The state herald., 1914-10-30
DRY TOWNS ARE BEST.
Big Business Demands Prohibition.
Colorado Spends Eighteen Nil.
lion Dollars for Booze Each

c. E. 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 elec.
ton. Moore called the dry" leader
into his office and said, '1f 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 n 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 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.
ly competent Judge OF what makes
better business. lie 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 emphaticsIlly n
dry man now and forever"
Mr.. Moore Is not the only big busi
ness man in Colorado who sees the ad
vantage OF prohibition.
WIN c. McCarty OF Denver. who Is
western manager OF the Rice.Suz Dry
Goods Company of 81. Louis. gives his
views:
Our people In St. Louis are recog.
nized us being the largest In our line
OF business In the world. and our cred.
II department figures that man with
the same amount OF ability and capi.
tai In n dry town Is entitled ii TO from
twenty-five to thirty.three and one.
third per cent more credit thnn II he
Is doing business In "wet" territory.
Our most prosperous merchants and
best accounts are those In dry
towns, In fourteen years that | hay c
had charge OF the Colorado. Wyoming
New Mexico and portions OF Kansas
and Nebraska territory for the vari
Gus large wholesale lines. ! hav, seen
hundreds OF towrs go dry. and
without exception there never has
been one az them where business has
not been better md merchants able
to meet their obligations more prompt.
ly within thirty days sftcr the town
has gone dry and we have a mer.
chan, on our books at this time who
owns number Of large retail stores,
mostly In "dry" towns. who says he
VIII open from fot,r 20 six stores In
Colorado this year " the s,ade goes
'dry'-and these 10, towns whIah now
have saioens."
Prohibition II In wing good effect
on business in West virginia whore
tho Dry amendment went Into ~.
fce, on July LIST OF this year. on that
day the Roymann Brcwlni; Company.
" wheeling. closnd It's doors. as n
brewery, and oponod ms packing
plant which employ 500 people. The
brewery employed only 90 people.
Legitimate busir ,osa will come into
It's own In Colors do whom tho state
adopts the prol libltion amendment.
Ihe eighteen million dollars that no
over the bars OF the saloor W each year
WIZ be converts into lcgii innate chan.
n'ls Of trade and Colorado will wit.
h'Hs a CONNER olal revival such as the
n'ire wcst hm pever ssen