The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-04-15

liquor traffic can't be regulated
| II robs the dr1nker of his money
and brakes up his home. Don't
it do this in license communities:
Any fair minded man will &C.
knowledge this. Don't you know
that no good man wants to sell
intoxicants and destroy his neigh
Dor for the sake Of money! You
know IL the license law was en-
forced whiskey could not be sold
in this State as a beverage. Don't
you know the law says you can't
sell to a minor or a drunkard.
You know you can't sell to a
man who don't drink. Don't
you know that one can not afford
to take out license if he thought
he had to comply with law. Don't
you have to sell whiskey to boys
to make customers by the time
the old ones die Don't you
know if you didn't do this the sa-
loon would die for the want OF
customers. You know in license
towns the law is violated every
hour in the day and no account
taken of il. Don't our town boys
go to Fairmont, Grafton and
Weston and buy of the license
saloon. Get in jail and when
they get out go back to the same
saloon and buy all they want 2
Don't you know the regulating
of the whiskey traffic is a hobby
to deceive the people and destroy
the manhood of the country for
filthy lucre. The last license we
had in Clarksburg, we knew OF a
boy nine years old who was stop.
ped on the street by his Sunday
school teacher and was given ten
cents to go across the street to
buy him whiskey of the license
saloon. The boy got it for his
teacher. This saloon keeper was
under bond not to sell to a boy.
We agree with our friend when
he says the way to kill it is to
strike it on the head and heart.
To do this, we must take it into
the National legislature and de-
mand of Congress the death of
this great dragon. We give you
our hand on this my brother.
We think you are honest in this
matter and with careful study
you will fall in line with US be-
fore long. We fail to see how it
would stop the MURDER or regu-
late it by giving license to kill.
In the year '95 the citizens of our
town said: We will elect a clean
anri-license mayor and council,
and if they don't remove the
speakeasy we must have license.
We think some of the people
were honest in this, and some
were not. Thew elected q clean
anti license ticket, composed of
good business men. The town
was full of speakeasies and dis
order. They employed US for
Collector and to look after viola.
tors of the law. We received
our instruction from mayor Cor
don to pull all violators of law,
it mattered not who-judge, law
yer, preacher, woman or child.
We went to work in good faith,
found many violators. We had
to get cab-many were not able
to walk, women with young babes
and one man that had no legs.
We filed the Jail, had whole
families in jail. We employed a
physician to look after their
health. Some were turned out
on account OF illness. Some of
our citizens raised great howl,
Persecution" Some OF them
would look up in our face saying,
Can you afford to persecute the
poor women and children that
are not able to make a living
without selling whiskey 2" Some
of the newspaper men raised q
howl-"Persecution,' and init
mated that we were a reformed
drunkard and was taking out
our spite on the poor speakeasy.
This news wentall over the coun-
try in public print. We never
was drunk and never drank any
"pop.skull."
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