Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-03-19

is today using more of its power with
unlimited dollars to over throw the
law of Righteousness and sobriety
than ever in the years past. The
liquor traffic, vile as has been their
operations in the past, are today
carrying on still viler campaign.
They are flooding the news papers
with false and misleading statements
as to the results of Prohibition. The
distillers and their friends have
launched u campaign backed by
billion dollar fund to defeat National
Prohibition. They are being advised
by learned and highly paid counsel
to use every means in their power to
the 18th amendment only "Scrap of
SANDER has already been planned. All
the lies which Kansas has suffered
for years will all be retold about
Prohibition in the Nation. The liquor
traffic is waging at the polls, in the
courts, in the public press, the most
desperate fight in its history. The
time has come in such Il contest of
Wholesale Islander and lies, for every
sclfraspccting man, woman and child
in America to look upon every one
identified with the liquor interest rs
I'M associate in the vilcst crimes that
earth has ever known. The remedy
for this campaign Of falsehood is just
as far as possible to let the public
i.now the truth and wonderful bcnc-
fits under the Prohibition law. Re-
ports of decrease not only of drunk
cncss but crimes of all sorts, reports
of cmptied jails and work houses,
advancing real estate values, of in
creased business activity. Such state
monts come from all over our coun-
thy, our big cities-Cincinnat Bal
timore, Chicago, New York. The in
cbriatc ward in Philadelphia General
Hospital, which received 3,dSl cases
in 1917, mas closed its doors The Con-
necticut State farm for drunkards
has been abandoned The New York
Tribune had page showing how
prohibition had boosted property
values in that city. The same story
comes from other cities. The Hotel
business was never so prosperous.
Great increase III savings banks are
noted in all parts of the country. 1t
is estimated that the American peo.
PIE will save $6,000,000,000 annually
which went over the bars of the
saloons. The bread line in New York
Possibly the greatest effect of Pro-
hibition is that Of the liquor cure
sanitofiums all over the country, the
Neal and Kelley institutions are clos
ing their doors for lack of patients.
30 of the 56 Neal Houses are out of
business Patients received ut the
Washlngtonian home, one of the larg-
est and oldest Hospitals in Chicago.
averaged from II to 100 monthly. in
last December received only two.
From the United Charities of Chi
cago comes this report, in 1918 in
five months they relieved 236 dcsti-
tute families; in the same months in
1919 only 20 families. Since Prohi-
bition went into effect the number of
insanity cases in the United States
has decreased 100 per cent. Comment
ing upon the absence of the. bread
line, the New York World in n
Christmas editorial said, mot in
many years, if ever, has the number
of homeless and destitute persons
been so small MS this winter. In for
mer years the first cold wave in New
YORK brought numbers of beggurs
looking for warm places to sleep, the
bread line the next morning was al
ways sad plight. Now it is different:
the first cold wave brought Just one
request for place to sleep, and
There IS not any bread line"
The city Jail of Covington, KY,
Just across the river from Cincinnati
mas been closed for lack of prisoners.
IN less than 2 12 months the nine
National Banks of San Francisco
gained $56.647,333 in deposits, and
TINS was only . l-2 months of prohibi
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was spent Christmas by the liquor
people in glaring head lines and
amazing figures, telling the death
list of numbers of persons being
made blind or killed by taking the
deadly wood alcohol, and by some
were comments: "Now see what vour
dry laws does" They did not take
INTO consideration that by actual
count, only about 70 persons were
Killed, and that in the past years
there has been probably more than
seventy nine million people killed by
the liquor traffic. Some were very
much shocked by what wood alcohol
IS doing. seem to be more than willing
that grain alcohol should be permitted
to go right along with its slaughter
OF men, women and children. They
cannot cry out against business
which makes grain into poison
which begets disease, poverty, blind
ness, crime and insanity and thou
sands OF deaths. The saloon created
the appetite which is now seeking n
quicker poison that it used to pro-
vide. The wood alcohol victim is the
product Of the days when whiskev
was plentiful. Prohibition must be
Judged not by what it can do for
those whose appctites were formed
under the old saloon days, but by
what it will do for the rising genera
tons to come.
We cannot altogether take away
the appetite which has been handed
down to the three and four genera
lions but we can work for the en-
forcement of n law which can pre-
vent its requirement, and for the
protection of millions of young
Americans who will grow to man
hood in saloonless land. Let there be
no compromise between the liuuoY
traffic and the Prohibition interest,
let there be no peace except the peace
OF utter eternal and ovarlact;,,. 10