Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
, 1.-THE SALOON MUST CO."
The Antl-saIoon League Issues a Call to
Arms,

To THE PEoPE OF NORTH CAROLINA
We, and others Of the Anti-Sa
loon League, called the temper
ance forces together to meet il
convention in the city of Raleigh
on Jan. 21st. The great conven
tion that assembled unanimously
(asked the present Legislature Il
give the State a statuary Law
against the manufacture and sale
of liquor at the present session
but a majority of the members Of
the Legislature. after considering
the matter, decided to submit the
Iqusstion to vote of the people,
THE Long, Dowd" bill il nova
law. 1t is a composite bill pre-.
pared by the best thought of tenn
perance men in the State. It is
not as stringent as some of us
would like it to be, but it is an ex.
tension of the Watts and Ward
bills to the whole State. On
Tuesday. May Goth, the issue will
be presented to the people of North
Carolina, are you For or against
the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors?" The praise
for this issue being submit
ted to the people of North Caro-
lima is due to the great heart of
the masses of its citizenship de-
manding this reform, the minis
ters of the Gospel Of peace and
good will towards men, those SEN
ators and Representatives who
voted for the bill, most of the
press of the State the educators of
the State. and to those splendid
men: Senator F. M. Simmons,
Judge Jeter G. Pritchard, Ex-
Gov. Thos. J. Jarvis, Gov. Robt.
B. Glenn, Ex-Gov. Chas. B. Ay-
cock, Josephus Daniels, Hugh G.
Chatham, S. Mcintyre, J. A.
Hartness, Henry A. London, G.
W. Watts, T. II. Vanderford, J.
J. Rogers, Henry A. Page, Frank
R. McNinch, W. G.. Newland, A.
D. Watts, H. e. Fennell, +. 81.
Tucker, J. D. Mccall, Settle
Dockery, A. D. Ward, J. H. Pou,
W. N, Jones, L. L. Smith, N. B.
Broughton, ,W. H. Sprunt, E. T.
Cansler, Jas. I. Johnson, Clarence
II. Poe, Geo. P. Pell. R. B. White
W. I. Everett, Cameron Morrison ,
F. S. Blair, Thos. J. Shaw, @. K.
Nimocks, W. S. OBJ. Robinson,
E. F. Aydlett, A. M. Scales, R.
Lee Wright, J. W. Bailey, W. F.
Snider, R, L. Madison, W. T..
Shaw, J. L. Choat, W. B. Cooper,
Virgil S. Lusk, W. B Smoot and
others. The bill leaves intact the
higher local prohibitory laws now
in force in the set eral counties.
We have patiently borne for
years the CALLING yoke of the sa-
loon, distillery and drink evil
with all their attending curses
and woes. The time has come
when this enemy to the human
family must be destroyed. No
family, high OF low, rich or poor,
has not felt the awful curse of the
habit. 1t is the canker worm that
has eaten into the heart of the
body polite; it has made the
sweet water of life bitter; the
tears that have been shed by an
army of mourners speak to our
heads as we'll as hearts.
"In the sweetest bud,
The eating canker dwells.'
No race is exempt; especially is
it injuries to the negro, to whom
the white race owes duty. The
people of the State, In the genera
tions gone by, have resisted to the
last ditch tyranny and oppression,
cruelty and wrong. The power if
with them, and they are once
more called upon to do battle in
a righteous cause. Be not deceiv
ed with false arguments. The
business man and corporations nc
longer want one who drinks il
their employment. The Mill ant
Manufacturing Of the State have
refused to license the traffi,
fraught with such evil to th'
moral and material prosperity o
the community. How wonder
fully they have prospered by 81
doingl
This issue appeals to men of al
parties; to men of all creeds; i
is above party, above creed, abov
nationalitles; it is a matter O