The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08

Florida ......... $40 Oregon. ........ .240
Kansas (pr'b'n).. So New Hampshire .24s
west VifRiniA.. 167 wisconsin. $500. 242
Tennessee ...... 81 Connecticut 80. 40
Nebraska. ....... I'll Louisiana $500. .2I6
Maine (pr'b'n).... sO2 New Jersey 80. .1ss
Virginia. ........ 5G3 Rhode Island. ia
Delaware ........ $40 NewYofk ...... .157
Massachusetts,. bll Colorado. Isl
Texas ............ 4s8 Idaho. .1ls
Pennsylvania. 478 Wyomipg. $50
Iowa. ASS California. ...... 81
Kentucky ....s... 4O7 Nevada. ......... II
Minnesota. ....... 1913 Montana. ....... o.
Dealers In beer stand precisely the same ~
dealers In whisky under the lows statutes,
and include them ii the computations for
al Of the states for that reason. They are
retail liquor dealers under our laws and the
comparison can be made for oil OF the states
In no other way. The relative standing OF
the various states would not greatly differ II
beer vendors were omitted altoesthef.
Az 70 drugxists, they are taxed By the gov
ern ment - retail liquor dealers In all Ut the
states, - they at least sell intoxicants for
medicines, 90 that Iowa does not suffer In
this respect in comparison with license states.
The government returns do not distinguish
between druggists and other retail liquor
dealers.
Iowa Compared with High License StatsA
Pray observe. my repablican prohibition
friend, how Iowa stands In comparison with
the six southern democratic states which are
Highest on the liss In efficient regulation and
control OF the tPaf6c.
All of these elk states bave license systems.
Arkansas, and perhaps others OF the six,
combine local option with high license: and
40 that In proportion 10 the population We
have In our midst twice - many liquOr deal
ers . any OF these states, aud two and one
half times - many - either Alabama, Ar
kansas, South Carolina or Mississippi. In
limiting the trafnc W are far TO the rear,
instead OF being At tho front with banners
flying and drums beating Is . certain class OF
editors and orators would have you believe.
We are not - burning and . shining light"
TO oil peoples OF the earth - has been % In
sistently proclaimed. We are nursiug glow
worm, and whenever the masgot emilia .
h0sannAhs and noisy defamation. But the
world knows . beacon light set forever On
the mountain top OF human achievement - :
guide for the nations, and no amount OF
frenZied vociferation can transform the glow
worm Into such : celestial illumination.
Fetich worship may b dsvout and sincere.
but Il will not carry forward the Wheels OF
progress. We may shout ~ We will, bus
many OF our sister commonwealths who have
been tradu sod and viliined all over Iowa ~
the paradises Of free whisky. lead No In the
race In dealing successfully with the evils OF
the liquor traffic. Instead OF splitting the
heavens with our strident cries Of superiority
over the rest OF the human race, w0 may we'll
consider human experience elsewhere. and
learn the lesson that rational methods, based
upon human rights and human motives and
efforts, will produce better results than intol-
erance and bigotry with their harsh and re-.
voting punishments.
Think Of II again. Iowa, ninetesnth on
the list! Not only are the six southern
states already mentioned far In advance Of
us in efficient control Of the liquor trafhr
but Florida, West Virginia, Tenness, 1Se-
braska, Virginia, Delaware, Massachusetts
ell ahead OF US; Texas ahead " Us: Penn
sylvsnia' 30 lately In tia a-Ysas, ahead Of us.
and Kentucky close apon our heels with oIly
. fraction In :. favor. and likely to OUT
strip us - year, for the figures show IN
inoresas of 7S7 retail liquor dealers in Iowa
~ sue nsst half OF July. 1891, IS compared
, -l.n me same period In 1890. That fifteen
DAYS OF this year of prohibition In Iowa, saw
3,4os retail liquor dealers pay their govern
rnent tax In our midst amounting to Ss5,675.
an increase Of $19,675 In half month. Such
are the results Of prohibition in Iowa, In
comparison with the license system In sister
states whom we ought outstrip under any
rational system without an effort. That We
do not do 20 10 the fault OF the law, and mot
morality and sobrtety Of our nearly two mil
lions Of people.
Democratic Record On High License
Take another look ~ tho table already
given you. You who ma.iciously assert that
tue democratio party cannot DO trusted to
deal with the liquor traffic; you mendacious
brawlers who declare that saloons multiply
whenever the democratic party has full
power; . glance will show you that this
For Of the twenty -four states In which IL re-
Quires population Of moro than three humid
red to support liquor dealer. fourteen Of these
states are reliably democratic, four more,
Iowa, Nebraka. Michigan and Pennsylva-
MIA were democratic - their last elections,
while Indiana 10 NJ least doubtful, leaving
only flve reliable republican states, Maine,
Vermont. Massachusetts, Kansas and Aiane-
sofa, outside OF the free whisky belt whore no
attempt ate6ective regulation II made.
Republican Record on Free whisky.
Now turn TO the states which are In the
depths, and have liqusr dealers ranging all
the way from in 29S. down to ] In 80 Of
their population. and ID u here the republi-
can party has its greatest strength. OF the
eighteen states which make this wretched
| showing only three. Maryland, New Jersey
and Loa.siana Are reliably democratic. The
arc al republican or doubtful. A 70
| the Two Dakotas tie figures accss-
siole to me do not enable me to make the
com parison separately. but both toEether
had one liquor deAior to every 800 In
habitants In 1870. IL there 10 any prohibi-
| tion comfort In this IL Is eorely needed.
These are facts. Ibid not make them. They
| are from the official figures OF republican
| census takers and republican revenue collec-
tors. They cannot be denied. They canuot
be Questioned. Any citizen who will take
tho trou ole 70 make the computation will
| md the results 40 have given them, and II
he Ia . candid citizen no must admit that
high license and local option have dealt with
the liquor trafIic more effectively than pFohi-
| bition. He mast also admit that the results
show that the democratic party has mastered
this evil Tar more successfully than the rcpub-
licsn party has done.
Falsshoods Refuted.
Here, too, 10 An end, ct ence and forever, OF
the stale Ito that the democratic party 10 seek
| ing to multiply sales OF intoxioAn:s and In
| crease drunkenness In our midst. The iepub.
licAn orator In Iowa who again repeats this
fabrication to evoke yells Of applause from
| frantic bigots who nurse the belief that re-
publicanism Is one Of the holy orders, must
| degrade himself TO the level Of common and
public liar. And must put the degrA ting esti-
mate upon his hearers that they lack common
honesty and common intelligence. Fellow
| democrats. Whenever and wherever this false
| accusation 10 made. hurl back the solid fact.
| A. solid shot, that Iowa has . retail liquor
| dealer for svery ASS Of our people and In still
| going from bad TO worse: while democratic
l Ataha has nniv onA IN 4 19- mi o