The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-03-18

this is not the only man we XIII.
ed for getting drunk. The sa-
loon keepers are great men to
enforce the law. They keep in
the bar. room shotgun. revol-
yer. hatchet and pick handle.
The law once enforced with
these implements there Is no ap-
peal taken from the decision OF
this court. 1t takes more police to
guard a town under license law
than it does under the speakeasy.
The man that drinks in the speak
easy steals in and drinks and
steals out and tries TO get away
/ unnoticed. He knows he has
| violated the law. The man that
drinks in a license saloon don't
violate the law, he becomes bold
and is hard to handle. After he
spends all his money he loafs
around town and becomes . nui.
sance. 1t is well-known that the
people of the county got tired of
our saloons and removed them
by electing County Commission
ers that were opposed to license
saloon. The license question
has been made a test in our coun-
ty elections for years. The license
ticket has been defeated for
years. Our town council has
been asking the county court for
years to grant the town license to
sell whiskey and was refused. In
order to defeat the people of the
county. we got the Legislature to
give US a City Charter to sell
liquor and that was gotten by
Misrepresentation, by saying the
Christian people and preachers
of our town were in favor of the
license saloon. That was a mis-
take. Both of our representatives
voted against the bill.
When our town gets license to
sell whisky we suppose there
will be a saloon located at every
fork of the road in the county.
The town license will cost three
hundred dollars. In the county
it will cost one hundred and fifty.
The man that can't pay for the
town license willset up his death
trap out in the county and destroy
the manhood of the county, and
have men go home drunk and
kill their families, as was done
onRobinson's run a few years ago,
We see in our dailies where
men have quarreled in the saloon
and killed each other. 1t is an
every day occurrence.
The license saloon don't re.
move the ''speakeasy" and regu-
late the drug store. Any drink
ing man or boy can get all the
liquor he wants by paying for it.
We know how to regulate the
drug store by law. Our Legisla-
ture meets every two years to
make laws and elect a United
States Senator and sometimes
patch up a City Charter to sell
whisky and make an appropria-
ton of the peoples money, toput
a monument to some drunkards
grave. We believe the people of
the county are opposed to the
license saloon, and we think 1t
would not be wise to array the
county against the town-the
people of the county can live in
of the town, but the
town can't live independent of
the county. We think the license
saloon would be death to the
business of the town. We would
not be surprised if the people of
the county would hold an indig-
nation meeting and denounce our
town for its treachery, against
the county on the liquor question.
We all agree that liquor as a bev-
erage is wrong and the most des
tructive thing to the human
family. Our license advocates
think the best thing is to license
the saloon and get the revenue
to improve our town and starve
women and children. But the
traffic must be regulated by put
ting the license in good mems
hands-Preackers and Deacons,
and bind them in a heavy bond
not to sell to man that is in the
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