The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-01-12

Business property during the year
sold FOR record prices Business has
been good, Notwithstanding the gene
raj dullness over the country Dur
ing the year there was not a single
failure. though our wet neighbor.
Harrisonburg, with only half the pop
uiatiOn, had four. and was enjoying
the profits OF her former liquor trade
supplemented by all she could coax
out OF Staunton. Taxes have not in
creased.
Bar-rOom Attachment Ruinous.
The gentleman Is a hotel man and
says that the lc-gest hotel in the city
had to close. This was a hotel re-
Gently built and was run for a short
time under the wet regime, when the
lessee failed and gave 1t up before
the city went dry. 1t was then leased
by the gentleman who wrote the ia
nous paper that we are now discuss
ing. and a little later he bought an
Neither of these hotels had ever made
any money for the owners and he
closed the leased hotel and is now
running his own house
|. No hotel that has had a bar-room
connected with II has made any
money in Staunton during the past
forty years. but the gentleman has a
competitor now making money run
ming q hotel that had swamped every
man who tried to run 1t with a bar
room. Hotels in Staunton with bar
room attachments have. without a
single exception, been financial grave
yards for those who tried to run
them.
The Disguised people In stanton in
clude the liquor sellers who were driven
out OF business. the jailor who does not
have prisoners to make IL profitable
to hold the position, and few people
who refuse to believe that success in
business can come except through the
good people OF Staunton are not filled
with the miserable liquor that Is ship
ped from Harrisonburg. and it is a mis-
liquor when they have to send away
for 1t. III this were true. the saloon
keeper would try to get as far as pos
sible from his customers.
The declaration that all over the pro-
hfbtton South can be seen "a sickening
sight of drunkards of the worst order"
is not borne out by the testimony of
the Governors, judges and other high
officials of these States, but they de-
clare to the contrary.
Some Prohibition Statistics.
Another ipse dixit: TT seems that
the financial world is controlled by the
conviction that a State that provides
statutory prohibition is composed Of a
rowminded and fanatical. and there
tore apt TO enact laws inimical to the
best Interests of investors"
This means, 1 suppose, that capital
lists VIII not invest money in prOhibi
ton States. Let us go to the record
In the ten-year period ending July 1,
1910, in the dry South, the aggregate
capital of the national banks Increased
lO4 per cent. against 81 per cent. for
the whole country, and less than As per
cent Tor all other sections outside OF
the south. The aggregate resources of
the national banks in the dry South in
creased las per cent. against 95 per
cent. for the whole country, and less
than 81 per cent. for all sections other
than the South Individual deposits
showed the same remarkable gains.
These are official figures given out by
the United States Government the most
accurate Of all statistics.
The Construction News shows the fol-
lowing building statistics for last No
Vember: In Milwaukee, a beer center
a falling of Of 20 per cent; Rochester.
another beer center, falling OF Of 81
per cent; Louisville, the whiskey para
disc. a loss OF IL per cent: st. Louis. a
loss or 10 per cent; Birmingham dry,
gain OF 81 per cent; Atlanta, dry a
gain or % per cent; Mobile, dry, an in
crease of so per cent. No falling Off in
statistics are given. All statistics show
That the dry South is the most flourish
ing section Of the whole country
The attack on the Supreme Court be-
cause II refuses TO do the bidding OF the
liquor interests is worthy OF attention,
tude toward all law. The court and the
law that does not recognize the supre-
macy OF the saloon must be put down.
stanton is all right, business is
good, the people are sober and con-
tented. visit to the railroad station
Staunton is no longer a bugbear to the
conductors OF the local train The
crowds leaving the station are large.
orderly and sober