Evening journal., 1907-09-21
LICENSE COMMITTEE LICENSE COMMITTEE
THE POLITICIANS SICK
LICENSE COMMITTEE
Will Favor ReSubmiSSiOn of Prohibition After
Sc Years of Failure
MAINE MAY YET REFORM

The order OF "IIoo, Hoo's." with sew
,eral thousand members. has rcconsid-
cred it's arrangements to hold the next
annual convention in Atlanta, Ga, and
will select another city. But perhaps
after the Hoo Hoo's hear Of the Locker
bill" with its unlimited liquid privi-
Il lleges they viii reconsider"
What Our Country Thinks Of Il.
"The Anti-Saloon League was round
~ scored az the convention of the
lProhibiuonists of Allegheny County,
held IN Pittsburg last Friday. Reso-
llutions were adopted by the conven-
ton disappearing the method of con-
ducting the recent license court.
"Dr. S. Harper Smith, OF McKees-
port. declared: The Anti Saloon Lea
| que IS farce. They are the first in
greed, the first IN the pockets of the
church people and the first In grab.
They are a monstrous, namelcss. faith
erless, so-called institution and are
lready TO claim credit for the work
! they are supposed 20 do. and reluctant
| ly show reports for what they are
compelled tor
Many ministers attended the con-
lvention and took part In a heated dis
cusslon on the benefits and detriments
OF local option. one speaker said that
local option is the greatest curse to
the cause of prohibition" ."-EXchang
Last month we paid our respects TO
the Ant-Saloon League. We print
above what a minister OF the Gospel
says Of that organization.
Our country believes I'm the sincerity
OF any man or woman who strives to
lreduce or exterminate drunkenness
and its consequent evils and crimes.
The great question Is how 20 lessen
the evil and advance the cousc oi tenn
perance which, we believe. Is the aim
lof all struggles and laws on the kim
drcd subjects.
Does prohibition prevent or lessen
drunkenness?
Does local option keep people from
buying and drinking liquors?
IT the Anti Saloon League had full
sway would wine, beer and whislyey
cease to be made and consumed, and II
such a thing could be accomplished
would men be better OF worse on?
Are tho nations Of the earth that
use alcoholic beverages leaders or lag
CARDS I'm the progress of the world
the English. German, French people
To us, there Is such a vast distlnc-
tion between temperance or personal
abstinence and forced prohibition with
its evasions, that we believe many
people. In their honest endeavor to
better conditions, blindly follow fanat-
les and bad leaders, and shoot beyond
the mark they aim at.
We believe there are bad men in the
whisky and beer business, but they
are not all bad men. not even IA,
majority OF them. There are ais,
wicked men in the newspaper bust.
ness. the drug stores, among the law.
yers. the doctors. the farmers; ever
the churches are composed largely o
, men who are not perfect
We have no right TO say a man mus
not acquire money, but II he rob
another in doing so we attempt e
punish him.
We have no right to tell a man h'
. must not carry shot gun on hil
shoulder through the streets. but n hl
kills a person he IS tried for murder
We have no right to prevent a farm.
er gathering eggs. but II he smashei
them in peoples faces he Is punished
for disorderly conduct
SO we have no right 10 say n mar
must not take a drink Of wine Of
whisky or beer, but II he gets drunl
and places himself on the level Of
brute. we can and should punish hin
. severely.
II seems to Our Country the grea
question IS not forced prohibition, bu
Temperance. and this magazine stands
. ready TO use its columns for the great
est good TO all. for the upbuilding o.
character, for the rights Of American
free men and for the lessening Of The
, evils Of society, prominent among then
being drunkenness, and TO work FOL
Temperance in all things.'
The Anti -saloonists publish the fol
lowing;
In Rochester, n Y. the brew ers hav,
Sc, 455 900 invested in their business
and employ 434 men, to whom the,
pay 1881 900 a year in wages.
The clothing manufacturers have
s6 100000 and they employ 3.132 peo
pie. They pay these people S1,50l00l
{ year. Notice this 100000 less in
vested than the brewers. 269S mor'
{ people employed and pay them S1,12O,
600 more than the liquor crowd
6 If this be true. and the source rem.
! ders us naturally suspicious. II wouls
e be well for the worklngmen and womeI
: 10 consider the fact, that the Roches
: ter brewers pay their employees an
t average annual wage Of SS55.OO. while
5 the clothing manufacturer pays $4,000
: or course the men working in th'
E breweries are adult males. and thel
E can support their families on the suf
b hcient wages they receive, while in tn
E clothing manufacturing business, WON
D en- and children are largely employe,
] for it takes the whole family 10 eari
4 the living.
5 AS to which Is the better way. al
e intelligent humane person will not b.
I long in deciding.
Speakeasies are the principal indus
D tries of prohibition States.
y Speakeasies promote drunkenness
{ among boys.
= A vote for Prohibition Is vote TO
the Speakeasy.F