PROTECTION ! 1KDUSTEY I ENTERPRISE ! PROSPERITY 1
'HUM 29.
HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1897.
KDQBBB 16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From oar iUsralar Correspondent.
Washington, April 19th, 1807.
President McKinley is not taking sides
either for or against any of the pro
posed amendments to the Dingley
tariff bill. All he has asked of Sena
tors is that they will act upon the bill
as speedily n possible. He believes
that when the bill-is passed and the
amendment) adopted by the Senate
have been acted upon by a conference
committee that the bill will be as good
a measure as it possibly can be made
under existing circumstances.
The much talked about amendments
to the Dingley tariff bill, which Wes
tern Senators have asked for, turn out
to be very different from the predic
tions, made by those who have been
hoping for a breach in the republican
ranks in the Senate wide enough to
defeat the tariff bill. The amend
ments deal mostly with the wool
schedule, and are largely devoted to so
classifying wool that some of the
frauds known to have been perpe
trated under the classification of the
' McKinley tariff, will be avoided. It is
also claimed by the Western Senators
jt hat these amendments are intended
to equalize the protection given to the
wool manufacturer and wool grower.
The reirular serai weekly row be
tween the followers of Representative
Bajley, of Texas, and those of Repre
sentative McMillin, of Tenn., the rival
would-be democratic leaders, has be
come a feature of the short meetings
of the House, which draws full galle
ries and which has crowded . Jerry
Simpson's little Populist circus to the
wall. In this rivalry a local paperf
which poses as "Bryan's mouth piece.
has sought to convev the impression
in its daily diatribes' against Baily
that. McMillin wns the nersonal reure- I
sentative of Mr. Bryan. One of these
editorials was denounced on the floor
of the House as "an infamous and
malicious lie" by Mr. Bailey, who
added by way of emphasis: t'l de
nounce every man who has helped to
circulate It as an infamous and ma
licious liar." The editorial in question
said In effect that the leadership of Mr.
Bailey was the leadership of Mr. Reed.
Nbt wishing to keep the new Sena-
tors opt of the privileges belonging to
members of the committees any
longer, the Republican Caucus Com
mittee charged with conferring with
the democratic committee on the sub
ject, reported to the caucus in favor of
accepting the last democratic proposi
tion for filling the committee vacan
cies. This programme gives the re
publicans all vacancies, including
chairmanships, that were made by the
retirement of republicans, and gives
one place on the Appropriation Com
mittee that was filled by a democrat to
a republican, while the Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads will get
one additional demoerat. This ar
rangement is not altogether desirable
but it is the best the republicans can
do until they get a majoritv in the
Senate. It allows them to retain the
Chairmanship of all the most impor
tant committees, but on some of these
committees they will be in the min
ority. The opinion of a gentleman, who
has recently spent a long period in
Japan, on the intentions of that coun
try towards Hawaii is interesting, in
view of recent rumors concerning the
ending of warships to Hawaii by Ja
pan, and of the statement of the Jap-
anese minister to the U. S. that his "nwug. m wuicu n w spoaen oi la
countrv has no imoroner deehrn on vorably; and you must interpret ac
Hawaii. This gentleman is Mr. W. B.
Edminster, now in Washington, and
he says: "It is my opinion, based
upon a long intercourse with the Jap
anese, that it is their ultimate aim to
swoop down on Hawaii, capture the
island, and through force of arms set
up a government of their own. It is
the common talk in the streets of Ja
pan's capital, that Japan is entitled to
plant her flag in Hawaii tor the rea
son that the Japanese out number any
other national! tv on the islands." It
will be remembered that Congress has
explicitly declared that the U. S.
would not countenance any interfer
ence with the government of Hawaii
by any foreign government, and many
believe that it is that declaration
alone which has caused Japan to keep
her hands Off Hawaii up to this time.
Judge Day, of Canton. Ohio, who is
going to Cuba as a special U. S. Con
sul to cooperate with Consul General
Lee in making an investigation of the
charges concerning the cause of the
death of Dr. Rniz, is In Washington
for the purpose of conferring with
President McKinley and making a
study of all documents in the Depart
ment of State that are likely to assist
nitn in the investigation. While
Judge Day's official mission to Cuba
will be confined to the Ruiz investiga
tion, he will not clooe his eyes to what
goes on around him, and it is certain
that President McKinley will get the
benefit of everything he learns over
there.
The EIctioa Question Coatisued.
In the article of last week's "Times"
replying to our "second epistie," we
see the desperation of a drowning man
catching at the last straw. Taking up
our argument from a 4m sin ess stand
point, he vainly attempts to overthrow
it by a reference to the published
statement of soyneoi our business men
when he very well knows that not
even all the dry men could be induced
to sign that paper; that some signed it
who failed in business here during the
dry regime, and finally that others
signed it, who, like himself, had not
been here six years, and knew nothing
Of the condition of the town under li
cense, unless, indeed, they were aware
that the license money lasted two or
more years after the town went dry.
'tThe accumulation of costs.in'criminal
actions did not then overbalance the
revenue, and we have no reason to
believe that it will do so now.
After this attempt at refutation from
a business point of view, he returns to
his argument from a Biblical source.
And it is here that he makes some of
his most egregious blunders. With a
great flourish of trumpet, he refers to
the words of Solomon where he says.
"Look not upon the wine when
It is
red when it giveth itt color to
the
cup. And then, in effect, be proudly
exclaims, "There we have you! Sol
omon ear 8 it is wrong even to look
upon itr But the end of this verte
in which he give, "his reasons, feeuful
and conclusive," In reality furnishes a
elear and lucid' explanation of his
meaning, the only rational one which
can be given to reconcile it with other
well-known passages in which he
speak 8 well of wine and strong drink
The explanation lies in the words, "at
the end," which refer evidently to the
long use, the excessive use, in other
words, the abuse. It is not at the be
ginning but after "tarrying long at the
wine cupn that it "biteth like a eer
pent and stineeth like an adder.1 It
is the look of inordinate desire that is
rebuked, as in the case of tho woman,
where it is said, "He that looketh af
ter a woman to lust after her hath al
ready committed adultery with her in
his heart." It is not the wine that is
evil, any more than the woman in the
latter case; but it is in the one case
the look of lust and in the other the
desire to drink to intoxication that is
condemned. Else, how can you rec
oncile Solomon with Solomon? For
he says (Pro v. 9:5) "Come eat of my
bread and drink of my wine which )
have mingled," and again, in Pro v. 31
6, "Give strong drink to him that is
ready to perish, and wine to those
that be of heay hearts." Solomon
cannot be contradictory either to him
self or to any other inspired writer,
and you must compare the few passa
ges in which he apparently speaks in
a condemnatory manner of wine with
the context in which they stand aud
with the many PMfes in the Sacred
toirthe Sera! nor of Scrip-
tare. In Judge, the 9th chapter, we
have a beautiful parable, known
the parable of Jotham. In it we are
told that the trees, on one occasion,
desired a king, aud casting about for
ona fell upon the vine, which refused,
giving tbi answer: "Shall I leave my
wine, which cheereth God and man
and go to be promoted over the tree?"
Note carefully that we have wiue here
described fu prophetic parable as
cheering not only mau but the Mot
High God also. Again. Isaac iu ble
iug Jacob (Geu. 2TA?) prayed n fol
lows: "God give thee of the dew of
heaveu and the fatne of the erth
and plenty of corn and ' wine." And
Jacob, in his turn, as he departed lo
"sleep with his father. b'el Ju
dah aying, "The scepter shall not de-
part from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet until Shiloh come."
Continuing, be says "His eyes shall be
rid with wine and his teeth white with
milk,1 showing at once both the in
toxicating property and the abundance
of the wine with which he should be to enact law against manW and oi wof America are We were told per
blessed. Ion Hut before he can nLa.ro murder, i sonslle br a ntUtiLn hA inmt
Now we think that we have clearly
shown that all the wine spoken of in
he Bible was intoxicating. The Bi
ble was written In the plain every day
anguage of the people, so that all
might read and understand. It em
ploys the ordinary, accepted nsage of
words and is. in all respects, a model
book for common people. It is not
ror tue learned ana great only, to read
m .mm a m
and understand, but the poor, humble
and ignorant man can also glean from I
its pages the words of Immortal Life.
In almost all case-, you can take the
first meaning that would occur to a
erson of ordinary intelligence. When
it speaks of bread, it means that ordi
nary bread, which we call "the staff of
life;' when it speaks of serpents, it
means common snakes; when it speaks
of fish, it means fish; and laMly, when
it speaks of wine, it means that, which I
by common consent. Is called by that I
name. When, in ordinary conversa-1
tion, a persou speaks of wine, we un-
derstand at once that be means the
fermented juice of grapes or berries.
not acids or vinegars. But if the two
wine theory is true, how Is the man
of small attainments to tell on open
ing his Bible and reading about wine,
whether it means wiue or acid? And
when he reads about strong drink.
how can he get the - idea into his un
learned head that it is weak as water?
We cannot see it. There may have
been such wines as the Editor speaks
of, but they are not mentioned in the
Bible, and must have been immensely
unpopular in Israel. "The love of
money" is declared to be "the root of
all evil." According to this theory I
of part good and part bad, it wasn't I
our common God-given wealth, known
as money, that the apostle spoke ef,
miiA certain nee n liar if inn or ruin
money, possibly counterfeit, the love
of which he declared t, be wrong.
How much more te risible and honest
it is to take the simple meaning of the
words and acknowledge them instead
of explaining theiu away with such
mighty effort. And yet Mr. Hafbam
goes so far in hi zeal for prohibition
as to declare that ne would have no
respect for a Bible which taught that
intoxicating wine was "a bleasing.
With a rash hand he sweeps away
wioie ana everyining eise wnicu tanas
- t jl i a. a
in the way of his pet theory And all
this In the name or religion and a holy,
ngnteous cause: xjcuoju inn intern
perate language of this advocate of
so-called temperance! It is monstrous.
And yet, he goes even further than
this and declares that he learns from
the Bible that God "created evil," and
argues from it that "that fact justifies
no man in doing evil." If prohibition
zeal leads a man into such blasphe-
mous utterances as this, in the form
of the Litany we say, with all due rev
ere nee, "From such zeal. Good Lord,
deliver us" In Gen. 1:31, God, Who
cannot lie, says, "And God saw every
thing that he had made and behold it
was very good." Even the devil and
his angels were created good; for we
read, Jude 6, "And the angels which
aepi ooi vneir nrsi eiaie oui iji ineir
. . a. x n a. sA. a a . t I
own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness un
to the judgment of the great day.'
And again we learn in J as. 1:13 that
God doesn't even tempt people with
evil: "Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God; for
God cannot be tempted of evil, neith
er temptetn be any man, out every
man when he ' is tempted is drawn
away of bis own lust and enticed."
A man must truly be hard pressed
when, for tbe sake of an argument, he
U driven to accuse the pure, holy, and
everlasting uotl oi creating eviL Una
never created evil "nor doe He fadli
Late or promote it. but the wicked and
perverted will of the devil and men
is tbe cause of evil;" and no man Is, In
anywUe, justified iu doing evil, and
is forever debarred from pleaaing.as an
excuse, that God created it. We have
yet to hear that a mau on any grounds
if jiifttitied iu doing evil. No uim cvn
teu! tor that
Again the "Time" takes up our po
cition that it uitttustiug the Word
of Owl, to my that you raiinut. by
the Krr f ! c 1. keep men
i from certing drunk, as long as they
cut get -fthtn.r to drink. By far
fetched ra UiT. ieculir to .bis
methoi of argument. !- infers from
thi- nt we hold that "Christian
hoald oppose wrong by none save
spiritual uieansr that we "oukM not
theft, burglary, and all crime, arisin
oni oi -man s Inhumanity to inanv
on a level with the sale of Intoxicant,
he ruut first show that, in aud of
themselves, they are not wrong
againpt our fellow men; then he tuut
prove that God sanction these thine-:
that He calls them blessing, com
mands that they be done, and declare
A ft . m
mat tney are "a sweet urour unto
Him." Whenever the "Titm" prove
this we will accept his reasoning, ndt
before. Now. drunkenness on a
level with some of then crime, but
we have laws airainat drunk omnia
- -
rhlcb fact, transgressor will learu to
their sorrow. All crimes of man against
man are amenable to Law. Wr
not attempting to justify crime of any
any kind, nor do we claim that the
drunkard is justified In getting drunk
just because he can get it. One would
think some on the other fide exoner
ate him, but he is the violator, not the
whiskey, nor the dealer.
The editor of the "Times" may be
well up in law, but his theology cer
tainly needs mending. When he says
that "in our day the Divine Hand
doe not abate nuisances " he is ad
vancing another new doctrine. We
have been taught that "God pre
scribes certain limits to evils, which
he neither desires nor approves; and
definite bounds are assiirned. which
the wicked cannot transirresa. and
limits are imposed declaring how long
they may endure, and the time, and
the mod according to which they
shall Again be arrested and subjected
to punishment;" and that "He so reg
ulate all these thine
tribute to the glory of his divine name.
and to the salvation of his elect, while
the wicked are confounded and pot to
And now we come to Christ mira
cle of turning water into wine -wine
which Urfll ufham axi If. Teloobet
saywas'not mtoxlcatiiig. But alco
hol Is one of the essential properties of
wine; and the Governor of the Feast,
who was no doubt well acquainted
ith wine, pronounced It "the best
wine." The great commentator Uey
er says on this miracle, "We mar sop
pose the words of the governor to
have been spoken jocularly in joyous
surprise after tasting the wine." He
says furthermore that the word trans
hUed "when they have well drunk.
means, in the original, "when they
have become Intoxicated." so that
they cannot appreciate the goodness
of the wine; that intoxication is the
essential, though relative, conception
A t ft . an a
ittntinuing, ne anas, "The man says
only in joke, a if it were a genera
. .
experience, wnat ne certainly may
have often observed, and no inference
can be drawn from hi word that the
guests at Cana were already intox'c
ted, especially since the words 'till
now, after they have been drinking
o long at the table stand in antithesis
with -at the beginning. " Godet. an
other great commentator avs: "This
miracle Is even charged with (minor
ality. Jeus. it Is said, countenanced
tbe intemperance of the guest 'With
the same right one might demand an
swer Hegensrenberg, 'that God should
not grant good vintages because r
drunkards.' Th presence o Jesus
and afterwards the thankfal remem
brance of hi host would guarantee
tbe holy use of tbe irirt." 8 eern
this wa not that "good, harmless.
Innocent" wine which prohibitionist
so highly extol, but was common, or
d I nary wine, which make people
drunk when they use It to excess. And
In making this, we ar told Christ
,nJ,nlfeteJ forth his glory."
Again, our prohibition candidate
ay. "The Christian world has out
lawed and stamped with deserved In
famy this truffle. If this U so. It
eem that that U all that be could
desire. But here lo this country
where prohibitionists are the most
rampant of any country in the world,
we find the abuse of liquors the worst.
How far the intemperate agitation and
over zealous discussion of tld ques
tion U responsible for this stats of
affairs would he hsrd to telL In Nor
wav and Sweden, they have the dis
lnary system, and a ttore sober vir
turus. Christian people doe not exitt
upon the face of the earth than t bey.
In O emit nr. thy have saloons, but
the Germans are anion? the most In
dustrious, f rural. Intelligent and en-
, lightened people on the globe, and
are far freer from Intemperance than
three year In German Universities In
Berlin and Goettingen that. In all that
time, he saw only one man drank, and
he wa an American, and yet the Ger
man are considered the great et lov
er of beer and wine In the world.
What a commentary their management
of this matter affords over oar con
stant agitation, which owlnr to It
violence and abuse. It continually ma
king matters won with u. The
Germans are the teacher of the world
and there are many thing that we
might, mith profit, learn from them. It
greatly to be feared that the unrea
sonable, unyielding attitude of prohi
bitionist has hurt the cause of true
temperance more than all other cau
se combined.
Th Kditor of the Time," having
run out of argument, proceeds to give
us in fh end a very pathetic tory of
a nooie omevr killed a terrible crini-
for which w? hope the tenetraton
leceived juf punishment. But what
has that to ! with our arirument?
We are uot here to uphold crime, or to
condone the perversity and depravity
of the human heart "which i deceit
ful above all thing and- dssperatelr
wicked." It is a sad thing that one
mortal should take the life of another,
but ever since the day when Cain, in
spired by .malice, slew Abel, his
brother. It has been so. If a man. in
drunkenness, slays another, the
drunkenness just a the malice In
another case, doe not excuse but
rather aggravate the crime. We op
pose Intemperance, we hope, a
strongly as the "Time." We admit
that a saloon run iu a loose, haphaz
ard, slipshod way is a nuisance. Bat
It fs not such a place that the license
men of Hickory propose to allow to
run. Oar Board of Aldermen will see
to it that no rowdying and brawling,
and rioting and drankenuese shall be
allowed. ' They cannot afford to al
low the places to be run Indecently,
because. In such ease, the town would
go dry. next year and stay dry for
year to come. If the dealer is dJ
honest and neon rage or connive at
drunkenness, he may expect to be
quickly relieved of hi license.
The 4 "Time" finally. In a fit of hys
teric, shrieks out a dismal, doleful
prophecy, and throw op the sponge.
We submit that this is aot argument.
We are not dealing In prophecies of
uninspired writer or Editors of news
paper, and we are not aware that the
"Times" i any more gifted with pro
phetic vision than the rest of us who
take a brighter view of things.
C. II. I.
LOSS OF FLESH.
Whit Medical Authorities Say a
to the Danger Line.
Some of the best medical authorities
say that If s person lose one third of
hi weight, that tbe system will not
have power enough left to ever recu
perate. This is to say, if a man or
woman who weigh 150 pound in
health should, for any cause, be re
duced to 100 pounds, they could never
recover, but would shortly die. This
Axes the danger line at aboat 33 per
eenL Soute ay the per cent. Is a little
higher, and some say It 1 a little
lower. Hot this estimate is probably
nearly correet.
Are you losing fleh! If so. dnyotx
not know that It Is not only foIhh
but dangerous? Too need not con
tinue to lose flesh another day If yoo
will use the . proper remedies. Pe ru
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through the mucous membrane of tbe
body that all the nutrition mast be
absorbed. If the mucous is healthy.
the loss of fleh Is rapidly restored.
Peru na produce healthy rnaeoa
membrane. Unhealthy mucous mem
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may be slight or severe. Pe ru na al
ways cares catarrh, wherever located.
Catarrh of any of the vital organs
lead to loa of flesh. The catarrh may
be so ligtit as to present no other
warning, save the loss of flesh. Any
ooe who U losing flesh for no apparent
reason can be j re that catarrh Is at
the bottom l It, Pe rn-na Is sure to
cure such case.
The P ru na Drug Sianufaeturirg
Company, of Columbus, Ohio, Is send
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chronic catarrh In all varieties' and
i stage.