Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-27

we held. twas last Friday night and the
Opera House-a large edifce-was Jammed
by all classes of people and the
enthusiasm was unbounded. We are
now pushing the organization formed at that
meeting into every part of the county. People
whom I little expected to take the side of the
influence for it These things have now altered
my opinion, and, based upon what have told
you, believe the county may possibly be won
for the reform.
Mr.. Gordon was Chairman of the meeting
he describes. Walter 7. Mills, of the Voice,
and Rev. II. 7. Hector, the popular colored
orator, aroused the 1 800 people with their
speeches.
THAT RAILROAD SCARE
Harrisburg is great railroad center, and
one of the railroad officials having read
what appeared in The DISPATCH letter
from Altoona regarding the freight busi-
ness railroads would lose if the amendment
were adopted, handed me these statistics,
which relate to the Twenty-third Internal
Revenue district, or most of the territory in
the State lying west of the Alleghenies. He
said they were pretty nearly correct:
About 3640 carloads of grain are shipped from
the West to this district, which, at $50 per car,
shows that the railroads receive in freight SlS2-
000 In addition, the railroads receive for car
rying whisky in barrels $4,000, making total
of 500, 900, which does not, however, include
freight charges on shipments of iron hoops and
slaves to distilleries where barrels are manu-
factured.
well, what will the railroad corpora
tions do in the June election, then 2" I
asked.
The official shrugged his shoulders, reply
ing that he was not in the condolences of the
great magnates in Philadelphia.
"Why they will vote for the amendment,
of course" replied bystander, bitterly,
because they know that if there were no
more rum shops the workingman will have
more money to take his family on summer
excursions, and the increase in Atlantic
City, lakeside and mountain fares every
summer would more than make up for the
loss in brewery freights, which. after all,
are not so great in tonnage. Hops are light,
you know"
TWO ADJOINING COUNTIES.
Lebanon county, to the east of Dauphin,
is openly arrayed against the amendment.
Its great bulk of population is made up of
Dutch farmers while their descendants are
largely sprinkled in the towns. The United
Brethren Church is strong throughout the
county, and it has college at Annville,
too, but the larger number of Germans than
in Dauphin, and the presence of other re-
ligious denominations, offset whatever in
fuence the Brethren would exert in favor of
prohibition. The feeling against sumptuary
laws is also strong there. In 1873 the county
defeated local option by 1878, and with her
very small vote in 1854 also gave !, 200 ma
jority against prohibitorv law.
But Perry county, which bounds Dauphin
on the west, promises from 400 to 600 major
ity for the amendment. John c. McAllis-
ter, Chairman of the Democratic County
Committee Estimates it at 500. In 1873
Perry's majority for the local option method
was SIS. The people are h Scotch-Irish
origin, and are principally farmers, al
though few small iron furnaces stand
along the P. R. r. The Presbyterian
Church is very strong throughout the
county. L. E. SToFIEL.