Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-30
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MEsSRs. EDITORS; We have started
the prohibition movement in this county,
and, as matter of course, have stirred
the ''bile" Of the other side. They point
to your town and say NBehOld Way
cross! Absolutely ruinedp' Now, / wish
TO know how bad YOU are hurt. Ii we are
TO loose oar town and beggar the country
by this move l Will endeaFor to stop 1t at
once. We are told that her (WaycrOss J
commerce is gone; no business doing, m
comparison with business before prohibit
ton, That you have more whisky and
drunkenness now than then; that your
town'had street cars aud was moving on
nneiy untu this terrible blight pr0hibi-
tony beieH You; that taxation IL awful,
and that real estate has deprecated until
tits worth nothing InOw. Mr.. Editor, we
would be glad TO hear through your paper
something ABOUT thfs prohibition disaster
that has betallen you, and as you have
mad several years experience we would
like candid statement, that we may act
atiNisedly. J. A. DAsHER, SIR.
We take pleasure in answering our cor
respondents interrogatories, and shall
give him facts, only facts. Tits claimed
by those, VINO Once sold whisky here, and
by some who did not, that the mercantile
business of bbe town had tafien of since
prohibition blessed the land, but II ia
again argued that the cause OF this fall
ing off" is because certain railroad pro
jects, turpentine aud humber interests are
more remnte, or have been finished. We
submit the following In answer, IN sum-
ming up the evidence:
Out OF 1T counties in Georgia Ill have
gonefor prOhibttiOn, leaving only is coun-
ties in the State in which whisky is sold.
This tsestrOng argument.
1n'16oO, according to the United States
census, WaycrOss bad a population of
only $50; it is now claimed by all that the
population NJ. at leasts3i000.
So. n WiHsbe seen that SINCE the days of
prohibition the population has increased
over 2oO0'duufng.the six years. Those are
strong facts for prohibition, and nails. the
assertion 10 the wah that we live in a
dead tOwnA
Real estate has Increased in value
during the past two years fully 90 per
cent.
According 10 the tax receivers books
the value OF town property has increased
SE60, 00Oin the past three years.
The street railroad, TO which our CORE
spondent alludes, was not built until two
years after the sale Of whisky had been
abandoned.
The peopie.of Waycross do not want
whisky sold here. There are, however,
some living here who would like to en-
gage in IT'S sale.
There are few cases before the May
Or's court, comparatively speaking, to
what there was when whisky was sold
here.
The building of the railroad shops az
this place is now an assured fact, which
we are told by a prominent railroad man,
never would have been done had whisky
been sold here.
There is no drunkenness here of any
consequence. Sometimes a jug is order
ed from other places and drop too much
is taken.
FaTmers.neVer come to town, get drunk,
get locked up and hned, but come, do
their trading and 90 home sober to their
families.
Many persons have come to Waycross
to live and rear their families for no other
reason than because whisky was not sold
here, that being the ease with the writer.