The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-17
ARE NOT SUPPORTED
WITH BLOOD MONEY.
Supt. Joyner, Of North Carolina,
Denies and Resents the
Charge.
WHIsKEY OUT; EDUCATION IN.
Liberal Provision for Better
School Facilities Where Liquor
Is Voted Out.
WHlsKEY OUT; EDUCATION I'M

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RALEIGH, n. G, December 1s.--A
distinct sensation was created at a
Temperance mass meeting last evening
by State Superintendent OF Public In
atruction j. Y. Joyner, in that he. In a
fiery impromptu speech. resented the
charges that were made by some of the
speakers that the schools In North Car
olina were dependent on revenue from
whiskey for support and that children
In Raleigh or In the State at large
were to any material extent being cd
,icated on blood money" as revenue
lied.
The mass meeting for men in the
Academy OF Afuaic was about to be dis
missed when State Superintendent joy
ner went forward TO the platform and
he was indignant at the manner in
which the situation. so far as the
schools were concerned had been pre-
sented by the temperance speakers. He
said that in defense OF the schools he
would say without fear OF contradic-
ton that during a period of the States
history In which more LIQUOR had been
voted out than In any other era there
through consolidation OF districts and
voting of local taxes. In short. the era
of whiskey elimination had been the
era OF greatest school expansion
What Hits Been Done.
To sustain his position superintcn-
dent Joyner said that where Durham
had voted out whiskey 4. had voted in
u splendid $4,000 school expansion In
high SCHOOL and other equipment;
Greensboro had voted prohibition and
then provided an increase of $4,000
for the schools; Goldsboro. Asheville.
New Bern and other towns, he said.
were coming right along in the same
line
The State law. he pointed out. has
eliminated wiiskey from the rural
districts. and In these same districts
at, this time new and highly improved
schoolhouses are being erected at the
phenomenal rate of one and one-quar-
Ter buildings for every day of the year.
He wanted 1t understood that the
schools were not dependent on the
liquor revenue and that he was not at
The head OF a work that had for its
foundation the liquor trattic. And over
and above this, he wanted the world
being made about blood money sup
porting the schools In this State were
not true, though asserted by temper
ance workers through the hest of mo-
tiycs in their zeal to win votes for pro-
hibition.
Those Who Spoke.
The principal speakers at the meet
ing were Rev. Mordccai Ham and
Mayor James |. Johnson. who has es-
poused the cause of prohibition In the
campaign just opened for the election
December 18th.
The registration for the prohibitions
dispensary election. December 26th.
has closed. and the total registration
Is 1,99a. as compared with i,5l6 for the
recent bond election.
Governor Glenn returned this morn
Ing from Roanoke Rapids. where he
went to deliver an address Sunday
evening IN the interest of the impend-
ing prohibition campaign. He says an
inimehse and very attentive crowd was
out to hear him and manifested a deep
interest. He says that while the vote
may be rather close in the approach
ing election, he feels sure temperance
viii win.