The Bourbon news., 1907-03-12
VOLUME XXVIp

In an effort to prove that the state
ment made in this paper few days
ago, setting forth the conditions exist
ing in Carlisle since the local
option law went into effect,
were not true, the advocates of the law
in that place have rushed into print
loudly proclaiming that business is bet
ter than it ever was before. Their
statements are not convincing, how
ever, and are remarkable only for
length and evasiveneSs. As the QueS-
ton of the amount of business done by
the merchants of Carlisle was not put
in issue, except collaterally. by the
article in this paper, this is of no i'm
portance in determining whether the
statements in the article were true or
false. When the truth of any matter
is denied, then, for the purposes of ar
gument, the truth of all material state
ments not specifically denied must be
admitted. Bearing this in mind, a
short comparison will be made of the
statements in the Bourb IN News and
those made by the people of Carlisle.
1st. The writer in the Bourbon News
charged that there were, at present in
Carlisle, nineteen vacant rooms which
were occupied as business houses when
local option went into effect. A care
full reading of the article signed by the
people of Carlisle discloses the fact
that this statement is not denied. 1t
is no denial to say that some of them
are not desirable or that there are few
vacant residences. The truth of this
statement must be taken as admitted.
End. It was charged that, as soon as
local option went into effect, the tax
rate was increased twenty-five per cent,
The truth of this is admitted by the
people of Carlisle.
3rd. 1t was charged that rents had
gone down from twenty-five to seventy
per cent. and the names of the owners
of the houses, and the amount of the
reduction in each instance was given.
This is admitted by the people of Car
Isle who attempt to evade it by the
claim that most occupied houses are
rented at the old prices. This last has
nothing to do with the truth or falsity
Of the statement and it is admitted as
true in the article signed by the people
of Carlisle.
4thA 1t was charged that numbers
of boases which were named had
been vacant since local option went in
to effect. This is admitted by the
people of Carlisle who signed the state
ments which appeared in Saturday s
papers.
9Th. 1t was charged that in spite of
the adoption of local-option, liquor could
still be obtained in Carlisle and its sub
urb of Henryville. This is specifically
admitted by the people of Carlisle.
Up to this point, which embraces
every statement of fact. but one, con-
tained in the article in the Bourbon
News, there is absolutely no difference
between the statements in that article
and those of the people of Carlisle. 1t
would seem that the latter are making
much ado about nothing" Now, as
to the one difference between the two.
9Th. The article in the Bourbon
News. stated that as compared with the
year l904--the last year under license
the docket of the Police Court show
ed an increase of ninety per cent. in
the number of prosecution for the Of
fenses of being drunk-being drunk
and .disoTderly- selling liquor lille
gally, during the year 1906 the last
year under local option. This state
ment is denounced as false by some of
the people of Carlisle.
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