The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-19
AS TO LEGISLATION NEEDEE-
ADti-Card Playing Law and Others


Advocated.
To the Editor: First. all pubic
card playing should be cut out. It l.
seldom now that a man or a woman
can enter the office-room Of a hotel
without facing a game of cares one
can scarcely find a seat on a train
without facing q game Of cards.
Some time since l was on q tram ana
some parties as they thought hGa
quite an interesting game OF cards
I noticed some young boys mat were
held s%pelIbound by the game. When
| found time l asked one of tho hoy&
if he Gould play cards. He sad no
but was very anxious TO learn. l
think he determined then and there
10 learn TO play cards.
If the women are Determined to
keep card parties going they should
be moved to a back room where 1helr
children and other peoples children
who are not interested in card play
ing could not see them. There is no
sin more destructive Of nlen, their
time and o and their SoIil5 than
card playing. Numbers of boys and
young men instead Of going 70 church
on the Lords Day gather in some old
clubhouse and others go to the Line
thickets and spend the day card play
ing. Many of these boys lose all
respect for the church and soon learn
to despise the preacher of TIE WOrt.
The preacher can have little or no
influence over the ard players. 1t
is the duty of the State to leeislate
against a sin that is destructive Of
the mortal and spiritual life Of its
people.
Second, the dog law. Four years
ago l plead with the Legislature &c
pass a law taxing all dogs and letting
the amount go to the school funG
Two years ago this bill would have
100 - 49, hnN~ eo1 n
few. ] hope there will be no OppO-
sition to the bill this time, as the peo-
pie are beginning-tO open their eyes
in reference to the dog question. There
is nothing SO dangerous as a worth
less dog or a pet dog. In this week
paper / see where there were nine
. bitten in one home by a pet dog
2 There are numbers of people now IL
Raleigh being treated for mad-ios
! bites. It is said that twenty NOR
: people could ave been saved Whe1
> the Titanic went down had it no
: been for pet dogs. Let the na tina
:, wants to keep a dog pay a tax an
; keep him where he belongs in tn
: back yard, only when he is in use
The bird dog ought not to run a
. large during the summer months
The only way to protect the birds i
: to keep the dogs confined.
trait
lHlIU, we ueCu d law tiiol Nfl SlO
justices of the peace from marcEin
people. 0 selfish motive prompts m
to say this. Marriage was divinel
instituted by God himself and shoul
. be kept under divine direction. y
e one should AVE the right to perforl
the marriage ceremony but an OF
dained minister Of the gosrel. n
service should be more divinely OK
serve than this. The magistrate
= know this is right.
le Fourth. | hope the suffrage que
::e ton will not even be considered.
!! don't see how a Southern man ca
IS consider the thought Of taking II
II woman out of the home, and putin
% her in public life.
70 The finest character under the 81
le is the modest, refined Southern w
III man in the home; take her out Of II
~ home and put her in public life al
that influence hat shapes and mol
80 the life of the child, for a high
IA life, is all gone, and there is no i
~ fluence that can a its place. Vine
.o ever the woman is sent to the ball
rs box and allowed to hold public Q
fee. the man, the young man, W
~ not stop to ra.sa MS hat when
81 passes her on the street or Pub
~ highway. No man can have t
w prorar respect TO" q woman that a
pears, or wants to appear masculir
~ ] darc say that if a member of eth
house should offer a bill for WON.
a. suffrage, he would not want to s
u, his wife at the ballot box nor hol
iii 10 ing q public office. He would #
at once that she was needed most
9" the home. l hope what have So
- will be seriously considered. | ha
81 said all through the purest motives
az c. c. HAYMORE
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