Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-14

The following article appear
ed as leading editorial a few
days ago in the Providence
(Rhode Island) News. It is so
absurdly untrue, unfair and
slanderous that the Post-Dis-
patch is passing it on to its read
ers that they may see for them
selves just how wildly a South
hater can rave.
Finding Whisky by the Ton.
"The Government is good enough
to inform US that two whisky stills
in Alabama were seized yesterday
which had capacity of two hundred
and forty gallons day, and the re-
port naively says that these modest
distilleries are among thetlargest of
the many plants for the illegal pro-
duction Of liquor yet discovered The
deputy marshals also destroyed fif-
teen hundred gallons of beer. The
stills had been in operation a long
time. This bit of news from prohi-
hilton Alabama is not at all surpris-
ing, for the gentlemen down there
drink with smiling grace and do so
very often in the day.
ut is part of their creed to make
whisky with all the freedom that good
housewives make bread. No we'll
regulated Alabama home is without
its tipple. The white lords of the soil
do not believe in its indiscriminate
sale either to cheap white or to the
co.ored people. They have their pro-
hibition laws which to them are as
sacred as the constitutional amend
ment giving the black man right to
vote. The Southern gentlemen,
class to themselves, make their whis-
ky in bulk through agents, cheat the
Government of the tax and divide the
product with all the chivalry of burg
lars who are honestly square with
their loot.
"In Jacksonville last Monday raid
by revenue officers sent from Wash
ington discovered three stills with
capacity of four hundred gallons
day which had been running for
months. In Knoxville, Tennessee,
there was a shooting ARRAY because
some gentlemen fell out over the own
ership of some whisky and an official
count said two persons had been shot.
1t is to the credit of these Southern
prohibitionists however, that when
the officers arrived the whisky had
disa ppeared, while the wounded men
remained. Government statistics show
that there are today more sanitariums
for drunkards in North Carolina than
| in any other State in the Union in
/ relative proportion to population
which fact we may regard as a dis
tinct testimonial to prohibition.
'Now we are on the verge of en-
forced prohibitory laws here, not by
the will of the voters in Rhode Island,
but by the mandate of the men in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia and other
States in the South, who fraudulently
impose their will upon US. They
smuggle brandy from Bermuda and
wines from Mexico while they pre-
tend virtue which they say we must
embrace. 1t is this situation that is
thrust upon every man in the North.
These moralists Of the South, who
work immature children to death and
block in Congress national laws
against the abuse of child labor, are
prayerfully anxious that the popula-
4 ton Of the North shall not have the
open dissipation of wine cellar or a
saloon. They seek to preserve the
adult souls above Mason and Dixon's
line while they grind from tubercu-
lous children in the mills of North
Carolina the dollars which they need
for the enjoyment of their own vices.
'In the meantime the question will
continually grow as to the value of a
constitutional amendment. Are we to
learn that the Fourteenth and the
Fifteenth Amendments are to remain
dead in the South, while the new
Eighteenth Amendment is to be kept
alive in the North against the will Of
a great majority? We predict this
question will grow into national size
as the months roll along"
up Cwh--r shrdlu hrdlu auauauaaa
Doesn't rot like this make you
boil? But then there is the con-