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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14
Rev. Hr. Walker Lectures.

No greater lecture has been heard
on prohibition during the present
campaign than that delivered by
Rev. w. G. Walker, of Wilson, IN
the Baptist Church Sunday after
noon. He opened by commencing
Mr.. Lumpkin for his position in this
fight, and said if it is not minis
tiers duty to help drive whiskey out
of community, he has no duty. He
interspersed his address with inno-
merable passages from the Bible.
but emphasized mainly two: wine
is mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not wise" "Be not deceived. God
is not Knocked, for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap"
Life, he said, is like pebble cast in
to a vast ocean, the ocean of eternity.
Its waves of influence never cease
until they have re ched the most
remote borders, and even then they
rebound. He took up. one by one,
the most beautiful words in our Ian
guage, mother, home, Heaven. DE
showed how red liquor is revolving
to everything that is beautiful in
the life of a mother, and how
it has broken the hearts OF more
women than all other influences COM
bined. He gave in a general way its
ravages Of homes, and its destruc-
ton of many who otherwise would
have been Heavens brightest jewels.
He gave the social turn coat" some
good advice, saying that the noblest
thing a man can do when he realizes
he is in the wrong is to get right,
and let the world sheer as much as
it likes. This is true manhood. He
declared that no civil law founded
on anything but moral law is success
full, that civilization teaches Us
the ideal civil law is only the expires.
sion of the moral law. Anything
short of this is in so far defective.
AS to prohibitions taking away
our rights, he showed that, were il
not for the curtailing of certain
privileges, civilized society could not
exist. The placing of subject Of
smallpox in a pest house, the prohib.
iting the use of a contaminated we'll
are examples. He painted in vived
word-pictures the evil results of the
exercise of such a dangerous privil,
edge-the licensing of saloons-and
declared that the whiskey traffic
lacks moral support and must there.
fore fall. Finally he admonished hi
hearers to leave out personalitie:
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14
Child Burned to Death.

News has been received here that
last Saturday at Red Oak, Nash
County, the five-year-old daughter
Of w. II. Griffin was 50 badly burn
ed that death resulted soon after
wards. The mother, who ran to the
child's rescue and endeavored to put
out the fire, was also severely burn
ed, though not fatally.-Enfeld
Progress.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14
ONCE MORE FRIENDS.

A few days ago We heard man
of mature years say that America is
no longer "the land Of the free"
that year after year men are being
robbed Of their civil liberties. He
was, Of course, q wlhskey man, and
deemed prohibition an improper en-
croachment upon his natural rights.
This idea Of civil liberty, if carried
out strictly would lead to the exact
view Of modern anarchist, who
believes in no government. He
would have each man left 10 his own
inclinations, to do as fancy strikes
him, to go where impulse leads. Our
friend will, perhaps, lock upon this
as an absurd comparison, yet il is
true. In the beginnings Of society,
as man energies from q savage state,
he naturally associates himself with
his species. At once he finds it nee
essary to give up certain selfish
privileges for the good Of the whole.
AS this organization is expanded in
to the tribe and thence into the ma
ton, these curtailnents become more
and more frequent, until the origi-
nal man, if you can imagine his liv-
ing through all these years of change
from barbarism to civilization, would
find himself hedged about by what
to him, without change Of thought,
would be numberless revolt
ing subtractions from his liberty;
and he would consider himself no
better than a bondsman. Yet no
civilization could exist for day,
even fer an hour, without this giving
up Of certain privileges for the good
of the whole. AS civilization ad-
vances, man becomes more altruistic.
1t is the foundation of all govern
ment. Blackstone gives US this as
the primary principle Of law. To
prevent the spread Of TYPHOID it is
often necessary for the health officer
to forbid a man to use contaminat-
ed well; for the good of town it is
necessary to prevent fast driving
through its streets: for the protec-
ton of a community it is necessary
to forbid a mans burning his own
house; in mining districts, it is often
necessary to close a smelling fur
mace in order to prevent the molesta-
ton Of a whole community; for the
good of humanity it is necessary to
limit the sale and use Of opiates and
pcisons to experienced druggists and
physicians; then why not, for the
sake of the home, for the sake of
good government, for the sake of all
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

Saturdays Tarboro Southerner
announced that II election On pro-
hibition has been ordered for De-
cember 18th by the commissioners Of
the town Of f9acclesfeld. As the
petition for the election was signed
by a majority Of the voters Of the
town, it is asserted that prohibition
will carry and after December 31st
one town in Ed9ecome county will
be dry.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

When the Stomach, Heart Or Kid
ney nerves get weak, then these organs
always fail. Don't drug the weak Stom-
ach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kid
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

On November 5th, the News and
Observer Issued q seventE'-fo11r page
supplement illustrative q North
Cardinals progress. On its title
page appears Mrs. Martins famous
toast to The Old North State" It
deals with the following CT our
States industries: Tobacco, cotton.
furniture, horticulture, resorts, lurn-
Der, life and fire insurance. As
usual this enterprising paper is lead
ing in the placing of our advance
ment before the world. Whatever
has been done during recent years
to put North Carolina il her true
position among the states Of the
Union is, to q great extent, due to
the News and Observer.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

hood, for the sake Of the future,
prohibit the sale Of what is more
dangerous than the most deadly poi
son-whiskey?
Yes, you put the saloon in COM
nlunity and its bound to find its vic
tins. There is 10 institution under
the sun that has not an influence.
The saloon is the most dangerous be-
cause it's the most subtle. Itbegins
its work and ere one realizes, it is
too late. A few years ago num-
Der Of people assembled in a New
England gun factory to witness a
curious experiment. 4 twenty ton
bar of steel had been suspended by
an immense chain. Nearby, suspend
dad by slender thread of silk, hung
{, cork stopper. The task was to set
the steel bar swinging by
the impact Of the cork. Pre-
p3stuous idea. The moment came,
the cork was drawn back and allow
81 to fall against the great bar.
Again and again it struck, but with
out apparent effect. But finally, IN
der the repeated and cloch-like i'm
pacts of the little cork, the great bar
gave culver. The culver changed
into an almost invisible motion, and
finally into full swing. Thus it is
with the Saloon influence.
It is strange that men should de-
sire to subject their community and
their homes to such an evil. You
are by your vote inviting, personal
" inviting, 9 saloon man to come
into your midst and test the strength
.of every Individual here, in one way
or another. You are inviting all the
evils attendant upon the saloon to
come and find a lodging place here.
It is dangerous step-this licens-
ing CT saloons, and the fault Of it's
return will fall upon each of you
who casts such a vote, whether you
be great or small, with or without
special influence. But the fault will
bear heaviest upon those Of greater
influence; and, only think, every
change for the worse in our town
and community, whatever it may be,
Will be laid at your door. You will
be blamed.
This is an awful responsibility, the
awfulness Of which is enough to
make men stop and think (for we
verify believe some Of them have not
done so), and in that thinking choose
for the lesser evil and therefore the
lesser responsibility. We do not be-
lieve the saloon will return; but if
it should--for every evil resulting
therefron, every man in Scotland
Neck, who votes for saloons will be
Individually and separately respon-
sible. If the evil come to the home
Of another that responsibility will
not be lessened; if it come to your
own, you will not fail to realize it..
In either case you cannot lessen the
aWfuIness Of that responsibility
by thinking there were others with
you, for you will have cast one vote,
and that, mayhap,-y own vote!-
the one that decided the contest.
But greater than this responsibility
to the Individual, will be your re-
sponsibility to the town generally.
The change in our town, if saloons
return, will surely be for the worse
and it will be your fault. If there
be censure it will fall upon you, and
rightly, for without you the change
could not come.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

A campaign to bring about a local
option election in Wilmington is now
on. At first no one regarded it, but
now it is taking on portentou3 pro-
portions; the probability is that the
saloon men will have to move again,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

and the sense of duty to individuals
and allow duty to God anG human
itv to prevail. Mr.. Walkers address
was made vivid by the use OF many
illustrations. and produced lasting
effect upon his hearers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14
Publishers Announcement.

It's a settled Point in newspaper ethics that
editors and publishers are not responsible tnr the
views of correspondents and the publication OF a
communication does not rean that tie editor OF
publisher endorses the communication he
COMMONWEALTH adheres to these general pricI-
y,1eS
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14

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tie, and he feels so well over the way
political affairs are going in Ohio that
he could even forgive the President for
having fought him. He has made his
fight on high plane of independence
and fair dealing. Since he arrived in
town he has been maturing plans for
continuing his fight against Secretary
Taft in Ohio, but he has engaged in no
vituperation, and. on the contrary, has
said repeatedly that in these times OF
financial stress it Is the duty of good
citizens to aid the President in every
possible way
There are two committees at work
prior to the meeting of Congress. One
is the Brownsville Investigating Com
mittee of the Senate, which is holding
sessions this week, and another is a
House Committee on revision of the
laws The Western members, who aave
a long journey to reach Washington are
beginning to come quite numerously,
but many of the nearby members will
wait till after Thanksgiving, and will
reach here on Saturday. Nov. 80, barely
In time for the session which begins
Monday, Dec. 2.
The National tribune., 1907-11-21
Retiring Volunteer Officers.

S. NJ. Boone, Captain. 1st KY. Cav,
National Military Home, o., makes a
strong and effective appeal for the pas
sage of the bill to retire officers of vol
unteers on the same basis as Regulars.
While he is very proud of the Regular
Army, the fact remains that all of the
great wars of the country have had
to be fought thru by volunteers, who
vastly outnumbered the small Regular
Army Establishment The Regular
Army would have never won out but
by the assistance of the volunteers, who
have usually outnumbered the Regulars
20 or more to one.
The National tribune., 1907-11-21
VETERANS IN THE CITY.

George S. Heaney, 1st N. j., of Kear-
ny's famous old Jersey Brigade Com
rade Heaney, who lost his arm at Spot
sylvania, has been a railroad man. teie-
graph operator for the Reading Rail-
road for a number of years, and now
resides at Norristown, Pa. Norristown,
which has about $4,000 Inhabitants, is
the Countyseat of Montgomery County,
and an important manufacturing and
railroad center. 1t has extensive steel
works, and its special industry is knit
ting works, where they manufacture an
immense quantity of hosiery and un-
derwear Comrade Heaney was ac-
companied by his wife, and was on a
visit to his granddaughter. He wanted
to visit the old camps of the 1st N J.
Brigade, particularly that at Fairfax
Cemetery Comrade Heaney, who is
a machinist by trade, ran an engine
pulling a train conveying troops out to-
ward Manassas during the first Bull
Run campaign.
John Stevenson, Tooth Pa, Newcas-
tie, Pa. Comrade Stevenson has been
Secretary of his Regimental Associa-
ton for 35 years. and he congratulates
himself that he has been helpful in
building up one of the very best regi-
mental associations in the country. He
is very proud of his town of Newcastle,
which is growing rapidly and soundly
in a way not surpassed by any other
city in the country. They have there
now the largest tin-plate mill in the
world. and their five banks stand very
near the top in the mercantile register.
A large canning factory is being built.
They had the largest wire nail factory
in the world. 1t was started by a
young Scotchman named John Steven
son, who came there with four or five
thousand dollars capital. but was as
sisted by local capitalists, and in the
course of years developed an immense
institution. He got into trouble with
the labor unions, would not accept their
terms nor agree to hire anybody but
those who suited him. He finally sold
out his establishment to the syndicate,
which closed it up and stopped the
manufacture at that place. to the seri-
Gus damage of the workingmen who
had acquired homes in Newcastle. Stew
enson removed to Sharon, Pa, where
he built up another great mill, but was
so disgusted with his experience in
Newcastle that he removed everything
of his from it, even to a fine stone
house which he had built.
The National tribune., 1907-11-21
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The National tribune., 1907-11-21
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Gen. Oliver. Acting Secretary of War,
acting thru the State Department, has
extended a cordial invitation to visit
the Gettysburg National Military Park,
at Gettysburg, Pa, to Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier, Prime Minister OF the Dominion of
Canada; Sir Frederick Borden. Minis
ter of Militia, and to such other off,
GERS of the Dominion of Canada as may
be interested in the project for the es-
tablishment of a battlefield park on
the Plains of Abraham. near Quebec.
This invitation was based upon in
formation received at the War Depart
ment that the Dominion Government
contemplates the establishment of the
battlefield park on the Plains of Abra-
ham, near Quebec, and with the gen.
eral idea that an inspection of the
Gettysburg battlefield would be of in
terest and value in that connection.
The National tribune., 1907-11-21

Rural free delivery costs like the
mischief. More than $4,000 rural
routes are now in operation in this
country, according to a statement made
public recently by the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General
The total number of petitions for
service handled in the Department up
TO Nov. / was $500. upon which 49,
237 adverse reports were made. There
are now 1898 petitions for routes pend
ing. Rural free delivery now costs the
Government more than sS5,000.000 a
year.
The National tribune., 1907-11-21

The very last lxink that has startled
society is that the Mothers Congress
enjoys the patronage of two women.
one of whom has been the highest in
the land, and the other is; namely, Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland. Mrs. Roosevelt has paid
her $25, and has thus become n life
member of the Mothers Congress The
Governor of New Jersey has named
Mrs. Cleveland as Il delegate to the
Congress from New Jersey. which meets
here some time in March. Neither of
these two first ladies" are liners"
and it is not recorded that they ever
Belonged to any kind of a society be-
fore. 1t will be a tremendous lift to