The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-22
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been on and the reformers got after the
clubs which they term fake clubs" In
other words many people believe that "a
club is fake unless 1t Is patronizcd by
the cream de Ia butternlilk. That means
the upper crust-he man with the dough-.
1t was because OF this that Bishop Potter
sought to establish his saloon that was
golened with prayer. Tho fake club idea
now is that all man need do is TO
open up q cheap booze Joint andasprsad
the news that he has q club. The msm-
{ Der pays an Initiation fee-generally only;
agrees to pay II, and he can go to the
club at all hours of the day or night and
buy booze. And he can introduce q
friend and the friend has access to the
ice cold beerso the red-eye likker and If
it is Sunday or midnight IT makes no
difference. The poor man comes along
and says that such conditions obtain az
the rich mans club, and: he wants to
know why he hasn't as much right to
have . club and the benefits OF It as the
rich nlan-and the philosopher is up a
tree.
It is a. fact, however, worth repeating,
that at the rich mans club there Is little,
IL any, carousing, and the only way for
q member to get HI Is booze is by having q
locker. OF course in Charlotte. North Car
DINA, for instance. we are told that at
one of the special emergency clubs or
ganized there to help III the Moderation
OF rum. ono member would say TO an Of
other that he had ordered lease OF beer
or y gallon OF likker for his locker, but
as It hadn't como yet, he would borrow
Accordingly,3t the supply never sexhausts;
some fellow always has Q case coming
end the other fellow has n case that
has come, and, therefore, the NAL WHO
belongs to tho club can always 81 home
with d sjag-and the price is guaranteed
When owl times befell Danvillc, Va
and the scourge came that brought on
blind tigers and. eliminated barroolns, sew
eral cluDs were started, and q bout all
you had to do was to 60 In ana ring
hell. The bell-cord was in 81. ght, and
IL you pulled It the right way and drop
ped enough coin IN the slot the forces
yielded, and forth stream of e lkker'' q
4came. a was soon, b however, found to be
unlawful, and the club went out Of bu '
ness. ss
ASi1S ~ N
the: prohibitionist. lie can vote llkkers
out of tile town--nlak Ike 4 t as dry as e a.
and YET, tho man who be-
longs to the clut carr have his locker
j there, and " he can usla his out-of-toWn
friend So klrlnk With him or he ca,Ss
drink alone and no ordinance or polico-S
man can Interfere. And 1t Is on this par
sticular plank that tile lahoring man yells.
He says It is class legislation. He iin-3
s,sts that lie wants a club, Sbllti no wants.
no carpets no Il luxurious furnishng-no5
particular rules governing IT. In short
le wants n place where he can get q
drink, if lie wants a drink. and tho good
neoplesi insist that such a club is not as
good as a barroom, for 1t means all kinds
OF hours and Sunday drinks on lie slde,i
Tho ministers Of Richmond and some
slayl,len who never wet their whistle have
been writing vigorous etters opposing the!
fake club" ms they call 1t, and Il tho
Chances arc that It las seen It's day In
Virginia. And no ma n is going, to say
that such III club should e. ist, The OF orj
social y elnlt-the t1nol Y Furnished and res
spectacle place Is necessary N n eli "
81 need not aud never ls offensive TO
people who have ideas md who nret not;
spretud iced, II man has IN right to have
IN ecker iii his tparl or, md q gentletlan3
should have the same rigl Y Ills club;
y There R never srpWdylHlll In " sc hub 500
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