The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-05

fighting. He knows and will not deny that our then
common enemy was using the same argument that
is being used now, to wit, that prohibition laws
were useless. because they did not prohibit.
! If it be conceded that the 18th Amendment will
be repealed without the aid of North Carolina, then
why are the vets in this state tearing their shirts
to place North Carolina in the wet column? The
answer is perfectly easy and is known to all of
the agitators for the wet cause to be that if North
Carolina goes wet in the coming election, it means
that the burlington Act will be repealed, and the
flooding of this state with bar-rooms (by whatever
name called, in every city, town or hamlet, and
filling station in the state If the state goes dry,
then the burlington Act will be preserved, and we
will at least have law which, if enforced, will
protect all of citizens including old men, mid
die aged men, young men, boys and girls, from
the damnable traffic On the other hand, if it goes
wet there will be horde of legislators of the
same ilk as disgraced the State of North Carolina
in the last two legislatures rushing back to Raleigh
and declaring that they coming to the legisla-
ture with mandate from the people to repeal the
burlington Act
l think it will be conceded on all hands that the
people of the United States, including North Caro-
lima, are morally degenerating at a greater rate
that this is due solely to the existence of the 18th
Amendment On the other hand, the drys declare
that it is due to the fact that these very vets have
by precept and example, been fighting for the last
ten years the enforcement of the amendment, and,
with the aid of wet press and other wet agencies,
have frightened the government, both state and
federal, so that it has made but feeble, if any,
attempt to enforce the law To concede that the
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ure of the democratic form of government and
the utter impotency of the law makers and the lay
enforcers and leads to anarchy. On the other
hand if we place the responsibility for the non
enforcement of this law where it belongs-on the
drinkers of Intoxicating liquors and their coadju-
tors. the wet press, the wet moving picture indus
try and the other wet agencies which have been
organized by multi-millionaires to relieve them
selves to a certain extent of taXes,-we can see
our way clear to remove these agencies and re-
store morality and sobrety. There is sinister
force at work in this country and all over the
world to destroy all moral laws and to substitute
for them conventionalites of the people, which
means to the minds of these agitators that any
thing is right that is permissible by the customs
and habits of the people.
The great trouble with the people of the country
is that they have become blind followers of the
blind, and are only seeking to run with the herd,
whether in the right or wrong direction. This
heresy is exactly what drove the Man or Sorrows
to the Cross to suffer an ignominious DEATH among
the jeers, misses and the spite of his enemies many
of whom claimed to be Fathers in Israel. If He
had adopted the course that was adopted in 1882
by the followers of Mr. Reynolds and others of his
lk, He never would have been crucifed, but hav-
ing pursued the opposite course, the craven cow
ard Plate (who, unfortunately, has in this and
all other states of the union many imitators in
high places sent him to the Cross.-Ed T. Cansler
in Charlotte Observer.