Milford chronicle., 1907-08-09
Why Vote for License.


:. there's another side to the case. 1
:, gave the doctors work, helped the drul
III stores, and by reducing labor. make
lal that commodity higher. Vote fo
cir license.
It Last week the lookup was full One
- man had his hand chewed up-more
work for the doctors, and he needed a
rest anyway. Another man threatened
>, to shoot an esteemed fellow citizen.
Suppose he did ; this country is getting
- too crowded and we can fill all places
e with immigrants. Vote for license!
e You have no business to interfere
- with mans right to get drunk and
r. terrorize the town. 1t makes no differ.
ence what the Supreme Court of the
i United States says; our authority is
{ the "Shaker" doctor; for didn't the
e town officials give him license to in
: struct us and lead us into paths of truth
and righteousness? "Walk right up.
ladies and gentlemen! This is my last
night It's only 80 cents bottle
Cures every disease from is.growing
nails to leprosY! Vote for license %
Suppose our streets are not fit for
women and children to be upon at
night. Women should be at home and
children in bed. What are the streets
for? What are the police for? What
is the lookup for? Vote for license
Rum is a glorious thing! 1t does no
harm to anybody. Statistics prove that
it is beneficial. Those who drink most,
live the longest. Close the saloons aud
there would be more drinking than
ever. SOmeway these arguments don't
seem to agree, but, anyway, Vote for d
license! Il
Look how much money the sale Of II
liquor puts in circulation. Hundreds b
OF men who earn $500 a week spend \
$500 across the bar. That money o
doesn't lie in bank to do nobody good d
it doesn't go to the meat market; it IL
doesn't pay for soda water to poison
the stomachs of your children. No!it o.
goes to the distilleries and brewers in eI
Philadelphia and Baltimore and is con- II
verted into more booze. Vote for Iicensel al
Down with preachers Down with W
the old women What do they know ID
about it? They never experienced the al
bliss Of jags of joy. Besides we don't en-
abuse our own mothers and sisters in IN
public we let the other fellow do that III
and ofcourse it is amusing for then we 20
'an turn around and abuse his mother as
and sister Vote for license th
The churches are all right as long as ma
hey don't interfere with the bars. II wi
me or the other must go, let it be the are
'hurches, for our institution costs more =
money to support and must, therefore pro
'e the most valuable. Vote for license the
We point with pride to the fact that MAJ
his community by its industry and the
hrift is saving 1000 a year 10 pass wa
cross the bars. Think OF ofenterprise like 1t
hat Suppose it were spent for cloth. uoi
lg, furniture and parlor organs, A
'ouldn't it make the coming genera Ch'
on vain, idle and worthless? Under was
resent conditions the women NAV The
ave to do washing but il keeps them his
1mble. The children may pick ber. ven
es or work in the fields. Well, don't chill
le farmers need them? Aren't most and
them negroes in the hotel yards max. Jan
g work for the town police. Vote for aims
,ense! Her
License has been a glorious things. Con
st look at the men Of this commu- med
ty who have been have been regular ing
irons Of the bars for years see what Md.
has done for them. There is no Dan
ilding up Offsmily fortunes for them deaf
ey are not teaching their children to To III
aristocrats. Their wives remain suf to J'
ently humble. They do not crave a Davl
.at monument after thew are gone Post
rial at the county's expense will suf- pie,
,. Vote for license ! fami
'h, my countrymen Why will you farm
srfere with a mans inalienable right mucl
make a beast of himself 10 carve his woul
ghbor if he wishes, to make the who
'ets his wallOping place, the lookup On
retreat, the home his purgatorv? the "a
lat right have you to interfere? No time
tier what the Supreme Court saws. who
churches stand in our wav and vo with
e denounced them. The women John
iered our cause. and we scorobod age h
n with ridicule and have ye not sand
lauded, and Joined in the ribald years
So if the courts interfere with ing tn
sacred rights, down with the courts ing t'
; for license queatl
len think of the taxes we must Ilair, -
revenue from the saloons. You :" II'
fine trembIino vrra.oL plOpei'yi up to
an cents ocross t,,a - passes man.
taxes whor ho - La-s-L' ~ % y pay few ye