Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-04-20
PROHIBITION BEST INTEREST OF
COUNTY,

whether or not liquor shall be sold
any longer therein after May, 1907,
and whatever may lie the will Of TIE
majority, fairly expressed, we will
accept submissively, with mate but
undemonstrative delight, however, if
prohibition should be adopted; with
out chagrin, but with regret if de-
feated. If prohibition is adopted we
we will feel that we can look forward
to brighter future for our County
If the alternate proposition prevails,
we know that the moral and indus
trial condition Of orr people will re-
main at a stand still OF even wane or
grow worse than it is.
We are not a fanatic on the sub
ject against trading in fermented
liquors, nor must we be counted in
the class who believe it is crime to
use such beverages. We have no
prejudice against the former as a
business pursuit, nor can we see in
the use of strong drink the sin the
psalm singer would have the human
family believe; it is in the abuse of
the right to sell and the abuse of the
use that lies the harm. Both evils
exist in this County, and as a result
a condition faces our people that de-
mands bold and heroic treatment.
The matter must be dealt with as
concerns the best interest Of
all the people, ignoring alto
gether individual cases and personal
consequences. The question must not
be looked at as matter to drive any
particular person out of business nor
as means to free the physical or
: ganism Of some special individual of
a narcotic with which his system may
be poisonously saturated, and neither
should we consider who will be per-
sonally benefited or pecuniarily in
jured-the common good Of all
should be the voters only concern.
In distress we have been crying for
relief In poverty we wall. We be-
lieve the time is now at hand when
sne progressive step can be made
toward progress and advancement.
If the money now wasted in drink,
the time now frittered away in loaf
- rJrS-wr%lic places is put to
good use, if the energies now spent
in seductive and dangerous pastimes
are applied to worthy industrial pur-
suits, why can we not look to more
hopeful future for the County. We
can.
There is but one question for the
voters to consider on Tuesday That
is prohibition. High license is notin
the proposition. The term as applied
to the recent liquor measure is but a
delusion and snare. High license
in the sense it should be used means
restriction upon the sale Of the
liquor traffic to class that will pre-
serve and dignity the pursuit as
Pectable business employment.
high license as applied to the late
law on the liquor question means
nothing more than continuation Of
the liquor traffic: in this County by|
the same people, and probably few
more, with all of its distressing con
sequences. If our people are ready
and satisfied to stay in the same old rut;
they are still willing to see major
ity of our young men upon reaching
manhood seek other sections for
homes and firesides if they are con
tent TO see the minority that remains
with us daily tempted into the vice of
toofrequent use of Intoxicating liquors
recognized by the world over as a
weapon of human destruction more
deadly than any other dangerousinstru
ment known to the genius Of man, let
them go to the polls on Tuesday and
vote against prohibition,Ifon the other
hand he would have the thousands Of
dollars that now flow into the tills of
waste and human destruction turned
toward appeasing, appealing and dis
tressed hearts, building up happy
homes and enobling the life we
should enjoy, let his ballot tell on
Tuesday whereof we appeal, free from
prejudice against any pursuit. and
any individual, but with the best
wishes for all-onr County, its people.
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