The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-10-04
DRY ANNIVERSARY.
Newcomerstown One Year
Without the Saloon.
,Newcomerstown tndexJ

(Newcomerstown IndexJ
GA year ago today Newcomers
town went dry. Twelve saloonists
went out of business, and eighty
thousand dollars worth of trade in
beer and whisky had to be divert
ed into other channels. Thirty
days earlier, the appeal had been
made to the highest tribunal
known to a free people--the ballot
box-and that verdict by a clear
majority had declared for the next
two years at least Intoxicating
liquors should not he legally sold
within the corporate limits of the
town.
"There were people who got
| hysterical and declared that the
fanatics had ruined the town.
Even some good, level-headed peo.
pie doubted the propriety of voting
the town dry. A dry town is a
dead town, some Of them said, and
declared that there was nothing to
do but board the corporation up,
white wash the fence, and pro-
nounce the obsequies.
"Well, here we are at the end of
the first year, and there is not
man so wet but will admit that we
are the "liyelest corpse" In Tus.
carawas valley.
"Not wheel has been stopped,
not a shovel thrown into the scrap
pile because the liquor traffic was
eliminated from the town. Not
an able bodied man within the cor
porate limits who cannot get en-
ployment at fair wages right away
if he wants to do so.
"Listen--The Pipe Shops are the
largest employers of labor in the
town. They have been in opera
tinn here for eleven years. There
never was time in all these years
when 40 many men were employed
at these works as now. Listen
again. There never was time
when the wages paid at these
works was as high as right now.
Within ten days past w. +. Glow
has said that the output of this
big plant must be greatly in
creased. Employ every man you
can, are his orders. If these men
can't be obtained in Newcomers
town and the Tuscarawas valley,
90 to New York after them. Go
to Chicago. Go to Birmingham,
Alabama. But get the men
Does that sound like a dead town ?
'Listen again. Is the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, or the Globe Clay
Works, or the Novelty Coal Com
pany employing a man less than
they did year ago? And is there
man in those hives of industry
whose wages has been reduced2
"Listen again. The croaker
said: Vote your town dry and
the farmers will not bring their
trade here. They will go where
they can tank up. They will
never go to Sunday School"
town to do business. What are
the facts2 Oxford township in
Coshocton county, Oxford III Tus-
carawas, Wheeling in Guernsey,
Salem in Tuscarawas, and Adams |
in Coshocton, are the township s
which largely supply the country
produce of Newcomerstown Did
these townships quit coming here
when the town went dryH Nay, !
verify. Every last one of them
took shy at local option, and
every last one Of them went dry
by bigger majority than did
Newcomerstown. Take a walk |
next Saturday over on Main street,
or back on Neighbor, or along
Canal or down on River streets,
and then tell us If the farmers
have quit trading at Newcomers
town.
"The facts are Newcom erstown |
Iaboring men are better employed |
this year than for years past; IN
many cases are receiving a sub
stantIal increase over last years
wages. Their families are happy |
and contented, and there is plenty !
of work for everybody. The $780,
900 which went over the bars of