Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-03-04
Recruiting Boys For Saloons.

FOR years a Story na5 Oeen going
the rounds Of the press, both religious
and secular, that at brewers meet.
ing in bus, Ohio, one of the
speakers proposed that the way for
the saloons to keep on doing business
was to Create appetite among the
boys"
Liquor organizations vigorously de-
MED the occurrence and even went go
far as to offer reward of 81, 900 for
proof Of the matter.
TIE statement recently appeared in
The Saturday Evening Post, of Phil
adelphia, and the brewers took the
matter up with the editors Of that
journal, proposing to prosecute for
criminal libel the man who would dare
come forward and make the charge
over his own name.
The Post editors took the matter up
and, in a recent issue, printed an afi.
davit of the gentleman who heard the
original address. The affidavit, with
statement by Wayne B Wheeler,
superintendent of the OHIO Anti.Sa-
loon League, follows. The brutal
character of the traffic that now pro-
poses Model License" was never
more clearly shown.
AFFIDAVIT OF R. H. WALLER.
State OF ONO,
Ross County-ss.
Personally appeared before me,
Wilbur G. Hyde, Notary Public in
and for Ross county, one Robert Wal
lace, who, being duly sworn according
to law, deposes and says:
That on or about the fourteenth
day of February, in the year 1874, he
Was present in Wirthwein's Hall. Col
umbus, Ohio, at meeting where rep
resentatlves Of the liquor dealers were
present discussing their plans.
At that meeting one of the repre-.
sentatives of the liquor interests spoke
on matters of interest to the saloon
business and its success. He closed
the statement with substantially these
words:
The sue cess of our business is de-
pendent largely upon the creation Of
appetite for drink. Men who drink
liquor, like others, will die, and if
there is no new appetite created our
counters will be empty, as well as our
fiers. Our children will go hun.
cry, or We must change our business
10 that Of some other more remunera-
tive.
The open field for the creation Of
appetite in among the boys. After
men have grown and their habits are
formed they rarely ever change in this
regard, and / make the suggestion,
gentlemen, that nickels expended in
treats to the BOYS now will return in
dollars to your tills after the appetite
has been formed.
Aft ant further says that be made
record of the statement in his note
book at the time Further deponent
says not.
Slgned, r. Fl. WALLACE.
Sworn TO before me and subscribed
IN my presence this sixteenth day OF
December, A D 1907.
Signed, WILBUR G. HYDE
The affiant. R. Ii Wallace. at the
time of said meeting in Wirthwein's
Hall, which he personally attended,
was pastor Of prominent church in
the city of Columbus He is now
superannuated member Of the Ohio
Conference of the Methodist Episco
pal Church. For a number of years
be his lectured extensively for the
Farmers Institute of the State and
has not besitated everywhere III his
lectures to qnote the uiterances made
by a repr sentative OF the Liquor
Dealers Association, and no psrtlcu-
lar diligence would have been required
for the liquor dealers to have learned
the above facts long ago.
W. B. WHEELER Supt. and Atty.
The Road to Success