, and more money
because of such legislators: Move
the hotels?
Two thousand bills were introduc
ed, n~ine-ten5ls of them should nav
Shy reques.' for a father; but llquo.
and fish bor5 the bruntOf attack, anc
liquor VS. i, ;islated both out anuIn
AMI fisl. net; were fought for by the
downs rea'a man, and against b,
the upstream man. The wise-acres
however, did not entirely succ eed IL
prohibiting salt water fish from &C
habiting with fresh water fish.
The extreme west wanted bull
kept at home ON Sunday, and the
east wantel bee-hives kept at leas
fifty yards from the public high
ways! rne great, populous and
prosperous middle section wanted
TO be let alone by these thanking in
segrals which belong to Tennese
and the sounds.
The bill to supply the governor
mansion with vegetables was practi
cally another salary raise, becaus
the mansion a easily eat up sever
al hundred dollars worth of vegeta
bles in the year. The hogs and poul
try at the State institutions shoul
likewise be raised for food for tbs
mansion.
The bill to fix which post a gat
should be hung upon -only appl
cable to fence counties, failed to pas
Such respectable hell-kettles, lik
buckets shops, were vigorously a
tackled and ingeniously defended.
The Coca-Cola and Peruna indu
tries, although swatted, may kee
charge of their own funds for tW
, more summers without police pr
lection.
The decrepit Watts bill was carrie
to the hospital in the Ward-Danie.
Bailey ambulance.
Polish and Malta labor got a bla'
eye in the effort to find jobs for Sc
leral statesmen as labor importer
and the discussion of the bill dew
oped that we have been living wit
= Tout that part of the constitution
lating to the commissioner of il
migration.
The measures espoused by t
. governor were coldly received, a
lukewarmly acted upon. Yet the
suit of legislative work is the {
preparation of $500, 900 more tn
any other legislature ever thought
= consume. The people must pay t
half million extra for a sober legis
ture.
Wnro ~ not for thu 1ohhXy q IoOie