Middletown transcript., 1907-11-02
EtrrnHt CJna,a.ttttr
A LAST WORD
TO THE
VOTERS OF DELAWARE

VO1ENO UT DEk-hWhNL
In closing the campaign against pFcaii-
bitiont we wish the voters to remembe
that it is poor time for experiments.
Some people are saying, "We can try i
aud if We don't like it We can go back to
license. It is well to remember that you
can't go back 10 license until the legisla-
ture is willing to submit the question
again. and that an election costs the state
nearly $40, 10000, besides the expense of
conducting the campaign TO the people
iteTted ntteTested.z- di-4-.
In addition to this cost you iRme-
diately dispense with $4,000 revenue to
the state aud over 81, 600 to the counties
or more than $125. 600, besides the SIC, 600
paid to the general government for reve-
nue. license.
You destroy business that pays out
for various purposes 1921, $3.50 an-
nualIy, and directly and indirectly fur
nishes euIpioy TO thousands OF men
and women.
And all for what?
Il will not prevent the sale and use Of
liquor, it will only change the method OF
sale.
Tile sales will be from outside the state
and more liquor will be drank with a vast
increase in drunkenness.
The dealers in Wilmington to-day are
selling to men who dispose of it in the no.
license towns of Maryland and Virginia.
It is perfectly legal act to sell for de-
livery In local option districts any guam
tity that may be desired. II it can't be
bought in Delaware by wholesale it can
be bought in Philadelphia or elsewhera.
The consistency of the opposition IL
represented by a statement made by
prominent leader OF the eve Of
September Both, when he said,
81 am here to tell the truth if / know
it, and believe that local option will in
crease odr taxes. am assessed $500
and from the best information / can get,
il the liquor fees are lost to the state my
taxes will be increased.
In my opinion high license would be
better than local option, but we can't get
high license bill through the legislature,
as the whiskey men always oppose it, and
the next best thing is local option"
How does he know that a high
license bill can't be passed by the legisla-
ture2 Is it not possible to enact Law
that will solve the question Of increased
revenue instead of creating a new def
ciencyP
Wouldn't that be the sensible course to
pursue?
Isn't be more interested in build.
ing up a fanatical dictatorial political
machine in the interest of be and his
friends. than he is in solving any question
for the benefit of the public?
What does this new popnlism care
about results to the people2 They do not
pretend to deal in facts, or to meet in
honest way the facts We present.
We have repeatedly asked them to give
the public, the records of prohibition in
Delaware in 1856. Why did they not do
il?
Because il was SO powerfully against
them.
In 1854 under license, the indictments
recorded in New Castle county with one
third its present population were "a; in
1866, 1l5, and in 1855 under prohibition
the indictments were 702.
After the repeal of the prohibition law
they fell again to l24 in 1857. In 1905
with population in excess of the total
population of the state in 1855 there were
only PIG indictments.
II the law of 1855 had been retained
and indictments continued in. the same
ratio to population, New Castle county
would have had 2lO6 last year.
They want you to go back to this GRIM;
inal creating system; will you do iL2
The horde Of spell-binders now advo-
cat .ing prohibition for Delaware will soon
leave with the price Of their service in
their pockets.
They do not care wllatfollows. they will
have their share of the loot.
If the indictments increase an hundred
fold and court expenses roll up enor-I
mously they will not be affected.
Drug store whiskey, alcoholic medi-
einep, morphine, opinm, laudanum,
chloral and cocaine will take the place of
pure liquors sold under the law; and a
particular kind Of he'll never known be-
fore will be loosed to gender its damnable
results.
viii you risk il?