The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-19
Winston Salem.


Winston Salem.
1. In your Judgment, has phrohi.
bition been a success in your StASeKN
Yes.
.. How has 1t affected moral condi-
tions in your community? Very much
improved.
). How has It affected commercia1
conditions in your community
Favorably.
4. would you favor the repeal OK
prohibition? No.
S. Would you favor the continuancs
of prohibition? Yes
through a period of growth and a.
velopment unprecedented In Its Ms
tory, IT will delight me greatly ~
prohibition carries in Virginia
fsigned) o. B. EATON.
Mayor Of Winsten-Salem N. g. !.
Fayetteville.
Fayetteville, N. c.. March IA. 1914
Rev. william Hedley.~ ..~,,-~s.~ 81
Ashland Va
Dear Sir:
Yours 10th at hand. am q man
forty-six years old. I have been
mayor of this city for two years.
have seen whiskey handled in various
ways Well do I remember the old
barroom system and its degrading
conditions upon the young men ~
the community and the loafing place
for rae unemployed. who became
habitual drunkards and would sell
the clothes off their backs for drink
and go home and maltreat their
families, and they in want ana pow
erty. / did not take for prohibitions
when 1t was a Statewide Issue. wal
and am still. Of the opinion that men
should be taught temperance.
think about whiskey like I do about
snakes-kill II every time you se67it.
The mail order houses OF VirginiA ~
| the old female snake that send D.
express and freight its poisonpu9
venom in gallon, quart and pintT9 0e-s
ties to be turned loose and to- ne
baueh the men o. my state. nQp0
Virginia will vote 1t out and not n
low 1t to come In or through xne
state, and when men go to the legtz-
lature in my State and prohibit the
shipping to any one more than ~
quart to any one person in any montn
and then require their names pub
Iished In rae leading paper Of tnAs
CITY on the first of the month. you Will
see even a greater change. / do No.
want to be placed before you or ~
| God that knows all In False -
hypotdtal light. 1 will. therefore. -
| to YOU am very fond of q good d14nks
| myself. But even that bciiig 50 ~
not see that 1t has ever been Of aHX
benefit to me, and In only few caaeMs
| to anyone who drinks II. There II -
| solutely nothing good that can b0 Aa40
| In defense OF the liquor traffic. 1s
| OF the opinion that 1t Is best for ~
| to even make more stringent lAW0s
against It's sale and use. And OH
side Of those who make money out OK
| its sale / can see no good reason GoHs
any sane man favoring such q CEN
dition as an open saloon in his c4fysa
| I would under no circumstances JAkoS
I to repeal the prohibition law In tAkfs
| State, and consider that for the 03Aama
| it has had to face very successful A46a
! with more stringent laws as to- 3nQ
/ shipment the law will be as eflcS6n1s
| as any other. On yesterday CANA
| down to police headquarter a. SM0g
! each Sunday morning about
| O'Clock. TO let any one out OF 80
guard house who may be in there 09Hs
trivial matters. Two men were ~
there having been locked up the MI
| before for being drunk. Old Virg1u4
/ liquor was the cause. The boys G43
get four quarts each week, and 4uNN
quarts will make eight boys dru4&1
much less four quarts to ono m
One of these boys had a thirty-41Xs
road sentence over him the next tf
he was caught In this condition. IN
| had sobered up after an all-night me4HN
| in the cell. and what stared him 1MB
| the face was before the recorder M
| 10 o'clock next morning, and 1N4M<#
| there to the roads. The sight az NN1s
young man crying with his fAce AMR
his hands appealed to me. ! thouqMNs
of the big fellow at the shipping M1 N
OF the line taking his bath An6AM
| late and hearty breakfast on teS
Sunday morning We had no pene%HS
for him. The States and national G9y
eminent approves his selling. and tS
| city government sending Bha fellA
to the roads for drinking what IN
other fellow makes money by the &5s%8
prevail of our government. ! let
| fellow out He won't see tho xe
corder this time. and hope he
| never have to serve this sentences.
could write you all day about lique4:
| and dcbauchy among men. vir9t
wipe her out. assSs Il
| Yours sincerely, ~
JOHN UNDERWOoI
MayS
! I. In your Judgment has proh{
| bition been a success in your HtAd
With more stringent laws Il
1 be about perfect.
2. How has II affected mor0lS
ditions In your community?
/ One hundred per cent Detter.a
| 5. How has :. affected commeS
conditions In your community
Five hundred per cent bettex.
| 4. Would you favor the rep@4
prohibition? zSS
/ No.
g. Would YOU favor the cQn1
ance Of prohibitions ssAgSs
| Yes.
] Remarks: Stop shipping
through Virginia and 4 N1l
i Mayor Of YAxete