Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-09
WEST VIRGINIA AS DRY STATE
 Is SUCCESS
So Declares Commissioner of Prohibition in State Before Anti-SaIoon League Meet in Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, N J., July S. West Virginia has been SO successful in the enforcement of it's drastic pro hibitory liquor law, which went into effect just a year ago. that the state is permanently committed Co its new policy and not in the slightest danger of giving way to the anttprohibition pressure which has been brought Co bear upon it, according to Fred o. Blue, the Commissioner of Prohibit ton in West Virginia In an address before the National Convention ot the AntO-SaloOn League of America here today. Mir Blue said West Virginia had demonstrated that prohibition will prohibt-that prohibition law can be enforced, and quoted testimony from both the employers of labor and the heads of labor unions to the Ci- feet that conditions had been remark ably improved
 He charged that the liquor interests . were spending large sums of money 10 create the impression that West Vir- Hnia was bankrupt because she no longer collected revenue from the liquor business.
 West Virginia is not now, and has not been, a bankrupt state. said Mir. Blue. "The state is in as healthy 9 financial condition as any state in the union"
 Referring 10 the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, the effect of which is that West Virginia shall pay 10 the bond-holders of the state of Virginia the sum O SIP. 900. O0O-whiCh debt has been a matter of controversy since the sepa- ration of West Virginia from Virginia Mn Blue said:
 "If We have 10 pay Nirginia's bond. holders this sum of money, We can do so-the state of West Virginia has the resources to do it, and a citizenship that has met and solved her problems as they arose-we only have Co pay the debt once On the other hand before West Virginia became a dry state there was annually sent out of the state for intoxicating liquors the cum of S15.OOO,OOO S3,OOO. 900 OOr more. every year, than the amount of the adjudication i'm favor of Virginia bondholders Such financial drain foI intoxicating liquors upon the people of the state. went on for years and would be going on new were it no. for the prohibition amendment and laws pursuant thereto.
 Already the liquor interests in tho nation are publishing broadcast-na ton wide-Jhat West Virginia win be sold at the front door of the Nations capital 10 pay a decree of Sl2,O0OOOI ] want you to know that the groa liquor interests of the nation are ac lively trying to hold outan wilfuug and falsely hold out-West Virginia S the world as a financially troubled state.-a bankrupt state-a state that is about to be sold out The liquor interests. through their journals anC otherwise. are misusins West Virgin ias fair name, and misleading the ciu zeus of the nation, for the purposes among others. of trying 10 lead th6 states citizens to believe that they must go to intoxicating liquors i- revenue, and 10 deter other state. from becoming prohibition states.
 Men, not money. are the real as sets of a state The happiness an, I the general welfare of its citizens ar, the first obligation of a state Tn, generation growing up in West Nir ginia, its future men and wom~- vii grow into the full stature of manhood and womanhood without knowing tn. open saloon, having healthy bod es clear minds and clean morals, will b' worth more to the state than all material wealth Compare, if you car make such comparison, the S65O,OO ,of annual revenue formerly receive by the state from the liquor bushes with a generation Of boys and girls men and women, that knows moi th, saloon"