Milford chronicle., 1907-10-04

huhufeu per cent. IL doesn't have an
whiskey mill in it, and if any speakers
at this time it is more than l have hear
OF. mean the town of Denton. Som
OF the whiskey men say that there
more whiskey sold in denton than ther
IS IN Delaware, but that is big mistake
II more whiskey is sold in Denton tina
in Harrington, Delaware, why do viii:
key drinkers who live ten or fifteen mile
from Harrington drive to Harrington in
stead Of Denton, when they live onl,
from three to seven miles from Denton E?
They talk so much about the speak
easies. There are speakeasies in licensed
towns as well as in prohibition towns
There are very few eampmeetings in Ii
censed states but what there is a speak,
easy out in the WOODS or somewhere near
by. The worst drunken mess I ever saw
was at an election in a licensed State
where there were two speakeasies.
1t is a big mistake when whiskey men
say that there is as much whiskey sold in
Denton as there is in any of the Delaware
towns where there is a saloon, because
whiskey drinkers drive to Harrington
often when they want to get whiskey to
drink, when they live twice as far from
Harrington as they do from Denton. l
live on the Maryland and Delaware line,
on the road from Denton to Harrington,
and | know what 1 am talking about.
Whenever any of the young men want to
get some whiskey or some brandy they
drive to some Delaware town or to some
brandy mill in Delaware, which is very
often several miles further than it would |
be for them to go to Denton. This is
proof enough that it is not easy to get it
n Denton.
Do we have any prisoners in jail on ac-
'ount OF drunkenness Very few, not
learly as many as in Delaware towns.
Do we have any paupers in our aims
louise on account of drunkenness 3? Yes,
know Of two paupers in the almshouse
ecause of drunkenness. But where did
hey get the brandy to get drunk on? 1t {
'as from Delaware. They lived near the 8
laryland and Delaware line, and they a
ot it from a brandy mill over the line on t
elaware side. t
There are some people who do not s
Ike much interest in the no license o
ovment. Some of them say that they t
not drink themselves, that their BOYS a
not drink, and that they need not t
'ther with it, Sometimes boys drink v
hen their fathers do not know it thew g
~ away until they sober up. 1 have ii
Town that to be the case several times. o
d the neighbors did not like to tell the al
her or mother about it. Others say ar
at they do not drink themselves, that be
ey have no boys to drink, and that or
~ need not bother about it. If they ali
not drink themselves and have no II
Us to drink that should not keep them ar
m voting for no license, because some in
iy else has boys to be led off to the sa- -
rs, and you should help other to keen an
OF trouble. 1t is selfish to live only inG
self. If all the Christian people, and do
the good thinking people, do as they VIII
I'D like to be done by, and vote for no tin
nse, they will carry it by biz major ow
and when it is carried for no license tro
not grumble and growl and say that
license does not prohibit they can
the saloon so deep that it will never ,
again.
le whiskey men have no grounds to
n. They remind me of the Devil
he took Christ up on high noun Che
and showed him all the kingdoms of p
'arth and said unto Him, can these
IS l will give Thee, if Thou wilt fall ~,
and worship me-" At the same
the Devil did not have one foot of vac"
nd that is the way the whiskey men , ~.
hey have no ground to stand on. ~
1t the only thing they do is to grum- 80
lain tbot nroh;hi. 80 s'eAAeasies iudg
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and is a failure, and that more -.
Key is sold in prohibition towns than 49, 49,,
snsed towns. Their own arguments =, ~ =,
ldict what they say, or they would :. N
owl so much, when there is a move -o-e
for temperance. n
foolish talk for the people of Cecil Il
y or any other county to complain
prohibition does not prohibit en-
when the county is surrounded by 4
places that have license. If the III
ng people want whiskey or brandy v
y have to do is to go over into Del
or Pennsylvania or some county in
and where there is no prohibition.
hen there is prohibition in Della "
md in Pennsylvania, and in the y
near Cecil ubora tbo~o - -. a