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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. FEBRUARY tti, .912 ; . ( ' - ' t , Is-' i ' i !.; I;5 f . - i:: m i.ii -r num. ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. ANgetablePrcparaflonrarAs similatm thcFowfarKlEcguta ting tte S mxks aidBwus i 53. Ptomctes DigestionJCketiH I ness am resuciuams iux. OpiiciuMorphirx norfte Kot Narcotic. fa fir il r: m it k.ii Fnr Infant? and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature A" Fit r r.?5j V br zzzlj fS &$ you tion Sour MOT03CP.,L:urr. r S 1 1 M jronvnlsjoas.ft-.msh- j? ft f I B V P. f RcssardLQSSOrSIEEP. J W . s 1 m: &0&f . n riv lears C-.c KEW YORK. 1 J feSfiMt i Mir M 4- I Exact Copy ol Wrapper. TMB OCNTAUB CH!APY. NEW TOHK ITT. Prohibition Right And Will Prevail To the Editor of The News: To discuss the rightfulness of pro hibition now would seem like begging the question, and to raise doubts as to the correctness of the principles. The question has passed the period of discussion. Prohibition is eternally, unalterably and unchangeably right. Nobody now is raising the question whether prohibition prohibits as to slavery, or whether it prohibits as to polygamy, lotteries, gambling halls, prize fights, bull fights and a thous and and one other things wrong in morals and hurtful to the public good. To license the public use or liquor is to put a premium on crime. You might as well talk about licens ing cocaine and opium clubs as li quor clubs. Yet we hear men on the streets saying "you can't make peo ple good by law." Suppose we abolish all the prohibi tion laws as to crime and do away with all penalties, where would we land in a little while? The liquor business is the most demoralizing, corrupting and destructive thing ever tolerated or permitted in a civilized community. You might take a buzzard and dress it in silk, and fringe it with gold, and its buzzard nature will remain. You may put liquor in clubs and gilded drug stores and its deceptive, demoralizing, character ruining, and soul damning nature is the same. There is but one solution to the liquor question and that is to restrict its sale, and deal with it as we do with other poisons. Judge Pritchard says: "Whiskey drinking is the greatest evil that con fronts the human race at this time. It stains character, it is the advance agent of poverty and distress, it im pairs the intellect, it humiliates kin dred, alienates friends and eradicates pride." And he could have said that as crime proucer it stands withoxtt a I'araHel in history and that it invites iisease, shortens life and curtails its oaneful effects upon the generations following. Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson said in a speech before congress a few days ago that the Emperor of Germany had clearly stated that lead ership in war and peace will be held by the nation that roots out alcohol. He further says that the War Col lege in Washington made an investi gation as to the losses by war and carried their research as from the Russo-Japanese war back to 500 years before Christ, and that they estimat ed that 2,800,000 had been killed and wounded in battle, and that the "killed were about 700,000. He then makes the appalling comparative statement from fair estimates that liquor kills more men people every year in the domains of the United States than were killed in. war in 1,300 years. He says two thousand die every day as a result of alco hol. In 1909 ,he says an international conference was held in London to which most of the great nations sent scientific men as delegates and ifter comparing results of investiga tions made, representative medical men drew up a report which I here quote: "Exact laboratory clinical and patn 'ological research has demonstrated that alcohol is dehydrating protoples mic poison, and its use as a beverage is destructive and degenerating to the human organism. Its effects upon the cells and tissues of the- body are depressive, narcotic and anaesthetic. Therefore theraputically,. its use should be limited and restricted in the same way as other poisons and drugs." If poor old heathen China to save themselves from national impotency and annihilation can rise up and sup press the opium traffic surely enlight ened America can command manhood enough to destroy alcohol, which is killing more than two thousand American citizens every day. The issue is drawn as to whether we shall be ruled and dominated by liquor and those who seek to make merchandise out of the hellish bus iness, or whether those who wish to protect their homes and children from its seductive and demoralizing effects shall dominate in power and control. I believe in twenty-five years there will not be a saloon in Amer ica. Reformations never go backward. If we can't muster manhood enough in Charlotte to destroy the detesta ble club business and barroom drug stores, there are enough Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians In North Carolina who can go "before their associations, conferences and synods and work such a sentiment as will sweep them from the face of the earth. After we got state prohibition we have practically gone to sleep and the devil has taken advantage of our indifference. I am in the fight against liquor to the enw of the war. Let every man who believes in good morals and a clean town stand to gether. If we must be defeated by money and liquor in our battle right will, triumph in the end. Let our al dermen cut out all license to clubs and they will find enough good people in Charlotte who will stand by them. S. F. CONRAD. COMMERCE COMMISSION HAS NOT APPROVED RATE INCREASE. Washington, Feb. 16. Proposed ad vance in the minimum freight charge on small shipments from 25 cents to 35 cents by all the . railroads east of the Mississippi river and north of the . Ohio river was declared by the interstate commerce commission to be without justification. PITCHER BROWN WANTS TO BE TRADED. Chicago, 111., Feb. 16. Pitcher Mor decai Brown, of the Cubs, made the statement here last night that he is willing to continue playing baseball but he wants to be traded. He said the reason he wants to leave Chicago is that be desires to make more money. He-is carrying a blank contract fn his pocket, which he de clares he has no intention of signing. II announced his willingness to play ball "with any other National League club, with the exception of Philadelphia. How To Be Certain Of Curing Prejudice is a hard thing to over come, but where health is at stake and the opinion of thousands of relia ble people differs from yours, preju dice then becomes your menace and you ought to lay it aside. This is said in the interest of people suf fering from chronic constipation, and It Is worthy of their attention. In the opinion of legions of relia ble American people the most stub born constipation imaginable can be cured by a brief use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. You may not have heard of it before, but do not doubt its merits on that account, or because It has not been blatantly advertised. It has sold very successfully on word of mouth recommendation. Parents are giving It to their children today who were given it by their parents, and it bas been truthfully said that more druggists use it personally in their Constipation families than any other laxative. Letters recently received from Mr. J. N. Catlett, Commerce, Ga., and Mrs. Rose Garvin, Ridgeville, S. C, are but a few of thousands showing the esteem in which Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is held. It is mild, gentle, non griping not violent, like salts or ca thartics. It cures gradually and pleas antly, so that in time nature again does its ' own work without outside aid. Constipated people owe It to the'mselves to use this grand bowel specific. Anyone wishing to make a trial of this remedy" before buying it In the regular way of a druggist at fifty rents nr on dollar a larere bottle ffam- jily size) can have a sample bottle !sent to the home free of charge by well, 405 Washington St.. Monticello, 111. Your name and address on a pos- jtal card will do. m. DAVIS BLAMES CITY GdlHT Says Heads of City Govern merit are Responsible For Condiiion of Affairs As to Illegal Sale of Whiskey in The Cityi "I Have Heaid Enough Talk by People Who Have Pur chased Liquor to Convict Every Blind Tiger" Said Mr. Davis. Speaking with an even deep feel ing and an earnestness which could not be mistaken, Rev. R. L. Davis, state superintendent of the Anti-oa-loon League, last night delivered what is probably the most severe ar raignment of lawlessness ever heard in this city. The occasion was a me morial service to Miss Francis K. Willard, the founder of the W. C. T. U. and the meeting was in charge and under the direction of the Char lotte W. C. T. U., Mrs. E. A. Carson, the president, presiding. The bad weather is assigned as the reason for the small number which appeared at the First A. R. P. church last night to attend the memo rial services and to hear Mr. Davis, who declared that he was always de lighted when he was called upon to meet with the W. C T. U. LAW ENFORCEMENT. "But I have been asked to speak directly on "Law Enforcement" to night. That is a matter that lies on the duty of every citizen. It is the duty of the government to enforce the laws made by the people, yet it is the duty of the people to assist in every way possible, in this en forcement. Suppose we should look at other laws as some do toward the prohibition law which was written into our statutes by such an immense majority. Any man who knows an other has a stolen horse in his pos session will not sit back at his ease and declare that it Is none of his bus iness, yet I hear people in this city say that they . are not interested in the matter of the selling of liquor. We have passed a law prohibiting the sale in this state. Then let the law prohibit it, they say. "I want to say here and now that all the laws that ever were passed will not accomplish anything if. they are merely written and not executed. ALL SHOULD ASSIST. "People will tell you that they can not accept help from this or that or the other man because he voted against prohibition. But he is a citi zen and he swore to support the con stitution of the state and the consti tution of the United States when he cast his ballot and we do expect his assistance. We have a right to ex pect him to lend all possible assist ance to the officers in the enforce ment of the law. "I do not mean that every citizen should be a detective, snooping around all hours of the day or night, to gather information and evidence1 against those who sell liquor in vio lation of the law. But there are many in this city, I daresay, who have this information at hand, and who should give it to the grand jury. ' "I have heard enough talk by peo ple who have purchased liquor or who know of its having been purchas ed in Charlotte within the few hours I have been here to convict every blind tiger in the city. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? "Now whose business is it to put a stop to this condition of affairs? The answer is easy enough. Put the responsibility where kit belongs, on the breads of the city government. No matter whether the city officials voted for or against the prohibition bill, It is their duty to see that the law is enforced. "We have been told that the Anti Saloon League's witness in the cases which were set for trial today, has disappeared. I say to you that we have no witness. The witness of the city government has left the city un der threats or by bribes or both, maybe, but he is not our witness. We gathered the information. I told the city administration I had this infor mation. I was asked to give the offi cers, the chief of police, our Informa tion. I made an engagement for Mr. Flow and the chief in my room at the hotel. They met and Mr. Flow told the chief where and from whom he purchased the bottles of liquor 1 had secured from him. He told him who was with him, and all the in formation he had. He gave it with the knowledge that it was to go before any court we might determine. "Mr. Flow and the chier left my apartments together. Mr. Flow has disappeared and can not be located. When the Anti-Saloon League gave the representatives of the city gov ernment the Information and evi dence at our command our responsi bility ceased, and it became the bus iness of the city government Place the responsibility there, please. WOULD CLEAN UP. "If the Anti-Saloon League is given authority to proceed In this case I tell you that there will be a .clean ing up' the like of which Charlotte has never known. Liquor is being sold in this city illegally. It can be stopped if the officers will go after it in the right way and with the Intention of cleaning up. "Now in conclusion I want to talk to the women a few minutes. You who wear the little white bow of ribbon, if you will get up petitions asking and urging the city adminis tration to clean up Charlotte and cir culate theni throughout the city you will be surprised to know the num ber of people who will sign them. Present them to the city council, con tinue to present them, insist upon their cleaning uf the city and stop ping the damaging advertising this traffic Is giving the city over the country." Mrs. George W. Hanna, wife of the pastor of the church, read a most interestine naiier nn th Hf and work of Miss Willard just preced ing the address of Mr. Davis and Rev. S. F. Conrad and Rev. G. W. Hanna also took part in the services. MEMBERSHIP CUBING UP IDIR 8 Following the success of yester day and Wednesday the campaign committees of the Greater Charlotte Club are going up and down in the city of Charlotte seeking whom they may secure as new members to the Greater Charlotte Club, looking to the closing of the campaign tonight at 8 o'clock with a smoker at the Selwyn Hotel. The new members and those of the Charlotte residents who have not yet joined the Greater Charlotte Club are especially invited to attend to night's smoker. At that time no old residents of Charlotte will talk but several who have not been living in Charlotte for a few months, will give their impressions of this city and her prospects. RECORD BREAKING DAY. Yesterday's total new members showed 175, which sent the total membership to about 700, which is about 90 more than has ever before been enrolled. The work of the com mittees today is showing good re sults and at the noon hour a large number of new applications were re ported, unofficially, and' the outlook for the afternoon was exceptionally bright and 'it is -believed that the re ports tonight will equal the results of the first day and a half solicitation. Among today's applications is seen a number of reinstatements, some of them being prominent business men who have allowed their membership to elapse through error or otherwise. The smoker tonight will embrace a short and interesting program, and President Kuester promises that there will be nothing dry or dull throughout the entire evening. Malaria Maxes Pale Sickly Children The Old standard GROVE'S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC, drives out ma laria and builds up the system. For grown people and children, 50c. Charleston Con vention a Success Messrs. Huntington and Johnson, of the Interstate Y. M. C. A. commit tee, returned from the Charleston convention. 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FAIRBANK COMPANY Nature's Gift from the Sunny South9 ; -J 1 E V c USE M 77 KY LITTLE SON HAROLD "IS ONLY THREE YERRS OLD RNO I MUST TELL YOU THE CUTE REMARK" HE MAPE , "YESTERDAY!? well- if Vol voo-aherp' .7 Life Nearly Ebbed Away But Daughter Helps to Re store Sick Mother Again to Health and Duty. Highwood, Mich. "I was in a se rious condition, and my life was nearly gone," writes Mrs. Clara Avery, of this place, "but I am feeling well now, as the result of having taken Cardui, the woman's tonic. My suffering extended over many years, and were made up of female troubles, such as backache, pain in my side, and dreadful dizzy spells. I was all run down, and hardly able to drag around, when my oldest daugh ter got me a bottle of Cardui. I had no faith in it, but took it nevertheless, and before I had finish ed half a bottle, I got better. Now I am well and able to do my work." Women who have to drudge away, at their own housework, often have to suffer from the results of over strained womanly organs. Women who have to drudge away, at their own housework, often have to suffer from the results of overstrain ed womanly organs. It should be a comfort for them to know that for such pains and weak ness there is at band, on every drug gist's shelf, a remedy, in Cardui, the Woman's Tonic. This successful tonic, prepared from nature's harmless herbs, aids nature in building up strength, for the worn-out womanly frame. It relieves the symptoms. It reach es the cause. It helps to make you well. Try Cardui. N. B. Write to Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat tanooga, Tenn., for Special Instruc tions, and 64 page book, "Home Treat- per on request. WHEN HIS MCTTHER ftSKED HIA.V I UH ) IF HE WOULD HAVE ft CAKE VjWHV OR.fl PENNY-WHY Ift HE SfllO HE'D nL Us I NOW LET HE TELL YOU THE fnee') I I HE SAID" PoP:THE PRESENT CRISIS IN CHINA REMARK KY -SON ) Ky TS ONUf fiKOTHER. EXAMPLE OF DOWN-TRODDEN MADE , ' MASSES ASSERTING-f" "T IWHRT DO YOCJTHlNrC ) WELL- HE, MUST 8S a I IN0TR.T RIL- HE'S ) OF THRT ecff.'PiOMDER FOR HIS 29YR5. QU ! J r ( I SHOULD jF ? :Nv( Q' IT SAYS HE KILLED GOVERNOR GOEBEL By Associated Press. Helena, Ark., Feb. 16. James Gil bert, formerly of Breathitt county, Kentucky, who said he had been a member of the Hargis faction in feuds, was fatally wounded in a revolver duel with a bartender here but before: he died he declared he was the man who fired the shot that killed Governor "William Goebel at Frankfort in Jan uary, 1900. PRETTY WEDDING IN ASHEVILLE Special to The News. Asheville, Feb. 16. A wedding of interest was solemnized Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Thomas Wooldridge, on Montford avenue. Miss Martha Whiting Wooldridge and Mr. William A. Wright, of Wilming ton, were united in marriage by. Rev. H. F. Savenenig, of the Episcopal church. The bridesmaids were Miss Mary Moore Wooldridge and Miss Sally Wright, sisters respectively of ii, uu. j B..nnm The srroomes me unue xuu e,iwm. ---- ... were Mr. Allen Emerson and Robert Strange, of Wilmington, jne ribbon bearers were jNiss Bourne and Master Frank Cox. i" house was beautifully decorated green and white. m Mr. and Mrs. Wright left on tne night train for Atlanta. Both are members of prominent families in the state. There's nothink like these coM mornings to take a fall out of .w mometer. The Mechanics Perpetual Building & Loan Association ON SATURDAY, the 3RD DAY OF MARCH, Will be the beginning of the 59tth Of the largest and most progressive association in the State, having over 30,000 shares on its books and over $1,250,000 in assets. Come one and all help make this the largest series in its history. R. E. COCHRANE, Sec&Treas. J, H, WEARN, Pres.
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