IS WILSON A MODEWI SODOM? Serious Charges Made by Its Own Citizens. WARM CLASH OFOPINIONS Saloon Lawyer Charges Church Membsrs With Immorality-Dispensary Bill Favcrab'y Re ported-One Speaker Declared Wilson’s GoY?rnment Groe-Ridden- The dispensary for the town of Wilson had tho call yesterday before the Senate Propositions and Grievances Committee. Some weeks ago a committee of leading citizens from Wilson came to Raleigh, presented a petition signed by a majority of the voters of the town, and asked for the establishment of a dispensary. The members of the Legislature from Wilson suggested to the committee that they change their bill so a.s to submit it to a vote of the people of the town. This was dono and yesterday a committee ct leading citizens were in Raleigh to urge the passage of the bill through the Sen ate. it having already passed the House. They were met upon their arrival in Raleigh by another phase of opposition. The attorney for the saloons had pre pared a bill submitting the question of saloons or dispensary for the town of Wilson to a vote of tho entire county of Wilson. Tho delegation present was composed of Messrs. George W. Connor, John F. Bruton. George H. Wainwright. Elder James S. Woodard. Silas Lucas. E. A. Darden. W. P. Wooten, J. R. Uzzell and Rev. A. P. Tver. Col. John F. Bruton, president of the First National Bank of Wilson, said the business men assembled and - prepared a bill, securing a full majority of the voters of the toy.nship. The representatives from Wilson suggested that it ought to be submitted to the people of the town. This hill does that. The rights of tho whiskey men were considered. The bill is to go into effect January Ist, 1004. It has passed the House. The Wilson peo ple wish only to have the opportunity to vote. Petitions have been presented, showing that a majority of the voters wish this matter submitted. Mr. Mewborne, attorney for tho saloon men, antagonized the bill on the part of tho anti-dispensary folks. They wish the vote taken in a larger territory. Wilson has 7,000 people, and the advo cates of the dispensary propose to con fine it to the town. We wish it left it to the vote of the township. They ought to have a voire, though they live outside the corporate limits. They have rs much right as those within the corporate limits. Mr. J. R. Uzzejl: ‘ How many who live outside the corporate limits wish to b -> heard?" He could give no answer. Mr. Uzzell asked if the men he repre sented lived outside the corporate limits. He said they did not. He objected to the section that required five commissioners. We want three and we want them elected by tho people. They elect the other officers. Why not the men who are to manage the dispen sary? Ho objected to the election in Ajril—it is too soon. It will mix with tho municipal election. Ho wanted the election to take place later in the sum mer. With those amendments it will be all right. Mr. George W. Connor replied. He spoke of how progressive Wilson was, and said they were in sympathy with the great temperance movement in North Car olina. This hill is drawn by temperance men, who wish to minimize this evil of liquor. He said ho did not appear as at torney, but only as a citizen. The hill was carefully considered, and met the ■wishes of the majority of the voters of the town as the petitions show. . This hill does not change the conditions in the township. The early date was fixed so as to give ample and full time to the liquor men to retire from the business without loss, and they ought to have as long notice as possible. The commission named are first-class men—they all make a personal sacrifice to serve the com munity. They are Cicero Culpepper, E. A. Darden. Geer— Hackney, Dr. (\ E. Moore, Wm. Woodard, Jr.—all men of high character and business capacity. Their term expires one every year. The town is to get as much as it now go’s from tho license of its seventeen bar rooms, tho county gets the same, and then they divide. The town now g >ts $5,800 from the bars. The profit from the dispensary is estimated at $20,000, though we hope it will not be so much. The man in charge of it shall be paid a fixed salary not dependent upon the sales. Mr. Sidney A. Woodard, attorney for the saloon men. replied to Mr. Connor. He said the saloon did not desire tho une offered them. The men represent ing the dispenary arc reponsiblo for the lax town government, where gambling runs wide open, whiskey and food are given away free. Four church members. 5 town aldermen, licensed bawdy houses to dispense liquor. That "the straw that broke the camel s hack. The saloon men had nothing to do with these things. They oppose such license, ihe saloon men ask only for fair id.iv. a gambling saloon is run wide open °VT s * ore of a town alderman. The clamor is really against the gam- ITng houses. We need a Board of Al dermen to regulate these things instead °’ a dispensary. There is SIO,OOO in ' M *' i !n hat ' fixtures If their property is to bp destroyed, let's put it off till beptember. In the meantime, the people can think before they act. No other town with 7,000 people is asking tor a dispensary. Wilson paid out $2,000 000 this y the soles of mv feet,” writes Mrs. El’a Quick, of toss City, Tuscola C 0.., ATich. "Coaid not wnTk pi times nor wear my shoes. Thought there was no help for me—at least the doctor said there was mane. I went to sec friends ct Christmas time and there heard of the good that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis coverr had done for them, and was advised to try it«t once. For fear that I might neglect it my friend sent to the village and got a bottle and made me promise that I would take it. I had been getting worse all the time. I took things x beetles of the ‘Golden Medical Dboov ery'aa ! ten vials of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets, av*d ti«d ‘All-Healing Salve,’ which made a coco "lete cum-. Tt was slow, but xrrrr. I was taking the xrcc' cine about eight months. "I v en'd say a> nil who read this: try Dr. Pierre’ ; 0.-oV.c: edicnl Ih'ecoverr heiisre wast ing time fie\*l money. ’ 0 The sole ttvoGve for sucatihuinn is to permit the dealer to make the little more profit Tvr.iri by the sole of less meritorious medicine?, iie gains ; you lose. There fore accept no substitute for u Golden Medical Discovery.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cleanse the clogged system from accumulated impurities. just as you wish to pass * the dispensary hill to visit upon the saloons the sins of the town aldermen." He advocated the election in September in the whole county. Many who signed the petition are opposed to the dispensary. He said once two-thirds of a Legislature signed a petition to bang a fellow member without knowing it- He came back to the charge that there were illegal gambling houses in Wilson. Col. Bruton: "I)o you know where they are?” "Air. Woodard: "I'ron information and belief, 1 do." Col. Bruton: "Have you sworn out a warrant to have the men arrested? You ought to have sworn out a warrant against tho men whom you say run gam bling saloons, as a good citizen.” Mr. Woodard said he didn't think a saloon man wanted to do wrong, they are in the business like ail other men are in their calling—for the money there is in it. The evils can be remedied with out a dispensary. Mr. J- R. Uzzell replied to Mr. Wood ard. He was proud of the people of Wilson and he denied that the moral forces lire responsible for the deplorable evils that exist in Wilson. He blushed that Wilson had had seventeen bar rooms, two run bv immoral women until the latter were abolished recently. There are nine bawdy houses with near one hundred had women. It is untrue that the moral forces in Wilson are responsi ble for such things. They would not exist with a dispensary. The men living cutsidc of the town do not pay taxes, do not vote on town government, and yet the liquor men want the township to vote on this question. He replied with powerful effect to Air. Woodards plea to postpone the election and his speech was effective. If there ever was a town cursed by grog-sale, it is Wilson. Bad men sometimes vote for good men just as it is to their interest. It is the reputable Dimness men, the property owners of Wilson, who favor a dispensary, and are asking for it. They will tax themselves to pay debt without need of bars. If the bars cost money, they cost us money. Bars are responsible for most j of tlie crime in Wilson as < lscwhere. The ratient people have suffered from grog rule. We need this hill. Let us vote on it. At first, the saloon people said "Let the people of the town vol “ on it. Then they claim to want ail the county to vote on it.” Upon a vote, the bill was unanimously reported favorably. After that had been done, Rev. A. !’• Tyer, the Methodist *paslor, said he wished permission to make a statement in defence of the good people of Wilson who had been assailed. It was true that license to sell intoxicants was granted to two bawdy houses by the Board of Aldermen, upon which were some church members. The town clerk had stated that these men did not know that such license had been granted. It was due them to say that as soon as it was called to tlmir attention the licenses were at once revoked. Gol. Bruton followed upon the same line, and said that these men promptly corrected tlmir mistake, and that tin severe censure upon them was unde served. He was interrupted by Mr. Woodard who said that these women had license for two years. Col. Bruton said that it was only for a few months. There is no good in advertising the town as worse than it is. Gastonia and its People. (Special to News and Observer.) Gastonia, N. C.. Feb. 13. —The rainfall in this section of the State, since the first day of January, has been greater than at any time since 1593. Mr. J H.. Gorman, one of our host citizens, left here yesterday for Salis- I ury, where he has purchased a large jewelry business, and wheje he will make his homo. His family will follow soon. They are excellent people, and cur city is worse off for the loss of them \lr. Frank Holland, one of our highly respected county-men, died at his home three miles from this city, this morning with appendicitis. He was about sixty years of age, or perhaps older. What you pay for extracts is impor tant, but what you get for your money is ten times more important. Burnett’s Vanilla costs more because worth more. If a lover of a buxom maiden could -it down in cold blood and study the shape of her fat mother he might feel different. Red-Letter Day Again in the House. (Continued from First Page.) chapter 449 of The Code, Regarding return of executions. Davidson: To declare the Aishevillc Club a duly incorporated club. Britton, of Bertie: To put James Thomason on pension roll. Beasley, of Currituck: Supplementary to an act of 1893, relating to fishing and hunting in Currituck county. West, of Cherokee: To establish a graded school at Andrews, Cherokee county. Thomas, of Ashe: For relief of A. S. Eller, Clerk of the Superior Court of Ashe county. Etheridge, of Dare: To amend chapter 49, Laws of 1891. Newland, of Caldwell: To extend cor porate limits of the town of Lenoir. Nev.land: To establish a graded school in Lenoir. Self, of Cafawba, fcfc- Murphoy, of Rowan: To appoint G- H. Peeler a Jus tice.' of the Peace in Rowan county. Kinsland, of Haywood: To incorporate Pleasant Balsam Baptist Church, in Haywood county. Mason, of Carteret: To prohibit the hedging of fish in Carteret county. Smith, of Gates: To change time of holding terms of certain courts in the First Judicial District. Rucker, of Rutherford: To amend sec tion 197, chapter 733, Laws of 1899. Jarrett, of Macon: To provide for at tendance of school children in Macon county. DeHart, of Swain: To regulate work ing of convicts in Swain county. Drewry, of Wake: To settle a debt due by the tSate to Mrs. F. P. Tucker, exe - cutrix of R. S- Tucker. Warren, of Person: For relief of a teacher in eolorbd school district No. 5, Person county. Roberson, of Guilford: For relief and support of the University of North Carolina. Michael, of Watauga: To protect fish in Watauga River. Price, of Stanly: To amend chapter 4, sections 14 and 17, Laws of 1901, relating to the public schools of Stanly county. Harrington, of Harnett: To regulate hunting in Lillington tow ns nip. Harrington: To prohibit floating saw dust in certain creeks in Harnett. Jarrett, of Macon: To incorporate tho Bank of Franklin. Doughton, of Alleghany: To amend chapter 380, Laws of 1901, relating to teams of courts in Surry county. By consent, the hill to prevent the* shipping of liquor into < 'uinherland county, introduced by Mr. Bullard, was put upon its immediate readings, and passejd- WATTS BILL AMENDMENTS. When the Watts bill, the unfinished Business from the day previous, was taken up, Mr. Curtis sent forward the following amendment: “Amend section one by inserting after the word ‘law,’ in line seven, the following: ‘Provided, that tlie manufacture shall be confined to towns of not less than 500, and the sale to towns of not less than 30'.” Mr. Freeman, of Mecklenburg, offered to amend so as not to r„oply to churches using wine for communion service, and Mr. Simpson, of Union, to insert one gallon wherever five gallons was use I. Notice was given of several more amendments, two by Mr. Morton and one by Mr. Woodley. The Speaker ruled that all thc'se amendments were merely before tin House for consideration, and that the question was only at present upon the amendments offered by the committee. MR. HINTON. Mr. Hinton, of Pasquotank, rose to protest against the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Hanover. He considered that he was simply trifling with the demands of Ihe people of North Carolina. lie had spoken as if the Dom ocratic party depended for its life upon the whiskey traffic. Mr. Morton arose to ask some ques tions, but Mr. Hinton declined to he in to minted. He went on to say that the gentleman from New Hanover spoke as if he were the special champion of the Democratic party, and that her interests depended upon that gentleman. He then asked if Governor Ayeock and Senator Simmons did not have the in ti rests of the party at heart. Mr. Hinton finally yielded to a ques tion from Mr. Morton, who asked him if he had not signed a paper to the effect that he would leave this question to a vote of the people of Pasquotank. Mr. Hinton replied by saying that dur ing the campaign it h-J been said that the temperance people wore going to ruin the Democratic parly, and it had been proposed that all the candidates should sign the paper referred to. He admitted that he had signed it, but de clared it was not binding upon him be cause the others had not signed the con tract. Mr. Hinton then went on and made a vigorous speech for some temperance leg islation, not especially tho Watts bill. MR. BENBOW. Then Mr. Benbow spoke for the wishes of the people of Yadkin. He said not a single petition had come up from that county, and that he spoke for the Demo crats as well as the Republicans. Yadkin county differed from most of tho other counties of the State. There were no towns of more than 1,000 people, and every town already had prohibitive laws, and accordingly the first section of this hill entirely knocked out Yadkin county. It would injure all classes of the people ,not only tte distillers, for Ihe traffic benefitted all the people of the county, even the preachers. Coming to the committee's amend ment, he declared that it would mean wholesale family drunkenness, instead of temperance. After eating, persons of a bilious habi will derive great benefit by taking on: of these pills. I j yoa have been DRINKING TOO MUCH, they will promptly relieve the nausea SICK HEADACHE and nervousness whfch follows, rest or* the appetite and remove gloomy fee* ings. Elegantly sugar coated. Take No Substitute. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 14, 19( 3 Mr. Curtis: "You say it benefits all ck'sses of people?” Mr. Benbow: "I do." Mr. Curtis: "Do you have any people that get drunk in your county?” Mr. Benbow: "Yes." Mr- Curtis: “Well, does it benefit the families of those people?" Mr. Benbow then went on to show how the traffic benefitted every one in the county. It was a business with them just like raising tobacco. He said if. was not a political question in his county, and that he was simply asking what his people had told him to ask. He had always voted with the Democrats in local measures, and he asked the same of them. A member ot this House "was not here to represent his own conscience, but his constituents. Mr. Benbow then made a strong plea for local self-government, saying that all he asked was that his people might bo allowed to vote on this question. Ac cordingly. he would support the amend ment of the gentleman from New Han over. MR. SMITH. Mr. Smith then sent forward his sub stitute for the bill and all the amend ments, regulating tlie sale and manu facture of liquor on the principle of local self-govern men t. Mr- Sndth then spoke to his substitute, and said that a great deal had been said for the bill now before the House that was misleading. It had been said that tho committee reported the Watts bill favorably by a vote of 17 to 4. But ho remembered that at the committee meeting, one gentleman after another had gotten up and said that they cast their votes for this bill, for it was the best thing then pending; but they wished it distinctly understood that they were not Committed by that vote to the support of the Watts bill. i The gentlemen who support the Watts hill had derived much encouragement tho day before from tiie remarks of the gentleman from Hyde. But that gentle man had just come from home, from a t< mperance community, and he had not had time to look into tho matter at all. He was simply expressing his senli monts upon the subject of temperance, and everything that, he had said, and that had been so much applauded, could he equally as truly said of this substi tute. The substitute did as much for tem perance as the Watts or the London bill. Bolli of these bill made a very unjust discrimination between the people of the country and the people of the towns, and Une discrimination was against the town people. Nothing is done for tem perance in the towns. And it put prohi bition upon tlie people of the country, without any chance to change it. If it ir. the purpose of the hill to en force moral ideas upon the people of the country, why not enforce them upon the people of the towns. And that enforcing of moral ideas and governing the rights cf people to ex orcise the dictates of their own con sciences in moral questions was the very principle that brought on Ihe Spanish inquisition. lie read from ihe Constitution of North Carolina on this subject. But he considered that the burden of obtaining license should he upon {lie li quor siller- The right to sell liquor was not a vested right. It was a privi lege granted by the State, that is, by the people. Accordingly, there was a sec tion in his hill putting the burden upon the applicant tor license, to secure a majority expression of the will of the people of the community. That was merely another way of the State rant b the license, and it. was a Concession to the temperance forces of the State. He then dwelt strongly upon tho great principle of government by the people, again reading from the Constitution. At this point he grew very eloquent, and was liberally applauded. I-Ie hoped that the members from Mecklenburg would in this matter be actuated by the same principles that brought intb being ihe gicat, Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence. "Is it possible that this great principle, so often bathed in blood, is to be voted down here in North Carolina, in the house of its friends. Don't, vote against this sacred principle of self government. If it can be voted down for a good cause, it can be done for a bad cause.” He referred to the times of Fusion, when this principle was voted down, arid asked if we wanted to see those scenes re-enacted. "Any party that tampers with this sacred right of the people will he rebuked sooner or later, and it ought to be. 1 say this, Democrat that I am.” He believed it would revolutionize Gates county in three years, r"‘id how many other counties he could 1 tt tell. But in many of them the cry , v>uld go up that the people had been denied self government. Had we forgotten the great slogan, "Equal right for all and special privi leges to none?” If Thomas Jefferson were to visit this scene today he would think the British were in the saddle again and he would denominate Ur gent lonian from Iredell as a genteel Tory of the rankest type. »nd the cities pro vided for as aristocratic municipalities, or municipal aristocracies. Mr. Watts asked Mr. Smith if h e had not voted for the appointing ni of School Beards in Republican counties that wanted other men? Mr. Smith «aid that did not take away any right from the people. To further questions along this line, Mr. Smith replied by referring Mr. Watts to the House Journal, saying he stood upon his record. J iiis evol. 1 ap plause. Mr Smith said no one need vote against his hill because he favored prohibition, temperance or dispensary, because all these things were left to the decision of the people of each community. MR NEWLAND. Mr Newland said the battle wav on end he for one welcomed tne conflict That tlm Watts hill was not all that ishes aston- H ter ihe most H tiove failed. B Mell’t »,ap A will quickly B , Eruptions H nipelas, Salt ■ Ringworms, B eiieves and Eg , American Bonding Company of Baltimore. AfssT* ovsr businjcs* confinsd to iurity bondb, Aeeeptvd m *ol* security by U. K. Government *nd the Bt*te en# Cou*tl«e *f Nertk Carolina. 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