Milford chronicle., 1907-09-13
LICENSE COMMITTEE.

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There are the banks in Queen
Anne's holding, at least, 81 900,
. 10000 in deposits, and Caroline
with as much, at least. All this
gold has come from prohibition.
The testimony of honest men, in
banks and outside Of them, is that
the story of heavy deposit is true;
but they uniformly add : What
good is that money in the banks /?
There is no room here for invest
ment except in farm mortgages.
What we need is factory, the in
vestment of this money for the ben
eft of labor. Full banks mean idle
labor. Our money is taken away
and invested in factories elsewhere.
We are dead in enterprises, for our
rich men who own that money
would rather deposit it on time at
d per cent. than risk factory here.
The people are poor. Our farmers
have no money. Here is an estate
of 20, 900 acres that represent $50,
900 in bank deposits, but the farm
ers who made that money have none
of it. Itgoes north, or east or west
and gives employment to thousands
IN towns where hotels are licensed
and where workingmen will not stay
in Centreville, because they resent
this attempt of the Pharisee to regu-
late their habits. Yes, there is
plenty of money, but it does no
good at Centreville, except to ena-
bic the rich to live in luxury and
the poor in poverty"
The history of prohibition on the
Eastern Shore dates back IS years.
1t is a fact that because of the Gus
tom ten times as many persons use
the bank to-day as they did in 1872.
In the second place, there is a com
bination among the Eastern Shore
banks by which they have agreed
to pay 3 per cent. for ordinary de-
posts and 4 per cent. for time de
posts. This agreement has col
lected all the possible idle money
on the Shore into the banks and
taken it from the farmers and the
merchants. OF course, there will
be an end to this, for the reason
that the banks are lending their
money to other banks in large cities.
The first failure, for example, that
will bankrupt bank on the East
ern Shore will change this extrava-
CANT policy at once. The over
loaded banks Of the Eastern Shore
are a peril, but they are no more the
product of prohibition than measles
is the product of milk punch. As
Mr.. Darrell, the vice-president
of the Second National Of Bank
Chestertown, observed 1T is
question about which honest men
may differ, but I believe that we had
more money here before prohibition
was installed than we have now.
But let the local witnesses speak
tor themselves. He is the testimony
of the foremost citizens of Centre
vile. "Our states attorney has
been very sharp after the liquor
seller. He convicted one last spring,
because the fellow swore that he
represented a wholesale house of
whiskey in Baltimore. He failed
to convict another man, because he
caught on and swore that he
merely filled the orders of the folks
in this town. Do you see the diff
ference ? You can't sell it here,
but you can buy anything for a
resident of the community. Ifyou
want quart or pint Il Nhiskey
in "a hours-If you want 1t now
lets 90 up to my house-you speak
to the man who knowing you to be
a stranger will look you straight in
the eye. Don't hesitate. Tell him
here is a dollar for bottle RoXbury
Rye, and he will take your order
under the lamp light and ask you
for a quarter more, his commission.
Tomorrow night he will deliver all
innocent package at your hotel for
any name you please to have him
put thereon. There are two of these
purchasing agents. One goes to-
dav, the other tomorrow. The
whiskey comes daily. But don't
foot 4,a+ my, vvbic1yev1 iS better
than theirs, and you are welcome
to all I have, except what drink
myself.
"Why they send it here in bar
rels. One barrel inside another.
The outside barrel is called an EN-
velope, the space between is stuffed
with paper and the outside IS
marked crockery. There was
time, over there in Kent, when Tom
Wickes, the best fellow in the world,
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