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' y ; ' ! .i arru: r.3 , :-3 r -:.- -.:ion. I do;-;re to : 1 t'. .1 I wrote In haste a. I .1 to;aper, when speaking of I read hl3 article in The 1 3 : order several times and ' It with me for' ten . days or "ore I worte. I did not how a his pamphlet until after I n. I conversed with at least i of our Baptist ministers and a , cf laymen and I did not hear 2 nan who approved of Mr. . ! e Vse or endorsed hi posl l desire to reiterate my state tl.at he acted with indiscretion n toad taste to attack State pro em! while chairman of the anti n league, knowing as he did that lared in its platform of princU '.hat It was, unalterably In favor olute State prohibition and op , i o dispensaries and licensed sa- Fhen Mr. Bailey knows that the j ltried that night when he re i elect a man of its way of ng but who Insisted that It be vithj the' executive committee. It -vldfcht -to -many of the league i it toet la "Raleigh that Mr. Bal id -his utmost t forestall It in Its ise t ask that the liquor questiqn jbmi,tted to the people of the i State and he knows that he had vjte- in Us platform of principles eBolutlon declaring for absolute I jprohibition against his own will ' I sires. Mr." Bailey not only ought resigned but to have stayed al&Vln my i (It If ere, thf first article,. and relt- that Mr. Bailey's course (Tended tha reat bodv of tem- ice people of the State. As an nee : of this fact I quote the a In a personal letter of one of kost consecrated women of the lira's Christian Temperance Union has devoted her life to the great ranee . cause. - "I have Itnes ' had doubts 'of : -Mr. .Z fc-- sincerity In desiring nsion lor .me siaie, dui i coma udglne he would show so much uudas spirit outright. It seems I he will lose his prestige." i l,lke these coming from one of est women In North Carolina 1 make Mr. Bailey fetop and !ler. r, Issue Is not a" personal one be- Mr. Bailey and myself, but one embraces every man and wo nthe-State who Is fighting the devil and the demon of drink 'ho is fighting the licensed sa Ad the .open dispensary aa a foe '.ety'and' an. enemy to the home, 'wr question la a, moral issue ,ne "Which" Involves the whole This point in tny letter Mr. passed ' over In silence and I repeat it, here. "If the licensed f liquor Is morally wrong In one It; is , morally wrong in every Would Mr. Bailey extend his local -self-government to oth esyons .,of .moral . right and ? would he take the same po- jt as ; to i ' gambling, ;. : lotteries, Igrtys,. pplygamy,, bull fights, and nouses 7 if not, why not? His 'of self government of letting owns settle the: liquor question emselves because they are the gns""Wtitild",""rioia-',gooa"for v U us wen as a town 'and' why not ' so for the people of the whole The State is a larger unit than NtUtowj and" Resides the local erives Jts corporate power and tfcjitotit the;Stat$. Then again uor business Is not local in Its ins. It extends out Into all the fiding country. One liquor town ttupt a dozen counties around Bailey -will remember . how Ion and Moore counties went to with H - strong : - delegations Hoffman and Hamlet because iere a constant menace to these tton counties.. The gooif people 'h-county iwent to Raliearh with fgners outof about 1,700 voters county . to get liquor out of mto and It is openly charged lesboro that 'Mr. Bailey heloed !at these good people In their before the Legislature. One tt Wadesboro said he did a particle of confidence In ,iey's sincerity as a prohibition , t cr - . : .re. I .- y ; i . -. i . - i : i .:.vr u; Jure tV..;t ; Y. r I ok : . , 'y f ivf3 a list of kiiti-s which since 1831 have had some kind of liquor law passed at one time or another by the different polit- cal parties. In some of these States the laws were declared void by the courts and others by weakening pen alties. Some only prohibited liquor in part. It has always been difficult to keep the liquor question out of politics and the Watts law was passed, as Mr. Bailey knows, largely as a political measure to clean up the revenue om- cers In the rural districts ' of North Carolina. A paper In his own town so declared which endorsed his position. This law is most heartily, endorsed and supported by Mr. Bailey. it is strange Mr. Bailey saw so much in the prohibition year book against State prohibition and did not see the splendid array of facts and figures given as to the working of State prohibition In Kansas and N6rth Da kota and also the awful effects of lo cal option In New Hampshire and Vermont which changed back to high license. , There Is a long list of towns on page 57 showing how crime In creased In three months from 61 to BOO per cent In these towns. But Mr. Bailey has a theory to foster and he shuts his eyes to all evidence as to the good effects of State prohibition. He is like a man who would pick but all the bad things he could find recorded in the Bible and undertake to build an argument against it. After reading what Samuel Pearson said on page 65 in . defense of State prohibition it Is astounding how Mr. Bailey ; tries to use him against the very thing he is defending. "-v "' " ' ' The defense of prohibition In Kan sas on page 71 . is fine, both as the good effects and workings of the law and the wonderful growth of the fi nancial condition of the State. t The report ; admits the - law was not so well enforced in a few border towns and one or two larger cities but says that "It Is shown by distillers and brewers reports and Journals that not one-tenth as much liquor Is sold in Kansas; as in high license States of the same population.". But, Mr. Bailey could not see this. In other words, Kansas Is ten times better than local option or high license States. I do not eharge.Mr. Bailey with wilful dishon esty,; but I do say that he seems aw fully blind to these things in . the year book. . , If Mr. Bailey Is fighting the liquor traffic In order to neutralize or to des troy Its Immoral and debauching in fluence, how Is it that he has remained so silent as to the dispensary In tys own town which has become a men ace to the whole country around It. One minister near Raleigh said that the roads leading out from . Raleigh were strewn with bottles and that they had cut the hoofs of the horses In the public roads and that the people were talking of asking the Legislature to make , It a crime. ,, to throw bottles Into the road. This' great Incubus of morav reform has been turning . lnf 6 tne cny ana. county treasury 185,000 net profits, so reported, and I have yet to read from Mr. Bairey. the first word of condemnation of this hydra-headed monster. Jeroboam sinned and made all Isreal to1 sin and this great moral Institution Is sending out Its corrupt Influence throughout the whole State and Is encouraging other towns1 to loiiow thet example f 'Raleigh to raise revenue to pay oebts ana lm Iprove streets s "v "'V'. ot I do not owe Mr. Bailey any per sonal ill will, but I am sorry he .has allowed himself to assume a position fraught with harm to the cause of right and an encouragement to the advocates of the liquor cause. The prohibition year book, so prom inent In this discussion can be had of the United Prohibition Press, 92 La Salle street, Chicago, 111, for 15 cents, Read It and it will help you to see the truth on this question. , S. F. CONRAD.' r f us .were flghtintr Honor be . Bailey was out of knee nanta la of the strongest ODoonenta Etate writes me that Mr, Bailey not aavanced a singre? new or, argument on the liquor More than 25 years ago we same argument that "Prohlh. "es not prohibit." Every t6n huA' hinar ahout' nrohlMtlrtn 3 and the evasions' f the law ma at us. I repeat again, the "rtf tfin' ttnnnr anaa . .an4 !an;wh6; would. 'fasten ; the 11 iJfic' on the country' does not v- better stuff than Mr. Bailey ng out Jllgh , license -and local nave - Deen tne sniDDoieth nf en through all th years. They &Jssue, of their b.tisiness being as a great moral wrong, as to society, and as unworthy a a, "decent community. To 11. caRilleehse the open and pub V)f liquor without doing vio I the moral; conscience of its ip. To ;.tax the' right "to" sell 'id put It under State protec- go Into partnership with the rand puts all the people of a ate behind it Mr. Bailey's Hakes 'the majority of a corn goyerning rule which would the individual as well as a le. If then the Individual Is ei and corrupt that he wont od by general law you must his mean and devilish dis t faking a law to suit Jiim. wag somewhere In the coun imunlty where the sentiment iw that the peopl? endorsed itlhg, the government must (o - that depraved community ,se the business. Great ques icrJM Tight are not to be sef oCal towns or even " single. ,they relate to all the people t State. :iley most exultantly declared Sio of "23 States have tried a little wooJiar.l fiao, where he painted foliare . cf autumn was the background and the '.soft wind of a hazy September afternoon made mu sic for the interludes, Shakespeare's idyl of the forest, "As You Like It," was performed yesterday by the Ben Greet Flayers. The .representation had charm and subtle grace and a touch of that quality of awe, almost, which ought to descend upon every player when he appears in any Shakespearean role 6ave the frankly comic or blustering ones. Simplicity, reverence and the spirit of poetry marked the whole treatment of - the Forest Scene of "As You Like It as the players from England acted them. They , read Shakespeare as if they loved him, and the kind nreezes caught up the words and bore them over from meadows ana crimson woods as though they loved them, too, and were loath to let them go." SOUTHERN AGENTS MEET HERE. They Will Not Go to Norfolk But Will Assemble at the Seiwyn on me hw and 15th. ( ; ThA ninth. annual meeting of the . Southern ; Railway A rents' . Association will be held at the Selwyn on the 14th and 15th instead of at NorioiK. va., as nas been heretofore announced. This is due to th fact that suitable hotel aO commodatlons could not be secured In Ya ni Trtmlnlon n" arrroiint of the Jamestown i Exposition. This meeting will mean a srreat deal to cnarume, for 75 or more representatives will attend It. The association Includes all local aeents and officers of the traf fie and allied departments. The South ern representatives here have been verv active In trvlnar to brine the con vention to Charlotte. Mr. T. L. Black l.o naw nnsrasred In sendine out circu lar letters to all' of those interested. telling them of the change from Nor folk to Charlotte. Tne seiwyn win make special arrangements to enter tain the rauroaa men m a most royal way.,- , . . . ASSAILANT.. TO JAtL.' " JC;.S OF PNEUMONIA. ": ' this time If nperlected lja t f umonla which is so oftnti i fhen thi .rntlfnt lias r i e A.fcii.-jt ntdkin f CCr;t., to t" , .- 'Squire llllton Sends Sylvester Rdd to Prison to Await Developments in Condition of Young Balles, Whom He Assaulted. Sylvester Reid, the negro laborer who struck Grenell Balles, the 14-year-old son M of 'Squire ,W. , O. , Bal les, of Plneville, in the head with a bridle bit Thursday, was brought to the city yesterday after nopn..by an. officer of Plneville and seat to jail. i The man was, taken be fore ''Squire Hilton, -who issued a war rant for him and, on the officer's state ment, committed him; to Jail without ball, ; to ' await developments L in the condition ;of the, boy . , kf , y . The lad was brought to .this, city for treatment and is at the Mercy General Hospital. The heavy bit hit the boy on the skuiy fracturing ;.it and causing some of' the ' brain to ooze 1 out. His condition, is precarious arid it was for this reason that , the negro ; la being held, so. as to determine, the. nature of the offense for which he. must an swer. Tht negro was. arrested south' of the city, on the farm of Mr. Boyce EtlL , ..lakes delicious hot biscuit, mcldle cakes, rolls and muffins An absolutely pure, cream cf tarter powebr ' r; ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. Right From Goldfield. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. McGinnls have arrived here from Goldfield, Nev., where they are living. They are stop ping with Mr. ana Mrs. J. W Sprin kler on North College street. Mr. Mc Ginnls is connected with a big gold mining project at Goldfield, and will spend some time in and around Char lotte in the interest of his company. He-feels certain that Goldfield Is the coming, place in the country. The out look is very promising. When Mr. McGinnls left here sev eral months ago and went to Nevada, he had a touch of the gold fever, but his "temperature ,then was not a cir cumstance to what It is now. He not only carries a breeze with him 1 but ihe. fans others., He is Getting Wise. - In discussing things in general with a playmate the other day a tiny boy, with sense beyond his years, said: "You know, Jlmmie, I have looked Into the Santa Claus business, and that is papa and mama; and the rabbit and the Easter egg, and the rabbit don't lay, and the next thing I'm going to investigate is all this talk about the devil and his desire for little children; I don't think much of that." Special Protection for Moving Picture ..Shows. ' .. y : Apropos of the constantly Increasing numbers of the moving picture shows In Charlotte, the total being at pres ent six, and the three first that have recently occurred in these establish ments, Chief of the fire, dapartment, W. S. Orr stated last night that each one of the managers of these concerns has asked him to order for him a hand extinguisher which Is highly effective and can be Instantly applied. They desire this known that the possible fears of the nervous.- may be al layed. Chief Orr .himself -.says he 'be lieves these will remove' any, possible danger arising from' the combustlbT nature of the material. Comparative Fire Record. The month of : March witnessed . 21 fires, of large and small degree, Jn cnanotte, according to the statement of the chief yesterday. None were of especial Importance. ' thonsrh thar were several which would have re sulted seriously, had not the depart ment responded promptly and exting uished them. The month of April fur nished . the hoodoo number, 23, r a slight advance. May is exceedingly young yet, but. four have already oc curred thus far. It has been a Ion time since the city has had a disas trous fire. . Every lady should have a copy of the Argo Red Salmon Cook Book. It tells you ininy-r.ine ainereni ways oi pre paring Salmon. Ask your grocer for It A LARGE FUNERAL PARTY. The Remains of Capt Bason Laid to Rest in Elm wood. The remains of Capt George F. Bason were Interred at Elmwood yes terday afternoon. The funeral services were held at" the residence of Mrs. H, A. Badham, on South Myers street, at 4 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Martin D. Har din, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, conducted the services and Mrs. Harvy S." Bryan, Miss May Oates and Mrs. Minnie Wrlston. Smith sang. Immediatey after-the large and splen did crowd had assembled "We Would See Jesus" was sweetly rendered and following the reading of the scripture ana tne remarKs or jjr. Hardin, "Abide ,with Me." Among those who attended the fu neral were many of Capt. Bason's as sociates at the bar from the neighbor ing counties. Many beautiful flower designs were sent to the cemetery and placed upon the grave. . The- pallbearers were: Mr. W. C. - Maxwell Col. w. B. Rod man, , T. w. Alexander, Brevard Nixon, H. N. Pharr and T. C. Guthrie, of Charlotte, and Messrs. Oscar p. Mason, of Dallas, .and A. G. Man gum. of Gastonla. :----- Judge G. W. Ward adjourned court at 3:30 o'clock for the funeral of Captain' Bason. He and other court officers attended the services at the house and cemetery. Rev. W. W. Orr to Address Y, M. C. A. .The SDeaker for the rerular Rnndav afternoon meetlnar for men hftlA nndr the auspices .of the Young- ;' Men's "It. 1 L 1 . A A. I I1 Liuisiian Associaiion win D ine Kev. W. W. Orr, pastor of the East Avenue Tabernacle. , . .. : .... m The meeting will be held in the-lecture room of the association building at & o ciock. v . .: .. . All men are cordlalv invited to . at tend, whether members of the Young Men s L-nnsuan Association or not m It means the hottest and cleanest , flame produced by any stove. This is the flame the New Perfection Oil Stove gives the instant a lighted match is ap plied no delay, no trouble, no soot, no dirt. Forcooking,the DfiMEeCilCooIi-Stovc is unequaled. It gives quick results because its heat is nighly concentrated. Cuts fuel-expense in two. .Made in three sizes. Every Rtrive warranted. If not at vour deal er's write to our nearest agency. rThe :70!rrJM':T' s the best W JUuinp for 4? ! all-round household use. Made of bras throughout and beautifully nickeled, Prferriv ronsmirteH! ahsolutalv safe: unexcelled in light-giving power; an ornament to any room, Jivery lamp vmutanted. it not at your dealer's, write to our nearest agency. STAN2r Oa CCiffANY .. aiKsrjtwiTft) if The greatest music teachears in the world are now rar the side of the Pianola not half-heartedly, but tntY calljr. Leschetlszky, the teacher of Paderewskl, and standing head of the, profession, recdmmends the use of the 1 In musical education. The. great colleges like Harvard, Vasaar, Columbia, Ai ' not only approve of the Pianola as a teaching roear use It in their regular courses. It Is also found in schools, preparatory schools and high-class hoarding for young ladles. Parents can give their children familiarity in the hor the great composers, directing their tastes into god nels rather than letting them become formed by the : V street melodies. ? Where the child, is 7 learning to r-l hand, the Pianola serves as a stimulant, keeping i keen interest in good music. ; The terms on which the Pianola is sold are moderate. Pay $25.00 down and $10.00 per month, with small, i added. We have a few slightly usedi and shopworn Pianolas on at $150.00, $175.00 and $300.00. On these pay $15.00 and $7.00 per month. J Three-fourths of all the piano players sold are Pianolas. are solo distributors. v 3 ParWiiwC ; . The Funeral of Mrs. Allen. The funeral services over the re mains of Mrs, Richard I. Allen, who died Thursday night, were held at the residence on East Eleventh street yesterday afternoon at 1:80 o'clock. Rev. Harold Turner, pastor of Bre vard Street Methodist church, was In charge. "Nearer My God to Thee" and 'R,:ck or Age," were sung, being lei by Mr. C. E. Hayes. A number of friends of the family attended the services and many brought ; flowers to go on the grave. The pallbearers were: Messrs. E. F. Howell, D. A. Redfern, C. E. McCorkle, W. E. Stew art, J. R Ross and J. P. Caldwell. Mr. Richard I. Allen is with The Observer. He is one of the paper's most capable, and , popular linotype operators. , .. -. - Preparing for Mother Goose. Mrs. Bessie Burkhelmer, who will train the children for the Mother Goose Carnival to be given by the la dles of the Church tf ' the Holy Com forter, .will meet he little lads and lassies, who wish to take-part in the affatr, Sf the citjr hail this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Elizabeth Ou!ll i ,1 ( (' project, whli-h i j a fell m ill! l 4 "I 3, The Busy Man's BrinK Delicious to the , taste Refreshing . to the mind -and body. (Containing all the essentials of the "IDEAL BEVER AGE." : RELIEVES FATIGUE., ; 5c :. . ;Sold Everywhere ; 5c LAWN MOWE The best assortment in the Carolinas. Price: to $10.00. The $6.00 to $10.00 Mowers are dr see them. ' . ; . Odorless Refrigerators we sell trie only rea : less Refrigerator in the city; "Don't accept tions. . Lawn " or Garden Hose, any length wanted frc .foot to 500 feet. . . Lawn Sprinklers and Sprinkler Nozzles. : Garden Plows, Garden and Lawn Rakes,G Hoes. Water Copiers large assbtment of these 0 in galvanized and enameled linings. Weddiniton Hardware Co: CAST YOUR P On The FURNITL ' on view here., See how . each piece looks. Exar-' and notice how artistic " cle Is built. ; !H Ms fL-rr.:::;: " Calls to mind what yc . . for similar furniture I Then ask our price s : difference in our f:v r -,fc r " - I..-. a I . . onsri-.l-i 1 1 i
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