The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-08-25

this to me. sit is a story l ha We
watched here in my town many, many
time. And in most cases., it was a
a. story with liquor for its answer.
LIQUOR is woman's curse. Her nus
band may not be called a drinking
man: he may sperd but fifteen to fifty
cents a day for drinks. | have often
spent more myself. Yet that may be
exactly the sum he cannot spare from
the household; and if it is spared at
at all, it is the woman who spares ~.
A man must go to his bushes well
clad and prosperous in appearance,
He must pay his dues and his bill with
what is left, his wife must get along
as she can. 1t may be that fifteen
cents "A day for "a week represents X
actly the pair of sheets she needs.
When it has been wasted in some
thing which has no permanent value
she is still without the sheets and
must spend more hours patching an
old pair-hours that are honestly
spent to earn her husbands drink.
sit often happens that The husband,
coming home with his pay envelope,
stops with the boys and plays a few
games of pool, drinks a little, treats a
few times and uses up three or four
dollars. Monday morning finds him
| still ready TO face the world, but his
wife lacks that three dollars to pay
an importunate butcher. She faces
him with the old excuse, and is re-
fused further credit. Meanwhile. il
the bills are presented to her husband
he turns lightly away with the hearty
suggestion that they see nv wife, or
thew come at the end of next month,
and we'll attend to it then.
"But when prohibition came, the
change was astonishing. 1t was
noticeable almost at once within a
few weeks at most. Where those rag
ged bits of linen had been e ones APP
peared. New dishes, new wash Set
new chairs for the bedroom-all be-
gan to show up; and from no other
reason than that the mOner was al
being used where it belonged, in the
household"
~ am not a teetOtaler myself; love
rood liquor. But l am mighty prouo
to a that | voted for the new move
ment: that l worked for it: that l vol
UNFAIRLY put liquor out OF my Owl
reach, in order to put it out OF thu
reach of others-in order. rather, t.
see new sunshine, new hope, CREEP
into the lives of those SUFFERING
women who had worked SO hard ant
deserved SO much"
This economy which results in tn
home from the termination OF tn
LIQUOR traffic results in still CREATE
measure to the whole community. 81
it happened that when the recen
gubernatorial campaign III Missis
sippi was under way, and one OF tn
candidates was charged by the othe
With favoring prohibition. the man 81
charged promptly accepted the issu
and, though not an abstainer, entere'
the lists for the white cause. ID
found, to his amazement, two town
, in his State which had existed to
years near each other. q "wet", tn
other dry" which offered exceller
campaign material, which he made til
J most of.
The two cities which Mr.. Noel wide
: " quoted are Greenwood and Greer
{ Vile, the principal places, next
vicksburg, of the Yszoo delta regior
Twenty years ago Greenville was
: prosperous community, and Greer
/; wood was . crossroads hamlet.
1894 Greenwood. then having or
Thousand Inhabitants tsbout or
{ seventh of Greenvilie), went .''dry'
Greenville remained ''wet'. Greer
wood has to-day seven thousand il
b habitsnts 70 about ten thousand IL
Greenville. Greenwood has q ia
rate OF ten mills on . two-thirds valu'
ton; Greenville has sixteen mills 9
the same relative valuation. Greel
wood requires two policemen, aud
+ ten years has not had . burglar,
n Greenville has more policemen tbs
. saloons, and keeps them busy as vel
To be sure, the Law IL broken
many places. Yet those who 3 tn
prohibition does not prohibit ms
class themselves with those who 81
that capital punishment does not pr
n vent murder. OF course it dOesn'
!. But It makes it an exceedingly u
o comfortable crime to commit.
'e Yet after all, the real story is t
o doctors story,-or even more, the u
y told story which women have lock
up in their hearts and will not to
. the story which even the doctor O
i. I0u1v 1,,rract lint thu result at Wbt