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THEICHARLOTTE NEWS, MARCH 23, !908. 8 I he Licensed Saloon Is An Unmitigated Curse: Vote Against It May 26 As a crime-producer the licensed sa-, gates of hell. There criminals and pati loon is without parallel in history. As pers are bred; there vice is fondled hf.mp dMtmvpr ami wrecker of char- and fed. The saloon is the recruiting acter it has no equal. It stands for all the stones, for they are only paupers I that nobody owns," and bury them in I "'Potter's field.'' I Reader, if only a tenth part of this i terrible picture of the saloon and its work were true, can you as a rational, being go to the perpetuate its That is low in morals and bad in prin ciple. It is a foe to schools and church es and a hinderance to business. It is indecent in character and is every where under the ban of good society. Children are warned by parents to shun it and it is the only business sanction ed by law where those who engage in it are osttraeised socially. Saloon keep ers are debarred membership in nearly all the fraternal orders and are not allowed to conduct their business near schools and churches. They are ruled nsainst by the great railroad systems, banking institutions and business in dustries. To licene them by law is wrong in principle and condemned in praeiice by the highest courts in the nation. The liquor traffic as it is car ried on through licensed saloons is more destructive to human life than the three great curses of the world, war. famine and pestilence combined. Hell is Enlarged Because of Drink. In no other place in the Word of God is there such a curse pronounced as in connection with drink and drunk- fimess. i-or no outer curse is nen said to be enlarged. "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong diink. that continue until night, until wine inflame them! And the harp and the vial, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but iht-y regard wot the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge, and their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore, hell hath en i :"C(-,i herself, and opened her mouth without measure, and their glory their multitude, and their point he That reioiceth shall descend Isa. o: 11-14. Hear what the highest court in nations says ab-.iut the liquor tic : united States GuDreme Court Decisions "No h.-aislature can bargain the public health or the public The neoole themselves much less their servants. Government is organized with a view t.. thf-ir reservation, and cannot divest itself of the power to provide for them, atone vs. Mississippi, lul U. S. SIC. "If the public safety or the public !re the discontinuance of any manufacture or tralhc. the hand of the legislature cannot ne stayed from providing for its discontinuance by any incidental inconvenience which individ uals or corporations may suffer." Beer Co. vs. Massachusetts. 07, U. S. 32. "The state cannot by any contract limit the exercise of her power to the prejudice of the public health and the public morals." Butchers" Union Co. vs. Crescent City Co., Ill U. S., 751. ' . "There is no inherent right in a citi zen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of a state or of a citizen of the United States." Crowley vs. Christensen, 17 U. S. Mi. and and into it." the traf away morals. cannot do it. THE SALOON. is What It is and What It Does. The saloon is a running sore on the body politic, a moral cancer on the conscience of the nation, an ulcer on the home. It is more destructive than the three curses of war, pestilence and famine. The saloon is debauching, debasing and defiling; it is vicious, vile and vil lainuous; it is false, foul and filthy. The saloon is the hot-bed of immorality and impurity; the source of poverty and pollution; the cesspool of cruelty, crime and corruption; and the cause of riot, revelry ami ruin. The evils of the salor.a aii'ict public order and public health; public morals and public decency; they affect every man and every home, every business and every community. The saloon sits supreme in the halls of congress, and almost every stat" legislature; it is the governing power many courts of justice; it makes offi cers of the law its lac.ceys; it silences legislature; it is a governing power in in some pulpits the ministers of the gospel; it sits by some editors on the tripod, and dictates their leading arti cles. It ia destroying this government of the people, and turning it into a govern ment of the saloon, by the saloon, and for the saloon. The saloon has neither honor or principle, it is savage and relentless, it dogs tiie step of its victim until he falls into its hungry jaws. It is a boa-constrictor that coils itself around its prey, and squeezes all noble, manly principles out of him. It is a slimy snake, that bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. It is a jackal and hyena, a wolf, tiger and bloodhound. It is the child of the devil and the parent of vice. Its first-born is "iK'ath!" and its last-born is "De spair!" It is the foul and filthy fount of shame, the source of crime, the foe of man and the enemy of God. It is a cruel despot, a heartless ty rant, an unfeeling master and an in satiable monster. It respects no law, regards no person and remembers no Sabbath. It makes, sober men drunk ards, rich men poor, honest, men thieves and business men rascals. It ruins character, engenders strife, encourages vice, creates criminals, crowds prisons, fills poorhousos, deso lates homes, blight the purity of men, blasts the virtue of women, it wrecks bodies, ruins brains, poisons morality and debauches humanity. The saloon is a pirate that preys on? the wrecks of human hearts and homes I : , -,. . . i and It is the rendezvous oi criminals; there1 s.,,i glars plan their work, and thieves con coct their schemes, and gamblers ply their trade; there the harlot spreads her net to allure young men to the ofT.ce of tne devil, and the drill room for young cadets in sin and shame. It is a snare and pitfall, a decoy and a delusion, a man trap and a death trap, fraud and a sham. It is the bur den on every back, and a blight on every industry; it is heartless and cruel: it traffics in tears and groans and blood; in vice and crime and mis ery. It bribes legislators, bulldozes offi cers, muzzles ministers, dictates to ed itors, and controls church members. It is a Physical Curse. It blears the eye. blisters the tongue, blights the body, bloats the face and burns the brain. It poisons the blood, paralyzes the nerves, and puts its vic tims into premature graves. It is a Financial Curse. It drains the pocket, diminishes com fort and depletes the bank account: it makes business men bankrupts, and its patrons paupers. It is Dishonest. For your money it give nothing but a maddened mind", a tyrant's temper, a devilish disposition. It is a Moral Curse. It deadens conscience, dims charac ter, damages reputation, destroys will, darkens judgment, deludes minds, de thrones reason, degrades morals, dis eases bodies, and damns souls. It is a Domestic Curse. It makes wives widows, fathers fiends and children criminals. It de prives men of manhood, boys of brains, homes of happiness and lives of love. OI the happy homes it has blighted. the expectations it has blasted, and the bright hopes it has burieo! The grand minds it has dulled, the intellects i" has dimmed and the souls it has dam med ! If you would s5 its blighting and blasting, its debasing and degrading. its deadening and damning work, look at the rivers of human tears, the agony of broken hearts, and the wretchedness of drunkard's homes. The saloon is the sum of all vil lainies, the source of most crime, the fountain of most misery, the devil's best friend and man's worst enemy. .Strong drink jingles the burglar's key, whets the assassin's knife, lights the torch of the incendiary, fans the flame of anger, arouses the basest pas sions, instigates crime, provokes vio lence, disturbs order, foments strife incites murder, fills jails crowds pris ons, sends it victims to the gallows and their souls to hell. It scorches anl scathes, burns and blackens, corrodes and consume things it touches. It Destroys Health, Happiness and Homes. It fills prisons, poorhousos and peni tentiaries. It causes struggles, true and suicides, as well as suffenng.shame and sorrow. It is the author of misfor tune, misery and murder, as well a?. wretchedness, wickedness and woe It leads to prodiga'ity, poverty ano penury, and ends in degradation, death nd damnation. It invades every community and de mands tribute from every home. It lies in ambush to decoy, delude and de stroy young men. The open saloon is a constant invita tion to the appetite of the man who is trving to reform., to indulge again. It intelligent, responsible polls and by your ov exisctence? From the most reliable statistics that can be gathered from 7o to 90 per cent, of the crime before the courts comes directly from liquor. Seventy-Five per cent, of the orphans in our orphan ages are there from liquor. Seventy-Five per cent, of the pau pers in our poorhouses are there from i liquor. An army of one hundred thousand drunkards are going to their graves every year from liquor. One out of every five or" the young men of our land are drafted in annually to fill up this depleted army of drinkers and drunkards. Will you be a party to a business which is so corrupting, so ruinous and so damnable, as to vote for its con tinuance. Before you cast your vote, pause for a moment and ask yourself the ques tion, am I willing to face this great wreck and ruin of humanity in the Judgment as being by my vote a party to its consummation and ruin. Will you vote for the saloon'.' Be sure to cast your vote on the 26th of May against the parasite of hell. TO INVESTIGATE REFRIGERATORS See Our "STONE-WHITE" "The Chest With the Chill In It." COLPEST AND CLEANEST. ill lustand & OF THE MOST MODERN TYPE AT MOST MODERATE PRICES Stove Dealers Roofing Contractors. 221 S. Tryon. . iiHaf-i r r -mmni-i -urn ALLEN HARDWARE COMPANY it HI in plain English is a hireling. Ke blows for son; this store we don't have to cry aloud to sell qt a v Kf&. 63 tl if, x ts n Negro Insurance Or ganizer Goes to Roads Special to The News. Raleigh, X. C, March 23. State In surance Commissioner James IT. Young returned Saturday from Asheboro. Ran dolph county, where he went to partici pate in the prosecution of J. S. Mc Millen. colored, on the charge of de frauding negroes of that section in that he pretended to be getting up a life insurance company, collecting con siderable money in stock and for other purposes. He forged the name of the state commissioner of insurance to several receipts for money that he claimed to have paid over to the insurance com missioner after having collected it from his negro clients. He was convicted and sentenced to five years on the public roads. like a devilfish, with its grasping suckers, reaching out day and night to draw in and crush its victims. The Saloon Wields Great Politicai Power. It control legislation by its leagues and loh;. i-jfe. It ;ul.:: w iution. Can didates for political posh ion must con sult the wishes of the liquor gods. The law is a dead letter as far as the en forcement of the liquor law is con cerned. The evils of the saloon can never be exaggerated. Who can describe the drunkard's home? Who can paint a wife's misery, the widow's woe the mother's broken heart, and the orphan ed children. Who can picture the prison bars, the felon's cell, the ghastly gallows? Its history is a history of shame, sin and suffering; of cruelty, crime and corruption; of disease, death and damnation. It turns the home into a hovel, and the palace into a poor house. Dare the saloon keepers go out on dress parade and exhibit samples of their degrading work? What a specta cle! Walking beer barrels, two-legged demijohns, lop-sided whiskey jugs, drunken debauches, loathsome liber tines, leering lunatics, ragged ruffians, thugs and thieves, brutes and bur glars. Open the prisons and poorhouses, and let their inmates increase the the sluice-gates of vice, the bar rooms ami brothels, swell the procession. This is not all; following in the rear, see the long procession or ruined homes, heartbroken mothers, wives, widows and orphans. This great army is divided into great brigades, commanded by Generals lhichus, Beer, Brandy and Bourbon. These hirgades are made up of many regiments, commanded by saloon keep ers and whiskey politicians. See their banners waving! What mottoes: "Long live Brandy, Beer and Bour bon!" "Three cheers for Bar room, and hurrah for the brothel!" "Up with the Saloon and down with the Home!" "We dictate to legislators! to Alder men and Police!" "We command, Poli ticians Obey!" The bands are playing; a whiskey cask is the big drum, demijohns are the small drums, drunkards' bones are the drumsticks. Mothers' heart-strings are strained until they make wierd music in moans and groans, shrieks and cries and sobs and sighs, as they chant a and solemn dirge, and play the dead march of drunkards' souls. Anar ichism! Communism! Socialism! Diabolism! The police ambulances pick up the wounded and carry off the ueau: They rattle their bones over Mining Men in Session. Seattle. Wash., March 2.',. Leading mining men of the Pacific Northwest gathered in this city today for a two days' conference. Questions ol importance to the mining interests are to be discussed, particularly the pro posed revision of The Alaska mining laws, and steps will be taken to secure the next session (if the Amer ican Mining Congress for this city. Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon are represented at the present conference. -EL Wo have just bought and received a large shipment which for QUALITY, DESIGNS and Prices cannot be duplicate in the city. All these goods are this season's designs and patterns. Don't fail to see our line whether you buy or not, for it is a pleasure to us to show you. The goods we offer speak for themselves, y what's standard and chock full of style and r el iron r if S S kin 1 e? WB HAVE 'Dd you subscribe for the i,cariter- ." I .age newspaper Inhabitant ''No, the village maker boards tew our house."-- dr ess-Life. A CURE FOR MISERY. "I have found a cure for the misery malaria poison produces," says R. M. James, of Louellen, S. C. "It's called Cleciic Bitters, and comes in 50 cent bottles. It breaks up a case of chills cr a bilious attack in almost no time; and it puts yellow jaundice clean out of commission." This great tonic med icine and blood purifier gives quick relief in all stomach, liver and kidney complaints and the misery of lame back. Sold under guarantee at Wood all & Sheppard's drug store. mTke V InALTiORE AND ITS ADVANTAGES 5; TO THE SOUTH. The New Union Station at Washington affords a meeting point for all through trains from the South with those of the Baltimore & Ohio to the North and Westi under one roof, i Royal Blue Trains leave Washington for New York "Every Odd Hour" during the day, All are splendidly equipped with parlor; cars and dining cars, and the "Royal Limited," the finest day train in Amer ica, is "All Pullman." - The Baltimore & Ohio is the shortest route to Pittsburg, with Pull man Drawing-room Sleeping Car from Rich mond at 8.29 P.M., except Saturday, arriving Pittsburg 8.50 A. M. It is the shortest route to Chicago, with excel lent through trains from Washington to Pittsburg, Cleveland and Chicago. Ask your nearest Tick et Agent for through tickets via Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (kmS-') ARTH U RGrjjLEWIS SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT. NORFOLK, ---! VIRGINIA 15 N.CoIIege Street. it SE Charlotte Hardware Oommm Not How Cheap, But How Good A OF- i Villi wmmj AND Than you can find under one roof in I 1 O o a broad statement but it is true its own Cuildinn, has its own building. There This sounds like The Knabe has The Chickering The Ivers and Pond has its own building. The Sohmer has its own Building. You have to compare Pianos in different places. lien we hav! a ore congregated under one roof where you can compare I hem side by side. When we say the world's best Pianos, wo say so alter twenty years of experience buying and selling Pianos. Our prices arc even lower than you can buy off the manufacturers' ware-rooms, consequently you know you are getting the rii;ht. price. If you huy a Piano not of standard make you are liable (o pay a ficti tious price. Some manufacturers make what is known as stencil pianos and put on them the name of -any dealer. i uds case you have to depend entirely on the responsibility of tiio dealer. In our case you have both the manufacturer and ourselves back of every Piano we sell. Easy payments if you like. Write- for catalog. FURNITURE, CARPETS, PIANOS, PIANOLAS. If. during yon? .-eno ating .,eason, you find that you La old beds that have served their day, or if you decide to fur ether room, come in and let us fit you up with a hand a or Iron Bed neat, comfortable, cleanly a boon to t!: houskeeper. Iron Beds as Cheap as $ Iron Cribs as Cheap as.: S Brass Beds as Cheap as 52 We are showing also a strong and varied line of F Sole agents for the "Red Cross Mattress." II T 3 O U O Cash or Easy Terms. Ik r4 Cash cr Easy Term: Do You Remember Wfiat We Said last Week About a o & H E B'S 51 8 S H Furniture Carpets Pianos Pianolas Well, we could not say too much as they have no supc-rii quality and scarcely an equal. WTien you buy a "Charter Oak" you buy the BEST. Besides the best stove on earth we carry the most c retail stock of general Hardware In the South. Look at these specialties: Corhin Locks and Builders' ware, Charter Oak Stoves and Kanges, Altas and Revere Community Silver WTare, Gillette Razors. Drnper and Maynard's Base and Foot Pall Supplies, Mil' Freenrand Pocket Knives. The world cannot beat this lino cialties. All the BEST of their, kind. r .'is lt 1 (INCORPORATED) 29 East Tr2dc J
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