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HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 1908.
The Liquor Traffic and Personal
Liberty,
For the honest, sincere heart
who thinks that his rights will be
abridged and that his rightful
privilege will be taken away from
him by prohibitory laws, we
have the profoundest respect,
and we honor any man who will
resist encroachments upon his
constitutional rights. We fre
quently hear men severely criti
cise the acts of the legislature as
being inimical to the rights and
privileges of freeborn American
citizens, and again we often mis
take their selfindulgences for
Personal Liberty, and for the
purpose of placing the truth of
the matter before the honest
voter, we quote from the decis
ions of the Supreme Court of the
Nation (the greatest tribunal in
the world) and also from the.
Supreme Court of North Caro
lina.
"No legislature car* bargain a
way the public health or the pub
lic morals. The people cannot
do it, much less their servants."
—Stone vs. Mississippi, 101 U. S.
816.
' 'lf the public safety or public
morals require the discontinu
ance of any traffic the hand of.
the legislature cannot b& stayed
from discontinuing the same by
( reason of any inconvenience
which individuals or corporations
may suffer."—Beer Co. vs. Mas
! sachusetts, 97 U. S. 32.
"The State cannot by contract
limit the exercise of her power
to the prejudice of the public
health or public morals."—
Butcher Union Co., vs. Crescent
City Co., 11l U.S. 751. -
"There is no inherent right in
a citizen to sell intoxicating li
quors by retail: It is not a privi-:
ledge of a citizen of a state or of
a citizen of the United States." 1
—Crowlev vs. Christman 137 U.
S. 86.
j "We cannot shut out the fact
that the public health, the public
morals and the public safety
may be endangered by the gen
eral use-of intoxicating drinks,
•nor the fact that the idleness,
disorctr, pauperism and crimes
existing in the country are tracer
able to the drink evil." —Mugler
vs. Kansas 123 U. S. 523.
j In perfect accordf with the
foregoing decisions of the Su
preme Court of the United States
ithe Supreme Court of North
| Carolina, through Justice Mont
i gomery rendering the decision
in a case from Washington, N.C.
says this:
t "From the standpoint of* the
j Statute laws on the subject and
i the decisions of the Court, the
'rule with reference to what the
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law would regard as undue re
strictions upon useful business
cannot be the same as that ap
plicable to the liquor traffic.
What would be a deprivation of
the'use of the property without
due process of law or an infringe
ment of personal liberty against
one engaged in a useful trade,
I would not be such when consider
ed in conpection with the prop
erty or with one person engaged
in the sale of intoxicating liquors
as is pointed out in State vs.
Ray, where the Court said:- It
must be understood that saloons
stand on a very different footing
to tne sale of dry goods or fami
ly groceries. Liquor itself is re
garded as an evil, an enemy of
civilization and good govern
ment. '
From the foregoing decisions
of_the highest tribunals in the
State and nation it will be seen
that no man has any inherent
right in the liquor traffic and
that no man's personal liberty is
involved or taken away. No
man will say that his personal
liberty is taken away bv the
statute that says he shall not sell
spoiled meats ©r rotten fish to his
neighbor Neither will he say
that that the statute that forbids
the coward carrying concealed
weapons to shoot down some
good man takes away any right
belonging to the citizen. All
All these statutes are the
same footing and there is no per
sonal liberty or privilege invol
ve in the matter.
The question before the peo
ple of North Carolina is of world
wide interest. The devotees of
the wine cup must put aside
their wineglassess or go down in
disgrace.
Already they are debarred
from entering nearly every vo
cation, profession and industry of
life. JThe drinking man finds it
hard to obtain a position any
where to earn a livelihood. He
foresees his doom and appeals
for helpto.be freed.
Already numbers of States
have driven the traffic from their
borders, to wit: Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Indian Territory and in the Cen
tral West the traffic is prohibited
in from 75 to 80 per cent in each
State and they are moving for
total prohibition.
The promoters and advocates
in North Carolina are states
men and patriots and are appeal
ing to the citizens to rise in their
might and strike the shackles
from the arms of our young
men that they may rise to that
height in the moral, intellectual
and commercial world that* they
are entitled to and not doom
them to be underlings and hew
ers of wood and drawers of water
to do only the most menial ser-
Forego appetite to help your
vice.
boys and girls. There is no
privilege to be taken awav.
Men may garble the Scriptures
to fortify their position for liquor
drinking as much as they please
but they will find that the- same
Bible which says, "Thou shalt
have no other Gods before me,"
also says, "No drunkard shall
enter enter the kingdom of
God/ ' and that the latter declar
ation is as positive and certain
as the former, and we defy any
man to find where God has re
scinded this decree.
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Registrars and Judges Appoint
ed for the Election.
The following Registrars and
Judges have been appointed for
the election May 26th 1903.
Catawba—J. A. Sleuman, Reg.
J. H. Coulter, and J. J. Smith.
So. Hickory— D. E. Whitener
Reg. J. E. Abee, Wesley M.
Hawn.
No. Hickory—lfrfH. McComb,
Reg. Frank Ingc'd, D. E. Hahn.
Brittians—R. P. He ivner, Reg.
Nash Wyant, Marion Huffman.
Shawnee—A. L. Erwin, Reg.
J. Q. Rowe, Walter Annas.
Jacobe Fork —D. H. Shuford,
Reg. E* D. Blackburn, Wallace
Rhoney.
Mt. Pleasant —Jno. Gabriel,
Reg. Austin Sherrill, Ed Litten.
Conover—P. E. Isenhour, Reg.
N. I. Rowe, Lawson Hunsucker.
Claremont —G. E. Setzer, Reg.
Loy Yoder, Jno. Huitts ,
Catawba Springs—J. Q. Isen
hour, Reg. W. L. Cline, Levi
Heffner.
Sherrillg Ford—L. L. Sherrill,
Reg. D. W. Whitener, Alex
Brotherton.
Eaily Grove—F. E. Bost, Reg.
J. A. Whitener, T. J. Thomason.
Newton—A. J. Seagle, Reg.
P. C. Shuford, S. Hawn.
Maiden—Lafa>ette Hefner,
Reg. H. P. Rudisill, David F.
Propst.
Piney Grove—Chas. Deal, Reg.
Jfto. H. Drum, Jno. Hoke.
Oliver's—T. J. Drum, Reg. R.
M. Drum, Andrew Clippard.
If any of the above judges
fail to serve, the registrars and
judges who are present will pro
ceed to fill the vacancy according
to section 4337 Revisal of 1905:
D. P. Rowe, Chm.
J. B. Little, Secy.
S. M. Hamrick.
Mew ton, N.'C. April 2.1908,
DEATH WAS ON HIS HEELS
Jesse P. Morris of Skippers, Va.,
had a close call in the spring of 1906.
He says: "An attacts of pneumonia
left me so weak and with such a fearful
cough that my friends declared con
sumption had me, and death was only
my heels. Then I was persuaded to
try Dr. King's New Discoveryr. It
helbed me immadetly, and after taking
two and a half bottles I was a well man
again, I found out that New Discovery
is the best remedy for coughs anb lung
diseases In all the worlo." Sold unber
guarutee at
C. M. Shuford E. B, Meazies, W. S.
Martin druggists.
Democratic Executive Com
mittee Meets.
The County Democratic Exe
cutive committee met in the
court house at Newton Monday
of this week." Chairman E. L.
Shuford presiding. It was agreed
that onfy one convention be held
this year. The primaries be
held Saturday June 20th and the
county convention be held the
following Monday June 22nd. -
The primarie in Hickory and
Newton to open at 2: p. m. and
remain till seven p. m. and other
precincts from 2 to 6 o'clock p.
m.
All candidates for county of
fices will be voted for at these
primaries. " Let every voter at
tend their respective places
HE GOT WHAT HE NEEDED. *
"Nine yeara ago it looked as if my
time had come, ' says Mr.X. Farthing
of Mill Creek, Indi. Ter. "I was run
sown that life hung on a very slender
thread. It was theu my dauggist re
commended Eleetric Bitters. I
pought a qottle and I got what I neeed
—streugth. I had one foot iu the
grave, but Electric Fitters pnt it back
on the turf agrin, and I've been well
ever since.'' Sold uuder gurmtee at
C. M. Shuford, W. S. Martin & Co.
and Menzies Drug Co.
"The man who knowes enough
to attend to his own business
knows about all that is worth
knowing," says the Chicago
News, which, of course, in now
wise chonges the fact that the
man who thanks he knows about
all that is worth knowing invari
ably wants to attend to everybody
else's business.
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• Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
Prohibition Notes.
•'lt is undemocfatic"-Cy Wat
son. It is Democratic-Glenn,
Aycock, Jarvis, Kitchin, Craig,
Simmons. Who is authority?
It is. claimed that prohibition
interferes with personal liberty.
L.et us see. A man went to Salis
bury, bought liquor from the sa
loon, went home crazy with
strong drink and knocked his
wife down and .cruelly beat her.
Has that woman no rights which
be reapeefced by the sa
loons?
$1,000,000 spent by the liquor
association , to defeat prohibition
in the South. Are we for sale
to the liquor interest? The re
sult will be resented at the polls
May 26.
The saloon is the only institu
tion which leaves the finished
product in worse condition than
the raw material. It takes the
boy pure and innocent and con
verts him into a drunkard de
graded and debased.
Wanted. In the interest of
personal liberty the, saloons
want 2000 boys to take the pre
liminary course in dram drinking
next year preparatory to enter
ing upon the second year's work
of drunkeness. Any mother
who has a boy to offer will com
municate the information to the
committee working in the inter
est of personal liberty.
The country people are the
best people in the world. They
stand for the home. They will j
not be prejudiced against prohi
bition by the appeals which are
made to them by the liquor men.
A vote for prohibition is a vote
for home against the saloon. For
Which do you |
Let every school house and
church in Catawba county have
at least one meeting before the
election in May.
Let every one willing to speak
ofc work for the cause of prohibi
tion in Catawba county com
municate the fact to P. A. Hoyle
Newton N. C.
Prohibition does not prohibit.
If it does not, what is the reason
the liquor men are fighting it
Are you for liquor or against
liquor? That is the question
to ask yourself, and if you are
for liquor, vote against prohibi
tion, but if you are against liquor
then vote for Prohibition.
The number of arrests in
Hickory with saloons was twice
as great as they were the follow
ing year without saloons.
Catawba will have the Gover
nor in April. Remember the
date April 10. In the afternoon
at the Startown Graded school
lEiKUNISAYS JGm |
I NO ALUM Jp3y
I In Food
I and strictly prohibits @9
baking powder— . JiJw
I So does France
I So does Germany 1
I has been made illegal in Washington and the District of Colum- ■
jl bia, and alum baking powders are everywhere recognized as I
I mjunous. To protect yourself against alum, I
when ordering baking powder,
I Sap plainly- I
I ROYALPowder
I and he very sure you get RoyaL
Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape
Cream of Tartar. It adds to the digestibility and whole-
and in Hickory- at night. Let
there be a large gathering to
hear h m.
Work, pray, vote.. Let the
majority be great.
Resolutions By the Teachers'
Association.
The teachers of Catawba coun
ty, through their Association»
are trying to advance the cause
of education, to do more efficient
teaching, to secure a larger en
rollment and more regular at
tendance, and to make the school
work in general better. They
realize the great importance of
the work, arid they see the need
for longer terms. They feel that,
the time has come for the ful-/
fillment of some of the many
promises made concerning the
elementary public schools. Much
has been promised the schdftls,
and but little has been donos* :
The teachers are beginning to
feel that these promises may
never be kept unless some one
demands that they be fulfilled.
At the last meeting of the As
sociation the following resolu
tions were adopted unanimously. •»
Whereas, there is great need
for a larger school fund for the
support of the elementary public
schools, in which more than 95
per cent of the people of the
State receive all the school train
ing they ever get.
Whereas, the appropriations
by the State for the- institution
of Higher Education, and for
other purposes, have been large
ly increased, without any in- .
crease being made to the ele
mentary public schools.
Therefore be it resolved by the
Teachers' Association of Cataw-
TTa county: First, that we ask
the next General Assembly of
North Carolina to increase the
State levy for schools from 18c
to 25c on the SIOO valuation.
Also, that the second one hun
dred thousand dollars special ap
propriation be made permanent,
and that it be appropriated per
capita among all the counties of
the State.
Second, that we respectfully
ask the Board of County Com
missioners of Catawba county to
increase, for the levy
for school puri>osesfrom 18c to
22c on the SIOO. Inasmuch as
there is quite a surplus in the
county treasury, we believe this
increase can be made without
detriment to the other county ob
jects and without raising the
total tax levy.
OABTORIA.
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