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nn RQBESQNIAN ? Ativcr'.iiin? Rates On A-Tlica-.- i. i One Dollar and Fifty cents the Year. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents. VOL XXXr NO. 26 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY 21, 1908. WHOLE NO. 2357 r i ... i .in: n ,J w Any Gold Filled Collar Buttons. H;ve you been having trouble with the wear of your Collar Buttons? If so come around and let us sell you a Krementz 14K Gold Filled, Positive, ly the Best Gold Filled Button made. Style Wanted. Jewelry Store- STRONG PROHIBITION SPEECH. The II. V. Guano Distributor Scatters the Guano and Covets it. No waste around stumps and ends. No cogs and ohain9 to clog and break. Nothing about it to break or get out of fix. Large hopper, balanced load, light run ning. Sows any quantity. Sim ple, strong, dnrable. Awarded diplomas by North and South Carolina Fairs 1904. Unques tionably the only Entirely bat isfactory Distributor before the people. fl I'i i S.iiv I v I.f;idii!;f Dealers in Robeson and Adjoining Counties. JACOB! HARDWARE COMPANY, Wilmington, N C. Judge Pritchard Addresses Large Audience in Charlotte Would Rather be Hanged to a Sour Apple Tree Than Speak Against Cause Favored by Women and Children. Judge Jeter C. Pritchard talk ed on prohibition in Charlotte Sunday afternoon to an audience of about 3,000 people, making one of the strongest arguments made during this campaign. The follow ing is taken from the account of his speech published in the Char lotte Observer Monday. "The agents of the bar-rooms are going about the State talking about blind tigers. It's a dead give-away. If the man who sells liquor on the sly is a blind tiger, then the man who sells it with the sanction of the law is a tiger that can see, isn't he? Which is the more dangerous of the two? If I have to fight a tiger at all, for God's sake give me a blind tiger. (Applause) . It's a miserable pre text. 1 hey are trying to pad up their conscience for what they know is wrong. The: Most Skilful Player V V V ( m ... .-1 -Nmt. 1 - -r .: 1 - vr;Mmww&& Eagle 1 9 mi Cannot produce really fine music from a p ) ir Piano. The purchase of such an instra uent is a mistake, the selling of one l.i worse. si When You Select a Piano Here we are always glad to have you 1, ring an expert player with you. Thtn the tone and volume of our pianos are brought out in all theirbeauty. Then the quality of our instrument is proven belter thin any attempt at description we might make. tornitnre and Carpet Co. Lmtibcrton, N. C. "Why, the women in North Carolina, God bless them, are the best people in the State. They have suffered more from us and endured with more patience than any other class. This is the first time the ladies of North Carolina have ever appealed to us for any thing and God pity the man who won't listen to them. Before I'd go out over the State and make speeches against the women and children of North Carolina I'd go out and hang myself to a sour apple tree. (Great applause). State and those who opposed bar rooms finally sent to the Legisla ture men with courage to abolish prohibition in many of the coun ties. In three-fourths of North Carolina today there is no liquor to sell. And if we as a people do our duty from this day on till May 26th and do our duty on that day there won't be any whiskey sold in the grand Old North State. "There are many men of char acter in North Carolina opposed to prohibition, ' ' continued Judge Pritchard. "They are as honest as you or I. And some of them advance arguments which would be very potent unless they are properly met, as they can be in every instance. Now, we had a prohibition election in Asheville last October, and the most dan gerous argument brought forth in that city was the argument that prohibition would injure the business interests of Asheville and ruin it as a resort town, kill it as dead as a door nail. While I was amply prepared to answer this argument, I disposed of the matter this way. I told them that while I could prove to a mathematical certainty that that position is untenable, neverthe less, if your position is correct and if keeping the whiskey busi ness in Asheville and destroying the boys and girls would make Asheville a success financially, and drive out the traffic would ruin Asheville in both respects, and if the matter were submit ted to a test, I'd vote with more pleasure to drive out ing to prefer the bar-room to the politicians," said th?v judge a cotton mill? moment later. "I speak from "According to the amount of experience because I have been capital invested, the laboring there myself. If this were not man gets a smaller per cent, true, the Legislature would have from the liquor business than had the courage and the nerve to from any other. And yet men have given us absolute prohi say that bar-rooms increase the bition in North Carolina. (Ap business of a community. There plause) . never has been and there never "Both parties sat there and will be an intelligent reason giv- absolutely palmed this thing off en by any human being to sus- on us to avoid responsibility for CORPORATION SIONER. tain that plause. ) The mayor though elected proposition." (Ap- their acts. And they did anoth er thing they oughtn't to have of Greensboro, done. I'm not criticising the an anti proniDi- Din, ior it is a step in the right tionist, has been converted by its direction, but to keep on good workings in the Gate City. Four terms with the grape growers of hundred and forty new residen- the east they inserted that clause ces were built last year, at a to- protecting them. I told the ffrape tal cost of $445,980, an average growers that if I had any influ- of $1,011. Seventy-five per cent, ence in shaping its action, the of these cost not over $750. first act of the next Legislature "What does this mean? It means would be to put the wine busi that the laboring men who under ness on the same level as the li the reign of bar-rooms paid trib- quor business. (Applause. ) ute to them and deposited their Lincoln said a man cannot money across the counter of the be half slave and half free.' saloon, have gone to work and Neither can he be half drunk and have built beautiful homes where- half sober; nor half wet and half in their wives and children may dry. live as God intended they should. "After awhile Yancey sent (Applause) men to the Legislature with A CRISIS COMING. nerve enough to pass a law that "There used to be a preacher said any man who sells liquor in up in my country who always Yancey shall go to the peniten- COMMIS- PROFESSIONAL CARDS Major Henry A. London Well Fitted For That Office. From the Statesville Landmark. The position of Corporation Commissioner is a iudicial one. Most of the questions that come before the commission for de cision are of a iudicial nature. The position is one of the most important under the State gov erment. No man should be rl,ic- ed on the commission because he represents any special class; be cause he is lor the cornorations or against the corporations or is anxious to do some special thing. The place should be filled by a man of judicial temperament, one capable of looking at all sides of a proposition and doing justice : . i. 4. i c I -, . wiuiuui iear or iavor. such a man is Major Henry A. London.of Chatham county, who is a candi date for the position. Major Lon don would fill any position in the f5tate with credit, but he is pecu liarly fitted for the position of Corporation Commissioner. He could not be carried off his feet and made to do an unfair thinir by clamor; neither could he be wheedled into granting improper W. H. K1NLAW, Attorney-at Law LUMBERTON, N. C. All business promptly transacted. 4-16tf R. C. Lawrence, l'roctor. Stephen Mclntyre, James 1). Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts. Prompt attention iriven to all business. LEON. T. COOK, Attoknky at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office in First National Bank Ruikiinc. prefaced his remarks bv savin?, tinrv t PaWfc A c.; "" corporations, in j . 7 i v j xa., ivuivigu wiiw v-ci uti i A 1 , im J , xt,t j i e i ciuuiuun iu ins quanicauons ior . xww aim woi-k. ior two years. ad- ,,,, , T , I'm not. an alarmist, hut T want. nlanu, Th ht V,, luc c ne &et;Kb luaJor u,nuon k; c . ' r, , , J. is a Confederate soldier and has w inoivc a iJicuiLuun. oumc ui couniy went ury ana nas Deen these days the institutions under dry ever since. (Applause.) If which we live will be in peril, anybody in this crowd says pro- Why do I say that? Because the hibition don't prohibit, let him far spirit of anarchy, the spirit of write some of the convicts in the i socialism is rampant in the Unit- the penitentiary from Yancey a record of intelligent and faith ful party service which deserves recognition. -a ilc Bannk i s i n v Co t!i;ui w:i 1 dI it -.His tin- Intere sts of its Depositors above the s Ofikei'.s and Stockholders. . '-iviitiw a.ml Safe Management I .': Dividends. is more Important Our Wo ii.i-, U cii tin- Policy of this Bank to follow these Ideals. T, -;!. tit and Cashier borrow no money of the bank. tin- s une security or every one wno Dor- liquor business. (Applause). I ; ed btates today. What will we have one orirl and three bovs and ! need to face such arr emergency? county and you'll find out. (Laughter and great applause.) Major London is well-known in North Carolina as a gentleman of character and patriotism. As l!liM ill 1 1 .- LsL bv Bad Loans in our Existence of IS ii to Ycai Interest to Deal With Such a Bank? r. n ;m Account with us and be Convinced. "How many mean things are done in the name of local self government! No one ever in tended that the bar-rooms of the country should hide under the name of local self-government. The idea of invoking this princi ple to enable the bar-keepers - to murder the boys of North Caro lina! (Applause). "And so when they come to me and oppose prohibition on the ground that their personal liber ty is interfered with, I tell them that their personal liberty ends where the wrelfare of my family begins; that their liberty ends where the welfare of the Church of God begins; that their liberty ends where the welfare of Char lotte and all the other towns of the grand old Commonwealth be gins. And if they don't under stand it, we will teach it good to them in thundertones on the 26th day of May. The P.c, I.K V nk of Lumberton, Lumber ton, N. C. OFFICERS! ,,1,-nt, R. D. CALDWELL, Vice-Pres. I n s. C. B. TOWNSEND, Cashier, THOS. J. MOORE, Ass't Cashier. our Honey Grows ! Y0(5 0;;y 4 Deposit it in our Savings Bank. Per Cent. Interest, Compounded every Ti-.i TM.-,ihs, on any sum from 25 Cents Upward. N .. the Time to begin to save, and opening an ac ..: ..ith on r Bank is the Best Way to begin the Sav- H you are uur customer, we lend you money when you need it. Your money when Deposited with us, is payable on De- UtU' A. If v-m l;aAi no aexount with us, call or write us for furth er rrciiku-s about our methods. Rife CeMly Loan and Trust Company, i !iiU of Lumberton Building,) LUMBERTON, N. C. Lean, Stephen Mclntyre, Vice-President. C. II. Morrow Cashier. Do Your Job Printing ! MS- " r WE M A.KE A SPECIALTY pF nmercial Work SEND US YOUR ORDERS. ff6:iafl Prlntlno 60.. Lumberton, N. C. READ ROBESOHIAN BUSINESS BUILDERS. "The first environment in life has much to do with what a man shall do, in solving the question of what profession a man shall engage in and the views which he shall entertain on public ques tions in maturer life. Just after the close of the civil war whiskey in North Carolina was absolutely supreme, from the mountains to the seashore. There was hardly a county which had not stills and bar-rooms in every township. The people before the war had been taught that it was right to distill their spirits and naurally felt that it was an invasion of their rights for the government even so much as to tax it. Whis key was not only supreme in the matter of territorial sway, but as regards control over parties. It absolutely dominated the Repub lican party. It absolutely domi nated for years the Democratic party. "My position on this question is very simple. I am unalterably opposed to the manufacture and sale of liquor on a single inch of North Carolina soil. I am also opposed to the establishment of a dispensary or any other make- shitt by which men may be au thorized to destroy the souls and bodies of our boys and girls. (Applause). BEGAN GRADUALLY. Owing to the situation just described the politicians were diplomatic in handling it. They began by incorporating the ter ritory for a mile square about every church, and then dedicated the rest to the devil and the bar rooms. Then finally they mus tered courage to dedicate one mile around each school house to the Lord, and then increased the dry territory around the church to two or three miles. By and by whiskey was driven out of a few counties. The sentiment in favor of prohibition got to work in the I would not take all the money in North Carolina with all the money in the United States piled on top for one of my children. (Applause) . "When you issue license to a bar-keeper, you authorize him to destroy the boys and girls of North Carolina, you authorize him to make widows and or phans, you authorize him to sep arate husband and wife, you au thorize him to embarrass those who are trying to establish the Church of God, you authorize him to establish a fortune, you authorize him to bring a blight on the community when you li cense him to sell liquor. ' 'Prohibition has been vindicat ed in every community in North Carolina where it has ever been tested. They said in Asheville that we ought not to be deprived of the taxes which were received from the saloons. We received annually $17,000 in taxes from bar-rooms. The bar-rooms re ceived from us $800,000. Wasn't that a money-making proposition ? We invested $800,000 and receiv ed in return $17,000 and about 20 per cent, of our boys and girls were absolutely ruined. ' 'The proposition reminds me of the story of the boy in school. His teacher gave him a problem about a cat in a well, which jumped up three feet and each time fell back twelve. He was directed to figure out how long it would take the cat to reach the surf ace'of the earth. The teach er came back after awhile to find the boy working diligently. 'Have you got the answer yet, Johnny?' the teacher asked. 'No, not yet,' replied the boy, still figuring rapidly, 'but if you'll give me another small piece of paper I'll figure him into the in fornal regions.' "They were driving us very much in Asheville in the same direction that that boy was figur ing the cat." Judge Pritchard told of inves tigations which he made to find out the workings of prohibition. He wrote to the mayor of Char lotte, where conditions were re ported first-class. He wrote to Not only a God fearing people, The speaker told a harrowing a by ne entered the Confederate but a sober, intelligent people, tale of a man who inflampd with army and carried the order for The people of North Carolina liquor beat out the brains of his the last charge at Appomattox should use every means in their wife and now languishes in Mar- power to bring about a condition shall jail. ' 'And yet we find men which will make not only this State but the United States in vincible. "Give a man a home," said Judge Pritchard. "and you will make him a patriotic citizen. If the time ever comes;" he added later, "though God forbid it should come, I believe a majority of men wrho march under the he exclaimed, Stars and Stripes will come from half seriously, frothing at the mouth about per sonal liberty. " The speaker in terspersed through this portion a number of amusing anecdotes which took well with the crowd He then entered into a defense of the part the Asheville ladies took in the campaign there. "Vote your husbands, ladies," half humorously, "Vote 'em fair- A. MoN. ill, T. A. MoNoill, Jr. McNeill & McNeill, Attorneys at Law, 1AJMBRTON, N. C. Will lirai-tice in all the Courts. Busi ness attended to promptly. WADE WISHART, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON. N. C. Frompt attention given to all business. Office over Bank of Lumberton. D. P. SHAW, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON. N. C. All business entrusted to him prompt ly attended to. Ollice in Shaw building-. N. A. McLean, A. W. McLean. McLEAN & McLEAN, Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Offices on 2nd floor of Bank of Lum berton Building, Rooms 1, 2, 3, ami 4. Prompt attention given to all business. ne is a lawyer ot ability and stands among the leaders of the bar in his section. He has for twenty five years been editor of the Chatham Record and made it a power for Democracy. As Democratic elector, State Execu tive Committeeman and State Senator, he has served his party with fidelity and singleness of purpose. Raleigh News and Observer. the section South of the Mason and Dixon line." (Great Ap plause. ) the speaker quoted trom a letter from Mr. S. B. Tanner, of Henrietta, pi sident of the South ern Cotton Growers' Association, telling how much better mill con ditions were since the abolition of saloons than before, IN MADISON COUNTY. Iy, if you can, but for God's sake The office of Corporation Corn- vote 'em." He urged the young missioner is a very important one ladies who next to the ministers in North Carolina. Mr. Bedding- have most influence, to use it for field is to retire voluntarily and prohibition. Referring to the local self-gov ernment, Judge Pritchard said that in his mountain country when the men saw a fire burn- the latest announcement to suc ceed him is that of Maj. Henry A. London, ot Chatham, who is a man of ability and poise. The position is one ot dignity and re- ing ten miles away they hasten- sponsibilty and he is a person to ed without any ceremony to put realize these qualities residing in it. The convention will make no mistake if it nominates him. CHAS. B. SKIPPER, attorn ey-at-l a w , LUMBERTON, N. C. All business entrusted to him wil receive prompt and careful attention. Office in First National Bank Build ing over Post Office. E. M. BRITT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office upstairs in Argus Building. All , business promptly transacted. E. J. BRITT, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office over Pope's Drug Store. STOCK REMEDIES. Every bottle of Dr. Edmond's Colic and Lung Fever Cure is Guaranteed for colic, gravel, pneumonia, stomach and lung disorders. Also a blood prurifier. DR. W. O. EDMUND, 3-21 Lumberton, N. C. it out. the hre is burning in Judge Pritchard began a de- Salisbury. It is burning in Wil- i "1 1 i i j 1. 1 I . taned account oi tne conuiuons mington, and in other places m Charlotte Observer. m Madison and Yancey counties vrorth Carolina. If it sweeps some years ago and now," since west of Charlotte it will destroy the day of prohibition. The judge said he had spent most of his time in Madison. When he went there both parties were dominated by the liquor interests. In fact, ' 'if the Democrats nomi nated a man for sheriff whose nose was one-forth red, the Re- not only our properties, but the bodies and souls of our people. And by the Eternal God, going to put it out." Consider What it Means. If I were to vote for the manu facture and sale of intoxicatinsr publicans would turn around and ijquors May 26th, I would never nominate one whose nose was see another drunken man or wid-three-fourths, or entirely red." 0w or orphan of a drunkard, or (Laughter and applause.) Half read of a crime of which whiskey the men apparently had not js the cause without knowing I washed their taces m six months, was rpSr)0nsiblfl fnr it. or at the their linen was soiled and tatter- ! ed. When ministers came into that section of the country about the time they got the second line of a hymn sung, a pistol would go off and that preacher was lucky to get away with his bones whole." The county was known as "bloody Madison." There was a Superior Court, but all its time was occupied with murder cases, so an Inferior Court was established. The jail at Ashe ville had to be resorted to and The Asheville Citizen said the Madison jail was so full that the prisoners' heels hung out the very least a partner in the re- sponsibitiy Think what you are doing, men! Think what you are lettjng them do, women, when you quietly permit them to vote "For the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors." consider it an awful thing to do. And I believe that if you reflect upon the consequences of your vote you will think so too. It may make your son a drunkard. It may make your daughter the wife of a drunkard. --T. T. Hicks, Henderson, N. C. That Little Affair in '98. Newbern Sun. Mr.Kitchin declares with some we're show of pride, that he never did anything against the Democratic party. How about trying to fuse with Butler, head ot the negro office-holding brigade in 1898, when the dicker was on the basis of a division of the offices? It didn't succeed, thanks to a sufficient number of Democrats who preferred defeat standing by principle rather than victory in such a shametul alliance as was proposed. the mayor of Fayetteville, who j windows. The county paper reported that the revenue of the city wos doubled. Under saloon regime there was one bank, now there are 5; with saloons there was $250,000 on deposit, now there is $1,325,000 on deposit. Where there was one cotton mill, now stand 5; where there was no silk mill now stands 2. Formerly the town had 14 saloons and 6 cotton mills; now there are no saloons ! and 14 cotton mills. "If you had ! 100 bar-rooms in the City of Charlotte and could exchange every one for a cotton mill with $200,000 capital, it would be the best trade ever made in Charlotte for the good of the community. That question is one of the main questions confronting the people of North Carolina. Are we go- was worth 25 cents on the dollar. Finally the prohibitionists got to work and liquor was eliminated from all parts except Marshall, where there is a dispensary the Legislature had not nerve enough to remove. The result is there is only one court, the men wear clean shirts, the women are hap py and contented. A new jail has been built, for fear the li quor men may get back in pow er. A new court house and elec tric lights are in evidence and the county paper is worth 1C0 cents on the dollar. Every com munity has its church and its school house. Yancey, if anything, was worse. "The liquor question exercises a sort of talismanic influence over The Southern Baptist conven tion, which met in Hot Springs, Ark., last week, will meet next year in Louisville, Ky. A per. manent endowment of $600,000 for the benefit of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, the largest institute ot its class in the world, wa. pledged by the delegates to the convention. Mr. Pandemonium. Charlotte Observer. Senator Culberson having said that it will be either "Bryan or pandemonium at Denver," The Washington Herald protests that it never heard of the last-named erentleman 'but he mierht do for Vice President." By George, that s tip top! there are no evi dences yet of mental decrepitude at the Round Table. J. M. LILLY, M. D. Practice limited to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. 115 Green St. Fayetteville, N. C. 4-16-tf Dr. Thomas C. Johnson, Physician and Surgeon, Lumberton, N. C. Office over McMillan's Drug Store. Calls answered Promptly day or night. Home at residence of Prof. J. R. Poole 4-27-tf. DR. N. A. THOMPSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, LUMBERTON, - N. C, Office at Hospital. Phone No. 41. Down town office over McMillan's Drug Store. Calls promptly answered night or day, in town or in the country. DR. R. T. ALLEN, DKNT1ST, LUMBERTON, - - N. C. Office over Dr. McMillan's Drug Store. DR. JOHN KNOX, JR., Physician and Snrgeon, Lumberton, N. C. Office at McLean-Rozier Drug Store. 1-2-08 J. A. MacKETHAN, M. D., MacKathan Building. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Ev Senator and Mrs. Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina sailed from Boston Sunday for Europe. The Senator is making the trip for his health. Before sailing Senator Tillman discussed the political situation, expressing the opinion that if Secretary Taft recieves the Republican Presiden tial nomination the Democrats will win. The aeroplane with which Wil bur and Orville Wright had made successful flights at Kill Devil Hill, near Nag's Head, for two weeks, was wrecked Thurs day. It is said to have flown 8 miles in 7 minutes and 40 seconds under perfect control and the disaster wras due to an error on ' "he part of the navigator, who uirecteu uie cuuise ui tne ma chine downward too quickly. The Wright brothers began immediately to pack their effects preparatory to returning to their home atJDayton, Ohio. They will make no more tests on the North Corilina coasts for the present. A tornado wrecked the towns of Louisville, Bellevue and Ritch- field, Neb., last Tuesday, killing several persons and injuring a large number. Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. 1-1.3 E. G. SIPHER, ELECTRICIAN. Lumberton, N. C. Office in Shaw Building, Phone No. 118. 1-6 DR. R. F. GRAHAM, DENTIST, LUMBERTON, X. C. Office over Bank of Lumberton. Rooms Xo 7 and 8. 1-20-08 DR. J. C. McKENZlE, Physician and Surgeon, ORRUM, - - N. C. 3-9-tf THE LUMBERTON PRESSING CLUB. A Hospital for Your Clothing. We Clean, Press and Repair. Ladles Fabrics a specialty. P. T. MUSSELWHITE, Mgr. 1-23-tf
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