The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-01-15
INDEANA COUNTY PROHIBITION

The refusal of Judge Harry White to
graeS any tavern license in Indians county,
practically establishes within her borders
Prohibitory liquor law without the aid of
Constitutional amendment. The Indiana
Messenger of last week, while it approves, as
all right minded men must approve, of the
sentence Of Judge White upon Frank Derr,
the Indiana Borough hotel keeper. for open
ly maintaining bar in the face of the re-
fusal of the Court to grant him a license,
takes occasion to express its views in regard
to the fact whether the cause OF temperance
has been p-omoted in thai county by Judge
Whites course on the license a uestion. 1t
says
ut is aew six months since the hotels In
this place were denied Iieenss and we have
i had some experience iD prohibition. we
1 have eoSRe to the conclusion that prohloi-
| tion does not prohibit. If It stopped the
/ sale OF iatoX XicatinR liquors and prevented
/ men frst1 getting drunk we would be pre-
! pared &c advocate it with sail our might
! But The experience in this place ls that II
/ does D0S. The law Is YIoleSed every day
! and tsen who want to pet drank, and there
are macy otthem, find no difficulty in get
ting the necessary intoxicaDts. Thls Is
/ lameDtsble fact and the same thing is expe-
| rienced in other prohibition districts. In
! many portions of Iowa, where they nave
prohIbitioD, the law is a dead letter and no
one thinks of indicting the SiOlaters and the
result Is that there is more drunkenness
there shan in the Deighboring state OF Hi
! nOis Ehere they have q high license law.
Statistics from the two etates show thas
high license has been OF more benefit than
prohibition, and if, In Pennsylvania, we can
not have prohibition that will absolutely
prohibit, let US have a hi0k license law.
That e. least will be a stepin the right di-
rectioE and will help educate the people up
to the standard of absolute prohibition.
From iadiscrimiDate license to prohibition
appears to be too big stride and even if a
legislature should be elected taat would pass
such al enactment We very much fear
{ it wozh share the fate of the iowa law.
Our little community he re Is not different
. from any other in the state and we know
| whereof we speak when we say that there
! Is more drunkenness to day than there
would be bad we one two high licensed
hotels SBd certainly the quality of liquor sold
would De of better Grades Cor the man
who taxes two drinks of the vie stuh ped
died ab0gt our streets to-day Is prepared 10
go home md lick his grandmother. We 90
: not wish to throw one straw ia the way OF
the good men and women who are striving
for the salvation of their fellows from the
fate of the drunkRrd hut we do think that
the best thing, at this time. is high license
J law with strong restrictive provisions
That will &c open the way and educate the
people that in time we may have prohl-
bitory law that will really prohibit.
We know that many enthusiastic temper
auce people will differ with Us in our views
on this subject but we can't help it
, We are just as earnestly in favor of temper
! auce as they, but we fail tC see the remedy
T as they do"