Evening journal., 1907-10-30


when asked his opinion regarding pro-
hibition said some years ago I was
chairman OF the committee when we
gave an excursion to Beverly, N J.
was the first ashore as I wanted 10
engage dinner for the band. A man
told me to ask for a sandwich and
could get a beer BY the time / order
ed the dinners the men were as thick
as flies at the bar. Everything was
wide open and beer flowed. on that
"Trip home we had drunken men and
a big tight. That kind OF thing / under
stand is prohibition. "IIe is a wet
voter" While New Castle has had
its saloons, IL also has had its build
ing and loan association. AS a conse-
lquence hundreds OF men own their own
homes and other houses as well. Dur-
ing the past year the demand for money
from the building loan has been i'm
Imense. Men are buying or building
homes, in addition to the hundreds OF
stockholders in the building loan, the
depostors in the local bank, there are
deposits in the saving funds Of VIII
mington in the names of nearly 300
residents of New Castle where nine
saloons are doing business.
Orators for the "drys" who have been
/ there dwelt on the cost Of Keeping the
paupers, the insane and the prisoners
So far as New Castle is concerned
| Superintendent Foster and his sister.
I Matron Bacon. his son and a watch
man are the only ones in the poor
house at Farnhurst Except three IA
lticnts. Half a dozen Of men worked
hard 10 keep Foster from going there
/ because of the good salary, and now
the beef and drygoods Of the New
Castle County Hospital are supplied
! by New Castle business men. In the
insane hospital New Castle has two
| lpatients and they are not there as a
result OF the liquor trafic while rela-
Iuves there are put down as advocates
of prohibition. John T.. Campbell a
lguard at the workhouse is the only
lperson from New Castle who is now
| in Jail Saloons have been there and
so have the schools.
When the state commenced sending
its appropriation from the treasury
into which went the license fees, then
the members Of the Board OF Educa-
tion did not nave TO give their per-
lsonal notes to raise the money 10 pay
the salaries Of the teachers so that the
schools could be kept open their full
tern. Nine saloons pay license fees
land the New Castle schools get over
$4,000 a year from the State II the
lchildren from St Peters parochial
schools were TO go to the public schools
three or four more teachers and a new
school would be needed in New Castle
Then the State appropriation would be
nearer $4,000 and still the city could
run its schools the full term. The sal
aries of the New Castle schools are
over $4,000 and under the charter OF
that city only $4,000 is raised by the
lcity for school purposes.
A leading business man said yes
Iterday afternoon that he has three OF
flour boys growing up and in looking
at this question of local option he pre-
fers the saloon TO the speakeasy and
club. The saloon man is always al
least a little careful not to sell "a
boys but in the club and speakeagy
the boys are ruined. Several years
lago the hotel in FELTON, was closed and
lclubs were organized My schoolmail
land friend joined the club, commenced
to drink and to-day is a confirmed
ldrunkard. No speakeasy. il you please
for me. Let the place be an open one
and our boys will not be patrons be-
cause luey VIII De undDie 10 get the
drink. New houses are going up in
every section in this city and the sa-
looms are not retarding the wheels Of
progress. 1t is up TO the people to de-
eide and in my opinion the voters IN
this hundred know which side the but
ter is on the bread. 1t is a continua-
tion of prosperity and saloons on one
hand or Prohibition, hard times, stay
of business and decay on the other
The Jail has been converted into a
storage place and horse stable takes
the place where the whipping posi-
stood and the police tell me there Is
not a man from here in Jail There
are three men in the poorhouse from
here. and do you know that the cost
Of this election in the city OF New
Castle would pay their board for near
'ly three years?'e