The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-01-12
LOCALIZED EvILS--NO. 80.

BY John Danner.

ov UOnN DdnHeV.
| have often been asked how treat
ed the Anti-Saloon league and have
always replied, II give them full sway
and best wishes to do all the good
they can" but as for myself must at
all times vote just as I pray, and
that is against all forms of tax or II.
cense for the legalizing of the liquor
traffic.
believe there are many who arc
the supporters of the Anti-Salo IN
league who hate the saloon as much
as do our Prohibitionists, but their
education has been 80 poor or meagcr
along the line of abolishing the sa-
loon that they do not realize the harm
that they are doing by voting with a
tax or license party.
The bulwark of the saloon lies in
the tax and license laws which per-
NIT 1t to exist by the payment of a
certain fee in the form of tax or IL
cense. We claim that all such laws
should be opposed by Christian voters
at the ballot box, no difference how
high the tax or license may be. No
loyal Christian, IL he stops long
enough to think, will cast his ballot
for any political party that will le-
galize the saloon by the payment of
high tax or license fee, even II said
tax or license should be as high as five
thousand dollars year for each sa-
loon. A moral wrong should never
obtain a legal right to exist, and we
claim that every saloon that deals
out intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes is moral wrong, and there
fore should be prohibited.
All political parties that seek the
saloon vote are tax or license parties, 7,
and In so far as this position is taken
by any political party, just that far
Is 1t friendly to the saloon business.
and opposed to the principles of tenn
perance and the success of the gos.
pei ,,s
"A moral wrong is never entitled
to legal protection" and as the saloon
that deals out intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes is a moral wrong,
1t should at all times and in all
places be dealt with as an evil and not
as a legitimate business entitled to
the protection of law. All good citi-
zens should array themselves against
this great evil Of giving a legal right
to moral wrong.
These facts are undeniable, but
many who have heretofore supported
the Anti-Saloon league have not seen
this point, and therefore have con-
tinued to cast their ballots for some
tax or license party. We should do
all we can to convince our Anti-Saloon
friends of the mistake they make on
this point, and personally l have done
this. and will thus continue. but I
shall not abuse them. Sooner or later
they will see that no tax or license
party is entitled to their support at
the ballot box.
l firmly believe that we cannot as
honest Christian voters cast our bal
lot for any political party that will
legalize the saloon at any price, or
upon any terms; therefore all tax or
license parties should be opposed by
the ballots of loyal Christian voters.
No political sophistry can make it
'o"s AOi Fl" Shiiotidu W NOJe IOT any
party that legalizes a moral wrong:
and certainly every taxed or licensed
saloon comes under this condemna.
tion.
TO prove that my position Is right.
will say that every saloon owner
and liquor seller votes either for tax
or license party. Not one of them
Will ever cast their ballot for a pro-
hibition party The old saying Is true
today as 1t ever was, Tell me the
company you keep. and will tell you
what you are" therefore find II
quite safe to oppose all tax and n.
cense parties, as all the liquor sell
ers are in said parties l will add. how.
ever. | never abuse the personality
or the saloon man and liquor seller.
1t is only the ruinous business of sell.
ing intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes that we should oppose. but
DO all In our power to reclaim and
save the men and women who are
now In this ruinous business.
Every Chril'tian, and every lovaI
citizen should honestly investigate
this great question and see to It that
the might of his influence and his
ballot are always cast against tba
legalization CT this traffic, which An.
nually wastes and DESTROYS more
money and lives than war pestilenca
ana iamine combined. All facts prove
this. 800