The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-11

oughfare. Not single person, white
or negro, was seen under the influence
of intoxicants.
| at o'clock in the evening the
shopping crowd. composed almost en-
ltfrely Of negroes, was at its maximum
as to numbers. The crowd kept NOV
ing on, stopping from store to store
to make purchases. Trade was brisk
in every line, particularly In the meat
shops.
at police headquarters the officers
declared that the afternoon and night
reminded them of former Sundays
rather than Saturday night, so few
were the occasions for making ar
rests.
"Up to midnight Sunday momtns)
the last arrest for drunkenness was
made last Thursday night.
AT midnight the police docket
showed the following entries or arrests
made from IL o'clock Friday, night: 4
for disorderly conduct: for failing
to drive to the left and for riding
4 wheel to which no bell was attached.
OF these. were white men, was
negro woman, and 3 negro men. The
Juvenile docket for the same period
of time showed the arrest of boys
for idling and lettering. One girl for
stealing coal, and one negro boy ar.
rested for hanging around a liquor es-
tablishment, which had been broken
into and robbed Friday night.
"onIy one arrest was made from q
o'clock Saturday afternoon to mid.
night. and that was the negro boy
arrested in the vicinity of the liquor
store on South Pryor street.
"About 8 o'clock at night loud cries
for the turnkey came from the pris.
oner's cell. Inquiry developed the
fact that the man was in a cell by
himself, was lonely and had become
frightened at a rat which usually kept
at bay by the large number of men
who occupy the cells, attempted to
closely investigate the prisoner"
Gems From. Hon. seaborn Wrisnt's
Great Wateh-Night Grafton.
In the mastery address of Hon. Sea
born F. Wright, for a corrected and
complete copy of which the Associat.
ed Prohibition Press is placed under
deep obligations to the orators kind.
ness, the famous Prohibition states.
man portrays for all time the underly.
ing motives of the people of Georgia
In abolishing the legalized drink curse
within her borders.
Prohibition Not Result Of "Nearo Ter.
rorism" But For Economic and Nor.
al Reasons.
Most significant OF all is the fact
that in summarizing these motives for
the enactment of Prohibition the al
legged dominant reason" of negro
crime and negro drunkenness, receiv-
ed but incidental attention while the
fundamental premises always accred-
tied to State prohibition, in Maine,
Kansas, North Dakota, or elsewhere,
were emphasized and elaborated as
the real basis for the reform in this |
typical southern commonwealth.
Some of the striking and most bril-.
liant paragraphs in Mr.. Wright's adj
dress are as follows:
Il am glad to be here tonight. The
scene before me, the thousands of men
and women who look me in the face,
calls wildly to my mind another scene
thirty.two years ago. l had returned
home from college boy. AS stepped
from the train in my native city the
shouts of great mass of people as.
sembled in the old Howell warehouse
greeted my ears. I followed the sound
and entered the first great prohibition
meeting had ever attended. Before
left that night l had made by first
Prohibition speech. 1t was not an ar.
gument, not even an appeal. l simply
pledge the people of my home town
to do what I could In the span of my
life, be it long or short. to drive from
our State the greatest OF all evils,
business which never blessed, which
scatters in its path only misery, pow
erty and death.
81 have kept the faith. Sometimes
in the methods have adopted have
differed with my friends. | have been
misunderstood. but this know, have
always struck the blow which be.
lieved would be most fatal to the 81.
loon as an institution.
mo study so rivers my attention,
so holds the passionate interest of my
mind as the biography of nations.
From the dawn of history to the dark.
ness of the middle ages, the story of
the life of one is the story of all, yet
q story SO fraught with meaning, so
filed with lessons. upon the faithful
learning of which the lives of all ma
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