The state herald., 1914-11-13
DRY TOWNS ARE BEST.
Big Business Demands Prohibition.
Colorado Spends Eighteen Nil.
lion Dollars for Booze Each

c. Z. 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 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, "If you push
this fight to success. will pufi out OF
business and leave the town Ia 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 with
wet leaninCs, 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
ly 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 \
dry man now md forever"
Mr.. Moore Is not the only big bust
ness man in Colorado who sees the ad.
vantage OF prohibition.
VIII C. McCarty OF Denver, who Is
western manager OF the II RIce-Stiz Dry
Goods Company OF 81. Louis, gives his
views:
Our people in St. Louis are reoog.
nizcd ms 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 capl.
tai in n dry town Is entitled Il, from
twenty-five TO thirty.three and one
third per cent more credit than II he
is doing buEiness In "wet' territory
Our most prosperous mer chants and
best accounts are those In dry
towns. In fourteen years that | have
had charge OF the Colorah o. Wyoming
New Mexico and portions of Kansas
and Nebraska territory FOR the yari
Gus large wholesale lines. have seen
hundreds OF towns 70 dry, and
without exception there never has
been one Of them where business has
not been better and merchants able
to meet their obligatIoiis more prompt
~ within thirty days after the town
has gone dry and ,no have . mer
chant on our books ~, this time who
owns a number Of large retail stores
mostly In "dry" tow ms. who says he
will open from four to six stores In
Colorado this year " tie state goes
'dry'-snd thes- In towns whlsh now
have saioons.-
Prohibition Is having good efsec,
on business In West Virginia where
the dry amendment went into ef
tect on July LIST OF this yNrnr. On that
any the Reymann Bro wing Company
OF wheeling. closed It's doorr, aS a
brewery, and opened AZ A. paeklnF
plant which employs eco people. The
brewery employed only ca people.
Legitimate business will come into
ts own In Colorado when the, state
adopts the prohibition amend mont
Ihc eighteen million dollars that 80
over the bars OF the ~ loons rpch ycnr
VIII he converted Into lcTltim ptc chm
nela OF trade and CO dorado will wit
pe.s commercial revival pue.N ss tho
Atiro Waaf has a.,-A