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StAtt Library i itmf A PROTECTION ! INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE I PROSPERITY ''OLUfSE 29. HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897. KDHBER 15 St 1. WASHINGTON LETTER. no authority to speak for the Presi- , dent. I have excellent reasons for ie- From oar Rtrnlar krre8ponant. . . . , ... . . lieving that the order will go into Wamiixgtox, April 12th, 1507. effect, and that the eighteen pension President McKiuley returned from his agencies will remain as they ara." little outing much improved. The Commissioner Evans also savs that run our torn government to relieve us of any snch fears. We will not have low license and indecent holes but the thing will be conducted openly and above board. We are not In weather was more or less disagreeable Mr. Cleveland's order niacins Pension favor of "a slosh anv more than during the entire time he spent on the Examining surgeons under the civil thoe who oppose us. We.as all sens! IWilllllill Vnt lia trrt v- V-i r V -k I .. : 1 -n i j. I c ru.e win oe revoKeti, except ble aud right thinking men,;ire opposed alter ana what he needed most rt. in ti bfi r f w- o vi 1 w 1 a urli-. s-civa I He was at his desk today looking J0O a year or less. to intemperance in all jU loatheome fresher than for several weeks. No date has yet been fixed for the for,us- But we have good reason to Jerry Simpson made an attempt to n-nortine of the Dinirlev tariff bill to believe that our ma vor and the men prove that he was a bigger man than the Senate by the Finance Committee, who will coniose our Board of Alder me entire nouse, out ne only proved Ex Senator Voorhe s, of Ind., died himself a monkey. He thought, or suddenly Saturday morning at his rather fie thought that he thought. Washington HmiJ that he could compel Speaker Reed to appoint the Committee and the House to g ahead with miscellane ous business, although a majority had decided chat the legislation of the ex tra session should be confined to pass ing the left over appropriation bil's and the tariff bill, both of which the House has done. Jerrv made the that we did put up some sort of an argument We will not follow the point of "no quorum" to .prevent the ( gentleman into abusive personalities. House adjourning from Saturday to Lsw,linwn,iHl(lptflW:nnp inMin. tion for any such thing. The justice and A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. From the fact that the "Times" of last week devoted two columns of its valuable space to a reply to our com munication of the same week we iriferl secondly, because, when a dealer pays down $x00 or $!OX) license, knowing men will not allow the place to be come nuisances to any of our fellow citizens, and will not allow them to be run in the interest of intemperance. We have such confidence, and whv? First, because it is our intention to put up men who will not flinch; and Wednesday, but Speaker Reed had no difficulty in counting a quorum, and Jerry found himself down while the of our 0,11186 does not require it, House adjourned. Whether he in we have no mayoralty bee buzzing in tends to get tiimself knocked down our bonnet to make us lose our head every time the House meets just for the notoriety there is in it, is yet to be that if he violates the law regulating his business, if he has only run a week he will forfeit his license, he cannot afford to break the law even though he were so disposed. It is a pure mat ter of business with him to follow it to the letter. Then,every dealer must be a man of good moral character, and "We are glad to have the acknowledg . . : . I ment of the "Times" that "crood men . . it j i seen, it is eviaent mat speaker iteed I several applicant, iue xoaru nas regards Jerry merely as an "amusing are found on 150111 8'de8 of this .ue8- the right to chose between them. It little cuss." tion." This is a decided improvement u jKf tn Min,ia(A tha Secretary Alger, under whose direc- over his "kindlintr hell fire" locals of I , , i irci auu ctru iu ciT-wt 111c iiovtb ui the week before. We suppose, too, I gale.and the whole thin will be under tion the $200,000 appropriated last wpp If tw CVmrrrpfcs will a srtonf fri- the relief! of sufferers by the floods in that' havin d-8da!,11d his tit,e to police eurveillan e, which is better than the Mississippi valley, lost no time in omniscience In this particular line, he I if it were ooUide where there can -be putting the machinery of the War De- I also will recede from the position that I no gucn control. The law by pennltt partment to work in order that no one on the opposite side can discuss inj? license does not encourage Intem I t,hin miRRtinn nn its merits, or will ai t... u .: , , , i " ' jt? i a.iJc uut iJJ luiuniUK kuiub wherever needed. It may be a hard I , x , . ... . . . . . . I J B thing to say, but it is strictly lrue least show us the "local freight that around and hedging it in on every that the Cleveland administration was runB on cneauie lime. xne irouoie i 6e geeki to discourage it, while at .... . ... I ... . l responsible for much of the damage I witn tne pronioition erowa is, I the same time allowing men without done by the Mississippi river floods, they have had everything their own Violating law to procure that which is oy its policy oi ue,ay ,u speuumg lon tnat they nave become nMWiaitv money appropriated by Congress to , , t , . A, , , I 1 strengthen and raise up the levee8 Piea ana minK tnere is on.y one The -Time.,-, real nz that our along the Mississippi river at' those I sld to tni qaestlon. Bnt we assure position holds, if out,, mise stands- points where U. 8. Engineer officers them that we have nothing to fear that it g tne abase and not the use of UW500"'J "4 u auu evmiuiug lU.ram, iruixi a iuii I Inxinf- that u wmniMki. tr them of if. It is alo true that wine was used in His worship, and the "drink offering" as well as the "men! offering" was declared to b a "swert savour uuto the Lord. The t-t portion of the wine, as well as the first Iruits, was reserved by God for the Priests and Invite. thir k)d. and daughters who were commanded to that the editor of the "Times may ridicule "the ritr and ceremonies of ancient Israel, we torn to the "Sew Testament. There we find Christ following the usual custom of the Jews, who iualiciouly called Him "a glut tonous man and a wine-blber. that is intemperate in eating and drinking. And not only this but we find hlra, as use it as a bever-ge. And once a) ear, hi very first recorded mingle, mak- at the festiv.tl of the first fruttn Isee Miivf wine out of water fnr the eninv. iJeut. 14 chap. J. all the Jew Here uietit of the guets at the luarriag co:umandd to go up to Jerusalem, fet iu (Jalilee. and the Uovernor of bringing their tithe- of corn mid wine the (mst was astonUhei! at Its quality. J :i i .i i i: - . t I . . . . . A. auu uii, Hun iuo!e wo u ei, iw iar nere again i oi inrougti Uhnit was away were commanded to tell these, the direct author of wine. And again "and to bestow that money for what soever their soul lusted after, for ox n. or for h(p, or for wine, or for strong drink; and to eat their before the Ixrd and to rejoice" in the general festivity, and now we will quote a few verses from the Bible to show that God did consider wine a blesslnir and promise it as such, sneers to the con trary notwithstanding In Deut.. the 33 chapter we flud these words: "Is rael shall dwell iu safety alone, the I but the) were not told that fountains of Jacob shall be upon a I wrontr to use It moderatelr. jut before His crucifixion we see Him consecrating it anew to relhrious servi ce. We find Christ in another place endorsing the general opinion that old wine is Wtter tlian new. And we know that hi the New Testament too the wine was Intoxicating. We read of it fermenting and breaking bottles. Warnings were made agalnit its exces sive use. The Corinthian Christians were reproved for getting drank on it. It was Christ after contrasting his own course in eating and drinking and John the Baptist's abstinence, complains, with the Jews at their not being satisfied with either; and in justification of his course says "but wisdom is justified of her children," which means that it is a matter of no moral coaeouence whether one eats bread and drinks win or whether one abstains. Now we will say for the "TimeVs" benefit that there is no question be tween us and Solomon. You cannot. land of corn and wine. Isaiah, 25th chapter: "And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all peo pie a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees.of fat things full of uiarroi of wines well refined. And again in Jeremiah: "Thus salth the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine." Passages might be multi plied but he who will not hear these will not hear though many more be quoted. From the above passages we infer that wine and strong drink were staple products of I however, take Solomon and say that God's chosen people; that they were I he is more or less right than any other eonsMared as among tht necessaries I prophet or writer of Holy Writ; for all and comforts of life: and that God I alike are abaolutelr true .'and "sJl sanctioned and even at times com- I spake as they were moved by the Holy a a a swa t a t I . m . manaea meir use. i nis neing so we i unost." uototuon Goes, indeed sar are driven to tne conclusion tnat "wine Is a mocker etc but be also every creature of Gcd Is good and I said "eat thy bread with joy and drink intoxicantM thAt is wroncr seeks E3 TmZZ " thUcjuestioo. breaic down that premIse aDd. m, to made after Congress had appropriated ttUU " 14" its aid H. Newell Martin M. D., F. R. the money, urging that contracts be 11 18 Pure'y a ousiness question, a g of jonn8 Hopkins, who deposes and nothing to be refused, if It be received thy wine with a merry heart; for God 1 - .1 A l. 1. 1 1 11 I t .1 nl 1 n nn1 Arfa K 1 I I . I maue auu me wora pusueu on uiese uiaueru. "" l" says that he believes that even the with thanksgiving;' and "what God now accepteth thy werks The Terr evees, but it,was the Cleveland-Car- town; but we are not afraid to discuss moderate use of intoxicants Is hurtful, hath cleansed" we dare not call "com- f.ct that in the first Instance he speaks ..I ; ; 7' : rZJZ: rrrX-J lt f rom y-po.nt, Ihennancal WelUinthiglAtter tof tne mh mon orunclen." Now to e.CApe from I of being "derived- goes to show that Viuuo cvo ivug ao pvrai vie auu iuoc , . . . i I floods came before the strengthening uc"cul' w w century there are many learned men thU evident conclusion, Mr. Huffham it is a warning against excessive use of the levees had .been completed. A 06 eviaenc 10 every ou. uu oiue who are wise above that which is is driven to the last resort of extreme and not against all use; for the Bible number of the breaks are at the points thing.Hke 2000 of revenue, derived written There are not wantine men prohibition fanaticism and folly, and cannot be contradlctorr.and to under- reported weaK uy me engineers ana from license, flowing into our treasury f . tha Pl.Mt:nn MnH n I 1U hi. Mutn th tn .,. i,, n mnm9 i i w., . -i i u, r i ... I ""J ' i ' " l J trress For all the damage done by . aeu "e nesurecuon iroui me u?aa meory a ineory mai niu ueu ex jmre srripture wnn scnpiure. these nartieular-breaks, the Cleveland Ulies' iw" L"c "U1"1 "4 and reject almost all the fundamenU's ploded a thousand times, a theory so Townrd the cloee of his remarkable ' I . . . . . .. 0 ! XI I I administration is clearly responsible. "g"18 ana P? Ior inem, pave f t Chrjgtian Faith, and vet nose as untenable that no scholar of respectable r m m. m President McKinley's announced policy of reinstating all ex-Union sol diers who were dismissed from office by the democrat for no other reason than their politics, is being carried out and macadamize our side walks and Theologians and Higher Critics. So in attainments would care to ack now ledge production the "Times branches off into a lofty, and eloquent tirade thoroughfares, increase our fire ex the re&lm of gcienceiit jg not surprising that he holds It a theory in utter contra- aaiu.t the evils of intemperance, in tinguishing facilities, give employ ment on public works to idle labor, that the advanced thought of our dav vention of all common sense and has ascertained that even the moderate I reason, and finally a theory which no and Theologians cu understand i.e Bible, and it in a dangerous Iko', aud Rome was wise and right In with-' o' ing it from the laity. But there is no indication of such a diuinctiou iu the Bible. The wine of the Bit.- iu.i; people drunk from the days of Nwh in all of the government departments Put this town into 80 prosperous a uge of gifu ig uartfui andwrong one without a precooceived opiulon. as fa6t as the heads of the departments I condition as to attract many strangers can get aro6nd to the cases. In the I amj men Gf means to come and cast in cases of the chiefs of divisions, the . . . ;f . Thrt lw.tionnl sittA democrats are being given better t , - A Ai wi- and County Governments derive reve- treatment than they gave republi- auyA J cans. They are allowed to remain in nue from license, and many of our office, in a lower position, instead of strongest "local prohibitionists are being dismissed, as so many republi- the most eager in supporting parties, cans were under the last administra which .Q tQese departments of govern t,0n" i- c i ment, uphold such a policy. If this A republican Senator speaking of 1 J the talk in regard to'the appointment policy is so bad and license mouey is of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, to be to be despised, why do they wish tc Assistant Secretary of the Navy being keep it out of Hickory and foUt it likely to make trouble, said: "Roose upOQ their countrv men in the State velt may make trouble in the Navy u .. Department, but if he does it will be aud nat,on? Almost an tbe Pub,,c in the interests of a better administra- improvements which have been made tion of its affairs, just as he has made iu Hickory were made with hceue trouble for the law breakers of New money With iU-the town hall was York city who had long enjoyed police bu the &nd Park bought, protection I notice that in all the trouble stirred up by Roosevelt, he Greets opened out, paved, and .ucada has always had the support of those mired; and Hickory is to-day what who believed in showing up and re- the is through revenue derived Irom forming wrong doing wherever found, j i T ..... ... . 1 1 ! .. ,....! l.ttinrt all . . . I Now if the Saloons were to run the the trouble he makes in the avy jje- ' . . towuasthe Editor of the " limes nartment. nr- rilnniVi nnltr r-dneinr the would have you lelieve; if all the jll VIV " - C7 I number of Pension agencies, which J horrors that exists in th- lively ui was to go into effect on the 1st of next agjtiou tne Editor of the "Tiuie Septeuioer, ... """ were eoine to come to ts and Pension Commissioner Evans ha as certaiued by investigation that instead of saving money, as Mr. Cleveland claimed, Jt would cost more to sup nort the consolidated agencies. He said on the subject: "While I have enough confidence in the men who will our town ws to become "rum soaked, "red-nosed aud "debauched, we would oppose license as strongly as we now favor it. But we know and have all which goes to prove that the "Children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. But in opposition to the Royal Academician, this intellectual light. this man of great fame and many titles, we place tbe "Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all things. visible and invisible, Who is not tbe creator of evil, and Who yet expressly declares that He is the author of wine, saying iu the 104 Psalm; "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle aud herbs for the service of man XXX And wiue that iuaketh glad the heart of man. Here He makes Himself the Author of wine as well as of the could possibly arrive at. Oh ye wise men, no doubt you think wiimi shall die with you! If thi theory be true, then only Doctors of Divinty hibition are two very different things. all of which we agree with him. We are n t heje to uphold Intemperance. We rvook'tiiie it as a great, a monstrous evil, wort by of a place in the black catalogue of crime to which St Paul Urns it. But temperance and pro- As a moral measure, prohibition Is a confeion of weakues on tbe tiart of the church. It Is a reflection on tbe power of the Word, which Is sharper than any two edged sword, to say that you cnt save a mn froui the tin of intemperance as long as he cau get and the herb, anil the bread, and the oil; and it is such wine too as "iuaketh glad the heart of man, evidently in- toxicatiug. We suppose It will not be contended even by the enthusiastic editor ot the "Time that any other than God is the author of the Laws of fermentation, though We have hewnl prohibitionist-, zeal, ascrioe tin I And it still remains uudisputed and indisputable that God did include wine iu almost -. Ii promises of temporal blessing to t:ie Jews and and Lot to the days of the Mpotle; anything on which be can get drunk. and woes and warnings are pronoa need . There remains now only one more against tnedrunknes that they caused. ' question to put to the ''Times' and Why.the very word wine iu-an ' the j w re dMe. It is a question in fermented juice of the grape, and it i- ' theology and on a point brought out grass, j only in a very looe seue that certain j by him a question too which we have a I m i- s H i ! . " st a a. r species o! vinegar may be caile! wine at all. Aod.as if to guard against jut such perversion, we have the words "stroug drink. "strung rin-" and "liquors iavurably Luentionel. Tle very fact that prohibit iooUts have to resort to such extremities for an argu ment shows the stud low nets of their -ft S . I m. . . m in meir in tern iterate I ojure 1 lie atoslle on tu ua v oi tfc l tue deviL. I iVnteoott were inoucnt oy oiii lo oe drunk ou "new wine, aud surely If there was any non-intoxkating, it was the new. Hut there is not one scintilla of evidence iu all Scripture to sustain considered it a punishment to deprive I so flimsy a theory. For fear however never seen oxptained, and w promise if be answers it satlsfactori'y, w will be bound by the conclusion. Tbe question is simply thl. Why rras Adam tonpte!? Why didn't God Who certain1)" knew of tl tetupta tion, remove it? That i what you would have done, is it not? Such a couree. at least, would accord with your present olicy. Bat w have said enough to show that prohibition is neither in the 1'ible.of the Btble.Dor from the Bible, .tn 1 it.Weaib!e from either a mural or a business point Vol view. C. II.
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