Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-10-04

oattle against the saloon invasion:
every honorable means that could
be devised was brought into play
by him In an attempt to stay the
tide of the evil influence on the
other slde,S and at times he had
cause to become very much dis
heartened in the fight. for the lack
OF sympathy from those he reason
ably had a right to-expect it. but
he would say, this is Gods cause.
and l am ready to spend and Ia
be spent in it." He was cheered
IN the struggle by the hearty sym
pathy and cooperation of every
minister of the city with the excep-
ton of one (EpiscopaD and it is
believed that enough wet votes
were cast in the membership of
that church to carry the city wet.
There were more than enough
dry votes who failed from one
cause and another to vote. to have
carried the city bv good majority
dry again. I'm one of our
churches the pastor and four mem
bers of his Board of Stewards and
one local preacher were numbered
among those who failed 20 vote
from one or more causes. Here Is
where the enemy got i'm their best
week. ! know that | am conser-
vativc when say that not a many
as eighteen members OF the Meth
odist church. in Danville voted the
wet ticket, so the outnumberinr
was not done by Methodist people.
Other denominations in our city
can say the same. but some cannot.
| am sorry 10 say.
The advocates of the saloon fail
ed TO prove 10y "doctored" figure,
printed in our city papers the day
before the election that from a
material point of view local option
bad been failure. When Mr..
Schooliield'S reply To the doctor
ed report was published in which
he gave the real figures. IL was
shown that the city treasury had
receive six thousand and more
dollars without the saloons than it
had with them in full blast.
The old fellows (blind tigers
that have infested our city for many
decades were brought before the
public Imagination to brighten the
timid, on-the-fencc-voterS. and the
eyeleSS beast had its share the glory
% of the victory won for the two
eyed tigers that will be licensed to
dcbauch our community for the
next two years.
The lack of anything like rigid
enforcement Of law against Illicit
sale of liquor 10y our courts was, to
say the least of it, not helpful to
obtaining the best results from
local option. Our court officials
were not personally advocates of
of local option. am in a posi-
ton To prove that never in the one
hundred and thirteen years of the
history Of Danville has il enjoyed
two years of SO great prosperity
as il has had lavishly bestowed
upon it during the past two years
in which the saloons blighting in
fluence has been away from the
city. Our churches, schools. and
business industries have never been
in such a prosperous condition in
the history of our city, not 4 man.
woman or child out of employment
10y reason of not being able to find
employment, fewer vacant store
houses and dwellings than was
ever known here, more buildings
have been erected and are in course
of erection than was ever known
in the growth of Danville in any
two years. Under local option
Danville has greatly prospered
along all lines for everybody and
everything except the saloons and
their keepers.
The announcement has been
made that two years from Septem-
Der II, 1905, the fight will be on
again, and the war cry will be
The Saloon Must Go"
Yours for Sobriety and happi-
ness.
+. q. MoSELEY.
Danville. Va, September -, 1905
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Will Sail on October IA.
Rev. Edward IL. Ingle and wife