Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-29
1.-THE 45O-M Mile Road to HeII.v
A LECTURE BY REV. J. q. ADAMS.

robbers I would expect to stano
| by them in all their troubles after
wards. as 1 had shared my part Of
the booty. So, we asa nation, af
as long as we derive a profit out Of
the troubles from the whiskey
curse.
May the Lord help every christ.
ian voter who reads these lines to
think prayfully as to his indivi-
dual responsibility relative to this
great question; yes, his RESPONSE
bility to God, as a christian Re-
member, brothers that the license
law was made for us by our legis-
lature, that we might grant to
men the privilege to sell that
which the courts have said no man
has right to sell, until it is grant,
ed to him by the people through
their representatives.
So all are responsible. Ard we,
the people, seeing the evils result
ing from the traffic, have appeal
eGsSo the legislature for relief; but
they fail 70 give us any, but say
we can have local control, and we
have what is known as the local
option law. We have theopportun-
ity of abolishing our interests in
this traffic, and with every oppor-
tunitythere is responsibility. 1 p
peal to everyone who loves God an
humanity tc do what he can for
local prohibition.
Some say that local opinion will
not stop sellingand drinking.
Well, it may not, but when you
have prayed, worked, voted and
done all you can, you will. have a.
bolishea your interest i'll the traffic
that was fastened upon you by the
legislature, which has shifted the
responsibility directly upon the
voter. You say local option will
not prohibit. Neither will the
law against theft, murder. robbery
and such things prohibit, yet I
never find anyone wanting to re.
peal these laws because crime con-
tinues. We might as we'll say we
will not have law against selling
liquors just because it will not
prohibit, absolutely.
There are penalties attached to
these laws for the violaters. You
say you can't catch them. But
put forth the same effort to catch
the local option law breakers as
we do the thief and we will be
just as successful, yea, more, as
there are not so many of them.
On the same line of rea soniug you
would not have law against theft,
murder, or any other crime.
Another says, we cannot carry
local option in our town, or pre-
cinct, as. the case may be. You
can carry your part of interest.
and this is what God, demands of
you as christian and nothing
short of this will be pleasing to
Him. "To him that knoweth to
do good and doeth it not, to him
it is a SILL"
DANGER Nor IN "BL1ND TIGERS"
Another says there will be blind
tigers. Well, I had rather have
one blind tiger than three or four
or a dozen tigers that can see
Furthermore, if you are a true
prohibitionist, and do all you can
you are not responsible for the
blind tiger. but you are response
BILE for the "tiger" with eyes-the
open saloon.
Another says he does not believe
in interfering with other peoples
liberties. In the first place you
do not interfere with another's
liberty. They have no ''liberty"
to sell liquor, only such as was
given to them by you, and if you
havethe right to grant, you have
the right to take back.
The proposed law is not against
the d1inker, but the seller, and no
man has any right to sell a thing
or do a thing that does but destroy
both soul and body.
Another says it will kill the
town. This is false, for saloons
produce nothing but drunkards,
widows, orphans, insanity. pau
perism, misery, woe, death and
destruction, and these things do
not build up town, but to the
contrary, the money spent for Ii.
quor would be spent for dry goods.