The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-04-22
Correspondence.
StinsOn.

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gard to Stinsnn aud it's welfare, |
thought would write you few
Items from the good old place
/. j. P"sllewait can he found smil.
ing over the counter, at his old stand
ut any lime of day.
&. NJ Frssure, the all around bus.
mess man of Sliuson, is preparing Ia
sell goods AT tins place We wish
him success
The farmers f this community are
preparing To raise large crops oS oats
aud cora generally.
A. Trumau is very i'll at this writ
ing
w I. Moss Is, We are glad to say,
able I" he "ur again, after severe
j ness from typhoid ievrr
j. & Sharp wears ten acre smile
its boy, after a succession of 8
girls.
Joe. Murphy has his new dwelling
at the mouth of Mud Fork, near
completion.
M' Levi Steele, our Mud Fork
merchant, il building II house on his
property at Stinson, preparatory to
moving his family and gunds here
in the near future.
1 will close my items, as l want L,
write All essay on the solution of the
saloon problem in our communities
This is borrowed essay, bur il ex.
presses my sentiment so furciblv thar
thought | would reproduce Ia the
Chronicle, il you would p mi; f
not, c"nsign i, e. the vase basket
THE sALo QUESTION.
In considering The most efficient
solution of the saIo1n problem ia our
communities 10y the past failures aud
successes of the temperance cause. We
are compelled Ia think that the me Il
cd IF giving the liqun~ traffic gov
eminent counIenance and legalii,.
and then trying TO restrict it nv Ii
'ense has been an utter failure. The
only way it has been resIric'ed was
by giving ore a right To sell IL and re
>tric.'ng an" her from selling ihus
making monopoly r il--and ihe
higher the liceuse, The m re the ma
noP"IN, aud the greater the chnI ce,
ar gain. Fit is right 10 sell il. uI
needs n" Iicenseirg. and if il l. no,
right {" sell IL, u" amount nt lice, sing
will make j. right y ,ne saloon
keeper in hundred IL IN h, bn~ines
because he likes II, -. Secdd4r he ..
JOYS the society ui his customers nnd
Their revelries Ii Is sIupiy ,or he
mighty d liar aud he lie Of as Al d
c .miori aid social pnsii,o. i, viii.
bring hir., regardless 90 how he g.tI
It. Take avav rhe great muur, mne
ing Pari ST he saloon business, and
nire tenils Of lhc cnnse ha, been re-
moved flo, gill at dr Ibis? H.
move license Les every man ho
'ho ses , tn,c 2 ri2ht ip scli g.. Let.
The grocer. tne uiuL-es' the dr.,
goods man aud he baidaa,e man
pace i IN their shelves aud sell il
he same ~ other comrl.di les zap
its meris Competition wii be ciusr
snd pr 6,s .mD.l The ei!deI rooms
Will ID closed; ihc enchanting M sic
MIll cease; the tree lunch counter will
he thing Of the past, and the lung
man out ter an evening stroll will not
he lured into lhose tempting places
he staring p in of all those who
tail under i,s Influences This MA,
result III the -Peediesl ending "f . me
whose downward course is So rapid 10
cannot he checked, bur il will cerlan
~ remove from the path # the un
initiated, all thnse dangerous allure.
menls, aud without the aid If mil
lions Ut dollars that can now be rsis
I'd IN days time to defend i's inter
ssls by legislation aud otherwise,
public opinion will be turned agar al
~, and # we can make il unpopular,
ils doom is sealed and the problem
solved
GREEN HORN.
H. HFnrf