The state herald., 1914-11-06
DRY TOWNS ARE BEST.
Big Business Demands Prohibition.
Colorado Spends Eighteen Nil.
lion Dollars for Booze Each

c. E. Moore. of Meelter. is president
of the Moore Light and Power Com
pany aud owns lighting and power
plants in several western slope cities.
Nine years ago a 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 elec.
ton, Moore called the "dry" leader
Into his office and said, III you push
this fight to success, will pull out OF
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 were not shut down.
Moore has changed front, and the
Pagosa Springs Sun, newspaper witt,
wet leanings, says, &C. +. 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. thorough.
~ competent Judge OF what makes
better business. He states that the
dry towns OF Montrose. Grand
Junction, Delta, Paonia. Hotchkiss
and others are better off morally.
mentally and financially than towns in
wet territory. and Is emphatically 4
dry man now and forever"
Mr., Moore is not the only big bt'si
ness man in Colorado who sees the a d.,
vantage OF prohibition.
VIII c. McCarty OF Denver, who IA
western manager OF the Rice-Stiz Dry
Goods Company OF st. Louis. gives his
views:
Our people In ST. Louis are reoog.
hized as being the largest In our line
OF business In the world. and our cred.
II department figures that a man with
the same amount OF ability and capt.
tai In dry town Is entitled TO from
twenty-five to thlrty.threo aud one
third per cent more credit than n he
Is doing business in ''wet" territory.
Our most prosperous merchants and
beet accounts are those In dry
towns. In fourteen years that hayr
had charge OF the Colorado. Wyoming.
New Mexico and portions OF Kansas
and Nebraska territory for the vari
Gus large Wholesale lines, have seen
hundreds OF towns 20 dry, and
without exception there never has
been one os IN cm where business has
not been better and merchants able
TO meet their obligations more prompt
ly within thirty days after the town
has gone dry and we have q mer.
chant on our books q, this time who
owns number Of large retail stores,
mostly In "dry" towns, who says he
will open from four TO six stores In
Colorado this year II the state goes
'dry'-and these In towns whI1h now
have saloons"
Prohibition Is having n good effect
m business In west Virginia where
the dry amendment went into ef'
feet on July '.st OF this year. On that
dny the Rcy mann Brewing Company,
OF wheeling clorcd It's doors. MS n
brewery. End opened rs n packing
plant which omploFs 500 people. The
brcwery ompicScd only ca people.
Legitimate busincHs viii come into
l'n own In 'colorn do when the state
adopts the prohibition amendment.
Tho cKhb zen million dollars that 10
over the ,ars Of the saloons each year
VIII be q inverted into legitimate chan
h"ls OF trade and Colorado wiil wit.
ncra n commercial revival such AZ the
n'irsi woH has nevsr sssa.