The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-11-14
Governor Glenn Oh ProhlbI,Ian.

On Tuesday night Governor Glenn
addressed the largest audience tbs
4 mas yet assembled in Madry's Ware
honse: After fitting solo by Rev
"A. J. Parker Of Wilmington, who i
now assisting in a meeting at tn
Methodist Church, Mr.. Albion Dun,
announced the Governor, (for h,
needed no Introductory in a few
Well-chosen remarks,
On taking the stand Mr. Glen,
offered fervent prayer for the sue.
cess Of the task ne was about to IN.
deftske. He then made a few in
'foduetory remarks and spoke in
part as follows: During his short
stay here he had heard some Of the
harshest epithets applied to the good
women who were taking part in this
llgats For the first time in his life
public school trustees had objected
70 his speaking in a public school
building, and why? Because. for
sooth, they were afraid he might
say few words in the cause of tenn
perance, OF manhood, of morality.
He had heard some one here had ac-
cused him of drinking since he had
been governor Of North Carolina.
he denounced it as lie, and said
that he has been strictly temperate
since taking up the cause of prohibi-
ton. His right to assist in. local
lights had been questioned, but he
had sworn, when he took the oath
OF office, to work for the moral up
building OF the State, and prohibi-
ton is means Of doing this.
He spoke from his observations
during college life, and from those
made since he has been governor,
and showed the awful effects Of in
temperance, saying that our State
prison records show that DO per
cent. of its occupants are placed
there. directly or indirectly, as the
result OF the use of whiskey; that IS
per cent. of the occupants of the
Soldiers Home are there as a result
of whiskey; that SO per cent. in the
county homes are there as direct
Or indirect result of its use. These
are his reasons for assisting in local
igh is.
He proposed to answer some of
he arguments Of the whiskey men,
t he could find them, for such men
always refused to come out boldly ,
md openly and argue thing fair
md square; they preferred rather to {
link around and prejudice the mind t
# some unthinking person. when no =
ne was there to defend the cause of
he right. He barely noticed the I
rgument that prohibition is not r
Democratic, saying he believed no :
otter in Scotland Neck big enough 9
DOL to believe such stuff. He point- Q
d to every prohibition town in =
'orth Carolina tn show the absurd 4
y OF the argument that prohibition t
ills the trade Of town, saying if !,
man only comes to town because =
e can GET whiskey, he will drink and il
amble away his money and spend f
othing with the merchants Of the h
,wn. He drew a striking contrast :,
18th the above drunkard-the sober +,
an, who, remembers his needs at h
ome and spends his money for those Il
eeds, beneftting several men there n
7. If whiskey helps trade why not f.
nploy drunken laborers, clerks, g,
,ctors, etc? Why does the railroads It
sist on sobriety; why do whiskey
'alers themselves require sober en-
oyees? What are the returns Of
oney spent for drink, anyway?
ows, crime, insanity, poverty, deg
dation, death, and the the whole IN
ain of evils! ee
Then he answere effectively the "
ly argument the whiskey men IL
We used-that prohibition doesn't CT
ohibit, absolutely denying the as re
rtion, and declaring if the officers w
the law will only do their duty, land ne
it perjuring themselves by closing w
cir eyes and refusing to carry out es
cir caths of Office, we will have no
ore trouble along that line. The pa
,ttest dry town is dryer than the II
vest wet town. Then he declared 10
lat all sensible men know, that no 10
v is absolutely prohibitive. The 10
VS. against the sale Of liquor can
made as nearly prohibitive as any al
Ter law, if enforced with the same an
lount of zeal and honesty. =
has been often said that, in
line, prohibition is failure. The
vernon, from one weeks observa- Is