The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-09-19
Anti-Prohibition.
Editor Home Journal:

tics which proved prohibition was a fail
ure in the State of Kansas.
The "deputy assistant pcnwiper" O
the Franklin County News comments q,
my article on Prohibition, aud hurIs hi
thunder at my "nom de plume" ig
norlng the facts there presented by m,
altogether. | nm not out throwing mud
but II the News is what it pretends I,
be, "The Prohibition organ Of Frankli,
county" | say be manly-hoist YOU,
editors name and let the people o,
Franklin know who you are and what
has been your previous occupation. $,
that we may know whether YOU are ar
honest Prohibilionist, or, whether som,
late act Of the Legislature compellec
you to be one. don't know who 70,
are. | once knew a druggist out ives
who kept drugstore and doggery, an,
made considerable money by the sale o
whisky The authorizes raised the Ii
cense on him, and what became Of him
Why, he turned Prohibitionist, and Il
nally capped the climax by getting int,
the editorial chair of Prohibition "a
per, lie lasted for time, but FINAL,
the Prohibitionists saw the "true in
wardness" of the man, and they "snoweC
HIM under" o temporal o mores
Pshawl!
| could not see the fools cap, but
nevertheless heard the bells Jingle.
The News man throws down his GLOW,
on the State of Maine. All right, sir
we accept. Maine is the home of Pro
hbition. 1t has been the law there for
81 years, and we might suppose the
good people had forgotten the taste and
smell of liquors.
In 1882 there were 91S retail licenses
issued by the United States to sci
liquor in Maine. Do dealers take out
licenses ir they have no customers ? The
city of Portland, Maine, contains 80 ,OOC
people, and there are PIP places where
liquor is sold-one establishment to l5(
souls-to supply liquor for medical pur
poses. Bangor has 10000 people and
l54 liquor establshments-one to every
81 persons. 1t must lie very sickly ii
Maine.
Will the Prohibition organ of Frank
lin tell us why the number of license:
to sell liquor increased II per cent. in
Maine in 1882, and decreased in II
other Statcs-license States?
Prohibitionists say if it was not good
law Maine, after trying it 81 years,
would not have it. BY the same parity
Of reasoning, if the license system was
not good law, 81 out of SO States, af:
ter trial of 100 years, would no,
have it.
Prohibitionists can hardly claim that
there is more intelligence in Maine than
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio
Tennessee, or other States. The popu.
ation of Maine has increased II per
cent. in 81 years; crime has increased
2O7 per cent.
Sobriety does not contribute to crime.
think the most effective temperance
for Maine would be the aboli.
ton Of the Prohibition law.
Prohibition does not prohibit, and
hats why | am opposed to it.
In our search for truth on this great
public question, let US apply the touch
stone of facts, and not be carried away
by sensational stories gotten up to make
money. In 1880 Gov. St. John was
elected Governor on the Prohibition
ticket by 10000 majority. At that
time Kansas never had any but a Re.
publican Governor. The people OF
Kansas tried the law two years, and
when Gov. st. John ran for reelection
he was beaten by Click, a Democrat, by
Il large majority. This was the verdict
Of the people after testing Prohibition
two years.
| picked up n paper published in Ten
nessee, at town where there are NJ
saloons, and every few lines | would
read in the paper was thus: Fine wits
ky, brandy, gwnes, ales, porter and la
ger beer at so and SOS drugstore
That's the loop.hole So long as sucl
places are allowed to handle such things
so long will Prohibition be a failure and
n farce.
No wonder so many of our ablest and
purest statesmen are opposed to Prohi
biton. They see it is impracticable
And, instead of reducing dram-shops, a
the News man would have you believe
they increase, and Intoxicating drink
are sold out of every little store tina
chooses to put in a few bottles and cal
it drugstore.
We have lived as a nation over ion
years, and our glorious country ha
grown and prospered rs no other coun
try-ancient or modern-ever dreame'
Of, and VIC hope and trust it will contir
uc to do so.
There is one principle very dear to a
lovers of liberty-that no party of pee
pie have any right to enact sumptuar.
laws for the guidance of another part
as to. what person shall not eat q
drink, and they are opposed to tina
spirit of fanaticism which prizes into tn
habits and appetites of their neighbor'
have been a resident of this count
fifteen years. So l have a local habits
ton. am identified with this commit
nifty, and have some friends, believe.
Respectfully, TRAMP.