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No Om. Amoog the deadest of verf dead things is the stteapt cf a certain foar men to set themtelres op as the Republican party ia North Carolina. Boa. Dayid A JenUct, formerly Btate Treasurer, shows how the attempt was sarnie. There's nothing to do now bat to bury the dead; but we most say that the affair was anything but creditable to those engaged in it. II ere is the letter of 31 r. Jenkins: Gi stoma, N. C. June 10, lSl. Editor GastonLi I autU: f Stat la view of the recent ntexoected and extraordinary action of the Hepublican Stale ExecutiTe Committee relspre to the rrohlbitloo question, it may-rjot be im proper for me to make a few remarks cod coming the same Tbe action of the committee in declaring ? IIrb iV iiisxr73aot fce properly con ,!iw.uinnQ -f irling .the sentiments of the committee in relation thereto; and eTea granting seen to be tme, my second proposition wouM be that the committee baa co power or authority to pledge or com mit the KepuWicao party of Ncrtn Carolina cither for or agiiost the liquor law. On the 25th of laat month a meeting of the committee was called by the chairman, fcr purposes unknown to ibe committee until explained by the chairman that it was for the purpose of cimaidcring the propriety of action relative to the liquor law. In that meetin it wu apparent from the expressions of opinion by the individual members composing the com oat Lee that about two-thirds of the commUtee were adverse to making it a prty question. Thercupou a'sub-co;umittce of five was ap noiaLed. a maloritvof whom were opposed to party action, and of which I was one, to receive aor com muoicat torn, proposition or report from the Executive Committee of .'the Whisky Convention which that conven tion tahtht desire to make. I remained over ia Baleigh a week or more for th purpose, and bad a personal interview, with the chairman of that com mittee, and was informed that they had not nor would they have any report to make U'h6 sub-committee, and that tbeywere pet fectly satisfied as matters stood. There upon I left Raleigh for home, reasonably upposing that the rmtter wa finally set tled, and with no information or belief that further action would betaken, inasmuch as the sentiments of, the committee had been ml i.mUtstood ir:HT pppor ci to party action aa pre vkHisTV-td. I b4 Uarely reached home, however, when I was ununited again to Raleigh to attend an ''important meeting" of the Foe ecu live Committee when I could scarcely have reached Raleigh in time for the nwt In?, had I returned at once The mueliog wss, however, had in my hencc at hlch it was decided, by a vote of four to three a bare quorum being rreicnt to Uuct as I understand an ad dreaa to behalf of the Republican party of the mate hostile to the liquor law. Can it lie urgtd with any show of reason that this ts a proper test ox the feelings of the com mittee on the subject, much less the party It.tlf? Admitting, however, that every action of committee has been fair snd square, and that the resolution they have adopted ex press the real sense of the committee on the all. important subject of Prohibition, I sub mil that the committee has no power or authority to act in the matter. It is an un warrantable assumption of authority for the few men composing the committee to un dcttake to frame a platform npon which the Republican party of the Bute shall stand They bavo never been clothed with sach power, either directly or Indirectly, expressly or impliedly, and by acting in the manner which they hare -done they have assumed a right which has vever on a pre vious occasion been claiaaeii oy a ooay ci i men sctloj in a simllsr capacity. Any one j who has a knowledge or. too ngnw, powers and duties of uch committees. I am satis fied, will corroborate this statement. No executive committeo fan claim the legal iiht to dictate to a party the pkUoirn which U should adopt or the policy which it should pursue. 1 f the party is to be com. milted eiiber for or sgalnst inhibition. It can only be done by calling a convention of the Republican party of the State, to take action relative thereto, and no authority propcrh rests with the committee to act In the rattier further than to issue a call for a can7entio3. provided a majority of the committee dtcm auch a course advlisble The action of the committee is, lossy the least, censurable, and a misfortune for the Republican party of the Btate, asd should meet the disapprobation of every, true Jle rvjbJieui !a the Urate- If this power be admitted in any can it would ieem raoat unreasonable nndt;r the present circunv 9taaci of liie Inasmuch as a large majority, if m l nU of the committee, with the exception of tne twn poor colored men irx it, are ti her hoJdmz federal oflca or are seekiog the same. Under these rircum m it .nniH .nrv-wr more graceful, and . . . . . . . . I. . . a ftKAII'fl a meascm which tt perhaps oisappnnc. In rfrw of the fortgolrg fscls I berebr -im-iallr desirabfe that the r arty nou:a t rounds Ol. wic press seating ioat proni t!iironirpoallut has. -greatly increased crfm a in eater my protest against the action of the committee, and do not consider that I or any other Republican in the State is in duty bound to act in conformity thereto. D. A. Jkvklns. Here is what ITon R. P. Dick,' Judge of the Federal Court and one of thesUunchest Republicans In the State, says: The enemies of Prohibition call this a party measure Four or five men went to Kaleigh last week, and pledged the Repub lican party sglnst Prohibition. What right bad tbey to do it ? No right whatever. The constitution of th -Republican party plain against trie usurped authority of those men. snd if the Republican party cannot exist and torrecd without itrapping to its wheels anti-Prohibition, then let it perish!" Tax-Payers, Take Nolle! North Carolina Presbyterian. The Raleigh Prohibit ionut asks: "How does tho pauper and criminal bill of New Hanover county stand ? Does the revenue received from the nefarious traffic in that county counterbalance the cost of supporting its paupers, of arrest ing, trying and supporting its crimi nals?" We answer: New Hanover county received last year from taxes on liquor, say: Tax on purchases S 1,6S7 25 From licenses 2,499 00 Total S 4,1S6 25 The cost of the Criminal Court of New Hanover county, in- cludlngamounts paid judge, solicitor, clerk, 6herilf, ju- Tors and witnesses S 8,904 32 Jail fees, sheriff and watching jail 1,728 99 Total ! 810,693 31 Maintaining the Poor House cost the county $2,350 40 Support of the insane 937 37 Out door poor 2,786 83 Total 8 6,074 60 , 1 Grand total S16.767 91 There are the figures: 91.180 20 vs. 916,767 91. We do not contend that the whole of this latter amount should be charged against Jiquor; but St should not be over looked that we have not included fees of justices of the peace and of consta bles paid by the county, and we omit about two-thirds of the amount of fees received by the justices on cases dis missed on payment of costs, and on which cases the culprits themselves pay the costs. lint allowing that only one-half the cost of crime and poverty is chargeable to liquor and this would certainly be a very low estimate we have the fact staring us in the face that the liquor traffic of New Hanover county costs the people over twice what it brings into the treasury. Let the tax-payers reflect on this. Rut tho financial view, favorable as it is to - Prohibition, is not by any means the only or even most elevated view of the case. We let the ProhU,itianUt speak here: "Even if the much mooted revenue was sufficient to pay the pauper and criminal account of the State, by what code of ethics, or decent regard for hu manity, morality and religion, would we, asa people, oo justified in sanction ing by law, simply for a niggardly and mercenary creed for money, a business which is tilling our land with wretched ness, disease, insanity, pauperism, crime I and death ? Fuels v. Opinions. tome one nt Thomasville, North Car olina, wrote to tho New York Jvumal of Commerce, a paper known to le oppos ed to the priuclpleof prohibition, for an opinion that was exactly what was asked for thus: "I'wish your opinion.' The opinion was' obtained, of course, and now all the advocates of the liquor interest are publishing this opinion as a mighty contribution to their cause. North Carolina, it would seem. Is to be influenced to perpetuate the "crown ing curse," not by facts and arguments, but bv imported opinions and unsup ported' statements. The friends of right nro not so hard pressed as to have to send abroad for opinions. W give here some statistical facts carefully compiled, mainly by the iewiston (Ms.) jounuu. uei it ue re membered that these are not opinions, but statistical facts; 'Much has been said recently of what is called the "failure" of Prohibition in Maine. Paragraphs hare gone the rounds of. the press stating that prohi- Maine, and made it more prevalent than in any other btate in the. union. Leaders have been published declaring that arrests for drunkenness are more frequent than in license States. And recently the Bangor Commercial chal lenged a comparison of arrests for drunkennesss in Bangor where it affirm ed that Prohibition had been so slightly enforced as to make a semi-license, with those in Lewiston and Auburn, where it had been enforced so vigorously. So far as crime is concerned, we recently presented statistics to show that there are three times as many criminals pro portionately in Massachusetts as in Maine; also the following statistics, showing that Prohibitory Maine has a smaller number of convicts proportion ately in its State prison than any other State in the Union: NO. CONVICTS IN STATE PRISONS. Maine 191 one to 3,200 Pop. Alabama 827 one to 1 ,400 Pop. California 1318 one to 600 Pop. Connecticut . 278 one to 2,100 Pop. Massachusetts 757 one to 2,200 Pop. New Hampshire 10 one to 1,900 Pop. New York 34ftS onj to 1,400 Pop. Vermont 176 one to 1,800 Pop. North Carolina 1090 one to 1,200 Pop. We have before us the followimr 'statistics of arrests for drunkeness, etc., iu Prohibitory Lcwfctou .and Auburn, with 28,000 population; semi-Prohibitory Banor with 16,857 popula tion, and license Lowell with 49,000 popula tion, to which wo cull attention: 2 E if s-s o to p a o if 1 c cj " Whole number of arrests ' Arrests for drunkeness Assisted home drunk j Assault and battery j Larceny , i 2S2 .... 12776 80 i621760 50 ...J 212 80 . . I 189 A t RESTS FOIl DRUNKKNESS PER OXK THOU SAND POPULATION. Lewiston and Auburn . 3 Bangor 16 Lowell SO The following statistics of Maine, compared with the Union, will aleo be of Interest: . TAX OX LIQUORS. ' United States tax on manufacture and sale of liquors in the United States, per inhabitant. $ 140 United State tax on the same in Maine, per inhabitant. 03 Amount of deposits In savings in stitutions in the State on Janu ary -rlst. 18SI Amount of deposits in savings in ) 7 si .000,000 stitutions in Lewiston and Au burn.... J6p,000 These are savings of the laboring class and the result of Prohibition. The Atlanta Bunny South says: VThere lives in North Carolina a family nota ble for nothing, as far as is known, but an idiosyncratic fondness for being married in unheard of and absurd places. The wedding of the youngest daughter is just announced in a cliff, near Cove Creek, one hundred and fifty feet in the air, the place being, old tra dition says, an Indian refuge. The father and mother of this romantic young woman took upon themselves the holy bonds of matrimony in a balloon, which, by the way, became uninahage before the bridal party came to earth, so that they barely escaped with their lives, passing the bridal night tossing about in a bank of very wet clouds, the bride being deathly sca-sick. The eldest son of the family kept up the traditions of his house by wedding his bride in a diving bell, although in taking a second wife he contented himself with a simple marriage by telegraph. This will do for summer reading. It is light, airy and sentimental. Like most of fictions, it is not founded on fact. Star. WirAT is Whiskey Bringing. "What whiskey bringing? " asked a dealer of that article one day. He meant to a.k, how much in it selling for? A' gentleman who heard the remark took it in a ditFerent sense from that. " ' What is whiskey bringing? ' do you ask ? I'll tell you. It is bringing men to prison and to the gallows, and it is bringing women to poverty and want." There never was a truer answer than this. . It is estimated that it sends to prison every year, one hundred thousand men and women. Twenty thousand children are sent to the poor houe annually by drink. Three hundred murders are caused by i n tern perance every year. Two hundred thousand children are made orphans every year by this dreadful evil, and sixty-five thousand are killed by intemperance every year in this country. You will be held nceiuntablc to God for the good left undor. at well aj for the eril done. MISCELLANY. Ancient Nazareth is now the site of an orphanage under the supervision of the'Education Society of England. It has been opened four years, and there are in it now thirty-six girls of ages vary ing from four to fifteen. "If Jones undertakes to pull my ears, ,r said a loud-mouthed fellow on a, street corner, "he'il just have his hands full.n The crowd looked at the man's ears and smiled. I For some years the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has endeavored to relieve the barren dreariness of the or dinary railway! station by surrounding their country station houses by flower beds. More attention to this matter is being paid this year than ever before ; Land recently the company purchased 50,000 plants in this city for the adorn ment of the stations or the New York and Philadelphia division of the road. The practice is worthy Of general imita- Seize upon truth wereW 'tis found, On Christian or on heathen ground ; Among your friends, among your foesr The plant's divine where'er it grows. In the window of a Washington jew elry store there is a large and elaborately carved silver frontlet, the royal gift of H. M. Charles II., King of England, Scotland, Ireland and Virginia; to the Queen of the Pamunkies. It is the property of Miss Mrsoh, Virginia. The rainbow is none the less beauti ful because it bends. In hum'anity is loveliness. Sidney Smith once rebuked a swearing visitor by saying : "Let us assume that K i 3 1 . eveij'tuiug aim every uuu,y are Uiumieu, and proceed with our subject." Perish "policy" and cunning, :' Perish all that fears the light : Whether losing, whether gaining, Trust in God, and do the right. Some will hate thee, some will love thee,' ; t? a.4--n ...311 i i t- . ouiuc w in iirtbtci, sumc will biigub ; Ceasefroni man, and look above thee Trust in God, and do the riglit. ! Dr. Norman Maeleod. The frog season has begun in Paris, and skewers of a dozen bind legs the edible Dart of this ueculiar Gallic daintv latB .w,vWlwt -WQ rno rrogs mHnDtncry eisst-v arrows, the latter being attached1 to a string like a miniature harpoon. The department of antiquities in the Bibliotheque Nationale has lately re ceived the interesting addition of what is known as Dagobert's chair, in which all the Carlovingian Kings of France were seated when they received the oaths of their vassals. This historic chair remained for many years in the Abbey of St. Dennis, but after. the suppression of that abbev and the creneral mllacre of the monasteries in 1793, it passed to the Palais Royal. Napoleon I. borrowed it for the purpose of distributing the first decorations of the Legion d'Honneur at his camp at Boulogne in 1803, but it does not appear to ftaveTjeen used by any of the later French sovereigns. The chair is of bronze, gilded in places, and decor ated with the heads of panthers. The attendant of the witty Mathews in his last illness, intending to give his patient medicine, took up the ink-bottle by mistake and did not discover the blunder until the dose had been swal lowed, whereupon he exclaimed : "Good heavens, Mathews, I have given you ink!" "Nevermind, mvbov "said Mathews. faintly, "I'll swallow a bit of blotting paper." ':.', The congregation of the Index has just condemned seven philosophical works, one of which was published in France, while two were of Belgian and four of Italian origin. Three of these last were the pen of Terenzio Mamiani. One of the volumes now denounced as prejudicious was published in 1869. Mahogany was introduced into Eng land by Sir Walter Raleigh, who brought the trunk of a tree of that wood to Queen Elizabeth from Brazil. It was made into various articles, which she presented to her courtiers. For herself a small work-box was constructed which is now in the Tower of London in a per fect .state of preservation Prince William and Princess Vic toria ate their wedding supper under the splendid chandelier of rock' crystal which hung above Luther at the "Diet of Worms. The late King of Prussia bought it for $20,000. M. Prudhomme lauds the advantages of crvmnastiea. "Thoro ia nft.;n i?i it for the health." he says, "It increases a man's strength, prolongs his days", "But our ancestors did not practice gymnastics, and vet" "Thv AiH and what is the consequence? They are dead, every man of them."
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