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 July 5th, 1904. 
 
It Helps Business and is a 
 Blessing' 
 
 What Leading Business Men, Bankers, Farm- 
 ers, Laborers and Others S&y About 
 
 PROHIBITION 
 
 in Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 Issued by Executive Committee of Anti- 
 S, loon League, of Charlotte, N. C. 
 
At the earnest request of many 
 people all over the country I pub- 
 lish this second edition Feb'y 4th, 
 1908. 
 
 Heriot Clarkson 
 Chairman. 
 
OFFICE OF EXECUTIVE COMMIT- 
 TEE 
 
 of Anti-Saloon League. 
 
 Charlotte, N. C., July 5, 1905. 
 Heriot Clarkson, Chairman. 
 Dr. Jas R. Alexander, 
 E. T. Cansler, 
 J. A. Durham, 
 J. D. McCall, 
 A. J. McKelway, 
 Dr. C. G. McManaway, 
 Frank R. McNinch, 
 T. M. Shaw, 
 J. H. Wedding-ton, 
 Jno. J. Williams. 
 
 TO THE PUBLIC: 
 
 On July 5th, 1904, the saloon was 
 voted out of Charlotte by a majority 
 of 485. It was a victory against the 
 saloon system and the liquor habit, 
 not against the saloon man. Many 
 of those who were in the business 
 have stayed in Charlotte and are up- 
 holding the law and pushing the busi- 
 ness interests of the city. We bid 
 them God-speed in this and wish them 
 success. We appeal to all good citi- 
 zens to uphold the law, to discourage 
 the importation of liquor and by 
 word and deed to help this great 
 , cause. Prohibition is a benediction 
 Sand'a blessing to this community. 
 ^ Respectfully, 
 
 "n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF ANTI- 
 "^ SALOON LEAGUE. 
 
To the Public: 
 
 I hand you herewith a booklet show- 
 ing what the leading business men, 
 bankers, farmers, laborers and others 
 say about Prohibition in Charlotte; 
 the subs'tance of each testimony is, 
 "That it helps business and is a bless- 
 ing." Prohibition went into effect on 
 January 1st, 1905, in the City of Char- 
 lotte. The majority against the sa- 
 loons was 485, the election having ta- 
 ken place on July 5th, 1904. The Re- 
 corder's Court shows that the total 
 number of arrests for 1904, the last 
 year whiskey was sold, was 2,405, and 
 during the year of 1905, the first year 
 Prohibition went into effect, 1,496, a 
 decrease of 909 arrests the first year 
 Prohibition went into effect. I have 
 lived in the city since 1S72. I have 
 known the city from a small village to 
 now when it is one of the finest indus- 
 trial and educational centers in this 
 section of the South, having a popula- 
 tion of about thirty-five thousand. Prop- 
 erty has increased in value in Charlotte 
 from 10 to 20 per cent, since Prohibi- 
 tion went into effect, and never in the 
 history of Charlotte has there been so 
 much building. On the 20th of May, 
 1906, there was a great celebration of 
 the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. There was never such an as- 
 semblage in the City of Charlotte, and 
 the universal expression was that 
 "there never was such a sober and or- 
 derly crowd gathered in this section 
 of the South." A learned Judge in 
 North Carolina, who was against Pro- 
 hibition, and who saw the good order 
 that prevailed at that celebration, de- 
 clared that he was about convinced 
 
that Prohibition "prohibited." The 
 prosperity of the city has never been 
 greater. Merchants have been greatly 
 benefited as they have gotten money 
 that once went to the saloon. The 
 wage-earner and laboring man is put- 
 ting his money in the Building and 
 Lean Associations, and in the Sav- 
 ings Banks. This section has wonder- 
 fully developed the Cotton Mill Indus- 
 tries. The Cotton Mill owners and the 
 Cotton Mill operatives have been in 
 opposition, as a rule, to the saloon, and, 
 in my opinion, as Solicitor of this 
 Twelfth Judicial District, comprising 
 the Counties of Mecklenburg, Gaston, 
 Lincoln, Cabarrus and Cleveland, the 
 greatest Cotton Manufacturing Coun- 
 ties in the South, the work of Prohibi- 
 tion has done wonders and untold ben- 
 efit to the mill owner and the opera- 
 tives, and all sorts and conditions of 
 men. In one County, Gaston, twenty- 
 five years ago there were about three 
 Cotton Mills, and about forty-eight dis- 
 tilleries and many saloons; but today 
 in Gaston County there are fifty Cot-. 
 ton Mills in operation, and about ten 
 in construction, and not a legalized dis- 
 tillery or saloon in the County. Just 
 recently, in Lincolnton, where Prohibi- 
 tion has been enforced, there was a 
 gathering of some twenty thousand 
 people at a Fourth of July celebration, 
 and th-j papers commented on the fact 
 that never was such a sober and order- 
 ly crowd gathered in Lincoln County. 
 I write from long years of experience 
 in watching the liquor traffic, and I 
 give it as my opinion that Prohibition, 
 when the law is enforce 1, is the great- 
 
est blessing that can be given to any 
 community. Asheville, N. C, has a 
 population of about 28,000. On Octo- 
 ber 9, 1907, it went dry by three to 
 one. A leading Attorney of that city 
 gave the following statistics in the 
 contest there. In the same month 
 Asheville had 432 cases and 388 
 drunks, Winston 440 cases and 220 
 drunks — Charlotte 133 cases and 19 
 drunks — Asheville and Winston wet 
 and Charlotte dry. 
 
 I hope to live to see the day when the 
 saloon, "the blot on the garment of 
 our Country," will be wiped away. 
 
 This Febv. 15, 1908. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 HERIOT CLARKSON, 
 Chairman of the Anti-Saloon League 
 of Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 What the Secretary and Treasurer of 
 Highland Park Mfg. Co.'s two mills, 
 the largest cotton mills in the coun- 
 ty, says : 
 
 Prohibition has been a benefit to 
 Charlotte and its vicinity, and busi- 
 ness has not been injured by Prohi- 
 hibition. CHAS. W. JOHNSTON. 
 
 What Captain J. M. Davis, one of the 
 largest land owners and farmers in 
 the County says: 
 
 You asked me to give some expres- 
 sion of my opinion as to the working 
 of Prohibition. I live out' in the .coun- 
 try, a short distance from town, as 
 you are aware. A man came out from 
 one of the machine shops the other 
 evening to buy a cow. I asked him 
 if he had noticed any change on the 
 labor since the saloons had been 
 
closed. "La," he said, "I didn't think 
 anything could have been done to 
 bring about such a change; about one 
 hundred and fifty (150) hands are em- 
 ployed in the foundry and the super- 
 intendent had a great deal of trouble 
 before the closing of the saloons, es- 
 pecially on Mondays. Many complain- 
 ed of being unable to work, and 
 caused a terrible confusion in the 
 shops. Since the closing of those 
 dens no trouble about sick men on 
 Mondays. Everything is running 
 smoothly, and those who were always 
 out of money seemingly have plenty." 
 Some time ago I sold stock to one or 
 two colored men in Charlotte for 
 draying. In a few months the stock 
 was looking badly; didn't think they 
 could pull through till time of pay- 
 ment. Pretty soon the saloons were 
 closed and the stock began to improve. 
 In asking one of them what caused 
 the great improvement on his horse, 
 he said when the saloons were open 
 he spent about four (4) dollars per 
 week there, now he couldn't do that, 
 and now the four dollars went for 
 horse feed, etc. The best all-round 
 hand I think I ever had was a man 
 that was so often unfit for work on 
 Monday I had to discharge him; since 
 the closing of the places referred to, he 
 is all • ight. (Sober man.) The Pro- 
 hibition laws, properly administered, 
 will enable hundreds of men in Char- 
 lotte, and also in the surrounding coun- 
 try, in ten (10) years to have homes 
 paid for and happy families. Drink- 
 ers of water — wells of their own dig- 
 
ging, otherwise, they will never own 
 a cow — an animal so much coveted 
 by the poor wife. Any one to do or 
 stand in the way of bringing about 
 a reformation that all people should 
 earnestly desire ought to be ashamed 
 of themselves. J. M. DAVIS. 
 
 What a man says who works in the 
 foundry: 
 
 I have been with the Mecklenburg 
 Iron Works for 33 years. Prohibition 
 has helped Charlotte. Among the 
 laboring men whom I associate with 
 I can see a great improvement and 
 it has been a great help to the masses. 
 W. E. CULPEPPER. 
 
 What a merchandise broker says: 
 
 I think Prohibition is the best thing 
 ever happened for Charlotte. It has 
 not hurt business, and the people in 
 general are contented with it. 
 
 N. J. SHERRILL. 
 
 What a large and popular grocer 
 says: 
 
 Prohibition has not hurt my busi- 
 ness and in May and June, 1905, I 
 sold 25 per cent, more than in any 
 other year for the same months. 
 
 W. I. HENDERSON. 
 
 What a large contractor says: i 
 
 I am a contractor and building is 
 going on in Charlotte and suburbs and 
 my business has not been hurt by 
 Prohibition and in fact helped. Labor- 
 ers are scarce to get and good prices 
 are paid. J. D. FOARD. 
 
What a farmer and gin man says: 
 
 I live in Paw Creek Township. Pro- 
 hibition has been a blessing. People 
 used to come home from Charlotte 
 drinking and cursing along the public 
 roads, and now all that is stopped. 
 Some few individuals I know who 
 were regular sots now come home 
 sober from Charlotte and it has helped 
 many to my personal knowledge. 
 
 I. T. ABERNATHY. 
 
 What a good farmer says: 
 
 I live in Charlotte Township. I see 
 men coming home sober from Char- 
 lotte now that used to come home un- 
 der the influence of liquor when there 
 were saloons. I do not hear now any 
 profane swearing on the highway. 
 It is a blessing. 
 
 W. B. CALDWELL. 
 
 What a doctor and representative 
 from Mecklenburg County says: 
 Prohibition has made a marked im- 
 provement on the County. When the 
 saloons were in Charlotte negroes and 
 others would leave the city and on 
 their way home drink and curse to the 
 annoyance of the good citizens. I have 
 not seen a person drunk in the coun- 
 try since Prohibition has gone into ef- 
 fect. H. Q. ALEXANDER. 
 
 What a large farmer and Justice of 
 the Peace says: 
 
 Before Charlotte went dry, on Satur- 
 day nights when the train came out 
 from Charlotte the persons who had 
 been drinking and cursing on it would 
 get off and blackguard and curse until 
 
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 midnight. Now all this is changed 
 since Charlotte went dry, and as a 
 Justice of the Peace I have only issued 
 one warrant since Charlotte went dry. 
 It has helped the country more than 
 Charlotte, as the country has no police 
 protection and drinking fellows took 
 advantage of it. JNO. P. HUNTER. 
 
 Once a Saloon. 
 Rent of store property increased: 
 
 Since Prohibition went into effect 
 store room No. 10 North Tryon has 
 increased in rent from $700 to $900, 
 
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 and store room No. 12 N. Tryon from 
 $700 to $900. Large increase in rent- 
 al value of two stores (formerly sa- 
 loons) on corner of West Trade and 
 College streets. 
 
 What a large and influential mer- 
 chant says: 
 
 People talking about city going dry 
 hurts the city is all bosh. In my six- 
 teen ' years experience I have never 
 had as good business as I have had 
 during the first six months of Prohi- 
 bition. Besides I have especially no- 
 ticed that my cash sales have almost 
 doubled. Also rents from city proper- 
 ty have increased 30 per cent. 
 
 H. G. LINK. 
 
 Mr. F. M. Shannonhcuse, Recorder of 
 the City, says: 
 
 Mr. F. M. Shannonhouse, Recorder 
 of the city, says that crime has de- 
 creased about two-thirds; and the gen- 
 eral result of Prohibition has made it 
 a great deal easier for the officials of 
 the citv to maintain law and order. 
 
 What Mr. W. S. Alexander, general 
 Manager of the Southern Real Es- 
 tate, Loan and Trust Company, says: 
 
 That business since the first of the 
 year has been very satisfactory, and 
 that in his opinion there has been more 
 real estate transfers this year since 
 Prohibition has gone into effect, than 
 for the same period of 1904. 
 
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 What Messrs. J. Arthur Henderson & 
 Bro., real estate dealers and collec- 
 tors of rents, say: 
 
 That it has helped considerably the 
 collection of rents; and collection of 
 rents has been better than ever be- 
 fore; that transfers in real estate have 
 been at least one-third more than in 
 1904 in our business. 
 
 What Mr. Thomas T. Allison, real 
 estate manager of the Southern 
 States Trust Company, says: 
 That values have not decreased and 
 that demands for homes and real es- 
 tate investments have been greater 
 since January 1st than at any time 
 ■prior in the history of the city. 
 
 What a dealer in vegetables, etc., says: 
 I am a trucker and sell vegetables 
 and produce. Since Prohibition went 
 into effect I have sold at least 10 per 
 cent, more of the produce I handle, 
 and my business has never been bet- 
 ter. H. H. RHYNE. 
 
 What a grocer in the suburbs says: 
 
 I am a dealer in all kinds of grocer- 
 ies and since Prohibition went into 
 effect my business is 25 per cent, bet- 
 ter; this records includes when I was 
 at my old stand and present stand. 
 J. A. SOFLEY. 
 
 What a good man and farmer Says: 
 
 I am a farmer in Steel Creek, and I 
 can see a big improvement in the 
 country since Prohibition went into ef 
 feet. It was the best thing that ever 
 happened for my section. Colored 
 
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 hands come home from Charlotte now 
 sober with provisions and clothing in- 
 stead of liquor and it has been a great 
 improvement to our white citizens 
 that drank. J. S. DIXON. 
 
 What a Charlotte lady said for Pro- 
 hibition: 
 
 A good woman whose husband stop- 
 ped drinking said that before it seemed 
 like she lived in hell, but now in heav- 
 en. She says Prohibition is the cause 
 of her happiness. 
 
 What a country Merchant says: 
 
 I am a merchant and do business at 
 Sandifer, in Mecklenburg County. Pro- 
 hibition in Charlotte has helped my 
 section. It is much more pleasant to 
 attend to business, drunken men are 
 not annoying me as they were before 
 Prohibition went into effect and the 
 public road is less frequented with 
 people drinking. 
 
 S. M. HENDERSON. 
 
 What an old and influential citizen 
 
 says: 
 
 Prohibition has been a grand success 
 in Charlotte; far beyond what we ex- 
 pected. S. H. HILTON. 
 
 What a splendid farmer says: 
 
 Pn hibition has done more for Prov- 
 idence Township than for any ward 
 in the City of Charlotte. It has been 
 a great blessing to Providence Town- 
 ship. On Saturday the negroes would 
 get together and send to Charlotte for 
 
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 liquor, and on Sunday there would be 
 regular rows. Now such conditions 
 do not exist. When we send negroes 
 to Charlotte we have no fear. like we 
 once had, that they would come back 
 drunk with something broken or unat- 
 tended to. L. H. ROBINSON. 
 
 What a good farmer says: 
 
 Prohibition has helped Crab Orchard 
 Township. People who once came to 
 town and drank and came back under 
 the influence of liquor now come home 
 sober. It is a blessing not only to the 
 men, but to their families. 
 
 R. L. STINSON. 
 
 What a good man and Farmer, and one 
 who runs a country mill, says: 
 I live in Long Creek Township. Pro- 
 hibition in Charlotte has helped our 
 section. Not as much drinking on 
 Saturday evening as there used to be. 
 J. S. WHITLEY. 
 
 What the President of the Little-Long 
 Co.. large Department Stores, says: 
 In my estimation Prohibition has not 
 hurt the business interests cf Char- 
 lotte. Our business for the first six 
 months of the year shows a satisfac- 
 tory increase over corresponding six 
 months previous year. 
 
 J. H. LITTLE. 
 
 What the cashier of the Comrr.jrcial 
 National Bank says: 
 
 In my opinion, based upon observa- 
 tion and contact with the business 
 interests of the city including bank 
 and Building and Loan Association 
 
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 transactions, the business prosperity 
 and best interests of the city have 
 been in no way injured by the closing 
 of the saloons; but, on the contrary, 
 the diverting into other channels of 
 the money formerly spent for liquor 
 has been of inestimable advantage to 
 our community. 
 
 A. G. BREXIZER. 
 
 What a leading farmer says: 
 
 In the Hopewell section we notice a 
 great benefit since Charlotte has been 
 under Prohibition. Parties who us- 
 ually come home intoxicated now 
 come home sober. We can send our 
 hands to town without the fear of 
 them coming home drunk and running 
 the mules to death. 
 
 R. S. BARNETT. 
 
 What leading furniture dealers say: 
 
 Prohibition has been in force since 
 January 1, 1905, and by comparison 
 we find that our business has increas- 
 ed from twenty to twenty-five per cent, 
 over -same period last year. 
 
 Prohibition, from a financial stand- 
 point, has proved • a good investment 
 for us. 
 
 Our dealings with our trade has been 
 more pleasant and satisfactory than 
 last year. HERRING & DEXTOX. 
 
 What an excellent man and dairyman 
 says: 
 
 From the viewpoint of a dairyman 
 I nan say that my business has grown 
 steadily since January 1, 1905. 
 
 I am of the opinion that Prohibition 
 
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 has benefited most lines of business 
 in Charlotte. C. C. MOORE, 
 
 Proprietor Double Oaks Dairy. 
 
 What a large merchant in Huntersville 
 
 says: 
 
 Prohibition in Charlotte has also 
 had its effect in our town. A number 
 of people do not go to Charlotte so 
 often as they formerly did and do not 
 return heme in the same condition as 
 before when they do go. Drunks are 
 less frequent and business is not hurt. 
 J. L. CHOATE. 
 
 What large retail grocers say: 
 
 Prohibition has not hurt the busi- 
 ness interests of Charlotte and our 
 trade is better than before. 
 
 SARRATT & BLAKELY. 
 
 What an influential trucker and farmer 
 
 says: 
 
 Prohibition has been a benefit to the 
 country. No drinking ami cursing 
 along the public highway of negroes 
 and others coming from Charlotte un- 
 der the influence of liquor like there 
 once was. F. S. NEAL. 
 
 What a prominent young farmer says: 
 Prohibition has been an improve- 
 ment to the country. No drinking as 
 there once was. 
 
 C. H. CALDWK. -L. 
 
 What a good man, the President of 
 the Y. M. C. A., and assayer of the 
 United States Mint, says: 
 As to the effect of Prohibition in the 
 
Once a Saloon, 
 trial which Charlotte has enjoyed the 
 last six months, I beg leave to say that 
 my observation is that the young men 
 appear to have received its protection 
 to a gratifying extent; in only one case 
 have I seen a young man intoxicated 
 during the six months, and the boys 
 have evidently been spared the temp- 
 tation to. drink- almost entirely. Unless 
 I greatly err in my judgment both 
 young men and boys have shown great- 
 er steadiness and activity in religious 
 
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 matters during this period. The result 
 has surpassed my expectations. 
 
 The testimony of the country people 
 given 'to me has been nearly uniform, 
 that men coming to town have been 
 largely spared the allurement to drink, 
 and many women have expressed to me 
 their gratification that the head of the 
 family may now come home sober to 
 his family, and without annoyance to 
 them as formerly. My house and my 
 office are on main thoroughfares to the 
 country, and my opportunities for ob- 
 servation are good. I have seen" fewer 
 cases of intoxicated country people re- 
 turning home from Charlotte, than in 
 former years. 
 
 But the strongest indication of the 
 beneficient results of the abolition of 
 the drink traffic appear in the constant 
 prosperity of the retail stores, and 
 their larger gross sales, as I am in- 
 formed is the case; if this information 
 be correct, then the families of our 
 working population must be better 
 nourished, fed and clothed than under 
 the old order of things, when the earn- 
 ings, the time, and the strength of our 
 workers was dissipated. I have no rea- 
 son to regret the change. 
 
 The community certainly owes its 
 thanks to our vigilant officials for mak- 
 ing Prohibition possible. 
 
 GEORGE B. HANNA. 
 
 What R. B. Alexander, a large renter 
 says: 
 
 Before Prohibition went into effect 
 the heads of several families whom I 
 knew worked hard all week for money 
 
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 enough to get on a big drunk Saturday 
 night, come home and raise a big rack- 
 et in the family. When the saloons 
 were open the roads were full of 
 drunken men reeling home to sleep off 
 a debauch or run the family away from 
 home. Since Prohibition closed the sa- 
 loons no more such sights are seen, 
 instead, men who were never, known to 
 come home sober said they started 
 home long before sun-down feeling 
 strange coming home in daylight walk- 
 ing straight and in their mind. 
 
 The small stores in the suburban 
 portion of town are in a more prosper- 
 ous condition than ever before. The 
 real estate in which I am interested 
 also pays a larger per cent than for- 
 merly and I have no vacant houses, all 
 rented; a thing that I never had be- 
 fore. R. B. ALEXANDDER. 
 
 What a large hardware man, Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer Southern Hard- 
 ware Co., says: 
 
 Prohibition in Charlotte is a success, 
 and will always be as long as the laws 
 are enforced as they are at the pres- 
 ent. Of course, some few people are 
 able to obtain whiskey and drink it, 
 but the great majority who drank at 
 open bars can not get it and are forced 
 to do without it. 
 
 From a business standpoint, I think 
 the- town is better off, and from a moral 
 standpoint it is bound to be. better. If 
 there was no whiskey sold within one 
 hundred miles of the city Prohibition 
 in Charlotte would be more effective 
 than it is. A. C. HUTCHISON. 
 
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 Once a Saloon. 
 What the President of the Magnolia 
 
 Cotton Mill says: 
 
 Looking back for the last six months 
 and comparing this period with the 
 same length of time of the year 1904, 
 I have noticed a decided improvement 
 among the cotton mill operatives which 
 I attribute largely to having Prohibi- 
 tion in our city. I have noticed that a 
 majority of those in families where one 
 or more formerly used a great portion 
 of their wages to buy liquor have bet- 
 ter clothes and present a more respect- 
 able ap] earance than when bar-rooms 
 held sway. 
 
 Also the fact has been impressed on 
 me that the employes of my mill draw 
 less money between pay-days now than 
 they did twelve months ago. I find also 
 that they are at work more regular and 
 are mere agreeable to get along with. 
 I also notice that when we had bar- 
 rooms in Charlotte a great many cotton 
 mill operatives s: ent their wages 
 
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 drinking and carousing around and of- 
 tentimes were locked up; whereas they 
 now go home Saturday evenings sober 
 and jolly with their arms full of goods. 
 Any person who may say Prohibition 
 is not a great help to the unfortunate 
 poor laboring men certainly has no 
 love for his fellow, and but very 
 little for himself. 
 
 A. C. SUMMERVILLE. 
 
 What the popular and beloved Ex- 
 Mayor, Peter Marshall Brown, says: 
 Having been Mayor of Charlotte four 
 years, I took a deep interest in the 
 moral and material welfare of the city 
 and I am satisfied that Prohibition has 
 been a great benefit to the industrial 
 as well as the moral up-building of the 
 citv. P. M. BROWN. 
 
 What T. M. Alexander, an excellent 
 and prominent working man, says: 
 I have lived in Charlotte many years 
 and know what the conditions have 
 been as regards drunkenness. I have 
 watched with interest the effect of 
 Prohibition on the working man, and I 
 can say thankfully, that while drunken- 
 ness caused more working men to lose 
 their situations and their families to 
 suffer, than any other cause in this 
 city, such conditions have almost dis- 
 appeared. The working people seem 
 more ambitious to prosper, to own 
 their own homes, and make life a suc- 
 cess than before the inauguration of 
 Prohibition, and not only this, but the 
 whiskey drinkers among this class 
 who were incurables have left the city 
 (these being few in number) and the 
 
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 morals of the industrial classes has 
 been thereby improved. Two years ago 
 employers could not be assured from 
 one day till another that part of their 
 workmen would not be out drunk, neg- 
 lecting business. Today a workman 
 rarely gets many chances of retaining 
 a situation when he drinks, the result 
 is better workmen and a better class of 
 citizenship. T. M. ALEXANDER. 
 
 What one of the Police and Fire Com- 
 missioners say: 
 
 Prohibition has not hurt the business 
 interests of Charlotte. Property is 
 selling higher than before and rents 
 are good. J. K. WOLFE. 
 
 What a good doctor at St. Peter's Hos- 
 pital says: 
 
 Prohibition has made a decided 
 change in the number of alcoholic 
 troubles here in this short time and T 
 feel sure that a longer trial will de- 
 velop a longer story. 
 
 GEO. W. PRESSLY. 
 
 Helps everybody, says a prominent 
 
 Printer: 
 
 Prohibition has been a God-send to 
 the average working man of Charlotte, 
 inasmuch as the temptation has been 
 taken away from him, and therefore, in 
 my observation on Saturdays, the 
 money heretofore spent in the saloons 
 go into the grocery, furniture house, 
 meat markets and into other legitimate 
 and honorable channels, thereby carry- 
 ing happiness in the home and the 
 countrv at large. 
 
 JOHN M. GRAHAM. 
 
What W. G. Ross, a leading liveryman, 
 says: 
 
 I was for seven years prior to my 
 going in business for myself the man- 
 ager for Mr. J. C. Cochrane's livery 
 and feed- stable. He employed and I 
 had under me about eight hands, and 
 each Saturday after paying off, about 
 one-half would get drunk and not turn 
 up for business for a day or so. Now 
 all that is changed. I bought cut the 
 Cochrare stables and have been run- 
 ning Iheni myself and I have not had 
 a negro absent since Prohibition went 
 into effect on account of whiskey. Pro- 
 hibition has helped my business in 
 many other ways. W. G. ROSS. 
 
 For W. G. ROSS & CO. 
 
 What a leading farmer in Sharon 
 says: 
 
 Numbers of men in our neighborhood 
 who I know were good men, would 
 come to Charlotte, and I knew they 
 did not want to get drunk, but were led 
 into temptation by the open saloons. 
 Since Prohibition none of these men 
 have I seen drunk and they come home 
 sooner. One lady told me that she had 
 spent the happiest months of her life 
 since Charlotte went dry. 
 
 W. R. ALEXANDER. 
 GREAT ANNIVERSARY RALLY OF 
 PROHIBITION VICTORY. 
 
 At Vance Park, July 5th, at 8:15 
 O'clock, P. M. 
 
 Program. 
 Meeting will be presided over by 
 Hon. S. S. McNinch, Mayor. 
 
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 Announcements made by Mr. Heriot 
 Clarkson, chairman. 
 
 Invocation by Rev. Francis Moore 
 Osborne. 
 
 Choir of young ladies will open by 
 singing "My Country ' 'Tis of Thee," 
 and close by singing "Carolina, Caro- 
 lina." 
 
 "MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE." 
 
 My Country! 'tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sinj 
 Land where my fathers died, 
 Land of the Pilgrim's pride, 
 From every mountain side, 
 Let freedom ring. 
 
 My native country, thee, 
 Land of the noble, free, 
 Thy name I love; 
 I love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and templed hills; 
 My heart with rapture thrills 
 Like that above. 
 
 Let music swell the breeze, 
 And ring from all the trees 
 Sweet freedom's song; 
 Let mortal tongue awake; 
 Let all that breathe partake; 
 Let rocks their silence break, 
 The sound prolong. 
 
 Our fathers' God! to Thee, 
 
 Author of liberty, 
 
 To thee we sing, 
 
 Long may our land be bright 
 
 Wltih freedom!' s holy light; 
 
Protect us by thy might, 
 Great God, our King! 
 
 Short eight minutes talks will be 
 made by the following gentlemen: 
 
 Charlotte a Model City under Prohi- 
 bition, Rev. G. W. Belk. 
 
 The Growth of Charlotte Under Pro- 
 hibition, Mr. M. B. Spier. 
 
 What Prohibition has done for hu- 
 manity, Dr. C. G. McManaway. 
 
 What the Brown Administration has 
 done for Prohibiton, Dr. A. J. McKel- 
 way. 
 
 What .Prohibition has done for the 
 church. Dr. W. W. Orr. 
 
 What Prohibition has done for the 
 laboring man, Rev. Geo. A. Page. 
 
 Prohibition in reference to crime, 
 Mr. J. D. McCall. 
 
 What Prohibition has done for the 
 Manufacturer, Dr. T. F. Marr. 
 
 What Prohibition has done for the 
 Country, Mr. H. W. Harris. 
 
 What Prohibition has done for the 
 HomO, Mr. F. R. McNinch. 
 
 After every three speeches, music 
 by band. 
 
 THE OLD NORTH STATE. 
 
 Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's bless- 
 ings attend her! 
 
 While we live we will cherish, protect 
 and defend her. 
 
 Though the scorner may sneer at, and 
 witling defame her, 
 
 Yet our hearts swell with gladness, 
 whenever we name her. 
 
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 CHORUS. 
 
 Hurrah! Hurrah! The Old North State 
 
 forever ! 
 Hurrah! Hurrah! The good Old 
 
 North State. 
 Though she envies not others their 
 
 merited glory, 
 Say, whose name stands the foremost 
 
 in Liberty's story? 
 Though too true to herself e'en to 
 
 crouch oppression, 
 Who can yield to just rule or more 
 
 loyal submission? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Plain and artless her sons, but whose 
 
 doors open faster, 
 To the knock of the stranger or tale 
 
 of disaster? 
 How like to the rudeness of their dear 
 
 native mountains, 
 With rich ore in their bosoms, and 
 
 life in their fountains. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 And her daughters, the queen of the 
 forest resembling, 
 
 So graceful, so constant, yet to gen- 
 tlest breath trembling, 
 
 And true lightwood at heart; let the 
 match be applied to them, 
 
 How they kindle in flame! Oh, none 
 know but who've tried them. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Then let all who love us, love the land 
 
 we live in, 
 As happy a region as on this side of 
 
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 Heaven, 
 Where Plenty and Freedom, Love and 
 
 Peace smile before us; 
 Raise aloud, raise together, the heart 
 
 thrilling chorus! 
 CHORUS. 
 
 FINALE. 
 "Horn, Sweet Home," by Steel 
 Creek band. 
 
 [Addenda.] 
 Feby. 5th, 1908. 
 
 Immense Investments in Real Estate 
 
 It is estimated that more than a 
 million dollars has been invested in 
 Charlotte real estate within the past 
 three months. The day seldom pass- 
 es but that some new deal in Char- 
 lotte dirt is reported. Rumors are 
 flying thick and fast as to options, 
 investments, profits and the like. The 
 subject uppermost in the public mind 
 just now is the wonderful increase 
 in the value of Charlotte property. 
 The figures are soaring skyward and 
 there is no indication of cessation 
 in the wonderful advance. 
 
 A propos to the many purchases 
 and counter purchases of Charlotte 
 real estate, the following story is told 
 of two traveling men, who are sup- 
 posed to have their homes in the 
 city. 
 
 They were making several towns 
 in upper South Carolina and met at a 
 point far removed from civilization. 
 The one asked the other: 
 
 "When did you leave Charlotte?" 
 
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 The other replied in a matter o£ 
 fact tone, that he had been absent 
 a whole week. 
 
 "Well, you had better get home and 
 look around. Property has been 
 changing so fast that you wouldn't 
 know who owned the town. 
 
 The story is not so far off after 
 all. — Charlotte Observer, March 7, 
 1906. 
 
 House Famine in Charlotte. 
 
 "Of the 600 houses in my charge,' 
 remarked a prominent rental agent 
 of the city to an Observer reporter 
 yesteivay, "but two of them are 
 vacant. I am getting letters of in- 
 quiry almost daily. There are no 
 vacant houses to be had in Char- 
 lotte so far as I know." A few are 
 being built, but these are disposed 
 of long before they are completed. 
 If I had 50- more houses I could 
 rent them without difficulty. Not 
 only are there very few available 
 houses for prospective residents, but 
 the rents have been advanced from 
 20 to 25 per cent during the past 
 12 months. The increased rents 
 seem only to have made the demand 
 more pressing. There is going to 
 be a "house famine in Charlotte un- 
 less some of our people erect more 
 of them." — Charlotte Observer, Nov. 
 2nd, 1906. 
 
 Great Demand for Houses. 
 'We have between 650 and 700 
 
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 houses on our rental list and have 
 not a' single house vacant for white 
 people," said Mr. J. Arthur Hender- 
 son, of J. Arthur Henderson & Bro., 
 real estate and rental agents. 
 
 Mr. Henderson also stated that his 
 firm had only two vacant ; negro 
 houses, one at 75 cents a week and 
 the other at $1.25. The houses rented 
 'by this firm range in price from $5 
 to $40 per month, "and our tenants 
 put up spot cash at the end of the 
 week or month," said Mr. Hender- 
 son. 
 
 This is a splendid evidence of 
 Charlotte's increasing population and 
 development and the condition of 
 this rental agency may be found 
 among all the other rental agents in 
 Charlotte. There is a constantly in- 
 creasing demand for houses in all 
 parts of the city. The tenants are 
 all good and pay their rent when- 
 ever the collector comes around. — 
 Charlotte News, Nov. 22, 1907. 
 
 Since Prohibition went into effect 
 in Charlotte some few buildings or 
 more than the ordinary have been 
 built and are being built. Some of 
 them are these: 
 
 1. Selwyn Hotel — one of the largest 
 in the South. 
 
 2. New Auditorium — one of the 
 largest in the South. 
 
 3. New Law Building, owned ana 
 occupied by the lawyers. 
 
 4. New Y. M. C. A. Building. 
 
 5. Charlotte Trust Company Build- 
 ing — Skyscraper at Osborne corner. 
 
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 6. New Hospital. 
 
 And many other minor buildings 
 and improvements too numerous to 
 mention. 
 
 What a Live Farmer Says. 
 
 I know that Prohibition has been 
 a great help to the country; the 
 main reason is that I know there 
 is not one-quarter of the whiskey 
 used .in the country that used to be 
 used. People have a great deal more 
 money now than they once had as 
 they save it and do not spend it for 
 liquor. W. W. ELLIOTTE. 
 
 What a Splendid Man Says. 
 
 Everything is going on quiet in my 
 neighborhood and there is no drink- 
 ing, and the neighborhood is on the 
 best boom since I knew it, and i 
 know Prohibition has been beneficial. 
 J. W. FREEMAN. 
 
 What a Member of One of the Oldest 
 Falilies in the County says: 
 My opinion of Prohibition is past 
 writing; it has been so beneficial, i 
 am thoroughly convinced it has help- 
 ed everything — morally and physically, 
 mentally and financially. The differ- 
 ence to me is so great there is. no 
 way of expressing it. 
 
 N. SUMMERS ALEXANDEu 
 
 What the Best Farmer in His Sec- 
 tion Says. 
 There has never been anything in 
 our country that has been more bene- 
 ficial than Prohibition. I . have not 
 
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 seen, to my recollection, a person 
 in my neighborhood under the influ- 
 ence of intoxicants since Charlotte 
 went dry. I have noticed a great 
 and good difference in Charlotte. 
 J. WASH DUNN. 
 
 What a True and Tried Man Says. 
 
 I have not seen a man coming 
 home from Charlotte hollowing and 
 whooping since Charlotte went dry — 
 it was a common thing before, it is 
 a blessing to the country. 
 
 A. HOPE STEWART. 
 
 What a Younger Farmer Says. 
 
 I think Prohibition has done a great 
 deal of good. The people I used to 
 see going home drunk and staggering 
 along tne public roads, now go home 
 sober with the money they once 
 spent for whiskey. I think it a 
 
 good thing they ran it out of Char- 
 lotte. J. T. SWARINGEN, 
 
 What a Good All-Round Farmer Says. 
 
 Prohioitioh is a blessing to the 
 man that never drank a drop; it is 
 a blessing to the man that did, and 
 is a blessing to the community. 
 C. GIBSON. 
 
 What an Excellent Citizen Says. 
 
 I am in a position to see; I am 
 on the public road, and right at the 
 
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 forks of the road. Prohibition has 
 helped both this and Gaston county. 
 You can not put down for me too 
 strong language the good it has done. 
 We can get hands to work on Sat- 
 urdays on the farm; and we used to 
 not be able, as they went to Char- 
 lotte and often drank and spent their 
 money. S. W. BEATY. 
 
 What a Hard-working Farmer Says. 
 
 I think Prohibition is doing much 
 good for the country. It has helped 
 the country people a great deal— 
 they don't come to Charlotte and 
 stand around and drink, as they 
 used to do; it has helped me. 
 
 C. T. COX. 
 
 What a Hard-working Colored Man 
 Says. 
 
 I borrowed on my home March 4, 
 1901, jpoO.00. I was drinking ana 
 very often in the guard house in 
 the city of Charlotte, and was un- 
 able on account of drinking to pay 
 the $30.00. "Vv hen prohibition went 
 into enect, Jan. 1st, 1905, I was able 
 to sober up and saved my money and 
 paid on the debt, Feb. 6. 1905 $20.00, 
 Sept. 15th, 1905, $10.00, Oct. 11th, 1905, 
 balance $7.40. Prohibition has help- 
 ed me, and although an humble col- 
 ored .man, I give this testimony. 
 
 his 
 ALFRED X WATSON 
 
 mark 
 Witness: R. L,. SING. 
 
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