The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-04-16

efal use OF lnLOXlcaVlnR uQ uoFS;
lor the fact established by sta
5istics accessible to everyone,
that the idleness, disorder, pau
perism and crime existing in the
country are largely traceable to !
this viii"
Let it be understood that no
man has the inherent or natural
right to sell whiskey. The right
to sell it depends upon the will
of the people, for the case of
Crowley VS.. Christensen, 1877 Z.
S. IS, has declared:
There is no inherent right in
a citizen to thus sell intoxicating
liquors by retail; it is not privi-
lege of citizen of a State or Of
the United States.
Therefore, no barkeeper can
cry that he is deprived of any in
herent or natural right when
the people, by their vote, tell him
that he must not and shall not
sell whiskey within the borders
of a county or State.
I believe that the number of
cotton mill owners who favor the
liquor traffic in the great State
from which I come--and it has
more cotton mills than any other
State in the Union-can be
counted on the fingers of one
hand. l am equally sincere in
the belief that less than fve per
cent. of the honest, Industrious,
home building cotton mill opera
tives in North Carolina are in
favor OF the liquor traffic. 1t is
the one great curse among them
and they are using their best
efforts 20 stamp it out of exist
ence..
JLHN BURNS OPPOSITION.
The famous labor leader il
England, John Burns, mem bel
of Parliament, recently declared
to a great audience of working
men in London, in discussing sh'
liquor question:
Il deem it my duty to say tha
but for drink andits cenconitan
evils our problem would o'
smaller and our remedies more
effective.
No one knows better than th'
laboring man the blighting, des
olating effects of whiskey or t.
what depths OF misery aE(
shame it will drag him.
The merchant opposes th'
whiskey traffic not only on NOR
al grounds, but because he ha!
learned that the saloon is an in
veterate foe to thrift and indus
try and lessons the capacity o
his debtor to meet his obliga
tiOns.
The farmer is opposed to tht
liquor traffic. He takes the higl
moral ground that he has NJ
right to license a system who's
chief business it is to destro.
character, increase crime, enlarg
the pauper class and drunkel
homes. He opposes it on anothe
ground-out in the rural dis
tricts, far from the protecting
hand of policemen and sheriff, h
knows the danger of his wife an
daughter from the drunken ne
gro whsse blood is heated an
whose brainis unbalanced by til
use of bad liquor. The negr
, seems to have inherited an ar
!. petite for intoxicants, and lik
the tiger when he tastes blood
the negro likewise when he b.
comes intoxicated, becomes el
! ragged.
Let the farmers con suit the
wives and daughters as to whetI
= er or not the open saloon sha
exist in any country district
! our fair State. For that matte
= if you will leave the Vote to Il
- women of our State as to Whet
. er or not the saloon shall exist
= town or country, guarantee t.
:, whiskey traffic would not ha
one ballot in it's favor.
10 PROHIBITION TERRITORY.
7 More than one half of II
is great republ Of eighty milliO
of people has already adopt
,d prohibition laws. The followi
ve Conmonwealths, aggregating
j.. population of more than n
m million people, have adopted 1
is solute State prohibition, to v
cd Alabama, Georgia, Kans
rn Maine, North Dakota, and Ot
homa.
The people of the Uni