Milford chronicle., 1915-09-10
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.
Every Evening, of Wilmington Is Learn
ing That "YOu Can't Have Your
Cake and Eat 1t Too"

In the campaign for election of dry
Legislature which was conducted by the
Anti-Saloon League in Delaware last fall
no more bitter opponent to statewide
Prohibition was met than the Every Even
ing, published in the city of Wilmington.
The editor of that paper was frankly and
irreconcilably outspoken in his opposition
to the whole temperance propaganda.
But, i'll the language of the poet
While the light holds out to burn.
! The vilest sinner may return.
1t is peculiarly gratifying to this writer
to see that the Every Evening is begin-
ming to see the light and, while it NAV
not be exactly at the mourner's bench,
it is on its way.
On August a very significant editorial
appeared in the Every Evening concern
ing the influx into that city of EMPLOYEES
from the du Pont Powder Company
plant at Carney's Point. The 9TH of the
month was pay day at this plant, and the
Every Evening said
Wilmington, therefore, NAV look for
two entirely distinct types of men on its
streets tomorrow night. One type will
come to buy-accompanie by wives and
possibly children-the necessities which
make for home; the other will come to
booze. to utilize the plain, vet express
sive term of the street.
To the first type Wilmington opens
arms. To the second it accords the
of the city, but grudgingly and |
no more. Common scenes in the busi-
ness sections of the city following the
past two pay days at Carney's, the crowd
ing OF the police court, and the examining
Of the police cells with plain drunks." {" J
as the police blotters bluntly stvle them.
is not sight to make a municipality
proud
Already the du Points have been re-
ported to have been striving to buy up
he only place in Penn Grove at which
heir workers may obtain liquor. The
III Points are well aware that whiskev and
powder do not mix. Both are dangerous
inless handled with care. But they have
allied thus far, and even had thet sue
eeded the natural result would only be {
o drive still more liquor trade to Will q
nington. 7
But what is much more pertinent and I
IA been noticeable is that there are some S
aloOn men in Wilmington who appar-
ntly do not hesitate to sell liquor to men b
Tho are palpably drunk, or at least too e
Intoxicated to be served within the mean a
lg and intent of the law. Such saloon "
len do not deserve consideration either S
ON the officers of the law or from those b
their own trade who strive to respect / s
ie law in the conduct of their places of d
1siness.
1t is high time that certain saloon d
len OF the city took note of the fact that h
lie renewal OF their licenses is depend
It upon proper conduct of their places ST
business, and that the police should ia
1t hesitate to report to their superiors 81
" contravention of the liquor laws as
CARDS selling" dc
We respectfully suggest to the Every NJ
7ening that it is "high time" every
should be put out of busi- ha
IS, not only in the city of Wilmington. VI
t elsewhere. So long as men remain ST
the saloon business, Just so long will Oh,
ere be found some, if not most, who
4 disregard every law enacted for the en-