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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVE!, MAY 23, 1203. jA V-Ui-LiiU' -aU Xl.Vii)vtoIent flUCtuauon which may rrvtr iip f i rr-a nrsiVT-;5 Mm rePete1 by the manipulation! of . EXVIETV OF LEK S BCSIM.SS i a few gretlt specu,ator.-It will b easy ' p " - i (Or the latter rilirfn,. h autumn 'with these t any News of Affairs is Acx-epted as Kliotf- " Ing .Improving Conditions Heavy . Accumulation of Notti Is Dae to 7 " the Belief That There is fletter Tlntee to Follow Eularped Demand - For Iron Is Proof of a positive Im -.,'. prorement In Business. . New York. May 24. News of affairs last - weak was acoepteil as showing Improving conditions and the action of the securi ty market, although eotuewhat unset tld unl breaking violently 'at the end. "m not Interpreted as believing this ac- . ceptaoca. - There has been heavy aotcum ' ulatlon cl stocks through a considerable preceding rrlod on-the assumption-that thi ' then existing prostmioa ot aftalra - might'- assumed' to lepresent the turn of the t!ce.r with' betterment .to, follow. AVlta the demonstration of the actual lm provemer.t there was large selling to take -'profits. At the same lime a more belated demand for securities -was In evidence, '; -which srrvsd a iavorabie medium for '. oigeatioa 01 -epecuieiive. pronuM i.ne re- ' suit was a broad, active and varied mar (for the latter during the autumn, with their -immense resources and under fa voring con a it ions, to corner the money rasrket and make rates easy or stiff at wlU. Through this control of money sup plies they can do as they please with the stock market. It was the tear of such manipulations' ss these which started the1 week's reaction when It became positive, ty known that no currency bill could pass thto session of Congress. 'Whatever the defects ; in - the measures proposed. - and there are many. It would have at least served as an effectual prevention to dan gerous manipulation ' ef the money mar ket; since the. Issue of - some fkind of emergency currency would effectually stop , unreasonable rates and avoid the issue, of clearing bouse certificates, the only, other source of relief now avail able In -case of panic. As 'a sale-guard against reckless manipulation, soma kind of an- "emergency bin should be -passed to bridge over until . Congress can , be compelled to suitably reform- our currency system- and place It upon a Jsl that will command the respect and confidence 3" -Ma , " , In Slightly Used Machinery ' - - 1-80 II. P. H. S.& O. Slide Valve. Engine, in Al condition. 1-I0"xl2"14" Direct Acting Reilly Air Compres" s.or, only run for a fewmonths. y : :. , ' , k' . j THE PRICES ARE VERY LOW. t GREENSBORO SUPPLY CO. GREENSBORO, N. e.:i- COTTON MILL MACHINERY. Stuart W. Cramer, ENQINEER AND CONTRACTOR. maim oifcon SOUTH TRYOM ST..' : v CHARLOTTE N. O. Il ket. The dally average-of sales at the lot the world. -We now have the worst ' stock exchange has been well over a mll- lion shares and Wednesday's total or l,40t,0t was the largest since the day of ' the "silent panic" in March of 1907, : - Probably the most . decisive 1 factor In - forming the-conviction of a positive tra- ' - provement In business was the enlarged , ; demand for . iron. - Price concession! In i that commodity had become general and without any format abandonment or the . tacit agreement among producers to -' maintain prices. '. Placing of orders on a . arowUg. scale was the consequence.'- Iron Is proverbially the great baslo Industry . "and-ibe speculative markets accept its -. action as an almost infallible index pi the tfutute couiee of trade In general. Ad currency system t in existence . among civilised nations, and In spite of repeated warnings and experiences it still tetanus aa a monument of our. legislative ignor ance and indifference While the stock market baa been fever. Ish, It U refreshing to be abieto recora a genuine , turn for the better In general business. Though no sharp recovery is in sight, and too sudden a revival is not to be desired, nevertheless signs of recupera tion ara springing up in various airec- tlons; buyers are showing more interest, snd collections are generally gooo. a-vi- dentlv hualneaa has DSSsed throuth lthe worst ot degression: and, as a result of recent enforced contraction and a lower CARDS iORAWINO a uvwi w vwwi era v a pw v w - - ... - , Mi- fMin Ath MAwantfu HnM were. I hint of viIum. U on much sounder foun- andM itatinns than for several years. There Is hit vera were rennrted to be Discing orders I no ever-suooly Of goods; and owing to with .-nnr xoafldsnoa shown since before Of the crop remained unimpaired. . , preaching ordinary freedom. There has Tna week's active speculation in ssoun- been, a decided improvement in i - SPINNING - CD1MCC MACHINE WORKS POTTON MACHirjERY 5jw TAUNTON, COMBERS 5A8S-rT : MULES LAP MACHINES . ,v LOOKS . SOUTHERN OFFICE AT CHARLOTTE ' - " EDWIN HOWARD, AQCNT. Ctvolvinf Flat Cardj, : Railway Head, Drawing Frames, ; - 5plnnlQ Frames, - Twisters and Spoolers QuUlers and Reels, , Looms, ' '. "' .' COMBERS ETC., ETC' .1 " .'). AftcH emen' CQUfTAabi suiLoiNa. ATLANTA, fit Slubbers, Roviaf Frames Interned latcta Jack Framaa - -JLi ETC ETC Automatic Feeders, . Openers and Trunk, Breaker, Intermediate an4 Finisher Lappers - ' Klrschncr Carding Bcatcra Thread Extractors, Wasta Pickers. eU, , . Raw Stock Dnrerts ; dsnoal thaahss been pjged, curtailment there wlU In many f a 0-Iorw atJ(n Honored re the panic ot last Oc- Sses be a siUve seareltr a as oi m la the present promue buyer, take - hold with anything ap- ; f5.,T!!l e a , ties was charactsrised by a large number of rumors pointing to concerted measures among groups of powerful capltsllsts. calculated to enhance the value of their mand for cotton goods, resulting irom lower prices and recognition by buyers that bottom has been reached, and that tii-mllM ere almost SXhaustea. -moer properties. Much waa heard of a sup- branches ef the textile traaea are """ mA .,.nM,..,turtMt kutvMii ths Oouid. I ih. imminniML and even wool ana Marrlman and Rockefeller Interests, and I woolens display better tone. A turn n-inrt. nntMKilfiil atronalv to the line ha hiter has already taken place In MMiitiv imaarination- although ther Uh iron trade, and orders are being remained without authentic vert float Ion, placed much more freely for lg Iron. In m. .M m4mi w tha mora nrA I . u wmaw t-riji . fair business la be- The General Conference of the A M. E. Zlon Church which has been In session during the past three weeks In the Cltv of Philadelphia. Pa., ad journed Friday noon, the 224 Inst. -A feature of the Thursday nigni session was the presentation of the re port of the auditor, the Rv.T F. H. Hill, a cltisen of Charlotte, -who ranks nigh aa a book-keeper and expert ac countant In his church. Dr. Hill has performed thla gerrtee with such marked ability and to the satisfaction of the entire Church that nousoed as- 4nferws were drawn ofae-lmg done, aqd conditions are more satis-1 tQa importance .of such an office be- urance - or -financial resources wnicn would extricate important corporations from threatened embarrassments In car. rylnf out projects 'to which they were , T CLEWS', ITWAXCIAI REVIEW. fttork Markrt Snfltered Violent Set txwk on Account of Poor Proa ' v-- porta . For Passage of Currency IlUlu-Once More Practical Demon . stratlons of DefectUo System Are) . 'tween Caution as to Stock Market . . Manipulation. Still Urged. - Correspondence of The Observer. rfew-.Tork. May a. The stock market rise-suffered rather violent set-haoK, which had Its Inception In the poor proa- 'v sects for i passing 1 any .emergency cur- , reacy bin during the present-session of -Congress. This turn In affairs precipi tated a. rush to take ,pronts,- and the whole market felt Into a demoralised con - dftn-m. 'breeklng from 6 to M points as might "be expected after such a sense 'tlonal advasce ss bsa lately occurred. Sines, the panic prices hate risen to (0 points; an advance out oi au proporuon to improvement In general conditions, and one that must be chiefly attributed to trie manipulations of a few powerful opera' tors having jtn unlimttsd supply of cheap -money at their command. From bow on ithe course of, the money market will be watched with increastna- Interest. It is quit .possible that the period for lowest rated lor money will coincide with that of greatest business depression, and that any. Improvement In the tatter win ne '. followed by a better mercantile demand .for loans.. The Immediate outlook is for jM.tim,bi tiofnuaA -bank - reaervea ar very beavy. snd the ordinary de. mands for, money are lessened by lower prices and diminished volume of businesa. There are counter-influences, however, at -work which wilL not permit an. Indefinite ' r-onflnuance f extremely low rates. ' We havs already returned nearly J-W, 000,000 -of ' the $100,000,000. imported during : the pantd, arid more may follow. The Treas-"tiry.-1 moreover, ts Steadily withdrawing Hs blr surplus from the depository banks. SJS UJOJW using wuiiarmwn p w this week; and the chances are that fur- , ther withdrawals will be made owing -'to- the continued Treasury deficit, which 'threatens to run over $60,000,000 for the current fiscal year. -If to these exception factory. Of course mucn aepenas up i cmme BO apparent as to demand per the harvest. The recent eooi. weamer ana maBent establishment. In recognition continued rain-falls have not oeeo con. of h,M fltfteM an(l ablUty Dr. IllU waa duciva to Improvement, and It neea no i ,iectei auditor of the A. M. E. Zlon cause ear surprise If next month's re Church, his office being, located In ports on wheat and cotton show some ae- i charlotte. He Is also an expert ste terioratlon. On the other hand. It must j nographer and acta In this capacity not be forgotten that tne crops are si ting a splendid start, ana tnat an aoun dance of moisture at the beginning of the season is more likely to prove a benefit .autaA ta nrove that Business Imnrovlns It .could be haa in clearing house returns, which in the large cities ara now running only W Pr cent, oeiow a year ago, comparea wiw nreaiea ot 90 oer cent and over. Railroad 'earnings have been very unssilsfsctory. to the board of bishops.' PROMINENT WORKINGS VIEW Of , PRO- - HIBITION ' From a Purely Economic Standpoint Asheville, N. C, May Z$ 1108. but these also should shortly moke bet- Ury of tne cigar Makers' Union, of i a.. kaua la a1ss Kaaaan VtlSB I na. a a a a ter comparisons than have lately been t,he 'rule. . ... .-',-":'... It Is necessary to repeat our aavices oi eautlon In stock market manipulation. The market la highly artificial In charao ter and liable to violent nuctuauons (in either direction, for . while tna general situation la Improving the advance m stocks has unquestionably been too rapid. SERMON , BY . BISHOP HAMTLTOX. Prominent Churchman of. fsaxony Preaches Bacctuaareate Bcrmon at Salem Academy and College) Other Exercises of in wtU'iuiown aio- ravlan Institution. Special to The Observer.- , Wlnaton-Salem, May 14. The hac- calaureate sermon' to the graduating class of Salem Academy and College was preached at 11 o'clock this morn ing In the Boms Moravian church by Bishop Hamilton, of Saxony. It was a mastenui , oiscourse, mica wua timely advice and suggestions, and was listened to very closely toy an audience that taxed the seating' ca pacity ot the church, i . . , ' Bishop Hamilton arrived here sev- oral days ago from the West Indies and Central America, where he had been on an extended effrclal visit to the different missions. Hs will go Chicago, passing through- Ashevllle, N. C, yesterday, where he was en gaged In some work for his organi sation, waa asked for his . views . on prohibition, and made the following statement: - v. Prohibition not only destroys our Industries, but it' deprives all work ing men of their personal liberty. The Industries it would destroy over the country employ a million work ing men, who, with their families, represent 6,000,000 souls. These trades are brewery workmen, cigar- makers, bottle blowers, box makers. masons,- wood workers and, carpen ters (who make all the bar fixtures, Interior . work, billiard and pool tables), wagon makers, . printers, pressmen, lithographers, bartenders steam - fitters, coopers, machinists. plumbers, harness makers.. : railway trainmen, and. in fact, every In d us try will feel the blighting effect of prohibition If It Is successful e "In Alabama. Georgia- and Tennes see whole - unions have , been de stroyed , by - prohibition. - thousands thrown out of work and their mem bers forced to 'leave their homes and families In fruitless effort. to find employment, school hours havs been reduced, kindergartens and studies eliminated, teachers, principals and public employes' wages reduced and unpaid, taxes increased and a tax levied upon any working man for each child he wants to send to the high echooL Prohibition Is only intended to punish the poor working man; the rich belong to their clubs and can get all they want there, and can buy it human liberty and right, but jhonM fight as always against ail sorts of oppression, whether It Is clothed under the grilse of prohibition, re ligious fanaticism or sickly sentl mentality, t -prohibition has now become an economlo question and the thousands who have been thrown out of work by It and see their wives and children starving and suffering tnos; em phatically protest agalnHt being made the victims and caused to suffer for the folly of others." THE NEGRO PROBLEM A FACTOR IX THE PROHIBrnOX OF THE . sotmi. " ' BY CHARLES HENRY MARTHf, from here' to, his , home.t To-morrow morning the annual tree-planting or I demands we add the requirements for tha senior class will take place on the J T by the barrel. innsinAlt.ar tlia KOU.UUV.UUV nffw Mcunil iav 1 .t.w. . wVitfVfe tha rrnWn t ir a- nuiKi will go to the Memorial Hall, where the concluding exercises will be. held In tha afternoon the annual meeting of the alumni association will be held. One of the features of the meeting will be an address by President w. W. Finley. of the Southern Railway Com pany. . Jdr, and Mrs. Finley and two daughters will i-e the guests of Col. and Mrs. . Fv H. Fries while In the city. - Mrs. Finley 1 a' graduate of 6a- lem. . -T -. - ' To-morrow night the final concert of the music festival will be held in the Memorial Hall. The first of these was held Friday night and was at tended by a very large audience. Last night "Messiah" ; was presented. It was rendered m a magnmcent man ner and aroused tne large auaience lo enthusiasm again and again. The festival chorus and Salem Orchestra were superbly assisted by Mrs. Grace Bonner Williams, of Boston, soprano; Mrs. Walter J. Hege, of this eity, altoj Mr.'Jdhn Young, of New York, tenor and Mr. Frederic Martin, of New York. bass. 1 ' - There ia a large number of visitors in the city to attend the concerts and the commencement exercises of the At $ o'clock yesterday afternoon ance the senior class exercises were held In the Memorial Hall. Tuesday e Is commencement day proper. The literary address will be delivered at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn Ing by Dr- William liOuls Potest president ot - Wake Forest college. The presentation ' of diplomas will take place immediately after the ad dress. v Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, of the board of trustees or the college, will present tho diplomas. . . .. Ananclna- the $300,000,000 new security sues Which are expected during the re mainder ef the year, it will be seen that prospective demands sre large, and may fully employ our monetary raourow m the fall-when crop demands begin and trads becomes more active. At that time there will be much less money available If or stock speculation than now.- ; , . Once more we are having- a very prso tioal' demonstration' of the workings of our defective currency symstem. Within thehort space of ix months we hsvs eaparumced such violent fluctuations In money rates as are witnessed In no other civilised country , In the world.' During the panic call loans rose as high as 100 -percent, and over; since then, they have fallen as low as 1 per cent, and even ; lower." Time loans during the same period were quoted at 12 to 15 per cent for thirty and nlnty days, and are now to 'Si io $ per cent for the ssme periods. Nowhere elee can such wild fluctuations be fflsooered. snd they must be attributed almost entirely to the want of elasticity In' ouf currency system, , When trade end speculation were active during W07 there was a persistent cry for more money, the government and , the national banks ' straining every resource to meet this de mand., Thea came thd panic, and as the crisis subsided- money quickly became a drug becaute there was no means of suit ability reducing the supply. There wss no "adequate system ' for; redemption of theruprnbutirtant-n:sss of notes whloh had been rut out to meet the demands of extraordinary speculative' snd business ' activity. Something should be done- to Impress upon the public mind the slgni- ; Meant fact that the supply of all- other -conveniences contracts or expands In ac cordance with ; necessities except cur rency. Our currency . system Is .unfor-i nstely exoeedlngly rigid end we can -Increase -Its supply with much greater ease than we can reduce it; hence. In times -of activity -and low prices rates of Interest fall to an abnormally low level, driving gold out of the country and fos tering unwholesome Inflation. As already Stated, the late rise in the stock market has been unduly stimulated by a great abundance of chesp money. It is true that prices were unduly low after the panic; that the outlook is-positively Im proving, and that part of the recovery to stocks was simply the legitimate dis counting of a brighter future. But no sound argument could be found for lifting prices of many. leading stocks 19 to ) po'nti above the August level of 1907, especially with decreasing profits snd re duced dividends close at hand. This was inflation pure snd simple, and must be at tributed, as already (aid. to the absence ef proper regulation of eur monetary sup plies. Because we Jack a scientino. elastic and automatic currency system, such as ether progressive nations possess. or case, the rich. , "Being as we are In the midst of an - Industrial - and financial panic, with millions of men out . of work. we most' emphatically protest against the economio injury being done tne working man by the prohibitionists, whoso agitation has destroyed - the opportunity of, thousands of working men - to earn a livelihood. They have failed absolutely to substitute anything of value or opportunity, or Improved, any one .or-, anything; morally, economically or otherwise, They merely think they have forced others to adopt their habits and de prived them of rights they have hitherto enjoyed. The sale of a glass of beer or wine Is made a crime. The American workman, working In the oppressive heat and stifling atmos phere of your : factories, foundries. mills, potteries and workshops, is coerced into drinking, not what he himself desires, but what the prohi bitionist prescribes for him. - t "The prohibitionist " becomes tne tyrant. He has succeeded in de stroying our constitutional right of personal liberty, and has Introduced a species not of black, but white slavery. Men will progress along temper- llnes by education and culti vating the. wilt-power, and that Is a better plan than to try to put Into effect so-called 'prohibition, which merely tries to force men to be tern- The negro problem, the most stu pendous and overshadowing of all Is sues Is a powerful force behind the Prohibition wave, now sweeping, like a deluge, over the south. This negro question which, like Banquo's ghost will not down, has made he South solid for Democracy and curt as the stars glitter in the flrmanent and the sun shines In the heavens, It win make the South solid for Prohibition. I attended on yesterday at Monroe, a grand snd Imposing Prohibition Rally. The children (Qod bless every one of them): were, by the hundreds, march Ing In the parade. . In their Innocent hands, they -bore temperance banners, with various devices, appropriate to the occasion. On one of their ban ners, unfurled and streaming in the wind, I saw these words: "The' Sa loons' must have boya Can you spare yours?" When I read that I said in my soul:- ''No! no! I have not one to spare to go down to a drundard's grave and . drunkard's hell: No! , nol ten thousand times, no!" I dare say toerc was not a single father in al that vast concourse of people who did not feel similar emotions. The ladles, sometimes mothers and grand mothers with their children, some, times fcands of boys and girl and now young maidens In their teens, with the flush of health and the bloom of beauty, adorning their cheeks, were riding, In a long string of carriages ana buggies, all beautifully decorat ed with flags displayed and fluttering in me oreeze. on one of the wo men'g banners J beheld this lnacrlp tlon: "We stood by you from '! to '66: stand toy us now." When . I glanced at that and took in its meanlrur. I said, in my heart; "Qod bless your dear souls, ladles, we will stand y you now. We'll stand by you forever. We'll stand by you to the last ditch. We wlU stand by you till we drain the last drop of blood from our veins and dying wish for mors that we might spill It on your behalf. For your - dear sake if there were no other reason, we will vote the old North SUte dry - as a powder house God pity the man who could read that Inscription and not Jeel all the finer Impulses of, his nature stirred within his soui! it was a mute ut eloquent appeal, mod estiy and delicately worded, to . the chivalry and the manhood of 'tha old North State, for protection . aralnst the nameless crime which has made the negro problem , so dreadful to the fair women or the Couth, the best women In the wortd. Ye sons of Car. ollna, will you heed that stirring apj peai. bo- mooestiy yet so eloquently conveyed 7 Shall we turn a deaf ear to tnis can irom the wives and the mothers and the fair maidens of our native State?. If so, Qod blot us out and raise up a nobler breed of men! If we do, we have not the spirit at our noble sires who, In 1T7$. faced death at the cannon's muoth on a hundred battle fields and who at Bun ker Hill " Fired the shot that w. a heard around the world" nor possess wo me mannooa, tne chivalry, and the valor of our flre-trted fathers of the sixties. If wo heed not this call, we are unworthy of the mothers who gave us birth. n worthy of the blood that runs in our veins, unworthv of the name of men. and a disgrace to our native land. We have become degenerate sons of noble Sires." Shall they call to us for protection aa-ain the outrages of negro bmten. ma. HUBBARD BROS. & CO., ..;.,' - ; . : .-. :.-' '.' HANOVER SQUARE, NEW , YORK MEMBERS OF Hew York Cotton Ex ' change. New Orleans Cotton Ex change, Associate Members Liver pool Cotton Exchange. ' ORDER8 SOLICITED For the pur. chase and sale of cotton for future delivery, -. Co.-respondenee Invited. MECKLENBURG IRONWORKS OHABLOTTE, N. C. ''iEAD: TMI9 ' IT YOU BAVB TO SELL. LIST IT IX THIS OFTEH l f. If yea have houses or stores to rent, let me do your collecting ana save) ' i, treubla and worry. '-.-. ''.-" .' . Tha place to Insure your property it la thla agency, R. E. Cochrane. Igujsurance)" ad Beal Estate Agent. Motors, Dynamos,, Alternating and Direct Current. Any size and voltage. Stock on hand, r We ask for orders. MACHINERY WANTED We are in the market for the fol lowing machinery of either Woon socket or Providence Machine Co. make: 1 slubber. 4$ spindles, 10" traverse, U" flyers 18x6. 1 Intermediate, 101 spindles. 9 1-1" traverse, " flyers x4 1-J. 1 speeders. 144 spindles, I" trav erse, 7" flyers Txl 1-2. 1 slubber. t spindles, 10" trsv erse. It" flyers 12x1. t speeders, 144 spindles, 5 1-1" traverse, $" flyers 1x4. Address reply to Bog 148, Haw River, N. C: nerate In anlta. rtt thamaplves. "In our ranks not one In a thousand i on" "o converted into demous by . Charlotte Cotton. These figures represent, prices psid tt wagons May 3d: Good middling .... Strict middling .... lilddllng .......... IIS . .11 - . Charlotte Product!. . t (Corrected by R. H. Field 4k Co.) Putter ........... ... ............ 10 Chickens Spring .... ...... ....... 55ja Ducks t..... .. .... .... ........ a . eggs . i5ii fJeeae--per heed ......... .. ...... CaC Hensper head 40 Turkeys per pound .... .... ...... 13314 (Corrected daily by Cochrane-McLaugh- -. - I!n Co.) ; - . . Rye .-... Corn .... ... Cotton seed Oats .... .... to n n are addicted to the habit of drunken neas. Millions drink Umperately. Many: ara total abstainers from choice and need no restraint by the prohibitionists. . Prohibitionists have no legal or moral right to ' destroy our personal liberties or to force their habits upon the " millions .of workers, who can, and do. drink temporarily, without harm or Injury to themselves or to their families. "There Is more drunkenness .caused by low wages . than by anv other 1 cause, and there are mors boy and girls who are stunted and , ruined. morally and physically, for life in the child labor sweatxhops . of the country in one year-than from any other cause In twenty j ears. The people who want prohMiflon have no friendship or ' for the working msn. they never helped to get sanitary workshops, they never supported him In their struggle to aboligh child - labor or the . sweat shops, they never helped them to get better wages. --Even If they bo left destitute from lack of work- rsuaed by prohibition, they would -never lend a helping hand. 'Working men In North Carolina should refuse to strike a blow at good bye. along, eternal Intoxicating liquors, and. shall we not rush to their rescuer "'Forbid it heaven! Forbid It Almighty Qod!" But right eloquently,: in burning words, from the blading sUke and in whlzsing bullets from the "Lynching Bee" . comes your answer: "he last drop ef. -blood that courses through our veins we will shed and gladly shed in their defense, so nap us Almighty God!" Think you. as men who ove law and order, would It not he a thou, sand times better to give them the protection, which they ask by . your ballots on the 21th of May,-than to dye your hands -with blood by the summary execution of the negro brutes? 1 have gathered some sta tistics from reliable sources which I desire you shall know on or before the day of election. Te sons of Carolina, listen! Four fifths of all the name less crimes (Hear it O heaven! Give ear O earth!) which have been com mitted by negro ferutes on Southern white women Is directly traceable lo Intoxicating liquors, thla fact alone damns and dooms the rum traffic in the Fouth and says "Good bye. Saloons, gooa bye," " and seven eights - of all the race troubles originates from the same cause.. In only thirteen counties ot Kentucky, once the whis key State where rum flowed like water, la it now allowed to be sold and only, in fourteen counties of Florida. Every rum-shop has gone out of business in .Georgia and after Christmas every bar-room will be clos ed In Alabama and Mississippi. In only four cities and two towns )n Tennessee can yo u get a drink of II quor and In your dear o'd North State seventy counties out of a total of ninety-eight is Prohibition territory and after the Ztth of May. thank God, they will all be dry as a powder house! Oit of a total population of twenty three ralllons in the Southern States twenty millions are a'ready living In Prohibition territory, Qlo rlousl I use hut mild hyperbole whep I say the hand of Fate has written It across the heavens in bias Ing capitals, extending from the east to the west , and from pole to pole. "The South is going dry." What means this mighty array of figures f Do they not proclaim In thunder tones that the noble men of our dear Southland know that Prohibition Is an essential factor In the solution of the negro problem? It Is Just simply out of the question to think for one moment of having open saloons and filling niggers up with mean rot-gut whiskey and then let them go forth to outrage our-: wives - and daughters. When 'we fill ahem with such vile gin as Is manufactured In these degenerate times and turn thorn loose, then we have hell let loose on earth. , If a man votes for the menu facture and sale of intoxicating li quors and negroes get drunk on it and outrage his own wife and daugh ter, pray tell me. whom shou'd . he blame but himself and himself alone? Bending over that weeping unhappy maiden he may thus lament: "Oh that I had died before I cast the ballot which hsth -brought this ruin on my child! Would to Qod I had died a thousand deaths, ere I cast that awfu' vote and brought this deep disgrace upon my daughter! Oh my daugh ter! ' my daughter! .your poor old father's burden is greater than he can bear. Oh my daughter! my daughter! my daughter!" - God in heaven pity the father who would cast a vote like that! Ye sons of Carolina heir me! t am a Southern white man and love every clod of her sacred coll and be fore I would vote for the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquor; and have Its thousand crimes laid to my charge at the Judgment bar of God, t .would hold this right hand in the Are, until It turned to ashes. Aye be fore I would vote for such a damna ble passion-rousing rum ss would cause my wife and daughter an 1 your wives and daughters to be outraged by negro brutes, I would plunge both these hands ef mine In a red-hot fur nace until they were burned off to my arm-pits and walk the eartha!l th balaaoe at my days with two -charred stubs at my shou'ders and t.o arm less sleeves hsnglng at my'vHe. so help me Almighty God4 . Mack Paint 00 "CAROLINA BLACK PAINT" la Intended for. and Is oneof the best materials made to renovate and stop leaks in eld roofs and sidings of every description; also to give longer life to new roofs METAL. TIN. FELT, CQMlOSiTION OR SHINGLE ROOFS will last long if painted With "CAROLINA BLACK PAINT." "IT PUTS NEW UFJS IN THEM." The price la reainable; write us and we will quote you delivered your town. We are also Southern Distributors for the Detroit Graphite Com pany's "SUPERIOR GRAPHITE PAINT," a very high-class ma ter la 1. Intended for those who want the best and most economical material to paint Structural Steel,' Steel and Iron Bridges. Smoke Sucks, Hot Surfaces, etc., etc. Write for Color Card. Literature and Prices. ; Carolina Portland Cement Comp'y Southern Distributors. CHARLESTON, S. C LOUIS H. ASBTJRY ARCHITECT Law Building, Charlotte, If. C JAMBS E. MITCHELL CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS . Cotton Yarns and Cotton Cloths, CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Philadelphia, laa and 134 Chestnut St. Boston, ISA Summer St. New York, No. T3 Leonard St. Charlotte, 83 S. Tryon St. SCREENS FRANK P. MLBURN & CO. ARCHITECTS WASHINGTON. D. C HOOK AND ROGERS ARCHITECTS CTARixyrrs, k. o. Leonard L. Hunter and Gordon Franklin ARCHITECTS Law Building, Charlotte N. C. j Nos. Sit and SIS. ! Phoaa 17 a. A. D. SALKELD & BRO., , COMMISSION MERCHANTS 66-73 Leonard Street, NEW YORK. COTTON YARNS . , ,DEPT. FredTc Victor & Achelis. Ask R. G Auten Comp'y for priecs on Fans of all kinds and sizes. The oldest, best- and - promptest elec tricians in the city.; 'Phone 1307 or 1303. Of fice No. 202 , S. Tryon St. Warerooms No. 5 E. Fourth St Flies and Mosquitoes on the Outside : Small Cost J.H.WEARN aco. Manufacturers of Meatela. ' 'Write) for eatalofuo. - Strongest In the World. BEST FOR -THE BOTHER V BEST FOR THE SELLER In addition to the many thousands who applied to The Equitable la 10T for policies for moderate amounts, two hundred and seventy three persons applied for policies for amounts ranging from . SSO.OOv to 11.009,090, and representing an ag gregate volume of $24,466,300 an average of 100,000 for each policy. The Equitable has the con fldence of men of large affalraw-aa welt as those who buy insurance In smaller amounts. It Is the. best company to be in- sured with the best company to represent. If Interested, write, 'phone or call W. J. RODDET, Manager. . ... : Bock UUL 8. C. WL WHITE JOHNSON, Res. Agt, Hunt Bid;., Charlotte, X. C , Manufacturers and Jobbers aeoMOUt ' atail u Dave Baa king ractlldeo la eUUew ta these, offered by : ;v, trb .;, - J; first K:tic::I Er:i . . o sacHAtoxD. nRcxxrv . With 6100.600.06 Capital framed Kurplaa 0soS,oo9,C f 1.SUO.OOO.OO IejxW :.i 69,000,000.00 . Xt"l !;.----Odera Just the a:.",UMl i cillUee lteqotreL Jao. it. I-urt-r!. rr last, 4L i;ile, Jr, A . -. 4 dentl C?. R. 1 ' 0';jrt t ' rl J. C .
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 25, 1908, edition 1
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