The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-22
DRY TOWNS ARE BEST.
Big Business Demands Prohibition.
Colorado Spends Eighteen Mil
lion Dollars for Booze Each

year.
G. L. Moore, of Meeker, is president
of the Moore Light and Power Com
pany and owns lighting and power
plants In several western slope cities.
Nine years ago wet" and dry"
fight was on at Pagosa Springs and
Moore cast his lot with the liquor
crowd and went down to defeat with
them. A few days before the cleo
tiCr, Moore called the dry" leader
into his office and said. III you puY!,
this fight to success. will pull out Oi
business and leave the town in dark.
ness; cannot run the light plant
without the saloons" That was nine
years ago. Pagosa Springs went
dry" as did number Of other towns
where Mr.. Moore operated plants. The
light plants we're not smut down
Moore has changed front, and the
Pagosa Springs Sun, a newspaper with
wet leanings, says, &c. L. Moore, Of
the Moore Light and Power Company,
whose business takes him to almost
every town In Colorado. Arizona and
New Mexico. is, of course, 4 thorough
ly competent judge of what makes
better business. He states that the
dry towns of Montrcse, Grand
Junction. Delta, Pamfa. Hotchkiss
and others are better off morally,
mentally and financially than towns in
wet territory, and is emphatically a
dry man now and forever
Mr.. Moore is not the only big bust
ness man in Colorado who sees the ad-
vantage Of prohibition.
Will c. McCarty of Denver. who is
western manager Of the Rice-Stiz Dry
Goods Company of St Louis. gives his
views:
Our people in St Louis are rccog-
nized as being the largest in our line
OF business in the world, and orr cred
ii department figures that n man with
the same amount Of ability and capi-
tal in dry town is entitled to from
twenty-five to thiriy-three and one
third per cent more credit than if he
Is doing business in wet territory.
Our mcst prosperous merchants ana
best acco:lnts arc these in dry
towns. In fourteen years that have
had charge of the Colorado, Wyoming
New Mexico and portions OF Kansas
and Nebraska territory for the vari-
GUS large wholesale lines. have seep
hundreds of towns go dry, and
without exception there never has
been one of them where business has
not been better and merchants ablo
to meet their obligations more prompt-
ly within thirty DAYS after the tow,-.
has gone dry and we have a mel
chant on our books at this time whA
owns a number of large retail storsaA
mostly in "dry' towns. who sayo
will open from four TO six stor
Colorado this year if the state,
'dry'-and these in TOWNS whict
have saloons
prohibition is having good
on business in West Virginia l..
the dry amendment went intIy\
feet on July lst of this year. On tl..A
day the Reymann Brewing CompanysN
Of Wheeling. closed its doors. as a
brewery. and opened as packing
plant which employs 500 people. The
brewery employed only 6S people.
Legitimate business will come into
ITS own in Colorado when the state
adopts the prohibition amendment.
The eighteen million dollars that 90
over the bars of the saloons each year
viii he converted into legitimate chan
nels OF trade and Colorado will wit
ness commercial revival such As the
entire west has never seen.