Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-07
WEST VIRGINIA
SUCCESSFULLY
ENFORCES LAW
ITS COMMISSIONER OF PROHIBITION
SAYS STATE IS PERMANENTLY
COMMITTED TO PROHIBITION.
DECLARES HIS STATE Is EXAMPLE
OF ABILITY TO MAKE PR0HI-
BlTlON PROHIBIT.

Atlantic City, y. J.,Jnly |-Nc-t Nr-
ginia has been 50 successful in the en-
forcement Of lis drastic prohibitory liquor
law, which went into effect Just 4 year ago.
that the state i permanently committed
o. It's new policy. and not IN the slightest
danger of giving way 10 the anti-prohibi-
ton pressure which ha~ been brought to
bear upon II. according 10 Fred .. Blue. the
Commissioner ID Prohibition in West Nir-
ginla. I'm an address before the National
Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of
America here today. Mr.. Blue said West
Virginia had demonstrated that prohibition
will prohibit that a prohibition law can
he enforced. and quoted testimony from
both the employer, of labor and the heads
Of labor unions 10 the effect that condi-
tion~ had been remarkably improved.
lic charged that the liquor interest, were
spending large sums of money 10 create
the impression that West Virginia was
bankrupt because she no longer collected
revenue from the liquor business.
"Wc~t Virginia i not now. and has no,
been 4 bankrupt state said Mr.. Blue.
The stale j. in a, healthy IA financial con
ditioI ~ any state in the union
Referring 10 the recent decision Of the
supreme Court of the United States. the
effect ~ which i that West Virginia shall
pay to the bond holders Of the state al
Virginia the sum of $1,000 .000-which
debt has hcen a matter of controversy
since the separation Of West Virginia from
Nirginia-Mr. Blue said:
IF wr hive 10 pay Nirginia'~ bond
holu,r- this sum of money. We can do -.
the state of West Virginia has the rc~our-
cc~ 10 DO il. and a citizenship that has met
and solved her problems a. they aro~e-we
only have 10 pay the debt once. On the
.ph"r hand, before West Virginia became
a dry state there was annually sent out oi
the state for Intoxicating liquors the sum
uf So. 600. 000-S3.O 00. 900 more, every
year than the amount Of the adjudication
y favor 81 Nreinia'~ hundholder~. Such
financial dram for Intoxicating liquor,
upon the people of the state. went on for
years "nL would hc going ON now were il
not tor Ih, prohibition amendment and
laws pursuant th rrIu.
ALREADY tho liquor intcrr~I~ in the ma
lion are publi~hiug broadcast. nation wide.
that "Wc~t Virginia will TO- sold m the
front door III the Nation capitol to pay
4 decree u S12. 000. 900" want Won 10
know that th",ereat liquor interest ~ the
nation are actively trying to hold ont. aud
~wilfully and falsely hold out. West Nir-
.ginia to the world a. q financially troub-
led state-a bankrupt state-a state that
i about 10 BE- sold out The liquor H.
.~terestS, through their journals and other
wise. are misuSing West Virginia. fair
name. and misleading the citizens Of the
nation. For the purposes. among other~. NJ
trying 10 lead the states citizens ~ believe
that they must go TO Intoxicating liquors
for revenue, and To deter other states from
becoming prohibition states.
Men. not money. are the real assets Vt
.a state The happiness and the general
welfare Of it, citizens are the first obliga-
Of a state. Tbs generation growing M
Ia West Virginia, IL future men and wu-
men, will grow int" the full stature ut
manhood and womanhood without knowing
the open saloon. having healthy bodies.
clear minds. and clean morals. will BE-
worth more Ia the state than all the MAJ
@tcrial wealth. Compare. ii vou can make
such comparisons. the $6jO.OOO ~ annual
revenue formerly received ~ the state
from the liquor business with generation
of boys and girls, men and women. that
know not the saloon