Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-12-13
LOCAL OPTION
ELECTION
Another Attempt TO Gust Saloons
and Attendant Evils at
PocahontaS

| OAdilOuNttS
On next Thursday, the 10Th, "a local
option election will be held i'm the
town of Pocahontas for the purpose OF
deciding whether or not the sale OF
liquor shall be liscesnSed again in
the town, after the expiration of the
present term, which expires May LIST
ndXt. Tazewell and the entire county
iSl interested i'm the outcome of this
elect tion.
sPocahontas is the only town i'm the
entire Ninth Congressional district
the only town in Virginia west of
Roanoke, which permits the sale OF
liquor in bar rooms, and the only
place where il is legally sold at all
in the district, except one, and that
town has n dispensary, which, il is
said, will soon be put out of busi-
ness.
The desire of the good people of
Pocahontas TO rid themselves and
their town of the incubus of the
liquor traffic is i'm keeping with the
sentiment which is sweeping over
the entire southland, and which has
swept the traffic out of alamoSt evrey
southern state. Bristol, Radford and
all the smaller towns of this state,
are dry, and have been for some time,
including all the towns down the
Clinch, as far as Middlesboro, Ky.
West Virginia is moving along the
same line, and il is confidently pre-
dicted that within year or SO at
most, the entire state will be practi-
cally dry So, the sentiment is spread
ing, and has rceahed Pocahontas.
Other efforts have been made To put
il out, but up To this time have not
been quite successful. 1t is hoped
that next Thursdays election will
tell the story OF another town freed
from the great evil of the open sa-.
loon. And why not2Is there u single
good resaoR why liquor should be
sold i'm Pocahontas-or any where
else in this broad land? Not one
single good reason can be given.
/ Every town, almost without an eX-
ception, which has closed its bar
rooms, is entirely satisfied and more,
and would not, for any consideration
return TO the old way. Tazewell coun-
~ has been dry for years, and would
not now return TO the old system for
the wealth of the entire country.
There isn't money enough in this
great country 10 purchase the right
To open bar-room i'm Tazewell. POca-
hontas is the only place in the coun-
ty where liquor can he legally sold
and bought, and the traffic would
have been legally closed i'm that town
long ago if the county could have
had it's way. a clause in the chaTtt
of that town takes the matter out OF
the hands of the county, but il il
the earnest hope and prayer of the
good people of the county generally
that sufficient number of con.
scientious, moral people may b,
found in that little city next Thurs
day, TO wipe out this blot on tn,
county's fair eScutcheon. TaZewel
county, as well rs the adjoining
counties, are robbed of their wills
, and hopes so long as liquor is sold il
Pocahontas and Bluefield. Scarcely
a week passes that some representa-
tive of the traflic-black or white
cannot be seen on our streets, taking
ordes for liquor. Within IA day o
: two afterwards there is abundant ev
1 idence generally that they have got
5 ten in their work. The police couT
and the Jail tells the story. Tazewel
welcomes businesss, but not Of thi
$ kind. Let Pocahontas know tina
e these vendors of liquor are not
j wanted or welcomed visitors in thi
d town. The best, and the majority G
the people say so. This, town ha
=. voted out the liquor traffic, and an
}, town or community which make
null and void this will OF our peopl
J, is imposing unon us. We'd rathC
have small poX or typhoid fever sol
here and a.iy man, be he black c
+ white, Jew or Gentle, selling IiquC
Or in this town is unwelcome, and oil
JNShAOhoDiS- 10 Nv ol'ali
y and one town has no right TO impo;
'f upon the general public, any mo
l. than has one citizen right TO impo
y upon another citizen. Let il be r
d membered that the liquor traffic e,
lie lists in Pocahontas, with all its a
tending evils, by the consent M
permission of the citizens of tn
* community, some of whom are men
= bers of the churches of that tow
so These people can stop this traf
S. If they will, anG the wonder is th
rd they have allowed it to exist
At long. Some one says: Liquor vi