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COMMON SENSE
TEMPERANCETALK
Alcohol is a Posion Letters From
Prominent Men Vho Have Been
Rescued From It's Iron Grasp.
(Webster's Weekly.)
We had occasion not long since to dis
cuss the remarkable growth of temper
ance sentiment, not only in North Caro
lina, but in the world at large. It is one
of the most gratifying signs of the times.
The man who sets himself up to resist
the onward march of the forces of so
briety and morality will get mashed and
deserves to. It is not a movement of the
cranks and extremists, who long since
exhausted themselves by intemperate
denunciation. The practical, solid busi
ness element of society have taken up
the fight and are working with an
energy and determination that brings
things to pass. Even in so conservative
a country as England tho whisky traffic
is hedged in and restricted by law in a
way that was scarcely deemed practic
able fifty years ago. The saloons are
forbidden to sell confirmed drunkards
and minors, under a severe penalty.
Each saloon is furnished with a black
list of "sots," with their photographs,
so as to be without excuse if they violate
the law.
Sobriety commands a premium in the
business world. There are few positions
open to the man who drinks to excess.
Other things being equal, the sober man
stands the best show. This is true even
in the saloon business. The saloon clerk
must be an adept in selling to others, but
must not indulge his own appetite if he
would hold his job. A movement is on
foot among the barkeepers of Jersey
City, N. J., to organize a teetotaler's
club. The saloon proprietors are said to
strongly indorse the total abstinence
movement among their employees, one
of them declaring that a barkeeper who
does not touch a drop is the only kind he
makes a practice of employing, and that
he has found the rule brings him in
creased patronage, insures him better
service behind the bar, and saves him
money. The membership of this new
temperance society is, of course, strictly
limited.
ISow if whisky is dangerous to the
man behind the counter; if it befogspiis
bram and renders him unfit to discharge
I lis duty to his employer and patrons is
it less dangerous to the man to whom he
sells it? If it is not good for the saloon
proprietor's clerk, is it good for any
body else's clerk? The business world is
beginning to view the matter in a com
mon sense light and the cause of tern
perance is growing every day.
-tiicoiioi is a poison. vvnen its use is
persisted in it produces a disease, as
clearly marked and defined as pneumonia
or malaria. It acts on the nervous sys
tem, changing the nervous tissue and
producing a diseased condition. Inebrie
ty is a disease of the nervous system,
just like epilepsy, cholera, or insanity.
Alcohol is the cause of inebriety. It
creates a diseased condition which de
stroys the will power and makes the man
a slave to his abnormal appetite. Food
satifies hunger and gives strength to the
body. Alcohol creates a thirst which
cannot be satisfied. It is as deadly as
arsenic or strychnine when taken in a
sufficient quantity.
That inebriety is a disease, is a fact as
well as the knowledge that alcohol will
intoxicate. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley has
demonstrated the fact from the stand
point of a physician, but our own com
mon sense ought to satisfy us. That
there is a cure for inebriety or alcohol-
ism, is anotner iact mat can not oe
questioned. There are living, walking
examples of the truth of this statement
in nearly every community in North
Carolina. The Keely Institute at Greens
boro has been in successful operation for
nearly twelve years. Upon what ground
does it solicit patronage? It says it can
cure any person of alcoholic or drug
addiction. About 3,500 persons have put
the matter to thetest and have found it
true. Is not this a great work?
The Keeley Institute is an enterprise
of which Greensboro is justly proud
Hundreds of homes have been made
happier and brighter and thousands have
been freed from the degrading bondage
of strong drink tlirough its instrumen
talitv. The cause of sobriety has been
immenseley benefitted by the campaign
of education waged against whiskey by
the Institute. There are men filli:
Dlaces of responsibility and profit all
over the State who owe their deliver
ance to the Keelev treatment. The fol
lowing letter is a fair specimen of hun
dreds on file at the Institute :
Ashaville, N. C, Feb.- 8, 1908.
Col. W. H. Osborn, Greensboro, N. C. :
My Dear Sir As I have not let you
hear from me in a long time, I thought
I would let you know I was yet in the
world, and am, and have been hard at
work, since I left the Keeley Institute
nine years ago last December. I entered
the Keeley Institute on the 18th of Oc
tober, 1892, and stayed six weeks. I sup
pose I was about as well soaked with
mean liquor as any poor devil could be ;
I only had will power enough to go to
the Institute. Of course I had no power
to resist taking a drink when every fibre j
of my being was crying out for it.
panted and longed foi it and had to have
it, no matter if I did know it was killing
me.
But I was there as a last resort,
suppose you have not forgotten what
suffered; I never shall ; but in that In
stitute hope came back to me and I de
termined to fight the battle over,
nine long years nave come ana gone
and I am master yet. I have not swal
lowed one drop of alcohol since I left
Greensboro in December, 1893, and yet
strange to say, for the last six years
have been a Division Deputy Collector
of Internal Revenue and have had from
to ou aistiiienes m my cnarge, ana
whiskey would have been as free as
water until I got drunk and then I would
have had to buy it, for I would have lost
my job. I am fully persuaded that the
only safe M ay is not to take the first
drink.
I now have a desk in the Collector
office in Asheville; was promoted on the
1st of December and have done fairly
well since I quit liquor.
I expect there is at least one hundred
men in this town who would be saved to
their country and folks by taking the
treatment at iveeiey. w it is saa
to see so many of our fellows chained
ana wneu you ten tnem you were once
in the same fix and are now loosed, they
will not believe vou, but go on down in
misery to death and destruction.
"With highest regards and best wishes
I am,
Very respectfully,
T. W. HALLYBURTON.
It will seem that Mr. Hallyburton has
been subjected to a severe test and has
stood firm. We do not know of a single
case in which a Keeley graduate has re
lapsed, from a revival of the old craving,
but in every instance where one has
gone back it has been his own fault. One
must cultivate the habit anew ; he must
take the poison into his system; lie must
deliberately go back to his old habit if
he falls.
Mr. James A. Ware, a well-known
citizen of Reidsville, took the treatment
some time ago. He gave the Reidsville
Review the following interview, which
tells its own story :
"I am very much impressed and more
than pleased with the Institute," he
said. -'The enterprise should be known
of tliroughout all the world. It is abund
antly able to Drmg nappmess to every
home in which there is a drunkard.
"If I could I would gladly devote a
part of my life to the task of convincing
the unfortunate in our land that there is
a treatment that will restore their man
nooa ana sell respect, l Know ot no
work I could do that would be of more
permanent good to the human race.
" xne Jeeiey uure savea me irom a
debauched grave or an asylum, and I
for one am not afraid to tell the people
through the columns of your paper what
it can do for others in a like condition.
JLiie treatment is bevoncl aoubt an
efficient remedy for the thirst for sirong
drink, and I am thoroughly convinced
that any man or woman jaIio goes there
and takes the treatment will come away
saying this much. I went to the Insti
tute as an insane man and came away
with my wits fresh and bright, and I
have seen during my stay there others
in a like condition entered and cured.
"And in addition to the entire cure
for the thirst for whisky I am enjoying
the best of health and never felt better
during the past fifteen years. My mind
and body have been relieved of a terri
ble strain which I have scarcely been rid
of even for a few days in a number of
years, and l ieel liiie a new man one
capable of doing something and being a
blessing instead of a curse to my family
and neighbors.
"A course of treatment at the Insti
tute at Greensboro is enough to convince
the most skeptical that it is all that is
claimed for it by the tens of thousands
of North Carolinians and others who
have been revitalized and cured by Dr. j
jeeieys wonderful discovery. I cannot
see why any relative of a debauched or
insane drunkard should hesitate for a
moment in sending their loved ones
there to be cured of the terrible curse
with which he is afflicted, knowing as I
do that there is a certain cure and health
in waiting for any one who will receive
the treatment.
"According to my mind, the Keeley
Institute is doing more for the unfortun
ate drunkards than any other agency has
done or can do. It is to regretted that
false pride has kept so many men away
until perhaps they have been dragged
down into the graves that are made
daily for the unfortunate victims of
strong drink.
"If you can induce any poor man who
is afflicted as I have been to resolve to
take the treatment at Keeley by a a pub
lication of what I say you can be assur
ea tnat ne wm return to ms lovea ones
grateful to you for having given him an
opportunity to know that he could find
relief this side the grave."
Mr. Ware's many friends rejoice sin
cerely in his restoration to health and
applaud his manly commendation of the
agency tlirough which he was rescued.
Every minister and church member,
every business man, and every friend of
afflicted humanity should esteem it a
privilege to speak a good word for the
Keeley Institute. The whole State may
well be proud of the noble work it is do
ing under the leadership of that splendid
and big-hearted gentleman, Col W. H.
Osborn, whom to know is to esteem. ,
Col. Osborn is the formost Keeley work
er in America and his heart goes out in
sympathy to every victim of the demon
alcohol. Having travelled the same
rocky road himself, he knows from ex
perience what the inebriete suffers,
physically and mentally, and what a
blessing the Keeley treatment is.
May the good work go on. May all
the forces of good the churches,
schools, Keeley Institutes, etc. work
in unison to save humanity from the
curse of intemperance.
MR. LYNCH WRITES AGAIN.
Talks About County Debt and Other
Important Matters.
(To the Editor of The Sun.)
I will ask space for just a few remarks
The dispensary question is causing a lot
of howling. I see I am quoted as a dis
pensary man. Who told you I was go
ing to vote? Come out on day of election
and I will show you my ticket.
And as saying $28,000 county debt had
to be paid by the proceeds of the dispen
sary, I ask you please read my article
again. I wrote the article to put the tax
payers to tl unking and to give them my
views, not for an argument. I did not
bring or had any hand in bringing this
tiger dispensary on the people.
In fact I knew very little about it until
I was sworn in as your County Com
missioner. Upon investigation, I found
something like two thousand dollars in
the treasury tied up. We wanted the
money. Our county needed the new jail
and court house improvements and. it
being considered criminal money (or
blood money as some call it, ) I knew no
better way than to use it in the criminal
buildings. I think so yet. We also placed
upon the county an additional debt and
based its payments on the revenue de
rived from the dispensary. I say here
had it not been for this accumulated
money, the county's part of the profits
of the dispensary to start with, we
would not have had these buildings to
day, the county certainly needed them
especially the fire proof record room
but as I have said before, I would not
have crippled the county with this
debt now, nor do I want to add it to the
tax payers yet. I am in sympathy with
the laborers not the loafers. But this
debt will have to be paid by the tax
payers or the dram drinkers, not the
blind tigers. However if any one can
show me the blind tiger is a better solu
tion of this tiger traffic, I say down the
dispensary, and I will use my influence
to stamp it out. I am really opposed to
liquor traffic. I would not grant license
when I was your commissioner years ago
will not now if I can help it, and if it
was in my power I would close out every
dealer in the United States at one stroke
You put me here to guard the finances
of the county. I shall endeavor to do
this as long as I remain your commiss
ioner, x ou can readily see my stana.5
I noticed in an article last week Mr.
Carpenter had reference to S2S.000
county debt and the accumulated inter
est and said it would take 280 years to
pay it.
I thought it was understood, the
$28,000 debt was the county debt.
I figured or based my calculations on
paying the jail and court house improv
ments in ten years and so arranged my
payments. If allowed to run it will pay
it long before, and this money will go to
other debts of the county.
If I "was in Commissioners room or
Registers office, I would give you the
ict figures of jail and court house
improvements.
The statement is about correct. 1
don't know how to figure on death rate
and crimes. I will leave it to Judge
Shaw and others to solve. I am not an
advocate of liquor but it is here and in
my opinion will be nere until uabriel
blows his horn. And out of the evils we
should choose the best solutions. I don't
write this to get into an argument, don't
care to write on the subject. I am done
with it, and hope the 5th of May will
settle the trouble.
CM. LYNCH.
The County Market Report.
The following is the market report of
produce in Rutherfordton to-day. This
report will be corrected weekly by O.
T. Waldrop
morning :
& Co., every Thursday
Bushel. Bushel.
Corn
Beans
Peas.
Irish Potatoes . . .
Sweet Potatoes.
Oats
Meal
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80
75
75
45
65
Pound.
to
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80
85
50
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70
Pound.
Butter 12to 17
Doz. Doz.
Eggs 10 to 11
Gal. Gal.
Molasses 27 to 30
Each. Each.
Hens, good size 25 to 28
Half Growns.
Partridges
Ducks, Pekin...
Ducks, Puddle.
15 to
54to
22 to
13 to
Pork 9to
Duncan Wants a Pardon.
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E. L. Duncan, who was convicted at
the last term of the Superior Court of
this county charged with false pretense,
we understand, will make application to
the Governor for a pardon.
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