Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-04-18
Reply 10 Taxpayer.

EDITOR ENTERPRISE-AD hour ago
| found on the counter in our drug
store a slip signed ga Taxpayer
aud headed, ga few plain questions
for the man who does his own think
ing" This slip was evidently written
by one who makes his living out OF
the wbiskey business and is ashamed
to sign his name to the document
He intimates that the leaders in the
Local Option contest are in league
with the Prohibitionists to overthrow
the Democrats and Republicans.
And asks. us this contest not a deep
political one?n No, Sir! When you
stand up and say the preachers are
leading in political movement, you
know you are trying to create false
impression. This question is moral
one, and you know it. | am not in
politics, but those who know me best
know just where | stand.
He asks, "Will Accomack be bene
fitted by change if they succeed?'
Certainly. If we did not think SO,
we would not make the fight | dare
say | aln more identified with the
interest of our people than Tax
payer" Is he fighting Local Option
for the county's good or his own%
The preachers have gone all over this
county speaking in behalf of Local
Option without receiving one cent.
Taxpayer counts on ILLEGAL sales of
liquor under Local Option. We be-
lieve the whiskey business will be
closed up, and that is what hurts
TAXPAYER. We will not have so
much crime under the Local Option.
Proof:
Cases of felony in Accomack from
January 1890 to July, 1S95-Metomp-
kin district II, Lee district Is, Pungo-
league district II, Atlantic district 4,
and this district is under Local Option.
Because Lee district tried Local
Option once and found it failure, is
ne reason why Lee district will
surrender to lawlessness this term
See Democratic Loudon.
have an Official letter from Hon.
w. T.. Garrett, q prominent lawyer
and Democrat, Leesburg, county seat
of Loudon, in which he says: Ours
is one of the largest and wealthiest
counties in the State; the county
districts have had Local Option for
some IL years, and it succeeds so WE'LL
ON one or two occasions the people
have rose up ell masse in opposition
to license, and every time it has been
tested the temperance sentiment is
stronger.
Local Option has only been in
operation in the court house district
since last May, and.we see a great
Improvement over the past whiskey
monopoly. Far less drunkenness,
business of the town greatly i'm
proved. The peace and good order of
society is better, less crime and
pauperisn, and intelligent law abid-
ing and moral people determine to
uphold the law Now, reader,
Leesburg has several thousand in.
habitants, and they have Local
Option and enforce the law. Acco-
mack G. H., county place, says it
would like to see Local Option, but
the law will be violated: therefore,
our people say they surrender to
lawlessness.
Now, reader, vote down license,
lessen taxes, stop pauperism and
crime.
DO your duty, my dear reader.
Vote as you think your Master would
have you.
thank you, Mr.. Editor, for the
kindness shown me and our work III
giving us the use of your columns.
Reader, good bye. Vote down license.
Sunday, Local Option may be ours,
if so, our churches will join each
other in chanting, Glory to God in the
highest. j. MANNING .DUNAwAY.