The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-14

which prohibited distilleries and sa-
looms in the rural districts. was. enact
ed in l9o3-the State prohibition act
in 1909
The prosperity Of our city has been
attacked by the ~ex-saloon keepers and
their friends. They stated that the
Associated Charities were taxed TO
their utmost to relieve the sufferers IN
u 1 am one of the officers of
this association and know it to be a
f~alsehood, we have only had ten to
apply to us for help, and every one
Of them Were helped. Again we were
promised fifty dollars per month by
the town, and at the last meeting we
refused that help, because we did not
need it. There is not a man or wo-
man in Wilson today who wants work
but can get it. Under prohibition we
have just finished the largest guano
factory in the South; one of the hand
soonest office buildings in the East:
a knitting mill employing seventy-f1ve
girls; a cigarette factory; the work
ing men own more homes than they
ever did before. AS to Wilson'S BUSH
ness prosperity, I only say this: I am
not the largest nor the smallest mer-
chant in Wilson. / made money while
we had saloons; l made money when
we had the dispensarE, n / have
made more with prohibition. Every
prediction made by the whiskey men
mas failed. They told US if we closed
the saloons when we wanted a dispen-
sary that it would kill our tobacco
market. We closed the saloons, yet
we sold three times as much tobacco
as the only market in the East that
had saloons. They dc us that real
estate would. depreciate in value, yet
you cannot buy a piece of real estate
today in Wilson at what you could
five years ago. The told US it would
ruin business cit has ruined the whis-
key business). How can a saloon
make business, if a saloon succeeds
1T. u Sell Whiskey, and if the peO-
pie drink it it will make them drunk,
and when a man becomes a drunkard
he is a burden upon society. The
railroads have already boycotted even
those who frequent saloons, yet they
tell US hat prohibition does not pro-
hibit. The city Of Richmond, capt.
tai Of Virginia, that the Whiskey men
say is getting rich shipping whiskey
into North Carolina, prohibition even
prohibits there. Only a short while
g a banquet was given by the Gov
ernor. 1t had been h custom to
| serve wine and champagne. Mrs,
| Mann, the Governors Wife, said not
one drop of wine or champagne shall
be served as long as ] am mistress
here, yet they say prohibition does not
| prohibit.
/ am a Snriner. and it has been the
custom to serve champagne at their
| ~banquets, but it has been cut out
and yet, they say prohibition does not
prohibit.
When YOU license a thing you wraT
the American flag around it, protec'
and try to make it respectable, bu'
it has been impossible to do so witt
the liquor traffic. Nothing can make
the liquor traffic respectable. To joir
a. church or any Of the fraternal or
CARNATIONS it only requires a man t.
be Of good moral character, yet no
one Christian nor fraternal organiZa'
ton will accept a bar-keeper-ther
how can 0 men who belong to tn
churches and you men who belong t
fraternal organizations vote to gran
a man license that makes him a socia
outcast? Yet they say prohibition
does not prohibit.
JAMES DEMPSEY BULLOCK.
Wilson,, n. c.