Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-10-12
THE AMENDMENT LEAGUE COLUMN.
DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT

DOES PROHIBITION PRoHIBITy
We say it does. Many assert that it
is impossible TO reform a confirmed
drunkard by prohibition. We admit
that il seems impossible, but yet il is
possible. Weassert from personal Oh
servation that it decreases their sprees,
and we believe that by driving the
evil from our midst forever, many
drunkards will be saved. Yet, what
we claim for prohibition no conscien-
tious person willdeny. We claim that
it will take the temptation from the
boys, and when our boys become men
we will have sober and industrious
men. When the temptation is not Of
fered to boy he is not likely To trav-
el a great distance for something that
he has never tasted. Young men take
their first glass by being ont for lit
tie innocent amusement, and while
engaged in these sports they pass
saloon and some one will suggest So
cial glass TO put more life in them. So
in they go. and before leaving they
treat around and then all are uncon-
scious Of the result.
We claim that prohibition will pro-
hibit this. Now, further we appeal To
your conscience. Is not this So? DO
You want your boys 10 become drunk
ards? Then do all in your power To
keep this temptation from them. Are
you not willing To give up your social
glass for the sake OF your boysl Weask
in our prayers, lead Us not into temp
tation, but deliver Us from evil. -
THE BAR-RooMS TEMPTED HIM.
The following is taken the Atlanta
Commonwealth Think over IL.
Charles Harbin is the name Of re-
spectacle white man who stood up in
the police court last Saturday, charged
with drunkenness, and told the Re-
corder that il was the first time he
had been drunk in three years. lie
said
Judge, ! hope you will make the
fine as small as you possibly can. |
am poor man and have family To
support. During prohibition ] never
drank drop, and | was prosperous
and my family was happy. was sor
ry when the bar-rooms opened again,
for the love OF strong drink IL with me
weakness. After fighting against
the temptation on all sides of me for
several months, have at last yielded
and AIN here 10 beg for clemency.'
II prohibition don't prohibit why Is
it that the liquor dealers are flooding
the State with pamphlets filed with
lies in order to deceive the public aud
are using their money to defeat the
amendment
Slowly, but increasingly, the pro-
hibition anaconda has been winding
its deadly coils about the whole State,
strangling and cutting of the smaller
places first, continually concentrating
around larger towns We are told
that prohibition don't prohibit, but
that is what the liquor dealers organ
says OF AtchisOn, Kan. Champion.
We assert that while we had local
option in our town IL decreased drink
ing and drunkenness TO such an ex-
tent that it is an acknowledged fact
that all were benefited Except the sa-
loon keepers by il. IL not only les
sens the drinking, but II creates such
n healthy temperance influence that
it makes drinking and trafIlcing In
whiskey very unpopular business.
Our community can not see nor feel
the effects Of prohibition IN one year
that the grand and glorious results
that they would achieve In five years.
We believe that our town people who
have seen the results Of local option
are ready TO cast their ballots for the
Prohibition Amendment, for God and
home, and against the saloon.