The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-12
DRY NORTH CAROLINA

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ing. Improvements in road buildinos
streets, railroads. and all ether publfo
ceptlonal rapidlty In the matter Of
building homes in country as well
as in town. progress and advance
ment has been simply startling. Prlce0
Of real estate have doubled-iando
that could have been bought ten
years ago for one and two dollars An
acre in the region of Pinehurst are
selling today from s25 To SIS an acre.
Prohibition Law Enforced.
There isn't a better enforced law
in the State of North Carolina than
the prohibition law. North Carolina
is q State of honest courts. where
Judges respect their oaths. regardless
of personal sentiment and administer
the law as the legislature enacted X
There is not a legalized place for the
sale Of liquor in the whole state. ana
no man can buy a drop OF legalized
whiskey in North Carolina The pur.
chaser and the seller of ii anywhere
in any form are criminals. You cans
not hear man of any moral or In.
tustriaI consequence in any profe4-
sion or line of business in the state
Of North Carolina who Will intimate
that prohibition is not success. Ola
topers, liquor agents and disgruntied
tourists are the only people who have
the effrontery to intimate that pro-
hibition is not a success in North Car
olna.
YES, I have heard ii intimated IN
your own State that 1t is failure.
hut instead of taking the statement
of some thoughtless of disgruntte0
traveller. i suggest that you ask the
negroes and the low white people who
are breaking rocks on the highways
Of North Carolina. whether they re-
gard 1t as & failure, have the
opinion they know more about tho
force of law in North Carolina than
an outsider can know. And l feel
fairly sure that no man would stand
In the streets of North Carolina town
and openly declare prohibition to D.
a failure, allowing a policeman to hear
the statement. for according to Gus
tom he would he carried before A
court to establish his assertion.
Tax Rate About Same.
you asked me about the tax rata
IL has not increased, but the prOpeKty
of the State has wonderfully increase
and the income OF the State Is cnlAx1-
Ell by this increase l pay about IL
same rate of tax that l paid ten yeaE
ago. and get for 1t ten times the pu0As
lie improvements. North Carolina, -
said in the beginning, is educatln9
more people. spending more money -
education improving every line m0xos3
rapidly without the liquor traffic than
was ever dreamed under the reign o.
the barroom, In short, ii is about lnnss
possible TO get a North Carolintan ~
discuss the question. for II Is one ~
those questions that has been 50 come
pletely settled for all time that II In
spires no discussion.
Asked as 10 the sentiment Ok TIE
church in North Carolina in regAros
t the prohibition law, the bishop de~@
clared with emphasis u
I don't know a preacher. and nevoe y
saw anybody who die. who even oues-ss
tons the prohibition law and Is not
an invincible supporter of It Cons
tinuing, he stated; The greatest DIFF
hculty In enforcing the viii OF North.
Carolina on the liquor question comes \
from Virginia liquor dealers who In.
wade that territory in their EFFORT
to traffic through blind tigers against y
the law and the will of sister Com> II
monw ealth. And the liquor dealers aln1 u
their advocate. believe so little u tkQsS
local enlargement that yirEinia 1osS
uuor dealers unwilling for No441k2
Carolina to govern herself There a410s
very few papers In North Caro14H
that will publish liauor advertiseme1M4QsS
but If they do 1T is general sthe a4ks@a
yertisement Of some Virginia liQuO4ss
dealer.
sour great trouble 81 not dOMea111
but allen. and all this talk among TIL
quor folks about the principle Of Io4oI
IL a himsy effort 10S
deceive the th0ughtleSs, for there 1u9AH
any crowd ON earth that has Less x1g
speet for the will of another cOunufS
nifty than they. l hope to see WI
ginia dry from end to end 1t win
a great day for this old mother Coos
monwealth. II wifi mark the birth
a new era of prosperity, put VirEinlMd
the line of progress in meralityy@o
give her tho leadership that Justly
longs to her. l believe as | hope n
on September % that the end 81
legalized liquor trafic In Virginia.
come and come to stay.