Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-09
the past FIVE years the increased value of
the real ard personal property was over

s'.o Ieai aEu personal property Was over
$66 600, 600"
Prohibition means prosperity. Ths
first rep ,rt of the Kansas Labor and In
dustriai Bureau has just bsen published,
giving an increase OF 800 manufactures
and $l2 600, 900 of capital invested aver the
report 1T Inc STATE Bard NJ 1878. The
value of the manufactured product Of
these 800 establishments is $31 900 600 au-
nually; earnings Ut employees. 81 900 900
These figures do not show where bank
ruptcy comes in. II Virginia could only
trade her distilleries and bar-rooms for
manufactures and their employees. the
cry of hard times would soon cease in
our State.
Governor Martin said in speech at
Topeka, last fall, During the past seven
months 1 have been through ali parts of
the State speaking at fairs AID reunions
once or twice every week. ese gather
iDgs have numbered from two to six thona-
and people, my opportunities FIR finding out
the true status of the enforcement of the
prohibitory la,r have been unequaled. dur
ing his time [ have been struck aDith the
entire absence of drunkenness. In fact, in
credible as 1t may appear, did not see a
drunken man through my whole circuit.
Here in Topeka, at the reunion, the larg-
est gathering ever held in the State. where
no less than one hundred thousand people
we're present, only one case of drunken
ness came under my observation.
ut is my opinion that not more than
one tenth of the liquor is sold in the State
to day that there was before the passage
Of the prohibitory law The great advan-
tage in closing up the open saloons. aud
breaking up the unfortunate American
habit OF treating cannot be- Over-estima-
Ot 6rrrn boz 10
off by preventing the formation of the habit
IN the boys"
Let NE cite one incident that occurred
in Maine, to show the great good prohibi-
tlon has done and is doing for the rising
generation of that State. A Sunday
School Convention was held recently in
one of the rural districts. alb ut two hum
dred children ere In The cUpgregatiOn,-
gentleman from another State was ad-
dressing them. He was describing the
drunkard in all his wretehedness and mis-
cry. TIE superintendent noticing the IN
attention aud estless $50 1T the children,
Interrupted the speahe' by saying. II
don'G think the cnlld,-u know what you
are talking ahou ', lit me test them" He
said ''Chlldr-n, all # you gao have seen
drunkard hold up var nd" wien
not d hand was led
In your asst I'd rial you assert 'All
will agree /" VI - for 'agh c nse law
any other de f r >Iraint a,ll go for
n thing" If w ID been familiar
wi n III r-snl # tn 1ish Iicenst laws
of Ia "a. n hrask4. an Illinois. y,u
would not ave N adj the assertion. VII, r.
ever 1T has b. en- tried oy the advocates IF
reform ii has been 40 inter failure. 1n-
stead of de creasing the number of dram
shops AID abating drunkenness it has il.
cr-aSei both,
saw the working of the law in Bloom.
ington. H., last October. VII ere high Ii
ctDse has prevailed for some ten years,
long enough surely 10 justify pretty de-
cided judgment. Capt Reibsame, Pres'G
of the Liquor Dealers Association of ILL.,. j.,
and owner of one of the lar gest gilded sa-
looms in the city. said in the Bloomington
Leader, over his own signature, several
wears ago, 1--WE liquor dealers who pau
$500 q gear could afford to pay $1,000 year
if we were protected ag ,iust infringements
of our business by unlicensed parties :"
Since then the license taX-s were increas-
ed to $1,000. but it did not diminish the
evil Of decrease the number of saloons. -
lady write to the proprietor of one of
these gin places as follows: ''You have
ruined my husband, he has squaDdered his
fortune with you; you have now more
which is rightly mine, and you have given
nothing as an equivalent save ruin and
disgrace. Your high license respectable
saloon did it ALL"
Was the man who dealt out that liquor
aud brought that woman to wretchedness
and want, more resp ,nSible than the man
VINO went to the polls aad cast his ballot
to give him license.
l must say, in the language of the la
mented Dr.. s rider, in his remarks at the
Baptist Church, last year. during the
week of prayer, The voter is the RESPONSE
bic party" hope his burning words vt
appeal ard warning tr the voters that
night have not been forgotten.
Since the city of Atlanta ''went dry" l
have noticed ia your paper many articles
and giving fearful accounts of the dam
age o business aud the decline in real es-
tate in that city,
Your readers are yet laboring under
thes- erroneous Impressions II they read
no other paper. Let me FIR moment
turn the other side of the picture to view
bv gu ting from letter published in the
Richmond "Herald,7 writ en- by that
splendid Baptist divine. Rev. j B Haw-
horne. D. D whose home is in Atlanta.
He writes:
at is impossibe for me to answer every letter
that comes g rom Virginia asking for 1nfor-
ma ion in regard to the effect OF prohibition upon
the material Interests of At anita If you will per.
nit me, will make a brief a'emenI for The ben
Herald -
The law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating Ii
quOrs in our city will not cake IF until July
one doubts that the Jaw will be ,igidy enforced.
Every department If The city government is in the
are determined that the Will of the people, as ex
pressed at the ballot box. SHALL be respected
The whiskey rings and their hlrellngs nave cir.
umph of the temperance cause in Atlanta Is rap
i'd dtclne in real estate The real estate agents
say that the report Is utterly false. There never
has been a time in the history OF Atlanta when
such property as high as it is to day. rOnsid-
erng the ge er al depression upon the country the
chants are bouyant and htppy. 1t Is reDor,e that
many capitalists are removing to other places l
whose money is invested in stock of the meanest
whisk-y that ever came from Cincinnati distle-
beats aid j. ostitntes vii, 70 Such capitalists we
can afford 10 lose For eyery bar seeper. and gam
bier, and whiskey bioat and dead beat. and narot
men to settle among u.s.
If the foregoing was was not sufficient, I
could give you other testi nouy from
scores of leading business men of Atlanta
reported in the daily "COnstitu-
ton" confirming DR.. Hawthorne state
ments.
If space would permit, would record
many facts to prove you are mistaken in
"there is fer less liquor drank in
this city to-day than years ago." but will
close by saying statistics show that thirty
years ago the average amount of alcohol
ic liquors consumed in the Uaited Stases
was 81 gallons for every man, woman
and CHILD; last year it had increased to
l23 gallons, and it is absurd TO say Staun-
Lonlans did nos get their share.
Very respectfully,
j. W. NEWTON,
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