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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 (Continued ou Page Five.) No. 28.