The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-04-23
SCHOOLSvs, SALOONS
Should Appeal to Every Citizen ia
North Carolina.
GOV. JARVIS ON TIRE ETERNAL CONFLICT
That is Raging Between the Schoa!-
Room and the Bar.R0on--1hst is
the Reason for Nay Election.

There is an eternal conflict be
tween the school-room and the bar
room. The schooi-room makes men
the bar-room destroys them. The
school-room takes the child and train:
him to useful life. The bar-roon
takes the boy and trains him to {
life of wrong-doing. The school
room fills the home with bright, hap
py boys and girls. The bar-roon
fills it with ignorant, aimless, law
less inmates. The school-house fill.
the pulpit with educated, eloquen,
ministers of the gospel and pews with
godly men and women. The still
house fills the jails and penitentiaries
with criminals and murderers. The
school-room sends men to the Legis
lature, to the bench, and the execu.
tive Office. The bar-room sends their
to the scaffold and hell. The school.
room gives to the community an intel.
ligent, thrifty, enterprising, refined
manhood and woEanhood. The bar
room gives to it a thriftless, lawless,
ionorant, worthless citizenship. The
schcol-room carries light and know
ledge into the home and community.
The bar-roonl carries darkness and
sorrow and death into the home and
the community. The schoo,-room
leads to higher and better things.
The bar-room leads to lower and
basar things. The school-roon stands
for the good, the bar-room for the
bad.
The people chat multiply and re-
pienish the scnoe!-roons and destroy
the bar-roonGs aIe building FOR their
posterity future that will grow
brighter and greater as they continue
to multiply and replenisE the school
room and utterly destroy the last
trail Of the bar-soon,. Tie recsle
of North Carolina have made Won
derful strides in the last few years
in multiplying the school-rooms and
in destroying the bar-rooms, but the
inal conflict is just before them. On
the 26th Of May, 1903, the final bat
tie is to be fought. Shall the school
room or the bar-room triumph? On
that day every citizen must stand
with the school-room or the bar.
room. He must stand for the work
of the school-rocm or the work of
the bar-room. There is no middle
ground.
The election is to be State elec-
ton, and the issue involved appeals
to every citizen in every section.
The cry comes from the friends of tire
school-room, from those who would
give the State strong, great, noble
citizenship, for protection from the
curse of drunkenness. This cry
should be heard and answered by
every lover Of his fellow-men, no
matter where his home may be.
While North Carolina is divided
into counties and towns and town.
ships, yet these make the State. The
good Of every section should be the
aim of every citizen. If the people
IN any city or town have rid them
selves of the curse of the whiskey
traffic and have found peace and prof
it in it, they should be at the ballot
box on the day of the election and
vote to confer similar blessing up-
On their fellow-citizens in every 9th
or section.
The time was when the different
sections Of the State were separated
from each other by long distance and
time. To 60 from one extreme to
the other was a long, tiresome jour
ney, and but few attempted it. Now
it is easy and enjoyable, and all the
men Of the East and men of the West
often meet and shake hands. The
time was when it took long time to
get news from Currituck to Cne-c-
kee. from Wilmington to Asheviile.
Now the citizens of these once re-
mote communities can converse with
each other as if they lived by the side
of each other. The railroad telegraph
and the telephone have annihiiated
space and time, and made US one
people in all our aspirations, plans
and purposes, to become a great
people and a great State. The peo-
pie Of one county can not be indiffer-
ert to the welfare of the people in
another county. Hence, / can conf.
dently appeal to the friends Of the
school-room and the enemies Of the
bar-room in every section of the State
to be at the ballot-box on the 26th
day of May and vote against the
manufacture and sale Of Intoxicating
liquors in North Carolina. use the
term bar-room to represent every