The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-11-28

CONDUCTED BY MRS. \. L. Honna.
From Patriot Phaianx.
TWO GREAT MISTAKES.
Io'efatioa Of Afriess Slavery Lefalis.
Ing Tie Liquor Traffic.

Io'eratioa Of Afriess Slavery Legal
Ing ihe LIqser Traffic.
There has been 90 much said ar
written on the liquor question it
hard to strike any new chord. III
license feature has been in voer
Tor hundreds Of years in some chap,
and the ravsges Of the traffic ha,
steadily increased. During Il
last decade there has been marke
change in the opinion Of thought.
people on the nature and obiet
Of license. The time was within ia
memory of the living when license
especially high license, was consid
cred by many honest people to b
a temperance measure, but tha
time has passed among tbinkin,
people. There cannot logically b
any claim set up for the license sys
tenn but a legalizine and protectins
policy for the saloon. II was insti
tuted to open saloons, but not te
close them.
The stock argument, or rather
2 stereotyped assertion, prohibition
don't prohibit" 90 universally used
by liquor men and their henchmen.
has sometimes deceived the care
less and Indifferent. In 1886 and
since, seven states Submitted con
stitutional amendments for prohibi
ton. The combined liquor power,
composed of various state and ma
tional wholesale and retail dealers
associations, pooled their interests
and made war on the proposed
amendments. paying thousands Of
dollars to leading newspapers to|
hight prohibition and advocate high
license. These seven campaigns.
in the seven states, resulted in de-
feating the proposed amendments
by an aggregate vote Of about AIS.
500 majority.
The question naturally arises 10
the minds Of thinking people, why
did liquor men spend . few thous-
and dollars to defeat prohibition-l,
Ia failure"-and boost high license
as Temperance meashre?n |,
Since the organization of the va
rious state and national organisations /
into what is known as the liquorli
league no state has adopted consti- d
tutional prohibition. When q state q
has presented such a proposition. q
this league has notified the party inIy
power that if the amendment car
ried the politics of the stste would 2
change, and the party heeds the :
notice and Yields to the demands |
Of this debating power. 10,
Strange that the, Liquor power will a
spend 80 much money to defeat Ella
failure" and boost high license 81
ls Temperance measure. But aIre
till more strange thing is that peo- |or
lie with seeming intelligence willtr
'e humbugged BY such chicsnery. pc
10 greater humbug exists than Ii
ense as q temperance measure.
About one hundred yefl- ago
X from 8 to 25 cents was laid on
istilled liquors per gallon. The :.
estern counties of -Pennsylvania pie
ded by some help from other ths
ates, rebelled against the tax. To|yie
lell this rebellion 1900 troops the
ere brought into service, and over acc
million Of dollars of expenditure aa
Cured. A revolt against the the
aine law was made, but the mob can
ls quelled by the authorities. bel
Under the Scott law, and later %
der the Dow Law OF Ohio, conces- cou
'ns were made to saloon keepers Is .
: Sunday sales. Under these the
vs these gentlemen were remark tha
ly law abiding; but Fhen the thel
ven law Of 1888 was enacted, for. NAL
lding Sunday sales, these gentle last
n OF Cincinnati resolved, "The De
oon keepers here assembled the
emily oppose the law, which is i'm into
per and damaging to our bust app
,s." Iinet
soon after the war of 1912 q tax The
} laid on the distillers, to meet ern
demands growing out Of that pat,
I, but . few years after the inter STAN
revenue system was abandoned Rep
il 1S62--a period Of about As 90 O.
re. pose
n 1862, the increased demand |sota
growing ont of,our civ. elect
ar gave pretext for our system The
nternal revenue and liquor pol er w
In that year, when all Tor Z
,ches Of our government we're f. the ?
hands Of the Republican party ideni
national liquor policy was adop- woui'
and the Law passed-just fortylin vi
. ago the lst Of July this year. nate
! Alexander Hamllton's time III
production as reported was stan
1t one and half gallons per Prcsp
q. Seventy years later (IS6OY vision
of pre-