Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1894-10-11
address the citizens, at s p. M, at
The High License Bluff Game.

Many well-disposed people are deferred
from doing what conscience as well as
common sense dictates. in the matter OF
voting, bv IL sort OF bluff game played by
certain designing men Of the old parties.
One OF their favorite arguments is that
prohibition does not prohibit. Facts dis
prove this assertion, for, to Il large extent,
where prohibition has been enforced, the
evil connected with the saloon business
have been suppressed, if not totally, so
near to it as to prove that ii we could only
be permitted to try national prohibition
for one year our highest hopes would be
realized. The business would be out
lawed instead of protected; and its man
ayers treated as criminals, instead of
honorable men engaged in legal business.
As substitute for prohibition, these
buffers offer high license. To the brew
ers and distilcrs this seems the best plan,
since it permits them to continue their
business unmoested for the tritiing sum
of few cents on dollar. Everybody
knows that for every dollar paid into the
public treasury in license fees very many
are drawn from this same treasury to
prosecute criminals, support paupcrs and
repair mischief in many cases caused by
the liquor traffic, so that however HIGH
the license, it fal far short OF the sum re-
uuired to reimburse the state for its losses.
So it fails as Il resource OF revenue.
AS step to something better, it is 4
worse failure. In every state where it
has been tried it has had the contrary eff
feet, viz, to render all attempts 1t sup
pressing the traffic utterly futile for why?
They had good enough law already.
The brewers congress a few years ago
instructed all their employees to 60 for high
license because sit is the most successful
way to bar out prohibition" How does
that sound, my temperance brother?
You see the high license argument is like
our loggers' axes, it cuts two ways-to the
temperance men it promises prohibition !;
to the liquor men it promises Il defeat OF
prohibition.
High license has been tried in Ne
braska, Illinois and some other states
with the same results, viz. No check
upon the amount of liquor consumed no
check upon the amount of crime COM
mtted; no influence for good in any way
but q total failure.
Only one victory has been scored by
high license in any town, county or state
where it has been adOpted-it has sue
cessfully barred out prohibition, by quiet
the public conscience, and putting a
op to agitation. Knowing these facts
there is the conscience OF q man who
yill 90 to the polls next month and vote
or anything les than entire prohibition
Excess ofMortality among Liquor Dealers
When you see the jolly rotund face O
the saloon keeper in the door, and the
well rounded out form below that face
you feel like saying, We'll, we'll, handling
liquor and drinking little occasional J
ust be healthy business But wait
my friend, all is net gold that gitters
neither is all that swell the jacket healthy
flesh. Facts are stubborn things. In
surancc companies have no politics, bu
they have an eye to business. Ilavin:
found out that liquor men, on the aver
age. have shorter lives, and hence ar,
greater risks to take, they either charge
higher rate OF premium or rule then
out altogether.
Here are the comparative statistic;
completed by the register-general of Eng
land Il few years ago. In his report III
srys: "rhe mortality of men who arr
directly engaged in the liquor business is
appalling" lie submits Il diagram il
(which the base Of comparison is 1000
Where the average OF deaths islOOO, TIT
deaths among brewers is represented b..
1861 the deaths among saloon keeper
l,52l. Where there We're S04 death
among the male population of selected
healthy district, there were 2,2o5 among
barkeepers Coal mining, with all 1t
hazards, is healthy business compare,
with saloon keeping. In this same re
where sol deaths occurred among Goa
miners, there are ,52l among salool
keepers. Some OF The saloon keepers loo
with pity upon the cadaverous visages c
the clergymen who never drink, bu
where |, 52l saloon keepers with thei
jolly faces and rotund bodies, are CARRIE
oil to the cemetery, there are but so
clergymen, or not quite one third tn
number. clear conscience may hav
something to do with longevity, but W
suspect that little good flesh is NOR
conducive to health than larger amour
If saturated with beer and whiskey. w
ought, therefore, to close up the saloon
to preserve the lives OF those who are i
the business.