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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, FEBKUAKYT 11, 1919. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Published T " THE XKWS Pl BLISHnO CO. Coraer Fourth and Churcn W. O. DOWD Pres. and Ger. Mgr. JUL.IAN S. MIT.LKU ..... - BAILEY T. GHOOME.... City EdUor. W. M. BELT Adv- Msrn Business Office fircuiation Department . ritv Editor Edlt.-r'.al Rooms 1'rintir.s House 1!5 2793 277 1530 MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. Vhc. As"o"ated Press is 'lu'ively entitled to the use for republication or nil news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All -isrhts of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. srnf niPTio?: rates Charlotte rr. (Daily cnJ Sunday.) six inontha 11 !i?icC public sentiment as he has had op- 1111111111.11 rortunity to observe it, or somebody ONE MAN DISQUIETED. N First of all, we are rather disposed to respect the gentleman whose com munication appears on thia page today somewhat viciously attacking this newspaper's position on the issue of the Prohibition Amendment and even more viciously attacking the amend ment itself. He has convictions on this proposition and he has the cour age to stand up for them, even though he must realize that in this specific instance, he is in a hopeless minority. Any man. nevertheless, who can de fend himself with such animation, when his position is so notoriously wrong is not to be despised in these days. Then we pity this man. The com munication itself 6hows he is entitled to it. He is either hopelessly ignorant Three months - -One month . . . , . On wseK (Sunday Only.) One year Pix months Three months One yea: Six months Tfmei-remoerat. (Semi-Weekly.) $2.00 1.00 .50 $1.50 .75 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1919. been telling him wrong. When- s r any man asseverates so boldly as our friend that "three-fourths of the American people revolt" against what he is pleased to term "constitu tional tyranny," then our pities are at once invoked. He is 'drawing too heavily upon his imagination. He ia seeing things that do not -exist. He leaves the realm of reality entirely and enters the field of limitless peculation. Then we propose to answer him. This newspaper does not believe now nor has ever believed that the sub mission of the issue of prohibition to the States in the form of an amend ment to the constitution was the most perfect process by which to usher in this reform. Its N position has been that the more perfect way would be to submit the question to the individ ual electorate, to let the people vote upon it directly, instead of having them vote upon it by indirection through their respective Legislatures. Its adherence to this plan was caused not so much for its respect for the constitutional rights as it was occa sioned by a desire toee the individ- ! uai voters oi mis uauun icswi" " messof the job of building up a type; crushing defeat GREATER THAN VOTING IS THEIR TASK. "It is not in the male of the spe cies it is in woman that we have the future center of power in civilization.'' This is an affirmation of Benjamin Kidd. It is the negation of the United States Senate, which body yesterday for the severalth time registered its disapproval of the equal suffrage amendment. We aro ready to admit with the aforesaid Kidd that the male of the speciss has been making rather a cf civilization that will not tear down. His assertion that woman must hold the center of power in civilization, hereafter was doubtless inspired by his observation as to what ha? been happening to the civilization estab lished by man alone. He has observed that the male of the race naturally and instinctively inserts force a-? the center of power; he has evolved a kingdom with 'might furnishing the motivation. It is not inconsistent to regard this eminent sociologist as being sound in premise and yet wrong in deductions. If the time has come when more womanhood must be brought into the structure of society it is by no means imperative that womanhood must be introduced to this new func tion with a ballot. to the saloon and thus bring about a prohibitionary movement that would be backed by the acknowledged senti ment of the people. It was to accom plish exactly the opposite end to that which our correspondent says "would be accomplished if the people could vote upon it themselves. He is certain that they would clearly defeat tho amendment at the polls .whereas we are equally assured that they would overwhelmingly vote in favor of pro hibition. That, however, is a matter of opinion to which every man is en titled. At any rate, the submission of the issue to the people would have forever silenced all critics and whatever the result would have been, it would have been determined by the suffrage of the nation. While thirwas deemed unnecessary and impractical, if is still incenceiv ableVnat the National Legislature has taken advantage of anybody by having the issue submitted to the people through their respective Legislatures. This is not perfect democracy, but it is not autocracy neither is it contrary to the principle of home rule. The The source of moral truth which is j Legislatures of the several States, let us be assured, would never have hur ried to the adoption of the amendment so suHftlv hut for thpir sur knowl- through the introduction of woman jedSe of the fact that their individual constituents supported them, inus regarded as essential to the new civi lization and as being available only into the affairs, of men is not in the market-places or in the public forums, but! in the ancient shekinah of woman, in the HOME. That is where moral truth comes from and it is not only its fundamental source but its high est source. If the reformers would take muscular force and brutal com pulsion out of the ideals of the futurp, let them take it out of the boys of to day who will be the fathers of tomor row. If they want to put moral truth in its stead, let this moral truth be proclaimed in the homes and not in the streets, let it be enforced by the ten der ministrations of the mothers in stead of by the silly picketeers. The task of the woan is, indeed, to give shape and slant to civilization. This task begins over the cradle. The fundamental order of things is that mn shall make the laws but that woman shall make the men who make A. 1 L 3 m j. me laws vana u me womanhood of America wants to make a new kind of civilization and a better kind and it certainly is needed the way to do it is through womanly processes and not by assuming to be What they can not by any stretch of imagination become. It is to start at the beginning and give direction to those they send out into society to become responsible for the Etate of things in the world and thus to bear their part of the burden of formulating civilization. If we. knew what sort of mothers the girls this generation-for instance, were going to be, it would be an easy matter, to tell what sort of a civilization the boys of the next generation would build up We would be positively assured thai it would be a civilization founded upon the, idela 6f Kidd a civilization with "moral truth'' as the center of power pnd not brutal fore. public sentiment , is expressed not by the straightest route out by a direct process, nevertheless, and altogether according to the mandates of a democ racy. For, the Legislatures have act ed as a constituent body just as the constituents of the Legislature would have acted themselves and the rights of the States have been not only kept inviolate, but they have been "honored by having them perform instead of the National Legislature itself. There are statements in the course of this communication which hardly deserve a reply,statements soobviously inconsistent with the facts of the case that they are ridiculous. n taking the position that ALL the great editors of the country are against the amend ment, the correspondent shows pitia ble ignorance. He has perhaps been reading some of the New York papers or Chicago, or the newspapers of some of the other larger cities of the coun try where the pure-born American cit izens are overshadowed by a populace of alien birth and when these news papers take take up the defense of whiskey, they neither justify the name of being instruments and organs of American institutions nor the reputa tion of employing the editors whose services are in line with the best in terests of the native-born American people. PRICE OF FARM LABOR. The price of all labor is a problem, but the price of farm labor seems to have reached the insolvuble stage. One man employed two young boys to chop some wood the other day and when they had finished the day's work, he inquired as to their charges. It was $1.50 each. If they had been hired to plow and make a crop of cot ton, it would havo bftn the name, we suppose. And thl mlsn an interest ing query. Wbf?ro In tb labor to come from that 1m going to make the crop of 1919 and tbj crops of other succeeding yearn? Purely ihe farmers can not a'fford lo (iNy 1,S0 for it. That much per day for a year wouid amount to $468 and wa know 0f no farmer who can afford to hire thnj, much work out' of on limn, Suppose he did and that man raised the limit in cotton which is the only cash crop that affords a possible computation! The average is about five bales per man and mule and at the present price of cotton the gross results of the laborer's toil would be about $625. There must be deducted from , this gross amount the cost of picking the cotton which would be $100 for the five bales, the cost of ginning which would be $25, and the cost of fertilizers which is be yond estimate, certainly, however, more than the difference between the gross costs of producing, picking, and ginning the cotton and the day labor er's hire. Here is a problem in mathe matics as well-as in economics for the wise men of the generation to solve for the farmer whom they are always advising, but seldom helping. SENATOR POLLOCK LEADS A-WRONG. The fight for the submission of the woman suffrage amendment was led in the Senate by Senator Pollock, South Carolina's new. statesman and one fresh from the plain people of the sister-commonwealth. The Senator re marked that the "people of the South aro ready for woman suffrage" and thereby remarked wrongly. It is pos sible that if left to the individual vote of the people of this country, this issue would be favorably decided upon, but it would be heartily defeated in the South or we have misread the senti ment as it has so often been spoken in this section. Opposition in this part of the country may be .based upon imaginary conditions that might prevail if women were given the right to the ballot, but our notion is that the South has too much respect for womanhood to suffer it to enter into politics. It is popular, of course, to endorse this movement and politi cally, it may be the wise thing for either party to do, but there are some things still left that, are lawful but not expedient. This seems to be one of them. NO-PARADES ORDER. It looks like a shame to have the world-praised Thirtieth Division re turn to the States so torn up and in such scattered units that it can not be held together as an organization at any one place long enough for a street pa rade. The war department has just announced the apparent impossibility of getting the division back as a unit and it seems to have no intention of holding th first men to sail from France in some port or camp until the last of tho units arrive. - Of course, a parade may not amount to much, but it is about the only and easiest method available' to give the boys the sort of an appreciative hand they are entitled to. In the meantime "the w-ar depart ment manages to do some other things decidedly more inexplicable than would be the orders to keep this divi sion intact in. some camp until its whole outfit reached the States. Bernstorff is being described to us now as one who engaged himself chiefly while in this country playing the markets. History, however, will have something to say of him as hav ing been rather prominent also play ing the scoundrel. We see that the peace conferees are trying to Cud out where the Slavs stand. If they will keep upwith cur rent events, they will find out that the Slavs spend most of their time run ning from' each other. 'Those members of Congress w'ho are denouncing Mr. Wilson until they are hot" in the collar should have a care lest their constituents see to it that they get the proper degree of cold sorage later on. South Carolina is said to be heartily in favor of total prohibition. The chances are that the average South Carolinian has been finding that only a quart was hardly worth getting sick over. " The Allies claim that only a mini mum" of their airplanes were ever shot down by the Germans. As a mat ter of fact, moreover, the aim of the Huns was never, notably high. . Many a man breaks into song chief- The present, legislature is behaving as if It wouldn't mind being sent back to Raleigh for another sentence. The new weather man should be in formed as .soon as he lights that we are used to some mighty nice weather t around here. ly because he did not use his night latch key soon enough. COMJIUNICATIONS MUCH PUT OUT ABOUT PROHIBITION AMEND. To The Editor of The Charlotte News: Your editorial in The News of Sun day, February 2, entitled "Watterson Wrathy," is a "last straw." The writer has stood your bavardage on prohibi tion as long as he can without 'com ing back." Why don't you get out of your edi torial chair and mingle with the folks long enough to find out something of public sentiment? Or is The News cynically Indifferent as to what the public thinks, and cares only for the dollar that rolls in from the adver tiser? Why didn't you reproduce all of Col onel Watterson's article and thus be fair to this noble old veteran and at the same time permit the public to find something really independent in your editorial columns? About a year ago you were indepen dent enough to express yourself ad versely to the then proposed prohibi tion amendment, along with the great newspapers of Amerfca, saying -that it was going at the thing wrongly,-that each state should vote its own Sa hara when public sentiment was ready, etc. Why did you not stick to this just and sensible attitude and help educate the' Solons the people are all right anyhow? ' Why reverse your position and de fend this monstrous thing, at which the sentiment of three-fourths of the American people revolts Yes, the people of Carolina are against it: and if they had a secret ballot, they would regster ther oppo sition to this constitutional tyranny in thtmderous tones. Go into almost any crowd you chance to meet up with, in Charlotte, or anywhere in North Carolina, and you will find three-fourths of the members thereof bitter at this encroachment upon American liberty and servile abandon-i ment of the ancient constitutional principle of home rule. j Why misrepresent Colonel Watter- j son as the defender of whiskey, when ' you well know that the amendment : which he condemns-is more drastic j than the state law of any state in America, save possibfy two or three, ! and that it proposes to wipe out not I only whiskey, but the light and harm-! less drinks of wine, beer and cider? Why contrast Kentucky and Ohio ! to the former's disadvantage, blaming j ll Kentucky's deficiency to w hiskey and ! racing, when the records prove that i Ohio has always been a far "wetter" j state, and as to horse-racing Kentucky j is surpassed by California, both in j horse-raciig and whiskey, as well as ! in enlightenment? Moreover, England; is both wetter and has more horse-1 racing than any of the states men- tioned, while at the same time it ex- i ceeds these in education and general : world-progress. j Why set yourself up as wiser than 1 the colonel, who has traveled and j knows America from east to west, ' while you have dwelt only in your narrow and circumscribed sphere of Charlotte,. N. C.?. ; In stating your belief that this vi- j clous amendment won't cause tre- j mendous and overwhelming resent-: ment and dissatisfaction among the j American millions who have been j used to their wine and beer all their lives, --and won't be an incentive to j "bolshevism, anarchy and government ; no longer by the consent of the gov-! erned," you simply confess that you don't know this great country one tenth as well as Cilonel Watterson does. . Mark this the greatest outbreak of "bolshevism" that this country has ex perienced is occurring just now in the "dry" city of Seattle, Wash. In denouncing Colonel Watterson, why don't you also denounce the other great editors of the country all of whom, without any exception, condemn the amendment as the worst piece of tyranny ever foisted upon a free people? Why don't you condemn the great papers of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston and San Francisco, and the great magazines, like Harvey's North American Review, Leslie's, Century, Life, etc., etc., in stead of picking out. this great and fearless champion of liberty and jus tice and setting him up as apparently Send us1 your mail orders. Filled promptly and carefully. Belk Brothers Department Store ,,,,. ... r. .-. , -,"m.r, 1 . We send by Parcel Post any article adyertised today in Toilet Goods. 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