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' K' i- LY STANDARD JOHN D. BABBIER & SON, Editors and Proprietors. OFFICE - IN - BRICK - ROW. THE STANDARD is published every day Sunday excepted) and delivered by arries. Rates of Subscription : One year. ....... . . .... .$4.00 Six months.... ......... 2.00 Three months.. . . . ... . . . : 1.00- One. month. ..... . .. .35 Single copy. . . ........ .05 THE WEEKLY STANDARD is a fcfnr-page, eight-column paper. It has a larger circulation in Cabarrus than any other paper. Pri?e $1,00 per annual in advance. Advertising Rates : Terms for regular advertisements made known on application. -Address all communications to THE STANDARD, . Concord, N. C. CONCOED, N. O., DEC. 5, 1898. STOP THIS LIQUOR EVIL. It is an open secret, a stern re ality, a humiliating and exasper ating fact that our local option laws are being more and more trampled upon. Liquor can be had too much at sly call. Pro hibition is probably faither from a success now than for the 12 or j 14 years since its adoption in Con cord. Not that the eentiment for it is weakening. Not that the temperance forces cannot be mar shalled for its defense in one sturdy, irresistible philanx as ever, but that through a combi nation of circumstances and un favorabl 3 environments the cause seems to suffer some abuse. ltr is not the purpose of this article to sound a bugle call that shall rally these forces, bat rather to avert the necessity of putting the battle in array. There should be no need of it. Our appeal is chiefly to those engaged in the unlawful, destruc tive business; You who are slyly dealing out this forbidden .drink, you know full well that you are carrying a guilty, tormenting fear of just punishment. You know that you are violating the laws of the community that gives you protection and safety and takes care of you when you are unable to care fur yourself. You know the weaknesses of those addicted to the drink habit and that they have not the manliness to resist. You know ihat the means that ought to go to fead and clothe poor children and dry the floods of tears from distressed and hope v le3S wives and mothers come to you in secret guilt and shame. Can you look upon your helpless victims and know he evil you cause and yet persist ? If so do you think you are placing your selves one whit above the lower beasts in the destruction of soul ? You may put up any and all kinds of supposed reasoning and j ustification of your action, but ask yourself if you are willing to ' carry this sense of guilt into eter nity. You may say you do not believe in an eternity. From the highest civilization to the lowest savagry this instintive sense of a a hereafter exists and if you will be honest with yourself you will admit your belief in it. Be assured that our pen can not present to you a tithe ot the rich rewards of a better life nor the harrowing torments for such as yon who make this earth a hell for your victims and their wives and children, all for the profits there is in the business. If we could picture to you, yourselves engulfed, in a lake of endless misery, with each of these whom you haye helped to ruin and whom you Jaave kept good people from reforming, thrusting you through with hot daggers of reproach and tearing your flesh with burning tonga as you aro tearing the hearts of wives and children with your griping their scanty means, we say, if we could draw this picture and present it, it would doubtless be but a tithe of what awaits you. Now for the sake of all that makes you better than the brutes about you, do stop this vile busi ness. But finow ye, if you have no heart to feel for others' woes, no soul to aspire to higher ends, no aspirations to make for yourselves beds on which to rest with hon est contentment, that when your course has brought unbearable evil, you will find yourselves in the dutches of the law. Then; you will whine as those perse cuted, but it is to be hoped that no judge will again bo found to be more lenient to you than just to those who cry for protection from you. It is to be hoped that no lawyer will stoop from his high duty and privilege of securing justice to his clients to that of making detection odious and fair witnesses appnr vile, only to ftcren you from well-merited punishment This evil should be checked. We are aware that no appeal can reach some, while others can and will be reached. Let every city official whose special duty it is to suppress the evil address himself to the task. Back ot these is the power that appoints these of ficials. Besides the oaths of office, beside the welfare of the generation now in the dangerous paths of youth and the tender ones that need protection from the consequences of this growing evil, the eyes of the good citizen ship of -the town are peering to see where they may detect the dereliction of duty and the respon sibility for the crime. It will not be easy to establish official innocence while this wicked traffic is stalking almost to the degree of boldness. A JSOUTIIEIIS UAH TELLS II. Mr. D H Harnley, a natiye of Illinois, was , in Wilmington at the great crisis and wrote up the affair for The State Register, of Springfield, 111. It is one of the strongest productions on the line that we have seen yet. It is copied in the Sunday's issue of the Charlotte Observer. It has the force of candor and fairness about it, as well as a grasp of true statesmanship, in strong contrast with the narrow sentimentalism often betrayed by those desper ately afraid the negro will ; be wronged in not being allowed to oppress and intimidate eyerybody about him. Mr. Harnley found himself taking a manly part as every pa triotic non-office-warped citizen would have been. He says not one negro was disturbed who was not himself the aggressor vOr who refused to submit to the harmless requirements of those determined to free themselves from an un bearable condition and that the humblest negro' could secure a safe escort to his home if he wanted it. - The affair was doubtless one of the most orderly revolutions on record, and in . its effects one of the most complete solutions of a problem that might have resulted in fatalities a hundred fold worse. Mr. Harnley, a Northern man, saw and .grasped the situation and even acted upon it as any hi$h grade specimen of manhood would .have done. What a rebuke to a man like Senator Pritchard and . a few others that would let all classes in the State go to moraf, social and financial rum to secure self-aggrandizement. MB. bHIPJlAAr FOB CLEKK. Mr. M L Shipman, of Hender bon ville, is a candidate for a clerl ship in the coming legislature. Mr. Shipman -ia highly endorsed by Chairman Simmons, Hon. W T Crawford, Hon. Locke Craige, Hon. James H Mrrriman. Hon. Charles F Toms and others. The President's message ap pears in fall in today's issue of the large dailies. It is too vol uminous to give more than a pass ing notice today. It is compre bensiye and exhausting (especially to read) embracing more than 17,000 words. It dwells much on the momentous events of the year with some recommendations. No reference is made to the Carolina troubles. 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Nice assortment of Breast Pins 5c to $1.48. Assorted lot of Lock Bracelets. 89 inch Sea Island at 3 cents. 7$ cent ginghams, finished at 5 cents. Big lot of childrens, ladies and gents Black Hosiery at 5c per pair. Embroidery Scrim at 15c per yard. " Filo, Twisted and Rope Silk and Gold Embroidery threads at 3c per skein. Common Embroidery Silk at c. Crochet ootton, 200 yards, 5o per spool. Imitation Silk 4c per spool. Silk Crochet Threat 5c per spool. VERY RESPECTFULLY, D. ARE YOU A TO T , S EEIE A Some Paver Containing Is of Interest SEND IN YOUR , IN (JRDER THAT A PAPER P1AY THRIVE INODR CITY IT MUST HAVE THE HEAUTY CO-OPERATION and PATRONAGE of its FEOPLE Mcolof DAILY STANDARD! One week. . . ...... ....... .;. 10c One month..,. , 35c ............ Three months........... .; ........ ...... $1 00 Six (months... ,..V..... . 2t00- One ycor. . . . - a GO . . . ............ BOSTIM. Specials: BRANCH STORE. $2.25 Crokinole boards for 1.G8. New Lot of framed pictures, assorted flowers and fruits 8x16 inches, only loj 1 yard of flowers framed 24 cents. 1 yard of flowers framed with glass 43 China Cake plates at 15 to 98o. See our stock of China wpje; it ia the largrest stock of odd pieces ever shown in Concord. Solid Silver paper cutter and book mark at 25c. Large assortment of Toys, Dolk buy as nice a present for 2oo now aj you will get latter on for 40 or 50 cents; not that they will be higher, but the special bargains will be sold before the usual Holiday trade commences to bnj. J. Bostafn. SUBSCRIBER Some and OthertiJYews :Tkii To Our Readers. - SUBSCRIPTION
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