The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-01-29
FRANCES L. WILLARD.

ticlo In the Signal, by Miss Willard,
entitled "IFallacles Of HIgh License !"
Shall NO never get 10 the end OF this
high license ftllacy ? Snail va mover
learn that not the accessories 10 the
sin Of selling poisonous drinks, but
the sin itself Is what we must stren-
nously oppose. prohibit and eveutu-
ally blot out
For instance, suppose wo apply tho
high license sophistry TO gambling
houses. Has the rattle OF dice a diff
ferent sound In a marble gambling
palace from what 1t would have In
mud cabin ? Il tho decentralization
less because the table Is mahogany
instead Of pine ? Are the suicides
that result from gambling fewer In
proportion behind marble porticoes
than wooden easements ? Il Is the
effect Of the gambling passion on the
brain and heart, on health and homo
that makes Il an unmlngIed curse.
Tts surroundings have as little power
to change that effect as have the
clothes We wear to change the color
of our eyes.
II Is at this point that the aigu.
ment OF our high license friends ex-
hlbIts It's faulty aud folI,. The only
real values possessed hy the state are
is citizens what ruins them, ruins
the state. Now whisky has precisely
the same effect upon the citizen
whether II Is poured from broken
bottle or cut glass decsnter. The
worst poison that ever gets into IL Is
alcohol. He may enter the place
where IL Is sold through a carved
door OF one made Of refuse lumber ;
he may stand before rosewood bar
or one Of unpIaned boards /; he may
swallow the dFaught of which alcohol
Is the one fascinating ingredient, from
a silver goblet or cracked tumbler /;
the men about him may wear broad.
cloth or blue jeans I; the state may
got twenty-five or FIVE hundred dol.
lars for tho license, ell these are out
side facts, but the inside fact out.
weighs them all !; the physical harm
the moral degoneracy these are Jus
the same In the low licensed grog
gerry or tho high licensed saloon
When we want meat we 60 10 th,
> market, without stopping to ealoulat'
) whether 1t Is one or three block
away; without rejecting as TO th'
, number of markols In the town. b!
/ how much more will tho man who
q under tho fascination OF the drinl
habit make his way to the pIac
J where his craving can be gratified
], The same reason holds as 10 the ev
: effects upon society. The cross-gair
j. ed conduct of the moderate drInkt
q Is not modified by the surrounding
d amid which he swallowed the polso
e that clouded .hia moral perception
t- The curse and ribaldry of the inebr
d ate are Just the same when he hi
/, swallowed the high liesnss liquor
II it had been low licensed. The bio
he gives to wife and child stiug noi
the less because the man who so
J. him beer or whisky paid four tim
70 as much fer the permission as hi
= been required of him the year prev
ous. Poverty, disease, disgrace al
H crime, these are net lessened by hii
IL license, asjs proved by Observable
2 2 and statistics, but most Of all from Il
: nature OF the case, hence high lIcen
Is notorious fallacy and failure.
AZ To a report of the British Anti-I
id bacco Society the following Is state'
m cit is fact that in most cases
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