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v . XTSONS WEEKf. v
EDITED BY
THOS. E. WATSON
Vol. 11.
THE DAWN OF NEW ERA.
The opponents of the state Prohibition Bill are ever crying: “We need the $200,000 derived from the sale of liquor licenses.” No matter where you find
a number of them together discussing the bill, it is always “revenue and income, and profits and losses” they talk about. Such selfish talk disgusts me. It
is always dollars, nothing counts but money! Now, let us see what we do with the money taxed from the saloons? We use it to pay the cost of race riots;
we use it to send to the gallows the poor devil who was made a brute through whiskey, who came home, his eyes bloodshot, his face swollen, large puffs under
his eyelids, mumbling and cursing the little woman before him, demanding money, and when she replied: “I have none. You know I have none,” fly into a
violent passion, whip out a gun and shoot her dead: the woman he had sworn to love, honor and protect. We use it to send to the chain gang the men who
become dangerous to the community, through whiskey. We use it to support almshouses, where the paupers (made paupers through whiskey) are fed and
clothed by the state. To me, whiskey represents the “Dead Sea” of civilization. Floating in this sea and lying on the bottom we find the banker, the mer
chant, the lawyer, the statesman, the doctor, the clerk, the murderer and murdered, the suicide; all! all! ruined through whiskey. To the list might be added
the following figures: Two thirds of all crime is caused by intemperance. Seventy-five per cent of all paupers are drunkards. Eighty-five per cent of all sui
cides have a similar origin. Forty-five per cent of all lunatics come from the excessive use of alcohol. The largest public square in the largest city could be
filled higher than the tallest city building with the grim skulls of those whom liquor has carried through sorrow to the grave. Yet the opponents of the Pro
hibition Bill try to measure all this misery with dollars. Shame! We want better men. Better men mean better government. Whiskey destroys the men
tai and moral and nervous power of the men to whom this country looks for its future safety and greatness. Gentlemen of the Legislature, pass the bill!
Let’s drive this monster from the state. Behold the dawn of a new day.—Gordon Nye.
Governor Glenn Torces Southern to Its Knees
Raleigh, N. C., July 27.—The state
of North Carolina has won in its
fight to have its passenger rate law
of 2 1-4 cents observed by all the
railroads pending an appeal to the
courts by the roads of the state
which propose to fight the law.
The promise of obedience to the
law by the Southern and the At
lantic Coast lane railways, which,
since July 1 ,the date set for the
rate law to go into effect, have been
violating the law, was given late to
day at a conference which the rail-
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, August 1, 1907.
roads sought with Governor Glenn,
who has stated as a precedent to any
agreement he might make that the
2 1-4 cent rate must be put into ef
fect.
Glenn Tells of Conference.
The conference was a private one,
newspaper men being excluded nt
the request of the railroad attor
neys. After the conference Gover
nor Glenn stated that at the begin
ning of the conference the railroad
representatives stated that they were
ready to agree to the 2 1-4 cent rate,
later to be tested in the original in
junction case before Judge Pritch
ard, an appeal if necessary to be
taken by the state to the United
States Supreme Court, while the
,railroads would appeal the Wake
County case to the North Carolina
Supreme Court, and if necessary take
the case on writ of error to the
United States Supreme Court.
The only trouble in the conference
was the selection of the date at
which the 2 1-4 cent rate should be-
come effective. The railroads want
ed a longer time than the state was
willing to grant, but finally the Bth
of August was agreed upon, as the
railroad representatives stated that
it would be impossible so; ner to
make the proper arrangements at
their various ticket offices to supply
tickets and to fix rates.
Conference Was Harmonious.
The conference was harmonious
throughout. The state was repre
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