The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-05-14
Admiral Evans RelinQuishes
His Command and Goes Home.

AdmIraI Evans RelinQuishes
His Command and Goes Home.
all Franisco Dispatch. 9Th.
Rear Admiral Robley d.
evans flag was hauled down
rom the main truck of the
Connecticut in San Francisco
larbor amid a salute of thirteen
guns, and tonight the first
commander-in-chief of Amer
Ica's first battleship fleet isl
Oh his way to his home In
Washington to remain on
waiting orders until the date OF
his retirement for age on his
62d birthday, the 18th Of
Accompanied by
members of his family and his
staff, Admiral Evans left at
go P. m.
When the blue ensign of the
retiring commander huttered
down to the after bridge of the
Connecticut a new flag of
similar design was broken out
il token of the presence of the
new chief, Rear Admiral
Charles NJ. Thomas. The
bunting Of the new commander
was saluted By thirteen guns
fired from every ship in the
fleet, The waters Of the bay and
the green surrounding hills
echoing the signalshots.
On board each of the sixteer
battleships, the six torpedo
boat destroyers and tn
auxiliaries of the Atlantic feet
an address from the departing
commander-in-chief was read
why 1 Hate the Liqasr Traffic
Personally, l have seen S
much of the liquor traffic in tn
last four years, so much OF it
economic waste, so much of it
physical ruin, so much of it
mental blight, so much of it
tears and heartache, that I hay
come to regard the business q
one that must be held and cor
trolled by the strong and effec
i've law.
/ bear no malice toward thos
engaged in the business, but
hate the traffic. hate it's ever
: phase. l hate it for it's intole
ance, arrogance, hypocracy, ca
e and craft and false pretense, cor
i. mercialism, its greedand avaric
it's sordid love of gain at al
e price, its domination in polite
6 its corrupting influence in civ
g affairs, it's incessant effort to d
. bauch the country; for the CO.
ards it makes of public men.
hate it for it's utter disr
ct gard of law, its ruthless tram
e ling of the solemn compacts
% State costitutions; for the loe d
At straps to labor's back, for Il
l. palsied hands it gives to toll, Fl
it's wounds to genius, for Il
Is tragedies Of it's might have beer
III l hate it for the human wrecl
it has caused; the almsheuses
is peoples, for the prisons it fills, +
re the insanity it begets, for
countless graves in potters fielC
'S the mental ruin it imposes up
r, it's victims, for it's spiritual bligl
N for its moral degradation,
/, crimes it has committed,
nj homes it has destroyed,
n. hearts it has broken, the mali
er it has planted in the hearts
" mentor it's poison, for
It. bitterness-for the dead 8
e. fruit with which it starV
their souls.
zee I hate it for the grief it eau.
g Womanhood-the scalding tea
IT. the hopes deferred, the strang
'ue aspirations, it's burden of W;
and care. I hate it for it's hes
less cruelty to the aged, the
ID. firm and the helpless, for
W. shadow it throws upon the Ii
of children, for it's monstrous
justice TO blameless little ones
lie Gov. J. Frank Hanly, of India
n
,v A fire of unknown origin sw
of two blocks of business house.
SIS Atlanta, Ga, Friday morni
all the loss being about one ant
If. quater million dollars. There
ne no loss of life and no injuries.
ch AS one indication that tir
are Frightening, the sawn
lie, in the Fayetteville section, e
ut hro 1ipn q roIS,.o 80 1880