The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-29

AS in every other city il the state which has sur
vived dry election under the Rose law, roseate
promise Of increased business made to the
chants Of Steubenville by the drys' while the
pagn was on.
Merchants from East Liverpool were brought
here to tell how their business had increased since
that city dry. The merchants here, in every
other city in Ohio, were told by the dry'' orators
how many thousands Of dollars were spent over the
bars of Steubenville saloons every year, and how,
If saloons wiped out, these thousands of dollars
would be diverted from the saloon to the dry goods
and shoe stores, groceries, clothing merchants etc
That was last November while the panic was
still on, and while the Carnege's steel mills at Min
go junction, two miles from here, shut down.
1t a well alluring bait to the anxi-
and distressed merchants, and they grabbed it
much after the manner in which a hungry bass goes
after live minnOw just after the spring thaw In
their anxiety to bolster up their depressed business
they did not stop to think that at that very time an
average of fifty people day coming to Steub-
envilIe, "wet" city, from East Liverpool d dry
one, to do their shopping, and incidentally to
else that God-given and inaienable right of every
American citizen to take drink when and where he
peases.
SteUbenVie went dry under the Rose law on
November %, 1908 Thirty days later every saloon
III the city went out of business maybe. About
January | of this year the Carnegie mill at Mingo
Junction, which at full blast employees $500 men,
opened with force of approximately 1000 men.
Since then the Alngo plant has had two pay days. the
first of which January 9, which not 'full''
pay day; the second on January %, just month
after the Steubenvile saloons supposed to have
suspended business, when each Of the 1000 men in
the Carnegie plant received two full weeks pay.
Did they come to Steubenville to spend their money
with the grocer and clothier, and shoemaker, and
dry goods merchant? Not SO that you could notice
it. Instead 700 of them, nearly could be ascer
tanned, made Decline for Wheeling, which is
twenty miles away, and ''wet Others went to
Pittsburg, which is also 'wet,' and forty miles dist
ant. And all the while the anxious local merchants,
fully cOgnzan of the fact that Saturday, January 3d.
pay day at Mingo, and that it the first full
pay day at the mill in than year, rubbed their
hands and anXiOusly paced their stores, waiting for
the rush of business and the avalanche of dollars
which, under dry regime, to be diverted into
their hands and pockets.
But the rush of business came not, neither was
the avalanche of dollars in evidence except in Wheel
ing, where, as Steubenvle man expressed it,
"Mngo men were falling over each other in their rush
on the retail stores.' Meanwhile, the blind tigers
and boot-leggers have become so numerous in East
Liverpool that the thirsty people in that city of the
dead find it no longer necessary to to Steuben
vile for shot in the arm, and result the
chants of the latter city still wondering and wait
ing for the thousands of dollars that squandered
over the saloon bars to be diverted to the channels of
Legitimate" trade.
But if the business of merchants has not improv-
ed not so with the Pennsylvania Railroad the Adams