The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-30
SIX HUNDRED men
AGAINST THE SALOON

tion. and as it has 80 psr cent OF its
territory dry. II must be on the rag
ged edge of despair, but he had not
heard of il.
This reference to Texas brought out
repeated caeers from the sons of taat
Great State.
Roswell should get in line with this
progress. Artesia is taere and he felt
the shadow of Artesia lowering over
Roswell. Then ne referred To another
we'll known man. Mr.. Hardwick Of Ar
tesla, wlo although opposed to pro-
hibiticn, has prcspered exceedingly
Well under it.
No man could justify himself in his
own mind about drinking whiskey.
The argument that boot-leggers
woenid sell whiskey. he regarded as
ccnfessing the saloon case out of
court.
Speaking of tae revenue argument,
Judge Gatewood declared that the
man who permitted such an argument
to influence him ought To have the
ballot taken from him.
The boot-legging of liquors will ex-
nances are not enforced, and no more.
The present issue Is one of whiskey
and daasin alton or the absence OF
whiskey and the sanctity of the home.
Judge Gatewood closed his address
with an earnest appeal to the people
of Roswell to vote the No-license tick
ct and to vote it straight. He advised
his friends to vote against the saloon
and for tae candidates opposed TO the
saloon, and said that ne was coming
all the way up from Carlsbad on elec-
ton day to vote for every man on
the No-license ticket.
The next and last address of the
opening was that made by C. ]. Hall,
and IL was one that hit the mark ev-
cry time.
He wanted the people to vote so
that on the first day of next July
| when the present saloon licenses ex-
| pire every saloon would have across
its front a banner reading:
Sacred to the memory of departed
spirits"
1t had been asserted that the build
| ings now occupied by the saloons
| would be made vacant. This was not
so. Many other places had disproved
it. Tney would be occupied by legiti.
mate business firms created to care
for the great increase of business to
come from the effects of No-license.
The assertion that the school fund
| would suffer from the loss of $24o0
! IN taxes, he characterized as absurd
| This would amount to about 25 cents
per head per year.
Tae money spent in one day in the
saloons OF Roswell would buy 4 lot
and build a house every day. This
meant more work and employment.
| In Los Angeles the saloon man
makes the bar tender sign a pledge
to abstain from the use of liquor. They
know what whiskey does and the,
bar
TIE same city is nineteen-twen
tietns dry. and one-twentieth wet. The
Democratic chief of police of tha
city stated in a public address tina
il took nineteen-twentieths of tn,
police force to care for the wet one
twentieth Of the city and one-twen
tieth of the force to care for the DIR,
nineteen-twentieths of the city.
Carroll D. Wright, commissioner o
the revenues says that 1t takes 81
to pay for the costs imposed by tn
s1 IN revenue received from the ia,
ON liquors.
Kansas is dry, and 1t is also pros
porous. During the last panic Ka7sa-
sent s30.00o.000 to help out Wal
Street
Then the speaker told q numbe o
very effective stories showing the Il
effects of the licensed saloon and hoy
It @arages the average man.
You cannot kill the saloon wit
| rraver bnt with votes.
One man told him he had seve
reasons wny the saloon siould gC
, four boys and three girls. =.
The personal liberty fallacy wa