The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-05-21
THE SCHOOLS NIT.
Wake County Comes in and Confesses
That Dispensary Money Ran Schools
and Without They Must Quit.
personal Liberty


Governor Jarvis has been saying in
| one of his tear-fetching discourses
that the prohibition election on in
May was a test as to whether the
| school house or barroom should sur
vive. Well, candidly, it looks like the
school house was dependent, in some
instances, on the revenues raised from
regulated whiskey. In Raleigh they
had u dispensary. Is was finally
voted out, not long ago, and the
Raleigh Evening Times OF April 25th
announces on the front page that the
schools close the first of May instead
of the last day in May The reason
| is that there is no money to run
them, and the people voted on a spec
ial bond issue OF 81 500 and defeated
| it, therefore the schools must close.
The teachers are thrown out of en-
| plOyment month sooner than was
expected; the students lose months
schooling-a month is a long time
in the school day period. But that
makes no difference because Raleigh
has prohibition, the political prohi-
Zionist will tell you.
| Let's see how that figures out: In
the same issue of the Raleigh Even
ing Times announcing the closing
down of the schools appear SEVEN
large whiskey advertisements; ag-
gregatiDg EIGHTY INCHES ofspace,
this taken daily, announcing to the
| people OF Raleigh that these Virginia
houses will ship in all the whiskey
that is wanted, and the express COM
pany complains that the shipment Of
whiskey is tremendous, while the news
paper reporters for the State press
are commenting frequently on the
ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF WHlS-
KEY shipped into the capital city.
There is no prohibition in Raleigh.
1t is a continuous performance Of Jug
and jag shipments and the blind ii
gers are also doing good business.
The private consumer, the man who
orders it for personal use, is counted
by the hundreds, and the whiskey
thus consumed pays no city or county
tax; the school is forced to close and
the thousands Of dollars made by he
dispensary and kept at home is sent
to Va, and eighty inches of big dis
play advertisements are used in the
Raleigh 1imes-showing that the
Raleigh people are still nursing the
thirst that has existed for a hundred
years at the states capital
/ The man who could say that he was
willing for the schools to stop pro-
vided whiskey drinking would stop,
might have a place to stand. But
the man who wants the money to
cease coming in; who is willing to ell
courage blind tigers; who is not car
ing how many young men are de-
bauche1 by the bottle route, has no
place to stand, and can offer no de-
fence.
Raleigh had a dispensary. She has
also had saloons. She voted out the
dispensary because she was in favor
of regulating whiskey. Had the poll
ticians not sprung this snap judg-
ment bill on the people, to be defeated
in May, Raleigh by this time would
have held an election and put back
the regulated bar room.
But when one of these men like
fight to see whether the school room
or the saloon shall flourish, to
him that at Raleigh it seems that the
school house has been demolished,
also. Ask him which is better bust
ness, to have regulated evil or one
not regulated? Ask him which is bet
ter, to keep the money at home and
control the appetites of men, or send
it to Virginia and Baltimore and
make drunkards out OF people who
would never become drunkards if
they had opportunity to go to a bar
room and take a drink when it was
needed?
The dispensary has been tabooed
because man was forced to buy a
half pint at a time. The prohibition
lists want you to buy it by the case.
drunkords out of the boys.