The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-05-14

vote for the same gang. You don
know what your man stands fol
neither do you ask. You paid TO
1.-The good roads which you didn
get, and now you've got to 90 dow
WAY DOWN-in your poke
and poy for the ones you Do gel
The same for the streets. in tn
cities.
j SCHOOLS:
| With all our boasting our schoo
term, until this past year, was thu
shortest except one. of any state IL
the Union. What do you say to that
Guilford County has had a si1
months term in districts where {
SPECIAL TAX was voted; other
wise the school term is no Longer
than it was twenty years ago
} Patrons are put to an unnecessary
expense in buying books for Their
children. Books should be fumi'
gated and exchanged.
IMMORTALITY
Immoral ond uct of persons
which is so destructive to the basic
principle of society and detrimental
to the high standard of public we'll
lbeine is now regarded by the law of
our great state as very trivial
offense in comparison with the
crime of larceny of twenty-five
cent chicken by poor negro. To
me there is no comparison. The
first is vital and fundamental
principle of society which is the
foundation of the state, the second
is neither a loss of character nor any
valuable object. In the latter there
is no loss but can be readily re-
stored. In the former there Is NO
RESTORATION, yet our laws look
very lightly upon it. Let us deal
with them to the degree in which
they are detrimental to the status
of society, and injurious to a free
and enlightened people.
Our work houses and roads, as
punishment for offenders, are often
the cause of suffering of dependent
families, by reason of their having
their support taken from, them,
therefore. it would be we'll, under
such circumstances to allow and re-
quire the time of such offender, as
any other laborer, paid to the de-
pendent ones, that they may not
suffer more than he.
STOP THE CAUSE
We havt institutions for crazy
folks. but we haven't done all We
should or could to keep folks from
going crazy. We have asylums
for the blind, but we are net doing
what we should to lessen the per-
cent of blindness. An institution for
wayward women is being agitated
in Charlotte, and yet under our
own laws women are being gradual
ed for that institution every day.
If the law, instead of lending is
protecting and fostering arms to
immortality and other communicating
influences, would shield the purity,
the virtue, the nobility of our man
hood and womanhood from the
baleful and degrading influences and
environment that 90 to tear down
our society and state and make the
penalty for such evils commensurate
with the crime we would need no
jails. no poor-houses, no houses of
correction, no houses for wayward
women. haven't mentioned way
ward men, yet there are three to
one woman. Under our present
system. however, they are exempt
because they have the ballot. We
live under two standards which no
one has yet dared to correct.
These are just few things which
our legislators heretofore have been
afraid to deal with, not because they.
many of them, thought it wouldn't
be best for the people but for policy's
sake, to keep few ignorant voters
in line for the politicians future am
bition, and special privileges given,
| hope that the next legislature will
be alive to the necessity of these
vital questions. If l should 90,
these are the issues | shall agitate,
and shall do my best to put forth
measures to that end.
If you favor the foregoing, and
are anxious to see our state 90 for
ward along progressive lines not
only as to the essentials which /
have touched upon but in many
other things which. for lack of
space, have not mentioned, would
appreciate your support in the COM
ing primary election. Thank you
for any consideration you may give
me.
Very respectfully
DELOS HAMMER.
Candidate for HOnse of Renresen-