The Ordway new era., 1914-10-09
DAY Towns ARE sEsT.

oIs oss,ssss Dsmapss prslltStles.
csssepSs spsnds Ebshtsen MI
lied Dollars fer Boom Each
Year.
C. r. Moore, oe Neeker. II president
Of the Aposo LAsht and Power Com
pany and owns lighting and power
plants IN several western sloDe cit3ss.
Nina yeass ago . "wets and dry
fight vas On ut Pasosa 9prinss aAd
Moore e6st Lis lot with The liquor
crowd ana went down to defeat With
them. 4 few days before the cleo
tion. Noere called the '"dry" leader
into his o(flee and said. III you push
tfis nsAt to success. ! VII pub out Of
business 9nd leave TIE town in dark
ness; cannot run the Hight plant
without the saloons" That was nine
years ago. Pagoea sprinss went
-dry... ~ did q number Of other towns
where Mr.. Moore operated plants. The
light plants were not shut down.
Moore has changed front. and the
i'seosa Springs Sun, . newspaper with
vet Jennings, says. &c. E. Moore. Of
me Moore Light and Power Company.
whose business takes him 70 almost
avery town I'm Colombo. Arizona and
New Mexico. is. Of COURSE. . thorough
" competent Judge Of shat makes
better business. He states that the
dry towns of Moutrose. Grand
Junction. Delta, Paonfa. Hotchkiss
and others are better off morally.
mentally and financially than towns In
wet territory. and IS emphatically .
dry msn now and forever"
M. Moore is NOT thc only big busi-
ness man In ColoiAdo who sees the ad-
vantage cf prohibition.
Will G. McCarty Of Denver. who Is
western manager Of the Hce-Nis Dry
Goods Company Of St. Louis. gives his
views:
.our people in 81. Louis are recog.
nized rs being the largest in our line
Of business In the world. and our cred
It department figures that q man with
he same amount Of ability and capi-
tai In Z dry town Is entitled to from
|twentynye to thirty-ihree and one
third per cent more credit than II he
Is doing buEiness in "wet" territory.
Our most prosperous merchants and
best accounts are those in Dry
owns. In fourteen years that j have
had chrree Of the Colorado. Wyoming.
New Mexico and portions Sof Kansas
and Nebraska territory ter the vari.
GUS large wholesale lines, ] have seen
,iundreds Of towns 90 dry, and
Without exception there never has
5sen one OF them where business has
not been better and merchants able
10 meet their obligations more prompt
ly within thirty days after the town
has gone dry and we have . msr'
ehant On our books At thls time WHO
owns number Of large retail storssi
mostly In ~dry" towns, who says hs
| Will open from four TO six stores IN
Colorado this year " the state goes
l'dry,-lsnd these In towns which now
havs ssloons.r
Prohibition is having q good effect
on business IN West Virginia where
| the "dry" amendment went into. ef
feet on July 1st OF this year. On that
| day the Reymrnn Brewing Company
Of Wheeling. closed It's doors. as a
brewery. and opened us packing
plant which employs 500 people. The
brewery employed only 63 people.
| Legitimate business will come into
| It's own in Colorado when the state
ndopts the prohibition amendment
| The eighteen million dollars that &c
| oyer the bars Of the saloons each veal
| viii bc converted into legitimate chan
,eIs of trndr End Colorado will wit
,sss q, corrm rciGl revival such as the
! .''..;7 --s,---. ~ re,-or seem.