Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-04
In this connection, desire to ask Nv
O." few questions. He IS at the head OF
.he an" Saloon League, has taken q very

In this connection, desire to ask Nv
! o." few questions. He Is at the head OF
+ .he an" Saloon League, has taken very
[ actlr5 par prose lions for the violations
OF the local y.ion law, being silh ~. IS
chsrged With that duty by said organization,
/ and perhaps ndling o. funds 10 be ised
FOR that purposc
a. Has he received directly or Indirectly
rom any person or pr rsoua known, or sup
posed by III aged in the whissey
present OF Other
e " WAGER 81 LAS he been isss visi
leo IN MS eLOrLs % indlot and prosecute
Gle ~ no men engaged In the shisksy
business u others? 81 Ba h- epoF ssid
to one or morefmen e.eagod ~ uus
ness that hefFa not alter him or tuou., ,a.
wanted to bfel4s up others or words to that
effectp t4,l Has he not in conversation with
certain person or persons commended the
liberali5y or generosity towards himself of
one or more men known or supposed by
him to be conducting business in violation
OF the local option lawl (5) Now, II on
these questions, Mr.. Choate "were summon.
ed under oath to tell the fact would he give
facts or would he also enter the IRA ks ofthe
peIlured ones 7" ~
Iwant yes or no answer TO esfhsof the
above questions, as he has started into the
1SSSe'Oh'hS ouoihCoot anu ~ 10 RQootuiG buht
l may have some more to ask him later.
The above questions, the answers which
may be made to them and the facts which
may be developed in connection with them
may be OF the greatest Importance to a com.
plete presentation of the evils incident to
our present system, which the people should
have before them In reaching a conclusion
as to their future course with relation to the
local option law.
Nv. C.s" reference to the recent murder
in this county would seem to be very unfor.
tunate as an argument to support his con.
tentions. The effect of such things is SIM
ply to impress the public mind with the de-
iects OF our present system already pointed
out and what has and may happen under It,
Nv. q points with satisfaction to figures
by which the present local option law was
adopted as an experiment some twenty years
ago, and asserts that the people can be de-
pended upon to do the same again, If called
upon to vote upon the subject But in an
other place in the same article he says
"Fhe people of this county do not want to
run the risk of repeating the local option
law. II is an experiment that is too dan
gerous" According to his figures there
were $3.50 votes polled on this question
when the law was adopted. Does he not
know that there are 1900 more registered
voters now In the county than voted then,
and that the changes by reason of deaths
and removals and the filling of their places
upon the registration lists of young men
who have grown up and new men who have
come in, has 80 changed the personnel OF
the voters that there are hardly one half of
the qualified voters OF the county at the pres
cut time who originally voted upon the ques
tiont Have not the conditions 80 changed
as to entitle people under republican form
OF government TO have another opportunity
TO express themselves on the subjectY
The other points of NV. C.'s" article |
think are fully covered in my other articles
He is entirely mistaken as TO the disposition
made Of high license fees. Under the several
laws they go directly to the counties and
municipalities, and are imposed In addition
10 the State license lees. For the year 1896
Baltimore county received from such fees
$50, 796 10, Worcester $4,270, and Washing
ton $6,69S,
W. Ii. LAMAR.