Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-24
THE SCRAPBOOK.
Facts and Arguments For the Reader.
Writer and Speaker.


Writer and Speaker.
lWe shall publish In numerical order
matter that will be highly valuable to ev.
cry worker in the temperance reform. We
advise the reader to cut out this column ev-
cry week and paste It in book that can be
carried in the pocket and be handy for i'm
mediate reference.-EDIToR1
a3-Liquor Dealer For High License.
John Fl. Burke Of Burke g. Mcnamara,
liquor dealers, Kalamazoo Mich, to John
Engle," Sioux City, Ia, and printed In the
New York Voice, April 12, 1894:
KALAMAZOO, Mich, March 30, 1894.
John Engle, Sioux City.
SIR-we have "Locol Option" by Countys in
this State. where majority Of the Electors Of
any County vote no Lisence Saloons are pro-
hibited 1t prevails in very few counties how
ever.
We have State Lisence of Five hundred
Dollars Tax on Retailers and Three hundred
on Wholesale OF Eight hundred on Wholesale
and Retailers combined Tax payable annually
first Of May. We are also required to Give
bonds of Five thousand dollars, Secured by Two
Persons each worth that amount.
While people differ In regard to the matter
am an advocate Of high lisense. While 1t tends
to make a monopoly of the business 1t has Its
redeeming features 1t limits the number OF
saloons In city II tends to elevate the busf-
ness from the IaCt IL requires nen Win Luore
money to engage in the business. 1t tends to
finer fixtures better location and a better class
of men. For fact II makes bigger business OF
1t. Were the tax here to be changed in any
way, 1 would prefer having II raised than low
cred. Yours truly. JOHN II. BURKE
24-High License In Philadelphia.
During the first year of the operation of
the Brooks law many claims were made in
its behalf in this city that couldn't be sub
stantiated later on. Everybody knows that
restriction has not restricted, SO far as d.
minishinR the sale of liquor Is concerned.
! The number of licensed saloons has been
very largely increased. The police admit
it; the Law and Order society agents con-
firm 1t; the liquor men themselves do not
deny it.-Editorial in Philadelphia Tele-
graph, March 6, 1891.
25-Alcohol Poison.
| Medical science has been slow to uphold
| the bands of the temperance workers, but
there is hardly doubt that it may now oe
regarded as one of their strongest allies.
The recognition of the medical world Of IL
coholism as disease means that total alb
stainers will no longer be regarded as IA
natics.-Chicago News, Sept. 10, 1891.
26-Against Prohibition.
We do not believe in prohibition by the
city, state or nation. 1t should have no
place in free government or among CIV
ilized and self controlling people. We be-
lieve in temperance and in total abstinence
as free will offerings of the heart and con-
science. Augusta Chronicle, Democrat,
| June !, 1892.
27-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
There is not prohibitory law in existence
today in any state of the Union that is not
as openly disregarded and scoffed at as that
| of Iowa. There are few, we imagine, that
! are even enforced as far as that has been.
| The example of Maine is a mockery and a
shame to all other states of the Union.
But other legislatures have not dared to
take the only manly and straightforward
line of policy. This, we hope, will now be
mended. Let Iowa lead the way. Let reg
ulations more numerous and more strin-
gent, if need be. be thrown about the liquor
traffic everywhere. But let us have done
with can't and humbug and the de-
nial of personal liberty, all for the
pleasure of pretending that a reform
has been accomplished where nothing of
the sort has happened, and that we have
stopped people from drinking because they
are compelled to buy their liquor secretly
instead of openly. We are most solemnly
convinced that the time is ripe for temper
ance reform, and that the greatest obstacle
| in the way has been the prohibition move
I ment. With returning reason in Iowa and
in other states, the people can begin to turn
their attention to measures that will deal
with the liquor problem in an effective and
intelligent way.