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Friday, April 24, 1908.
HYPOCRITES, THEY CRY.
It has been said that a prohi
bitionist is necessarily a teetota
ler and that any man, votiug for
prohibition, is thereby morally
debarred from ever afterwards
taking an occasional drink. And
that any one so voting and so
drinking is no less than a vile
hypocrite.
If this proposition is true, how
few is the number of prohibi
tionists in North Carolina and
how numerous is that great host
of hypocrites.
n i ii i
i^uuverseiy, 11 one wno votes
for prohibition is considered a
teetotaler and ie deprived of the
privilege of taking a drink, one
who votes against prohibition
is a drinker and is expected to
to make a drunkard of himself.
And, if after voting against pro
hibition, he should fail to make a
drunkard of himself?ie he not
also a hypocrite? According to
their reasoning then, the prohi
bitionist must lead a circumspect
life of teetatolism and the Auti.
Prohibitionist must lead a life of
drunken debauchery, or else both
are hypocrites.
No matter what construction,
or connexion, or, more or less
plausible explanations, are given
to different words or terms, it is
not the purpose of the measure,
nor is it the intention of the most
ardent prohibitionists, to bring
about auy conditiou whereby
any man shall be deprived of his
privilege of taking an occasional
drink, or a daily drink, or an
hourly drink, or even of the
privilege of making a hog of him
self. This howl of "hypocrites" is
only an admission of weakness
on the part of the Auti-Prohibi
tionists?and is as applicable to
themselves as to any one else, by
the process of their own reason
ing.
The motives or sincerity of no
man should be impeached because
he votes for prohibition. Every
man has the right to better his
own condition. Even the con
firmed and hopeless drunkard
should be allowed to vote a re
Bbiouiu u|iuu niuiht'ii, itua 10 try
and bring about better and safer
conditions for more fortunate
men. On the contrary those who
have manhood to vote aguinst
the interest of their appetite
should be commended and en.
couraged. Certainly, the shaft
of ridicule and the charge of
hypocrisy should not be thruBt
at them.
A PROHIBITIONIST FOR HIS OWN
COMMUNITY.
Not long since we were talking
with a man on the subject of
prohibition. He stated that
there would be but few votes cast
for the measure in his township.
We then asked him if there
should be an election called for
the establishment of a saloon or
dispensary about the center of
his township (there is no town in
his township) how would it go
He said it would not get a single
vote. This shows that almost
every man is some kind of a pro
hibitionist. He was against
State prohibition, but when he
thought of bis home and home
people he was not willing for the
vile stuff to be sold in bis own
community to debauch and de
grade the boys and young men
and disturb the peace of the
neighborhood. He fully realizes
how much trouble it gives the
people of any community, and
would work with might and
main to prevent the establish
ment of a barroom or distillery
in his section. Yet this very
man was then talking against
State prohibition and saying
that liquor should be sold in
other communities. Let him
stop and consider that if it is
bad for his community, it is also
bad for other communities, and
rise up and vote for State prohi
bition for the sake of others.
There are many such men in
Johnston County. If the people
of this county knew that their
vote for the "manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors"
meant that a barroom would be
established in their respective
communities, in case the prohi
bition law were to fail to be cur
ried, the whisky side would not
be able to muster three hundred
votes in Johnston County, but
prohibition will carry and let
us in this great old county do
what we can to swell the majority
in the State.
THEY WORKED FOR PROHIBITION.
In 1881 when the question of
State prohibition was before the
people among the men who
worked for it were Col. I). YV.
Fuller, Maj. William A. Smith
and Mr. E. W. Pou, Sr. 'I hey
regarded it as a great moral is
sue and for the best interest of
the people and so did all they
could for it. Col. Fuller talked
it everywhere he went and voted
for it. Maj. Smith and Mr. Pou
made speeches for it besides the
other work they did to get votes.
At that time these men were the
leading Republicans of the
county. They knew well prohi
bition was uo party issue and
worked for it in the interest of
the public welfare.
A few people in these parts are
trying hard now to work up
political and denominational
prejudice agaiust prohibition
but we hope they will not suc
ceed. Remember the question to
be decided is whether or not you
want liquor made aud sold all
over the country as was formerly
the case. This is the question
and there is nothing else in it.
Do not let anybody sidetrack
you but stick to the question
before the people and let us set
tle it right.
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SOME POINTS ABOUT REGISTRATION.
9
The registration books for the
election in May will open on Fri
day, April 24th, and close Satur
day, May lGth, at sunset, the
registrars to attend polling or
voting places each Saturday to
register voters; other days you
can register whenever you tind
the registrar aud his books.
The registrars and poll holders
will be at their voting places on
Saturday, May 2?lrd, so that any
voter may inspect the registra
tion books aud make challenges
if any are to be made.
All registrars aud poll holders
I must be sworn before entering
upon their duties.
White men uuder 21 years old,
idiots, lunatics and persons con
victed of crime punishable by im
. prisonmenu iu penitentiary can
| not register. Negroes who are
| debarred from registering for a
general election cau not register
now. No person can fully quali
fy to vote unless his poll tax for
the previous year is paid by May
1st of the year iu which he offers
to vote.
To|register, a person must have
lived in the state two years, the
county six months and the town
ship four months. All persous
who have moved from one
county or township to another
will take notice of these require
ments. All persons who cannot
register on account of these re
quirements can go back to the
township or county from which
they have moved and there re
gister and vote.
Persons living in towns who
have moved from one ward to
another since the election in
1900 will have to see about their
registration.
In Clayton township there are
two voting precincts and persous
who have moved from one to!
another innst see about their
I registration.
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It Has Been Talked Long Enough.
For many years I have felt it mv duty to help work for the
cause of temperance. I saw the great waste of money and other
bad effects of liquor drinking and Knew that something needed to
be done on the other side. Icounted the cost of the war
before going into it. I knew that for me to enter upon the work as
it needs and my duty demanded, meant to me much hard work
and sacrifice and the loss of some money aud some business and
some of my best friends. Hut I felt it my duty to do just the work
I have been doing and so I entered the tight. I do not think a man
should be blamed for doing what he understands to be his duty.
If people do blame me 1 cannot help it. When 1 feel that I have
discharged my duty I shall stop, aud not until then.
It was not long after 1 began temperance work iu a public way
before 1 began to hear false reports on me going the rounds in
different townships of the county. Among the things said against
me was that I was ordering and drinking liquor. < >f course.to hear
such things is unpleasant but I did not say much about the re
ports. 1 knew only a few people believed them and the tale-bear
ers seemed to be getting a great deal of pleasure from their work.
They said I ordered liquor for negroes aud for my tenants, as well
as for myself. This ordering liquor by me au 1 oth ir misrepresenta
tions is being talked over the County now more than ever before.
1 am sorry the advocates of liquor have so little argument on
their side that they have to talk against temperance workers. It
is a fact that liquor drinking as a beverage is so bad that there is
not one good thing that can be said in its favor. So there is not
much to say except^talk about somebody. I take it that it is a
case wherejsome one must be talked about, and perhaps it might
as well be me as any one else.
Hut it seems to me that the time has come when these falsehoods
have been talked loug enough. Do not these stories get stale after
being told over aud over again? I do not claim to be perfect but I
have done about the best I could in my walk as a man before the
people of my county. 1 know J have some enemies, but I have a
great many strong friends also. 1 would have to be all sorts of a
hypocrite, aud very foolish besides, to order aud drink liquor after
having entered the work I am trying to help do. I have never
ordered in ai.l my like ah much ah one drop of liquor ok any
kind in my name or anybody elhe's name for myself or for
any other i'ehhon and no man can prove that i have done ho.
These reports are every one falsehoods, made up to injure the
cause 1 am trying to advance. Smithfield is my home and I am
sure that no respectable man here will say that 1 order liquor or
drink it. Let it be remembered that the issue is not what the peo
ple think of me but what they think of manufacturing aud selling
liquor in their midst.
J. M. Heaty.
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HAND WANTED
I need one more hand for my
farm near Wilson's Mills. See
me or Mr. W. A. Price.
J. M. Beaty.
STRAYED OR STOLEN.
On Saturday, April 11th, there
strayed, or was stolen, from my
place one female Shepherd dog.
Her tail was sheared close ex
cept the tip of it. Let me know
if you see her.
J. D. WtGGS,
Smithfield, N. C.
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I8QO 18 YEARS 1908
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