The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-28

II only one-third is entailed by sa-
looms it amounts to over $4,000. and
/ can prove from the treasurer's re-
port that it costs the city another
$4,000 to care for the products of sa-
looms, which, worse and more of it,
annually divert 100000 from whole
some and helpful lines Of trade and
enterprise.
The people play the fool more than
Thompson's colt Chat swan the river
on rainy day to keep from getting
weD, when in thirteen large cities
they license and perpetuate 10000 sa-
looms for few million dollars at an
annual cost of as much, or more. for
extra police protection against sa.
loon lawlessness. not TO mention other
items Of cost and debauchery thereby
entailed.
Lexington, like any other city, pros
pers in spite of the liquor trade and
not because of it. The saloons pros
per by despoiling and debauching
poor, enslaved, weak and tempted hui
mainly.
Never city on the face of the
earth, that everything considered, ever
gained one dollar financial value from
year to year, from any saloon within
its borders.
The second article says prohibition
doesn't prohibit. Neither would the
law which prohibits murder and steal
ing prohibit If it were not enforced,
but since 1t is enforced 1t does prohib-
it, and so would law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale Of lntoxicants
il 1t be enforced, which can plainly be
seen by incidents cited In this article.
You will notice in Mr.. Wasson's ar.
ticle (pardon me for not calling him
Rev., for don't think the Savior Him
self who stands for honesty and So
briefly, would call him .Rev.) that he
says he knows that the attempt" to
enforce prohibition must in the long
run prove failure.
There is the secret, "attempt to en-
force.P An attempt" to enforce a
law wouldn't prohibit anything. An
attempt to correct your child could
not correct 1t.
He says under the nolIcense plan
Sunday selling was the rule. Was
that the law Or IS 1t not fact that
the law was not enforced?
Be honest, Episcopal Divine.
What are some OF the diretul conse-
quences when the man OF flesh has his
own way unhindered? There are 50
counties in West Virginia that grant
no liquor licenses. There are eleven
that grant unlimited licenses, and
twelve that grant license In one town
only. or the seven hundred and for
ty.eight prisoners in the State peni-
Tertiary on the first day OF October
last year, one hundred and six came
from counties that grant license In
one town. and four hundred and fifty
eight from the eleven license coun-
ties. One license county alone had
one hundred and fifty-nine convicts,
fifty.three more than all the thirty
two no-license counties together.
There is your answer in cold facts.
Maine with prohibition, which they
persist in saying with parrot.llke rep
etition does not prohibit, has thirteen
persons in prison for every 100000 In
habitants, and Massachusetts, with
the best enforced license law in the
country, has thirty-three in prison out
of every 10000. In 1877, Broctston,
ton, Mass, under prohibition, had 4S5
arrests for drunkenness; in 1895, I'M
der high-license, It had 1927. Chicago,
with its thirty.two miles of saloons,
has $4,000 arrests for Drunkenness in
twelve months. men enough to make
procession twenty miles long. If
they marched in close locls-step. as
many of them know how to do.
Saloons are curse and ougt to be
destroyed. Municipal, State and Ma
tional prohibition is the sensible rem
edy. Sing it, preach it, talk it. pray
1t, and above all else. vote 1t, TIL vic.
tory comes, and it's not going to be
long. ady-1-2s-Os
tiN1i r g.
snbseribe Tor the west viz inians