The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-10
LOCAL OPTION SNAP SHOTS.
Facts and Incidents Worth Repeating
Original and Selected.

Old Kentucky still lives. There is not
single distillery in Bourbon County.
Henry Watterson declares: at would
not do to pretend that prohibition is not
on issue. 1t is an issue that will not
down."
George Il. Taylor, Philadelphia
who is now a resident of Wilmington,
North Carolina, in the North American
of his native city declares that while he
went to Wilmington wet, he now be-
lieves prohibition would be God
richest material blessing to our city. "
Prohibition has done more for Will
mington than all other agencies combin-
ed" says Mr.. Taylor. To-day the
city has $4,000 people and. since pro-
hibition, the most prosperous times we
have ever had.
Property has doubled and trebled and
in some cases quintupled in value, and
about forty miles of as good roads for
automobiles as there are in the country,
/ phosphate rock and cecany construc-
ton. Two very large, handsome brick
schools are about completed and plans
for two additional ones are in progress.
The merchants who sell groceries,
shoes and other necessaries are selling
more and making better collections than
ever, and not a vacant store or desirable
house to be rented, except as they are
built.
/ Il came here not prohibitionist, but
license man, and as | have been a
reader of your paper for many years
and for many years resident of Phila-
delphia, | can truthfully say that have
been persuaded to believe by experience
here that national prohibition would be
Gods richest material blessing to our
country"
Down in Virginia the dry folks are
conducting a statewide Prohibition
campaign. They expect to hold an
election September %, and there is
every indication that they will vote out
the saloons.
Cumberland punch" is the prevail
ing intoxicant in Tennessee just now.
Cumberland punch is produced by the
state. The process involves the Dump
ing of confscated liquors into the Cum
berland river. Two wagon loads went
in the other day to the sore discontinue
of the fish.
1t may not be generally known, but
it is fact, nevertheless, and it is indie
alive of the progress of Prohibition,
that there is not left solitary distillery
in Bourbon county, the county which
gave name and fame to Kentucky. The
last one burned last year and no more
will be built.
The saloon never made a mother
prouder of her boy; it meyer made the
lot of a child brighter or happier; it
never lightened labor burden or light
ened the load of the toiler. 1t has no
good deeds to its credit; it has accumu-
lated no works of virtue. 1t is blot,
curse, a pestilence, a disturber, a
sorrow-bringer, a soul-destroyer, a
heart-breaker. Let US get rid of it
speedily.
The West Virginia Issue says that the
voting dry of the State of West Vir-
ginia seemed to sound the tocsin for a
great building and commercial revival.
"The twenty months intervening be-
tween the voting dry of the state and
the going into effect of the prohibition
law have been utilized by the business
men of West Virginia in preparing for
such an expansion of BUSINESS as they
have never before planned. Actually
millions of dollars have gone into i'm
proyement to back the conviction that
Prohibition will boom trade
1.-THE Wheeling Advance says that in
the past seventeen months 81, 300, 900
has been invested in new buildings and
remodeling old structures in Wheeling,
while improvements costing another
million dollars are projected.
IF you want to boom business abolish
saloons and quit wasting money over
the bar