The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-01
WILL
v01E VH|SKEYOUT
probibition Forces Rally
for the Conflict.
rWO ABLE CHAMPIONS

..ol ~tde by Side on tho Plat
.ruq md Plead for Sobricty
IN itC Ribbon People
lTc Determined to
.aa. w.. Y g, Sept. 28.-Asheville
-.a.. made thoroughly aware
~. .sr~nestness and force behind
|,r.rIJItion movement to put the
If the city out of business in
e- The vets from Mis-
uere literally shown today.
~ we're shown that the people of
&, Asneviue and the county are
.r05rad to nav no liquor sold in
esH- city Of >Asheville, and the
OH county Of ~Buncombe. They
~ "-apwn" that the days of the
.rz m Asheville are numbered;
- ~. tho people will on October s.
The drink evil out of the city
..4 -. ae away the open saloons that
-Hs mast half century have been a
.-o~. and a pitfall to- the youth OF
Tof. vas the day for the grand
..r. .uf city and county prohibition
-r NJ how the. did rally. They
a =HE .|.|A| dll p1t - vi Aio
rr.ar .ane on horseback and in We
,fslas and a-foot. Mingling with and
.-aufng the throng from the county
..r. the hundreds of ASheVille pro-
1tiu1rist<-men, women and chill
#rsr wearing the white ribbon-the
emblem of temperance. The town
-se literally thronged with people. 1t
raaembred circus day when Asheville
~ 2 burg and. too, it demonstrated
be-orG the Shadoy of a doubt the
=. r~rastncss and determination with
,.h,ch the good people of Asheville
have gone INTO the fight against the
oren saloon and its evil tendencies.
After the parade of the prohibition
ISIS today. headed by the First Regi-
mant band. and after they had ira
rarued the principal streets of the city,
the crowd found its way TO the Audi
rorlrm. the city's big convention hall
.n HAYWOOD street, where Hon Locke
.raig. candidate for the Democratic
.rFnrnatoriaI nomination, and Judge
Iarpr. G.. Prftchard of the United States
..~.-Ht court bench, spoke from the
-re glatform in advocacy of prohi-
Hfipu and in condemnation of the
omen saloon. The appearance Of Judge
pritchHrd and Ny. Craig on the same
Notwithstanding side by side and
shoulder to shoulder. in advocacy of
temperance was the signal for a burst
af enthusiasm that has seldom been
squaIlad here.
Judge Pritchard spoke first. He de-
hvered carefully prepared and stud
Jed argument on the prohibition ques-
ton He handled the question OF tenn
pe-suce in a deliberate n convincing
manner He weighed the open saloon
] and it was found wanting. He proved
by conclusive evidence that prohIbl-
ton in other cities of North Carolina
and other states of the union had been
tried. tested and proven a success.
He declared that prohibition in AShe-
vile would be a success. He declar-
ed that instead of prohibition bringing
financial ruin to the city as the anti
pro~hjbitionists c~ontended it would
bring peace and greater prosperity.
Above all. declared Judge Prltcnard,
prohibition would save many of our
Young men and young women, and the
life and the soul of one young man
or ono Young woman were worth in
fuiteIy more than all the money hat
flows into the Golfers of the city. Judge
tPrftchard'S address was an argument.
Tt was free from abuse and villif1ca-
ton. He aid he had no word Of
abuse for the saloon-keeper: that ne
vas simply against Whiskey; hat he
was against the open saloon, and that
he would fight the evil until it was
driven from this fair city,
Mr., Craig in eloquent language,
threw his audience into wild enthus-
iasm. Always an eloquent speaker,
he was today received by his friends
and neighbors with open arms. He
declared that he stood souarely with
the Democratic party on the temper
ance question and in part said:
Mr.. Craig'sSpeech.
Mr. Craig began his speech by say
ing that he regretted to ~ago
onn1e of his very best personal friends.
hut hat it was no personal matter.
i would" said he, "be unworthy
N the respect n esteem of my
countrymen were T to refuse 20 speak
tons on this question, or on any other
question that is of vital concern &c
n people among whom I live. I will
not ~denounce men Il of opinion
but 1 come to arraign at the bar OF
public conscience a great institution
Of iniouity."
Il thank my talented friend for the
graceful words of enconium with
Hhich he has presented me to you,
but claim nc great credit for the po-
-irion that I take. AS OF old upon
Helteshazzar's walls the doom-sen-
'"nce was written by the awful hand,
so has the death sentence been writ
ZEN upon every saloon in Asheville
and every one in North Carolina"
He then rave a short history of the
"nteSt in this state against the liquor
''7fiC. He said hat while a school
7ny at Chapel Hill he made his first
nubhc speech for prohibition, that pro-
nt0itiOn was defeated in the state by
10000 majority: that the people who
flNOCated it were discouraged; that
'Hou saloons We're everywhere in al
most every town. and city and at every
.T0ss-road; that the temperance move
"ent was not the result OF any wave
%. temporary enthusiasm or fanaticism
l5I that II was a contest born of
"vtction. and a fearless determina-
.N TO press forward with victorious
trance.
He said that for more than a quar-
# 4 century the battle na3 Deer
+Eed all over North Carolina; that
~" saloons had been driven from
county. from towns and cities: that
3. .&o3 the Watts law abolished liquor
" All the country districts of the
and that OF the Sth day of Oc-
"T. the Whiskey power would be
'.'. brown in this, its strongest citadel
" ."rth Carolina, after the greatest
3'eSt on this question in the his
of the state.
fa discussed the saloons from,
moral and economic standpoints. He
i'o that it could rot be defended:
.He' ii was an institution that democrat