The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-17
If License is Issued for Near
Beer Great Care Should
Be Taken
Saloon League Decides tt Print a
Monthly Temperance -JournaI-An
Address to the People.

Inc committee or the
North Carolina Anti-Sa1oen League
held a meeting in Raleigh. Rev. r. l..
Davis, secretary and field representa-
tive, made a statement of the work
done by the League n h progress
Of law enforcement. The substance of
his report appears elsewhere as a COM
munication N today's paper.
1t was decided to authorize the
chairman and secretary to arrange for
a North Carolina edition of the Ameri-
can Issue monthly. 1t will contain
the story Of what is being done in
detail in North Carolina and in gen
eTal Of the progress in all the States.
1t is hoped la this publication will
help the cause of temperance and law
enforcement.
Address to the People.
The following address, prepared by
air. Clarence II. Poe, chairman of the
State Anti-Saloon League, was approx
cd and ordered printed:
To the PeopleLof North Carolina:
Approved by the hearts and minds
Of an even larger majority of the peO-
olr d. the state than the foriY-c.ur
thousand majority by which it was
ratified last May, State Prohibition is
a part of the established policy Of
North Carolina, and has justified the
confidence Of our commonwealth in
adopting it. One OF her foremost cit
liens, conservative and u~ncOnnected
with our organization, declared this
week that prohibition would decrease
the number of drunkards in the com
ing generation of North C~arolinians
at least twO-thirds. More than this
the most ardent advocate Of prohibi-
ton could not have expected, and the
half Of ibis would make the prohibit
ton policy the wisest and most profit
able step ever adopted by the people
Of North Carolina.
Prohibition is a success-there is no
question as to this: and yet we must
not let our qualification over its
achievements or over the public opin-
ion of the State keep us from recog-
nizing the dangers of Indifference on
the part of temperance advocates. We
cannot too strongly emphasize the
fact that the next eighteen months
will mark the one critical period with
prohibition in this State. During this
time the enemies Of the cause will be
most active, lavishing money, supplied
by the great liquor interests Of the
nation. and using both fair means and
foul to make prohibition unpopular
wherever there is the slightest hance
Of success.
1t is of the greatest Importance,
therefore, that our local Anti-Saloon
Leagues keep themselves intact and
that new leagues be organized WhereV-
er there is danger to our cause and
that our League have adequate fnan-
cial support. Good citizens every
Mr.. William Sherrod, a prominent
young attorney here, has returned
from a trip with Mrs. Sherrod and
Miss Sergeant to Hamilton in Martin
county on a visit to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Sherrod. The trip
was made in Mr.. Sherrod's touring
car, and he had a fine opportunity Of
noting the crops along the route, in
GLIDING the piedmont and the coastal.
plain sections.
MIR. Sherrod says the prospect is not
encouraging in either section, since it
was apparent hat low lands had been
drowned out and on the uplands, the
appearance of corn, cotton and to-
bacco showed that where they were
not drowned by water, the fertility Of
the soil had been sc leached by rains
the plants in most cases indicated
starvation for food or the need Of
more fertilizer.
Mr.. Sherrod, in speaking of his ex-
perience with roads, declares that in
automobiling the question Of ~distance1
of a given route cuts no figure. as
compared with the question Of con-
dition Of the roads. ION my trip go
ing to Hamilton he said. II raveled
248 miles from Greensboro there. and
to get good roads, I went by way Of
Saxapaw and Chapel Hill to Durham,
thence to Raleigh. From Raleigh T
went via Wilson,. Rocky Mount and
Battleboro and on to Hamilton. I
went 100 miles out my way to get
roads,, and I did not have to
stop a minute on account of the roads.
and sustained only one puncture of a
tire, and averaged Is miles an hour,
for the distance of 24S miles was trav-
eled in perfect comfort in 16 hours.
But returning, I took the nearest
~oute to Raleigh from Rattleboro. So
miles as against 81 miles via Wilson.
It took two days getting to Raleigh
the near route besides nearly running
emacbina and rolipion went