"The 450-Hile
A LKOTTJEE BY
.Bev J. G. Adams; a noted pro
"hibition speaker from the West
nd OQd who- ib known in all parts
qthe country,1 delivered his leo
ture.. ' The ' 45&Mile StreeV to
Hell," at the Grand' opera hose
last Afternoon before an
that filleofthe theatre.'
audience
,$ey . Adams is an enthusiastic
prohibitionist and Relieves the
e is fast coming when the sale
of liquor whether by the state or
theJ blind tiger" shjilTbe a thing
$he past. He has been a pro-
ibition lecturer for seventeen
years, lecturing in all partpf the
" country. He will speak a" t the
court house tonight on "T he Dead
" ly Parrallel. v
' Rev. Adams spoke as follows :
' 1 Stbeetof Saloons.
The licensed saloons of the Uni
ted Spates, if formed into aTstreet
: ' allowing twenty feet space to eaoh
. saloon, would make a street .four
hundred andHfty miles long, solid
'".oh either side:wrthput a break, or
- cross street in Hiolid from end
td end. : Let- us "imagine them
brought together and formed into
a street, and let us suppose that
the moderate dram drinkers and
vtbeir families are marching in at
theppernd.
r'Come, go with me, and let us
stand at the lower end and see
what it turns-out in one year.
Did I say at the lower end? Yes
For this, street is on an. incline
plain, and I take 1 willingly and
t .vfK'V" -"BJ -rJ? - r t
" e i
a devil's hell. And -unless they
repent and forsake this , way they
will land in hell.
The liquor traffic and saloons
are to the devil what the" church
' is to God. The church is a great
power in lifting up and saving
-humanity, while the saloon is a
great power in dragging down and
destroying human beings miLd,
body and soul. The success of the
saloon is the overthrowing of the
schools, colleges and churches.
They are antagonistic one to the
other. The kind of training and
support that would build up the
saloon would prove detrimental to
schools, colleges and churches,
and vice verse. So you can see at
once that there is no good thing
to be derived from the liquor
traffic. Yet it is being sustained
by our government. No other
reason was ever assigned save re-
venue. -
No christian nation can hope to
be prosperous when she absolutely
, refuses to put a .slop to this great
curse, but continues to permit
men to engage in a crime produc
ing business, under the high
license system; Asa christian I
cannot afford to give my consent
to the liquor traffic simply . for
. revenue. This is why the saloon
keener is in the business, for the
money he can get out of itrand he
will tell you so,
. . -m 4
1 he saloon is as "national' as
a national bank, and as lawful as
a public school, made so by the
license system. - It could not exist
otherwise.' The saloon could not
stand on its own merits but hides
its deformed face behind the plea
of expediency "business for rev
enue." Supeeme Coubt's Decision. .
The supreme court of the United
States has decided that no man
has; a natural or inherited right to
sellj liqtibr, therefore the privilege
can, only be granted to. him by the
people. This being the case, the
legislature of the various states
have enacted for the people of the
several states what is known as
the high license system selling
to any man who; may be able to
pay the price the privilege to
deal out death and destruction.
If it was -not for the protection
and support of the government, to
. this great evil it could not stand
twelve months. -.;
.Everybody snows it to be a
great curse, but whatever a state
or nation licenses it must protect.
So the liquor traffic hides behind
whatever political party may be
in power, for the saloon, the pow-
er behind the throne, put the par
ty there : and the saloon T can and
does have protection.
to Hell'
i
BEV.. J. G.I ADAMS.
Should I engage with a band of
robbers I would expect to" stand
by them in all their troubles after
wards, as I had sharedmy part of
the booty. So, we asnation, as
as long as we derive a profit out of
the troubles from the -whiskey
curse.
May "the Lord help every christ
ian voter who reads these lines to
think prayfully as to his indivi
dual responsibility relative to this
great question ; yes, his responsi
bility to God, as a christian Re
member, brothers that the license
law was made for us by our legis
lature, that we might grant to
men , the privilege to sell that
whioh the courts have said ho mant
has a right to 'sell, mntil it is grant
ed tojiim by the people through
their representatives.
So all ;are responsible. And we,
the people, seeing the evils result-
ling from the traffic, have appeal-
eCFSo the legislature for relief; but
they fail to give us any but say
we can have local control, and we
have what is known as thd local
option law. We have theopportun
ity of abolishing our interests in
this traffic, and with every oppor
tunity there is responsibility. I ? p
peal to everyone who loves God an
humanityib dp what he can for
local prohibilinv
Some say.tha
al opinion will
not stop I
drinking!
Well, it may not;5"
en you
have craved, worked.
VOtfe
and
e-a-
rtnna a I urm nu.n vrn wi
nniisnrtfi vniTT iiii.
bolished your interest in the'traffio
thai was; fastened upon you by the
legislature, which has shifted the
responsibility directly upon the
voter. You say local option will
not prohibit. Neither will the
law against theft, murder, robbery
and such! things prohibit, yet I
never find anyone wanting to re
peal these laws because crime con
tinues. We might as well say we
will not have a law against selling
liquors just because it will not
prohibit, absolutely. '
There are penalties attached to
these laws for the violators. You
say you can't catch 'them. But
put forth 'the same effort to catch
the local option law breakers as
we do the thief and we will be
just as successful, yea, more, as
there are pot so many of them.
On the same line of reasoning you
would not have a law against theft,
murder, or any other crime.
Anotner says, we cannot carry
local option in our town, or pre
cinct, as. the case may be. You
can carry;, your part of interest,
and this is what God, demands of
you as a christian and nothing
short of this will -be pleasms to
Him. "To him that knoweth ? to
do eood and doeth it not, to him
it is a sin."
DangebNot in "Blind Tigebs."
. Another says there will be blind
tigers. Well, I had rather have
one blind tiger than three or four
or a dozen tigers that can see
Furthermore, if you are a true
prohibitionist; and do all you can
you are not responsible for" the
blind tiger, but you are responsi
ble for the "tiger" with eyes the
open saloon.
Another says he does not believe
in interfering with other people's
liberties, in the nrst place you
do not interfere with another's
liberty. They have no "liberty"
to sell liquor, only such as was
given to them by you, and if you
have-the rightjio grant, you have
the righttb take baok.
The proposed law is not against
the diinker, but the seller, and no
i
man has any right to sell a thing
or do a thing that does hut destroy
both soul and body.
Another ; says it will kill 'the
town This is false, for saloons
produce nothing but-' drunkards,
widows, orphans, insanity, pau
perism, misery, woe, death and
destruction, and these things do
not build up a town,' but to the
contrary, the money spent; for li
quor would be spent fordry goods,
groceries, beef steak, etc. Did
vou ever hear one sav. "I want
property at such and such a town
i ... '. .: .
because they sell whiskey there?"
r There is hardly a county u any
state that cannot get,: a sufficient
number of signers to a petition tS
secure an election orr the subject,
and I would rhave it, and: place
the responsibility' where it belongs
on those who vote tor the 'saloon
for it is father saloonor no sa
loon. As a ohristian you don't
have to succeed, thank the Lord,
but you do have tqbe truejand dot
what you can for ; the right and
against the wrong and you can't
be true and rem am quiet and see
hell grow- fat on drunkards-r-the
natural prodoct of the saloon.
'r HQT-BED OF CBIME.
The saloon is the hot-bed -of at
least seventy-five per cent of the
crime, committea in toe unitea
States- Are we in favor of the
suppression of crime? Then re
move one of the great causes. The
licsnsed liquor tfaffioi How can
we "honestly pray 1 Thy king
dom oome, Thy will be done in
earth as it is heaven;" and then
remain silent on this great ques
tion? Let us come to. the help of
the Lord, to the help of "the Lord
against the. .mightiest - power for
evil on-jeartn .f-- '. ' T"
Yotf ay : ;we "can - never abolish
the whiskey -business J-JPhis may
be true,', and - would be should
everybody be like yourself, saying
you can't, you can't but as I have
previously said, we don't have to
succeed, we liave only to be true.
The thing we have to decide is
whether th9 saloon is right is e
nough for any christian to know
about it. I have by study, pbser?
vation and experience,-decided
that the saloon is evil, and; only
evil, continuously, and I have de
termined to pursue the course of
the wood-chuck, and not of the
jay bird. One cold, stormy eve
the woodchnokJit on the window
pane and began to "hit-a-lick,
hit-a-hok, hit-a-hck," trying to4
get in to warm himself, but a jay
lit on a limb near by and began
to say. "you can't, you can't, you
can't." Sp, next morning when
the landlord went out he found
the jay lying on the ground frozen
stiff, but the woodchuck waB still
on the window pane, "hit-a-lick,
hit-a-lick." bo, wnetner x ever
succeed or not, I have decided
with the woodchuck, to continue
t j "hit-a-lick"-ind keep hittifig.
Remember, we are at the lower
end of this street, considering it
for one year, wnat great army
is this we see coming in at the
upper end of the street? It is the
army of six million (6,000,000 ).
people who are in the habit pf
going to the saloon and getting
liquor and drinking it as a bever
age i on say cms is aingnt n
they do not make hogs of them
selves. This is castings a reflec
tion on the hog race, for hogs do
not get drunk, and when men get
drunk they are below the brute
creation. Poor, miserable drank
ard8l i am sorry tor fcnem; so
are you if you have any sympathy
for humanity. Yet if there were
no dram-drinkers there would be
no drunkards.x No little piggies
no big hoggies. No dram-drink
ers no nog drunkards, as you
call them.
God made man a free moral
agent.
Man made the legislature.
The legislature made the law.
The lawmade the ealoon.
The saloon made the dram
drinker. - The dram-drinker makes the
drunkard.-
The drunkard makes a demon
in hell.
Read l'Cor. 6:10. V -
DBUNKABD HAS BAD INFLUNCE.
Dram-drinking is . wrong, be
cause it leads to drunkenness.
The devil can use one moderate
dram-drinker more effectually
than he can a cow pen fall of
drunkards. No boy wishes to
follow? or imitate a 'comm
drunkard ; ; but if you nave any
Colonels, Majors, . Captains or
other prominent" men-whp are
dram-drinkers, they axe the ones
that your bdyls apt Jbo imitate, es
peoially if you voted for him for
tome high office. I teach my boys
that drinking is degrading, but
it doesn't look so tor the boy," if I,
( by an act franchise, promote some
dram-drinker to the highest omce
m the giftof the'-'people, I then
teach my boys one thing , by 1 pre-
cept, and another by example. ;
, There is not a," saloon-keeper in
all the land wht wilt not say-that i
it is wrong to getrdrunk, but all
right to take a garink. Oh, how l
sick and tired I get when I hear
a so-called christian talking the I
same way. There is not a sot in
all th6 land whoSffill jiot tell you
tnat e ! IS vBgaiuss - aruujaoess. i
Every: saloon-keeper; oeheves m
temperance," but he has one.
me,an ing for; the:1 word while we
have another.-- Mark this, reader,
no man is a tempdrahoe man, per
se, wnofe aoeftcJMMivoiie . xb -ia
your vote that, demonstrates your
position, thaf pfoyes you are a
prohibitionist.noihing else. The
christian should! oppose dram
drinking, dram-selling and dram-
voting. - i;
Whose gang are you in? Are
you witn tne ?.sonooi teacners,
christians and ' preachers of the
land, or ar you with the saloon.
keepers, who are in the business
for money only, .and who votethe
anti-ticket to a man ; not because
they think-it helps or makes one
better, but purely from a mone
tary consideration.
In the rear of this army? of 6,-
000,000 moderate , dram-drinkers
we see another army coming.
What is it? V'Tis the "army of
600,000 drunkards, -the natural
spawn of-the saloons first a'dram
drinker, but at last a drunkard!
Many wome'n are in this vast army
of . human derelects. They have
fallen quite low, oh, low down, "to
death and hell. ; - u- A
'Fell like the snow-flakes, from
heaven to hell, ; '-:0MZ
Fell, to be trampled SB "the filth
of the street ;
Fell, to be scoffed at, to be spit
on and beat,
Pleading, cursing, -dreading to
die,
Selling her soul , to whoever
may buy, -Dealing
in shame for a morsel
of bread. ' -
Hating the living, fearing the
.dead,
Merciful God, has she fallen s
low?
Yet once she was as pure as the
beautiful snow.
The drunkard has no place, no
home, save the refuge of the asy
lum, the jail, and the peniten
tiary, licensed to make drunkabds..
The saloon is licensed to sell
that which makes drunkards, and
we take the product, the. poor
drunkards, and punish him for
that which the license purports
he shall do wrong. Alas, our
shame I "But shame is a small
matter as long as the business
pays the revenue."
The saloon-keeper, after he has
completed his job, in making the
drunkard, is ashamed of .his pro
duction, and often kicks him into
the street. 6,000,000 people,
most of whom are wage-earners,
are spending their money in these
dens of iniquity, and letting their
families suffer for the common
comforts of life. Many of these
men abuse the poor defenseless
wife and her innocent brood.
JNone can ever" know tne sorrows
pf this poor mother's heart.
can only know, who sees the
sparrow when it falls. And this
same God, whose eye is over all
His works that he has made, will
surely oring thee, U, man, unto
judgment, for this, thy devilish
work.
Many of these drunken wretches
murder their 'Wives -and children
while in this condition. O, where
is my boy 1' Is hea drunkard?
If so, am I excusable? Ihave
known of men being brought from
wealth, honor, fame and high
christian character down to the
lowest degradation. I have heard
people say if you would let liquor
alone it would 4et you alone
i uis jb a iie i aua x will say so.
If it were true Xdon?t know that
I would ever spend any more time
in the temperance field. rBut I
know of many mothers and chil
dren, who are suffering today for
the needs of life and having to toil
in many ways to sustain life on
account ofdrunkenhus bands and
yet the mother and children never
drankjiquor.
I know a man who got drunk
and .went home at a very
late hour. In a little "while his
house was wrapped in f flames,
burning one member of the family
to death. He, himself died from
being burned and the motherliook
sick and died very soon after;
know of a good lady, who is hav-
ing to work hard to support the
uuiiureu i a mao woo gov aruQK
and froze tQ death by the roadside
too drunk to reach his home.
SALOONS BEEED CRIMINALS , :
In . the rear of -these 600,000
druhkards we see another great
crowd coming. Who, are they f j
They are; the 100,000 r criminals
from the jails and prisons. In
the front ranks we see men
whose hands are crimson with
human bloocl. Some1 have ropes
around their necks; others on
their way to prison for lifer
Every crime known to the law has
been committed by "the persons
while under the influence of strong
drink. Statistics" show that at
east seventy-five per cent, of the
crime committed in" the United
States grow, directly or indirectly
out of the liquor traffic By ob
servation I find that noteless than
ninety per cent of the murders
committed are tradable in some
way to liquor. It is hard to call
to mind a single murder where
neither party drank or went about
saloons. Go to the prison cell,
and you will find nearly every
prisoner will admit to drinking
more or less.
I am in favor of suppressing
crime as far as I can, and as the
open saloon is &breeder orxrime,
I am "in favor of stopping s the
ealoon. You eay this is interfering
with personal and inherited rights.
That is not true. The supreme
court of the United States hassaid
that no man has a natural or in
herited right to sell liquor or do
anything else that would be detri
mental to his fellewman, and I
know, and you know, that there
have been some, yes a good many,
good men who got drunk and com
mitted deeds that would drive
em to commit suicide.
an woke up one morning
and askidthe jail-keeper "Where
am I?" and whenhewas told that
he was in jail, beasked, "For
what am I in jail?' "Fbkilling
your wife," said the kee
"What I My Lord! Have I killed
my wife, the best woman- on
eartnr Mow, now did l kill my
wife?" "You shot her last night
while you were drunk." "My
Lord ! Take me out and hang me
at once."
Stop the saloon and you stop
seventy-five per cent of the crime
Then the schools, colleges and
churches will have a better chance
to prosper; there will be a saving
of nine or ten hundred million
dollars to the people, for the
money spent in saloons is worse
than wasted. If there are any
old blear-eyed devils in town they
make it convenient too sit out in
front of the saloon on beer kegs
or chairs and make-remarks about
every woman that passes his way
The saloon dethrones reason, in
nuences passion and inspires
u;ma n or. a
Vnn tiriW fin1 nnnnoAfo wi f H
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houses of ill ' fame, the liquor
traffic, as a feeder. No person
develops into a criminal at once
but the seed is sown and it finally
produces fruit. "Be not deceiv
ed, God is not mocked : for what
soever a marusoweth that shall he
also reap: for he that soweth to
his flesh, shall of the flesh reap
corruption ; but he that soweth to
thopirit shall of the spirit reap
life everlasting," Gal. 6:7-8.
Sow whiskey and reap drunk
ards, widows, orphans,- insanity,
pauperism, robbery, murders and
all other crimes. v ,
A GLANCE UP THE STBEET.
My brother in Christ,, how cau
you be neutral on so great a ques
tion? Don't forget where we are
at the lower end of a legalized
street of hell. What is that long
line of black we see coming slowly
down the street just in the rear of
these one hundred thousand crim
inals? It is .a-funeral procession
100,000 dead drunkards rare being
carted to the grave. They do not
have mahyiriends to mourn their
loss, nence we can put thirty such
processions m aiie. We thus
have a oropession-8,833 miles longr
It will take them a good part Of
the year, to go by, we see depicted
upon their countenance a horror
that hung over them
in death. !
y . . i
Some of them died with delirium
tremens, some froito death by
the -roadside, others stumbled
from the wharf and were drowned,
while still, others were mangled
under cars,others burned in build
ings set on fire by themselves.
They died in various ways,
strong drink killed them all,
but!
and I
their tombstones, should they
have any, may be fitly inscribed,
ard.'V
Close in the Tear of this army
we see another long line of funeral
processions. They are the onesjwho
met death through the carelessness
and cruelty of drunkencomrades.
Many die of broken hearts, some
were murdered, and still others
were horribrjrmai gled on the rail?
roads because of idrunken engi
neers or conductors, many were
drowned at-f sea on account of
drunken captains,
Now we wish to consider the j
army of orphan children who
have been. left by the dead drunk-
ards. Though-they be innocent I
of the'ioiquities of their1 fathers
that have been visited, upon them.
Two hundred thousand in num
ber; eaqh of these must bear
through life the stigma of being a
drunkard's child. They are re
duced to proverty, want and
gary. .
l ney live in ignorance a,
vice; they gre suffering with h
ger and cokl Many ot tnese
children are idiots, made so by
brutal, drunken fathers. They
will fill up the ranks of the army
of "drunkards that ever move
toward death.
Remember we have been consid
ering this street for one year, and
in the rearoomes the next year's feels out of order Take -some-supply.
If this is what liquor thing at once that you know will
does'for us in one year. whatmustlPPfrpMy and unfailingly assist
be the result through the leng
1
CentUTieS? I
Thus far we have listened to the I
stories that the figures tell, but
they cannot tell it all. They
t- ' " .-J w - "
le tragedy that
is going on
round about us.
much is not known.
They cannot te us the uphap-
piness of the drur kard's home ;
they cannot teH-us how many un-
kind and cruel words strong drink
has spoken to poor wife and child-
ren.
They cannot tell us the many
blows that have fallen from the
drunkarh's hand upon those whom
it is his duty to love and protect.
They cannot tell us how many
fond expections and bright hopes
have been blasted.
They cannot tell us how many
mothers have worn out body and
soul in providing the necessities strongly favoring the temperance
of life for children whom a drunk cause, it is less than ''peanut pol
en father has left destitute. iticV' to try to drag the question
They cannot tell us of the for- into partisan politics. As Preach
lprn and broken hearts of the bride er A. T, Pardue remarked in his
while the horizen of life is radiant
with life's first hope.
Theyjjahnot tell us how many
gray haired mothers have gone to
the grave mourning her drunken
sons.
They cannot tell us how many
hard battles the drunkard has
fought with the terrible appetite.
We cannot begin to tell any
thing about, nor can we search
the records of the other world and
tell how many souls have been
forever shut-out of heaven"and
forever cast into hell, by the de
mon strong drink. .
Who, then, would not vote to
have that street of h' 11 with its
awful traffic in the infernal- stuff,
sunk to the lowest depths of perd
ition and covered ten thousand
fathoms deep under the curses of
the universe.
"Finally, my fellow traveler to
the bar of God, are you not sorry
for these and ten thousand more?
Alas, how sad their case. -What
. Zl. . .. . .
awf ul plight.What woe is theirs 1
And they appeal to you, not or
money, but for your vote - to cast
away7this ; curse. Asheville Citi-
zen April 14th.
ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
CemctLat fflr New Lutheran Cbitrcb.
, Working for PrOhlbitlOB.
Stanly Enterprise; April ISrdT
Raise home supplies, Let hU
kAfchfl fArmara ino
season's
for.
crops are all provided
The North State, the republican
paper at Lexington recently taken,
in charge by J. v M. Vanhog, sus
pended last week. -
A large Daniille, Va., distiller
is on trial before the United States
courts upon the charge of defraud
ing the government out of between
$100,000 and $150,000 taxes on
whiskey; Itseemsto be a hard
matter to find a real honest man
in that sort of business.
The contract for the briok work
on the new Lutheran church- has
been let to Robert L. McAllister,
of Mt. Pleasant, a brick contrac-
tor well-known to and liked by
our. people. S. H. Hearne left
Tuesday morning for Charlotte,
carrying with him the plans and
specifications. While there
Hearne will get bids from parties
(on much of the material that will
enterinto tbec6nstruction. Work
will begin as soon as material is
laid down.
A little band of Christian wom
en have been meeting at the
Methodist church' every-Friday
afternoon and lifting their voices
to Him who rules over all, in ear
nest petitions for the prohibition
eg-Jwould ftYaiJ
cause, rrayers witnout -wor&B
naught ; but theBe,
and right on ther'side of
temperance; verily, . the cause" is
one wherein th.Qe who are enlist
ed in its favor are mightierfhan
those against. In this way the
women have a work to perform.
To have perfect' health we must
have perfect -digection, and it is
important not. to permit of any
delav the moment the stomach
?IKeArlon iT I8,noimD8 .
for t.hftn Knnrvl fnr nTannnrm in.
A ?rfoafi- inn .fntniAli Vkolnkirx
of gas and nervous headache.
Kodol is a natural digestant',' and
will digest what you eat. Sold by
PeiBBt Politics and Prohibition. :
It-is ejjcouraging ( to the good
cause of temperance to publish
letteTslike the oue"f rom Hon. J, S.
Holbrook in this issue. With such
prominent republicans as former
representatives of Wilkes, J. S.
Holbrook. William Lee. William
A. Tharpe and other prominent
I Wilkes republicans. nd such
prominent republicans as Judge
I Piitchard, Ltisk, Hicks, Gus Price,
Judge Robinson, Isaac Meekins,
Col. Henry C, Dockery, and hun-
dreds of others of the best element
of tbe republican party, and about
all of the prominent democrats,
sermon in the- court house yard
the other day, "it is the 15c poli-
tician who would like to ride into
office on a boat swimming in the
tears and blood of innocent ot
women andchildren that tries to
drag' this great question into
partisan politics. Wilkesboro
I Chronicle.
- Too 6rowtii of Soowdrift.
The enormous increase in the
use of Snowdrift Hog) ess Lard.
not only in the South, but in the
North as well, although little
effort has been made to introduce
it north of the Carolinas, is fan
other striking example of Southern
enterprise and Northern apprecia
tion of Southern products.
! The registration books will, ac
cording to ruling, opened on las$
Friday, the 24th, and will close
on the ;l8thW' May,' giving the 20
days ordered by1 law, eiclusive' of
Sundays. There will .be no new
registration,but all citwen who
have changed-their, place tor resi-
dQnC6f ud n vhohave Decome of
age: siace last registration, must
get their names On the books
and;pay4heirpoll,tax--ielBe they
won'tbe allowed to vote. ;
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