The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-02-20
POLITICS AND MORALS.
How the Extraordinary Session Of Leg
islature Side-Tracked Prohibition
for PURELY Political Reasons

now the extraordinary Session OF Leg
isIature Side-Tracked Prohibition
for Purely Political Reasons.
With John Barleycorn standing
indicted on ten million counts
guilty Of incest, arson, murder, rape,
incendiarism, manslaughter, adul-
terry, SANDER, hate, jealousy, and all
the other things catalogued in the
category of red handed crime
HOUSEKEEPING and heartbraking
guilty Of embezzlement and high
way robbery-pitted and polluted
with all the mean things and the
vile things outside the corridors of
hell, and this fact known to all
men, we had in North Carolina,
o. s A., the sublime spectacle of
seeing the grand old Democratic
pause on the threshold of what it
thought was to be victory and con-
template results politically if it
were to, with one wave of the hand,
legally consign to oblivion every rag
and vestige Of the whiskey selling
business.
A stormy session.; late hours !;
excited men; nervous people-all
wondering, not wondering, what
should be done-but hesitating lest
were it done, it might turn some
Democratic votes to the Republican
party.
That was the spectacle gazed upon
by God and men. Those who OPP
posed calmly asserted that snap
judgment was not quite the thing
but beyond all was the phantom Of
Defeat-the inaudible query: Will
it be good politics?
We are glad personally that this
happened. It shows that mankind
is looking after the dollar and the
pie. 1t would naturally seem that
when a man made up his mind on a
great moral question he would be
willing to defend it, even if the
blood were knee deep. It would
seem that if his party and his home
t, persisted from the earth, if he
thought he was eternally right he
would go forth to battle. That is
the way the story reads of the heroes
of old. That is the way the early
martyrs did-that is why history
becomes interesting because in it are
the lights and shadows-the Great
Truths and the Great Wrongs fully
depicted.
Martin Luther, for instance, didn't
stop for policy sake-Christ of Naz-
areth plodded ON his weary way and
His cross alone-he didn't say that
now is the time to do these things
but possibly had better wait be-
cause it may change the vote next
fall.
But the "Dimmycrats''-those
who search for pie-they understood
that butter was on but one side of
fthe bread-and they hesitated-they
walked up the hill and they then
walked down again. Those who
knew what might happen and who
planted their colors on the ra % parts
they feel today that their seat on
the band wagon is secure-and per-
haps it is. BIT really it makes some
people tired to see what will be done
in the name of politics. If prohi-
bition was the caper-all things in
war and politics are fair-it was up
to the real prohibitionists to capture
the legislature-to take it at all
hazards and let the pipers of policy
toot their little whistles which
would become dry under the new
order of things.
These moving picture shows are
Interesting even upon the dull, cold
canvass-but when you see such
lightning changes as we all wit
messed in our beloved State capitol
we'll, the real thing is always prefer.
able.-Fairbrother's Everything.