McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-07-07
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Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance .Union)
FOR PROHIBITION NOW.

Mr.. Alexander Nesbit has been sher-
III of Denver for 10 years-and he
didn't vote for prohibition. Here are
some of the many things he said about
the good effects of the law in an in
terview published In the Pueblo Chief
tain:
THE habitual loafer has disap-
peared. The crowds that used to hang
around the lower end of the city at
free lunch counters have gone. Where,
/ haven't the least idea. Like last
summers flies, they just disappeared.
Again, the wine rooms are no more
and the after the theater' dinners are
over. There is no place to go except
to the picture shows. and then for
light lunch and then home, unless
they go to the pool halls. You know
1t doesn't take long to get lunch
after the theater now. Few people
say have another on glass of water.
And the old slogan, Let's have an
other Is a n4isnomer in Denver.
Neither do very many people say
Let's have another lunch and they
get through and go home.
1--WE haven't had a case of murder
since the first of the year. Our sui.
cides are falling of to great extent;
the mileage of the ambulance and pa
troll wagon Is less than go per cent Of
what 1t formerly was; our officers on
the beats are treated more courteous.
ly; there Is a better air morally
around the city; the places where
crime was formerly Matched are gone
and the city is better off In every way
SO far as its police department and
their work Is concerned.
Let me tell you another thing, the
can-rusher, the old soak who came
home with quarter In his pocket and
sent his eight-year-old, ragged, bare
footed girl to the saloon for a can Of
beer and then tossed her a crust Of
bread while he swigged the beer and
snarled at her through his drunken
ness, Is no longer resident of Dem
yer. You can't get a photograph Of
one Of these fellows In the city"
DIVORCE LABOR FROM LIQUOR.
"The sooner the labor movement
and the labor press divorces itself
from the liquor business, the quicker
real organization will become posi-
ble," says the Galesburg (Ill.) Labor
News. Our movement advocates the
education, the elevation of our mem.
bership, the securing of better condi.
tions and wages for our membership.
We cannot secure them by affiliatins
with the greatest power against them. y
Another labor paper expresses itself
in much the same strain. 1t says in
part:
MANY trade-union journals and
dozens of the best-known labor lead.
ers In America have come out openly
for prohibition. According to the
Plumbers Journal, the liquor interests
are finding out that "a lot of men who
drink whisky won't vote for It. The
locomotive engineers, 10000 strong
have gone on record for the abolition
of the liquor traffic"
Mr.. e. ]. keenan,. president of an or
ganization of dry labor union men In
Ohio, says that with the exception Of
the brewery workers and bartenders
every labor union in Cincinnati II
lined up for prohibition. The follow
ing pledge is used by Mr.. Keenan,:
1--WE believe the labor movement
will not develop and grow as 1t should
until the influence of the liquor trafis
is removed"