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2 OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1908. - i Letter From Dr. Morris, To the Editors of the Puhlic Ledger: Please give me space enough to ex press briefly some thoughts suggested by "a communication" from Mr.L.ouis de Lacriox. It is the first time I ever desired to give public expression to my thoughts through the medium of the press. ' To come straight to the points, I shall quote most of the striking ex pressions in his communication. We do not think the average mind is "apt to get the real facts in the case mixed." The proposition is as simple as this: the intemperate use of alcoholics is an evil. This evil steadily and rapidly grows with no more than the present restrictions of the manufacture and sale of them. The evil is destructive j of the highest type of citizenship, and therefore the state ought to restrict its manufacture and sale to the needs of medicine its proper domain. This is very properly attempted in the case of morphine and other derivatives of opium, cocaine, chloral and other pois ons, and, nowhere in the communica tion referred to, do we see any objec tion to this. If restriction is necessary and right in the one case, by the same principle it is right, and more neces sary, in the case of alcoholics because of its more universal abuse. The speech of Gov. Glenn is rated as a sort of "dittto" affairs, in that it is called "regulation." Gov. Glenn's speech was solid and logical. He does not beg the question when he ad-1 mits that it is likely to be no more prohibition in effect than statutary en actments against theft, pistol carrying, etc. Every logical mind knows that all such may be criticised in this man ner by those who are inclined to dis regard them. JN'o evil of any nature whatsoever which tends to corrupt cit izenship and subvert government ought to be left to the moral sense of those who practice the evil. It is gotern xftQ.tjfel,function to restrict it with an J"i"ary, and that gov 1s to its owu per T : t. it without altefna i .iu:.;'.,w.4iipnamental principle and is no more relative to the taking move than is one's own which we de nominate "theft" than it is to the ta king of more alcohol'cvihan will leave the individual a moral and integral part of the state or government. It does no good to say Gov. Glenn "drops his argument and resorts to piling up the agony resulting from the use of intoxicants." Every d rink, for the time, at least, destroys the worth to the state of the citizenship of that drunkard. Therefore the state is injured, and for the principle of self preservation, ought to prevent its re currence. The agony is not piled up by Gov. Glenn, but finding it already as a "mountain of evil" (Mr. De La croix's own designation) he pointed his finger at it,and made the advocates of alcohol as uncomfortable a3 a bank examiner would make a crooked bank official feel when he points out its ir regularities and arraigns the officia iox it. Who does the piling up of the agony? Alcohol, certainly, and we are not getting the facts mixed. In paragraph three of the article in question the writer assumes that it is granted that "prohibition will not pro hibit," and proceeds to assigns reasons why. He writes, "it does not carry with it the endorsement of public opin ion." If at the ballot box a majority of the voters say by their ballots the manufacture and sale of alcoholics shall be prohibited,is not that the very strongest endorsement of public opin ion? Is not majority rule an essential of democratic government. The truth of this is common knowledge, and to enact a law whether prohibition of theft, alcohol, or whatever by this means, is a moral and just way of reg ulating that evil, even though the en acting be done by an honest majority of only one vote. No man 13 allowed to participate in government by cast ing a ballot until he has taken an oath that he will stand by the consequences of such an expression of the will of the people. In this connection arises the. question in the mind of thi3 writer, who will be at fault if prohibition does not prohibit. It will not inhere in the law enacted as this will be, if it be en acted by popular vote. The fault must lie, then, with those who desire to continue an evil against our state by willfully breaking that la v. There is as much moral obliquity in break- ing this law after enactment as in my other infractions, and it becomes in cumbent on every moral citizen, wheth er he were for or against the enactment of that law,- to see that the law is ef fectively executed so far as he is able. He has sworn to do it when he regis tered to vote and thus to participate in governing. The man who goes around with this shibboleth in his mouth lends color to a far off vague suspicion that that man would himself condone the violation of such a law, if he did not grossly violate it. Close study of the ar gument "prohibition does not prohibit" reveals something of the intrenched power of alcohal. It sh)ws defiance of even the powers that be. Is it any wonder that sober, serious, reflecting minds, are disturbed at this species of impertinences It makes one "set his teeth" and say, "we'll see." The very argument is the severest arraignment of the free manufacture and sale of al coholics. It means that free alcohal is stronger than the government. What logical mind with loyal and pa triotic heart would say there ought to be free alcohol? "Probably there is no oomm unity where not only the best sentiment, but public sentiment as a whole is opposed to intemperance." This is about like saying the best people of any commu nity and even the whole community desires to get to Heaven when this life is ended. The question m the latter proposition is what are the best people or the whole community doing to de monstrate the desire to get to Heaven? The question in the former proposition is, what is "the best sentiment" willing to do by way of opposing intemperance This writer suspects that it is desired to prove or have it inferred that a com munity can have free alcohal and the temperate use of it. This is weapon. Experience is not in accord with it. If you have free alcohol, by the nature of man (just as he is, not as he ought to be) you must have the intemperate use of it along with the alcohal. This brings us to the point where we must choose to endure the intemperarice,Mt be very careful in theise get what our appetites call for, pr to endure our unsatisfied - appetites with alcohal taken away by drastic prohibition. This writer believes there is no effective way of opposing this abuse of alcohdi but hy removing it, and that the abuse of it will be abated in direct proportion to lis removal. Opposition is activity. Supinely wish ing intemperance absent, while you keep ihe power of the temptation to evil, is willingness to the evil, and will ingness to the evil isparticepscriminis. It need not be urged that high license and high taxing regulate it. All who think, know this only speaks the evil of alcohalics to those who do not drink and yet who are dependent on the drinks. By putting up the price it is harder to get, but the hardship falls on the innocent, after denying his fam- P For Workman FIRST NATIONAL BANK, OXFORD, N. C. Whether your present surpius is $50 or $50, 000 there is no more secure place for it than this bank. Popular Confidence in this bank is shownlby the fact that its deposits aggregate more than $300,000.00. The Cerfflirates of ieposit are usually issued to mature in six or twelve months. The interest rate is 4 per cent. The certificates are made to the order of the person depositing the money and are transferable by in dorsement, making them, good collateral security for loans. . Questions Gheerfully Answered; FIRST NATIONAL BANK, OXFORD, N. C N E H Crenshaw, R XV Lassiter, J H Gooch, Z W Lyon, R S Usry. WWW ily the returns from his labor, a man will sell his coat to get a drink, if the price be about what he has in hand. Home training is not enough. It is good as far as it goes, but it has been tned, and is known to fail both with alcohol in the house and with it ex cluded from the house. Alcohal gets fine boys no matter what their previous environments and training. It does so by its power to take away that by which in most other forms of tempta tion a man protects himselt his will power. Mr. De Lacroix reasms by analogy, and I may say, fallaciously when he says the virtue of sober ness comes by meeting the evil of drink and overcoming it by force of without temptation is by far better than drunkenness with the exercise of the will power, and the knowledge of right from wrong. Besides, if a man have free access to alcohal and take it only occasionily, meanwhile exercising his will power, but still, moderately drinking, that man's will power, ex ercised though if he is struck hord by every drink as a by a cudgel, and I would just as soon believe that Mr. De LarCoix's cranium would grow stronger and more resistant under the blows of a highwayman who wanted his money even though he exercised his brain vigorously meanwhile as to believe that one's character grows stronger by trying it against alcohol. It's the devil's cudgel with which to strike one's will power, and it is a "big stick." To. bring up a child without knowl edge of good or evil would be a crime, because it is the inherent right of every man to know right from wrong. Thus reasons Mr. De LaCroix. It sounds strangely like the reasoning of a certain personality to mother Eve. Gen. 3: 5, To follow this as a philoso phy or rule of lite surely leads to the same results as occurred in the garden of Eden. A wise man has said that a child's education should begin 100 years be fore it is born." Some one also said arThese aA 4 u ii uy si of decl aring che fb rce ; dr the law of heredity." Mr. De LaCroix ad mits,"If a family has a drunken mem ber, the original cause lay with his parents or grandparents who through excesses,over indulgences or otherwise gave their descendants vibiated consti tutions, or reproduced actual degener ates." What an argument for the to tal suppression of the stuff! Intemper ance by the law of heredity increases in geometrical ratio. To this we must add the increment of the strong losing strength in the contest, and finally succumbing. If any man recognizes the operation of the law of heredity, it seems to me he is in duty bound to his state and to his creator to make every effort to save the helpless creature born to a contest he is not armed for, or Millionaire E C Harris, C G Roy ster N Men who see that because our grand fathers had it freely and d rank Von ly moderately; and that our fathers by the grandfather's practice took a little more, see clearly the ancestry of oar present excesses. They need be no sons of prophets to forecast what our sons and son's sons will be. But if any should ask for the forecast, an swer: orphanages, asylums, eleemosy nary institutions; speak out, prison Prohibition aims to stop "the addition of degeneracy to degeneracy. It is mercifully undermining the combined strength against the unfortunates who have been thrown into this prena like the captives of Rome. The weak de generate must fight a strong enemy without a strong man's weapon a will power unweakened by ancestor's faults. And, now, Mr. De LaCroi that you actually witness the unequal contest and see men borne down help less(call them degenerates if you will, they are men), and know that with free alcohol unreasoning, pitiless alco hol, the process will still go on. Will you have thumbs up or down on the 26th of Mav. . J. A. MORRIS, A. Most Valuable Agent. The glycerine employed in Dr. Pierce's medicines greatly enhances the medicinal properties which it extracts from native medicinal roots and holds in solution much better than alcohol would. It also possesses medicinal properties of its own, being a valuable demulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and antiferment. It adds greatly to the efficacy of theBlack Cherry bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root, Stone root and Queen's root, contained in "Golden Medical Discovery " in subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and lung affections, for all of which these agents are recommended by stand ard medical authorities. 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Save some of your money at least. 4 per cent compounded twice a year. Oxford Savings Bank, in Bank of Granville. Notice of Administration. Having duly qualified as-Administrator of the estate of Kufus Cogwell, deceased, this is to notify all persons hoi dine claims against said estate to present then to me on or before the 16th day of March, 1909, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This March 16th, 1908. JUAKK UUUWKLAdm'r. of Rufus Coewell. dee'd. graham & devin Atty's 6t. Administrator's Notice. Having been duly qualified as administra tor upon the estate of .Esther J. Daniel, deceas ed, before the Honorable C. F. Crews, Clerk of the Superior Court of Granville county, no tice is hereby given to all persons indebted to said estate to come forward and make Imme diate payment and save costs. Persons'hold ing claims against said estate will present them to me for payment on or before the 3rd day of April, 1909 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. This March 28th, 1908. WILLIAM A. HANIKL.Adm'r. api. 3.6t.pd Zebulon N. c Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Oxford, and Sanford's Drug V7 AN M rlR Wv m m if . it til i i(K i ii fc i n niin i i in i 1 ft W r j a fcn5 sjr rm w j w mm. mm l i ill fA4 2Lif. IMAM J. ROBT. WOOD, Funeral Direetors and Embalmers, Tombstones and Flowers. Let us tell yon about lour Fine line of Of all Kinds. Beds fand Dressers, Chairs and Rockers,Couches and Lounges, Sideboards, TJaUJRacks, Felt Mat- eep a compiute jline of oof fins, Gaskets andrrohes. Sale of Land. By authority conferred by a bead in Trust executed to me by T. M. Soeed and wife A feline Speed on the nth day of January, 1907, and recorded in Deed of Trust B jok 68 in office cf Register of deeds of Granville county. Default having been made in the payment of the debt secured by said Deed in Trust at the request of the holder of the bond so secured. I shall sell foi cash at ruMic f uction at the Court House door in Oxford on THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 1908, at 12 o'clock M. The real estate described in said Deed of Trust, to-wit The part in tended to be conveyen hereby is my undi vided or.e-tenth part ofthe 83 acre tract of lnd formerly owned by my fath r Thomas Speed, deceased. Said land lies in Walnut Grove Township on the waters of Tar Riv er and bounded as folfows: On the west by E. M Sherman, on the north by IV. S Lyon, on the east by I. N. Day, on the south by Spencer Jones. IV. T. LYON, Trustee. G. A. COGGESHALL.M.D. Office in the new Dr. White Building, directly over the Office. Office Hours: 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Phone IMo. 23. may 3. '07 JEWERY, SILVEWARE CUT GLASS. We carry a first-class line and guarantee satisfaction. 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