Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-12
To TIE PUBLIC.

The Ministerial Association Of this
city in the issue of the ARGUS yesterday,
pa ublished an announcement to the cit
tsens of Goldsboro, in which some very
surprising accusations were made un-
der the headlines ministers Heard
From"
We believe that the ministers Of
Goldsboro have the interests Of all tho
people Of this city At heart, and are
working for the moral uplift Of this
community.
We believe them all to be Godfearing
men, striving with an eye single for
the Advancement Of Gods kingdom on
the earth, and with . desire to do in
justice to none, but they have made
staten ents in the article above referred
to, which are calculated to damage not
of those connected with it, which we
cannot permit to go unehallenged.
| Because we possess a retail liquor
license, for the purpose of selling alco-
hol for the benefit Of the sick, and to
supply our Wholesale trade, which
| license we are compelled to have that
we may not violate the internal reve-
nue. statute, we are accused by the
Ministerial Association OF running a
blind tiger, and of violating the State
and city prohibition laws.
What would our physicians do in
cases of typhoid fever and other ail-
ments where it is absolutely necessary
to give their patients sponge baths Of
al oohol if they could not purchase it?
/ Not one drop of whiskey has ever
or on physicians prescription, since
the passage of the Watts law, and we
challenge both the Ministerial Associa-
ton and others to deny it.
We are the only drug concern in
Goldsboro who have the right to retail
alcohol for medicinal purposes.
An ounce Of precaution is worth q
pound of explanation, and we would
most respectfully admonish these good
men "to be sure they are right. and
then go ahead
The prohibition cause is not helped
} hy such onslaughts upon the charac
ters OF our citizens and the city admin
} istration.
To substantiate our position before
the good people of our community, we
quote as follows from their article o
yesterday:
) "What is the matter that these vio
lators cannot besarraigned and made
to answer at the bar of Justice anC
a stop put to the iniquitous traffic.
} 'Why watch the negro and the sus
picious character who comes into ou
town with a quart or gallon when ther'
are eighteen places in our midst wht
J have United States permits for thu
3 sale of liquor, and who are now carry
> ing on their business in violation o
the will Of the people as expressed il
Z recent prohibition elections?"
, "We append hereto a list of thos'
who have United States permits to sci
liquor, and are thus defying the wishe
of the people and violating our law"
We are thus classed with those wht
r are running blind tigers, and who ar,
, violating our laws, W hen by little in
quiry they could have ascertained VIII.
r we had this government license, ant
not have misrepresented US before th
, community.
The position Of those who ar
connected with this business on tn
prohibition question is too we'll know
to this community for them to thinl
for one moment that we would be guilt.
: of abusing our privilege, or to shiel'
ourselves behind this license for til
purpose of dispensing whiskey.
HE who steals my purse, steal
trash, but he who robs me Of my goot
name, takes that which not only doe
n 1t enrich him, but makes me poor in
deed"
Il Yours respectfully,
Goldsboro Drug Company,
Chas. B. Miller, Pres. & Tres.
Il Goldsboro. N. c., March Z, 1908.