The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-02-07
PROHIBITION vs., nIGH LICENSE,
The Coming Election In Pennsylvania
on O Prohibition Amendment,
A Canton PrOhibitionist Dives His Views
on tho Subject, In Reply 70 tho Cleveland
Iaadar
rnonnlrIoN AND rnonmIrIoNmrs.

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1t has been decided by tho LegIsla'
tnre Of Pennsylvania that the question
OF prohibition shall DO submitted 10 q
popular vote at n special election next
june, The PrOhibltl0niata have already
begun to prepare for q p|r0diglOus cam
palgn during the next Ave months IN
eyery part Of the State, Hut the TO-
turns OF last N0yember'a elections,
when they had u candidate In the Held,
do not promote the belief that they wlll
DO able 10 carry the State, on any pre-
Olnct OF any OF iS counties, IN June,
UndGr thn circumstances, " IL sheer
folly to hold the election New York
Sun,
That IN q curious mistake Tor q paper
OF the Suns standing ~ fall into IIlt
strength Of tho Prohibition party az,
fOrda no indication Of tho number ~
those VINO will vote for prohibition,
The highest vote o. the Prohibition
party In this State was only about b
per cent. OF the ndmbtr who vOltd ll
favor OF tho p%r0hlbltOry amendment ia
1883, Tho great majority Of those WHO
believe In prohibition look upon the
Prohibition party aa an obstacle 10 all
temperance legislation,
The prohibition yGlol In Pennsylvania,
however, IL not likely 10 DO proportion
ately aa large aa " was In ONO IN 1888
The Dow tax aud local option law
ana the stringent Sunday closing law
have reduced the number OF saloons IN
the State one half, destroyed tbs pOllt-
f.uI vnuf.V al finn uulnnu md nTnuIlN
reduced the evils Of the traile, A pro
hibltOry amendment, II submitted nov,
would probably be defeated by q large
majority Thousands of theoretical
prOhibitionlsta would vote against II,
believing that high tax and and local
option prohibit more OF tie trhlllc than
"a prOhibltOry amendment possibly
could,-lCloytland Leader,
EDITOR News DEMOCRAT! The
above IL from thG Cleveland Leader OF
the Goth Inst. and In only One more
witness TO prove that the Republican
press Ia doing all " can TO educate The
people down 10 support high license or
lax laws In preference TO Prohibition,
The Democratic party has been consist
Gnt In one thing, aud that IL, Nv saying
that they are u license party; but thG
Republicans try 10 make ua l'rOhibi
tlOniBla believe that eventually prOhiOi'
tiOn will bQ obtained through lh0lr
purity The great enemy to Ptohibl'
lion IA not tho llquor sellers themselves,
but IL IL the advocacy OF Tux aud II,
CGnRe IN against Prohibition, which 10
daily urged by the political press, and
In tito formidable loo 10 bG overcome.
President Her, OF Omaha, Nebraska,
who 10 nv the head Of ono OF the largest
dlstllrrlea In Che country, says very
emphatiCally, "high license acts rs .
barrier against Prohibition and that,
therefore, NJ the question OF high H.
ceUAt, low license, or no license were
submitted 10 the liquor dOOlcrd aud ga
loon men, th0y would almost unani'
mously DB for high liCouse," In Ne
DrnskN the llce'su Zee lg thousand
dollars n year for 0a.h saloon,
and Mr., Her 10 an active Republican
aud Straug supporter of high license,
aud bitterly opposed 10 Prohibition,
Now comes tho Cleveland Leader and
winds up 10 article 10y 6Hylng; "a pro'
hibllny amendment, n submitted now,
In Ohiul would pruOttly Do defeated
by Il largo mnJplliy, iINdlnndS or
theoretical ProhlbDllpulSDd would vote
against ~ believing That hi1h tux aud
local option prohibit more OF thttrllllG
than Il prOhibltOry amendment possibly
could" Aud last but not least, Francis
Murphy, who has always worked more
for lht Republican party thlm Tor the
suppression di tho liquor traffic, comes
out In Pennsylvania against tho OdOp.
ton of thopropOSCd pruhihitOfy amend.
menL,and gusluins In opposition thereto
the Brooks high license law, All three
parties have 4 perfect right TO believe
aud advocate what they please In the
way of high tax and license But they
are diahonest and deceptive when they
usk pruhbitiOnisis 10 support them
or their party, We respect an
honest opponent, hut we have no
sympathy or respect for double dealing.
Tax aud license are the direct toes aud
opponents of prohibition, and there.
fore no party IN Ohio, who advocate
auCh unconstitutional measures, should
have The support Of any man who DO.
lityes that the traffic should be entirely
suppressed. All the Republican papers
that | know Of In our state are cduGOt-
ing tho people Just as tho Lender does,
aud therefore nre putlingO oil the day of
prohibition, and should have no kind
OF support M the ballot box from any
prOhibiLi0nist Had n not been for
apringing the question by the Republi.
cans Of the Pond Scott Dow Tux laws,
we should have had p|rohibitory laws
To day, aud no man can for a moment
doubt that u prOhibitory law would be
constitutional, The power TINT lrgul.
lied the trl0lc by the enactment Of tho
above laws, had the power to enact Il
prohibitory law, but they refused, Let
Them now look to Liquor men for sup.
port, and not TO the friends Of prohiOi.
tion, JOuN DANNER,