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Page 2 Men and Women of Stokes BE NOT DECEIVED • • • • • And so we must have liquor stores in Stokes Who shall answer for this stupendous county. tragedy? As if the supply of unlawful drink were not . CIYTOITC RRULRRWR 1 sufficient to ruin our county, we must increase the supply a THOUSAND PER CENT, and put They say the plan is to put one each at Dan the stamp of "respectability" on it. bury, King, Lawsonville, Sandy Ridge and Wal- We must be sure to have enough to corrupt nu * C°ve and damn the boys and girls of Stokes. How near to your boy and girl do you want The wet crowd calls it control. They know in one ? How close to your church do you want one? r T hea ? S * s CONTROL, but UNCON- They say we must have them to pay the ex- TROL Liquor cannot be controlled' It has pense of social security. They say it is the only never been controlled. It CONTROLS. way to raise the money to pay the aged and the ! THE FALLACY OF "CONTROL." ' blind and the crippled children. They would leave the impression on weak Men and women of Stokes county. be not de minds that by putting the stamp of law on liquor ceived. This statement is NOT TRUE, stores, that liquor is "controlled." . The amount Stokes county must raise for There has never been a bigger fallacy or a social security is only $14,000, as declared in the bigger deception. budget. How can you "control" liquor by spreading it What is $14,000 to a countv whose taxable like wild-flames, by increasing the supply a property is $8,800,000, and which yearly pays thousand per cent.? around $150,000 in taxes. When the Mississippi is at flood stage, is it Some other counties of North Carolina are "controlled" when the Ohio is turned loose taking carp of their social security and at the into it? samp time LOWERING their tax rate, and they When the woods are on fire, is the conflagra- are doinor it not by fpHw their bovs and jrirls, tion "controlled" 1 by setting the flames out in a but by practicing a CLOSER ECONOMY. Why dozen places more? can't we? What becomes of the vast illicit traffic that Men and women of Stokes—Christian fathers now goes on when you establish your liquor and mothers—be ye not deceived. The excuse stores? that we must have liauor stores to t>av the ex- It continues to go on just the same— as the P enpe of social security is a DELUSION and a record in other counties shows—with increasing snare, put out to capture your liquor vote, momentum. The only difference is that the Let the small pittance of $14,000 for social liquor store increases the supply a thousand per security be absorbed in some other way—not cent. > * * * + * » by destroying our young men and women. The appetite of the people for strong drink » ANOTHER FALLACY, may be expanded a thousand fold—it is insati- They claim the profits from liquor will in a at>le * few years pay our county indebtedness of more Through competition between the law and than a million dollars, the traffic, a cheaper product results, and s^a t emen t is another delusion and a everybody drinks more. snare, and we DENOUNCE and DENY it. We YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. can prove from the records of other counties When you vote for a liquor store, your boy that n the /™ m the ! r li l u l OT stofes are knows it You can't fool him with the Austra- J n a J™ rge , me . as " rC lian ballot. You only vote to make it easier for SnTJffiy pattbil satriS" him to get it and your action eneouragesh.m «£ «b»whe> c^t to drink. He soon acquires the taste tnat is not , , , , ~ quenched. You say the store won't sell the boy. to the count y of the '"ceased crime that results. But it will sell his "friend." In our best judgment it will take the profits Thus you become a party to the ruin of your from liquor stores a century to wipe out the daughter, or the damnation of your boy. You debts of Stokes county, and while doing it they cannot DENY this. You are not responsible for will leave their black trail through five hundred the blockade still, but you become responsible rained homes, through the insane aslyums and for the "LAW" that DESTROYS. the cemeteries.. The cost will be at the expense When you see your child led off to jail, or of citizenship, stand in agony and tears as the mangled body is There is no valid excuse lr. the world to estab brought in from the wrecked automobile, do lish liquor stores in Stokes county, and those do not blame the law. Blame yourself. who vote to inflict this intolerable curse on our One of the most eminent statesmen of Eng- manhood and our womanhood are taking a shud land made the remark that liquor has carried off denng responsibility upon themselves, p third of the human race, and ruined countless Go out on August 17 and vote NO —a thou millions of families. sand times NO.. ; , • ••ft This Advertisement is paid for by Dry Citizens of Stokes County THE DANSUKY iWJUiII THUBBDAT, JULY 1987
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