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THE WEEK Vol. I. No. 17. Hillsboro, N. C, May 8, 1896 Price 50 cents p r Year. JOHN B. FINCH'S BURNING LOGIC. Parts of That Wonderful Cooper Union Speech. HIST IMPASSIONED ELOQUENCE. A Speech I but Elect rllict an An. II eote That Cruwdeil tie ,iei. t Hail Truths Tlmt -dnnibl Be Kept onta.utl Jl' -turf the People. (Prom a sp.-.-. h t,,v Hon. .'.-hii i- ' -:l t Coop.-rlnstitut.-Jai: ' io. Tins is said to be an Ameiican gov ernment of tho j.eupl, by t he people ami for tht) people. No such form .-r government c.iii bt; a Mii".-e-.-!'t:i p'Vi-rn-meiit. which do - not uiv !'.. -elf g o v -eminent. A -MAN WHo t i' JYEKN HIMSELF GOVERN:- cTIIKK.v It b cannot govern himself, n- t i.t 0 govern u dog. ' 1 1 1 i j it' tins 1- a ivin incur of lb" people, I y t!..- j nl- and fur t lie jR'i i. le. tin- ..!; -. iii'-n: ! :' uwcnK lefts "ii '!." n'fi : : t.- . t' ' mo rality, tlio cl.iiia' I. i it' tin- i:ri .-. and it is the. duty i r E'.e go'.'ei nt to d velop. foster : 1 1 j L .--uljt!' : I : 'i-! :r .." w hlch tty U bin in !.) . ::i."o :- : - -' . -uu : -i en morality, and tt.-w-!-. u o.'.-lbg' . IT IS THE UL'TY uE '1 HE . iVEKN ilENT liY THE UAN'H ol LAW 'in SUPPRESS EVERY I N.-'i I i I i o N WHICH DESTROYS i H.E.. M.K, RUINS INTELEiliEN'E AND WRECKS MORALITY, ca'-i:-.- .-.h.,oi system va. d'-t eloped by law, 1 i-.tu.-" of the uecesio'y that tb-- ; j ie of :) . United .'Tate:- siionid be 'iitelEgent. Ii we pay taxes to .s u j j .'t ;.r fue caooL and college.-., is ii. net tbe height of po lit.eal folly at- i a blundei m politi -:1 statesmanship t liren-o antagonir-t io Schools of vice (Time, from whim nation denvcH a revenue? Every political rank carries with it a political duty ; every political privilege a corresponding political obligation. Yeats ago this country asserted and proved that propositiuu. They said. t George of England: "We grant you the right to be king, and you f'.ave ;i duty a king. Yen have a right to goveru and the duty to govern. It n your duty as king to suppress aliu.se.-,. , right wrongs." And when tb" kiu p-fused, the people w ent a step fartlf r. and Herted that tbe failure to j.i rforai a po litical duty forfeited the crr.-pomiing political right. In seven yai - iln- p.eo- proved that proposition. 'l"h-y ton',: the crown from the head 1 1 tiie kuiu' and placed it on the head of Urn m. n .,f this country, aud when they o t ii - cr.wn from tho head of tho king tm y t." k tl: duties from the shcuhb-r of tiie king and placed it then m th- -boulders of tho voters, loorgc as Ling w i- r.-sp. n sible for the government. ' ic-n to- rrge ceased to l-e king, ti:- ktr.g'y rght.. a;id duties fell into the p, a . -f th- private citizens. As Prohibitionists v.,.- p. l i it to be the fir--t poEtu-al duty f , :v Am.-i: can citizen t- tnve.-'igate fit! ;.::.. i f .:; : ly and calmly all pui.E ... a. n j bow they may al'ect !.!! -:- mw.y. but b 'a i bey atT t t:.- t..o . :.. i: ,. then his duly to g; at i r ': x a statement fo: the l.-m til ' 'i. ; ...... his boiirst ( j iiin ti up. ;i t. . .... followb that every man : ! : no . lrctually. h.-c;ally and n. .!..;.- ; to investigate, fcrm and j-c:t t.nt opiuion. 1:jh..u the i ll.,' : ; ; ligence cf the citizeu t :'.:. ..:.. n:.t integrity of the gnrmn..-- :. and any institution f , judgment, destroys tbe p.u. , . .,. of the bonet citizen, is :. . : . .- , f . government. We attack the Amerioati . n -. cauae it 16 primarily and t u'.v . !,; , ; of vice, crimo aud pau;i:-!i, If w,. want au intelligent ballot. j;, ::. tlligei:t man behind it - n- -..vu.n. f D ; I uoll't object We m-.:.-' Oetr, v i , rrytbiiifc- which dersoes a:c: . ti--my of the ballot. We can never bavt- a ju.i : ti.l have a pure citizensh:; . u,. ta!, never have a pure cititus.-. v.nt:: then re no more schools if . .. makiug droukeu UeVlis of ..i;r m- a . i mv'E (jooce- THE CORE OF THE RUM QUESTION. Horace Greeley's Editorial In The Tribune. TRUTHS THAT BEAE REPEATT50. A Kinging Denunciation of ( oward ly Legislators ami Newspaper.-! by the Old Tribune, That IMd Not Fear the II tun I'ow c r. The following editoiial by Hora'-i-(.r- t ley, wliich appealed in tiir New York Tribuuft Feb. E, l2. will be i.-:id with interest tod.-v. It i-bowi in --: i li r ,. r.,nirn.-r tb.e fearle.s lot-ition of '!'!: Tribune in tbe days t.f -Jreel y with in- cowardly fear of the ,-uino p;y;er to .bty : The Cure of the Kiun Question. .Vc-w York Tribane Ft-!.. IS, lvi. I Yr h-ar much'talk cf the Maine hiw :i interfering with nun's naiur:il : 'S..--. subjec'tiug tbriu to i;;.ir.i.-i;jriul seitr'-bes, redaqin. the j.-rotits of laud-lor.l.-. breaking up the busing t di-;:.!.-. et'-., but xju lii.m haHev.-r yet as- i:' i. ;-.s lar a we liav m-wi or heard, i..:.; ; .me, miseiy, p;u;pe! i.in, vnyrancy :,; .1 i he other fearfully iui-tetisii: stx;ial v..- ... our timo would bv oicr -used , !: p;(.iie of the act r.omMided by o;.; ;-.ihlatr.ie by tiio patyer i-f over ! you.ono potiiioners. On tho contraiy, if rt.mellers themselves were exana iiiT o successively and compelled tt. make a:iM.-r on oath, "Do you not believe ti.a: our jails, prisons aud pocrliouses v, . ild be largely depopulated by the pas.-uue uf th." Maine law'-"' we believe a majority of them would be cats! rained to answer, "We do!" ( if whar avail, tlXn, are vague ab .!..: in ns in tiie pr-euoe of such tear ful facts as the rum trafn :nvol??s? Men in thousands are burning out their sonis with tha liquid madness, which tills tin-ii- Iiouiqs with unspeakable w retchr-oiie.-s and dooms their children t i shame, d .-ti tut ion and vice. Yet we stand pattering, over foggy generalities as if it were 3 question concerning the rings of Saturn or the mountains in the 1110 We protest against thi.- cold blooded way 1 f viewing the matrri. The question :. v- inch our legislators are called to I a- - in (.ons.'deriu;; the M:me law cou-ci-i n-: the ha'jipiuess of fanulie.-, theprev iiien . f vjee or virtue, tbe safety of human Efc. :f the last Lundred ificr iii : .1. our -tate, it is ;.'-rfect!y within hound- to say that SiO would never have I I i'U ; ptrai' d but. for intoxicating liquor-. Of the Loot) criminals in our sta'." ;:i-:us, fully even-eigbths ure eitin : :!: (bildreu of diunkaids or t.i-n,-i I.-.- tuaddfuod by Equur when ;:..y v. . ;irst lmj eEed to crime. Of tne ... t rrsons 1:1 one yea: arrested. ti . : ..-!- of crime, and misdemeanor, :. ' o wt re. total ubstineut, w bila a 1.1 1 ..e ma.;. : ity w ere i ict-.-ae drink- : - : ' ;.i 1 i ni- 1. - or .r a ; msl.oUse, .0 - c t .tiler be-n i:pplers or 1 1 v, ar.t ! y the t ijipling of ' ::: 1 . : g.:::i:: ii utses and haunts 1 - ::..-:r victim.- to ;ierd;- a a 1 1 v r ; .-:i. dr:.il.. Without :.: ': y Id . ar.-'y and but mca-g- :.'v , .:-. YET IN i T EE VIEW OF TIIE.-.E APPALEINO FACT-. .PH'R N A Li ':'.- cooLEY ('HOP LooK1 A Ht d T THE PERILS F EXCE--.-IVE EE1 , IS f.A'I ION. THE 1 'RON F.N ESS '!' ;. V MAKER.-- TO I STEMMED DEE WITH WHA T E- N"NE F THElil ELT-1NES.-. El( They m;gh: as w-.! .-ail ,11 our f.ri'Oioi to Esten to a grac f::i and -Eivt-ry t- ii. -i s; e-ei .1 1.1 the met.-: ( .iv.1: and c i.rlag.a ti.ri Ea-'-. :. .u profesK 1 . w y.ur count; v. atji are ready j . -ur fiu; y. r.r Ll'V'Z :i iier ilef-nse B-,:'. " lie that' ruE t-tii p;r:t i"? greater tiian he that takrtii a c:tc. " aud a j pie w ;:o have thi roughiy c uquered their own vicious app.t::es need fear no foreign enemy. The general adoption of the Miine law Prohibit ion j by our -t:ite would add more to tho r-trengih. wi-.E:h. vigor, in dustry and prosperity of our Union than a tiew Dunk: Hill or half a dozen Bueua Vistas. Help us, for ymr coun try's sake, to carry t he Maine law ' Christians, when you pray ";hy king duiii come, "do you really mean any thing? How is the kingdom of id to eome except tLrouch the banishment and overthrow i f social ami moral evils? Cau it ever really cone into a woild rilled w ith grogshops aud their conn. mi tants unless these shall bo cleared out to make way for it? How can you be indifferent cr sluggish ;u vit-w f tlie content now m projjresr-'.- Moralists of all need.-, refc-niers of all shades, philauthroj-i-'ts f every name or uatur.-. w fhhn your as.-ist-aure, we ask your earnest ;md a-tive co-op-ratiou. Tim- triumph .f this cause requirs erTort and sacriti'-i-, b'lt it is richly worth them. Help - to carry the Maine law. 1 he Danger of Restriction. llh.W r. s. Ill NoV. I am ready to shake hand- any day mid anywhere with anybody that hates tl o salocn. He may U"t tiht it my way, but if he fights it any way. 1 say (xod help you to tight as best you can. They do not regard it as liceiisiug th., evil ; they regard it a re.-trictiou. They say: ''if we cannot storm the wmks of the town, let us undermine the cities ami staivo the enemy out. If we can't cor rect all at once, let us correct all wo -an." I have great re--pert t r ih-.se w ho iavc such couvictious and toe rriv'nx by tho way of high license to Emu tbe power of the evil and prepare tho way for its ultimate, extinction. Iiut, let me suggest, it is like the Mi.s.-issippj. D.i you know what they aie dom down there in New Oilcans? 1 am rlad 1 don't live down there, because therp is something gom to ive w,.y there soirio time. Do yon know they are building levees ar.a tiie river is pouring its trib ute, .of mud and piling up the body f 1 inn nvii t otiuin is. rising hi the timen4.nd eve-y year they build higher ie's l i'hr anfl higlifr, and they will liAe to build to the moon by and by. But something will happen be fore that. It is only a question of time. And so it i? with license. You may pile up conduits mountain high, but you are only temporizing, and by and by through the levee will com the rush of the tur bulent waters of filth aud blood. They are only temporizing they are only put ting off tho evil day. Doing and Planning-. ! . h. sPL'rtotoN ! A useful man to Stonewall Jackson was old Miles, the Virginia bridge builder. One day the Union troops had retreated aud burned a bridge over the Shenandoah. Jackson, determined to follow them, summoned Miles. "You must put all your men on that bridge,'' said he. "They must work all night, and 1 lie bridge must lie completed by daylight. My engineer shall furnish von with a plan, an 1 you can go right ahead. Early next morning Jackson met the old bridge builder. "Well," said the general, "did the eUgimer give you the plan tor the El ldge :' ' (ieueiai, " returned Miles slowly, "i!.e bridge is done. 1 don't knew w hrthc : the picture is or not. " We want a few more mm 1 f the Mih -oniT. They do not plan, but work. E. the name of all humanities let us have fewer plans and more bridge--, shorter red tape ami longer 1 it- of flannel and if po.-sibie le bitter cry and more w ool mi -r people's barks. Measure less ocean-of talk are m t equal to a emgle cup of (""Id water rru'.ly given in Christ 'h nam?. We atta-k t:.- grogshop ai the agent which degrades tiie voter. The sober man who has a home, a wife and chil (iteu. with money :n hi.- pm-kei. can't te bought. You cioi'r Lt.v men only things :n breeches. Take that sober man, put hi:a thr .-ugh the nchooJ of the grugsbcj, turn mm out a .ot ai.d beg gar, and he is then ;u a condition to be bought. Therefore we attack the grog h.ip boraaso u rum- the intelligence of fne voter and makes hi.ni the tcrl of iu ncpoly. of cemagogues, of ring which rcb the government THE VOICE FOR DOMINANT ISSUE. That Paper Gives Its Reasons For This Decision. PROHIBITION MUST BE PIEST. Otiitr Important Issues Need Nat lie Ignored by Making Prohibition the Dominant Plank In the Platform. For the past few mouths a most inter esting discussion has been carried on in tiie Prohibition press of the nation rela tive to the platform to be adopted at the coming Pittsburg convention. The Voire, recognized as the leading Prohi bition paper of the nation, has been leaning toward the "broad platform" idea, but has come out in emphatic terms for the dominant issue. The edi torial of The Voice is as follows: rl lie Dominant Issue and the Pitts burg Convention. There are several thoughts which it would be well to bear clearly in mind from now until convention day. We need as never before that "intellectual poise which insures a sound judgment of tiie proportion of things." First of all, tho chief present work of the Erohibition party is to make under stood the idea of Prohibition, and to de velop 01 E.e nation a controlling con H-ienee Ln this subject. The other advantage.- which the Prohibition party is bringing with it are secondary or inci dental, and these advantages are not few nor slight, as those of purer politics, 111 cieased lrcognifion of the sac-redness of the ballot box and of the sanctity of law, the protection of the masses against class interests, the elevation of woman to citizenship and a founder financial system. A paity by judicious recognition may i.eip loj ". am uiauy iti..iuis, uiii, k -.aj. indicate what kind of legislation it would enact touching these reforms should T come into power, but two thiugs should be remembered : ( 1 ) That some of these secondary issues may lose much i f their importance by the timo the party comes to triumph, so fickle is the whirligig of politics; (3; That no party can successfully require fealty at the same time to three or four great dicisive issues. If it persists in doing this it will break to pieces inevitably by internal dissensions or be kept intact by being kept hopelessly small, and hence of little vrflue to any one of the issues it lias championed. The reason is evi dent. The cleavage between the advo cates of the different issues is not at the same place. For an example, take the qneetion of free trade or protection und the ques tion of Prohibition. Tiie cleavage of the former is, broadly speaking, geographij al; that of the latter horizontal, almost w holly moral. Suppose 51 per cent of all the voters favor free trade aud are hotly opposed to protection, and that 61 per out of all the voters stoutly favor Prohibition. Now, suppose that half of those who favor free trade are strongly opposed to Prohibition, and half of those who favor Prohibition are strongly in favor of protection. It is manifest that unless one or the other of these issues is leoogiiized us the dominant issue both will be heavily defeated if championed at the same time by the same party, yet each by itself has a majority. In keeping one question the dominant one it is not necessary that the other be ignored, but it is necessary that it t kept m a secondary position. If two issue.- ride the same party, one must rule behind. 01 . as Mi-- Wiiiaid would put it, become the !--" iurse. The !' story 1 of the two boy- riding tbe pony is pat. The one in front, rinding himself crowd ed upon the neck of tbe pony, raid. "Jim. I could ride more comfortably :f ne 1 f u got . f. " At Pittsburg it will not In- necessary to compel all the other issues to dismount, but they must so ride behind as nrt to crowd Prohibition. Prohibition mu.-t l permitted the right of wa. It is the idea that gave birth and name to tbe party, and the agitation thtoagh the party has given the idea tremendous headway through out the nation. It is impossible to push back into th snell tbe half tern eagle. We can help forward the agitation against tbe saloon. We could not stop it if we would. As well try to stop by a thread tbe turning cf the arth toward the rising sun, or to force witb car bkode Niagara back frcn tbaxap tdi In to the lakem. Na Prohibition u tbs coming issue. We cannot determine whether this issue shall tome to the front, but we can determine wbetbei or no our party, shall be with it when it comes to tbe front. It surely would seem to be tbe part of wisdom so to word tbe platform at Pittsburg that no voter who bulierea iu the destruction of tbe liquor ' traffic would feel that be is doing wron to bis conscience or his judgment by voting for our candidates. There is no necessity that the domi nance of tbia issue should be eo Worded us to nullify or even belittle the other planks in tho platform. Prohibitionist, we believe, with few exceptions, will consent to Prohibition being made tha dominant issna Tbe first plank of tbe jdatform four years ago contained tht words, "No party that faiUj to recogniie the dominant nature of this issue in American politics deserves the support cf tbe people, "' yet it wusjdopted by a unanimous vote. It does jjot seem im possible so to declare for the dominancy of this issue as not to nullify the Other issues indorsed by the convention. TKM i'KRATE THOUGHTS' FOR IN TEMPERATE FOLK, y i ". K (BT Amu.) - -i As lunK as Uncle Sam drinks whisky lijjerty ill Lave to take in ishinft- John Hull' has a very red fsc and if "ncl 8:1:11 doesn't take tht KeoW-y cure be wit-" huuu wear a re4 note. Kv-ry number on a nuloon doer has i's Ua plKule a urn In-r upou a prUon cull. Show in the man who ean (Jrink or luate 11 :.luiie, aiai I will alio Vuu bow to Uud6 wild hay. "It 1- m long lane th---.i h&j no turn ", TLU must the drunkards highway to hell" One wrj- to knock tbe tar out of the dtfvll 11 1 . knock the I1.1u.se from the wall. A iimn is a f(l to put inirits down to try tn keep his spirtm up. A K'ose ran ft.-.nd fin oar foot, fl a drunken man can't etand 6ti Fwo. due srr.nll flusk of whisky holds in sol- Won all the crimes known to the jxTial code. Two ilnnfTf r signals the red ) 1 i ti t- at tnt jid the red nie on land. The brewer's Vlog enjoj-i Jiff better . han the drunkard's wife. Liijurr will rmt quench th fir of ihira -1 H feeds the flame. ; Son men's ida of ppa' and plenty ii a pit-re of toba?ro and plenty beer. Wh-n the devil finds thlnjrs (fitting quit m tun barroom, he roes a?o! J- 4rs'th Ianrii'jrrSV ite nut salt on tlio n. e .jnou. A landiord must lie upon th- very bottom of degradation when he is willing to py for a license to do the devil's dirty vrork. Nine out of ten drunkards took itiair trt lrink at the tavern bar. When the landlord aayf "one more crfk won't hnrt," you may be acra that he oofts vour lust dime. :-. The landlord spins a vulir&r yarn orT bar Ijeeanse he thinks laughter product thlf. When "Hweet 10" calls for her first glasaf wine, ton devil will ba there to pull tho oorK The milk of human klndneaa fce?er acura a thunderstorm. God never made a cow that gave milk punci. When the saloon mn all stand up txfore tbs bar of judgment, God will not say gen tlemen, what will you huve for a wash?" There is one htpe, one hepc only, for th man once stung by the -adder of the (i!s. When the helliah viru of the serj nt dnr.fc has entered his system, faith in -Christ aione can have him from degradation in this 1 if a" and damnation in the life to come. If he re jects Jeous, his candle of life will n. vor l '..rn to the socket. Alcoholism, Bricht - ...v .v. of delirium tremens will snuff the viui e;ark Slottocs For the National Convention. (From The Voire, i F. L. Halford. Kewbur?. 'ir. Uon-iiM'iaal prohihitir.n. J M. Auld, Rt. Petersr.nrc. Ha -For hone government. Charlei B. Vinll. Jr . Pr.r,ir.gtiT.. Vt Let uV Unish th; w rk wr have M-oin. Jere H. Wood. IvVw Y' rk Citj An lusaa ii never settled V v ,: find. H L Sergear.t, Goi.; n ' .tv. Mo. A nghtou - minority ia in t).. irujority. Mn. J. A Porter, lir k'yc, 5J ch Wn, stand ' fur obrioty. pr .-:rit an ! -"jrlty.. Mis I'heto C Ti .: - n." Yi rkvillc, Iila - Thr- ujh ' -, . v aliall fjo valiantly it W. Hiving, y.j V 1. HaxiUffafl. i-.-in &-rnar- din i, Cal - I'robdMtioti proL.ibim pauper- uin ; William Frost Cnp4n, Akttin. O B- form era ahoull c-1 together sad push thing II P E.e. Wieaer, Idaho Tfem prary dr feat ia the jri- that truth pajr for final victory. Mr A" t leHoag' Hnbbar E Ke- I.i-bon, Y. -Thera Is bo freedom lerithout a vote b- i..ud it, Mrs Mary J. Loeas. Harmi:!-burg. Fa Tb bill'.? i or best weajyyn ' '. d-fer. aod hn N F.ir.err. i.'ii PittMiufg. Street. NewcaS- ti. l a compromise, no rtrat. ice saloon n. -iit go Orrilie py. (Seattle. Wash. Lt u fight the ene ,i wherever vre T.xi b'.jn H U oosr in pr.lit!'- May La-.fr :; tol. Mt. Vtmou. Mo Frohl h;f..'.n i- tb best provMon for tho cota men defr.se Genrral ".mton B Fisk Jtwiior Prohib-.tir 1.4 ag-ae, philailelphtai- ProBlbition our - rck of aes. W. 11. ma Nil.::. Mor-rehead. Minn. !s:r.k cr rlrc t-v or die. sjjrrlre or p-n-.h. I f.T tr.y bird and hH lolhis vote (;-. nt.vr.fs, i'orcr'y . N. ft L-t us pray as tho&gr. things depirfi nn 0 and -crk a. tronga all thltigs c.-p. nd on us. J. f.. Ht.fl.eti. t-tation O. C.icap -- sin or .-rn .e y.a raay cemtett in p- i-.os shall irspa r riT staadtpg in me cgT-c t . r, b-nxg A J.in White Plla..y. V A )om ii-tia-d by the peopje is Co peopi a lonn. fctrocg dTici pats a Umrj braM on tha ear of profretw. J
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