The Robesonian., 1908-05-21

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capital invested, the laboring
man gets a smaller per cent.
from the liquor business than
from any other. And yet men
say that bar-rooms increase the
business Of a community. There
never has been and there never
will be an intelligent reason Civ
en- by any human being to sus-
tain that proposition. (Ap-
plause.)
The mayor of Greensboro,
though elected an anti-prohibi-
ZIONIST, has been converted by it's
workings in the Gate City. Four
hundred and forty new residen-
ces were built last year, at a to-
tai cost of $445, $50, an average
Of$1, Oil. Seventy-fve per cent.
of these cost not over $3.50.
What does this mean? 1t means
that the laboring men who under
the reign of bar-rooms paid trib-
ute to them and deposited their
money across the counter of the
. saloon, have gone to work and
have built beautiful homes where
in their wives and children may
| live as God intended they should.
/ (Applause)
A CRISIS COMING.
There used to be a preacher
+ up in my country who always
prefaced his remarks by saving,
; I'm not an alarmist, but. Now
. Pm not an alarmist but l want
to make a prediction. Some Of
! these days the institutions under
which we live will be in peril
: Why do i say that? Because the
r spirit of anarchy, the spirit o.
q socialism is rampant in the Unit
7 ed States today. What will We
d need to face such an emergency
" Not only a God fearing people
e but a sober, intelligent people
d The people of North Carolin
/ should use every means in thei
power to bring about a condition
which will make not only thi
- State but the United States in
,f vincible.
20 "Give a man a home" sal
- Judge Pritchard. land you wi
n make him a patriotic citizen. !
r the time ever comes," he adde
70 later. though God forbid
"a should come, I believe a majorit
20 of men who march under tn
", Stars and Stripes will come frol
ht the section South Of the Maso
L. and Dixon line." Great Al
plause.)
f. The speaker quoted from
tn letter from NJ. S. B. Tanner,
an Henrietta, pl tsident of the Soutl
10 ern Cotton Growers Association
ad telling how much better mill CO..
nd ditions were since the abolitiC
od of saloons than before,
I'M IN MADISON COUNTY.
g Judge Pritchard began d
l tailed account of the condition
II in Madison and Yancey count
~ some years ago and now, sin
w. w the day of prohibition. T
10 judge said he had spent most
his time in Madison. When
ne went there both parties we
ol' dominated by the liquor interes-
EN- In fact, if the Democrats non
len mated a man for sheriff who
Ich nose was one-fOrth red, the F
'as publicans would turn around a
ing nominate one whose nose "
me three-fourths, or entirely RED
en- daughter and applause.) H
ma the men apparently had
'ly' washed their faces in six montl
'et' their linen was soiled and TAFT
NO, ed. When ministers came il
'Cll that section of the country ab'
u II the time they got the second |
OF of a hymn sung, a pistol wo
IN go off and that preacher v
lucky to get away with his DO.
cry whole" =" The county was kno
ame as bloody Madison. Th
gur- was a Superior Court, but all
time was occupied with mur
ves- cases, so an Inferior Court '
find established. The jail at AS
ion. vile had to be resorted to
har- The Asheville Citizen said
re- Madison Jail was so full that
, to prisoners heels hung out
who windows. The county pa
the was worth 25 cents on the dol
loon Finally the prohibitionists got
now work and liquor was elimins
here from all parts except Marsh
here where there is a dispensary
here Legislature had notnerVe emo