The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-01-30

utterly rOut the business argu-
ment. There is not a depart
an increase wholly disproportionate
to natural growth. That is to say.
the growth is not simply a healthy
increase, but it is abnormal because
the very gap created by abolition OF
whiskcy is filled by legitimate bust
ness and more han filled.
Judge Pritchard's subject was The
Benefits Of Prohibition" He had to
! prove his proposition or have it go
out As the malefits Of prohibition. He
went to the banks and the building
and loan. The largest one had in
creased its deposits from ~$l.27S,00O
July of 1903 to s~1.654.O0O three years
later. The second one showed in the
same period q gain Of s145,00O in
the same time. The third increased
$4,000 and n new one had been Or
ganized with $4,000 capital within
the last few days.
The building and loan had s?G. 900
in 4 then with $4,000 in profits.
Its report last year showed $271,O00
to loan. installments Of $275,00O and
net earnings OF $4,000. That was the
real showing. The money that has
been going from tho modest wage
Garner to the immodest booze man, Is
now being put into a home. ''These
IN oAS ~ q AAoAIiS Will lCli
wives and CHILDREN" Judge Pritchard
said. where God intended them to
be-. instead Of lounging around a
contemplate bar room. How any
man, made in the image of God can
stand up and argue for return to the
old conditions. I cannot understand"
He brought good testimony from
Frank Chapman. q wise politician.
Mr.. Chapman had always been
against prohibition. He lived at
Skyland. But he would not SEND his
wife and daughters to town with
out an escort Prohibition passed.
The street car rowdy passed. It be-
came safe for the women to ride n
i attended. Frank Chapman admitted
) was any objection to quoting Mr..
! Chapman on that wise. He said not.
! but I don't want YOU to go up there
to Richmond and tell people that 7
am fool enough to be a prohibition
, ist." Judge Pritcllard quoted Mr.
Chapman as saving. In half an hour
there was 4 telephone call. 1t was
| Chapman. "Sav, it's a mighty sorry
man who puts his theories above the
welfare OF his wife and Children
that telephone message said, land
:, hereafter / am 4 prohibitionist every
!, day in the week" That wa the mes
sage and Judce Pritchard had to
f stop for the aDpiause.
! Mr.. Wooley's Address.
. When the final business adjourn
r ment was aiken yesterday afternoon
3 in the business session. DR.. p. A.
Baker announced that Hon. John G.
Wooley would speak and he gave il
as his deliberate JUDGMENT that he
S is the nation'sE greatest orator.
) The former candidate for the Pres
Z idency on the forlorn ticket which
has such good morals in its platform
pretty nearly j~ustities the estimate O
Of an enthusiast.
! He isn't Of particularly strikin:
presence, not large not ~pretentious ant
not puffed up. He speaks in musical
"a subdued voice, in as nearly. perfec
~ English as one would hear digging
r over the eartn. There isn't anythin!
labOred about his figures. They ap
pear to drop easily from his persua
\ siye tongue, while he scouts orna
:. mentation and rarely resorts to ges
80 ticulation. He occasionally fires u
and speaks like a trumpet. but no
often. He is always seriously dis
cussing his subject.
70 He began last night with an aDoth
OSis Of the law. The nearest tina
Briton has come to inspiration In 1t
"A literature, he found in the cOmmo
st. law Of England. He liked the tern
- the majesty Of the law. He advise
;; it's frequent repetition. Law is q ma
"a jestic thing.
What we need moro than any
thing else" he burst finely into h
10 subject, ''is not prohibition, not res
id ulation Of corporations. not consc1
walton Of our forests. but a revive
of the old-fashioned British law re
those in office and those out OF o.
at fee
Id He came then to the liquor licens'
as It is the invitation OF the sovereig
&c to the citizen TO no wrong. II IS ~
ne compulsory, men say. but that give
I'D no color of virtue to the licens
,st There are some, God pity them, VIII
cannot resist it. Take the man VIII
Int drinks over the bar. He lays dow
te, his money. The financial analysis
in that he has lost fifteen cents. r