Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-05-29
Recent Temperance Victories i'm
Virginia

steadily and VicioIiouslV the
temperance cause moves on i'm Vir-
ginia. The greatest forward move
ment which the Anti-SalOon League
forces have conducted In our State
since the Mann Law several veas
ago practically eliminated the saloon
from the country districts, closing
about 200 saloons at one blow, was
the passage by the last legislature of
the improved Byrd Mann Law, which
perfected and made more stringent
the laws already existing, among
other good things eliminating the
small distillery, which has been the
saloon under another name, and MAX
ing possible the destruction OF the
"blind tiger. Since the close of the
recent Legislature the Anti-Saloon
League OF Virginia, strengthened bv
the improved legal machinery has
held twelve elections In the state and
has won eleven OF the twelve. With
in the last sixty days the following
cities and town have abolished the
saloon:
Cities: Towns:
Danvillc, Smithfield.
Winchester, Manassas.
fredericksburg, CuIpeper.
and one MagiStcral District each in
the counties of Shenandoah and
Nelson.
The liquor men called elections in
the towns of Basic and OF New
Market and fdinburg. The temper
anco people were victorious i'm each
OF these places. In the last two
months these elections closed a.
saloons. Nine saloons have been
closed i'm GordonSville and Orange
by the order of the court. Bv the
city council limiting the number of
saloons and by the contesting of the
issuing OF licenses on May the list,
1908:
There were closed in:
Norfolk city 40.
Norfolk county, go,
Portsmouth, 10,
Newport News, 20,
Richmond, SO,
making total of 294 saloons closed
in the last sixty days. In the same
time 30 distilleries have been refused
licenses and 80 social clubs have been
driven out Of business, making "A
grand total of 379 drinking places,
under one name or another, which
have been abolished in our state dur
ingthe last two months.
This is splendid progress. We
most heartily rejoice. This will
show the christian people OF Virginia
whether il is worth while To cooper
ate with the Anti-Saloon League.
During the past twelve months the
League has distributed free one mill
lion and half pages of literature
and our speakers have delivered
about >, 400 addresses in all portions
OF the state. II the christian people
OF Virginia will only give us more
and more OF their support, as they
are doing, the time is not far distant
when the saloon will no longer exist
i'm our commonwealth. There are
several elections of great size coming
on in Virginia before long. This will
mean heavy expenses to the State
League. The saloon is a costly in
stitution and warfare against IL is
expensive. We shall need more help
than ever during the next few
months for liturature, clerk hire,
and other legitimate expenses. We
urge every christian citizen and
every lover of his kind In our state
TO rally for the last campaign against
the enemy I'm his entrenched strong
hold in the few remaining cities and
towns inVirginia where the unspeak-
able saloon still bites, withers and
curses humanity.
II. ii. BENIN EFT, Supt.
Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia.
May, 1908.
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