Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-01
SOME VIEWS ON PROHIBITION.

more, asked about $50 manufacturers
and other leading business men and
university officials, their views on the
value Of Prohibition. All of the re-
plies received up to the date of going
to press have been published in an "a
page pamphlet entitled The Prohibi-
ton Question Viewed From the Eco
nomic and Moral Standpoint" OF these
replis e85 per cent favor prohibition
in one form or another, and not a sim
gle advocate Of the saloon is found in
the list. About IS per cent are over
whelmingly in favor Of the present laws
and their rigid enforcement, while few
though favoring prohibition in general
either prefer some modification Of the
laws because they think present laws
cannot be enforced, or else they want
the use Of wine and beer.
lnsaddition to the letters from the
manufacturers there are a large num-
Der of letters Of similar tenor from
leading educators, university and COL
lege presidents and professors, lawyers,
physicians, and others, overwhelmingly
in favor of prohibition.
Judge Gary of the Unite States Steel
Corporation, writes
Results have fully justified the pro-
hibltion legislation;" and he adds, 81
endorse the admirable expressions of
President Harding on this question"
President Harding's expression as
quoted is as follows:
"ln every community men and wo-
men have had an opportunity now to
know what prohibition means. They
know that debts are more promptly
paid, that men take home the wages
that once were wasted in saloons; that
families are better clothed and fed +:
and more money finds its way into the
savings bank. The liquor traffic was
destructive Of much that was most prec-
ious in American life. In the face of
So much evidence on that point what
conscientious man would want to LET
his own selfish desires influence him
to vote to bring it back? In another
generation believe that LIQUOR will
have disappeared not merely from our
politics, but from our memories"
Mr.. Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief of
the Brothrhood Of Locomotive Enpi.
neers, writes:
The longer | live and the more
see Of it, the more bitterly am oppos
ed to the whole question Of the manu-.
facture and sale of liquor, because |
look upon it as the basis and founda-
ton Of ninety per cent of the crime
and criminals we have in the coun.
Try today. | find a marked improve
ment in the number Of men who are
saving their money and who own their
homes or are buying their homes, and
| lind decided improvement in the
home life Of the workers due to the
fact that women and children have
more and better clothing and better
care III every way. | can truthfulIy
say that drunknesses has decreased at
least rs per cent among the workers.
The Jackson Iron and Steel Co., of
Jackson, Ohio, says:
with the coming of prohibition our
troubles from drink stopped. Under
the saloon system for two or three
days after each pay day we had trouble
to secure men TO man our plant This
has been entirely eliminated. There
is more interest in home life, reflected
in greater number of men paving
for their homes, improving the fur
nishngs, and providing better shoes
and clothing for the children. The mo-
rale OF the community has made won
derful progress. Our community is a
hotbed of Unionism, yet the Iaborinp
people Are almost unit in the SUD-
port OF the Constitution and Prohibit
ton. We believe that the demands fur
light wines and beer by labor unions
is almost wholly with the officers and
is purely propaganda"
The Standard Underground Gable
Company Of Pittsburgh, reports "pro-
hibition has been an incalculable eco.
nomie and moral blessing to million
OF our people and to the nation as a
whole There is less drunkenness and
waste OF time and money, greater
steadiness among laborers, More saw
ing of money, better care of the homes
and women and children of the men
who formerly spent freely for drink.
No conscientious man would vote 10
bring the liquor traffic back"