THE EASTERN REFLECTOR and Friday. D. f. WHICH Editor and men may differ as to that, can- be difference of opinion on the question of taxation. At present the town gets from the eleven bar rooms for a whole year. but on their business Can it be doubted that if we had a dis- the. town would get many times that amount We think regulated dispensary cannot be less we successfully showed in a former issue of this paper that the town's About the next largest thing to the THE MONEY VIEW OF THE DIS part from the proceeds of a well Stored In the post office at Greenville, N. C. as second class matter, rates made upon application. A correspondent desired at every post office Pitt and adjoining counties. in to Pitt County, N. Tuesday, 1904. cotton crop this year will be the crop of candidates. There is one redeeming feature about is the kind you can't be balled AGAIN. We resume again the money view of the dispensary. The sale of has long been regarded a fit subject for government control and taxation. It is true we have had as The bureau reports ., , . ,., little of either in Greenville as bales of cotton of this season's; .,, ,, . ,. . . . , , I I he law which is enacted to ginned to Jan. 16th, 1904.1 , . , . , . . , control the sale ts set at defiance and , , , , , the bar rooms run about as they Admiral us been ordered j please. They sell to drunkards, to minors and on Sunday, when the law says they shall do neither. As to I taxation, the saloons do not bear ti , iv ; their full share of its burdens I he ground hog can laugh in Ins . i . their business creates the at those who thought spring had h need of taxes. Under the town to take his squadron to Chinese waters to observe the naval opera- in the pretty weather a few day ago. charter is a maximum limit to taxes on the bar room and on prop- The town government taxes property for town purposes to its highest limit, but not so as to bar rooms. When they come to tax them they put the tax very little above the Fifty thousand people are thrown lowest limit. The highest-limit out of by the Baltimore the charter for property is sixty Practically all of the and safes of financial concerns in more whose places were by the fire are found to be unhurt fire. This means much additional loss to the actual property damage The extent of such a -aster is far p aching. The year 1904 is early making a record. Already we have had the Chicago holocaust, the six and two thirds cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property. This is the amount the town govern- levies on the property. They go to the highest limit. The max- limit on bar rooms is The government levies just half this amount. They levied for town than per year. Then we ask the thoughtful tax payer how I can he hesitate to vote for a How can he hesitate to vote to lighten his burden of taxation How can he hesitate to vote for a system that will lessen the evils of whiskey and at the same time raise a large sum of money each year to improve the streets an J make other needed improvement without taxing the property. us establish a dispensary and give it a fair trial. If it is not a vast improvement on what we now have both as to lessening the evils of the sale of liquor and a revenue raiser we abolish it. Let us try it. A New York broker who is o phi- let his pretty typewriter buy a brass bedstead and make chases to the amount of The bills got into the hands of the old lady at home, and the philanthropist looked like cents at the breakfast table when his wife asked him to explain what connection brass bed- stead had with philanthropy. more tire and several smaller And now the Japanese-Res- war is on. Pennsylvania mine horror, the Haiti- purposes an I for schools, for nil purposes. When they levy the tax on property they go as high as the law will allow them. ; When they levy the tax on bar rooms The outlook opposes the proposed they do not go as high as the law service pension bill, and says to pass , stop half it would he an act of unfairness s we , not know. We the South. It South in a former issue from the has borne tremendous burdens and; record how Use bar rooms pay their is still hearing them as a result of tax to the state and now we the war; it is unfair to that section pay their license tax to make another great addition to those The South is now paying millions in pensions of which it gets back nothing. It is willing to pay to pension every soldier who needs the government's help, but to pension is to tend to it for those who do not need it. The State Chemist of has taken specimens of the cheap liquor sold in different parts of that state and submitted them to analysis, finding that of per cent of the specimens, wood was their basis, and that prunes, red pepper and tobacco were among their constituents. The Raleigh of this paper stated a low ago that concentrated lye enters into a considerable part of the that is man- in North Carolina, this being employed to or, s Pooh Bah said, to make it Whether the specific things stated above are true or not the wonder about the business in, not that gets so many tun but that it gets so Chronicle. to the town. We now ask the conservative, thoughtful tax payer of the town this question, which they must answer at the ballot box on the 2nd day of Marsh. If the sale of liquor is a proper subject for government control and taxation, then not wise to put it under that sort of con- that it will do the least harm and pay the largest amount of tax. Will a dispensary do this Can any sane man believe that the sale of liquor at one place, and only from sun up to sun down and never on Sunday and never to drunkards or to minors, will do as much harm as the sale of it at places and night. Sunday and Monday and to minors and to drunkards We know that for one reason or another men will advocate the bar room and oppose the dis- We know they will go so far as to argue that eleven bar are no worse than one dis and we also know that men sometime argue things they do not It is an old saying that is the root of all We have long been of the opinion that idleness is the root of most evil, but after care- consideration and observation we have about reached the that ignorance instead of idle- is the greater cause of evil. By ignorance of the laws of nature, one fails to see the beauty in nature; and hence, has no admiration for the things that would further his progress Although ignorance progress in all lines of industry it does the farmer more harm than any one else. Most people think the man who farms has no need of any knowledge, of rather beyond that afforded in the public schools; but don't anybody with good sound sense know that an cation makes a man more fit for any thing he may want to do Trained minds are are needed for as well as everything else. r------- i i HOW WILL A DISPENSARY AFFECT l because some farmer might BUSINESS , . , , carry tobacco t Kinston or son. But, said the friend, Kinston ad Wilson have dispensaries. Well said A. he his cot- ton to Farmville or Falkland. The friend do you the trade of a farmer worth much who would haul his cotton to Farmville or Falkland rather than to Greenville because he jean buy a cent at either of these places and cannot at Greenville This is about a sample of the argument that is being used by those who tan Lad no better excuse for wanting to keep the bar rooms running. Of course there is in it. The progress and growth of the town does not depend upon its whiskey shops. The business of the merchants does not depend upon the ability of their customers to visit a grog shop also. We have in Greenville good merchants, good banks and good business men; The amount of business they do depends upon their own efforts and method and not upon the rum milk of the town. The fact is, if the dimes, quarters and half dollars which into-the of. the bar rooms for whiskey could o into the money drawers of the for something and to wear, both the merchant and that- customer would be the gainer. We must admit, however, that there is one class of whose bus- would be seriously hurt if not entirely destroy ed by closing up the bar rooms, and the bar- keepers themselves . will be about in the of a gentle- man in Raleigh hen the Federal army entered th at April,. 1865. general took the house i name we his The.- general a kind companionable sort of fellow, an i sought to get on wit b the gentleman he w a occupying, but. the man was and reticent. y the said to i cheer up I no- you arc down cast and seem to He in a great deal of trouble. This-wont do. must, not give, up., Business soon start up will so mi he b act to your business pro than said th bu- is gone-fore r. It is utter- destroyed awl I never resume tho general was Don't let cotton and war news overshadow your interest in the dis- election. battle here at against the of more importance The ice dealers of the state had appointed a meeting at Raleigh, but they have found cold chunks a around home for the last few days without going to the capitol city. From the big type in the one has to look carefully to see whether he is going to get on to a display advertisement or war news. The records for the last few years have shown the coldest weather about believe. Our any believe. But. sane We hear some of the good citizens of Greenville are-hesitating to vote for a dispensary because they fear the closing up of the bar rooms would hurt the business of the town. We have replies to make to this suggestion. First, if it were true that closing up bar rooms and opening a dispensary hurt the business of the town, even will a man with a-soul in him say that he prefers a prosperity chased at the sacrifice of the moral tone of the town to a growth in and intellectual development. Will he put the morality of his town in one end of the scales based on the liquor trade in the other, and say give me business at whatever sacrifice Will he prefer a few dollars to the life of some young man saved from grave Will he hazard the safety of his own son rather than risk the loss of a few dollars from an loss of business Will he take the chance of his marrying a man given over to the drink habit in preference to taking his chance of doing a town without bar rooms The father who says he vote for the dis- because he fears it may in- his business assumes a fearful risk. The man who says he vote for it fear it may in- the business of the town putt a higher estimate on business does on morality. Have such men ever felt the danger of temptation Have they ever been to the force of example Have they ever stopped to consider how many men have fallen because they t were Have they estimated the danger of a bad example As long as the bar rooms stand open and respectable men of standing and influence go in and out, is there not danger that some young; man may fall who tries to follow their bad example What father- with a son can safely say will, not be my What father can. stand to be told in coming years he bad the opportunity on the 2nd March 1904, to vote to close bar and remove this temptation out of the his boy. He them might hurt his business. He risked his boy but would not-risk his His boy, notable- to stand temptation, fell. What a terrible,, crushing blow this must be to the father on whom it And yet it will on some- father if the election the 2nd of March fail. Our second answer to this unholy suggestion is that it is not true as a matter of fact, and the man win en- it is simply taking of of his fears. To say that will loose a part of her if the bar are closed is a very poor to the men who come here to trade. It is equivalent to saying that their trade can be bought with whiskey. It is likewise a poor to the Greenville mer- chants. It is equivalent to saying that they cannot compete with the merchants in other towns and that they are obliged to hold on to the bar rooms to hold the We heard a few days age conversation something like this. Mr. A. said to a friend he set vote for th dis what was a the man. Our Raleigh, soon went in to and did well for himself and f the community. So will the two men who are now in the bar room if their present occupation is destroyed, go into some other which they will do well and in which they will be helpful and hurtful t the community. If little Japan does whip big wonder if it will embolden Col to Uncle Samuel, One boy is worth more than all the bar rooms. Will you do your part in to save the boy As between cotton and news, the former holds the biggest in the eye of the -Hi WIN This E SWEPT BY FIRE. Block of Stores The business portion local- I Line. i of was l Are this The was o'clock in the drug B. T. Mooted i way the block on the side of Railroad street, and had made headway that it not lie checked The block ed of frame building that made it is in J. ML Blow, who is authorized to Eastern Reflector in Winterville and territory. Miss Pauline Joyner, of Ayden. is the Misses Dawson. Irwin of Ayden, was yesterday looking at the remnant.- of the tire. Many were the fall slip Thursday night. They had regard neither for the fair nor even for the homely. First a maiden and a lad, next a comely dame followed battle hero, all paying homage to their majesty the heels upward and heads downward, could be Here and there. Loss of With Insurance. f t he tow n i the At- South by d about re of Dr. mid- Josephus Cox building no insurance. Mfg. supply store, stock no insurance. G. A. Co., stock no insurance. Tucker Bros, building in- Guy Taylor, stock in. H. L. Johnson, stock no insurance. Harrington, Barber Go., stock fuel upon which the rap ; insurance idly. The fire spread both J. S. Barber, from starting point mid dirt not stop until the entire block of stores swept away. Almost the entire of town, including the of the school, turned out the snow and heroically battled with fire and but for this work the destruction doubtless would have been When fire reached the store Barber Co., on the aimer, it was only by good work that the large factory of the A. G. Cox Co , across the street was The glass fronts in the brick store and on side of Railroad street, were broken out by the heat from fire. all nine were burned, and besides the brick building there is but one other store left Those burned out aDd the losses are as Dr. B. T. Cox, building stock soda fountain no e. Mrs. Sarah Taylor, millinery Stock no insurance. C. D. Honks, vacant store no insurance. insurance J. B. Cooper, building insurance Winterville Lodge A. F. A. M., loss do Winterville Council J. O. U. A. no insurance. Will no J. M. Blow, personal property, no insurance. A. D Johnson, personal prop- no insurance. A. G. Mfg., Co , slightly, damaged. This makes a total loss, estimated of to with only about We understand that practically all of this insurance is carried in companies by H. A. White. The sympathizes with Winterville in this disaster. But the town is composed of of such enterprise and deter- that we feel sure they will set to work at once and that will out of the better than be- WINTERVILLE ITEMS. N. C, Feb We m readers will pardon a- and all things locking to the i of this issue up to their usual We have been by most terrible fire, many four citizens out of Hid thrown entire- upon in- of a cold, Very cold world facts have in your paper, with our other losses, a position entirely out of order to write. . however, that our people are Americans true and brave, and despair finds no resting place here. Though ad- have overtaken them, with it of courage they have already on their armor, and with a hero- ism worthy of a noble cause they are determined that the Winter- ville of twelve months shall far surpass the just laid in ash s. Such determination as thin can never fail. G. A. Kittrell went to Norfolk Wednesday and returned Thurs- day. W. F. Harrington, living three miles below Greenville, died Tues- day and hurried Wednesday. A. G. Cox Mfg. Co. have just received another car load of wire and can furnish you fence to high at prices from Our town lock-up is complete and on last Tuesday was dedicated in due form. The proceedings interesting of a high order. As a of test one of our aldermen was therein and left for a to reflect and ponder upon the possibilities of a way faring man, for a change our honored mayor, of police ex chanced places with him and they too, left to experience th wild imaginations of him with whom the world goes hard, and in the glooming will be gov- what they know deal kindly with one who must pass through the same trying ordeal. We have a nice lot of porch column timber. II you are in need of them why not let us fit you up Prices are light. Winterville Co. When you go to the yellow front to buy your grocers you can always be satisfied that you have bought them as as any else and have got fresh goods. While in town stop at the low Front and look through our line of dry goods. No charge made for looking. Always bear in mind that the Winterville Mfg. Co. manufactures a good wash board of good and will quote same upon application. A good article is better you have to pay a little more for it than a cheaper article at a smaller price, so try one of the Carroll singletrees manufactured by the Mfg. Go. A. HAPPY IDEAL SPRING BUGGY. MANUFACTURED BY G. COX MANUFACTURING COMPANY. WINTERVILLE, N. C. u in need of seed Irish es A. O. and Miss Ghent I northern grown or second crop see T f from Haddock were married Wednesday j G. A . Kittrell Co. can sup- T, U top of a at the home of J. J. Haddock, ply you. and father of the All who doubt what we fierce flames as I hey would all lost Harrington Barber Co. Seed oats and cotton seed meal. Constantly on hand. Harrington Co. Mrs. B. F. Manning and child about buggy harness taking the lead, both in price and quality, are kindly asked to see for themselves. Several sets stock the while. The other day a party bought some wire fence from A. G. Mfg. Co , saying that he wanted a I who have been visiting friends fence which would his own here several days, returned to hos as well as other and I their home in Greenville Monday. only that will I G. A. Kittrell Co. will give do it is your make with barb wire you 1333 lbs seed meal exchange for a ton of cotton seed A plow beam manufactured by j or give per bushel, the Winterville Mfg. Co., always; if in of cotton gives good satisfaction when corn, hay or in the goto them to have one put in feed Hue see G. A. Kittrell Co your plow they can also furnish bandies for your plow. A. G. Cox Mfg. Co., have just gotten out a neat little illustrating and describing J. D. various articles their Cox Board per day. Best lure, This little book with prices in town. For Bent or house and i- i . i l , -r . . upon and lot totaled between Joseph us Cox ,, . A. on j, the l. Apply to C. A. Fair. factory, and yet you stood and Just received car load of flour. back, swelled Car load of shingles expected to arrive in a few days. See them before buying. G. A. Kittrell Co. marked is free for the asking, or a simple request on postal card will bring it to you. Don't delay, write now. It is no small matter to be well posted. Notice the cut of a buggy on this page This is only one of many, and if yon will keep your eves open from time I. time we will be glad to show yon a variety of styles. Of course as it would be better if you have not done so to visit fact and let Hunsucker show you through. William Cooper, of Greensboro, has been visiting hit uncle, Rowan Cooper, the past week. John A. Edwards fell on the snow Thursday and he swears he saw seven stars and believes he saw some more, but didn't count. C. A. Fair, of Ayden, was here H. A. was here Friday regarding the recent lire and The yellow front furnish you with drinks that are as Dr. B. T. Cox wishes to good as one can. Do not chase lbs new goose feathers. For best grade of chewing and smoking tobacco go to the drug store. judge the drinks by the fountain, but try one, and be convinced of the fact that it is always the looking instrument that makes the best music. books, pens, pencils and Q. a. Kittrell Co. have just best quality of stationary always received a shipment seed oats or sale at the drug I that are for sale cheap get If you your horse shod if your s or own shoes peed repairing, and for general blacksmith work call and see W. L. House on Main street. We have a line hats for both old and young, also trunks, valises, at prices we think very reasonable and always glad to serve you and save your money if possible. Harrington Barber Co. Go to see or write the ville Mfg. Co. your house trimmings. They can furnish you with good low prices. This season the A. G. Cox Mfg. Co., will sell by far more cotton planters than ever before. The demand for is very great. G. A. Kittrell Go. are buying immense quantities of cotton seed. Seed are bringing a nice price and add to the income of the farmer. with gratitude our tongue fails to find to express our thanks to you, and silence our heart speaks and says this is a debt we never pay. We especially mention the true that have no earthly interest here, yet they the effort to the saving of our factory. May the guiding hand of the Lord ever direct them i. this life, may He abundantly bless them In their efforts to pare for life. Again thanking each every one, both white and colored, who stood by our interest in such time of need, t u sincere hope that blessing's may be your. Cox. use greasy Castor Oil any is the only perfect tasteless Castor Oil. per bottle, for sale by Dr. B, T. Cox, Winterville, N. 2-16, Moving Dollar. A stationary dollar is a poor thing. Money is made to calculate. It is not intended that it should be idle and remain in one place all the time. And he gets hold of a dollar and confines it so it will do no ons any prevents it from its mate course and use. So then, every man ought to be in a hurry to pay his debts, so that the man to whom he pays money may in turn pay it to another, and he to another. Thus one dollar may pay ten times a debt in a day if men were careful to keep the dollar in constant Every man who can ought to pay his honest debts everyday. Scotland Neck Commonwealth. prices before buying. Cotton seed meal and hulls sale. G. A. Kittrell Co, A. G. Cox Mfg. Co. have a nice lot of coffins on hand. Prices are very reasonable as heretofore. Prompt attention given all order. B. F. Manning, wife and child- of Greenville, are visiting in town. Mr. of was a Thursday. The burnt district will be re- built at once. Just a few loafers in town now. No fault of ours, though. Better times, boys, and bye. OF APPRECIATION. In behalf of the A. G Cox Mfg. Co., I desire to express thanks for such earnest efforts of both white colored, that so miraculously saved our factory from the fierce flames that were so destructive to our town. STATE NEWS. J. M. Patterson, one of oldest and most respect- ed i-it died at his home five miles south of Winston Salem on 11th he at Mocksville was broken into a few nights ago. The rail load suffered no loss. The burglars only three small pack- ages belonging to the Southern Express Co., which were scarcely of any value. All of counties except eight have settled taxes with the treasurer for 1903. Archie colored, has been sentenced to be hanged in Oxford on April 15th the of a by the name of Mer- A car load of blockade whiskey being shipped from near Raleigh to some party in Asheville was seized by Thurs- As we saw you working at so day.