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It. C. *• Second CUM Mail Matter.
Friday, May 8, iqoß
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The $15,000 graded school build
ing in Windsor will soon be com
pleted. Our sister town is doing
the right thing, giving her children
the best in education.
Editor Kenny of the Windsor
Ledger has .our sympathy in the
- J|o»s of his little child. We know
what it means to lose a little one,
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and can the better appreciate the
bereavement through which our
brother-editor is passing.
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There is so much to write about
this week our readers must pardon
us if everything is not written ac
cording to their indivdual fancy. ]
We have but so much space ami so ,
much time in which to get these 1
things up it is inipo: sil le to satisfy
- everybody. ,
In the death of Hon. Don Gil
laui North Carolina loses one of ,
her brightest ltgal rights, and the |
Democratic party one of its ,staunch- 1
est and truest supporters His (
presence at the future terms of
court here will be missed almost as ]
much as if he had been a resident (
of Williamston:* t
The superintendent and teachers 1
rit the Williamston Graded School 1
are to l>e commended for the su£- •
of the school for the season 1
just cltted. Teaching is no easy J
ppsition 19 fH| aijdj thfjre |sj pp {pji-* »
-?ig the sieepiet-s nights and heart- t
aches the teachers have ex per- '
ienced during the j ast eight moil- t
ths. Jf patrons of the school will c
cooperate with ieacliers it will help 1
wonderfully tolighUn their bur- t
dens.
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Rev. Bythei Leggett Dead
We announce with regret the
death of Rev. Bythei Uggett. He
was born in Martin County Feb. 7th
1837. *He came to Bertie County
in 1867. He married Miss Eliza
beth Harriss during the war. His
iuoeial was conducted by V. T.
- Esq. Mr..Leggett was a
useful christian gentleman —re-
spected by all our people. He was
Uid to rest on the Tallehasie Firm
pear Spellers Ferry. We extend
1 to his family the sympathy of our
people.— Windsor Ledger.
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Cannot' Hide Behind The
Primitive Baptists
(News and Observer)
In North Carolina, strong in
. numbers and strong in chhracter
and sturdy there is
a church that iti all its long life has
stood against any encroachments
upon the rights of any individual
| or any possible connectiotH»etween
Cburch and State. In their ad
herence to true personal liberty,
the right of every man to worship
God in accordanoe with his own
views, and faith in tbe Bible as
the only light for men the Primi
tive Baptists set an example to men
of evtry church. It is the right of
every mau' to vote as he thinks
right and to be free in his rclig
ous liberty. No church has or
should have control over these in
herent rights of man. Therefore
when preachers go into politics
they do err, for they are called on
to preach a higher gospel than any
political party ever created.
More than a hundred years ago
when certain "religionists" at
tacked Thomas Jefferson because
ne won the fight for religious free
dom and put an end to all connec
tion between Church and State,
the Kehukee Baptist Association
of Eastern North Carolina passed
resolutions of thanks to Jefferson
for the signal service he rendered
to religous liberty. One of the
best of tbe many good letters writ
ten by Jefferson was to the Kehu
kee Association in which he ex
pftssed his appreciation of the ac
tion of body. From that day
to this the Primitive Baptists of
North Carolina have been fore
most-in stancTing for the true Jef
fersonian principles as citizens, but
they have never permitted politics
to enter their churches.
When the question of State
Prohibition was first presented its
opponents sought to secure the pow
erful support of the Primitive Bap
tists by pretending that the bill
had concealed in'it an attack upon
personal liberty and looked toward
church control of politics. Tlicy
w.ell knew that if any bill, uo mat-"
Jer how good its purpose, would ,
imperil either one of these prin
ciples it would be attacked by llle
members of that church antl by
thousands of other good men in
other chinches aud not tnembers
of any church. It was a shjewd
bid to try to get good ineil ttt fight
the bill oil brihciple while they
could buy up the purchasable voters
and, hiding behind gcod men, get
a respectability for their cause
which advocacy of the whiskey
traffic could not »ecure for them.
Some days ago the editor
paper addressed a lvote to EUler P. 1
D. Gold, the editor of Zion'sLand
mark and the ablest leader of the
Primitive Baptist church, asking
bis views upon the pending State
Prohibition proposition. Every
body who knows Elder Gold knows
that he stands against whatever is
Wrong and for what he conceives
to be for the Right, lriud that he
does so with toleration and charity
tor others. Answering that letter
Elder Gold writes as follows, giv
ing permission to.print his views:
KLDER GOLD'S VIEWS
"To the Editor: From my youth
I have considered whatever en
courages drunkenness a damaging
business, to good morals, to
everything els® that is 'praise
worthy. Therefore, I have never
from the outset ot this prohibition
campaign intended to vote for the
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WHUANiTONi NOBTM GAROtINA
LIQUOR TRAFFIC NOT,
A RIGHTEOUS BUSINESS
"It Is rfbt Any Man's Privilege to Do Anything Which
• It Is Not His Duty to Do."
By Elukr t. H. Hardy.
(News and Observer, Sunday May 3, 1908.)
To the Editor I was very much interested in your remarks concern
ing Primitive Baptists and prohibition.
When we count noses with any other religious denomination I don't
really believe thaf the charge of drunkenness can be any more justly
laid at our door than at that of any other people. But some of us de
plore very much that such a charge can be laid to us at all and be true.
Our Lord was a sober man. That He drank wine 110 one can deny,
but that He drank it as a beverage 110 one dare to claim. Paul recom
mends a little wine in case of sickness, but ntver as a beverage. The
common experience of all who drink as a beverage is that instead of
benefitting the stomach it inflames it and brings on an incurable disease.
Therefore drinking alcohol in any form as a beverage is to be condemn
ed by every light thinking person. * „
1 cannot believe that we are justifiable as a people to licence one class
of our people to sell to other classes a class of goods that they know
will injure the person who uses it and cause them to become nuisances
in their families and neighborhoods. In the liquor traffic where one is
financially benefitted a hundred are financially injured beside the disease
of the system Therefore the liquor is not a righteous business
and wheiVwe license it we license an uuholy thing, while the man who
is licensed can stand out boldly aud declare that his business is legal.
I have never known oue ytt who woHjd take his wife, daughter nor
sister in with him to sell his goods, he considers that he is engaged in
an honorable business, why not take them alung with him to help carry
011 such business? Why tliit| i» lam not able to say. The dry goods
man, v \the groceryman, the restaurant man, the laundry man, etc , etc.,
do not hesitate to take their wives or daughters into businesses.
The fanner's wife aud daughter may go with him side by side. Hon
est labor is no disgrace to woman nor man, but how about distilling
or telling liquors as a beverage? If it is a disgrace to woman it is the
same to man and shchild not be licensed by our government.
But we are met by this, "You stop the public bars aud then we will
have to fight blind tigeis." Again, "Blind tigers sell to the youth of
land while the law foroids miners to go in barrooms." All these
things are so. But which is the easiest gotten rid of, the blind tiger
or the one who can look you square in the face and boast of the legality
of his business. He can entertaiu behind screened doors and stained
windows, bands of music to call attention to those wlio pass by to turn in
and enjoy a good time with his friends (?) aud unless there is a riot the
police must keep silence because the "business is legal." If a minor
wants it there are always plenty of inebriates ready to buy on shares. A
man who has so little respect for the law that he will run a blind tiger,
has little enough lo ride over the law iu selling to minors ill a licensed
bar, and the further such things are removed from the public gaze the
less danger there is iu one's being taken in the snare.
We are told that prohibition will not prohibit. That also we know
is true. Hut is that any reason that tilings which are Biblical crimes,
:ival and moral crimes should not be made legal crimes? Drunkenness
.s a civil ciime, a crime against mural ink 11 hood, which is the only
true manhood theory, and a Biblical crime. Now,., why should it not
je a legal crime? Here the anti-prohibitionist would join me. But is
t right for me to sell a man a thing to injure him, to get gain in my
locket, a'iA then punish liiiu because he is injured? This appears to
lie unreasonablejuid immoral.-
I believe that every one whu Will sit down and think this matter over
Tom a business standpoint, and a moral standpoint will be compelled
.0 know that he must vote for .prohibition at the coming election.
We hear again the cry, ' v lt is taking the liberties Of the people from
ihtm." Friend, has any man the liberty to get drunk, to abuse his
wife and childreu, to curse his neighbor and raise a row with his fellow
men? Is that privilege? Is it any man's privilege to do anything
which it is not his duty to do?. Now, if no man has the liberty to do
those mean and lawless things has any other man the liberty to sell
goods to him that would cause him to do tliowe things? Really it is uo
man's privilege to do wrong and he must overstep that mark to engage
in debaucheries.
Again we are told that prohibition would put liquor out of the reach
of the poor, but in the hands of the rich. SU| pose we admit that the
rich will have it and the poor can't get it, will not that be legislation in
favor of the poor? If the rich man will sow the seeds of .corruption in
his own house to bring forth thorns among his children aud scatter his
wealth lo the four winds, why not educate the poor to be sober and
stand ready to gather up this scattered wealth? Thus the property and
station in life change hands and the poor will recieve the benefit.
Therefore the prohibition law, if ratified, will be the law for the poor,
and we hope they will have an eye tor business and help ratify it for
their own sakes and for their familes and neighbors families.
The above will tell you where some Primitives stand qn this moral
question and we db not feel responsible for those who are ptherwise.
111 our pulpits we want Jesus Christ aud Him crucified preached to us
YourS truly,
Reidsville, N. C., 'April 30. N
manufactute or sale of intoxicating
drinks.
"While I do not consider that
Prohibition, as it is called, will ex
terminate evil of drunkeness, yet I
cannot give my i vote for what
might seem to encourage the great
evil of drunkeness.
"I would love to live in a country
where every man is sober. 'lt is
good neither to eat flesh, nor to
drink wine, nor anything whereby
thy brother stumbleth, or is offend
ed, or is madesreak' Rom. 14:21
"Let every man vote in this mat
ter as seems right to him, or not
vote. Bitterness should not be en
couraged, "but liberty of conscience
should be allowed. Let your mod
eration be shown. Ido not desire
to control the votes of others. I
desire to preach the Gospel which
contains every good thing and pro
hibits every evil.
'•Respectfully,
P. D. GOLD,
"Wilson, N. C., May 2nd."
In this brief letter Elder Gold
has given the chief reason that W»tt
actuate good men in refusing to
vote "for the manufacture or sale
of Whiskey." Every sensible iman
knows Elder Gold states the truth
when he says: "I do not consider
that Prohibition, as it is called, will
exterminate the evil of drunken
ness." Of course it will not do
that. It will lessen the evil and
remove temptation, bat no hu
jnan law can make men good. Eld
er Gold, while looking at the
question as it is and not carried
away by any false hopes, adds,
• 'Yet I cannot give my vote for
what might seem to the
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Williamston, N. C.
Wednesday, flay 20
The Races will be Regulated by the American Association, and come in order below
3-Minute Trot or Pace 2:35 Trot 2:22 Trot 2t20 Pace, Special
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great evil of drunkenness." He
He then quotes the word- of God
in support of his view and con
cludes with righteous admonition
to 'Let every man vote in this mat
ter as seems right to him. or not
vote. Bitterness should not be en
couraged but liberty of consciente
should be allowed."
This wise statement of Elder
Gold, in line with the strong article
by Elder L. H. Hardy in Sunday's
News and Observer and the views
oMilder Harriss copied from Web
ster's Weekly, and the attitude of
other leading members of the Prim
itive Baptist church is conclusive
proof that the Anti-Prohibition
writers and advocates cannot hide
behind these good men to stand for
a measure that encourages drunk
enness and causeth a brother to
stumble. There is no sin per se in
a good man's taking a glass of
wine or other stimulant. The
high plane upon which the advo
cates of State Prohibition place
their position is that quoted by
Elder Gold from the twenty-first
verse of the fourteenth chapter of
Romans: "It is good neither to
eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
anything whereby thy brother
stutnbleth, or is offended, or is
made weak." The whole argu
ment -for State Prohibition is -
thus summed up in these words of
Paul. It is that argument
that will have weight with
good citizens and give a great ma
jority for State Prohibition.
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