The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-04-26
Roads and Other Things
New Scheme in the Temperance
Movement---By Making Roads
impossible Country Folks Can
Not Get to The Dispensary---In
that Event Henderson Would
Have to Drink all the Mean Ii
quor Herself or Improve the
Brand.
Primrose Lawn.
ance County
North Carolina

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Vance County,
North Carolina
DRAR Mr.. EDIToR:-The Good Book
forbids women folks to talk in church
because they do their full share of talk
ing outside, | reckon. But as | can't
find where it forbids them to talk in the
papers, make bold to indite you few
lines, especially as my subject is such n
big one
How noble ii is to do good by stealth
and have it found out by accident How
grateful we ought TO be that right here
in our midst right here in Vance county
there are the wisest and most potent
bands OF temperance workers on the
planet. And men so modest withal that
they do their good work covertly. sui
ferlng not their left hand to know what
their right hand doeth.
mean. Mr.. Editor, the men who are
spending on the public roads the money
we borrowed bit back We simple
folks would have spent that money very
differently. We should, fear. have taken
q low, material, utiliturian view of the
matter. We might have spent it in tax
ing bumps out of the road. They in
their greater wisdom spent it i'll putting
more bumps in. In word. we should
have made it easy to get to the ends of
the road-Henderson These inspired
men with moral intent deep and pro
found, are doing just the opposite They
are making it impossible to get to Hen
derson
And here is where the temperance
work, the grand moral coup detat
comes III. Henderson has a dispensary
A dispensary dispenses liquor. Liquor
dispenses curses-the father of curses
and the mother too we all admit What
can be nObler than to build Chinese
wall or better still dig a Vance county
road between men and this father of
curses. 1t may cause some slight lncon-
venlence to we country folks and to the
Henderson folks to be forever kept apart
But the Good Book tells US to lop off
not only few wants, but even a limb or
so to keep morally whole. 1t would be
a great loss to see Henderson no more;
but it would be greater gain to make
teetotelers of the whole county.
But to do that we must not forget the
roads to the moonshine stills. We must
work them all and in the same way. I'll
lay all the men keep sober, keep to home
and keep their families. Let's do it quick
too. because when the world finds out as
it soon must, the true result of the work
of our road workers we shan't be able
to keep them True they havn't made
the roads quite impossible in summer,
but that was our fault. We did not give
them quite money enough. They will
do that by-and-by.
A female Solomon described straw
as a hollow thing with Zoe drink at
one end and &c man at the other. How
nicely last winter that description fitted
our roads-hollow things with dranes
at one end and men at the other. Only
she overvalued the things at the ends of
the thing, am sure should hate to
give DC for the one. | know | wouldn t
give DC for the other. This accounts for
my spinsterhood. For could have had
a dozen husbands had the mind or the
face.
PAMELA pRIM.
Z. Sit might be fatal to Henderson
to cut Off we country folks and condemn
her to drink all her mean liquor herself.
But then she would have to get a better
brand or else kick the bucket. She
ought to do one or the other anyhow.
T. T.