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THEICHARLOTTE NEWS, MARCH 26, 1903. 10 Willis AND CRIME: TH LIQUOR TRAFFIC TESTED SALOON AND CRIME. There is but one side to the ques tion when it comes to viewing the lic ensed s a lorn as a producer of crime. The facts and figures gathered from many sources all tell the same story and are so overwhelming and convinc ing that they cannot be gainsaid or questioned. The licensed system is wrong in principle and should be abol ished in the interest of the public good. !' the liquor traffic can staud the test when measured bv the standard of RIGHT and WRONG, then it has a right to existence, and should not be subjected to the heavy licenses and leg al lesiiittions which a:e placed upon it. On the other hand if the traffic can not stand the test when measured by the standard of Right and Wrong, then it has no right to exist, either under lic ense or without license. This is not a question of expediency, of side-stepping or of party manipula-l tion. The issue is clear-cut: Is the liquor traffic right or wrong? We shall judge it by its results. Even the high est courts of the land have pronounc ed against it. Hear the supreme court if the state of Kansas: "Probably no greater source of j rinie and sorrow has ever existed than social drinking saloons. Social drink ing is I hi1 evil of evils. It has probably caused more drunkenness and made mure drunkards than all other causes vimibined. and drunkenness is a per nicious source of all kinds of crime and sorrow. It is a Pandora's box. sriuling forth innumerable ills and woes, shame and disgrace, indigence poverty an. I want; social happiness de .st roved; domestic broils and bickerings engendered; social ties sundered; homes made desolate; families scatter ed; heart-rending partings; sin, crime and untold sorrows; not even hope left. but evervthing lost; and everlasting farewell to all true happiness and to all the nobler aspirations rightfully be longing to every true and virtuous hu man being." And now from the supreme court of Iowa: "There is no statistical or economi cal proposition better established, nor one to which a more general assent is given by reading and intelligent minds, than this: that the use of intoxicating liquors, as a drink, is the cause of more want, pauperism, suffering, crime and public expense than any other cause and perhaps it should be said than all other causes combined. Even those who are opposed to restriction oftentimes admit this truth. Every state applys the most stringent legal power to lotteries, gambling, keeping gambling houses and implements, and to debauchery- and obscenity, and no one questions the right and justness of it; and yet how small is the weight of woe produced by all these united, when compared with that which is created ' by the use of intoxicating drinks alone." Hear Judge Artman, of Indiana, in a recent decision: "The natural tendency and the effect of the saloon business is dangerous and detrimental to public and private mor als and to the peace and good order of society, and because of this fact it contravenes the fundamental principle of self preservation, and because it does this, it is unlawful and does not have the inherent right to exist. It can not legally exist at all, unless the state can sell and delegate the right of ex istence. The state is organized for the self preservation of its citizens in health, morality and safety. It is orga nized to enforce the right and prohibit the wrong. This is the paramount du ty of the state to its constituent mem bers, and it cannot surrender the exe cution of it for a price. It is the imper ative duty of the state to exercise the police power for the promotion and pre servation of the public health, the public safety, the public and private morals and the general welfare." In these remarkable decisions of state courts we add one from the su preme court of the United States: "By the general concurrence of opin ion of every civilized and Christian community, there are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dram shop, where intoxicating li quors, in small quantities, to be drunk at the time, are sold indiscriminately to all parties applying. The statistics of every state show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these retail liquor saloons than to any other source." Here are some significant figures from the state of Virginia: "Statistics compiled from the re port of the board of directors of the Virginia penitentiary for the liscal year ending September 30th, l'JOG: "Percentage of prisoners committed from dry and wet territory during the liscal year ending September 30th, 1906: "1. The 40 counties without any form of license had one person committed to the penitentiary for every 5,122 of population. "2. The 2G additional counties with out saloons, but with distilleries, dis pensaries, or some form of license, had one committed for every 4,002 of the population. "3. The 28 counties with saloons had one committed for every 2J13 of the population." From the State of Georgia. The following facts and figures were published from this state before it adopted prohibition: "The keeper of the Georgia peniten-j tiary shows that in four leading coun ties in the state will sell whiskey there is one person in the penitentiary to every 319 of their population, whereas! out of four counties which have no bar rooms there is one criminal to 1. 898 of the population. He shows also that from the whiskey counties in the TRUE STANDARD state there is an average of six negroes in the penitentiary to one from the Idry counties. I "fiirthariiirirti tho ciniprintpnrtptlt of , . II. . . , w. .v- - j lie a.wuiii onu c 1.111- 50 per cent, of the insane come from the few whiskey counties as against all the balance of the state. "In Wayeross. Ga.. a railroad town, for Id years the town has had a $30, 000 license. There are no bar rooms. It is a town of about 10.000 population. They have only four police. Ninety per cent, of the white people own their own homes. It is a city free from pau pers. Ninety-three per cent, of the children attend school. It has 20 churches; one rarely hears profane swearing there, nor is a drunken man seen there on an average of once in three months. Two large railroad shops are operated there because the men are more reliable than in liquor towns. Saloons. Much V'ice and Crime! Not Saloons. Not Much Vice and Crime! " From Massachusetts. From figures given bv Hon. Carroll D. Wright, D. P.. I,. L. D. United States commissioner of labor, it is shown that limning through a period of 20 years that S4 per cent, of the crime commit ted in the state of Massachusetts was directly traceable to liquor. "The clerks of all criminal courts in that state are required bv law, under oath, to render an accurate account of j all criminal sentences and their causes to the secretary of the common wealth. Let these men of state speak on their oaths, and listen to what they say. "The sworn statements of these state officials, running through 20 years, show that the whole number of crimes of that state for 20 years was 57S.34S. Of this great number of crimes, tried and convicted criminals as the result of the crimes, S4 per cent, was due to liquor. That is to say. of the 57S.34S criminals, 485,812 were committed as the result of liquor drinking. "Again. In 1880 an examination was made in the nine criminal courts of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, for one year. That examination resulted in showing that that year in three courts 16.S97 persons had been convicted of crime. Ut these criminals : per cent, was due to liquor. Or, of 16,797 crimes committed, 14,402 were the result of li quor. "Again in 1S95 the legislature of Mas sachusetts directed the bureau of sta tistics of labor to make a similar inves tigation. This investigation showed that in that year there were 2C,672 con victions of crime in that state. And of this number 22,514 were chargeable to liquor. Or, 84 per cent. It was further shown in this examination that if the intemperate habits of all these crimi nals were taken into account, 25,000 of the whole number were liquor drink ers or intemperate naoits, or y-i per cent. of all the crime that year in that state was due directly or indirect ly to the liquor business. Records From Illinois. "Take five counties in southern Illi nois in which there is one saloon. These five counties had, in 1904, 98,115 popu lation. From these counties there were in the penitentiary 17 persons. One to every 5.771 of the population. Madison county has 64,695 population, and 61 persons in the penitentiary, one lor every 1,060 population. St. Clair coun ty, with a poprlation of 6,9o, has 14a persons in the penitentiary, one to every 202 of its population. This makes the saloon centers to have eight times as many criminals in the peni tentiary as the counties where there are no bar rooms, ana oi course, me cost eight times greater. "In Christian county, 111., there are four incorporated towns that sell whiskey, and 84 per cent, of the crimes of that county are committed in these towns where the saloons exist, and. yet 'he tax from which comes the prosecu tion of criminals is 80 per cent, of the country districts where there are no saloons. There is taxation without rep resentation, isn't it?" If it were necessary a book could be compiled with hundreds of pages of facts equally as strong and convincing as these and not exnausi me suppiy. There is but one verdict, "The Saloon Must Go." It 'has no place in civilized society and is less tolerable by far than idolatry or slavery in their vilest torms. Go to the polls on the 2Gth of May and blot out this vile cess pool of iniquity. WILD GEESE. (Clinton Scollard in the Bohemian for April.) Along the ocean's shingly edge, Athwart the turquoise sweep of sky, The wild geese in a winged wedge Go darkling by. From far lagoons beplumed with palm, By cove and cape, by bluff and bay. Through depths of storm, through vasts of calm, They speed their way. The pliaro flashes on their nigm; They do not heed its beckoning The great North, stretching weird and white, Lures like a dream. Lures, and they answer to the call; Charms, and they yield them to the snell. Moved ever by a subtle thrall Inscrutable. Do you not feel it, comrade, too, The inescapable delight, The mounting rapture, that bids you Take vernal flight? Grace begets grace. Sophocles. Sour Stomach "I used Cascarets nnl feel like a new man. I have been a sufferer from dyspepsia and sour stomach for the last two years. 1 have been taking medi cine and other drugs, but could find no relief only for a short time. 1 will recommend Cascarets to my friends as ttie only thing for indigestion and our stomach find to keep the bowels in good con dition. TUey are very nice to eat." Barry Stuckley, Mauch Chunk, Pa. Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe, 10c, 5e. 50c. Never old in bulk. The genuine tablet stumped CCC. Guaranteed to cure or your money buck. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 599 ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES OF 1HI. FOR TUFT Nashville, Tenn., March 24. Dele gates and visitors are arriving in Nash ville in readiness for the Republican state convention which is to meet to morrow to nominate presidential elec tors, delegates-at-large to the national convention and candidates for the state supreme bench. It is taken for granted that the con vention will follow the example of the state enmmitte and indorse President Roosevelt's administration and the presidential candidacy of Secretary Taft. The Republicans of Tennessee, like those of New York and various other states, are badly split by factional dif- terence.s, but tins is not expected to in terfere with the plans for a Taft in dorsement. The leaders of the two fac tions are Congressman W. P. Brown low on the one hand and II. Clay Evans formerly pension commissioner and consul general at London, on the other. Evans is an enthusiastic Taft man and while the support of Brownlow is not off'the same warm variety he is not expected to put anything in the way of the Taft. candidacy. Representative Brownlow at heart is believed to favor the candidacy of Speaker Cannon and should the Chicago convention fail to nominate Taft it is probable that Brownlow . who will be a delegate! i rum ins uisirici, win endeavor to swing the Tennessee delegation into line for Cannon. The name of Speak er Cannon, in fact, is heard more often in Tennessee than that of Governor Hughes, who is camparatively little known to this section of the country. But as the situation now looks a substantial majority of the 531 dele gates to tomorrow's convention will be for Taft. The personnal of the delegates-at-large has not been definit ly determined as yet. The understand ing that no federal holder is to have a place in the delegation eliminates many of the most prominent Republi can leaders of the state. At present the men most prominently mentioned for delegates-at-large appear to be State Chariman Newell, chariman of the executive committe. Sanders and Robert Haggard, a lawyer of Wayne county. "Jacobi Special to Raleigh, Goldsboro mittee ha1 ment for Memorial The News. Dormitory." N. C, March 24. At today the special com ing in hand the move erecting some memorial to the lamented Nathaniel Jacobi at the Odd Fellows Orphanage of which he was such a devoted promoter, met today and perfected its plans for recommending to the next grand lodge that the memorial take the form of a "Jacobi Memorial Dormi tory." E. P. Albea of Winston Salem is the chairman of the com mittee. "Miss Sharpe er Vera," he stam mered, "you must know why I've been calling here so much; why I sit here in the parlor with you night after night " "I suppose, Mr. Kloseman," the girl interrupted, "it's cheaper to do that than take me out anywhere." , Catholic Standard and Times. Malice age Latin. supplies the want of A WAY THEY HAVE. What This Charlotte Only Corroborates Citizen Says the Story of Thousands. The particulars related by this rep resentative citizen of Charlotte are similar to hundreds of others in this city. When there are scores of people all anxious to tell about the benefit received from the use of Doan's Kid ney Pills, the greatest skeptic in Char lotte must be convinced. Read the following: Mrs. S. W. Beat tie, 507 E. Ninth street, Charlotte, N. C, says: "Since I used Doan's Kidney Pills several years ago, I have had no trouble from disordered kidneys and I am only too pleased to confirm my former state ment in favor of this remedy. I suf fered for years from backache, and though I used remedy after remedy, could find nothing to relieve me. See ing an advertisement about Doan's Kidney Pills, I decided that they might help me and procuring a box from R. H. Jordan & Go's, drug store, began their use. After I had taken the con tents of several boxes, I was so much relieved that I stonned using them and for more than a year was free from my trouble. At the end of that time, how ever, I again had an attack of back ache, but resorting to Doan's Kidney Pills I was quickly cured as in the first instance. I have had no sim ilar attack since and believe that I am j permanently cured." ' For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, 'New York, sole agents for the United States. I Remember the name Doan's and take no other. 1 f (jjs The Bowels yt NJVw. Candy cathartic r Louisiana Sunday Schools Baton Rouge, La., March 24 The twenty-second annual convention of the Louisiana State Sunday School As sociation opens in this city tonight for a session of three days. Several hundred delegates have arrived, all parts of the state being represented, special trains brought large delega tions from New Orleans, and Shreve pcrt. Visitors upon their arrival in the city were taken to convention headquarters, where they were assign ed to private families wno 3-; enter taining. The state executive committee met this afternoon to complete the final details of the convention program. A big welcome demonstration this even ing marks the formal opening of the gathering. In addition to State Presi dent T. W. Holloman .md Mayor W. H. Bynum, the speakers at the initial session will include official representa tives of the State Sunday School Asso ciations of Texas, Mississippi and Ken tucky. Professor E. O. Excell is here to direct the musical features of the program. The regular order of busi ness, including the annual reports from officers and committees, will be taken up tomorrow morning. ALCOHOL FROM NATURAL GAS. A New Process Invented to Provide fop Cheaper Product. A patent has been issued to Dr. Henry Spencer Blackmore, an indus trial chemist of Washington, D. C, for converting natural gas into alcohol. Manufacturing interests in the United States are making inquiry to the bur eau of manufactures in regard to this new method of producing alcohol, and the following abstract of a letter from Dr. Blackmore is therefore presented : j "I have devised a process of con verting natural gas, which contains on an average 9G per cent, methane, into alcohol by the action of limited portions. of oxygen or air in the presence of a! heat-absorbing fluid, such as steam,! which prevents complete combustion j and maintains the temperature below the decomposing point of alcohol, the oxidation being induced and maintain ed by passing the gaseous ingredients through an electrically heated gauze. "By .subjecting natural gas to a lim ited or restrained oxidation or combus- &A BO oacDoc u u u u tees Skort Cedar It is about time to put away your Furs and Winter Clothes and make arrangements to take care of the always pop ular Shirt Waist. We are showing a line from the smallest to the largest and from the cheapest to the best Cloth Covered Box, 27 inches long, 13 inches deep $2.50 Cloth Covered Box, 30 inches long, 15 inches deep $3.50 Cloth Covered Cox, 33 inches long, 17 inches deep ?4.50 Matting Covered Box, 27 inhes long, 13 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 30 inches long, 15 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 33 inches long, 17 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 27 incches long, 9 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 31 inches long, 11 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 40 inches long, 11 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 45 inches long, 11 inches deep.. Matting Covered Box, 45 inches long, 11 inches deep. Solid Red Cedar Box, 30x15 inches $6-50 Solid Red Cedar Box, 48 inches by 24 inches $22.50 Order the size you want. It will be shipped on approval anwhere you like. E5 Parker - Furniture Carpets o oc 3 oc )Q Co ft J Farming Tools OF THE MOST MODERN TYPE AT MOST MODERATE PRICES ALLEN HARDWARE I COMPANY I. ,fr fr ! .j. 3 tion in this manner, it is converted di rectly into alcohols and dehydrogenated alcohols known as aldehydes, the alde hyde of methane alcohol (wood alcohol) being known as formaldehyde. The pro duct, therefore, is a mixture methyl al cohol, containing a small portion or formaldehyde, which can be readily separated. If the combustion is prop erly regulated and controlled, 5,000 feet of natural gas will produce approxi mately 50 gallons of alcohol produced in this manner would only be 25 to 50 cents for raw material. "A plant demonstrating the commer cial value of this process will shortly be erected in western Pennsylvania, probably at Bradford." The Boston "babe They tried w ith Greek Whereat he raised A peevish shriek. But nursey came. And nursey knowed; She soothed him with A Sanskrit ode. Kansas City Journal. sAsq z u! diJD auo u piQQ csajnp auitnnQ ouiojQ 8Aijbxb Boxes CBiests $4.00 . . .$5.50 ,...?6.50 $6.00 , . . .$8.00 ...$7.50 ...$9.50 . .$10.00 6a rcflow mpasny Pianos Pianolas 2 t 'Q' -1J or o Another Shipment of a Little More Than has just arrived and we are with the best goods at most Our assortment is second have examined our stock. Charlotte Hardware Company Not How Cheap, But How Good If, during yotn xenovatir, reason, you mid that you have some eld beds that have served their day, or if you decide to furnish an- 1 other room, pome in and let us fit you up with a handsome liiass or Iron Bed neat, comfortable, cleanly a boon to the busy liouskeeper. Iron Beds as Cheap as $ 2.75 Iron Cribs as Cheap as $ 5.75 Brass Beds as Cheap as $25.00 We are showing also a strong and varied line of Felt Mattresses. Sole agents for the "Red Cross Mattress." w o u o Cash or Easy Terms. Do You Remember What We Said last Week About and Ranges?" Well, we could not say too i j i quaiuy ana scarcely an equal. When you buy a "Charter Oak" you buy the BEST. Besides the best stove on earth we carry the most complete retail stock of general Hardware in the South. Look at these specialties: Corbin Locks and Builders' Hard ware, Charter Oak Stoves and Ranges, Altas and Revere Paints, Community Silver Ware, Gillette Razors. Draper and Maynard's Base and Foot Ball Supplies, Miller and FreeDrand Pocket Knives. The world cannot beat this line of Spe cialties. All the BEST of their kind. flfffHSSf IVeddington Phone 65. NEWS PUBLISHING 00 FOR JOB PRINTING now in position to supply vonr reasonable prices. in,s to none. Don't buy Mattin X umii (,n AT Brass and Iron t V AND Cash or Easy Terms. much as they have no superior as to I Hardware (INCORPORATED) 29 East Trade St. i
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