The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-09
100000 REVENUE
PROMISEDBRIST.OL TO
VOTE IN SALOONS
RouSiNG CAMPAIGN IS NOW
ON m THE VIRGINIA
TOWN.
TOWN THICKLY PLACARGED
Seaborn Wright Is Leading The
Fight For a SaIoonIess Town.
THE Saloon Has sinned Away Its
Day of Grace"

| BRISTOL. Tenn, July 5.-Bristol is
literally plastered with placaIds con
tanning prohibition slogans. Saturday
evening the women Of Bristol carried
dozens of large placards and placed
them in the windows OF the largest
stores on state street. Even mer.
chants who signed the wet" petition
and who are understood to be anti
prohibitionists, did not refuse to allow
their fronts to be placarded. The IN
scription included such sentences as:
Make the Boy and He Will Make
the Town" The Boy or the Bar"
THE Saloon Cant Run Without
Boys" A Vote for the Saloon Is an
Invitation to Your Boy and Your
Neighbours Boy to Drink"
The contest here is said TO be one
of the warmest ever waged in the
south, owing to the particular situa-
ton and the fact that the liquor peo-
pie are anxious to get a foothold in
Bristol, and to supply large part of
the prohibition territory of the south
from this city. They say that Bristol
will become the New York of the
south" as the only oasis in the pro-
hibit.on desert, and that it's receipts
from the sale of liquor will be several
million dollars a year. Two years and
a half ago Bristol had forty saloons,
doing a business of $500 annually,
being the largest of any city its size
in the country. The manhood of the
city arose and cast the yoke off and
now the same people are preparing
ito again repudiate the liquor traffic.
The victory in Tennessee was won
at too great cost for Bristol, Va, to
nullify it by voting wet, =" said Sena-
tor Sam R. Sells, in an address to an
audience of two thousand Friday night
Il deny that the saloon is a neces-
sary adjunct to any legitimate bust
ness and the country merchant who
comes to your town on a search for
red liquor won't be apt to buy many
goods or pay for what ne does buy.
Mr.. Sells said that he counted his
part in the passage of the statewide
prohibition fight in Tennessee the
greatest act Of his life.
On every hand may be seen, in large
letters, extracts from the writings and
sayings of the late ex-senator Car
mack. A banner thirty feet in length
is stretched across the Temperance
hall on Cumberland street, bearing the
words: The Saloon Has Sinned |
Away It's Day of Grace. Edward W. |
Carmack. I
If Bristol, Va, will vote to license
saloons, it is promised 100000 year
in revenue, under the high license !
plan, to begin with. The liquor peo-
pie say that it will rival any of the
cities of the south in a few years, if
it is wet While the people do not
take any stock in such argument if it
were true they would undoubtedly say
that they do not want prosperity, by
taking advantage of what the neigh
boring states have done in the way of
the saloon.
Seaborn Wright the Georgia prohi-
Dition patriot and orator, spoke to a
arge audience at men on'y" meet
ng at State street Methodist church
asst night, while today, at the Fourth
If July temperance demonstration, It
S expected that several thousand peo-
lie will march behind twenty automo- z
lilies and many vehicles decorated for
The two mayors will !
ide in the first machine. and It is
expected that one of the greatest pro- I
essions of its kind ever formed will =
larch through the streets and to the Il
tabernacle, which seats T. c
90 people.
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