Middletown transcript., 1907-10-05
SALISBURY Is
VERY ANGRY
!.
Objects to What Was Published
C0ncer, ing Its Experiences
With Prohibition
MANY PRESENT AT MEETING
Committee Named to Consider the Mat
ter.--Apol8ey is Demanded From
Newspapers
cial.to tThe Morning News. )"

Specialize t.The Morning News"
SALISBURY, MD. Sept. 30th,-That Sal
isbury is aroused over the statements
given ont recently about its moral and
business conditions no one could doubt
fwho saw, the faces of the men who filed
into the court house this evening in re,
spnnse to call for citizens meeting tc
take action in the premises Every seat
was taken and standing room was at q
premium. To make Il list OF the promi.
nent citizens present would be difficult,
but OF those that were absent would be
easy. 1t was one Of the most enthus.
iastie gatherings ever held in this city.
Ex Mayor Disheroon called the meeting
to order and L. W. Gunby was elected
permanent chairman.
ln assuming the position, he said that
he felt that not only had the men who
had been nIisquoted been insulted, but a
stigma had been cast upol the whole
town.
A. committee on resolutions was lap-
pointed consisting Of james E. Ellegood,
S. K. White, Irving s. Powell, E. S. Ad-
kins, w. j. Downing, w. B. Miller and
B. Frank Kinnerly. Judge Holland, who
was quoted in the offensive article as be-
ing opposed to local option, took the floor
and said that while he said some ofNthe
things which he was quoted as having
said, an entire wrong and unwarralted
construction had been placed upon thism.
He said further that while at the time
the vote vas taken he voted for license
and against local option, that after four
years of the enforcement OF the law he
was convinced of its value, and after what
he had seen it do for Salisbury and its in
habitants both morally and in a business
way he would not only vote for prohibi-
tion, if it came to vote, but he would,do,
all in his power to get his friends to 10
the same thing.
Judge Holland was followed by w. B.
Miller of the telephone company, who. ID
clared he also had voted for license at the
previous election; that after watching the
workings of local option he would GER
tainly vote for it next time it should come
vote. 4
w. F. Metten of the Every Evening of
iimington was present and madS
tement to the meeting in which helex-
ned that the article was paid adver-
pent for which the paper was not re-
sible but that they were nevertheless
for, the occurrence and, offered a
apology, stating that the paper
v 10 all in its power to make the
q right, and especially askedEtbe
men DO had been misquoted end
denials his paper and they would be
prolnint9 fly printed. The meeting was
not qnifs satisfied with this, however,
and pass motion insisting III this
be made in the ed&Grial
columns ahd to this Mr.. Metten ac fled,
The following resolutions were adj ted,
unanimously. amidst long-conl aued
,heeriagand applause:
Whereas, The town of Salisbury, Md,
mas been advertised throughout the state
If Delaware asa town in leading strings,
ledged in as = trade, wide open as %
lrunkeiness, With its business gone to
BALTIMORE and wet towns in Delaware,
sunday drunks eolapon; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That ii is the sense Of this
Meeting
First, That said representations are
alse and scurrilous.
Second, That whatever may be the
,ause the business. of this town has in
creased al rapid strides in the last three
rears more residences have been built
within this time than have been built |
sithin like period prior to the departure
II the saloon from our midst.
Third, That the statement that there
8 as much liquor sold here at this time as
vas sold under the license systemsis is SO
untrue as to- need no denial, !
'ut on the contrary the sobriety of our
;itizens and general moral conditions OF |
'nr town have vastly improved berause OF
he absence OF the saloon from our town,
Notwithstanding tile fact that Defmar,
even miles to the north of us, Berlin, 20
niles to the east of us and Pocomoke
City, 20 niles to the south, are all license
owns.
Fourth, That We are so well content
sitll present conditions for sobriety and |
business that we challenge the advocates
i lhe saloon system to get majority of
he voters To petition the court to Or
ler an election. as they have a right to
10 under the statute.
Fifth, That il is the sense OF this
ne Ting that the gentlemen who were
lnoted in the Every Evening and other
Delaware paperslas stating that the moral
Ind business interest Of this city had suf-
cred as consequence of doing away with |
he saloon be asked to explain their state-
nents as We have been assured by several
j these gentleman that they have been
grossly misqfioted.
Sixth, That copy ofthese resolutions
be sent to the Every Evening and other
Delaware papers and copy be sent to
the executive committee Of the Anti.
License Committee. .
WANTED. Ambitious worker yourI
section TO represent large factory. Salary |
80 weekly Good opportunity for adj
United Mtg. Co., 1888 Chest
nut ST., Philadelphia.
Trr rnAascRIrr, 81 pr year.