SCHOOLROOM VER
SUS BARROOMS.
Therein an eternal coullict be
tween the schoolroom and the
barroom Thescboolroom makes
?wtit, the barroom destroys them
i"Ae schoolroom rakes the child
and traine him to a useful life.
The barroom takes the boy and
trains him to a life of wrong do
ing. The school roootu tills the
home with bright, happv boysj
and girls. The barroom fills it
vith ignorant, aimless, lawless
inmates The school house fills
^the pulpit with educated, elo
quent ministers of the Gospel aud
the pews with godly men aud
women. The stillhouse fills the
jaUs and penitentiaries with
criminals aud murderers. Fhe
schoolroom sends men to
the Legislature, to the bench and
to the executive office. The bar
room sends them to the scaffold
and to hell. The schoolroom
gires to a community an intelli
gent, tiirifty, enterprising, refined !
mauuuod and womanhood. The j
barroom given it a thriftless,
lawless, iguoraut, worthless citi
zenship. The schoolroom car
ries light and knowledge into
the home and community. The
barroom carries darkness and
sorrow and death into the home
and community. The school
room leads to higher and better
things. Tne barroom leads to
lover and baser things. 1 he (
schoolroom stands for the good, ,
the barroom for the bad.
i [ie people tnui- inuiupiy hiki ;
replenish the schoolrooms an I
destroy the barrooms are build
ing for their posterity u future
that will grow brighter and |
greater as they continue to mul
tiply aud replenish the school
room and utterly destroy the
last trail of the barroom. The!
people of North Carolina have
made wonderful strides in the
lust few years in multiplying the
schoolrooms and destroying the
barrooms, but t ho filial conflict
is just before theui. On the 2(>tb
of May, 1908, the final bat tle is
:>* be fought. Shall the school
room or barroom triumph? On
that day every citizen must
stand with the schoolroom or
the barroom. He must stand lor
the work of the schoolroom or
the work of the barroom there
is no middle ground.
The election is to be a State
election and Uio issue involved
appeals to every citizen iu every
section, the cry from the friends
of the schoolroom, from those
who would give to the State a
strong, great, noble citizenship
for protection from the curse
of <1 run k en uess, should be
heard aud answered by every
lover of his fellow men, no mat
ter where his home may be.
While North Carolina is divi
ded into counties and towns and
townships, yet these all make
the State. I'he good of e very
section should be the aim of ev
ery citizen. if the people in auy
county, city or town have rid
themselves of the curse of the
whiskey traffic and have found
peace aud profit in it they
should beat the ballot-box ou
the day of election aud vote to
confer a similar blessing upon
their fellow citizens in every oth
?r section.
The lime was when the differ
ent tractions of the State were
separated .from each ctner by
long distance and time. To go
from one extreme to another was
a long, tiresoiu-* journey and
but few attempted it. Now it is
easy and enjoyable, aud tbe men
of the east and the men of the
west often meet and shake
hands. The time was when it
took a 1 in,- time to get the new*
* . ^ ? . ?. i t
iroiu uurruucs to cueronee, irom
Wilmington l i Asheville Now
the citizens of these onre it mote
communities can converse with |
cacti other us it thev lived by the
side of each other. Hie railroad,
the telegraph and the telephone!
bare annihilated space and time,,
and made us one people iu ail j
oar aspirations, plans and pur- |
poses to become a great people j
and a great State. The people!
of one county cannot be ludiffer
cnt to the welfare of the ppople|
in auother county. Hence, 1 cau I
confidently appeal to the friends !
of the echoo.room and the eue
miee of the barroom iu everv j
section of the State to be at the.
ballot-box on the 2Gth day of
May and vote "againstthe man
ufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors in North Carolina." 1
use the term barroom to repre
?oent every means for the sale and
treflic in liquor and I earnestly
appeal to the people to put au
emi to this traffic no matter un
der what name or guise it may
.be carried on.
.4 favorite argument with those
wftko want to stand with the bar
room, but try togivesomeexcuee
for doing so is that prohibi
tion does not prohibit, oh. they
nay if prohibition really prohib
ited they would vote for it. Thin
argument is not sincere. Those
who use it do so becuuse they
are ashamed to stand for
the barroom with all its horrors j
and evils without) some cloak to
bide behind If they are sincere
why do they not say the same
thing about other prohibition
laws? We have had a law against
stealing which has beeu on our
statute books for ages and yet
some men steal Our statutes
are full of prohibition laws, which
are violated by some one almost
every day. Down hear those men
say these do not prohibit and
therefore let theui tie repealed?
Nay, verily. It is only when it
is proposed to prohibit by law
something of the wreck and ruin
produced by the sale of whiskey
that we hear the cry that probi
bitiou does not prohibit.
1 now propose very briefly to
show that prohibition does pro
hibit?not absolutely, butlargelv
aud beneficially. In the first
place I remark that no human
law is perfect in its construction i
or executiou. We have tS take
all law with its human limita
tions, but tiie law which pronib
its the manufacture aud sale of
intoxicating liquors Can he
Made as efficient as any other
law if the people ho will it. lu
Che next place 1 remark that we
are all more or less creature* of
habit If we tiave the habit of
going to bed at nine o'clock, when
nine o'clock comes a sleepy feel
ing creeps upou us. If we get
in i he tiabit of getting up at six
o'clock when six o'clock comes
we become wakeful. If twelve
o'clock be our dinner hour, when
noon comes hunger comes with
it. Men even contract the dirty
filthy habit of chewing tobacco
and when the habit gets a good
bold upon them they are never 1
$ u.siie J except when they have a '
wad of the stuff iu their mouth. '
So with drinking. 1 is largely a 1
babit. I'ho man wno has the <
natal wants ins drink at tin
usual hour. The mau wno is
Iree from the habit do..s not want
it. Now anything that tends to
get men out of the habit is help
ful. As you make it more an 1 .
more difficult to get liquor you '
more and more get men out ol
the habit ol using it. If men '
can't get it they can't use it, and
it they get out ol the habit ol
using it tliey soon cease to want
it. And 1 submit that protnoi j
tiou makes it difficult, if not im
possible, lor that very class of
men to get whiskey, who can ill ,
afford to waste their hard earn
ings and scautv means in some
thing that can do t hem no good
After all, the effectiveness ol pro
hibition, like nil other prohibito
ry 1 iWs, dep tids upon the local
authorities. It we have sheriffs :
and constables and police and
magistrates who are in sympa
thy with blind tigers, the blind
tigers will flourish. If these otti
eers are at enmity with the blind
tigers and in lull sympathy with
the rigid enforcement of the law,
the blind tiger will soon seek
other fields for bis devilish opera
tions Hence the necessity for a
great big majority for prohibi
tion Let. us make it so large
that the officers of the law will
know that the people are in earn
est and that, they tueuu to see
the law enf need. Lst us make
it so big that tho wretch who
would engage iu the illicit mauu
facture or sale of liquor will
know that there is no hiding
place for him in North Carolina
and that if he would engage iu
ttiis wicked business, he must go
beyond b"r borders ? I'tunna* J.'
Jarvie in News and Ooserver.
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