The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18
LEGALIZED EVILS, NO. 10.
BY JOHN DANNER.

The story Is related that
Farmer Smith had quite a good sized
calf that he wished to remove to anoth-
er part Of his farm, and in undertaking
this, he took the rope, which was large
one, attached to the calfs neck, and
tied the ether end of the rope arouni
his waist, so as to obviate the danger
Of letting the rope slip. After they hac
gone but a short distance, the calf be-
came quite frisky, and was likely to
get Farmer Smith into the ditch, or in
jure him, ar d at that moment his neigh
Dor, Farmer Jones came along, AMI
shouted Smith, where are you going
with that calf" and Smith in his des-
peration yelled back, you ask the calf,
for am not able to tell"
This is precisely the predicament our
government is in today in relation to
the expansion of the LIQUOR traffic. The
revenue taken from the liquor traffic
represents the rope, and it is fastened
on the traffic at one end. and the gov
ernment at the other and the calf (the
traffic), is becoming quite frisky. and is
likely TO lead the government into
many different places, but the govern
ment, like Farmer Smith don't know
how to let go.
see by the papers that the brewers
of Milwaukee are putting up ware
house in Manila for storing tier beer,
that will cost 100000, which proves how
that trade has expanded, and the gov
ernment not knowing what to do with
this fat and frisky animal, like Farmer
Smith are trying to explain away their
| difficult and dangerous position, by get
ting some hired officials to testify that
the "canteen is good thing, and con-
tributes to temperance. noticed just
| few days ago in a Republican paper
| labored effort of this kind, in which
they tried to prove that beer was need
| full and that spurious liquors were
| harmless. The facts are that the beer
now forced upon the market by the
sanction and protection of the govern
ment, is suicidal to the best interests ct
our people, and must be stopped, or we
shall reap terrible downfall.
| Only a short time ago I had a short
conversation with an ex-brewer, In
which he said he never touched beer.
He never was addicted to the drink
habit, but he said IL he intended to use
| any intoxicants, it would be old rye
whiskey. He then went on to say that
the more beer was made the less barley
was used, and that many poisonous
| drugs were now used in the manufac-
ture of beer.
| The fact is that beer Is one of the most
deceptive and injurious beverages made,
any one using 1t freely, will soon show
| II by general appearance, and the clog
ging of the otherwise healthy channels
| of life, and very few beer drinkers live
out more than half the allotted time OF
| life.
Such breweries as the Morleins, of
| Cincinnati, and the Sheridan Shocks, of
| New York. and hundreds of others,
| have had a strange connection with our
most excellent government for years,
| and now they are tightening the cords
| and tossing the tax and license parties
hither and tither, seeking to expand and
| enlarge their ruinous business in the
Sandwich islands, Philippines and Cuba,
and while said parties have many noble
| men In their ranks, yet the party ma
chinery is bound to this traffic by rev.
| enue laws for the legalization and pro-
| lection of said traffic, SO that these
good men in said parties are becoming
as frantic as was Farmer Smith with his
rope attached to the fatted calf, and are
forced to go whittier the legalized traffic
leads them, even IL 1t is to ruin.
If any temperance, local option, OF
prohibition laws are asked for, they are
referred to "the trade" or traffic, as
much as was the question of Farmer
Jones referred to the calf One fat
brewer has more influence In tax or
license party than have q regiment OF
preachers and bishops.