Milford chronicle., 1907-08-09

ton is all right. Prohibition means pro-
perity. l point you to Caroline count
= with pride. Our people were never 8
prosperous as at the present time. In tn
last ten years property in this county ha
doubled in value. There is no county il
Maryland freer from indebtness than this
The people are sober and industrious, anC
the reason is because there are no saloon
and barrooms. Why, sir, a drunken mar
is curiosity in Denton and we wonder
where he comes from. He does not be-
long here.
"Of course, there may be private dram
drinking here and there. No law can
presume to interfere with that. Doubt
less there are cases of drunkenness among
the lower classes, but l have seen more
drunkenness in one Delaware town on a
Saturday night than can be seen in the
whole of Caroline county in q month.
The criminal expenses of the county are
very slight, and those resulting from the
use of liquor hardly worth considering.
Il say to you without hesitation that q
dry community is more desirable as a
place of residence and more satisfactory
to do business in than a wet one"
NR COOPER SAYS OF LOCAL OPTION
Harvey L. Cooper, a successful lawyer
and president of the Denton National
Bank, spoke in the strongest terms of the
benefits derived from the operation of the
local option law.
Said he 81 have never known busi-
ness interests to suffer under local option,
and, on the other hand, my observation
and experience is that all economic con-
ditions are immeasurably improved by it,
In my own county know full well that
our financial institutions are on solid basis,
that business, along all lines of trade, has
increased remarkably in the last ten years,
and that a spirit of thrift prevades the
whole community"
MR.. TOWERS SPEAKS PLAINLY.
There is no more popular or progressive
young lawyer on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland than Albert G. Towers, former
States Attorney. No one is more alive to
the conditions with which he is sur
rounded, or more alert to the interest of
the people. When I told him that my
visit to Denton was to look into the ad-
vantage or disadvantages of local option,
he exclaimed "Does any well informed |
man doubt its advsntages?"
"There never has been a period in the
history of our county when we were as
as we are today"
THE taxable basis of Denton has adj
vanced about, let me see" Here he
called his clerk and sent over to the Court
House to ascertain the exact figures.
When the clerk returned, Mr.. Towers
ooked at the figures and resumed: ''The
axable basis of the town of Denton has
ldvanced about 100000 in the last five
Years the taxable basis of the county has
advanced about s., 1000, 900, in the last ten
-ears.
"Look at our farmers, they are all {
hrifty. Take our merchants. Why, |
an put my finger on several merchants
Who came to this town a few years ago
With hardly enough capital to start a
mall business, and today they are all
some of them rich.
"The criminal list is exceedingly small r
nd there is very little pauperism. There
} practically no drunkenness and our
outh is growing up without the temp
alton of the saloon. We have been un-
er local option for twenty years. You
an judge whether it has been advan-
lgeous or not"