Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-07
Law ENFORCE
~ men MENT day
Was Most Appropriately Gel
ebrated in This City
NEW YEARS DAY
THE OCCASION
And Rocky Ford Womens Christian
Temperance Union the Inspira
ton for the Celebration


Temperance Union the Inspira-
ton for the Celebration
Friends and advocates of pro-
hibition assembled in force at the
Methodist church on the after
noon of New Years day to cele-
brate the advent of "dry" Colo
RADIO.
Under the auspices of the
Rocky Ford w. G. T. U. at this
time WAS instituted what WAS term
ed Law Enforcement day, and
splendid program, with frequent
intermissions when refreshments
of strictly dry" nature were
enjoyed, served to thoroly estab-
lish the day upon the calendar of
momentous occasions in this city.
Songs and music appropriate to
the occasion, such as "Prohlbi-
ton Victory" "U. S. A." "John
Barleycorn, Good Bye" etc, were
interspersed with inspiring and
instructive addresses by the sew
eral clergymen of the city, Repre-
sentative West, Ex- Mayor Pollock
and others, amongst them being
that of Mayor Roberts, which The
Enterprise takes pleasure in here
with reproducing:
Allow me to congratulate you upon the
fact that some of you have been citizens
Of dry territory since 1901. and in Colo
RADIO. and others OF you who may have
enjoyed the privilege Of prohibition for
much longer period. thru residence in
some other dry territory than Rocky Ford.
but now today all of you. that for the first
time in history. we are citizens together
of DRY Colorado"
Altho legalized traffic in liquors died
only yesterday. the sober thinking people
of the state have been clipping its tent
aoles ever since woman was admitted to
be the equal Of man at the polls. Altho
its condition is the same that yours or
mine will be when we have ceased to
exist. It is dead for all time to come in
Colorado, and now one knows 1t better
then those who have been engaged in
the business.
Today is the dawn OF new era OF
prosperity for Colorado, and a beautiful
dawn it is. In anticipation Of the r CT re-
wards to our state. that must come as a
result of the banishment Of the liquor
traffic 5eyond her borders, this dawn is
glorious. Rewards in the shape OF an ell
evated and improved type of citizenship.
Of cleaner. clearer minds. of fifty millions
Of dollars per year going to the purchase
Of something better then LIQUOR, such as
bank accounts, education. homes, etc.
have been engaged in this legallzsd.
Legitimate business. in other lines OF pur-
suit. for the ma iority OF them will make
good eitizens when they have been long
enough divorced from their past business,
and the influences which have surrounded
thsm, and have been given chance to
think and live along other more eleyating
lines.
Poor old Denver, now that she has been
forced by the courts to give up all hope
Of retaining the fostering sore that has
distorted her imagination. warped her
growth, sapped her vitality filled her
iails. and asylums. and Impoverished her
citizens. is actually proud of the fact that
the saloons are gone. She doesn't want
to come right out and declare herself.
but ever since the supreme court handed
down its decision. there has been better
feeling all over Denver. and this feeling
has peryaded the business houses that a
year ago were melancholy over the pros
poets. and suspect even some of the
saloons. Denver alone has been in the
habit of spending $4,000 a day for
booze. Think of the effect on Denver Of
turning this e,25o,ooo year into
other channels.
1t is lucky for the state OF Colorado at
this time that we have temperance gov
ernor who is fighter to the back bone.
played football on the Colorado College
eleven fifteen years ago. against our
present governor, who was member of
the State University eleven. and know
whereof speak when say he fighter.
He has since sustained the reputation he
made then in his work, in the Fort Collins
district, when as district attorney Of that