Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-06
Facts About The Liquor Question.

their qualification at the victory OF the
temperance people. We cannot, of course,
publish them all, but here's an extract
from a letter received from Washington
friend that indicates how those who are
interested in our community feel about
the matter: al wish to congratulate you,
the Register and Shepherdstown upon the
outcome of the recent election-the ex-
pulsion of the saloon. Freely according
all the credit due them to all the other
agencies which helped to accomplish this
object, ! think that the earnest and per-
sistent efforts of the Register to advance
the cause of temperance deserves and
will receive the commentator and graft
tude OF the thoughtful people OF your
town and community. hope that you,
and all who aided in bringing about re-
suit so desirable, may be encouraged by
this triumph of decencyand morality, and
that they may go on conquering and to
conquer, until the rrlm-shop is only a
memory in our county and State"
Sheriff c. ID. Wysong informs Ms that
on Monday last he received $4,000 from
saloon-keepers in Jefferson county for Ii
quor licenses tor the ensuing year, twelve
applicants having complied with the law.
Under the new law saloon-keeper must
pay ST 900 for State license, and with
his application to the county court he
must file receipt from the Sheriff show
ing that his license fee has been paid.
There has been good deal of kicking on
the part OF the saloon men, but the law
is plain and explicit and there was Moth
ing to do but obey it. The ten saloon
keepers in Charles town applied for re-
newal of their license. Two dropped out
in Harper's Ferry, T. M. Conner giving
up one of his saloons and retaining the
other, while Shepherd Gatrell failed to
apply. T. ]. Burleigh put up his money,
and he and Mr.. Conner will have mon
opoly of the business. None of the sa-
loon keepers from Shepherdstown made
application.
The Hannis Distillery and the saloons
have very tight grip on Morgan county.
A week or two ago the county court grant
ed license to number OF saloons in
Berkeley Springs, playing a cheap trick
to benefit their friends. II was taken for
granted that the matter of license would
not be taken up until the first of June, and
the temperance people were preparing a
strong protest for presentation to the
court, when that body met and granted
license, Notwithstanding that ii was cour-
teously asked to defer action until the
protest conld be considered The court
seems to have the same idea that the eS
timable State Senator from this district,
Mr.. Mclntire, has, namely-that the peo-
pie have no rights that conflict with the
prosperity of the whiskey dealers. The
town of Berkeley Springs elected corpo-
ration officers a week or two ago, and
this morning the Baltimore Sun, belated
but elated, publishes itasa "wet".victory.
So far as we know, the voters had no
chance to vote on local option, nor did
the people make any campaign.
Some of the liquor advocates rom Win
chester, aided and abetted by newspapers
that are controlled by liquor interests,
have recently tried to make it appear that
that city is in bad way financially be-
cause it no longer receives revenue
from licensed saloons. We have letter
from one OF the best informed and most
reliable gentlemen in Winchester that
says these publications are from liquor
men and are absolutely untrue. Certain
changes were suggested in taxation that
would have increased the revenues Of the
city from 800 to S; 600, and This furnished
the texts for the defamatory statements.
The business men proved that even this
slight increase was not needed, and the
proposition was defeated. Instead OF
Winchester having deficit, there will be
some $4,000 over and above the regular
budget, for new or extra work, owing to
the growth of the city and increased re-
turns on personal property.
There was another whiskey tragedy in
Waynesboro, Pa, last week. Nimrod
Hammond and Robert Kruger were ar
rested for being drunk and disorderly on
the streets, and were locked up in the jail
Friday night. Some hours afterward the
place was found to be on fire, and when
the cell doors were opened the two men
were found dead, having been suffocated
by the dense smoke. They had set fire
to a mattress and the resulting smoke
Stifled them both.
The temperance people Of Washington
county are circulating petitions for sigma
lures calling for local option election
next fall, one-fourth of the voters of the
county being necessary for an order call
ing for such an election. The start was
made in Indian Springs district, and of
the first thirty-six voters approached,
every one of them signed the petition.
H. c. Leighton, a civil engineer who
was expecting to go to Florida to help
build railroad, drank himself to death in
Atlantic City. He had pawned every
thing he had in the world to get whiskey,
except the rags that served rs clothing.
AT Gary, Indiana, last Saturday, Viii
liam Rose, drunk, deliberately stopped
his carriage on railroad track in front of
an approaching train. He was killed, as
were also his wife and two children.
Four more victims of whiskey.
A drunken colored woman, totally blind
and nearly naked being hauled to iail in a