Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-11-02
KNOW THE TRUTH
AND THE TRUTH SHALL
MAKE YOU FREE.
Some Facts and Thoughts For
. the Consideration of Voters
Who are to Determine
the Bar-rOOm Issue
In The Coming
Election.

the Bar-rOOm Issue
In The Coming
Election.
EDITOR ARGUs:-The advocates
of the saloon say there is as much
liquor sold now as there was when
we had saloons. Well, if there is as
much sold it does not produce the
same results! l have been living for
four years right by the side of a road
where a great many people pass.
B 5fure ICONS were abolished in
4oldsborO every Saturday, and every
public day, and all through the fall
and winter, 1t Was the commOnest
thing TO see aud hear drunken and
%'irinhing men passing by, re urning
frem town, whooping, cursing and
INDUCING in the conduct which drink |
usually causes. It was then unsafe, !
especially for wome and children,
1 to travel the road late in the after
noon Oh Saturdays and public days.
But now it is altogether different. II
do not believe that one drunken man
passes here now where ten passed
i before, and even on a circus day the
noise and disorder are not noticeable.
A blind man could tell the difference!
j. w. BRYAN.
Did you notice the big crowd Of
people here on Saturday. The many
hundreds of buggies, carts, Wa CONS
and folks made one think of Christ
mas times or circus day. Still some
say that people do not come to Colds
DOrO since the bar rooms closed.
How many people stay away from a
town because there is no liquor sold
there? Greensboro has no bars,
iNuwDern has no bars, Charlotte has
no bars. Is it not a reflection on any
man to tell him that a bottle OF Whis-
key will tole him around, like an
ear Of corn will tote a hungry hog?
People come to Goldsboro just as
r they always did, and it is true that
mapy Of them would drink, if there
: were bar rooms here, but bar room
Idonot keep them away. On the
other hand, many a man who has g
weakness Tor liquor is glad there are
Eare facts, and the facts are that Colds
boro is more prosperous than ever
before. Real estate is higher than
lever before, and the price of real
estate is the sure index Of economic
conditions ia any community.
.-IYOUR GIRL OR THE SALOON KEE P
{ Err 8 GIRL-WHICH?
u "Papa, will you please give me
y fifty cents tor my spring hal? Most
Iall the academy girls have theirs.''
. "No, May; 1 can't spare the
money"
IL The request was persussively
made by a sixteen-year-old maiden
las she was preparing for school one
o fine spring morning. The refusal
lcame from the parent in a curt, in.
dif-rent tone. The disappointed
Is girl went to school. The father
started for his place of business. On
his way thither he met a friend, and
being hail fellow well met, he in
Ivited him to Macs for a drink.
4 AS usual, there were others there
land the man that could not S ARE
his daughter fifty cents for a har
treated the crowd. When about tt
leave he laid a half-dollar on the
counter, which just paid for the
drinks. Just then the saIoon-keeper',
daughter entered, and going behind
the bar, said: "Papa, / want fifty
: cents for my spring hat" "At
Ii fright" said the deale~, and taking
u the half-dollar from the counter
he handed it to the girl, who de
parted smiling.
'r Mays father seemed dazed, walk.
IS ed out alone, and said to himself
III had to bring my fifty cents her
for the rum-seller's daughter to bu,
a hat with, after refusing it to M,
Town daughter. I'll never drink az
Iother drop"
~ This is a specimen of the whole
n sale robbery of the home which til
saloon is practicing everywhere
fAnd there are thousands of me-
whom such an object-lesson as thi
man saw hat day would not infu
ence to give up the habit Of drink
And it is not only spring hats, bu
winter clothes, shaWls, shoes an
81 stockings, and daily bread, and fir
to warm the family hearth, that tn
saloon is stealing froro three millio
families in this land.
FIRE AT
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